Chapter 19
Yuyituantuan Command Center
At this moment, Zhang Wenbin's six battalion commanders were sitting neatly inside. Zhang Wenbin sat at the head of the table with a stack of documents in his hand. He handed them one by one and said,"I'm sure you've all seen the weapons and equipment that were delivered today. In order to adapt to our equipment and combat in the future, I've decided to temporarily adopt a new organization.
However, since it was a new establishment, there wouldn't be much change.
However, he had to make some changes to the configuration.
First of all, we will remove all our original rifles and light machine guns and equip them with Leenfield rifles and cloth wheeled light machine guns.
The mortar company and small artillery company under the regiment remained unchanged, and the battalion artillery company also remained unchanged.”
When Zhang Wenbin said this, he glanced at them and continued,"However, we need to make some adjustments to the following personnel.
First, each infantry squad would be equipped with a two-inch mortar, but it would not take up the number of soldiers.
However, in addition to each infantry platoon, a firepower squad was added. The firepower squad was equipped with two Vickers machine guns.
A fire support platoon was set up under the infantry company, equipped with three two-inch mortars and four Vickers machine guns as the company's fire support.”
At this point, the six Battalion Commanders frowned.
The battalion commander of the first battalion, Wang Yiqiu, stood up and looked at Zhang Wenbin."Regiment Commander, we will add a firepower squad under each infantry platoon. This means that each infantry company will have three firepower squads, which is about 21 people.
The infantry company would add a fire support platoon, equipped with three two-inch mortars and four machine guns, which meant that their strength would increase by at least eighteen people.
The entire infantry company would have an additional 39 men, and an infantry battalion would need an additional 118 men.
Our six infantry battalions are 708 people, and most importantly, there are also a large number of mortar soldiers. There are so many artillery soldiers, we have nowhere to go!
Moreover, each infantry squad would need an additional mortar. This also required artillery. Moreover, the infantry squad would only be equipped with mortars. Wasn't that a little too cumbersome?”
Wang Yiqiu's worries were not without reason. Under normal circumstances, why weren't mortars allocated to the infantry squad?
Mortars might not look big, but they were heavy. If they were allocated to infantry squads, they would take up combat strength and affect the combat effectiveness of basic combat units. Therefore, no country in the world allocated mortars to infantry squads.
However, Zhang Wenbin was not angry at all. Instead, he smiled and said,"Are you talking about the 60P or other large-caliber mortars?
Didn't you hear me clearly just now? I'm talking about the two-inch mortar. Now, let me tell you about the two-inch mortar.
The caliber of this mortar was only 51 millimeters and weighed only 4.5 kilograms. Compared to the 600, it was much lighter. Therefore, it could be equipped to the infantry squad.
As for the lack of artillery, don't we have a lot of mortars? Mortars are easy to learn and we have enough shells for the soldiers to train.
"So, you don't have to worry about this. As for the increase in the establishment, take a look. The new establishment has eliminated a large number of the previous logistics forces.
In our original formation, the six infantry battalions had a total of 4000 soldiers, and almost 1000 of them belonged to other troops.
For example, logistics. Now, we will abolish a large number of logistics forces and other troops and merge them into our combat forces.
I've already calculated. If we increase the configuration, a Vickers machine gun will require four people, a two-inch mortar will require two people, and the fire support platoon under the infantry company will have twenty-four people.
With the addition of the three firepower squads, an infantry company would have 48 soldiers. An infantry battalion would have an additional 144 soldiers.
Six infantry battalions required an increase of 864 people. Of course, this is compared to the past."
Zhang Wenbin glanced at them and continued,"You guys continue to look at the establishment I've made. Currently, in order to maintain firepower, we have added many combat, logistics, and medical units.
The soldiers under our command are all veterans. They know how to deal with gunshot wounds. In addition, they are our medics.
Thus, in order to make greater use of our forces, I made some adjustments to them.”
Wang Yiqiu and the others continued to watch.
Now, there were thirteen people in each infantry squad, one squad leader and two deputy squad leaders.
Each infantry platoon had three infantry squads, one replenishment squad, and one firepower squad.
The three infantry squads aside, the replacement squad had 20 people, including a squad leader and three deputy squad leaders.
Wang Yiqiu knew that these twenty people were transferred from other troops.
There was an infantry platoon, a platoon leader, and two deputy platoon leaders. As a result, the number of people in an infantry platoon became 67.
There were three infantry squads of thirty-six people, a replacement squad of twenty people, a firepower squad of eight people, and a platoon leader and deputy platoon leader, a total of sixty-seven people. Their strength was similar to the Japanese team.
In terms of equipment, the replacement squad was equipped with three two-inch mortars and three light machine guns.
Seeing this, Wang Yiqiu understood that Zhang Wenbin had three purposes for consciously adjusting the establishment.
First, the infantry platoons were adjusted to be similar to the Japanese's small teams. This meant that they could better deploy their forces to fight the Japanese in a certain area.
Second, the organization had been adjusted, but the firepower had also been greatly enhanced. One infantry platoon was equivalent to six light machine guns and six two-inch mortars.
The two-inch mortar was slightly heavier than the grenade launcher, but it had a longer range and was more powerful than the grenade launcher.
Compared to the Japanese's small team, the Japanese's small team consisted of three small teams and had a total of sixty-two people.
Why was it like this?
The Japanese team was equivalent to the Chinese infantry squad. Under normal circumstances, there would be thirteen people. However, in order to strengthen the configuration, it would be increased to fifteen people, and an additional grenade launcher would be added.
This kind of strengthening was common in regular divisions, where grenade launchers were allocated to small teams.
If the Yu 1st Regiment adopted the new formation, the number of artillery fire, six two-inch mortars, and the number of grenade launchers in the Yu 1st Regiment would be the same. However, it was more powerful than the Japanese. The Japanese team had a grenade launcher team equipped with three grenade launchers. A team has six grenade launchers
In terms of machine gun firepower, the Japanese had a small team equipped with one light machine gun and a small team equipped with three light machine guns. However, here, there were six light machine guns.
It had to be said that after Zhang Wenbin experienced the previous night battle, his fear of firepower had already penetrated deep into his heart. Now, as soon as the conditions were right, he began to increase the firepower of the troops.
In this way, the basic firepower of the Yu-1 regiment was stronger than that of the Japanese.
As for the infantry companies, each infantry platoon had 67 people. Each infantry company had three infantry platoons and one fire support platoon. The number of soldiers had reached 225.
What about the firepower configuration?
There were twenty-one two-inch mortars and a Japanese squadron equipped with eighteen grenade launchers. On this point, Yu Yi Tuan was stronger than the Japanese.
There were eighteen light machine guns, but the Japanese only had nine.
Heavy machine guns!
The Japanese's regular divisions would be equipped with 2-4 heavy machine guns in their teams.
But what was the Japanese's heavy machine gun?
The Type 92 heavy machine gun used 7.7mm medium-sized bullets.
Unfortunately, the Vickers machine gun was also a machine gun that used 7.7mm medium-sized bullets. It was just that the Vickers machine gun used a bullet chain to feed the bullets, so its power and firepower were much stronger than the Type 92 heavy machine gun.
However, the Japanese squadron would be equipped with 1-2 90mm mortars. This was something that the First Regiment could not equip for the time being. This was also something that Zhang Wenbin was helpless about.
He had no choice. The system level had not been upgraded, and the weapon authority had not been activated. He did not have a weapon to equip even if he wanted to.
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