While the three of them were talking, they had already come to the fortress of Zhaobao Mountain.

Until now, the construction of Zhaobaoshan Fortress is still ongoing.

Of course, the main project of Zhaobaoshan Fortress has been completed, and what is being built now is the peripheral facilities.

Because the Zhaobaoshan-Jinjishan fortress designed by Zhong Yi and Zhang Yuanxi is not just two large fortresses, but a systematic fortification with two fortresses as the fulcrum.

From the military level, the Yinjiang River is close to the sea, which can be said to be easy to attack and difficult to defend.

Among them, the Zhenhai direction is the weakest, even if the Yinjiang River is blocked, but once the Japanese army successfully lands from Zhenhai, it will be able to attack the Yinjiang city outside the city of Yinjiang less than 50 miles to the southeast.

Zhong Yi spent so much money in Yinjiang, and finally built an industrial base, of course, he couldn't just let the Japanese soldiers come to the city!

Therefore, the weak point of Zhenhai must be blocked.

Therefore, Zhong Yi and Zhang Yuanxi made an overall plan.

Specifically, relying on the fortress of Zhaobao Mountain and Jinji Mountain, to the northwest through Jiaochuan and Shahe to Jiulong, and to the south through Xiaogang to Dongwu, a total of more than 300 large permanent blockhouses were built.

Then, relying on these more than 300 large permanent pillboxes, a triple permanent trench was built, and even barbed wire fences had to be pulled up outside these triple trenches.

However, this will take time, and the work is only now being rolled out.

However, Zhong Yi's intention is very clear, that is, if he wants to build the weakest front of Yinjiang into an iron wall, if the Japanese army attacks from the front in the future, they will definitely be hit by their heads and bloodshed.

Of course, to build such a large defensive project, the materials and money that need to be consumed are enormous.

But Zhong Yi is confident that he will build it, because now he has mastered almost all the underground industries in the Shanghai Public Concession and the French Concession, and his net income is more than 50 million yuan per month!

What's more, now that the Yinjiang Industrial Park has also entered a virtuous circle, not only does it not need the Yinjiang Municipal Government to transfuse it again, but it can even start feeding back the national defense project.

Therefore, in a sense, Zhong Yi's life is better than that of Principal Chang.

Although President Chang has a big family, he also needs to spend more in all aspects, not to mention that just so many party-state officials and the army have to support, it almost drags down his finances.

Straight to the point.

Zhong Yi was in a hurry to see the batch of munitions, so he didn't have time to climb Zhaobao Mountain to see the shape of the fortress, so he asked Li Ziren to open the big iron lock of the warehouse and then enter the underground warehouse.

The underground warehouses of the fortress had three iron gates.

After opening three iron doors in a row, Zhong Yi finally walked into the large warehouse where the arms were hoarded.

But I saw that the huge underground space was piled up like a mountain, and all of them were wooden boxes.

Next to the mountain of wooden crates were samples of various firearms, such as Garand rifles, Thomson submachine guns, Browning light and heavy machines, Browning heavy machine guns, 60 mortars and 81 mortars.

Zhong Yi walked straight to the Browning heavy machine gun that was used as a sample and tried the feel.

Li Ziren said with some excitement: "Mayor, uh no, Counselor, we've already tried the gun!" ”

"Oh yes?" Zhong Yi smiled, "How do you feel?" How lethal is it, convenient or not? ”

Li Ziren said: "The lethality is comparable to that of our Min-24, and it is more convenient to use, because the Browning heavy machine gun does not need a cooling water system." ”

Zhong Yi smiled slightly and didn't say anything.

When it comes to machine guns, the best thing to use is the German MG-42 general-purpose machine gun.

It's just a pity that now Germany has formed an alliance with Little Japan, but China can't buy general-purpose machine guns.

But fortunately, the American Browning heavy machine gun is also good, at least a grade higher than the pheasant neck of the little Japan, with this heavy machine gun, the infantry support firepower will not lose the devil.

Zhong Yi looked back at the mountain of wooden boxes and asked, "All the guns have been checked?" ”

"Don't worry, all the guns have been calibrated!" Li Ziren said, "I personally took someone to verify it, every rifle and every machine gun has already tried the gun, no problem." ”

Zhong Yi nodded, and said, "What about the ammunition?" Are there any random inspections? ”

"Spot-checks too." Li Ziren nodded and said, "The quality of American goods is still quite good." ”

Zhong Yi was completely relieved when he heard this, now that the guy has it, and the backbone veterans are also there, he can consider starting to form a coastal defense corps.

After all, this time in Yinjiang, the formation of the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps is fundamental.

As for other things, such as the establishment of an industrial park in Yinjiang and the rectification of the black industry in Shanghai, they are all just for the purpose of forming the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps.

At that moment, Zhong Yi turned back to He Wenxi and said, "Instructor He, uh, no, Director He." ”

He Wenxi hurriedly said: "What are the instructions of the counselor?" ”

Zhong Yi said in a deep voice: "I returned to Yinjiang this time, and I also brought back more than 5,000 veterans of the national army from Shanghai, which is the backbone veteran I prepared for the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps!" ”

He Wenxi nodded, indicating that I understood.

The key to whether an army can quickly form combat effectiveness lies in whether it has experienced veterans.

If you have a certain number of elite veterans, an army can quickly form combat effectiveness even if it is newly formed, and if it can win a few battles after it is formed, it will soon become an elite army.

Zhong Yi said: "However, the composition of these more than 5,000 veterans is very complicated, there are the Central Army, the Northeast Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, and even the Security Corps, and they have been separated from the army for too long, and they have forgotten what the concept of collective life is, so you have to give them training!" ”

After a pause, he said, "Let them train with the cadets of the Officer Training Corps." ”

"Yes!" He Wenxi snapped and said, "I'll arrange it when I go back." ”

Speaking of this, He Wenxi said again: "Counselor, there is something ......"

Zhong Yi said: "Director He has something to say, but it doesn't matter. ”

"That's right." He Wenxi hurriedly said, "I have some friends who have been soldiers before, and I heard that Yinjiang is going to form the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps, so I want to come over to be a soldier, I don't know if I will accept it?" ”

The corners of Zhong Yi's mouth immediately hooked up a smile, this should be the comrade sent by Minister Zeng.

It's just that He Wenxi doesn't know Zhong Yi's identity, so he is inevitably a little nervous at the moment.

To tell the truth, He Wenxi was resistant to this task arranged by the organization, because it was really eye-catching to place more than 100 commanders and fighters in the East Zhejiang Coastal Defense Corps at once.

However, he had to obey the organizational instructions.

However, to He Wenxi's surprise, Zhong Yi actually agreed.

"No problem." Zhong Yi said with a full mouth, "As long as you are patriotic, as long as you are really capable, no matter what your identity, no matter what your background, how many I want from Zhong someone!" ”