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Chapter 244 Mechanized Infantry Brigade Concept and New Battle Situation
After completing the great counterattack in Jin, the model of the main force group has withstood the test. At this stage, the main force group is still an organization with extremely strong combat effectiveness, and this foundation can continue.

However, during the attack on Taiyuan, it was revealed that the main force's long-distance mobile attack and tough battle capabilities were obviously insufficient, which almost delayed things and caused the loss of opportunities.

Therefore, Ren Zhong proposed the suggestion of forming several mechanized troops to become a strategic strike force.

The thinking behind this new mechanized infantry brigade is still based on the experience and lessons learned from the main plane.

According to the current conditions, we will basically optimize and improve it based on the idea of ​​the main world's motorized infantry brigade.

In the historical time and space of the main world, a fully equipped motorized infantry brigade has 1 battalions under its command, of which 11 motorized infantry battalions are the main force, 4 tank battalion is the armored force, 1 artillery battalions are the firepower, and 2 anti-aircraft artillery battalion is the air defense. The remaining 1 battalions are the engineering battalion, the communications battalion, and the support and repair battalion. Together with the brigade's direct medical team, reconnaissance, guard and other troops, it is equivalent to more than a dozen battalions with more than 3 people.

According to the current conditions and combat targets, three specialized battalions are obviously unnecessary.

Therefore, Ren Zhong suggested that six motorized infantry battalions be the main force, one tank battalion be the spearhead, three artillery battalions be the fire output units, and one logistics support battalion and one baggage battalion be the backup. The basic configuration of 6 battalions greatly enhances the attack capability on the basis of a fully staffed Type A regiment.

坦克营分成3个坦克连，每个坦克连下面是3个坦克排，每个坦克排5辆坦克，加上连长副连长和指导员的连部3辆，以及营部6辆，整个坦克营60辆坦克。按照1个T-34坦克连+2个M3坦克连方式进行轻重型配置。

3个炮兵营中，1个107火炮兵营是3个107火炮兵连，每个炮兵连6辆吉普车牵引行军，3辆吉普车运输火箭弹。

1个高炮炮兵营，采用了高平两用的2个20毫米高射炮连和1个88毫米高炮连，每个20毫米高炮连6辆吉普车牵引，3辆吉普车运输弹药。88毫米高炮连则配置6辆G506卡车，车炮人和弹一起走。

1个炮兵营是2个75毫米山炮连和1个105榴弹炮连，两个装备有6门75毫米山炮的炮兵连，配了6辆牵引75毫米山炮的牵引吉普车、3辆牵引0.25吨弹药拖车。105榴弹炮连则配置6辆G506卡车，车炮人和弹一起走。

In addition, each artillery battalion is equipped with two heavy machine gun armed jeeps to protect its own safety.

The three artillery battalions require a total of 3 jeeps and 69 trucks.

The motorized infantry brigade's heavy firepower is as high as 54 artillery pieces of various types.

As for the motorized infantry battalion, it is basically configured with 3 infantry companies and 1 firepower company. The firepower company is divided into 2 82mm mortar platoons and 1 heavy machine gun platoon. Each mortar platoon has 6 mortars and 6 jeeps. The heavy machine gun platoon has 6 heavy machine guns and is also equipped with 6 jeeps. The firepower company has a total of 18 jeeps.

步兵连方面分成3个步兵排和1个火力排，火力排配属6个RPG火箭筒小组和2个重机枪小组，配属1辆卡车。步兵排3个步兵班和1个2人狙击手小组，每个步兵班1个机枪小组和10名步兵，强化2具RPG-80火箭筒，步兵排配属1辆G506卡车，这样一个步兵连4辆卡车。

Such an infantry battalion has a total of 12 trucks and 18 jeeps.

The six infantry battalions have a total of 6 large trucks and 72 jeeps.

The supply battalion was divided into three motor companies, each with 3 trucks, for a total of 12 trucks for the entire battalion, responsible for the transportation of military supplies such as food, weapons, ammunition, and fuel.

The support and repair battalion is divided into three companies, each with 3 large trucks and two jeeps, totaling 10 trucks and 2 jeeps. One transport company transports various spare parts, and the other two are responsible for transporting fuel.

