"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, holding tightly the telegram from Sun Zhen, acting commander of the 22nd Group Army and commander of the 41st Army. He pinched it so tightly that even his knuckles were white. His face also turned iron blue because of the eight big characters on the telegram.

"Quick, call the doctor, who will pour a glass of water for the chief seat!"

Looking at Li Zongren, whose face was blue and silent, he was worried about whether the "head seat" in front of him was angry or sick. You must know that the anger hurts the body, the war is in tension at the moment, if something goes wrong with the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, then how can this battle continue!

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

"Horn!"

This sound shocked everyone in the headquarters. Not only was Cheng Siyuan stunned, but everyone who saw it was dumbfounded. 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 responsible?

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 one regiment headquarters, three battalion headquarters, 10 infantry companies and one 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 the police and security forces, a total of 3,000 people; But the real combat force was less than two thousand people.

How could such a force be destroyed in the face of the Japanese army's strong strength and the help of tanks and aircraft?

It's probably to blame, and it's also to blame Sun Zhen for knowing that the chairman ordered the death of Teng County, but he didn't send the main force, and only put the disgruntled Sichuan soldiers with inferior weapons there. Units like the Sichuan Army, which are weak in combat effectiveness and have bad military discipline, should be dismantled and scattered and placed in an unimportant place on the entire front.

Everyone in the vicinity 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 looked back at them, and then he shook his head and asked them all to leave.

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

"Sir, ......?"

"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 would not retreat in Teng County, I thought ......"

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

What everyone didn't say at that time was that when the Sichuan army was fighting, its military discipline was corrupt and its combat effectiveness was weak. Deploy them in front, to put it bluntly, just as "spearheads". According to Li Zongren's thoughts, even if they were about to collapse at the first touch, they would buy time for the troops deployed behind and bring news.

One of the most infuriating things in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was that as a Chinese army, it was often not as well-informed as the invading Japanese army.

First of all, in terms of operational maps, the operational maps of the Japanese army are more precise and accurate. Because the Japanese Empire had long planned to invade China, they had already carried out relatively accurate surveys and maps of most of China.

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

In addition, the Japanese did a pretty good job in the direction of agents, as well as buying traitors. So much so that many times, they were led by traitors and appeared behind the flank of the Chinese army.

In fact, when you think about it, it's not surprising at all.

This involves the loyalty of the people of the country to the country, but this is definitely not one-sided, and you can simply blame those traitors. After all, it is very difficult for a government that does not care for its citizens at all, and spends its days trying to exploit and strengthen the outside world, it will be difficult to gain the loyalty of the people.

It's a good comparison, it's like falling in love, can the shaved head really stay hot forever? There is no need to analyze it, it does not 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 military and civilians in the face of the invaders was nothing more than scattering chaff in the wind. Even at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many landlords were willing to be part of the Manchu to eliminate King Li Chuang. It's just that they mistakenly thought that the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs only to eliminate Li Chuang, and they would return the world to them in the future, which was too innocent.

It is about this infuriating reason that Li Zongren is the starting point for deploying the Sichuan army in the front. Putting the weak combat units in front as the vanguard will not hinder the overall situation even if they are lost.

And even for this reason, he did not equip the Sichuan army in front with any "advanced" weapons that he mastered.

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

It's no wonder that he just gave himself a resounding slap, and Cheng Siyuan immediately understood what he was thinking. As for those "mysterious equipment" that have been produced, Li Zongren's way of using them is to equip all the troops selected by his lineage, except for terracotta grenades.

In this way, the secrets of those weapons could be kept secret for a longer time, not only to prevent the Japanese agents from knowing, but also to prevent other Chinese armies from knowing. This involves political and military struggles, and it is a chronic disease that cannot be shaken off in the Chinese army at this time.

The rest of the things that can be seen through the phenomenon are nothing more than the fact that the things that everyone can make are almost the same, and the things that can't be made have to be bought from foreigners. This is the root of the "theory of surprise of friends", and at the same time, it is also the reason why the national strength has been completely inefficient!

