Chapter 245: Rewards and Imperial Meetings (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Passes, and Various!! ）

Two ordnance construction orders are also very practical, one is a German 88-mm anti-aircraft artillery production line, and the other is a German-style long-handled grenade production line. For the time being, the 40th Army could produce everything from individual rifles to heavy artillery and even tanks, but in general there was still a lack of artillery, especially medium-caliber artillery.

At present, all units of the 40th Group Army are equipped with a total of five types of artillery, light mortars with a caliber of 60-81mm, heavy mortars with a caliber of 120mm, Japanese-made 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery, Japanese-made Type 92 infantry guns, and M101 heavy howitzers with a caliber of 105mm. Among them, heavy mortars and heavy howitzers are produced by the 40th Group itself, and other sources can be very complicated, some are bought with money, some are captured in battle, and some are self-produced by the Nationalist Government, but the others are very troublesome, mainly due to the lack of ammunition, which has caused great trouble to the 40th Group Army. This time, God has eyes, there is no one on the ordnance construction order, and there is a pie from the sky, German 88mm anti-aircraft guns, grandma's, this is a legendary-level weapon and equipment!

It is no wonder that Chen Fengliu is a kind of German 88mm anti-aircraft gun, which is indeed an excellent artillery, and the most successful artillery system used in the Second World War is none other than the 88mm anti-aircraft gun equipped by the German army. This gun has a caliber of 88 mm and a total combat weight of 5?5 tons. The pitch angle is -3 ~ 85 °, the rate of fire is 15-20 rounds / min, the vertical maximum range is 10350 meters, the horizontal maximum range is 14500 meters, and the combat group is 9 people.

This anti-aircraft gun was designed by the Krupp company in the early twenties. Krupp designers foresaw that bombers, the main targets of anti-aircraft artillery, would fly higher and faster, so they chose 88 mm, a large caliber that was rare at the time, and gave the projectile a high muzzle velocity, which laid the foundation for its future to become an effective anti-tank weapon. They also designed a rather elaborate automatic ammunition feeding device, which gave the anti-aircraft gun a high rate of fire.

What Chen Feng valued most about the German 88mm anti-aircraft gun was not its air defense capability, but its strong anti-tank capability. If it's just a war with little Japan. Chen Feng was confident that with these weapons and equipment in his hands, it would be enough to wear down the Japanese army to death. But he has another important responsibility on his shoulders. Trying to recover millions of square kilometers of land, including Outer Mongolia and Sakhalin, would inevitably lead to conflicts with the Soviet Union, Britain, France, Portugal, and other countries.

The small country of Portugal is already the sunset of the mountain, and without too many people, Chen Feng can wipe out the Portuguese army on Ao Island with one regiment. France is also not a cause for concern. Because France is not very strong in East Asia or Southeast Asia. Chen Feng was confident that a single division could sweep through all of France's colonies in Southeast Asia.

But Britain and the Soviet Union are a tough nut. In addition to India, a huge colony of more than 5.8 million square kilometers (including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sikkim, Bhutan, etc.), Britain also has colonies in Burma, Singapore, Malaysia and other colonies. There are a lot of troops, and it is not easy to deal with.

This was especially true of the Soviet Union, which at this time not only had a huge number of troops, but also the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army should not be underestimated. Moreover, the Soviet Union also has a lot of heavy weapons, especially the armor power, as far as Chen Feng knows, there are now 9 armored divisions and more than 3,000 aircraft in the entire Soviet Union. With the gradual expansion of the war, this number will increase, Chen Feng is really not sure to compete with the Soviet Union, the most important thing is that the huge armor power of the Soviet Union is enough to discourage Chen Feng.

But with the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, Chen Feng was confident that he would break the deadlock. The anti-armor performance of the 88mm anti-aircraft gun was battle-tested, and at the beginning of World War II, the standard anti-tank guns of both warring sides were small in caliber, with the German using 37 mm and the British using 2-pounder guns (about 40 mm). However, both Britain and France were equipped with heavy tanks, such as the British Martils II, with armor thickness of nearly 80 mm. If it weren't for the fact that they were equipped with radio communication equipment, that they were convenient for liaison and command, and that the British and French armies had made mistakes in their strategic and tactical guiding ideology, and that the German forces were flexible in tactics and skillful in operation, the German PzKw III and IV tanks would not have been able to deal with the British and French heavy tanks at all.

In May 1940, Rommel's 7th Tank Division advanced at high speed from Belgian territory towards Dunkirk, encountering a counterattack by a British army on the way. In the face of the heavy tanks of the British army, the German 37-mm anti-tank guns were helpless. At the critical moment, the 88mm anti-aircraft guns of an anti-aircraft artillery company lowered the muzzle and opened fire on the British troops, destroying nine British tanks in the blink of an eye, forcing the British to retreat. On the Eastern Front, 88-mm anti-aircraft guns also became the backbone of the German anti-tank forces. When the Germans first encountered the Soviet KV-1 and T-34 tanks in the successive victories of the "Barbarossa", they fell into an even more embarrassing situation than they did on the French battlefield. The armor protection of these two types of tanks was unheard of by the Germans, and the 37-mm anti-tank shells hit it like an itch. As a result, the Germans once again relied on 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, and once again it lived up to expectations.

