Huang Baitao was born in the army, and he only studied the fifth phase of the Jinling Officer Education Corps at the military academy, and then there was a special class at the Army University specially organized by Chang Kaishen to relieve the military power of the miscellaneous army. The pen www.biquge.info now that Li Kongrong asked him to be in charge of contacting the British Army, he was suddenly a little confused. Why should the British take care of themselves and give themselves a rice flag to protect themselves? He thought about these questions in his heart, but Li Kongrong took the telegram sent by Lu Ruping, looked at it and said with a smile: "Oh, it turns out that Li Zongren poked things out?" Hehe. ”

The telegram came from Hong Kong, and at this time the Japanese army was approaching Nanning, and Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, suddenly held a news conference the day before yesterday to bitterly criticize the spies for sabotaging the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. However, it was obvious that Li Zongren only wanted to use this incident as a weapon, and he greatly exaggerated the results of the U-38, claiming that the submarine had sunk at least 20 transport ships and five Japanese warships, and that while supporting the 524th Regiment, the defending forces of the Navy and Land Alliance could resist the Japanese landing beachhead for 24 hours with only one regiment, killing and wounding more than 2,000 Japanese soldiers. When the submarine had to replenish the torpedoes at Jinjitang, the Kuomintang spies suddenly arrested the captain of the submarine Colonel Li Kongrong and killed the chief engineer Major Su Jinghu, resulting in the failure of the joint defense of the sea and land......

When Li Kongrong evacuated Qinzhou Bay that night, he only saw Chao Wei, the commander of the 524th Regiment, who had arrived urgently at Longmen Port, and Li Kongrong did not invite him to board the boat, but only shouted a few polite words to him on the bridge, and then he never returned. Now someone is crying out for themselves, and the taste is not so pleasant.

"Sir, this is the newspaper of the day before yesterday in Hong Kong." Lu Ruping handed over a stack of newspapers to Li Kongrong. "In addition to Ta Kung Pao, most of the other newspapers denounced the Kuomintang spies, and also demanded that Chongqing severely punish the spies who killed the Su chief."

"Ta Kung Pao ......" Li Kongrong only glanced at these newspapers, and the top one was Ta Kung Pao, whose position was impartial, and did not call for severe punishment on a one-sided basis, but described in detail the beginning and end of the Jinjitang incident, and even wrote that the navy finally retaliated by shooting two military commanders to death at the dock. At this point, the article began to say that the navy did not obey party discipline and state law, and also mentioned the navy's previous incidents of stealing boats and capturing ships, believing that Su Jinghu's death was due to resisting arrest, and that the two military commanders should not be sentenced to death, let alone executed on the spot.

"What the hell?" Li Kongrong slapped Ta Kung Pao on the table. "Murder pays for life, it is justified, what kind of broken newspaper is this."

Huang Baitao was still thinking about how to contact the British to attack Italian Somalia, Li Kongrong didn't speak at this time, but he didn't persuade him, he said: "Brother Hansheng, isn't it inappropriate to completely turn your face with Chongqing right now?" ”

"There's nothing wrong with that." Li Kongrong waved his hand for Lu Ruping to put down his things and go out. "We don't ask Chongqing for anything, so there is no need to compromise with Chongqing, and we don't want to occupy land on the mainland as the king, so why look at their faces? Grievances everywhere are not only hard, but the soldiers below are also difficult to adapt? Is it to listen to Chongqing? Or listen to the Navy? Only when they completely tear their faces with Chongqing, the people below know: 'Oh, it turns out that the top and Chongqing are not all the way. ’

You have to make this clear to the people below. Our only purpose is to resist Japan, and the way to resist Japan is to attack the main island of Japan from the sea, not from the land. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, we stationed troops in Japan, and we wanted to be powerful and prosperous, so that they would honor us. It has nothing to do with China at all, so why bother to buy Chongqing's account? If he is kind to us, we will be kind to him; If he is evil to us, then we will be evil to him; If he wants to kill our people, then we will pay with blood, and it's as simple as that. ”

Li Kongrong finally said his internal diplomatic principles, last time he didn't dare to say it, for fear that Huang Baitao would run away as soon as he said it, and now, Huang Baitao, who has a deep understanding, fully believes that he has a future with the navy, and it is not so easy for him to run.

"Brother Huanran, do you understand what I mean?" After Li Kongrong clarified his position, he looked at Huang Baitao with dead eyes, wondering what he was thinking after hearing it.

"I understand that." Huang Baitao was unmoved, he first followed Li Chun, then Zhang Zongchang, and then Xu Yuanquan, so he was very familiar with Li Kongrong's warlord attitude, of course, this warlord was determined to fight to Tokyo. "It's just that, Brother Han Sheng, if it really falls out, there will be a lot of resistance to our army building and fighting."

