Ping'an County.

The sun in early September was still scorching, but Kazuki Yamamoto and Shinji Kosa, who had the strength of a brigade around Ping'an County, were at the gate of Ping'an County, facing the scorching sun, looking forward to it.

Because today, four Type 92 105 cannons will arrive.

This is the true strength of the Imperial Army.

It is also the core of the plan for the Ping'an County Imperial Army to counterattack the independent regiment.

However, the expressions of the two were different at this time, Yamamoto was full of anticipation, while Shinji Kosa was hiding behind, his face gloomy.

The Great Japanese Imperial Osa vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

The fierce battle with the independent regiment began in early July, and it has been more than two months now, during which a large number of imperial recruits have been sent from afar to participate in the fierce battle, at first it was okay, at least the recruits have also undergone a month of training, equipped with imperial standard light weapons, and eliminated the unqualified through actual combat, and the last survivors are elite warriors.

Although the losses are large, they are within acceptable limits.

Yamamoto Daisa's spiritual encouragement through strengthening the understanding of bushido, as well as awarding honors, coupled with good food, kept morale very good.

Recently, however, a large number of newly drafted recruits have suddenly arrived, and some of these recruits have not even completed the most basic weapons training, and the soldiers are even more inferior, old, weak, sick and disabled, and there are even quite a few untouchables on the peninsula, and some of them are even equipped with weapons that have been captured in the Republic of China guns before, and these even inferior soldiers have participated in the fierce battle against Li Yunlong, and their losses have increased suddenly, only a lot more than before.

And it's still being sent.

In just two months, the number of jade crushers has exceeded 6,000.

At this rate, Ping'an County may end up throwing in the lives of the warriors of the Ten Thousand Empires, or even more, although they are all almost useless inferior recruits, and a large number of elite troops capable of fighting have been tempered.

The top must have acquiesced as well.

The empire was severely underarmed with troops and severely lacked resources.

With the help of actual combat, it is a good thing for the top management to eliminate unqualified recruits, quickly select elite soldiers who can fight from these almost unusable inferior recruits, and save manpower and material resources to train superior soldiers.

Anyway, it is only necessary to provide the most basic guns and ammunition and a few grenades, and the food is enough for Ping'an County, and in this kind of battle, there are very few seriously wounded.

But in the end, someone must be responsible for the imperial army with a minimum of more than 10,000 jade shatters in Ping'an County.

And he, as a commander, is naturally the best candidate······

Thinking of this, Shinji Kosa sighed deeply.

No wonder there were so many generals in the First Army, and none of them came to command this battle, and he only had a big Zuo to serve as the actual commander of Ping'an County, and no one objected.

It is no wonder that up to now, not a single unit of the First Army and the North China Front that really has combat effectiveness has come.

It turned out to be this reason.

He was sure that in the end, if the training was successful, someone would definitely come to pick peaches.

What to do?

Shinji Kosa was naturally unwilling to be used, and began to think about countermeasures in his heart.

At this time, a convoy appeared on the road in the distance, which made Yamamoto breathe a sigh of relief, and the roadside bomb method that the independent regiment could not defend against made him very nervous about the safety of the heavy artillery brigade.

I'm afraid that someone will blow it up on the way.

"Jia Zuojun, the independent regiment road has been repaired for fifteen kilometers, and it is almost close to the fourth stronghold, so it is time for us to counterattack next."

Although Yamamoto is strong enough, his poor emotional intelligence makes him not understand the twists and turns in this, so naturally he didn't expect so much, but he just thought that the opposition voice was suppressed by General Yoshimoto.

"Hey."

Shinji Kosa bowed his head.

"Hmph..."

Yamamoto's tone was grim:

"Type 92 105 cannon, dead weight 3.7 tons, maximum range of 18 kilometers, this time we have four, and this time there are very many shells, a month later, four more will arrive, and more shells."

"I want to know how Li Yunlong responds to the shelling of his base area by long-range cannons."

Hearing this, Shinji Kosa also had a flash in his eyes.

Li Yunlong is engaged in large-scale production and construction in the deep mountainous area opposite Ping'an County, and there are not only explosives factories, but also machinery factories, and a large number of factories, which cannot be bombed because they are equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, but once long-range cannon shelling begins, it will inevitably have a huge impact on the stability of his base areas.

