The special forces are thousands of miles away, and occasionally contact Ye Feng through radio. The special forces' combat command is mainly led by Zhao Long and Long Yi. Ye Feng basically did not spend much energy to command the special forces' battles. Ye Feng's main energy is on the construction of the troops.

Now, the units of the Independent Division are fully organized and all weapons and equipment are in place. In order to quickly form combat effectiveness, the regular training of the two batches of new recruits is only one month. It was originally planned to have two months of regular training, but the situation waits for no one.

The first batch of recruits began training in early April. After one month of routine training at the Milin County recruit training base, they were assigned to each unit in early May, and then each unit carried out professional training.

The second batch of recruits began training in early May, and in early June, more than ten days ago, they had been assigned to various units and began professional training, such as recruit soldiers assigned to the Tank Brigade (also the Armored Brigade), under the leadership of veterans, began to train tank driving, shooting, simple maintenance, and even some tank combat knowledge training.

The recruits assigned to the artillery units, under the leadership of veterans, learned artillery knowledge, learned artillery operation and artillery training, and the recruits assigned to the remaining units were similar.

Today is June 17th. Even the second batch of recruits have been training in their respective troops for about half a month. Starting today, Ye Feng began to personally inspect the training situation in each unit.

Pingyuan County became the first stop for Ye Feng’s inspection.

On the plains, the Independent Division stationed heavy troops, armored brigades (tank brigades), and heavy artillery brigades are all stationed in Pingyuan County. The relatively flat terrain of the county provides a good training ground for everyone's training.

Heavy Artillery Brigade Training Base.

This is a wilderness of several kilometers in radius, with sparse and low mountains around it. When Ye Feng came to the artillery brigade training base, the artillery brigade was conducting live-fire training.

The Artillery Brigade, two artillery regiments, each of which is equipped with 155 American m1 large caliber howitzers. There are 11 operators of this 155mm howitzer, and they are towed by large trucks or tracked tanks.

When Ye Feng took an off-road vehicle to the training base of the Artillery Brigade, the 48 heavy artillery of the Artillery Brigade had been lined up in two neat rows. Each row of 24 cannons, each cannon was more than ten meters apart, and it looked like a long string. It was very spectacular.

This American 155mm howitzer looks much thicker and shorter than the 52-caliber howitzer from later generations. One cannon with a slant pointing at the distance.

The m1 large caliber howitzer weighs 5,800 kg and is operated by 11 crew members. It is usually towed by a 2.5-ton truck or an m3 half-track vehicle. It can fire 43 kg of ammunition to 15,000 meters away. Its applicable ammunition includes high explosive bombs, smoke bombs and chemical weapons.

Ye Fengcai was very generous, and all the heavy artillery of the artillery regiment were towed by m3 semi-tracked combat vehicles, while large trucks were equipped with transport and replenishment, such as ammunition, oil, and even personnel.

Not far from these cannons, they are more than 100 meters apart. Dozens of m3 half-tracked tanks are parked neatly and are parked straight in two rows. From a distance, they look very spectacular.

The m3 half-tracked combat vehicle has a total weight of 6.8 tons, with 3 crew members and 11 crew members. It is equipped with 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun and 2 7.62mm machine guns. It has strong protection capabilities. Even if you encounter Japanese devils on the battlefield, the soldiers of the artillery brigade can defend themselves.

When Yang Weiguo, the commander of the Heavy Artillery Brigade, saw Ye Feng coming, he immediately brought several senior executives from the Heavy Artillery Brigade, jogged all the way, stood at attention in front of Ye Feng, saluted a standard military salute, and then shouted: "Reporting the seat of the division, our Heavy Artillery Brigade is undergoing live ammunition training, please give instructions."

Ye Feng had just got off the car and heard Yang Weiguo's report, he immediately replied with a military salute and instructed: "Continue training."

"yes!"

Yang Weiguo answered loudly, then turned around and ran toward not far away, instructing everyone to continue training normally. Several senior executives from the Heavy Artillery Brigade also stepped forward to salute Ye Feng, and then returned to their posts to direct the training.

Ye Feng found a suitable location, about two or three hundred meters away from the artillery brigade. Ye Feng held a telescope and watched the entire heavy artillery brigade. Seeing the heavy artillery, he saw the heavy artillery, neatly and very spectacular, and he nodded with satisfaction.

Many artillery soldiers, when they saw their division seats coming here in person, were slightly excited and worked hard to load shells on their cannons, waiting for the order to fire the cannon.

After more than ten minutes, everyone was ready. Yang Weiguo, the commander of the Heavy Artillery Brigade, personally issued an order to fire the gun. The soldiers aimed at targets placed on several hillsides several kilometers away and fired the gun.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

As one cannon fired, sharp whistling sounds came from the sky, and shells flew out toward the target, making earth-shaking explosions on the hillside, blowing out large pits.

