my bright sword career

Chapter 391 The face is green
Seeing a group of people rushing over, Harry and Gao Si all stood up: "No...McLaren, quickly call those idiots back!"

In fact, before McLaren could make a sound, the faces of the American soldiers who were fighting and the soldiers of the Liantai militia who were fighting also changed drastically when they saw this group of people in black uniforms. At this moment, they all scattered like frightened birds.

People who have watched Western film and television dramas in later generations may have seen a plot. No matter how capable or majestic the American soldiers are, as long as they see a certain type of soldier, they will immediately scatter.

Moreover, when these soldiers saw the soldiers who were fighting and making trouble, they waved their batons and beat people without mercy. Be like a grandson.

These people rushing over are the military police, of course...the names are different in different countries, for example, in the later generations of China, they are not called military police, but military pickets.

But no matter what they are called, as soon as these troops wearing white helmets and white armed belts appear, no matter how brave soldiers and even officers are, they all have to be honest, because the duty of these gendarmes is to maintain military discipline, restrain the behavior of other soldiers, and deal with military affairs. Various criminal incidents, especially military violations of military discipline.

Maybe someone will say, the gendarmes are so dragging, isn't it difficult to be afraid that the big-headed soldiers will get angry and beat them up?

This is really not scary, because the military police represent the dignity and face of the army. When the military police arrest people, whoever dares to resist will be aggravated. If it is serious, you will be shot on the spot and you will have nowhere to complain.

The current situation is the same. By the time the gendarmes arrived, the group of people had already dispersed. Only Tom, who was the first to attack, and the sergeant were arrested by the gendarmes because they were knocked to the ground and could not get up for a while. It's right.

"These bastards!"

Seeing Sergeant Tom being taken away by the military police, Harry, Garth, and McLaren were all relatively speechless. They were not worried about Tom's safety. After all, it was just a fight, and it was not a big deal. At best, they would be shut down for a few days. They will be released, but this matter is hard to say. The dignified soldier of the United States of America was arrested by the military police for fighting when he first came to China. If this news spreads to China, I don’t know how many people will laugh at it.

Harry looked at McLaren: "Why don't you negotiate with the other party's military police and ask them to release him?"

"It's useless." McLaren shook his head: "It's good for those who ran away. As long as this kind of thing is not caught on the spot, it is usually not a big deal, but once it is caught on the spot, there is no person in charge of the military police or the highest authority." The military police will not let people go under the command of the commander.”

After finishing speaking, he specially comforted Harry and said, "Professor, you don't have to worry too much. It's just a trivial matter. You just need to talk to General Gao when you meet him later. I believe he will sell your face."

Harry is so angry, don't I know, do I need you to remind me?What I'm worried about is that this incident will affect the business of coming here.

Just when Harry was feeling upset about the fight, Gao Hongming, Brigadier Chen and Tang Huaiyuan were frowning at the headquarters watching the loss of supplies sent by the staff officers, while the staff officers nearby were discussing together. The simple thing is that there are not enough supplies.

Gao Hongming slapped the table with a slap: "Let's discuss it, can we continue this battle?"

Brigadier Chen looked a little serious, and looked at Chi Yaohui standing behind Gao Hongming: "Chief of Staff, tell everyone about the current situation."

"Ok."

Chi Yaohui took a step forward and said in a loud voice: "Sirs, since the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, our army has achieved a major record of annihilating a brigade, more than 9000 Japanese soldiers, and shooting down more than 300 Japanese planes. It can be said that our army defeated the Japanese army's attempt to quickly capture Zhongtiao Mountain in this battle.

But the problem we have encountered, the biggest problem our army is facing now is the serious shortage of material reserves. At present, the material reserves of our army in Yangping Town have dropped to the lowest point, and it is impossible to continue major battles. Once the Japanese army encounters a large-scale If we counterattack, our army will suffer heavy losses. "

Brigadier Chen waved his hand, "I don't want to listen to this, you just need to tell me how much material is left and how long it can support us to fight."

Chi Yaohui hesitated for a moment before saying: "At present, our army's troops in Zhongtiao Mountain have reached more than 5000 people, but our material reserves are only [-] tons left, which is not enough for us to fight a battle." It was a big battle, so I suggested that we can't fight any more."

"Two thousand and one hundred tons of materials, that is to say, there are still 210 million kilograms of materials. Why is it not enough to fight a big battle?" Tang Huaiyuan was surprised at first, and then said very displeased: "Like our third In the army, on weekdays, a gun with fifty rounds of ammunition and each person carrying ten catties of dry food can last ten days and a half months of fighting with ten catties of supplies.

Now that the average of 210 million kilograms of supplies is almost [-] kilograms per person, why is it not enough for a big battle? "

Although Brigadier Chen didn't speak, he agreed with Tang Huaiyuan's words.

