When the horn of war was fully sounded, Chen Feng also ushered in the long-awaited system reward in August. Although the current production capacity of the steel plant is still very low, far from the design and production capacity of 500,000 tons of high-quality steel per year, it can produce at least 3,000 rifles and 500,000 French bullets per month, which basically meets the needs of the security regiment war, which also makes Chen Feng look forward to the system reward in August.

Taking a closer look at the reward items in August, there are still a lot of good things, and of course there are some chicken ribs.

Personal Equipment: Alloy Steel Helmet (1990 AD), Alloy Dagger (2000 AD), Military Boots (2000 AD), Special Combat Suit (2007 AD), Super Shield (2008 AD).

Base construction order: railway construction order, air-raid shelter construction order, power plant construction order, cement plant construction order, gunpowder plant construction order.

Personal Enhancement: Increases Strength by 3 times, Agility by 2 times, Intelligence by 2 times, Mental Power by 3 times, and Overall Quality by 2 times.

Arsenal Construction Order: Rifle Production Line (Model: Soviet Mosin Nagant Rifle), Machine Gun Production Line (Model: Czech BZ26 Light Machine Gun), Heavy Machine Gun (Model: Japanese Type 92 Heavy Machine Gun), Mountain Gun (Model: Bufus), Mortar Production Line (Model: Soviet Type 80).

Personal Skills: Intermediate Strategy, Intermediate English, Intermediate Japanese, Elementary Military Theory, Intermediate Fighting.

Although he is looking forward to the system reward in August, since the system has already closed the loophole, Chen Feng can only resign himself to fate now. When the pointer was fixed on the gunpowder production construction order, Chen Feng smiled.

Although it is not the order for the construction of the armament industry that he wants the most, the order for the construction of the gunpowder factory is also good, and now that the army has been expanded, the ammunition used for daily training is a large expense, and although the Daqingshan base already has an ammunition production line bought back from Germany, this gunpowder is a weakness.

At present, the production capacity of the ammunition factory is still small, and the gunpowder needed can be purchased from other sources. But now that the war broke out, gunpowder, a product that accompanies the monarch for civilian use, immediately became nervous, and now with this large gunpowder production, the problem of gunpowder shortage has been solved.

A few days after the Japanese occupied Pingjin, reinforcements arrived one after another, and the Japanese elite 5th, 6th, and 10th Divisions all arrived in Pingjin before 5 August, and all of them were included in the battle sequence of the Chinese garrison.

At this point, the strength of the Chinese garrison has doubled, and together with the troops that arrived earlier, there are about 150,000 people in four divisions and three independent brigades, and it has more than 300 aircraft, 200 combat vehicles, more than 3,000 light and heavy machine guns, more than 1,000 artillery pieces of various kinds, more than 6,000 horse-drawn carriages and motor vehicles, and more than 30,000 war horses and pack horses.

On 6 August, Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki, commander of the Japanese Chinese garrison in Tianjin, held a military meeting at the level of division, brigade, regiment, and brigade commander at the headquarters of the Haiguang Temple garrison in Tianjin to discuss future operations against China.

At the beginning of the meeting, Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki asked Major General Hashimoto, chief of staff of the garrison army, to make a summary of the battle and sum up the gains and losses of the war against China some time ago.

As chief of staff of the garrison army, Hashimoto personally participated in the Lugou Bridge Incident and the subsequent operations against China, and he was extremely satisfied with the brilliant results achieved by the Imperial Japanese Army in a short period of time.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Imperial Japanese Army launched a full-front attack on China on July 28, broke through Beiping City on the same day, won Tianjin two days later, and defeated more than 100,000 people of the 29th Route Army of Song Zheyuan in China on the third day, and captured the two cities of Pingjin and the extremely affiliated areas. Our army has a total of 127 killed and 348 wounded, and achieved brilliant results. ”

After listening to the report on the results of the Hashimoto group, all the Japanese generals present looked a little complacent, the original Chinese garrison army had less than 10,000 people, and even if it received reinforcements before launching a full-scale attack, it was only more than 50,000 people, while the Chinese army stationed in the Pingjin area was more than 100,000 people, outnumbered and outnumbered, and the combat effectiveness of the Great Japanese Imperial Army was enough to sweep everything.

"Gentlemen, the current China people have a total of six group armies in North China, under the jurisdiction of three corps, one road army, twenty-two armies, a total of 53 divisions and 21 brigades of about 620,000 people, according to the decision made by the National Defense Conference of China, North China is divided into two major theaters, which are stationed in the three major railway lines of Pingjin, Pinghan, and Pingsui." Hashimoto continued.

