Chapter 269: The Crisis of the Japanese Army (Ask for Subscription!) ）

After a week's redeployment, the units of the Suicha Military Region have finally completed their reorganization, and all the units transferred to the 129th and 115th Divisions have also set off, and at the same time, the troops transferred to the Suicha Military Region are also on their way.

In early September, with the arrival of Yang Chengwu, He Xiulin, Hu Tianchang, and others, the Suicha Military Region finally completed the largest reorganization since its establishment.

Subsequently, the Suicha Military Region Headquarters issued an order to organize three major military subdivisions, which were temporarily under the direct jurisdiction of the military region headquarters and did not have a headquarters. The main units of the Guisui Army Sub-district include cavalry groups, guard brigades, cavalry regiments directly under the military region, artillery regiments, fire support regiments, and special operations brigades. The defense area included Guisui, Wuchuan, Tumut Zuoqi, Tuoketuo County, and Lingle County, and the main defense was against the Japanese army in the direction of Baotou.

Huang Sicheng, commander of the Jining Army Division, and Huang Bingyan served as political commissars, and the troops under their jurisdiction mainly included two brigades of the Seventh Division, and the defense areas included Jining, Zhuozishan, Fengzhen, and Chahar's right wing front banner, and Chahar's right wing middle banner, and the Jining Army Division mainly dealt with the Japanese puppet army in the Datong direction.

Yang Chengwu, commander of the Xinghe Army Division, and Chen Xudong, political commissar, also had the 92nd Division under their jurisdiction, and their jurisdiction included Xinghe, Shangyi, Shangdu, and Huade, and the main defense was the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Tianzhen and Zhangjiakou.

After the reorganization of the troops, there are many things to follow, after all, these troops transferred to the Suicha Military Region are all newly recruited new soldiers from the 129th Division and the 115th Division, and the vast majority of them were peasants before joining the army, not to mention shooting, and most of them have never even seen real rifles. Therefore, in terms of military literacy, it is far behind, and at best it can only be regarded as a peasant in military uniform.

For this part of the soldiers, it is necessary to step up their training time, so that they can adapt to the training mode of the Suicha Military Region and form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

Fortunately, these people are northerners. The physical fitness is okay, at least most of the body is stronger than the Japanese soldiers, and I believe that after a period of training, you can go to the battlefield. If they can win a few battles, these soldiers have the potential to become elite.

In addition, it is the matter of the special combat team, and the most seriously damaged thing in Wuhan is the special operations team, which has more than 300 people when it leaves. When they returned to Guisui, there were only more than 120 people left, including more than 30 wounded, so the casualties of the special operations brigade in this southward operation were more than 70 percent.

Because of this, before waiting for the reorganization of the troops, Ma Zheng ordered Tie Niu to select people throughout the army to supplement and expand the special operations brigade, and this time Ma Zheng decided to expand the special operations brigade to 500 people.

The amount of resources required to train a special combat unit is staggering, and the Suicha Military Region is now a special combat unit that can only train a special combat unit of this size, and I am afraid that it will not be able to bear it any more. Fortunately, now Iron Bull can basically take charge on his own. Therefore, Ma Zheng does not need to worry about picking people and the next training.

In addition to these things, Ma Zheng is most concerned about the construction of the military industry, which is related to how far the Suicha Military Region can go.

Now after all, it is different from before, in the past, the troops were small in size and small, and the materials captured in a small victory could allow the troops to support the troops for a period of time, especially ammunition. But now the force has expanded to more than 60,000 men, and even if each soldier only carries 10 rounds of ammunition, that is 600,000 rounds. Not to mention Ma Zheng's requirement that each soldier carry at least 120 rounds of rifle ammunition in the army. The machine gun had to carry at least five base ammunition, which added up to tens of millions of rounds. It is simply impossible to maintain the attrition of troops by capture alone.

Because of this, Ma Zheng specially applied for the establishment of the Ministry of Military Industry. The core unit of the Ministry of Military Industry is the arsenal located in the depths of Sumu Mountain, but Sumu Mountain is located between Xinghe, Fengzhen and Tianzhen, and it is too close to the Japanese defense area, so Ma Zheng is discussing with Yun Jian whether to move the arsenal to Guisui or Zhuozi Mountain, after all, there is not only developed transportation here. Moreover, it is located in the hinterland of the Suicha Military Region, and it is not very likely that the Japanese army will want to touch it.

