Kunming, Xishan, the Xishan official residence of Zhang Shusheng, the supreme leader of the Southwest United Autonomous Axe, the scenery here is pleasant, by the mountains and rivers, there are natural springs flowing through the stream, there are no high-rise buildings, Soviet-style forest garden style, pavilions and pavilions can be seen everywhere, although there is no ancient building, but the architectural design style is also based on nature, it is very suitable for cultivating life and raising surnames, and the blue-green rare plants that can be seen everywhere also add some differences here.

This is built by Zhang Shusheng out of his own pocket, not to enjoy luxury, after the power and status have risen to a certain height, he needs a quiet environment to reflect on himself. You must know that he is not a politician who came to power through politics, but a so-called 'peasant politician' who started from scratch through his own conscientious management.

When dealing with major issues in some countries, he will inevitably not be like those real politicians who take political struggle as the basis and deny his relatives, but must have an absolutely clear mind and take the development of the entire nation as the foundation.

With the ability of today's dream machine, Zhang Shusheng is not the supreme chief, he runs to the sea to circle a small island, and is more comfortable than anyone else.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the life he wanted. He likes to be at ease, but he doesn't want to stay away from this nation, away from these compatriots who are still struggling in the sea of suffering. He likes the sky and the sea, but he doesn't want to leave this land for even a moment, which is why he has never visited abroad in recent years, and he has never accepted invitations from foreign leaders.

When people reach a certain height, they will have some attachments, some people are obsessed with the right to live long live, and Zhang Shusheng found that he began to be obsessed with the surname of the child, in He Ning's words, this is a good thing, it is better than being a tyrant.

The guard force of the Xishan Mansion is extremely strong, in addition to the innermost mysterious chief guard team, 500 meters away from here is the most elite dragon guard squadron of the Dragon Tooth Special Forces Brigade, and more than a kilometer away is a regiment of the Central Guard Force.

Further outside, there is a veteran regiment of the Guards Division (not participating in the army's combat mission), some veterans with strong combat skills, unwilling to leave the army after retiring, they chose to pass the assessment into this veteran regiment, swore to defend Zhang Shusheng to the death, and stood the last shift for the old regiment commander until they finally had to transfer to the second line of the army.

These seemingly conventional military forces actually hide many secret weapons that outsiders cannot know. For example, the automatic defense machine hidden in the shadows and can be controlled by Zhang Shusheng and his most confidant guards can easily destroy the air defense weapons of medium and large-scale air raids, and of course, there are even some weapons far beyond this era.

In this day and age, there is no safer place to live.

Early in the morning, Zhang Shusheng broke away from the arms of the two women and got up, practiced fist and foot kung fu in the underground practice room for a while, and knocked several sparring robots to the ground before letting them repair themselves. After a hard breath of sulking, he was refreshed and notified the security department.

The guards were also accustomed to the leader's early risers, and they guarded the supreme leader's residence twenty-four hours a day, and they knew best the routine of the respected supreme chief. It is his usual style to go to bed late and get up early, but every week, he will lie in bed like a child, and then get up under the constant harassment of the two chief wives.

"Salute!!"

At half past six in the morning, Zhang Shusheng, under the protection of the guards, went to the location of the Southwest Lianzhi Political Axe, which was not far from here.

"Chief, this is the information you need to pass through."

Mao Yunxian gets up earlier than Zhang Shusheng every day, and the secretary of the chief is not young, he has long reached the age of talking about marriage, but he has always been alone, and the colleagues in the office center are anxious for him, thinking that it is really not good, everyone can help introduce one.

As a result, once on a blind date with a secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mao Yunxian ran away halfway because of a work that was not urgent. Afterwards, Zhang Shusheng teased him, and his explanation was that he was not ready to start a family, so it was better to do more for the country while he was young.

Only Zhang Shusheng understood that his confidential secretary only slept about three or four hours a day, assisting Lu Yunyan in managing the secretariat and dealing with those confidential documents that could almost never be processed.

Zhang Shusheng motioned to him to take a cup of soy milk and two mushroom vegetable buns from his breakfast, and fill his stomach before working. "Yun Xian, although work is the most important, but the body is also important, next time I hear from your secretary general that you are too busy to even take care of breakfast, I will give you a few days off."

"Hehe, that's Secretary General Lu's concern for his subordinates, thank you, Chief Executive, I will pay attention to my body." Mao Yunxian couldn't see that the entire southwest was in a state of efficient fighting, not to mention the highest political axe department, that is, the township department, the work was all overtime, and the spirit of 12 points was completed, not to mention that he, the confidential secretary of the supreme general chief, how could he dare to slack off for half a point? The chief has breakfast every day while reading documents, so do you have to take time out to enjoy this luxury?

