-- Wuhan

Looking at the anti-aircraft artillery in front of him in surprise, he asked Jiang Cheng dumbfoundedly, "How did you transport so many artillery pieces into Wuhan so quickly?" Why didn't I hear any wind at all? Didn't the guards stop you all the way? “

Jiang Cheng scratched his face in embarrassment and said, "This, you also know that there is a shortage of soldiers, and I also have a military rank on my body, in addition, the phrase money is not nonsense." “

Hearing this, he frowned, secretly scolded the people below for daring to mess around, took Jiang Cheng's hand and said, "I will immediately hand over these anti-aircraft guns to the chairman." You just wait to be rewarded for your meritorious service. ”

Jiang Cheng hurriedly shook his head and said, "Don't mention me, otherwise the commission may misunderstand something." ”

He sighed and nodded, and said, "I'll go to Jiangxi in two days, will you go with me?" There is now a group of young people there who want to reform the country as much as I do, and if you come, we can prepare for the future together. ”

Jiang Cheng looked at the ****** with light in his eyes, sighed a little in his heart, and said in his mouth, "I won't go first, you know, I have a lot of business at home and abroad, and I am not good at administration and military, at most I will give you some financial support, but if I find any noteworthy talents, I will introduce them to you." ”

smiled and patted Jiang Cheng, "Thank you so much, where am I short of manpower." ”

Jiang intermediary looked at ****** and introduced the matter of the anti-aircraft artillery with a happy face, and guessed that Jiang Cheng provided it after just thinking about it, after all, Jiang Cheng was the only one who had the financial ability to do so in the ******.

"You gave you these anti-aircraft guns for you, right?" Jiang asked with a smile.

Thinking of Jiang Cheng's instructions, he immediately said, "No, it's just some patriotic overseas Chinese." ”

Seeing that Jiang Cheng didn't want to take credit, Jiang Intermediary nodded secretly and said, "Okay, I know, the air defense pressure over there in Tianjia Town is very high." Immediately transport 24 doors to that side, we only need 12 doors here, go down and say it, just say that it is my order. ”

Hearing that the weapons were going to be transferred to Tianjia Town, ****** also knew that this was to make the best use of these weapons, so he left without speaking.

Jiang pressed the bell on the table. Chen Bui quickly walked in and asked, "Commission, what's the matter?" ”

Jiang said with a smile: "Jianfeng and his youth group raised donations, bought 36 anti-aircraft guns, and immediately went down to do a good job of propaganda work, especially Jianfeng wittily evaded the Japanese blockade of us." I think I can capitalize and close-up. ”

Chen Bui sighed at this father's love for his son, and replied, "Don't worry, I will definitely let the people know our son's patriotism." ”

-- Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi

More than a dozen soldiers and officers gathered together, and all kinds of weapons were placed on the ground. Liu Ding, Liu Guifu, director of the Eighth Route Army Military Factory, Liu Bocheng, Yang Zhicheng, Mr. Zhu, and Zuo Quan, who came on purpose, discussed the difficulty and positioning of weapons manufacturing.

Liu Bocheng said, "As I said, the rifle is actually a melee weapon, and most of our people really use it, and most of them kill and injure the enemy within 200 meters." There is no need to shoot too far at all, and we are now fighting devils, either in a sports ambush war, or in a defensive counterattack. So the firepower on the front line is very important, and the greater the density of firepower, the greater our chances of victory. ”

Yang Zhicheng immediately said: "We can't just emphasize the density of firepower, what should we do with ammunition logistics?" If only I could. I also want everyone to have a machine gun, in that case, our ammunition can be replenished? ”

Liu Ding retorted: "The matter of ammunition. We now have our own production line, and we have a large number of reloaders, I don't think it's a big deal to have ammunition, and our production force is not very strong, and when our production capacity is strong, the bullet productivity will also increase. ”

You say a word, I say a word, it's not lively, and the good and bad points of all kinds of weapons have been said again.

