This was a small oversight, intentional or unintentional, but Colonel Smith suddenly came to the concept that there were 8 artillery battalions in the Ping An Cluster, and more than 100 artillery pieces were not what he was interested in, what he was interested in was that Gao Jianwu could directly draw out enough skilled artillery to form this new expeditionary force artillery.

In Colonel Smith's eyes, this is a world of difference compared to the new recruits who have just been recruited by the government.

Colonel Smith believes that if you pull the team out in front of you and equip it with weapons, you can directly start a war with the little devils and fight very beautifully!

"Colonel Gao, I have to say, you have done a very good job, and your ability to drive the little devils out of most of the Jin Land is indeed worthy of your reputation." Colonel Smith praised.

"But can you tell me now, how many troops like yours can be sent to the South Seas?"

"We're not in a hurry to talk about it, Colonel Smith, we haven't finished reading it yet, and there's something to surprise you in a moment." Gao Jianwu avoided talking about this topic.

Before he completely conquered Colonel Smith with strength, he was not ready to talk about such a thing, and there was no advantage in price before the time came.

Next, in front of Colonel Smith, the Independent Regiment directly demonstrated how to use the walkie-talkies equipped to the platoon to direct the troops to coordinate the attack and defense, as well as to find real-time fire support on the battlefield.

"Colonel Gao, you're even equipped with walkie-talkies!" Colonel Smith could see the mystery at a glance, and he couldn't help but be stunned.

Seeing that the independent regiment of the Ping An Cluster was using walkie-talkies that were almost identical to theirs, Colonel Smith was shocked again!

"Yes, Colonel Smith, our researchers independently developed the walkie-talkie after looking at the principle of your country's walkie-talkie.

You see, because we didn't have enough batteries, we had to develop a hand-cranked generator to continuously power the walkie-talkie, and use a person to generate electricity constantly so that he can work continuously.

Although it is somewhat inconvenient, it can solve the communication problem of the command to the platoon on the battlefield. ”

Gao Jianwu explained half-truthfully.

Speaking of direct imitation of other people's products, this is more or less a bit infringing, but Colonel Smith said he understands.

In the current state of global warfare, there is no country that does not have the full strength to constantly study the technology in the hands of friends and even enemies to improve its war strength.

He knew very well that walkie-talkie communication, a cutting-edge communication technology, would never be shared with these Orientals in China now, so Gao Jianwu said that he had developed it himself, and Colonel Smith also chose to believe it, after all, this technology could not fall from the sky.

However, Colonel Smith was still careless, and in the face of persecution, he could only act as a shock tool today.

The large-scale appearance of walkie-talkies in Gao Jianwu's team is not just a matter of equipment.

This made the well-informed Colonel Smith realize that the other party should also have a team of electronic technical personnel with considerable technology! They have developed a number of valuable military products.

This discovery surprised him very much, and at once raised his interest to the extreme.

However, Gao Jianwu's arrangement is not only that.

Today he must convince Colonel Smith completely.

So he was taken to a secret tank training base.

When Colonel Smith first saw two T-34s at the tank training base, "Cake sellers!" Colonel Smith blurted out the shock in his heart!

"Gao, you're already training tank drivers?! Tell me how many tank groups you can go into battle now? Looking at the T-34 speeding in front of his eyes, Colonel Smith confirmed that he was not mistaken, on the training ground, two T-34 tanks were skillfully demonstrating forward evasion and observation!

As well as turning the barrel to aim!

There is no doubt that Gao Jianwu has already begun to train tank drivers on his own.

"Colonel Smith, this is still a matter that we are currently highly secretive, I hope you will keep it in your heart after reading it, and keep it a secret for us until one day you give the little devil a big surprise.

As you can see, here we started tank driver training with the T-34 from the north, for which we received some help from our friends from the north, but not much.

Now we only have two training tanks, which greatly hinder our training speed, but even so, we still have 100 combat teams that can be easily trained and combated.

If you give me 100 of them, we'll be able to form a tank regiment with a lot of attack power right away!

You know, what it means to have such a tank regiment in the South Seas, we can crush the little devils! Gao Jianwu pretended to regret and said.

This time he just took out two T-34 tanks for display.

Convince Colonel Smith that this is only a personnel reserve training, and not a combat unit.

Even so, Colonel Smith was shocked again, a full regiment of tank armored soldiers had almost been trained, making Colonel Smith believe that as long as the equipment was in place, Gao Jianwu would be able to build a strong armored attack team here immediately.

In contrast, the Central Army still had to spend time and effort on a lot of training, because most of the recruits they brought there were recruits, and they were far behind in terms of technology and culture.

Not to mention armor and artillery, even the basic combat tactics of infantry have to be trained for months before they can be put into battle.

