20_20434 Fortunately, the performance of these American-made trucks is also excellent, and there is no degradation in performance when carrying five tons of three-ton loads. An American-made three-ton Wanguo truck can be loaded with two Soviet-made 2.5-ton trucks or Japanese cars. The sufficient capacity of American trucks makes the actual capacity of each directly subordinate automobile regiment far larger than it seems.

Despite the fact that in peacetime each regiment can only be dispatched one battalion. The mobilization of various materials depends more on the railway. However, in non-war times, it is mainly used to cooperate with the railway for material transfer, and to transport ammunition and food for the next operation to various secret material reserve points close to the frontier, but the transportation capacity is also sufficient. After all, in non-war times, there is still plenty of time.

On the one hand, this not only saves valuable gasoline but also reduces the daily wear and tear of the vehicle. Moreover, the two battalions sharing the equipment of one battalion can also improve the familiarity of those new drivers with the equipment. It's better than a regiment, but because the gasoline can't be used, most of the people are idle.

The reason for this establishment is that the supply of gasoline is too strong by Jiangbei Ka, and a considerable amount of inventory must be maintained. At the same time, the number of trucks should also be guaranteed to be in reserve, so that they can be quickly replenished after a large number of battle losses occur in wartime. It is impossible for all imported American trucks to be equipped at once.

You must know that although the planes of the little devils are not as many as those of the Americans when they resisted US aggression and aided Korea a few years later. Throwing bombs, too, is as generous as the Americans. But the little devil pilot's fate is also incomparable to that of the Americans. Plus the long-range artillery cooperation of the Japanese army. According to Yang Zhenyiqiqi's requirement to estimate the worst outcome, it is also necessary to maintain a certain number of trucks in stock.

Although the Northeast Bureau had obtained Yang Zhen's consent at the beginning of the year, it had already sent a telegram to Patten Dingjie, who was now in the United States and was serving as a purchasing representative while treating stomach problems, and ordered Wanguo to produce 3,000 trucks with a load of five tons and 5,000 trucks with a load of three tons. After taking over the first batch of American automobiles, the excellent performance of these trucks produced by the International Corporation greatly satisfied the logistics department of the military region.

Therefore, when ordering follow-up trucks, they directly specified the production of Wanguo. As for the equally excellent products of the Stibek Company, the logistics department of the military district, after careful consideration, demanded and even threatened Pearson in every possible way, and promised to coordinate part of the loan, before placing another order for 3,000 vehicles.

Although another batch of trucks will arrive by June, for Yang Zhen, these trucks are far from enough compared to the needs of future operations. Moreover, these scheduled trucks cannot all be reserved for combat units. The large factories that will start construction at the beginning of this year also need a large number of transport vehicles.

It can be said that half of the second batch of 11,000 trucks ordered in the follow-up order can be allocated to the troops. As for US aid, Yang Zhen knows that it will not be his turn until at least the middle of next year. However, fortunately, the troops have these trucks now, as long as they do not face explosive growth and the rapid expansion of the establishment, they are barely enough to use.

Although the various units are concerned about the logistics department's "fake public and private interests", they leave the American-made trucks with excellent performance to their own automobile regiments. Except for the artillery crews, which were all American-made trucks, the rest of the field units still used Soviet-made trucks with poor performance and Japanese-made trucks with small carrying capacity, and there were many complaints.

But in the current situation, the use of captured Japanese-made trucks and relatively bulky Soviet-made trucks with a small load capacity is much better than the original equipment that could only be carried on the shoulders of people. Especially after hearing that this equipment plan was decided by Yang Zhen himself, no one dared to speak out.

Although Yang Zhen, the de facto No. 1 of the entire Anti-Japanese Federation, is about the same age as the battalion and company commander under these column commanders and division commanders. But after the battles in the past few years, no one dared to question Yang Zhen's decision, whether it was the commanders of various columns or those division commanders.

Fortunately, in other respects, the military region has also given various divisions a kind of compensation in disguise. Although there were no American trucks with excellent performance, they were supplemented with a large number of high-quality horses and mules with greater strength than horses to be used as pack horses, which was also considered to be compensated in other aspects.

In terms of the ration of horses for transporting horses, all divisions and animal units below the division were equipped with captured high-quality horses and Mongolian horses collected after the recovery of the Longjiang region. After these high-quality pack horses were in place, they effectively made up for the lack of the number and performance of the vehicles of the troops below the regimental level. Enough to meet the transport capacity of the divisional troops.

You must know that no one dares to play any trick in the formation of these animal transport units to sell dog meat on the head of sheep and turn these transport units into combat units. When the divisions were reorganized, after the transport horses allocated by the military region arrived, the commanders of each division honestly formed their own animal transport units in accordance with the requirements of the military region.

The number of cars, although not much, was enough to transport shells and ammunition. However, thanks to the efforts of the military districts, the number of pack horses of the troops at the regimental level is absolutely sufficient. The number of horse-drawn carts, including those below the regimental level, to make up for the shortage of automobiles is also quite sufficient.

