After Guo Bingxun finished speaking, Yang Zhen nodded slightly and said, "This time we have achieved fruitful results, and at the same time, many problems have been exposed. However, everything must be viewed from both positive and negative perspectives. For our extremely immature army, the earlier these problems are exposed, the more conducive it will be to rectify us. It is better to squeeze out the pustules as soon as possible than to bury them in our body."

"In addition to the lack of training and too many places that are not in place, we also have a lot of debts in terms of firepower configuration and logistics supply. First of all, the number of mortars in the battalion was too small, which caused the troops to build and build the battalion, and the firepower was quite limited."

"The battalion company we equipped is not only the weight of the Japanese Type 92 70mm mortar, but the range is relatively close. This kind of mortar is an eliminated equipment even among the Japanese army. The main reason why we use it as battalion company artillery equipment is because its number is relatively large. Isn't there a saying that it is hungry and food?"

"This relatively bulky mortar is incomparable to the range of more than 2,800 meters of the Type 97 81mm mortar we are now stocking, and the caliber is relatively small. Our battalion only has two gates, because the weight problem affects the maneuver of the troops, as a support firepower, whether it is range or power, it is a bit weak."

"And our configuration has been tested in practice, but it is still a bit unreasonable. When most of the mobility is still dependent on pedestrian marching, the battalion's supporting firepower is too small, and the first-level equipment of the company is too bulky."

"Although the range and power of the Type 9490mm mortar, the main force of the regiment artillery, is satisfactory, it is still too heavy for infantry in the absence of capacity. However, in the absence of the number of 81mm mortars, it can only be used temporarily."

"So on the way back yesterday, the Chief of Staff and I studied the problem of weapon configuration. While keeping the firepower configuration above the regiment unchanged, we mainly adjust the weapons equipment of the battalion-level companies. First, we must maintain the current nine light machine guns and nine grenade launchers in each company, and the two heavy machine guns are unchanged, and the configuration of company and mortars is cancelled."

"The battalion-owned mortars were replaced with Type 9781mm mortars, and the number was increased from two to six. The battalion-owned mortar platoon was upgraded to a mortar company. A battalion-owned platoon was added to a battalion-owned platoon, which was specially used to transport ammunition for its artillery company and heavy machine gun company."

"In addition to the equipment problem, we have another problem that needs to be solved urgently. That is the grenades configured in the army. The grenades that our army now are equipped with are all Japanese-style 97 grenades, which are quite powerful. However, because it uses a relatively unique knocking fuze, it takes a long time to master it, but what we lack the most is training."

"Because of the unique use of this grenade, most new soldiers cannot master the throwing time. In several blocking battles that are not large in scale, they were picked up by the Japanese army and thrown back, causing considerable casualties. Grenades are the main suppression weapon of infantry, so we must solve this problem as soon as possible."

Yang Zhen’s adjustment of the troops’ weapon configuration this time was formed by the volunteer barracks and companies on the Korean battlefield in later generations, the organization of the national army and the U.S. military institution during the War of Liberation, and the US military in 1943 that appeared a few years later based on their own characteristics.

Compared with the volunteer army that just entered North Korea, the organization of grenade launchers and heavy machine guns was mainly increased at the first level, and the organization of 60 mm mortars was cancelled. Because he even did not even have a mortar that was extremely light and far more powerful than that of the Japanese grenade launchers. The Japanese army equipped with a large number of grenade launchers did not have similar equipment. The Japanese army's mortar caliber was also 70 mm, and it had been eliminated. The Type 92 infantry cannon was the standard brigade cannon of the Japanese army.

When his newly opened arsenal was not able to produce, nor had the ability or place to buy it, Yang Zhen could only produce such excellent consumption ratios on the other side of the ocean, which was the best weaponry to support firepower, and he could only add two bulky Type 92 heavy machine guns to each company as a substitute.

