Next to the Blafen Coal and Iron Mine, three armored vehicles were eyeing the huge fanged heavy machine guns, the entire open-pit mine was surrounded by a company of guards, a large mining machine with Japanese symbols had stopped, and several figures in the center of the mining area were strolling leisurely and watching.

Yang Qiu didn't know how to mine, and he couldn't even tell what anthracite was and what white coal was, but for Kuang Xianyu, the vice minister of the Ministry of Mines and Resources, who had just arrived from Henan, and the clerk of the Ministry of Finance who came to accept Japanese assets, Mukden was a cornucopia!

"It's been a lot of hard work to look at Japan. Benxi has surveyed iron, copper, limestone and metallurgical solvent lime, Anshan has iron, magnesite, Fushun has coal, iron, copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver and oil shale, Liaoyuan, Siping, Changchun good guy even Chifeng, Mudanjiang and Qiqihar have records. Kuang Xian was already smiling from ear to ear as he held the list and map of Northeast resources copied from the Baofen Coal and Iron Ore Vault. This is a good thing that saved the Ministry of Resources and Minerals a full decade of time! It doesn't take long for the Northeast Resources Survey to come to paper and draw a beautiful blueprint for the country's industrial construction.

Yang Qiu didn't expect to find out this thing, how many years has the Northeast fed Japan in the parallel world? The lead and zinc used for artillery warships and even bullets, cement for construction, etc., are all produced in the Northeast, but even after decades of crazy and indiscriminate mining with a predatory nature, it still supports half of the heavy industry of the Republic, and this is not counting the fact that Russia occupies a small half of Heilongjiang and is ravaged by the Soviet Red Army. Coupled with the vast land and fertile rare earths, if it can be developed, it can be comparable to the Great Lakes region of the United States.

This is a big country, a real big country! It can even develop without relying on any external resources, and of course, the first thing to do is to solve the external crisis here and smooth out the domestic political situation that is still surging in the undercurrent.

Jiang Baili was also dazzled by the roughly proven reserves of the two major iron ore areas in Japan, Anshan, including Xiuyan and other places, has roughly 4 billion tons of iron ore, and Benxi has 2 billion tons here (all of which were recorded in Japan back then, and there is a gap between them and today) God, even according to the population of 500 million, each person can get more than ten tons! It's just that he doesn't know that there are still 3 billion tons in Maoshan and 20 billion tons in Siberia such as Irkutsk and Chita, which were formerly part of China! And that's just iron ore, lead, zinc, copper, aluminum and other strategic resources are available here.

Of course, after the excitement, whether it was Jiang Baili or Kuang Xianyu, or Cai Gongshi and those clerks who were busy counting supplies, they were all shocked by Japan's wolf ambitions! What is the meaning of conducting such a detailed resource survey on other people's land other than wanting to embezzle it? At the same time, they also have a little more understanding of Yang Qiu's eagerness to fight Japan, even if such a huge reserve is dug up by Japan for a year, I don't know how much will pass.

"Is the property counted?" Yang Qiu didn't seem to notice the way they looked at him, and turned his head to ask the clerk who came to register.

The clerk is a young student who has just graduated from Peking University, and he is extremely excited and nervous to see Yang Qiu, and he doesn't even know how to put his hand on the booklet, or Cai Gongshi patted him with a smile and opened the register, and then read: "At present, there are a total of 47 Japanese-funded factories in the country, of which there are 7 large-scale ones, including two coal mines, the South Manchurian Railway Company, Anshan and Baofen Mining Company, Anshan Iron Works, etc., 623 sets of various machinery and equipment, 27 trucks, 8 locomotives and 49 wagons, 17 Japanese-funded bank offices were raided, and a total amount of hard currency such as gold, silver, and currency was seized more than 3,100 yuan, and if you add fixed assets such as railways, the total seizure has exceeded 200 million yuan! ”

The young clerk was very excited, but Yang Qiu was not too excited, history records that in 1914 Japan's investment in China totaled about 900 million yen, and there were tens of millions of indiscriminate currency alone, and now only 200 million is not much, and the so-called Kanto Prefecture is the big fat meat! However, Jiang Baili was able to keep calm and said: "With such a big loss, Japan has to work hard this time." ”

