The armored force is a sharp weapon of the 6th army, since the time of the fight in Suidong, Wu Xiaoliang was interested in building a tank factory, and now after ten years of exhibition, it has been quite large-scale, but due to the lack of raw materials for Japan's naval blockade, the output is not large, and the smuggling of 200 tanks to Shandong is already the limit, if Shandong wants to expand the armored forces, it can only produce itself, however, the complex structure of the tank can not be put into production overnight, although the factory has been built, but it will take time to enter the mass production stage, At present, it is already a good result to be able to maintain the supply of key components.

Tanks were born in the European war, which is still a rarity in the West, not to mention in backward China, after all, Li Zejun is from Suidong, and he knows a thing or two about tank troops, and he can't help but be very excited when he hears Wu Xiaoliang frankly say that a tank regiment has been built in Shandong, and he knows very well that the tank is a sharp knife of the Sixth Army, and with it, the infantry will be invincible, and dealing with these warlords with backward equipment and tactics is like chopping melons and vegetables.

"The tank regiment will equip our 57th Division first, the 57th Division is facing the hundreds of thousands of troops of Feng Yuxiang in Henan Province head-on, with this sharp knife, it will definitely be called the surname Feng to taste the bitterness."

Li Zejun relied on being Wu Xiaoliang's guard, so he had few scruples about speaking, although others were also happy to see the hunt, but it was not good to open his mouth like him, and he was also waiting for Wu Xiaoliang's next with an expectant face, I don't know who this golden phoenix will be.

However, Wu Xiaoliang's next words disappointed them.

"I am ready to form a tank division, which includes two brigades, one tank brigade and one motorized rifle brigade, of which the tank brigade is composed of two regiments and the motorized infantry brigade is composed of three regiments......"

Everyone was disappointed for a while, but they were all shocked by the grand blueprint depicted by Wu Xiaoliang, indeed, if Shandong established such a mechanized army, it would be invincible and invincible in the warlord melee, but how did they know that the ultimate goal of Wu Xiaoliang's establishment of the armored division was not a domestic warlord at all, but a Japan that had been eyeing China in vain.

Although Zhao Donghai, commander of the Jinpu Road Guard, was only a military police captain in the Feng Army before, he had also heard of the prestige of the tank, and he said with excitement: "There is a tank regiment that is enough to disperse the sharp spirit of the Jin Army in Hebei, and it is not a problem for our Shandong Army to seize the entire Hebei and Beijing and Tianjin." ”

"Against the three major warlords of Jiang, Feng, and Yan, I don't plan to use a killer weapon, good steel must be used on the blade, and under the condition that the training and establishment are not yet mature, it is absolutely impossible to lightly dispatch armored troops."

Wu Xiaoliang poured a basin of cold water again, but the most frustrating thing was the words of Yutai Jize.

"The biggest problem facing the formation of an armored division now is not the training of personnel, nor the number of equipment, but fuel, fuel." At this point he paused deliberately, lengthening his tone and accentuating his tone.

"The diesel fuel I have stockpiled for half a year is only enough for an armored regiment to last for ten days, and if the armored division is established, with the savings of the whole year, it may not be enough for a few days."

As soon as these words came out, the officers who were still elated, were greatly disappointed, especially Li Zejun, who understood that if tanks and cars had no fuel, they would be a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, and they would be useless.

"However, China does not produce oil, and all the fuel required in China depends on imports, not to mention the high price, and the volume is very small, more than half of which are shipped to Shanghai and Guangdong, and there are very few that can go to Shandong, and even less can be reserved by us in Shandong."

Speaking of oil, Wu Xiaoliang couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart, who said that China does not produce oil, and that the new China in later generations will successively produce oil in Shandong and Heilongjiang, and the Daqing Oilfield and Shengli Oilfield will be China's crude oil producing areas in later generations, but he is worried about whether this is the best time to exploit oil in Shandong, once the oil fields are exploited, after the outbreak of the all-out war between China and Japan, whether Shandong can be saved, whether the oil fields can be kept, and if not, these resources will all become tools for Japan to slaughter the people of China and even the world, and whether the gains outweigh the losses.

In an instant, Wu Xiaoliang's thoughts had already turned a few times in his mind, and he was really entangled in his heart.

The officers did not know what Wu Xiaoliang was thinking, and when they saw that he was a little distracted, they thought that he was thinking about where to buy the raw materials, and they made suggestions one after another.

"The provincial government might as well set up a steamship company to transport foreign crude oil and then process it into fuel oil in Shandong, so that the volume will increase and the cost will be much lower than that of directly importing fuel." Shantai Jize is worthy of being born as a Jin merchant, and he has been immersed in the business sea for many years, and he is also well aware of the international trade situation.

This is a good idea, but it takes time and effort to set up a company, and Liangda's shipping company, which is already the largest steamship company in Asia, is the only way to entrust this business to them.

With a plan in his heart, Wu Xiaoliang also faded his plan to exploit oil fields in Shandong, he was never willing to take the risk of the oil fields being used by the Japanese, and the picture was quick for a while, Wu Xiaoliang's concerns were by no means superfluous, Japan's Pacific War was questioned by many people in later generations, thinking that they were extremely stupid, in fact, one of the important reasons for this is the lack of oil resources in its country and the occupied territories, and Japan's domestic fuel production was pitiful, and due to the US embargo, The limited production of fuel oil could not meet the needs of the Japanese army's large-scale aggression for a long time, and at that time, only the islands of Southeast Asia had oil production, and it was impossible to cross the United States in order to obtain these oil producing areas, so the only choice was to declare war on the United States.

If Shandong oil fields are exploited too early now, so that China will change from an oil-free country to an oil-owned country, then Japan will be even more imperative to China, especially Shandong, and it may postpone its declaration of war against the United States because of its abundant oil resources.

The next day, Wu Xiaoliang ordered Yantai Jize to personally go to Tianjin to discuss the dispatch of cargo ships by the Liangda Shipping Company to transport crude oil, and the preparations for the armored division were handed over to an armored corps officer sent by Suidong who had nominally retired from the Suidong Army.

In late May, a person claiming to be a special envoy of the Northeast Frontier Army secretly came to Wu Xiaoliang's private residence to ask for a meeting, Wu Xiaoliang learned of this, and his heart moved, Zhang Hanqing, Zhang Hanqing, you finally can't bear the loneliness, but unlike the previous life, I'm afraid there is no such good luck in this life.

Busy ordering someone to invite the envoy in, Wu Xiaoliang was surprised when he saw it, it turned out to be him.

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