War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 368 Fight!
The British and American tactics in Season 2 were very similar after the advent of semi-automatic rifles. To sum it up in one sentence, the infantry's attack must be coordinated with other arms and implemented under the cover of powerful firepower.

But if we break it down, there are still slight differences in the details.

In the US military system, the infantry battalion is the most complete tactical unit. Remember, we are talking about the battalion here.

Because the US military already has the ability to use diversified firepower at the battalion level, even so, when the infantry battalion attacks, the superior unit will also provide other support units to the infantry. Generally speaking, an infantry battalion-level attack will often get direct support from a medium or light tank company. In addition to the anti-tank firepower and tank firepower that should be available, the battalion commander can even directly call on the division's artillery group and air strikes to clear obstacles.

Their enemy engagement distance was exaggerated. When they were 16 kilometers away from the enemy's frontline positions, they had already begun to prepare for engagement. This was due to the accuracy of the US military's aerial reconnaissance. This distance was generally the longest firing distance of the enemy's medium artillery, and the enemy naturally did not refer to the Japanese. Each infantry squad participating in the attack would send out at least two people as scouts, who would operate about 450 to 500 meters ahead of their own march to find out the enemy's firepower distribution and whether they would encounter an ambush by the enemy's combat patrol.

Under the escort of aerial reconnaissance, they can calmly deal with various emergencies, maximize their firepower advantages, and reduce casualties. In the subsequent offensive operations, once the enemy's firepower points are exposed, the infantry will quickly hide on the spot or withdraw from the enemy's firepower coverage area, and the superior units will concentrate all artillery fire in the shortest time to launch a devastating blow.

This is also the reason why everyone knows that they are very powerful, but few people imitate the tactics they use. After all, tactics of this scale are not based on battlefield IQ, but on huge amounts of money.

The British attack can be described in a jingle: using the strength of a division, with the firepower of an army, to attack a brigade of enemies; while the British defense is using the strength of a battalion, controlling the firepower of a division, to defend against a regiment of enemies.

In other words, when attacking, one must have the advantage in numbers and firepower before launching the attack; when defending, one must have the absolute advantage in firepower to carry out the attack.

Although this statement may sound exaggerated, it also indirectly reflects that the British army in Season 2 was no less capable than the US army at the time in using firepower advantages in standard offensive and defensive battles.

The three main points of British tactics are: First, squad cover fire is different from other countries that use squad light machine guns as tactical fulcrums. British riflemen can also rely on the firing rate of their rifles to form fire suppression in a short period of time. This has to mention the British 2, which is not inferior to semi-automatic rifles throughout the S season. To this day, some people still praise it with astonishment. This directly leads to the combination of rifles and light machine guns, and there is almost no fire vacuum period when the two alternately cover each other.

Second, flank attack firepower. In actual combat, once the squad commander issues a flank attack order, the squad grenade group will immediately launch the action of other members of the squad with smoke bombs or grenades in the shortest possible time;

Third, suppressive firepower at all levels, which is also the core content of the British infantry tactics, especially from the first second of the battle to the last second of the battle, suppressive firepower at all levels must fire continuously, and no interruption in firepower is allowed to prevent the enemy from readjusting its defensive firepower or limiting the intensity of the enemy's firepower attack.

To put it bluntly, the target of the fight is the wealthy and powerful.

This is definitely not something that can be learned by simply saying 'other people's tactics are there, why don't you learn them'. Just the requirement of 'absolutely no interruption in firepower is allowed' would require Xu Chaoyang to invest countless resources with the strength of one regiment. This is something he could deeply understand only after he worked in military industry.

I remember that Xu Chaoyang read in history that when Lin Huiyin and her husband went to Shanxi for a trip, they saw several bronze Buddhas and took photos together. However, these bronze Buddhas disappeared after the full-scale war. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, people discovered that during the war, even these bronze Buddhas were melted and turned into bullets to shoot at the enemy!

Although shooting is also a method and trajectory is also a way, which is also called the boundless Buddhist Dharma, this can also reflect the economic situation at that time. In other words, even if Xu Chaoyang now has the arsenal of Dagu Shipyard, he still cannot get close to the British and American tactics, and has to pick up the leftovers from Germany. At least he can imitate the attack method and formation rhythm of the squads and teams based on machine guns there.

As for why he did not imitate the strongest tactics developed by our army when ammunition was scarce, it was because Xu Chaoyang's economic situation was much stronger than that of our army today. After all, war is fought with economy.

This is also the main reason why Xu Chaoyang, who now has a semi-automatic rifle, still has not specified a better tactic and insists on sticking to the German tactics.

In Xu Chaoyang's office, Yuan Fuzhen listened to Xu Chaoyang explaining his training plan while placing the food brought back from the kitchen on the coffee table and responded: "There are so many definitions of tactics? I thought the so-called tactics were for officers to find the enemy's weak points and launch an attack with superior forces. It turns out that there must also be economic coordination here."

"Do you think!"

Xu Chaoyang sat on the sofa like an old man, and even the chopsticks were handed to him by Yuan Fuzhen. He picked up the chopsticks, picked up a piece of egg and tomato, put it in his mouth, chewed and said: "If there is enough money in the pocket, who would be willing to let the soldiers fight on the battlefield? They can't just bombard them from a distance of several thousand meters, so why charge at the top of the mountain and seize the high ground?"