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief, they're desperate." Lei Meng came with a telegram all over his face, "I want to fight", and said: "Commander Yue sent it, a quarter of an hour ago, the Japanese army began to attack Gaizhou. ”

"Attack now? Didn't the intelligence say that it would take at least two more days? Jiang Baili was a little surprised, and after reading it, he understood why the temple was going to start in advance, no matter how the three troop carriers were calculated, there were three or four thousand people, even if they could save half of the rest, they would make Japan die of pain, not to mention that the Fifth Division transport ship Lushun was sunk at the gate, if this matter was transmitted back to Japan, it would be enough to cause an uproar that could affect the political reshuffle!

"Masaki in the temple is going to protect himself."

Jiang Baili's eyes gradually became solemn after reading it: "It is still unknown whether the landing plan in Jinzhou will be changed, even if it lands, there are two and a half divisions in front of Yue Peng, and if the wartime four-wing team system is restored, plus the railway escort and the Manchurian army that have been withdrawn from all over Mukden, there are 60,000, and Japan has always had a tradition of launching overseas wars, and the Russo-Japanese War launched thousands of people. Now there are 40,000 or 50,000 expatriates who have fled back to Lushun from Mukden and Northeast China, and North Korea can also make up some, so it is not too difficult for Terauchi Masayi to pull out more 10,000 people if he has the means. ”

"Brother Baili won't be so pessimistic, right?" Hearing what he said, Yang Qiuduo glanced at him and asked, "Are you afraid that Yue Peng won't be able to stop it?" ”

Jiang Baili nodded and said, "It's not easy to block it." In fact, our numerical superiority in artillery is not great, but it is just more advanced than the Japanese army. It would not be difficult to draw out the five main divisions, but now because of the need to take into account the divisions and regiments organized by the old army, the 1st Division and the 101st Division, a total of four brigades, are almost all dismantled, and the 4th and 103rd Divisions must be stationed on the defense line of more than 100 kilometers from Shanhaiguan to Cangzhou to ensure the safety of the Beijing-Tianjin area. ”

"Draw troops from the periphery of the Jiaodong Peninsula?" Yang Qiu understood what he meant.

"At present, there are only 6 divisions available in the Northeast, and it is uncertain whether what you said will happen, so there is no need to put 6 divisions in vain." Jiang Baili continued to analyze: "Japan is not the army that got rich overnight after receiving the compensation from Shimonoseki ten years ago, and so far there are more than one billion foreign debts that have not been paid off even with interest, and the savings accumulated after being stripped of us in the past ten years will not be very large, I predict that Japan can only use 7-8 divisions at the maximum, and no matter how many countries the economy will be finished." At present, there are four invested in Fengtian, and maybe another one will be invested in a while, I think they probably don't have the heart to pay attention to Qingdao. ”

Yang Qiu also thought about Japan's lack of energy to divide troops, but he always felt that it was not that simple. You must know that in history, in order to encourage Japan to attack Qingdao, Britain forgave a loan of 100 million US dollars! Moreover, Japan has not yet reached the end of its rope. The First Fleet had not yet been dispatched, and only half of the eight divisions that could be pulled out had come out, and the 19th and 20th Divisions appeared two years earlier than in history, so from the Japanese standpoint, there should still be room to complete the Qingdao Campaign. In addition, from a strategic point of view, Britain will also ask Japan to attack Qingdao, firstly, to take away the nail household in the Far East, and secondly, after this war, they have already seen their own strength, and they also want to prevent the Sino-German alliance from leading to the collapse of the Asian strategy on all fronts, so as long as they continue to be vague, then Japan will invest in it. In other words, he was Japan, with the support of the British big brother and the forgiveness of the loan, and the temptation to quickly open the second battlefield by relying on the fortress and the Jiaoji Railway, he was unwilling to give up.

So Yang Qiu shook his head.

It's not that he doesn't know the danger, but he doesn't dare to gamble on it. 14 of the 23 divisions in the country have already been put into operation this time (the Northwest Army takes care of Mongolia), and there are not many mobile troops in addition to the 18th Mountain Brigade on standby in Siping, but the 18th Mountain Brigade and the 37th Brigade of the 12th Division in Changchun are all to guard against Russia, and the 2nd Fengtian Brigade has lost too much in Motianling and needs to rest, and the 300,000 reserves will not be put into use until at least the end of July.

