After coming out of the arsenal, Su Dao has been thinking about a problem, that is, the use of iron instead of copper to make bullets as mentioned before, in later generations he has only heard of such a thing, but he doesn't know how to do it, so Su Dao will propose to use iron instead of copper, after being rejected by the Germans, Su Dao didn't pay too much attention to it, since the Germans said no, then use the oldest method in the short term, although the materials may be in short supply, but it doesn't matter, the life of the soldier is the most important.

Several factories in Su Dao will also be completed and put into operation in the next half month, but while building the factory, he also did not forget to send troops to find some mineral resources.

Su Dao didn't pay too much attention to the things about the factory, he didn't care about the current output at all, the most important thing was that he had a good excuse, which was enough, as for the workers, let's train them slowly, anyway, the scale will definitely be expanded, so as not to keep up with the number of workers in the future.

With the commissioning of several factories, it has solved part of the employment problem for Jinxi, although each factory does not recruit many people, but it can be regarded as relieving the pressure on the lives of the people, the war is repeated, it is good to find a job, and there is no complaint about what is not found, anyway, Su Dao said that production will be expanded in the near future, and then it will recruit two times more or even more workers than now.

A week later, the battle of Jinzhou has basically come to an end, but this is also the most difficult moment, a week of fighting caused the 766th Division to lose more than 6,000 people, it can be said that the vitality is greatly damaged, if it is a loss, it is estimated that the 766th Division will directly lose its combat effectiveness. However, now is not the time to relax, only after Jinzhou City is defeated, can it be repaired.

As for the reinforcements, there are no more for the time being, and even the 50,000 reserve troops are left with only 3,000 people, and the rest of them are all scattered to various places in Rehe Province to garrison the county seat. There is no way, although the nearly 100,000 horses of the two divisions seem to be a lot, there are not many of them in one province, and even in many counties, they can only leave a battalion or a company of troops, like the 768th Division, which is even more pitiful.

Chengde is such a big summer resort, if it is placed in the past, it is a place where the emperor has to come every year, due to the lack of troops, the 768th Division can only leave one battalion of troops stationed there, and Luanping, not far from Chengde, has only left two battalions. The main force of the 768th Division was dispersed to the area north of the Great Wall to prevent the attack of the Yue army in the Guannai.

The situation of the 767th Division and the 768th Division is similar, although they don't have to defend against the Guannai Army, but they need to guard against more Kwantung Army, and their pressure is not much less than that of the 768th Division, as for the 766th Division, the first battle of Jinzhou alone needs to face hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army, and there is no time to free up their hands to help the other two divisions, so it would be good if they didn't ask for reinforcements.

After a week of fighting, the Kwantung Army outside Jinzhou City has basically been wiped out, and those who can escape back to the city have fled back to the city, and those troops who have been scattered and cannot find the organization can not be found, or the Kwantung Army soldiers who have no intention of going to the organization at all, will flee directly to the north, with so much effort, hundreds of thousands of troops have beaten less than 50,000 people, and so far they have lost 30,000 or 40,000 people, and they are all front-line combat units.

So far, there are less than 50,000 people in the city who can fight, and it is said that there are more than 100,000 people in five divisions, but if you remove the baggage troops and non-combat troops of each division, it would be good to have 20,000 people.

Reinforcements, the Kwantung Army has been asking for reinforcements, Umezu Mijiro is even more anxious, thinking about Ueda Kenkichi who has returned to his homeland to retire, Umezu Mijiro can't help but secretly envy, and at the same time feel ridiculous about what he said when he was not in office.

Umezu Mijiro, who was sweating, didn't care about his appearance, he threw his military hat aside, and a few buttons on his military uniform were unbuttoned, staring at the map for a long time and there was no movement. Where the hell is Lao Tzu going to transfer troops? Looking at the map full of marks on the location of the Kwantung Army troops, these troops together are hundreds of thousands of people, it stands to reason that the problem of Jinzhou can be solved by casually transferring some troops, but Umezu Mijiro didn't know which troops to transfer for a while.

In the first siege of the 99th Army, Ueda Kenkichi mobilized more than 150,000 people from six divisions, but was completely annihilated by nearly 50,000 people in two divisions, and then another 10,000 or 20,000 were annihilated when retreating, plus more than 10,000 in the previous Western Front positions, more than 150,000 people turned around and left less than 70,000, and they all lost their armor.

Later, Ueda Kenkichi hurriedly integrated those defeated troops, and finally just stabilized, Umezu Mijiro gritted his teeth and mobilized five divisions directly into the vicinity of Jinzhou to garrison, and then mobilized a division from other aspects into Rehe to assist the four divisions that had just been integrated, so in this battle, the Kwantung Army invested a total of nearly 250,000 people in ten divisions, and the 99th Army also had about 200,000 people.

Every time he thinks of the 99th Army, which has so many fewer troops than himself, he can beat himself like this, Umezu Mijiro has the idea of wanting to cut his belly, what kind of face does this have to go back to see people? The current strength of the Kwantung Army is about 670,000 people, and the Kwantung Army claims to have 800,000 troops, which was 40 years and 41 years, and at this time, the Pacific War had not yet begun, and the strength of the Kwantung Army had not yet reached the maximum.