"During the Yuan Dynasty, the cavalry retreated and used the cavalry's turning back to shoot arrows, which made the whole of Europe scream in panic. In the end, if you look at history, wasn't it all about the money that was plundered to support the war?"

Xu Chaoyang crossed his legs and brought his meal to Yuan Fuzhen, who then sat down. "Hey, what is the current size of your regiment?"

"There's something wrong with what you said. What size of force can a regiment have? A regiment-level size..."

The regiment level is a scale that people look down upon in this era, and there is a precedent for this.

When Zhang Zongchang had just risen to the rank of regiment leader, he often frequented brothels after returning to his hometown in Yantai. The local Chen Peiyu, who was famous for her elegant dancing, ignored him. Later, this guy became very successful and was caught by Chen Peiyu. He asked the man to heat the kang to the hottest temperature, so hot that even standing next to the kang was scorching. Then he stripped Chen Peiyu and threw him onto the kang. Chen Peiyu, who looked down on him, was so burned that he screamed in pain and insisted that he dance on such a hot kang.

This also proves that in this era of confusion among official positions, people actually don't have much respect for low-level officers. Even some people of status think that the regiment commander is just so-so when they see him.

"But isn't there only more than a thousand people in a regiment? I've seen the account book of Dagu Shipyard, and the food expenses are allocated based on 2,600 to 2,700 people each month... Woo..."

Xu Chaoyang had quick eyes and hands, and it was obvious that he had practiced this technique before. He raised his hand and stuffed a piece of cabbage into Yuan Fuzhen's mouth with chopsticks. The angle was tricky, and the move was fast and accurate.

"Can you say that?"

"Besides, who asked you to look at my account book?" Xu Chaoyang didn't blame Yuan Fuzhen, but in a place like an office, how could you easily say such a thing? As a regiment leader, what do you want to do when you are in charge of the food for 2,600 to 2,700 people?
Yuan Fuzhen rolled her eyes at Xu Chaoyang, spit the cabbage out of her mouth and into her hands, then threw it onto the coffee table. Xu Chaoyang didn't dislike it at all, he picked it up with a pair of chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth. Seeing this action, Yuan Fuzhen laughed out loud, stretched out her hand and pinched Xu Chaoyang's shoulder and said, "You must have died of poverty in your previous life, it's just a piece of cabbage!"

Xu Chaoyang did not explain, and there was no way to explain his philosophy to Yuan Fuzhen. The couple finished the meal in such a joking manner. Although the way they got along with each other was not as sweet as the young couples of his era, they enhanced their feelings in another way.

Bell~
That's when the phone rang.

"Hello? Dagu Garrison, Xu Chaoyang."

"I am Qin Dechun."

Xu Chaoyang was stunned. He knew who Qin Dechun was, but he had never met this person directly. He could accept the person who called today even if it was Tong Linge. At least they had drunk wine at the same table...

"Sir!"

Xu Chaoyang picked the most innocuous name.

"I order you to send troops immediately to the middle section of the Pingjin Railway..."

"Where?" Xu Chaoyang was confused. He was a garrison, or an arsenal garrison. Qin Dechun, are you crazy? How dare you order the arsenal garrison to dispatch troops?
"Sir, is this an order from the 29th Army Headquarters?"

All the orders he had received from the 29th Army Headquarters were not conveyed by any superiors outside of Zhao Dengyu's faction. Even Song Zheyuan had rarely issued orders personally. What was Qin Dechun doing at this time?

"Stop talking nonsense and follow orders!"

"Listen, there is an armored train on its way from Peking to Tianjin. The 26th Army bombed the railway and stopped it in the wilderness. But the 26th Army can't attack it yet. I order your 217th Regiment to send troops immediately from Dagu and annihilate everyone on the train!"

This order was starting to sound more and more wrong. The train from Beijing to Tianjin was an armored train, so it was definitely not a train of the Japanese.
In the absence of resistance, Qin Dechun dispatched the garrison troops to annihilate the enemy troops on the train, leaving no one alive;
Why does this sound less and less like a war?

"Sir, we are a security regiment and cannot leave our station without permission..."

"Xu Chaoyang!"

Qin Dechun's voice sounded anxious just from the phone call, but Xu Chaoyang would be fine even if he didn't move. As long as the call wasn't from Song Zheyuan himself, he would have something to say...

"Hurry up, the sky is falling!"

Snapped.

He hung up the phone... He begged for help and hung up the phone.

Xu Chaoyang had just put down the phone, and before he could figure out what was going on - the phone rang!

The phone rang again.

Xu Chaoyang quickly picked up the phone, and the four words inside left him no chance to refuse: "I, He Yingqin."

"I order you, Xu Chaoyang, to rush to the battlefield in the middle section of the Pingjin Railway Line immediately and attack the machine gun defense line held by the armored convoy. Remember, capture all those who can be captured alive, and kill those who cannot be captured alive. However, the commander of the armored convoy must be alive!"

"Order the backup to set off immediately!"

"Yes!"

Xu Chaoyang had nothing else to say, and since He Yingqin called personally, there was no way he would be allowed to say anything else.

But what is going on here?

(End of this chapter)