By this calculation, a motorized infantry brigade with 12 specialized battalions would require a total of 138 trucks, 114 jeeps, and 60 tanks, plus 10 trucks and 16 jeeps for the brigade's direct troops, for a total of a huge fleet of 278 vehicles and 60 tanks.

According to current productivity, a tank can be produced in about a month, a truck takes more than a month, and a jeep can definitely be produced in a month.

Therefore, it is very difficult to equip a motorized infantry brigade now. The production capacity is seriously lagging behind. The most important thing is that the consumption is also high. The fuel consumption of today's car engines and tank engines is very alarming, easily reaching more than 20 liters per 60 kilometers. A 200-liter fuel tank is not durable at all, and one needs to refuel after driving more than kilometers.

Tanks are even more terrifying. A "Sherman" equipped with a diesel engine requires more than 130 liters of fuel for every 386 kilometers of road driving, and 34 liters of fuel for every 76 kilometers of off-road driving. The T-480/140 medium tank has a fuel tank capacity of 300 liters. When driving on the road, it consumes liters of fuel for every kilometers. In off-road combat situations, the fuel consumption per kilometers will soar to more than liters.

As for the M3 tank, it is notoriously short-legged, with a range of only 120 kilometers on its own fuel tank! It must be equipped with two disposable auxiliary fuel tanks to barely run about 300 kilometers.

It can be said that tanks are fuel-guzzling. If a long-distance raid of thousands of kilometers is carried out, more than 60 tons of gasoline and diesel will be needed just to support 60 tanks! A truck that originally had a load capacity of 1.7 tons now has to pull 16 200L standard oil drums. In this way, one truck can barely meet the consumption of three tanks.

So long-distance raids may look good, but they are not actually very feasible. They put too much pressure on the baggage battalion and the support battalion, and it is difficult to keep up with the pace at this stage.

However, there is not enough space now to carry out a large-scale raid of thousands of kilometers. As long as we can complete large-scale mobile operations of about 300 kilometers, we can basically meet the needs.

Therefore, this experimental mobile infantry brigade currently only has three vacancies.

According to Ren Zhong's suggestion, this quota should be given to the Independent Regiment, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment, which he was familiar with.

Independent Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the New 1st Mechanized Infantry Brigade and the New 2nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade.

Now we are under the dual command of the brigade commander and the headquarters, and we must step up and do great things at critical moments.

There were no fancy changes in the numbers to avoid irritating the candied fruit thousands of miles away. Due to Ren Zhong's suggestion, the two old main regiments, the 771st and 772nd, had strong opinions, but it was useless.

The right to make suggestions on this matter lies with Ren Zhong. The brigade commander's words now carry less weight than Ren Zhong's.

However, the three new troops are all under his command, and the brigade commander would be crazy to run to the headquarters and suggest changing one of them.

In the past few years, the Independent Regiment has stood out, and the New First and New Second Regiments have also been very impressive, especially in the just-concluded Yanqu blocking battle, where the New Second Regiment fought very heroically and resolutely, and many positions were not given up until the very end, thus completing the extremely difficult blocking mission.

Until the end of the battle, even Kong Jie was desperately operating the machine gun on the position. Kong Erlengzi had been holding a grudge ever since he was ambushed by Yamamoto. This time, he finally stood up in the blocking battle. Everyone knew about the tenacious style of the Second Iron Regiment.

Therefore, during the reconstruction process, the leaders had no objection to using the New Second Regiment, a crippled unit, as a new pilot unit.

It is necessary to forge a sharp knife. Now the Japanese have retreated, and most of them in Shanxi have been basically wiped out. There is only a small area in southern Shanxi where a division is entrenched, which is adjacent to Pingyang, which was newly occupied by Yan Laoxi.

However, there are still more than 200,000 Japanese soldiers in North China and more than 400,000 soldiers in the Kwantung Army. Their desperate efforts at the critical moment are very impressive.

What's more, after the headquarters summoned Gangcun back to teach, the new person in office was not Gangbe Naosaburo from the original time and space. This Japanese soldier also suffered a defeat on the grassland and was seriously injured. He was also sent back to retire. He was promoted to general by Shimomura Sadao of the East China Front Army and took over the mess in North China ahead of time.

At the same time, the Sixth Front Army was also taken over.

