Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry

#372 - Synthetic development direction

Ding Wei predicted correctly that after their three armies returned to China, as meritorious units, they were not only warmly welcomed, but Li Yunlong and Ding Wei were also invited to give speeches everywhere.

However, Li Yunlong was completely uninterested in this and pushed these tasks to Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

He went to Ren Zhong, wanting to verify whether Ding Wei's idea was reliable and whether Ren Laodi had any new gadgets.

Unexpectedly, there were.

Ren Zhong, upon seeing Li Yunlong, directly threw him a book.

"Go back and finish this book. After understanding seventy or eighty percent of it, come back to me. I don't have time to give you a science lesson. If you don't understand anything, communicate and exchange ideas with Ding Wei. The three of you each have a copy of this book." Ren Zhong simply dismissed Li Yunlong. His time was precious now. The battle on the peninsula had verified many new ideas and exposed some problems.

In the research of weapons, it is natural to focus on the new situation and new needs of the troops.

At this stage, the weapons Ren Zhong has configured for the front line are now basically complete, giving them an advantage even against the rogue eagles.

However, the current troop configuration is not Ren Zhong's ideal. He knows that a future trend is modularization, so he first developed the modularization tactics and gave them to Li Yunlong and Ding Wei to study and see if they could get it off the ground at this stage.

Form a modular demonstration team through the current conditions to explore the future development route of the army.

"Army's modular development tactics?" Li Yunlong took the latest Army Modular Tactics Training Manual provided by Ren Zhong, glanced at the cover, and was filled with questions.

However, he has now learned to be smart. After receiving the book, he will study it first before asking questions.

After such a long period of study, Lao Li's cultural lessons have made up for his shortcomings. There are no major problems in reading. He keeps a dictionary on hand. When he encounters an unfamiliar word, he looks it up in the dictionary and quickly finishes reading this book of more than one hundred pages.

Few words, but big things.

Originally, Li Yunlong felt that equipping a tank battalion in a division-level unit was already very good, but in a modular unit, it is required to have tank forces at the battalion level!

What kind of family is this? Equipping a tank company and an armored company at the battalion level, how much money would it cost to equip a battalion?

Not to mention Dragon Country, even the rogue eagles do not have such a luxurious lineup now. At most, they equip tank companies to the regiment level.

However, after seeing the power of coordinated operations between tanks and vehicle-mounted anti-artillery rocket launcher teams, Li Yunlong can imagine the impact capability of such a battalion-level combat unit on the front line.

It can be said that if used for charging into battle, such a modular battalion is much more powerful than a pure infantry brigade.

If the artillery is in the back, the tanks are in front, the armored infantry follows, and the anti-artillery rocket launchers coordinate, as long as the ammunition is not lacking, a modular battalion can take down a brigade's position without any problem.

The only disadvantage is that it is too expensive. The equipment costs money, and it costs fuel and ammunition to use, because this kind of fully mechanized and fully armored unit needs all steel monsters.

According to the standard modular battalion, it needs 2 tank companies, 3 light armored companies as assault forces, plus a vehicle-mounted 122mm self-propelled rocket launcher company, a reconnaissance company, and a support company. There are a total of eight company-level configuration units.

Such a battalion-level force is much stronger than the current first-class regiment in terms of firepower intensity, and it is almost the same as the division level.

The idea provided by Ren Zhong is simply terrifying, equivalent to strengthening the battalion level to a basic tactical unit that can undertake comprehensive combat, but in this way, the demand for mechanical equipment has increased too much at once, but the demand for troops has been greatly reduced.

A tank company has 14 tanks, and the combat team has only 56 members. Each tank has only a tank commander, observer, gunner, and machine gunner. An armored company has 10 light armored vehicles, with 12 people in each armored vehicle, a total of 120 people in the company, plus a vehicle-mounted self-propelled rocket launcher company with 6 122mm 12-tube rocket launcher vehicles, with 5 members per vehicle.

