From to 1935 2020

Do you still remember that in October last year, Huang Ke went to Europe to make big purchases on behalf of the Nanjing National Government?

Before going, he told Chang Kaishen that he would donate 100 million US dollars to Chang Kaishen to buy an airplane, and took the opportunity to monopolize the purchase rights of other arms.

Things were bought, but most of them were spent on Chang Kaishen's money.

For one hundred planes ordered by Poland, the engines were purchased in France and the machine guns came from the Czech Republic.Due to the different production speeds, by the end of February 19367, the French and Czechs had already finished production and delivered first.Huang Ke used Chang Kaishen's one million US dollars to pay the French and the Czechs in advance to complete the transaction, and handed over the rest to the Poles to pay for the aircraft manufacturing.

He ordered 150 engines before and after in France, and he arranged for the orderers in France to pick up the goods early, but except for the fifty finished aircraft sent by the Poles, there were only [-] of the remaining [-] engines. It is still used in the hands of the Poles to assemble new aircraft, and all the rest are "missing".The same was the case with the machine guns supplied by the Czechs.

He said he would donate 100 million US dollars for Chang Kaishen, but in fact he only paid an advance payment of 20 US dollars...

The situation is the same for the one hundred 47mm anti-aircraft guns that Chang Kaishen purchased in Italy. Chang Kaishen only received thirty guns.For the remaining [-] doors, the Italians claimed that they had all been delivered in early February, and they had been shipped out long ago, as evidenced by the receipt signed by the Nanjing government.

When the personnel of the military commander investigated after the incident, they couldn't find the whereabouts of the boat.They only found out part of the ship's itinerary: it first received twenty newly built aircraft in Poland, the rest of the engines and machine guns in France and the Czech Republic, and Italy was the last stop, where it received artillery and Swiss-made guns. Diesel engines.

Calculated by time, no matter how slowly the ship goes, it should arrive in China in mid-March at most, but it has not arrived yet...

Regarding the missing ship, the British also came to help investigate, and soon found out that its relevant identity documents were all forged, and there was no record of its passage through the Suez Canal.

"Judging from its appearance and the last identified route, we suspect that this ship should be a Soviet cargo ship, and its final destination is most likely the Black Sea..."

When the British informed Chang Kaishen of the results of the investigation and speculation, Chang Kaishen finally couldn't help it, a mouthful of old blood spewed from his throat, and passed out on the spot.

When he woke up again, he finally remembered one thing.

His name is Huang Yuanxing, but his name is "Ke"!

Combined, it is "Ke Yuanxing"!

A full [-] words were added today!I beg readers to throw out the monthly tickets in their hands

-------------------- Chapter 201 Thank you for the American aid provided by the captain -----------------

In the last chapter, there was a mistake in historical knowledge. I mixed the 1931 two-person Carden Lloyd ultralight tank with the six-person Bren machine gun vehicle developed by the British during World War II. Although the latter is an improved and upgraded version of the former, they are actually two types of cars with great differences.After the Soviet Union obtained the authorization, it produced thousands of vehicles in one go, which were two-person, numbered T27.I have corrected the previous related mistakes.

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"Is this the American aid that Xiao Huang mentioned? Chang Kaishen is really a dedicated transportation captain!"

"Boss, you're wrong. Chang Kaishen should be the captain of the transportation team, and Xiao Pan is the captain of the work team!"

"Chang Kaishen mortgaged his stocks and borrowed 4000 million US dollars in arms loans, and almost all of them are here now."

The three people who spoke were Boss Zhu, the commander in chief of the Huainan Campaign, Peng Shichuan, the commander in chief of the enemy, and Pan Hannian, the general manager of Tianma Company and the No. [-] Communist spy.

When the three of them were communicating, they were standing in a row of more than 20 tanks that had been abandoned because the gasoline was added with brown sugar and the engine was damaged.There is a French-made tank trailer beside it, unloading the last M2 tank pulled back from the battlefield.