However, he is still very confident, because judging from the early battles, the Japanese army is not the Japanese army of the Showa era. Tactical thinking is rigid, there is a lack of change, and it is still the old traditional infantry artillery combined with the central breakthrough play. What's more, the generation of veterans ten years ago has basically retired, in addition to the officer corps, it is currently a group of recruits who shout every day to maintain glory, and there are not as many bullets as the old Beiyang, so he said with a smile: "Brother Baili, don't worry too much, technology can indeed affect the war, but in the end, it still depends on tactics, and only the combination of technology and tactics is the only trick to maintain the longevity of the army." ”

Jiang Baili still did not understand his stubbornness and refusal to transfer the troops from the periphery of Jiaodong, but he deeply agreed with the truth that he put forward when he inspected the National Defense University last year that tactics are king. Since last year, the rapid intersperse, roundabout, three-three infantry, artillery layering, wave attack and other tactics have caused a sensation in the National Defense University and the Baoding Army Academy, and recently began to study the combination of starting vehicles (armored vehicles), the previous first stage has confirmed that the rapid intersperse, artillery cover under the attack and the three three infantry tactics, but also because of these in one fell swoop to defeat the myth of the Japanese army's invincibility.

But there is one thing that he is still very worried about: "Tactics can indeed make up for the gap in individual soldiers and equipment, but how do you solve the problem of the Japanese Navy?" Even if Chen Shaokuan escapes, he will not be able to re-enter the Bohai Strait in the short term, and the range from Gaizhou to Yingkou is all within the range of naval guns, and no matter how good the tactics are in front of the absolute firepower of the navy, it will be very dangerous. ”

Yang Qiu suddenly laughed after hearing this, took off his hat and stroked his short hair. I don't know why Jiang Baili, Cai Gongshi and others found that he has been a lot more cheerful recently, and he used to have endless troubles with a straight face every day, but in the past few days, he suddenly loves to laugh. How do they know that today is already the 27th, that is, the gunshots that stir up the whole of Europe will sound in the middle of the night tomorrow, and then Europe and the United States will be powerless to do whatever they do in the "vegetable field" of Asia.

So after Yang Qiu finished laughing, he climbed into the old-fashioned American-made excavator and sat in the cockpit and asked: "Brother Baili has learned army tactics in both Japan and Germany, have you heard of mille-feuille paper and eighteen touch tactics?" ”

"Flutter."

This "noun" directly made Cai Gongshi and Lei Meng behind him twitch the corners of their mouths, and even Kuang Xianyu, who was studying the mineral directory with his students, stared at him and pinched himself fiercely, full of doubts that Commander Yang has always been clean and self-conscious, when did he like this kind of tune?

Jiang Baili couldn't help but smile, and said with a smile: "I know something about mille-feuille paper." Yue Peng has already told me that he has deployed several lines of defense on the line from Xiuyan to Haicheng this time, and the cost of defense is far smaller than that of attacking, if each line of defense can strive to consume and kill part of the Japanese army, then the more Terachi Zhengyi breaks through, the greater the loss. Again and again, again and again, and again and again! It is estimated that there will not be much strength to break through Haicheng, unless Japan supports it at any cost, otherwise Haicheng will die. At that time, Fang Zhen really hadn't heard of the eighteen touches you said. ”

"Do you know where our biggest advantage is now?"

Jiang Baili thought for a while and raised two fingers: "The local combat consumption is small, and the team tactics and firepower are steadily superior to the Japanese army." ”

"Not bad!" Yang Qiu smiled, and his eyes gradually condensed: "If everyone is not chaotic, there will be no such thing as eighteen touches in the world." The same is true of war, where no commander can guarantee the precision of his troops under the present means of communication and communication, not even the strict Germans. I split the two divisions in the hope that they could lead other troops. ”

"The dead end of the Japanese army is the old-fashioned tactics! Didn't Masaki Terauchi want to play a dignified step cannon combined with a central breakthrough? I'm going to make it a mess and eighteen touches! ”