readx; "Damn, why did you sell so many bazookas to them in the first place, isn't this anti-own people!" The tank commander's complaint was heard in the ears of the infantry lieutenant next to him, and he also thought it was the same. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The bazooka is not a new thing in the Chinese Army, it has been there as early as the early thirties, the reason why it appeared so early is naturally inseparable from Chen Jingyun's intervention, even if Chen Jingyun was not a military fan in his previous life, and he didn't know much about weapons and equipment, but the famous RPG also knows, not to mention those film and television dramas, especially anti-terrorism war films, the most often heard by US soldiers shout is: "RPG!" "And then the terrorists' rockets came in.

And this also made Chen Jingyun have the idea of developing rockets, he is not a weapons expert, naturally he doesn't know how to design a bazooka, but a huge China, there are many talents in military design, and Chen Jingyun doesn't need to bother, so as in the past, only the concept and requirements were proposed, and the specific design was the business of those technicians.

The concept or even the specific design of the rocket launcher is not a new thing, the United States tested it at the end of World War I, but after the end of World War I, like other countries, a large number of new weapons research and development have been stopped, and the research and development of American rocket launchers will naturally end halfway.

China's bazooka research and development was only started in the late twenties when Chen Jingyun remembered that there was such a weapon and instructed the equipment department to carry out research and development, and in 1932 the initial sample was developed, but the range and power were insufficient, and it was impossible to effectively carry out anti-tank warfare, so it was not equipped on a large scale, but only said that a small number of finished products were made for various experiments for technical accumulation, so that technicians could continue to improve the bazooka.

It took many years, in 1936, to make the bazooka officially finalized and entered service with the military.

According to the Chinese Army's nomenclature of weapons, this bazooka is named the 1936 bazooka, referred to as the 36 bazooka, the 36 bazooka has a caliber of 60 millimeters, a weight of 6.2 kilograms, a length of 1.43 meters, and a maximum range of 350 meters. Even closer to about 50 meters, if fired at 100 meters, it can penetrate 80 mm of vertical armor.

The design of the 36-type bazooka is very simple, basically a seamless steel tube and then equipped with a simple sight, the technology is simple, the cost is cheap, suitable for mass production, the power of the 60 mm rockets launched by it is quite good in the mid-thirties, at close range enough to penetrate the armor of most of the active tanks in various countries at that time, and in the face of a large number of thin-skinned BT series and T26 series of the Soviet Army is full of lethality.

The Soviet army's tanks are famous, although in the thirties and even before 1941, the Soviet army's tank surname was not good, but it could not stand it much, you must know that China in the late thirties, that is, before Germany attacked Poland, all the new and old tanks added up to less than 5,000, and today in 1941 it was only more than 8,000, and even the number of ordinary tanks in Soviet Russia was less.

Although the tanks of the Chinese Army can be advanced, there is no problem in dealing with the tank units of Soviet Russia, but in actual combat, it is often difficult to have large-scale battles between tank units, and tanks are fighting with infantry most of the time, that is to say, the probability of China's ordinary infantry encountering Soviet tank attacks is very large, so it is very important to strengthen the infantry anti-tank force.

In China's ordinary infantry divisions, the anti-tank firepower is mainly towed anti-tank guns, and the anti-tank strength of the division is 57 mm and 75 mm towed anti-tank guns, while the anti-tank strength of the infantry regiment is 37 mm towed anti-tank guns, which is not a small number, and in wartime it will also be delegated to battalion-level units to strengthen anti-tank firepower.

If in the twenties and thirties, 37-mm anti-tank guns were still sufficient for most tank tasks, but in the forties, the firepower of 37-mm anti-tank guns was insufficient.

This can be seen from the development of the main gun caliber of tanks in various countries, China's medium tanks have been 75 mm caliber since the beginning of T9, and the latest T15 is an unprecedented 105 mm caliber, why the increase in caliber is not to obtain a higher strike capability, most of other countries are the same, but not as much as the Chinese Army pursues the limit, all of a sudden it transitioned to 105 mm, and other countries are still 75 \ 76.2 mm tank guns.

It is not for nothing that the caliber of tank guns is increased, that is, the armor of tanks in various countries is getting thicker and thicker, and the caliber of the towed anti-tank gun as an infantry anti-tank force is too small, so the Chinese Army will develop a 75-mm towed anti-tank gun in the thirties, and even in order to increase the firepower of these anti-tank guns, they are also extravagantly equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells. That's a valuable thing.

In fact, among so many countries in the world, only China can widely use tungsten alloy to make anti-tank armor-piercing shells, because China alone accounts for more than 90% of the world's tungsten ore production.

In the Chinese infantry divisions equipped with the above three different caliber anti-tank guns, the anti-tank firepower is not weak, but due to the cost and weight of towed anti-tank guns, at most they can only be deployed in battalion-level troops, and it will be difficult to go any further.

