"Great, with planes, with tanks. Our 15th Route Army can also fight the Japanese army head-on, and there is no need to hide its head and shrink its tail like before. Said the Punishment Section.

"It's not as optimistic as you think, the steel production in the northwest at this time is still very low, and there is still a considerable gap between the aircraft industry and the Japanese army. For a long time to come, we will still have to face the possible superiority of the Japanese army in air power and tanks. Jiang Li corrected and said, blind optimism is not advisable, as a leader, you must pour a scoop of cold water when your subordinates are optimistic, no matter how fast the northwest develops, there is also a gap with Japan's already large-scale industrial system, of course, the northwest also has its own advantages, without the investment and consumption of the navy's astronomical figures, the northwest can temporarily invest all its energy in the army and air force.

"Commander, how is the Avenger's production now?" In contrast, Tian Jianlong attaches more importance to the Avengers than everyone present, even if he went to the UK to buy Vickers tanks before, after all, he bought other people's things, and it was just a one-shot deal, but the performance of the Avengers is not inferior to the Vickers tank, and the northwest can continue to produce it in the future, which means that the expansion of the tank force is no longer controlled by others. For being the leader of the North-Western Panzer Forces, the Panzer Forces are full of countless possibilities.

"AT PRESENT, THE AVENGER MACHINE GUN TYPE IS ABOUT TO BE PUT INTO PRODUCTION, AND THE MONTHLY PRODUCTION OF THE 47MM SINGLE-TURRET GUN TYPE IS NOW 2, WHICH CAN BE INCREASED TO 3 BY THE END OF THE YEAR, AND 4 TO 5 NEXT YEAR." It was Tang Shijian who answered this question.

"That is, by the end of the year, the tank force can be increased back to more than two dozen Avengers." Jiang Li looked at Sun Liren and Tian Jianlongdao, "Colonel Sun is drawn into your team behind." A third of his team's twenty-four tanks are Avengers. The others transferred Vickers tanks. ”

"Yes. Commander! Tian Jianlong and Sun Liren replied in unison. As far as Tian Jianlong is concerned, although Sun Liren's reuse as soon as he came may have something to do with his graduation from the US Military Academy, after all, it is under his command, and it is foreseeable that with the continuous production of tanks from its own tank factories in the northwest, the tank units of the 15 th Route Army will completely get rid of the shackles of the past, and by the end of the year, the tank units will be expanded by nearly half again. Next year, the size of the tank unit will at least double, and the tank unit originally formed under the auspices of Zhang Xueliang in Fengtian will now be completely reborn after several battles.

What made Sun Liren even more excited was that the 15th Route Army was so heavily used when he first arrived, and this kind of treatment was difficult to enjoy even in Nanjing, after all, compared to the Huangpu Department that had already stood like a mountain in the Central Army, Sun Liren's hope of getting ahead was still a little too slim. The 15th Route Army had no such concerns. From the perspective of anti-Japanese resistance, the anti-Japanese will of the 15th Route Army has been recognized throughout the Republic of China. For both public and private purposes, it was a very wise decision to come to the 15th Route Army.

"Commander, when we came, Yang Yaofeng and Zhou Dafu gave us a general introduction. The 15th Route Army will have a regular army of 170,000 by the end of the year. As for the technical arms, the tanks in front of you are counted. I wonder how big the tank force under the commander is? When Xing Zhanqing asked this question, Li Du, Zhang Dianjiu, Su Bingwen and others also looked at them with concern.

"Previously, it was a tank training brigade, which was later reorganized into two tank training battalions, one battalion had a total of 24 armored vehicles and tanks, mainly Vickers tanks. In the future, we will focus on our own Avengers. By the end of this year, it will not be a problem to expand into three tank battalions. ”

"The three tank battalions are really pulled into the field to fight with the enemy, and their role is as good as that of three infantry divisions." Zhang Dianjiu was shocked when he heard that the regular strength of the 15th Route Army could reach 170,000 at the end of the year, which somewhat surprised these Northeast generals who had been withdrawn by the Soviet Union, but he didn't expect that this was not the real strength of the 15th Route Army at this time.

"Colonel, battalion commander, this can be regarded as a super high configuration. Otherwise, how can it appear that the tank training battalion is powerful. Feng Zhanhai said with a smile. According to Jiang Li's usual practice, the outside world has always seen the strength of the 15th Route Army in a fog. The number and size of special combat units, tank training units, heavy artillery regiments, and air forces, which have been repeatedly expanded, are kept strictly secret. It is extremely difficult for the outside world to find out these core data, unless it is at the division and brigade level, it only has a rough idea of the foundation of the 15th Route Army's resistance against Japan. However, the arsenal, the tank factory, and the aircraft factory that has begun to produce Eagle fighters are the behemoths hidden under the data, and every once in a while, the strength of the 15th Route Army will be further expanded. At least according to the current progress, the pace of military expansion next year will not be lower than now, which means that the total number of troops next year will exceed 230,000. Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other places have also received paramilitary training in more than 36,000 police. As long as Jiang Li is willing, this part of the people can also become soldiers at any time.

"Okay, the current 15th Route Army is a little different from the previous Northeast Army, Lao Li and Lao Ma will transition to the positions of the commanders of the 5th and 7th Divisions respectively, familiarize themselves with the military affairs of the 15th Route Army, and concurrently serve as the deputy chief of the General Staff of the General Staff, but after a little training, these horses you brought over will also be scattered and expanded into the armies, is there a problem?" As for Wang Delin, Zhang Dianjiu, Xing Zhanqing, and others, the pace of the expansion of the 15 th Route Army in the past two years has been quite fast, and there are also many vacancies in the division-level troops, such as the chief of staff and brigade commanders, the vacated temporary brigades, and the mixed brigades, so there is not much problem in arranging these people.

"Naturally, there is no problem, this time I came to the northwest, I came to defect to the commander, the commander will govern the army immediately, and there is no one who can compare with the ability to govern the people under the horse." Li Du said first.

"It's okay, these people are all arranged by the commander." Ma Zhanshan's heart warmed, Jiang Li did not beat them into an alternative, although the previous title was loud, he was the commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army, the chairman of Heilongjiang Province and the like, but in fact, the places that could be affected were extremely limited, although the army on hand was numerous, but according to the previous understanding, a reorganized division of the 15th Route Army contained a 36-gun artillery regiment, with a full force of more than 13,000 troops.

Compared with an army of powerful factions in other places, it is not much closer, if you count the bonus of artillery, it is even higher than the first line, and there is nothing to be dissatisfied with when you first arrive at the 15th Route Army to get such a placement.

"Well, the Great Wall has just passed, but the threat of Japanese invaders has not subsided, but is increasing day by day. As early as next year, or as late as the year after that, the Japanese invaders stabilized the situation in the northeast and completely quelled Rehe, and after the turmoil in Chahar, there will inevitably be big moves, and now is the time for us to make great efforts. Two years is enough time for us to pull the army to nearly 300,000 people, and then we will sit on a stable base in the northwest, which can be attacked and defended. Compete with the Japanese army again! Seeing several generals who had withdrawn from the Northeast nodding one after another, Jiang Li smiled, like these people, his heart was also excited, at this time, the northwest had initially improved the military industrial system, rifles, aircraft, artillery, and artillery could be manufactured by themselves. Although there are still some details that need to be added, there are still a few years to go, and as long as there is enough money, it can always be done, isn't it? (To be continued.) )