The reconnaissance company and the support company are also fully mechanized, composed of trucks, jeeps, and armored vehicles, adding up to less than 300 people. In this way, the entire modular battalion has more than 800 people. The manpower is not much, less than the original small regiment, but the combat effectiveness is amazing, much stronger than a first-class regiment of more than 3,000 people.

Due to the presence of a vehicle-mounted self-propelled rocket launcher company and an artillery fire control radar vehicle, such a modular battalion also has a strong anti-artillery capability and can be said to be a versatile player on the battlefield.

Based on the modular battalion, the modular brigade establishment provided by Ren Zhong is even more terrifying. Four modular battalions with amazing combat power are stuffed into the brigade level! This alone surpasses the combat power of the current division level.

Built around the independent combat capability of the modular brigade, 1 support battalion, 1 reconnaissance battalion, 1 air defense battalion, 1 combat support battalion, and 1 artillery battalion, and other 5 auxiliary units are incorporated to form 9 battalion establishments. Although it seems that there is no difference in the establishment of the early brigade-level three regiments and nine battalions, it is actually completely different.

Among them, the artillery battalion is equipped with the 105mm truck gun currently being specially researched. Li Yunlong has not even seen such a highly mobile artillery piece.

In this way, after the 122mm rocket launchers are assigned to the modular battalion, the brigade-level artillery will be unified into the new 105mm truck gun.

According to this configuration, a modular brigade has 8 tank companies, 112 tanks, which is completely different from the current division-level tank battalion with only 30 tanks. It has already surpassed the tank configuration of an army.

In addition to tanks, there are also 120 armored vehicles equipped with 20mm anti-aircraft machine guns, which can allow infantry to truly accompany the tanks. 2 tank battalions and 3 armored companies constitute the core combat power of the modular brigade, equipped with an artillery battalion of 18 105mm truck guns, 24 vehicle-mounted 9-tube 122mm rocket launchers, which is equivalent to 346 large-caliber artillery pieces!

The ground washing capability can be said to be no less than the current demonstration army.

The air defense battalion is equipped with 4 sets of the first-generation infrared-guided air defense missile Hongqi-1 combat team units, and there are also 12 twin-barreled 40mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. In terms of local air defense, the lethality to the current propeller bombers is very high. Basically, the comprehensive air defense system composed of air defense missiles and anti-aircraft guns has a first-round hit probability of over 90% at 6-8 kilometers.

The current modular brigade, after a completely new combination, the entire modular brigade is fully mechanized, can leave at any time, can fight at any time, combined with the detection capabilities of artillery radar, the enemy artillery's strike can be located and counterattacked within tens of seconds. In this way, if it is purely an army confrontation, the modular brigade can almost independently complete the functions of attack, defense, and rapid long-range maneuver.

The support battalion is composed of 3 truck companies and 1 repair company, with 60 large trucks used for food and ammunition transportation, and on-site maintenance of the brigade's mechanical equipment, which greatly strengthens the equipment integrity rate of the modular brigade.

After Li Yunlong read Ren Zhong's new concept, he couldn't help but be impressed by his boldness. Frankly speaking, this is too advanced.

In the current large-unit tactics, it completely breaks the limits of everyone's imagination. However, as a practical senior commander, Li Yunlong has to say that if he had such a modular brigade, then the combat effectiveness of his 16th Army would be more than doubled, and it could even play out the effect of 1+1 \u003e 3.

According to Li Yunlong's understanding, with such a sharp knife in cooperation with a large army, it would not be too difficult for his army to break through the rogue eagle's current 2 divisions. Therefore, even if there is no way to fully realize the modular brigade at present, if there is one more modular brigade in an army and an organized division is reduced, reorganized into a 2 division and 1 brigade establishment, the combat effectiveness is still much stronger than it is now.

Perhaps, this is also Ren Zhong's consideration. It is obviously unrealistic to fully realize the modular brigade at this stage, but it is not too big of a problem to take out 3 brigade establishments for pilot projects and let Li Yunlong's most capable troops try the effect.