Chapter 437: Preparing to Germany
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Even if the light machine gun is purchased externally, the price is roughly from 220 to 300 yuan. The cost of mortars is about 1,000 oceans, and basically money may not be able to buy them, and the better arsenals such as the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Hubei Gun Factory are almost all under the jurisdiction of the government.
But he didn't even have his own equipment, let alone sell it to Han Fuyu. As for the rifle, Han Fuyu can still make it tremblingly, but what is the quality...... It can only be hehehe.
Compared with the quality of the arsenals in the three eastern provinces, which even the Japanese highly praised, Han Fuyu's own rifle is simply scum! And the cost of each rifle is twenty or thirty yuan, not cheap! Although the light machine gun Han Fuyu could not be built, it could be bought. In comparison, the quality and price, Wei Sumin did not give them a high price.
"Done! Since the brother said that he is sincere, then I should go down on behalf of the commander! "Li Zongbi didn't lower the price anymore, he is not stupid! Naturally, I know that this is because the Wehrmacht is cheap to them, and if they drive people away at a lower price, it will be really regrettable!
After the two agreed, Li Zongbi went back and telegraphed to Han Fuyu to get the money by the way. A thousand rifles is 15,000 oceans. And five mortars are 2,500 oceans, counting 1,300 oceans of light machine guns.
If you don't count the ammunition, it's already almost 20,000 yuan, and it's a lot of money. Li Zongbi still has to talk to Han Fuyu after all, of course! Among them, he will still give Wei Sumin a part of the kickback.
This is an undeclared secret of the Republic of China, and those who should be given kickbacks cannot be withheld. So Li Zongbi counted the 1,000 oceans of kickbacks, and a total of 20,000 oceans were needed for the report to Han Fuyu.
Han Fuyu also trusted him, and without saying a word, he sent him a telegram! and asked him to withdraw 20,000 oceans from the treasury in Texas for payment, and at the same time let Li Zongbi have a good relationship with Wei Sumin. When the Wehrmacht has any benefits, he will first follow his old Han.
Li Zongbi naturally comprehended it, and after extracting the ocean, he took the ocean to the garrison of the National Defense Force to trade. Naturally, this kind of transaction is carried out secretly by everyone, and no one will advertise it.
In the evening, Wei Sumin finally collected the guns and artillery sold to Han Fuyu. The main thing is that the cubs of the 13th Division are not willing to sell their guns at all.
If it weren't for the commander-in-chief's order, the gang would have run back to Mukden with their guns. Wei Sumin and Guo Pengyun have been working for a long time. The boys barely handed over their guns.
At the end, there were still a few machine gun squad cubs crying, and artillerymen. That expression was as if Guo Pengyun and other chiefs had robbed their mother-in-law.
Fortunately, the replenished troops had arrived, and they brought the guns and artillery that Tu Qianjun had ordered them to bring. The soldiers who were replenished with new guns and new artillery made their faces look better.
Got the guns. And Li Zongbi, who has been tested, is naturally overjoyed! These guns are well maintained, and the number is enough to arm a regiment, and it has to be the main regiment!
You must know that Han Fuyu's current Third Route Army has five divisions and one brigade, with 40 regiments and a total of more than 60,000 people. But there were only two artillery regiments, an artillery regiment and a heavy mortar regiment.
It's just that these two make Han Fuyu's baby can't do it. The 20th Division, which Han Fuyu valued the most, was equipped with these two artillery regiments. The remaining four divisions did not even have a single artillery.
After the acceptance of the guns, Li Zongbi hurriedly took the people and picked them up and left. He could see it clearly, and the eyes of those Wehrmacht soldiers could breathe fire! If they don't leave, the Wehrmacht may have to rush over and snatch the guns back.
This made Wei Sumin have to appease these cubs again, and explain that the victims are not happy! This is to have a relationship with Han Fuyu and them, so that they don't embarrass the victims. After all, the Wehrmacht is only in Texas now, but there are still many victims in other parts of Shandong.
When the soldiers of the National Defense Force heard Wei Sumin say this, they nodded in agreement. After that, he hugged his new gun and got acquainted, and Wei Sumin himself sighed. In fact, he himself was a little puzzled why the commander-in-chief would let them sell arms to Han Fuyu and others. Especially artillery.
