Chapter 384: Yamamoto's Movements
August 1941, Jin Province, Taiyuan
After the Battle of Yuzhong, Yamamoto Kazuki did not continue to stay in the Nakajo Mountains, but hurriedly returned to Taiyuan after giving the command of the front line to Ichiro Hirata, no way, his time was too precious.
In the Nenjiang Plain, a hundred iron and stone wings have begun to be secretly formed, and although they are still in the preparatory stage, there are many things that need to be coordinated.
The original forward base of the Northeast Army needs to be rebuilt, right? Although the forward base built in 1929 was very large, it was only built according to the standard of 200,000 people, not to mention the small scale, and it was still slightly dilapidated, and it was necessary to seize the time to repair and expand.
What is the need for the weapons and materials promised by the old devil of Tojo, he sent people to contact and implement them one by one, 100 infantry wings, 450,000 troops, the amount of weapons and materials needed is absolutely astronomical, especially those consumables such as military uniforms, the warehouses of the Kwantung Army and the Goryeo Army are simply not enough, and they also need to be ordered urgently, which involves issues such as funds and raw materials.
As for the soldiers, it is the best solution, although the cabinet did not approve the construction of the Iron and Stone Wing, but still allowed Yamamoto Kazuki to recruit a hundred soldiers from the Goryeo area, after all, in the first half of the war, the performance of the Goryeo troops was indeed very eye-catching, as long as the order reached the Goryeo area, the Japanese colonial authorities would not hesitate to stuff the required soldiers into the train car, as for the local labor shortage, isn't there still a captured Chinese prisoner of war? Just in the battle of Henan, Shinozuka Yoshio captured 200,000 prisoners of war, and leaving prisoners of war in North China will become a threat, how good it is to throw them directly to Goryeo to work, and when the time comes, one person will send two Goryeo women, then it will be Goryeo.
Then there is the construction of the training system, don't look at the Japanese army has a perfect military mobilization and training system, but that thing is not suitable for rapid training of cannon fodder, so this training still has to be done by the First Army itself, but Yamamoto Kazuki can't give up the training of the puppet army troops under his command, so it takes a lot of adjustments, and finally it is with the help of Yoshio Shinozuka that he gets the instructor he needs.
There is also the 30,000 disabled veterans that Yamamoto Kazuki wanted, and they were recruited again, don't look at these old guys who lack arms and legs, but the fanatical energy is not weaker than the brainless recruits, so even if they clearly know that they are going to act as a death squad, these people still rush over without hesitation.
There is no problem with the will to fight or anything of these people, but it still requires some targeted training for them to fly gliders as death squads, and at the same time, some accessories need to be customized for everyone to facilitate them to control those gliders, of course, this is not troublesome, just a good carpenter can do it, anyway, from the pilot to the glider is disposable, just fool the past.
Considering that their combat area should not be limited to Jin Province in the future, Yamamoto Kazuki did not build too many gliders, but focused on manufacturing key components on gliders, and then stockpiled manufacturing equipment and personnel to ensure that they could quickly start production wherever they went, after all, this kind of glider with wheels made of wood is really not very technical at all.
Considering the limitations of the wooden glider, Yamamoto Kazuki paid more attention to the powered "improvised fighter", with a plywood body, a wooden keel, canvas skin, wings, a low-horsepower aero engine, and a fighter with only a 6.5 mm machine gun and no bomb pylons.
But even if it is such an aircraft, Yamamoto Kazuki can't produce it with all his might, for no other reason, he can't get enough aero engines, and now domestic factories are going all out to produce other equipment, and no one pays attention to the kind of small horsepower engine he needs, forcing him to only collect from combat readiness warehouses and civilian markets everywhere, but even so, he still made thousands of suicide fighters, with a larger number of gliders, forming a powerful strategic deterrent.
In addition to these things, Yamamoto Kazuki was also asked to assist in the construction of another strategic project, and the Japanese government, after determining that the Amur Region had oil resources, quickly approved the construction of an oil pipeline through the provinces of Korea and the three eastern provinces, the purpose of which was self-evident.
Kazuki Yamamoto is in charge of the construction of a section of pipelines in the Nenjiang Plain, and the construction of an oil pipeline is nothing, as long as the manpower, raw materials, and funds can keep up, but this is a top-secret national defense project, and it is necessary to ensure progress and quality, and it is also necessary to keep it strictly confidential.
It's very difficult to keep it secret.,The alliance's agents can be said to be everywhere in the three eastern provinces.,So it's very unrealistic to recruit workers directly from the local area.,Not to mention that it will leak information.,It's enough for the other party to do something.,This is not an ordinary road or anything.,This is an oil pipeline.,That's not a little miss.。
Other areas were directly recruited from Goryeo Province and Bay Province, but Yamamoto Kazuki could not do this, and the recruitment of 450,000 soldiers from Goryeo Province was enough to be excessive, and if he continued to recruit soldiers, he was afraid that it would cause a backlash from the local colonial government, and as for Bay Province, he really had no such relationship.
According to the peace agreement between them and the Eighth Route Army, he could not force the conscription of laborers to go to the north, and if he did, he was afraid that it would probably break the fragile peace of Jin Province.
But you can't stand Yamamoto Kazuki has Qian Bojun to give advice, since there is no way to forcibly expropriate, let's go through the normal process, it is naturally impossible to spend money, but they can use criminals to work and rest, so during this period of time, the puppet government of Jin Province launched a - "100-day battle to crack down on illegal crimes", determined to crack down on illegal and criminal acts in Jin Province.
Bandits, catch! Bully, catch! Buying and selling people, catch! Drug trafficking, catch! Petty theft, catch! All illegal and criminal acts are within the crackdown of the Japanese puppet army, as long as they are caught, they will be sent to the local court as soon as possible, and then they will be sentenced to a minimum of one year of hard labor, so that these people can be sent to the northeast to repair the oil pipeline by Zhengda Guangming.
Of course, this blow is also selective, and the families of those puppet soldiers and hardcore traitors are not within the scope of the blow, which also strengthens the centripetal force of the puppet army and traitors in disguise.
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