"That's what I'm going to talk about later, the previous commander instructed the headquarters to form the 1st Armored Division in the Northwest, and now it has been fully equipped. At present, after several years of basic warfare, the scale of our Northwest Army has gradually grown and expanded. Now it has more than 2,000 aircraft of all kinds, including more than 900 fighters, more than 1,100 bombers, nearly 100 ground attack aircraft Huamao, nearly 100 tanks and assault guns. The strength of the field corps last year was nearly 800,000, and this year it has increased to more than 930,000. The 5th Group Army of the Suiyuan Theater has also been filled with nearly 150,000 people. Including the Shanxi Theater, Xinjiang, and the Northwest Headquarters, the Northwest now has more than 1.8 million troops with air and land as the main body. Looking around the Central Plains theater, there were nearly 450,000 Japanese troops. Including the remaining Japanese troops in Shanxi, Suiyuan, and North China, the Japanese army in the northwest has exceeded 760,000 at present. ”

"Since the beginning of 37, the Republic of China has experienced a strategic defense, and the current strategy is stalemate. With the continuous increase of resources developed in the northwest, the military strength has steadily expanded. After the strategic stalemate, the Republic of China is about to enter the stage of strategic counteroffensive, and this time it will bring everyone together. It is for everyone to persist in the current battle situation while drawing up corresponding counteroffensive operational plans for the command of all group armies. Although the General Staff already has some preparatory plans, it is not impossible for the combat units to come up with a more reasonable plan after brainstorming. ”

Jiang Li sat on the top and looked at the two rows of people at the conference table in front of him and said with a smile. "My few jars of good wine have been stored in the kiln for a few years, and I really won this national war, and a good wine is indispensable at that time, and everyone here is still here, and there is no lack of arms and legs, if you have another spare time, write it yourself, or ask someone to write an autobiography, and when the grandchildren study history in the future, they can also have more reference literature."

"At the beginning, we only had a few hundred planes, and the total number of heavy artillery pieces was less than 200, and the Northwest Army was not united. Also played for a few years. Retreated from Beiping to the Central Plains, and is now nailed to the Zhengzhou defense circle. The current military strength is more than double that of before. The Central Army has been beaten to southern Hunan and the area of Guizhou and Guizhou. Millions of Central Army troops have been fighting until now, and their strength is getting weaker and weaker. In fact, the pressure borne by the Japanese army in our Northwest Army has always been no lower than that of the Central Army, and this has been the case in the past, and it is even more so now and even more so in the future. When he said this, Yang Hucheng looked directly at Jiang Li.

These words, everyone can know in their hearts, how much ability, how much responsibility, no one can say what will happen in the future. However, there is one point, which is eternal in ancient and modern times, and strength is the last word. There is not enough strength, and foreigners still have to make irresponsible remarks. With strength, you can naturally have the final say. In the current situation, the northwest has not yet reached the point where it can have the final say. So it's a bit early to talk about that. ”

Although Jiang Li's words were ambiguous, the people present had been with Jiang Li for so long, and they had some understanding of Jiang Li's character. After all, it's not entirely the military that has the final say. On the other hand, due to the expansion of the military strength in the northwest, some of the people present inevitably bred some arrogant feelings

Wow wow

A large flock of black crows in the sky let out a croaking cry and flapped their wings and hovered over Yanjin. The hoarse voice makes people feel chills in their hearts when they hear it. Since Japan invaded the Republic of China, thousands of corpses have also caused the population of crows to expand dramatically in this situation of corpses everywhere.

In the tragic Battle of the Central Plains, both sides threw too many corpses in the war zone.

The undulating sand dunes were scattered from time to time with one or two corpses that both sides had not had time to collect, broken steel guns, rusty bayonets, large trees that had been blown down by cannonballs, and potholed ground.

After being washed by the rain, and then under the evaporation of the sun, there was water vapor all around, and there was a burst of blood.

If it weren't for the newly added corpses of the Northwest Army on the ground, in such a barren place, I'm afraid no one would think that there would be combat soldiers from both sides here.

However, the guy who had been lying on the ground and looked like a corpse, wearing a Japanese military uniform, with a grass on his head, was lying on the ground like a turtle and began to move backwards slowly. However, unlike the previous Japanese soldiers, Yasuda's rifle was tied to sackcloth, revealing only a black hole in the muzzle, and according to the shape of the gun, it was still the Japanese army's standard 38 cover. It's just that, in addition to the sackcloth wrapped around the rifle, the scope on it, is noticeably different from the rifles of other ordinary Japanese soldiers.

