On February 18, 1941, Qijiang County, the 68th Division was temporarily established.
"The main reason is that the training of our troops in Shanxi, Hebei and Luyu has not been completed, otherwise Yoshio Shinozuka's Korean soldiers would not be enough." Li Yunlong looked regretful and contemptuous. The training standards of the Eighth Route Army are higher than those of the Shancheng government. With more equipment, training, and food, they are no weaker than the Japanese army in North China. As long as the training is completed, it is only a matter of time before they form an overwhelming advantage over the Japanese army.
"Old Li, you are a bit blindly optimistic. We can keep pace with the Japanese army in terms of the army, but if the Japanese attack the sea and air, we still won't be able to catch up in a short time. Moreover, even the army cannot catch up overnight. Technical arms such as artillery, armor, and engineers all need to be accumulated and explored." Ding Wei is not so optimistic. After decades of weakness and poverty, how can he catch up in a short time?
"Not only that, there is also the medical system. The Japanese military doctors are transferred to the squads, and the squadrons can be assigned to small military hospitals. But as for us, the main force group only has a few health workers, and the basic group has no hair. If this year, if If it weren't for the good medicines brought by Brother Wang, I guess even the headquarters hospital wouldn't be as good as the brigade medical clinic." Kong Jie said at the side.
"Didn't you say that the headquarters has built more than a dozen training schools specifically to train medical personnel?" Li Yunlong asked puzzledly. After the temporary 68th Division came to the mountain city, it has continuously replenished technical personnel, and naturally there are medical personnel among them. He is now The health workers have all reached the company and platoon level, and the division field hospital is also capable of delegating the field medical clinic to the company and platoon level at any time. It has small hospital ships, ambulances, and medical vehicles.
"Training? Training requires qualified teachers and qualified students. It's not like you, Lao Li, don't know how high the illiteracy rate is in our Eighth Route Army, and even those soldiers who came out of the literacy class are not very good. The army is on a large scale. Due to local construction, there is a serious shortage of intellectuals, and the medical training school of Kangda University cannot recruit students at all." Kong Jie told the situation he knew.
"The medical rescue capabilities are not good enough. Once we fight the Japanese, our casualties will definitely be much greater. This is definitely something our superiors don't want to see. Moreover, we are expanding the army. Are the Japanese idle? Yoshio Shinozuka's 'that little' Goryeo The soldiers are organized and trained according to Class A divisions. One division, 140-149 divisions, a total of 250,000 army troops, and the Army Air Force using retired aircraft are enough to neutralize us, if not overwhelm us. A big part of the advantage." Ding Wei said worriedly from the side, Yoshio Shinozuka was expanding the army like crazy, and in order to expand the army, the land in the occupied area was almost scraped with sparks.
"Old Ding, you haven't counted the Yamamoto troops in Yamamoto Kazuki's hands. The superiors have informed that Yamamoto Kazuki has formed twenty new 'Iron Stone Regiments', and their combat effectiveness is even better than Shinozuka Yoshio's Koryo Division. All regiments are strong." Kong Jie continued to add that the so-called Iron and Stone Alliance is a new alliance formed by Kazuki Yamamoto with the good people of Heilongjiang Province as the main force. There are 4,500 people in one alliance and more than 90,000 people in 20 alliances. This is just The situation currently known to the Ministry of Social Affairs.
"Damn, I thought the war was about to end. Can you two stop throwing cold water on me?" Li Yunlong was a little frustrated. He understood what the two said, but he just didn't think about it that much.
"It's good enough. In the past, the Japanese would attack us whenever they wanted. A single brigade would dare to go deep into the base area to carry out raids. But now, relying on the geographical conditions, we can evenly match the Japanese. During the raids, the Japanese would mobilize a The brigade was too embarrassed to leave." Ding Wei said with a smile.
"A brigade? The Jiaodong Military Division and the Sulu Theater mobilized more than 8,000 people to attack Qindao. The Japanese mobilized nearly 100,000 Japanese and puppet troops to counterattack, and also mobilized a large number of naval and air forces to coordinate. Did you dare to think of this before? Or ten Do you believe that they dare to counterattack with ten thousand troops?" Kong Jie laughed as he spoke. In the Battle of Qindao, the Japanese's losses were absolutely debilitating. It is said that the only military supplies lost were worth a battle. Yes, with the poor military expenditure of the Japanese, they cannot save enough supplies for a few battles in a year.
For example, in 1939, Japan's military expenditure was about 1.9 billion U.S. dollars. When converted into Japanese yen, it was only more than 5 billion. More than one-third of this was the military expenditure of the navy. The military expenditure of the Japanese Army was only more than 3 billion. Japanese yen, how can you fight with this little money?
"Lack of confidence, to put it bluntly, the Japs are no longer good. In the past, a Japs only needed about 150 rounds of training ammunition per month, but now, less than ten rounds of training ammo per month are secretly taken out by the Japs in exchange for food. , the food they eat is worse than the rest of us, forget about black beans, soybean meal, and sorghum rice. It is said that in Shandong Province, you can see groups of Korean soldiers digging wild vegetables. The daily ration is two wild vegetable dumplings and a piece of salted fish. ." Ding Wei said, "The Japanese have been eaten like this, and the puppet army is even worse off. Just like this major counterattack, the puppet army has hundreds of thousands of troops. In many places, as long as the national army shows up, , the puppet army took the initiative to cooperate with the national army to destroy the Japanese.
Just like Wuhan, although Zhang Zhonglin did not occupy Guishan, a puppet army still rushed forward. It is still exchanging fire with the Sixth Division until now. Using the strong fortifications built by the previous dynasty, it was with the Sixth Division. The group is tied, and it is estimated that it will not be over in a short time.
"On the one hand, war is fought with courage and manpower, but more importantly, it is national strength, comprehensive national strength. The enemy is only as strong as us. Once our strength increases, they will immediately be unable to continue. Just watch. , the Japs are probably going to open a second battlefield." Li Yunlong was very accurate in this regard. When he was in Hans, he discussed it with the Air Force Marshal, and both of them agreed that the Japs would open a second battlefield in 1941, and they also It is very possible to make even more outrageous decisions.
"I'm not optimistic that the Japs will go north. The Japs are frightened by the alliance. In recent years, they have been constantly deploying the Kwantung Army to fight south. The military strength of the four eastern provinces is simply incomparable to that of 1939. If they really do it, There is a high probability that he will still be pushed to the ground and beaten." Ding Wei analyzed.
"Going south? You can't. Going south means facing off against the bald eagle." After listening to these two words, Kong Jie just felt like he took a breath of air. What is to the south? It's the bald eagle and Britain, which is the world's number one. and the second navy, which is the most powerful industrial machine and military machine in the world. Even if Britain is in decline, isn't there still a bald eagle?
"We will never understand the world of madmen, just like you can never guess Li Yunlong's strategic vision." Ding Wei joked from the side.
"Old Ding, you!" Li Yunlong said with integrity.
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