Shanxi

Taiyuan.

Headquarters of the First Army of the North China Front.

Kazuki Yamamoto walked into Yoshio Iwamatsu with a saber on his shoulder.

Behind Yamamoto was the communications soldier Goro Oga, who carried a bazooka on his shoulder and a rectangular ammunition box under his arm.

"General, Yamamoto lived up to his mission and led the special team to snatch the loudspeaker anti-tank weapon from the hands of the Eighth Road."

In front of the rectangular table, Kazuki Yamamoto first bowed his head, then stood straight, and his voice did not fluctuate in the slightest.

Iwamatsu Yoshio was writing a letter to Yan Xishan again, and when he heard Yamamoto Kazuki's voice, he raised his head, and then he turned his gaze to Kazuki Yamamoto's side behind him.

To be precise, what attracted Yoshio Iwamatsu was the bazooka bazooka carried by Goro Oshika.

Yoshio Iwamatsu asked, "This is the loudspeaker anti-tank weapon?" ”

"Yes, General!"

With a wave of his hand, Yamamoto Kazuki stepped forward and placed the Bazooka bazooka on the long table.

The rectangular ammo box was then placed next to the bazooka on the table and opened, revealing a rocket in the ammo box.

Yoshio Iwamatsu could tell that the ammunition box should have been able to contain 3 rockets, but 2 of them had already been consumed.

"Yamamoto-kun has worked hard."

After complimenting him, Iwamatsu Yoshio leaned closer to the bazooka to observe, and then picked up the rocket and looked at it.

Iwamatsu Yoshio said in a skeptical tone: "Can this thing penetrate the tanks and reinforced concrete bunkers of the imperial army?" ”

At present, the Japanese army is equipped with a Type 94 37-mm rapid-fire gun, which is an anti-tank gun, which can penetrate 40 mm thick steel plates at a distance of 500 meters.

However, the Type 94 37mm rapid-fire gun weighed more than 600 pounds.

Yoshio Iwamatsu picked up the bazooka in front of him and weighed it with his hand, which looked like more than 10 pounds, and one or two people could operate it.

"Yes General!" Yamamoto Kazuki said, "I saw with my own eyes that an eight-way armed weapon pierced through the reinforced concrete turret of the imperial army, and none of the imperial soldiers in it were spared, its power is comparable to that of a 105mm howitzer, it is simple to operate, only two people can operate." ”

This time, Kazuki Yamamoto led a special team to go on a long-distance raid to catch fish for the Eighth Route Army, which did not go well.

Although the fishing was successful and the Bazooka bazooka was grabbed, it was just in time for the Eighth Route Army to carry out a big attack.

On the way back to Taiyuan, Yamamoto led the special team to encounter many exchanges of fire with the main force of the Eighth Route Army, even if the special team had strong combat effectiveness, it could not withstand the large number of the Eighth Route Army, and the Yamamoto special team was almost surrounded.

This time I went fishing in the southeast of Jin, and the special team lost eight more members.

How powerful is it?

Iwamatsu Yoshio's eyes flashed, it seems that some time ago, the reinforced concrete bunkers and turrets in the northwest of Jin were taken off by this weapon.

It is devastating against tanks, and can also destroy reinforced concrete pillboxes and turrets, and is as powerful as a 105mm howitzer.

What's more, it is easy to operate and carry, only two people can operate it, and the battle-hardened old devil can see the value of this anti-tank at once.

"Yo Xi!" Iwamatsu Yoshio said, "Yamamoto-kun, you have made a great contribution to the imperial army this time, I will make meritorious service to General Okamura for you, this weapon and shell, I will arrange for it to be sent to the Ordnance Department of the base camp as soon as possible, and the experts who produce firearms in the Ordnance Department will disassemble and imitate it." ”

"Thank you, General!"

