Li Kongrong has a very shallow understanding of the actual tactics of the army, while Huang Baitao is from Beiyang, so he not only has practical experience but also has a lot of knowledge. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info he thinks the country. In addition to the army's lack of firepower, insufficient training, empty salaries, and lack of fighting spirit among the commanders, another major shortcoming is the lack of mobility. Most of the time, even if the Japanese army carries artillery regiments, it is more than the rest of the country. The two legs of the army run fast, and the reason why there has been no war of annihilation since the Anti-Japanese War is actually because the Japanese army is insufficient. The army has suffered heavy losses and the country. The weaker the army becomes, the weaker it becomes, the more troops it needs to gain numerical superiority, the more troops there are, the more difficult it is to provide logistical support, and the officers and men cannot have enough to eat, so how can they have the heart to fight.

In his description, the country. The best choice for the army is not to fight a general battle with the Japanese army, but to engage the Japanese army below the regimental level, to carry out a counteroffensive with superior forces, concentrate elite forces and artillery fire, and to learn the methods of the Eighth Route Army to encircle and send reinforcements to fight ambush warfare.

A country. The generals actually mentioned the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, which surprised Li Kongrong. It wasn't that he didn't want to contact this army, but in the dark he felt a threat - his intuition told him that as long as he came into contact with the Eighth Route Army, he would come to this world inexplicably, and he would leave this world inexplicably. If he can't touch it or mention it, he has no choice but to think that he doesn't have this army.

"How could Brother Huan Ran pay attention to the tactics of the Eight Paths?" It was already the third day, and Li Kongrong had not gone out since he entered Huang Baitao's apartment, and the two had been talking about the Marine Corps. The general principle is to set and bring the country together. Corps officers and veterans of the wounded served as the backbone of the rebuilding of the Marine Corps.

"Yes, the Eighth Route Army is in the north, and brother, I often pay attention to the north." Huang Baitao is addicted to smoking, "The Japanese army is good at maneuvering, strong in firepower, and good at training, but if it can use the terrain and battlefield situation - any strong army, when the march is not fully launched, is its weakest time, so it is extremely important to use the terrain to fight ambush warfare, and encirclement reinforcements are one of them, but not the only one." As long as the Japanese army can be deprived of its original structure and firepower, and a situation of light infantry confrontation can be formed, our army can win a great victory by fighting more and fighting less. ”

Li Kongrong's perception of the army operation is artillery operation, no matter how good the training is, if there are no tens of thousands of shells smashed over, it will be finished. As far as the army is concerned, the biggest gap is in artillery. If the artillery is insufficient, the remedy he knows is the grenade tactic - to try everything to get closer, and then bombard it with grenades, and then boldly charge the enemy while the enemy is stunned by the grenade, which can be regarded as a small infantry artillery coordination. However, Huang Baitao's method is to strip away the enemy's artillery and even the entire combat system, causing a direct confrontation between light infantry, which is not necessarily hand-to-hand combat, but should be regarded as ambush warfare and mountain and jungle warfare.

Thinking of jungle warfare, Li Kongrong said: "Brother Huan Ran, where do you think the Japanese army will fight next?" ”

"What's next?" Huang Baitao thought for a while and said, "The Shu Road is difficult, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops from Hu Zongnan in the direction of Shaanxi, so it is not easy for the Japanese army to enter Sichuan." Besides, if you really want to enter Sichuan, you should take advantage of the situation to pursue after the Battle of Wuhan, so as to see that the Japanese army has no intention of entering Sichuan. In this way, all Japan can do is cut off our foreign aid, and the next one they are likely to attack Guangxi. ”

"Hehe......" Huang Baitao also saw the general trend very clearly, Li Kongrong smiled, "If I guess correctly, the Japanese army will set off from Hainan next month and land in Qinzhou Bay to cut off the Guiyue Highway." ”

"Next month?" Huang Baitao was stunned and nodded slowly. At this time, Britain and France had declared war on Germany, and the French were helpless to attack the Guiyue border with Japan. "Then we'll have the Burma Highway left."

