"What good news makes you happy like this?" Jiang Qiang raised his eyebrows, hurriedly took the telegram from Stilwell's hand, looked down and was immediately happy, and said with a smile: "It is worthy of President Roosevelt, and his courage and vision are very unique!" Stilwell thought that Jiang Qiang was sincerely praising his president, and he suddenly became even happier, and said proudly: "If President Roosevelt can lead the United States out of the economic crisis, he will definitely lead the Allies to win this world war, and he will definitely be able to rebuild world peace and justice!" ”

"Alright! It's good if you're happy! Jiang Qiang naturally wouldn't tell Stilwell, who was on the rise: President Roosevelt was actually just a favor as a last resort, saying a beautiful word and writing a blank check! After being excited for a while, Stilwell turned his head to look at Jiang Qiang, and said with some concern: "Jiang Qiang, this time the Japanese moved really and directly increased their troops to 500,000 people.

Recently, the Asian People's Liberation Army has urgently expanded the strength of 3 armies, and the 31st Army has also been expanded into 5 full-strength infantry divisions, bringing the total strength of the entire Burma Expeditionary Force to nearly 600,000! However, half of them are newly recruited recruits, and they simply do not have the strength to fight head-on with the veteran units of the Japanese army, which have experienced a lot of battles! It would be nice to have another two or three months! ”

Jiang Qiang nodded in a heavy tone and said, "The real test in the Burma theater is coming!" There is no retreat in this battle, only a fight! As Stilwell was worried, Jiang Qiang has been in a bit of trouble lately. Sure enough, as Murphy's Law says, things in the world are often just about what they are afraid of.

Jiang Qiang's biggest lack now is time, he is already full of energy and obscene development, and wants to run Myanmar into an iron bucket, but the little devil is not stupid, and he will not give this time. After intense army expansion, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of the Asian Liberation Army in Myanmar have pulled up, but these three armies are almost all recruits!

Even if Jiang Qiang can provide them with the best weapons and equipment and logistical support, but let them directly face the elite veterans of the Japanese Kwantung Army who have experienced a hundred battles, there is still a huge gap in the strength of the bronze duel king. However, fortunately, it took more than a month or two before the Japanese army officially launched a general offensive.

With this two-month period of high-intensity training, at least these recruits can be familiar with weapon operation and initially learn the way to survive on the battlefield, and when they really go to the battlefield with guns, they are no longer a group of farmers who have just put down their hoes!

In addition to seizing the time to train infantry, Jiang Qiang also made every effort to strengthen the air force in Burma, and all the newly produced Flying Eagle 5 fighters at the Dongxing Aircraft Factory in Shandong were transferred to Burma, and he also spent 80 million yuan to purchase 100 planes from the Shanghai Aircraft Factory. At present, the total number of Flying Eagle 5 fighters in Myanmar has reached more than 680, and it is expected to reach 1,200 before the Japanese army launches a full-scale attack!

"Even if you buy it, you really have 40 barrels?" Stilwell counted silently in his heart, and saw that there were four rows of 10 in each row, which looked like a huge beehive, which was very visually impactful. At this time, Xu Guangming introduced in a mocking tone: "General seat, the caliber of this rocket launcher we improved is 122 mm, which is 10 mm smaller than the caliber of the original sample.

However, our rocket launcher has 24 more embrasures and more than twice the maximum range. In addition, this rocket launcher is much longer than a 155mm caliber grenade, more than twice as heavy, has a much larger charge in the warhead, and is much more lethal after explosion. Unlike 155mm howitzers, which can only kill at points, this rocket launcher is especially suitable for striking exposed dense enemy living force concentrations, field fortifications and cluster tank artillery.

The most important thing is that this rocket launcher is a multi-launch rocket launcher, and it is no longer a guide rail with a short deployment time, extremely strong maneuverability, and it can be called to fight, and it can be changed immediately after the fight, without worrying about the counterattack and retaliation of the enemy artillery and the air force! "Then let's start the launch."

Stilwell's heart was itching to hear it, and he couldn't wait to see what this new artillery was and what kind of shelling effect it would have! "Yes, it's going to be right away!"

Xu Guangming nodded with a smile, and then waved at an officer not far away. "Fire!" Immediately afterwards, the officer was seen yelling and waving a small red flag in his hand at the same time. In the next moment, one of the 40 beehive-like cannons swished out of the barrel, and then, a flash of red light shot out of the barrel like lightning.

Then came the loud sound of breaking the air. Rao is Jiang Qiang and the others put on the headphones in advance, but they were still shocked by this huge sound and their eardrums hurt faintly. But that's just the beginning! Immediately afterward, I saw that the entire hive of the military truck was on fire, emitting one red light after another. In the blink of an eye, the entire military truck was obscured by the rapidly billowing smoke, and the rocket launcher itself could not be seen. Only the red light that kept blooming in the billowing smoke could still be faintly visible.

