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Chapter 454 Chu loves American equipment!

Chu Yunfei naturally didn't believe Li Yunlong's nonsense.

He even paid a big price and still hasn't slowed down. He just came from Dagu Town, where the situation of the new regiment battalion is very good.

Not only is it equipped with jeeps and trucks, it has achieved a little motorization, and it is also equipped with automatic firepower.

You told me that you paid a big price, and you haven't recovered yet?

Chu Yunfei glanced sideways at Li Yunlong, his expression seemed to say, I'm too embarrassed to point you out.

"Brother Yunlong, I'm serious." Chu Yunfei said: "After eating the 36th Division of the Japanese Army, all the combat captures and honors of Chu can be discarded, and all credits will go to the Xinyi Regiment."

"Then what is Brother Chu planning?"

Li Yunlong's eyes showed doubts, this Chu Yunfei is not a fuel-efficient lamp, he does not believe that Chu Yunfei will help the Eighth Route Army to fight.

Chu Yunfei smiled and said: "Brother Yunlong, to tell you the truth, Chu loves American equipment. After the matter is completed, the old man only needs to send Chu to an American equipment battalion."

There was a hint of wariness in Li Yunlong's eyes. In his battle plan, the 358th regiment was not included in the battle with the national army for ten years. Li Yunlong did not trust them.

Li Yunlong made a haha: "Brother Chu comes to Xinyituan once in a while, brother prepares a little wine, please be sure to appreciate it."

"There's no need to eat." Chu Yunfei stood up and said, "Brother Yunlong, I really want to cooperate with you to eat up the 36th Division. I hope Brother Yunlong can think about it seriously and say goodbye!"

Li Yunlong arched his hands: "Brother Chu, go slowly!"

Then, Chu Yunfei, Sun Ming and Fang Ligong walked outside.

Li Yunlong was sent to the gate of the regiment.

When they arrived at the entrance of the village, the three of Chu Yunfei got into the jeep of the Xinyi Regiment and headed towards Dagu Town under the escort of soldiers from the first battalion and company.

When Zhao Gang came back from the army for inspection, he happened to see the back of Chu Yunfei driving away at the entrance of the village, so he turned around and walked quickly to the village.

Walking into the inner room of the regiment headquarters, seeing Li Yunlong thinking about the battle plan again, Zhao Gang asked: "Old Li, I seem to have seen Chu Yunfei at the entrance of the village just now?"

"That's right!" Li Yunlong nodded.

"What is Chu Yunfei doing here?" Zhao Gang asked.

Li Yunlong then explained why Chu Yunfei wanted to join forces with the Xinyi Regiment to eat up the 36th Division and replace it with American military equipment.

"Then you promised him?"

Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment, he guessed that Chu Yunfei must have guessed something, and then came to ask for cooperation.

"How could you agree?"

"It's okay to want other things from our old Li, but it's not okay to want my American equipment."

Leader Li shook his head like a drum, and his thoughts were clear.

Not to mention the beautiful equipment of a battalion, even the beautiful equipment of a company will not work.

Fighting devils is Chu Yunfei's duty and obligation as a Chinese soldier, and our old Li is not Chu Yunfei's superior, so why give him beautiful weapons and equipment?

Zhao Gang breathed a sigh of relief, he was afraid that after Chu Yunfei and others found out, the information that the Xinyi Regiment was going to eat the 36th Division would be leaked.

However, it was obvious that Captain Li was not a light-hearted lamp, and it was impossible to disclose such a big matter to Chu Yunfei in advance.

"Where is the battle plan?" Zhao Gang asked.

Next, the two whispered in the inner room of the regiment headquarters, gradually perfecting the battle plan.

……

Peiping.

No. 3 Iron Lion Alley, the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front Army.

Commander Neiji Okamura and Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe are discussing the international situation.

The Communications Staff Officer walked in with a telegram in his hand, paused and said, "Report Commander, Chief of Staff, this is a telegram just sent from the headquarters!"

"give me!"

Without asking the communications staff to read the content of the telegram, Okamura Ningji took the telegram from the communications staff.

Then with a wave of his hand, the communications officer paused and walked out.

Then, Okamura Ningji picked up the telegram and read it, then his eyes sank slightly, and his face changed.

"Your Excellency, what happened?"

Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe asked in a low voice.

Okamura Ningji said quietly: "The base camp rejected the application to transfer elite divisions from the Kwantung Army to Shanxi to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army."

"Nani?" Moritake Tanabe couldn't believe it, "How is this possible? With the outbreak of a full-scale war between the Soviet Union and Germany, Soviet troops in the Far East will inevitably move to the west. The pressure on the Kwantung Army will be greatly reduced. At this time, one or two can be mobilized." The strength of the permanent division will go to Shanxi to deal with the Eighth Route Army."

As soon as the words fell, Tanabe Shengwu seemed to have thought of something, and asked incredulously: "The base camp rejected the request... Could it be that they want to go north and attack the Soviet Union with Germany?"

Neiji Okamura nodded, with a worried expression on his face: "The cabinet does have this plan, and the base camp is preparing to implement the 'Guan Special Performance Plan'. It is ready to wait for the Soviet Far East Army to be transferred to the west halfway, and then launch an attack with a superior force."

The so-called Guan special show plan is the Kwantung Army's special large-scale exercise plan, which is the plan to attack the Soviet Union.

In this way, not only could the base camp not draw troops from the Kwantung Army to reinforce North China, but North China might draw one or two divisions to reinforce the Kwantung Army.

This made the North China Front Army, which was already understrength, even worse.

In addition to troop strength, the base camp had to mobilize a large amount of combat materials for the Kwantung Army, leaving even less combat materials for the North China Front Army.

Neiji Okamura and Moritake Tanabe carefully analyzed how many troops would be needed if the Japanese army attacked the Soviet Union.

