August 10, 1941, Wuhan, the military headquarters of the New First Army

"It's just that the benefits are not enough, as long as you give enough, nothing is a problem." Wang Yue said indifferently, whether it is the provisional 68th Division or the new 1st Army, has it not been established? The bottom line of the CMC is never static.

"Let's do this, at least my face is not enough, the artillery brigade of our new First Army is still a black household!" Li Yunlong said with a humble heart, the Military Commission has given the New First Army only four divisions, and the other special forces units are basically at the battalion and regiment level.

"You ask Comrade Hu Bicheng to talk to the highest authorities, whether it is funds, materials, weapons, as long as the government needs them, I can give them to them, believe me, everything can be discussed." Wang Yue smiled, what is the expansion of the New First Army, the Eighth Route Army in North China is almost one million, and the highest authorities still pinch their noses and admit it, as long as the New First Army can take care of the face of the Military Commission and the highest authorities.

"Brother Wang, how much do you want to expand the new army?" Li Yunlong said curiously, the new First Army is now only a reputation, the backbone of the four divisions is still the provisional 68th Division, ammunition reserves are in short supply, heavy weapons wear and tear is serious, except for self-produced weapons, the new First Army is now short of everything.

"I want to strengthen four infantry divisions into motorized divisions, add a tank division, a heavy artillery brigade, a boat bridge brigade, a paratrooper regiment, an army flying regiment, and if possible, I also want to strengthen your marine police force." Wang Yue said while thinking about it, his dumb system made his own time and space become the time and space of "Raiders of the Lost Ark", he was very worried about what uncontrollable situation would appear on his body, so he thought about making some follow-up arrangements in the time and space of the bright sword, the most important thing here is Li Yunlong's goods, he doesn't want Li Yunlong, who is the son of air luck at this time, to become more and more poor.

"Such a large establishment? How much does that cost? Li Yunlong said with some trepidations, he didn't think anything when he was temporarily organized to look at the 68th Division, but after the troops were expanded into the new First Army, what he was most worried about was that the military spending was insufficient, and it was seriously insufficient, and if there was no arms trade in Qijiang Special City, I am afraid that the New First Army would have already dispersed.

"It doesn't matter if you have money or not, we're not bad for money now! How much you want! Wang Yue remembered the large pile of foreign exchange in his space and said very proudly.

"I know that Brother Wang, you are not short of money, but the Eighth Route Army can't always take your things for nothing, right?" Li Yunlong hurriedly shook his head, after the value of the border area bill stabilized, the border bank issued a lot of bonds, which were used as temporary collateral to offset Wang Yue, and Wang Yue's purchase of things from the Eighth Route Army also needed to be settled with the border area bill, which finally made the transaction between the two sides formalized.

However, the number of bonds issued by the banks in the border areas has always been strictly controlled, and it does not mean that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army or northern Shaanxi can issue as many bonds as they want, after all, the border area bills are responsible to the vast number of users, which is strictly different from legal tender.

"It's okay, we can increase the purchase price of goods, just like silver coins and copper coins, which can increase in price." The corners of Wang Yue's mouth unconsciously raised.

"Still going up? If the price rises again, the northern Shaanxi side will criticize our Eighth Route Army headquarters again. Li Yunlong said with some concern.

"Don't worry, I'll convince Comrade Hu Bicheng, you just wait for the expansion of the new First Army." Wang Yue said very confidently.

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In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Yue met Comrade Hu Bicheng, whom he had admired for a long time, at the Wuhan Eighth Office, and the two sides held closed-door talks in the underground air-raid shelter of the Eighth Office, which lasted more than two hours.

On 11 August, Comrade Li personally arrived in Wuhan and secretly went to Luojia Mountain to meet with the supreme authorities, who, after friendly and pleasant consultations between the two sides, approved the plan for the expansion of the New First Army with great pleasure.

The establishment of the new First Army after the expansion is as follows:

Provisional 68th Division (Division Commander Ding Wei)

Provisional 69th Division (Division Commander Kong Jie)

Provisional 70th Division (Division Commander Xie Jinyuan)

Provisional 71st Division (Division Commander Qiu Qingquan)

The 1st Tank Division (Division Commander Zhang Zhonglin)

The 10th Artillery Brigade (Brigade Commander Zhang Dabiao)

The First Brigade of Zhouqiao (Brigade Commander Shen Quan)

The 2nd Paratrooper Regiment (Regiment Commander Cheng Shifa)

The 1st Army Aviation Regiment (Commander Chen Zhigang)

Each of the motorized divisions of the reinforced New First Army is equipped with a tank regiment with 60 T34 tanks, and all future military operations will be carried out with the tank regiment as the core, with artillery and motorized infantry operations.

Compared with the configuration of the Hans Tank Division, the tank division of the new First Army will take 240 T34 tanks as the core of the battle, strengthen the ability to cross obstacles and deliver them, and cooperate with the highway along the river that is being built, so that it can basically achieve the ability to enter the battlefield on the north bank of the Jiujiang River from Wuhan in one day.

In terms of artillery brigades, all the original B-4 M1931 203 mm heavy howitzers of the New First Army were handed over to the Military Commission, while Wang Yue provided 24 B-4 M1931 203 mm heavy howitzers with new barrels

But it's only an anti-primary antibody, you must know that the B-4 M1931 203mm heavy howitzer has a concrete barrier-breaking bomb specially prepared for the Japanese, and the arrangement is clear.

At present, the Japanese are strengthening the defense of the Jiujiang-Jinling line, even if there are heavy troops who want to break through to Jinling, it is not so easy, and the Japanese Navy has made targeted preparations for anti-amphibious landings, so Wang Yue wanted to give the Japanese a ruthless blow, directly inserted into the Japanese Jiangbei, where the Japanese defense was lax, and then relied on the Zhouqiao troops to cross the Yangtze River, which is so long along the Yangtze River, the Japanese have limited troops, and they cannot do a strict blockade at all.

As for the parachute regiment, it is a training unit, in order to be able to form this paratrooper regiment, Wang Yueke also provided the air force with the equipment of the parachute regiment, but not only the equipment of the combat troops, just the C-47 transport plane of the umbrella company provided 100 units, one plane 200,000 oceans, 100 planes is 20 million oceans, plus other equipment, the highest authorities were shocked by the Eighth Route Army's generosity, but also adjusted some of their own ideas.

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