Bang boom, it was like a string of oversized electric cannons, and in just ten seconds, in a flash of red light, 40 shells were fired away one after another. And after the launch was completed, a series of earth-shattering explosions continued to explode in everyone's eardrums. Rao is everyone has put on the headphones in advance, and they can still clearly feel the crazy surging sound in their ears, and they will not disperse for a long time.

"Even-mai Ka, this launch speed is too fast!" "Damn, that sounds really exciting!" "Good guy, this series of bombings, even the steel and iron bones must be wiped out!" "Sounds cool, but this thing's ammunition consumption is too scary, isn't it?" Not to mention the effect of the bombing, this preemptive movement alone is enough to shock everyone and trigger countless reveries.

As 40 rounds of 122-mm heavy artillery shells roared out, the attention of Jiang Qiang, Stilwell and others turned to the target in the distance

The target of this test launch is a hillside, which is 8 kilometers away from the launch site of the experimental base, and a large eye-catching sign is made on the hillside in front of it. In the field of view of the telescope, everyone can clearly see a large square frame drawn in lime on the hillside, and in the middle of this large square there is a large crosshair. It took nearly two minutes for the first rocket shell to finally land on the hillside.

After the first rocket shell exploded, the next 39 rocket shells immediately fell like a torrential rain. A series of explosions came back one after another, and when I looked at the hillside in the distance, the entire white box was completely obscured by the smoke from the explosion. This round of rocket artillery salvo tests was quite successful!

Although the arrows are powerful and have good suppressive properties, when they are fired, they are like a volcano erupting hot magma, pouring down on enemy targets like an overwhelming force, and the sound is like thunder and tiger roaring, and the heat is like overwhelming the mountains and seas, not only destroying a large number of the enemy's vital forces and military equipment, but also giving the enemy a huge spiritual shock.

However, there are also some of its own shortcomings, that is, the projectile has a low speed, poor strike accuracy, and insufficient power, and is generally used for striking in a large area. "It's amazing! Such a killing range, such an explosive intensity, once a large number of them are dropped on the battlefield, it is completely a nightmare for the enemy! ”

Stilwell's eyes widened, and he was completely reluctant to let go of any details of the test launch. As a veteran, how could Stilwell not see that this rocket launcher was completely an epoch-making heavy weapon for the town, which can be called! Jiang Qiang nodded and said: "That's right, this thing is used well, it is indeed very powerful, it is very suitable for annihilating enemy cluster targets, and it is very conducive to frontal breakthrough battles!"

It's just that this thing is too expensive, and this salvo just now will cost more than 3,000 yuan! And this is still the lowest cost price, not counting the cost of labor, storage, transportation, bad wear and tear, etc.! ”

It doesn't matter if you set off such a big firework, but once it is used on a large scale in the troops, a single burst of that rocket artillery regiment can casually shoot out more than 100,000 yuan. With such ammunition consumption, Jiang Qiang had a terrible headache just thinking about it.

Now that the United States has been completely involved in the war, all its local military enterprises are producing guns, ammunition, weapons and equipment at full capacity, but all of them have been purchased and requisitioned by the US government. Therefore, even if Dongxing Trading Company has money, it is already the same as before, as long as you give money to buy planes and tanks! Thanks to Jiang Qiang's storage of a lot of ammunition in advance, and the military factories in Shandong also have considerable production capacity, otherwise they would have to buy all of them from the Shanghai military factories!

In that case, even if Jiang Qiang is a local tyrant, he will not be able to withstand the large-scale war attrition! Stilwell said with a smile: "It's worth the money, with such a weapon of war, the Japanese are not afraid to use it no matter how much they come, I am really looking forward to it!" Stilwell's eyes were fixed on the hillside where the smoke had not yet cleared, and he had already begun to fantasize about the pleasant scene of one day when a hundred cannons could blow up the Japanese devil's position in an instant.

After a pause, Stilwell turned his head to look at Jiang Qiang and said: "Jiang, your military research and development capabilities have always been too powerful, but I don't know if this rocket launcher has applied for a patent, and whether it can be produced by the US arms company?" Jiang Qiang said with a smile: "Actually, our rocket artillery technology is borrowed from the Soviet rocket artillery, and on this basis, it has been greatly improved and improved, and it has not yet applied for a patent in the United States."

But don't worry, I'll have people apply for a patent as soon as possible, and it won't be long before this MLRS can be mass-equipped in the Allies! "That's good, let's apply for it. As long as the patent is filed, we at the U.S. Arms Corporation can be licensed and then mass-produced. Stilwell's eyes flashed with thick heat, and he clenched his fists and said, "I can guarantee that this weapon will shine on the world anti-fascist battlefield!" The anti-fascist alliance will definitely win the final victory!

