Chapter 257 Northbound 19
The prisoners changed their military uniforms and were then replenished into various units one by one. Immediately afterwards, these prisoners were trained under the leadership of the squad leaders of each squadron.
These captured puppet soldiers had already undergone regular military training before. The soldiers' ranks and basic individual tactics did not require too much training. In this regard, they just need to continue to strengthen and achieve strength and excellence. Therefore, the focus of the training is the physical training of the third brigade, the offensive and defensive training of the squad and platoon teams, the coordinated combat training of the infantry and artillery, and the strengthening training of combat spirit.
The training of coordinated infantry and artillery combat was a deficit that Li Qinglin discovered in this battle. He had no cannons in his hand before, but at that time Li Qinglin didn't think that the coordinated combat of infantry and artillery was very important. This time, through his own battle summary and observing the Japanese attack routine, Li Qinglin found that under the current state, the most powerful and most important heavy weapon he could control was the mortar. Therefore, the problem of coordinated combat of infantry and artillery is imminent, and the troops must solve it in the shortest time.
Of course, these problems were raised by Li Qinglin, and no matter how they trained, they were naturally left to Han Jizhong and Feng Zheng to solve them. Li Qinglin is currently considering strengthening the construction of cavalry units and the construction of health teams.
Through this battle, Li Qinglin discovered that whether it is guerrilla warfare or mobile warfare, the speed of the troops' movement is the key. The ability of the troops to reach the attack location in time and the smooth transfer after the war is closely linked to the movement speed of the troops. In addition to training the marching speed of the infantry, the most direct method of the third brigade is to use the running and transport capabilities of mules and horses.
Li Qinglin and cavalry platoon leader Dong Zhao had some small differences on the construction and training of cavalry.
Dong Zhao believed that cavalry should do the work of cavalry, and cavalry should use the speed of horses and the sabre in their hands to launch a charge when necessary. Cavalry soldiers use sabres to kill them is the most formal way of combat.
But Li Qinglin doesn't think so. He believes that under the firepower of machine guns and artillery shells, the cavalry's combat method using cold weapons can no longer meet the needs of the battlefield. Therefore, Li Qinglin proposed that mules and horses should be just a means of transportation, and sabers are just auxiliary weapons for cavalry. Current cavalry should use rifles and machine guns to eliminate the enemy.
"Is that still called a cavalry? Isn't that the infantry riding on a horse?" Dong Zhao murmured after hearing Li Qinglin's idea.
When Li Qinglin heard him say this, his eyes lit up and said, "You really have the point. I just need such infantry riding horses!"
Li Qinglin did what he said, and he asked all cavalrymen to replace the Type 38 cavalry rifles and all personnel were equipped with formal rifles; as much as possible, cavalry must be equipped with a sabre, in addition to being equipped with sabres, a 20-shot mullet gun. Because Li Qinglin believes that at close range, the continuous shooting ability of the mullet gun is definitely greater than that of the sabre.
The cavalry platoon now has three squads. One communication squad's main task is to pass orders, so there are very few opportunities to participate in the battle. The other two cavalry squads are the main combat forces. Li Qinglin believed that the number of people in the two squads was too small, so he gave Jin Mingjun the death order, asking him to get a squad's mules and horses as soon as possible, and then ask Dong Zhao to select soldiers in the team. He also wanted to form a cavalry combat squad.
Dong Zhao asked someone to make a few pairs of stilts. As long as the soldiers in the third strait can walk skillfully on stilts and be strong, they can be selected. This method looks very rustic, but it is actually a scientific method of selecting soldiers.
Cavalry is riding on horses. During combat, they need to complete quick up, dismount, shooting, bomb dropping, killing and other actions, which require the soldier to have strong balance ability. If a soldier can walk on stilts in the shortest time and can move freely under the disturbance of external factors, it proves that his balance ability is natural, and subsequent training will be natural, which will be very smooth for the growth of cavalry soldiers and their combat effectiveness will be formed quickly.
The third brigade now has more than 500 people, and it is easy to choose soldiers suitable for cavalry, but mules and horses suitable for combat are not easy to handle. So Li Qinglin asked everyone to use their brains and use various methods to get suitable mules and horses.
So, while the third brigade was strengthening training, each squadron began to find ways to get mules and horses suitable for combat.
Of course, Jin Mingjun used the purchase method, but this method was not smooth. After the Japanese army came here, they carried out so-called sweeps in the local area. Mules and horses suitable for transportation and combat had long been plundered by the Japanese and puppet troops. Most of the mules and horses that could be bought on the market were old, weak or young mules, so Jin Mingjun barely bought only two mules.
The remaining idea was to hit the Japanese and puppet troops, because their troops also rely on these animal powers to ride and transport. So, some squadrons sent personnel to ambush the enemy's transportation roads, and all mules and horses were brought back; some squadrons sent sharpshooters to the puppet army's strongholds and barracks, and these sharpshooters fired cold guns from time to time, and they could kill several puppet troops in just two days. In the end, no one was willing to do these puppet troops.
When the puppet army could not stand it anymore, the third brigade sent someone to deliver the call. As long as they could send a few mules and horses, the third brigade would not come to "take care of" them again. When the puppet army received this message, they would obediently send a few mules and horses, because no one wanted to be worried all day long to guard against those cold guns and bullets that didn't know where they would fly.
The power of this cold gun is really due to the sharpshooter team organized by Li Qinglin before. After many actual combat tests, these sharpshooters are becoming more and more mature. Although they cannot achieve perfect shooting, their accurate lethality is still daunting. The most prominent example of the battle is the Battle of Depression. There, Guo Zilin and Chen Jianming led four or five sharpshooters, using their precise shooting ability to suppress the enemy to the ground and dare not move, and killed three Japanese troops, which directly led to the end of half of the company's puppet troops being captured.
In the Battle of the Depression, Guo Zilin took advantage of the 97 sniper rifle, and basically did not leave the gun at a suitable distance; Chen Jianming took advantage of his own quick and accurate shooting characteristics, and the firing speed was fast and accurate. After this battle, a rumor circulated in the puppet army: "Meet Guo Zilin, one shot will snatch your soul; meet Chen Jianming, the gun will kill you!"
The training of infantry was completely handed over to Xiao Liuzi and his squad platoon leaders. These people were basically veterans. Along the way, these people naturally became familiar with Li Qinglin's training methods. The basic training no longer required Li Qinglin to personally inquire about it. All the training was carried out step by step.
After the preparation of the collaborative combat methods of infantry artillery, Han Jizhong and Feng Zheng also participated in the infantry training of the third brigade. After seeing the training of the third brigade, they sighed in their hearts: "It's really not unfair to lose to such a unit."
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