"Wireless intercom device?"

"Radio?"

Yoshio Iwamatsu looked at Kazuki Yamamoto and asked.

Wireless communication equipment, the current radio station can basically be realized, but the call distance is only 150 kilometers.

It is the kind of radio carried by Yamamoto Kazuki when he led the special forces to attack the headquarters and pass by Chen Jiayu in the original play.

It's just that the wireless intercom device is easy to listen into.

Boss Chen also used the same kind of equipment to contact Li Yunlong, so neither Boss Chen nor Li Yunlong would talk about business when they were on the phone, so as not to be monitored by the enemy.

Yamamoto Kazuki shook his head slightly: "It's not a radio station." ”

Yoshio Iwamatsu asked in a surprised tone, "How can it be wireless if it's not a radio station?" ”

During World War II, in the field of walkie-talkie technology, the beautiful country was at the forefront of the world, although Germany and other countries also have their own related equipment, but both technical performance, portability and equipment penetration rate are not as good as the beautiful country.

The walkie-talkie of the US military was invented and manufactured by Calvin Manufacturing Company for the US military.

This manufacturing company was the predecessor of Motorola.

At present, walkie-talkies are only equipped in the US military and have not been popularized, so Iwamatsu Yoshio and others do not know about it at all.

"It's true!" "It is with this kind of equipment that the infantry of the Eighth Route Army, when the offensive is unfavorable, can call for rear artillery fire support anytime and anywhere, which greatly improves the ability of the Eighth Route to attack fortifications." ”

At present, the 129th Division and the new regiment are equipped with a large number of such walkie-talkies.

The main force of the 129th Division is equipped with walkie-talkies at and above the battalion level, while the new regiment is equipped with walkie-talkies.

Therefore, the Japanese army has very little information about walkie-talkies, and even Yamamoto Kazuki only knows about this thing, and it is not clear what it looks like at all.

Looking at Yamamoto Kazuki's words, Iwamatsu Yoshio couldn't help but believe it.

At present, the weapons and equipment of the 129th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and even the new regiment in the northwest of Shanxi, whether it is rifle fire or artillery firepower, have comprehensively crushed the Japanese army.

It is not very surprising that some advanced communication equipment has appeared.

Kazuki Yamamoto continued: "This kind of communication equipment, the Locust Army's radio station cannot be answered, and it can also be used by the troops on a large scale, if the artillery of the Locust Army can also have such equipment......"

Although the Japanese army's artillery literacy was extremely high, the Japanese army had not yet developed a precision shooting method.

Even the means by which observers called for artillery fire support were more primitive.

For example, observers use telephones, flags, observation balloons, radio stations, and other means of communication to convey to the artillery the firing points and correct the impact points of the shells, and the high-end ones use command and reconnaissance planes.

"Since the Eighth Route Army has good things in their hands, then we will rob them and hand them over to ordnance experts to study and imitate."

Yoshio Iwamatsu looked at Kazuki Yamamoto:

"Yamamoto-kun, this task will be entrusted to your special team."

While speaking, Iwamatsu Yoshio couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

Once upon a time, no one looked down on the Eighth Route Army, and when it came to the Eighth Route Army, whether it was the national army or the Japanese army, it was commensurate with the Eighth Route Army.

In the ravine, a group of peasants who had never seen the world before, dressed in tatters like Hanako.

It's already rich.

In Shanxi, the equipment of the Eighth Route Army was not to say that it crushed the Japanese army, but at least it was ahead of the curve in terms of equipment and sufficient weapons and ammunition.

Extremely difficult to deal with.

The rise of the Eighth Route Army, especially the rise of the new regiment directly under the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, not only frightened the Japanese army, but also the top brass of the national army.

"Hey!" Kazuki Yamamoto bowed his head.

Although this task was difficult, the Eighth Route Army could only be equipped with such communications equipment if it was a unit at or above the company level.

Because once the operation is unfavorable, the company-level troops of the Eighth Route are likely to destroy the communication equipment, and it is extremely difficult to capture it.

It's hard for other troops to do it, but Yamamoto Kazuki has confidence in the secret service team, because that's what the special forces do.

Iwamatsu Yoshio said again: "There is news from China, Yamamoto-kun, you led the special team to snatch the kind of loudspeaker weapon from the Eighth Route Army, the name is anti-tank rocket launcher, and the Ordnance Research Institute has made a breakthrough, once the Ordnance Department successfully studies and imitates, it will be the first to be sent to our First Army to deal with the tanks of the Eighth Route New Regiment." ”

The eyes of Kazuki Yamamoto, Masashi Hanaya and Masao Miyazaki all lit up slightly.

That's great news.

Kazuki Yamamoto thought to himself that once the Ordnance Department researched and manufactured new weapons and equipment, the base camp would basically give priority to the Navy.

It seems that this time is an exception.

Kazuki Yamamoto took the opportunity to say: "Your Excellency Commander, the Eighth Route Army is equipped with a large number of submachine guns, which can exert a huge firepower advantage in hand-to-hand combat and street fighting. ”

Although the current Yamamoto Kazuki has been promoted to major general, it is basically an idle position, and he still has a little say in the First Army.

Out of the first army, there was no one to bird him, so in terms of army equipment, Yamamoto Kazuki was soft-spoken.

