Hearing Yang Zhen give him a combat order. Chai Shirong and Wang Ruqi's hearts were a little settled. Since the commander still let himself lead the troops into battle, he did not intend to deal with himself harshly, and he still believed in the two of them. Otherwise, at such an important time, let the two of them continue to lead the troops to fight?

Looking at the two of them who were slightly relieved after hearing his order, Yang Zhen didn't explain too much. Just looked at the watch, and said to the two people: "You go and get acquainted with the troops immediately, it's six o'clock in the evening." At twelve o'clock in the night I will hear you strike on time. ”

"But there is one thing you have to keep in mind, you should try to avoid heavy casualties. Compared with the main battlefield, in addition to ensuring the safety of the main battlefield, this time more emphasis was placed on military training. Let these recruits who have not yet been on the battlefield get acquainted with the atmosphere of the battlefield. In a word, we must find ways to destroy the enemy, but we must pay more attention to protecting ourselves. ”

After Yang Zhen's order was given, the two of them didn't dare to delay after looking at each other, and after hurriedly saluting a military salute, they hurriedly followed Yang Zhen's order to familiarize themselves with the troops. Unfamiliar troops, unfamiliar battlefields, and unfamiliar opponents can be said to be a great test for both of them.

Looking at the background where the two people left in a hurry, Yang Zhen shook his head. The two hungry ones had already staggered, had not eaten for two days, had lost all their heavy weapons, and in fact had no food and ammunition, and had no supplies except for the ammunition carried by the soldiers themselves.

And this battle has to be honed not only by the troops, but also by the cadres. The commanders of the supplementary regiments formed by Yang Zhen's department have always been fixed, and they are generally randomly selected from battalion-level cadres. This is to give all cadres the opportunity and experience to train and command and manage regimental troops, so that they can prepare for future promotions.

The rapid pace of the expansion of the troops, coupled with the fact that the troops have gradually shifted from guerrilla warfare to mobile warfare, has clearly shown that cadres at all levels in the troops are inexperienced. At present, less than one-third of the commanders of the three brigades and nine regiments in the main force are competent. Yan lacks experience in commanding operations independently, and relies extremely strictly on superior commands during operations.

At the beginning of the year, these regiment commanders were even company commanders. Most of the battalion-level cadres are only platoon commanders. For most of the year, he was promoted from company and platoon commander all the way to regimental and battalion level cadres, and he lacked a lot of experience and ability. Although Yang Zhen has set up a three-level teaching team, not all of his experience in leading soldiers can be learned from the classroom.

And the biggest headache for Yang Zhen is not only the lack of teachers, teaching materials, etc., but also the cultural quality of cadres, many of whom are illiterate in big characters. The old black top secret camp is even better, anyway, three months of hard work has not been in vain, not to mention whether these people are of high level or not, but the basic theoretical foundation is still very solid.

The theory of the cadres who came out of the secret camp of the old black top can be said to be barely passing, but those who came from the Anti-Japanese Federation are much worse. Although in order to train cadres over the years, the Third Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Federation has tried its best to set up a lot of study classes and teaching teams. However, due to the huge casualties in continuous combat, cadres have almost trained a group of sacrifices.

Due to changes in the environment, various teaching teams often have to be forced to terminate. There have even been several incidents in which the Japanese puppet army was attacked during the training, and the training team from the instructor to the trainees were all sacrificed. The more severe the shape, the greater the sacrifice of the troops, and the more the cadres' performance will decline.

In just one Seventh Army, from the beginning of autumn to the beginning of spring last year, the grassroots cadres were almost completely replaced. With the exception of a small number of defections, most of them were killed. The Seventh Army's teaching team was attacked last winter, and all the trainees from the teaching captain to all the students were killed, which gave the Seventh Army a blow that seemed almost desperate.

Although the number of people is small, there are only more than thirty people. But these more than 30 people are almost all the backbone and essence of the Seventh Army. This battle almost broke the backbone of the Seventh Army. After this battle, the Seventh Army, which had lost almost all its backbone, was unable to counterattack in the face of the large-scale advance of the Japanese puppet army. can only hide in the deep mountains and old forests and be beaten passively.

The situation of the Seventh Army was better than that of the Fifth Army, which had almost lost its main force. From the failure of the Western Expedition to the cover of the breakout of the headquarters of the Second Route Army. From the anti-clearance operation to the southward attraction of the main force of the Japanese puppet army to create an opportunity for the transfer of the headquarters of the Second Route Army. The Fifth Army, which hardly did not fight for a day, suffered tremendous attrition. The troops have almost been scattered and exhausted, and there is no energy to train grassroots cadres?