Similar to the sixty-mm mortar, there are also a large number of submachine guns equipped with three military equipment as reference objects. Although they know the function of the submachine gun, the submachine guns that are not very small in quantity have been temporarily withdrawn from the equipment sequence because of the small amount of ammunition, except for a small amount of equipment for the guards of each senior commander, the rest have been temporarily withdrawn from the equipment sequence before the ammunition problem is solved.

Moreover, when this batch of submachine guns was seized, it was a second-hand product that had been used for many years. Over the years, the high-intensity use and poor storage have almost reached the standard of scrapping. Even if there are some ammunition on hand, most of them have almost lost their use value.

However, compared with the 60mm mortar that has no hope at all, a submachine gun, a weapon with relatively simple structure and relatively easy to manufacture, is not out of reach for Yang Zhen, who now has an arsenal at hand, and there is still a little hope.

For the battalion level, the number of heavy machine guns was the same as that of the Volunteer Army when they first entered North Korea, but was less than that of the US military and the US armed division of the National Army. The number of mortars in the battalion was more than that of the army with the best equipment of the Volunteer Army when they first entered North Korea, and the US armed division of the National Army that had no battalion artillery at all. As for the regiment-level organization, although it was far inferior to that of the US military, it was far better than that of the Volunteer Army and the US armed division of the National Army.

Of course, this weapon is equipped with sufficient capacity. The actual situation is that in the case of insufficient capacity, the battalion artillery is extremely large because it relies entirely on manpower to carry it. Although there are only two mortars, the number of personnel in the organization reaches 60, which is almost twice that of the infantry platoon. The excess manpower is dedicated to transporting ammunition. Even so, it is a lot of times that of a mortar. Only one mortar can be guaranteed to continue firing.

After the battalion mortars increased to six gates, although the original company artillery was organized into the battalion mortar company, the pressure on this supply also increased sharply. After all, manpower could not be compared with pack horses and cars.

Similar to the mortar company, the heavy machine gun company is also very large and scary in order to ensure the supply of ammunition. The support squads of each machine gun platoon reached twenty people. They specially carried ammunition for the two heavy machine guns in the platoon. Once half of the ammunition was consumed, only half of the heavy machine guns could be put into combat. Not only strategic supply, tactical supply alone had become the biggest problem restricting the combat effectiveness of the troops.

As for some weapons issues such as grenades, Yang Zhen could only helplessly hope that his newly-established arsenal would copy the later Type 77 grenades that he copied as soon as possible. The production of grenades is relatively easy compared to bullets. Now he owns nearly a thousand arsenals that make machinery and equipment for Germany, which are better than those of the 18th Army, which are built in the local arts?

After the adjustment of the military weapon configuration, Yang Zhen changed the topic and turned back to the problem that needs to be solved urgently: "For us now, the most lacking is horses. The more than 100 cars we seized were drivers, but there was no place to perform them."

"There is a lack of horses suitable for us. In addition to the more than 200 horses seized by the Chief of Staff on the front line of the Fasi River, and the more than 200 horses seized by Liu Changshun on the attack on the Jiasui Railway, we only have more than 700 pack horses on hand. In addition to ensuring the use of artillery soldiers of the division, the remaining horses can only barely ensure the use of the regiment artillery soldiers. There are very few distributed to each battalion."

"Mortars and heavy machine guns almost below the battalion can only be transported by manpower. Even among the more than 700 existing horses, not all of them can be put into use immediately. All the horses seized by Liu Changshun are civilian horses. If used as pack horses, they still need training."

"In this attack, in order to ensure sufficient firepower, we even mobilized a large number of infantry to assist in transporting shells. But even so, after Taiping River knocked down Sasaki's command post, the shells we carried were almost consumed. If it weren't for the more than 100 Japanese shells seized in Taiping River, it would be hard to say whether the battle of Fasi River would be so smooth."