It was concluded that at least 25 divisions were needed.

But now the Kwantung Army has only 13 divisions, plus the North Korean division, there are only 1 divisions.

Therefore, 11 divisions must be mobilized from the mainland and the pass, and 6 divisions must be mobilized from the pass as a reserve team.

In terms of combat materials, the Kwantung Army did not have enough combat materials. In order to prepare for the war against the Soviet Union, a large amount of combat materials had to be transported from Japan.

Finally, Okamura and Tanabe Moritake concluded:
The base camp does not have sufficient capital for war materials, and it is not in the interests of the Great Japanese Empire to waste so much material in vain to attack the Soviet Union.

At this time, the military focus should be placed on the south, taking advantage of the weakening of the Soviet threat to the north of Japan, and strengthening the force to move south to deal with strategic supplies.

"The base camp probably won't really attack Su."

Okamura Neiji said: "The high probability is that it is just a huge military exercise to frighten the Soviet Union."

Moritake Tanabe echoed, "Your Excellency is right, but the matter of mobilizing troops from the Kwantung Army to encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army will have to be postponed."

"Just let it go."

Okamura Ningji's eyes flashed sharply: "Let's let the Eighth Route Army be proud for a while, and wait until the Imperial Army's military exercises outside the customs are over, and then encircle and suppress the Eighth Route Army."

Although the Kwantung Army currently has only 13 divisions, 7 of them are Class A divisions with a designation of less than 20, and their combat effectiveness is extremely strong.

In the view of Ningji Okamura and Moritake Tanabe, it only needs to drop one or two Type A divisions from the Kwantung Army to the First Army to solve the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi.

First solve Li Yunlong in the northwest of Shanxi, and then solve the main force of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army in the southeast of Shanxi!
……

"Nani, can't we mobilize troops and supplies for the time being?"

Taiyuan.

First Army Headquarters, Communications Officer Takeo Nakamura finished reading the telegram, Yoshio Iwamatsu stood up suddenly with a gloomy expression.

The expression on his face was quite different from the news that Germany had attacked the Soviet Union a few days ago.

At that time, Yoshio Iwamatsu was really ecstatic, thinking that it would not be long before the Type A Division of the Kwantung Army would call in the First Army, along with a large amount of combat supplies.

However, the ideal is full, and the reality is cruel.

The battle plan for encircling and suppressing the Xinyi Regiment is nearly complete, but the troops and supplies have not been in place for a long time, and now it is said that it will be postponed for at least one to two months.

This made Yoshio Iwamatsu feel a lot of pressure.

The 36th Division has only been in Northwest Shanxi for more than a month, and it has lost almost a regiment of troops.

If the mopping up is postponed for at least another two months, according to this situation, most of the 36th Division will be eaten by the new regiment.

However, think of the thickened and reinforced bunkers and gun towers that the 36th Division is rebuilding.

Yoshio Iwamatsu finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Thickened and reinforced bunkers and gun towers, even if the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army had that kind of new weapon with a loudspeaker, it should not be able to carry it away, right?
It is a pity that even though most of China's land and resources have fallen into the hands of Japan, apart from cheap labor, materials such as cement and steel bars are still not abundant.

Otherwise, reinforced and thickened reinforced concrete and bunkers will be built throughout North China.

Even if the Eighth Route Army is equipped with 105mm caliber howitzers and new weapons with large horns, it will not help.

……

Northwest Shanxi.

Near Heyuan County.

The first batch of thickened reinforced concrete bunkers and gun towers built by the 36th Division have been repaired.

The thickness of each blockhouse and gun tower is about 2.5 meters, and the thickest part can reach 3 meters.

This is far from the 3-meter thickness required by the command, and the thickest part reaches 3.5 meters.

However, cutting corners is a traditional skill of devils.

The head of the division, Jing Guanren, took the saved materials and applied for another batch of materials to strengthen the city wall and build barricades and other fortifications in the city.

He knew that Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu was afraid of death and did not dare to come to Northwest Shanxi for inspection, so he boldly cut corners.

However, Jing Guanren is also very clear that these artillery towers and bunkers are related to the life and death of the 36th Division, and they cannot be sloppy.

The newly built batch of bunkers and gun towers was not only used to block the new regiment, but also to keep the 36th division until the big sweep came.

If the newly built bunkers and gun towers are also taken away by the new regiment, then the 36th Division may be in danger.

Therefore, after the first batch of bunkers and gun towers were repaired, Jing Guanren ordered to bring in two Type 2 105mm howitzers to test the defensive capabilities of the new bunkers and gun towers.

"fire!"

As the command flag in the hands of the flag commander suddenly lowered, the two devil artillerymen pulled back the matchlock of the Type 2 105mm howitzer.

"Boom!"

Because it was aimed directly, the two explosive shells hit the front of the gun tower in an instant.

Accompanied by two explosions like landslides and ground cracks, fireballs and gunpowder smoke suddenly rose from the gun tower.

When the gunpowder smoke cleared, Jing Guanren, Ishikawa Zhishui and others hurried forward to watch. The 105mm armor-piercing shells only left two small holes on the gun tower.

Jing Guanren looked satisfied: "Such strong gun towers and bunkers are absolutely difficult to break through with the firepower of the new regiment. Even if one is taken away, the new regiment will have to pay a heavy price. Ishikawa-kun, there are 200 such bunkers. And the artillery towers, how many troops will it take to destroy all of the eight roads?"

Ishikawa Zhishui said: "According to the calculation of the loss of 100 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army when taking down a bunker or gun tower, the Eighth Route Army must lose at least 2 soldiers to destroy them all."

A sneer appeared on the corner of Jing Guanren's mouth: "Yo Xi!"

(End of this chapter)