inspire-indiana Chapter 499: Synthetic Modular Armored Division
Chapter 499: Synthetic Modular Armored Division
"Okay, let's get to the point." Zhang Chi stood up, walked to the front of the conference room, and picked up the teaching stick. "With the founding of the country imminent, our fist - the Nanyang National Defense Force - must be harder, faster, and sharper. Today's focus is on the core of our iron fist, the Heavy Armored Division."
Soon, the curtain on the wall behind Zhang Chi slowly dropped, revealing a clear diagram of the weaving structure.
Zhang Chi looked down at the audience and saw that the eyes of his subordinates were so fiery that they seemed to be spitting fire. After all, the armored division was synonymous with the elite among the elite.
He was very satisfied with the effect - loyalty requires soil and environment.
"The Infantry Division is the cornerstone, the shield. But the Armored Division..." Zhang Chi waved his hand fiercely and said decisively, "It is the sharp knife that will tear through the enemy's defenses, chase them down across the plains, and crush them with all our might!"
"Southeast Asia, and even the surrounding areas, have many plains and likely many fortified strongholds. Relying on infantry to attack? That's too slow and too draining.
What we want is speed, integration, refinement, mechanization, and preliminary informatization."
Of course, there were no satellites in those days, so the informatization Zhang Chi mentioned still referred to sufficient communication equipment and computing devices.
"Look at the organizational diagram." Zhang Chi pointed to the top of the structure diagram. "The core of the heavy armored division headquarters is the combat command center. This is the soul of the command system I envision."
As he spoke, he deliberately emphasized his tone.
“The traditional division headquarters has a long chain of command and is slow to respond, like a bloated fat man.
The combat headquarters we are about to establish will be the wartime brain and nerve bundle. Its function is to be able to quickly assemble the division's best tanks, best infantry, and strongest artillery at any time, just like building blocks, to meet the ever-changing battlefield tasks."
What Zhang Chi was talking about was that during wartime, the combat command could flexibly split the division's subordinate units into companies, and then reorganize them according to the target tasks.
That is, the "battle group mode" that was already very popular in the Hans Army, and the "task-customized formation" or "task-oriented command formation" that had just emerged in the White Eagle Army as World War II progressed.
The essence of these things is flexibility, so Zhang Chi just adopted them. This is also the benefit of being a time traveler, it would be a waste to use them!
"How exactly do we fight?" Zhang Chi walked over to the sand table and picked up the model representing the troops. "Let's say we want to capture the heavily guarded Sindhu border stronghold of John's army."
He pointed at the sand table and said, "The enemy relies on permanent fortifications, cross-fire points, and anti-tank trenches. Charging headfirst would be suicide."
These new ideas and new fighting methods that Zhang Chi mentioned were all precious experiences gained through bloodshed in the Second World War, and they were naturally not found in traditional military textbooks.
So everyone held their breath and listened carefully to Zhang Chi's speech.
"According to traditional tactics, the division commander ordered the tank regiment to draw fire from the front, the infantry regiment to maneuver on the flanks, and the artillery regiment to provide covering fire... Commanders, that sounds good, doesn't it? This is how traditional triangular divisions operate.
But by the time you pass the order down from division to regiment to battalion to company, and then feedback to the division commander to coordinate the tactics between the various regiments, the opportunity to fight is already gone, and the enemy reinforcements may have arrived. "
Zhang Chi suddenly broke the model representing the armored division into three parts:
“Now, use the battle command model I proposed.
The division headquarters coordinated the overall situation in the rear, while the three combat command posts A, B, and C moved forward, and all units of the division were divided into company levels.
Command Headquarters A is composed of the strongest and most elite tank battalion in the division, its attached engineering company, assault artillery company, and infantry battalion. Its mission is to launch a frontal feint attack, create pressure, and attract enemy firepower.
Command B, composed of an elite motorized infantry battalion reinforced by several tank companies and self-propelled artillery companies, used the terrain for cover and secretly maneuvered to the enemy's weak points on the flank and rear, launching a major attack to break through.
Command Headquarters C will lead the remaining companies and battalions as a reserve force, ready to plug gaps or expand the results of the battle at any time."
After saying this, Zhang Chi clasped his hands together and made a hugging gesture:
“Or, if the terrain is open, we can just use a double-strike pincer attack.
Commands A and B, each with a combined battle group, would simultaneously penetrate deep into the enemy's territory from both flanks, tearing through their defenses. Command C would cover the flanks and mop up any remaining enemies. This was the way our armored divisions should fight: fast, agile, and deadly.
Let the enemy only care about their heads and not their buttocks."
Zhang Chi is very clear that the advantage of this model is that it can quickly adapt to changes on the battlefield, reduce the rigidity of traditional fixed large organizations, and improve command flexibility.
Later, the White Eagle added more information and intelligence capabilities on this basis, proposed the C3I system, and developed the brigade combat team (BCT) model.
After the disintegration of the Russian Federation, the Russian Federation finally realized the bloatedness of the large organization and began to implement the combined battalion tactical group (BTG) model.
It can be said that with the time traveler Zhang Chi, he is confident that the National Defense Force will not lag behind in its military construction ideas, but will be at the forefront of the world.
However, the shortcomings of "task-customized formation" are also obvious. The requirements for grassroots officers and sergeants are very high. They must know how to cooperate and make decisions on the spot. They cannot be reckless men who can only shout "Follow me."
As the training capacity of officer schools and sergeant schools is limited, we can only carry out pilot promotion within the armored division organization.
Just think of it as an elite training camp for the National Defense Forces!
"After talking about the brain (command center), let's talk about the brawn." Zhang Chi changed the subject and pointed to the bottom of the organization chart. "One of the core assault forces of the Heavy Armored Division is the Motorized Infantry Regiment. 3600 people, the organization is based on the motorized regiment of the Class A Infantry Division, but the firepower—"
He deliberately dragged out the tone, a smile on his lips: "It's very different."
"The fire support battalion was not equipped with ordinary howitzers, but with nine M4 (105) Shermans. The 9-ton howitzers could follow the infantry and provide timely heavy fire support, demolishing bunkers and smashing infantry clusters."
"In addition, an additional anti-tank battalion will be formed under the infantry regiment, equipped with 9 M36B2 'Jackson' tank destroyers."
作为战雷科技树上，III级5.7权重的载具，【M36B2‘杰克逊’坦克歼击车】（图）相比5.3权重的M36，最大的改动就是主炮可以发射M348型尾翼稳定破甲弹（HEATS）。
As a chemical energy ammunition, the M348 shell enables the White Eagle's 90MM M3 tank gun to have the ability to kill tigers and leopards and penetrate almost all heavy armored units of the Hans Zoo series.
At any distance, it has the static penetration capability of penetrating 305mm of homogeneous steel armor plate placed at 90 degrees. Of course, due to the sensitivity of the warhead fuse and the thickness of the metal jet, its damage effect is not stable.
This means that whether it is the current King Tiger or the future Super Pershing, Centurion, or IS-3, the frontal armor can be directly penetrated by the M36B2.