Speaking of this, Liu Yanlai shook his head and said: "In the village street battles and town battles, the most troublesome thing is the accidental injury to the people during the battle. Especially now that we are still fighting on our own soil, and the battlefield is surrounded by our own flesh and blood compatriots. It's even more of a headache for this situation. ”

"Among the two counties of Tongliao and Kailu, the commander is not the Japanese, nor the Kwantung Army, but the local Chinese people. Although the two counties are not large, they are important passages into the nomadic areas of Mongolia in the northeast hinterland because they are transportation arteries, and the population of these two counties is quite large. The crazy energy of the Japanese army came up, and they didn't even care about the compatriots in their own country, let alone the Chinese who were not even human in their eyes. ”

"During the battle for Bayantara, we have seen more than once that Japanese soldiers have captured civilians in fortifications and used them as human shields. The motorized infantry regiment directly under the armored brigade also repeatedly happened when it was inserted between Tongliao and Kailu to cut off the connection between the two Japanese forces. ”

"In the more populous counties of Tongliao and Kailu, I am afraid that the Japanese army will use a large number of local Chinese as human shields. Commander Wang's side also encountered the same battle on the battlefield of Linxi. When they captured the county seat of Linxi, the local people suffered heavy casualties. ”

"If we use flamethrowers a lot, this burn can certainly speed up our progress. But the devil is finished, and the people who are used as human shields by the devil will not be spared. On the battlefield, it is difficult to judge how many civilians there are or whether there are civilians in the fortifications of the Japanese army. ”

"We could not ask our fighters, braving enemy fire, to run to the Japanese fortifications to see if there were any compatriots inside. Commander, I'm afraid that after the storming of the city, not only will we not be able to use flamethrowers, but even artillery will have to be used as little as possible. ”

After briefly talking about his worries, Liu Yanlai smiled bitterly: "In fact, the problem of thickened gasoline is easy to solve." It may sound like a hard thing to hear, but it's not that complicated. That is, gasoline is mixed with some yellow soap powder or 66 powder, mixed and stirred according to a certain proportion, and it is over. ”

"As long as we can get these two things, we can make enough thickened gasoline. We have gasoline, and yellow soap powder is a little difficult, but it is not impossible to solve it. It's just that the thickened gasoline we prepare ourselves may have a certain impact on the life of the flamethrower or the use of it because of the proportion, but it can barely solve the problem. ”

"But according to your plan, our next major battle will be to enter the street battle and the battle for the village and town. The most difficult thing to do now is how we can use this equipment in the battle for the town. We must strictly restrict the use of equipment by the troops, otherwise if this brings heavy casualties to the common people, Commander No. 1 will not spare us. ”

"And the most important thing is that our 75-mm mountain artillery shells and 82 mortar shells have been used too much to clear minefields, and now they are somewhat insufficient. And our mine-sweeping combat vehicles can only clear anti-infantry mines. Against these large numbers of anti-tank mines, there is little use. Of the six minesweepers in the only one minesweeper platoon, four of the minesweepers were damaged and could no longer be used. ”

"And those anti-tank trenches, we lack timber to build a passage for the tanks. From the moment we entered the Horqin Left Wing Central Banner, we did not find a single intact piece of wood. All the trees were cut down by the Japanese army. All the houses, except those converted into fortifications by the Japanese army, were also blown up by the Japanese army. It was not easy to raise some of the timber, which was used to erect a pontoon bridge on the Xiliao River. ”

"The anti-tank trenches built by the Japanese army on this triangular battlefield are not one. In each direction, there are at least three or more. To the north of Tongliao, an anti-tank trench three and a half meters wide and two meters deep was dug every five kilometers. Judging by the need to erect three passages for an anti-tank trench, this wood is in high demand. ”

"But now we are faced with a shortage of wood, and we don't have enough wood to build an anti-tank trench in Tongguò. The troops below also want to quickly open the passage for the tank, but now it is really difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. We can't fill it with tanks, can we? Our whole army is just such a tank, it is to knock out one less one. ”

Regarding the difficulties raised by Liu Yanlai, Chen Hanzhang looked at the old comrade-in-arms of the Second Route Army who was personally named by No. 1 and transferred to the Armored Corps Command as the chief of staff in front of him, and said with a wry smile: "Old man, our current conditions are good. But I found that there was a problem with both our senior commanders and the troops below. ”

"Compared with the days when a single guerrilla had a shot and a bullet, or even a cotton coat, and had to earn a mouthful of food by himself, and he had to use his life, this flexibility has become worse. In particular, the ability to adapt to the battlefield shì has dropped too much. When encountering problems, they count on this superior, but they don't know how to use their brains. ”

In a word, I don't have my own brain. Now the living conditions have changed, and the equipment conditions have also improved. We have tanks, heavy artillery, and airplanes that we could not have imagined in the past, but our flexibility is gone, and the adaptability of commanders at all levels has also regressed much compared with the past. ”

"Indeed, in this operation, the Japanese army adopted new tactics that we have never encountered before. The large number of machine guns and anti-tank firepower and the number of artillery pieces of the Japanese army on the front line of Tongliao were also incomparable with any single division of the Japanese army before. ”