"This time the Japanese were repulsed by us. At least for the time being, they don't dare to have any idea of our Manchuria! In the headquarters of Fengtian City, Tu Qianjun said in a deep voice to Lin Bao, the commander of the Fourth Army Corps, Lan Yang, the commander of the First Army, and Su Zongzhe, the commander of the First Army, who came to the meeting.
"And as we grow. In particular, the army's artillery, the air force's warplanes, the navy's warships and other equipment are equipped with troops, and they dare not easily start a war with us! Everyone couldn't help but smile when they heard this, indeed! Now the entire Wehrmacht is undergoing a big redress!
The Air Force's P-26 has been licensed and can produce most of its components in-house. However, the engine still needs to be imported, and the production line of the engine is already on the way. When the time comes, he will come to Manchuria with the newly recruited American workers.
The United States was also worried that the powerful Japanese navy would attack Manchuria from the sea, so at the suggestion of Eisenhower, who was now the military attache in Manchuria and dean of the Armored College of the Northeast National Defense University, the United States hesitated to sell a special artillery to Manchuria.
This special artillery is the M1919 16-inch coastal defense gun!
From 1922, the U.S. Army deployed seven 16-inch shore guns, designated as the M1919 type, and later the United States canceled the construction of Lexington-class battleships under the Washington Naval Treaty. The 20 16-inch naval guns, originally intended for battleships, were also handed over to the Army for the manufacture of the M1919 shore gun.
Although the army used about 10 M1919 guns to arrange shore defense, the remaining 10 guns encountered an economic crisis when they were ready to be laid out. It had to be stopped due to problems with funding and congressional importance. As a result, the remaining ten M1919 models have remained in the army's warehouse.
Eisenhower once compiled information about World War I because he knew that there were these powerful shore defense guns in the US military storehouses. Rather than letting these big guys see the light of day in the storeroom, it's better to let them do their part.
But this kind of shore defense artillery is not cheap! The cost of one is $520,000! Who called this cannon too big?! That's a whole 406mm caliber gun! Not counting the base, the gun body alone is about twenty meters long! But the range of this artillery is long enough, and the direct range can reach as much as 40 kilometers!
After a tense discussion, Tu Qianjun and Yan Zhengqing gritted their teeth and bought all the ten coastal defense guns! The Americans weren't too dark. It was mainly the merchants who hoped that Manchuria would protect their interests.
So under their lobbying, the US Congress and President Hoover sold all ten M1919 coastal defense guns for five million dollars.
Now the guns have been shipped and are coming to Manchuria with the engine production line and newly recruited workers.
"Lei Gong beats persimmons - pick up soft pinch!" Junzi said in a deep voice to the generals present: "Believe me, the Japanese are not dead yet!" They're going to make a comeback, but their first fight won't be against us......"
It should be Shandong, Pingjin area! The generals immediately made up for Tu Qianjun's words in their hearts. The Japanese will attack again. However, their first attack may not be Manchuria. Manchuria has too many interests involved, and the fighting power of the Wehrmacht is not weak! Even gradually strengthening!
With these in mind, then the first attack of the Japanese will undoubtedly be the Pingjin area and the Shandong coast! A rash attack on Shanghai will inevitably cause a backlash, but the Shandong and Pingjin regions will not rebound too much because of the limited interests of various countries. However, there is almost no danger in these areas. Either the military is too weak.
"Sell him some weapons to Han Fuyu, just hoping that he can be stronger. Be prepared a little more. Speaking of this, Tu Qianjun was a little emotional. Speaking of Han Fuyu, all that comes to mind is a bunch of jokes and running away during the anti-Japanese period.
But Lao Han really didn't run away without a fight, saying that he gave up Jinan without a fight in order to preserve his strength. But it is not to say that he does not resist Japan.
When the Japanese army attacked Shandong, Han Fuyu lost three divisions in a bloody battle of Dezhou! At that time, Jiang Zhongzheng also transferred Han Fuyu's artillery. How do you call this a fight?! Moreover, as Jiang Zhongzheng, to tell the truth, he almost did not replenish soldiers to non-descendant troops.
Han Fuyu knew this very well, and the misery of the entire Sichuan Army and the revocation of the number later confirmed this from the side.
The 43rd Army of the Sichuan Army, Guo Rudong, one of the best Chinese troops in the Songhu War of Resistance in 37 years, only 600 people remained in the whole army at the end of the campaign, and then transferred to Hukou, Jiangxi, Pengze and other areas to reorganize, in 1938 the army was ordered to garrison the Yangtze River Madang defense line. Hit hard again, after which nothing was added. The formation of the army was abolished, and its main force, the 26th Division, was changed to be under the direct jurisdiction of the Military Commission of the State Government.
