Chapter 141 Preparation of equipment

Now that he understood the situation, there was no need to continue walking, so Wang Liang immediately asked Zhu Zhiwen's driver to turn around and drive back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

Wang Liang has kept the situation here in mind, and when he comes back, he will write a detailed report and submit it to Jiang Guangtou, as long as he explains his interests, Jiang Guangtou should not sit idly by.

Wang Liang plans to go to the next place to go around, fortunately the war has not started, the tragedy has not been repeated, what he can do now is to find more problems, and then write them into the report to adjust to the greatest extent.

I couldn't take care of the lunch at noon, so Wang Liang drove around a few garrisons by himself and inspected the equipment of the Xia Guo* Army on the spot.

The result was naturally a big disappointment, except for the 87th and 88th Divisions (originally the guard troops of the Nationalist Government, which were model divisions trained by German consultants, and the full standard of German weapons and equipment was **** elite. The equipment of the other units is reasonable, and the other troops are not satisfactory.

Although this is a hundred times better than the equipment of the Eighth Route Army, it is important to know that the Eighth Route Army mainly uses guerrilla warfare methods and pays attention to flexibility and mobility. The national * army under the leadership of Lao Chiang likes to fight positional warfare and defensive warfare, which has two very key elements: 1. Troop strength. 2. Equipment.

During a conversation with several division commanders and chiefs of staff, Wang Liang learned that there are also major drawbacks in the national defense mobilization and army command system.

The Kuomintang's national defense mobilization system, peacetime and wartime transformation system, and military command system are not half a star behind those of Japan.

The command sequence of the Kuomintang army was chaotic, the organization was inflated, the beds were stacked, and the responsibilities were unclear.

The theater was under the jurisdiction of group armies, divisions, brigades, and regiments, and later additional armies. Some armies tend to have only one division, and the commander is also the division commander.

Orders, instructions, and reports are passed down from generation to layer, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and is detrimental to combat but useless.

Wouldn't the later retreat be chaotic? It is no wonder that the chain of command is not paralyzed, and the troops are like headless flies, chaotic and disorderly.

On the other hand, Japan has 17 permanent divisions and regiments, each of which has more than 11,000 troops in peacetime, but in wartime, it has been expanded into special divisions and regiments, and the number of personnel has been expanded to more than 24,000 to 28,000, that is, from 380,000 in active duty to 740,000.

In addition to the reservists, Japan's military service system includes 880,000 reservists and more than 2.4 million supplementary soldiers, totaling more than 4.48 million people in various types of military service.

At that time, China had only 2.03 million active soldiers, and there was nothing left for reserve military service and reserve military service.

Therefore, after one round of engagement, the subsequent combat strength of the Chinese troops will be greatly reduced, but the Japanese army will be able to maintain a considerable level in the second round after rapid reorganization.

The Japanese army not only has a complete troop replenishment system, but also has a high level of logistics support system and mechanization that the Chinese army cannot match.

Wang Liang simply estimated that according to its logistical support system and mechanization level, the average time for the reinforcement of the Japanese army would not take 10 days at all.

They can mobilize troops from the Yanmen Pass in the far northwest of the country for an average of less than 10 days from stopping the offensive, moving thousands of miles to board ships, and then sailing to the Shanghai Theater to assemble, and in this respect fully shows that the army in the era of mechanized warfare must be mechanized, and with mechanization, one army can be used as multiple armies.

A sturdy soldier can only fly high if he has mechanized wings.

On the other hand, the Chinese army, wearing straw sandals, walked on foot, and was often attacked by Japanese planes in their cars, which only increased casualties.

If the war is tight, it will be too late to bring in reinforcements from other places.

If the 20th Army of the National * Army drove from Guizhou to the Songhu battlefield, set off from Guizhou on foot, and walked all the way to Chenxi, Hunan before it could get on the boat, it would take 30 days to take a train from Changsha to the front line.

The Battle of Songhu was a war of attrition, and the Kuomintang simply could not afford to consume it.

Looking at the armament again, the most advanced cannon of the national * army is the German Krupp mountain gun, the maximum caliber is only 75 mm, and the firing range is only a few kilometers, which cannot be compared with the Japanese naval gun.

According to the data obtained from the quartermaster, Wang Liang calculated that when facing the Japanese warships, the best way was to concentrate one company of mountain artillery to bombard the Japanese ships, but they could not penetrate the heavy deck, and could only leave a piece of fire and a little mark on the warship.

However, some of the naval guns on the Japanese warships had a caliber of more than 400 millimeters and a firing range of more than 10 kilometers.

The artillery did not dare to imagine the artillery, and Wang Liang also knew some of the combat traditions of the Japanese army. When the Chinese artillery bombarded the enemy's strongholds and positions, they were immediately returned fire by the Japanese heavy artillery, and often even before the erection was completed, the Japanese artillery came to suppress it, so that the Chinese artillery had no choice but to hide in their own positions and was in disarray. The bombs that were finally released either missed the target or did not do anything at all, because the power was too small, and the Japanese army fortifications were numerous and strong.

Speaking of tanks and infantry chariots, Wang Liang personally experienced it when he was in Wanping City, and when he saw this kind of "land monster" on the battlefield, he couldn't help but feel furious.

The fighters who were not afraid of death rushed forward and killed them with grenades, but most of them were beaten into a sieve before they could rush to the front, and the infantry could only be captured in the face of the Japanese tanks.

Not to mention the planes, the Japanese fighters in China's airspace can shuttle at will, and several anti-aircraft artillery regiments of **** do not have the ability to shoot down the planes, so they can only watch them being beaten and bombed.

All in all, the Chinese army lacks heavy artillery, bombs. The Japanese army, on the other hand, has an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, and aircraft, heavy artillery, warships, and tanks, from the land, to the sea and the sky, are playing all-round three-dimensional operations.

These are just external factors, and the more complex internal factors are the most headache for Wang Liang, that is, factional disputes.

He has also watched a lot of materials and documentaries about the Battle of Songhu, and the Kuomintang is a harmonious mess on the surface, but in fact it is a bad mess, and these cannot be changed in a short period of time.

Therefore, if you want to defeat the Japanese army in the Battle of Songhu, you need Wang Liang to work hard.

I was tired of shopping, and when I looked at the time, it was already ten o'clock, thinking that there was Du Yuesheng's birthday banquet at seven o'clock in the evening, Wang Liang hurriedly drove back, but it was obviously too late in time.

Wang Liang raised the speed of the car to the apex, and on the road wondered if he should prepare some gifts for Du Yuesheng, it didn't seem good to go empty-handed.

This idea was dispelled by Wang Liang in a flash, because he didn't bring any money at all, and why spend this money, a gift that looks a little too much will cost hundreds of oceans, and those are all funds for his future activities, and he can't move it.

(To be continued.) )