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Chapter 234 Evaluation of Special Combat Strength of the Independent 48th Brigade
Chen Ziyun and Chu Yunfei had been busy all day, and at 48 o'clock in the evening on September [-]th, they finalized the specific establishment of the independent [-]th brigade.

The 358 regiment has jurisdiction over the second battalion, third battalion, fourth battalion, seventh battalion, cavalry battalion, artillery battalion, and is directly under the reconnaissance platoon.

The 11th Reserve Regiment has one battalion, five battalions, and six battalions under its jurisdiction. The regiment is directly under the first artillery company and supplements the first company.

The 12th Reserve Regiment has eight battalions, nine battalions, and ten battalions under its jurisdiction. The regiment is directly under the second artillery company and supplements the second company.

The ten infantry battalions have a similar organization, but with different types of weapons.

Each squad is equipped with a light machine gun, a submachine gun, and nine rifles.

Each platoon has three infantry squads and one grenadier squad (three grenadiers).

Each platoon of the 12th reserve regiment has a mortar squad under it, equipped with two 60MM mortars.

Each company has three infantry platoons under its jurisdiction, each battalion has three infantry companies under its jurisdiction, and one machine gun company.

There are four infantry battalions in the 358th Regiment, and each machine gun company is equipped with four heavy machine guns and two 81MM mortars.

The machine gun companies of the 11th and 12th reserve regiments are equipped with four heavy machine guns and two Type [-] infantry guns.

As for the 82MM mortars equipped in each regiment, all of them were handed over in exchange for corresponding mortars and infantry artillery.

The 82MM mortar is a domestic mortar, imitating the French Brand 81MM mortar.

The overall performance of this mortar is quite good, but due to the limitation of domestic technology and other reasons, the 82MM mortar is relatively weak.

The original Brand 81MM mortar can be used to increase the charge, so as to attack civil works.

The 81MM mortar equipped by Chen Ziyun Group is a Japanese-style mortar, which is also an imitation of the Brand mortar.

However, the little devil's ordnance technology is relatively advanced, so it is also possible to increase the amount of charge to bombard civil engineering works.

As for the Type [-] infantry artillery equipped by the other two regiments, it can shoot both flat and curved. It is also a good infantry support artillery.

Judging from the latest adjustments, it is not difficult to see the intentions of Chen Ziyun and Chu Yunfei.

They want to use the battalion as a combat unit, even if they cannot get the artillery support directly under the regiment and the brigade.

Relying on their own weapons and equipment, these infantry battalions can also fight alone.

Of course, in terms of weapon models, the 358th regiment and the reserve 11th regiment retained Japanese-style and Jin-made weapons.

These two regiments mainly use crooked light machine guns, [-]-type heavy machine guns, Jin-made Czech-style light machine guns, Jin-made heavy machine guns, [-] rifles, [-] rifles and other weapons.

The 12th regiment was prepared to use Czech light machine guns, Type [-] heavy machine guns, Mauser rifles and other weapons.

The Zhangwu Cavalry Battalion and Li Yang Artillery Battalion did not make any adjustments, and still maintained the previous establishment.

The 358 regiment is directly under the reconnaissance platoon, and major adjustments have been made at this time.

The reconnaissance platoon began to directly govern the special warfare squad from the previous combat team.

Each special warfare squad is equipped with one 60MM mortar, two Mauser sniper rifles, one light machine gun, and six assault soldiers!
Each commando is still equipped with three guns, a Czech-style semi-automatic rifle, a Jin-made shell gun, and a Jin-made submachine gun!

The reconnaissance platoon has three special warfare squads, each with 16 people, and a supply squad with twelve heavy soldiers.

Counting the platoon staff, the reconnaissance platoon is full of more than 60 people.

They need to transfer more than 20 officers and soldiers from various ministries to directly supplement them.

Chen Ziyun must be personally responsible for the selection of this matter, after all, Chen Ziyun built the reconnaissance platoon according to the field troops.

Originally, when Chen Ziyun was fighting in Xin County, he planned to seize some vehicles to enhance the mobility of the reconnaissance platoon.

However, things backfired. During the battle, the little devil's vehicles were destroyed one after another.

In the end, Chen Ziyun had to give up this idea, but there are still other ways to improve the mobility of the reconnaissance platoon.

In this battle, the various ministries captured a lot of war horses.

After all, they wiped out a division of the puppet cavalry unit alone.

So Chen Ziyun transferred the captured war horses and directly added them to the reconnaissance platoon, so that everyone in the reconnaissance platoon must learn how to ride horses.

In this way, they can rely on war horses to achieve rapid maneuvering.

Chen Ziyun attached great importance to the reconnaissance platoon.