Picking up a mushroom vegetable bag casually, Zhang Shusheng opened the first document that had to be passed.

This is an update report on the battle of Jinjing.

Judging from the battle report, China's Beijing-Tianjin Battle Corps had just repelled an attack by the Yue Army. At about 11 o'clock in the evening, the army launched a fierce and sudden attack on the defensive section of the two second divisions on the right flank of the new defense line in Beiping, with the strength of one division.

These two second-class divisions were Song Zheyuan's troops, and they had barely repelled several attacks by a brigade of the Yue army that day, and the loss of guns and ammunition was very large, and the casualties were also very large.

As a result, these two second-class divisions were sharply attacked by the Yue army, and they lost two positions one after another, and finally repelled the Yue army with the support of two regiments of the third division in the southwest.

At this time, after the test of war, the difference in the combat effectiveness of the Kuomintang army at all levels was obvious.

The central elite division has the strongest combat effectiveness, and can basically have 10,000~12,000 people when it is not enough. One and a half central divisions barely managed to defend against the attack of a division and regiment with a firm will to fight. Two to three central divisions were able to rely on their positions to resist the fierce attack of one division of the Chinese army. (The number of the main divisions of the army is about 20,000~22,000, and of course not only combat troops, but also support units.) There were fewer support units within the Kuomintang army at all levels. As for the reorganized first-class divisions, two divisions can hold their positions, and only three ~ four first-class divisions can rely on their positions to resist the fierce attack of one division.

The combat effectiveness of the second-class division is very embarrassing, there is neither a generous central priority allocation, nor a reorganized and refined sequence, and even the personnel are insufficient, and it is already very difficult for a division of 6~8000 people. And the equipment is even more inferior, the artillery is just a few old-fashioned goods, many of them are still the original local warlords themselves to buy, rifles are made from Hanyang to Shenyang, a division can find four or five types of rifles, in the previous warlord wars, before the war, you need to gather these several types of bullets, and then fight while seizing, every battle is the time to fight is far less than the time to run away or cower.

As a result, combat effectiveness is extremely low.

Judging from the report, Zhang Shusheng was a little surprised. The Second Division that participated in the Battle of Jinjing, including Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu's subordinates, had a good will to fight, at least much stronger than during the warlord civil war. Some veterans who have been soldiers for more than ten years actually have a kind of grenade and die with the enemy. I don't know if the main force fought too badly, which stimulated the hearts of these people who had been silent for many years, or stimulated their patriotic enthusiasm, in short, although these troops were poorly equipped, they did not show signs of large-scale surrender and escape, but under the constraints and strict orders of Song Zheyuan and others, they actively fought, while fighting, they picked up their own guns and ammunition to use, and even many soldiers of the second division also had a big knife to fight with the devil in hand-to-hand combat.

These second-class divisions are the most pitiful, and the supply of the Nanjing National Political Axe is given priority to the central elite division and the first-class division, and only those who have excess can be supplemented according to the situation. Song Zheyuan pulled Han Fuqu, and the two of them ran Chen Cheng's military legs were about to break. As a result, they each asked for more than 2,000 38 covers and some grenadiers, which were still the weapons and equipment captured by Chen Cheng in Langfang.

"Bang!"

Seeing this, Zhang Shusheng slammed his fist on the table, a boundless anger, wanting to attack but couldn't find a place to vent. Blame Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek can be regarded as trying his best, no matter what happened before, but now he is seriously resisting, and the supply of the second division is not effective, and it is indeed because the Nanjing national political axe is too tight. It is even more impossible to blame Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu, the two of them are local warlords, and it is not easy to pull up the team to go to the battlefield, you have to insist that so-and-so may have lost military spending, but now that they have gone to the battlefield, the ones they eat will never be able to buy back a division of equipment.

In a word, it is not anyone's fault, but that the whole nation is too backward, and coupled with the annual melee, the productivity has been reduced to a shameful level. In the end, these soldiers who resisted the Japanese could only hold the most backward weapons and use their bloody swords to block the Japanese army.

Zhang Shusheng felt that he had to do something, no matter what.

"Let Minister Zhou Duanzheng of the Logistics Department come here." Putting down the documents, Zhang Shusheng picked up the phone and asked the secretary to call Zhou Duanzheng from the logistics department.

From time to time, Zhou Duanzheng came to the office.

"Report."

"Come in."

