After coming out of the arsenal, Su Dao has been considering a problem, that is, what he said before was to use iron instead of copper to make bullets. In later generations, he only heard that this seemed to be the case, but he didn't know what to do in detail, so Su Dao proposed to use iron instead of copper. After being rejected by the Germans, Su Dao didn't take it too seriously. Since the Germans said it was no longer possible, then use the oldest method in the short term. Although the materials may be short of shortage, it doesn't matter. The life of a soldier is the most important.

Several factories in Sudao will be completed and put into production one after another within the next half month. However, while building the factories, they did not forget to send troops to find some mineral resources. Whether his factories can start construction without them is the same thing.

Su Dao didn't take the matter too seriously about the factory. He didn't care about the current output at all. The most important thing is that he had a good excuse, which was enough. As for the workers, let's train them slowly. Anyway, the scale will definitely be expanded to avoid the number of workers in the future.

With the start of several factories, some employment problems have been solved for Jinxi. Although each factory does not recruit many people, it has at least relieved the pressure on people's lives. There are wars and it is good to find a job, and there is no complaints about those who have not been found. Anyway, Su Dao said that production will be expanded in the near future, and at that time, it will recruit twice or even more workers than now.

A week later, the battle in Jinzhou was basically coming to an end, but it was also the most difficult time. The battle in one week caused the 766th Division to lose more than 6,000 people, which was a serious injury to its vitality. If it was a little loss, it was estimated that the 766th Division would lose its combat effectiveness directly. However, it is not the time to relax now. Only after the Jinzhou City was defeated can it be repaired.

As for reinforcements, there are no more. Even the reserve troops of 50,000 were left with only 3,000 people, and the rest were all scattered to various places in Rehe Province to guard the county town. There was no way. Although the two divisions seemed to be a large number of nearly 100,000 troops, there was not much left in one province. In many county towns, they could only leave one battalion or a company troops, and like the 768th Division, it was even more pitiful.

If it were such a large summer resort in Chengde, it was the place where the emperor would come every year. Due to the lack of troops, the 768th Division could only leave one battalion to guard it, and Luanping, not far from Chengde, had only left two battalions. The main force of the 768th Division was scattered to the area north of the Great Wall to prevent the Japanese army from attacking in the pass.

The situation of the 767th Division and the 768th Division is similar. Although they don’t have to guard against the Japanese army in the pass, they need to guard against more Kanto troops, and their pressure is no less than that of the 768th Division. As for the 766th Division, they need to face hundreds of thousands of Kanto troops in the battle of Jinzhou alone, and they have no time to free up their hands to help the other two divisions. It would be nice not to ask them for reinforcements.

After a week of battle, the Kwantung Army outside Jinzhou City had basically been eliminated. Those who could escape back to the city fled back to the city. Those troops were disbanded. There was no organization, or they had no intention of finding the Kwantung Army soldiers who were organized, and they fled northward. After so much effort, hundreds of thousands of troops were fighting less than 50,000. So far, they have lost 30,000 to 40,000 people, and they are all front-line combat troops.

So far, at most, there are less than 50,000 people in the city. It is said that there are more than 100,000 people in five divisions, but it would be great to remove the baggage and non-combat troops of each division and have 20,000 people. In addition to the huge casualties before, I really don’t know how long Jinzhou can stay.

Reinforcements and the Kanto Army have been asking for help, and Mejiro Uezuki looked even more anxious. Thinking of Kenyoshi Ueda who had returned to the local area to retire, Mijiro Uezuki couldn't help but secretly envy him, and at the same time he felt ridiculous of what he said when he had not taken office.

Meijiro Umezu, who was sweating, didn't care about his appearance and threw his military cap aside. A few buttons on his military uniform were unbuttoned. He stared at the map and studied for a long time without any movement. Where did I go to mobilize troops? Looking at the map full of the locations of the Kanto Army troops, these troops had hundreds of thousands of people. Logically speaking, just transferring troops could solve the problem in Jinzhou, but Meijiro Umezu didn't know which unit to transfer.

When the first besiege of the Nine Nine Army, Kenyo Ueda mobilized more than 150,000 of six divisions, but was wiped out nearly 50,000 of two divisions. Then, when retreating, they were annihilated 10,000 or 20,000. In addition, more than 10,000 people from the Western Front position were above, and more than 150,000 people were left after a round of circling, and only less than 70,000 were left, and they were all abandoned.

Later, Kenji Ueda quickly integrated the defeated troops. After finally stabilizing, Mijiro Umezu gritted his teeth and mobilized five divisions to enter the near Jinzhou to garrison them directly, and then mobilized one division from other aspects to Rehe to assist the four divisions that had just been integrated. Therefore, in this battle, the Kwantung Army invested a total of nearly 250,000 divisions, and there were about 200,000 people on the 99th Army.

