The Eighth Route Army actually used live ammunition for training, which was extremely luxurious.
And they were all incendiary bombs, aerial bombs and heavy artillery shells.
Of course, this is just training, and it cannot be like actual combat, where hundreds of aircraft are dispatched and artillery units bombard for several hours.
That would really be a waste of shells.
but.
After a training session, the Eighth Route Army threw hundreds of aerial bombs and thousands of heavy artillery shells, which still left Chu Yunfei, Sun Ming and Fang Ligong stunned.
"Brother Chu, the firepower of my new recruit camps is pretty good, right?"
Li Yunlong looked at the coordinated training of the new barracks troops through the telescope, looking very satisfied.
The fear of lack of firepower in my heart has improved a little bit.
Although it is a new military camp, not all recruits are new recruits. For example, squad leaders and platoon leaders are all veterans. Company commanders, battalion commanders, instructors and instructors are all officers with rich experience in leading troops, as well as those who have participated in the Anti-Japanese War and Northwest Shanxi.
Officers trained at the military academy serve as officers.
The New First Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment, with the permission of the head of the headquarters, jointly established the Northwestern Shanxi Military Academy.
Currently, the first batch of officer cadets from the North Shanxi Military Academy have entered the New First Regiment, the Independent Regiment and the New Second Regiment as mid-level officers at the company and platoon levels.
and.
The soldiers in these new camps are almost all militiamen and guerrillas with combat experience.
The current actual combat and tactical training is mainly to train large corps to fight.
After such a wave of training, infantry, tank troops, artillery and pilots have all received sufficient live-fire training, as well as collaborative combat training between various arms.
It is also gradually changing the guerrilla habits of the new soldiers.
"It's more than just passable."
"If the Chinese army has such firepower, why worry about the Japanese army not being destroyed?"
Chu Yunfei put down the telescope, the shock on his face had not completely dissipated.
"Ha ha."
Li Yunlong laughed in his unique loud voice.
"Is the caliber of this artillery gun wrong?"
Suddenly Chu Yunfei's expression changed:
"Bigger than a 105mm howitzer, but not as good as a 150mm howitzer."
"Brother Chu has a good eye! This is a new 122mm howitzer obtained by our Eighth Route Army. It is more powerful than the 105mm howitzer. It combines battalion-level support artillery firepower. In addition to the 122mm howitzer, our Eighth Route Army also added 152mm howitzer and 155mm
Howitzer." Li Yunlong praised without hesitation, Chu Yunfei's military quality is really something. Although he is not a professional artilleryman, he can tell from the sound of the artillery that the Eighth Route Army has new artillery.
During this training, Katyusha rocket launchers were not used.
Katyusha rocket artillery is a big consumer of ammunition, and rockets are as precious as gold. Live ammunition training can only be carried out after the Katyusha rocket artillery soldiers have fully learned.
Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong looked like this.
In the past, Fang Ligong had dismissed the Eighth Route Army.
But now Fang Ligong has nothing but admiration for the Eighth Route Army. With the level of weapons and equipment and military exploits of the Eighth Route Army, in the future, we will have to rely on the Eighth Route Army to fight against the Japanese.
"In addition, I can also reveal to Brother Chu that our Eighth Route Army has more than 1,500 heavy artillery pieces above 105 mm."
Li Yunlong pretended to whisper to Chu Yunfei.
But Li Yunlong's voice was controlled just right, and Sun Ming and Fang Ligong on the side also heard it.
"1,500 heavy artillery pieces over 105 mm..."
Chu Yunfei, Fang Ligong and Sun Ming were all stunned.
The entire Jinsui Army only has a few 105mm heavy artillery, and they are all old goods with average power and only a few rounds of artillery shells.
The Central Army is similar. There are two artillery regiments of 150mm heavy artillery, but there are less than 50 of them, and some were damaged in the battle.
The Eighth Route Army had more than 1,500 heavy artillery pieces, which was so rich that even the Japanese army drooled when they saw it.
"Brother Yunlong, can you let us see your heavy artillery unit?"
Chu Yunfei asked.
"no problem."
"Brother Chu, please."
Li Yunlong laughed.
The infantry and tank attack continued in full swing.
Li Yunlong had already brought Chu Yunfei to the position of the 8th Battalion of the New Regiment Artillery.
The 8th Artillery Battalion of the New Regiment is a 122mm howitzer battalion, mainly providing battalion-level support firepower.
Chu Yunfei, Fang Ligong and Sun Ming almost shed tears when they saw the exquisite 122mm heavy artillery statue standing on the artillery position.
Later.
Li Yunlong took Chu Yunfei and others to visit the new 152mm howitzer, 155mm self-propelled howitzer and tank units of the new regiment.
As well as heavy long-range bombers that bombed the Japanese mainland at the airport.
…
When we returned to the headquarters of the new regiment, it was already dark.
After dinner, Chu Yunfei, Fang Ligong and Sun Ming returned to the guest room.
Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong were discussing the matter of surrendering to the Communist Party in the room, with Sun Ming accompanying them.
"Tuanzuo, this new group is so rich."
"The heavy artillery we saw today alone has exceeded 500, there are no less than 300 tanks, and no less than 150 aircraft."
"With this level of equipment, with the same strength, not even the US military can match it, let alone the Japanese army."
Fang Ligong said with emotion.
Although Fang Ligong was also a member of Commander Yan at the beginning, after so many things happened, Fang Ligong had long been aligned with Chu Yunfei.
This time Chu Yun flew to Taiyuan to meet Li Yunlong, and Fang Ligong also wanted to join the Eighth Route Army.