"We are far from our current basic tactical supply capabilities, not to mention the standards of the Japanese army. Even compared with the national army within the pass, we are even worse than the miscellaneous troops. The lack of transportation capacity, especially the lack of horses, has seriously restricted the development and combat effectiveness of the troops."

"With the Taiping River line almost all the artillery shells were carried, I had generated electricity to the troops left in the Liangzi River area and asked them to transport the remaining artillery shells to the Miaolingzi Mountain line. However, due to the lack of transportation capacity, they could only rely on manpower to transport them. Until the subsequent battle on the Fasi River line ended, it could not be transported."

"According to our current firepower configuration, at least each battalion must be equipped with more than a hundred pack horses. In other words, not counting the division and regiment headquarters, but at the battalion level, we still have a gap of at least nine hundred horses. Of course, if we fight on the plains and those more than one hundred cars can be put into use, our horse gap can be reduced to half of this number."

"In addition to the unreasonable weapon arrangement and the extremely poor tactical supply capabilities, our combat also exposed many problems such as poor long-distance marching capabilities, poor response capabilities of grassroots commanders on the battlefield, slow speed of communication soldiers to set up wires, unskilled in the selection and arrangement of lines, still very unfamiliar with infantry and artillery coordination, and poor battlefield rescue capabilities."

"But this is not the thing I worry about the most, because these can be solved by training and learning in combat. What I worry about the most is that after this battle, our grassroots officers and soldiers realized that the power of artillery fire would rely too much on firepower in future operations. At least now, we cannot even be a single mortar shell or the simplest parts of various artillery artillery."

"Inventory shells were fired one shot, one less. After this battle, together with previous training, we consumed almost one-fifth of the shells in stock. The mountain-field shells were fired out more than two thousand. Although the artillery was trained, the artillery had mastered the actual combat capabilities at the fastest speed. It also had a negative impact. That is, the troops could easily become overly dependent on artillery support."

"Once the troops rely too much on firepower, it will be extremely unfavorable for our future operations. In the case of being unable to produce shells and being able to rely on seizing inventory, we will use mountain artillery in addition to mortars in the future. In this regard, the political commissar and the chief of staff must do a good job in the fighter."

Speaking of this, Yang Zhen looked at the thoughtful commander-in-chief and Li Yanping, smiling and said, "Although this battle exposed many problems, many problems that were even urgent and must be solved immediately. But our battle also achieved unprecedented victory."

After saying that, Yang Zhen turned his head to Guo Bingxun and said, "Chief of Staff, report to the commander-in-chief and political commissar of our attack."

Upon hearing this, Guo Bingxun opened his notebook and smiled and said, "Commander-in-Chief, political commissar, we have achieved a great victory this time. We did not get any moisture and had a complete victory. In this battle, we won the first battle in the Yunshimai area. We wiped out two infantry brigades of the 43rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army, and the puppet Manchukuo military and police united to fight. We killed his commander, Colonel Murata, the commander."

"After completing the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy on the front line of Yunshimaozi, Commander Yang not only left an infantry battalion to cooperate with the direct engineering battalion to launch a large-scale attack on the Jiasui Railway, but he personally led the main force to attack Taipingchuan Village, where the command center was located in the Japanese army's attack. After fighting, the Japanese commander Sasaki was killed to the first lieutenant general, and his command center was removed in one fell swoop."

"After destroying the Japanese command organs, Commander Yang led his troops northward. He wiped out the first infantry brigade of the 17th Regiment of the 8th Division of the Japanese Army on the Miaolingzishan line. Later, he wiped out the second infantry brigade of the regiment commanded by Colonel Kata Yi, the commander of the 17th Regiment, and the Forest Police Brigade of the Puppet Manchukuo Luobei County, as well as the part of the Puppet Manchukuo Army."

