The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

July 10, early morning.

Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the First Army of the Northern Expedition Army, was awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps.When the combat staff officer who came to report rushed to the tent, he suddenly straightened up from the folding bed, his bloodshot eyes were fierce, staring fiercely at the person who came, and shouted sharply: "What's the matter, such panic? !"

The little staff officer with a trace of childishness on his face is obviously a newcomer promoted by the fire line. He never expected the commander to be so sharp---he didn't know that Yoshio Shinozuka couldn't sleep at all these days; The Lieutenant General admired his vigilance and professionalism, hurriedly stood at attention and bowed, and replied shortly and forcefully: "Hi! Report to Your Excellency, Commander! There is an urgent call from the front, and the Chinese Army seems to have signs of attacking!"

Shinozuka Yoshio curled his lips disapprovingly, stood up from the folding bed, buttoned his collar with one hand, and hummed: "They show signs of attack every day! Those guys who are scared out of their wits don't know what to do, don't they know that? If you act recklessly, will it seriously affect the morale of the entire army?!"

The little staff officer kept saying hello, as if it was his responsibility, and took off the saber from the side and held it in both hands. Shinozuka Yoshio finished his attire and looked at the mirror with a plastic shell. There was no eye feces and drool on his face Without traces of humans, he rubbed his stiff skins with both hands, put on white gloves, and waved vigorously: "Go! Go to the combat command room!"

After taking two steps, he suddenly stopped, turned around, and looked around at the folding bed with hollow steel pipes on the canvas surface, the plastic mirror, as well as other enamel jars, stainless steel tableware, even towels and soap, and suddenly Sighing, he turned his head and said earnestly to the little staff officer: "Fujii, can you find all kinds of supplies in my house, is there any problem?"

Little staff officer Fujii is his old descendant.Sending them here also means to support and cultivate them in a special way. It is difficult to save face, and Yoshio Shinozuka never forgets to teach by example at any time.

The junior staff officer has just graduated from university not too long ago, and lacks military experience. Although he is very smart, he still doesn't understand much about the "belly art" of the older generation.I looked around the room blankly, frowned for a while, and shook my head in embarrassment: "I'm really sorry! Your Excellency, Commander, I didn't find the problem!"

The place where the Commander lives and the things he uses are all subject to strict scrutiny and layout, and there will never be any mistakes. Asking him like this is just superfluous?

Shinozuka Yoshio sighed sadly: "Hehe. It seems that you, like most people, don't know how much trouble there is!"

He waved his hand and pointed at the things in the room, and said in a low voice: "Count carefully and see how many kinds of things there are here, which are produced in China! How many are from the United States, and how many are from China. at the Imperial Factory."

The bewildered eyes of the little staff officer Fujii suddenly changed.With a clever mind, he realized where the problem was!Don't count them seriously, he has participated in the layout itself.Immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and immediately replied: "Hi! As far as I know, at least...more than [-]% of the things are produced in China! But, this...?"

He thought that the commander was dissatisfied with the extensive use of Chinese products.As a senior Japanese military officer.We should try our best to use domestic products!Are those guys in logistics so audacious enough to take kickbacks from the Chinese?It's outrageous!

Of course, there is another reason, and that is that the things made in China seem to be of better quality and lower prices than those made in the empire, so if you buy them.Compared with the mainland that is often bombed and earthquakes, the cost is much lower!

Shinozuka Yoshio nodded slightly satisfied: "You are right. Think about it, as the army of the empire, we, the elite troops, actually use the goods produced in China, so it is conceivable that their What a huge scale industrial production has! Furthermore, you have to notice that canvas and steel pipes, as well as stainless steel, are all expensive strategic materials, but they are actually used to make folding beds and spoons! Then their overall What terrifying potential does the industrial production capacity have?! Faced with such an enemy, the entire empire has never found a threat, so it is no surprise that they are defeated!"

