Chapter 37: It should be better

"Beautiful lady, I have to say that your plagiarism was very successful." The MP38/40 and MG42 being tested on the field made the Germans very unhappy, both of which were imitations of their own MP36 and MG34.

"Sir, are you willing to take legal responsibility for what you say?" Elena is not false, whether it is plagiarism or improvement, these two are not physical objects with you, then we are the inventors of them, even if they are similar in appearance!

There is nothing to talk about the Type 35 and Type 36 tanks, one wants to buy, the other wants to sell, and as soon as the two sides come into contact, they will enter the procurement and price inquiry link. Elena took over the negotiations, a total of 30 prototypes of the two models, with a full set of technical drawings, and the German side paid the bill with civilian metal smelting equipment, fertilizer production equipment, industrial machine tools, and the like.

The business of the big boss is going well, but the gun sale is in trouble, and these stubborn Germans are indignant because they think that Wen Hui is trying to fool them with the plagiarized things (which is more or less the case).

"That's a pity." Weapons don't have to be sold, it's not bad to be able to sell them for nothing, and it doesn't matter if you can't sell them. This is what Wen Hui meant, so after seeing the attitude of the guest, Yelena did not force it, and directly canceled the follow-up transaction process after the test launch, and the Germans naturally couldn't see the internal structure of the gun.

"I think we should talk to her, and even though it looks like something from us, I feel like there's a difference."

"Are you stupid? Buy imitations and go back, why not buy the original directly in our factory? In the opinion of the team leader, the MG42 just replaced the round heat shield on the outside of the barrel of the MG34 with a square one, and then made some adjustments to the structure of the gun.

Despite the example of the tank, most people still did not believe that the warlord could make his own machine gun, so they refused to sell weapons. Sometimes history is so wonderful, if these people were not so stubborn, maybe the German army would have been equipped with better weapons, maybe it would have achieved better results at the beginning of the war. Now they can only equip them according to the historical schedule.

Although the ending episode was not very pleasant, the trip was generally satisfying. Wen Hui didn't have a lion open his mouth here, and the transaction process didn't take much effort, and the two sides were very happy to take what they needed. The members of the team did not all return, and after finding that there was something different here, they stationed observers here in the name of the advisory group, they were responsible for liaison and observation, if Wenhui needed military advisers, they could also be competent, in short, it was not enough to have a good relationship with the central government here, and it was also necessary to have some friendship with the local powerful warlords.

"Illiterate Germans!" Wen Hui couldn't talk about being angry, and made up his mind that if they came to him again 39 years ago, they would be ruthless.

However, the appearance of the Germans effectively curbed the Americans, especially after learning that Wenhui had ordered a lot of machinery from them, Sam was very interested in not mentioning the price increase, and the delivery efficiency was much faster.

The next time is approaching step by step towards the beginning of 37 years, and the scale of Wenhui's business here is getting bigger and bigger, and there is a vague shadow of "world factory", of course, not referring to the output, but the customers who buy things from him, and the mainstream countries account for all of them.

Business is booming, industry blowout has not forgotten important training matters, since the training base began to practice pumpkins, there has not been a day of free, and the strength under his hands has long exceeded the standard of a division. However, if you have money and can afford to support so many people, it is not easy for others to say anything to him as a warlord, anyway, the supernumerary personnel did not ask the central government for a dime of military expenses, and the interest circle with Wen Hui as the core has been formed, so naturally no one cares about this kind of trivial matter of private expansion.

The central government was happy to exchange ore for arms, and the name of the "German Armor Division" of the reorganized army was completely confirmed. The three regiments of the Central Teaching Corps were completely copied from the German army, and all the equipment was based on the organization of the Wehrmacht, in addition to light and heavy machine guns and mortars, each regiment also had six Bofors mountain guns, and in addition to the luxury of an exclusive artillery regiment (36 Le.FH18105 mm howitzers).

The original 3rd Division, 6th Division, 9th Division, 14th Division, 36th Division, 87th Division, and 88th Division, although these elite divisions were not strengthened as the teaching corps, but they were much stronger than in history, and a large number of organs entered the hands of grass-roots non-commissioned officers, ZB26 columns were installed in squads, anti-aircraft artillery companies, and anti-aircraft artillery companies were readily available, although there were no divisional artillery regiments, but each division was equipped with Bofors 75 mountain guns and M1919 type 105 mountain guns. In addition to the 1st Division, the 8th Division, and the 36th Division, which all belong to the Central Committee, also received the same redressing treatment, and when half of the payment for the ten divisions was paid, the government added an order for ten more divisions, and it seemed that by the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, it should be possible to complete the preparation of 20 divisions.