"If you don't fall out, you're going to have to put your hand in the army. Forget it, the most hateful thing is that he will sow discord, give this person a letter of appointment today and let you be the commander of the army, and tomorrow give another person a letter of appointment and let him be the chief of staff of the army, but the two are not in harmony at all? Getting together will only tear each other down, and then show loyalty to Chongqing together, is this a war or a show? Li Kongrong was very familiar with Chang Kaishen's routine, and he was very glad that Chongqing had dismantled the navy.

"I have said before that there are two kinds of armies that can fight, one is the township army like Zeng Guofan and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the township of the hometown, the whole army is a local person, breaking bones and connecting tendons, the combat effectiveness may not be strong, but the cohesion is very strong; Then there is the party army like the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which believes in one doctrine and is all comrades. The navy is a township army, and since it is a township army, the party-state should not reach in and make the troops unnative and unparty-oriented, otherwise the soldiers will not be able to figure out whether they should believe in their brothers or listen to the party-state. ”

Li Kongrong once again mentioned his theory of the party and army of the township army, and Huang Baitao understood what he meant -- his original intention as Lu Zhonglin's chief of staff was that Chongqing was worried that Lu Zhonglin would contain the old department and rise again, and the result was that Lu Zhonglin did not hold the troops, and Chongqing did not hold the troops.

"Alright. Don't talk about that. I remember you brought the Marine Division's establishment table this time, right? Li Kongrong turned to the establishment.

"Yes, I've got the Marine Corps squad." Huang Baitao brought something, and as he spoke, he took out the notebook in his arms, which contained the compilation table he wrote. "This is just a brief preparation, after all, I have never seen those weapons, and only after seeing them can I know how to match them and how to arrange them. Pushing back from combat to weapons, and then finalizing the establishment with weapons, this is the ......"

Huang Baitao said that the principle of compilation is reasonable. It is not the weapons that surround the people, but the people that surround the weapons, and the weapons must be suited to the situation of the battlefield and the enemy's troops, so the establishment of the Marine Corps must be constantly changed in order to gradually stabilize, and the early stage can only be trial and error.

"Then you're done." Li Kongrong looked at the compilation table and said with a smile, "I think this compilation was done for nothing." ”

"This ......" Li Kongrong finished without reading it, and Huang Baitao's heart suddenly sank.

"That's right," Li Kongrong put aside the establishment table, and then said: "Marine Corps, I mean to form an air assault division first, and then ......"

"Air ...... Assault... Division? Huang Baitao was stunned word by word, I don't know why.

"This, cough cough ......" Li Kongrong cleared his throat, thinking about how to popularize science to the yellow bald man, and after a while, he found a white paper pencil, and said while drawing: "During World War I, everyone fought along the trenches and fought a static war, although there were detours and assault operations on the eastern front, that is, on the Russian side, but basically along the railway line.

In other words, the current war consumes more than ten times more materials than before. For example, in 1870, the number of large carts of field bakeries, hospitals, engineering equipment, etc., of a German army was only 30, and it doubled forty years later; Also in 1870, the German army carried only 200 rounds of ammunition per rifle per corps, but the average consumption of each gun in six months of combat was only 56 rounds of ammunition, while in World War I, the ammunition carried by each army without rifles increased to 280 rounds, but it was exhausted within a few weeks of the beginning of the war; In 1870, the German army consumed only 199 shells per artillery on average, but during the First World War, the German army prepared more than 1,000 shells for each gun, but these 1,000 shells were used up in a month and a half, and the German army consumed a total of 500 million shells in more than four years from 1914 to 1918.

What does this mean? That is to say, in 1914 compared to 1870, due to the increase in material consumption, although the number of transport vehicles increased, the mobility of the troops was weakened. In 1870 the army could leave the railway for 165 kilometers to fight, but in 1914 the distance that the troops could leave the railway for mobile operations was half the short, only about 80 kilometers.

On the other hand, if the logistics methods and efficiency of war change, the mode of war will also change accordingly, and the emergence of tanks and airplanes will cause changes in the mode of logistics, and then will cause changes in the mode of war. Like the German Panzer Corps' assault on Poland, this is an attempt to leave the railway and rely on its own vehicles for mobile warfare; The same is true of the 88th Army, when it is necessary and the road is in good condition with air superiority, it can leave the railway line for a hundred and fifty kilometers to fight. In such a war, it is difficult for you to distinguish what is the front line, where is the rear, and where it used to be the rear, as soon as the armored army breaks through, it is miserable, it is surrounded, and the rear becomes the front line. But it's still a hassle to climb on land, what if I can fly over? ”

Li Kongrong paused deliberately when he said this, and he saw Huang Baitao's eyes light up when he listened.