Whenever I think of the 99th Army's troops that were so fewer than me, and that I could actually make myself look like this, Mejiro Umezu had the idea of ​​having a caesarean section. What kind of face does it have to go back to see people? The Kanto Army's current military strength is about 600,000 or 700,000. The Kanto Army claimed to have 800,000 troops, which was 40 and 41, and at this time the Pacific War had not yet begun, and Japan's military strength had not yet reached its highest level.

Just like this, the troops in the hands of the Ninety-Nine Army alone had more than 100,000 troops, and the troops they were restrained had nearly 400,000, which was already on the verge of collapse of the Kwantung Army. In addition to the previous battle of Surinomenkan, the Kwantung Army also lost more than 10,000 people. The Kwantung Army seemed to have a lot of troops. In addition to some to guard against the Soviet Union, they also had to monitor the dynamics of Manchuria to avoid capsizing in the gutter caused by the Manchus.

So Mijiro Umezu looked at the densely packed troops on the map, but did not dare to mobilize any troops easily. Those who could participate in the war had been transferred away by Kenyoshi Ueda and Mijiro Umezu. If they were transferred again, they would threaten the rule of the Kanto Army. So this is the most troublesome thing for Mijiro Umezu. I originally thought that the commander of the Kanto Army was a good job, but I didn't expect that after I came, I realized that this was even more unacceptable than sitting on a hot pot.

"Imura-kun, how are the aviation troops preparing?" After a long time, Mejiro Umezu finally remembered another killer weapon, a unit that could be mobilized at any time.

Since the beginning of the war, the Kwantung Army's aviation army has been the most idle unit. The army is fighting to the death and has never seen its own fighter jets once. However, it is not the aviation army, but Mejiro Umezu does not want his aviation army to die. He has known about the 99th Army's advanced fighter jets for a long time, and the navy has also received information. Through fighting with the navy, they found that the performance of the 99th Army's fighter jets is no less than that of the Imperial Navy.

In this way, thinking about the annihilation of a small team of fighter jets by the Chinese Air Force at the beginning, Mejiro Umezu couldn't help but be careful. On the one hand, he asked the domestic to step up the dressing work of the aviation troops. On the other hand, he hoped that the army could handle it for a while, and it would be easy to talk about it after the air force was replaced. The air force was wiped out and there was no air supremacy. Can the Ninety-Nine Army still be so arrogant?

The reason why the aviation force is not allowed to fight is to protect the poor few Empire pilots, so that they can play a greater advantage when the new fighter arrives. No matter how good the pilot is, he will fight with a fighter that is far inferior to the opponent's performance, and if he wants to defeat the opponent, he may have great luck, and the opponent wants to shoot them down. It seems that only a little trick is needed.

"The Second Air Force received a new fighter yesterday, and it will take some time to get familiar with it before it can fight. The Fifth Air Force estimated that it will take a week before it can receive the new fighter. It will take half a month to change all the gears. The shortest time will take." Lieutenant General Iimura, Chief of Staff of the Kanto Army, said with a melancholy look. The Kanto Army was not only worried about Meijiro Umezu. The army encountered some major disasters. Generally speaking, both the chief officer and the chief officer were in trouble. The only difference is that the chief officer had less responsibility. After the defeat, you can not have to have a caesarean section or be transferred to other troops to serve. The chief officer was different. They had the main responsibility for the defeat of the army.

But even so, Ryo Imura did not want to follow in the footsteps of Kenyo Ueda and Ryosuke Isotani. Thinking about Ryo Isotani's current position, Ryo Imura was scared. He was a fighter in the reserve. He guarded a fortress without hesitation. There was basically no hope of Isotani's desire to go to the battlefield in this life. He could only burn the incense when he was able to work as the garrison commander until he retired.

Thinking of the stool under the chief of staff's butt before it was warmed up, it was possible that it would follow the pace of Iimura Ryu's face suddenly disappeared, and he had long lost the mighty look he had when he first took office. Instead, he was worried and scared.

"No, there is no more time for them. Order the Second Air Force to take off immediately to support Jinzhou. If possible, you must destroy the other party's airport and destroy their heavy artillery brigades, and at the same time order the Fifth Air Force to prepare for combat." Meijiro Umezu ordered with a bitter face.

He seemed to have seen his destiny, so what if he saved Jinzhou? The important point of the problem was that the entire Rehe River was lost in his hands. The most hateful thing was that some of the Kwantung Army soldiers were driven into the pass, which made him very embarrassed. Not only that, the war here also affected the war within the pass. The North China Front Army had been forced to change its current combat plan.

But things are far from that simple. It is not just that the North China Front Army changed its plan, because the plan of the North China Front Army was suddenly changed, and the same is true for the Central China Expeditionary Force in the south. Without the North China Front Army restraining Chairman Chiang's large number of troops in Shanxi and North China, those local warlords could free up their hands to support Wuhan or counterattack them at any time.

In the past, when the North China Front Army was still attacking, they didn't have to worry so much, but now they suddenly became a lonely army. As long as the Chinese side cut off their retreat and perished, it seemed only a matter of time.
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