A few days later, under the auspices of Li Mu, more than 10,000 people formally swore their allegiance and marched to central Henan to join the 386th Brigade to form the Anti-Japanese United Army.
It includes two mountain artillery battalions, a cavalry battalion, a heavy artillery battalion, and an armored battalion...
With so many troops being transferred away, Nanyang was instantly emptied. Li Mu activated the plans that had been made in advance, and the same number of militia reserves were directly converted into regular personnel.
Although the training volume of the militia reserve cannot keep up with that of the regular army, and the overall military strength has declined, after all, after a few months of training, combat effectiveness will soon be formed.
On the other side, after several months of research and based on the rough process flow provided by Li Mu, the mass production of penicillin was finally completed.
Two days later, Li Mu came to Singapore again with a batch of finished products.
These penicillins were handed over to the Far East Trading Company and shipped to the United States for filling and packaging.
Li Mu ordered a large number of equipment and instruments needed in the production process, with a total amount of more than three million US dollars.
However, it will take almost a month to arrive.
He is not in a hurry. Even though penicillin has been produced in large quantities, it will take time to promote it. This time may be a few months or half a year.
There is no way, penicillin is really just a product in the laboratory these days, few people know about it, and its effect is not known. It will take a certain amount of time and facts to prove its effect before it can open up the market.
Li Mu purchased another 50,000 barrels of gasoline, 15,000 tons of wheat, 10,000 tons of rice, 5,000 tons of soybeans, 3,000 tons of sugar, and 2,000 tons of dried fish.
Thousands of tons of steel and gunpowder raw materials were also purchased.
After finishing all this, Li Mu thought about the training issue of 100,000 militia reserves, so Li Mu ordered another 100,000 Mauser 98k.
Next, the situation will become more and more severe, and the training of militia reserve forces must be strengthened so that when necessary, they can become qualified regular troops with a little training.
Li Mu placed an order for 80 more Czech-made LT-38 light tanks.
The Bofors M1930 75mm mountain gun has a maximum range of 9.15 kilometers, and Li Mu also placed an order for 50 of them.
There are also Czech light machine guns, for which Li Mu placed an order for 3,000; M2 heavy machine guns, for which he also placed an order for 500.
After dealing with things here, we returned to Nanyang, and all kinds of intelligence and news were passed through the Military Intelligence Department.
In the early morning of the 30th, the main force of the Dofeiyuan Division crossed the Yellow River south of Puyang.
On June 1, the Xiaobenzi cavalry rushed to Neihuang and near Yejigang and blew up the Longhai Railway.
On the second day, the main force of the Dofeiyuan Division split its route and headed south. The main force arrived in the Neihuang, Yejigang, and Chuzhuangzhai areas and met with the former army.
On the afternoon of the 3rd, the main force of the Dofeiyuan Division began to attack Neihuangji and Neihuang Station in Minquan County. The 195th Division guarded Neihuangji, and the 631st Regiment of the 106th Division guarded Neihuang Station.
The 195th Division had just been reorganized from the local troops of Henan Province and had not yet been equipped with officers. It had just arrived in Neihuang from Gong County a few days ago and had not even completed the fortifications. The 106th Division was reorganized from the remnants of Shi Yousan, and its combat effectiveness was even worse.
The small book bombarded under the guidance of the hot air balloon, and the Army Air Force also began bombing. Under the strong air and ground firepower, the 195th Division collapsed in just one attack wave. Immediately afterwards, the 631st Regiment of the 106th Division guarding Neihuang Station also retreated due to being attacked from both sides.
.The Japanese army easily captured Neihuang, Mazhuangzhai, Renheji and other places...
On the 4th, Xue Laohu led the First War Zone in a fierce battle with the 14th Division in Yifeng and other places.
Since most of the bargaining chips in Xue Laohu's hands were troops that had been withdrawn from the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Jinling, there were many new soldiers and their combat effectiveness was not strong.
In addition, the Doiyuan Division is a mechanized division with strong artillery firepower and extremely maneuverable. It can fight almost whenever it wants and leave whenever it wants. Facing the cunning rabbit-like Doiyuan Division, Xue Laohu
Quite passive.
In addition, the terrain of the East Henan Plain is very flat, which is simply the most ideal stage for mechanized troops. Although Xue Laohu is the attacker, he can only face the small aircraft, heavy artillery and tanks with his flesh and blood, causing heavy casualties.
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The only thing that gave him some relief was that Guofu still valued him and did not want to use heavy ground firepower. After applying for air support several times, Guofu actually sent ten fighter jets to cooperate with the army.
