It is said that the reinforcement of the two divisions and regiments in the Shandong battlefield by the War Department has reached a terrifying 170,000 troops, and not all of these 170,000 are combatants, and more than 50,000 of them belong to the kind of engineers and logistics personnel, and these personnel can also fight, after all, Asian armies are different from European armies.

The Asian army, whether it is a logistic or something, is on the battlefield anyway, and if it really insists on fighting, these logisticians can also do it.

In contrast, the East China Army has more logistics personnel, basically to a one-to-one degree.

Compared with the strength of the two sides, the frontal combat personnel of the Yue Army are still more than those of the East China Army, but in the Zhucheng Headquarters, Xia Jun and a group of staff officers do not know this situation, and only know that the Yue Army wants to reinforce one division, not two divisions.

The forces of both sides began to accumulate on the front line of Laizhou, and a situation of confrontation was formed.

The East China Army will not launch an attack until the navy leaves Laizhou Bay, after all, it will suffer shells, and the losses may be very large.

Therefore, the East China Army did not launch an attack on the Yue army on the Laizhou front, but used howitzers and rapid-fire artillery to bombard the Yue army's defense line indiscriminately.

The Yue army dug trenches on the Laizhou line, but most of their artillery was lost in Weifang, so the Yue army could only be passively exposed to shells.

At the same time, the East China Army was relatively cautious, and it was always 10 kilometers away from the coastline, and the guns of the warships were barely able to hit a little corner.

The shells of the East China Army can still achieve some effect, but the army is hiding in the trenches, so the effect is not too great.

At the same time, the East China Army also began to dig trenches on the front line of Laizhou, after all, there was nothing to do when it was stopped, and it was safer to dig some trenches.

Not only can the army not afford to lose, but China cannot afford to lose this war.

Therefore, Xia Jun was more cautious in command, although the number of troops on the front line of Laizhou was only more than 40,000, but he did not launch an attack.

The warships in Laizhou Bay are gathering more and more, and the navy thinks that as long as they have enough warships, they can defend against submarine attacks.

After all, with so many warships, as soon as the location of the submarine is discovered, the shells will definitely be able to sink the submarine if they drop it.

This is indeed a good defense method, and it is obviously thankless for submarines to encounter such a large-scale main naval force.

The army is not weak, but it ignores the possible attack on them by the East China Air Force.

It is said that the concept of bombing is still not very strong, and at the same time, it only defines bombing as bombing on land, not at sea.

The Fuso is a battleship, a newly built Fuso class, which belongs to the most advanced battleship in the book.

The Hiei is a Kongo-class cruiser, which is also the most advanced cruiser in this country.

In addition to these two ships that have just been launched, there are also the Third Fleet Navy, the Third Fleet flagship Shiroshima, Matsushima, Suma, Izumi, Chiyoda, Akitsusu, Takao, Tsukushi, Tokai, Maya, and Uji.

These are large warships, along with a bunch of torpedo boats and destroyers, mainly for anti-submarine use, and these small ships are cruising around in search of submarines.

However, the 26 submarines of the East China Navy have already lurked in the vicinity of the East China Navy in an underwater state, ready to attack at any time.

It was only because of the need to ventilate, so it did not lurk for a long time, and after lurking for most of the day, it was found that the headquarters did not have an order, so it drove more than ten kilometers away to ventilate.

On the afternoon of 8 September, the submarine unit received an order to lurk around the warship at 1 p.m. on 9 p.m. to prepare for action.

Basically, all the bombers of the East China Air Force were transferred to the temporary airfield in Shahe, and the personnel of the airfield followed, and the torpedoes and aerial bombs were also transported to Shahe Town, and the airfield began to be busy preparing for the bombing of tomorrow.

The airport has become a strategic place, and the East China special forces were transferred to Shahe Town Airport by Xia Jun to protect the airport, and at the same time, a cordon eight kilometers away was set up around the airport, and no one should approach.

The soldiers of the East China Special Forces were so depressed when they received the order, they thought that they would have received the task of infiltrating behind enemy lines to fight against Yueben, and they did not expect to come to see the airport.

Xia Jun didn't want to send East China special forces for the time being, after all, this was a regular war, and it was a local operation, and it was best to infiltrate behind enemy lines with caution.

One of the characteristics of armies fighting in foreign countries is that if they are harassed by enemy civilians, they will use butcher knives, as was the case in Germany and Ben.

Xia Jun was fully capable of defeating Xiao Yueben head-on, so the infiltration behind enemy lines was not carried out.

Wang Cheng took a group of special forces and began the task of looking at the airport.

Although the task does not seem to be big, Wang Cheng is very serious, Xia Jun has greeted him, if there is a demon moth, let him go to the logistics unit to report.

The airport is a top priority at this time, and any mistakes cannot be made.

When the East China Army was busy preparing to bomb the warships of the Navy, it was also extremely busy mobilizing soldiers and transporting soldiers and war materials.

To the relief of the War Department, the current situation has stabilized, and the Great Empire and the Chinese are facing off on the front line of Laizhou, which is a great benefit to the Army of the Great Empire, after all, it is now at a disadvantage in terms of troops.

