Compared to Commander Xue's machinations, Gao Jianwu didn't care about these. He just acted in accordance with the established combat policy.
After simply cleaning the battlefield and resting for a night, Gao Jianwu led the main force to cross the Xiangjiang River in one fell swoop. This time, the tank attack group and Zhang Dabiao of the First Attack Group and Xu Shida of the Second Attack Group made a large detour and forced their way through the Japs formation from the edge. , went around and hugged behind the 68th and 116th Divisions.
Then Gao Jianwucai led 4 heavy artillery regiments, the 3rd attack group Kong Jie's department, and the 4th attack group Lu Fan's department, opened the way with direct artillery fire, and used a devastating gesture to defeat the offensive formations of the 68th and 116th divisions of the Little Devils in one fell swoop .
Destroy their artillery power, and then crush and divide them through tank attack groups, dividing the little devils of the two divisions into several brigade-level isolated battlefields. At this time, the main battalions of each attack group began to launch fierce attacks.
Facing a chaotic battlefield of several square kilometers, Li Xiazhong finally discovered some secrets, that is, Gao Jianwu and the others had almost complete control over the command. Within the general headquarters, they knew the progress of each main battalion very well.
The heavy artillery regiment of the expeditionary force group can always follow the front line's call and deliver the artillery shells to the little devils in time!
In this way, the assembled little devils and heavy firepower points are always focused on by the artillery in the distance, and then the infantry battalion's attack is as smooth as flowing water.
Li Xiazhong discovered that the biggest secret was hidden in Gao Jianwu. Even though he was sitting in the headquarters, Gao Jianwu clearly provided accurate bombardment points for the heavy artillery regiment.
To do all this, the frontline observation post only needs to clearly describe the location characteristics of the little devils, and Gao Jianwu seems to be able to calculate their location coordinates based on these.
Li Xiazhong, a senior advisor, was not only recruited through connections. In fact, he was from a serious artillery background and had very rich experience in the operation of artillery.
Although he felt that all this was a bit ridiculous and not at all done by a normal person, judging from the rewards, Gao Jianwu's command was extremely accurate and he could hit the target without having to correct it several times.
Now Li Xiazhong has complete trust in the command and reporting system of Gao Jianwu and the others, because everything is real-time. Gao Jianwu and the others' walkie-talkies cover the entire battlefield, and every move is the result of direct observation on the spot.
No one would think of cheating in this situation, because such a move would directly lead to the death of themselves and their brothers!
The huge battlefield seemed to be in Gao Jianwu's mind. Gao Jianwu had an extremely accurate mental arithmetic to calculate the artillery bombardment.
This is the first time Li Xiazhong has seen such an awesome artillery commander.
If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, Li Xiazhong would never have believed it.
However, after seeing too much, Li Xiazhong became numb. The two divisions of the Little Japs were almost unable to fight back under the attack of the four attack groups commanded by Gao Jianwu. Li Xiazhong was just like in a dream, seeing the two Little Japs reorganized divisions. The regiment was destroyed again within one day.
In fact, Li Xiazhong had some reaction after being stunned, that is, the firepower of the expeditionary army group was more powerful and accurate than any army he had seen!
The four heavy artillery regiments add up to more than a hundred 105mm howitzers, and they can shoot wherever they want. There is also a direct howitzer battalion in the attack group itself. Each main battalion and company-level mortars are universally equipped, plus tank clusters and artillery equipment. Several times more than the little devil!
Not to mention that when encountering a difficult-to-attack Jaap artillery position, you can still call the air force for bombing support!
Under this kind of crushing firepower, Li Xiazhong had the illusion that he could do it even if he was superior to him, and he felt that he had mastered the secret code for the expeditionary force to win the battle as a group.
But looking back, aren’t these things very clear? But I just can’t do it. In the national military system, it is good for the current elite main force to have four 82mm mortars in a regiment, and a mountain artillery battalion in a division with a dozen 75mm mountain artillery.
For example, the 105mm howitzer is now only equipped with the National Army's Expeditionary Force, and the rest of the troops were basically destroyed in the previous series of wars.
