As a military power, Japan's development and strength in the military industry are more than ten times greater than that of the Liaodong Army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Not only does it have a perfect military merit system, producing all kinds of weapons, including warships, but it also has a very complete weapons research and development organization, which continuously develops all kinds of new weapons for the Japanese army.

The Japanese intelligence agencies spent a lot of effort to get the mortars back from the Liaodong Army, and in just a few days, the R&D department completely understood the mortar technology, and then after another day, several sample guns were sent to the Japanese army's weapons experimental department.

After experiments, the Japanese army had to admit that the mortars developed by the Liaodong Army made up for the lack of firepower of the troops on the battlefield.

To a certain extent, the power of mortars in terms of short-range fire cover is fatal to the enemy.

With these conclusions, coupled with the fact that mortars are not expensive to build, they are easy to build.

Within a few months, Japan's perfect military system produced more than 1,000 mortars and a large number of supporting artillery shells.

The Manchurian Army, which suffered a big loss in mortars and still confronted the Liaodong Army, became the first Japanese army to be equipped with such mortars, and each infantry brigade was equipped with a mortar squadron of six mortars.

At the same time, the Japanese army, which had suffered several heavy losses at the hands of the Liaodong Army, also understood the importance of automatic fire and artillery in the war.

Then he learned from the West and readjusted the firepower configuration of each division for the Liaodong Army.

As a result, the Japanese army establishment and firepower allocation that appeared in World War II in the later generations appeared in the Japanese army more than ten years in advance.

After a series of reorganizations and reinforcements, each infantry squad of the Japanese army was equipped with two light machine guns and two smaller versions of mortars, which were later known as grenadiers.

Each infantry brigade is armed with a heavy machine-gun squadron of nine heavy machine guns, a medium mortar squadron of six medium mortars.

Each infantry wing is armed with six mountain artillery squadrons that are lighter than field artillery, each division is equipped with one field artillery wing with 36 field guns, and some reinforced divisions and regiments also have an independent heavy artillery brigade of 12 howitzers.

The Manchurian Army, which was likely to break out at any time, because the Liaodong Army was equipped with a large number of heavy artillery, the military headquarters directly replenished the two heavy artillery brigades that had suffered heavy losses in front, and then strengthened the Manchurian Army with a heavy mountain artillery wing.

Seeing that the 150,000 elites under his command had once again reached full strength, especially the large number of artillery and automatic firepower strengthened by the military headquarters, the idea of revenge in the heart of the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, Dashan Yan, was once again burning brightly.

After reading the latest information about the Liaodong Army sent by the chief of staff, Da Shanyan's eyes quickly shot out two fine lights, and he frowned and asked rhetorically: "The Liaodong Army has really hoarded so much grain in the Liaodong area!" ”

"Hey!" The chief of staff affirmed.

According to the proportion of the Liaodong Army's field tax, the grain production in the entire Liaodong area exceeded 40 million quintals. If all this grain were sent back to China, it would be enough for the entire population of the Japanese Empire to eat for two months. ”

"Shhh Da Shanyan, who couldn't help but gasp, couldn't help but exclaim: "A small Liaodong can produce so much grain, so if all the three northeastern provinces are developed and planted with grain, grain production will not be able to feed all the people of the Great Japanese Empire." ”

The chief of staff first showed an expression of envy before replying: "That's true! ”

Seeing that the shocked expression on Da Shanyan's face was getting stronger and stronger, the chief of staff continued: "Although the grain production is amazing, this is only a corner of the strong strength of the three northeastern provinces. ”

"You mean that the three eastern provinces still have what the empire wants!" Dashan Yan asked rhetorically with an incredulous expression.

The chief of staff then sent a stack of documents to Dashan Yan, and then explained: "This is what the intelligence department has collected over the past few months. ”

"The three northeastern provinces produce soybeans, and the Liaodong Army built an oil mill. Every year, the soybean oil alone has an income of at least five million taels of silver. ”

"This is still the current grain production of soybeans, according to intelligence, the Liaodong Army is vigorously promoting the planting of soybeans in the three northeastern provinces, according to the current promotion into the city, at most two years, the income of the Liaodong Army alone can exceed 10 million taels of silver."

"In addition, the three northeastern provinces are also rich in iron ore, coal mines, copper ore and other resources, after the establishment of the arsenal by the Liaodong Army, all kinds of raw materials come from the three northeastern provinces."

"If the empire can take the three northeastern provinces as its own, the various scarce resources of the empire will be guaranteed."

Dashan Yan's eyes had already shot out two scorching gazes, and his clenched fists slammed on the table in front of him, and he said with a firm face: "Now it seems that for the sake of the future of the Great Japanese Empire, we must take the three northeastern provinces. Even if it cannot be directly occupied, it is necessary to let the imperial power spread all over the three northeastern provinces, send all kinds of resources of the three northeastern provinces back to the country, and support domestic development. ”

The chief of staff immediately supported: "I guess the empire also means this, otherwise the empire would not have equipped our Manchurian Army with so many heavy weapons and automatic firepower first, so that the Manchurian Army can reach full strength." ”

"The empire supports our Manchurian Army so much, it must want our Manchurian Army to make a move and take revenge!" Dashan Yan also agrees with the chief of staff.

"The Liaodong Army that is now blocking us is the strength of one army, and with the current strength of the Manchurian Army, it will definitely be able to eat them. As long as we attack fast enough, we will definitely be able to take Liaodong before the main force of the Liaodong Army reacts. ”

"At that time, even if the main force of the Liaodong Army comes to counterattack, we can quickly withdraw from Liaodong and return to Lushun."

The chief of staff looked incomprehensible and asked, "Aren't we getting nothing in this case?" ”

"No, the total annihilation of the strength of one army of the Liaodong Army and the capture of all the food urgently needed by the empire in Liaodong are our harvests!" Dashan Yan replied with a sneer.

"Yang Xingguo, commander of the Liaodong Army, is hostile to the empire, and you should see it as chief of staff. Allowing such a person to control the three northeastern provinces will do more harm than good for the empire to control the three northeastern provinces. Therefore, for the sake of the empire, our Manchurian Army must deal with Yang Xingguo and his Liaodong Army. ”

"Either directly take the three northeastern provinces, or replace the governors and garrisons of the three northeastern provinces with people close to the Japanese Empire."

"Only in this way will the Great Japanese Empire be able to obtain a steady stream of various resources from the three northeastern provinces,"

After seeing the chief of staff nodding approvingly, Da Shanyan continued: "However, the current strength of the Liaodong Army is no longer something that can be solved by an attack or a decisive battle by our Manchurian Army. So. I decided to make a move, first take an army in front of us, and then snatch all the grain in Liaodong, and hand over all the millions of Qing people who have no food to the Liaodong Army to clean up, so as to consume the strength of the Liaodong Army as much as possible. ”

Seeing that Dashan Yan had already made a decision, the chief of staff who also wanted to wash away his shame by fighting a battle agreed without thinking about it. (To be continued.) )