"One hundred thousand Springfield rifles, 50,000 M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles, 50,000 Thompson submachine guns, 500,000 MARK2 grenades, and 5 million rounds of various bullets!" This is what Tang Dao ordered to the little foreign girl through a secret radio.
Order.
Among them are the Garand, the main rifle equipped by the U.S. Army, as well as the obsolete old-fashioned Springfield rifle, and the Thompson submachine gun, which was developed in 1930 and was only used in large numbers after the start of World War II.
The firearms developed by the American cowboys were far less famous than those of the German Empire and the Bears before the war. However, after the war started, people discovered that the Americans were more pragmatic, and the performance of the firearms they developed was not much weaker than that of the German Empire and the Bears.
It is also cheaper and easier to maintain, and is highly adaptable to harsh environments such as temperature, humidity, sand and dust.
Tang Dao took into account that more brutal battlefields behind enemy lines would be opened on a large scale, and the Japanese army would conduct more frequent raids on villages. While adding a large number of soldiers to respond, the demand for rifles and grenades would also increase significantly.
And the 10,000 rifles exchanged from the stingy old man are not even enough for southern Hebei Province. It is not known when the order from a German mechanic from Krupp Company will arrive. Only the Americans can purchase and ship weapons on a large scale.
Already.
"We can't transport such large-scale weapons and equipment to your battlefield through northern China!" The little foreign girl was stunned by this huge order worth millions of dollars, but she still called Tang Dao sincerely,
Based on the existing transportation routes, Tang Dao has already tried his best to transport this huge batch of weapons to Handan and other places under the eyes of the Japanese. It is undoubtedly a fantasy.
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"Passing through the Mao Xiong Country, then entering my country's Xijiang Province, and then to Shaanxi Province, we will have someone from the Mao Xiong Country contact us in advance, and will give their military factory 2,000 weapons that have been developed and are about to be installed in the army. Tank rifle order! We will also pay for the transit fee additionally, which they will gladly accept.
Moreover, we will pay all the costs incurred during transportation!" Tang Dao quickly replied to Xiaoyangniuer and gave another transportation route.
Nowadays, the Japanese have blocked the East China Sea, an important open sea of China, basically cutting off the possibility of direct sea transportation. However, the Japanese cannot completely block China's huge landmass.
China now has two important land channels for obtaining supplies from the outside world. One is from Myanmar, which borders Yunnan Province, and the other is the Mao Xiong border with Xijiang Province.
However, the southwest border is too far away from North China, and the mountain roads are rugged and difficult to travel. We don’t know when or what month it will be when these weapons arrive.
The best route choice is to arrive at An County from Xijiang Province where the 80th Army is located, then cross the Yellow River and use ant moving methods to transport this batch of weapons and equipment to North China.
The Japanese have long been dissatisfied with the Mao Xiong. Since May, the Japanese Kwantung Army has attacked the Nomenkan area many times. If nothing goes wrong, the Mao Xiong Kingdom will use tanks and aircraft to teach the arrogant people a lesson in Nomenkan.
Crazy Japanese.
At this time, someone proposed to transport a large amount of weapons and equipment to China across the border. Even if the furry bear man had muscles in his head, he would be so happy that he would slap his hands in the face!
What's more, there is an order for 2,000 of the latest anti-tank rifles and supporting ammunition, and it does not require a loan, but to pay for it with penicillin. It is strange that the bear people can disagree.
In Xijiang Province, the Eightyth Army Group will naturally go to negotiate with them. Even if it is not for the anti-Japanese plan, or for the sake of money, Xijiang Province will not make things more difficult.
This batch of weapons and equipment should arrive in North China in about half a year.
By then, 200,000 American firearms will be deployed in various base areas behind enemy lines, capable of beating the Japanese and puppet troops who go to the countryside to sweep them to tears.
The anti-tank rifle Tang Dao ordered from Mao Xiongren has not yet been officially installed in the army. It is really not used to fight Japanese small tanks. It is the Type 94 and Type 89 tanks that the Japanese currently use in large numbers on the Chinese battlefield.
, he is just a rookie, a 7mm heavy machine gun and a 20mm machine gun are enough.
These anti-tank rifles were prepared by Tang Dao for the so-called "cage tactics" used by the Japanese army in the future to build a large number of artillery towers to blockade the base areas.
The fundamental reason why the turrets and deep trenches caused huge losses to the 80th Army was simply that the 80th Army seriously lacked direct artillery and could not penetrate the turrets made of blue bricks and concrete.
