Volume Three, Cannons, Bombing His Mother, Chapter Four hundred and forty-eight, Promotion
The exercise ended with an unexpected ending of no one. Three hours after the exercise, Xue Yue, who had changed into military uniforms, drove from the exercise venue to the temporary headquarters by Jia Zongrang. Along the way, Jia Zongrang, who had been frowning before, was excited. As Xue Yue's boss, the great victory in the exercise added a lot of glory to his face, which resulted in a strong qualification for his future career advancement.
"I didn't expect that Brother Bo Ling has such ability. You don't know yet? Brigade Commander Zhou, who was the defense, had his face darkened from the exercise field. This guy usually doesn't convince anyone except Commander Lu. He even had his eyes on his forehead, but this time he beat me up, hahaha, it's so satisfying. Brother Bo Ling, you won this battle with less and more cleanly this time. Commander Lu will definitely have a heavy reward. It's certain that he will rise to the top in the future. Brothers will have to rely on my brother to take care of him..."
Jia Zongrang kept talking all the way, laughing a few times from time to time. Xue Yue, who was sitting beside him, did not speak arrogantly, but rather spoke humbly. While Jia Zongrang was excited, Xue Yue was still thinking about the battle just now. Although the final result was that he won, Xue Yue did not feel too excited after the exercise.
This is not that Xue Yue is arrogant and arrogant, but that he also sees many shortcomings while winning this exercise. Speaking of which, he wins a bit of luck, while the other party loses a bit of regret.
As a new weapon, the power of tanks in assault and sports operations is unquestionable, but the failure of the opponent in this exercise is not entirely due to tanks. The exercise stipulates that both sides cannot use heavy weapons, which is equivalent to giving Xue Yue a cheating loophole. You should know that tanks are not only mobile steel fortresses, but also have powerful tank guns. Compared with the defense party that can only use long-range firepower such as mortars and grenade launchers, Xue Yue has already gained the upper hand in this regard, which is also the main reason why he was able to easily break through the defense line without encountering any obstacles during assault.
If the defender who is strictly guarded has high firepower support, his tank will inevitably suffer losses. Not to mention breaking through the defense line, the entire army will be completely defeated in the enemy's artillery before it is played out. In addition, the defending soldiers also lack individual tank defense weapons, which is one of the reasons for their defeat. In addition, there are many flaws in their own tanks and infantry cooperation, because insufficient training is insufficient, some unnecessary casualties are also revealed in the exercise.
These questions made Xue Yue think deeply. After experiencing this battle, he felt that in actual combat, the use of tanks must not be rigidly held on to the training outline. Tanks can only achieve the greatest effect in war when they are sudden, speed and the use of tank movements, rather than being used to confront defenders with heavy weapons. Such a defeat is simply a loss-win situation and the maximum ability of the tank can be at all.
After a while, they arrived at the temporary headquarters. The adjutant Lu Jianzhang, who had just gotten off the car, had been waiting outside. They were invited to go to the conference room immediately. When they entered the conference room, they saw that all the senior generals of the garrison had already sat down. Of course, the highest commander of the Northwest Military Region and the commander-in-chief Lu Jianzhang was sitting in the main seat.
As a middle and lower-level officer, it is particularly prominent in this conference room with many stars, not to mention that today's exercise Xue Yue is the protagonist. When he followed Jia Zongrang into the conference room, he suddenly felt the eyes from all directions gathering on him.
Jia Zongrang's seat was the third one behind. After entering the door, he first saluted Lu Jianzhang with Xue Yue. Then he walked towards his seat. Xue Yue hesitated for a moment and hurriedly followed Jia Zongrang to the other side, intending to find a place behind Jia Zongrang's position.
"Xue Boling!"
"arrive!"
Unexpectedly, after just taking half a step, Lu Jianzhang stopped calling, turned around and responded quickly, and saw Lu Jianzhang, who was sitting in the first place, raised his hand and pointed to a temporary position behind him: "You sit here!"
"Yes!" Xue Yue was slightly stunned. But he immediately reacted, walked towards Lu Jianzhang with a calm expression, and sat down at that position.
At this moment, Xue Yue felt that many people in the room looked at him with appreciation, envy, and jealousy... all kinds of complex feelings can be seen from this detail. This Xue Hu was attracted by President Lu, and he will definitely have a bright future in the future.
"Everyone is here, now we have a meeting!"
After Xue Yue sat down, Lu Jianzhang announced the beginning of the meeting, and then he didn't talk much nonsense and directly talked about the exercise that had just ended. Regarding the results of the exercise, Lu Jianzhang praised Xue Yue's troops and at the same time made severe criticism of the defense party.
"I don't accept it!" As soon as Lu Jianzhang finished speaking, a voice suddenly remembered. Everyone looked closely and saw that this person was Zhou Yinren, the brigade commander who was the defense side.
"Don't accept it? Then why don't you agree?" Just when everyone thought Lu Jianzhang would scold Zhou Yinren, Lu Jianzhang picked up the teacup in front of him and blew it in a calm expression, took a sip of tea, and then asked calmly.
