Chapter 932: Tangjin Landing Three
readx; Although China's navy and air force are very large, whether it is inside China or outside the world, it is China's huge army strength that is most deeply touched by China's [***] strength, and now China has not yet carried out the mobilization of the national surname, and now China has not yet carried out the mobilization of the national surname, if it is really to the life and death bald China to carry out the mobilization of the national surname, with China's huge population base and the world's second largest industrial base, there is no problem at all in arming 20 or 30 million ground troops. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although China's huge population has caused great pressure on domestic agriculture, it has also brought great advantages to other countries in China, a large population means that more troops can be mobilized, and a large population base also means that even if China has recruited tens of millions of army troops, the domestic population can still meet the normal production of domestic industry and agriculture.
This demographic advantage is something that other countries do not have! You must know that because of the small population in the United States, after tens of millions of young adults were recruited to join the army, the domestic labor force was extremely scarce, forcing Americans to start encouraging women to go out of the family and into factories. China, on the other hand, has no such impact at all, and a large number of rural people are waiting in line to move to the cities to work!
In the 40s, the overall situation of China was very similar to that of China after the reform and opening up in later generations, the rapid expansion of industrial scale led to the rapid expansion of urbanization, a large number of rural people poured into the cities with their families, and entered the major factories for employment, and those young people who went to junior high school or technical secondary school or above in remote areas regarded it as a dream to go to the big city!
This situation can be seen from the fact that the Shanghai film industry has successively released related films in the 40s, and even the term 'Shanghai Dream' once appeared.
When there is a huge population and a huge industrial base, who can get a glimpse of such a country?
At present, China has not yet mobilized the whole country, and the troops participating in the war are still the same units formed before the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese war, and the number of troops invested in the war is not even half, but this alone is enough to make many Chinese generals full of confidence in victory.
Chen Yanjia did not doubt the ability of his Third Army to conquer Kyushu Island, but the premise was that his Third Army had to land ashore, but now his main force had not yet landed ashore, and the three marine divisions that had landed in the early stage had already been violently counterattacked.
This unexpected situation forced Chen Yanjia to adopt a more conservative strategy, abandoning the tactics of quickly conquering Zhanggao Mountain, and instead retreating, trying to let the three marine divisions hold out for one night with the strong support of naval guns, and wait until tomorrow, the First Army of the Third Army will be able to land at least one division of troops, and at the same time, the air force will be dispatched again after dawn to give the ground troops strong ground support. In this way, the initial operation of the landing can be considered a success.
At the same time, the Chinese Air Force dispatched a large number of strategic bombers, in addition to Tangjin and the surrounding areas, to carry out intensive bombing, although the bombing was not aimed at those clear military targets, but it was an intensive bombardment of cities and transportation hubs, and these actions were used to slow down the reinforcement of other troops.
In addition to the three Marine Divisions, the First Army, the Thirteenth Army, and the First Panzer Corps, with a total strength of more than 300,000 troops, needed time to land.
In order to land on Kyushu Island, the Chinese side is expected to prepare to commit three marine divisions, one armored division, two mechanized infantry divisions, and six motorized infantry divisions. There are 12 divisions and three artillery brigades, with a total strength of more than 300,000 troops, more than 700 tanks, more than 500 infantry fighting vehicles, and tens of thousands of vehicles of various kinds, in addition to nearly 200 self-propelled guns and more than 700 towed guns.
In terms of the ratio of troops and weapons and equipment, the level of the Chinese army is already an absolute first-class level, and this is also the great result of China's policy of leaning troops over the years.
At present, among the various participating countries, there are not hundreds of divisions, and the strength of Soviet Russia and Germany is only a few hundred divisions and hundreds of divisions, but China now has more than 120 divisions, plus less than 130 marine divisions, which is less than that of the Americans. However, unlike other belligerent countries, every division in China is now fully equipped with troops, and except for a few special units, motorized units have been fully popularized, and mechanized units have been popularized. Even an ordinary infantry division is attached to a tank battalion, supported by more than seventy tanks.
To some extent, even ordinary infantry divisions in China can be regarded as heavy troops of other countries!
In the 40s, especially after the Sino-Russian War, the Chinese army has developed towards heavy duty in an all-round way, and the original military scruples about the mountainous terrain in Asia that are not suitable for heavy troops to fight have also been dispelled, because in Zuo Yugang's words: Push tens of thousands of tanks and more than 100,000 artillery pieces up, and play mobile combat with them, just crush them directly!
