From to 1935 2020

The cost of a Vik tank is actually more than 6 times that of the No. [-] tank.Even taking into account the export price of arms, the discount is three times.

I feel that there is a big problem with the cost of the No. [-] and No. [-] tanks on the Internet.

Another thing that makes me question the online cost of the No. [-] and No. [-] tanks is that.

During World War II, the cost of a brand new Laoganma M2 machine gun was $1200.A German-made heavy machine gun costs about five or six hundred dollars.

There are two machine guns on a No. 1 tank, which add up to almost $1000, that is to say, the chassis of a No. 1 tank only costs five hundred dollars?

Even if the No. 1 tank is a tractor, with [-]mm of armor, the chassis price of [-] US dollars feels a bit unreasonable.

So here, I want to discuss with you.How much does the No. [-] tank cost?Another problem is that the US$[-] cost of the No. [-] Tank is too cheap compared to Vickers' export price of US$[-].I think the real cost of the No. [-] tank should be [-]-[-] to be more credible.

So I'm here to throw bricks and jade, and ask military fans and book friends for their opinions.

-------------------- Chapter 205 The Last Window Period --------------------

"I never imagined that it would be so easy to win Jinhua."

"That's because Chang Kaishen's people have become weaker. The dignified Central Regular Army is actually using such an old Jiulianzhu. This gun is probably older than me."

In Jinhua, which had just been liberated, Ye Hu said while checking the gun in his hand.He is holding "Nine Links", another scientific name is Mauser 18/84, which uses 11mm round bullets.Ye Huo glanced at the rifling of the barrel. Due to the long time of use, the rifling of the barrel was almost polished.

Liao Zhengguo, his subordinate, picked up another old-fashioned blunderbuss, inserted his index finger into it and probed, and the entire tip of his index finger was inserted easily.He carefully looked at the production date inscription on the body of the gun, and said with a smile, "This gun may be older than my father! Chang Kaishen was so downcast that he even used such a rotten gun."

In the second half of 1936, with Fang Zhimin's return to the army, the central government announced the establishment of the Southern Military Region, based on the Suyu guerrillas who were active in southwestern Zhejiang and southern Fujian, and rebuilt the Red Ten Army.

After receiving the authorization from the central government, all the Red Army units that had been insisting on guerrilla warfare in the three provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Fujian were all placed under the unified command of the Red Tenth Army.

As for the two famous figures of the New Fourth Army in history: Xiang Ying and the future Marshal Chen, they were recalled to the central government at the end of 1936 and are currently leading a new team in the Anwei area of ​​Jiangbei—the reason for this arrangement is partly because Military reasons, but more political factors.

With the gradual collapse of Chang Kaishen's rule in Fujian and the continuous receipt of foreign military aid, at the end of the Jinhua Battle, the number of regular troops of the Red Ten Army had exceeded 6.The army was expanded fourfold within a year, and there were also a similar number of local militia reserve units.

"Don't get too excited. The most powerful enemy, the Japanese devils, is coming soon. They are not Chang Kaishen's useless troops. Lin Husan set up a pocket array in the Bailing Temple, and the Soviet comrades in the sky will provide assistance , There was an assault by armored vehicles on the ground, we waited for work at leisure, and surrounded them several times, with the right time, place and people in hand, but that battle was also very difficult."

Political commissar Zhou Jianping came over and spoke to the two seriously as someone who had been there.

After the Long March of the main force of the Red Army, Zhou Jianping led the 24th independent division to carry out arduous guerrilla warfare on the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi. In January 1935, he was seriously injured in a battle. In March, he served as the vice chairman of the Military and Political Committee of the Guangdong-Jiangxi Border Region. In June, he was escorted to Shanghai for treatment due to serious injuries.Historically, he would arrive in Yan'an after he recovered from his injury at the end of 1, but in this plane, because of Huang Ke's interference, he received the support of the underground party at the beginning of 3, and after receiving the antibiotic treatment provided by Huang Ke, he recovered from his injury half a year earlier. He returned to the team, and then followed Lin Husan to participate in the subsequent battle of Bailing Temple.

Soon after the Battle of Bailing Temple, according to the instructions of the central government, he took more than 400 veterans and soldiers who had participated in the Battle of Bailing Temple and a large number of cadres to enter Cangnan through sea and waterways to support Suyu's Red Army to fill the gap in officers and cadres caused by its excessive military expansion.Ye Fei's headquarters belonged to the second column of the Red Army, and Zhou Jianping was appointed as the political commissar of the second column.