"In this exercise, Xue Boling's side has an advantage in weapons. Although my defense has a perfect position structure, it is impossible to use heavy weapons to counterattack, resulting in a tank breaking through. If I had cannons in hand, let alone Xue Boling's ten iron lumps, even if there were a few more, he would not be my opponent. This exercise was unfair, so of course he would not accept the loss!" Zhou Yinren shouted there with a blue face. He graduated from the sixth artillery department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. He is his old job in playing cannons. In his opinion, if he had heavy artillery support, he would not lose at all, and would not be a laughing stock by his colleagues like he is now.
"It sounds like it makes sense..." Lu Jianzhang smiled and turned to look at Xue Yue who was leaning back to his left: "Boling, do you think the words of Brigade Commander Zhou make sense?"
Seeing Lu Jianzhang ask himself, Xue Yue quickly stood up and answered truthfully: "Returning to Commander-in-Chief, Brigade Commander Zhou's inability to use heavy artillery defense during the exercise is indeed one of the reasons for his defeat. I do not deny this humble position."
"You are really." Hearing such an answer, Lu Jianzhang laughed and looked at Xue Yue with a little more appreciation: "Then I ask you, if you and Brigade Commander Zhou change each other, as the commander of the defense, will you be able to block your tank assault?"
"There is a solution." Xue Yue nodded after hesitating.
"Oh, let's talk about it in detail."
"Yes!" Xue Yue studied tank combat methods during his military academy, and also learned about the advantages and disadvantages of tanks through some channels. Moreover, as the commander who presided over the training of tanks these days, the infantry cooperative combat commander had a lot of his own views after experiencing this exercise, and immediately talked about how to defend against tank combat methods.
Xue Yue believes that although tanks are powerful, they are not without weaknesses. Especially for such small-scale tanks, it is not impossible to crack them under the premise of defense. In addition to heavy weapons such as heavy artillery that can directly destroy tanks, they also rely on individual soldiers to use explosives, prevent tank trenches, complex terrain, etc. to deal with tanks. Of course, the most important thing is that they cannot defend like before, they must be flexible and maneuverable, find the dead corners of the tank to attack decisively. Eliminate infantry that cooperates with tanks to fight. In this way, although the defense party will still suffer a lot of losses, it can completely block the tank's attack with sufficient troops.
"Okay! That's right!" After hearing Xue Yue's words, Lu Jianzhang nodded and raised his hand to signal him to sit down. Then, Lu Jianzhang looked at Zhou Yinren and asked, "Brave Commander Zhou, what do you think now?"
Zhou Yinren was a little stunned. Xue Yue's insight just now surprised him. He couldn't answer Lu Jianzhang's words for a moment, and could only say meaninglessly, "I... humble..."
"You? You're the bullshit!" Lu Jianzhang slapped the table suddenly, scaring everyone. Lu Jianzhang stood up and pointed at Zhou Yinren and cursed: "Why are you still indifferent to say? A brigade commander led two regiments, with perfect positions and fortifications, he could not defeat several tanks and a battalion, and was even almost wiped out by the other party. He was still not convinced? You have the good reputation to say such things! Bastard!"
Zhou Yinren was so scared that his face looked like earth, but Lu Jianzhang did not let him go and continued to curse: "I know you graduated from the artillery department. Can't you turn around if you don't have artillery? What are you fighting in war? One is weapons, and the other is people! Insufficient weapons, is your mind full of grass? Can't you think of a way? By the way, I almost forgot. I don't know who said it before, tanks are useless, who said this? You Zhou Yinren, you! You! You!" Lu Jianzhang pointed to the people present one by one, and the people he pointed at all lowered their heads and dared not speak, but cursed in his heart, "Isn't you, President Lu?"
"What's the result now? No matter how good a weapon is, it must be used in the hands of the people who will use it to play its greatest role. Otherwise, if you don't look like a prince in a dragon robe, when you really get to the battlefield, can you still yell at 'disobedience'?"
After scolding everyone, Lu Jianzhang sat back to his seat. Then he looked at the adjutant standing beside him. The adjutant hurried forward and opened the folder he had been holding.
"The Republic of China, Northwest Military Region Command, Commander-in-Chief of the Republic of China!"
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone stood up in a hurry, including Xue Yue.
"With the approval of the State Council, the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff, and the Ministry of Army, the Northwest Military Region will form the Third Armored Division from now on. The Armored Division will be organized into an armored brigade, an infantry brigade, an artillery brigade, an engineering regiment, a rocket launcher battalion, a division tank, self-propelled artillery, 105 howitzers, 122 howitzers, field artillery, and cannons are as follows..."
As the adjutant read out, unconcealed astonishment passed through everyone's face. The organization of this armored division was unheard of, but from its configuration, its firepower far exceeds that of ordinary reorganized divisions, and even the two reorganized divisions combined was not as powerful as that of an armored division. The whole division was not only equipped with a large number of artillery at all levels, but the key was also an astonishing number of tanks and self-propelled artillery. The two of these two together had more than 300 tanks and self-propelled artillery. Xue Yue defeated Zhou Yinren's two regiments with just 10 tanks, and everyone could imagine how powerful this would be.
Chapter completed!