However, on the 5th, in order to cooperate with the army's offensive, 10 E-15 fighter jets from Guofu flew from Zhumadian to Zhoujiakou Airport to refuel and attach bombs, then flew to near Lanfeng to bomb the artillery positions of the Dofeiyuan Division.
As a result, they were surrounded by dozens of fighter jets from the Second Flying Group of the Japanese Army Aviation Group. Five were shot down and five were damaged by Xiaobenzi.
It can be said that the air force supported by Guofu was wasted in just this one air battle, and Xue Laohu also completely lost the air superiority in the Lanfeng area.
Nowadays, all the air supremacy in the eastern Henan region is in the hands of Xiao Ben, and together with the ground troops, it is even more powerful.
Fortunately, Xue Laohu is Xue Laohu. Under such a situation, he still laid out the encirclement calmly, planning to compress the Tufei regiment into an area of several hundred square kilometers in Lanfeng, Neihuang, Minquan, Kaocheng, and five counties.
In between, there comes a turtle in a urn.
In order to be as foolproof as possible, he didn't dare to close his eyes for the past few days. He imagined countless reactions of Doi Enshidan in his mind, and then resolved them one by one.
However, he only thought about guarding against enemies, not pig teammates. Who would have thought that the performance of his most valued direct ace was the worst, even worse than that of other unknown troops.
It directly caused his arrangement to fall short and go to waste.
Now, although the pig teammate incident has not happened yet, it has only happened in a day or two.
Although the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces are stationed near the gap, waiting for the direct ace to escape, they can move forward and block the gap. Who knows what the result will be.
After all, Xiao Benzi's ground troops have very strong firepower, and the Doi Regiment has brought a lot of artillery and armored vehicles this time. Coupled with air support, the outcome is still uncertain.
Li Mu got in touch with the frontline troops through telegrams. They were already at war with Xiaobenzi's peripheral troops. According to the opinions given there, the biggest threat to the Xiaobenzi against the Japanese coalition forces was the air force.
Whether it is an armored battalion, an artillery battalion, or a heavy artillery battalion... they have not been allowed to show up much in the past two days, for fear that they will be targeted by the Japanese air force and bombed indiscriminately. They will be destroyed before they even go to the battlefield.
After reading the information, Li Mu stared at the map and studied it for a while. Currently, the largest airport in eastern Henan is Jinan Airport.
This is also thanks to Hanbo Qu. Perhaps because he was nostalgic for the years he spent in Jinan, when he led the troops to escape, he did not destroy the military airport in Jinan City. As a result, the North China Front Army picked up a small book.
Big bargain.
Because the airport here is well-equipped and well-maintained, and can take off and land relatively large aircraft, it became the temporary base of the Japanese North China Front Army Aviation Department.
Li Mu has long disliked this airport. The night raids he carried out in Lunan and Taierzhuang a few days ago were all driven away by fighter planes from this airport. Many times, when he saw Japanese planes coming, he had to retreat.
Most of the bombing of the Fifth Theater was also carried out by aircraft here.
Therefore, if possible, he would have wanted to blow up this airport. However, it was too far away and far beyond the combat radius of fighter planes, so he could only let it go.
Now, the conditions are finally ripe.
Some time ago, Li Mu sent engineers to the Taihang Mountains and the Dabie Mountains to build two military airports respectively.
The requirements are not high, as long as you can simply take off and land fighter planes. These days, fighter planes do not have high requirements for runways, and the project is not big.
It just so happened that news came from there two days ago that the construction of the Henan North Airport was finally completed. It is located in the southern part of the Northern Henan Wing of the Taihang Mountains, and Jinan is also within the combat radius.
After studying the map for a while, Li Mu got on the fighter plane and flew all the way to Henan North Airport.
This time he drove an improved version of the Yin-16, with a top speed of 580 kilometers per hour and a combat radius of 700 kilometers.
As one of the fastest planes in the world, Li Mu arrived at Henan Airport located deep in the Taihang Mountains in just one hour. The airport is quite simple, with only one runway in a small valley.
A battalion of infantry is stationed around the valley to guard this military airport. The supplies are handled by Muwu Trading Company. This place is deep in the mountains, there are not many roads to the outside world, and no army has entered, so there is no need to worry about safety.
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The plane landed slowly, and Li Mu paid a brief visit. After the plane was filled with fuel, it took off again to survey the terrain in Jinan.
Although I am already familiar with the location of Jinan Airport through intelligence, I have never seen it with my own eyes. It is safer to take a look in advance during the day.
This time, in order to prevent being discovered by the little book, Li Mu flew extremely high and kept at an altitude of 8,000 meters. The distance of 300 kilometers took more than half an hour to arrive.
He didn't get too close, he just circled around Jinan a few times at high altitude to memorize the nearby terrain so as not to get lost, and then returned.