Among the first three things that Shimomura Sadao did after taking office, he chose to avoid the Eighth Route Army and regain his confidence in Guofu, so he moved from the 11th Army in Hanyang to the North China Front Army, continued the Campaign in Central Henan, and forced the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties in Guofu's first war zone into a corner.

It's about to fall.

Guo Su could no longer bear it and had to order the Eighth Route Army to launch a rescue operation.

Chen's brigade was ordered to use the 771st and 772nd Regiments as the spearhead, and assembled more than 3 main forces to march south to capture Shenzhou, Qinyang and Mengzhou, and secure the flank of the First War Zone. Then, they crossed the Yellow River in Mengjin and marched east to capture Yanshi, which the Japanese had just occupied, threatening the Japanese attacking forces' flanks.

The Japanese soldiers, who had no idea how many troops the Eighth Route Army had dispatched, were now like frightened birds. They packed up their things and fled overnight, quickly withdrawing their main forces back to Gongxian County.

The next day, it was realized that there were not too many Eighth Route Army troops crossing the river, so the Japanese adopted a defensive posture, leaving behind one brigade to begin a confrontation.

Then the main force launched an attack to the south, successively capturing Weishi, Zhengxian, Weichuan, Changge, Xingyang, Cuimiao, etc. The main force of the 11th Army of the Japanese in Xinyang attacked to the north, also with great momentum, and the Japanese regained their confidence in the preserved fruits.

At the same time, since Ren Zhong had anticipated all this, the brigade commander sent two main regiments to cross the river to scare off the Japanese from advancing westward, thus preserving the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the last dignity of the First War Zone.

After a short rest, the main force marched directly to Shanyang and Muye. After more than ten days of fierce fighting, they captured the areas north of the Yellow River, west of Changyuan, and south of Huixian in one fell swoop.

The Pinghan Line, which the Japanese had finally opened up, was cut off again. In this offensive, the tank battalion once again performed exceptionally well. The M3 modified tanks, which could fight and resist, and could also use tank guns for sieges, became the strongest attack trump card in the hands of the brigade commander.

In addition, the Air Force's acquisition of air superiority in the theater and the firepower coverage of the 107th Artillery Regiment also achieved great battlefield advantages.

In this way, the Japanese were in the south of the Yellow River and the Eighth Route Army was in the north of the Yellow River, forming a strange situation of each fighting against each other.

The only casualties were in the First War Zone of Guosu. After a series of battles, hundreds of thousands of troops were consumed by most of them. Now there are only more than 100,000 troops left near the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, struggling to confront the Japanese.

Because there are now three main regiments of the Eighth Route Army stationed in the Yanshi and Mangling areas, and at the same time they are guarding the Yellow River ferry and connecting with Mengzhou on the opposite bank, they are suppressing the Japanese on the flank and forcing them to form a western defense circle with Gongxian, Dengfeng, Baofeng, Xiangcheng, Wugang, Biyang County, Tongbai to Xinyang.

At the same time, Bianliang, Weishi, Yanling County, Shangcai, Runan, Zhengyang, Luoshan to Xinyang were used as the eastern defense circle, which was considered a new achievement of the Japanese army's battle in central Henan. It was completely incomparable with the great victory in the original historical time and space.

However, the achievement of annihilating nearly 20 troops of the Guosu Army allowed the newly appointed Shimomura Sadano to barely secure his position as commander of the North China Front Army and the Sixth Front Army, and was promoted to the rank of general.

However, the loss of the Shanyang and Muye areas also put Shimomura Tadashi under great pressure from the base camp. Not to mention the severance of the Pinghan Line, all the strongholds north of the Yellow River were now under tremendous pressure. The increasingly powerful main force of the Eighth Route Army might come out in full force at any time.

The attacks on Shanyang and Muye showed that the Eighth Route Army already had complete siege weapons and tactics. For the siege of small and medium-sized cities in the Jizhong Plain, with complete artillery support and air support from the Eighth Route Army's main forces, there was almost no pressure on the damage to the city walls.

The sky in North China has begun to change.

Even Shimomura Sada was now somewhat hesitant about organizing the main force to retake Sanyo and Makino, fearing that this was another new trap.

Almost at the same time, after more than a month of production, Li Yunlong's mechanized infantry independent brigade was the first to complete reorganization in Yangcheng. Li Yunlong finally realized his new dream of commanding tank battles.

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