A turret or bunker is like a fire-breathing turtle. Its own defense is high enough, and it can block a width of nearly 2 miles on the left and right sides with machine guns and rifles. It serves as a node and is supplemented by roads that can pass cars and motorcycles.
Didn't the deep trenches divide the plains and block the maneuvers of the 80th Army?
Tang Dao is not capable of building thousands of combat defense artillery or infantry artillery pieces for the 80th Army. Moreover, these artillery pieces are extremely heavy, ranging from more than 200 kilograms to more than 400 kilograms. They can also become a drag when troops are transferred.
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The anti-tank rifle developed by Mao Xiong weighs 2 kilograms. A strong soldier can carry it and run. The warhead with a caliber of 5mm and a muzzle velocity of 1010m/s can penetrate a 25MM thick steel plate at a distance of 500 meters.
, can completely shoot through the turrets whose main body is masonry.
If there were several anti-tank rifles like this mounted in front of a gun tower, Tang Dao could completely imagine the little faces of the Japanese and puppet troops inside the bunker, which were as pale as paper.
There is no need for a massive and life-consuming assault to blast it. Dozens of armor-piercing projectiles are fired down. No one can persist in hiding in such a shabby fortification that is beaten like a sieve.
Of course, this is all what that insidious little devil from Gangcun Xiaoci is going to do in the future. Now what the Fourth Army Group and the Eightyth Army have to deal with is the ferocious counterattack by this idiot Duo Tianjun.
Before the stingy old man's Jin-made rifles arrived, more than 2,000 rifles in stock from the Sixings Regiment arrived in southern Hebei. They were not distributed to new recruits joining the army. Instead, the guns and bullets were first given to the militia platoons in each village.
On average, each militia platoon has 10 guns and 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
Enough bullets were fired not because the militiamen were required to kill many enemies, but because Tang Dao required them to start training immediately.
Regardless of whether they are new soldiers or militiamen who join the army, in essence they are still farmers who have just put down their hoes, and war is never a fluke. Not everyone has a good enough shooting talent. Even Niu Er heard that when he was a recruit,
The sound of gunfire made me wet my crotch in fright, and I couldn't help but close my eyes in fear when shooting the enemy.
Extensive live-fire training is the basis for a soldier to be able to shoot enemies at a distance of more than 100 meters.
All the villages and villages in southern Hebei started a large-scale military training operation in late May!
The common people and the regular army, under the guidance of the 80th Army Group, the Fourth Army Regiment, and the Jinan Office, continued to improve tunnels and walls, and also began to dig trenches between villages on the plain.
The ditch is one meter deep and one meter wide, allowing people to move quickly in the ditch one by one with their waists bent!
The function of this kind of trench is similar to the communication trench on the battlefield. It can be used as a trench for defensive warfare in peacetime. When the situation is favorable, the troops stationed in each village from all directions can use this trench to pass through and surround the Japanese army; when the situation is unfavorable,
, then naturally they would use the ditches to evacuate, enter villages and tunnels, and fight the Japanese again.
At the beginning, it was just excavations around each village. When the villages are connected, it will become another artificial miracle during the war.
As long as the Japanese counterattack now, if they wait a little longer, they will be dazzled by the ditches crisscrossing the fields, not to mention the secret tunnel exits that may go around and shoot behind them at any time.
As for the militiamen, they practiced a lot of live ammunition. In the early stage, each gun was issued 200 rounds of ammunition, which could be used for 5 people each with 40 rounds of live ammunition for target shooting. As the Sixings Regiment Military Factory worked day and night, more than a million rounds of ammunition were shipped to Hebei.
South.
On average, each militiaman has a record of firing hundreds of bullets, which is really a terrible number.
You know, in the middle of 1938, even the regular army of the 80th Army was only issued 10 bullets per soldier. Many soldiers had no record of firing 10 bullets until they died in battle.
But now, only half a year has passed, and even the militiamen who have not yet had military membership have fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition on the training ground in the fields.
Perhaps not because of the live ammunition training of hundreds of bullets, every militiaman will be able to shoot Japanese soldiers at a distance of 150 meters, but at least when the Japanese army attacks, they can also assist the regular army at a distance of 100 meters.
The Japanese army posed a great threat.
To a certain extent, the Jinan Division of the 80th Group Army, which has expanded to 20,000 troops in southern Hebei, plus the Fourth Army Regiment with 9 regular infantry companies and 6 recruit companies with a total of more than 6,000 people, plus 260
There are about 30,000 militia troops in the militia platoon, and China has as many as 40,000 soldiers capable of fighting.
