Chapter 290 1: It's time to upgrade (ask for subscriptions, monthly passes, and various !! ）

It can only be said that the performance of the national government this time is really amazing, and even Chen Feng was stunned after receiving the news, and the national government can still reverse the decline in that situation. Although it did not regain the lost territory, at least it ensured the three towns of Wuhan and won the first battle of Wuhan, which injected a boost into the already low anti-Japanese sentiment of the people.

In the Battle of Wuhan, the Nationalist Government was already at a disadvantage in an all-round way, and in the face of the three-dimensional offensive mode of the Japanese army, navy, and air force, the Nationalist Army was quite unbearable in the early stage of the battle, and a large area of the country was lost.

After the victory in defending Wuhan, a national anti-Japanese upsurge was soon set off across the country, young and middle-aged people enthusiastically joined the army, and a rare long queue formed in front of the recruitment station of the national government. The landlords, squires and tycoons in the rear donated money and materials, and then urgently sent them to Wuhan, Chongqing and other places.

The unexpected end of the Battle of Wuhan greatly relieved the Japanese army in North China. If the main forces of North China, Central China, and South China were to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army at the same time, it would not necessarily be a good thing for the overstretched Japanese army, and even if it won the battle in the last place, the casualties would not be something that the Great Japanese Empire could afford. More importantly, given the situation in North China at this time, the possibility of winning the battle was very small, and if the First Army was completely annihilated, it would be a catastrophic consequence for the entire Japanese Empire.

Now that the war in Central China has come to an end for the time being, the North China Front will be able to clean up the mess in North China with all its might, and the Provisional Aviation Corps and several other units sent to Central China can be transferred back.

The rapid advance of the Chinese army put enormous pressure on Senior General Umezu Mijiro. By 16 December, the ammunition stocks of the First Army were already less than the troops could consume for five days, and the troops on the Shimen front were unable to capture Shimen for a long time. In desperation, General Umezu Mijiro made a bold decision and ordered the troops to abandon Xinkou, Taiyuan and other first-tier cities, and the whole army to withdraw to the front line of Yangquan and Niangziguan.

Yang Yi was taken aback by this bold decision of the Japanese army, although the Japanese army abandoned Taiyuan, but occupied Yangquan and Niangzi Pass, which were easy to defend and difficult to attack. Moreover, a strategic encirclement was formed against the Chinese troops fighting in the Jingcheng and Shimen areas, and now the five independent brigades commanded by Yang Yi are frantically attacking the Japanese 10th Division, the 32nd Division, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, and the Akiyama Brigade. Behind is the 4th Division, the 108th Division, the 20th Division, the 15th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army, the 3rd Division of the Imperial Allied Army, and the two brigades of the Xingya Army besieged. Typical has a wolf in front and a tiger in the back. If you don't get it right, it is very likely to be surrounded and annihilated by two large armies of the Japanese army at Shimen.

In desperation, Yang Yi had no choice but to send a report to Chen Feng to ask about his next move. Soon Chen Feng called Yang Yi back and ordered the army to cover the retreat alternately, but before leaving, it didn't matter whether it was Jingcheng County or Shimen area. As long as it is a military facility, all of them will be blown up. The Japanese army must not be left with a complete transportation hub.

This battle. The happiest is Yan Laoxi, who finally got his wish and took back Laochao Taiyuan, although the price paid was really big. But compared to the reconquest of provincial capitals. It's worth the cost. Even Yan Laoxi was much more pleasing to Chen Feng, the white-eyed wolf son-in-law, and sent a telegram to Chen Feng as soon as the old man returned to the Yan Mansion in Taiyuan, thanking the Eighth War Zone for his help this time.

Chen Feng knew what his cheap father-in-law meant, and he must be grateful, after all, the Eighth War Zone dispatched 150,000 troops to assist the Second War Zone this time, and the casualties of the troops were not small, but the benefits were not much, and he must be grateful in his heart. But Chen Feng also knew that the old man had another meaning, that is, he hoped that Chen Feng's troops would withdraw from the Taiyuan area, preferably to the north of Xinkou.

To be honest, Chen Feng really didn't have much interest in Shanxi, the land of the four wars, and Yan Laohan was his cheap father-in-law after all, so he should retreat north. Moreover, the battle of Wuhan has ended, the task of reinforcing the Wuhan station on the flank has been completed, and it is time for the troops to go back and rest.

Soon after, Li Wensheng of Yangqu and Li Yifeng of Yuxian County received a telegram from Chen Feng at the same time, ordering their two troops to immediately withdraw to Datong for rest and recuperation, and to hand over all the defense areas south of Yanmen Pass and Ningwu Pass to the Second Theater of Operations.

Yan Laohan didn't expect Chen Feng to withdraw so simply, but he seemed a little stingy. Coupled with the fact that the army of the Eighth War Zone suffered a lot of losses this time, and there were almost no benefits, and even the recovered territory was handed over to his Jin Sui army, the old man was a little overbearing, and deliberately mobilized 5 million oceans from his small treasury to send people to Datong.

