Rise From Eight Hundred

The three provinces of Northeast China are well-known names to Chinese people in the past and in the future.

It is definitely a magical land, with vast fertile land and rich mineral resources. Even China's first large oil field comes from there.

With such a foundation, Comrade Lao Zhang, who has ruled the Northeast for more than ten years, is also a well-known farming expert. How can the Northeast Army not be rich?

Most Chinese people see that the Northeast Army with hundreds of thousands of soldiers retreated in a hurry under the pressure of the Japanese, leaving behind hundreds of fighter planes and the country's top military factory in production and manufacturing capacity. Little do they know that Lao Zhang, who is good at calculations, has already set up secret arsenals in important cities in Shandong and Hebei provinces near the Northeast several years ago.

Pengcheng is one of them.

The arsenal that can equip ten infantry divisions, let alone Lieutenant General Guo who is destined to be shocked by this number, even Tang Dao, a little butterfly from the future, almost dropped his jaw when he saw the war history records.

It was hard for him to imagine how the rough men in the Northeast could hide such a large amount of weapons in the caravan's carriages and transport them into the interior of the country, and hide them secretly for several years.

But the real history is like this. The several infantry armies of the Northeast Army that suffered heavy losses in Songhu, Pingjin, Hebei and other places were able to revive with the help of this secret arsenal.

Otherwise, with that person's mind, once the Northeast Army was crippled, what would be left to them would be the dissolution of the organization, the fewer troops they fought, and eventually become the memory of the times.

The 67th Army, which had only more than 6,000 people left after the battle of Songjiang, was the most vivid example, because the army commander, deputy army commander, and army chief of staff were all missing and killed, the army headquarters was disbanded, and the entire army only retained the number of the 108th Division.

The unfair treatment caused an infantry army that could have become the backbone of the Anti-Japanese War to decline in both strength and will. In the end, in the subsequent wars, their names were never heard again.

It was a man-made tragedy!

"Pengcheng, are there weapons?" Lieutenant General Guo was such a smart man. When he saw Lieutenant General Wu's face full of horror after Tang Dao said Pengcheng, he suddenly woke up.

Who can sit in the position of Lieutenant General? Not to mention that the rich Northeast can hide, in fact, the seemingly poor Sichuan Province is not the same?

In fact, this is the national conditions of China at this time. On the surface, China has been unified and there is only one government, but in fact, the bosses of each province are still the ones who won the ruling power by force.

To put it bluntly, it is still warlord separatism! It's just that the small warlords met the big warlords. If they don't accept it, they will be beaten. On the surface, they accept the leadership of the government.

This time, the big guys can obey the order to send troops, but because they are well aware of the principle of "the lips are cold and the teeth are dead", and they know that the Japanese after entering the pass are not like the warlords in the Central Plains War. They fight among themselves, and the winners occupy the territory, collect taxes and make money, but they will not easily kill people, but the Japanese are here to dig roots.

Especially these so-called superiors, when the Japanese came, they were the first to be killed. The so-called kneeling down and begging for surrender to save lives is for people at the bottom of the pyramid, but it will never include them. Have you ever seen an emperor of a country spare the life of the emperor of the opponent after the destruction of the country? The so-called "happy and not thinking of Shu" is rare, but the "Jingkang Shame" is the norm.

But, because of the threat of foreign races, the big boss must have a hand?

The Northeast Army can have a secret arsenal, and the Sichuan Army bosses who have fought on their own territory for nearly ten years and are not slippery in military and political terms may not be so honest.

In fact, before the departure of the first batch of 100,000 Sichuan Army troops that left Sichuan and arrived at the Songhu battlefield and the Shanxi battlefield, most of them were pure infantry, without artillery, and no elite special service battalions or independent battalions. Even the temporary new Hanyang rifles equipped in the infantry regiments were replaced with old-fashioned rifles such as old sleeves.

To put it bluntly, it is not that the Sichuan Army was so poor that it did not even have mountain artillery, mortars, and heavy machine guns, but that the various units of the Sichuan Army had replaced them before leaving.

However, this was due to the selfishness of the warlords, and in fact, there was also a small thought of taking advantage of the country. Their idea was like this: our Sichuan Army went out of Sichuan to fight the "national war", so the country must bear the cost of our equipment and military pay

However, the big figures of the Sichuan Army were quick to make small calculations in their hearts, which made the Sichuan Army soldiers suffer.

The names of "Double Gun Army" and "Beggar Army" along the way, and the various war zone command headquarters frowned at them, but that was nothing. The battle situation was urgent and they could not get any replenishment at all. They went to the front line with these old weapons, and the loss rate was heartbreaking.

This is the price of the big figures' selfishness, but the little people have to bear the consequences.

"Yes! Brother Guo, that was the secret arsenal that Marshal Zhang had established before the fall of Northeast China. I only learned of its existence a year ago." Lieutenant General Wu smiled bitterly and explained to his comrades without hiding it.

"How many?"

"It can equip about ten infantry divisions!"

"Ahem!" Lieutenant General Guo almost choked to death by the smoke he inhaled into his lungs.

