Chapter 2 What the cost

"Total seat...... Total seat ......"

Cheng Siyuan, Li Zongren's political secretary, wondered if there was something wrong with the general in front of him

He sat there in a daze, crushing the telegram in his hand that had been forwarded by Sun Zhen, acting commander of the 22nd Group Army and commander of the 41st Army

"Hurry up and call the doctor, who will pour a glass of water for the general seat"

Looking at Li Zongren, who was pale and silent, he was worried about whether the "general seat" in front of him was sick with anger, and he had to know that the anger hurt his body, and the war was pressing at the moment, and if there was something wrong with the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, then how could this battle be fought

After a while, he suddenly saw Li Zongren raise his hand, and gave himself a crisp slap

"Horn"

This sound shocked all the people in the headquarters Not only was Cheng Siyuan stunned, but everyone who saw it was dumbfounded, and they all guessed in their hearts Could it be that the commander-in-chief put all the responsibility for the loss of Teng County on his own head

Shouldn't the 20th Army led by Wang Zhonglian of Tang Enbo's 85th Army be in charge?

Or maybe it was the problem of Sun Zhen commanding the battle at that time, if there was more than just a rabble of 3,000 people in Teng County, how could this battle be fought so fiercely

By the night of March 15, 1938, the combat units in Tengxian Chengguan consisted of a regimental headquarters, three battalion headquarters, ten infantry companies and a mortar company, four guard companies from the division and brigade headquarters, and an infantry company of the 124th Division that temporarily came to the city to collect ammunition, plus police and security forces, totaling 3,000 men. But the real combat force was less than two thousand people

In the face of the Japanese army's strong strength and the help of tanks and aircraft, how could such a force be destroyed in countless battles?

It is probably to blame that Sun Zhen knew that the chairman ordered the death of Teng County, but did not send the main force, and only put the disgruntled Sichuan soldiers with inferior weapons there, and the troops with weak combat effectiveness and corrupt military discipline like the Sichuan army should be dismantled and scattered and placed in unimportant places on the entire front

Everyone in the neighborhood thought so, but under Li Zongren's sadness at this moment, no one dared to speak

Cheng Siyuan turned around and glanced at them, estimating that none of them understood what Li Zongren was really thinking at the moment, so he turned his head to look at everyone, and then shook his head and made a look, asking them all to leave

After all the people in the house went out, Cheng Siyuan said tentatively

"Sir, don't you ......?"

"yes...... Yes, Siyuan, you are not wrong at all, I hate myself for being stingy, I didn't expect that Master Wang Mingzhang really fulfilled his promise to the chairman of the committee, and I would not retreat in Tengxian County, I thought ......"

At the beginning of this campaign, Chiang Kai-shek personally arrived in Tengxian County, met with the division commander Wang Mingzhang, and asked him to defend Tengxian to the death

What everyone didn't say at the time was that when the Sichuan army was fighting, its military discipline was corrupt and its combat effectiveness was weak, and they were deployed in the front, to put it bluntly, they were just used as "spearheads" According to Li Zongren's idea, even if they were about to collapse at the slightest touch, it also bought time for the troops deployed behind, and brought news

One of the most infuriating things in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was that as a squadron, it was often less well-informed than the invading Japanese army

Let's start with the operational map, the Japanese army's operational map is much more precise and accurate, because the Japanese Empire had long planned to invade China, so they carried out relatively accurate mapping of most of China early on

On the other hand, the Kuomintang army here not only has incomplete maps, but is also full of errors and omissions

In addition, the Japanese did a pretty good job of being agents and buying traitors, so much so that many times they had traitors lead them to appear behind the flanks of the squadron

Actually, it's not surprising at all when you think about it

It's a question of the loyalty of the people of the country to the country, but it's definitely not one-sided, and it's okay to blame the traitors, after all, it's hard to win the loyalty of a citizen who doesn't care for himself at all, and who spends his days trying to exploit and strengthen the government

It's like falling in love, can a shaved pick really last forever? This doesn't need to be analyzed, it doesn't need to be discussed, because history has already given the answer

At the end of the Song Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the face of foreign aggression at that time, the resistance of the Chinese people in the face of the invaders was nothing more than a scattering of chaff in the wind, and even in the late Ming Dynasty, many landlords were willing to destroy the Manchus to eliminate King Li Chuang, but they mistakenly thought that the Manchus entered the customs only to eliminate Li Chuang, and they would return the world to them in the future, which was too pure

The reason for this infuriation is that Li Zongren deployed the Sichuan army at the front of the outlet, and put the troops with weak combat effectiveness in the front as the spearhead, and even if they are lost, they will not hinder the overall situation

For this reason, he did not equip the Sichuan army in front with any of the "advanced" weapons at his disposal