For example, except for the 105mm howitzer, which can be copied and produced by the Marshal's Arsenal in the past, Jin and Shanghai cannot produce it in batches. The Hanyang Arsenal once copied two Krupp 120mm howitzers, and the Guangdong Second Arsenal also successfully trial-produced a 75mm howitzer. , 105mm howitzers, but none of them have been put into mass production.
On the one hand, the production process and technology are not up to standard, and the product quality is worrying. On the other hand, gun steel cannot be refined domestically, and all must be imported. For such strategically controlled products, it is difficult to buy even if you want to. Not to mention the sky-high price, in that era it was really better to buy than to make!
So Li Xiazhong returned to the real world for a little while and quickly accepted his fate. Gao Jianwu's approach could not be copied at all.
Because Gao Jianwu was able to obtain these equipment from the United States, it was also a special product under special circumstances. Now, even if someone wants to send a batch of troops abroad, it is useless.
However, Li Xiazhong was still wrong about one thing. That is, these heavy artillery regiments of Gao Jianwu are not only American-style equipment, but also include many Japanese-style 105mm howitzers.
These 105mm howitzers were captured and installed by Gao Jianwei after returning to China. Many of the cannonballs are obtained in this way.
Otherwise, after losing the logistical supplies, the American artillery shells of the Gao Jian Military Department would have been fired one by one.
Therefore, Gao Jianwu has mainly replaced the cannons with Japanese ones, so as to facilitate replenishment on the battlefield.
Therefore, at the end of the battle, Li Xiazhong would sometimes notice that Gao Jianwu would often leave the headquarters and go to the front line to personally command the logistics and supplies troops besieging the Japs.
But Li Xiazhong never dreamed that Gao Jianwu would release his explosive weapons and ammunition in this way and mix them into the actual baggage of the Japs.
In this way, Gao Jianwu actually had more weapons and ammunition.
But no one has discovered this yet.
As if inadvertently, Gao Jianwu's expeditionary force group ate up the reorganized Type B division of three little devils. Although Li Xiazhong reported the battle situation immediately.
But Commander Xue always felt a little uneasy, and he often had the illusion that Li Xiazhong had been instigated by the expeditionary force to rebel!
However, after the first wave of battle reports were quickly verified, no matter how exaggerated Li Xiazhong was, Commander Xue knew that it was also true.
It's just that the rapid advance of the expeditionary force group and the speed of annihilation of the Japs have completely exceeded Commander Xue's best expectations, so he can't keep up with mobilizing troops to reorganize the siege!
Therefore, Li Xiazhong put forward a new request for Gao Jianwu, allowing the expeditionary force cluster to surround the 34th and 58th divisions that were following up on the second line of the Japs more quickly, but the annihilation could be slower.
To prevent the Little Japs from retreating directly to their base in Hankou after the two divisions were annihilated, Commander Xue needed time to mobilize and deploy troops to encircle the Little Japs' left army.
Gao Jianwu responded to Li Xiazhong's request. After encircling the two little Japanese divisions, only a small number of troops were sent out for training every day.
If the little devils try to break out, the fierce artillery fire will teach them to be good as ghosts!
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Jianwu was collecting ships everywhere. After dealing with these imps, he divided his troops into two routes: land and water. The baggage and most of the troops were sent down the river from the Xiang River to the Yangtze River to reduce the fatigue of the soldiers.
The artillery attack group and the tank attack group mainly moved along the railway. Under the cover of the two infantry attack groups, they fought all the way along the railway!
Although there are many Japs strongholds along the Guangdong-Hankou Railway, they basically have little room to struggle in the face of the artillery fire and tanks of the expeditionary force group.
Seven days later, when Commander Xue commanded the Ninth War Zone to complete the encirclement of the Little Japanese Left Army, Gao Jianwu immediately took action and wiped out the 34th and 58th Divisions cleanly.
After quickly cleaning the battlefield, Gao Jianwu, with the cooperation of Li Xiazhong, collected enough ships. Except for heavy equipment such as heavy artillery regiments and tank battalions that could not be transported on the river, all other materials were collected and transported on ships.
