"Improving the quality of the troops? Youhua, you mean to change to new weapons and equipment? General Zuo Quan asked in surprise when he heard this.

"That's right." Qiao Youhua nodded and said: "In terms of the firepower of individual weapons, we are already ahead of the Japanese army, and regardless of the superiority of the Mauser rifle and the 38 Dagai, just the Mauser pistol, the general-purpose machine gun, the standard weapons and equipment of these infantry squads are far stronger than the light and heavy machine guns and pistols of the Japanese army."

The battle with the same strength and weapons and equipment will definitely outperform them. So what we need to reequip and strengthen are artillery units, as well as tank units and air defense units. ”

"You mean to equip the artillery units with new artillery? Be specific. "Zuo Quandao.

Qiao Youhua said: "Most of the current artillery units of our Dragon's Tooth Column are still equipped with Japanese-style 70 and 60mm infantry guns captured from the Japanese army before, and only the artillery regiment directly under the column is equipped with 75mm Krupp guns produced by our arsenal.

I plan to officially equip all artillery regiments directly under the division with 75mm caliber Krupp artillery, and officially expand the artillery regiments directly under our column into artillery brigades, with three regiments under its jurisdiction, and replace them with 105mm German-style howitzers.

The 105mm howitzer is much more powerful than the 75mm Krupp gun.

The reason why it was not equipped before was because the arsenal had just been established, and they were concentrating on the production of other urgently needed weapons and equipment, after all, with the firepower of our troops, the 75mm Krupp artillery was enough to suppress the Japanese artillery units that fought with us.

There is also our tank unit, before our tank regiment had a total of 27 German No. 4 tanks, the power of this tank has been tested in actual combat, enough to sweep any Japanese tanks and armored vehicles on the Chinese battlefield.

During the period of more than a month when I led my troops to Taiyuan in the south, to the northwest in the west, and to build roads in our base areas, the tank factory of the arsenal was running at full speed, and 13 No. 4 tanks were produced.

At this point, we already have forty No. 4 tanks, and a tank regiment can be said to be truly fully manned.

Regardless of whether the production speed of the tank factory will increase, at this rate, if we reorganize the army for half a year, then by then, we will have at least 100 No. 4 tanks, which will be an extremely powerful ground armored assault force, and a trump card in our hands.

In principle, this air defense regiment must have at least two antiaircraft machine gun battalions and one 88 antiaircraft artillery battalion under its jurisdiction, so as to ensure that this division will not be powerless when encountering air attacks by enemy planes during battle.

In addition, the artillery brigade directly under our headquarters should also be equipped with an air defense regiment to protect our 105mm artillery group. ”

Zuo Quan nodded again and again, but did not forget to question: "Youhua, your idea is very good, but can it be achieved?" Tanks may be able to reach the scale you are talking about, but anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and even 105mm German howitzers, do we have so many?

Can the arsenal produce it, and can the output meet the needs of us to equip so many troops within half a year? ”

Qiao Youhua said confidently: "105mm howitzer, our arsenal artillery factory already has its production line and technology, but I felt that it was not needed before, so I went all out to produce other weapons, and now as long as this production line is put into use, within half a year, we can definitely produce howitzers for one or two regiments."

Coupled with an air defense regiment, this column is directly subordinate to the heavy artillery brigade.

There are also anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, which we have been producing, especially anti-aircraft machine guns, which now have the equipment of a regiment, and now we have three divisions, and there are still two regiments missing, and if the troops are expanded into two divisions, it will be four regiments.

As long as these two production lines are also running at full speed, it will not be a problem to manufacture the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns needed for the four regiments within half a year. ”

After listening to Qiao Anbang's introduction, Zuo Quan nodded and said: "That's good, if that's the case, then the combat effectiveness of our troops will be at least doubled or even more in half a year." ”

"In other words, our 100,000 army will be able to exert the combat capability of 200,000 troops!"

Qiao Youhua smiled and nodded, he understood that this was by no means Zuo Quan's big words, but based on facts, and regardless of the objective factors of having perfect prevention and control firepower and heavy artillery units, as well as the firepower of the artillery regiments directly under each division, which had been greatly improved.

The armored torrent composed of hundreds of German-style No. 4 tank fighting vehicles alone was enough to crush any resistance in the Pingjin area, at least on land, the Japanese army currently did not have the ability to stop such an invincible ironclad division with strong combat power.

Because, the previous achievements of the No. 4 tank are all there, not to mention that there are hundreds of thousands of well-equipped and increasingly powerful dragon tooth infantry, so as long as Qiao Youhua's ideas are all achieved, it is not a fool's dream to double the overall combat effectiveness of the dragon tooth column.

Based on the comparison of the combat strength of the Dragon's Tooth Column and the Japanese army in the past, at that time, even if the devils transferred another 100,000 and 200,000 troops from outside the Guan, the Dragon's Tooth Column would definitely not be afraid, and it could still compete with the enemy in the Pingjin area.

"By the way, there is one more thing, you have to go through it a lot of time, Chief of Staff." Qiao Youhua suddenly remembered something.

"Oh? What's up? Hurry up and say, I will do my best if I can do it. "Zuo Quandao.

"Air Force pilots, ground crews, and other technical personnel related to the Air Force." Qiao Youhua said.

"What do you mean?" Zuo Quan looked at Qiao Youhua a little blankly, and really didn't understand what Qiao Youhua meant by this. 、

"I mean, we should take precautions, now we don't lack anything, the only thing we lack is land-based air force, if we can master the air supremacy, with the 100,000 troops in our hands now, there is no need to wait for half a year, Qiao will dare to lead the troops into Beiping and Tianjin, and there is 80 percent certainty that this area will be recovered in one fell swoop." Qiao Youhua said.

"You mean, to train our own pilots and air force talents?" Zuo Quan said suddenly.

"That's right, now that most of the northwest has been recovered by our army, it is much easier for us to communicate with the Soviet Union, so I would like to ask you to report to the Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters, and ask the Party Central Committee and the heads of the General Headquarters to use the relations of the Comintern to go to Xinjiang and send a group of outstanding intellectual young people to Germany to learn Air Force pilots and related skills and knowledge.

Prepare in advance for the creation of our own air force in the future. ”

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