Although Yamamoto is the supreme commander, this one is valued by General Yoshimoto, and his research is still special operations, so it will not have an impact, but he is different, so many jade shatters of the imperial army, he must end up miserable.

Now, there is no way back for him.

The only chance is to get enough records and get enough credit in the battle against Li Yunlong's base area.

Although Li Yunlong's troops are very strong, this time his subordinates are also good, and after a while, a wing of the army stationed in Mongolia will arrive, and the strength is enough. Moreover, there have been other windfalls for the Imperial Army recently.

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The next day.

Separate regiments.

Regiment headquarters.

The three regiment commanders of Ding Kong and Li, Zhang Dabiao of the Independent Regiment, and other military cadres were holding the meeting, but as for the political commissars, they were busy solving some problems in the process of developing the base areas, so they did not attend.

"Recently, the devils have sent to infiltrate and infiltrate recruits."

Zhang Dabiao spoke first:

"And these new devils are even worse than the previous ones, some of them are still equipped with captured weapons and equipment, but the number is very large, according to the news from the devil occupation area, there are still a large number of devil recruits coming over in an endless stream."

"The little devil seems to regard us as a long-term training ground."

Zhang Dabiao naturally saw the devil's plan at a glance.

"Haha..."

Li Yunlong immediately laughed:

"This damn thing, I have to thank you in the future, and I don't know who gave this order, it's just too fucking cooperative."

Ding Wei and Kong Jie also laughed.

Because of the hands of these devils, in just over two months, the independent regiment has completed more than 5,000 goals, reached the second gear of this business, and also unlocked the new 105 howitzer, as well as the new front-line infantry support weapons.

Although it is not clear what model of these two weapons and what data.

But is the weapon produced by Boss Chen worse?

"Now in the area of Pan County, Ping'an County, Yu County, and Heyuan County, a large number of devil recruits have come, and they are constantly engaged in the battle in Ping'an County, which obviously exceeds the logistics supply capacity of the devils."

But Kong Jie's face was worried:

"With so many devils eating horses and chewing horses, I'm afraid the common people will have a hard time."

Once the little devil is short of supplies, he will rob the people, which makes Kong Jie a little worried.

"Hahaha..."

Ding Wei answered Kong Jie's doubts:

"You don't have to worry about this, these recruit little devils don't lack food at all."

"Huh?"

Kong Jie was stunned for a moment, and he didn't understand that because there were several factories on the side of the base area, as well as the passage to the outside, he accepted a large number of refugees to enter the base area, so he rarely came to the side of the independent regiment.

"We've killed more than 5,000 devils and completed the second quota."

Ding Wei's tone was a little gloomy:

"Now, for every devil killed, there are fifty tons of grain and ten tons of fuel."

"The fuel is high-quality fuel, diesel and gasoline are optional, not including the weight of the iron drum, the grain is all high-quality fine grain, and the ones killed before are counted, not long ago Boss Chen has delivered the grain."

"There are 5,000 devils, which adds up to 250,000 tons of grain, and you also know that Boss Chen gave a lot of food, and also gave one-tenth of the canned meat or air-dried bacon, the total price of this batch of grain is more than 300,000 tons, plus more than 30,000 tons of meat that can be stored for a long time."

"We can't hold a warehouse with a lot of grain right now."

"That's why food controls have been relaxed, so that there can be a large outflow of grain."

Hearing Ding Wei's words, Kong Jie gasped at that time:

"This idea is ruthless enough and insidious enough."

He could imagine what would happen when food controls were relaxed.

On the northwest side of Jin, although the troops occupied almost all the mountainous areas, the devils were distributed along the railway communication lines, and the main communication lines were all in the hands of the devils, and the main county towns were also in the hands of the devils.

That is to say, the business in the northwest of Shanxi is under the control of devils, and through monopoly, the ultimate beneficiaries of the county are devils.

The food that is set aside will be enriched in the city, and a lot of it will go to the devils, or even most of it.

The devils are also short of food, and it is very scarce, and there is a grain levy every year, just for the consumption of the garrison, and only a very small part will be transported back to the country.

With these grains in hand, the devil's biggest problem will be solved, and even the devil's high-level will see the benefits, knowing that the base area of the independent regiment is a piece of fat, and they will be even more crazy, and they will continue to transport recruits from all over to participate in the fierce battle against the independent regiment.

But in any case, the independent regiment will never lose, anyway, a devil has more than 50 tons of grain, and after killing 20,000, it will be doubled.

