The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 90 Formation of positions
After learning about the replenished ammunition and supplies, He Wei immediately returned to the command post to actually draw up a defense plan. Now that the situation was urgent, He Wei could not start from the outline, draft, determination, etc. of the combat plan as is the standard in the military paperwork process. When writing, he rarely even used words, and instead used simple and crude drawings to explain the position's transformation plan.

In his opinion, since the Japanese army has concentrated a regiment and strengthened its artillery, the existing positions are not enough. All the existing positions of the Sixth Company are exposed open-air positions, whether they are heavy machine gun shooting positions or rifle shooting positions. The soldiers' shooting positions are all uncovered, and to face enemies equipped with heavy artillery, the light and heavy machine guns as the backbone of firepower must build machine gun nests, or bunkers.

First of all, the force guarding the front line must be the Sixth Company, and the firepower enhancement that the Sixth Company can obtain after calculation should include the five water-cooled civilian [-] heavy machine guns of the second battalion's heavy machine gun company, as well as There are twelve additional Jin-made imitation Type [-] heavy machine guns.

Based on the current firepower, the plan given by He Wei on the position organization diagram is that each infantry platoon needs three sub-forts and a mother fort. Each sub-fort of the first-line platoon is equipped with Czech light machine guns, civilian [-] water-cooled One heavy machine gun and one Jin-made imitation Type [-] heavy machine gun.

In addition, several rifles need to be equipped. The firearms configuration in the sub-forts adopts a three-dimensional configuration. The firepower network of the light and heavy machine guns must be configured with double-layer firepower in the vertical direction to achieve a three-dimensional firepower network. The mother forts of each row are used for command. Mainly for its function, it is only equipped with one imitation [-]-type heavy machine gun. There are a total of twelve sub-forts in the three platoons. The number of imitation [-]-type heavy machine guns in He Wei's hands can fully meet the current demand, but the Civilian [-] The number of heavy machine guns is insufficient, so they can only be equipped first in the bunkers of the first line.

According to the formation of each platoon, He Wei made a differentiated configuration. Since the first platoon has been adapted by He Wei, the current basic tactical unit of the infantry squad is corps, so the troop configuration of each sub-fort is a light machine gun Wu plus a rifle team.

The second and third platoons still adopt the model of dividing the infantry squad into a rifle group and a light machine gun group. Therefore, each sub-fort of the two platoons is equipped with a light machine gun group and two riflemen. As for the requirements for each fort, The equipped heavy machine guns and shooters must be coordinated by the heavy machine gun company.

These forts should all be arranged in an inverted triangle to facilitate the development of firepower.

In the drawings, He Wei also stipulated the specific shape of the fortress. Considering that the Japanese army was equipped with large-caliber artillery, all fortresses needed to have strong anti-shelling capabilities. Each bunker needed to be repeatedly reinforced with logs, sandbags and floating soil to form a rich structure. According to He Wei's historical knowledge, most of the Japanese division artillery are still 75 mm caliber mountain field guns. Some Japanese divisions should be equipped with the new Type 150 with a caliber of 150 mm. Howitzers, and the artillery equipped by its independent heavy artillery wing are mostly 150 mm caliber howitzers and heavy cannons, such as the Taisho [-]-year-old [-] mm howitzer and the [-]-type [-] mm heavy cannon.

Therefore, He Wei estimated that the maximum caliber of artillery invested by the Japanese army should not exceed 150 mm. The Japanese heavy artillery with larger calibers, such as 240 mm and 280 mm siege artillery, if he remembered correctly, were basically concentrated in Song. On the Shanghai battlefield, the largest caliber artillery piece of Japanese artillery that I might encounter should be of the 150mm level. .

In view of this, He Wei plans to build the bulletproof layers of these bunkers to a thickness of three meters. At this thickness, they can basically be immune to the bombardment of 75 mm caliber mountain artillery and the bombardment of prompt-fire tube grenades of 150 mm caliber howitzers.

He Wei marked on the drawings that each bunker must have multiple shooting ports in all directions to facilitate cross-fire and eliminate blind spots for shooting. Barbed wire must be attached to the opening of each shooting port to prevent Japanese infantry. Grenades are thrown into the assault, and field telephones need to be set up to communicate with each other between the sub-forts and mother forts of each platoon, as well as between the mother forts of each platoon. Various cover and concealment facilities are laid above the communication trenches between each defense line. To cover the movement of troops and weapons within the position.Each platoon's position is composed of four bunkers, and is arranged in an inverted triangle. Two platoons are deployed in the first line, and one platoon is deployed in the second line. The positions of the three platoons are also basically arranged in an inverted triangle, forming an intersection. Firepower company level bunker group.

In addition to the bunker group relying on fixed firepower points, the mobile infantry He Wei still needs to be deployed. In addition to the soldiers guarding the bunkers in the Sixth Company, the rest of the soldiers are organized into squad units and hidden in reinforced concealments. Once the Japanese army moves along When the trenches are invaded, the infantry will immediately launch a counterattack. There happens to be a batch of submachine guns made in Shanxi, and each squad can be issued a few. In close combat in the trenches, the [-] Gai in the hands of the Japanese army is not a submachine gun at all. opponent.

This is only the defensive configuration of the core main position on the drawing drawn by He Wei. The defensive configuration of the periphery also needs to be strengthened. First of all, the old obstacles must still be used, and the gaps in the obstacles blown up by the Japanese army must be replaced with new ones. The deer village built was repaired, and the damaged barbed wire and booby traps were also replaced. In the open land in front of the position, there were no defenses originally laid out. It was just a bare open space, but now there are a large number of mines, enough to cover this open land. Transformed into a murderous minefield that devours lives.

As He Wei's pen fell on the drawing, the open space in front of the position was divided into several areas from far to near. Each area was assigned a numerical label, and one label, one area, represented a minefield. field.

The attached battle defense artillery platoon and mortar platoon have not been left behind. The firing fortifications of the tank defense guns, which He Wei has arranged, are basically the same as the bunkers used by the infantry. The only difference is the omnidirectional shooting of the tank defense guns. The mouth opening is large to facilitate the artillery to adjust the shooting angle.

The [-]nd Mortar Platoon itself is a kind of deflection fire weapon. Its ballistic characteristics determine that it is impossible to configure a solid shooting fortification with a top cover for the mortar like a tank defense gun. The only thing that can be done is Use various materials to strengthen the concealment and ammunition storage for the officers and soldiers of the mortar platoon.

In He Wei's works, the fortifications outside Yanzhuang are gradually taking shape. This will be a group of strong machine gun nest bunkers as the core, with a large number of obstacles and minefields set up on the periphery, supplemented by combat artillery and mortars, as well as a large number of automatic firearms. infantry company-level battle group defensive position.

Drawings are, after all, drawings. The actual combat effectiveness can only be tested in actual combat, and the price of the experiment will be unpredictable flesh and blood and human lives.

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