In Chen Hanzhang's tone, he hated iron but not steel: "These 92 infantry guns, 37 rapid-fire guns and 97 type 20 mm automatic guns are naturally difficult to fight the Japanese army's permanent fortifications. But it's not a problem to take a direct aim and hit the covering positions on the flanks of the Japanese army, as well as foxholes, right? A small cannon is not a cannon? ”

"Even for those permanent fortifications, if we take advantage of their lightness and good ballistics, adopt the bayonet tactics on the cannon, use the high rate of fire of machine guns and automatic rifles to cover and advance to a distance of more than 100 meters from the Japanese permanent fortifications, and shoot their shooting holes horizontally, as long as one shot hits, the probability of killing is better than that of machine guns."

"Are we now so rich that we don't look down on captured equipment? So dismissive of the seized equipment that has played a great role in us? When did our Anti-Japanese Federation become such a big landlord and old wealth? In the words of Number One, this is simply an upstart style. ”

"Have they all forgotten how we fought before? Not to mention a cannon, even if a Liao 13 rifle was captured, they jumped straight up with joy. If the weapons of that division can be unified with 38 rifles, the commander of this division will be happy to die. Lao Liu, you came out of the Seventh Army, and the activity area of your Seventh Army is close to the Heilongjiang River, and the conditions are better. ”

"I remember that when I took over the Second Army and the Fifth Division, the whole division of more than 400 people was the largest division of the First Army. But what kind of weapons are they? The water rifle left by the old Fengjun who ran out of the Soviet Union during the October Revolution and handed over by White Russia, and the Italian-made rifle that the bullets imported by the Fengjun had nowhere to be found. ”

"If a squad can be equipped with Japanese Golden Hook rifles, Czech-made rifles of the Northeast Army, and Liao 13 rifles, it will be a fist unit. There were only two machine guns in the whole division, one of which was still an Italian machine gun without bullets. Even in rifles, there are many that do not have bullets. ”

"Although later with the seizure, the armament improved a lot. However, the whole division still had a shortage of ammunition and weak equipment, not to mention artillery, and there were few light machine guns. Now I have everything, the artillery on the ground, the tanks, the planes in the sky, there are all the things that should be there, and there are also things that I didn't dare to imagine before, and I feel that I am a landlord and an old man? It's just a matter of holding the captured equipment? ”

"Our cadres, especially military cadres, came in the most difficult times. Whether it is the 18th Group Army in the Guannai or our old backbone, they all came from the lack of guns and ammunition. Why did you forget about your book so quickly and ignore the captured weapons? It should never be. ”

For a long time, he led the Fifth Division of the Second Army to undertake the flank cover of the entire First Route Army and cooperate with the Second Route Army in combat. The First Route Army is far away, and the Second Route Army is not a human organization, but in fact it has always been living in independent guerrilla warfare independent from the main force. Chen Hanzhang has developed the habit of thinking independently about problems, and has also developed the habit of never complaining.

Because for him, there is no place to complain. The First Route Army, to which he belonged, fought in South Manchuria, and was subordinate to the Second Route Army, which seemed to be more closely connected, and lacked effective means of communication. The long-term independent operation and the surrounding environment determined his position and determined that he could only bear all the problems independently.

And he is shouldered by the military and government, and many times he doesn't even have a person to consult. Under these circumstances, he developed a flexible command habit. In particular, the ability to adapt to changes in the enemy's situation is unique even among the current anti-alliances.

Chen Hanzhang is very particular about dealing with changes in the enemy's situation on the battlefield, and has developed the ability to adapt to the situation, and has always had high requirements for the flexibility of tactical use. Last year's splendid tank splitting battle in the DPRK was fought through accurate analysis and judgment of the battlefield situation. It is precisely for this reason that he was transferred to the Armored Forces Command by Yang Zhen as the first commander.

In fact, for the use of Chen Hanzhang, Yang Zhen is the same as Wang Guangyu, who is ready to be trained as a first-level composite commander of the group army, but is not prepared to let him serve in the position of the chief officer of one branch for a long time. To make him the commander of the armored corps in the early days, in addition to giving full play to his strengths, is to let him ponder and get in touch with the operational theory of the armored corps.

Moreover, for Yang Zhen, the current headquarters of armored corps, artillery, cavalry, etc., is just a temporary organization that assemblies various branches of the armed forces and completes training and troop organization. After the formation and training of the troops are completed, these branch commands are to be downgraded to the second level of the command. He is only responsible for the daily training of the troops, as well as the configuration and organization of equipment, and is no longer responsible for commanding the troops in combat.

Chen Hanzhang was transferred to the post of commander of the armored corps, but he only participated in the formation of various units of the armored corps, as well as the training of these units used as seeds, and the most important thing was to find out a set of tactical applications of the armored corps that were in line with the Anti-Japanese Federation's own use. He has extremely high talents, and under Yang Zhen's deliberate cultivation, Chen Hanzhang's tactical vision and strategic vision are quite level.

In particular, its tactical literacy is quite good, it has a strong ability to accept new things, and it dares to explore new combat modes. The wonderful battle in North Korea was not something that ordinary people could fight. Yang Zhen believed that it was an extremely appropriate choice for him to form the important branch of armored troops.

This is different from Yang Zhen, who has his own golden finger, Chen Hanzhang was able to achieve these things completely by relying on his innate talent, as well as acquired hard work and hard work. Of course, it also has a lot to do with the experience he gained over a long period of time in guerrilla warfare as a division-level commander in the Anti-Japanese Federation, independently leading a unit with troops and equipment, and being the crown of the First Route Army.

