In just a few days, Hu Shoushan buried more than 300,000 elite troops of the national army, although there are still more than 70,000 troops around Zhongxian, but the highest authorities are no longer willing to believe that the other party can stop the 11th army, what does it rely on? Looking at the more than 50,000 lost dogs? Or rely on the 48 doors and 75 ladies in the hands of the Zhongxian garrison?

It was not until this time that the highest authorities found out that there were really not many troops in his hands who could mobilize to guard the mountain city, a huge mountain city, there were only 100,000 troops left, and half of the Sichuan army troops here were still poorly equipped, even if he transferred all these troops to Zhongxian, he could not stop the Japanese army, you must know that the 300,000 Japanese puppet army has been fully reequipped with the help of the six theaters, and the weapons and equipment are not weaker than the elite troops in his hands.

Moreover, the training of the Japanese army is superior to its own, the heavy firepower is also stronger than its own, and there are absolutely superior naval forces to help the war, if it were not for the large-scale minelaying of mines in the Yangtze River channel by the Yamashiro Navy regardless of the recklessness, I am afraid that the Japanese Navy would have killed the Yamashiro Castle at this time, but if it is just a mine, how long can it resist?

The Navy Command is already organizing student death squads, all torpedo boat units are being urgently overhauled, small ships with slightly higher speed are also being refitted, torpedoes, mines, explosives, as long as they can be used, as long as the Japanese fleet reaches the waters of Yamashiro, the Navy will not hesitate to pounce on the Combined Fleet with the last bone blood, just like those predecessors half a century ago.

On March 21, the Japanese army entered the city of Zhongxian, because it was a hasty change of clothing, so the offensive of the devils was more of a small-scale exercise, but that's it, the defenders of Zhongxian County lost more than 5,000 people in just one day, and in the face of the huge artillery group of the devils, the defenders had almost no countermeasures except for being bombed.

On the same day, a large-scale melee broke out between the two countries' aircraft groups in the airspace of Zhongxian County, compared with the last time, the scale of today's air battle is obviously much smaller, the number of aircraft groups on both sides is more than 200 planes, but the quality of the national army has obviously dropped a lot, just like Gui's biplane fighters are obviously a lot more, before the change, the air force will rarely use this thing to fight for air supremacy, but now? It is said that the Air Force has already placed additional orders for Liuzhou.

88:56, just two hours, the two sides invariably withdrew to lick their wounds, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Yamashiro Air Force is afraid that it will not last long, and another large-scale battle can bring the Yamashiro Air Force back to its original form.

In the past few days, the national army has been attacking and harassing the supply lines of the Japanese army, almost cutting off the supply lines of the devils to Yichang, and the highest authorities also think that the devils may accept it when they see it, after all, the devils are on the front line with 300,000 Japanese puppet troops, and the daily consumption is very terrifying, and it is impossible to continue the war without supplies.

But the headquarters didn't expect that Anan Wei would come out and change clothes on the spot, redress and capture equipment for his 300,000 troops, and then use the captured materials to continue to advance, without the slightest intention of stopping, just slowing down the pace of the attack and letting the troops take turns to rest, but everyone knows that the Japanese army is accumulating strength for the general attack on the mountain city.

On 22 March, the supreme authorities, who had nothing to do, met with Comrade Hu Bicheng, and after a simple consultation, General Li Yunlong, commander of the 68th Division, was appointed commander of the newly organized First Army of the National Revolutionary Army and deputy commander-in-chief of the Sixth Theater.

The so-called new First Army has a provisional 68th Division, a provisional 69th Division, a provisional 70th Division, and a provisional 71st Division.

Among them, the provisional 68th Division supplemented some recruits on the basis of the original personnel and expanded to personnel, and the division commander was Ding Wei, the colonel and deputy division commander of the original provisional 68th Division, and was promoted to the rank of major general.

The provisional 69th Division is based on the 12 infantry regiments mobilized in Qijiang County, supplemented by some retired Sichuan troops, and the personnel and establishment are the same as the provisional 68th Division, and the division commander is Kong Jie, the original commander of the 1001st Provisional Regiment, with the rank of major general.

