Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

However, the "artillery offensive" tactic, which historically did not appear until the Soviet-German War, appeared on the eastern battlefield in advance. It could not be withstood with just a few words of encouragement. Previously, the independent division failed to capture the enemy after attacking for two hours.

On the top of the mountain below, with the help of continuous artillery fire, it only took more than half an hour to capture all the positions.

However, although the Independent Division achieved the brilliant result of annihilating all 5,672 men of the Fourth Branch of the Tax Police Corps in this battle, and even Sun Liren was knocked unconscious by the shells and became a prisoner, the Independent Division also suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

The huge human cost, more than half of which was due to accidental damage from its own artillery, and the artillery of the independent division also consumed a large amount of artillery shells. There were only more than a hundred precious mountain artillery shells left. It can be said that the victory of this battle almost depended on artillery shells.

With the current ammunition reserves of the independent division, it will never be able to fight a second battle...

What made Hu Weidong even more depressed was that due to the heavy use of artillery in this battle, the enemy's weapons and equipment were severely damaged. The amount captured was only a small part of the enemy's equipment. Fortunately, he thought that the lightly damaged gun and artillery arsenal could be repaired.

, he felt a little better.

But it was this battle that could be regarded as a "loss of money" that made Hu Weidong, who had been a little carried away by the glorious victory in the Battle of Yongfeng, calm down again. This time he had better military strength, firepower, intelligence and other aspects.

Although he was far better than Sun Liren, he only won one tragic victory. Obviously, compared with the top generals in the country in this era, Hu Weidong still has a clear gap. There is nothing that can be done about it. Although he has served in the special forces

, but the experience of large corps operations is very lacking, and perhaps because of the diametrically opposite areas of specialization, few generals with special forces background are good at commanding large corps operations, and this ability is exactly what Hu Weidong urgently needs now...

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Although the price was high and the seizures were not much, from a deeper perspective, the gains from this battle were actually quite a lot. In addition to making Hu Weidong alert and aware of his weaknesses, it first verified the effectiveness of the "artillery offensive" tactics in actual combat.

Secondly, it tempered the infantry and artillery coordination ability of the independent division. It is not a good thing to surrender troops and defection. However, after the war, Hu Weidong not only did not strictly guard against other surrendering troops, but instead boldly selected two people to serve as his own troops.

The guards showed their trust and instantly won over the hearts of tens of thousands of national troops in the independent division. This was undoubtedly a greater gain. In the end, the independent division also captured Sun Liren, the country's top general.

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After winning two games in a row, Hu Weidong had no time to report the good news to the central government, so he boldly launched another offensive and captured Xingan County in one fell swoop, which had been left defenseless due to the destruction of Sun Liren's troops. However, the independent division finally attracted the attention of the national government in charge of the county's defense.

Gu Zhutong, the commander-in-chief of the North Route Army's "suppression of bandits", noticed that he immediately sent an army from Nanchang to the south, showing off a sledgehammer to kill chickens. Although the independent division is now different from what it used to be, if it is against the enemy

The Central Army has 30,000 soldiers, but it really doesn't have much chance of winning. Moreover, Hu Weidong knows that although Gu Zhutong is not a military genius, he is terrible at using troops. There is basically no loophole to exploit. Once he is entangled by his superior strength,

The consequences would be disastrous. However, Gu Zhutong’s shortcomings of rigid military use could be exploited. After thinking about this, Hu Weidong made an unexpected decision-"cross the Ganjiang River to the west"...

Lien Chan and Lianjie increased Hu Weidong's prestige in the military, and He Huzi didn't understand military affairs. As a result, no one opposed Hu Weidong's wild plan. Fortunately, it turned out that Hu Weidong was right, and Gu Zhutong really wanted his men to fight steadily, and the army

They only advanced thirty or forty miles a day. It was not until all the main force of the Independent Division, more than 10,000 people, had crossed the Ganjiang River that they entered Xingan County. At this time, almost all the ships sailing in the Ganjiang River section of Xingan County were intercepted by the Independent Division.

It was already several days before Gu Zhutong, who was in Nanchang, eagerly collected enough ships from the lower reaches and sent them to Xingan County for his men to cross the river...

The defensive perimeter laid out by Chiang Kai-shek has begun to be withdrawn one after another as the Central Red Army moves westward. In particular, He Jian, the Western Route Army, has returned to its home base of Hunan. As a result, a large area west of the Ganjiang River is not heavily garrisoned. Naturally, the independent division is

Like a fish in water, within a few days they defeated Xinyu, divided the three counties of Yi and Yichun, and took advantage of the victory to invade Pingxiang County, one of the few major coal-producing counties during the Republic of China.

There is one division of the National Army stationed in Pingxiang County, but it is only the C Division of the Second Brigade and Fourth Regiment. Moreover, the phenomenon of empty pay is very serious. The actual number of soldiers is less than 4,000. In addition, Pingxiang County was the place where the labor movement was most frequent and intense during the Republic of China.

As one of the regions, the party's mass base in this county is even better than that in many Soviet area counties. How can the national army remain undefeated if they cooperate internally and externally?

Due to Pingxiang's special status, this news quickly caused a sensation across the country. The Party Central Committee during the Long March was also greatly shaken. It finally began to re-examine the value of Hu Weidong and the independent division. In addition, the status of the great man had been further consolidated at this time, and Hu Weidong's independent division was finally officially

It was adapted into the "Independent Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army". Since everyone had already expected it, and the number of veteran Red Army soldiers in the independent division was no less than a thousand, accounting for more than half of the grassroots officers, the adaptation was very smooth.

The great man originally wanted to give the Independent Division a military level, or even a legion level establishment, because according to Hu Weidong's telegram, they already had more than 20,000 regular troops, which was already more than many legions of the Red Army. But no matter what

Peng Lin and other generals in charge, as well as the leaders of the Central Committee, all believed that what Hu Weidong said in the telegram was unsubstantiated and insufficient to be accepted. It would be better to establish a division-level organization first, and it would not be too late to upgrade it to a military-level unit when it was confirmed in the future.

Everyone's words were reasonable, and Taizu had to accept everyone's opinions, but he would not let Hu Weidong suffer in vain. Under his insistence, Hu Weidong not only served as division commander, but also served as the political commissar of the independent division (the reason was that He Hu Weidong's legs and feet were

Inconvenience, and there are no other qualified talents.), thus gaining great autonomy, which is something that many Red Army generals at the corps level cannot envy...

At the same time, the Party Central Committee also appointed He Huzi as Secretary of the Fujian-Jiangxi Border Special Committee. On the one hand, it is to strengthen the construction of the independent division party organization. On the other hand, Hu Weidong can also integrate the Red Army guerrillas he has contacted into his own army through him. Of course, this

Only if the other party agrees to merge, or if it is a unit with a level lower than that of an independent division, otherwise it would be too outrageous to merge one division into one corps...

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