As Yasuda crawled quickly, a few drops of cold sweat oozed from his forehead. He didn't expect to ambush a few Northwest Army here, and he didn't expect that a few hours later, he would recruit such a difficult opponent. Yasuda has been feeling the presence of the enemy for hours, and as a sniper, sometimes the fight is a battle of patience and perseverance. As time passed, both sides searched for suspicious locations on the battlefield. It's just that Yasuda also guarded for several hours, and still couldn't find any traces of the other party, but the fact that his companion fell on the battlefield was bloody. At the same time, Yasuda, as a soldier who has lived on the battlefield for many years, also has a certain sense of danger. He could feel himself getting closer to danger.

A large number of low-ranking officers and non-commissioned officers in the grass-roots units were killed in battle, or they were reconnaissance in the field, and the soldiers on patrol were ambushed, after suffering enough losses from the snipers of the Northwest Army. The Japanese army found out that against the snipers of the Northwest Army, the lack of people was equivalent to sending them to death. Too many people is a complete waste, and the losses paid are still not worth it. After learning the hard way, the Japanese army also began to train their own snipers. The shooting training of the Japanese soldiers was very strict, and many of the soldiers in the combat units had a very good foundation. In addition, the Japanese army's requirements for snipers do not emphasize intelligence gathering, but special emphasis is placed on the concealment and shooting ability of snipers on the battlefield. In the relatively large base of combat units, the Japanese army quickly put a considerable number of snipers on the battlefield.

And Yasuda is one of them.

"Bang!" In the piercing gunshot, Yasuda's gradually retreating body stopped moving, and blood flowed from his black hair to his face.

"Dead rookie, fight with me, you're still a little too tender." Fu Changsheng snorted coldly, on the butt of Fu Changsheng's gun, there were already two circles, with a small square frame. Circular is a watershed for elite snipers in the Northwest, and having a circular sniper means that a hundred Japanese soldiers have been killed. And the two circles are one of the few trump cards among the snipers of the Northwest Army.

Compared to the Japanese army's temporary development of snipers. In the Northwest Army, as early as when it was a branch of the Northeast Army, Jiang Li began to select people with outstanding marksmanship to form a special detachment. These people played no small role in the defense of Mukden. Later, after settling in the northwest, he immediately began to form a large-scale sniper unit and set up a special sniper school. From the Battle of Songhu, the Great Wall of Resistance, and hundreds or thousands of anti-bandit wars of various sizes in the inland of the northwest, the sniper units in the northwest can be said to have experienced repeated tempering in the war for nearly ten years. Whether it is the scale, or the sniper and counter-sniper tactics that have been tempered by countless wars. The foundation accumulated in the past ten years is not something that the Japanese army, which has only developed for a year or two at this time, can catch up.

And the current Yasuda is already the fifth Japanese sniper in Fu Changsheng's hands. However, in such a battle, Fu Changsheng could also feel that the Japanese snipers were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. At least the ordinary infantry of the Northwest Army, under the attack of these ghosts of death, the casualties have risen a lot.

Five kilometers northwest of Fu Changsheng, on a battlefield with undulating terrain, the machine gunners of the Northwest Army had been killed by Japanese snipers one after another. The limp lying on his stomach was weakly lying down. The lone Fire Snake general-purpose machine gun mounted on a stand stood there.

Rumble!

The Japanese army, which almost hated the fire snake general-purpose machine gun, immediately built a battle defense gun after the machine gun fire stopped for a while. Perhaps it was the hatred of the fire snake that made the Japanese gunners feel like a god, and the fire snake machine gun was blown into countless pieces with one shot.

"Sakazai!"

When several charging Japanese soldiers saw that this hateful machine gun had been killed, they cheered and wanted to storm the Northwest Army on the opposite side. However, he was soon knocked to the ground by several sudden voices. Although the Northwest Fire Snake universal machine gun at this time had surpassed the imitation Czech in terms of production. And the proportion of machine guns in the army is gradually rising, but the imitation Czech type in the northwest has been produced for so many years after all, and the base in the army is still much higher than that of the fire snake.

