Each infantry battalion of the divisions, brigades, and regiments under the Rehe Corps was increased from four companies to five companies, and one more company was formed into a firepower company, equipped with 81-mm and 60-mm mortars, anti-tank guns, Maxin heavy machine guns, 220 trucks and 2,000 pack horses per division, and one armored reconnaissance company per division.

The 3rd Heavy Artillery Brigade directly under Zhang Xuewu's regiment was organized into an artillery division, with a total of 98 FH18 Rheinland heavy howitzers of 150 mm caliber and 32 times the body of the body, and 36 105 mm German-made howitzers, and the mechanized brigade directly under the regiment was equipped with 150 original Honor II tanks imported from Germany, which were officially renamed "Jackal" light combat vehicles, and 30 Honor Type 1 tanks were all handed over to the Nanjing Supreme Military Commission. On the Air Force, the Flying Tigers under the command of Gao Zhihang are equipped with 157 BF-109 fighters, and the follow-up fighter parts are being delivered to the German side one after another.

In addition, Zhang Xuewu also imported a large number of 500 of the most advanced Maybach series V12-cylinder gasoline engines in Germany as a reserve, and the 88-mm anti-aircraft artillery brigade directly under the regiment is Zhang Xuewu's secret weapon deployed in Baotou, even if this parade, Zhang Xuewu has no intention of pulling it out, the brigade is equipped with two regiments with a total of 98 German-made 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, and one regiment is equipped with Swedish Fortes 20-mm four-barreled anti-aircraft guns. These Fords 20 mm four-barreled anti-aircraft guns were all installed by Zhang Xuewu on the Calvins half-track introduced by Germany, and the mobile surname can be very ideal, Zhang Xuewu's modification also seems to have given inspiration to the German engineers working in the arsenal directly under the Baotou Pacification Office, their designs are becoming more and more reasonable and breakthrough, and even they will "jackal" enlargement for experiments, Zhang Xuewu has only one hunch about this, that is, the Soviets may suffer.

On the one hand, he was worried about being close to the Soviets, and on the other hand, he hoped that the Soviet Union would be violently beaten by the Germans, and it would be better to lose both sides and lose his strength, Zhang Xuewu found that he seemed to be contradictory enough.

Because the deputy corps commander Hao Wenbin was not in the country, Xu Guohui, Wang Chuang, Zhao Xinyu, Hu Zhenglong, Zhanyang, the five infantry division commanders, plus Tang Ziqiang and Zhang Tianpeng, and even Chen Kebin and Ye Yunfei were all worried about the position of the parade commander.

It's really not in vain that I only sleep four or five hours a day and work hard, and I am already miserable when I manage three provinces. Zhang Xuewu couldn't help but fight a cold war, it was really terrible, in order to sit in the world for a short life of several decades?

In the end, Wang Chuang won the lottery as the commander-in-chief of the parade, and the various units of Zhang Xuewu's department began to select elite officers and soldiers to participate in this grand parade.

The most spirited is the officers and soldiers who participated in the Rehe Battle before, many of them have on their chests with medals such as killing the enemy, destroying medals, etc., Zhang Xuewu divides this kind of honorary medals into three classes and nine grades, with reference to the German medal level during World War II, divided into bronze, silver, and gold three levels, and each equal division adds the Great Wall, shield, and national emblem as a distinction, and has formulated strict awarding requirements and standards, Zhang Xuewu does not want his medals and medals to be issued indiscriminately, and this medal system has been reviewed by the Ministry of Military Affairs, It is necessary to pay more attention to the trial implementation of the army, navy, and air force units that are undergoing reorganization and readjustment.

On April 10, 1935, the whole Chengde can be described as a sea of people, and even many Chinese people deliberately rushed from Nanjing, Shanghai, and Beiping to watch the first public display of combat power of the Rehe Army since its formation, Zhang Xuewu is also a mixed general in China, cousin Zhang Xueliang was publicly called a general of non-resistance, and Zhang Xuewu was once called a friction general by the people, the main reason is that he cleaned up an army of Yan Laoxi, not to mention, but also pit a lot of money, Zhang Xuewu's unkindness can be said to be known far and near, But it's not all bad, at least I've always made trouble in Shanhaiguan, and I've never dared to make trouble in Rehe?

Because Zhang Xuewu gave his commanders a very large authorization, in principle, he said that if he crossed the line, he would directly greet him with firepower, and if they dared to fight back, they would bombard him with artillery, and twice said that the friction that he took the initiative to provoke allowed them to take more than 200 people, and said that he was much more honest since he experienced the fierceness of the Rehe Army, because their neighbors next door seemed to be more willing to cause trouble.

In order to ensure the safety of the military parade in Chengde, the antiaircraft artillery brigade in Baotou was also temporarily transferred to Chengde to set up defenses, and the Flying Tigers were on standby for 24 hours to prevent the army from sneaking attack, because the military parade had already been reported to the Nanjing Central Political Axe, and the Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin had already arrived in Chengde, and for several days, accompanied by Huang Fei'er, director of the regiment's secret telegram, he visited places of interest and historic sites, and at the same time inspected the defense of Chengde.