It was around ten o'clock in the evening. It was a good night today, with a round moon and a sky full of stars. Li Mu took a deep breath, climbed onto the Yin-16 fighter jet, put on his flight helmet, and closed the hatch.
The next moment, the plane slid slowly and flew towards the night sky under the bright moonlight.
More than half an hour later, over Jinan, Li Mu opened the cabin door, took out his telescope and observed for a while, and soon found the airport.
Obviously, after falling into the hands of Xiao Benzi, certain arrangements were made for safety reasons. Everything within a few miles was moved away, and not a single residential house was left.
However, the small book only considers preventing dangers on the ground, but forgets to guard against threats in the air.
I took a closer look and found that as one of the largest military airports of the North China Front, there were quite a few aircraft inside, including more than a hundred fighter jets, a dozen transport planes, and seven or eight bombers.
There are several rows of barracks next to it, which probably house the airport's ground staff, staff, and aircraft pilots.
Li Mu controlled the plane and slowly descended to an altitude of two thousand meters. The guards at the airport seemed to hear something and raised their heads to look up at the sky. Although the moonlight was good, their field of vision was still very limited and they could not see anything.
The guard felt a little wary. He patted another guard next to him and pointed to the sky. Before he could say anything, a small black dot suddenly grew bigger and bigger. It was... an aerial bomb... it looked like an iron lump...
He reacted instantly in his mind and opened his mouth. Before he could shout out...the next moment, there was a bang, and an iron lump with the equivalent of one ton exploded at the airport. The sound was like the sky was shattering and the earth was shaking.
, my ears were buzzing from the shock. Seven or eight fighter jets on the ground were directly blown away by the air waves, and five or six were scrapped on the spot.
Then, one after another, iron lumps with the equivalent of one ton fell from the sky, and explosions like earth-shattering explosions resounded continuously in the airport.
This kind of iron lump is a special aerial bomb made by Li Murang Arsenal. It is easier to make than conventional aerial bombs and has lower technical requirements. Although it is not very beautiful and the work is relatively rough, it is impossible to use it in the hands of others.
.After all, it cannot be mounted on an airplane. Today's fighter jets cannot mount something weighing one ton, but its power is not weak at all.
The most important thing is that this kind of aerial bomb weighs one ton, and its power is even more shocking. Not to mention airplanes, tanks, and armored vehicles are as fragile as tissue paper in front of it.
Li Mu specially asked people to make them. In the future, if conditions permit, it is not impossible to make a batch of two-ton, three-ton, and five-ton aerial bombs.
At that point, not to mention ground equipment, battleships can also explode with accuracy.
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Within one minute, Li Mu dropped more than thirty one-ton aerial bombs over the airport. The airport was completely transformed into a sea of flames, with plane wreckage everywhere...
At this time, the ground staff and aircraft pilots in the surrounding barracks also rushed out. Looking at the scene in front of them, some were so frightened that they screamed and ran around; some stared at the sky angrily,
He held a gun and fired feebly at the sky.
Li Mu's eyes lit up as he looked at the barracks and the scattered crowds here. Aircrafts are valuable, and pilots are equally valuable, especially fighter pilots. It is not easy to train one.
The plane hovered in the air for half an hour, and when it reached the sky above the barracks, two black bombs fell. After it flew out of the range of the barracks, it circled for half a circle, and flew over the barracks again, where two more bombs fell.
After several times in a row, the barracks was completely in ruins. Except for a small number of people who ran out of the airport and stayed away, the others, like the barracks, all went to see their Amaterasu.
It circled twice more over the airport. Although aerial bombs with an equivalent of dozens of tons had been dropped, there were still many planes that suffered relatively little damage and were not completely destroyed.
Li Mu had been prepared for this. The next moment a huge plastic barrel appeared. Compared with the previous one ton of gasoline, this barrel had a reserve of three tons of gasoline. There was also a groove inside, and a fifty kilogram plastic barrel was installed in it.
The time bomb was named petrol bomb by Li Mu.
Ten seconds later, the gasoline barrel dropped to a height of several hundred meters above the ground. The 50-kilogram bomb suddenly exploded. Three tons of gasoline turned into a rain of fire, spread across hundreds of meters, fell from the sky, and covered the entire airport.
Next, Li Mu dropped more than ten tons of gasoline bombs in succession, and the entire airport turned into a sea of fire, burning...
He nodded with satisfaction. At this time, the little Japanese stationed in the city had already arrived, looking at the scene in front of him in horror.
Li Mu circled in the sky. This time, no plane came so quickly to support him. Also, what he blew up in front of him was the largest military airport within a few hundred kilometers of the small book. How could he mobilize planes to support him? Even if there was one, it would be very long.