Started as a security team, developed into a heavy armored synthesis division

In Xiao Dingfang's organizational plan, a squad consisted of 12 people, carrying a Dapanji light machine gun and a grenade launcher.

A platoon has three squads, equipped with three large guns and three grenade launchers, with a total number of 3 people including communicators.

A company consists of three platoons, which means 9 large-scale machine guns and 9 grenade launchers, two 81mm mortars, and two SG-43 small wheeled heavy machine guns. The total number of people in a company is 180.

An infantry battalion is composed of three infantry companies, an artillery platoon with two Type 650 infantry guns, as well as communicators, medical squads, scouts and others. The total number of personnel in a battalion is .

也就是说，一个营需要27挺轻机枪和27个掷弹筒，加上6门81毫米迫击炮和6挺重机枪，外加2门九十二步兵炮。

This is the standard configuration requirement for a battalion that Xiao Dingfang envisioned.

In the battle of Sanbing Town, Xiao Dingfang seized a lot of spoils, which he took out.

In addition to the weapons and equipment purchased with points, the weapons and equipment of Xiao Dingfang's four infantry battalions are now almost full, although not yet fully staffed.

Compared with weapons, Xiao Dingfang paid more attention to the training of new recruits.

He used his points to buy a large amount of bullets and artillery shells in order to train the new recruits.

The combat effectiveness of soldiers who have fired guns and those who have not fired guns are completely different.

If you have strong fighting power, then the enemy will suffer heavy casualties in return.

If your combat power is weak, then correspondingly, the enemy's attack will become stronger, causing heavy casualties.

That would be a waste of time and effort.

Therefore, training of new recruits is very important.

There are only about 500 veterans from Sanbing Town, so many of the current large team are new recruits.

So Xiao Dingfang broke up all these veteran teams, dispersed them to become the backbone of each company, and then trained them, trained them to death.

As long as the basic qualities are met, guns will be issued as soon as possible and live-fire training will begin.

To hear more gunfire before they enter the real battlefield.

The Battle of Wuhan will start in full swing in June, and Xiao Dingfang doesn't have much time left.

Therefore, Xiao Dingfang lifted the bullet restriction and directly let all the recruits start shooting with live ammunition. Not to mention how much their marksmanship would improve, at least they would be able to shoot and would not be scared by the sound of gunfire on the battlefield.

Of course, this matter was left to Yuan Bing, Monkey, Lao Huang and Lao Ma, and Xiao Dingfang's focus was still on the artillery camp.

Compared with the infantry, the three heavy artillery battalions of the Third Regiment are Xiao Dingfang's real killer weapons.

三个炮营一共是4门155加农炮、12门105毫米加农炮和8门105毫米野战炮，一共24门。

Yes, Xiao Dingfang also took out the four cannons from Sanbing Town.

Now each artillery battalion has two artillery companies and a guard company, with a planned staffing of 850 people. Of course, it is not fully staffed at the moment.

When he was in the back mountain of Sanbing Town, after the expansion of personnel, Xiao Dingfang had a 50-man artillery company, which only had 4 105mm cannons.

However, at that time, because the cannons did not need to be stacked, 50 people were enough to take care of four cannons. Many of them also learned a lot under the guidance of Xiao Dingfang and had become quasi-artillerymen.

They were also assigned to become the backbone gunners of each gun.

And now, Xiao Dingfang plans to turn Tiger Mountain into a permanent heavy artillery position.

Therefore, in addition to learning the basic operating techniques of artillery firing, their artillery battalion now also has to carry out exercises in various stages such as artillery disassembly and maintenance, evacuation and concealment, position camouflage, combat preparation, combat implementation, and combat withdrawal.

As for marching and mobile operations, they are not possible for the time being because there are currently no trucks.

But the same thing goes, if we don’t have a truck, the Japanese will send one.

When the artillery battalion has the ability to conduct mobile operations, that is when his cannons will truly demonstrate their power.

In addition to these three large-caliber heavy artillery battalions, we also have a 20mm caliber anti-aircraft artillery battalion, also called an air defense battalion.

The main equipment is the Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun. This thing is not small, with a total length of 2.21 meters and a weight of 68 kilograms.

Just think about it, the ZB26 Czech light machine gun is only 1.15 meters long and weighs only 10.5 kilograms. You can imagine how powerful the Oerlikon 20mm anti-aircraft machine gun is.

Its muzzle velocity is also very high, reaching 820 meters per second. When fired at 45 degrees, the range can reach 4300 meters.

It uses a circular drum magazine, one drum contains 60 high-explosive shells, and the theoretical rate of fire is 450 rounds per minute.

Although the actual firing rate is not that high, it can reach 320 rounds per minute. In addition, it is a system-produced product, so it is definitely a very durable anti-aircraft firepower.

And the anti-aircraft battalion has 16 of these goodies.

Their main task is to protect the three heavy artillery battalions to prevent the Japanese planes from coming over and blowing up his precious sniper guns.

When I was blown up in Sanbing Town before, I felt a little helpless. Now, can you still blow me up? What a joke!

Moreover, according to the prices in the points mall, his 20 cannons are now worth points. They are old treasures and rare items.

In this way, Yuan Bing and others were focusing on the training of the infantry battalion, while Xiao Dingfang was focusing on the training of the artillery battalion, training them to death.

During this daily training, more than two weeks passed and it was June 6th.

Now the number of people in the Third Regiment has reached 5200. Except for a few artillery battalions that are not fully staffed, the four infantry battalions are all fully staffed.

At the same time, Monkey, the battalion commander of the first battalion and director of the smart department, received a piece of intelligence.

"Battalion Commander, Shucheng, Shucheng has fallen."

Shucheng is a county town in the north of Lujiang, and the straight-line distance from their Tiger Mountain is only 60 kilometers.

Hearing this, Xiao Dingfang narrowed his eyes and said, "Shucheng fell? When did it fall?"

"It was June 6th, and I heard that the Japanese came out from Hefei."

Hearing this, Xiao Dingfang immediately started to think about it.

"Shucheng fell on June 6th, which means the Japanese have begun to move south from Hefei, and the Battle of Wuhan is about to break out?

And today is already the 10th, the devils will be here soon."

Xiao Dingfang muttered, and then asked: "Monkey, do you know which Japanese army is heading south?"

He was not too alarmed about the Japanese moving southwards. After all, in the past half month, the companies had achieved remarkable results under his supervision and training.

In particular, the artillery unit, which he paid special attention to, basically had no major problems except that it had not been tested in actual combat.

"Battalion Commander, the devils are our old enemies, the Sakai detachment that attacked Chaocheng.

They have two regiments and an artillery battalion, totaling more than 9000 people.”

"Yes, they are old enemies. Many of our brothers from the Eighth Regiment and the Third Battalion died in Chao City, at the hands of the Sakai Detachment."

Xiao Dingfang sighed, and then said seriously: "Okay, Monkey, go call Lao Huang, Lao Ma, and Lao Yuan over. We need to distribute the tasks and prepare for the battle."

"Yes."