After discussion, Ma Zheng finally decided to build a new arsenal in Zhuozi Mountain, and at the same time build a steel plant in Wuchuan County, north of Guisui. Ma Zheng knew that the Wuchuan area was rich in mineral resources, especially gold and iron. Moreover, the Japanese had previously established a small iron and steel plant in Halaha Shaoxiang in Wuchuan, and now the steel plant has fallen into the hands of the Suicha Military Region, as long as they send people over to start production, it will save Ma Zheng a lot of trouble.

There are arsenals and factories, but it is still not possible to produce qualified bullets, and it is also necessary to produce gunpowder factories and supporting power plants, so the Ministry of Military Industry is going all out under Ma Zheng's instructions, recruiting people everywhere, and building factories everywhere.

Fortunately, Feng An, Minister of Military Industry, has an extraordinary resume, he was once the head of the Jinling Gun Manufacturing Bureau of the National Government, and he is also a senior engineer.

And Ma Zheng did not disappoint him, and directly recommended Feng An to Yan'an to serve as the head of the Military Industry Department of the Suicha Military Region, and at the same time directly squeezed out 1 million oceans from the tight funds of the military region for him to build a factory.

Ma Zheng has only one requirement, that is, in the shortest possible time, the ammunition produced by the military factory can meet the needs of the troops for peacetime training and combat, and as for the guns and artillery, they can be taken slowly.

And Feng An did not live up to Ma Zheng's expectations, and quickly set up a shelf after taking over the Ministry of Military Industry, and then under his guidance, the arsenal was quickly relocated to Zhuozishan and resumed production. Due to the sufficiency of raw materials, the daily production capacity of the arsenal has rapidly increased from 100,000 to 300,000 rounds.

However, even this is still not enough to meet the needs of the troops, and according to the most conservative estimates, the 60,000-strong army needs at least 10 million rounds of ammunition per day in the event of a battle, so at least 5 million rounds per day can be produced to meet the needs of the troops. Fortunately, the production line has not yet been fully installed, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in output.

During this time, Ma Zheng's whole person was like clockwork, his front feet were busy, and he didn't even have time to go to the field hospital to see Li Lanqing.

Ma Zheng wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army had not made any major moves during this period to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible, otherwise after the little devil had accumulated strength, it would inevitably be another bloody battle.

In fact, Ma Zheng guessed very accurately, the Japanese army is indeed planning a battle plan against him, but this time the plan is a bit special.

ZHANG Jiakou. Headquarters of the Mongolian Army.

The news of Ma Zheng's smooth return to Guisui has been transmitted back to Zhangjiakou by the special high school, and it was learned that Ma Zheng's department has not only reduced its personnel, but also increased its strength a lot, and the number of the troops has also changed from the previous division to the current army, which made Lieutenant General Harem Chun extremely angry.

Since learning that Ma Zheng led the main force of the department to fight in Wuhan in the south, Harem Chun thought that the time had come to completely solve Ma Zheng's department, but the last time the army stationed in Mongolia lost troops and lost generals, the four-way army was annihilated all the way and was heavily damaged all the way, and the two roads were blocked, and more than 20,000 people were lost in just three or four days, and they were simply embarrassed.

If it weren't for the efforts of Okamura Ningji, a difficult brother, he was also hit the front line in Wuhan, and even a military flag was captured by the Zhina people, otherwise he would have been transferred back to China long ago with his connections in the base camp of Harem Chun.

Although he was not dismissed from his post and investigated, let alone sent to a military court, he was inevitably reprimanded. Just now, Harem Chun received another reprimand order from the base camp, asking him to restore the morale and combat capability of the troops as soon as possible and solve the crisis that the imperial army is facing now, otherwise there will be more capable people to replace him.

Harem Chun knew that the crisis in the base camp was referring to the matter of Baotou, because Ma Zheng's department captured Guisui, causing the defenders in the direction of Baotou to fall into the middle attack of Ma Zheng's department and the Jin Sui army's Fu Zuoyi department, and they could be attacked by the two departments at any time.

More importantly, due to the fact that the two strategically important places of Jining and Guisui were conquered, there were major problems in the communication between the headquarters of the army stationed in Mongolia and Baotou. Although it will not completely break off the contact, if you want to go from Zhangjiakou to Baotou now, you must make a detour to the Xilin Gol grassland, and then cross the Gegentala grassland, and go south to Baotou from Damaoqi, which is more than twice as far as the previous from Datong to Jining and then to Baotou via Guisui.

What's more, there used to be railway transportation, but now it can only be carried forward by war horses, and the poor traffic conditions are even impassable by cars. Therefore, the defenders in the direction of Baotou have basically become lone all the time, and they are in a very dangerous situation. (To be continued.) )