"General Tanaka, congratulations!"

After leaving Yamamoto's headquarters, Kotaro Ito went straight to the former 15th Brigade, where the 125th Division was now stationed, and met with the new division commander, Lieutenant General Tanaka.

"Thank you, General Ito."

Tanaka was also very polite.

The two of them were already grasshoppers on a rope at this time.

The same betrayal betrayed the interests of the empire, and the same mutual hands on each other's large amounts of black material, either the two of them went to the dark one by one, and eventually became human beings, or they died together.

"General, I heard that some of the captured tanks were left behind in the base camp to form an armored brigade for your division?"

After a moment's small talk, Ito switched the topic to this time.

"Yes."

Speaking of this, Tanaka Qin felt a little headache.

"An order from the base camp for me to leave eight tanks, ten armored vehicles, six 125 howitzers for myself, and form an armored brigade directly under the division and regiment, a heavy artillery brigade."

The tanks, armored vehicles, and 125 howitzers of the Independent Regiment are all excellent advanced weapons, which can greatly strengthen the strength of the troops.

No division commander could refuse to have such an advanced weapon in his hands.

But here's the thing.

These weapons, which were the equipment of the independent regiment, the Reich did not have the ability to provide logistical supplies.

Sustained combat capability is extremely low.

The fuel is OK, although the oil fields in Southeast Asia have been bombed many times, and the oil refining capacity has been destroyed, but relying on the cracking of heavy oil, the empire has been able to produce diesel, but the consumption of artillery shells, and even coaxial machine gun bullets, can only rely on capture, as for the damaged parts, can only stare dryly.

This time, he didn't have any spare parts, and once it was damaged, he had to give it up, or tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

The captured weapons, the sustained combat capability is even worse than the purchased, and they are completely depleted.

"That's a good thing, why?"

Ito asked knowingly.

"Tanks, armored vehicles are really good things, but the lack of ammunition, there is also a lack of spare parts, and it won't take long for them to break down."

Tanaka shook his head.

As he spoke, suddenly, he raised his head and looked at Ito opposite, his eyes lit up slightly.

These tanks, parts of armored vehicles, ammunition, the Reich did not have it, the Imperial Army did not, but the Independent Regiment did, the Eighth Route Army did, and now he is no longer an Imperial Locust Army, but an ally of the Eighth Route Army.

So.

Eight roads, there is no problem in providing him with certain logistics as an ally, or even directly providing some weapons and equipment, right?

"It's easy."

In Tanaka's hopeful eyes, Ito pulled out his younger brother, Junichiro Ito.

"This is my brother, Junichiro."

Ito pointed to his brother and said:

"He can provide you with all the fuel, ammunition, and parts your armored forces need."

"Of course, it will take a while to transfer the goods."

"Even, in the future, at the right time, if you want to expand your armored forces, but you don't have enough tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery, he can provide you with it."

"If there are pilots who share our ideals, you can stay."

"Really?"

Tanaka's eyes lit up, and his tone was full of surprise, but there was vigilance in his eyes.

Ito's current attitude must be the attitude of his so-called ally, the Eighth Route Independent Regiment, he did not expect that the other party would not only be able to provide tank consumption and parts, but even complete tanks.

This was much more than Tanaka had predicted.

"What do they want us to do?"

This attitude made Tian Zhongsheng vigilant.

There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no good lunch for no reason.

In his thoughts, his 15th Brigade was similar to the identity of the Imperial Allied Army in the eyes of the Eighth Road, in order to weaken the resistance of the Locust Army, and also to divide the empire so as to facilitate its influence and rule in the future.

He'd love it.

Rather for the head of a chicken, not for the tail of a phoenix.

As long as he can call the wind and rain in the empire, what if the entire empire is controlled and affected by others?

According to this idea, the Independent Regiment will provide him with some help, so that he can strengthen himself and divide the empire, but it will definitely not make him strong, lest he lose control.

But now, the other side is again tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and even planes are going to be provided, although they are stuck with supplies, he is still under the control of the independent regiment, but these are completely unnecessary.

It does not fit his previous speculation about the idea of the Independence Regiment.

"General Tanaka deserves to be called a smart man."