The artillery fire of the East China Army obviously surprised the War Department, and if the East China Army launched an attack at this time, the army would basically not be able to hold the position on the front line of Laizhou.

Therefore, the temporary confrontation is what the political axe is happy to see.

They are mobilizing troops as quickly as possible, as long as the troops are mobilized, the Great Empire can turn passive into active, launch a fierce attack on the Chinese people, and let the Chinese people understand what is the world's first army.

Although Xia Jun did not carry out harassment behind enemy lines, there were also infiltrations behind enemy lines, mainly for reconnaissance.

The scouts of the East China Army soon discovered the abnormality in Longkou, and the army was mobilizing troops on a large scale to support the Shandong battlefield, and not only the first division of the army, but also the scouts saw the sign of the second division of the army.

This situation immediately attracted the attention of the command, and the staff officers immediately made an estimate, and found that after the army added two new divisions and regiments, the strength of the army would increase to 170,000.

The strength of the East China Army is only eight divisions, that is, 110,000 people, which seems to be basically the same as the Yue Army. At the same time, there were 100,000 militiamen behind the East China Army protecting the lines of communication and logistics troops, and at the same time, there were nearly 80,000 logistics troops, and more than 20,000 truck drivers alone were dispatched.

"For the sake of conservatism, it is best for us to transfer a few more production corps over to maintain the superiority in troops." Chen Xuanyu suggested to Xia Jun.

At present, the East China Army has deployed four production corps in the northeast, and in the seven provinces of East China's autonomous region, there are five more production corps that have been established for almost a year.

These five production corps have begun to gain combat effectiveness, and they are no worse than the regular army in terms of equipment.

"Then three more production corps will be transferred over to form a reserve army." Xia Jun thought about it and said bluntly, the three production corps were transferred to be reserves, so that the strength of the East China Army would be very abundant, unlike the current production corps that has to be transferred from the Second Army to the next production corps as a reserve.

There is still a little less of a division as a reserve.

The three production corps were transferred to the front, and both the First and Second Armies could be put into the field, while the three production corps of the First Reserve Army sat in the rear to deal with any situation that might arise at any time.

Xia Jun did not get carried away, if he messed around, even if the equipment of the East China Army was good, there might be a big problem, and then he would have to buy more advanced weapons and put them on the battlefield, and these new weapons were a little unreasonable.

Just when the Shandong battlefield was hot, Xia Jun was also secretly exchanging bullets, shells, bombs and other combat materials, which was equivalent to cheating.

Of course, cheating also has to have a technical surname.

At present, the East China Army occupies Weifang, and the engineers will soon build the railway, so these materials can be directly transported to the front line from the Beijing-Pudong Railway to the Jiaoji Railway.

At the same time, the East China Army is still forming a new artillery unit, and the East China Army has already built a 05 artillery division before, but the 05 artillery division and the 04 artillery division are trained together, because they have no artillery.

However, artillery has also been shipped from the port one after another, a division needs 324 105mm caliber howitzers, all of which were shipped from the port, Xia Jun has a lot of points in his hand, and he doesn't care about this artillery.

At the same time, Xia Jun also bought a division's rapid-fire artillery and asked the military headquarters to form another rapid-fire artillery battalion in the rear.

Combined, these guns have reached 1134 guns. The total number of 60mm mortars in three other professional infantry divisions and seven production corps also reached 1620 units.

However, there are no mortars of more caliber, and the Jian'an Military Factory has produced several mortars of larger calibers, but obviously the cannon steel is not up to par, and a large caliber is too heavy, such a heavy thing does not conform to the fast marching concept of the East China Army, so there is no equipment for the troops.

Xia Jun has already thought about it, and when this world war is over, he will immediately solve the problem of artillery and steel, and then solve the mortar problem clearly.

However, at present, the 600mm caliber mortar is already the most advanced, although it does not have the power of a large-caliber mortar gun, but the mortar itself is a weapon carried by the infantry, and the German 'Big Tabel' is too exaggerated for the East China Army.

…… In the early morning of September 9, Xia Jun arrived at Shahe Town, and the operational headquarters of the East China Army was also relocated to Shahe Town, only 20 kilometers away from the front line.

This distance is already very safe, after all, Xiao Yueben's cannon can't hit so far, not to mention that the cannon of the East China Army is not vegetarian.

The temporary airfield in Shahe Town has been expanded several times during the non-stop construction work around the clock, and the main problem with the bombing of the warships is that the airfield is too small, and it is impossible to reload every returning plane in time.

However, with the expansion of the airport and the increase in the number of people, these problems are no longer a problem.

The command named the operation 'Operation Thunder,' and it was scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. today, and the bomber formation was all loaded with torpedoes and heavy aerial bombs.

The bomb load of the Heavy Hammer 2 is just enough to hang a 533mm caliber torpedo, and the naked bomb is about 900 kg, and it can also carry a 200 kg aerial bomb.

Hammer 3 is all hung with heavy bombs.

All those who knew about this plan were looking at their watches from time to time as the time approached, and they couldn't wait!

(To be continued)