In the simplest words: above firepower!
Otherwise, the army would not say that it is planning to expand the 12 guns of each battalion of the divisional artillery regiment to 18 guns, although this plan has not yet been implemented by the whole army, but the army has already carried out preliminary experiments in some units participating in the operation, and the ninth division of the first armored army is the first pilot unit, and their divisional artillery regiment has four artillery battalions, each artillery battalion has 18 self-propelled guns, and the ninth division alone has 36 105-mm self-propelled guns and 36 155-mm self-propelled guns. Together with more than 150 tanks and more than 200 infantry fighting vehicles of the two tank battalions of the 9th Division, the combat effectiveness of the 9th Division is enough to fight the two motorized infantry divisions of the Chinese Army.
On 10 November, the second day of the Tangjin landing, as the 24 hours were busy, under the busy green of thousands of officers and men of the Second Heavy Engineering Regiment of the Navy and the Seventh Heavy Engineering Regiment of the Army under the jurisdiction of the Third Army, and hundreds of pieces of machinery and equipment, a super-large temporary wharf had been erected, and the temporary wharf had been stretched from the beach to a depth of more than 10 meters.
With the completion of the erection of the temporary dock, a large number of specially designed tank carriers and armored vehicle carriers put down the huge bow deck, and then a T15 tank or self-propelled gun drove out of the transport ship, and then boarded the dock plank road, dozens of tons of big guys walked on it so that the plank road of the temporary dock seemed to break at any time, due to the limited carrying capacity of the plank road, there can only be one tank on it in a certain distance, and it is simply impossible to carry more tanks on it at the same time.
After crossing the long pier to the beach, these tanks could not walk around, but walked on the beach on an iron-plated road specially designed for armored vehicles to walk. Because there are too many kinds of heavy equipment and equipment unloaded in a short period of time, and the road on the beach is absolutely not easy to walk, the landing force brought a large number of iron or wooden planks specially used to pave the road early on, so as to prevent the vehicles from getting stuck in the sand and not being able to get up after landing, and even more so to avoid making a mess of the entire beach.
Lieutenant Colonel Yang Ji climbed out of his T5 command tank, while taking out a cigarette from his pocket, while looking at the surrounding and distant beaches that seem to be chaotic, the beach is full of messy materials and blown up weapons, Lieutenant General Yang Ji's vision can clearly see a T19 amphibious tank is lying on the beach, its barrel has been detached from the turret, the direction of the gun muzzle has been directly inserted into the beach, the entire hull is burned after the violent explosion, black, The layer of rubber on the detached tracks had been burned away, leaving only a slippery piece of iron.
Not far away is a large tent, at the top of which is a huge red cross figure, and the wounded soldiers are constantly being transported by jeep and then sent to this temporary ambulance station, and there are many more wounded who have been initially treated and carried away from the beach by landing craft, and then carried on several hospital ships on the sea, where they will be operated on and treated, and after the initial stabilization of their injuries, they will be transported back to China for further treatment. In order to meet the rescue capability of the large number of casualties that occurred in the landing operations and subsequent operations, the landing force transferred a large number of medical personnel from the navy and the army, in addition to the free division-level field hospitals, and in addition to the existing medical ships of the navy, several transport ships were also refitted, forming the largest maritime hospital in the history of the earth.
It has countless unexpected equipment and medicines, as well as more than 100 surgeons with excellent medical skills, and thousands of nurses! It is worth noting that only some of these doctors are active military doctors trained by the military, and a considerable number of them are doctors who support temporary participation in the army, including many chief surgeons in major hospitals in China.
In China, although the middle class is not interested in being a soldier, it is completely different to become an officer, but it is not so easy to apply for a military school to become an officer. However, some specific professions, such as doctors, if they are very easy to serve in wartime, and generally get a relatively high military rank, coupled with the domestic tradition of excellent military, many doctors are more keen to join the army in wartime volunteer service, and generally take pride in the military rank obtained, and after a long time of this tradition, people are accustomed to this, and when choosing to see a doctor, especially a surgeon, they will pay more attention to the doctor's service experience. And this situation has directly led to more doctors, whether they want to or not, they will take a few years out to serve in the military.
At this time, the hospital of several hospital ships in the landing fleet had already received more than 1,000 wounded, and some of the wounded yesterday had already returned to China on transport ships after preliminary treatment, and for them the war was over.
However, for Yang Ji, this war has just begun!