[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 533: 20,000 troops (ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Thinking of the whole process of the development of the troops, the smile on Xie Wensheng's face became even brighter, like a small chrysanthemum in full bloom. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

grabbed the water cup on the table, took a sip of cold water, and then Xie Wensheng said: "Speaking of which, I have to thank the commander and the comrades of the 1st Brigade, it is precisely because you fought well in Yanggu County that the Japanese army felt the real pressure, so the old devil of Odaka Kamizo had to send a large number of reinforcements to the Liaocheng area." At the same time, a large amount of weapons and ammunition were also sent to the defenders of Liaocheng, and the train transporting the ammunition happened to pass through my defense area. In order to intercept this batch of munitions, I sent troops to blow up the railway and a relatively important bridge in front of me before the Japanese troops arrived at the Menqiangou railway station. ”

"The railroad was destroyed, the bridge was broken, and the little devil's train naturally couldn't go, so a squadron of Japanese soldiers and two military trains were stranded at the Menqiangou railway station. The Menqiangou Railway Station is just a small station that is not even a C-class railway station, although the Japanese army also stationed an infantry squad here, but its combat effectiveness is far behind, so I took the Menqiangou Railway Station overnight. ”

"Despite the loss of some people, the harvest is still very good. It's just a pity that the dozen or so heavy artillery pieces are too rough to fight in the mountains, so let me blow them all up, otherwise we would have our own heavy artillery regiment. ”

"Heavy artillery, what caliber?" Liang Shangren couldn't help but speak.

"It's not that big, it's all 1o5mm caliber cannons, there are 16 guns, but there are very few shells, only less than two bases, the shells are all pulled back by us, but the cannons exploded, it's a pity" Xie Wensheng said with a look of pity.

"You loser, that's sixteen heavy cannons! Hey, if I had been left alone, I would have to transport those sixteen heavy cannons back even if I had to fight for my life, what a good thing. Liang Shangren said with a sad expression.

Ma Zheng said with a smile: "Liang Er is stunned, you kid is so good, how can you be like a bun that has just come out of the countryside, and you have never seen the world." Don't complain about Wensheng, let me tell you, it's a 1o5 cannon just produced by the Japanese army. This kind of cannon has a large caliber and a long firing range, and its power is far from being comparable to that of mountain artillery and field artillery. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Zheng's voice changed and continued: "But it also has its own weakness, that is, this kind of cannon is extremely heavy, and it cannot be transported on the battlefield unless it is pulled by a train or a large military truck. Moreover, the requirements for road surface are also extremely high, which is not something that ordinary mountain roads can meet. At the same time, this kind of cannon must be operated by a professional gunner, and there is really no such expert in our troops, so it is useless to pull back that batch of cannons. ”

"Besides, the little devil will also use these dozen or so to test the firepower and survivability of the battlefield, otherwise he would not have sent only one infantry squadron to escort him. Wen Sheng blew them up, and that's right. ”

Xie Wensheng also smiled and said, "Look at what you kid can, pull it back, can you pull it back?" We tried all the tricks at that time, but we still couldn't pull those heavy guns, and the gun wheels were two deep trenches on the ground, and we couldn't pull them away at all! ”

Liang Shangren touched his head embarrassedly, and said depressedly: "Hey, it's a pity anyway, I've been fighting for seven or eight years, and the most powerful artillery I've ever seen is only the Japanese army's 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery, no matter how large the caliber is, I haven't seen it." We can't afford to keep the big guys, but I still want to meet the big ones. ”

Then Liang Shangren turned around and asked: "Lao Xie, your grandmother's cannons have been bombed, what are you doing pulling those shells back, can a 75mm mountain cannon shoot a 1o5mm cannon shell?" ”

"Don't talk about it, it's not that the guys under my command are poor, so whether it's useful or not, they pull it back, and by the time I find out, it's too late. Do you think I'm as ignorant as you are? Also firing cannon shells, hey, no culture, it's terrible," Xie Wensheng quipped.

