"It's unbelievable!" Meng Xiang sighed with a smile.

But this time the operation against Huai'an gave Meng Xiang two surprises.

One is that the dive bomber bomber that was supposed to carry out the task of harassing and slowing down the bomber performed a miraculous feat, and Huang Chaoyang's two bombs overturned the devil's train. More than half of a brigade died, directly cutting off the devil's hope for reinforcements.

Unexpectedly, Li Shuangyang's guerrilla brigade cleanly killed the devil's squadron. Instead, Meng Xiang reconsidered the use of the guerrilla brigade.

The devil's manpower is tight. Even if a million people are scattered all over China, there are not too many people to see. In many places, there is only one squad, and even a class of devils manages a county seat.

When the guerrillas were active, they inevitably dealt with the local people and recruited some of them. In the past, the guerrillas mainly lived by gathering intelligence and auxiliary attacks, and there were not many weapons, and the number of recruits was limited. But if the quota is released and developed as long as it is suitable, then it will soon snowball. From this, he also discovered another characteristic of the guerrillas, the organization was not transparent, it was not included in the regular army system, it could be expanded at will, and it was normal to conjure up an army of one million at a time.

The Vanguard Army's ability to airdrop weapons and ammunition allows these guerrillas to develop a team that can quickly form an army, which can be used as a surprise force when the Vanguard Army is overwhelmed. Although the level of combat of these militias is average, they can play an unexpected role under some conditions.

Just like this time, Li Shuangyang's guerrilla brigade pulled up a team of 600 people at once with airdropped weapons, not only conquering Huai'an in one fell swoop, but also helping to maintain law and order together after the arrival of the regular troops of the vanguard army.

Although after the expansion of this move, it is easy to produce some hidden dangers on small hills, but these people will enter the new barracks for re-training, education and run-in in the future, which is equivalent to early conscription.

This method is almost similar to the experience in his mind, originally he had a regular vanguard army, he was a little disdainful of it, but after this incident, he felt that he still needed to pay attention to this kind of thinking. As long as we pay attention to not attacking the devils indiscriminately and causing unnecessary trouble to the people when we do not have the ability to protect the people.

The guerrillas of the Vanguard Army have a good reputation among the people, and the backbone of the guerrillas are all regular soldiers of the Vanguard Army, and each squadron also has at least one clone soldier, which makes the discipline much stricter. The guerrillas were also paid, which made it impossible for their ranks to expand like balloons. But the abundance of military pay also made it possible for them not to plunder, and their dealings with the common people were fair. Although it did not penetrate into the people, it did not have a bad reputation. As for those who do the work or something, some of them are not doing well, I am afraid that they will disturb the people. Meng Xiang simply did not have a hard surname, what he advocated was that the guerrillas should not only stand firm, but also stand firm. The next step for the guerrillas is to play the role of township and town cadres and, in accordance with the requirements of the old Chiang Central Committee, first implement the policy of reducing interest rates during the Second Five-Year Plan. Only when the common people have actually benefited will they support the existence of the guerrillas and will no longer be a bystander.

Most of the areas where the guerrillas were active were in the vicinity of the territory of the Pioneer Army, but the Pioneer Army's subsistence allowance policy spread around. Naturally, the common people could calculate this benefit, and they were even more enthusiastic about the guerrillas of the vanguard army.

"Under such circumstances, it seems that it is possible to expand the size of the guerrillas and occupy territory early, so as not to cause some disputes when they come into contact with other forces in the future." Meng Xiang secretly made up his mind, "In this way, we can provide some larger and more regular formations for those guerrillas that have grown stronger." ”

Without waiting for Meng Xiang to think about giving the guerrillas a new establishment, the two establishments given to him by Lao Jiang arrived.

One is for the rat and theirs, for the second column of the Jiangnan guerrillas. There is also one for Wei Hanchao's Northeast Reading Division, the second column of the Northeast guerrillas.