Zhou Jianping said:

"Tonight, except for the necessary left-behind guards, all comrades will watch a movie with me."

"Movies? You mean foreign movies?"

Zhou Jianping said solemnly: "It's a military teaching film sent by comrades from the Soviet Union, and it's about the Japanese. It also includes some battle scenes of the Battle of Bailing Temple. Our next opponent will be the Japanese soon. If it's two months away, if it's near If it takes half a month, the Japanese will call here soon!"

The film was shipped three days ago, and it was placed in the first column for a while, and now, together with the projector, it is shipped to the second column stationed in Jinhua.

That night, in a spacious square in the newly liberated Jinhua City, thousands of people gathered densely.A huge curtain was pulled in the center of the square, and then a projector turned the field, and with the tweeter, began to "play the film".

For most of the Red Army soldiers at the scene, this was the first time in their lives to "watch a movie", and everyone was novel and excited when it was played.

The film was shot and produced after the Battle of Bailing Temple.Some of the shots were shot with the help of one of the two cameras brought to this era by Huang Ke during the World War II, and some were shot with the help of "mobile phone lens", edited and processed on the computer afterwards, and then reproduced with a movie camera.

But more content is that after the war, the officers and soldiers of the Red Army who participated in the battle, when resuming the battle summary, some soldiers followed the instructions of their superiors, put on Japanese military uniforms to act as Japanese soldiers, and simulated Japanese military tactics in textbooks. Attacking the positions of the Red Army and conducting a simulated tactical confrontation with the Red Army, the whole process was photographed by a camera placed next to it.

The film was shot half a month after the end of the Battle of Bailing Temple, and then sent to the Soviet Union for processing. Several copies were made and teaching voices were added.A total of five copies were made, four were sent to China, and the remaining one was being played in turn among the Soviet troops undergoing urgent training in the Far East.

The Red Cross Army was the last unit to receive the copy, and immediately organized all officers and soldiers to watch and learn as soon as they got it.

One-third of the images on the screen are actual shots on the battlefield, and the rest are military exercises simulating Japanese tactics, with narration commentary alongside.

The scenes of actual combat include not only the scene of the Japanese army's fierce artillery covering the position, but also the scene of Lin Husan's armored battalion charging in groups and breaking through the Japanese defensive position.Due to the editing process-many scenes were actually inserted in the editing of acting after the event, and they were not completely real battle scenes.

When it was broadcast, the thousands of people watching by the whole army fell silent.After the broadcast, there was a lot of discussion at the scene.Then, the Red Army combat heroes who participated in the Battle of Bailing Temple gave their own testimony, and once again described the tactics of the Japanese army during the battle.Then the movie was played again, and the next day the regimental and battalion commanders of the various units took the lead and organized various troops to hold a Zhuge meeting for military discussions. The content was all about how to deal with the infantry tactics against the Japanese.

In the next half month, this copy of the military teaching, together with the projector, traveled around the base area in southern Zhejiang, and he played with him a military teaching film called "How to organize the masses to carry out guerrilla attacks behind enemy lines".The shooting time of the film was earlier, it was shot in June last year.The specific content is that Xiao Huang Ke extracted the plots of landmine warfare and tunnel warfare seen in later generations, combined with the special popularization of "anti-imperialist anti-repair" in the first 30 years of history, such as "militia training manual", "militia explosives" Making and burying", "How to make three-acid and two-alkaline-soil chemical soil explosives", "How to organize the masses to fortify the walls and clear the fields and retreat during the devil's sweep", and finally produced a two-hour military science and education film.

Some of the content is about the production of landmines and explosives, and some are about the introduction of simple infantry tactics, but more of them are a summary of the experience and lessons condensed by the blood and lives of countless Eighth Route Army, New Fourth Army, and militiamen during the Anti-Japanese War in history.Relevant written materials have long been printed into books and distributed to cadres in various base areas for study.But dry text alone is not enough. With the help of movie shooting and playback, it is even more impressive after watching it from the first perspective.

After the film was shot, it was produced in the Soviet Union in post-production. Even Stalin watched it and liked it very much.Afterwards, he ordered people from the Soviet propaganda department to shoot several similar military-themed films on the spot for civil and military literacy.