During the Battle of Huainan (also known as the Battle of Anhui), a total of 23 tanks of Chang Kaishen’s army were plotted by Pan Hannian. After drinking enough brown sugar gasoline, they broke down on the battlefield halfway and could not move. The victims of brown sugar gasoline included Huang Wei was a senior official of the [-]th Army.At that time, they were trying to break out of the encirclement in tanks burning with "brown sugar gasoline". When the horsepower was fully turned on, the engines of each tank exploded halfway, and the final result was that they entered the prisoner camp collectively.

“常凯申用那4000万美元的军火贷款，总共买了37辆M2坦克，80门M1火炮（75毫米），还有16门155毫米口径的巨炮......”

When Pan Hannian, who had returned to the battlefield, was talking with two Red Army bosses about "repaying the account", Luo Binghui, Yu Tianyun and a group of Red Army generals were gathered at the artillery concentration place not far away, at the sixteen 155mm giant guns he said. In front of the cannon, everyone’s eyes showed a "saliva" expression - these American-made M1917 155mm caliber howitzers, although old cannons, cost as much as 50 US dollars - a cannon is more expensive than an airplane, And the price of one shell is as high as [-] US dollars.This is the first time the Red Army has such a large-caliber cannon.If it weren't for Boss Zhu holding the line here, the group of Red Army generals surrounding the cannon would have fought for their ownership.

Pan Hannian said proudly: "We have worked hard for four months to pull all the shells for these cannons from the warehouse in Nanjing! In Chang Kaishen's hands, only sixteen 75-guns are left in Jiangxi. Wei Lihuang's - but he doesn't have many shells. At the end of last month, I ordered someone to deliberately transport the shells to the wrong place, and they were all transported here. The 75 guns in Wei Lihuang's hand will soon become Scrap."

Pan Hannian reported to Mr. Zhu as if he had endorsed it, and he was very happy.On the day the war started on March [-], not only the air force at Hefei Airport revolted, but also at Nanchang Airport in Jiangxi Province, twenty pilots also flew twenty planes north across the river.After the pilot ran away, the ground staff on the ground also abandoned it with the support of the underground party.The people left, the plane flew, and what was left to Chang Kaishen and Wei Lihuang was the airport warehouse that had been emptied long ago. All the maintenance spare parts had been smuggled and stolen, and there was not even much gasoline left.

The reason why Chang Kaishen simply abandoned him from the air force to the ground staff was the result of the influence of several parties.

First of all, his air force was established by the Northeast Air Force as the backbone.In the past few years, Chang Kaishen's ineffectiveness in the war of resistance had already caused the air force officers and soldiers to alienate themselves. The non-resistance telegram incident that broke out last year made most of the air force pilots from the Northeast feel a knot in their hearts.

Secondly, it is the Red Army that strikes iron itself hard.As a high-tech military unit, although the pilots of the Cannon Party in this period had many old-age problems, their patriotism has passed the test of history. In history, they basically died heroically on the battlefield.The Red Army used the Battle of Bailing Temple to prove to the whole country that it could fight, and at the same time, it used a tough attitude towards Japan to prove that it was really fighting against Japan.After being summoned by the old advocate Xueliang, the group of pilots and ground support went north collectively with a few silver bullets.

According to the policy, the Communist Party strictly prohibits bribery.Naturally, Huang Ke's hands and feet are inseparable from this matter.He paid money, Zhang Xueliang came forward to win him over, and the underground party provided "channels", directly sweeping away Chang Kaishen's air force from equipment to pilots and ground support.

The third point is that Chang Kaishen has suffered successive defeats in the past year, his regime has declined, and his finances have gone bankrupt. He has long been the chairman of the "four provinces".Anyone who can become a pilot is a quick-witted person. Who wants to ruin this reputation and not resist the Chairman?When Chang Kaishen inspected Hefei Airport, he gave the pilot a red envelope of 100 silver dollars, which he thought was too much.But I forgot one thing: since his financial bankruptcy, the pilot is fine, but the ordinary ground staff income is paid in legal currency.Under such circumstances, as soon as the Red Army recruited them for a while, they immediately rolled up their equipment and left without blinking.