Plus, there are other benefits to this.

If the devil has a large amount of good grain, he will not rob the grain dug out of the people's fields on a large scale, and even the devil will relax the control on the movement of the population in the hope of obtaining a large amount of fine grain.

This will be beneficial for the common people to enter the base areas.

"Who came up with the idea?"

Contedental acid.

This fucking is fishing, not fishing for devils.

What a murderous and heart-wrenching ploy.

"Political Commissar Zhao."

Li Yunlong raised his head and replied.

Hiss... Kong Jie took a breath of cool air in his heart, sure enough, when it comes to ruthlessness, it still depends on cultural people, they are at most reckless men with knives, and they can only rush up and cut people.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Grand Master Li continued:

"Moreover, Lao Zhao also plans to release fuel after a period of time, after the ammunition problem is completely solved, and when the artillery unit training is completed."

"Shhh

This time, Kong Jie's cool breath came out directly.

After killing 15,000 devils, the ammunition consumed will be reimbursed twice, and the ammunition problem will be completely solved.

At that time, a large number of high-quality reinforced concrete fortifications could be obtained, a large number of solid reinforced concrete fortifications could be built, and new large-caliber long-range artillery would also be equipped.

With the support of more than 100 105 howitzers, the overall strength of their troops has increased several times.

And with the devil's madness about fuel, it's simply...

"Cultural people, it's so fucking ruthless."

Kong Jie felt a shiver all over his body.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

After Li Yunlong smiled, he changed the topic:

"Even if it is built slowly, mainly to train workers, the highway has been built to a distance of only 15 kilometers from the highway in Ping'an County, and only 5 kilometers away from the No. 4 fortress group of the devil."

"According to the intelligence of the hidden personnel in Ping'an County, the devil came to a new reinforcement yesterday, this army has a lot of vehicles, and there are four cannons, although there are cannon jackets to cover it, but it can be seen that the barrel is very long, and it is estimated that it is the devil's long-range cannon."

"I estimate that the little devil should launch a small-scale counterattack, destroy the road we built, occupy the forward position to bombard our base area, and we should also transfer some of the main forces to the front line to start preparations."

Ding Kong and the others nodded.

The devils train their troops, and they also train their troops.

With the company as a unit, a large number of recruits are put into the front line for training, and after they are familiar with the battlefield, they are replaced by the next batch, so that the front-line troops always have a large number of recruits, and the elite troops are stationed in the second-line positions.

"I'll talk about this later."

As he spoke, Li Yunlong took out two books, and on the cover of each book, there was a huge weapon map:

"Let's take a look at this good thing first."

"This is what Brother Chen just sent over, a 35-fold diameter 105-mm howitzer, and an 84-mm recoilless gun."

"This is the new 105 howitzer?"

Ding Wei picked up the information on the table with a howitzer drawn, opened the cover, and read out the data on the first page:

"35 times the diameter of the 105 mm towed howitzer, towed weight 2490 kg, horizontal wedge semi-automatic gun latch, the maximum range of the standard grenade is 18 km, the bottom row of the extended range projectile has a range of 21.2 km, the rate of fire is 6 to 8 rounds per minute."

"Good gun."

"Good gun."

Ding Wei and Kong Jie's eyes lit up at that time.

Ordinary grenades have a range of 18 kilometers, and the support range is large, which can almost penetrate the depth of the position of a division of the devil, and the range is longer than that of most of the devil's guns, not to mention the bottom row of extended-range shells.

And the weight of 2.5 tons is not large, the road surface is smooth, two large mules can easily tow and maneuver, and the layout of the position is far more convenient than 160 mortars, if this is equipped with a hundred, with the fire support of this thing, how energetic should the battle be?

Ding Wei continued to read the next material:

"84-mm recoilless gun, dead weight 16.8 kg, equipped with grenades, armor-piercing shells, grenades, smoke bombs, effective firing range of 1300 meters when firing steel ball grenades, with impact fuses and air-blown fuzes."

"Good stuff..."

Kong Jie's eyes lit up again:

"This thing, perfect infantry direct firepower, just fills the gap of 60 mortars."

The devils have grenadiers, but they have 60 small steel cannons, but the mortars can't shoot directly, 60 is less powerful, and there is no threat to strong machine gun positions, etc., and it's a waste of time to call 82 or 120, and now with this good thing, the combat effectiveness of the front-line infantry has increased linearly.