April 10 is a good day of clear sky, in the north of Chengde in the former Rehe Palace Xiao Cavalry Battalion Colonel field, 12 infantry foot detachments, 10 vehicle detachments have been lined up, the foot team wearing high leather boots, berets, wearing imitation American military uniforms of female soldiers phalanx is the most eye-catching, but the most mysterious is a small detachment of only 200 people, wearing jungle camouflage is the Falcon Brigade, and wearing desert camouflage is the Blade Brigade.

At ten o'clock, Wang Chuang, the commander-in-chief of the parade, drove straight to the front of the review stand in a jackal tank, staring at the tiger and shouting hysterically: "Report to the commander of the regiment and list the commander, the review of the troops has been completed, please give instructions to the commander!" ”

After Zhang Xuewu returned the salute, he turned to the right halfway, and said to He Yingqin with a neat salute: "Report to the minister, the Rehe Legion review troops are all ready, please give instructions to the commander." ”

He Yingqin walked down the review stand with great interest and boarded the jackal tank accompanied by Zhang Xuewu, He Yingqin has ridden this kind of tank more than once these days, the jackal tank gave He Yingqin too deep an impression, the fierce appearance, the swift turret and the forty-six times the body caliber of the 50 mm gun, will undoubtedly be the nightmare of all the army tanks, if all hundreds of tanks are put into a narrow area to assault, what kind of army can withstand this steel torrent?

He Yingqin glanced back at the expressions of the generals and military attaches of various countries in China on the viewing platform, it turned out that he also had a day of raising his eyebrows! However, the expressions of the British and French consuls and military attachés in China on the viewing platform were very ugly, because the Jehe Corps was a standard German armament unit, and judging from the training and equipment of this force, no British and French troops in Europe could resist the attack of such an army at present.

The Germans naturally advocate offensive theory, and the squadron armed with their military theory and weapons is already so sharp and terrible, if it were the German army itself? The British and French saw more worries in their eyes, while the Americans saw business opportunities, and the huge profits from the Sino-German arms trade made the Americans blush, but the Americans, as the largest exporters of the capital, were more helpless at the moment, and the law that the United States could not have both bear paws and fish forced the United States to find a way to maximize its benefits.

Undoubtedly, today's proudest is the delegation of German advisers, their hard work has finally paid off, in the far east they have created two strong forces that are no less than the elite units of the German Wehrmacht, the Army Teaching Corps of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China and the First Army of the Rehe Army, in the exchange training between the two armies, the German instructors who are good at observing and learning have also learned a lot from Zhang Xuewu, and more has brought them a lot of inspiration.

He Yingqin, who stood on top of the jackal tank command tower, saluted the infantry squadron that issued a tsunami, and the officers and men of the squadron shouted in unison slogans such as loyalty to the party and the state, long live the righteousness of Sanming, and so on.

When the vehicle turned, He Yingqin nodded to Zhang Xuewu with satisfaction, because the sound of the jackal roaring engine made it difficult for the two people to hear what the other party was saying, but what made He Yingqin feel fortunate was that Chiang Kai-shek was unable to attend for some reason because he was going to hold a new officer training regiment in Lushan, so he really chose a big bargain and reviewed the three armies!

Under the accompaniment of the majestic Army March of the National Revolutionary Army, the foot phalanx of the Rehe Regiment, composed of regiments and non-commissioned officers who had graduated from the Brandenburg Infantry School in Germany, chanted the slogan of swearing to the death and ruling the land through the rostrum, and most of Zhang Xuewu's troops were equipped with German weapons such as Mauser standard rifles, P-18 submachine guns, Czech-made ZB-26 light machine guns and other light weapons, so they were naturally divided into gun-carrying detachments and column gun detachments.

It wasn't until the much-anticipated Jackal light reconnaissance tank appeared that the military attachés of various countries on the viewing platform began to reimburse a large number of cameras they had already prepared, especially a British lieutenant colonel, who actually prepared three cameras by himself and took turns to take pictures, and then towed 1005 mm howitzers, 150 mm heavy howitzers, 100 mm mortars, 20 mm air defense four-level machine guns, and so on.

Journalists and military attaches from all over the world at the scene were exclaiming, backward China had overtaken Europe and the United States almost overnight with the help of the Germans? This fact is really difficult for European countries to accept.

The first part of the military parade is the air school phalanx composed of 55 BF-109 fighters, and when the black fighters pass in a dense formation, almost all the Chinese people all rise up and cheer loudly, and the sound is not less than the roar of the fighter motor.

Behind the fighters were 10 small Italian Sivela transport planes, and 60 paratroopers with slogans such as Long Live the Republic of China, Long Live the Chinese Nation, and Fight to the Native Territory of the People's Republic of China.

General Zhang Xuewu is going to fight to the mainland, and the designated position of such an army is invincible? What else can the Kwantung Army, which was beaten to the brink in Chengde before?

A translator in a brown European-style suit who was walking back and forth among the British military attaches had already hidden his small camera at the moment. This handsome looking interpreter of the British Consulate in Chengde seems to be too busy at the moment.