Pan Hannian is indeed very proud now. After joining Huang Ke, he has made great achievements in his underground work this year.The plan to empty out Chang Kaishen's family fortune was planned by Huang Ke, but it was implemented by a group of underground party members headed by Pan Hannian.

Pan Hannian looked back and saw that they were in a temporary tank repair yard.Dozens of ground crews from the Soviet Union are commanding the personnel to replace the engine of the tank.The Maozi uncle who took the lead, while turning the screw, scolded someone in Russian for being too prodigal, and ruined such a good engine with brown sugar.

Pan Hannian pointed to a crane converted from an M2 tank with its turret removed. This vehicle was the only tank repair vehicle in China. The vehicle was imported and rebuilt by Huang Ke with existing equipment.The cursing Russian uncle is lifting and replacing the heavy engine with the help of the crane on the car.

Pan Hannian cheerfully said:

"When those M2 tanks were sold, the life of the engine was almost expiring. When we bought the tank, we bought a spare engine, and Chang Kai applied for the money! But I hid the new engine before, and I only took it out now. , Just replace it with a new one."

The removed engine was hoisted in the back of the Dodge truck next to it, which was already full of other replaced engines.In fact, the engine damaged by brown sugar, as long as it is not damaged by a cylinder explosion, is sent to the rear factory for repair. After being treated with steam, it can be repaired soon.These tanks have been used in the U.S. Army for a long time. They were transferred directly from the active forces, and the engine and motorcycle man-hours were almost consumed.What is being replaced now is the spare new engine that was delivered with the car at that time - these new engines were embezzled by Pan Hannian as soon as they got off the ship, and they have not played a real role until now.

The only and biggest achievement of this type of tank in history was achieved by the U.S. Army - during the Great Depression, General Patton drove it to crush the veterans of World War I who were asking for wages in Washington, and achieved a complete victory.

The batch of M2 tanks that the Americans support Chang Kaishen is a dedicated "violent against veterans" type tank with side-by-side double turrets. Both turrets are equipped with 12.7 machine guns. The two turrets limit each other's field of vision and range of fire. , the anti-tank ability is very scumbag (the armor-piercing ability of the M2 Laoganma machine gun is about 2mm).Huang Ke once commented on the car to Pan Hannian: Except the engine and chassis are good, the parts above the neck are rubbish, but the M[-] machine gun is good.The reason why it is said that its chassis is a good product is that the standard crew of this type of tank is four people when it is designed, and the interior space is large. More importantly, its [-]-ton body is equipped with a [-]-horsepower engine.

Before encircling and annihilating the 18th Army, the first thing the Soviet armored commander Lieutenant Colonel Kravchenko did was to order the logistics personnel to transform many of the tanks with good performance into command tanks, and then distribute them to himself and The following commanders are used.

Boss Zhu said: "Now you and Xiao Huang's heads are worth more than me and the chairman! Xiao Huang's head is 100 million, and your head is twice as expensive as mine and the chairman!"

Pan Hannian argued: "It is Lin Changhe whose head is worth 40 yuan, what does it have to do with me, Pan Hannian?"

Everyone laughed together.

After the Battle of Huainan, Chang Kaishen, who had come to his senses, finally realized that Huang Ke was the number one spy by his side, and offered a reward of up to 100 million oceans.And during this period, because Guo Rugui hadn't realized the role of Guo Rugui in the Huainan Campaign, "Lin Changhe" was regarded by him as the "No. After correcting it, Guo Rugui snatched Pan Hannian's No.40 position at a high price of 50 yuan.

Amid laughter, a repaired M2 tank after the engine was replaced, was driven by the driver, and slowly drove to the tank trailer next to it, and then was pulled away.

It has been ten days since the Huainan Campaign ended when the Eighteenth Army was completely wiped out, but the mountains of military supplies seized everywhere have not yet been shipped out.

The hardest people after the war were the Red Army logistics transport convoy, in addition to the tank repair teams aided by the Soviet Union.After taking over the underground party convoy under the leadership of Pan Hannian, the expanded convoy still has endless work to do.