It took him a long time to calm down and gave Lieutenant General Wu a thumbs up: "If your Marshal Zhang had not died early, Northeast China would never have been lost!"

"Ah! That's all old news, Brother Guo, don't mention it again!" Faced with the praise of his comrades, Lieutenant General Wu sighed, cast his eyes on Tang Dao again, took a deep breath, suppressed his doubts and asked:

"I know, Tang Dao, you have your own secrets. How did you know this secret? I don't want to ask. Tell me, how did these equipment become soldiers?"

Hearing what Lieutenant General Wu said, Tang Dao smiled.

It's not because this general didn't ask how he knew this secret, which saved him a lot of trouble. Lies often require hundreds of lies to make it up, and it will be difficult to make it up in the end.

But Lieutenant General Wu has enough life wisdom. He understood what Tang Dao meant. There is no free lunch in the world.

He can use the soldiers organized by the government to supplement the 67th Army. Not only does he not need to worry about it himself, he doesn't even need to use the secret arsenal of the Northeast Army to replenish the equipment. But the ending is likely to be the loss of control over the troops.

That one may not be very good at military command, but in terms of political power, these generals and lieutenants are not enough to play with him.

In the past, the 67th Army was crippled and completely lost its voice. The 49th Army, another core infantry army of the Northeast Army, wanted to save trouble, so the few infantrymen added, from the regiment commander to the battalion commander, were all appointed by the Military and Political Department. In the end, the army commander couldn't even mobilize an infantry regiment, and an infantry division completely changed its flag.

"With equipment, there is no need to worry about soldiers, but this Tang Dao is no problem. As Tang Dao said before, you have to discuss it with General Guo." Tang Dao said with a smile. "General Guo, I heard that your old acquaintance, Division Commander Fan Shaozeng, has arrived in Jiangxia."

"You mean, it's useful for me to find him?" Lieutenant General Guo was slightly stunned, and then his face was filled with joy. "You mean I can find his son-in-law through him!"

Tang Dao smiled slightly, without commenting.

"Okay, commander-in-chief, I will take care of the replenishment of your 67th Army, as long as you are willing to take out enough equipment to exchange with them." Lieutenant General Guo, who had figured out this joint, patted his chest and promised.

Lieutenant General Wu was stunned. His 67th Army had to add at least four infantry regiments. Who were Fan Shaozeng's sons and daughters-in-law? How could they be so capable?

This was also because Lieutenant General Wu did not understand the intricacies between the factions in Sichuan Province, but Tang Dao, the little butterfly from the future, knew it all.

The current top boss in Sichuan was of course Liu Xiang, but before him, there was Yang Seng and Liu Wenhui. Lieutenant General Guo and Fan Shaozeng, who were at the division level, were all smart people who knew how to judge the situation. They followed the strong side. During the long years of sitting on the fence, it was normal for two people with common pursuits and ideals to become friends.

The famous figure who was later called "Haer Division Commander" was definitely a talent. Not only did he spend all his family wealth to form two infantry divisions to fight against the Japanese in Sichuan, but he also created a stunning record of injuring a Japanese brigade commander and killing a Japanese lieutenant general division commander, just like a cheat.

Of course, it is not he himself who is so awesome now, but he has a son-in-law who is in charge of commanding 26 security regiments in Sichuan Province.

Don’t think that these 26 security regiments are scum militia teams like the Songjiang Security Regiment that only have good equipment. They are all the assets that Comrade Lao Liu, the king of Sichuan Province, secretly left for himself. They are all regular troops cut off during the reorganization of the Sichuan Army.

With the friendship between Comrade Lao Guo and ‘Division Commander Haer’, as long as Wolong is willing to give equipment, let alone four infantry regiments, even eight or ten can probably be exchanged.

There is no need for Tang Dao to elaborate on the relationship between them. Fengchu himself has figured it out for Wolong.

His 43rd Army must also supplement at least two infantry regiments, right? All of these will fall into the secret arsenal of the Northeast Army.

Although the 43rd Army only has one infantry division, when it came to Songhu, it also left a supplementary regiment in Jiujiang, at the junction of Jiangxi and Hubei.

"Brother Guo, I will take full responsibility for the equipment exchanged for the replenishment of the 43rd Army." Lieutenant General Wu was not the kind of person who would eat alone, so he would naturally return the favor.

Although Comrade Lao Guo did not provide people or equipment, he used personal connections, which is also a resource, right?

After the two men had discussed the relationship between personnel and equipment, they hardly needed Tang Dao to persuade them again. They had made up their minds. After arriving in Jinling, the entire army rushed to Pengcheng.

No matter how bad the battle situation was, they would replenish the troops and fight the Japanese army again. They would use the kind of family-destroying strategy that Tang Dao said, and kill as many Japanese devils as possible.

"You kid, why are there so many twists and turns in your head? This is not the time to use people. I really want to open your head and study it." Lieutenant General Guo, who had already made subsequent plans, looked at Tang Dao with a smile, in a good mood, half serious and half joking.

In fact, Tang Dao, who seemed to know everything, made him too curious about the origin of Tang Dao.

Anyway, he would never believe that Tang Dao was just a sergeant under his command, even if you beat him to death.