Little staff officer Fujii was so shocked by these words that he was sweating all over!Well, the lieutenant general also started to complain!If those conservative and irascible guys heard about it, they might cause a lot of trouble!

But it's strange to think about it, how did the Chinese military supplies get to the empire?Could it be that they do not carry out wartime control?Or is it really useless to use too much, and actually get the empire to make extra money?It seems that the yen is no longer available there!

A novice staff officer, after all, he still knows too little.But he didn't know that in the past two years, on the surface, China and Japan have been confronting each other fiercely, but in private, those compradors along the coast have never stopped their smuggling operations.

In the past, those guys cooperated with the Japanese to smuggle tobacco, heroin and other things into China, and they were beaten by Zhu Bin. As Japan became more and more embarrassed, they found that Chinese-made chemicals, military supplies and electronic products were in the market. There is a market outside, so they started smuggling out.

This is not easy to manage, because the Chinese navy has always supported civilian ships in activities outside, and even stepped forward to protect and support them when they were bullied.

The craziest thing is that during the war last year, the company of the Kong family and the Song family in Shanghai alone exported tens of thousands of in-demand supplies to the outside world!Those are all strategic materials assigned to the second war zone, and they were all brought to Japan to be exchanged for gold or US dollars!

So, house thieves are hard to guard against.In order to make money, Lao Jiang's relatives did not dare to do anything.

The efficiency, quality, and quality of the production line trained by Zhu Bin are much higher than those of the Americans. Except for a small part of the army of more than one million in the Second War Zone, Chen Cheng took it to fight the two Japanese divisions that landed, and the rest are idle. Hey, with such a huge amount of supplies distributed, they sold some of them, who would dare to say no?

As a result, these materials came into the hands of the Japanese army.Because of Zhu Bin's continuous bombing, Japan's domestic industry was severely damaged. This large amount of smuggled military products was also transferred to North Korea for storage. Finally, after the Northeast was captured, Japanese industry suffered a severe blow. These hoarded military products came in handy. !

Little staff officer Fujii is quite smart.By drawing inferences from one instance, I understood the meaning of what your Excellency the Lieutenant General said.

From the education he received while studying abroad, we know that the industrial productivity of a country is the potential for war, regardless of the quantity, only the quality of the second-class (or even third-class) munitions smuggled out of China.It can be imagined that its level and production capacity have reached a certain level.

From the analysis of product practicality, Japan is completely left behind in terms of basic equipment design!This is a terrible message, which indicates that the situation in which Japan is unanimously believed that China is still backward and cannot even produce military steel, does not exist at all!Even the spoons are made of stainless steel, and the camp beds are made of steel pipes!It is conceivable that there are other things!

I don't know, I thought it was facing the United States!In the world, except the United States.Who else can use rigid steel so extravagantly!

Japan has only 7000 million citizens, and its steel output has reached a maximum of 1000 million tons. It is almost a waste of iron to support the war consumption on the front line.There are [-] to [-] million people in China, and their total steel output seemed to be less than [-] tons ten years ago? !So how do you make it look like it is now? !

Little staff officer Fujii's head hurts from thinking about it.Shinozuka Yoshio smiled lightly, and it was enough to achieve the purpose of educating the younger generation. He was really afraid that his subordinates would be like those arrogant guys who still live in fantasy.I don't know that the enemy on the opposite side has been armed to the teeth, so I can't underestimate it anymore!

It's sad to think about it. More than 100 million troops were wiped out in the Northeast, millions of people were driven back to North Korea, and the mainland was tossed and half disabled. There are still a large number of people in the army clamoring to destroy the Chinese and occupy China!Are they unwilling to face reality?

Of course, what is reality in the end, and how much strength China has now.Even the steel output and the quantity of equipment, relying on the pro-Japanese elements of the Republic of China government, can't come up with a reliable figure.

With mixed emotions, Lieutenant General Shinozuka Yoshio walked quickly into the temporary headquarters not far away.