During the entire Huainan campaign, before the war, the Pan Hannian convoy working under Chang Kaishen's banner undertook more than [-]% of the frontline transportation work.In order to win this battle, Chang Kaishen almost dumped all the imported American reinforcements in his own warehouse into the backup warehouse on the front line in Hefei during those five months.

Today, more than [-] trucks are running back and forth on the road connecting Kaifeng and Hefei day and night.A large number of seized materials were transported into Kaifeng, and then transported to the north by railway.The information from the underground party of the Japanese Communist Party can almost confirm that Japan's all-out war of aggression against China will begin in April. All-out war is imminent, and the direction of war will first be Jiangnan.

Originally, the Japanese navy had long planned to start the operation in March, but it was only because of the army's opposition that they made a fool of themselves, so they never launched it.But after the Battle of Huainan, Chang Kaishen's mobile forces in the south of the Yangtze River were completely wiped out, and the troops in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were extremely empty. In the eyes of the Japanese, this was simply a child holding money in the market, and if he didn't make trouble, he would be a national thief in the world.

Once the Japanese army invaded China from the south, the Red Army in the north would not be able to sit idly by, and would inevitably attack in the Tianjin area to contain it, and then the scale of the war would become bigger and bigger.

After the Battle of Huainan, the various units of the Red Army did not rest after participating in the war, and most of the main force withdrew to the north immediately.In the Battle of Huainan, the Red Army captured more than 20 troops of Chang Kaishen. In the past, the captives were quickly captured or released according to the principle of voluntary, but now these captured national troops, the Red Army policy is to simply screen and remove After some soldiers and ruffians were collected and reused as much as possible.

After the Huainan Campaign, the Red Army's weaponry and overall strength have reached a new level.However, the addition of a large number of captive liberation soldiers also slightly lowered the average quality.

While a large number of Red Army troops entered North China by railway or marched directly northward, a large number of cadres entered the rural areas of Anhui and northern Jiangsu at this time. What they were about to do was to start land reform before the Japanese launched a full-scale war of aggression against China.

The good news is that after the Battle of Huainan, more than one-third of the prisoners of war captured by the national army came from Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and many of them were "supplementary soldiers" temporarily captured there.As soon as the land reform weapon was used, these people immediately became the most solid defenders of the Red Army.

At present, the two major problems of the Red Army, one is that the speed of red expansion is too fast. After March 1937, the number of the main force has reached one million, not counting the militia!The second is the lack of cadres.The rapidly expanding territory lacks enough cadres to digest these controlled areas—this is why after the Shanxi Campaign ended, the Red Army did not hesitate to release all captured national army officers and exchange Chang Kaishen for the underground party detained in various places.

Especially in Anhui and northern Jiangsu, the newly occupied land has no time to digest.

"It would be great if we could give us three more months to digest these troops."

Although Boss Zhu was delighted to see the piles of tanks and cannons in front of Pan Hannian, he was actually very anxious.

"But compared to another era, we're off to a good start..."

Whether it is Boss Zhu, Peng Shichuan, or Luo Binghui, who is drooling outside touching the 155mm Schneider cannon, and other Red Army executives know that the next test, which is more difficult than the Long March, is coming soon.

On the other side, Lieutenant Colonel Kravchenko, who successfully participated in the command of the first large-scale air-ground integration after World War I, and multi-arms combined operations, is doing combat in his room with the Soviet army staff officers who participated in the war. After the summary work.

During the Battle of Huainan, a total of more than 300 officers and technicians of the Soviet Red Army participated.More than [-] of them are in charge of logistical maintenance—the logistical support for tanks, airplanes, and cars.The current Red Army seriously lacks technical personnel in this area, tanks, aircraft and even automobiles. Most of the logistical support work for these technical arms is performed by Soviet technicians.

Don't look at the past eight days of battle, the Red Army flew planes in the sky, tanks charged on the ground, and artillery bombarded them, completely suppressing Chang Kaishen.But a unit that no one touched a tank a year and a half ago was upgraded to a quasi-World War II level in an instant. How could it be possible to fight with aircraft and tanks without the support and help of outsiders?