Most of them were caused by Gao Jianwu once again cheating on the battlefield and blasting out the Little Japanese mountain artillery and field artillery. From the destruction of the five Little Japanese reorganized divisions, he re-acquired more than 200 Little Japanese artillery and a large number of artillery shells for his troops.
Among them, there are 24 105mm howitzers, 75 75mm mountain guns, 28 75mm field guns, and nearly a hundred 92 infantry guns, enough to form 2 heavy artillery battalions, 6 mountain artillery battalions and 6 92 infantry artillery battalions.
The remaining light and heavy weapons such as 92 heavy machine guns, crooked machine guns, and 38 heavy weapons were seized on the battlefield. Gao Jianwu did not give up this time. He directly moved them onto the ship and formed a huge fleet for transportation. These were quickly transported. The things that can be used are a bit rubbish compared to American equipment, but now Gao Jianwu is about to do a big thing, and every bit of material is precious.
Under the cover of the air force, the entire fleet began to flow downstream from the Xiang River to the Yangtze River.
Kill towards the three towns of Hankou!
With the air support of the Air Force, Gao Jianwu, who followed the fleet down the river, quickly appeared in the three towns of Hankou. Four assault groups appeared on the north and south banks of the Yangtze River in Hankou, approaching the Hankou defense line of the little devil. This made the enemy still in Sanxiang Isamu Yokoyama, who was fighting in the ninth war zone, was stunned.
He never dreamed that the expeditionary force group that gave him a fatal blow near Tanzhou would turn around and steal his home!
Only two independent little Japanese soldiers who formed a mixed brigade to look after the house and more than 30,000 puppet troops were left, trembling in the face of the expeditionary force.
Before they could react.
Song Tiecheng's assault brigade, which was ordered to make a sneak attack on the airport, not only occupied the airport in one fell swoop, but also seized 20 Nakajima-1 fighter jets, 5 Kawasaki-type 88 reconnaissance aircraft, and 7 Kawasaki-type 99 twin-engined ones that the Japs had no time to destroy. Light bomber (Kawasaki light bomber).
The New Jianghan Cluster Assault Brigade, which has upgraded its specifications to the attack group level, now has three special assault squadrons, one air assault team, one armored assault team, and one surface assault team. Although the number is less than 1,000 people, but under special circumstances, the combat effectiveness is no worse than that of an assault group.
For example, in this assault on the airport, if an attack group were sent to attack step by step, it might not be too late to capture all the Japs' fighter jets.
However, Song Tiecheng commanded two special assault squadrons to sneak into the vicinity of the airport and launch a frontal attack. Then, with the help of two Little Devil armored vehicles captured by the armored commandos, they annihilated all the airport guards in one fell swoop.
Such a ferocious and secretive attack method makes it impossible for the little devil to guard against it!
When the heavy artillery attack group and the tank attack group, with the help of the two escort attack groups, cleared the border all the way to Hankou, Gao Jianwu used his powerful deterrence to force the puppet troops to surrender. At the same time, after a bloody street battle, he ate up the two Japanese guards. Brigade, capture the three towns of Hankou!
This time, after another round of crazy explosions, Gao Jianwu took advantage of the numerous warehouses in the central city occupied by the little devils to conduct an inspection and took advantage of the opportunity to reveal the Japanese weapon inventories of the four reorganized divisions!
It also revealed that tens of thousands of tons of grain, canned salt, sugar and other scarce supplies were secretly purchased for the Hanyang Arsenal, and dozens of much-needed machine tools were secretly purchased!
Starting from this, Gao Jianwu began to reorganize the captured puppet troops and recruit new troops on a large scale in the three towns of Hankou to expand the troops on a large scale.
Since these tasks are very standardized, Gao Jianwu left these military matters and the rearrangement of the three towns in Hankou to people like Kong Jie, Zhang Dabiao, Xu Shida, and Lu Fan to manage.
Gao Jianwu concentrated on urban construction, economic recovery and factory reconstruction.