Yamamoto Kazuki first bowed his head, and then asked, "How long will it take for the imitation to be successfully replicated and put into use on the battlefield?" ”

Kazuki Yamamoto, who participated in the Battle of Nomenkan, still has lingering fears about the torrent of steel of the Soviet army.

An important reason why the Kwantung Army did not dare to attack the Soviet Union was because it was afraid of the steel torrent of the Soviet army.

If the Japanese army had hundreds or thousands of these anti-tank weapons in the original Battle of Nomenkan, the outcome of the battle would have been very different.

"That's not good." Iwamatsu Yoshio said, "At least half a year, at most a year or two, this weapon looks very simple, and it shouldn't be difficult to imitate it." ”

"I hope that the officials of the Ministry of Ordnance will be able to imitate this new weapon as soon as possible." Kazuki Yamamoto said: "This time I went to the southeast of Jin Province to carry out a mission, and the special team exchanged fire with the main force of the Eighth Route Army several times, and I made a major discovery. ”

"Oh?" Iwamatsu Yoshio's expression moved, and he asked, "What kind of major discoveries did Yamamoto-kun make?" ”

Yamamoto Kazuki said: "A year and a half ago, the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was very sparse, lack of training, and the tactical command was also very primitive. ”

"Some elite units are equipped with automatic firepower such as submachine guns."

"Even the battalion and company-level units of the main force of the Eighth Route are equipped with heavy weapons such as mortars and infantry guns."

"The Eighth Route Army, whether it is the number of troops or weapons and equipment, is changing in all aspects, and its combat effectiveness has increased exponentially."

"However, the equipment of the imperial army is still the same, the Type 38 rifle, the Type 92 heavy machine gun, the Taisho 11th type light machine gun, the grenadier canister, and even the newly produced 100 submachine guns are reluctant to be equipped in large quantities."

"With all due respect, Your Excellency General, the Eighth Route Army has been changing, and its combat effectiveness has been improving."

"However, the First Army and even the North China Front Army have been standing still, and even the combat effectiveness of some divisions and brigades has declined very significantly compared with the Imperial Army in 1937."

"If this continues, I am pessimistic about the imperial army's security war in North China."

Hearing this, Yoshio Iwamatsu paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, his eyes dewning in thought.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army had poor equipment, used inferior weapons, and was extremely short of ammunition, and it was probably first-class equipment to capture a Japanese army of 38.

The Eighth Route Army did not dare to fight the Japanese army head-on, and in the case of frontal combat, the battle loss ratio between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army was about 1 to 3.

However, the Eighth Route Army rarely fought head-on with the Japanese army, and most of them used sneak attacks and ambush tactics, and the Japanese army's losses were greater than those of the Eighth Route Army.

But since the equipment of the Eighth Route Army was better, the losses of the Japanese army were much greater than those of the Eighth Route Army.

Even the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, such as the battle of Baozi Mountain, was able to fight an astonishing battle loss ratio of 1:8 with the Japanese army.

This is even more exaggerated than the 1:5 battle loss ratio between the Japanese army and the national army in the frontal battlefield.

The operational staff officers of the First Army have estimated that the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army should be the most combat-effective unit in the entire battle sequence of the Chinese army at present, and there is no one.

Its combat strength is close to that of the Japanese Army's A Division.

The quality of the individual soldiers of the new regiment was weaker than that of the soldiers of the Japanese army's A division, but the individual equipment of the new regiment could make up for the shortcomings.

Iwamatsu Yoshio nodded: "What Yamamoto-kun said is very correct, such troops are indeed terrifying, we must not let them continue to develop, we must completely eliminate them, eliminate them at any cost, the army base camp staff headquarters has issued an order, will mobilize 3 divisions from Manchuria to deal with Li Yunlong and the new 1st regiment, one of which is a division regiment." ”

"First solve Li Yunlong and the new regiment in the northwest of Jin, and then solve the Eighth Road in the southeast of Jin!"

"This battle is personally commanded by General Okamura!"