In the two armies, many people are still soldiers who have only been in the army for a few days, and there are almost many examples of being promoted to company commander within a week. Under the circumstance that the situation is severe and it is impossible to train these cadres, the military and political qualities of these grassroots cadres can be imagined.

These cadres not only have a low level of education, but also have low military qualities. Moreover, it was extremely unsuitable for the training and organization of Yang Zhen's troops. Compared with the large-scale movement warfare carried out by Yang Zhen's subordinates, they were more suitable for the original dispersed guerrilla tactics.

If it weren't for the training of the old black top secret camp that winter, and without the backbone trained at that time, not to mention that the current army has expanded to the current scale, even if it has grown to several thousand, Yang Zhen would not even be able to find a sufficient number of grassroots cadres. Not to mention the cadres su zhì.

Before the central delegation parted, when talking with the new leading group of the Jidong Military Region, Mr. Lin praised Yang Zhen more than once for his long-term vision and foresight. If it weren't for his efforts to defy public opinion, when he was in the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi, he trained the soldiers as squad leaders and the squad leaders as company platoon commanders, it would have been impossible to create the current situation.

However, despite Yang Zhen's painstaking efforts, the situation of cadre shortage has not changed. Not to mention the cadres of the company and platoon who rushed to the front line were the ones who suffered the greatest casualties, even the cadres at the battalion and regiment level, and after the expansion of the troops, there was also a shortage, especially the phenomenon that the su zhì was not high, and there was a shortage of experience in leading troops.

In desperation, Yang Zhen formulated such a rule that seemed extremely strange to outsiders. All regimental battalion commanders, regimental political commissioners, and battalion instructors must go to the supplementary regiment and the current independent regiment to bring in new recruits for at least one month before being promoted. Those who fail to pass the assessment will not be promoted.

Although this provision is somewhat inexplicable, at least these regimental and battalion commanders can gain some experience in commanding and managing their own units before leaving the troops. After all, after they enter the main force, they will face the situation of going to the battlefield at any time. After entering the army, they are adapting, and I am afraid that there is not much time left for them.

Yang Zhen's rule is very strange and many outsiders can't understand it. But at the moment, it has played a solid role that many people can't imagine. At least after letting these regimental and battalion cadres leave the unit, they can adapt to their new posts in the shortest possible time. At present, the commanders of this supplementary regiment and the independent regiment brought by themselves are two battalion commanders who are ready to promote the regimental chief of staff, and the other is the two battalion commanders who are ready to promote the deputy regiment commander.

Although these two battalion commanders are both veteran backbones from the old black-topped secret battalion, they have no experience in independently commanding operations. After an afternoon of fighting that was not fierce, Yang Zhen could be described as physically and mentally exhausted.

Perhaps it was the intense operation under the direct command of Yang Zhen, the supreme commander, or perhaps it was the first time that he could not let go of his hands and feet in an independent command of a regiment-level operation. In Xiaohuzi's words, it's almost a big thing, and even one has to ask for instructions to move the attack position.

In addition to the battalion commander who was transferred from the Second Brigade, he was able to help him support a small half of the matter. These trivial things almost exhausted Yang Zhen.

Half of his energy was devoted to dealing with these matters, and he didn't have much time to think about combat matters. If it weren't for the fact that he had exercised a little bit of self-cultivation, and he was a little worried about the command ability of these two, Yang Zhen almost scolded him on the phone several times without being angry, and these two were the head of the regiment who quarreled with him about trivial things.

When Yang Zhen was fighting, he didn't like this way very much. He never restrained the thinking of his subordinates, and even encouraged his subordinates in disguise to have the idea of creating a zào when fighting. He hoped that there would be more people like Du Kaishan in his troops. He was disgusted by the rigid way of asking for instructions and reporting on things like this. Especially after this battle, he hated it even more.

Now Yang Zhen is very glad that the opponent is a force that has almost been starved and deprived of ammunition. Otherwise, not counting the other units of the Japanese army, just the tactical literacy of this 22nd Wing is displayed, as long as they are relieved, they only need to charge the front-line positions commanded by the two inexperienced regiment commanders.

This time, Chai Shirong and Wang Ruqi were transferred back to the command headquarters by themselves, and let these two people command separately, first, to exercise the command ability of these two people in frontal combat. After all, under the situation of a shortage of senior commanders in the army, these two can't be idle, right? The second is to relieve yourself of some pressure, at least don't worry about these trivial things.

