Chapter 814: Reshuffle

In view of the unpredictable factors on the battlefield, it was not that the Imperial Army was incompetent, but that the expeditionary force was too powerful, more precisely the helicopters were too powerful, and the Japanese high-level and even the Allied countries Germany and Italy did not rebuke the Southern Army too much, but gave more support and encouragement.

In terms of troops, the 38th and 55th Divisions, which were seriously damaged, were transferred back to the mainland for recuperation, and the Japanese base camp urgently transferred the 4th and 22nd Divisions from the Central China Battlefield, and the 8th and 10th Divisions from the Kwantung Army, a total of four divisions and regiments into Burma.

In terms of weapons, Germany supported 30,000 MP40 submachine guns of the Japanese Southern Army, planned to equip a Japanese division, and provided 5,000 rocket launchers to deal with the helicopter gunships of the expeditionary force.

In the previous battles with Jiang Haoran, the Japanese army also realized that the powerful firepower of submachine guns on the battlefield could not be ignored, especially when they were in close contact, the dense bullet net simply made the soldiers armed with rifles have no power to fight back, and the Japanese army, which blindly paid attention to precision shooting, also began to pay attention to the development of submachine guns.

In fact, as early as 1935, the Japanese army began to develop submachine guns, but the Japanese, who were backward in tactical thinking, believed that rifles were more accurate than submachine guns, and they would rather ensure the quality of rifles and ammunition than equip their troops with submachine guns. Of course, the main reason is actually that the resources of the island countries are limited, and they cannot withstand the large consumption of ammunition in submachine guns. Therefore, the development of submachine guns has always been in a kind of stagnation.

After experiencing several jungle battles with the expeditionary force, the Japanese army suffered enough from AK47, deeply realized the power and unshakable status of the submachine gun, and learned from the pain, the Japanese army gritted its teeth and put the production of submachine guns on the agenda, and several arsenals made every effort to produce self-developed 100 submachine guns, which are expected to be equipped with a large number of southern armies after the rainy season in Burma.

In terms of air defense, because the Fifth Flying Regiment was once again heavily damaged, and because the navy had already caused serious consequences of sinking one aircraft carrier and one wound on two aircraft carriers in the Pacific Ocean, they no longer dared to devote all their energy to the Burmese battlefield. Therefore, Myanmar's air defense must also be based on land aviation. Under these circumstances, the Japanese base camp stepped up its efforts to supplement the Fifth Flying Regiment of the Southern Army, and at the same time prepared to transfer the Third Flying Regiment of the North China Theater to Burma as well, and only waited for the rainy season in Burma to pass and use the air power of two flying divisions and nine divisions and regiments to fully occupy Burma, eliminate the expeditionary force, and realize the strategic concept of the German-Japanese-Indian divisions, and at the same time, make full preparations for attacking China's western Yunnan.

The rainy season in Myanmar only really came in June, and now it is the beginning of May, and the rainy season lasts for four months, which means that the southern army still has nearly five months to prepare.

At that time, the four additional divisions and regiments will all be in place, and all kinds of weapons and equipment will also be equipped with all kinds of weapons and regiments, and with the superior strength of two flying divisions and nine infantry divisions, Jiang Haoran's expeditionary force will have the ability to fly into the sky and escape from the earth, and there will be absolutely no possibility of resisting it.

The Japanese army was actively preparing, and the expeditionary force was not idle, except for the airborne brigade and a regiment of John 61 Williams who constantly harassed the Japanese army on the front line and caused constant trouble for the Japanese army.

In particular, Mina, which was basically destroyed by the Japanese army before retreating, was repaired again, and all kinds of planes from India and even China could land directly at the airport, and all kinds of material resources were continuously transported in, and the supplementary troops also continued to arrive directly from Kunming to Mina.

During this period, Stilwell was very busy, and he only did one thing every day, that is, to transfer transport planes, whether it was the Chinese battlefield, the Indian battlefield, or to the United States government constantly begging grandpa to tell grandma, but wherever there was a way to think of it, he took the trouble to make phone calls, send telegrams, even if he could have one more plane, he did not dare to miss it, but in half a month, more than 20,000 and 4,000 soldiers of the Hurricane Detachment were transported directly from Nanchang to Mina, plus more than 40,000 student soldiers from Kunming, a total of more than 60,000.

Together with weapons and supplies, in the past half a month, the coalition forces have dispatched thousands of transport planes, not to mention wartime, even in peacetime, it is a very remarkable miracle, but this miracle was created by Stilwell.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived, the whole secret was lively, and the officers of each unit who came to pick up the recruits had their eyes bulging like copper bells, for fear that all the good soldiers would be picked up by other troops, so they picked up some crooked melons and cracked dates, and went back to be scolded by the commander. Therefore, from the very beginning, it was simply a robbery, and the resulting big fights would happen dozens of times a day, and even Huang Jie, the chief of staff in charge of the placement of new recruits, did not hold down the position, and finally Jiang Haoran personally went to the scene to calm down.

Jiang Haoran has many means, except for promising Tian Long's independent regiment that he can give priority to the selection of troops, the other troops can only obey the distribution, and match according to the advantages and disadvantages, and no one knows the loss.

As for the more than 24,000 veterans of the Hurricane Detachment, all of them were scattered and assigned to various units to serve as the backbone of each battalion, company and platoon.

More than 500 officers selected by Liu He from the Zhuzhou branch of the Whampoa Military Academy also arrived at Mina at this time, and Jiang Haoran arranged all of them to various platoons, companies, battalions, and regiments, most of whom served as military commanders, and replaced all some officers with someone's imprint, like Sun Liren's new 38th Division, three regiment commanders were replaced in one guy, and the three regiment commanders were all military commanders, and the 28th and 29th divisions were even more powerful, and the six regiment commanders were all replaced, and none was left.

Of course, they performed well in these battles, and some of the military commanders who moved closer to Jiang Haoran basically did not move, and some even were promoted, like Chen Feng, the commander of the 340th Regiment of the 93rd Division, because the division commander Lu Guoquan was injured and was no longer suitable for the position of division commander, Jiang Haoran was ready to put Chen Feng up as the division commander, and the report has been submitted to the Chen Military Commission, in fact, this report is also a formality, with Jiang Haoran's current status, not to mention the appointment and dismissal of a division commander, even if it is a military commander, the Military Commission has no reason not to agree.

Jiang Haoran has always acted rather domineering, especially on such a matter of principle, he basically does not listen to the opinions of others, although the division commanders are a little dissatisfied with this personnel change, and even all the factions in the country are very angry about this, and they have reported to the Central Military Commission for this reason, but I am afraid that no one can stop him.

By the end of May, the resettlement of new recruits had been completed, and the troops had begun intensive training. Of course, the intensive training is also carried out by divisions as units. At this point, the reshuffling of the expeditionary force has been successfully completed.