Chapter 261: Rescue Failure (Asking for Subscriptions, Asking for Monthly Passes, Asking for Various !! ）

After the problem of insufficient troops was solved, Chen Feng ordered all divisions and brigades to transfer a number of officers and men who were familiar with water from each division and brigade to conduct intensive training.

On November 19, 20,000 soldiers familiar with the nature of the water were gathered, and after a short training, they were divided into two groups and marched north into the Soviet Union to be trained by the Soviet Navy. The other route went south, departing from the port of Guangzhou, to the mainland of the United States to receive training from the US Navy, and at the same time preparing to take over the new types of warships that the United States and the Soviet Union had promised to produce.

At the same time, the storage of 450 T34 tanks at the tank production plant of the Baotou Heavy Industry Base has been handed over to the armored division. Chen Feng signed the order of the commander of the theater to rebuild the 1st Armored Division of the 8th Theater and convert all the 5th Cavalry Division of Uzamu into armored troops.

Since the armor strength of Chen Feng's department is now only the Japanese-made Type 95 and Type 97 tanks and the newly produced T34 tank, Chen Feng mixed all the tanks and used them together, using the Japanese-made tanks as light tanks and the T34 tanks as heavy tanks.

The establishment of the armored division Chen Feng was modeled after the German armored forces, but unlike the German pure armored troops, the armored division of the Eighth Theater adopted the mode of mixed infantry and armored troops, that is, the division has three armored regiments, each armored regiment is subordinate to two tank battalions and one motorized infantry battalion, each tank battalion is subordinate to two heavy tank companies and one light tank company, and the whole battalion has a total of 97 tanks. Each motorized rifle battalion has 955 people. It is equipped with 97 Thompson submachine guns, 125 AK47 assault rifles, 9 60mm mortars, 6 81mm mortars, 24 Type 75 anti-aircraft machine guns, and 140 ten-wheeled vehicles.

In addition, each tank regiment has a regimental headquarters, one repair company equipped with two light tanks and three repair vehicles, one reinforced anti-aircraft company with 24 88-mm guns, an armored communications platoon with two command tanks and one battle tank, and one light armored platoon with five light tanks.

The division is equipped with 688 light and heavy tanks, 1,200 submachine guns, 1,800 assault rifles, 120 antiaircraft machine guns, 101 antiaircraft guns, 75 mortars, 620 vehicles, and 18,600 soldiers.

Although there was only one armored division. However, the firepower was about twice as strong as that of the German Panzer Division at the same time. It's simply a heavy firepower cluster when it moves, even with Chen Feng's current value, he can only form such an armored division, and if he has more, he can't afford to equip it.

It's not that it can't be equipped, anyway, all the weapons that the armored division is now equipped with are produced by the 8th theater of operations itself. Therefore, weapons and equipment are easy to solve. But the hard thing to solve is the oil. Although now tankers from the USSR to China are driving day and night on the steppes of Saibei. But after all, the highway from the Soviet Union to Guisui has just been opened, and the speed is very slow to pass through mountains and deserts along the way. Even if Chen Feng invested so much manpower and material resources, he could only use such an armored division, and no matter how much he could, he would not have so much fuel supply. Therefore, the second armored division could not be formed at all until the railway line from Guisui to Ulaanbaatar and even to Siberia was built.

Regarding the leadership team of the armored division, Chen Feng took a lot of thought, such a huge armored force Chen Feng really didn't feel at ease to hand over to Lu Haihang, a hairy boy, but after thinking about it, Chen Feng could only accept a very cruel reality, that is, only Lu Nautical in the entire Eighth Theater had received systematic armored command education. He was the only one who had commanded a large-scale armored force, so Chen Feng had no choice but to assign him two capable assistants, with Uzamu as the deputy commander of the armored division, and Li Yisheng, the commander of the third cavalry division, transferred to the armored division as the deputy division commander and chief of staff.

The armored division suddenly added 450 heavy tanks and a large amount of new equipment, including submachine guns and assault rifles, so Chen Feng did not immediately transfer them to the front line, but ordered them to go deep into the Mu Us Desert to conduct long-term, long-distance and large-scale combat drills to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible.

With the end of the inspection of Xu Hu and others, Chen Feng contacted and issued two more orders, agreeing to form the Nangong Independent Brigade and the Handan Independent Brigade. Since the main goal of the Japanese army in the past year and a half has been to eliminate the main force of the Nationalist Government and the main force of the 40th Group Army, these independent battalions that Chen Feng scattered out of Lu have a lot of room for survival.

Xu Hu reported that after a year of development, the independent ninth battalion stationed in Nangong County now has three regular regiments, each with 2,200 people, and a large number of militia units, with a total strength of more than 8,000 people. Moreover, the weapons and equipment of the department are also good, and the quality of the soldiers is also very high, which fully meets the requirements of the expansion.

When Xu Hu and others inspected, they found that this independent battalion had 5,100 regular troops, and there was also a special combat team of 320 people, which also met the standard of expansion, so they suggested that Chen Feng upgrade all these two units to independent brigades.

