Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

At this moment, Chu Yunfei was receiving a group of people who had been urgently dispatched from the rear base to discuss matters related to joint operations.

"Commander Chu, I am the head of the third section of the Urban Combat Tactics Research Group of the Base Area. My surname is Lin. I am here on orders from the commander to assist your army in urban street fighting and will also send relevant technical personnel to conduct on-site research and summarize relevant combat experience."

"Welcome, welcome Section Chief Lin for your guidance. We will fully cooperate."

Li Yunlong had already explained this matter back when he was at the Independent Column Headquarters.

The reason why the Jin-Sui Army did not send a research team when attacking Languan was mainly because Languan was a fortress siege, which required a head-on confrontation with the enemy and was a contest of steel and gunpowder between the two sides.

The principle is that the strongest wins, and the common method is to bomb, bomb, bomb. In fact, various tactics are not very effective in that situation.

What to do if you encounter enemy strongpoints? Use the mortars or recoilless rifles that are accompanying the advance to blow them up;

If you encounter an enemy bunker that your light artillery cannot destroy, then call in mountain guns or even howitzers from the rear.

In short, the caliber of a cannon reflects its strength.

But next, we face urban street fighting, especially in large cities heavily guarded by the enemy, where there are many more intricacies involved.

Heavy artillery is absolutely out of the question; there are too many civilians in the city, and it would be easy to accidentally injure our own people.

Moreover, the defeated Japanese soldiers often hid in the homes of ordinary people. How our army could rescue the people while killing the enemy was a very important skill that required constant learning and experience.

This kind of combat experience is exactly what our troops lack. In the future counter-offensive, there will be such battlefields everywhere, especially in large cities like Shanghai and Taiyuan, which are more than ten times more complex than Echeng.

Although Kong Hao had designed many weapons and equipment for urban warfare based on his experience, most of them lacked combat experience and remained mere theoretical concepts. Countless heads rolled.

Section Chief Lin took two booklets from a tin box next to him and handed them to Chu Yunfei and Chief of Staff Fang respectively:

"This is an urban street fighting operation manual compiled by our base based on recent battle examples. It describes the weapons, equipment and tactics we should use in the face of various complex terrains and enemy deployments."

"Of course, this is just a first draft. It will be improved based on the actual situation, and some new tactics and experience summaries will be added."

After taking the booklet, Chu Yunfei opened it and glanced at it, then couldn't help but exclaim in admiration:

"Your army's actions have truly broadened my horizons."

"Not many soldiers in the Chinese army are literate. If it's something long and difficult to understand, they simply can't comprehend it. Even if the material is excellent, it's useless."

"The drawing method you use completely solves this problem. Even soldiers who can't read a single word can understand the content through the drawings."

"Ordinary soldiers can just look at the pictures, but company and platoon leaders can use the text on the pictures to explain and formulate better combat plans."

"Truly wonderful, beyond words!"

Chief of Staff Fang, who was standing nearby, took the opportunity to add: "Take this picture as an example. As you can see from the picture, when a unit passes through a street, it needs to disperse the troops and send people to scout out the various situations on the street in advance, such as whether there are any enemy ambushes or places where the enemy might ambush them."

"Professional, truly professional. There are many things that even I, the division chief of staff, hadn't thought of, let alone the company and platoon level officers and ordinary soldiers below."

"If our troops had learned these things in advance during urban warfare, even if they only had a superficial understanding, and had received early warnings, the casualty rate of soldiers would have been greatly reduced."

"This kind of booklet is a godsend for an army, and its effect on improving the combat effectiveness of the troops is immeasurable."

The two leaders saw the profound foundation of the Eighth Route Army from this small booklet.

While this kind of thing cannot quickly improve an army's hard power, it can enhance its soft power invisibly.

Moreover, judging from the situation, this kind of thing is commonplace in the Eighth Route Army. Neither of them dared to imagine how terrifying their overall quality would be if ordinary soldiers in those troops studied this kind of thing every day.

At the same time, this is only the tip of the iceberg of what the Eighth Route Army has shown; how many good things are actually hidden inside the base areas?

The two exchanged a glance, both secretly relieved that their leader knew how to assess the situation and made the right choice immediately.

Otherwise, if things continue like this, they will all be eliminated in less than a year, because the two are not even in the same league.

Section Chief Lin smiled and said, "This is the most basic operation in our base area. This is called a standardized document, and it is the basis for all actions."

"The purpose is to teach the most ordinary soldiers some basic knowledge. After all, relying solely on individual summaries of battlefield experience is very limited and cannot be systematized."

“We have a dedicated research group in our base area, which consists of many highly educated individuals. We also frequently invite veterans from various combat units to give on-site explanations, which is how we compiled this set of tactical manuals.”

"However, these are just initial drafts. After the battle here is over, we will update this manual based on the situation on other battlefields."

"I brought two thousand copies this time, enough for you to use for a while."

Hearing that they had received two thousand copies at once, Chu Yunfei was overjoyed. Their troops numbered nearly ten thousand, and one copy was enough for each infantry squad.

This period is perfect for organizing the entire unit to study and learn how to fight in battle, which is also a tradition of the Chinese army.

"By the way, I also brought several weapons suitable for urban warfare this time. They were all recently developed and need to be tested on the battlefield."

Upon hearing that there were new weapons, the two leaders were extremely interested and immediately notified officers of battalion commander rank and above to come to the division headquarters so that everyone could witness them together.

As for attacking the city, there's no particular rush right now. We just received a telegram from the Independent Column; it seems the Japanese are considering abandoning several surrounding counties, and they don't even want the encircled division anymore.

This deviated somewhat from the previously formulated battle plan, so there was no rush to attack the city. The focus was on minimizing troop casualties and summarizing various siege tactics.