In the face of a group of arrogant and fierce generals of the 11th Group Army, the new commander, Lieutenant General Jiang Fangzhen, was nervous, excited, worried, and confident, and the President and the General Staff gave him full trust, and the top brass of the Group Army also showed an attitude of supporting him, but this could not change his worries.

Age has never been an obstacle to promotion in the Chinese army, and there are countless officers under the age of 30 in the millions of troops, which is the biggest feature of the Chinese army. The young country, the young army, and the young generals, Lu Liang stubbornly wants to smear on a blank piece of paper, and the consequence is that the short time for talent training makes young people act as pillars. Perhaps the young generals have a lot of shortcomings, but the Chinese army insisted on making up for the deficiencies with firepower, and the previous war performance was not bad.

However, there is no commander at the level of a group army like Jiang Fangzhen, Zhang Runnong, and Cai Songpo in the Chinese army at the age of about 30, or a senior rank like lieutenant general, even if the senior genes under Lu Liang are supported, the middle and lower-level officers will be dissatisfied, and they are also young officers, and the difference in promotion will make people psychologically unbalanced.

This situation can only be solved by Jiang Fangzhen and the three of them, and they can use their achievements and performance to smooth out the dissatisfaction of middle and lower-level officers. In fact, Lu Liang was not only promoted to Jiang Fangzhen because of historical factors, but also the evaluation of the three by senior genetic officers was: they have excellent tactical literacy, far-reaching strategic vision, calm and not impatient, and have a strong battlefield reaction ability. Zhang Runnong is good at attacking, concentrating superior forces, firepower and mobility, interspersed with stormy attacks, which can often make the enemy who has no time to react collapse instantly, so let him serve as the commander of the 12th Army, which has two armored corps and one mechanized infantry corps. Jiang Fangzhen was good at defense and did not move like a mountain, so his Eleventh Army was a legion of elite infantry. Cai Songpo's tactical command ability was not as good as that of Jiang Fangzhen and Zhang Runnong, but he had a unique strategic vision, a broad vision, and a strong sense of the overall situation, so he became the commander of the Marine Corps.

More than a month ago, Jiang Fangzhen arrived in Kagoshima with the 31st Army of the 11th Group Army, and began to strengthen the fortifications built by the local garrison. At this moment, he was in Kagoshima Port to meet the huge transport fleet departing from the mainland, and next to him was Major General Zhang Zuolin, chief of staff of the 11th Group Army, and another group army staff officer handed him the information obtained by the Investigation Bureau.

Jiang Fangzhen nodded, waited for the major staff officer to leave, smiled awkwardly at Chief of Staff Zhang Zuolin, and then looked down at the document to hide his embarrassment.

"Don't care, as long as the soldiers can lead them to victory and survive the general, it doesn't matter how old they are." Zhang Zuolin also has no good way to deal with this matter, the problem now is not the soldiers, but the middle and lower-level officers, who are dissatisfied with Jiang Fangzhen's rocket-like promotion speed, and the sense of imbalance generated by the comparison. You must know that many middle- and lower-level officers have followed Lu Liang from the beginning, and their qualifications are terrifying, which is also what Jiang Fangzhen is most worried about.

Zhang Zuolin is not very old, but at 36 years old, he is older than most young officers. During the Northern Expedition, he was captured and then entered the Chinese military system, and this experience made Zhang Zuolin's arrogant mentality much more restrained, and his study career in the military academy also made this self-proclaimed old soldier more civilized. After two years of study at the military academy, Zhang Zuolin was assigned to the grassroots level as a division commander, and then as the chief of staff of the 11th Group Army, and they are also the only pair of ordinary commanders in the group army level.

"Well, brother, let's take a look at this document, the Japanese are restless and ready to do it in Kagoshima." Jiang Fangzhen showed an excited expression, this was a great opportunity to prove himself.

"Ezo? What the heck? ”

"The indigenous people of Hokkaido and Sakhalin are also called Ainu, and the Yamato people are not the same race, but belong to the Japanese ethnic minority. Since the 17th century, it has been oppressed by the Japanese, and now the number has become very small, it is said that there are less than 30,000 people, and the Japanese are driving out all the Ezo people in the deep mountains and old forests, and it is estimated that children and old people are among them. These intelligence briefings are all on it, but my brother didn't read it? ”

"Hehe, hehe!" This exposed Zhang Zuolin's nature of not liking to learn, and he finally got out of the military academy, he vowed never to touch books again, but he didn't expect that there were also mountains of documents in the army, and it was better to serve as a commander in the grassroots troops in the comfortable staff department!