After the first round of artillery, Yang Weiguo jogged over and reported to Ye Feng: "Reporting the division seat, the heavy artillery brigade completed the first round of live-fire shooting, fired 48 shells and hit 40 targets, please instruct."

Just now, Ye Feng took the telescope to see the situation clearly. On several hillsides in the distance, the heavy artillery brigade prepared simple and eye-catching targets several meters in square in advance. As long as the shells blow up these targets, they will be considered to be hit by the target.

This is very difficult, 48 shells can hit 40 targets, which is a good result.

So, Ye Feng praised: "No, continue to train."

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On June 17, Ye Feng stayed in the Artillery Brigade for a day and watched several rounds of live ammunition training. He was generally satisfied.

The next day, Ye Feng took a car to one of the Armored Brigade training bases more than ten kilometers away to inspect the training status of the Armored Brigade. The Armored Brigade had three tank regiments, one mechanized infantry regiment and one air defense regiment, each regiment and one training base. There were five training bases in Pingyuan County.

The Armored Brigade (that is, the Tank Brigade) was expanded from the previous tank regiment. Many veterans already had practical experience. Last time outside Hangzhou City, the tank regiment showed great power and annihilated thousands of Japanese 6th Division, accumulating a certain amount of practical experience. Now, these veterans have become absolute backbone and undertaken the task of leading newcomers.

Under the leadership of these veterans, after a period of training, all the regiments under the Tank Brigade have made rapid progress. After a period of time and a few more actual combat, they will definitely be able to fully grow.

Ye Feng was inspecting the training of the Tank Brigade Tank Regiment at this time.

The First Tank Regiment has three battalions, two tank battalions and one mixed battalion. Considering that the Tank Brigade has air defense regiments and mechanized infantry regiments, each tank regiment no longer has air defense regiments and mechanized infantry regiments, but a mixed battalion.

Each tank regiment under the Armored Brigade has 10 tank companies (11 m4 Sherman tanks per company). It is composed of two fourth-company battalions and one mixed battalion (second tank company, second infantry company).

It is not possible to deploy all three tank battalions on the front line. The tank regiment should have its own mechanics and stairs company. Therefore, two fourth-company tank battalions are deployed on the front line, and two tank companies of the mixed battalion are responding to emergency responses in the back, and two infantry companies work together.

Each tank battalion is equipped with 46 m4 Sherman medium tanks (two battalion units), each mixed battalion is equipped with two tank companies and a total of 22 m4 tanks, two mechastic and step companies, a total of 22 m3 half-crawler tanks, and a total of 3 m3 half-crawler tanks in the battalion department.

The tank regiment has 3 m4 tanks, 3 armored command vehicles, 3 m3 half-crawler tanks, a total of 117 m4 tanks, 28 m3 half-crawler tanks, and 3 armored command vehicles.

"Reporter's seat, the 1st Tank Regiment of the Armored Brigade is undergoing off-road training, please instruct." The colonel leader of the 1st Tank Regiment came and immediately came to report.

"Continue to train!"

After Ye Feng got off the car, he walked to a small hill not far away, and was placed in a favorable terrain. He held up a telescope and looked at a huge group of tanks in the distance where the off-road training was being carried out.

More than one hundred chariots formed a huge team. The chariots sped along with the undulating terrain, with great visual impact. Even Ye Feng was excited to see it.

“Not bad, very good.”

Ye Feng held the telescope and praised while looking.

Today, Chief of Staff Guo Weiquan accompanied Ye Feng to inspect. When Guo Weiquan saw the tank group of tank regiments in the distance, he couldn't help but nodded, and praised: "Second, the commander of the Armored Brigade Sun Yougen really has two brushes."

"Yeah, I'm right. Tell Sun Yougen that after training and forming combat effectiveness, we will take action against Hangzhou."

"Master, are you going to hit Hangzhou?" Guo Weiquan said in surprise.

Ye Feng nodded, "Our team has grown stronger and stronger. We live in Shannan County, Milin County and Pingyuan County. These three small counties are no longer possible. If we want to continue to grow, we must have a larger territory and restore Hangzhou, which is a matter of time."

"Okay, Master, your words are really exciting. I, Lao Guo, want to hit Hangzhou too." Guo Weiquan immediately agreed.

"Well, Chief of Staff Guo, your current task is to thoroughly understand the deployment of the Japanese troops inside and outside Hangzhou City and formulate a thorough combat plan."

"Master, don't worry, I will do all this according to your order." Guo Weiquan immediately said excitedly. It seems that Guo Weiquan is very motivated to fight the Japanese.

Ye Feng was very satisfied with the training of the first tank regiment. For several consecutive days, Ye Feng inspected the training of the rest of the Armored Brigade, and everyone's training was good.

In late June, Ye Feng inspected the training of the three major infantry brigades, and focused on the training of the newly established mechanized infantry brigade, which was only two or three months old.

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Chapter completed!