What is even more gratifying is that although the stingy old man is of average character, he still keeps his word. The 10,000 Jin-made rifles and one million rounds of ammunition he promised have all been shipped to southern Hebei.
With this addition, all new recruits in the Eightyth Group Army were equipped with new guns, and the militia units also received an additional 1,000 guns.
In addition, Zheng Yunqiu, an unlucky boy, also secretly sent 800 rifles to Guangping County Division.
Some of these guns were in this guy's private collection, others he spent a lot of money to buy from his colleagues in the nearby security forces, others he bought from bandits in the mountains through personal relationships, and some he even cheated from the Japanese.
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Really, the threat of the old abacus to this guy, "Eight hundred is the bottom line. If you can't get it, just wait for the Japanese to peel your skin off and put it out to dry at the gate of the city to be filled with grass!" It's really going to embarrass the child to death.
Already.
Zheng Yunqiu is bad and greedy, but the main thing he is greedy for is real money. He really doesn't dare to hide too much of this gun.
It is said that for these guns, the always cunning Battalion Commander Zheng Yunqiu almost turned his hair gray. He wanted to satisfy the "Tuba" uncles and also wanted to fool the Japanese. Battalion Commander Zheng also worked hard, and his haggard appearance made him happy.
Saburo Kuroda, who had received a thousand taels of gold from him, was a little impatient and even specially hired a Japanese military doctor to treat him.
"Zheng Sang, I know that you are determined to serve the empire, but you must also take care of yourself and never linger in your sick bed because of this!" Saburo Kuroda comforted Zheng Yunqiu sincerely.
It was really not superficial. Saburo Kuroda had been in China for so long that he had collected a lot of gold and silver, but this was the first time that a rich man like Zheng Yunqiu had given away a thousand taels of gold at once.
Saburo Kuroda is not willing to let his benefactor father have something happen to him. As the acting captain of the 63rd Infantry Regiment, he must let his benefactor father live a little longer and give him another thousand taels of gold.
That couldn't be better.
If Saburo Kuroda knew that the man in front of him not only brought 30 elite Chinese soldiers into the city privately, but also provided a secret tunnel for more than 200 elite Chinese soldiers to enter the city and chop off the head of his regiment commander, he would
I will not regret my kind words to Zheng Sang.
Probably not. Without Zheng Yunqiu's "thoughtful" help, the Colonel and the captain of the 1st Infantry Battalion were both surprised. How could he act as the captain of the 63rd Infantry Regiment with the mere captain of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, even if he was a
An infantry regiment that lost its regimental flag.
"My subordinates are currently working hard to rebuild our security army infantry battalion and serve the empire!" Zheng Yunqiu's righteous words of 'devoting his life to the empire until his death' were so righteous that even he almost believed it.
Or should we say that the highest level of deceiving others is to first deceive yourself?
Therefore, Saburo Kuroda, who was deeply moved by this, applied for more than 600 guns of various types for his security army infantry battalion with a wave of his hand, and allowed Zheng Yunqiu's security army to expand to 800 people.
As everyone knows, Zheng Yunqiu here brought Major Kuroda Saburo to his outer courtyard with tears of gratitude to taste his concubine's kung fu. Zheng Yunqiu, who had received the gun over there, turned around and sent 300 of the firearms to the countryside.
In the designated area, the white hair on the head has faded a lot.
This is how the fortress was breached from the inside. The guy Saburo Kuroda wanted to entrust him with the important task was a big hamster. Here he gave him money and women, and there he gave him a gun?
After the Battle of Panzhai, the morale of the military and civilians in southern Hebei soared. Not only were there nearly a hundred regular troops stationed in each village, the militia also had 50 men and 30 guns, almost as many as an infantry company.
Moreover, because of the simple ditches connecting the villages, it only took 40 minutes to gather more than 700 Chinese soldiers.
Because there is an exercise like this on average once a week. A village lights a beacon fire, and the five surrounding villages can rush to the battlefield in 25 minutes at the fastest and 40 minutes at the slowest.
The fastest way for the people to evacuate was that it only took 10 minutes for all the people to leave the village without being surrounded by the Japanese army.
Even, in Tang Dao's headquarters in Zishan, there are two huge 3D sandboxes, one each for the cities of Handan and Xingtai. The location of each village on them is marked. Through the infantry company headquarters stationed there,
Tang Dao can clearly judge all the movements of the Japanese army and make tactical instructions.