"According to the intelligence, the Japanese are trying to use 50,000 Ezo people as cannon fodder to test our troop deployment and firepower in Kagoshima Prefecture, and do not rule out the possibility of taking the opportunity to attack on a large scale. If we want to break through the defense line of our 11th Group Army, 50,000 people are still less, at least 1 million elites must be used to fill the big hole in front of our defense line! ”

Jiang Fangzhen was right, in order to build Kagoshima into the most stable bridgehead for the Chinese army to attack Japan, the Chinese army's engineering units began to build fortifications here five years ago. Along the northern tip of Kagoshima Prefecture to the southern end of Kushima, according to the structure of the Maginot Line stored in the steel base, under the command of the genetic engineer, 100,000 Japanese laborers were mobilized to build the Kagoshima Defense Line in two and a half years.

Of course, the Kagoshima Line was no match for the Maginot Line, but minefields, barbed wire, pillboxes, and interconnected underground fortifications were enough to make the Japanese scalp tingle. The dense military airfields in the rear provided the most powerful support for the defensive line, and the problem of insufficient troops after the outbreak of war was quickly resolved, and the troops of the 11th Group Army plus the Marine Division exceeded 200,000 people, greatly deepening the depth and density of the defense.

Now the last link is about to be completed, that is, the logistics materials of the Chinese army. After the Yokosuka Incident, the Chinese army dispatched troops, 1,000 of the 2,500 transport ships were used for the Pacific Island operation and the Hawaiian campaign, 600 were used to travel between the mainland and Kagoshima, 400 were used to transport overseas regiments such as the Korean Army and the Taiwan Army, and the remaining part was used for domestic transportation missions. So it seems that the transport ship is still a little nervous, and there will be a larger transport task in the future, so domestic shipyards have been expanding production capacity and recruiting shipbuilders.

After the end of the Hawaiian campaign, a large number of transport ships used in the direction of the Pacific islands returned, of which 700 were transferred to the direction of Japan, which means that about 1,300 transport ships were prepared in the Japanese campaign. At the same time, more than 1,200 large and medium-sized merchant ships are employed, and as time progresses, more ships will go out of the shipyard and become members of material transportation. The transport force would not be a constraint to the more than two million troops that had been thrown into the Japanese campaign.

In order to prevent the Japanese from attacking the Kagoshima defensive line, the General Staff first transported the 11th Army there to replenish its forces. The capacity of the Port of Kagoshima has been greatly increased after the expansion, and the Chinese Army has built four more temporary piers in Kagoshima Bay and three more terminals on the west side of Kagoshima. After the troops were delivered, they arrived at the ports of Kagoshima almost simultaneously by transports carrying large quantities of supplies from Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Shanghai, Xiamen, and Manila.

As long as the supplies were sufficient, Jiang Fangzhen was confident enough to defeat any enemy, which was the main reason why he personally went to the dock to meet the convoy.

The long-awaited fleet finally arrived, the time given by the logistics department was very punctual, and now the most comfortable thing should be the transport fleet, all the troops are fighting them, the sea is completely controlled by Huaguo's own navy, there are warships to escort it, and there is no threat of submarines below the sea surface, it is as easy as traveling.

If you live in a city, then buildings and vehicles are the best carriers to reflect the degree of civilization of a country, if you live in the countryside, the tools and machinery used by farmers to cultivate indicate the level of industrialization of the country, if you are on the seaside, you can see a giant ship of 10,000 tons passing by the sea not far away, you can definitely rise in awe of industry in the bottom of your heart.

Nearly 300 transport ships arrived at the port of Kagoshima and were densely scattered on the sea, waiting to enter the dock area in turn to unload their cargo. Standing on the sea like a forest of steel, it makes people open-minded, full of confidence in their country, and even has a sense of pride in asking who dares to come to war.

Jiang Fangzhen didn't feel so much, his work covered the time to express his feelings, and more than a dozen train locomotives were parked on the short-distance railway leading to the dock, waiting to transport the containers to the front line. There are also hundreds of military trucks at the material transfer center, which are parked under huge tower cranes and wait for the containers to land smoothly on the base of the trucks.

Cannons, armored vehicles, etc., are transported here in the condition of parts, which are then assembled by engineers and sappers and transported to the front, and the containers loaded with food, medicine, ammunition, and weapons are distinguished by different colors, and these categories are then refined by numbering. For example, grain includes rice, meat, canned food, etc., and even each kind of canned food is divided into canned fruit, canned meat, and canned luncheon meat. These materials are distributed and transported in an orderly manner through the needs of the army and the material forms drawn up by the logistics department, and in this project, as long as the distribution and transportation personnel are not dizzy, it is difficult to make mistakes. (To be continued.) )