Many staff officers in the headquarters were also talking about it, especially the staff officers of the Eighth Route Army and the Third Army were puzzled by Chi Yaohui's lack of supplies.

Chi Yaohui said helplessly: "Seniors, these days you two only focus on commanding operations, and I'm afraid you don't care much about the consumption of logistics materials. There is a data here in the staff department. After listening to it, you two may understand .

Take our Liantai militia as an example. An infantry squad needs to consume 60 kilograms of supplies a day, with an average of 1 kilograms of supplies per person per day.

That is to say, our Liantai militia consumes 50 tons of materials every day. Once encountering fierce battles, this consumption can even be doubled or even tripled. The consumption of the Third Army and the Eighth Route Army is less, but no matter how small it is per person per day There is still a consumption of two to three kilograms, so it is an ideal result to last for ten days with an average of [-] tons of materials. "

Speaking of this, Chi Yaohui saw that some staff officers were still not convinced, so he continued: "Let me give you another example and you will understand. Everyone knows the weight of the shells used by the M40 155mm self-propelled artillery in our artillery battalion. Is it?"

Without waiting for everyone to speak, he said: "The projectile body alone weighs 43.1 kilograms, and the propellant package weighs 6.83 kilograms, adding up to 49.93 kilograms, or nearly 50 kilograms.

This is still the weight of one shell. Our howitzer battalion has a total of 12 M40 self-propelled artillery. One salvo is 600 kilograms of supplies. Three rounds are fired rapidly, and 1.8 tons of supplies are gone. Have you ever thought about it? , How many shells do the artillery in our artillery battalion fire every day? "

Hearing this, many people secretly calculated in their hearts. It's not like they don't know, and their faces turned green after the calculation.

They suddenly remembered that when the battle was fierce a few days ago, the two artillery battalions fired at least two to three thousand rounds of shells every day, and as many as seven or eight thousand rounds.

Brigadier Chen made some calculations in his heart. Just one artillery battalion fired a volley of 600 kilograms of shells, and ten rounds of salvos would equal 6 tons of shells.

Each cannon would have to fire 50 shells a day at least, which would be 300 tons of supplies.

Thinking of this, Brigadier Chen felt a little tingly in his scalp, feeling that the supplies that he considered a lot just now were only enough for a normal ten-day consumption of an artillery battalion.

This is just an artillery battalion, what about the remaining tens of thousands of troops?

Brigadier Chen, who became more and more frightened as he thought about it, stood up, walked a few steps and looked at Gao Hongming, "Commander Gao, we shot a lot of ammunition before, are these the previous reserves?"

"Yes."

Gao Hongming nodded, "When we came here before, we brought hundreds of large trucks, loaded with more than 6000 tons of supplies, and some were transported by transport plane these days, and this has lasted until now."

"Then now, can we use the transport plane to solve the material problem?" Tang Huaiyuan asked again.

"I can't."

Gao Hongming shook his head: "The material reserves hoarded in Liantai County are also close to exhaustion, and it is no longer possible to continue to provide us with so many materials in the short term."

Tang Huaiyuan wanted to say something, but he noticed that his sleeves were pulled hard a few times. As soon as he turned his head, he saw Chief of Staff Ge Huaiming flirting with him, signaling that he had something to say to him.

A little puzzled, Tang Huairen followed the chief of staff out of the battle hall, and as soon as Tang Huaiyuan came out, he said, "Old Ge, what are you stopping me from doing, we just have to hold on a little longer, the little devil might not be able to hold on anymore, when the first battle zone Another counterattack from the army will leave all these [-] little devils behind in Zhongtiao Mountain, isn’t it halfway to withdraw the troops now?”

Ge Huaiming said helplessly: "Army seat... how smart are you for being so confused for a while, why did we fight here for more than 20 days, it's almost June, why didn't Chief He send troops to counterattack?
Commander He and the people in the First War Zone made it clear that they wanted Commander Gao and the Liantai militia to help them out of the fire. Commander Gao was not stupid. It was enough to do something like this once, so how could it continue?

If you try to persuade him, it might arouse the resentment of Commander Gao. Do you think it's worth it to turn against Commander Gao for the sake of Chief He's own selfishness? "

Tang Huaiyuan was upright and forthright by nature, and he really didn't know much about the dog camp. After hearing what his chief of staff said, he suddenly realized that no matter whether Gao Hongming's words were true or not, at least his attitude of not wanting to continue fighting was true, and that was enough. up.

As for whether the supplies are real or fake, it doesn't matter at all. The important thing is that the third army's daily food and drink are all provided by others. I can't even eat it.

(End of this chapter)