"Hashimoto-kun, you will report to you the detailed deployment map of the Chinese troops." Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki ordered.

"Hay!"

Hashimoto walked to the huge military map hanging in front of the conference room, pointed to the map with his finger and said: "This is the most important railway Pinghan line in China, stationed along this railway is the Second Group Army of China, the commander-in-chief of the group army is Liu Zhi, this person is one of the five generals of Jiangxi in China, and he has a high combat quality, and he participated in the Northern Expedition launched by Chiang, the leader of China. The Second Army has two corps under its jurisdiction, with a total of 19 divisions and two brigades, and the headquarters of the group army is located in Baoding. ”

"The commander-in-chief of the group army is Song Zheyuan, commander-in-chief of the 29th Army of China, and the 59th Army of Song Zheyuan, the 77th Army of Feng Zhi'an, the 53rd Army of Wan Fulin, the 67th Army of Wu Keren, the 40th Army of Pang Bingxun, the 49th Army of Liu Duoquan and the 3rd Cavalry Army of Zheng Dazhang, with a total strength of 16 divisions, and the headquarters of the group army is located in Cangzhou."

"Garrisoned on the Pingsui Line is the Seventh Group Army of China, and the commander-in-chief of the group army is Fu Zuoyi, a well-known general in China, who led the Suiyuan War of Resistance last year, killed a number of military advisers of the Imperial Army in Mongolia, and was the greatest threat to King De and Li Shouxin, a good friend of the Great Japanese Empire. The Seventh Army had five armies, namely Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army, Li Fuying's 61st Army, Liu Ruming's 68th Army, Gao Guizi's 17th Army, and the 13th Army led by Tang Enbo, the descendant of Chiang, the leader of China, with a total of seven divisions and nine brigades. It is worth noting that Tang Enbo has a very high combat quality and is one of the senior generals of China that the special high-tech focuses on. ”

"In addition, the 14th Group Army of Wei Lihuang, one of the senior generals of China, has four divisions and two brigades, and is stationed in the mountains west of Beiping to maneuver, and the garrison army has applied to the base camp to send four more divisions and regiments of heavy troops to China to reinforce the garrison army to carry out the North China Battle, eliminate all the China troops in North China, and occupy the entire military important territory of North China, with a view to fundamentally solving the North China problem."

After Major General Hashimoto finished his briefing on the enemy, Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki stood up and said, "Gentlemen, although the empire has not officially declared war with the Shina government, in fact, the war has broken out, and it is the best time for us samurai to make achievements, what do you think about the next battle?" ”

Seishiro Itagaki, then the commander of the Lieutenant General Division of the Fifth Division, got up and said: "Your Excellency Commander, North China has jurisdiction over the five provinces of Jin, Chacha, Hebei, Sui, and Lu, and the two cities of Pingjin, the Yellow River in the south and the Bohai Sea in the east, the Great Wall in the north and the central and northern parts of China, and the western Shanxi province is the easiest to use troops, Shanxi is the general hub of the five provinces and two cities in North China. The south can go down to the wind and cross the Lingdu, the west can cross the Tongguan, go straight to the important town of Xi'an in the western China, and directly take the Heluo area to occupy Jingxiang, and can attack and retreat and defend, so as to seize the initiative in the war. ”

Speaking of this, Itagaki Seishiro looked around at all the generals present, and said with a sharp look in his eyes: "Gentlemen, although the imperial army occupies the Pingjin region now, this does not mean anything, the Pingjin area is flat, and the fields are fertile for thousands of miles, and it is very easy for our empire's mechanized troops to march, and it is extremely easy to take it." However, the Pingjin area is connected to the Pinghan Line in the southwest, the Pingsui Line in the northwest, and the Jinpu Line in the southeast. But because of this, we are now in a dangerous situation of being attacked from all sides, and the people of China can gather hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of troops to surround us and annihilate us at any time. Although Chiang, the leader of China, did not necessarily have this kind of courage, if he did not take Shanxi, as our army continued to move south, the flanks could be under the threat of China's troops. ”

