Chapter 1985 Reorganization and Synthesis (Part 2)

While possessing nearly 300 tanks, the newly expanded and upgraded Leader Division has also greatly increased and strengthened in other aspects. Reading

The firepower of the four-battalion divisional self-propelled artillery regiment has almost doubled. The firepower of the single battalion, which was originally not good enough, has been increased to 36 Katyusha ISU152ISU152A per battalion.

As for the traditional towed artillery, it is still the same as before. Malashenko, who pursues the reaction speed and mobility of the troops, does not want this thing. He specifically requires a highly mobile self-propelled artillery force that can stop and move at will and stop and shoot at will.

With the mechanization level and assault speed of the Leader Division, traditional towed artillery is just a burden even if it is required.

By the time the towed artillery position is deployed, the tank cluster may have been fired more than ten or twenty kilometers away. As soon as your artillery position is set up, the tank soldiers have already hit you out of range and you can't cover them. What's the point of setting up your artillery? It's really a waste of time. You don't even have a share of the cold daylily.

One battalion's latest ISU152A was obtained by Malashenko, while the other battalion's old ISU152 was originally from the old and experienced troops.

The situation on the Katyusha side is similar, with an old battalion and a newly formed battalion.

Calculated by the four battalions, Malashenko has 72 ISU152ISU152A and the same number of 72 Katyusha rocket launchers, which together total 144 firepower units.

In addition, Kurbalov and Valosha each have two artillery battalions, with the same equipment configuration as the subordinate battalions of the divisional artillery regiment, one battalion of old ISU152 and Katyusha, both with 36 vehicles, and a total of 72 vehicles per brigade.

So if calculated according to the artillery power of the entire division, the total of all the artillery firepower units of the leader division reached an astonishing number of 288, and they were all large-caliber heavy artillery.

Such a strong artillery force is naturally the result required by Malashenko. In the past, Malashenko was often constrained by insufficient artillery firepower and had to wait for friendly artillery units to arrive to support before he could keep up with the combat plan. He was fed up with this lame taste.

The purpose of synthesis is to greatly improve the independent combat capability of the leader division and fully demonstrate the true combat power of the leader division. Therefore, the supplement of artillery firepower is naturally necessary. In fact, Malashenko even wanted to give Kurbarov and Varosha one more artillery battalion each, and three battalions together for the entire artillery regiment.

However, the production of the new ISU152A has not been fully raised. It is in the late transition stage from the old ISU152 to the new ISU152A. It is probably not realistic to quickly get new equipment for two battalions at this time.

As for the old ISU152, Malashenko doesn't want it very much.

I won’t talk about the performance that is not up to par, the main thing is that it will have to be replaced in a few months. What Malashenko really wants is the ISU152A, which will not change. If you think about it this way, it will be a lot of trouble.

There is no change in the infantry regiment. It is basically a copy and paste of the original Varosha Infantry Regiment. The equipment configuration and the organization of the subordinate units are exactly the same. The only difference is the degree of tacit cooperation and combat experience of the troops.

The combat engineer battalion that has played a big role in the past infantry battles has also been equipped with one in the new infantry regiment, which is exactly the same as the old unit brought out by Varosha.

So in total, after the completion of the synthetic reorganization, the leader division has a total of two heavy synthetic brigades, a total of four tank regiments, two infantry regiments, four brigade-level artillery battalions, and a main combat force organization of a divisional artillery regiment.

In addition to the division’s guard tank company, guard infantry company, and Karamov’s logistics maintenance support brigade, which has also been expanded and upgraded, there are a lot of attached and non-combat troops. The Leader Division, which is a division-level unit, currently has a total actual strength of 30,000, which is quite amazing.

The main combat force at the regiment level has a strength far exceeding that of ordinary units of the same level, which is the main reason why the Leader Division has such a huge total strength. After all, the newly expanded regiment is directly copied and pasted according to the organization of the original old regiment. Another reason that cannot be ignored is the special situation of the logistics support and maintenance units.

The Leader Division, which has such a high degree of mechanization, has a serious reliance on logistics support supply and field maintenance. If this aspect is not done well, the Leader Division is at most just a flower frame with good numbers on the surface but actually pulling the crotch.

Therefore, the total number of the logistics maintenance support brigade under Karamov is also seriously overstaffed compared with the logistics maintenance support units of the same level. The four regiments have a total of nearly 5,000 people. They have to take care of the food, drink, defecation and daily life of all the heavy equipment and personnel of the entire division. Although there are many people, the pressure is indeed not small.

That is to say, Karamov, who has shown extraordinary ability in overall management and has been under Malashenko since 1941, was entrusted with such an important task by Malashenko. If you replace someone else, Comrade Lao Ma may not trust him and dare to entrust such an important lifeline of the entire division to him.

The leader division, which has "seriously overstaffed" troops, is now more like a balloon that has been blown up and is quite inflated.

In fact, Comrade Lao Ma, who was sitting in the division headquarters and chatting privately with the political commissar, was also wondering about one thing. He really wanted to know the answer to a question that puzzled him. There was no need to be hypocritical and cover up in front of the political commissar.

"I don't quite understand. When our division was just established, we could explain the hasty establishment of the division. But now another round of expansion and upgrading has been completed, and the superiors didn't say to change our name. Now it is still called a division. Why do you think this is?"

This problem has troubled Malashenko for a long time. Malashenko himself guessed that it might be because he was too lazy to change the name? Anyway, I can't think of any reasonable explanation, but the next reaction of the political commissar is somewhat interesting.

"I'm not sure about this question either. I think if you really want to find out the answer, you should find a chance to ask the commander. He must know more than you and me."

"But the last time I went to the front headquarters for a meeting, which was less than a week ago, you were not there. I heard the chief of staff casually mention something about this. It seems that it was to confuse the enemy and conceal intelligence? The leader division has always been the focus of the enemy, so much so that even the British and Americans can collect a lot of second-hand intelligence about us through the Germans."

"That's probably what it means. We were talking about other things at the time, and the main thing was not this, so I didn't think too much about it. But now that I think about it, this may be the only possible explanation."