Chapter 524: Arms and ammunition are in short supply
In terms of the comparison of forces between China and Japan, it is certain that the Chinese army is far superior to the Japanese army, but in terms of firepower, the Chinese army is far inferior to the opponent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"I'll take care of the shortcomings." Wang Yongan said, "Tell Fang Xianwu that at most they will lose Nantong, and they can't be allowed to enter Rugao County." ”
"Yes." Feng Hengdao.
Wang Yongan said to Han Linchun: "Minister Han, is there a problem with the ammunition reserves?" ”
Han Linchun said: "There is a problem. ”
"What's the problem."
"The problem is that there is no ammunition."
Wang Yongan almost protruded from a mouthful of blood, his eyes widened and said, "What? ”
"No ammo." Han Linchun said, emphasizing it again, and said: "We have no ammunition supply, the garrison troops in central and northern Anhui only have three bullets per soldier, and the garrison in northern Jiangsu only has one bayonet per soldier, not even bullets." The Left Army now had an average of eighty rounds of ammunition per soldier, we had a reserve of eight thousand rounds per heavy machine gun, each cannon could fire twenty shells, and each soldier had an average of five grenades. ”
Wang Yongan said: "We have never had the ability to produce bullets, but why can't we even produce grenades?" ”
Han Linchun sighed and said, "Our grenade lead device has always been imported from Japan, and only Japanese companies are willing to sell it to us. Although we have now successfully developed it ourselves, it is purely handmade, not only the error rate is relatively high, but the lead efficiency is relatively poor, so the production is slow. In addition, the production of bullets has not been smooth, and the weapons experts and gunpowder experts brought in from the Hanyang Arsenal have not been able to completely make their own products for the time being. But we now have another weapon that we make ourselves. ”
Wang Yongan said excitedly: "What weapon? ”
"The Pak knife, a one-meter-five Pu knife, with a handle of eighty centimeters and a blade of seventy centimeters, if it is completely superior to the bayonets of the Japanese army in close combat." Han Linchun said, "In addition, there are cuirass and abdominal armor, cuirass and abdominal armor belong to a separable structure, which can be taken off in peacetime, and the cuirass can be carried on the battlefield, and the abdominal armor can be carried when fighting bayonets." However, he has a disadvantage, that is, there is still some weight, which is usually inconvenient to carry. ”
Wang Yongan said: "I asked about the ammunition supply of thermal weapons. ”
"Nope." Han Linchun said lightly, "Since the beginning of the battle between our army and the Qing army four months ago, no foreign foreign company has sold us any arms and weapons, even bayonets. We can only buy ammunition from the smuggled government in the south, from the arsenal of the revolutionary government in Hubei, and from some bandits in the north. So far, the largest order of military supplies we have imported is 500,000 rounds of ammunition purchased from the Sichuan Revolutionary Party. ”
Wang Yongan patted his head and said, "Is there really no ammunition to support?" ”
Han Linchun smiled bitterly: "It's really not, it's really not, it's thanks to Chen Qimei's Green Gang that constantly buys ammunition from various foreign companies, although the quantity is not much, but it's better than nothing." ”
Wang Yongan said: "In other words, our biggest problem now is the ammunition problem? ”
"Yes." Feng Heng said, "This is also the reason why Fang Xianwu gave up the coastline, he has a plan, but this plan is too risky, and he has never dared to tell you." ”
"Say." Wang Yongan said.
Feng Heng said: "Let the Japanese army in, put the Japanese army in Yangzhou, and hand over most of the Soviet Union to the Japanese." ”
Everyone exclaimed, this is simply a crazy plan, if the Soviet Union and China are handed over to the Japanese, I don't know how many people will be ruined, just now Wang Yongan also asked Fang Xianwu to block the Japanese outside Rugao County, but I didn't expect Fang Xianwu to hand over Rugao County, Nantong County, Qidong County, Haimen County, Dongtai County, Jingjiang County, Tai County and Xinghua County to the Japanese...... Not to mention whether this plan can succeed, even if it succeeds, what price the Jiangbei Army will pay.
"How do you let them come?" Wang Yongan asked.
Feng Heng said: "The Japanese commander Uehara Yongsaku is very ambitious, if we take the initiative to abandon Nantong, he will not only occupy Nantong, but also gain an inch, and then attack Yangzhou." If we let them in all the way, he will definitely be fooled by Yusaku Uehara's greedy character. So we closed the wall all the way to clear the wilderness, leaving the Japanese with an empty Soviet Central and a Soviet Central without supplies. The Japanese army relies on the sea for logistical supplies, but the Japanese navy and the army are now in deep contradictions, and Gonbei Yamamoto, who was born in the navy, is competing with Katsura Taro from the army for the prime minister's seat, so I think that although he will not let the navy directly harm the army, he can delay the navy's delivery of ammunition and military food supplies by the army, which will lead to a decrease in the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. After the Japanese army occupied the Soviet Union and China, it was inevitable to divide the troops to defend it, and we sent cavalry to harass the rear of the Japanese army. Even if the Japanese are an iron king, we have to gnaw them down one by one. ”
Wang Yongan said: "There is another question you didn't say, did you bring them to Yangzhou?" ”
"Yes, the decisive battle will be in Yangzhou." Feng Heng said, "The decisive battle is in the Jiangbei capital, I think Yangzhou will be a place where the Japanese army must go, but once the Japanese army attacks Yangzhou, Yangzhou will become their place of death, and the longer we fight with the Japanese army in Yangzhou, the more favorable the form will be for us." In addition, if Yangzhou is occupied, neither the Southern Revolutionary Party nor the Northern Beiyang Army can sit idly by. ”
Wang Yongan raised his head and said, "Cause in-depth, gather and annihilate, is this Fang Xianwu's plan?" ”
"Yes." Feng Heng said, "This battle plan was first put forward by Fang Xianwu, and later after full discussion by the General Staff, and considering the existing conditions of our army and this contact with the Japanese army, this battle plan with the smallest losses for our army and the total annihilation of the Japanese army was formulated. Fang Xianwu first named this battle plan the urn plan, which means that the Japanese army will become the turtle in the urn, and we will catch the turtle in the urn. ”
"Are there any other battle plans?" Wang Yongan asked, the risk of losing the entire Soviet Union to the Japanese army is really a bit big, once there is a mistake, the Jiangbei nest is lost, and the Jiangbei system is also finished.
"Yes, but...... The casualties were extremely high, and there was no guarantee that the 16th and 17th Divisions of the Japanese army would be completely annihilated, and this method was the only way to completely annihilate the Japanese army. Feng Heng gritted his teeth and said, how could he not know the risks, but when he was a soldier, how could there be a battle without risks.
Wang Yongan said: "How do you face the people? We have just won the battle, and the common people have lost their homes, their land, and their ancestral halls? ”
The generals bowed their heads, and no one answered, after all, this is an unanswered question, who wants to throw the ancestral ancestral hall to the enemy?
Wang Yongan got up and paced back and forth, and after a long time, he said: "I think I will bear this responsibility, and I can only bear it, implement the urn plan, order Fang Xianwu to resist one by one, lure the enemy deeper, and order the people of central Jiangsu to evacuate to northern Jiangsu and central Anhui." I will now go to the Jiangbei Governor's Mansion and report the battle plan to Governor Zhang, and I will bear what fire he has. ”
The generals looked at the back of Wang Yongan's departure, and felt very uncomfortable, all of this is because of the problem of arms and ammunition, the modern army has no ammunition, and it is even inferior to the ancient army, and the current Jiangbei Army is a force that has always been short of ammunition.