Ito replied with a smile:

"In the world, if you want to reap, if you want to get what we want, you need to pay a price."

"Grand Master Li's exact words."

"Tanks, planes, artillery, as much as our troops need, he will provide, even if we can pull up ten divisions and 100 divisions, he can also provide sufficient weapons and equipment, logistics supplies, military salaries and materials."

Tanaka fell silent.

He had no doubts about whether Li Yunlong, as well as his independent regiment, the Eighth Route Army, was capable of fulfilling this promise.

For so long, almost all the high-ranking members of the empire actually understood that in this war, the empire's chances of winning were very small, and the terrifying material power displayed by the Eighth Route made the entire empire desperate.

Tens of millions of tons of grain, millions of tons of fuel, tens of millions of tons of steel and cement, innumerable, technologically advanced tanks, airplanes, artillery, armored vehicles, automobiles, trucks, with the huge and incomparably large population of the Republic of China.

It only takes a while to digest, and the Eight Roads can directly rank among the European and American powers.

Give them a little more time to train enough people to digest the top factories that don't know where they came from, and even the industrial capacity can be comparable to that of the European powers.

The only chance for the empire to win is to quickly annihilate the Eight Paths without giving them time to digest them.

But at the moment, it seems that the empire has no possibility of destroying the Eight Routes, let alone eliminating the Eight Routes, and how long it can support under the attack of the Eight Roads is a question.

The benefits of obtaining these supplies are undoubted.

In his contract with Ito, the empire, nay, the economy, government, and army of Japan, would be jointly controlled by two families, competing with each other, cooperating to exclude outsiders, and jointly control the empire.

The stronger his strength, the stronger the army under his command.

In the future, the stronger the benefits he distributes, the more comfortable he will be in the international arena in the future, and when facing the boss of the Republic of China, he can speak in a slightly louder tone.

Ito waited in silence for a while, and waited until Tanaka Kan looked up again before he continued:

"They need us to continue to expand our strength, expand our strength, and then."

Ito tapped the world map on the table, hit the location of the Kwantung Army, and then swiped north:

"Here."

"They need here!"

Looking at Ito's gesture, Tanaka's pupils widened suddenly.

He understood why Li Yunlong's gang had given him so much assistance. Originally, that group of people wanted him, let the Imperial Army under his command, work for them and do some things for them.

"This business seems to be good."

The look of horror subsided, and Tanaka smiled.

He's the one who's been through the Nomen's hurdle.

"It's the money, you take it."

Before leaving, Kotaro Ito handed over an entire box of food stamps to his younger brother Juntaro:

"In the army, train more of your henchmen, don't be afraid to spend money, just tell me if it's not enough."

Although they are allies, holding each other's handles, and they are completely in the same boat, Ito will not be stupid enough to trust others completely, so he plans to develop his younger brother and form a group of his own military forces.

"Hey."

Junichiro Ito took over a whole large box of food stamps.

Looking at his brother who had left, and the box of food stamps that needed an assistant to lift, Ito suddenly felt a feeling in his heart.

Up to now, food stamps have defeated the imperial military ticket, and the spontaneous vouchers issued by all local forces have defeated the silver dollar, and even defeated the legal tender of the Republic of China, the imperial yen, and become the strongest currency of the Republic of China.

Not one of them.

With the support of sufficient high-quality fine grains, excess and cheap coarse grains, sufficient amounts of fuel oil, cotton, reinforced cement and other commodities, even the US dollar is not as good as food stamps in the Republic of China.

Li Yunlong's gang secretly sold fuel and grain to the empire, and I am afraid they also have this idea.

When the empire also began to recognize food stamps for food, fuel, cotton and other materials, and accepted the trade of food stamps, the economic part of this battle has already been divided into winners and losers.

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Mid-July to early August.

The world is chaotic and exciting.

North Road.

Ding Wei went step by step and sharpened his troops with actual combat.

Every other day, four armored battalions, eight infantry battalions, four artillery battalions, and four flying battalions were organized to attack the devil's position near Chengde in two ways.

Under the cover of airplanes, super-large caliber heavy artillery, and dense howitzer groups, the armored troops broke through the devil's position for more than ten or twenty kilometers, divided and encircled, killed and wounded a large number of devils, and then retreated leisurely.