Since the recovery of the puppet Manchurian province of Longjiang, which borders the provinces of Hung Yen and is rich in horses with the Mongols, the shortage of pack horses has been fundamentally alleviated. Although because the time is still too short, the number of qualified war horses is not much. However, the number of pack horses available is quite sufficient.

After the recovery of the puppet Manchurian province of Longjiang, which was a relatively large number of Mongols and was now a developed pastoral region, the tight supply of horses was also fundamentally alleviated. In particular, a large number of new horse breeds were captured and painstakingly improved by the Japanese on the basis of Mongolian horses.

After the 918 Incident, the Japanese recruited a large number of horses from Mongolian herdsmen in the northeast region for their own use in order to obtain local materials, and it can be said that they made great efforts to improve Mongolian horse breeds. Taking advantage of the horse breeds that his country had spent a lot of money on the introduction of Western horse breeds, he introduced British horses to make the same improvement to Mongolian horses according to the method of transforming his own country's horses in those years. A large number of excellent horses have been bred.

However, before it could be promoted, the entire Longjiang and Heihe regions, which were adjacent to the Mongolian pastures, were lost. The promotion did not succeed, but Yang Zhen picked up a big bargain. In just a few Kwantung Army horse farms on both sides of the Nenjiang River, more than 20,000 new horses with the advantages of Mongolian horses resistant to roughage and good at long-distance marching, but their transport capacity is much larger than that of Mongolian horses.

Yang Zhen knew that the most famous horse in Northeast China in the later generations was the Mongolian horse that the Japanese introduced after the 918 Incident, which was improved by the British horse, and mixed with the Russian Orlov good stallion and the Later Baikal stallion. But the real old story is the Mongolian horse, which the Japanese improved with English and Arabian horses.

After getting these excellent improved horses, Yang Zhen can almost be described as ecstatic. In addition to the transfer of 3,000 horses to the cavalry unit for expansion. He kept all the rest as stallions, provided that the existing Mongolian horses were sufficient. As for the use of troops, they will be replaced by relatively inferior Mongolian horses for the time being.

It is true that the Mongolian horse's pulling strength is a little worse than that of these improved horses. But the endurance and roughage-tolerant nature are incomparable to the average horse. And the most important thing is that the number is huge, there are hundreds of thousands of horses in the Nenjiang area alone. Even if it is overnumbered, it is enough for the troops.

However, although these excellent horses could not be used by the troops for a while. However, Yang Zhen believes that as long as he relies on the high-quality grassland of the Nenjiang Plain and the large Mongolian horse herd to cultivate carefully, he can obtain a large number of excellent horses in two years at most. When the time comes, the Mongolian horses with relatively poor pulling strength can be eliminated.

There are a large number of Mongolian horses and a large number of ready-made excellent stallions. In addition, before last summer's battle, the military region imported 1,000 high-quality stallions from Jiangbei, such as the Don River and Zabaikal, and with the cooperation of Jiangbei experts, the new horse breeds improved with the Mongolian horses commonly used in the northeast region, and the tens of thousands of new horses bred last year and the thousands of mules that were deliberately cultivated gradually entered the mature period.

These seized horses, as well as the high-quality horses bred by themselves, plus a considerable number of Mongolian horses and northeastern indigenous horses in the Nenjiang area. Of course, there are also those mules that are not capable of breeding, but are much more powerful than ordinary horses. The army's demand for excellent pack horses has been fundamentally alleviated.

It was precisely because he had a sufficient number of horses at hand for the first time that Yang Zhen decided to adopt a mixed method to solve the growing dependence of the troops on logistics and transportation capabilities. According to the current transport capacity of the troops, there is no quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun that can only be towed by trucks, and only a twin that can be towed by a single horse.

Based on the current situation of the troops, Yang Zhen no longer cares much about whether the quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun can be made. For him, as long as a weapon can fit the current situation of the army, he is enough. Of course, the quadruple assembly should still be carried out as a technical reserve, so that in the near future, it can be put into production as soon as possible under the condition of demand.

The performance of the twin-mounted 14-mm anti-aircraft machine gun produced made Yang Zhen extremely satisfied. The demonstration of the 57-mm anti-aircraft gun that followed was also quite successful. Although there is no automatic compass and anti-aircraft gun firing director, the performance in other aspects is quite good.

Compared with the Soviet-made 37 antiaircraft guns and 85-millimeter antiaircraft guns, which have begun to be equipped one after another in the military region, they are lighter in weight, have a longer firing range, and are more powerful. With the 85-mm anti-aircraft gun, it is enough to deal with the Type 97 medium bomber, which is the main medium bomber of the Kwantung Army, and takes on the task of air defense in important areas.

The anti-aircraft guns, which also belong to the column, together with the Soviet-made single-barreled 37-millimeter antiaircraft guns, are also enough to support the task of strategic air defense at the two levels of the army and division.

This high-performance anti-aircraft gun came out, although it still lacked some key things, and its performance was somewhat reduced compared with later generations. But with the MiG-3 fighter, Yang Zhen can no longer worry about the air defense of the hinterland of the base area in the future. Yang Zhen, who put down the binoculars, not only secretly praised his memory, but also praised Xiong Dazhen. It's been so long, and after two lives, I still remember these things clearly.

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