In this way, there were more than 100,000 troops in the hands of the 99th Army alone, and nearly 400,000 troops were pinned down by them, and this was already on the verge of the imminent collapse of the Kwantung Army. Coupled with the previous battle of Suyunuomenkan, the Kwantung Army also lost more than 10,000 people. The Kwantung Army seemed to have a large number of troops, and in addition to guarding against the Soviet Union, it also had to monitor the dynamics of Manchuria, so as not to be overturned in the gutter by the Manchurians.

Therefore, Umezu Mijiro looked at the dense troops on the map, but he did not dare to easily mobilize any troops, and those who could participate in the war had already been transferred by Ueda Kenkichi and Umezu Mijiro, and if they were transferred again, it would threaten the rule of the Kwantung Army. So this is the biggest headache for Umezu Mijiro, I originally thought that the commander of the Kwantung Army was a good errand, but I didn't expect to find out after I came, this is more unacceptable than sitting on a hot pot.

"Iimura-kun, how are the aviation units preparing?" After a long time, Umezu Mijiro finally remembered his other killer feature, a force that could be mobilized at any time.

Since the beginning of the war, the Kwantung Army Aviation can be said to be the most idle unit, the Army is fighting to the death, and it is stunned that it has not seen its own fighters once, but this is not to blame the aviation troops, but Umezu Mijiro does not want his aviation units to be sent to death, the 99th Army has advanced fighters He has long known, and the navy has also sent information, through the battle with the Navy, they found that the surname of the 99th Army's fighters can be no less than the fighters of the Imperial Navy.

In this way, thinking of the fact that a squadron of fighters was annihilated by the Huaxia Air Force at the beginning, Umezu Mijiro couldn't help but be a lot more cautious; on the one hand, he asked the country to step up the refitting of the air force, and on the other hand, he hoped that the army could hold up for a while, and after the air force was reloaded, it would be easy to say, after the air force was eliminated, and without air supremacy, could the 99th Army still be so horizontal?

The reason why the air force is not allowed to fight is to protect the poor Imperial pilots who are few, and when the new fighters arrive, so that they can give full play to their advantages, no matter how good the pilots are to fight with a fighter that is far inferior to the opponent's surname, it may take a lot of luck to defeat the opponent, and if the opponent wants to shoot them down, it seems that only a little skill is needed.

"The Second Air Force received new fighters yesterday, and it will take a period of familiarity before they can fight, and the Fifth Air Force estimates that it will wait a week before receiving new fighters, and it is estimated that it will take half a month at the shortest to complete all the rearmaments." Lieutenant General Iimura, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, said with a melancholy face, the Kwantung Army is not only worried about Umezu Mijiro alone, what major disasters have the troops encountered, generally speaking, the chief officer and the chief of staff are both unlucky, the only difference is that the chief of staff has less responsibility, after the defeat can not be disemboweled, or be transferred to other units to serve, the chief officer is different, for the defeat of the army they have the main responsibility.

But Rao is so, Iimura doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of Ueda Kenkichi and Isoya Ryosuke, thinking about Isoya Ryosuke's current position, Iimura Ryosuke was scared for a while, that is a fighter in the reserve, guarding a fortress, it can be said unceremoniously, Isoya Ryosuke has basically no hope of going to the battlefield in this life, and he can work in the position of the garrison commander until he retires, even if he burns high incense.

Remembering that he had just taken office, and the stool under the chief of staff's buttocks had not yet been hot, it was possible to follow Isoya Ryosuke's pace, and Iimura's face suddenly lost any light, and he had long since lost the mighty appearance he had when he first took office, replaced by bursts of worry and fear......

"No, there is no more time for them, order the Second Air Force to take off immediately to support Jinzhou, if you can, you must destroy the opponent's airfield, destroy their heavy artillery brigade, and at the same time order the Fifth Air Force to be ready for battle." Umezu Mijiro ordered with a bitter face.

He seems to have seen his fate, even if he keeps Jinzhou? The important point of the problem is that the entire Rehe was lost in his hands, and the most odious thing is that there are still some soldiers of the Kwantung Army who have been driven to the pass, which can make him embarrassed and embarrassed, not only that, but the war here has also affected the war in the pass, and the North China Front has been forced to change the current battle plan.

But things are far from so simple, not only the North China Front changed its plan, because the plan of the North China Front was suddenly changed, but also the Central China Dispatch Army in the south, without the North China Front in Shanxi and North China to contain the large number of troops of Chairman Chiang, those local warlords could free up their hands at any time to support Wuhan, or counterattack them.

In the past, they didn't have to worry so much when the North China Front was still attacking, but now they have suddenly become a lone force in depth, as long as the Chinese side cuts off their retreat and perishes, it seems that it is only a matter of time.

ps: Yesterday I originally said five chapters, but the network at home failed, and then I couldn't get on the network, so I made up for today's five watches. (To be continued.) )