The 70th Division was provisionally reorganized, with Lieutenant General Zhang Zhonglin, commander of the 58th Division, who was recuperating in Shancheng, as the division commander, and the wounded officers and men mobilized from various hospitals as the backbone, supplemented by a small number of new recruits.

The provisional 71st Division was composed of military police and police officers from Shancheng, and the division commander was Major General Qiu Qingquan, former counselor of the Military Commission's chamberlain.

The four divisions of the first type, the newly formed army of more than 60,000 people, still occupy the number of the First Army, which shows that the highest authorities have great hopes for this unit, but in fact, the so-called new first county, including Li Yunlong's provisional 68th Division, are all units that have never experienced a major war, and in fact no one knows what the combat effectiveness is.

The previous successive wars also exhausted the large amount of materials hoarded by the Ministry of Military Affairs in the mountain city, and it was not a big problem to equip tens of thousands of troops, but the ammunition could not be replenished in a short period of time, especially when the Japanese army blocked the external traffic of the mountain city, the production of the arsenal was intermittent, where was there so much ammunition to replenish Li Yunlong.

Even the weapons of these divisions are not very good, there are more than a dozen caliber rifles, seven or eight calibers of machine guns, 75 mm mountain artillery needs shells of all calibers, 117 mm guns have less than ten shells per gun, and no matter how large caliber artillery there is not a single one.

Just when Li Yunlong was about to forcibly lead the army to set off, Wang Yue, who had finished doing things in Changi Military Port, flashed over, there was no way, it was too uncomfortable to rely on eating raw fish to replenish energy, he needed to find a place to recuperate for a few days, and he didn't want to encounter this as soon as he came over.

Wang Yue had already secretly gotten a large number of weapons from Libi to this side and kept them secretly, so even if he didn't return to Libi, he could still support Li Yunlong, and it didn't matter if he could pay on the spot at a critical moment, but it was not without cost to allow the other party to delay payment, and after exchanging views with the highest authorities and northern Shaanxi, an agreement was quickly reached.

One. The Shancheng government promised to pay off the goods in kind + cash within half a year after receiving the goods.

Two. Northern Shaanxi provided a guarantee for the security of the funds in this transaction.

Three. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the Shancheng government and the northern Shaanxi side will send Li Yonglong to lead the newly formed First Army to be stationed in Japan for a period of 30 years.

Four. The Umbrella Company promised to provide a batch of weapons to the Yamashiro government within 24 hours, as follows:

1. Soviet-made M1910 type 122-mm howitzers, 400 units.

2. Soviet-made M1910 type 122-mm howitzer shells, 100,000 rounds.

3. Italian-made M1934 75mm mountain guns 7 pieces.

4. Italian-made M1934 75mm mountain artillery shells.

5.4 B-4 Type M1931 203-mm heavy howitzers 24 pieces.

6.10,000 rounds of B-4 M1931 Type 203-mm grenade.

7. 160 F-10 Type 1902/30 76.2mm field guns.

8. 20,000 rounds of F-10 Type 1902/30 76.2mm field artillery shells.

9. French M1937 50mm grenade launcher 5898 units.

10. 20,000 Italian-made Carcano M1891 rifles.

11. 1.5 million rounds of Italian-made 6.5mm bullets.

12. Mosin Nagant rifle M1891 rifle.

13. Dzhegalev DP28 light machine guns 6690 units.

14. Maxim heavy machine guns 6409 pieces

15.7.62mm rifle cartridges of 100 million rounds.

16. Soviet-made M1938 120mm mortars 103.

17. Soviet-made 120mm mortar shells 9000 rounds.

18. 2 million high-explosive grenades with wooden handles.

38 amphibious reconnaissance tanks 69 units.

20. Valentin infantry tanks 240 units.

21.10 bA-160 armored cars

22. 700 37mm flat-fire infantry guns of the Taisho 11th year.

23. 50,000 rounds of 37mm flat-fire infantry artillery shells of the Taisho 11th year.

24. 100 umbrella-made training aircraft.

25. American-made P-39 fighters 200 units.

26. 100 American-made B-25 bombers.

With these weapons, the highest authorities can not only equip the newly formed First Army, but also quickly arm a group of new soldiers, so that the defense of the mountain city will not be "naked".

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