After taking Jinhua, the Red Ten Army's offensive in southern Zhejiang has basically stopped.In the following time, not only did the whole army not rest and reorganize, but they raced against the clock to start the transfer of materials before the retreat preparations.

"The Japanese are coming soon!"

The propaganda team accompanying the army began to carry out urgent pre-war propaganda to the people in the newly liberated areas.And on the rivers in southern Zhejiang, a large number of wooden boats swim in the river day and night, constantly transporting the supplies of Haicheng City to Longquan in the rear.Then it was transferred from Longquan to the mountainous areas of Fujian and Zhejiang.In the rivers of the entire southern Zhejiang region, the sound of empty 50-horsepower diesel tugboats can be heard everywhere.

In the entire southern Zhejiang region, the busiest place for river transportation is the newly liberated Taizhou.

Here in Taizhou Haimen Port, a [-]-ton cargo ship flying the American flag is docking at the pier.Countless Red Army soldiers in dark gray military uniforms and octagonal hats are constantly unloading the supplies from the boats at the dock, loading them on carts and sending them to the ferry docks in the nearby river for transfer.

Similar scenes have been going on for three full days.During these three days, including Cangnan Port, a total of three ships entered the port successively and unloaded nearly [-] tons of supplies.

The content of materials includes munitions, explosives, fuel oil, cement, carbon steel pipes, refractory materials, small blast furnace equipment, machine tool machinery and equipment, etc.Fang Zhimin, who was receiving the equipment, felt overwhelmed by the mountains of supplies.Except for one ship that was transported from the north to the south for arms supplies, the remaining two ships were genuine American cargo ships.In addition, hundreds of Soviet experts came with the munitions ship.

The central government sent a large number of officers and soldiers with actual combat experience against Japan to go south to join the Red Cross Army in order to supplement their lack of combat experience with the Japanese army.

Unlike the Jiangbei region, the Red Army in the north was backed by the Soviet Union and had an extremely large rear area and military industry support. It was not difficult to withstand the "three axes" of the Japanese army.

The real difficulty is the Red Tenth Army who opened up a base area in southwestern Zhejiang.After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in the future, they will be far away from the central government, without military support from the north, and they can only rely on themselves for everything. The future war conditions here will be extremely difficult.Therefore, after the end of the Huainan Campaign, and in the last window period before Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China, the central government is importing materials and personnel here at all costs.

The American freighter was naturally provided by DuPont, an "old friend of the Chinese people". One freighter was loaded with explosives and propellants produced by DuPont, all of which were sealed in special containers and transported to China. Most of them are various small hardware machines, necessary equipment and materials ordered in the United States for the construction of small ironworks blast furnaces.

When Huang Ketuo and Zhang Xuesi ordered 47 guns in Italy last year, the ten Italian guns arrived and all of them were handed over to the Red Cross Army.

There are two reasons for importing materials from the United States. One is the reason why the sea outside Vladivostok harbor freezes in winter, and the sea water there has just begun to thaw.Another reason is to consider that the Japanese war of aggression against China is about to break out, and the Japanese navy is likely to directly intercept the military ships supported by the Soviet Union at sea-the latter is the secret information provided by the Japanese Communist Party.

The Soviet experts who came along with the ship, except some of them are technical officers, who will give military lessons to the officers and soldiers of the Red Cross Army in the future and improve their skills in manipulating artillery, the rest of them will help the Red Cross Army to establish a base in the future. Technicians of the "earth military industry".

"Build several clay blast furnaces, which can produce thousands of tons of iron per year, produce mortars, make mortar shells, and reload bullets in large quantities." These are the central government's expectations for the future military construction in the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi base areas. Target.

Compared with the relatively good strategic situation in the north, the environment in the southern Zhejiang base area is relatively much worse.During this last window period, the Red Cross Army seemed to have received a lot of supplies. Unless Huang Ke made a move, this would be the last large-scale supply of supplies they received for a long time to come.

When Fang Zhimin was sent here, Chairman Li Runshi once commented on him in this way:

"The base of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi will be the best steelmaking furnace in China in the next few years!"

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-------------------- Chapter 206 Paper Tiger --------------------

Chapter 206 Paper Tiger

In 1937, the Sea of ​​Japan warmed up a few days later than in previous years.