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"Commander Gao, how should we deal with currency now? The fear outside about this currency is getting stronger day by day." Li Fuqing, secretary-general of the Economic Committee who turned from a local underground organization to a public identity, proposed to Gao Jianwu The first problem was solved.
This gave Gao Jianwu a huge headache.
This problem is basically unsolvable for him now.
The little devil's military tickets and the legal currency that had already depreciated countless times could no longer be used. Even though Gao Jianwu seized a lot of such currencies this time, Gao Jianwu decided that they could no longer be used for circulation.
"We first used the original silver dollars and copper dollars as alternative currencies. At the same time, we issued a batch of equivalent silver dollar replacement coupons, and issued a batch of 1 yuan, 2 yuan through the newly renamed Hansheng Bank, which we confiscated the bank run by the little devil. Yuan, 5 yuan and 10 yuan replacement coupons can be exchanged for silver dollars at any time at Hansheng Bank, or the equivalent value of grain can be purchased through the government-run Hanyang Trading Company, and we can temporarily anchor ours with silver dollars and grain." Gao Jianwu thought for a moment and proposed An emergency method.
If we want to stabilize local life, we must first solve the actual people's livelihood problems. Although the three towns in Hankou were almost emptied out when the little devils occupied them, this place is the core of an anointed place after all. After five or six years of painstaking management by the little devils, a population of more than 1 million has gathered again.
With such a large population, there are many enemy agents hidden among them to carry out sabotage activities, and profiteers also take the opportunity to make money. Even though the expeditionary force group has a good reputation, when dealing with these issues of stabilizing prices, the local people are not satisfied with the various measures issued by Gao Jianwu. Measures are always taken with a grain of salt.
Food prices change three times a day, and the collapsing monetary system, if some careerists succeed in fanning the flames of the collapse of the currency system, will seem as if the city has suddenly lost control and fallen into chaos.
Gao Jianwu had to use the least costly method to solve the currency problem first. Fortunately, there was a banknote printing factory in Hankou, so Gao Jianwu had no problem in producing silver dollar replacement rolls.
Using the assets and supplies of the Japs or their expatriates seized immediately, Gao Jianwu seized hundreds of thousands of silver dollars and a batch of gold bars, plus a large amount of supplies and grain, etc. It should not be a problem to issue the first batch of millions of replacement rolls. big.
At least in this way Gao Jianwu can ensure the monetary credit of these replacement volumes.
Next, when Gao Jianwu has time, he will convene a group of experts to carefully construct the monetary system. This is an extremely professional and huge topic that cannot be solved perfectly in the short term.
Not to mention his place, the current base area includes Jindi, and the border currency that has been used for a long time is not very good at present. Obviously, certain overall planning is needed in the future.
Most of the current bases used are tokens similar to Gao Jianwu's replacement rolls.
Due to the lack of corresponding reserves and materials, they do not yet have Gao Jianwu's current anchoring method, which results in the currency's credibility and scope of use being not too high.
What Gao Jianwu was better than them was that he immediately seized all the material warehouses, company assets and various assets of expatriates controlled by the little devils!
After acquiring a large amount of materials and assets, we can anchor the issued tokens to a certain extent, improve the credibility of these tokens, and slowly promote these tokens to this newly occupied base and wider places in the future.
Li Fuqing got the answer to his first question. Although he felt that it was not perfect yet, it could only be like this for now. It was impossible to use military tickets from the little devils, although this time he received a lot from taking over this big city.
That's it for currency. Li Fuqing was not just a question. He went on to ask: "How do we set the price of grain? The market is very chaotic now. Some are doubling or even tripling what they were before the war, and some are hoarding and simply not selling! The public reacted greatly .”
This is the most important issue involving people's livelihood. The food problem of millions of people cannot be solved. Obviously Gao Jianwu and the others cannot stay here any longer!
Regarding such a problem, Gao Jianwu had already had some ideas. After pondering for a while, he came up with a principled idea.
"We must severely crack down on price gouging. We issued an announcement stipulating that if the price of food is not restored to the pre-liberal sales price within three days from the date of the announcement, any increase of more than 20% will be seized and frozen! We have newly established The public Hanyang trading company forced public purchases according to pre-war prices, and then sold them at a limited price and limited household registration.