In addition, the biggest improvement is still the artillery of the national government, which originally consisted of four artillery brigades of two regiments, five independent artillery regiments, and three independent mountain artillery battalions, independent field artillery battalions, and independent heavy mortar battalions. Now it's not just a change of clothes, it's also an expansion.

The 1st and 2nd Artillery Brigades were originally equipped with Bofors mountain guns, The 6th Artillery Brigade and the 8th Artillery Brigade replaced the original Huzaoke mountain artillery and Liao-14 77-mm field artillery with Le.FH18105 mm howitzers; the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6th Independent Artillery Regiments were equipped with M1928-type 155-mm howitzers; the 8th Artillery Regiment, the 9th Artillery Regiment, and the newly formed 14th Artillery Regiment were equipped with SFH18 howitzers, and the original 10th Artillery Regiment was just made up of two mechanized traction artillery brigades, and the three field artillery battalions were expanded into three field artillery regiments and replaced with M1897-type 75 misses; the heavy mortar battalion did not have a regimental establishment, but the number was increased to ten, and the whole battalion was equipped with 120-mm mortars.

The above is the treatment of elite troops, and those M1919 Type 75 mountain guns and 105 mountain guns that have been purchased in larger quantities are prepared for the sub-level troops. After a large purchase from Wen Hui, the predicament of the national artillery has finally improved. Of course, with the second phase of procurement, the number of artillery will increase.

The Hanyang-made, Zhongcheng, Liao-made, and Shanghai-made mountain cannons that were redressed by these troops were not wasted, and Mr. President used them to arm the second-line troops and also used them to win over the warlords who were close to him.

In this way, when the time comes, the elite troops that the government can use will be about thirty divisions. Although it was less than half of the reorganization plan (sixty elite divisions), it was enough for them to deal with it for a while. At least it can reduce the situation of using human lives to pile up after the loss of elite after the war, Songhu and Nanjing should still have some left after the battle, and the relative Japanese will shed more blood during the invasion!

"This kind of equipment should be better to lose!" The shelves of the army on Wen Hui's side have also been set up, and in view of the big war that is about to break out, Long Si and the staff team will have to rehearse the war games every once in a while.

"It's true that you can only lose better, and the battlefield will be much better if it's inland. It's a pity that the Songhu battlefield is in the coastal area, and the Japanese can easily get the artillery support of battleships and the air support of aircraft carriers, while their poor air force and insufficient number of air defense companies are simply unable to deal with the air threat. The machine guns and bombs of the unscrupulous warplanes can cause a lot of physical damage to all ground forces, and the guns they bought back do not know how much will be blown up. Don't forget that the Japanese army also has a lot of heavy artillery, and there are as many as 17 heavy artillery brigades participating in Songhu alone, which has an overwhelming advantage even if there is no ground firepower from sea and air support. This is only considering the gap in technology and equipment, the veterans of the current Japanese army have not yet been consumed, and the proportion of veterans in the army is very large, and combat experience cannot be bought with money. "Ryuji put down the soldier model in his hand and strengthened the equipment, the result of the Songhu War still can't be changed, but it is expected that the battle time will be extended, and the battle process will be more intense.

"Then there is no way, I have a low price and open supply here. But you can also see their purchasing power, the equipment of twenty divisions, plus a dozen regiments of artillery...... It's all purchased desperately. "Wen Hui only complained about the small quantity, but the quality is unprecedentedly solid, dilute the equipment of this twenty divisions, and pull out forty divisions is absolutely no problem!

"Haha, I hope the Germans and the French will put up with the complaints of the Japanese." German light weapons and French artillery, I don't know what the Japanese will feel after misunderstanding.

"Okay, the situation is still not optimistic, how are we doing here?"

"Twelve active regiments, pull them out and you can fight. Twenty construction corps, there is no problem with training, but pre-war armament is required, and there are trained cadet soldiers in the training camp. The low volume of conscription has not stopped. "Wenhui does not have a unit at the level of "brigade" here, and below the division is the regiment.

"So little?"

"Boss! It's seriously over the bar now, okay?! You're just a lieutenant general! And our people have at least three months of military training, and this is not a strong ding! ”

"I know, we can expand the conscription, and prepare for it, we can't catch up at the beginning of Songhu, and we will definitely go up and fight the devil later." Although the central government pretended not to know about Wen Hui's private expansion, the action of digging the foot of the wall in private has never stopped, but the commanders of these troops are destined to be different from them.

"How much does the levy bring?"

"A thousand men served as officers, their deputies with local recruits, a thousand gendarmerie troops." Two thousand conscripts in one division were enough. The rest of the people continued to train at home, and in the following years some were battlefields for employing people.