Chapter 371: The Beginning of Confusion
Compared with the bloody extermination plunder of Zhulongtang and the shameless occupation of the Americans and the British in the history of Zhulongtang, there are still nearly 100 billion US dollars in assets, so I know that this part of it is nothing, Zhang Xuewu also knows that Zhou Ying also needs time to exchange US dollars and gold for the weapons and materials he urgently needs, but in the face of the international community's heavy blockade and arms embargo, Zhou Ying has paid far more than double the price, and Zhou Ying is also suffering from great pressure and longing. However, Zhang Xuewu's good news quickly cheered her up.
Zhang Xuewu sent her as a guard of a special forces combat detachment has grown to the size of 30,000 people, and even began to gather in the form of a factory to receive some related training, this scattered around the world Zhulongtang leading guards is the core force of Zhulongtang, plus the activities in the docks and organized underground Chinese forces in various places around the world, a total of more than 400,000 Chinese young people participated in military training, and their production and life were also carried out in accordance with the reserve force in the old establishment of the Rehe Legion.
Zhou Ying has mobilized batch after batch of technical youth, such as driving cars and bulldozers and other machinery, to understand the iron-blooded China Renaissance Party, and voluntarily join the iron-blooded China Renaissance Party of young people, priority through the rugged highway of Yunnan and Burma to Kunming in the northwest and finally arrived in Chengde to report, Zhou Ying knew that Zhang Xuewu continued to pilot, especially fighter pilots, so secretly transferred more than 630 people from airlines all over the world with very good technology and long flight time, Pilots who had experience in flying fighter planes, and more than 500 trainees all returned to China via Hong Kong, and arrived at the Baotou Aviation School via northwest Shanxi Province under the protection of the troops of the 10 th Theater Theater.
The $5.1 billion donated by overseas Chinese during the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is really nothing, and you must know that the US aid received by China's political axe during the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was only 735 million, and the theoretical data mentioned by Britain and the United States include the loss and consumption of sea transportation, as well as the part embezzled by the British; if all the donations raised by overseas Chinese in history can really be exchanged for armaments for use on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, then it will certainly be an earth-shaking change, not to mention the purchasing power of more than 5 billion US dollars, just in terms of the speed of US military productionIt doesn't take long for the order of more than 500 billion, especially the urgent need of the squadron is anti-aircraft weapons and ordinary infantry light weapons, the dependence of Chinese soldiers on weapons and equipment has been reduced to a minimum, and their most urgent hope is that when the dense enemy army rushes towards them like a tide crashing on the shore, there are still bullets in the chambers of their guns.
Zhang Xuewu doesn't care about the overall pattern of the world, compared to history, the rise of the Germans has become a fact, and it is unstoppable, the Soviets are also secretly planning to invade Finland, the Germans are also in full swing to invade the Soviet-Detai region, and even the entire Czech Republic, the Czech Republic is the world's third largest producer of military weapons, 75 mm artillery, 100 mm artillery, 150 mm artillery, Czech rifle machine guns are famous in the world, The Germans had a large amount of money and a larger armored corps than in history, and the annexation of the Czechs only allowed the Germans to explode in strength, and the appeasement of Britain and France was even more powerless than in history.
The Germans' new combat vehicles and alloy a series of weapons, including the BF-109 series fighters, which have been improved five times in a year, and the Mozua fighters that Germany let begin to be installed in small quantities, which surprised the British and French, their fighters and tanks are not the opponents of the Germans at all, and the end of fighting on the same platform is self-inflicted humiliation, and even the rookie pilots of the Germans can shoot down the aces of Britain and France, and the gap in technical strength is so big?
Chamberlain was undoubtedly a very outstanding international statesman, and the core competence of an international statesman lies in betraying the interests of other countries to protect his own country.
But Chamberlain's compromise might have worked very well if he had met a sensible politician, but he ran into Hitler, a madman who wanted to rule the world.
After a few months of chaos from Xuzhou to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, both the army and the [***] side suffered heavy casualties, and the army began to shrink its defense in the Songhu area in an all-round way, which was completely abandoned by Nanjing, which was under international trusteeship, and also made the 101st Division and the 106th Division of the Yue Army firmly hold Hangzhou and become the salient part of the campaign.
Li Zongren, who commanded the Fifth War Zone, and Chen Cheng, who commanded the Ninth War Zone, together with Cheng Qian, the first war zone, and the three of them jointly suggested to Chiang Kai-shek that the time was ripe to march into Nanjing to end the trusteeship, and as a country with a complete sovereign national ideology, this was absolutely unacceptable.
