On May 1, the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), the Battle of Zaoyi finally broke out, and the main force of the 11th Army, the largest field mobile force of the Japanese army, was mostly in Hubei, and it could only take a defensive position in northern Jiangxi.

The Chinese army in the northern Jiangxi region of the Ninth Theater of Operations, after the spring offensive and summer offensive of 1940, was also exhausted and urgently needed to be reorganized.

As Japan invaded most of China's territory and gradually threatened the interests of the United States, the United States began to provide some assistance to China.

In 1940, according to the agreement of the US "China Aid Act", China could use US loans to purchase American-style equipment and arm the elite of its Central Army.

To put it bluntly, the United States is a country that regards interests first, and used to export a large amount of war resources, such as oil and steel, to Japan, and at that time Japan had already begun to invade China, but the United States also made a fortune as if it did not know.

Fortunately, Japan wants to invade and occupy the whole of China, which is not in the interests of the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and other major powers on the Asian continent.

Because after the Soviet Union came to China's aid, the United States began to sit still and engaged in a bill to aid China, importing China's tung oil, cotton, and other materials, and dumping some weapons and ammunition to China.

Of course, some interest-free and low-interest loans will also be provided, to be honest, loans to China, which was poor and white at the time, knowing that the money will not be repaid for a while, which is similar to giving away.

But this is not just a matter of money, but the interests of the country, money can be earned back from other places, but the interests of the country can be related to the fortunes of the country, long-term development, etc.

For China at that time, there was no choice, only acceptance, no matter what the Soviet Union and the United States were fucking, what national interests they had, and what policies the Asian continent were.

For a child who is about to starve to death, it is indeed a mother who has milk, and he will not refuse to come, eat it first, and then talk about it, as for what the Soviet Union is a red regime, what the United States can't beat, it doesn't matter.

Of course, this is for the national level, for Luo Zhicheng and his three battalions, most of these things are not clear, but they know that the army has a batch of American goods, that is, American-style equipment.

These American-style equipment to the 74th Army include M1903 Springfield rifles, M1 Garand rifles, Thomson submachine guns, M-2 60 mortars, and even 75 howitzers, 105 howitzers, various communications equipment, jeeps, and large trucks.

This made Luo Zhicheng, Xiucai, bamboo poles and other people who regarded new weapons as their lives extremely excited, and pulled the troops to quickly receive weapons and ammunition.

Then, he pulled the people above the squad and platoon commander and began to accept US military advisers to teach the performance and use of weapons, as well as the new tactics used in combination with various weapons.

It should be noted that although the 74th Army was the first unit to receive American-style weapons, and it was also the first unit to receive Soviet-style weapons before, it was not all re-equipped.

This is based on several points to consider, first, there is not a lot of assistance from foreigners, and the Chinese army, which has more wolves and less meat, all the troops want it.

It can only be a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and try to share in some descendants, elite, and well-behaved troops, and they can all get a little.

In this way, it is impossible to completely re-equip a certain army, even if the 74th Army is the most elite Central Army, it is no exception.

Secondly, there is a great risk in a comprehensive reload, in case the weapon is not skillful, or the tactics are not followed, it is not a waste of weapons to go up, and it will even bring the risk of extinction.

Another point is that the Chinese army's own military industry is very backward and cannot continue to produce the ammunition needed for the weapons that others have helped.

Even if people will continue to provide ammunition, most of the foreigners' weapons are repeating guns, and the ammunition consumption is very high, and they can't withstand such frequent combat consumption by the Chinese army.

Therefore, in terms of supply, these relatively precious weapons and ammunition are still distributed to the troops, and everyone saves money, even if the ammunition is used up, there are still domestic weapons and ammunition on top.

Although the domestically produced weapons and ammunition are not satisfactory, they are better than nothing.

Therefore, since the formation of the Huangpu army, the Chinese army has used a variety of weapons, not counting the various weapons purchased by local warlord troops from various countries.

When I was in Huangpu that year, it was the Soviet-style, that is, the Soviet Union supported a batch of weapons, so that the Huangpu Military Academy had the first batch of weapons to operate, otherwise there would not even be teaching and student supplies.

Then the army expanded by the Whampoa Military Academy, with Soviet-style and domestically produced weapons, carried out the Eastern Expedition and the Northern Expedition, and after the reunification of the country, a large number of German-style weapons were purchased in 1930.

If it weren't for Japan's full-scale invasion of China, the Chinese army would be ready to import German-style weapons and arm 60 German armourers to come out.

Not to mention dealing with those disobedient local warlords at home, even in Asia, it is possible to go sideways, and even in the army, it can wrestle with Japan.

It was precisely when Japan saw this trend that it had no choice but to invade China ahead of schedule, resulting in both sides losing and losing each other, and the two largest military powers in Asia began to consume each other for a long time.

Luo Zhicheng is very familiar with German weapons, and the most practiced in military schools are also German weapons, including Mauser rifles, Czech light machine guns, Maxim heavy machine guns, grenades, mortars and other conventional weapons.

After Japan's full-scale invasion of China in 1937, after Japan and Germany became allies, Germany began to abandon China, no longer sold weapons and ammunition to China, and even withdrew its military advisers.

Fortunately, after China used German weapons, its military technology has made great progress, and it has learned some imitations, such as the Chinese formal rifle, the Min 24 imitation of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and a large number of grenades.

After a few years of domestically produced weapons and ammunition, it was found that the armed forces were expanding more and more, and wars were becoming more and more frequent, especially in Songhu, Xuzhou, and Wuhan, where tens of millions of people participated at every turn.

This kind of super conference war, which consumes extremely weapons and ammunition and even national strength, has left China, which is already not rich, suddenly empty, and this bottomless pit cannot be seen to the end.

There was no way, from the end of 1938 to 1939, when the Soviet Union saw that China was about to be unable to hold on, it began to provide a large amount of aid.

From machine guns with light weapons to artillery with heavy weapons, and even fighter jets, they were sent together with the pilots, and they did not go back when they came by plane, and they were called volunteers, and they fought directly against Japanese fighters in China.

In addition to the current American-style weapons, the 74th Army alone has domestically produced goods, Soviet weapons, Japanese-style (captured in combat, and imitations), American-style weapons, etc., which is simply a hodgepodge.

Luo Zhicheng himself has handled or fought, and now with the current American light weapons, there are several countries, and the army has become a museum of weapons, and he is about to become a proficient user of light weapons in the world.