Because Lao Jiang's establishment was delayed, Meng Xiang took it upon himself to play the brand of the Second Field Army of the Vanguard Army, which made Lao Jiang very annoyed. Although the reader of Rat Yi recognized the leadership of the Central Army, the Central Army has not provided a penny of military salary, and it doesn't matter what name people put up. There are many teams of 100 people with the title of commander, called group army, and the ranks of the regiment are also everywhere. Originally, this was nothing, but this brand was hung under the name of the Pioneer Army, and it was a little sensitive to directly play the name of the Pioneer Army. Especially after the vanguard army occupied Beijing and Tianjin, everyone waited and watched.

"Why does Lao Jiang also call what column he calls?" Meng Xiang is also very curious about these. He always thought that this column was the exclusive name of later generations. What he didn't know was that if it weren't for the appearance of the vanguard army, I am afraid that there would have been the emergence of Li Mingyang and Li Changjiang's Sulu guerrilla column.

Lao Jiang this time was purely a tentative move, giving a second column to the vanguard army, and the first column was of course the Central Army. Meng Xiang is not picky at all, for the army, the important thing is strength, he is also a temptation this time, a gesture, since Lao Jiang has sealed the new establishment, he is no longer entangled in this matter, and the main energy is still to deal with himself.

After losing Huai'an, I immediately counterattacked, but the Junker aunt of the vanguard army ran to Huai'an every day, and the airstrip after emergency repair and reinforcement could also take off and land ME323D giant birds. In just one day, the six giant birds took off and landed twice in Huai'an, and more than a dozen artillery pieces were placed in the main areas.

At this time, the surrounding sky was the vanguard army, with the first bombing of the train, the pilots of the vanguard army seemed to be particularly interested in this kind of play, Zhangjiakou rushed to Huai'an a brigade of reinforcements, under the bombardment of the planes, stop and go, until the vanguard army has arranged the fortifications, they rushed to Huai'an.

But the heavy fire of a dozen 76 and 105 mm guns and hundreds of machine guns directly tore apart their collective charging front. The lightning overhead and the HS-123 aircraft tore the debris even more to pieces. After losing half of their men, they could only watch as the giant bird flying overhead descended on Huai'an again.

"We need planes! Plane! Tsuneoka shouted to Major General Shinichi Tanaka, chief of staff of the Mongolian Corps above.

There is no threat from the devil's planes, the vanguard planes can attack at will, and the devil's anti-aircraft artillery only has a pitiful few, and they have been knocked out one by one. Bombs and bullets fell overhead, but the devil had nothing to do.

Even Shinichi Tanaka in the Xuanhua Xiahuayuan area was depressed, and the planes sent out were intercepted and killed by more than 30 fighters of the Vanguard Army on the way, half of the more than 20 planes were shot down, and the rest ran back in a gray manner.

"The empire needs more planes! Better planes! He said bitterly. In the previous battles between the Chinese army and the Central Army, it was common for a plane to drive a group of soldiers of the Central Army around, but now the situation is reversed. The sky was full of Vanguard planes, and one by one.

"Where did they get these planes?" He wailed.

I said that I wanted to contact the copycat company more than once to buy those advanced aircraft, and I did not regret it with more money. But the copycat company has already said that the trial product will not be sold for the time being. Even the Germans couldn't get this, but after getting the BF-109E, the Germans have been committed to developing their own aircraft, not pursuing the seemingly thick and ugly Thunderbolt.

It's the ME323D giant bird, which the Germans like. They see a new way to quickly solve logistics support over long distances. Soviet Russia and Britain on the other side of the English Channel needed long-distance transportation, and only counted on the land and sea to have their limitations, and the sky was another channel opened up by German fighters.

"It's okay to sell, we don't need money, we exchange your engine technology. We refer to the reference. "There is nothing unusual about the ME323D giant bird, the main thing is the advanced surname of the engine. Through the observation of the giant bird, the Germans have judged that their engines are much more advanced than their own engines, and their engine technology is somewhat unattainable. As a result, the detailed technical data of the gasoline and diesel engines weighing several tons were transferred to the aviation power laboratory of the Pioneer Army through the copycat company.