The entire Jinan, under Tang Dao's careful design, is like a huge military camp. No matter whether the Japanese army is planning a big war or a small raid, Tang Dao can carefully deploy its troops.
The reconnaissance company, the mountain infantry company, the guard company and the cavalry company, the four elite companies, serve as the mobile force in his hands and can project troops to as far away as 100 kilometers and as close as 10 kilometers at any time.
Of course, once all four companies are dispatched, it almost means that they will at least engage in infantry brigade-level combat with the Japanese army. The Eightyth Group Army's southern Hebei division also has two elite infantry battalions as general reserves.
Once the Japanese want to play a big game, the two major military leaders in southern Hebei are not afraid. In two days, they can organize 20,000 regular troops and 5,000 militiamen to rush to any battlefield.
Duo Tianjun, who was far away in Pingbeicheng, and Shinozuka Yoshio, who had received military orders and returned to Handan, thought that their opponents would be like spreading the beans into military tactics. In just one month, they expanded the size of their troops.
Double.
After nearly three days of secret discussions between these two people and Saburo Okabe, the chief of staff, the three cobblers finally came up with a strategy of "snatching the snake out of the grass and luring the snake out of its hole".
The so-called "snatching the enemy" is nothing more than continuing to implement the "extermination tactics", using infantry squadron-level raids on villages 5 kilometers away from the county seat, and forcing out the 80th Army Group and the Fourth Army Regiment by completely killing villages and households.
If the 80th Army Group and the Four Lines Regiment dare not come out, then the massacre will continue until the Chinese people surrender and no longer support the "Tuba" and the Four Lines Regiment.
On the contrary, this achieved Duo Tianjun's original intention of formulating this tactic, which was to completely conquer the vast rural areas of North China both mentally and physically.
And if the 80th Army Group and the Fourth Army Regiment dare to come out, then mobilize heavy troops to encircle them and kill them.
Although the focus of the Japanese North China Front is still on the front lines of southeastern Shanxi and Zhongtiao Mountain, there are still up to 100,000 regular troops and more than 60,000 security forces in the rear to protect the security of the occupied areas. It is still possible to mobilize 20,000 troops into southern Hebei.
Arrived.
Originally, the 10th Division had 4 infantry regiments and 12 infantry brigades. In Zhongtiao Mountain, one of them was severely damaged and the whole army was wiped out. In Panzhai, 2 more infantry brigades were severely damaged, leaving only 8. The strength of the troops was obviously not up to expectations.
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After thinking about it, Duo Tianjun was forced to turn his attention to the 4th Division's Daxiong Yunsuke Infantry Brigade, which was resting in Baoding.
It is said that the 4th Division was not very effective in combat, but it performed well in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain. Even if the supplies and equipment were destroyed, it is true that they did not let Yuncheng fall.
Can this infantry brigade be asked to assist the 10th Division?
Unexpectedly, as soon as Okuma Konosuke, a loser, heard that he was going to carry out the "Ember War", he immediately made it clear that he was a real soldier and would never do anything to civilians. If he had to issue a military order to force him, he would join the military.
The court defends itself.
Commander Duo Tianjun, who was inexplicably insulted, almost lost his temper and had a heart attack. If he hadn't still had a shred of reason left, he would have sent this Osaka hawker who couldn't see the situation clearly to a military court.
It's a pity that the commander of the 4th Division also has a strong back. If a quarrel breaks out, he may be able to overpower the opponent, but if the opponent persists in taking advantage of Pan Zhai Zhazha's record in the first battle, his face, the new commander of the North China Front Army, will also be stained.
Step on the ground and rub.
After losing the battle, you can't speak firmly, and the commander is no exception.
Faced with the big bear Yukinosuke, Duo Tianjun finally took a step back. After they arrived in southern Hebei, they were responsible for cooperating with the 10th Division and the Chinese main force in the battle. The 'Ember War' was dominated by the 10th Division.
implement.
"The bumpkins from Sendai don't understand tactics at all, so they know how to command blindly!" Major General Okuma Konosuke cursed and led his infantry brigade of more than 7,000 officers and soldiers, setting off from Baoding in early June and marching towards Handan.
This journey lasts for half a month!
Marching at a speed of 40 miles a day, Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio in Handan City felt like he was about to grow moldy.
But the angry Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio did not know that the 7,000 Osaka vendors he was waiting for to come would completely trick him into a dog.
This chapter has been completed!