Chapter 1073: Suddenly Heading North

As for the original guard regiment and the Falcon Flying Regiment that had just been formed not long ago, they maintained the original establishment and number unchanged, not that Qiao Youhua didn't want to expand them, but that the guard regiment would mainly undertake the task of guarding the corps headquarters in the future, if it was necessary to put this regiment into battle, it would mean that the Dragon Tooth Corps had reached the end of the mountain, and it was almost impossible.

The probability is also extremely low, and the flight regiment is because it has just been formed, and the aircraft, pilots and ground staff are limited, so it cannot be expanded.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that after receiving the order of the headquarters to expand the organization, Qiao Youhua added a pilot training class to the Longya Military Academy, with Li Yansan and other skilled pilots as instructors, responsible for training more flying talents for the Longya Corps, and carrying forward what they learned in Germany, so as to continue to expand the Falcon Flying Regiment in the future.

The reorganization is not something that can be completed with a stroke of a pen and an order, so the head of the headquarters also gave Qiao Youhua a full three months to complete this matter, after all, new equipment needs to be produced, and all units are combined, and it will take time to reorganize. Three months later, it was time for the Nationalist Government to plan a counterattack on Jiangnan, and at that time, Qiao Youhua would have to lead at least three divisions of more than 100,000 troops south to participate in the strategic counteroffensive against Jiangnan.

While the Dragon's Tooth Column was busy expanding into a corps and began to prepare for the construction of aircraft factories, oil refineries, ammunition chiefs and other military factories, the Japanese side also realized that the next target of the Chinese army's counteroffensive was likely to be Jiangnan.

Therefore, the Japanese base camp transferred the 50,000 newly formed army troops that had been withdrawn from Shandong to Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, and other places to strengthen the strength of the Central China Dispatch Army, and also assembled two other naval fleets, totaling more than 200 large and small ships, and nearly 400 planes of various types to cooperate with the Central China Dispatch Army.

At the same time, in the past few months, Japan's national strength has also recovered, so it has been able to produce a batch of American-style equipment produced in Japan, and in order to test the power and effectiveness of American-style weapons, the Japanese base camp specially used these new weapons to rearm the 3rd Division of the Central China Dispatch Army.

It became the only American armouring regiment in the Imperial Japanese Army, which was not only equipped with a large number of American submachine guns, rifles, machine guns and artillery of various calibers, but also formed a combat vehicle wing dominated by American M4 tanks.

This is the crystallization of the efforts of the whole of Japan, and only a country with a complete industrial system like Japan can produce enough American-style weapons and equipment for all members of a division and regiment to be reequipped in such a short period of time without foreign aid.

In the blink of an eye, the 3rd Division became the most powerful mechanized division among the Japanese invasion of China.

It also became the ace division of the Central China Dispatch Army, and was the ******** of the Japanese army to hold the south of the Yangtze River.

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Time passed day by day, Qiao Youhua also drew a piece of design drawings, handed them over to Adru, and then exchanged them for the technology and equipment needed to build a new military factory in batches of base areas, and the expansion of the arsenal has achieved results day by day, and I believe that in less than a year, the arsenal of the Dragon Tooth Corps may be able to produce its own combat aircraft.

On this day, the weather was sunny and sunny, Qiao Youhua had just had breakfast, and was about to go to the military academy to assist Li Yansan and them in teaching the newly recruited recruits of the flight training class to learn flying knowledge and skills, when suddenly, Chief of Staff Zuo Quan hurriedly found him with a telegram.

"Commander, where are you going?" Zuo Quan stopped Qiao Youhua.

"I'm going to the military academy, and today Li Yansan and they organized the cadets to observe and learn the operation of fighter planes." Qiao Youhua stopped and asked, "What's the matter, Chief of Staff, is there something to look for me?" ”

Zuo Quan nodded and said to him: "Yes, I just got a top-secret news that the Japanese army seems to have formed an American-style unit in Jiangnan, all equipped with American-style weapons, and the scale is a division. ”

Qiao Youhua couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "Is the news reliable?" ”

"Very reliable! This is the top-secret information that our intelligence officers of the Shanghai branch of the underground party have exchanged their lives for. "Zuo Quandao.

"Then it seems that the Japanese army is also carrying out weapons and equipment reform!" Qiao Youhua muttered: "It seems that we must also speed up the progress of the counteroffensive, otherwise the more time left for the Japanese army, they will form more powerful American-style divisions, and at that time, the Japanese army will not be so easy to deal with."

Even apart from us, the whole country will have no strength to compete with the Japanese army, and the gap in combat power between the two sides due to weapons and equipment will be even greater! ”

"yes, I'm worried about that too, so after getting the news from the headquarters, I came to you as soon as I could." Zuo Quan nodded approvingly.

"How much has our troops been reorganized?" Qiao Youhua asked thoughtfully.

"At present, three divisions have been reorganized!" Left Authority.

"Enough!" Qiao Youhua said with an awe-inspiring expression.

"Do you want to take them south now to participate in the counterattack on Jiangnan?" Zuo Quan was a little worried: "However, now that the various departments of the Central Army have not yet been prepared, we may not be able to launch a counteroffensive if we rush over!" ”

Qiao Youhua smiled mysteriously and said: "No, there is still a month and a half before the agreed counterattack on Jiangnan, and I plan to take advantage of this month and a half time to lead the three integrated divisions to immediately exit from Shanhaiguan and counterattack the three eastern provinces." ”

"What? Counterattack on the three eastern provinces? Zuo Quan was taken aback when he heard this: "The Kwantung Army outside Shanhaiguan has six or seven hundred thousand Japanese troops, and its strength is much stronger than that of the Central China Dispatch Army, can you only bring three integrated divisions and 100,000 troops?" ”

Qiao Youhua immediately pulled Zuo Quan into the command headquarters, pointed to the operational map and said: "Chief of Staff, come and see, if we go to participate in the counterattack on Jiangnan, we will have to travel thousands of miles through East China or the Central Plains, not to mention logistics support, and our air force alone will not be able to provide strong support."

On the Japanese side, the Japanese army has not only formed a brand-new American-style equipment division, but has also mobilized more than two-thirds of its naval and air forces to the waters off the coast of Songhu.

In addition, the topography of the water network in the south of the Yangtze River is not conducive to the play of our army's mechanized troops, while the Japanese army can rely on its powerful naval and air forces to inflict huge casualties on any counterattacking enemy, as detailed in the Second Battle of Songhu.

Therefore, it is not impossible to counterattack Jiangnan in the south, but it is bound to be a decisive battle that is related to the life and death of the two countries, and it is necessary to pay a great price of casualties to succeed.

However, if at this time, we unexpectedly and suddenly move our troops north and go out of the customs to counterattack the three eastern provinces, the situation will be very different. ”