On March [-]th, the ice outside Vladivostok, which had been frozen for more than three months, began to crack, and there were crackling sounds everywhere.

Ice floes were everywhere on the sea, and as the climate warmed, the ice on the sea gradually melted. After 25 days, a large number of floes disappeared, the crisis was resolved, and the port has fully resumed its navigable functions.

The news of sea cucumber wafer ice reached Tokyo, and the Japanese military immediately became tense.The Navy received instructions to closely monitor the entry and exit of every cargo ship in the port and the loading situation.Once a ship loaded with munitions leaves the port, report to the base camp as soon as possible.

Japan's plan to attack China has entered a countdown, and the military does not want to see Soviet arms ships sailing into China at this time, and then send piles of tanks to the CCP.In the past year, Stalin's crazy "sell liver to aid the CCP" has terrified the poor ghosts of the army's horse dung.

During the Huainan Battle not long ago, Chang Kaishen, a prodigal son, spent more than 2000 million U.S. dollars worth of arms, including 52 aircraft, 200 tanks, hundreds of artillery pieces, and more than [-] trucks, in less than ten days. All the brains were "sent" to the Red Army in the north.The speed of its downfall and the efficient and fast delivery of "Kaishen Express" completely exceeded everyone's expectations, and it also ruined the Japanese plan.

Before the war, the Japanese military deduced the battle situation. It was originally thought that the battle in Huainan would take at least a month before the outcome could be determined.In the deduction, Chang Kaishen will be defeated, but the Red Army on the opposite side must also suffer heavy casualties.But they never dreamed that Chang Baldzi's ability to "quick defeat and quick delivery" is even better than that of his good brother Zhang Xueliang.

No matter how scumbag Zhang Xueliang is, at least most of the hundreds of thousands of Northeast troops under his command escaped from the Northeast and entered the pass with him.Chang Kaishen's central army is stronger than Zhang Xueliang, right?Who would have thought that an army of more than 30 people with complete equipment and sufficient ammunition, hiding behind a line of defense that had been built for several months, would be defeated in just eight days... while the opponent's Casualties and ammunition consumption were extremely low, and even after the war, the collective fattened up.

Before the war, the people in the base camp had been calculating for a long time. They did not expect the big change of Guo Rugui and the small change of Wang Yaowu's surrender without a fight. The original plan of invading China was once again disrupted. .

"Chang Kaishen's troops really surrendered without much resistance?"

"Yes, the 71st Army was crushed by Lucia's chariots in just one day! The 6th Army in the north had more than [-] people, and the Communist troops surrounded them for a few days. It took three days and they were all wiped out! I pretended to be a local citizen, entered their field hospital to carry the wounded, buried the corpses, and counted the numbers. There were not many casualties on the front line.”

"Dozens of tanks and hundreds of cannons are piled up there! They are almost never used, so they are just given to the Red Army for nothing!"

"Ba Ga, Chang Kaishen is such a waste!"

Before the battle of Huainan, the Japanese attached great importance to it and sent a large number of spies undercover to the battlefield to secretly observe and count the losses of both sides in the battle.After the battle, these spies were immediately transferred back to Japan, and were questioned by their superiors. The news they got was all bad news: the expected mutual damage did not happen at all, and the Red Army was slightly damaged, but its post-war strength increased dramatically. .

The Japanese military estimates that after this battle, the number of tanks owned by Li Runshi has exceeded 150.In addition, Chang Kaishen's air force who was in the uprising, and the Soviet air force that has entered China openly and is conducting flight training over Hebei.When Minai Mitsumasa handed over a large number of photos collected in North China to Emperor Yongren, the last objection of the Army disappeared.

"Since Stalin gave a public speech in November last year, in the past four and a half months, about [-] to [-] Soviet military planes have stationed in Hebei and Shanxi."

"Song Zheyuan has completely surrendered to the Communist Party. In the past winter, the 29th Army built several field airfields in the surrounding areas south of Tianjin. Although these airfields are temporarily vacant, they are obviously prepared for future wars. "

"In Pingjin and Tianjin, Soviet officers can already be seen openly in the local area. They even frequently enter the 29th Army for military teaching. Now in Hebei, Soviet planes can be seen flying in the sky every day. And the Communist Party sent The propagandists who went to the Hebei area publicized the uniform marks of the Soviet pilots everywhere to prevent (future air combat) from being shot down and parachuting and being accidentally injured by the local people.”