"The Yunnan-Burma Highway should not be relied on for a long time." "According to my assumptions, the first battle of the Marines will be in Burma. ”

"Myanmar? Brother Hansheng is saying that the Japanese army will attack Nanyang? Huang Baitao was taken aback, and he said: "It seems that Hong Kong is also going to be occupied by Japan?" ”

"That's nature." Li Kongrong said, "If you don't fight in the South Seas, Japan will have no petroleum rubber, and if you don't have rice in China, it will be difficult to even eat enough." I expect them to attack Burma by the end of '41, so you'll have to train your troops and go into the Burma campaign before then. If this last line of communication is not secured, our guns, ammunition, and trade will all be cut off. When the time comes, the rear will collapse, and maybe the national government will really move the capital to West Kanglasa. ”

Li Kongrong said cruelly, Huang Baitao's face changed drastically after hearing this, and he was silent for a long time, and after a while, he said: "Officers can train a batch first, but it doesn't mean that they will be recruited after all the training is completed, and they can train soldiers while training officers halfway through, Brother Han Sheng, when will the navy find a place to use as a training place?" ”

"This can't be rushed, and it is planned that it will not be available until this time next year." Li Kongrong thought about which French islands in the Caribbean, and after thinking about it, he still felt that it was convenient to do it only when the Japanese occupied northern Vietnam first, and Britain could not lease the base to itself in order not to anger Japan, and it was even more impossible for the United States to agree, and Roosevelt agreed that Congress would not agree, but Italy could fight, especially after he declared war on Britain and France in June next year, but the Italian colony was in East Africa, too close to Japan...... Li Kongrong thought about all the places in the world, the world is very big, But none of them belong to the Chinese Navy.

"Can't it be sooner?" Huang Baitao was a little anxious, if Burma was really occupied by the Japanese, the rear was not only a matter of being blocked, but it was not impossible for the Japanese army to occupy Yunnan along the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

"I'll figure it out, but I promise I'll find an archipelago near the Atlantic Caribbean in October." Li Kongrong said. The position he said made Huang Baitao dumbfounded. "Where is the Caribbean?" He asked.

"In ......," Li Kongrong had to draw a map of North America on a piece of paper and point to the Panama Canal Road, "right here." ”

"Here?!" Huang Baitao didn't expect it to be on the other side of the world. "Can't it be in Burma?"

"It's impossible in Myanmar." Li Kongrong immediately denied, "It is impossible for the British to let us train troops in his colony, which will offend the Japanese, and now that the European war is fighting, Britain and France can only make concessions to Japan in the Far East." Originally, there was another place that was closer, that is, Somalia, East Africa, which was an Italian colony, and if it was robbed, it would be robbed, but the base not only had marines but also a navy, and the navy was stationed here, and the Japanese Combined Fleet would definitely come over, and it would be impossible for us to hold Somalia before the naval fleet was formed. ”

The Navy's actions must conform to the development of the world situation, and after these few days of conversation, Huang Baitao, who knew this bottom line, had to accept his arrangement to go to the other side of the world to train the Marine Corps. He had to ask again, "Then how many merchant ships can we have?" ”

"At least half a million tons." Speaking of merchant ships, Li Kongrong is not worried, and now his instructions to Zhou Maobai are to make every effort to build 10,000-ton ships, and try not to sell these ships, but to set up a shipping company to help the British transport goods. "We'll actually have a million tons of merchant ships by then. These ships were more than enough to transport supplies and provisions for an army and an entire fleet. ”

"Since you have a ship, the last thing you have to worry about is money." Huang Baitao took a notebook from the desk, "This is the establishment table of the 1st Marine Division I set, Brother Hansheng, please take a look?" ”

The two of them have basically been talking about the Marine Corps in addition to eating and sleeping these days, and Huang Baitao seems to have gotten up in the middle of the night to write this compilation, no wonder his eyes are so red today. Li Kongrong looked at it while thinking about it, this establishment is somewhat similar to the flavor of the Japanese army, each squad has 13 people, 33 establishments, each division has three regiments, and the number of the whole division is about 14,000 people.

Referring to the establishment of the Japanese army, Li Kongrong did not have any problems, but he did not think so about the weapons, he said: "The United States has copied the German MG-34 general-purpose machine gun, and some improvements have been made, each squad should be equipped with an MG-34 machine gun, and the infantry squad will focus on machine guns to carry out tactics; There are also flamethrowers that also need to be heavily equipped, and the Japanese troops on the island often hide in cave fortifications, which cannot be solved without flamethrowers; Breech guns had to be added to the battalion of 105mm howitzers and 155mm cannons, and 75mm caliber guns were kept to a minimum; There will also be an increase in trucks, and two hundred is absolutely not enough, and it can be initially set at five hundred or eight hundred; The engineer battalion should be equipped with bulldozers, and a tank battalion should be added to the establishment......"

It took more than two minutes for Li Kongrong to add what he thought was necessary, Huang Baitao was already completely stupid, and each Marine Division prepared a 155 cannon battalion! Even the 150 howitzer is the country's most important weapon. The 150 howitzers directly under the Supreme Military Council of the army, which were deployed in Taierzhuang, were less than one battalion, and they beat the Japanese army like dogs.

"Weapons are important, but training is even more important, and officers." After Li Kongrong finished talking about weapons, he emphasized training, and he didn't want his equipment to be captured by the Japanese.