Therefore, at the company and platoon level, there was no anti-tank force before, and the Chinese Army in World War I and the twenties also experimentally equipped with a small number of anti-tank guns, but found that as the tank armor became thicker and thicker, the effectiveness of the anti-tank guns became smaller and smaller, so they simply did not equip them.

In order to strengthen the anti-tank capability of units below the company level, the Chinese Army decided to equip the Type 36 rocket launchers on a large scale, and the number of equipment was very large.

Before 1941, the Russian Republic was a military ally of China, and China's various weapons were also open and provided to the Russian Republic, although the Russian Republic could not buy advanced T12 and T15 tanks, but it had no problem buying T9 tanks and ordinary anti-tank guns and rocket launchers. The superiority of the 36-type bazooka is also highly valued by the Russian Defense Forces, and they have purchased a lot and widely equipped their infantry units, and in the previous battles against the Soviet Union, in the face of a large number of thin-skinned tanks in the Soviet and Russian Army, these 36-type bazookas are the backbone weapons of the Russian Defense Forces in the front-line anti-tank, and the results have been brilliant in the past few months.

But I didn't expect that this 36-type rocket launcher was not only used on the Russians, but also by the Russian Defense Forces to resist the Chinese invasion, I have to say that this is a very ironic thing.

However, although the Russian army defending Ulan-Ude has a lot of bazookas, in the final analysis, it is only a second-line unit of the Russian army that defends Ulan-Ude, and there are not even a few serious large-caliber artillery, and there are not many full-time large-caliber anti-tank guns, otherwise the Russian army will not give up its position in the suburbs, but take the initiative to retract into the city of Ulan-Ude, relying on the buildings in the city for street fighting defense.

In addition, the Russian army of the backhand Ulan-Ude is not much, only a few thousand, the gap in the strength of the Siberian front is huge, and with the extension of the depth of the offensive, the strength of the Russian army is even more insufficient, for this reason, the Russian army has almost transferred some of the main forces to the Soviet Russian front, and the troops in the deep area of the country are just some temporarily mobilized second-line troops, how can such troops resist China's elite army, not to mention that the strength of the Chinese army occupies an absolute advantage at this time, Even if there are as many of them, the Russian army will not be able to resist.

Although the Russian army fought very tenaciously in Ulan-Ude, and also caused certain losses to the Eighth Armored Division under the Chinese Seventh Army attacking Ulan-Ude, but in the face of the attack of the Eighth Armored Division, they still could not resist for long, just one day and one night, the Russian army in Ulan-Ude had collapsed on all fronts, and with the arrival of a mechanized infantry regiment of the 60th Division, another mechanized unit of the Fifth Armored Army, the Russian army, which was at an absolute disadvantage in strength and armament, was unable to resist at all and was quickly defeated.

The rapid defeat of the Russian army allowed the Chinese Seventh Army to occupy the strategic location of Ulan-Ude, which not only gained an important strategic base for China to continue its offensive into Russian territory, but also cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia, thus directly cutting Russia in half at the east and west ends of Lake Baikal.

This will give China a great strategic advantage in its attack on Russia, and this strategic advantage will bring immeasurable benefits to China's overall strategy in Russia.

"As of six o'clock in the afternoon today, the Fifth Armored Corps under the Seventh Army of our army has conquered Ulan-Ude, and its engineering units have begun to repair the railway transfer station damaged by the Russian army before retreating, and it is expected that railway transportation will be initially resumed tomorrow, and half of the transportation volume will be restored the day after tomorrow!" Chen Yi explained to Chen Jingyun and the many generals present the latest battle situation in the past two days.

"Fortunately, although the Russian army did some damage to the railway when they retreated, due to the very fast speed of our march, they were not able to complete most of the destruction of the railway!" Chen Yi added that after reading this sentence, he continued:

"In the Far East, our Eighth Army has set out from New Eastern Province and captured a number of Russian cities, and has advanced about 200 kilometers, but due to local traffic conditions, the speed of the subsequent advance will be reduced!"

"On the Western Front, the Tenth Army under the Fifth Army has launched a general offensive against Barnaul, and the local Russian army is not strong, and it is expected that it will be able to take and join the Second Panzer Army in three days to march towards Omsk!"

"The progress in the northern direction of Central Asia is slower, there are more Russian troops defending Astana, and there is also an armored division of the Russian army, and according to aerial reconnaissance, the Russian army has begun to draw troops from Central Asia to defend back. But we have a geographical advantage, the Central Asian railway is under our control, the Trans-Siberian railway has been cut off by us, they can no longer get supplies from the hinterland, and according to their existing estimates, they will not last long! ”

"And in the southern direction of Central Asia, our Fourth Army has captured Shymkent and is preparing to continue its offensive in the northwest direction along the Central Asian Railway, while at the same time a Russian infantry division in Tashkent has been surrounded by us!"

