August 21st.

The first day of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments.

Early morning.

Beijing Review,

Command of the North China Front.

"Three months to go."

Looking at the expected analysis report that the staff officer in front of him rushed to work overnight, Tada Jun breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the Eighth Route Army was equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft machine guns, it also attacked the Baoding airfield, destroying a large amount of aviation fuel and aviation ammunition, resulting in a serious setback to the bombing plan.

But this loss was borne by the locust army.

Isn't it just the loss of some planes and supplies?

Although the industrial capacity of the empire was inferior to that of Britain and the United States, it was not comparable to that of the Tubalu, which was supported by foreign aid.

The rise of imperial losses.

With the gradual acceleration of the industrial machinery of the empire, the situation is still gradually improving, and it is gradually on the right track.

Three months later,

That is, November 20th,

The troops and materials for domestic support can all be in place.

When the time comes, he will be able to send three full-fledged divisions, two artillery brigades, two armored wings, two aviation brigades, etc., with a total of 120,000 locust troops, to attack the Taiyue Mountains, destroy the Taiyue base area of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, and completely occupy it.

When the time comes, no matter who is supporting the forces of the Tsuchihachi,

How advanced the technology is.

In the face of the absolute superiority of the empire's forces, they are all mantis arms as a car.

"Since you only dare to hide behind your back, it means that you are not afraid."

Tada is confident in his guess.

Although I don't know why the weapons and equipment obtained by the earth are so advanced, and the manufacturing process is far beyond that of the empire.

But since the supporters behind Tubalu only dare to hide behind them quietly, they must be conspirators who should not dare to show their faces in public, and any conspiracy is no match for absolute strength.

Afraid of the Empire?

Afraid of other world powers?

Tada didn't know the reason and couldn't guess.

But this is also the key to him, as well as the General Staff Department, and the Devil's Base Camp judging that supporting the Tubalu forces has no final impact on the imperial strategy.

"Bounty on Imperial officers?"

"Hmph."

Tada Jun snorted coldly.

···

"In the southern Hebei region, Tuba Road is still putting grain into the market!"

"The silver dollars that are put into the market every day have not diminished in the slightest."

Meanwhile.

Stone Gate.

The devil is in charge of the economic war against North China, and Suzuki Fanji frowned deeply.

He sensed something was wrong.

The Eighth Route Army still had food to explain.

Although I don't know, how the forces supporting the Eighth Route Army transported such a huge amount of grain, as many as hundreds of thousands of tons, to the Taiyue Mountains, which are thousands of kilometers away from the coastline.

But for the world,

This little bit of food is nothing!

It's just a few hundred thousand tons,

The empire received millions of tons of grain in Southeast Asia every year.

After the full-scale war, the empire obtained millions of tons of grain from the Republic of China every year.

The empire consumed tens of millions of tons of grain every year.

The United States, the country with the strongest economy and the most powerful industry in the world, is also the most powerful agricultural country in the world, which can produce more than 100 million tons of grain every year.

Hundreds of thousands of tons,

To the world, it's a drizzle.

But silver dollars are different.

The silver dollar taken out by the Eighth Route Army was ninety percent and five cents of silver.

One silver dollar, containing twenty-two .6 grams of silver.

Beginning in May, the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei put a minimum of 150,000 pieces of cash into the market every day, and the highest time. Even 300,000 per day is ninety and a half percent of a silver dollar.

To this day,

August 21,

In the southern Hebei region alone, the silver dollars put on the market by the Eighth Road were as high as 20 million silver.

That's four hundred and fifty-two tons of silver.

That's not a lot either.

Not to mention the United States, the old empire of Great Britain, even the empire, it is not difficult to take out this silver, and it is naturally very easy to support the forces behind the Tubalu and take out this silver.

After all, the other party's industrial technology capabilities are very strong and strong.

But it is not only the southern Hebei base that has put silver dollars on the market.

Other base areas, such as Taiyue, Taihang, Wutaishan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Luliangshan, and other areas, are also releasing silver to stabilize the value of their so-called border coins.

It's just that the silver dollar in southern Hebei is the largest and most stable.

He has calculated that the Eighth Route Army's North China region, as well as the Shaanxi and Gansu regions, has an average of 500,000 silver per day.

In more than three months, more than 50 million silver dollars have been put on the market.

50,000,000 silver dollars,

Not much.

That's roughly equivalent to 100 million Imperial Coins.

Twenty-five million dollars.

A capital ship of the Empire is also more expensive than this.

But!

What made Suzuki feel that something was wrong.

The fifty million silver dollars were all cash silver.

Moreover, most, if not most, of these fifty million silver dollars were collected by the economic departments under his jurisdiction, as well as by their departments, and then put them into the international market and sold to the United States.

Whoever can take out fifty million pieces of silver,

Equivalent to a thousand tons of silver.

It's not that the empire can't take it out.

$25 million only.

The impact on the international market is also minimal.

But Tsuchibachi Road is still consuming silver dollars at a rate of more than 500,000 silver dollars a day, which makes Suzuki feel a faint chill in his heart.

No...

The forces behind the Dirt Eight Road, the silver dollars they have, can really leverage the world market, right?

No way!

Suzuki felt a chill run down his spine.

Once the people behind the dirt eight roads have enough economic strength to provide sufficient hard currency support, such as hundreds of millions of silver dollars, so as to force the United States to pull down the price of silver in the world.

Then the locust army will probably suffer a big loss economically.

···

Sha Hollow Stronghold.

"This is the new weapon?"

The commander of the third battalion of the new second regiment, as well as several company commanders, stared at the cannon with wide eyes, like curious babies.

"The caliber is not big!"

At first glance, everyone was a little disappointed.

The superweapon that the regiment commander swore was pinned on high hopes, and it was even positioned as the decisive weapon that decided the attack on the Shawa stronghold this time, and it was actually such a small-caliber artillery.

It looks like it's only...

"It should be seventy-five millimeters."

Some speculate.

Training in a military school for half a year is not a dry meal.

"Seventy-five millimeters, this thing can penetrate the Devil's Fortress?"

"The sand recess stronghold, but it's a reinforced concrete structure."

"Not necessarily."

"Look at the barrel of this cannon."

Only then did everyone notice that although the caliber of the gun in front of them was only about 75 millimeters, the barrel was very long, and the base was also very large.

"This base."

"It's as big as a normal 105 gun!"

"If you look at the shells, the shells are much larger than ordinary 75mm guns, about the same as 105 guns."

After half a year of training in a military school, I received book knowledge from the system, although the time was short, but the training still had a very good military vision.

"Isn't this thing just a 75mm warhead for the 105 shell?"

Slowly, everyone realized the core of this cannon. (End of chapter)