"Yo Si! Itagaki Jun is reasonable, now China has placed a group army on the Pinghan Line, the Pingsui Line and the Pingjin Line, and has secretly ambushed a group army in the Shanxi Highlands, and ordered Tang Enbo to hold the south entrance with tens of thousands of elite soldiers, plus more than 200,000 people of the Jin Sui Army under Yan Xishan can go out of the north of Jin at any time to support the lines, which implies a killing intention, and the situation of our army is not as good as you think. Seiji Kazuki said loudly.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Itagaki Seishiro got up again and said his final conclusion: "Therefore, I think that the main force of the garrison army should not be fully dispatched now, but should be held on the front line of Changxindian, attracting the attention of the southern line of the Zhina troops, and the garrison army will send another elite force to attack Nankou, drive away or eliminate Tang Enbo's department, and then march west along the Pingsui line to Chahar Suiyuan, defeat the Zhina Fu Zuoyi department, seize the entire territory of Shanxi, and wait for the reinforcements of the empire to arrive in Pingjin, and then turn around and attack the enemy in Baoding again, But the royalist army is foolproof. ”

"According to Itagaki Jun's calculations, if the imperial army attacks along the Pingsui Line first, how many troops will be needed to capture all the places including Nankou, Zhangjiakou, Tianzhen, Xinghe, etc., and how much time will it take?" Kiyoji Kazuki asked.

"A division plus a brigade can capture Nankou in three days, take all the towns mentioned by the commander within ten days, and defeat the headquarters of Fu Zuoyi in China on the 15th, and completely control the Pingsui line." Seishiro Itagaki said confidently.

Kazuki Kiyoji was overjoyed, and immediately said loudly: "Order: The Fifth Division and the Eleventh Mixed Brigade can form a westward detachment, with Itagaki Jun as the supreme commander of the detachment, launch an attack along the Pingsui Line, and within ten days, be sure to capture the South Pass and control the Pingsui Line." ”

"Hay!"

When the Japanese army deployed a new operational plan in Tianjin, Chen Feng ushered in a representative sent by Fu Zuoyi. This representative is none other than Li Jingyuan, director of the Suiyuan Provincial Security Department.

As the top boss of the Suiyuan security forces, Li Jingyuan was entrusted by Fu Zuoyi to conduct a thorough survey of all the security forces in Suiyuan to see if these security groups could be used. As for whether he can be worthy of the great responsibility, Fu Zuoyi has never thought about it at all, this year, there are a few people who lead the troops and do not eat empty salaries. It is even more common for local security forces to eat empty salaries, and it is already very good to be able to reach half of the full quota, Fu Zuoyi only hopes that the security regiment under his rule will not be an empty shelf.

Fu Zuoyi and Li Jingyuan were dumbfounded, and none of the 33 security regiments in 18 Mengqi in 20 counties under Suiyuan's rule were full, and the best situation was less than 800 people, and there was still a vacancy of 400 people from the full number. The vast majority of the security corps had only three or four hundred people, and the vacancies accounted for two-thirds.

Xinghe County is the last Qi County to arrive by Li Jingyuan, because he knows the situation in Xinghe County better, the original Xinghe County Security Corps was wiped out by the Saibei Ma Gang half a year ago, and his own brother ** came to him with a silver ticket of 100,000 oceans, wanting to seek the post of head of the security regiment for his son. Because of the friendship between brothers, Li Jingyuan had no choice but to agree, and this was not a difficult thing for him.

It's only been five months now, and it's already very good that his big nephew with fine skin and tender meat can pull up the team, and he doesn't have higher expectations for anything else.

Before coming, Li Jingyuan had already sent someone to inform Chen Feng, so early in the morning, Chen Feng rushed to Ordong with a cavalry company to meet Li Jingyuan and his party.

Seeing Chen Feng for the first time, Li Jingyuan was taken aback, this eldest nephew was more burly than the last time they met, his face became darker, and more importantly, the momentum on his body had obviously changed, and he had the iron-blooded momentum of a soldier.

And the more than 100 cavalry brought by Chen Feng also attracted Li Jingyuan's attention, the cavalry in the northern part of the country is not uncommon, not to mention the 100 or so cavalry, even if it is tens of thousands of cavalry, it is very common. However, Li Jingyuan found that the cavalry around Chen Feng was not only well-equipped, but also extremely high-quality, and when Chen Feng dismounted and spoke, no one in the entire cavalry unit spoke, and they all rode quietly on their horses, waiting for Chen Feng's order.

"Humble Chen Feng came to greet the commissioner, please instruct!" After saluting the military salute, Chen Feng said loudly.

"Hehehe, the eldest nephew is polite, lead the way, let's go to your territory." Li Jingyuan said with a smile.

"Yes!"

"All of them, the back team becomes the front team, and the search formation advances!" With Chen Feng's order, the cavalry company opened the way in front, and the group went straight to Xinghe County.