The establishment of the three regiments has basically been finalized. Because the 358 regiment is a reinforced regiment, its full strength is 4000 people.

The 11th Reserve Regiment, the 11th Reserve Regiment has also been strengthened to a certain extent, each regiment has 500 troops.

These three regiments have a total of 9000 troops.

However, among the 9000 people, not all of them are combat soldiers.

There are three combat arms: infantry, cavalry, and artillery.

In addition, it is also equipped with non-combatant personnel such as supply soldiers, medical soldiers, orderly soldiers, and communication soldiers.

As for the troops directly under the brigade headquarters, the establishment has also been adjusted.

The previous supply company was directly expanded into a supply battalion.

The guard company and the communication company were jointly organized into a guard communication battalion.

The field artillery battalion has not been adjusted, but Chu Yunfei added a machine gun battalion by dismantling the machine guns from the armored vehicles.

After the adjustment, the brigade headquarters will be directly under the four battalions of the supply battalion, the field artillery battalion, the machine gun battalion, and the guard communication battalion.

The machine gun battalion is equipped with twelve Type 13 [-]MM heavy machine guns and twelve Type [-] light machine guns.

The guard communication company has a guard company, a communication company, and a submachine gun platoon.

The total strength of these four battalions is about 800 people. Counting the three regiments, the Independent 48th Brigade has more than [-] troops.

You must know that the troops of a division of the Jinsui Army now have a maximum of 7000 people.

A division of many troops like the Sichuan Army only has 5000 people!
The strength of one brigade of the Independent 48th Brigade is now equivalent to the strength of their two divisions.

As for weapons and equipment, there is a big gap.

At eight o'clock in the evening, after Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun drew up the relevant establishment, they directly reported it to the second theater chief's department and the first theater chief's department.

This army has achieved amazing results one after another. Whether it is Wei Junru or Yan Laoxi, they are all willing to see this army strengthen their own strength.

And when reporting, Chu Yunfei also directly concealed some strengths that should be hidden.

For example, the machine gun battalion, the two reserve regiments directly under the reinforcement company and other troops, Chu Yunfei did not report.

The detailed establishment of the Independent 48th Brigade began to be reported, and Chen Ziyun and Chu Yunfei were also busy for a long time.

The two of them haven't had a good rest for a long time. After dealing with this matter, Chen Ziyun offered to leave, while Chu Yunfei rested at the brigade headquarters.

After Chen Ziyun returned to the camp of the 358th regiment, he checked the situation of each battalion in detail before returning to his room to rest.

When fighting in Xin County, Chen Ziyun hardly had time to rest.

Most of the time he is commanding troops and discussing combat plans.

At least in the few moments he has free time, he can take a nap for a while.

After returning to the base of the Independent 48th Brigade, he met with Guo Jiqiao again, and then finalized the detailed establishment of the Independent 48th Brigade with Chu Yunfei.

By now he was exhausted, returned to his room, lay on the wooden bed, and soon Chen Ziyun fell asleep.

The night passed quickly, and Chen Ziyun hadn't woken up early in the morning on September [-]th. He was really exhausted.

It was at this time that the provincial capital of Jin Province was too far away, in the headquarters of the First Army.

It should be said that Chen Ziyun didn't rest well during this period of time, and he didn't get a full night's sleep at all.

That little devil's Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army, was even more exhausted than him.

Since the Eighth Route Army launched a large-scale raid on August [-], until now, Yoshio Shinozuka has spent almost all of his time in the army headquarters.

For more than 20 days now, Shinozuka Yoshio is very sloppy, with a beard and tired face.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the 48th Independent Brigade of the Jinsui Army has all withdrawn to the Yangcun area."

"Although there are a certain number of Eighth Route troops on the highlands west of Xin County, they cannot pose a threat to Xin County."

"At present, the Jinsui Army and the Eighth Route Army here may not launch large-scale combat operations."

"Our ministries have made every effort to strengthen the defense of Zhengtai Railway, Tongpu Railway and other railways."

"At the same time, the second section is also actively mobilizing intelligence personnel to lock the position of the main force of the Eighth Route."

"As long as they continue to show up in the future, we will definitely be able to inflict heavy damage on them."

Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi came to Shinozuka Yoshio, and he reported with a serious expression on his face.

After listening to the report, Shinozuka Yoshio turned his eyes to the location of Yang Village on the map.

Relevant staff members also began to mark it here, writing "Independence 48B".

"Pay close attention to the developments here in Yangcun, and report to us as soon as Chu Yunfei's department is transferred."

"This army has strong combat effectiveness. No matter where they participate in the battle, they will have a huge impact on the battle situation."