Not to mention Sun Ming, he had long wanted to join the Eighth Route Army.
"After we join the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, we will also have such equipment in the future."
Chu Yunfei said in an expectant tone:
"In the future, when fighting the Japanese army, we will first boil a pot of steel broth for the Japanese, and then the infantry and tanks will press on them. Why worry about not being able to win the battle? Can't we drive the Japanese army out of China?"
"We can even counterattack Japan."
Fang Ligong added with shock and expectation in his eyes.
In the afternoon, Li Yunlong told Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong his plan.
In the future, the Eighth Route Army will counterattack Japan.
"Tuanzu, what do you mean is that we have voted for the Communist Party?"
Sun Ming understood the meaning of Chu Yunfei's words.
"That's right!"
Chu Yunfei nodded, his eyes gradually becoming firm:
"I, Chu Yunfei, have joined the Communist Party."
"I am humbled by my position and am willing to follow you to the death."
“I will go wherever the group goes!”
Fang Ligong and Sun Ming expressed their opinions one after another.
Chu Yunfei nodded with a satisfied expression. Although he was frustrated on the battlefield, he still had many die-hard followers around him due to his charisma.
Most of the people in the 358th Regiment would definitely be willing to join the Communist Party with him.
Chu Yunfei said: "I voted for the Communist Party for the sake of national independence and freedom. If a civil war breaks out between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the future, I will never participate in it. This is my bottom line."
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that there will definitely be a war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in the future.
Judging from the current situation, Chu Yunfei had a high probability that the Eighth Route Army would win the world.
In the final analysis.
Chu Yunfei graduated from the fifth phase of Huangpu, and the chairman of the committee was Chu Yunfei's principal. Chu Yunfei was unwilling to follow the Eighth Route Army to fight against the National Army.
Chu Yunfei has already thought about his retreat. If that day comes, he will have no choice but to go abroad.
Fang Ligong and Sun Ming nodded in agreement.
…
"I want to see your leader!"
"Why don't you give me the radio back?"
"And where are my pilots? Why don't you let me see them?"
Early in the morning on the third day, the Eighth Route Army reception office.
Mao Yingchu, the commander of the National Army Fighter Group, who could no longer keep his composure, looked gloomy and asked the Eighth Route Army usher sternly.
Several days had passed since the bombing mission, and the newspapers had published several pages, but the 4th Air Force Air Group of the Chinese Air Force was still missing, which gave Mao Ying the first taste of something unusual.
"Captain Mao, please be patient. Your pilots are exchanging experiences with our pilots."
"After the exchange is over, you will naturally meet them."
The Eighth Route Army usher still said the same thing.
The attitude is neither very tough nor very humble.
Looking at the Eighth Route Army soldiers with guns and ammunition at the door, Mao Yingchu could only be angry but helpless.
After all, this was on the territory of the Eighth Route Army, and people had to bow their heads under the eaves.
At this moment, a jeep drove to the entrance of the reception area and stopped, and four National Army pilots jumped out. They were the pilots who were unwilling to join the Eighth Route Army.
"Captain!"
When the four pilots saw Mao Yingchu, they all saluted.
"Why are there only a few of you?"
"What about the rest?"
Mao Yingchu's face darkened and he couldn't wait to ask.
"Captain." A National Army pilot said with a dejected expression: "The Captain is a Communist Party member lurking within the National Army, and he led other pilots to join the Communist Party."
"What did you say?"
When Mao Ying first heard this, he felt as if he had been struck by lightning, his eyes widening in disbelief.
The 4th Aviation Group of the Air Force is the trump card in the hands of the principal. Now the national army has suffered heavy losses!
…
Qiulin Town.
Second Theater Command Chief's Department.
"commander."
"The National Army's 4th Aviation Group has just issued a nationwide call. 53 elite and ace pilots, including Zheng Shaoqiang, the captain of the National Army's 4th Aviation Group, have joined the Communist Party."
In the operations hall, the communications staff officer handed the telegram in his hand to the commander of the second theater, Yan Xishan.
When the other officers of the Jin-Sui Army heard this, their expressions changed.
"oh?"
Yan Xishan was suddenly startled at first, and then he took the telegram and read it.
"Ha ha…"
After reading the telegram, Yan Xishan laughed out loud.
"Why is Commander laughing?"
The communications staff officer asked in a surprised tone.
"I laugh at the stupidity of Principal Chang." Yan Xishan snorted, "He actually sent his trump card to the Eighth Route Army to observe, learn and exchange information. Didn't he just want to find out the intelligence of the Eighth Route Army Air Force? Now Principal Chang
Even if you fail to steal the chicken, you will lose the rice."
Anyway, he was not a pilot of the Jinsui Army, so Yan Xishan went straight to the melon-eating mode and joked: "Now, Principal Chang will not be able to sleep again."
at this time.
A telegraph operator from the Jinsui Army hurriedly walked in, handed a telegram to the communications staff officer, paid a military salute, turned around and left quickly.
The communications staff officer picked up the telegram and read it with a smile, but his face quickly became stiff.
"commander…"
After reading the telegram, the communications staff officer looked ugly:
"Just now, Chu Yunfei, the leader of the 358th Regiment, also sent a message to the whole country, and the 358th Regiment also voted for the Communist Party."
"What do you mean?"
Yan Xishan's expression changed drastically, he took the telegram and read it.
After reading the telegram, Yan Xishan tore the telegram into pieces, grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it to the ground:
"Chu Yunfei, I treat you like an adopted son, and you actually betrayed me!?"
