The situation in Xuzhou City is also becoming increasingly tense. Although it is already the Spring Festival, no unit dares to take a holiday and rest. They are all preparing nervously on the battlefield. According to intelligence, the Japanese troops on both sides of the north and south are constantly increasing their troops in an attempt to catch up.
Directly eat all the national army troops entrenched in Xuzhou.
"This is the Japanese who deliberately prevent us from having a good New Year."
Wang Zongyao still said with some caution. Although he has not seen the Japanese attack yet, the planes overhead are passing by every day. In China, the sky is basically filled with Japanese planes, and the air supremacy has been
All fell to the enemy.
It is good for the Japanese to throw bombs above their heads, but the most abominable thing is that they throw poison gas bombs, which will cause much greater harm than the bombs. I have never heard of the leaflets from the sky, they are all meant to persuade surrender.
"The Japanese are probably mobilizing large forces at this time. Now that we are nervous, they are also very nervous."
"That's for sure. I hope you all can work together to get through this difficulty this time."
According to more and more intelligence, there may be a division in the final attack on Xuzhou City. This is a very troublesome thing for Wang Zongyao, because he is only a division of troops. Although he is responsible for the blocking task behind Xuzhou City, he cannot
It is difficult to escape unscathed from such a fully organized division.
"The Japs attacking this time are the size of a division. Together with the troops in Xuzhou City, we probably won't be able to cause much trouble to them."
"You are right about this. I am also thinking about countermeasures. In the final analysis, this is the gap in comprehensive national strength. Now the sky in China belongs to the Japanese. Our air force has been completely lost in Shanghai, and so has our elite army.
The losses are complete, and the difficulties faced by the Nationalist Government are much greater than those of you and me."
Wang Zongyao was at the headquarters, discussing with several combat staff what to do next.
"Is this all we can do and wait for?"
"We can't defeat the Japanese if we take the initiative. We have proven with countless examples that our troops or other aspects are unable to compete with the Japanese at this time."
Now that Xuzhou City is still in the hands of the National Government, this is already a good result, but things are not going so well for Hancheng.
"The Japanese have launched the Spring Festival Offensive. All the troops of a division have been dispatched, preparing to attack Baiyangshu Village, Nianzhuang, and Zhangzhaozhuang."
"This is all using superior strength. How can we fight? We can only run away."
Looking at the densely packed small red flags on the map, it is difficult to say what good way can be used to make these devils disappear, but if they resist head-on, they are absolutely impossible to defeat.
"We will definitely not be able to fight, so we can only run away. But now that we have radio stations, we can break them into pieces at any time to attack the enemy's weak points."
The battalion commander still seems to have a lot of confidence. Now the role of the radio has been basically fully demonstrated, sending intelligence to surrounding friendly forces 24 hours a day.
"Then we can only wait and see, because it's hard to make any guarantees now."
"Okay, order the troops to help the villagers from other villages move and get them all into the mountains."
The battalion commander said that if there is no fight, there will be no fight, because this matter is not a battle of wills. Cowardice in many cases is not the cowardice of the soldiers, but the stupidity and extreme coldness of the commander, who blindly ignores the lives of soldiers and commands
Let them die in vain without making any progress in the war situation. Officers with this old-fashioned military thinking are more hateful than the enemy.
"By the way, how many people in the workshop have learned how to synthesize smokeless gunpowder?"
The regiment and even the brigade commander are very eager for the idea of completely establishing the armory as an arms manufacturing base. Once it is completely established, ammunition production and even research and development can be fully carried out. I won’t say anything at that time.
Equipping the entire army, at least in terms of bullets, can actually be self-sufficient.
"It's not that fast. My brain understands all the principles, but when it comes to practice, it's very difficult. My brain knows it all, but my hands don't."
Han Cheng doesn't dare to let these beginners do it now. If he shakes even a little bit, he will ascend to heaven. And he is not ascending to heaven alone, but with a group of people accompanying him. How dare he let these beginners do it.
"How long do you think it will take? Our task is very heavy!"
"This thing can't be rushed. It would be great if they can ensure that the things in their hands don't explode. Now they can't even overcome the problem of shaking hands. How can they produce so much gunpowder?"
Now there is no condition to get them special things to make. Everything is produced by hand. Once this very deadly thing is made by hand, the slightest shake can cause sensitive things to explode.
"Hey, can't you think of a way?"
"Unless they don't do it, people will die if they do. In the short term, don't think they can do it quickly."
Why did Han Cheng dare to say this? The primer is a sensitive object, and some of the things synthesized in smokeless gunpowder are also sensitive objects. If the hand shakes for a while, and then detonates the surrounding raw materials, it will be an irreparable loss.
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"Then what should we do? Are we still going to make black powder?"
"This is the only thing they are proficient in. By the way, it can be made into training bombs so that other troops can practice their skills. Don't let our shooting skills be too poor when shooting against the Japanese."
The training bomb is actually not that difficult. It's just that the front warhead is replaced by a wooden one. If you want to increase the lethality, you can also drive an iron nail into it to increase the power. The premise is that they want it. If
If you don't want it, you can either melt down copper or brass to make a warhead, or burn glass to make a warhead yourself.
"Have you taught them everything?"
"Everyone basically knows how to do the black powder process. You can do it with more practice."
There is not much that Hancheng can do now, not to mention that new smokeless gunpowder has been developed. Although production has not yet started, the processing of raw materials has begun. The Japanese have begun formal military deployment, and for Taiyuan
And a relatively large sorting out of the surrounding Japanese-controlled areas.
But Yan Xishan is too stingy. All military orders are passed through contacting Yan'an, and Yan'an issues orders to the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi. The purpose is to avoid seeing you. If you can't see me, I don't have to give you military pay. Han Cheng's response to Yan Xishan
I thought it was a simple buckle, but after such a long time, it was something I had never seen before.
"By the way, Yan Xishan wants to invite you, Chief of Staff Han Da, to work in his Taiyuan Arsenal and ask for your opinion."
"No, I'm from the Eighth Route Army. Who will pay me when the time comes? Is it the Eighth Route Army, or the Jinsui Army, or should I say that he, the commander of the Second War Zone, is going to pay it? This man is really stingy, so I just said
I am preparing for war and it is difficult to leave."