Chen Feng was also arrogant, and with a stroke of his pen, he not only expanded the independent battalions in Nangong County and Handan into independent brigades, but also signed an order to expand the Liu Guodong battalion, Hu Haitao battalion, and Laping Fu battalion stationed in eastern Hebei into brigades. So far, the units under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Theater have 7 infantry divisions, 8 independent brigades, 4 cavalry divisions, 3 artillery divisions, 1 air defense division, 1 special operations division, 1 armored division, 1 aviation division, and 1 National Salvation Army (division level), with a total of 19 divisions and 8 brigades, with a total strength of 370,000 troops. Coupled with the 88 garrison regiments to be formed, the strength of the Eighth Theater is expected to exceed 600,000 by the end of the year.

Although there are good things during this time, it is not without bad things. Just now Chen Tiebao sent a telegram, saying that they encountered a setback when rescuing the Eighth Route Army Nursery School, because it was a little late to find the nursery, and when they arrived, the director of the nursery Wang Jinlan had already died, and most of the 46 children in the nursery had been captured by the Japanese, and only one teacher Xiao Xu and 13 older children escaped the pursuit of the Japanese.

Although they tried their best to pursue and annihilate most of the Japanese infantry squadron that came to capture the nursery, they still failed to save the remaining 30 or so children in the nursery. Now that the Japanese army has escorted the captured child back to Baoding, Chen Tiebao asked Chen Feng what to do.

In addition, Chen Tiebao also told Chen Feng a very bad news, according to the teacher Xiao Xu, among the children who were captured were the niece of Commander Nie of the Jinchaji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and the son of Commander Yang of the First Army Division.

Chen Feng analyzed the situation and ordered Chen Tiebao to send someone to send the teacher Xiao Xu and the 13 children who were not arrested back to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, and then send some people to Baoding immediately to secretly investigate where the arrested children were held and whether there was any possibility of rescue.

After doing this, Chen Feng immediately put down what he was doing and rushed to the provincial government office building, he wanted to talk to Deng Ping, after all, this matter was Deng Ping on behalf of the head of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to get rid of himself, no matter how things were done, he should say no to others.

Deng Ping is very busy now, since he became the vice chairman of Chahar Province, especially after being in charge of the two major departments of industry and commerce and supervision, he is as busy as a spinning top.

When Chen Feng came, Deng Ping was talking to Kang Ze about things, and when he saw Chen Feng walking in, he was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "Rare guest, your big shopkeeper has finally appeared, it's rare!" Hehehe! ”

Kang Ze also smiled and said: "Lao Deng is right, Commander Chen is probably the first time to come to the provincial government, you arrested the two of us, but you turned around and became a shopkeeper, not kind!" ”

Chen Feng smiled and said: "Isn't there anything I can't do, the little devil looks at me every day, how dare I be distracted in the slightest." Besides, my old man and my two daughters-in-law are not all coming in, so don't be ashamed of me. ”

Kang Ze knew that Chen Feng wanted to talk to Deng Ping, although he wanted to know that Lu Dao, the provincial chairman and commander of the theater who rarely showed up, wanted to talk to Deng Ping. What did the industrial party say. But as a qualified politician, he still made a very interesting resignation and said: "You two talk first, I still have some things to deal with over there, if Commander Chen is not busy, how about we have a light meal together later?" ”

Chen Feng smiled and said, "Lao Kang, don't be in a hurry to leave, Lao Deng and I do have something to say, but this matter still needs your Lao Kang's help." Just taking advantage of today's time, let's sit down at noon and drink him. ”

"That's a good dare, hahaha!" Kang Ze also said with a smile.

After the three of them re-finished it, Chen Feng lit a cigarette and said, "Old Deng, the matter you asked me for a few days ago has already been resolved, but the situation is very bad. ”

Deng Ping hurriedly asked, "Could it be that those children were all arrested by the Japanese?" ”

"It's not all captured, when Iron Leopard found the nursery, the nursery was already surrounded by Japanese soldiers on a hill, except for a dozen older children, the other children had already been arrested, and the nursery school's director Wang had already died. After the Iron Leopard repelled the Japanese army, they only found 13 children and one teacher, and the others were gone. They pursued all the way, and only later did they learn that the rest of the children had been sent by the Japanese army to Baoding, the capital of Hebei Province, and that Commander Nie's niece and Commander Yang's son were in the hands of the Japanese. Chen Feng said.

"Hey, these little devils are really brutes, this group of bitches actually made a fuss about children, it's really better than pigs and dogs." Deng Ping scolded angrily.

"Old Deng, the little devil will definitely use these children to blackmail you, what are you going to do?" Chen Feng asked.

"Commander Chen, I'll tell the head of the headquarters about this, let them see if they can sneak into Baoding to rescue the children, and also let the Jinchaji Military Region get ready." Deng Pingdao.

"Then there you go!" (To be continued......)