If an individual's grain harvest exceeds household needs for more than one year and the company's grain harvest is not used for sales, you are welcome to report and seize it, and conduct public purchases as price gouging.
This announcement is valid until new grains are launched this year. We must use tough measures to ensure the minimum living standards for thousands of households and prevent these profiteers from fishing in troubled waters. Gao Jianwu said very forcefully.
If they dare to go against the trend at this time, then these businessmen are obviously profiteers, and they must not be tolerated and supported.
Even if this will greatly damage the interests of grain dealers and affect their enthusiasm for distribution in the three towns of Hankou in the future, Gao Jianwu can't control so much now.
Solve the urgent needs first.
"Commander Gao, some big businessmen now have their own armed escorts. Our people are threatened physically when they go for inspections. How can we solve this problem?" Li Fuqing added.
Nowadays, the war is in turmoil. Many capable and resourceful people have organized dozens or even hundreds of armed private guards. In addition, various guerrilla groups are mixed together. Civilian force has indeed affected the execution ability of the grassroots.
But the national crisis is looming, and there are not many good management methods for the guerrillas in various places.
When Gao Jianwu heard this headache question, he couldn't help but rub his forehead with his fingers and pondered for a while before speaking.
"In the base area, we do not allow private ownership of military weapons and ammunition. For those who have established private armed forces, we are required to hand over the weapons and ammunition they already have, and provide them with appropriate financial compensation. This incident prompted the first attack group to send a company Help you do it.
For the security protection of their businesses, we allow the establishment of some third-party security companies similar to escort agencies. However, these security companies must register and accept the supervision of our public security agencies. In the early stage, we tried to adopt a public approach and allowed county and district guerrillas to deploy some members to form a group of security companies to provide them with business security protection services. "
Gao Jianwu thought about some of the practices of later generations and felt that it would be better to prohibit the development of force among the people.
Especially now when the war is in chaos. Allowing some ambitious people to possess force is very detrimental to the stability of the situation. If they had these needs, Gao Jianwu simply asked some of the guerrillas to separate a group of people and set up a security company to do this.
On the one hand, these guard companies can be supported through private financial resources. At the same time, these guard companies are also supervised and trained at any time, and they are also a force that can be used in wartime.
Gao Jianwu's ideas are just a general direction, and specific measures need to be refined and completed by Li Fuqing and others as appropriate during implementation.
Fortunately, Li Fuqing and the others were also very capable of action. After a series of combination punches in just a few days, Gao Jianwu stabilized the entire situation in this big city.
Following a series of company restructurings based on the Jinyang model, Gao Jianwu re-established a preliminary industrial management system in the three towns of Hankou.
The most important one is the restoration of the military-industrial system. As early as Gao Jianwu was planning to recover the three towns of Hankou, he had already sent a telegram to Jinyang Heavy Industry to request personnel support.
Over there, a team of several hundred engineers and technical workers dispersed towards the three towns of Hankou, so when this side was captured, those engineers basically just arrived here secretly.
Gao Jianwu used this group of people as the backbone to form a new Hanyang Heavy Industries Co., Ltd., and directly brought the Hanyang Arsenal under the banner of Hanyang Heavy Industries.
Due to the rapid attack on the three towns of Hankou and the assistance of underground organizations, the Japs had no time to destroy the factories. Gao Jianwu arrived at the Hanyang Arsenal and used their confidential factory that had been blocked by the Japs to explode a batch of new machine tools. In addition, the Hanyang Arsenal It was built by the little devils to be able to produce various weapons and ammunition below 75mm mountain cannon. It has a good foundation and combined with Gao Jianwu's new machine tools for explosive equipment. In a very short time, Gao Jianwu used the core backbone of Jinyang and a group of newly recruited technical workers. , the Hanyang Arsenal has been restored to the level of the pre-war days of the Japs' management, and large-scale ammunition production of Japanese weapons and equipment has begun.