It can be said that the German 88mm anti-aircraft artillery not only greatly strengthened the air defense capability of the 40th Army, but also strengthened the anti-armor strength of the 40th Army, and at the same time greatly increased the medium-caliber artillery strength of the 40th Army.

The second armament construction order was the grenade production line, and now the 40th Army has a total of 5 grenade production lines, 1 domestic and long-handled grenade, and 4 Japanese melon-style grenade production lines. The German long-handled grenade production line was bought by Chen Feng from Delixi, and the output was not very high, with a daily output of 3,000 grenades.

One of the four melon grenade production lines is a system bonus, and the remaining three are captured in battle. These four melon grenade production lines produce more than 18,000 grenades per day, and although the output is already very good, compared with the more than 300,000 regular troops and 200,000 militia units of the 40 th Group Army, the daily output of 20,000 grenades is still far from meeting the combat needs of the troops.

Based on the consumption of 10 grenades per soldier per battle, the 40th Army would have to consume 5 million grenades in a war, which is equivalent to the annual output of all arsenals. This time, this production line is the production line of German long-handled grenades, and it is also a large-scale production line, with a daily output of 10,000 grenades, as long as this production line is put into operation, the problem of hand grenades in the 40th Group Army can be regarded as being solved for the time being.

The personal equipment is a pair of Eagle Hook Combat Boots, which appeared in 2007 A.D. and was made in China. This kind of combat boot Chen Feng has only heard of, but has not worn it, and is said to be specially made by the most mysterious dragon team in China. However, it is indeed very comfortable to wear, light and wear-resistant, the toe of the boot is clamped with a lightweight steel plate, Chen Feng tried it, and the small tree with a diameter of 30 cm was broken in two, and the boots had no problem at all.

The personal skill is an intermediate air combat command, and after using it, Chen Feng suddenly has a lot of air combat knowledge and combat skills in his mind, and it seems that these things are innate.

Personal enhancement is 2 times the increase in agility, after strengthening, Chen Feng's agility increased again, and suddenly Chen Feng felt that his body suddenly became a lot lighter, and Chen Feng even felt that it was not much of a problem to let himself race with the car.

Chen Feng counted the harvest in his own home, and Tokyo was full of gloom. As soon as the news of the air raid on the port of Wusongkou by the Chinese army broke, especially when they learned that the armored cruiser Izumo and the aircraft carrier Fengxiang, which they were proud of, had been sunk and that nine admirals had been killed in battle, the Japanese people were completely outraged, and they took to the streets one after another to demand that the government severely punish the hateful Shina people.

At the same time, Emperor Hirohito of Japan received a telegram from the headquarters and urgently summoned Prime Minister Fumima Konoe and others to convene an imperial meeting.

Unlike the relaxed atmosphere of previous Imperial Meeting, the atmosphere of this Imperial Council was extremely tense, and Emperor Hirohito opened the meeting after Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, Minister of Land Itagaki Seishiro, Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs and other important ministers had arrived.

"Ladies and gentlemen, before the meeting begins, let Prime Minister Konoe read a telegram to you." Emperor Hirohito said unhurriedly, judging by the tone of the voice of the supreme leader of Japan, no one could have imagined that Japan had just suffered a major loss.

Konoe Fumima stood up and said: "Your Majesty the Emperor, gentlemen, this telegram is a declaration of war sent by the Shina government, which has decided to wage a full-scale war against our Japanese Empire and sever diplomatic relations, and the two sides are in a state of war from now on. In addition, the government of China refused to recognize Manchukuo, refused to recognize all the agreements, including the North China Autonomy Regulations, and demanded that the Empire of Japan withdraw from China and return Taiwan at the same time. Bay and the Penghu Islands, but also to compensate China for war losses. ”

Fumima Konoe's voice was cold, and as one of the culprits of Japan's invasion of China and the primary promoter of fascism, he had reason to be angry. As the first eldest son of the Konoe family in 250 years to be born to a wife, Fumima Konoe saw the actions of the Chinese army and the declaration of war by the Nationalist government as a serious provocation to himself and to the entire Japanese Empire.

"Baga, the people of China are so arrogant, do they think that a small air raid can turn the situation on the entire battlefield, they must teach a good lesson to China-Jiang, this is an unforgivable crime and must be severely punished." Seishiro Itagaki was the first to jump out and say.

Although Seishiro Itagaki has just taken over as Minister of War and can be regarded as a promotion, this old man's mood is obviously not beautiful. Of course, this is not an exception, but the pain that all Japanese land ministers must face, because of this at this time, all the military power of Japan is controlled by the base camp, and his land minister is a microphone, which is not as big as his voice in the Fifth Division, how can Itagaki Seishiro, who is used to being the number one, be happy. (To be continued......)