As for the delay in the Astana direction, the General Staff has ordered the Fifth Army to speed up the pace of the offensive, and the 32nd Division of the Fourth Army will be transferred to reinforce the strength of the Fifth Army in the Astana direction, and it will be able to successfully complete the scheduled plan if it is stepped up!"

After Chen Yi introduced the situation as a whole, Chen Jingyun nodded: "Yes, the smooth implementation of the plan is inseparable from the efforts of everyone here, and I also see the efforts of everyone here during this time!" ”

After saying this, Chen Jingyun paused, looked around and said: "But I still want to emphasize one point here, that is, this time the action must be fast, and the decisive strategic victory must be achieved within a month, and Russia must be completely captured within three months." This frees up our hands to meet challenges in other directions! ”

Chen Jingyun's meaning is very obvious, that is, he does not want to trap China in the quagmire of Russia, he does not want to fight in Russia for a year or even more for two or three years, otherwise it will drag China too much power and cause China to be unable to divert energy to meet challenges in other directions.

In the first war, Russia must fight a quick battle and swallow Russia into China as soon as possible, so as to avoid extraneous branches.

After all, China is not the only country in this world, and this world war is not only a war between China and Russia, but also a European war and a Pacific war in addition to the Russian war, and these require China to devote great energy to deal with.

Especially after China attacked the Russian Republic, unlike Chen Jingyun's expectations, the United States and Britain did not readily support Chen Jingyun, but they did not say against it, but remained silent!

However, it was this silence that made Chen Jingyun worried, worried that if the United States, Britain and the United Kingdom intervened in it, the reaction of the other side would be stronger.

Since last year, China has already believed that sooner or later China will go to war with Soviet Russia, and after Germany attacked Soviet Russia this year, he believes that China will join forces with Germany, and China's large-scale troop deployment and mobilization in the northern region have also proved this from the side, coupled with China's strong and military actions in Southeast Asia such as Burma, so that China also believes that China is going to war with Britain.

According to their predetermined idea, China and the two countries would join forces to challenge the British and American forces in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, and China would wage war against Soviet Russia in the north, and China would also form an alliance, which would eventually lead to a military alliance between China and Germany.

But what they didn't expect was that instead of attacking Britain, let alone Soviet Russia, China was hacking its own ally, the Russian Republic.

China's actions put Ben in an extremely passive situation, knowing that since China had attacked the Russian Republic, it must have reached some agreement with Soviet Russia, and if China did not go to war with Soviet Russia, it meant that China could not form an alliance with Germany.

When China did not form an alliance with Germany, even though China had contradictions and disputes with Britain in Southeast Asia, whether it would go to war with Britain was another matter.

And if China does not go to war with Britain and the United States, it means that it needs to fight against Britain and the United States alone.

Even if he says, "No matter how arrogant I am, I am still as anxious as an ant on a hot pot after discovering this situation, and now it doesn't matter whether China attacks Russia or not, for this, it needs China to confront Britain and the United States."

For this reason, the diplomats of the book were frequently engaged in Nanking in the past two days to persuade China to declare war on Britain and the United States.

On the other hand, Britain and the Americans dissuaded China from joining their anti-fascist alliance, because China's strength was too strong, and whether China was biased towards the United States and Britain, it would have a major impact on the situation in Asia.

China is so important that Britain and the Americans have to pay attention to it.

Even in order to win over China, the British made major concessions on the issues of Hong Kong and Burma, which they had always insisted on, and even withdrew their troops from Hong Kong.

Now the question of the status of Hong Kong has become extremely complicated, because Hong Kong is still nominally a British dependency, and he said, 'Ben even began to prepare to attack Hong Kong, but was persuaded by China, but China also demanded to the British that British troops withdraw from Hong Kong, so as to avoid the fire of war in Hong Kong.'

In such a complicated environment, Britain finally made concessions on the Hong Kong issue, which had been insisting for many years, and agreed to let China take back Hong Kong ahead of schedule, but in exchange China had to ensure that Hong Kong was not used by the military, especially the navy.

China naturally agreed to this request, and even if they did not say that China would not allow its own ports to be garrisoned by foreign ships.

On October 19, not long after the outbreak of the Pacific War and the Sino-Russian War, China and Britain signed an agreement on the return of Hong Kong, and the next day Chinese troops began to station in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, which has been occupied by the British for nearly 100 years, has finally returned to the embrace of the motherland!

However, the return of Hong Kong did not make China give up its support for the United Kingdom, which is still very important to China at this stage, and it is still China's established policy to support the continuation of the war with Britain and the United States, and the return of Hong Kong is only for China not to declare war on Britain and the United States.

In fact, in this world war, Chen Jingyun does not intend to form an alliance with anyone, and China must be a warring force to ensure that the maximum benefits are reaped!