Sure enough, after the two of them left the army separately, Yang Zhen's request calls were suddenly much less. Although he has changed his previous style and changed his previous style more cautiously, fortunately, the problem of asking for instructions is only reduced to some relatively important things, and Yang Zhen is not bothered by big things like before.

With Chai Shirong and Wang Ruqi taking over him, Yang Zhen, who was much cleaner all of a sudden, paid more attention to the frontal battlefield on the front line of General Shi. Guo Bingxun telegraphed Yang Zhen every hour about the battle situation on the front line of General Shi, so Yang Zhen knew the battle situation over there very well.

When he received a telegram from Guo Bingxun at 10 o'clock in the evening requesting instructions on the time for launching a general offensive on the whole front, Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment, but still only sent a brief reply: "When the general stone line will launch a general offensive and how to deploy the attacking troops can be decided jointly by Chief of Staff Guo and the commanders of various departments. ”

Guo Bingxun, who was on the front line of the general's stone, received a call back from Yang Zhen, smiled slightly, and handed the telegram to Wang Guangyu, Liu Changshun, Wang Ruming, Ma Chunsheng, and Ma Qichang around him for circulation. After everyone finished reading the telegram, Guo Bingxun looked at the solemn expressions of several people and said, "We can make up our minds now." ”

After that, Guo Bingxun took out the Swiss pocket watch that Yang Zhen had transferred to him after the capture of Jiamusi, looked at the time, and said to several brigade commanders who were waiting for him to give orders: "It's ten o'clock." Fifteen minutes later, that is, at 10:15 a.m., all units launched a final general attack on the remnants of the Japanese army in front of them in accordance with the predetermined combat deployment. ”

"In launching an attack, all units must boldly intersperse according to the predetermined battle plan, and must ensure that they encircle and annihilate the enemy in front of them. It is necessary to wipe out all the 40th Wing of the Japanese Army in front of us in the shortest possible time. Completely reverse the situation in Xiajiang. ”

Hearing Guo Bingxun's neat order, Liu Changshun, Wang Xiaoming, and Ma Chunsheng, who were the main attacking troops, stood up and saluted: "Please rest assured, Chief of Staff, our Second Brigade will definitely live up to the expectations of the head of the General Headquarters. The remnants of the 40th Wing must be completely wiped out within the predetermined time. ”

After that, Liu Changshun, as the military commander of the Second Brigade, looked at Guo Bingxun and said, "Chief of Staff, time is running out. We're going to fight with all of us, do you have anything else to explain? ”

Looking at the faces of the three military and political chiefs of the Second Brigade, Guo Bingxun waved his hand and said, "I have nothing to explain again." You just need to let go of your hands and feet, and don't have too many scruples and be afraid. Just remember what the commander said, the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. ”

Guo Bingxun's words fell, Liu Changshun and his political commissar and chief of staff nodded solemnly, and after saluting, they turned around and quickly left Guo Bingxun's headquarters and rushed back to the front-line position.

Looking at the backs of several people, Guo Bingxun turned his head to look at Wang Guangyu, who looked a little lost because his unit had been replaced by the Second Brigade. He pointed to his chest and said, "What?" Is it because of paying such a big price that the creation of a good fighter is a good fighter, but the final harvester is not a little uncomfortable? ”

After that, Guo Bingxun looked at Wang Guangyu, who was a little red because he was talking about it, and said with a smile: "It's normal to be uncomfortable." If it's comfortable, then it's really a ghost. You have been picked by others, and you don't have such a big heart. Neither did I have a change for me. ”

"But fighting is a complex game, it's a whole. Someone is destined to eat meat, and someone is destined to gnaw bones. If they all want to eat meat and don't want to eat bones, then there is no way to fight this battle. You served as a division commander, political commissar, and deputy commander in the former Second Route Army for many years, and I won't say these things, but you should also understand. ”

"Be open-minded and take a long-term view. Among the current three brigade commanders and commanders of the three military divisions in the military region, you and Du Kaishan may go the farthest. Although you are only a brigade commander now, you cannot limit your vision to the position of brigade commander. ”

"The difference between a marshal and a general is not only in the literal and the magnitude of power. As a senior commander, you must have an open mind. The commander asked me to give you a sentence: the sea is tolerant of all rivers, tolerance is great, the wall is thousands of people, and there is no desire to be strong. This is the motto he gave you. And today's remarks were also made by the commander to let me take the time to talk to you. He wants you to be handsome, not general. He hopes you can understand the difference between these two words. ”