Although Cai Yi's title of "modern" Yue Wumu really made Yan Guang and Song Dinghan depressed for a while, especially Song Dinghan, after such headlines appeared in some newspapers on the streets of Yanjing, Song Dinghan even stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror from time to time, wanting to see if he had any similarities with the Qin Hui who was kneeling in front of Yue Fei's tomb.

However, in general, the two of them, including the others in the political axe, were still very satisfied with Cai Yi's battle in Shandong―――――― Jiang Baili and others' requests for battle were counted separately.

In this world, no matter what you do, you can't escape the word fame and fortune.

And both, in fact, can be classified into one category, that is, "profit"...

Because the name can actually be regarded as a kind of profit...

People like Jiang Baili certainly don't have any interest in "profit", but if they are famous...

Yue Wumu? Yue Fei!

Jiang Baili asked himself, whether in terms of knowledge or in leading troops, he would not be much inferior to Cai Yi―――――― of course, in terms of actual combat experience, Jiang Baili has only honed a few times with some small warlords who are not eye-opening, and there are no ones like Cai Yi.

However, none of these can stop Jiang Baili's eyes from being hot about Cai Yi's current everything. After all, Yue Wumu, in today's world, it is difficult to have any honor that can be compared to this title.

Jiang Baili himself didn't care about profits, even if someone threw 10,000 pieces of silver dollars in front of Jiang Baili, Jiang Baili could push them away without care. When he was the principal of Baoding Military Academy, Jiang Baili didn't shoot himself in the chest because of things like this―――――― of course, he didn't die in the end, and Jiang Baili also kidnapped a nurse to go home as a daughter-in-law.

However, with a title like Yue Wumu, Jiang Baili was really interested.

It's a pity that Jiang Baili knows very well that Shandong doesn't need two commanders now, and having one more person will not only not increase in strength, but also likely to cause disputes between the two. After all, everyone fights a different way.

What's more, Jiang Baili still has his own things to do now, that is, to reorganize the troops of the local warlords one by one with Wang Yaowu.

Although Cai Yi's war in Shandong is very important, seriously speaking, this matter is not inferior to the war in Shandong in sense. Because as long as the warlord's troops are reorganized, it means that the political axe can fully mobilize the power of the whole country.

It can also be seen from this incident that Yan Guang attaches great importance to Jiang Baili.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that this matter was too low-key compared to Cai Yi's war in Shandong, Jiang Baili would still be very satisfied with this task.

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Just when many people, including Jiang Baili and other generals, were enthusiastic about the name of Yue Wumu. After half a month of preparation, Cai Ye also fought with the temple Zhengyi again―――――― by the way, although he has been preparing for the war, but after seeing the name of Yue Wumu in the newspaper, Cai Ye is still a little proud.

After all, being able to be called Yue Wumu by some newspapers is already an acknowledgment of Cai Yi's own strength.

Of course, this name is not something that can be taken in vain, at least in order to make some responses, Cai Ye must make some achievements to ―――――― fortunately, at this time Cai Ye's preparations are almost complete, otherwise Cai Ye will wonder if the headlines in these newspapers are not to force himself to attack in advance.

After half a month of preparation, several divisions with heavy casualties were replenished to a certain extent, and at the same time, urgently needed artillery shells and other armaments and materials were also transported.

And when all this was done, Cai Ye directly ordered the original four infantry divisions and another newly arrived infantry division to launch a fierce attack on the Yue army.

At this time, the army, although Terauchi Zhengyi did not have sufficient troops on hand, but also transferred several divisions with relatively complete strength to garrison―――――― while garrisoning, Terauchi Zhengyi also kept scolding his mother in his heart.

Because by this time, it was already extremely difficult to replenish him in terms of troops and materials.