Yes, Jin Tao gave him the drawings of weapons and equipment, and he didn't show them to anyone, even just mobilized some villages to produce them, and arranged for his descendants to be outside, so that these secrets could be completely in the palm of his own hands

It is no wonder that he just gave himself a resounding slap Cheng Siyuan immediately understood what he was thinking And those "mysterious equipment" that had already been produced Li Zongren used it in a way that except for the clay grenades, all the equipment was equipped for the troops selected by his descendants

In this way, we will be able to keep the secrets of those weapons for a longer time, that is, to prevent the Japanese agents from knowing, and also to prevent other Chinese troops who are also fighting in the War of Resistance from knowing that there is a political and military struggle involved, which is a chronic disease that cannot be shaken off by the squadron at this time

The rest of the things that can be seen through the phenomenon are nothing more than the fact that everything that everyone can make is similar, and what they can't make has to be bought from foreigners, and this is the root of the "friendly surprise theory" and the reason why national power is completely wasted without efficiency

Don't look at the weapons provided by Jin Tao, it seems that the "dirt" is scum, but the problem is that these weapons are used to deal with large-scale infantry attacks, so whether they are used against the Japanese, or the squadron that is also mainly infantry, it is a powerful weapon

For example, when dealing with the Japanese army, it is easy to limit their movement with large-scale nail mines, while to deal with the squadron, you only need to nail them into the sky

It was precisely because of this consideration that all those "secret weapons" were intercepted and put into the hands of Li Zongren

Of course, these weapons will be of great use in Taierzhuang, and will even make the attack of the Japanese army difficult

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"It's useless to be sad because of this, it's better to take care of the things in front of you."

Cheng Siyuan was also sighing in his heart He didn't understand how the battle in front of him could be fought like this Li Zongren's arrangement of troops was almost deployed according to the Japanese army's offensive plan Han Fuyu, deputy commander of the 5th Theater and commander-in-chief of the 3rd Group Army If the enemy is still making small calculations to preserve his strength and fleeing without a fight, this battle may not be as tragic as we know in history

Although in the end, Han Fuyu was shot by Chiang Kai-shek and Sun Tongxuan took over his post, but Han Fuyu's self-retreat without a fight not only caused the squadron to lose the danger of the Yellow River, but also handed over Jinan, Tai'an, and other places to the enemy

As a result, he became the first high-ranking general to be executed in the Anti-Japanese War

Now, the course of history has once again pushed the front line of Taierzhuang to the battlefield, so maybe from now on, the battle will really start to change

"Alas, I can't be wrong again and again, I think it's better to send hail bombs to the front, and deal with the devil infantry, that's the most useful thing."

The "Hail Personnel Bomb" was provided by Jin Tao, and of course it is quite different from the Chiyou army's own use, and it is worth mentioning that these weapons and equipment have reached the point of obsolescence, and more advanced weapons will appear in piles on Hainan Island in the near future

The design of the "Hail Personnel Kill Bomb" that Li Zongren got was also multi-purpose, but it was used in a very different way than the Chi You Army, and it could be used as a gun grenade, and it could also be used as a grenade

And the best thing about it is that it's based on coarse porcelain, which is sintered from the ubiquitous clay, and even when you shoot with a gun, you have to attach the pull fuse to the barrel, so when you shoot it, you actually start counting the fuse time

As for the air blast, it is relatively easy to achieve, because the main body is terracotta, so it is lighter than the metal grenade, and you only need to have a heavier warhead, and the other end is lighter to achieve the goal of shooting upwards and jumping

This was of great benefit to the lack of heavy artillery, and to the squadrons that massively suppressed the straggler line charges of the Japanese army

At this time, Li Zongren's subordinates did not have large-caliber artillery, and the mortars were sufficient, so if this kind of grenade was attacked by the front-line infantry, it would be too powerful relative to the infantry, and even much better than the lethality of mortars

Although mortars are light artillery shells, and shrapnel flies almost close to the ground, the power of the infantry front attack is not obvious, and the main characteristic of the infantry front is that it is scattered in a relative area, and the soldiers are scattered quite widely, reaching a distance of 10~15 meters

Even if it's an infantry squad, the leap depends on these rules, and unless it's heavy artillery, shrapnel is too powerful to fly that far

But this kind of "hail personnel personnel bomb" that explodes in the sky and the shrapnel flies downwards is not like this, unlike ordinary artillery shells, which can go into the ground no matter how light they are, and the explosion has a certain angle, and this kind of "hail personnel personnel bomb" has no dead spots in its attack range, except for the trenches

Anti-infantry, a weapon that has no dead ends against infantry, is rudimentary but appropriate, especially clay and explosives, which are not a big expendum, and can easily produce a lot in a short period of time

When Li Zongren decided to transport these "hail personnel anti-personnel bombs" that he had been storing for more than a month to the front line, Cheng Siyuan did not know much about fighting, and his heart was also secretly happy

"This little devil has a loss to eat"

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