Chapter 439: An Unexpected Surprise

In the arms warehouse, there are also light weapons that can equip 5,000 people, which Wang Haitao deliberately left in case of emergency, and now he wants to use this last reserve, Wang Haitao is also a little hesitant. After Tang Renli and the others left, Wang Haitao thought about it for a long time, and decided to go to the arsenal to have a look first. With Wang Haitao's resolute character, he immediately took the guards and drove to the arsenal.

As soon as the car stopped in front of the office building of the arsenal, the factory director Rolf and two deputies greeted him out of the office building. I haven't seen Rolf give Wang Haitao a German-style hug as usual for many days, and then shouted exaggeratedly: "Oh, God forbid, my big boss, you are finally here, if you don't come again, my arsenal will be shut down!" Wang Haitao asked with a smile: "Dear Rolf factory director, is it as serious as you said?"

Rolf led Wang Haitao to his upstairs office, and after entering the door and sitting down, Rolf became serious, and he said to Wang Haitao: "Boss, the situation is really bad now, the operating rate of the factory is only half, and the explosives manufacturing plant can only maintain the minimum production volume every day because of the shortage of raw materials. Now bullets and shells have begun to be reloaded in large quantities, instead of being produced, and even then, the arsenal will be completely shut down for two to three months at most. Boss, you really have to find a way to solve the problem of raw materials quickly. ”

Wang Haitao also frowned when he heard this, the production of guns has stopped, and the existing guns can be used for a while, but there is no ammunition, and no matter how advanced the guns are, they have become burning sticks, and the proportion of automatic weapons in his own troops is very large, and while providing powerful firepower, the consumption of ammunition is also amazing. Without ammunition, the combat effectiveness of the 90th Army ceased to exist, and this is really a big problem.

Knowing the current situation of the arsenal, Wang Haitao comforted Rolf for a while, and returned to the military headquarters with a difficult mood. As soon as he sat down in the office, Tang Renli broke in in a hurry. As soon as he entered the door, Tang Renli held a telegram and shouted to Wang Haitao: "Military seat, the German Krupp company is in an emergency." Wang Haitao took the telegram and read it, and the telegram was sent by Alfred, the director of the Krupp company.

In the telegram, Alfred first apologized to Wang Haitao, because Alfred, who had been commended by Hitler's Führer for the "blizzard" a year earlier, promised to give Wang Haitao a batch of arms in return. In the name of transporting a batch of industrial raw materials to Japan, they secretly loaded the ship and sailed to Japan. In the telegram, Alfred told Wang Haitao that the freighter would arrive at the port of Guangzhou in a month for replenishment, and asked Wang Haitao to find a way to smuggle the arms away from the port of Guangzhou.

Wang Haitao had already lost hope after waiting for this batch of arms, but Alfred gave himself a surprise at this time. As for the smuggling matter, if someone else had changed, there would definitely be no way to smuggle such a large batch of arms away in Guangzhou Port, but Wang Haitao has a storage ring, and this matter is not difficult to do.

Wang Haitao was excited for a while, and suddenly thought that it was impossible for Alfred to know that he had a storage ring, so to smuggle such a batch of arms away, this was a big problem for himself, and it seemed that this Alfred was not a good bird. Since this is the case, I don't have to be polite to him, I laughed at this ship of chemical raw materials, and let him go to talk to the Japanese.

However, the necessary thanks are still needed, and Wang Haitao personally wrote a message of thanks and prepared to hand it over to Tang Renli. But after writing it, Wang Haitao suddenly thought of whether he could use a German freighter to transport raw materials for himself? Thinking of this, Wang Haitao added this matter to the telegram again, and then handed it over to Tang Renli to send to Germany.

With such a large number of heavy weapons, Wang Haitao was determined. Now Wang Haitao is afraid that his storage ring is not big enough, and he can't load a boatload of goods at once. It's okay, you can only take one step at a time. The 12th Group Army commanded by Yu Hanmou was very active in Guangdong, and there was a great tendency to counterattack Guangzhou, which made the Japanese army very nervous.

In order to properly get back this batch of munitions, Wang Haitao needed to have a reliable foothold near Guangzhou, and after getting in touch with General Yu Hanmou, he found an abandoned factory on the outskirts of Sihui County as a foothold. Since the end of the last Guangzhou Battle in Sihui County, although the Japanese army occupied this city again, Yu Hanmou's 12th Group Army would often go to attack it, and the Japanese army could not hold it with too many people, so it abandoned the city, and the 12th Group Army did not dare to occupy this city easily, for fear that the troops who occupied the city would be dumplings by the Japanese army, and Sihui County became a city regardless of Sihui.

In order to act safely, Wang Haitao prepared to rush to Sihui County in advance with a regiment of the Guard Brigade, a regiment of the 271st Brigade of the 90th Division, and a battalion of the Reconnaissance Brigade. With two regiments and a reconnaissance battalion, as long as Little Japan does not send divisional and regimental-level troops, Wang Haitao does not have to worry. Tang Renxin was still not at ease at this point, so he arranged the 211th Division to Wuzhou City, ready to respond to Wang Haitao at any time.