"It's a must! Victory always belongs to the side of justice! Jiang Qiang smiled and nodded, needless to say, the importance and advancement of this weapon are naturally the main battle weapon of the army until the middle of the 21st century! After a pause, Jiang Qiang turned his head to look at Xu Yongjiang and said, "Director Xu, how long will it take for the production line of this rocket launcher to be built?" How much can I produce each month? ’

Xu Yongjiang hurriedly replied: "Report the general seat, there are still 20 days at most, a complete production line can be established, and the output is expected to reach about 70 units per month!" "Only 70 units a month? No, it's too little! Jiang Qiang frowned slightly, 70 units were made in a month, but it was obvious that this output could not keep up with the rhythm of the war at all!

Besides, it's about to be a decisive battle with the devil, and I still expect to be able to make one or two hundred rocket launchers to give the devil benefits and surprises! "General seat, it's difficult for a clever daughter-in-law to cook without rice!" Xu Yongjiang said with a wry smile: "At present, construction is being carried out everywhere in the territory, and people are being recruited everywhere, and our military factories have to undergo extremely strict political examination to recruit people, and there has always been a shortage of manpower.

This is already in accordance with your instructions, and the priority is to concentrate manpower and material resources to achieve this step! If you want to increase production capacity, you must increase the production line, and you must greatly increase the number of people! Xu Yongjiang is telling the truth, although Jiang Qiang tried his best to dig up the wall from the country and bring overseas Chinese from all over Southeast Asia to Myanmar, but infrastructure, military expansion, and all walks of life require a lot of human resources.

Don't look at the more than 7 million overseas Chinese who have poured in before and after, but a large part of them are old, weak, women and children, and the real young and strong labor force adds up to more than 1 million people. Excluding those who have already been recruited into the army and government departments, as well as the reserve forces that are currently being trained, there are only more than 300,000 young and strong laborers left. If the part that fails to pass the political examination is removed, the amount of labor that can be used will have to be cut by a large margin.

More than 300,000 people sounds like a lot, but large-scale infrastructure construction is being carried out everywhere in Myanmar, and a large number of laborers are needed to build fortifications, roads, factories, clothing, food, housing, and transportation!

As for the indigenous people of Myanmar with a total population of 16 million, they can be selectively recruited into basic departments such as construction companies, garment factories, and food factories, but at this stage, they are not suitable for recruiting core departments such as government departments, military enterprises, and chemical enterprises! "Then go to another production line, and I'll find a way to allocate manpower for you!"

Thinking of this, Jiang Qiang really has a headache, there are still too few available people in Myanmar, and the Shandong Peninsula is too far apart, so now he can only tear down the east wall and make up the west wall! Who is calling where is the personalized service in Shanghai There is no scientific research automation assembly line, which is basically an inefficient and labor-intensive production line, otherwise, Jiang Qiang would have spent money to get it up a long time ago!

In the evening, when Jiang Qiang was discussing the military defense layout with Stilwell, Chen Zhengnian, Xu Guangming, Duan Zhongyi and others in the war room of the headquarters of the Burma Military Region, Huang Hong walked in with a briefcase. "Okay!" Jiang Qiang nodded with a smile, reached out and took a document and read it.

After reading the battle statistics at a glance and ten lines, Jiang Qiang nodded lightly, although the loss of technical equipment is relatively serious, but the casualties are not satisfactory. After all, today's battle is a tough battle, and it is not easy to achieve such a casualty ratio. After reading this telegram, Jiang Qiang handed it to Stilwell, who looked curious.

When Stilwell saw it, his eyes lit up suddenly, and he couldn't stop praising it: "Wow, the battle can actually play a 1:2 casualty ratio, not bad, really good!" Jiang Qiang smiled indifferently: "This is just the beginning, the real hard bones are still to come!" "Do your best! We've made a move, now it's up to the Japs to respond! ”

The corners of Jiang Qiang's mouth curled slightly, now that the Americans have been completely pulled into the water, and there is no devil in Huaxia, this time is to see how the Red Party and Wang Yizhe's Baath Party seize power in Huaxia. Moreover, the Japanese devils attacked from all sides, and they had to maintain strong military strength on all battlefields, so Jiang Qiang no longer had to worry that the Japanese devils would concentrate all their forces against him.

At this time, Huang Hong took out a second telegram and whispered: "Boss, this telegram is from Yuko Kitajima. This is about family affairs, and please take a look. "Hmm!" Jiang Qiang nodded, took the telegram and glanced at it, and immediately became happy, and said with a smile: "It's mysterious, I thought it was something!" Isn't it just that the family wants to come to Myanmar! ”

Jiang Qiang has long known that Yuko Kitajima wants to come to Myanmar, but Myanmar is too complicated and there are too many insecurity factors, so Jiang Qiang has never responded. "It's said that the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, so everyone is here to help me come up with ideas, right?"