"After absorbing and digesting this information, we can quickly have our own aircraft engine." Liang Shou said excitedly.

"Not only aero engines, but also automobile engines, we have to develop our own brands!" The young Li Yaozi said with a wave of his fist. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was the founder of the Pioneer Army's first aero-engine equipment manufacturing plant.

"Lay a good foundation and keep innovating!" This is Meng Xiang's message to them, and he repeatedly told them to do a good job in basic research. Although the information of the Germans is detailed, it is their own only if they digest and absorb it. Today's airplanes can be produced directly from the base, and trucks and tanks are also produced from the base.

Even the power systems of the various factories are produced as bases for military products. So, the demand for the production of engines is not tight. What we need to do now is to lay a good foundation and establish Huaxia's own engine production and research system in a few years.

"Don't worry! We are called this empire, and this problem is still difficult. We have a well-established engine industry system, and we will soon produce a suitable engine. Junji Fukao, head of Mitsubishi's engine department, said with a big package.

But Jiro was still a little worried when he heard it, and the engines they provided were far from the reality. The engine of the relatively advanced 96 ship battle was only six or seven hundred horsepower.

"We have the best in our company!" Junji Fukao said proudly. Mitsubishi bought technology from European and American companies and continued to imitate it, but the imitation work has not been smooth, and accidents have occurred frequently. There is no certain foundation, at most it is half a bottle of vinegar that knows it but does not know why. It took them six years and millions of dollars to get to something. In 35 years, the 840-horsepower Venus III was created. In '36 they built the 1,000-horsepower Venus 40 that made them cry with excitement.

Jiro Tsurukoshi knew that this was what Junji Fukao said, but the weight of the Venus 40 reached 560 kilograms, the diameter of 1200 millimeters, and it had been used in the 96 land attack test flight, and the surname was excellent, but compared to the power of the new fighter he conceived in his mind, it was a little unsuitable. If you use the Venera 40, you will need to enlarge the fuselage, which may lose the advantage of climbing, diving, and hovering.

"It's a pity it's a little bigger!" He sighed. The 96 ship battle was only 1,600 kilograms, and after the installation of the Venera-40, the new fighter may exceed 3,000 kilograms. Pilots who are accustomed to flying the 96 warship suddenly change planes with such a big difference, and I am afraid that they will not be able to adapt to it for a while, and the competition among the various domestic airlines is also very fierce, and each has its own interests behind it. Nakajima's new design is on par with Mitsubishi's, and it will be used as an excuse for the military to reject it. To get that new aircraft order, I'm afraid it will need to be reconsidered.

"Big? Oh! We still have it! Haven't you heard of the new engine in our company? The Rising 10, although it is only 900 horsepower, has a diameter of just over 940 mm and weighs 34 kg less. The last name after the test is also great. ”

Don't underestimate 34 kilograms, in the aviation industry, these weights of the engine can directly determine a lot of data changes.

"If we use the Rising 10, we can control it at 2,300 kilograms, which fully meets the requirements of the military!" After careful calculations, Jiro reported his opinion to Hattori. Hattori agreed. He did not know that the Grumman F6F Hummer, which had already been used by the Vanguard, had reached 2,000 horsepower and had a speed of more than 600 kilometers per hour. As soon as his new aircraft comes out, he will face an even more formidable opponent.

Historically, he also regretted this choice, which led to the subsequent gale of high-horsepower models, but unfortunately at that time, the company had reached the last period of struggle.

This time, he chose this configuration again, and continued to improve this new type of 12 test ship combat aircraft that far surpassed the 96 ship attack.

"The engine is still a little deficient, so let's completely reduce the weight to the extreme!" This madness of Jiro Dig is such that the presence or absence of each rivet on the twelve test ship warplanes has to be taken into account. A state-of-the-art air combat weapon was slowly born in his hands.

At this time, Meng Xiang didn't know that the famous Zero would be born in advance, but he didn't care about this either, he was struggling with the choice of more new aircraft at this time.