Chen Hanzhang, who is only 28 years old this year, is the first of all the commanders at and above the division level of the Anti-Japanese Federation to be able to drive a tank, and the first to be able to accurately hit targets with tank guns. He also learned multi-service skills such as aircraft piloting and artillery calibration. It can be said that in terms of the ability and level of multi-arm use, he still has to be above Wang Guangyu.

However, Chen Hanzhang himself is strict, and his requirements for his subordinates are equally strict. He always thought that he could do things, and his subordinates should be able to do the same. Although he has been the commander of the armored corps for less than a year, he has already trained the armored corps in a good way. The combat effectiveness of the two brigades is fully formed, and the troop establishment is reasonable.

But it was precisely the extremely strict requirements for himself that made Chen Hanzhang too rigid about the adaptability of the troops below and the tactical execution on the battlefield in this Tongliao operation. In the face of the large number of permanent and semi-permanent fortifications of the Japanese army, he was still very dissatisfied with the stubborn tactics of either frontal containment of the flanks and detours, or tanks covering the infantry to fight to the death.

Since the most difficult period of the Anti-Japanese Federation, he has independently led a team for a long time to use as the main force, and he is quite dissatisfied with the disdain of the captured Japanese weapons and equipment of the troops, and does not know how to make good use of them. In his eyes, this is undoubtedly a great fee.

Among his many dissatisfactions, the tactical problems are the most dissatisfied. In particular, despite the fact that there are certain countermeasures, commanders at all levels still hold all the equipment that can be mobilized in their hands. There was no thought of strengthening these equipment to the front-line attack troops.

As a result, the need for anti-aircraft machine gun flat-fire cover in front of the need for anti-aircraft machine guns had to be applied to the superiors, and they could only be equipped after obtaining the approval of the superiors. This back and forth, Lang spent a lot of time on the communication between superiors and subordinates. In the Anti-Japanese Federation, there is a walkie-talkie at the first level, which can communicate with the superiors. But at the platoon level, there is no means of communication other than correspondents. However, the current battlefield shape is the most suitable for fighting on the basis of squads and platoons.

Moreover, they have not adopted the combat mode of forming multi-service joint small units on the basis of reinforced squads and multi-point infiltration and mutual cooperation, and still clinging to the idea of fighting in large groups. In the middle of the battle, it has always been used by the company-level troops as the backbone of the attack and the launching troops. The two sides of the point that No. 1 has repeatedly emphasized, and the tactics of four groups and one team have almost all been thrown behind their heads.

At present, the automatic rifles equipped by the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation, two cross-fires can indeed suppress a crooked handle or a Type 96 light machine gun. Coupled with a squad of light machine guns, the firepower of a squad is enough to suppress the Japanese fortification group with a small squad of troops.

But all the fortifications of the Japanese army were not only equipped with machine guns, but also a large number of riflemen. Not only can each fortification group form a cross-covering state by itself, but also form a three-dimensional cross-cooperation with the surrounding fortification groups. Under such circumstances, the original squad platoon, and even the first-level troops, obviously showed that the suppressive firepower was somewhat insufficient.

Moreover, in such a situation, the adoption of a frontal assault or a simple flank assault can only result in an excessively narrow attack surface and greatly restricted the movement of troops. If the platoon is used as a formation, after strengthening part of the direct-aim firepower, the tactical progress of adopting multi-directional assaults, multi-point infiltration and mutual support, and flexible combat will also be greater.

The number of firepower of the 60 guns and rocket launchers equipped at the first level of the company is insufficient, and although the rate of fire of the general-purpose machine gun is fast, the power of long-range fire suppression is somewhat insufficient. The battalion's 82 mortars, 57 recoilless guns, and 12-mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns were not distributed to the infantry companies because they were always controlled at the battalion level, so that even at the company level, the number of suppressed firepower was far from satisfying the needs.

The 60-mm mortars equipped with each company achieved considerable results in dealing with Japanese communication trenches, trenches, and machine-gun fire points where the Japanese army had no strong fortifications. However, it is obviously not powerful enough to deal with the civil fortifications that occupy the majority and have a covered roof. As for the permanent fortifications and semi-permanent fortifications, these 60 guns basically had no effect.

If the recoilless guns of the battalion belonging to the recoilless artillery platoon were transferred to the individual infantry platoons, the number of rocket launchers was insufficient to replenish it. Strengthening the 82 mortar to the company level, rather than at the battalion level, can make the firepower allocation more flexible and can also greatly strengthen the firepower of the attacking troops.

However, the use of the captured Japanese Type 92 infantry guns, 37 rapid-fire guns and Taisho 11-type infantry 37 flat-fire guns was insufficient. In the urgent need to follow the artillery cover in the front, the use of mountain artillery was suppressed by enemy artillery fire, minefields were cut off, and the movement of its own weight was slow, and it was impossible to keep up with the attacking troops, more than a dozen captured Japanese artillery pieces were idle in the rear and were not used at all.

The Japanese 92 infantry artillery can be pushed by one person, and two people can easily use it. With the help of a certain cover, it can even be easily advanced under the nose of the Japanese pillbox. As a bayonet tactic on a cannon, it is quite suitable for the tactical use of artillery.

It is still very powerful to use these 92 infantry guns as direct-aim artillery to destroy the Japanese army's non-permanent fortifications at close range. If a precise point-and-shoot is used to hit the empores at close range, it will also be a considerable threat to those permanent and semi-permanent fortifications.

Even if it can't penetrate the thick reinforced concrete protective layer, a 70mm grenade can still kill and injure the defenders inside if it explodes inside. And without the defenders, what is the use of the fortifications, no matter how strong they are? It's just an ornament.