It has been a week since Zhang Cheng returned to Yinping Town, and Chen Guangcai's equipment and production line purchased from the United States have been installed, and they have entered the intense commissioning stage, and will soon be put into production. Iron and steel mills are making iron, steelmaking, casting steel, rolling steel, all departments are running at high speed 24 hours a day, and the finished steel in the warehouses has been piled up, just waiting for the senior technicians of the military factories to turn them into guns, machinery, etc.

This week, Zhang Cheng did not go out for a walk-around, and spent most of his day in the arsenal, studying rocket artillery, walkie-talkies, radar and other technologies with Chen Guangcai, He Zhiqi, Luo Shili, and other experts hired in the United States, as well as some experts and technicians in aircraft and tanks, to discuss aircraft and tank technology.

At about the same time, the Japanese army again assembled seven divisions and three mixed brigades in East China, with a total strength of 240,000 troops, to attack Wuhan along both sides of the Yangtze River and the Dabie Mountains.

The changes in the war situation were greatly unexpected by Zhang Cheng, but it is reasonable to think about it, it seems that the Japanese army has won a strategic victory, but this victory is piled up with great casualties and losses.

At the end of the Chaohu battle, President Chiang gave the new 1st Division an army establishment of 50,000 people, but Zhang Cheng had his considerations, as the troops improved to mechanization, the original logistics personnel would definitely not be enough. Let's bury the foreshadowing here first, and deal with it in case the Military Commission investigates thoroughly. It is impossible to do anything like before, and everything must be paved to retreat so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Da Niu's armored regiment plus Zhang Cheng captured nearly 50 tanks of the Japanese army, so the regimental armor was reorganized into an armored brigade. The conscription and reorganization of other units will be completed within two months, and then the troops will enter an intense and severe intensive training, and within two months they must develop effective combat effectiveness.

In terms of arsenals, planes and tanks and even helicopters have entered Zhang Cheng's plans. However, the required aircraft production line and tank production line were still blank, so Chen Guangcai could only arrange for the United States to purchase personnel.

At the same time, about rocket launchers, multiple rocket launchers, and walkie-talkies and even radars are already in production.

The Yinping Town base has also entered a relatively stable and high-speed development period, the war has been temporarily stopped, but the commanders at all levels are busier than before, the brigade commanders who used to have nothing to do and always like to sit at the headquarters to brag and fart, now there is no longer this idle time, training soldiers during the day, and reading and reading at night, and the days are forced by Zhang Cheng to be miserable.

In the past month, these students in Yinping Town School were so excited by the war that they were enthusiastic and high-spirited, and they couldn't wait to immediately put their guns on the front line to kill the enemy and serve the country.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng put forward the idea of half-soldier and half-study, that is, to select a group of students with excellent character and learning and excellent physical fitness, and to study for half a day and train for military training every day, so as not to delay the current study, but also to make sufficient preparations for future wars, and to pick up guns and go to the battlefield at any time when necessary.

This proposal immediately received a unanimous response from all the teachers and students, and even three days after this proposal, Zhang Chengcheng submitted the proposal to the theater headquarters and won the approval of Chief Li. Immediately, an area was set aside in Yinping Town to establish a student military barracks, and the instructors at all levels were of course veterans and officers of the new first division.

After layers of selection and political examination by the special operations battalion, it was finally determined that the number of people was 21,300, which was completely the establishment of a division of the first type, and of course, they did not have a formal establishment. However, student soldiers are also issued with military uniforms and weapons, and the new 1st Division does not lack this, and it is completely equipped and trained in accordance with the regular army.

No one knew that Zhang Cheng had started a grand plan again, and in the near future, it was this group of student soldiers who played a mainstay role in Zhang Cheng's troops, and the future backbone of grassroots officers, and even the backbone of the navy and air force, were all in this group of student soldiers. Of course, the most important thing is personal purity, there is no bad criminal record, Zhang Cheng will never allow anyone suspected of military command among them to exist, so there will be the intervention of the special operations battalion. Then, from their grades, expertise, personality, physical fitness, personal comprehensive ability, etc., to determine which field they are more suitable for, and to train them in a targeted manner.

Okamura Ninji closed the folder in his hand excitedly, and said with a grateful face to the chief of staff Isamu Kinoshita, "Kinoshita-kun, thanks to you this time?" ”

"Hehe, the commander is serious, if it weren't for your perfect "Township Clearing Plan" to impress the base camp, no matter how much I do, it will be useless! Yuki Kinoshita.

"Hahaha!" Both laughed out loud.

The failure of the attack on Chaohu was a heavy loss, causing the imperial army to lose a terrifying number of 40,000, and more than half of them were veterans of the permanent divisions, and two permanent divisions were disabled, and the loss of various strategic materials was innumerable, and the bad impact was simply immeasurable.

As the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in this campaign, Sadao Haramori Washijima naturally has an unshirkable responsibility. Therefore, Okamura Ninji was transferred to the commander of the 11th Army, and today, because the base camp had just called, agreeing to his "plan to clear the township" and ordering him to implement it immediately. This means that the above agrees with his strategy.

The so-called "Township Cleanup Plan" was in fact a huge battle to enforce public order and rectify the situation, dealing a devastating blow to the anti-Japanese forces in the occupied areas and consolidating the foundation of the occupied areas.

The first step was to organize the Japanese puppet army to build blockhouses, turrets, blockade ditches, blockade walls, and bamboo and wood fences in the Qingxiang area, and set up barbed wire and power grids to divide and blockade the anti-Japanese base areas, and then carry out sweeping sweeps against the Japanese base areas.

The second step is to politically clean up the townships, widely publicize the "Sino-Japanese friendship" and "peaceful nation-building" in the Qingxiang areas, and at the same time carry out propaganda among the masses, they also carry out the formation of groups to protect the armor, the joint security forces, the formation of police and security forces, and the implementation of the methods of voluntary surrender and instigation of informants, so as to strengthen the rule of the Japanese army;

The third step is to "economically clear the townships," implement a strict material control policy and a material blockade and embargo policy in the Qingxiang areas, and impose an economic blockade against the Japanese base areas.

The fourth step is to "ideologically clean up the townships" by establishing institutions to control schools, publishing newspapers and periodicals, organizing "youth groups" in the Qingxiang areas, and carrying out peace education.

Okamura Ninji's move can be described as extremely vicious, and the Japanese army occupied Shanghai and Nanjing. From Jiangsu to Zhejiang, in fact, it only controls a few major cities, transportation arteries, and large areas of rural and remote towns, all of which are still in the hands of the Third Theater and the New Fourth Army led by the First Army, and even in the hands of armed forces such as doorways and bandits.