On March 26th, the news from North China was full of bad news one after another.After the Battle of Huainan, the main force of the Red Army retreated from Anhui to Shanxi at an extremely fast speed with the help of the "(North) Ping-Han (Exit)" railway.Except for the section from Hefei to Anqing and along the Yangtze River, most of the Lianghuai area in Jiangbei was ceded to the troops of other warlords.

Hit fast, retreat fast, and walk crisply.The first batch of 10,000+ main troops participating in the war returned to Shanxi through the railway network within ten days.Such a quick mobilization speed once again shocked the Japanese military.

The Soviet Air Force plus the Chinese Red Army, plus the Lucia Army, which is currently raising troops in the Far East and has been training crazily throughout the winter, anyone with a bit of brain in the military knows at this time that sending troops to the south in North China will really bite your teeth. .

Holding various intelligence materials sent back from China, at that moment Fummaro Konoe began to miss the group of desperate imperial sect chuunis again.

"If they are still in the military headquarters, if they wink a little, this group of horse dung will jump out as pawns regardless of anything. It's not like now..."

He glanced at the newly appointed Minister of Army Terauchi Toshiichi next to him. After the February [-]th incident, this person purges the army with an iron fist, "preventing going alone", and suppresses the horse manure of the Kodo faction to be honest, but at this time he does not speak. up.

Japanese characteristics, at the critical moment, the "smart people" collectively kept quiet and pretended to be stupid, and the nature of avoiding responsibility came again.

They clearly agreed with the Navy's view: Invading China from North China would be half the effort and extremely risky, and they were unwilling to let the Navy show the limelight, and then they shrank their heads and pretended to be bad.

The Minister of the Navy, Mitsuomi Minai, was about to speak when someone outside stepped forward and sent a telegram. Mitsumasa Minai took a look at it, his expression suddenly became serious, and after a few seconds of silence, he handed it to the above without a word. Benevolence.

Yong Ren took a look, and his face became even more ugly in an instant. He raised his right fist and slammed it hard on the table.

"Damn Lucia!"

Jinwei Wenmao took the telegram from Yongren, which was an urgent telegram from Tianjin.

Just late last night, two cargo ships from Lucia docked at the expanded Tanggu Port silently and unloaded overnight.

The next morning, citizens living near Tianjin Railway Station were woken up by the sound of rumbling tracks early in the morning.

When they opened the door, they found that there were a large number of tanks parked in the field near the port, and all the tanks were full of crew and drivers.

"A total of forty T27 tanks! There are also sixty Kaden Lloyd-like bean tanks (T[-])."

In terms of specifications, this is close to the tank establishment of an armored division.

According to the telegram sent back by Japan's spies in Tianjin, in addition to a full hundred tanks, the two cargo ships borrowed from the Soviet Union were also filled with other munitions. The ammunition was unloaded, and the trucks pulling the ammunition kept flowing, and many drivers were actually Russian drivers.

The Japanese only paid attention to the direction of the Sea of ​​Japan, but these two arms ships sailed from the Black Sea in December last year, crossed the Suez Canal, crossed the Indian Ocean, crossed Malacca, crossed the South China Sea, the East China Sea, the Yellow Sea, and the Bohai Sea to enter Pingjin, avoiding The direction that the Japanese pay attention to.

The Japanese spies stationed in Tanggu reported that these were two cargo ships weighing more than [-] tons, and the munitions loaded on board weighed at least [-] tons!

At present, the whole Tanggu is under strict martial law, and over Pingjin and Tianjin, there are planes passing through the sky from time to time. In one morning, the number of planes flying over the sky exceeded [-].

Now the atmosphere in Pingjin is extremely tense.The local [-]th Army had all been mobilized, and the surrounding Japanese army also entered a state of emergency at this time. The two sides were at war with each other and would enter a state of war at any time.

The telegram from the Pingjin area of ​​China had just been sent down, and the Kwantung Army headquarters stationed in the Northeast also sent an urgent telegram at this time.It turned out that early in the morning, the Soviet Red Army in the north of Heilongjiang was mobilizing frequently. The sound of tank tracks could be heard in the distance across the river. Thick to the extreme.