"For the 24th Regiment of the 12th Division, the Japanese army in the middle road, we adopted the tactic of combining landmines with cold guns and cold artillery to kill and wound nearly two infantry squadrons of the Japanese army and a unit of the puppet Manchurian military and police. In addition, the commander annihilated two Japanese infantry squadrons on the front line of Taipingchuan, our army wiped out a total of five Japanese infantry brigades in this anti-encirclement and suppression operation, defeating at least two Japanese infantry squadrons. One Japanese lieutenant general commander, two colonel captains, five brigades and a large number of squadron leaders were killed."

"In addition, we also wiped out one infantry regiment of the puppet Manchukuo Army and two battalions of the puppet Manchukuo Forest Police Brigade. We defeated one infantry regiment of the puppet Manchukuo Army and one forest police brigade. We captured more than 1,600 puppet Manchukuo Army and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition. According to preliminary statistics, a rifle alone is enough for us to equip a simple infantry regiment."

Guo Bingxun's report is as simple and concise as his style of being a human being. Although it is not too detailed, it is enough for the commander-in-chief and Li Yanping to hear it clearly.

After listening to Guo Bingxun's report, the commander-in-chief looked at Li Yanping and saw the excitement in the eyes of the other party. According to the number of enemies annihilated, this battle almost eliminated the forces of nearly two Japanese regiments. In addition, the puppet Manchukuo military and police who cooperated with their combat was an unprecedented victory.

Recalling the embarrassing situation of almost being encircled and forced by the Japanese army last year, almost exhausted ammunition and food, and all died in the mountains and forests. In order to find a breakthrough and break the Japanese army's encirclement and suppression, the Second Route Army almost lost two of the strongest troops.

Thinking about the fact that the Japanese army alone has eliminated five infantry brigades in succession. With the subordinate Manchukuo military and police, there are nearly 10,000 people. In such a short time, it can achieve great results. How can we not make the two people who were almost on the dead end from being forced by the Japanese and puppet troops last year?

What does the five infantry brigades mean? Commander-in-chief and Li Yanping know very well. The infantry brigades of these five Japanese elite divisions are enough to defeat one division or even one army on the battlefield in the vicinity of the National Army. In the northeast, it is enough to fight against any of the Allied Army's three Route Armys to cause a catastrophe.

However, both of them are steady people. After a brief excitement, the commander-in-chief quickly calmed down. After looking at such a great victory, Yang Zhen was still calm. The commander-in-chief said in a serious tone: "Heroes are young. As soon as you two took action, they gave me such a big surprise. To be honest, I could hardly believe my ears."

"We all know what the five infantry brigades mean. The Japanese army's clearance of us this time is extremely strong, but not only did this comprehensive clearance be broken by us, but the five infantry brigades of its main force, plus a large number of puppet Manchukuo military and police officers, were also eaten by us."

"Now we have not only broken the Japanese army's attack, but also killed a Japanese lieutenant general. Such a result is a brilliant beginning for a unit that has just completed the reorganization."

"I know that the so-called "Manchurian Public Security Punishment Plan" was proposed by this guy. The so-called return to the township and households was also created by this guy. Our Anti-Japanese Allied Forces is now in such a dilemma, which is thanks to this guy."

"Deputy Commander-in-Chief Yang killed this evil guy in one battle, and finally gave me this anger. He also avenged the Anti-Japanese Allied Army soldiers who had been cut off from supply and died of cold and hunger in the past two years. I thank you two for the Anti-Japanese Allied Army soldiers who died in the hands of this person."

Speaking of this, the commander-in-chief nodded to Li Yanping. After receiving the message from the commander-in-chief, Li Yanping smiled and signaled to Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun, then stood up and walked out. When he came back, the guards in his hand and behind him each held a small wooden box.

After looking at the wooden box in Li Yanping's hand, the commander-in-chief smiled and said, "But you gave us such a big surprise, Yanping and I can't do nothing. In this way, we will also give you two not too big surprises. Open it and see what is inside?"
Chapter completed!