Chapter 343: Battle of Northern Guangdong (6) (2nd Update)
"That's natural, as long as you can pull more orders, the higher your share of the bonus!" Wang Lin smiled.
This method was taught to her by Han Bin, and only in this way can Americans help them win more orders, and the more money they will make.
The two sides are equivalent to a cooperative relationship, and William will naturally work hard.
"Boss, just wait for my good news, I'll go to the French and the British to ask, they are already fighting with Germany, and I think they need submachine guns."
As soon as he had money, William had motivation, and now he is even more focused on making money.
"William, don't forget that we also need to provide the Chinese side with machine tools and equipment worth one million dollars, which must be delivered in time!"
The Stern submachine gun was bought by Wang Lin for $1.2 million in the name of the San Francisco Small Arms Company, and they did not need to pay directly, but exchanged it for $1.2 million worth of machine tools and equipment that the Chinese Ordnance Industry Administration urgently needed.
"Boss, you can rest assured that these machine tools and equipment can be delivered within half a month. As far as I know, the Japanese have blocked your access to the sea in China, how do you transport these machines and equipment to your rear? William naturally knows the situation in China, and he is not sympathetic to China, but Wang Lin is his boss, so he naturally cares more about China's affairs.
"We'll figure this out, you just need to do a good job of those devices!"
Wang Lin and Han Bin's family set up a shipping company in early 1938 to specialize in Southeast Asian routes, and last year they also began to run routes from Southeast Asia to North America.
Both were wealthy Cantonese businessmen with deep pockets, and today the shipping company owns as many as 15 1,000-ton ships and currently has two 10,000-ton ships ordered at a shipyard in California for use on routes to North America and China.
"OK, boss, don't worry!" William nodded, no more questions.
Perhaps because of the high quality and practicality of the Stern submachine gun, three months later, the U.S. military placed another order for 150,000 units with a total contract value of $4.5 million.
With this order alone, the San Francisco Small Arms Company earned almost $3 million.
And the U.S. military also gave this submachine gun an official name M1 submachine gun, which Leng Jie and Han Bin probably didn't expect.
The historical M1 submachine gun was a Thomson submachine gun, but because Leng Jie moved out of the Stern submachine gun in advance, it replaced the expensive Thomson submachine gun and became the new standard submachine gun of the U.S. Army.
Of course, this does not mean that the U.S. military has abandoned the Thomson submachine gun, because it has more firepower.
But one thing is certain, the emergence of the new M1 submachine gun will grab orders for Thomson submachine guns, and it is very likely that the British Stern submachine gun and the subsequent M3 submachine gun in the United States will be stillborn.
Not to mention the Stern submachine gun, on the contrary, the M3 submachine gun is also designed with reference to the Stern submachine gun, but with some improvements.
Of course, this is all later, at least Leng Jie doesn't know it now.
And the Ordnance Industry Agency does not plan to produce the Stern submachine gun for the time being.
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"Your Excellency Commander, the commander of the Xishan Brigade has called, they are somewhat defeated under the attack of two divisions of the Chinese army, and now they have withdrawn from Yingde County."
Conghua County, northeast of Guangzhou, the headquarters of the Japanese army.
Just when Toshiyoshi Ando was feeling a headache for the battle on the front line, there was bad news from the 104th Division.
"Nani?" Hearing this bad news, Toshikichi Ando couldn't believe his ears.
Although Nishiyama Fukutaro lost some troops, there were still more than 10,000 people, and now he was defeated by the Chinese army in less than two days, and he also lost the county seat of Yingde.
Doesn't this expose the flanks of the imperial army in the center and right to the Chinese army?
"What is this idiot doing in Nishiyama? Three infantry wings are actually no more than two divisions of the Chinese army! Toshikichi Ando scolded.
"Your Excellency Commander, the attack on the Xishan Brigade is the 54th Division of the 40th Army of the Zhina, that is, the troops that suffered heavy losses in the previous battle in Changsha.
In this battle, the 54th Army was called one of the four most capable units in the Ninth Theater of Operations by the commander of the 11th Army, Lieutenant General Okamura. The Chief of Staff, Major General Yuyi Tsuchihashi, said.
The other three armies were the 20th Army, the 52nd Army and the 74th Army, and the 20th Army's record was to block the 33rd Division at Makufu Mountain, so it was called one of the four Chinese armies that the Japanese 11th Army feared most in the Ninth Theater.
"It's all an excuse! Send a message to Fukutaro Nishiyama and ask him to find a way to recapture Yingde and ensure the safety of the flanks of our army! Toshikichi Ando said in a deep voice.
"Hey!"
In fact, for the battle of the 104th Division, he naturally knew that it was not as good as Taiwan's mixed brigade.
A special division of the first type is actually inferior to a Taiwanese mixed brigade with only two infantry wings, which can only say how unpopular the 104th division is in the eyes of Ando Toshiyoshi.
For those Osaka soldiers, Ando Toshiyoshi is not wrong, even if the officers are basically from other places, but they just can't change the status quo of the 104th Division.
Otherwise, Toshiyoshi Ando, who had two divisions, only occupied the area near Guangzhou in the face of the Chinese army, which did not have many troops, and there was a reason why the 104th Division was holding back.
In this attack on northern Guangdong, he put the 104th Division alone, and in his opinion, no matter how bad it is, it is still a first-class division, well-equipped, and it is good to attract the vitality of the Chinese army on the flank.
Who would have thought that it would be so unsatisfactory in just two days.
Fukutaro Nishiyama, who received a telegram from Toshiyoshi Ando, had no choice but to command the troops to counterattack.
In fact, the losses of the Japanese troops on the left flank were not large, and in two days, there were only more than 3,000 casualties, and the casualties of the same 40th and 198th divisions combined exceeded 4,000.
However, the 40th Division's desperate fighting style and interspersed tactics on the battlefield made the Japanese army on the left flank very big, and they didn't know how the Chinese army appeared behind the scenes.
If the other Japanese troops might not have collapsed so quickly, the 104th Division's fighting will was not as tenacious as the other Japanese troops, and in order to avoid being surrounded, it chose to retreat.
So two days later, the 40th Division relied on this method to repel the Japanese army on the left flank and recover the county town of Yingde.
As for the 40th Division's style of play, the 104th Division is also very unsuitable, more flexible than other Chinese armies, except for a few battles that are hard-hitting, and more rely on tactics to defeat them.
"Division Commander Wang, the defense of Yingde will be handed over to the 62nd Army, and we have more important things, to capture the southeast direction and Liangkou, and then cut off the retreat of the main force of the Japanese army!
According to the old rules, our 40th Division is the vanguard, and you follow closely, if we can capture the two places of Jitou and Liangkou, we will be able to make dumplings for tens of thousands of Japanese troops in the middle and right flanks. ”
Wang Yuying nodded and agreed to Yang Wenying's suggestion.
Just when Nishiyama Fukutaro was preparing to counterattack Yingde, on the evening of January 2, the 119th Regiment and the 120th Regiment of the 40th Division, as the vanguard troops, marched lightly under the guidance of the liaison officers sent by the 62nd Army, and rushed to attack Fogang.