For the silver sent to the door, of course Chen Feng did not refuse, and the loss of the troops this time is indeed not small, the dead need to be compensated, and the injured have to be disabled, this all need silver, 5 million oceans seem to be a lot, but in fact it is enough for these expenses, if you add the consumption of ammunition and equipment, another five million is not enough.

However, Chen Feng also knew that he did not lose this battle, although the casualties of 11,600 people made Chen Feng indeed feel a little heartbroken. However, Chen Feng also knew that the vast majority of the casualties this time were recruits, and there were many wounded, and less than 1,000 people were actually killed in battle. After the tempering of this battle, the troops of the 4 brigades and 4 regiments can finally be regarded as real soldiers, and when the next battle comes, these troops can really pull out and go to the little devils to confront the little devils.

In addition, this time the army broke through the stone gate and seized a large amount of supplies, including weapons and equipment that can equip 70,000 or 80,000 people, as well as a large amount of money and food. In addition, a large number of miners and prisoners of war were rescued, who were good reservists.

What's more important is Chen Feng's own gain, not long after the troops retreated, Chen Feng received a prompt from the system elf: "The host successfully completes the hidden mission - side aid to Wuhan, and rewards 100 system points and a lottery chance!" ”

"Since the host has completed the hidden task many times and has reached the upgrade conditions, please ask if the host is upgraded!"

After seeing the prompt of the system elf, Chen Feng was in a good mood, and unknowingly reached the conditions for upgrading. Excited, the primary version of the system is already so strong, I don't know what the ultimate version of the road will look like, whether it will be an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb, whether it will be an American F22 and nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. What Chen Feng is even more looking forward to is whether there will be super-era weapons.

You must know that in the process of the previous lottery, he has seen the weapons and equipment produced in 2020, 2018, and 2050, and whether the system will be upgraded to make things 2 or 3 hundred years later, of course, he will not be the slightest surprised if it really appears, after all, the system itself is an inexplicable existence.

The upgrade is definitely going to be upgraded, but Chen Feng has one more thing to do before upgrading, that is, to use all the lottery opportunities accumulated during this time. After negotiations with the United States and the Soviet Union last month, Chen Feng received a total of 200 system rewards and 4 lottery opportunities, which Chen Feng saved up for nothing, and he had to use all these opportunities before the system upgrade.

Coupled with the lottery opportunity and the system reward in December, Chen Feng has a total of 6 chances. After using all these six opportunities, Chen Feng got 2 ordnance construction orders, 2 base construction orders, 1 personal equipment, and 1 personal reinforcement.

The two ordnance construction orders are the M15 anti-tank mine production line and the M24 Xiafei light tank production line of the United States. In terms of armor strength, the Eighth Theater already has the T34 medium tank, which Chen Feng named the Longyi tank, and more than 200 captured Japanese light tanks to assist, and this M24 light tank is of little use for the time being.

And the same is true of the M15 anti-tank mine, although the Japanese army also has a part of the armored forces on the Chinese battlefield, but it is rarely used, and the Japanese army's combat vehicles are notoriously thin-skinned and stuffed, without this kind of anti-tank mine, only a few cluster grenades can be solved, and the Type 75 anti-aircraft machine guns and German-made 88-mm anti-aircraft guns equipped with various units in the Eighth Theater can also easily destroy it, and there is no need for mass production of such mines.

In addition, this mine, which only began to enter service with the US army in 1953, was detonated under the condition that it had to withstand a weight of 158-338 kg before it could explode, so it had no effect on the infantry at all, and it was also very troublesome to produce, and mass production was not necessary.

However, this is only limited to this stage of the war, and when the Japanese army begins to build up armored forces on a large scale, especially the Japanese army's third tank division, these weapons and equipment will be used.

There is something in the construction of the two bases that makes Chen Feng very hot - China's 7010 early warning radar, which Chen Feng is familiar with, it is China's first batch of early warning radars, which was commissioned in 1970 and is one of the components of China's strategic early warning system, with a detection range of 3,000 kilometers.

The transmitter of the 7010 radar adopts 4 high-power multi-cavity klystrins, with a total peak power of 10 megawatts, an average power of 200 kilowatts, an electrical scanning antenna array of 20 meters X40 meters, and 8976 feeding units, which can be tracked while searching in the airspace of 120 degrees in azimuth and 2-80 degrees in elevation, and can continuously track multiple batches of targets, equipped with large, medium and small computers for real-time control, processing and calculation of the whole station. Anti-interference measures such as pulse compression, anti-sidelobe, variable polarization are adopted, and duplex redundancy technology is used for some key devices, and the whole machine is equipped with a working status monitoring system and a fault display system. This kind of old and backward radar is a little powerless to deal with the rapid replacement of fighters in later generations, but it is still no problem at all to deal with the old antiques of the current Japanese army. (To be continued......)