"Mr. Nanshan, how does the military headquarters evaluate the combat effectiveness of the Independent 48th Brigade?"

Shinozuka Yoshio looked at the Chief of Staff Kusuyama Hideyoshi beside him, and asked with a serious expression on his face.

The Japanese army has a relatively complete system, and there will be a series of judgments on all units fighting with them.

In this way, during combat, they will make deployment arrangements based on these judgments.

The little devil is currently judged according to the four levels of A, B, C, and D, so as to mark the combat effectiveness of the Jinsui Army and other troops.

Of course, due to casualties in some troops, the combat effectiveness of the troops has declined, and judgments under the armor will also appear at this time.

And some troops will be judged by the second because of the enhancement of weapons and the improvement of combat effectiveness.

"Before the war, we judged the Independent 48th Brigade according to the brigade's first grade, but at present, our judgment is obviously wrong."

"According to the information we have, the Independent 48th Brigade is completely the size of a field division, and they even surpass ordinary field divisions."

"After repeated discussions, we will judge them on the division level!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, this force is not weaker than the Central Army's German Armed Forces at the beginning of the war."

"Chu Yunfei and Chen Ziyun have both been educated in military schools and have rich combat experience."

"Especially Chen Ziyun, the Army Artillery Academy he attends is completely German-style education."

"The Independent 48th Brigade has excellent weapons and equipment, strong troops, and outstanding officers. They can be judged according to their armor."

Kusuyama Hideyoshi looked at Yoshio Shinozuka in front of him, and said with a serious expression on his face.

Shinozuka Yoshio nodded thoughtfully, and he looked at the location of Yang Village on the map.

Immediately afterwards, his gaze quickly scanned Cangyunling, Xin County and other areas on the map.

When the other members of the army headquarters heard the conversation, they all looked here.

As for the reason, it is very simple. The North China Front Army is currently mainly dealing with the first and second theaters.

There are also the Rusu theater and the Jicha theater, but these two theaters are guerrilla theaters.

Among the four theaters, the unit that the little devil gave the highest evaluation was nothing more than the first rank.

Now the Independent 48th Brigade has given a superior judgment, which naturally surprised the staff of the Army Command.

After all, according to their judgment, a first-class army is already a very elite army.

No matter where such troops join the war, they will attract enough attention from the little devils.

The Independent 48th Brigade has a superior judgment, which means that they are a more elite force.

"Mr. Nanshan, the elite German army that fought against us in the early days, has it ever achieved such a result?"

"Shotaro Katayama, Kenzo Harada, and Mitake Tsuda are all three major generals because of this jade fragment."

"Moreover, Sakata Shintetsu and other officials, Yusha, are also related to them."

"The elite third regiment, the independent mixed fourth brigade and other troops were also annihilated because of them!"

"Such a result, even those elite German weapons troops can't achieve it."

"Assessing their combat effectiveness as superior is obviously underestimating their capabilities."

"We failed every time because we underestimated them. We must learn such a lesson."

"Mr. Nanshan, the independent 48th Brigade will be treated according to the evaluation of special combat effectiveness."

After Shinozuka Yoshio pondered for a while, he looked at Kusuyama Hideyoshi and said with a serious expression on his face.

The judgment of special combat effectiveness has never appeared in the Japanese army.

Even if it is the judgment of the upper class, it will rarely appear, and only a few troops will have such a judgment.

Now Shinozuka Yoshio is going to judge the special combat effectiveness of the Independent 48th Brigade, but Kusuyama Hideyoshi and others are very surprised.

However, they looked at each other and finally nodded in agreement.

Because they know that the Independent 48th Brigade definitely has such qualifications.

At nine o'clock in the morning on September [-], the First Army Command began to report to the North China Front Army Command.

Tada Jun knew the First Army's judgment on the special combat effectiveness of the Independent 48th Brigade, but he didn't say much.

Immediately afterwards, the North China Front Army Command specially issued a combat order.

They asked the Air Force to leave at least six bombers in combat readiness, and these six bombers must be on standby at the airport at any time.

As long as the independent 48th brigade makes any move, six bombers will immediately attack and start bombing.

The First Army Command dispatched no less than forty tanks and armored vehicles to Yangqu.

This armored force also has to deal with the independent 48th brigade.

For a while, whether it was the North China Front Army or the First Army Command, it could be said that they paid special attention to the independent 48th Brigade.

At this time, at the brigade headquarters of the Independent 48th Brigade, Zhao Yinfu, the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Army, came to reward Yan Laoxi directly on behalf of Yan Laoxi.

Chu Yunfei, Chen Ziyun and others soon got the news that many officers came to the brigade headquarters one after another.

(End of this chapter)