Don't look at the weapons provided by Jin Tao seem to be "dirty" slag, but the problem is that these weapons are used to deal with large-scale infantry attacks. Then whether it is used against the Japanese, or the Chinese army, which is also mainly infantry, it is a powerful weapon.

For example, against the Japanese army, it is easy to restrict their movement with large-scale nail mines, while against the Chinese army, it is only necessary to nail it to the sky.

It is precisely because of this consideration that all those "secret weapons" were intercepted into the hands of Li Zongren.

Of course, these weapons will play a great role in Taierzhuang, and even make the attack of the Japanese army difficult.

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Cheng Siyuan was also sighing in his heart, he didn't understand how the battle in front of him could be like this. Li Zongren's arrangement of troops was almost deployed according to the offensive plan of the Japanese army. Han Fuyu, deputy commander of the 5th Theater and commander-in-chief of the 3rd Group Army, said that if the enemy still made small calculations to preserve his strength and fled without a fight, this battle might not have been as tragic as we know in history.

It's a pity that Han Fuyu, who was stationed in Shandong, did not follow the original battle plan and fled without a fight when he saw the Japanese army attacking. Although in the end, Han Fuyu was shot by Chiang Kai-shek, and Sun Tongxuan took his place. However, Han Fuyu's self-retreat without a fight not only caused the Chinese army to lose the natural danger of the Yellow River, but also gave Jinan, Tai'an and other places to the enemy, and the consequences were indescribable.

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

So now, the process of history has once again pushed the front line of Taierzhuang to the battlefield, so maybe from now on, the battle will really begin to change.

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

The "Hail Personnel Kill Bomb" was provided by Jin Tao, of course, it was quite different from Chi Youjun's own use. And it is worth noting that these weapons and equipment have reached the time to be eliminated, and more advanced weapons will appear in piles on Hainan Island in the near future.

Although the design of the "Hail Personnel Anti-Personnel Bomb" obtained by Li Zongren is also multi-purpose, the way it is used is very different from that of Chi Youjun. It can be fired as a gun-fired grenade and is also capable of being used as a grenade throw.

Best of all, it's based on coarse porcelain made from the ubiquitous clay sintering, and it's finished with a draw-on fuse. Even when firing with a gun, the pull fuse is fixed to the barrel. Therefore, when it is fired, the fuse time is in fact already calculated.

As for the air explosion, it is relatively easy to achieve, because the main body is terracotta, so it is lighter than a metal grenade. You only need to have a heavier warhead and a lighter one to reach the goal of launching upwards and jumping.

This was of great benefit to the Chinese army, which lacked heavy artillery and could not have massively suppressed the straggler line charge of the Japanese army.

At this time, Li Zongren's subordinates did not have large-caliber artillery, and the mortars were quite sufficient. Therefore, if this grenade is attacked by the front-line infantry in a dense covering style, it will be too powerful relative to the infantry. 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 mortar against the infantry front line attack is not obvious. The main characteristic of the infantry battle line is that it is scattered, and in the relative area, the soldiers are quite dispersed, reaching a distance of 10~15 meters.

Even if it is an infantry squad's leap, it also depends on these rules. Then unless heavy artillery, the power of shrapnel is too small to fly that far.

But this kind of "hail personnel personnel bomb" that explodes in the sky and shrapnel flies downwards is not the case. Unlike ordinary shells, no matter how light they are, they will go underground, and the explosion will have a certain angle. In the attack range of this "hail personnel anti-personnel bomb", there are no dead ends at all, except for the trenches.

If you want to talk about anti-infantry, this kind of weapon against infantry without dead ends, although it is rudimentary, it is appropriate. Clay and explosives, in particular, are not a big consumption, and they 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 a month to the front line, Cheng Siyuan didn't know how to fight, and people were also secretly happy in their hearts.

"This little devil has a loss to eat!"