Zhang Shusheng roughly calculated just now, if you want to change the equipment level of these second-class divisions, the southwest is still completely able to do it, but it is just whether to do it or not. is a fake Qinggao, standing at the height of a politician, in line with the attitude that he is not his own person and cares if he dies. It is still based on the country and the people, and based on resistance, support these troops who even have a limited number of bullets, so that they will have fewer casualties, so that the majority of parents who are looking forward to their children returning home will have fewer children die, and there will be fewer white-haired people sending black-haired people.

Zhang Shusheng felt that there was no need to hesitate at all, he was not a successful politician, but he must be a leader who was beneficial to the nation. If it's a dirty politician, what's the difference between himself and those so-called hoorays?

"You first look at this battlefield bulletin that has just been sent back from the front."

"Yes, Chief."

Zhou Duanzheng's forehead was full of sweat, as the Minister of Logistics, the battlefield was nothing more than logistics supplies, seeing the commander-in-chief quietly handing him a battle report sent back from the front, he couldn't help but feel a little worried, could it be that there was a problem with logistics and supply? Or is there a quality problem with the weapons and equipment?

As the logistics steward of the entire Southwest Army, his position is not prominent, but it is definitely one of the most treadmill powers. In all aspects, even if there is a problem, it will affect the overall situation.

When he got the battle report, he didn't expect it to be about the combat report of the Kuomintang army, which made him vaguely guess something, the people who can get to this position are not mediocre talents, looking at the meaning of the commander-in-chief, it should be to think of some ways from the southwest, "Commander-in-chief, judging from the battle report, the Kuomintang's second-class division is indeed poorly equipped, which has led to many casualties that should not have been." ”

"Well, since the Opium War, we Chinese have suffered enough of the backwardness of weapons. From broadswords and spears, to foreign guns and cannons that buy foreign goods at high prices, and then to the Westernization movement, we have lost money and run an industry. In the final analysis, many people still realize the great crisis brought about by the backwardness of weapons and the backwardness of the country. Zhang Shusheng pointed to the battle report in Zhou Duanzheng's hand, "Judging from the battle report, several divisions of Song Zheyuan and Han Fuqu fought very hard, and there was even a situation where there were no bullets in the middle of the battle, and the soldiers fought with the devils with big knives and bayonets. Although we and the Kuomintang have different political stances, we are both Chinese, both descendants of Yan and Huang, and we cannot watch these people die innocently. At the very least, give them the bare minimum conditions for fighting. ”

"What does the chief mean that Chiang Kai-shek has no time to supply them, and we will go and replenish them?" Zhou Duanzheng also nodded, the chief said reasonably, from a political point of view, the more the Kuomintang troops die, this is called weakening the enemy, but from the perspective of the Chinese, it is absolutely wrong to look at the wall.

What Zhou Duanzheng didn't know was that Zhang Shusheng was more deeply touched by this kind of thing that led to a large number of innocent deaths and injuries because of backward weapons. You must know that in later generations, in the original history, some armies fought millet plus rifles, and the conditions were also very bitter.

"Our southwest has established a strategic reserve system from the very beginning, and as far as I know, some secondary reserve bases have a considerable part of the Huaxia Type 1 rifle in reserve." Zhang Shusheng asked.

"Yes, Chief. From the very beginning, we have carried out your instructions on the strategic reserve, which has been carried out with the strictest regulations, with the exception of the sale of some obsolete equipment to a number of friendly countries in accordance with a special document issued by the Office of the Commander-General. Over the years, there has not been a single accident.

Last month, the headquarters ordered the transfer of a batch of weapons to arm the grassroots militia in Sichuan. When I checked the inventory, I found that the reserve of Huaxia No. 1 rifles was about 50,000 pieces, and the vast majority of these guns were gradually reequipped from the garrison division in recent years, and they were in good condition, and the advanced technology stored in the warehouse was sufficient to ensure the normal use of this rifle. As for bullets, the bullets of the old-fashioned Huaxia 1 rifle are even more difficult to count. ”

Zhang Shusheng nodded, these weapons were originally reserved for the militia troops in the future, or to train reserve troops, and now the more than 50,000 extra rifles have found a purpose.

"You make arrangements, and you are going to transfer several divisions of rifles and ammunition to Major General Chen's army in Beiping. I'll let him arrange the delivery. ”

"This, chief, weapons and ammunition are not a problem, with additional manpower, all guns and ammunition can be shipped out of the warehouse within a day. But now all transport planes in the southwest are being used to support the northward operation of the four divisions, which is already very tight, and the military headquarters is recently considering arranging for the transportation of a batch of light armored vehicles to the north. ”

Zhang Shusheng shook his head, "Specifically, you come up with a way to see whether it is transported by plane or by land, I only need a result, the weapons must be transported to Beiping." ”――

(To be continued)