However, the proposals of Li Zongren, Chen Cheng, Cheng Qian and others also put Chiang Kai-shek in a dilemma, after all, the more than 400,000 troops of the Yue army are still shrinking in the Songhu-Hangzhou area, although [***] surrounded the enemy army heavily, but it is unable to attack, because if the Yue army with air superiority is coupled with its huge naval support, the [***] team can only repeat the mistakes of the Songhu Campaign, and the Yue army entrenched in Songhu and Hangzhou is not a tube of toothpaste, and it can be squeezed into the sea with a slight force!
The Nine-Nation Pact Organization that hosted Nanjing was in endless meetings, and the trusteeship of Nanjing meant controlling the control of the golden region of the Yangtze River in the hinterland of China, and all the coal, silk, cotton, grain, steel, and so on from the south to the north had to pass through its control area, because the British who were responsible for presiding over the Trusteeship Committee could even use the chewed bagasse to extract oil, and finally ate what was in their mouths without paying the price, and the British were unwilling to spit it out, and the countries that followed it were naturally more willing to follow the leading brother to take advantage.
As a result, large-scale student demonstrations broke out in Nanjing, Wuhan, and Yucheng, [***] since they had begun to defeat Yuekou, then Nanjing naturally had to return to the hands of the Chinese, which was a matter of course in the eyes of the Chinese! However, when the interests of countries are involved, it is another matter.
In order to recover Nanjing, the national political axe has to face two enemies at the same time? Only the Americans, who had little interest in it, were neutral and believed that Nanking should be returned to the Central Squadron immediately, especially the railways and locomotives in the hands of the International Trusteeship Coalition, which would be extremely beneficial to the defense and even the offensive of the Squadron.
Zhang Xuewu also admitted that the Soviet T-34 medium tank was recognized as one of the best tanks in World War II, and the T-34's firepower, protection, mobility, and ease of production and operation reached the best equilibrium.
It can be said that between 1941 and 1942, the surname of the T-34 can comprehensively overwhelm most German tanks at that time, but it is worth Zhang Xuewu's attention that in the period from 1941 to 1942, when the relative advantage of the T-34 was the most prominent, the T-34 tank still suffered heavy losses, and the losses on the battlefield far exceeded the German tanks of the same period, and the tank losses of the Soviet army were more than six times that of the German army. The T-34 medium tank was also not invincible, and some of its own weaknesses were also the reason for the heavy losses.
While improving the Iron Cavalry medium main battle tank, Zhang Xuewu also paid attention to analyzing some obvious weaknesses of the T-34, such as the design flaws of its two-man turret, and the commander and loader were located in the turret among the four members of the T-34 tank crew, and the commander was also responsible for the duties of the gun commander, which caused the commander to be overburdened.
In the fierce battle situation, tank crew command and artillery shooting are very important, the former is responsible for controlling the overall situation, the latter determines the attack capability, two people division of labor is far more efficient than one person, T-34/76 has a total of three main models, but all use two-person small turrets, greatly affecting the combat effectiveness, under the premise of not achieving a certain degree of automation, the actual combat efficiency of the turret of the T-34 tank is really not complimentary.
Combat tests have proven that the two-man turret design of the T-34 tank significantly reduces the rate of fire of the T-34 gun. Compared to the German IV tank with a three-man turret, the T-34/76 did not have a bad theoretical rate of fire, but in actual combat the rate of fire was often only one-third or even a quarter of the former.
Although the Soviet-made long-barreled 76 mm gun was far stronger than the German 50 mm and 75 mm tank guns before 1942, the command and firing efficiency were out of balance, which made it difficult for the T-34 to give full play to its gun power, and the improved version of the T-34/76 has been trying to change this congenital defect, but several designs have not been put into production, and it was not until the end of 1943 that the T-34/85 was really converted into a three-person turret, and the gun commander and the commander achieved an effective division of labor.
For Zhang Xuewu, the turret of the iron cavalry tank is also a double person, and the commander is also the gun commander, so in the new turret of the improved iron cavalry tank, Zhang Xuewu also plans to adopt a five-person car crew.
Secondly, the T-34/76 was seriously lacking in radio installations, and in the original design, the T-34 was designed with radio communication devices in mind, but due to the insufficient production capacity of the Soviet electronics industry, the T-34/76 was produced in the first year or two, although it was produced in more than 10,000 units, only a small number of combat vehicles could be equipped with radio devices.
Due to the lack of radio, the T-34 can hardly form an effective command when fighting in formation, and the vehicles can only use flag language to communicate with each other, and in the case of poor inter-vehicle communication, the combat methods of the T-34 formation are very rigid, and they can only act according to the actions of the command tanks, and their flexibility is extremely poor. In ambush warfare and encounters, the lack of wireless communication defects of the T-34 is the most fatal, and a small number of tanks that find targets or are attacked cannot notify the entire formation, resulting in the entire T-34 tank formation of the Soviet Army being broken by the enemy.
(To be continued)