Chapter 253: The Largest Seizure in History (Part I)

Although Chongren and the others were all captured before they could send a report to the country, some devil spies lurking in Qingdao City still spread the news by telegram after learning that the 15th Army had entered Qingdao (as a result, because the radiolocation jishu of the 15th Army had reached the first-class level of Shijie, these guys were all arrested in just two days), so almost when Chongren got off the plane, The headquarters of the Japanese base camp was informed of the news, but because the spies did not know what was going on in the Japanese army in Qingdao, and the telegram could not be written very long, the expression was very vague, so the headquarters of the base camp naturally did not know about the Japanese column, and they believed that even if the army operated the naval guns, it would be enough to repel the enemy, and when they sent a telegram to ask Chongren and his party, they got the answer that "the 15th Army of China has been repulsed" (because they were quick enough, Chongren and the others did not have time to destroy the radio station and code book. After that, he was carelessly relieved.

It wasn't until a few days later that Kenji Dohihara, the treacherous and cunning spy leader, relied on his extremely rich intelligence work experience, and found some suspicious points from a little clue (after all the devil spies in Qingdao were caught, there was a problem with the operation of the intelligence network in this area, and one person or two people and the 15th Army could send people to pretend to be perfunctory, but it was impossible for so many people to send people to pretend to be seamless), but when he sent people to Qingdao to investigate more detailed information, Thus, when the truth of the mutiny was basically guessed and reported to the headquarters of the base camp, more than ten days had passed since the 15th Army entered Qingdao. And at this time, because Chongren did not return for a long time. In fact, the headquarters of the base camp also began to be suspicious, but in the past few days, no less than 100,000 tons of massive military supplies in the Qingdao reservoir area have long been transported back to the base area by the vast number of commanders and fighters of the 15 th Army and the citizens of Qingdao who have mobilized almost the entire city

Compared with the materials seized in Fengtai before the start of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, because the war had lasted for more than a year, there were not too many heavy weapons that the devils had accumulated in Qingdao that had not yet been sent to the front line, but the ammunition that had been converted into more than eight combat units (according to the standard of a fully established permanent division and regiment) was still far from being comparable to Fengtai at the beginning, and although the quality of more than 60,000 rifle machine guns and other light weapons was not as good as the various new light weapons represented by the Bayi gun family produced by the border area arsenal. But it can also allow Hu Weidong to recruit an additional 100,000 new soldiers in Shandong in a short period of time, without having to wait for the arsenal to expand production capacity.

In addition, since it is already late autumn. The 15 th Army also seized more than 300,000 sets of winter clothes and more than 10,000 tons of grain in Qingdao, which greatly lightened the burden on the masses in the Shandong base area this winter. It is in response to the sentence in "Guerrilla Song": "There is no food and no clothing, and the enemy is sent forward." ”

In addition, it is worth mentioning that because the war lasted for a long time, Qingdao, as the general logistics base of the Japanese army invading China, also stored a large number of special materials such as fuel oil and lubricants that were ready to be sent to the front line at any time, as well as countless weapon parts.

It is important to know that the lifespan of many important parts of weapons, such as the barrel of a cannon, is actually very short, and the more frequently it is used during war, the faster it will be damaged. At this time, it is necessary to have a complete haode part to replace it, which is much cheaper than making a new one. Although with the vigorous development of military production in the Central Plains border area, the number of weapon parts that can be manufactured is increasing day by day, not to mention the need for additional production lines, and there are still some varieties that cannot be produced. For example, the barrel of a 240mm heavy howitzer, the high-horsepower engine on a heavy bomber, and so on. In addition, there are many chicken ribs that can be produced in the border area, but the gains outweigh the losses, such as the barrel of the 96-type 150mm heavy cannon, which is not impossible to build in military factories, but it takes a long time and the cost is very high, it is far better to use those resources and labor to make 105mm mountain guns and other more cost-effective weapons, but if the barrel is damaged to the point that it cannot be repaired, the heavy artillery is abandoned. According to Hu Weidong's estimates, the spare parts seized in the Qingdao reservoir area alone are enough to make almost all the heavy weapons of the 15th Army be used up two or three times...,

What makes Hu Weidong especially happy is that the devil actually still stores countless engines for cars, tanks and even airplanes in the warehouse, and there are more than 1,000 aircraft engines alone, including even 300 of Japan's latest Ha-115 engines, and the Japanese army base camp command hopes to improve the aircraft's ceiling and climb rate by replacing the fighters on the front line with the latest engine with a power of 1150 horsepower, in order to crack the new tactics of the North China Air Corps that have made the devils helpless in the past few months. As a result, before it could be used, it became a trophy of the 15th Army

However, what made Hu Weidong happy was not only because of this, but also because of the design ideas he had put forward based on the historical British "Mosquito" fighter-bomber and the Soviet "La-5" fighter through the joint efforts of the personnel at home and abroad at the Luoyang Aircraft Factory, and now it has been roughly formed, but the development of a high-performance engine is far more difficult than Hu Weidong expected, and according to the estimation of Taylor, a Briton who presided over this project, the aircraft engine with a power of more than 1,250 horsepower will not be produced until the second quarter of this year at the earliest, mass production is at least until the second half of the year. If that is the case, the test flight of the new aircraft will have to be greatly delayed, and the aircraft will be finalized and mass-produced only for fear of waiting until the second half of 40 years, or even the second half of the 40 years, thinking that I don't know how many commanders and fighters will die because of this, Hu Weidong is anxious, and now he unexpectedly got these engines whose size is not exceeding the standard and the power is about the same, Hu Weidong suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, with these engines, not only can the test flight work start in advance, so as to greatly speed up the progress of the new aircraft finalization and put into actual combat. Even the new aircraft can be directly equipped with these engines and put into actual combat, anyway, even if the power is slightly smaller, their performance must be above the new fighters that the Japanese army is about to produce such as the early Zero fighter. And after the mass production of domestic high-performance engines, it can be changed at any time, and there is no conflict between the two, but it can save a lot of time, and thus save the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians, no wonder Hu Weidong is so excited

In addition to the huge gains in the Qingdao reservoir area, so many devils were eliminated almost bloodlessly in the previous "mutiny" of the Japanese column, and naturally there were many captures, among which Hu Weidong was most happy was naturally the planes of the Japanese army and navy that were captured by the Japanese column (welcome to your support, which is my greatest motivation. )