Everyone followed with a burst of laughter, these two guys are a pair of enemies, and they are not serious when they meet. However, let them make such a fuss, and the serious atmosphere in the entire conference room suddenly dissipated a lot.

Ma Zheng coughed lightly, and then said, "Okay, okay, you don't have a proper shape." Weiguo, let's talk about the situation of your brigade now, the development of the second brigade is really good, and it is worthy of praise. After this battle is completed, the banner of the Shandong Military Region will be flown out, and then these brigades of yours will become the backbone of the new military region. ”

"Commander, the development of our third brigade is not slow, some time ago we incorporated two large bandit troops and a remnant of the Kuomintang in the Jilu border area, and at the same time uprooted all the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army in Shen County except for the county seat. Now our three brigades have three fully manned infantry regiments, a cavalry battalion, a guard battalion, and a reconnaissance company. There are more than 8,800 people in the brigade. The equipment of our three brigades is not very good, but it is not much worse than that of the first brigade, and the whole brigade is equipped with a total of 4,456 Japanese-made 38 large covers, 2,345 medium and regular infantry, 2,277 Hanyang-made, 165 light and heavy machine guns of various calibers, 22 mortars, and two mountain artillery and field artillery. ”

Then Xu Weiguo continued: "Like the same brigade, our three brigades are not short of weapons and equipment, but they lack ammunition. On average, each soldier has less than 30 rounds of ammunition in his hand, which is fine in normal times, but it would not be great if there was a big war. ”

Xu Weiguo slowly reported his family background, although the Eighth Route Army has always had the habit of hiding its strength, but everyone here knows the importance of this meeting, so they will definitely not play sloppy with Ma Zheng at this juncture, one is one, two is two, absolutely unambiguous.

If they didn't explain their family background clearly, then Ma Zheng would miscalculate when estimating his own strength, and the consequences would be really difficult to say, so every brigade commander was very cautious when saying every word.

Ma Zheng was still very satisfied with the development of the brigades of the Independent Division, especially the development of the Second Brigade, which was beyond his expectations. But Ma Zheng also knew that even if he had more than 20,000 troops in his hands now, he was not at the same level as all the Japanese troops stationed in Shandong. Needless to say, in terms of weapons and ammunition, although the three brigades of the independent division have made great progress, they are not enough compared to the well-equipped Japanese army with sufficient ammunition.

Moreover, there are still major hidden dangers in the quality of the soldiers of the independent division, not to mention that the independent division had less than 10,000 men just over a month ago, and after a month it has become more than 24,000 people.

Moreover, Ma Zheng knows very well where these soldiers under him come from, most of them are from the puppet army anyway, the rest are newly recruited, and of course, some of them are the defeated soldiers who have incorporated the national government.

If there is sufficient time for education and training of such a huge and complex number of troops, there will naturally be no problem, and it will be enough to disrupt the organization and reorganize it a few times, and coupled with the special ideological education of the Eighth Route Army, it will not be long before these people can be transformed into real soldiers. But what Ma Zheng lacks most now is time, otherwise the brigades would not have been able to absorb so many soldiers without an adequate logistical support mechanism.

Although there was a hint of worry, Ma Zheng believed that the independent division would survive. Anyway, this kind of thing exists in all departments of the Eighth Route Army, don't you think the Suicha Military Region came over like this at the beginning? When I first arrived in Chanan, the most common situation was that the warehouse of the logistics department could starve the rats to death. It's been so many years, are you still afraid that you won't be able to get over the current hurdle?

Besides, they have no way back now, unless Ma Zheng is willing to leave Lu Xi's people and transfer with the troops, in this case, the little devils will definitely have nothing to do with them. But the problem is that in this way, the common people will suffer, and the little devils and two devils who can't find the Eighth Route Army will definitely sprinkle their anger on the people, which is definitely not what Ma Zheng wants to see. (To be continued.) )