When the 100-style submachine gun first came out, Yamamoto Kazuki was looking forward to it, feeling that the group of old and rigid-minded ordnance officers in the Ordnance Department had finally opened their minds and wanted to equip the army with automatic firepower on a large scale.

At that time, he also obtained more than 200 100-type submachine guns from the Ordnance Department through the relationship of Yoshio Shinozuka and equipped them with the Okawa Advance Team and the Mashiko Advance Team.

Although these two advance teams were wiped out by the new regiment before they could play any role.

But Yamamoto Kazuki knew very well that the advance team trained by him was much stronger than the ordinary locust army death squads and assault teams.

Yoshio Iwamatsu agrees.

The submachine gun firepower of the Eighth Route Army is indeed a great headache.

Not to mention, in the battle of Onomura, the 10th Cavalry Wing of the 10th Division was almost annihilated by more than 600 Eighth Route Cavalry armed with submachine guns.

In street fighting, the firepower of the submachine gun was also far superior to that of the Japanese army's Type 38 rifle firepower.

Not to mention.

In addition to preparing automatic firepower such as submachine guns, the Eighth Route Army was also equipped with semi-automatic rifles, and whether it was artillery fire or infantry firepower, the Japanese army was at a disadvantage against the new regiment.

The Japanese ordnance officials produced weapons on the belief that Japan was a resource-poor country that would achieve maximum results by consuming the least amount of weapons and ammunition in battle.

If.

The Chinese army has remained in the same condition, and there is nothing wrong with the idea of Japanese ordnance officials producing weapons.

But now the situation is different.

The Eighth Route Army has obtained a large number of advanced weapons and equipment and ordnance production lines, and the firepower of rifles and machine guns in the hands of Japanese soldiers is far from enough to cope with the North China battlefield.

Yoshio Iwamatsu nodded: "In this matter, I will apply to Commander Okamura, and the Imperial Army should reform and change its guns." ”

"And artillery." Kazuki Yamamoto said, "The Imperial Army should be equipped with larger, more powerful, and more numerous, as well as advanced communications equipment. ”

Kazuki Yamamoto, who participated in the 1939 Sino-Mongolian border Nomenkan Battle, was cast out of his psychological shadow.

"The strength of an army should mainly be reflected in the strength of firepower."

"For example, the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and even the establishment table of the government army in China, there is no establishment of the new regiment."

"This was originally an ordinary unit of the Eighth Route Army, but since the new regiment received assistance, its combat effectiveness has increased day by day, and now its combat effectiveness is comparable to that of the Locust Army."

Speaking of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army, Iwamatsu Yoshio's face and gaze suddenly became gloomy again.

He knew very well that what Kazuki Yamamoto said was conservative.

The combat effectiveness of the new regiment of the Eighth Route Army is definitely higher than that of the first division, otherwise the 10th Division would not have been defeated by the new regiment.

……

The Japanese homeland.

Tokyo.

Okamura Ninji, who received a telegram from Yoshio Iwamatsu, decided to go to Hideji Tojo after thinking twice.

Now if you want to innovate the army's equipment, only Hideji Tojo can do it.

At present, the Tojo Cabinet has been formally established, and Hideki Tojo Tojo is a person who holds the positions of land minister and interior minister, and has all kinds of powers.

Hideji Tojo shouted that "it is the national policy of the empire to complete the Shina incident and establish the '***** circle'", and it is necessary to "march forward with the unity of the whole country to complete the holy cause under the power of locusts."

At the same time, he advocated that the whole army and all the "subjects of the Locust Country" should be loyal to the Locust, and everyone should have the spirit of "dedicating themselves to public service" in order to realize the "new order of Greater East Asia."

However, due to the sweep in the northwest of Jin and the second attack on Changsha, the two operations failed.

Tojo Hideji was scolded by the locust, and the locust ordered Tojo Hideji to solve the China incident as soon as possible, and Tojo Hideji had to agree first.

Cabinet Office.

Okamura Ninji said to Hideji Tojo:

"One of the main reasons for the failure of this offensive in the northwest of Shanxi is that the weapons and equipment of the locust army are too backward."

Tojo Hideji asked with a displeased face, "The equipment of the Dirt Eight Road is very good?" ”

Although Tojo Hideji had heard about the Eighth Route Army's assistance with weapons and equipment from external channels, he had not known what kind of equipment it was.

"Hey!" Okamura Ninji bowed his head, "There are more than 30,000 people in the Eighth Road New Regiment, equipped with 300 cannons of caliber of 75 mm or more, more than 100 heavy tanks, 500 60 mm and 82 mm mortars, and even their ordinary soldiers use automatic fire submachine guns, and semi-automatic rifles, in addition to a large number of light and heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and 20 mm machine guns, the firepower of the locust army was seriously suppressed in the battle, so it led to the defeat of this operation." ”

Okamura Ninji exaggerated the strength of the new regiment in order to attract the attention of the base camp.

Anyway, even if Tojo Hideji sends someone to investigate, it will be difficult to find out the true strength of the new group.

It is estimated that only the headquarters of the new regiment and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army know about the family background of the new regiment, and Okamura Ningji can only guess approximately.

As Okamura Ninji expected.

When Tojo Hideji heard this, he couldn't help but gasp:

"Tubalu is an ordinary regiment, how can it have such strength?"

Tojo Hideji is not shocked, just from the strength on paper, the strength of the Eighth Route New Regiment is stronger than the most elite 1st Division of the Japanese army.