Due to the size, the British Consulate in Chengde only had a senior secretary and two major military attachés, and the reason for the establishment of this consulate was because more and more British merchants went to Rehe and Suiyuan to do business for gold, and another purpose was to monitor the movements of the Germans in Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, and at the same time hoped to get a share of the railway construction between the three places.

However, I am afraid that even the British did not expect that Qian Mengwei would be a spy of the Chinese squad of the army staff headquarters, in fact, the British have been continuing the idea of allies in World War I, and even gave shelter to some of the excesses of the Empire, and the combined fleet of the Empire is probably the only fleet in the world that can compete with the royal fleet of the British Empire, the British have no opponents in the Atlantic, and they have no opponents in the Pacific, so the British need to say themselves, However, the British probably never expected that their little friend did not seem to need the emperor of the British Empire very much.

And what's even more excessive is that all the institutions of the British Empire in China may have already allowed me to infiltrate, Qian Mengwei's original name was Xiao Yuan Ye San, his grandfather and father were both fishermen in Hokkaido, and Xiao Yuan Ye San, who was unwilling to be poor, took the initiative to pass himself on to the second uncle who had some ability, so that he was able to successfully enter Lu Xiao and the non-commissioned officer school, but when Xiao Yuan Ye San graduated from the non-commissioned officer school, his life took a major turn, Because he loves Chinese and English and has achieved a lot of self-study, Ohara Nozo was selected for the Hokkaido special training class of the General Staff Headquarters.

After three years of strict and almost cruel training, Ohara Nozo was able to graduate, and under the arrangement into the eyes of the British, this time to Rehe is precisely because of the household registration policy implemented by Zhang Xuewu, because of the situation of household registration plus road strips and approval documents integrated registration and filing, so the success rate of forging documents to try to mix in is very low, but the staff headquarters and the Kwantung Army are in urgent need of detailed information about this Rehe parade, so in desperation, the staff headquarters had to start the "shadow" of Ohara Nozo! Hopefully it will make a huge difference!

But today's big military parade shocked Xiao Yuanye San into a cold sweat, Zhang Xuewu actually developed such a combat effective force in just a few years? I am afraid that this is still a great surprise to the judgment of the General Staff Headquarters and the Kwantung Army, and the military cooperation between China and Germany may bring not only a threat to the empire, but a real crisis.

After sorting out his views on the entire military parade and various types of equipment, looking at this important information related to the fate of the empire, Ohara Nozo breathed a long sigh of relief, it seems that he has done everything he can do, and the rest depends on the Kwantung Army, the entire Chengde is like a fortress city, the direction and position of each of its buildings are carefully calculated, and the role of the war is considered. These buildings and street forts can withstand at least 500 pounds of direct hits from aerial bombs, if you attack such a city, I am afraid that the cost of casualties will be unacceptable, the only way is to use more than 200 mm heavy artillery to completely wipe the city off the earth, this is the impression of the city of Chengde by Xiao Yuanye San.

So that Chaoyang has long been classified as a military area now, and all civilian personnel are not allowed to enter and exit at will, but according to the relevant information obtained by Xiaoyuan Yesan, the reinforced concrete consumed in Chaoyang area is at least three times that of Chengde, and Zhangjiakou and Chifeng have also been strengthened, and a large number of permanent fortifications have been built in the strategic points of almost Rehe, Chahar and Suiyuan provinces. As for Baotou, where its core is located, even the personnel of the British Consulate were not allowed to enter, so Ohara Nozo could only use his imagination a little.

However, in this military parade, Ohara Nozo also discovered a situation that the Rehe Army had been hiding before, that is, it had a large air defense force, and its firepower ranged from 88 mm anti-aircraft guns to 20 mm four-pass machine guns, and many machine guns were mounted on tracked vehicles, which was quite flexible and mobile.

After the end of the wonderful and grand military parade, He Yingqin inspected the Baotou Industrial Base accompanied by Zhang Xuewu, from the range of entering Baotou 20 kilometers, He Yingqin saw a series of sentry posts, there are bunkers and lookout posts on the top of the mountain, and the permanent fortifications on the mountain ridge have been built, etc., He Yingqin can be said to be very shocked: "Brother Xuewu, you Baotou is surrounded by a flood?" Could it be that this military parade is not all of your family background and strength? What else is there to treasure, you might as well take it out! ”

Zhang Xuewu smiled slightly and said: "I know that I can't hide anything from you, Minister He, Baotou Industrial Base is the secret of our army, so I have to be cautious!" ”

He Yingqin nodded and said: "Caution should be, but in Nanjing, you should also be aware of it, and don't report the so-called things so clearly, if you report them all, I don't know what the chairman thinks in his heart, but there will always be people who will be idle and jealous, which will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble, and the Fuxing Society Secret Service Headquarters has recently made certain deployments for Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan, and you should be more careful, they can't afford to offend, In addition, those party sticks in the provincial party department should also be careful, and burning incense diligently can avoid disasters and difficulties! ”

After speaking, He Yingqin smiled knowingly! Zhang Xuewu pretended to be surprised and grateful: "Thank you Minister He for your advice!" ”

(To be continued)