In this unit, although the fire snake was killed, the amount of equipment was not low in imitation of the Czech style, and for the Japanese army, it was also a life-urging charm.

Tom tom

Two mortar shells landed near the Japanese anti-aircraft guns, and the exploding shrapnel hit the protective shield of the anti-aircraft guns, making a sharp impact sound. The airtight shrapnel did not penetrate the thick protective shield, and the artillery survived, but several Japanese soldiers next to him **** fell to the ground.

As early as the beginning of the battle, the battle defense artillery of the Northwest Army and the Japanese army was without protective shields, but now, because this kind of battle defense artillery without shields has to reach the front line, under the fire of both sides, the artillery often suffers heavy casualties, and in the end, it can only rely on those ordinary infantry to handle this kind of battle defense artillery that has lost its owner, and the hit rate is naturally greatly reduced. Don't underestimate the two steel plates next to the anti-aircraft guns, although they are covered with bullet marks, they successfully allowed the Japanese artillery to survive the raging shrapnel.

"Kill the Exhaust Army!" The forces of both the enemy and the enemy fighting around this area are about the same. Several Japanese soldiers died under the machine guns, but the other two squads of Japanese soldiers went around to the bamboo forest on the hills not far away, wanting to use the cover of the bamboo forest to shoot at the Northwest Army in sight. However, he soon ran into the Northwest Army, which also entered the bamboo forest.

The voice that terrified the Japanese army sounded again.

"Lying" is too late, and the inverted words have not yet been spoken. The team leader felt that his body had been sawn by something, just like the bamboo of different thicknesses in front of him, as if it had been sawn by something, and fell down one after another. The Northwest Army actually has a Fire Snake general-purpose machine gun here.

Even the Japanese army, which was extremely vigilant, was overturned by more than a dozen machine guns at this time, and the speed of the machine guns was so fast that sometimes people didn't have time to react.

In fact, after a period of extremely arduous fighting, the Northwest Army abandoned eastern Henan, a large area of southern Henan, and a large part of northern Henan was also in the hands of the Japanese army, and the Central Plains Field Corps, which had more than 900,000 troops, was only responsible for most of Henan Province at this time. Both the strength of the troops and the intensity of the technical arms have reached a certain level. The soldiers' combat experience has also been developed in the past few years. Even if the Japanese army experienced a large number of casualties, even if it was well-trained and strict, once it did not have that kind of fear of the Japanese army from the heart, the Japanese army would have become more and more difficult to fight in many cases.

At present, it was rare for two battalions of the Northwest Army to attack a brigade of the Japanese army and attack it in the past, but it was in this situation that the Japanese army still did not get much bargain.

In fact, since the Northwest Army's imitation Czech equipment in the army has increased, especially in service with the Fire Snake general-purpose machine gun, and because the production of the Fire Snake has exceeded the Czech type. The proportion of equipment in the army is also increasing. In the absence of heavy firepower, the Japanese army actually lagged behind the Northwest Army in machine rifle firepower, and even a certain gap had appeared. The Northwest Army's imitation Czech style has better performance than the crooked handle of the Japanese army as the main force, and the firepower output of the Feng 918 type and fire snake general-purpose machine guns is twice as high as that of the 38 big cover, big formal, and 92 heavy machine guns equipped by the Japanese army, or even more. Compared with the Japanese army, perhaps the relative weakness of the Northwest Army is that the ammunition is consumed too quickly, which puts greater pressure on logistics.

It's just that with the shrinking of the combat area, the Northwest Army has built the main line and branch line of the railway leading to the theater, as well as a large number of military trucks, and mules and horses have made up for this shortcoming. In terms of logistics, it was not ordinarily difficult for the Japanese army to penetrate the field corps to threaten the logistics of the Northwest Army. The Japanese army did not dare to make such a bold move, the Northwest Army was not the National Central Army, one or two divisions and regiments fell into the encirclement of the field corps, and the Japanese army did not dare to take this risk.

With the development of the war in recent years, it is difficult for the Japanese army to believe that a large number of battles have been carried out, but they have to accept the cruel fact that once they do not have the heavy firepower of relative superiority, it will be difficult for the small-scale infantry tactics they were accustomed to achieve a targeted role against the Northwest Army. Even more and more often began to be suppressed by the other party. (To be continued.) )