Information 3: The strength of the Guangdong warlord Chen Jitang

Some readers questioned that in Ding Yi's works, the protagonist's weapons are too advanced. This article is hereby used as proof. Because in Ding Yi's works, the protagonist's weapons mainly come from four aspects: first, the independent division of the Jiangxi enemy; Second, the Zhou Hunyuan Department of the Central Army; Third, the Hunan enemy He Jianbu; Fourth, Guangdong Chen Jitang Department. Among them, Chen Jitang's department is the mainstay. Now I will make a certain statement about the military strength of Chen Jitang's department, and talk about Ding Yi's thinking as an example. Of course, just giving a certain amount of proof does not mean that the author denies the intention of readers to question. On the contrary, Ding Yi is also very grateful to these readers for their questioning.

Guangdong has been Chen Jitang's world for a long time.

Compared with Chen Jitang, Zhang Fakui, Jiang Guangnai, Chen Mingshu, and even Li Zongren of neighboring provinces who were famous on the battlefield were a dumbfounded martial artist.

After Chen Jitang took control of Guangdong's military and political situation, he devoted himself to stabilizing the situation in Guangdong and created a small economic miracle in Guangdong. He sorted out taxes, rewarded industry, advocated international trade, protected agricultural products, advocated transportation, and attached importance to education, and formed Guangdong's "golden province for five years" at the same time as the central government. Guangdong Province has become a region exploited by heroes from all walks of life since the Ding Revolution, from Lao Gui, Sun Yat-sen, Hu Hanmin to Li Jichen, Guangdong's economy has been messed up, and the quail is full of knots. Chen Jitang started from scratch, and by the time the June 1 coup d'état took over Guangdong in 1936, Guangdong had become a model province for national construction. The author is deeply impressed by Chen Jitang's vision and ability.

In 1935, the throughput of Guangzhou Port approached 10 million tons. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the largest investment project of the Resources Committee in Guangdong was the introduction of American capital to establish the Guangdong Sugar Factory, and Chen Jitang made Guangdong sugar export as early as 10 years ago!

Chen Jitang was also determined to reorganize the army when he created an economic miracle in Guangdong, and Chen Bogong's hand was so big that even Nanjing was taken aback. Nanjing's instructor who trained German equipment, and Guangdong also trained one at the same time.

Nanjing traded arms with Germany and discussed the construction of factories, and Chen Bogong also bought a Pajiang Arsenal from Germany that could produce heavy artillery. Nanjing organized and trained torpedo boat troops, and Bogong established a mineboat base in Huangpu. Nanjing operates the air force, and Bogong has also trained an elite Guangdong air force. Nanjing advocated the training of the national militia, and Guangdong trained more than 100,000 reservists. There is an army university in Nanjing, and there are advanced classes in Guangdong; Nanjing has the Whampoa Military Academy, and Bogong has the Yantang Military Academy!

In addition, Chen Jitang has repeatedly imported machine guns and new rifles to Czech Republic, Germany and other countries, gradually replacing the original long-shot rifles. In the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), the army division was equipped with 5 pistols, 3 shell guns, 124 rifles, and 3~4 light machine guns. The battalion is equipped with a machine gun company and a mortar platoon; Regimental communication company; The division is equipped with an engineer battalion, a communications battalion, a baggage battalion, a special service company, and a health team. The division was equipped with 496 pistols, 496 shell guns, 6,507 rifles, 250 mounted guns, 336 light machine guns, 72 heavy machine guns, 24 mortars, and a small number of cars and horses. Soon, the number of machine guns in the company was increased from 6 to 9, i.e. 1 per squad. At that time, the infantry regiment of the 1st Army was much more equipped and firepower than Chiang and other troops. In addition to being equipped with cannons, mountain artillery, anti-aircraft artillery, and new mortars, the team directly under the group army also purchased 12 "Vickers" 1.5-ton amphibious tanks and 15 armored vehicles from Britain in the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), each organized into a squadron, called the tank brigade. At the same time, the expansion of the Shijing Arsenal, has increased the production line of grenades and mortars, the number of workers increased to more than 2,000, the daily start of 12 hours, the highest monthly output is: more than 1,000 7.9 mm rifles, 6 to 18 heavy machine guns, 6 ~ 18 mortars, 2.1 million bullets, 1,200 shells, 20,000 grenades, monthly expenditure of 200,000 millimeters. It also spent 11 million yuan to introduce and manufacture a full set of machinery and equipment for German-style 105 mm field heavy artillery and 75 mm light mountain artillery, and set up a gun factory in Qihutang, Yanjiang. In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), 1 field gun and 2 mountain guns were trial-produced, which attracted the attention of domestic military circles. Before it was officially put into production, Chen Xiaye, the gun factory was taken over by the Kuomintang government in Nanjing. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he moved to Rongxian County, Guangxi, and Tongzi, Guizhou, to Chongqing.

(Note: Part of the above information comes from "The Guangdong Army of the Ten Miscellaneous Armies of the Kuomintang", and the other part comes from the online article.) Note that the above-mentioned manuscript clearly indicates that the firepower of Chen Jitang's unit greatly exceeded that of Chiang's and other troops. In Ding Yi's works, a large part of the protagonist's weapons come from here, and that's the case. )