This difficulty was not due to the Wehrmacht's attacks on the rear of the Japanese army. Although Cai Ye did not transfer out more than 10,000 cavalry regiments of the Wehrmacht and attacked the logistics line of the Wehrmath Army day and night, the temple also sent a lot of troops to escort the materials, and sent a lot of cavalry out, so the problem of the logistics line was not big―――――― although the logistics materials of the Wehrmath Army were often burned by the Wehrmacht.

What really caused the logistical difficulties was actually the financial and production aspects of the army.

Financially, although last year, that is, in 1913, the financial revenue of the capital was more than 720 million, it is said that the country is a debtor, and the expenditure in all aspects is also very large, especially in the navy, and now the navy is still building a number of battleships and cruisers, and no matter which of these warships are piled up with yuan.

Now, although the war in Shandong has only been fought for two months, it is said that the political axe is financially honest, and it is already a little unbearable. If this continues, I am afraid that we will have to rely on borrowing to support the war.

At this time, Britain, which kept borrowing money from Yueben and liked to borrow money very much, fell into a war that was bigger than the Shandong War. In terms of finances, even Britain itself has difficulties, although it is certainly stronger than the capital, but it is really difficult to say whether it can lend money to the capital.

The same is true of other countries such as France, and they are even much worse than Britain, after all, Britain is also the world's first power, and has been sitting in this position for hundreds of years, and it is definitely better than any other country in terms of savings.

Moreover, this war has not yet taken place in Britain itself.

And countries such as France? Now that the war is going on on their soil, they are already unable to defend themselves, and it is very difficult to expect them to borrow money.

As for Germany and other countries?

It is said that Ben is also an Entente country, how can they, the allies, borrow money? And how can you borrow money. Moreover, relations between Germany and China have always been good.

Of course, at this time, there is actually another country that can lend money to the capital, and that is the United States.

Although the European powers have now been drawn into the European war, the United States has not yet been involved at this time. And not only did they not get involved, but they were also selling all kinds of materials on a large scale to make war money.

It can be said that no country is stronger than the United States in terms of funding.

It's just that...

According to the performance of the United States, the United States' vigilance against the book is not a chip or two, and at this time, it is precisely the Americans who are happy to be prejudiced by the Americans to fight to the death with China, so how can they lend money to the book? ―――――― Americans are eager to say that they have experienced a fiasco in Shandong, but then again, Americans are also wary of China, after all, the United States does not want another power to appear on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and China has far more potential and development speed than it has been.

It's just that, compared to the book, the United States still has a good sense of China.

In addition to the financial problems, there is also the problem of the industrial production capacity of the capital.

Yes, it is also a great power country, and at the same time an industrialized country.

But there is a big problem, that is, the annual steel output of Yueben is only a pitiful more than 300,000, and this output, even France, which has the lowest steel output among the powers, is more than ten times that of him, and even the leader after ten times is twice as high as Yueben.

It can be seen from this that my industrial capacity is really low.

In this case, the other two Kongo-class battle cruisers were still under construction, as well as other battleships of various types and other large and small ships.

In this case, the neglect of the army is inevitable―――――― in fact, in the two wars, the army's equipment garbage has a lot to do with this. After all, it is not a resource-rich country, and its industrial strength is also very low.

In this case, if a strong navy is to be developed, then the army will inevitably be weakened. It is precisely because of this that the equipment of this army has become one of the most rubbish among all the great powers.

It's just that at that time, the main target of the company was China, and the Chinese [***] team at that time would only be more rubbish than the army in terms of equipment, so this problem naturally disappeared.

As for fighting against the British [***] team in Southeast Asia, it was all rainforest, and there was no problem with heavy equipment. In fact, as long as you think about the Vietnamese in the Vietnam War in later generations, you can understand, not to mention that the British were still being pressed and beaten by the Germans in Europe at that time, where to find someone to take care of them to come to Southeast Asia.

It was only during the Pacific War that he suffered a big loss when he faced the Americans, who were not much better than him in terms of equipment.