Mr. Zhu listened to it, and finally said, "Let me summarize, Our current situation is that our only self-produced bullet production line is to produce 7.92 caliber rifle bullets, the army prefers to use SKS rifles, because of his fierce firepower, Comrade Yang asked to use Mosin Nagant because he does not eat bullets, and he hits far, accurate, I see, we have to consider comprehensively, SKS is indeed good, he will be our mainstream in the future, but we now 7.62 bullets are imported from abroad, 38 rifles will be gradually eliminated by our army in the future, our army's mainstream weapons in the future will be SKS, so the arsenal still has to take this as the goal, but the current actual situation, you can first produce a certain Mosin Nagant, after all, his barrel length, I think it can be used by our sharpshooters, and the arsenal went all out to start building a new production line, and when the 7.62 bullet production line came out, we turned to make SKS, and also, machine guns eat more bullets, so don't produce new machine guns, or produce ZB-26 Czech type, what do you think? ”

Liu Ding immediately stood up and said, "We will definitely build a new bullet production line in the shortest possible time, please rest assured." ”

-- Tianjia Town

The defense of the Yangtze River in Wuhan is roughly divided into three areas, the outermost defense line is from Anqing to the periphery of Madang, the middle layer is the three fortress groups of Madang, Hukou and Jiujiang, and finally the Tianjiazhen fortress group and Gedian fortress.

There was no defense on the periphery line from Anqing to Madang, mainly some mobile field river defense artillery, and a large number of minefields, only Anqing had some river defense fortifications, with the aim of weakening the strength of the Japanese fleet.

From Madang to Hukou, the three fortresses of Jiujiang are quite fortified fortresses, with a large number of troops, fortress artillery, Jiangzhong group fortress line, mine area, and naval and air force support.

As for Tianjiazhen and Gedian Fortress, it is the last protection of Wuhan, of which Tianjiazhen is the most important, once Tianjiazhen is lost, Wuhan must retreat immediately. Located less than 10 kilometers from Wuhan, Gedian is the last line of defense. But because Gedian is too close to Wuhan, it is equivalent to a screen outside the window, and once it breaks through, it will kill the family. Therefore, Gedian can't and shouldn't be stationed for a long time, because it's too dangerous. Therefore, Tianjia Town became the most important point of contention between China and Japan on the southern route at this time.

The terrain here in Tianjia Town is dangerous, and it is the so-called Yangtze River natural risk, which is very similar to Jiangyin Fortress in a sense. The wide Yangtze River flows here, and when it reaches the waters of Tianjiazhen, the Yangtze River narrows abruptly, just like the Yangtze River in Jiangyin Fortress suddenly narrows.

However, the river in Tianjia Town is narrower, and the river is only 600 meters wide. The local people said: Tianjia Town crosses the river and rows a boat for 18 oars, which is an excellent place to block the river. In ancient times, the Taiping army and the Qing army built fortresses and forts here. In Tianjia Town, heavy machine guns can be used to block roads and rivers on both sides. Not to mention the fortress artillery.

Tianjia Town began to be built a few months before the July Seven Incident, and it has been a year now, and this fortress group has a total of three large positions, namely the Tianjia Town Fortress on the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Fuchikou Fortress on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the Banbishan Fortress. Because it is located in the south of the Yangtze River and Jiangbei, and the Ninth War Zone suffered a lot of losses due to the battle of Wanjialing, Chen Cheng did not dare to take on the responsibility of such a heavy place as Tianjia Town alone, and finally decided that Bai Chongxi would come to the town in person. For the time being, the post of chief of staff of the Central Committee will be held by He Yingqin. With Bai Chongxi here, Li Zongren also sent a large number of elites from the Fifth War Zone to participate in the defense.

In the fortress of Tianjia Town, where the stars gathered, Bai Chongxi pointed at the map with a bamboo whip and said, "Now our artillery is all in place." The three fortresses had a total of 22 heavy guns of 100 mm or more, as well as 4 75-mm anti-aircraft guns and a partisan artillery regiment with 40 field guns of 75 mm or more, 24 anti-aircraft guns and 4 105 howitzers. Now I order the 2nd Army to defend the Tianjiazhen Fortress in Jiangbei, and the 54th Army to defend the Fuchikou Fortress. The 77th and 64th armies held the fortress of Banbishan. The 26th Army, the 86th Army, and the 48th Army are prepared behind the three fortresses as reserves, and our goal is to take advantage of the favorable terrain and continuously consume the living forces of the Japanese army, so as to achieve the goal of strategic durability. ”

The crowd shouted in unison, "Yes." ”

At this time, a staff officer came over and handed Bai Chongxi a piece of paper, Bai Chongxi looked and said with a smile: "Everyone, Comrade ****** led the Youth League to carry out fund-raising activities in Jiangxi, which was a great success, and received the support of overseas Chinese, a total of 36 anti-aircraft guns were purchased, and 24 have now been sent to our Tianjia Town. ”

"If this battle is won, half of the victory of our Great Japanese Empire will be in hand." It was a Japanese general wearing a general's uniform who spoke, but it was Okamura Ninji.