The core skeleton of almost every key department was taught by instructors and technicians from the Soviet Union during this year, and even helped them up by themselves.Elena arrived in the Soviet Union, and after telling Stalin a spoiler, at the end of December of that year, during the window period before the sea off Vladivostok froze, Stalin sent more than 12 military officers and technical experts to China in one go. The Red Army, which is still in the "light infantry era", has been upgraded and barely touched the edge of semi-modernization.

Lieutenant Colonel Kravchenko, who was writing a summary of the battle report in his office, recorded a lot of problems exposed in this battle and his post-war summary in a small book in his hand.

Equipment logistics articles:

"At least fifty to eighty two-ton delivery trucks are needed to ensure logistics in order to maintain an armored brigade's continuous offensive."

"In this battle, not counting the tanks obtained during the wartime uprising, our army had 40 T20s and 2 T[-]s. After eight days of high-intensity fighting, the average marching distance of all tanks on the front and rear tracks was [-] hundred kilometers. At the end of the battle, Only a quarter of the tanks were able to maintain mobile combat status, and most of them were damaged due to mechanical failures."

"The forty legal-made tank trailers equipped by the Chinese comrades are excellent and important equipment. All T71 tanks are pulled to the battlefield with this trailer, which greatly saves motorcycle man-hours and ensures the attendance rate of tanks during wartime. Participating in the war When our tanks attacked south during the battle of annihilating the [-]st Division, the furthest advance distance exceeded [-] kilometers, and when they turned back to chase the [-]th Army, they crossed an intermediate distance of [-] kilometers. If there is no trailer to help transport the tanks during this process , marching purely on the tracks, most of the tanks would break down directly on the marching road. These legal tank trailers played an extremely important role in the battle." - followed by a bunch of suggestions for the Red Army to develop and equip similar products.

"The road conditions in the Huainan area are extremely poor. China's road conditions are not suitable for large-scale equipment of tank troops. Too many rivers and fragile bridges here have also become a great obstacle to the use of mechanized troops. According to the Chinese comrades themselves after the war The result of reflection: amphibious tanks such as the T37 are the most suitable battlefield here. In the first three days of the war, the 10 T37 tanks that participated in the interlude played an excellent role in chasing and besieging the 18th Army. This type of tank Light enough for a Dodge truck to pull."

"The old T27 tanks unexpectedly shined on the battlefield. The main reason is the passability of the river bridges here. In many battlefields, a small river prevents the T27 tanks from passing, and the temporary small wooden bridges cannot support the [-]th. The body weighs a ton. On the contrary, the T[-], which weighs less than three tons in combat, can also move freely.”

"According to intelligence, the enemy has twenty 47mm Italian-made anti-aircraft guns and twelve German 37 guns. In actual combat, a total of eight T26 tanks were destroyed by them, six were repaired after the war, and two caught fire. Afterwards, they burned and exploded, and were permanently damaged. Another 37 tanks were damaged to varying degrees in the battle, but they were all quickly repaired and returned to battle. Afterwards, the destroyed tanks were all the result of the German [-] guns. "( Attached is a detailed report on tank losses)

"Ten Chinese comrades refitted their own T[-] tanks and replaced them with Swiss-made diesel engines. They performed well in battle. One of them was pierced through the engine room continuously from the side. The engine was scrapped and stopped but did not catch fire. The tank has been recycled and shipped back. The Taiyuan tank overhaul factory repaired it, and the Chinese comrades are preparing to carry out similar modifications on the rest of the tanks."

"The Italian 47 gun is not a professional anti-tank gun, and its armor-piercing performance is very poor. It is the same as the domestic test data. It is difficult to penetrate the thickened T26 tank frontal armor from a hundred meters away, but the German-made 37mm anti-tank gun is still The threat is huge."

"The tank maintenance vehicle transformed from the M2 tank brought by the enemy rebels played a very important role in repairing and rescuing our damaged tanks on the battlefield. A total of three tanks were directly repaired on the battlefield. "

"Accidentally none of the T[-] ultralight tanks were damaged, but in actual combat, the fragile side armor of two tanks was pierced by machine guns, but the remaining kinetic energy could not even penetrate the cotton coats worn by the crew."