Comparing with a battle-tested unit like Gao Jianwu, the last trace of doubt in Colonel Smith's heart disappeared.

Bring them, be sure to bring them! Smith went to school with this crazy thought!

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But that's not the end of it!

Outside Lu'an City, Gao Jianwu set up a forward command post 2 kilometers outside Weiyuan Gate.

Colonel Smith, the observer representative of the beautiful country, followed Gao Jianwu's side, observing the guards at the west gate of Lu'an City, and whispered his views with Gao Jianwu, not at all proud of his identity.

In order to prove that his team is not a good thing, Gao Jianwu came up with the ultimate display - a direct battle!

This time, he took 4 main infantry battalions, heavy artillery regiments and two artillery battalions to Lu'an, a big city in the southeast of Shanxi.

At the main artillery position 8 kilometers away, Gao Jianwu commanded 150 mm howitzers and 105 mm howitzers to accurately clear the light and dark pillboxes of the little devil's city defense. Bomb the little devil's outer position directly into a big road, and then collapse the city gate!

Next, the 75-mm mountain and field guns of the artillery battalion began to stretch out, clearing the walls of the defending enemy!

Like a precision-running machine, Gao Jianwu used artillery to blast through almost all important defensive firepower points and large obstacles of the little devils, and then the infantry was dispatched, advancing to the front line 1 km under the cover of artillery fire, establishing layers of new mortar positions, and providing artillery support through the walkie-talkie of the advance troops!

Methodically and gradually bulldoze the defensive positions of the little devils!

And in such a process, the casualties are simply minimal compared to other teams!

Colonel Smith's eyelids jumped!

Because he suddenly found that if it was a simple infantry duel, he might not be able to defeat Gao Jianwu's army if he came with an equal amount of heavy firepower field troops!

This discovery shocked Colonel Smith a little! These Orientals have almost reached a peak in the coordinated use of infantry and artillery!

Fortunately, they do not have an air force and navy, and it looks like they will not have one for a long time.

Colonel Smith rejoiced.

If that's the case, then everything is still under control. After all, the current war has entered the era of the trinity of sea, land and air.

Only the army, no matter how strong it is, can be regarded as lame, but against the little devils of the East, this is indeed just right!

Thinking of this, Colonel Smith had a new surprise that he couldn't suppress.

This expedition was completely unexpected, and Colonel Smith, who had little hope for the Eighth Road, was now the most determined person to promote cooperation.

This report not only attaches great importance to General Qiao, chief of staff of the Nanyang Theater of Operations, but also unanimously agreed to send elites from the Eighth Route to Nanyang to carry out the combat mission of recovering Nanyang!

To this end, Colonel Smith was appointed to carry out the specific negotiation work, and General Qiao vigorously promoted this matter, responsible for clearing all the obstacles at the top, Rao is so, the negotiation is also very difficult, the master of the micro exercise master bites the three unifications of unified command, unified establishment and unified treatment, in fact, to control the command of the new team and the control of the future!

This is an absolutely unacceptable condition for the Eighth Road, and the negotiations have reached an impasse for a while, but Gao Jianwu is sure that the Beautiful Congress will give priority to the battlefield, and will definitely exert pressure to force the principal to give in at a critical moment!

Therefore, the negotiation team on the Eighth Road side is not in a hurry at all. After Gao Jianwu went to persuade Chu Yunfei, Chu Yunfei went all out to fight for the second war zone, because Gao Jianwu promised to keep the number of the 358 regiment unchanged, Chief Yan couldn't find a reasonable reason to refuse, and at the same time thought that Chu Yunfei had just given him a long face and won a county seat, so Chief Yan pinched his nose and recognized it.

At the same time, he also began to exert his strength, using his influence to promote the expeditionary force, when Gao Jianwu showed Colonel Smith that he had indeed mobilized 30,000 people to prepare for the expedition, General Qiao of the beautiful country was unusually tough, using the ultimate move of cutting off military aid, so that the principal had to slap the table and grit his teeth to admit it.

The next negotiation progress was very rapid, in the face of Gao Jianwu's proposed weapons, Colonel Smith agreed almost without hesitation, for them, what is lacking is not weapons and ammunition, but people who can pick up these weapons and ammunition to win the war, only 30,000 people and equipment, or in the South Asian subcontinent to provide, the beautiful country really does not lack this.

The Quartet reached an agreement to send troops.

General Gao Jianwu was appointed as the commander-in-chief of this group, numbered as the Expeditionary Force Attack Cluster.

In order to let the Gao Jianwu Expeditionary Force attack group quickly arrive at the battlefield, General Qiao decided to launch a large-scale airlift plan, and the C-47 transport plane that arrived at the rear through the hump route flew directly to Jinyang after unloading, and directly airlifted the attack group of the expeditionary force assembled in Jinyang to Imphal on the South Asian front!

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