After Okamura Ningci Wanjialing, his troops were greatly damaged, and he was unable to carry out a two-front battle, so he could only attack along the Yangtze River with all his strength, and at this time was waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops and the support of the Yangtze River fleet.

The Yangtze River Fleet, this fleet with a beautiful name is a Japanese fleet prepared for the invasion of China, established in 1908, officially numbered as the Third Fleet, after the 128 Incident, because of a propaganda militarist movie "Yangtze River Fleet" and called the Yangtze River Fleet, its main force is specially designed for the Yangtze River The third generation of large river gunboats, the main armament is two 120 mm naval guns and two 76 mm anti-aircraft guns, With a draft of 2.3 meters, it can be driven all the way from the mouth of the Yangtze River to Yichang, and this time for the Battle of Wuhan, the Yangtze River Fleet gathered a total of more than 50 river gunboats and more than 100 heavy guns.

Just when the commanders on both sides were nervously preparing, an ominous atmosphere had begun to rise in the Japanese barracks.

Koike wiped his bayonet, he no longer remembered how many Chinese he had killed, how many comrades around him had changed, the only thing that could be comforted was probably that Hikaru Nakajima was still by his side, fighting side by side with him.

Rubbing and wiping, Koike took out a small strip of cloth from his arms, which was the thousand-person needle given to him by his fiancée. "Mengzi, wait for me, as long as it takes another month or two, we can meet." Koike Akira has no doubt that the end of the Shina incident has become better, although a year has passed since the start of the war, it can be seen from the map that Shina has lost almost half of the country, so it is not surrendered, Koike Akira does not understand what the bald head in Wuhan is thinking.

"Ahh A man with a sallow face and vain steps walked into the barracks, but it was Hikaru Nakajima.

"What's wrong? The longhouse medic showed you, did you say anything? Koike Akira hurriedly helped Hikaru Nakajima to lie down on the bed and asked with concern.

Hikaru Nakajima waved his hand and said helplessly, "Don't say it, he first looked at my condition, saw that I had a headache and brain fever, weakness in my limbs, and collapsed, and immediately knew that I was malaria, gave me an injection, and prescribed me some medicine, but I didn't know if it worked." I had a fever of 39 degrees. ”

Koike Akira had read the book, and immediately said in surprise, "39 degrees, it's very powerful, you should be hospitalized, I'll go and tell the military doctor, how can I let you come back alone?" ”

Hikaru Nakajima hurriedly pulled and said, "Don't go, you don't know, the hospital is full, although we usually know that many people have been sick recently, but only in the hospital will we know how serious it has been, I saw a person like me, who has been in a coma for three or four days, and the arm that was injected is swollen, and there is an officer, who has some kind of scarlet fever, which is even worse, and there are many people who don't even have the strength to get up and go to the toilet, and they are all pulled up to their pants, hehe, that smell, anyway, I'm willing to come back." ”

Koike Akira nodded and said, "I see, it's still right to come back." ”

Hikaru Nakajima looked around at no one and whispered, "And you know, now there is a shortage of food in our hospital, my lunch is eaten there, only half of what we usually eat, I heard that it was because the logistics did not expect that there would be so many patients, so the calculation was wrong, and I found a lot of stretchers covered with sheets after the hospital, I don't want to die in the hospital, it is simply a humiliation for the samurai." ”

Koike asked in disbelief, "How is this possible?" We are the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Empire, so why can't we even eat? ”

"Baga, you actually told me that we can't guarantee the food we need for logistics for two months?" Okamura Ninji looked at his quartermaster in disbelief.

"Your Excellency, the guerrillas in the rear are very active, our vehicles often have accidents, and our transportation order is ammunition and weapons first, medicine and clothing second, and food last. The quartermaster said helplessly.

Japan already has the habit of not attaching importance to logistics and food, and the Japanese army is even more accustomed to the habit of fighting a quick battle and providing food to the enemy.

Okamura Ninji said helplessly, "Then prepare to attack immediately, and in addition, let the soldiers go out to look for food, but be careful of the harassment of the guerrillas." (To be continued.) )