"Yo Xi!" Yamamoto Kazuki's eyes flashed, "With General Okamura commanding the A Division to make a move, Li Yunlong must not be alive for long." ”

"Before we do, though, there's something your special forces need to investigate."

Taking a deep breath and suppressing his jealousy of Li Yunlong and the new group, Iwamatsu Yoshio said:

"The imperial army built more than 100 thickened pillboxes and turrets around the bandit area of the new regiment in the northwest of Shanxi, but in this battle, the new regiment captured these fortifications in a short period of time without destroying these thickened pillboxes and turrets, and the soldiers were under the city of Heyuan County, you sent a combat team to infiltrate the northwest of Jin Province to investigate on the spot and find out the matter as soon as possible!"

"Hey!"

Yamamoto Kazuki bowed his head: "I will send the first combat team to the northwest of Jin to investigate." ”

……

In the past few days, Grand Master Li has been very busy, he has been reconnoitering the terrain in the northwest of Shanxi Province on the spot, and has begun to arrange the location of tunnels and hidden forts.

The fighters of the main battalions and divisions were not idle.

Each battalion organized the common people to dig tunnels and build thickened bunkers at each intersection of roads entering the base area according to the situation.

The bunkers built by the new regiment are different from the bunkers and turrets of the devils except for the shooting holes.

The devil's bunkers and turrets are often exposed on both sides of the road, while the new bunkers are camouflaged with tunnels dug into them that are connected to the tunnels in the mountains.

If the battle doesn't go well, the warriors in the bunker can retreat along the tunnel.

Moreover, there are generally two or three bunker guard horns, forming side fire and crossfire with the tunnel.

Whether it is a major road or a small road to enter the base area, Li Yunlong is ready to build tunnel positions and dark forts, block them layer by layer, and consume the vital strength of a wave of devils first.

However, Li Yunlong also knows very well that no matter how powerful the tactics and fortifications are, there are ways to crack them, and these fortifications are afraid that they will not be able to stop the advance of the devils.

It is a high probability event that the devil breaks into the base area, and when the time comes, the people will definitely be organized to enter the mountains and clear the wilderness.

See if there is a chance to lure the enemy deep and annihilate another division.

If there is no chance, send some troops to break through to the periphery, cut off the food route of the devils, and the devils will not last long before retreating.

What Li Yunlong is really worried about is that if the devil puppet army takes away all the grain in the northwest of Jin, how will the common people live.

It's also time for the Sword Squadron to expand.

The best fighters were selected from more than 20,000 people in the regiment to enter the sword squadron for intensive training.

In addition, the main infantry battalion of the new regiment must also be expanded as soon as possible, and the number of troops in each division of the new regiment is now about 2,200.

The main infantry battalions have only more than 1,000 people, and they need to be expanded to about 2,000 people.

The setting up of more than 2,000 people in each sub-district is also an experiment of Li Yunlong, although the establishment is relatively bloated, but there is no way to do it.

He has the establishment of a regiment, but now the new regiment has more than 20,000 people in the regular main force alone.

If it is set up according to the number of 400 people in a battalion, then he must have at least 50 battalion commanders, 50 deputy battalion commanders and 50 instructors to distribute so many people.

But in that case, the structure of the army will be even more bloated, not to mention that Li Yunlong does not have so many battalion commanders, deputy battalion commanders and instructors.

Based on the performance of the troops of various divisions in this battle, Li Yunlong felt that the 10 companies of each battalion were suitable for the current structure of the new regiment, including eight infantry companies and two artillery companies, and each battalion had about 2,000 troops.

The new regiment is a special combat unit, and the troop allocation obviously cannot be formed according to the conventional structure.

When it was time to command the operation, Li Yunlong directly took these battalions as regimental command.

Li Yunlong was inspecting the terrain somewhere, and received a message from the regiment headquarters that Boss Chen had arrived, and he looked overjoyed and hurried to the regiment headquarters in a jeep.

(End of chapter)