Tak Province, Thailand. Headquarters of the Japanese Burma Army. Although the devil troops are still being mobilized, it does not prevent the heads from arriving in advance. The headquarters of the Southern Army was located in Bangkok, Thailand, and Umezu Mijiro naturally did not set up the headquarters of the Burmese General Army in Burma, so he chose to be in a large town closest to the Thai-Burmese border: Tak Province.

The Japanese devils requisitioned tens of thousands of people, and after several months of all-out construction, a road to Myanmar has been opened through Tak province. With this road, the Japanese army no longer has to take a detour to climb hundreds of kilometers of mountains and jungles, and can easily transport tanks, heavy artillery and other heavy equipment to the Burmese border. Therefore, the Japanese reinforcements that were in transit were basically sent by the transport fleet to the south coast of Thailand to land, and then transported by rail to reply, and then entered Burma through this road.

Therefore, the geographical location of Tatsufu became very important, and Umezu Mijiro set up the headquarters of the General Army here, and ordered the 9th Division, a division directly under the General Army, to be responsible for the security of Tatsufu. At present, the Japanese Burma General Army has 16 divisions under the jurisdiction of the 15th Army, the 18th Army, the 19th Army, and the 20th Army, and the total strength of each division will reach 520,000 when all the personnel arrive. As a result, the Japanese Nanyang Army became the second largest army group after the Kwantung Army in one fell swoop, and Umezu Mijiro once again succeeded in reaching the top, sweeping away the depression of being squeezed out of the position of commander of the Kwantung Army by Ishihara.

Today, Umezu Yoshijiro convened a military meeting at the headquarters of the commanders and chiefs of staff of the various armies to focus on offensive tactics. At this time, in the war room of the Tatsufu General Headquarters, the commander-in-chief, General Umezu Mijiro, the chief of the general staff, Lieutenant General Kimura Hyotaro, the commander of the Japanese 18th Army is Lieutenant General Anda 23, the commander of the Japanese 19th Army, Lieutenant General Kawabe, the commander of the Japanese 20th Army, Lieutenant General Sekikamejiro, the commander of the 15th Army, and other old devils are gathering in front of the large sand table to discuss something fiercely.

Hyotaro Kimura pointed to the sand table in front of him and said to Umezu Mijiro: "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the information provided by the integrated aviation reconnaissance and the Burmese National Army recently can basically conclude that Jiang Qiang's Burmese Liberation Army has concentrated the main elite troops on the Salween River defense line, the Mawlamyin defense line, as well as Bago, Yangon and other areas.

It seems that Jiang Qiang still wants to follow the strategic deployment of the 15th Army before, and wants to use the Salween River to fight a decisive battle with the imperial army. "Kimura Hyotaro and Umezu Mijiro have been old partners for many years, and when Umezu Mijiro was the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Kimura Hyotaro was the chief of the general staff of the Kwantung Army. This time, Umezu Mijiro took up the post of commander of the Burmese General Army, so naturally he had to bring his old partner to form a group to make meritorious achievements!

"Stupid guy!" Umezu Mijiro snorted disdainfully, and said murderously: "Before, the imperial army was short of troops, allowing them to hold the defense line of the Salween River dangerously, and now in the face of the crushing strength advantage of the Japanese imperial army, they still want to defend in the same way, and they are simply killing themselves by hitting stones with eggs." ”

Kimura Hyotaro nodded and agreed: "Yes, I have always been worried that Jiang Qiang will order the Asian Liberation Army in Myanmar to focus its defense on the primeval jungle to fight guerrilla warfare. If this was the case, it would not be easy for the Imperial Japanese Army to pull them out of the primeval jungle and wipe them out, and now he was too much to fight the Imperial Army in such an open and flat plain! If nothing else, the navy and air force of the Imperial Japan alone were enough to inflict heavy damage on the entire defense line, and the Imperial Japanese Army only needed one or two onboard charges to easily tear through the defense line along the river! ”

Umezu Mijiro nodded and smiled: "That's right, this time we will not only attack the Asian Liberation Army in Burma with a thunderous force, but also blossom from the center and carry out a large-scale roundabout outflanking." While defeating and defeating the main elite of the Asian Liberation Army head-on, cut off their back roads, and eat the 500,000 Asian Liberation Army in one fell swoop! This hateful Huaxia Jiang Qiang, who has made the Great Japanese Empire suffer many losses, will definitely be crushed to death as easily as an ant this time! ”

It's not that Umezu Mijiro hasn't heard of the names and achievements of Jiang Qiang and the Shandong Group Army, but Umezu Mijiro has too many trump cards in his hands to play! So much so that he didn't know why, Umezu Mijiro didn't believe that with such a crushing superior force, he would not be able to defeat the equal number of Burmese troops!