In fact, even the armies of the great powers in Europe will definitely suffer losses against the most elite divisions of the Wehrmacht, after all, much of the equipment of the Wehrmacht will not appear until 10 years later, which is of absolute epoch-making significance, and it also attaches great importance to the extremely important weapon of machine guns.――――――

It is said that the army has not only suffered losses in terms of equipment, but also suffered the most in the production of weapons and ammunition.

Forget about the weapons, the army doesn't have any good artillery anyway, at least in the eyes of Okuma Shigenobu and others, it's enough to equip your army with rifles. In 1914, there were still a lot of stocks of Type 38 rifles, otherwise it would not have been possible to mobilize the army to 500,000 in 1914.

As for machine guns and heavy artillery, although front-line generals such as Masatoshi Terauchi, Mitsutomi Kamio, and Taro Senba emphasized the importance of machine guns and heavy artillery.

But to be honest, the current political axe is a rare bureaucratic political axe. And the bureaucracy or something, what they are best at is ignoring the demands of the generals of the army, so...

The key is the reserve and production of ammunition.

In this regard, it is good to say that the ammunition production arsenal can still be satisfied, and there are also certain reserves in the homeland and North Korea.

But artillery shells, machine gun rounds, grenades and so on...

On the front line, because most of the materials in Huangxian County were burned by the National Defense Air Force, the materials that Terauchi Masashi can use now have reached an extremely dangerous level. At this time, the supply of food and ammunition was sufficient, but shells and machine-gun shells ...

There are also hand grenades, and although he is extremely convenient for the production of this new weapon, it is said that the production of this new weapon has only just begun. And after it was produced, it was all supplied to the army in Shandong, and now there is really no reserve at all in the local area...

Moreover, the industrial capacity of this area has now been opened to the limit because of the war. At this time, if you want to expand production, you have to stop the navy's project, but the navy and the army are not dealing with each other in name. Halt the project of the Navy for the sake of the Army's war???

"Our Navy will never allow this!!"

This is the words of the Minister of the Navy, Rokuro Yashiro, when Shigenobu Okuma made a little bit of an intention.

In fact, so far, many admirals have felt that even if the army loses the war, it is a good thing to be happy. Anyway, even if this war is lost, it will have nothing to do with their navy, and the Chinese are powerful, and their navy cannot be stronger than the Yueben navy.

Since it is not as strong as the navy, there is no need to worry about China's army crossing the sea to hit the mainland...

Compared with the original situation, the situation of the Wehrmacht is much better.

First, there are not as many contradictions between the army and navy as in the book, or in China, although the strength of the navy has grown rapidly, only three destroyers and one cruiser have been launched in the first year, and three destroyers and two other cruisers will be launched within the year, in addition to more ships, including a 10,000-ton Chaofeng-class first-class cruiser will be launched.

However, within the Wehrmacht, it is the Army that has the overwhelming strength after all.

And the Army, because of his overwhelming strength, established the status of the big brother in the Wehrmacht.

So far, the status of the Navy is only above the newly formed Air Force.

In addition to the absence of contradictions, another point is that Yan Guang has made sufficient preparations for this war in advance.

That's right, there is only one Qijiang Iron Works and one Hanyang Iron Works in China in terms of steel, and the newest and will be the largest Ma'anshan Iron Works is still under construction. Although it will be put into production within the year, it is not yet complete.

With the Qijiang and Hanyang iron mills alone, China's current steel output will only be on par with the original version.

In this case, although China does not have many naval projects such as battleships and battle cruisers, it can invest in the army on a large scale.

However, this investment will not actually exceed the cost too much, at most it is only half.

However, because Yan Guang had made sufficient preparations before the war, the ammunition prepared by the national defense military could support the war for a long time. At this time, the 24-hour production of the Sichuan Arsenal and the re-commissioning of the Hanyang Arsenal were added.

Basically, as long as the rear provinces can recover as soon as possible and stabilize the local problems, then Cai Ye does not need to worry about logistics problems at all.

In fact, Cai Ye was able to recapture the two positions so quickly, which was also related to the logistical problems of Masashi in the temple.