This shows the chairman's attitude toward "miscellaneous." Or we can think of it this way - the chairman of the committee does not necessarily regard the war of resistance as a means to eliminate dissidents!
Tu Qianjun gave Han Fuyu some arms at this time, in fact, he also hoped that if there was really a war, then he Han Fuyu would be able to strengthen a little! Don't suffer some losses and diarrhea.
"Now our guns and artillery can reach the level of mass production. Then it is normal to support some troops in the Guannai. Speaking of this, Tu Qianjun suddenly smiled: "Change some money, it's good to change the clothes of the brothers!" ”
Hearing Tu Qianjun say this, everyone couldn't help but laugh! For now, the change of equipment of the Wehrmacht has gone extremely smoothly. The main units of the 1st, 1st and 4th armies were reequipped with Thomson submachine guns, 17-year-old LMGs and new replicas of the successful Italian Czech LMGs.
The Tiger assault rifle is now mainly equipped with a part of the troops, and there is no large-scale reloading. As the main rifle, it is still the old Liao 13-year-old 7.9mm rifle.
In the case of the current Wehrmacht, the staffing of ordinary troops is: 10 men per squad. Including squad leader, 1 machine gun shooter, 2 sub-shooters, 2 submachine gunners and 4 riflemen.
The squad armament consisted of a light machine gun, consisting of one shooter and two secondary shooters with ammunition, all three of whom were armed with self-defence pistols and sometimes rifles during combat.
2 submachine gunners were armed with Thomson submachine guns, grenades. The remaining 4 riflemen, each with a Liao 13-year style 7.9mm rifle. At the platoon level, there will be an additional ten-person group, equipped with three Taisho 10-style grenadier canisters as fire support.
The company level includes the three platoons mentioned above. And a platoon of heavy machine guns armed with three 13-year-old heavy machine guns was added! And at the battalion level, there is an additional mortar platoon. It has six 80mm mortars of the Liao 15-year type.
At the regimental level, this was the beginning of the armament of heavy artillery. In each regiment, there is a howitzer and a company of anti-aircraft artillery. The howitzer company has 12 75-mm mountain guns of the Liao 14-year type, and the battle defense artillery company is equipped with five 37-mm anti-aircraft guns of the Liao 14-year type.
In addition, there is a communications company and a transport company with a field radio.
The Wehrmacht, on the other hand, broke the two-brigade and four-regiment system of the conventional army of this era, and completely existed as a three-regiment and one-division system. That is, three regiments form a division. Brigades, on the other hand, do not appear in the divisional sequence.
The division directly under the division has 1 artillery battalion and 3 howitzer companies; 1 anti-aircraft artillery company; 1 anti-aircraft artillery battery.
1 engineer battalion under its jurisdiction; 1 communications battalion; 1 baggage battalion; 1 reconnaissance battalion directly under it; One transport battalion and 1 battalion divisional field hospital.
The fact that the National Defense Force was able to change its outfit so smoothly was, on the one hand, the foundation laid by Zhang Xueliang's father and son. But more often than not, Tu Qianjun imported workers and factories from the United States to supply a large number of skilled workers, technicians and engineers.
And including the Anshan Iron Mine, which was originally occupied by the Japanese, was taken back by Tu Qianjun, which was also the basis for him to complete a series of costume changes at such a fast speed.
"The battle is always going to be fought!" Tu Qianjun said in a deep voice to these heavy generals under his command: "Don't think that we still have a lot of time, the Japanese will launch again at any time!" ”
From Su Zongzhe to Lan Yang, Tu Qianjun looked at them and said in a deep voice: "This disaster relief must be done well, and things that disturb the people must not happen!" Also, everything that should be exterminated will be exterminated! Don't leave anything behind......"
Saying that, Tu Qianjun smiled and said in a deep voice: "At the end of March, I want to go to Germany!" You have to guard your home, and you should train the soldiers! Kill those who should be killed, and find my father if there is a military problem. If you have a civil problem, come to me teacher. Got it?! ”
"Yes!!" The generals stood up and shouted at Tu Qianjun!
Just when Tu Qianjun was speaking, his teacher Yan Zhengqing was very busy! The flood of victims needs resettlement, food, land and distribution! Everything made this old man busy!