"Chinese comrades have a very good impression of the T[-] tank, and hope to increase the assistance of this type of tank, and put forward some improvement requirements." (with suggestions for improvement)

"After the battle, our army accidentally acquired four British-made Vickers [-] tanks, which weighed [-] tons. The Chinese comrades hope to make similar improvements to the T[-], adding a rotatable tank to the body. Machine gun tower."

"The anti-infantry jump mine invented by the Chinese comrades played an important role in breaking through the enemy's position and killing infantry."

"After the battle, nearly three-quarters of the tanks on the battlefield lost their mobility due to battle wear and tear. The logistics personnel worked continuously, and it took two days to complete all the repair tasks and restore their combat effectiveness. Now The proportion of maintenance teams in the tank brigade is twice that of the country. This is only a low-intensity war, and it is recommended to increase the number of tank maintenance teams.”

"The legal ten-ton tank trailer has played an extremely important role in the transfer of the battlefield. It is strongly recommended that the Soviets develop similar products."

"The fuel consumption of the mechanized troops was extremely huge, completely exceeding expectations. Fortunately, on the second day of the battle, our army successfully captured the enemy's general logistics base and obtained all the enemy's fuel supplies. And "accidentally" obtained more than 100 enemy Dodge vehicles The addition of truck convoys eliminates the need for logistical considerations in large-scale armor transfers and troop movements."

(Attach a report on the number of logistics trucks required to maintain an armored brigade in high-intensity operations after recalculation)

Tactics:

"During the campaign to wipe out the [-]st Army, facing an enemy army with only eight Italian [-] guns, the armored assault group achieved surprising results. There was no infantry position that could stop the group charge of the tank group, and all the lines of defense were shot at once. wear. However, the most serious problem is still the disconnect between infantry and tanks.”

"This problem was not serious when attacking the 71st Army. Only two tanks were damaged by the 47th artillery, and the two crew members were slightly injured. But when attacking the 18th Army, which has a large number of anti-tank guns, the loss was huge."

"When attacking, our infantry was less than a kilometer away from the enemy's infantry position, and the tanks surpassed the infantry from behind to attack. Even so, the infantry still couldn't keep up with the tanks to attack. Most of the time, the attacking tanks were fighting alone. Lightly equipped T[-] tanks with machine guns have become mobile mobile infantry. But their numbers are still too small.”

"The lesson learned after the battle of annihilating the [-]th Army is that it is very dangerous for tanks to attack a defensive position that is prepared and supported by anti-aircraft guns. It is very dangerous to fight alone. Most of the battle damage of the tanks participating in the battle occurred under such circumstances. The Chinese comrades resolved The solution to this problem is to attach two soldiers to the body of the tank, and carry a submachine gun to charge with the vehicle. Although the effect is very good, the casualties of the soldiers in the vehicle are very high."

"The solution I'm thinking about is whether it is possible to develop an armored vehicle that can attack with tanks and can carry a large number of infantry and charge with tanks?"

"The headset communicator and crystal tube radio equipped the vehicle crew, which played an amazing role in the battle. It not only facilitates the communication between the vehicle crew, but also directly calls the rear artillery to bombard the enemy's hidden artillery position."

"The T26 tanks in active service, even with thicker armor, are still very vulnerable to German 37mm guns. All the armor of the 40 T26 tanks participating in the battle has been changed from riveting to welding, and there are no rivets in the car after being shot. The accident in which the crew was injured by Bengfei. Although a T26 was hit by the 47 gun in actual combat, it did not penetrate but caused the armor seam to burst, but the crew of the vehicle was not injured. "

"The planned ground-guided aerial bombing has mediocre effects, mainly due to insufficient training of pilots and ground cooperation."

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A few days later, Stalin, who was far away in Moscow, received the campaign summary report from Lieutenant Colonel Kravchenko.

After seeing what he wanted in the report, he nodded with ease, and then said to Marshal Yegorov who was sitting opposite:

"I also encountered the problem of separation between infantry and tanks. The group of idiots in the Armored Forces Academy, their solution is to stop the tanks and follow the infantry. This is the idiot's way to solve the problem!"