Only the craters of the devils, the corpses all over the ground, and the jumping Hattori Kotaro.

Although he followed the 'homework' laid out by Tanaka Qin in Dingzhou, drew a scoop based on the gourd, and formulated positions and tactics in view of the weaknesses of the independent regiment, the independent regiment, which had gone through the regimental headquarters meeting, also changed its previous style, and the command concepts of the battalion commanders were corrected, and in just a few days, the troops took on a new look.

Hattori not only failed to take advantage, but also suffered a big loss, with greater casualties than before.

After the war, Hattori again sent a telegram to the base camp to Hideki Tojo, asking for a retreat, giving up the perimeter of Chengtoku, destroying the lines of communication, lengthening the supply lines of the Eighth Route Army, and retreating the battlefield to the rear, a hundred kilometers away in complex mountainous terrain.

But again denied.

Even the angry Tojo scolded Hattori Kotaro, using the example of the Dingshu war, scolding Hattori for being a waste, not even as good as a brigade commander, and even almost removed Hattori on the spot, but fortunately, after persuasion, the idea was stopped.

With the strong offensive strength of the Eighth Route, it is not suitable for the battlefield situation to change to a new general, and it may not be able to hold Chengde.

In the end, Kotaro Hattori also failed to make a retreat.

North China.

Mid lane.

Li Yunlong sat firmly in Diaoyutai, openly and secretly calculating devils, and even plotted in the northeast.

At the front, Zhang Dabiao was ordered to lead the troops to suspend the offensive, and instead vigorously encircle and suppress bandits and other forces, purge, maintain, and consolidate public order in the base areas, and provide a good development environment for the construction brigade.

Secretly, he secretly Chen Cang with Ito, provided weapons and equipment for the 125th Devil Division, and even handed over some of the surrendered Devils to the 125th Division to strengthen the strength of Ito and others.

Because of the large number of recruits joining, there are many opposition in the ranks of the devils, and naturally many people voluntarily surrender.

Even in the last few days of late July, Zhang Dabiao suddenly launched an offensive to create a situation and create an opportunity for Yamamoto to run away again, so that the 125th Division could be stationed independently.

The sky is high and the emperor is far away.

Since then, Tanaka has completely let go.

He completely eliminated the die-hards in the ranks, promoted himself as officers, and completed complete control over the troops.

Then, he began to openly and covertly propagate the idea of anti-empire and anti-prime minister, detonating the grievances of the imperial government of the troop squadron.

As for the locust, because of his great influence and too high status in the hearts of the devils, he didn't dare to do it directly for the time being, so he could only quietly hint that through the influence of interests, he would be brainwashed by the anti-bushido.

At the same time, the 'Zhurong Plan' was also carried out smoothly, and the training of bomber pilots gradually got on the right track; as of the beginning of August, 37 crews had been able to take off the new 10-round heavy long-range bomber, and this was during the training period, because of the pilot's lack of experience, and more than 10 problems occurred.

By the way, during the training, he also practiced with the Southeast Asian devil oil fields, and accurately blew up almost all the oil fields and various facilities in Southeast Asia, and completely cut them off.

The reason why the promotion is so great, a tenfold increase in just one month, is because at the end of July, a group of pilots and ground staff brought by Cai Jiheng, the younger brother of Major General Cai Jigang of Hengyang Preserved Fruit, officially joined the independent flight regiment after review, and because of their superb skills, they directly joined the heavy bomber unit and participated in the Zhurong plan.

Of course, 37 planes is still a big gap from Li Yunlong's goal, and in his thoughts, there must be at least 150 planes.

Fortunately, with the development of the army and the spread of education, the education system in the base area has been basically formed, and Zhao Gang got some education masters from Boss Chen in due course, trained teachers, and formulated a professional education development plan in view of the complex cultural situation in the base area.

Since then, the efficiency of education has increased greatly, and more and more outstanding talents have been discovered.

During this period, the arrival of General Zhang and the arrival of General Yang brought back a lot of Northeast pilots trained by him, and also brought back a group of overseas talents sponsored by the two of them.