It was a folding tent with an army green double canvas surface.Inflated to insulate and keep warm, it also stays with buckle straps for camouflage.It is also very convenient to use. As long as a few soldiers pull the ropes on the edge, and quickly pull around the steel pipe in the middle, a spacious space of hundreds of square meters can be opened, with windows for ventilation, buried wires and lights, and presets. sockets, fast wiring inside and outside, it takes less than 10 minutes to set up a convenient and stealth command post.

Well, no need to ask, this thing is also smuggled from China.It is said that there is also a type that can be directly loaded with a heavy truck, with its own generator and air conditioner, as well as a coffee machine, a telecommunications station, and a bunch of other facilities inside. It can be used anywhere the car can drive, which is more advanced and convenient. .

But it's a pity that those vehicles are all assigned to division-level commanders, and there is a fixed number of people, and there is no extra for smuggling.

Your Excellency Lieutenant General feels aggrieved when he thinks about it. The equipment of millions of Chinese troops has reached this level, and it is really difficult to deal with.

Speaking of this temporary headquarters, he has no choice.The base camp uniformly requested that, given that the Chinese military can easily intercept and decipher radio signals, a headquarters that is too fixed can easily be detected and attacked suddenly.

Therefore, it is required that the headquarters above the regiment captain must be mobile, camouflaged, and must not stay in one place for too long.Needless to say, Yoshio Shinozuka was assigned such a thing, but he was much more comfortable than other guys who used domestic tents.It's October, and the temperature in northern North Korea has begun to drop sharply. It's even colder in the barren mountains, and a thin layer of canvas can't hold it back!

"Your Excellency, Commander, here!" The guard stopped shouting, and everyone in the tent stood up and bowed their heads in unison.

Shinozuka Yoshio gave the order to take a break with a serious face, and then walked to the central table and asked the chief officer on duty: "What's the specific situation?! Is the Chinese army simply probing, or has it already started attacking?!"

Da Zuo also stared at the red rabbit eyes, pushed aside the combat map casually, pointed to the Xin'andong area by the Yalu River and said: "According to the report of the No.30 Sixth Division stationed here, traces of Chinese airborne troops were found in this area. !According to the combat strategy analyzed by the General Staff Headquarters, it should be that they sent a special unit to attack our river defense fortress and clear the passage for the troops crossing the river!"

"Xin'an Cave?"

Yoshio Shinozuka then turned his head to look at the military deployment map hanging on the wall of the tent, frowned and pondered: "This place has neither a road leading to the inland, nor a particularly large city and military force, so they chose to make a surprise attack. It doesn't seem to be of much use!"

Before Da Zuo could explain, a bald head came over with a cold wind, and said in a hoarse voice: "No! Our opinion is that the Chinese army chose to break through there, very cunning and insidious! Once Jiang Fang fails there, it may give us Cause big trouble!"

If the Zhang brothers are here.The hospital will definitely recognize this short, bald man. It is indeed Takashi Tanaka who has failed to plot against Zhu Bin many times!

This ambitious intelligence chief worked hard over and over again, encouraging Jin Bihui to seduce Zhu Bin, and arranging a large-scale raid. All of them lost troops and ended in failure. Finally, because of Kenji Doihara's defeat, he was kicked out of the secret service along with him department.

But he didn't give up on his fate, and he didn't know who left.He continued to work his way up in the army, and finally, when the Kwantung Army's elite was completely lost, a large number of veterans who had been deposed and marginalized were used. He then climbed up again, and even became the chief of staff of the First Army position.

Of course, there is also a reason why he can be called the candidate who "knows Zhu Bin best". If it weren't for the fact that he didn't have any meritorious service before, he might be able to enter the staff headquarters and get a good job.

It's not too bad now.He believes that as long as he is good enough in the counterattack.It is not impossible to get into the top ranks during the promotion.

Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka trusted the chief of staff and didn't care if his opinion was refuted. He said in surprise, "Oh? What's your opinion, Mr. Tanaka? Please speak freely!"

Takashi Tanaka was also polite, and wiped the oily sweat from his forehead with a handkerchief, without even looking at the map.Confidently said: "I think that the Chinese army's attack on such a remote place, in addition to destroying the river defense fortress set up by our army, it is also necessary to build bridges across the river in places we think are insignificant. Let it have an amphibious attack The capable troops went down the river, raided Qingcheng, Yujiang, and even attacked Yizhou! Once these places are taken, they can completely avoid the heavy troops in front of Sinuiju, attack from three sides, and completely destroy our defense line!"

"Amphibious Force?!"

Shinozuka Yoshio didn't quite understand it, but after thinking about it, he understood the general meaning, and his face suddenly became darker.

"Hmm! If that's the case, it's going to be troublesome! Then speaking of it, we must do our best to wipe out the Chinese paratroopers who came in?"

Longji Tanaka nodded affirmatively: "It must be like this! Don't give them any chance to show off! Otherwise, once they gain a foothold, it will be very difficult for us to come back more because of the complex terrain in that area!"

Not only is it difficult, it is simply troublesome!That area, except for the river bank, is surrounded by densely packed hills with ups and downs, and there is not even a flat land to be found.Although the Chinese side couldn't overwhelm the border with a large army, the Japanese army also couldn't deploy too many soldiers there.

Moreover, the waterway there passes through a sharp "several" loop in front of it. The water flow is weird, and it is very difficult to swim or build a pontoon bridge. According to common sense, it will not become the main direction of attack.

If the Chinese side chooses to make a surprise attack here, it is in line with the concept of "Qi Zheng complement each other" in the art of war, and it is also very opposite to the Japanese's consistent strategy.If it were them, if they had the conditions, they would naturally do the same!

"Hey! The Chinese army is indeed very cunning!" Shinozuka Yoshio believed in Tanaka Takashi's judgment.

In the entire defense area along the river, the most suitable place to deploy heavy troops is nothing more than the area from Uiju to Sinuiju, and further down is the wide estuary sandbar and swampy reeds, which is difficult to march; otherwise it is the upper reaches of the Jilin border area, It's not as convenient as here where you can travel by land and water.

Yoshio Shinozuka slapped the table heavily, and made a decisive decision: "Okay! Immediately send a telegram to the headquarters of the 36th Division to kill the Chinese paratroopers with all their strength! In addition, we will also give them more troops and weapons in the form of airborne reinforcements. Be sure to completely crush this attack!"

Takashi Tanaka readily agreed, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice, well, it seems that he has made a contribution, and it's just around the corner!

At the same time, in a lush dense forest on the northwest river bank of Xin'an Cave, Li Hanfeng and a small team of special combat elites, leading a large group of anti-Japanese elites, dressed in regular army uniforms, walked along the undulating road with their waists bent and panting heavily. The mountain ran wildly all the way!

Behind them, there are at least 200 Japanese soldiers, impressively carrying American M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles and Thompson submachine guns in their hands, leading wolf dogs, and spreading out a loose search area with a width of one kilometer. Can't give up!

Turning over a bare mountain, skillfully laying a few booby traps in the crevices of the inconspicuous rocks, Li Hanfeng hid himself behind a boulder and cursed: "His grandma's American devils even equipped all the Japanese devils The best weapon! The firepower has been increased several times, and the original tactics are not working!"

"That's right! We made this mission simple! It seems that the little devil is really anxious, and he dare not take the slightest risk. Usually, when we deal with dozens of us, we will send a squadron if we die. This time, how do they look like they have a big team pulling out!"

A company commander who cooperated was so tired that he couldn't speak fluently.

Li Hanfeng narrowed his eyes, looked at the steel helmets piled up two kilometers away, bared his teeth and said, "That's fine! Isn't it more convenient for your brigade to attack Shuozhou?" (To be continued...)