At the same time, the most elite team began to conduct research on replicating the ammunition of a large number of fine weapons and equipment owned by Gao Jianwu. After all, Gao Jianwu now owns more than 50,000 fine weapons and equipment, ranging from Garand rifles to 60mm mortars. Cannons, as well as 75mm howitzers and tank guns, 105mm howitzers, and 155mm howitzers, these are all the trump cards in Gao Jianwu's hands!
Fortunately, Jinyang Heavy Industry already has complete production experience from 60mm mortars to 105mm howitzers. Therefore, these ordinary shells have more advanced machine tool models from Gao Jianwu, and dozens of authentic Desan advanced machine tools. , and the imitation was quickly completed.
That is to say, for explosives and other aspects, the seized items left by the little devils were used, and the quality and power were inferior to those made by the beautiful country. Therefore, the power of the imitations was slightly less than the original ones, but Gao Jianwu was already very satisfied.
He focused his resources mainly on ammunition production. After all, in terms of weapons, the warehouses were filled with captured Japanese weapons, and the fine weapons and equipment alone were enough for the main force.
After all, Gao Jianwu is a little expert in harvesting the wool of the beautiful country. So far, he has collected 98 155mm howitzers to form 4 155mm heavy artillery regiments, 148 105mm howitzers to form 5 105mm artillery regiments, and 200 75mm howitzers form 11 artillery battalions, more than 200 Sherman tanks form 12 tank battalions, and more than 100 Mustang fighter jets form 3 flying groups.
There are also nearly 80,000 people with standard equipment Garand rifles, m1918 Browning machine guns, m2 60mm mortars and m1 81mm mortars, the main battle weapons of the infantry battalion!
Therefore, Gao Jianwu went out and gained a lot. Although after long-term battle losses, and Chu Yunfei and Ding Wei separated a small 30,000 troops, Gao Jianwu now only has more than 50,000 main troops left with a full set of beautiful weapons.
Four 155mm heavy artillery regiments are still there, and 50 Japanese 150mm howitzers were obtained through capture and explosive installation, and two heavy artillery regiments were added.
The five 105mm howitzer artillery regiments were also retained. Gao Jianwu obtained more than 90 of them from the Japs through the Battle of Tanzhou and the seizure and explosive loading of three towns in Hankou. He added three more 105mm artillery regiments, making the total number 8 105mm artillery regiment.
The more than 20 doors seized in Qiongzhou earlier were given to Chu Yunfei, and the more than 40 doors seized in Hong Kong and Kowloon were given to Ding Wei, and none were left.
As for the 75mm artillery battalion, Chu Yunfei and Ding Wei were left with three each, leaving five.
Now that more than 200 little Japanese 75mm mountain guns and field guns have been newly captured, 12 new artillery battalions and 5 main attack groups have been reorganized. Each of them is now assigned to a US 75mm artillery battalion. The newly formed 75mm artillery battalion on the road The Sixth Attack Group was assigned a Japanese artillery battalion.
Gao Jianwu plans to assign the remaining 11 artillery battalions to the nearly 40,000 newly formed second-line security forces in this expansion. According to the plan, Gao Jianwu plans to equip them with a full set of Japanese weapons and divide them into 5 new security groups. Their main force will focus on The weapons are two 75mm Japanese mountain artillery or field artillery. As for the infantry battalion, since there is no m2 81mm mortar company, they are equipped with an 8-92 infantry artillery company.
At the company level, each squad is equipped with 1 grenade launcher and 1 crooked handle. Each company adds 4 92 heavy machine gun fire platoons to make up for the lack of mortars in firepower.
Although this configuration increases the burden on the arsenal, which requires the production of two different systems of weapons and ammunition, it can still be sustained without the need to produce equipment.
With the recruitment of workers and the ramp-up of production capacity completed, the Hanyang Arsenal will then turn to the Jinyang Arsenal system to produce new weapons such as Type 43 assault rifles and 107 rocket launchers, and even tanks and fighter jets until their replacement is gradually completed.
But before Gao Jianwu could show his talents, he heard bad news.
The remaining troops of the Little Japanese 11th Army actually escaped from Commander Xue's encirclement!