"There are two ways to fly over, one is the airborne troops, that is, people jump down from the transport plane and rely on parachutes to land, such troops can only carry light weapons, at most some recoilless guns, mortars, but once they land in key passes, such as transportation hubs, fortresses, headquarters, and baggage warehouses, these light infantry can also turn the tide of the war. And the trenches, bunkers, and artillery barracks that you have worked so hard to arrange in front of you will be surrounded without firing a single shot, and as soon as the commander behind surrenders, you will have to surrender with you.

The other is an air assault. This is not by parachuting transport planes, but by helicopter landing or rope landing that does not require an airfield landing. Last month, the US company New Zealand and China finalized a transport helicopter that can carry an infantry squad, and in addition to transporting people, the modified model can also transport guns and jeeps, as long as the total weight does not exceed 1,500 kilograms. I had people calculate that this load capacity could lift a new 105 howitzer. The heaviest thing in the army is the artillery, and if the cannon can be lifted, then everything else is easy to say.

You can imagine: you sit in the headquarters of the Ninth Theater of Changsha to resist the Japanese army and launch the second Battle of Changsha, the ferocious Japanese army crossed the Xinqiang River and is attacking the line of the Laodao River, once the Laodao River is broken through, it will approach Changsha City. In a desperate situation, a division of more than 10,000 people landed at the headquarters of the Japanese 11th Army more than 200 kilometers away in two or three hours, surrounded the entire Wuhan vertically, and even took the whole of Wuhan before dawn, and Okamura Ninji was also killed. You say......"

"This ......" Huang Baitao couldn't sit still, he stood up as soon as his chair moved, and his eyes seemed to be eating people. Brother Hansheng, can this really be done? ”

"We have helicopters, as long as we have air supremacy during the assault, we will definitely be able to do it." Li Kongrong smiled. "You better sit down. These overseas Chinese recruits from the United States were used to form the first air assault division. Since it is the first one, there are many problems, such as the helicopter is newly developed, the performance is unstable, not to mention the engine life is also short, it is said that it is only 600 hours; None of the soldiers and officers have fought like this, and they have no experience at all, so you have to find a way to train this air assault division well.

The most important and important thing is to change the thinking of war, and the one-dimensional war fought in World War I is that everyone fights repeatedly on the same line; Now the Germans and the 88th Army are fighting a two-dimensional war, they have tanks and dive bombers, and they can fight you on the same plane without moving along the railway; What about us, we are fighting a three-dimensional war, crawling on the ground is too slow, and we have to break through or something, trouble! The helicopter is more than 100 kilometers an hour, and as long as it is within the range, tens of thousands of people will fall above your head and behind you in a few hours, surrounding you vertically......"

Li Kongrong said something later, but Huang Baitao, who was in a daze and feverish, seemed to have forgotten everything, and he remembered the words 'three-dimensional warfare' and 'vertical encirclement'. Xu Peipei, who was drying clothes on the balcony, wanted to laugh when she saw this scene and couldn't help it, she said: "Look at you, everyone has hit the telephone pole." ”

Huang Baitao is a bald man, such a bump must be a big bag, and he can't hide it if he wants to. Li Kongrong didn't see Huang Baitao hit the telephone pole, only saw him walking towards the car with his head attached. He hugged Xu Peipei from behind and kissed her on the right cheek before saying, "I just helped him get through the second pulse of Ren Du, and now the symptoms are a little crazy, and it will be fine after this time." ”

"What is the second pulse of Ren Du, ah......ah, ah, the child is watching." Li Kongrong looted with both hands, and Xu Peipei immediately screamed.

"Hmm." Li Kongrong found that his daughter was lying on the window holding a rattle, and her dark eyes were looking curiously. "What are you afraid of, isn't it good for your parents to love you." Li Kongrong kissed the woman again, and when he looked at it again, the child was gone.

"I know how to teach bad girls." Xu Peipei's face was flushed, and she immediately said, "Hansheng, the newspaper said ......"

"What does the newspaper say?" Li Kongrong didn't care. "You read the Ta Kung Pao, right?"

"Well, I did. Han Sheng, the Standing Chairman ......," Xu Peipei turned around and stopped, and finally said: "I'm so worried about you!" ”

"What are you worried about me?" Li Kongrong was not worried about Chang Kaishen, "I'm worried about you and the child, this time you go to the United States and you will stay in Chinatown, there is a street where all our Fujian people live, I think it is the safest." ”