"How much does such a division cost?" Huang Baitao finally relented, and he asked the most critical question, budget.

"The plan is three million dollars for a division." Li Kongrong roughly said a figure, "Three divisions cannot exceed 10 million dollars." My thinking is this: There are not many overseas Chinese who are willing to join the army, and there are not many people who can join the army, and the price of transporting soldiers from the country is high, and I think it is better not to transport them if they are not officers and veterans, so the size of the army in the early stage is likely to be less than 30,000, maybe only 20,000 or even 20,000, and the enemy has at least one division. Rather than doing so, it is better to increase the armament and firepower and train the more than 10,000 people into elite soldiers. When the war starts, it will expand while fighting, and as many soldiers can be recruited, and then it can be reorganized in India. ”

"More than 10,000 people?" Huang Baitao looked at Li Kongrong and said, "Why are there only more than 10,000 people?" ”

"There are too few overseas Chinese in North America, and in the whole of America, there are only 200,000 overseas Chinese, although there are many overseas Chinese men in the Americas, how many soldiers can be recruited for 200,000?" Li Kongrong asked rhetorically. "There are a lot of overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and it is far away to the Caribbean, but there are not too many who are willing to join the army and can pay for it. Of course, this is only my conservative estimate, and if tens of thousands of overseas Chinese come to Nanyang at that time, it may not be possible. The fleet can also think of a way to see if it can make a few trips to bring new recruits over. ”

"Recruits must be transported." Huang Baitao never wanted to be unable to even put together an army. "It's hard to survive without the Marines."

"In addition, North Koreans and some Burmese will join this team, and these people will also be under your jurisdiction." Li Kongrong added again.

"North Korea and Burmese ......" Burmese is just that, North Korean Huang Baitao is puzzled.

"Yes, it's all independent." "Especially the Burmese, you have to keep it completely secret and not let anyone, especially the British, know about it. ”

Huang Baitao was thinking about the relationship between the navy and the Burmese when the table clock in the living room rang, and it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, which was the time when Li Kongrong said he was going to leave. Before he could say anything to stay, he heard his wife Liu Biyun's voice outside, 'It's Mr. Zeng who is here' - Zeng Guosheng arrived, and he came to pick up Li Kongrong and leave.

"Brother Huanran, then I'll take my leave." Li Kongrong got up and shook hands with Huang Baitao, with a satisfied smile on his face, and he finally threw all the problems of the Marine Corps to Huang Baitao.

After a few days of deep talk, Huang Baitao was naturally reluctant, but thinking that Li Kongrong was not safe in Hong Kong and had military affairs in his own hands, he could only say: "Brother Hansheng, take care." We'll see you next time. ”

"Take care." Huang Baitao's wife Liu Biyun also came to say goodbye, and the two had a deep relationship.

"Goodbye." Li Kongrong said again, and only then did he leave the apartment where he had stayed for three days and followed Zeng Guosheng into the car.

"Where to go? Sihao Hotel? Zeng Guosheng didn't expect that Li Kongrong and Huang Baitao would talk for three days, and now they will finish talking.

"Can't go to Sihao." Li Kongrong shook his head. The people in Chongqing are looking for him, and the Japanese are also looking for him, with the party-state's ability to keep secrets, it is likely that the Japanese will follow behind Chongqing, and Xu Peipei is the bait, as long as he goes, not only will he be exposed, but even the U-38 will be exposed - the United States will also advertise that he is in New York.

"Let's go to Hung Hom Bay Pier in Kowloon." In addition to Xu Peipei's mother and daughter, Li Kongrong also wanted to meet a few people in Hong Kong, and if he could take care of his safety, he even wanted to meet Chen Ce of the 4th Fleet, but the current situation made him have to be cautious.

"Leaving today?" Zeng Guosheng asked while driving. He didn't expect Li Kongrong to come to Hong Kong and only see Huang Baitao.

"Yes, let's leave today, there are too many people in Hong Kong, and their whereabouts cannot be kept secret." Li Kongrong said.

"But this is the place of the British." Zeng Guosheng was a little puzzled, or reluctant, he also had a lot of things to talk about with Li Kongrong.

"The British don't want to cause trouble in Asia." Li Kongrong understood Zeng Guosheng's thoughts, and he suddenly felt that some things might as well be changed to Japan, and it might be better to talk to Zeng Guosheng at one time. "Brother Gongbei, find a small restaurant to eat, let's talk about something while eating."

Li Kongrong made up his mind to talk about things, Zeng Guosheng immediately understood, the car quickly drove off the main road, stopped at the door of a fisherman's restaurant, and the two asked for a private room, and then began to talk. (To be continued.) )