"In particular, the minefields are so wide and dense, that we never expected them before. But apart from a little bit of hard gnawing, is there really no way to do it? Or was our previous tactics too rigid and the command system too rigid the main reason? ”

"There is nothing wrong with clearing mines right under the noses of the enemy and using artillery fire as much as possible to reduce sapper casualties. But we don't just have barreled artillery, we also have a lot of rocket artillery. Moreover, in this kind of hard-fought fortress group attack, the Japanese movement relied almost entirely on communication trenches, and almost all artillery positions were underground, and the use of our rocket artillery was quite restricted. ”

"But we think that although the rocket artillery can't blow up their permanent fortifications, there should be no problem in clearing the surface fortifications and minefields. In the case that the use of rocket artillery is greatly restricted, why do we not use rocket artillery to clear the minefields of the Japanese army, but instead use the more suitable barreled artillery and mortars at the moment? ”

"The explosion range of a one-two-two rocket artillery shell is far higher than that of a 75-millimeter mountain artillery. With a salvo of 122 rocket launchers of 10 rounds, the minefields cleared were enough for us to quickly get through the strength of two regiments. By the way, it can also clear the surface obstacles of the Japanese position, such as barbed wire and other explosives. ”

"Our one-two-two rocket launchers and one-zero-seven rocket launchers can be disassembled and used. In particular, the 107 rocket launcher can even be used by tactical groups after being disassembled. Disassemble a 107 rocket launcher into a two- to four-barreled unit and advance with synchronizers and tanks. Two salvos from a minefield are enough to open a passage for infantry or tanks. ”

"Our rocket artillery units, each battalion is equipped with a certain number of incendiary bombs, and the one-two-two rocket artillery is also equipped with a hundred special incendiary bombs. These munitions could not penetrate the permanent fortifications of the Japanese army, but it was completely possible to drive the Japanese troops out of the fortifications by burning them. ”

"And our sappers, will they only go to demining one by one or rely on armored minesweepers? And you can't use explosives packs and blasting canisters to open a demining channel on a Japanese minefield? Isn't a few blasting canisters tied together just a long minesweeper? Six blasting canisters bundled in tandem can be used to clear minefields? ”

"And flamethrowers, can't they all be used for minesweeping? I don't believe that the Japanese anti-tank mines and anti-infantry mines can withstand explosives blasting and fire? Can we completely use artillery to open the channel of tank movement, and then use tank cover sappers to open the channel of infantry attack. ”

"I confess that during the training, I, the commander of the armored corps, made some doctrinaire mistakes in some respects, and did not anticipate that the Japanese could use mines on an equal scale. Because there were very few cases of Japanese troops using mines in previous wars, and even if there were, a small number of them could not be called minefields at all. ”

"When we broke through the Songhua River, the Japanese minefield we encountered was not a minefield at all. Only a few hundred mines were deployed on the main thoroughfares, and the impact on our offensive was simply negligible. It can be said that this is the first time we have encountered such a large minefield. ”

"But where did the heads of our commanders at all levels go? The ability to respond quickly on the battlefield has also been lost? Could it be that without artillery cover, there would be no fighting? If you didn't prepare the necessary equipment beforehand, you wouldn't be making your own zuò now? The shape is different, the enemy situation is different, and the tactical means adopted must change along with the change of the enemy situation. ”

"There were so many wooden stakes on the Japanese positions we captured that we used to hold the barbed wire, and it was difficult for us to divide these stakes into wooden strips and tie them with explosives, and make explosives to clear minefields? We don't have enough mine-sweeping equipment, but the amount of explosives is still sufficient. ”

"Before the detour, the headquarters allocated 200,000 kilograms of explosives to us. When we were interspersed, we also captured more than five tons of explosives from the Japanese army. The amount of explosives in our hands is quite sufficient. We are not in a position to deal with this kind of combat of the Japanese army. It is that our commanders at all levels are too rigid in command and have not taken the initiative and are flexible. ”

"As for the anti-tank trenches, there was a real shortage of wood, so the sappers used explosives to blow up the passages. If that doesn't work, fill it with a tank. The anti-tank trenches of the Japanese army were only three and a half meters wide. The length of our main tank, the T-26 light tank, was four meters. ”

"With two tanks and a small amount of wood, it is possible to fill in an improvised passage to the guò anti-tank trench. As long as the passage is opened and the Japanese anti-aircraft guns on the opposite side are cleared, even if our tanks are left in the anti-tank trenches, can they be pulled out and continued to be used after the war? ”

"And in terms of the use of equipment captured on the battlefield, when did we learn not to take care of the captured equipment? In the battles in Bayantala and north of Bayantara, why didn't the captured more than 10 92 infantry guns, 37 rapid-fire guns, Taisho 11-year infantry flat-fire guns, and Type 97 20-mm automatic guns not be used? ”

"In the formation sequence of our army, the fourteen-mm anti-aircraft machine gun can indeed be used as a long-range cover fire for infantry when necessary. However, when the number is insufficient and it is impossible to follow the movement of the front-line attack force, why can't the lighter ones be used? In addition to the incomparable rate of fire, a twenty-mm automatic cannon with a longer range replaced? ”