Just when the Japanese army swore that it wanted to break through the base area of the Eighth Route Army, in addition to the local garrison troops, all the troops of the division had been assembled in Baotou and were ready to attack the menacing 60,000 Japanese troops head-on. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In Baotou, in the instructor's headquarters, the chief officers of each department were sitting in a precarious position, taking turns to speak, reporting to Zhang Cheng the results of the reorganization and change of clothes and the hard training in recent times.

"Division commander, the tank crews of our armored brigade have initially learned to drive tanks, but they are not proficient enough in operating tank weapons and integrating tank formations." Li Yunlong, the new commander of the armored brigade, reported to Zhang Cheng.

"You don't need to worry about the tank troops for the time being, after paying a lot of dollars for the Soviet instructors, they promised to fight for us, and this tank battle will be guided by the Soviet instructors on the spot, and with them present to personally guide them, I don't think there should be any big problems." Zhang Cheng said calmly.

Tank soldiers belong to a relatively high-tech type of troops, unlike infantry, which can be recruited to fight, so, for the sake of insurance, Zhang Cheng paid a lot of dollars to the Soviet instructors and invited them to personally go down to assist the armored brigade in battle.

As for the money paid to the Soviet instructors, anyway, Zhang Cheng has a cash cow with stockings and bikini, and it is not distressing to spend it at all, and it is no longer a problem for him to solve it with money.

"Commander Feng, how is your aviation flight regiment preparing?" Zhang Cheng asked Feng Dafei about the situation of the flying regiment, like the tank troops, the pilots are also very high-tech troops, and the attacking 12th Division has a flying team, and it seems that an air battle is inevitable.

Fortunately, Zhang Cheng can guess the establishment of the Japanese air force through history, on the other hand, the Japanese army's understanding of the instructor air force is still stuck in the last air raid on Taiyuan airport, and does not know that after the assistance of the Soviet Union, the strength of the instructor air force is not what it used to be, this is an advantage that Zhang Cheng can take advantage of, if it is used well, the instructor flight regiment can destroy the Japanese air team by surprise and seize the air supremacy of Baotou.

"Report to the division commander, because our flight regiment has mastered the performance of the Soviet Polykal fighter in the aviation school, there is no problem at all in maneuvering, let's watch our performance this time!" Feng Dafei replied confidently.

"It's good to have confidence, the aircraft used by the Japanese Army Aviation is a Type 95 fighter, which is much worse than the Polikar fighter in terms of performance, and I believe that you can achieve the final victory in this air battle." Zhang Cheng encouraged.

The official name of the Polikar fighter is the I-16, which was designed by the most famous fighter designer of the Soviet Union, Bolikarpov, and is the first Soviet fighter with a cantilever lower wing and retractable landing gear.

When this fighter appeared, the main force of the Axis air force was still biplanes in the same period, including Germany's Ar68 fighter and Italy's CR.32 fighter and Japan's Type 95 fighter, so at first the I-16 achieved brilliant results and made the Soviet Union suddenly squeeze into the status of an advanced aviation country, reflecting the technology and production capacity of the Soviet Union to become an aviation power, but it also objectively stimulated the Axis countries to study tactics and aircraft to adapt to air combat in the new era.

In actual combat, the relatively outstanding achievements of this fighter were achieved in the Spanish Civil War in 1936, and then it also assisted the Kuomintang authorities in the war of resistance and performed very well in the historical Battle of Zhanggufeng.

The last brilliant performance of the I-16 fighter was in the Soviet Union's battle against Japan's Nomenhan, and this fighter still formed a relatively large advantage over Japanese fighters, and it was not until World War II that Japan developed the One and Zero types, which reversed the unfavorable situation of Japanese aircraft in the face of Soviet aircraft.

This fighter was obsolete in the forties, but in 1938 it was still a very advanced fighter, enough to deal with the Devil's Type 95.

At this time, the Yulin Arsenal under Zhang Cheng's rule had already begun the development of the aircraft, and the fighter information that Zhang Cheng took out was the P-51 Mustang of the United States, the chief fighter of World War II, but due to the weak development force of the arsenal fighter, the development of this fighter was very slow, and it was likely that it would not be produced until two or three years later.

However, now Japan's one-type, zero-type has not yet appeared, the I-16 is barely enough, with the weak industrial capacity of the Eighth Route Army, Zhang Cheng is still unable to pursue the advanced nature of fighters, and it is already overjoyed to be able to solve the problem of whether fighters have or not.

"By the way, Xiucai, how is your heavy artillery brigade training?" Zhang Cheng then asked Sun Xiucai, the commander of the heavy artillery brigade.

"Report to the division commander, the training of the heavy artillery brigade is very good, and it can be pulled out to fight the devils at any time. Moreover, the Soviet heavy artillery was very powerful, and I had full confidence in destroying the Japanese heavy artillery brigades. Sun Xiucai replied confidently.

"It's good to have confidence, but a mule is still a horse, and you have to pull it out for a walk." Zhang Cheng admonished.

"Understand, the division commander will see our performance when the time comes!" Sun Xiucai shouted loudly.

"Hmm." Zhang Cheng nodded and motioned for Sun Xiucai to sit down.

Zhang Cheng has never doubted the power of the Soviet heavy artillery, Comrade Tie Man has always had heavy artillery plots, resulting in the fact that although the heavy artillery produced by the Soviet Union looks stupid and black and thick and not beautiful at all, the actual power makes the whole world tremble.

"Division Commander, after the change of clothes, I am sure that the combat effectiveness of our instructor has increased by more than one level, but after all, we can't rely too much on the assistance of the Soviet Union." The commissar suddenly reminded.

For the problem raised by the political commissar, Zhang Cheng naturally has a way to solve it, and when the Second World War is most dangerous in the Soviet Union, Zhang Cheng can rely on the advantage of the traverser to sell some information to Comrade Tieren, and help Comrade Tieman to achieve several key victories, so that the debt of aid can be offset, but at this time, World War II has not yet broken out, and Zhang Cheng is not easy to say, so he has to explain to the political commissar that he will pay attention, and he will not take it as an example, which dispelled the doubts of the political commissar.

Then Feng Shaojie, minister of logistics, raised a practical question, that is, whether the firepower of Soviet-style equipment is strong or not, but it has also led to a sharp increase in logistical pressure, and the consumption of artillery shells and bullets is particularly fast, and I am afraid that logistics supplies will not be able to keep up.

Zhang Cheng believed that supply was not a problem, and that the ammunition and artillery production lines of the arsenal could completely keep up with the consumption of firepower, and asked the comrades not to worry about saving ammunition, but to use the maximum firepower to eliminate the devils, so as to reduce the casualties of the troops.

The biggest reason why Zhang Cheng is so confident is that he once again used his golden finger to point out the silver and copper mine, one of the six major copper mines in the country in later generations, and solved the problem of lack of copper in the arsenal, and he could make as many shells and bullets as he wanted.