Before Wang Haitao left, he went to the 210th Division and the Supplementary Division to inspect again, the 210th Division, as Tang Longzai said, was very well trained, although it was not as good as the battle-hardened 90th Division and the 93rd Division, but it was not a little stronger than other national army units. As long as the 210th Division is pulled to the battlefield and has experienced some tempering of the flames of war, it will be a main force division that is no worse than the 90th Division.

Although the quality of the troops is not bad, the weaponry and training level are not good, and now at best they are not much different from an ordinary division of the Central Army. Wang Haitao also encouraged the new division commander Wei Hai, and asked Zhao Zhongwu to continue to recruit troops, so that the supplementary division could be restored to the establishment of 15,000 people.

After inspecting the troops, Wang Haitao found Tang Renli again, handed over the changed ID card policy to him, and also handed him the water pattern and color matching technology needed to make the ID card, and instructed Tang Ren to make the special person to make it, and expand the security force in Longzhou City, set up a special security department, and shoot the spies sent by the Japanese side after verification. And gave Tang Renli the power to mobilize the guard brigade and the reconnaissance brigade at any time.

After these things were dealt with, more than ten days passed, and Wang Haitao led his men to Guangdong. Behind Wang Haitao, the 211th Division also followed to Wuzhou under the leadership of Division Commander Tang Hongming. It took seven days for Wang Haitao to reach the outside of Sihui County, and there was a reconnaissance detachment of the reconnaissance battalion along the way.

After connecting with the people sent by the Twelfth Group Army, the troops were stationed in the abandoned factory outside Sihui City, which was originally a secret stronghold of the Twelfth Group Army. With the people sent by the 12th Group Army as cover, and Sihui County is a place where Sihui doesn't care, Wang Haitao doesn't have to worry about being discovered by the Japanese army.

After being stationed, the first thing Wang Haitao did was to send several reconnaissance detachments to infiltrate Guangzhou City to conduct reconnaissance with the help of the 12th Group Army. The focus of the reconnaissance was on the port of Guangzhou. The rest of the Japanese warehouses, the Bank of Japan, and the Japanese trading houses were all within the scope of reconnaissance, and this time Wang Haitao was ready to play a big game with Little Japan.

Three days later, except for the two detachments that had conducted reconnaissance on the port of Guangzhou, there was no news, and all the other detachments returned to their stations. Wang Haitao also grasped a lot of information in Guangzhou City through the description of the reconnaissance detachment, and Wang Haitao marked the Japanese warehouses, banks, and chambers of commerce on a map of Guangzhou City one by one, and pondered what to do with the map.

Two days later, the detachment that reconnoitred the port of Guangzhou also returned to its station and reported the situation in the port to Wang Haitao. The Japanese did not have many warships anchored in the port of Guangzhou, mainly one heavy cruiser and two light cruisers, as well as four frigates and four small gunboats to form a fleet. The purpose of this fleet was to patrol the coastal waters of Canton and to provide maritime support in case of an attack on the city.

In addition to warships, there are merchant ships, among which there are the most Japanese merchant ships, and there are several foreign merchant ships, among which there is a British merchant ship that was captured by the Japanese army from the coast of India, and it was detained in the port of Guangzhou, and what was on board was not detected. As for the German freighter that Wang Haitao was most concerned about, the reconnaissance detachment also received information that the German freighter would dock at the port of Guangzhou in five days for three days of replenishment, and then sail for the port of Kobe in Japan.

There are still five days, which is enough for Wang Haitao to prepare, and Wang Haitao decided that this trip to Guangzhou will mainly focus on the arms on the cargo ship, and after getting the arms on the cargo ship, he will decide whether to attack other targets according to the situation. The reconnaissance team accurately drew a map of the port of Guangzhou, and marked the situation of the Japanese guards.

Judging from the situation of the guards marked by the reconnaissance detachment, the Japanese army has a squadron of troops stationed in the port of Guangzhou, and there are quite a few fortifications and fixed firing points, and in addition, there are also Japanese naval forces on the warships that can support them at any time, so it is impossible to storm them, and the only way to infiltrate them is to use the strength of the reconnaissance battalion. And try not to alarm the army, how to act, Wang Haitao has to think about it.

Considering that it can be divided into two or three dive ships, it becomes extremely important not to alarm the Japanese army, Wang Haitao thought of several plans, all of which were overturned by himself one by one, and finally Wang Haitao saw that it was really difficult to dive on the freighter from the ground without alarming the Japanese army, so he prepared to sneak into the freighter through the sea. Fortunately, he is good at playing in the water in the reconnaissance camp, and Wang Haitao does not have to worry about the water nature of his subordinates.

After drawing up a plan of action, Wang Haitao selected 24 good men from the reconnaissance battalion, divided them into four combat groups, and after learning the information that the German freighter had entered the port, he led the team to sneak to a beach only 2 kilometers away from the port at 10 o'clock that night. This beach is already outside the warning range of the port, and it is a wasteland, and the Japanese army will not defend it at all. Wang Haitao and the others changed into diving suits, checked their equipment, and went down into the sea water silently.