At present, almost all of the original and hard-to-raise materials have been burned, and the new materials are still being produced and prepared. Many of the materials are even extremely scarce, which is really nerve-wracking to Okuma Shigenobu and others.

Of course, Okuma Shigeshin didn't think about buying them.

It's just that the allies of the Entente, such as Britain and France, are now in the midst of a great war themselves, and not only do they not have enough supplies to produce, but they also have to buy them from the United States. At this time, Britain and France were no longer at all concerned with this small ally.

As for the United States?

Americans' dislike of the book is not a one-point or two-point. So when he came to the door, the Americans just told him that their order was now full. And the whereabouts of the orders are in Britain, France, Germany and other countries in distant Europe...

As a result, Ben could only use his meager output to support the expeditionary force, although that production was not enough at all...

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Although the materials on hand in the temple are simply not enough, this does not mean that the war does not need to be fought.

After making all the preparations, Cai announced that he would launch a total against the Yue army, and the purpose of the total was to drive the Yue army back to their landing point, that is, Huang County.

If the campaign goes well enough, you can even expand the goal a little, such as driving the Yue army into the sea or something.

At this time, after nearly two months of fierce fighting, the Wehrmacht eliminated almost all fear of the army.

In the eyes of the Wehrmacht, he said that he was the same as them, he had a head and two arms, at most, the little JJ was shorter than his own, and the others were not much different from himself.

Of course, my suicide attack was a bit disgusting, but it wasn't anything other than that...

Therefore, when Cai Yi's order came down, several infantry divisions that had been prepared soon launched a fierce attack on the Yueben Expeditionary Force under the cover of the artillery group.

On the other hand, the artillery group of the Japanese army also carried out a fierce bombardment at the same time. In the degree of violence, it was not even at all inferior to the Wehrmacht opposite.

This was beyond the expectations of all the generals, including Cai Yi, because according to their expectations, they thought that the army had actually consumed almost all the shells and other aspects.

Only Terauchi Masayi and other officers knew that some of the ammunition of the expeditionary force, including artillery shells, had indeed been almost consumed. Although the artillery group is fighting very fiercely now, it is carried out on an extremely limited reserve of shells, and when this reserve is exhausted, the artillery fire of the artillery group will be dumb.

Fortunately, although there is a little less in terms of reserves, the support scene is still enough...

On the other side, although Cai Ye and the others were a little surprised, they did not give up the attack, but they were more careful when arranging the troops.

It's just that they soon find out that they don't need to be so careful.

Because the offensive of the Wehrmacht on the front line went very smoothly, although there were not many casualties in the process, but after paying a certain amount of casualties, they still smoothly entered the position of the Yue army and played a white-knuckle battle with the Yue army.

White-knuckle combat...

In later generations, white-knuckle warfare actually represented backwardness.

Because after the Second World War, there was no longer any white-knuckle warfare in other countries except China. In their place were modern weapons such as shotguns, pistols, and even flamethrowers.

In the face of these weapons, white-knuckle warfare is fundamentally about seeking death, even if it is trench warfare.

In fact, during World War II, there was only one Chinese battlefield left to engage in large-scale white-knuckle warfare.

But in this era, white-knuckle warfare is still the mainstream. This was true even on the Eastern and Western fronts in Europe.

Even, there was a mace on the battlefield on the Western Front―――――― of course, this mace was made by the soldiers, but this also shows the prevalence of white-knuckle warfare.

In fact, if it weren't for this, it would not have achieved the prestige of the German engineer's shovel. You must know that the prestige of the German army's engineer shovel was established in the white-knuckle warfare of the European War.

At this time, the Wehrmacht, because of the large-scale armament of pistols, shotguns, sapper shovels and other weapons, did have a great upper hand in the trenches against the Type 38 rifles, which were inconvenient to use due to the narrow space.

And the reason, in addition to the fact that the Type 38 rifle is indeed not suitable for white-knuckle warfare in the trenches after adding a bayonet,

(To be continued)