Cross the Songhu battlefield and rise to become the most powerful warlord

Chapter 372: American Equipment Division

372 American Equipment Division

"Commander Xiao, you will be my chief of staff from now on."

Ye Qingshan looked at Xiao Shanling and said with a smile.

"Commander, you are my superior now.

Don't call me sir."

Xiao Shanling didn't care and served as Ye Qingshan's chief of staff.

After all, if it weren't for Ye Qingshan, he would have been hidden in an idle position in the rear.

There is no chance to go to the front line to fight the Japanese again.

"Haha, let's cooperate well from now on.

Fuck those damn Japanese devils."

Ye Qingshan embraced Xiao Shanling and entered the command center.

After entering the command center, Ye Qingshan saw a large map with the situation of both sides marked on it.

"Tell me, what's the situation with the devils now?"

Ye Qingshan looked at the map and spoke.

"Let me do it."

Xiao Shanling took the initiative to come out.

"Starting from August 10, the Japanese gathered four armies and eight divisions and advanced westward along the river again.

Retake the Jinling line.

Thirteen days later, they went south and captured Wuhu.

In the next half month, they went south along the river, captured Anqing, and approached Hukou and Jiujiang.

Currently, the two sides are fighting over the Hukou Fortress.

The fighting on the front line was very fierce.

According to the news we received.

This time, the Japanese rested for two months after the Battle of Xuzhou.

Not only did they replenish sufficient troops from the country, but they also mobilized more heavy artillery and air forces.

After the war broke out, our fortresses along the Yangtze River were all subjected to crazy bombing by the Japanese air force.

The firepower of the Japanese attacking troops on the front line was even more fierce than during the Battle of Xuzhou.

Even if our army fought tenaciously, it was still difficult to stop the enemy's advance."

Ye Qingshan was helpless as he watched the Japanese attacking forces advancing rapidly along the Yangtze River.

He can't intervene there for the time being.

“Forget it, we can’t interfere with what’s happening in Wuhan.

Let me tell you about the situation in southern Zhejiang.

On my way back, I heard that the Japanese had two divisions heading our way?"

Ye Qingshan turned his attention back to southern Zhejiang.

"Yes."

Zhou Pingkou came over and said, "Since the Japanese started their attack on Wuhan.

Except for the hundreds of thousands of devils heading west.

There were also two Japanese divisions heading south from Hangzhou.

Trying to attack our southern Zhejiang territory.

At present, the Japanese 21st Division is approaching Ningbo and Taizhou.

The 194th Division led by Ningbo garrison commander Wang Haonan was defeated. Currently, Tao Guang's 28th Army has been transferred to support by Commander Gu.

In addition, the Japanese 40th Division was moving south along Shaoxing.

But the enemy's advancement speed is not fast, and I don't know what these Japanese devils are doing.

Now, facing the north are Li Jue's 70th Army and Chen Anbao's 79th Army. "

"Commander Gu, didn't you give us the 86th Army orders?"

"Not yet."

"Commander, what should we do now?"

"What else can we do, since Commander Gu didn't give us any orders.

Then wait."

After Ye Qingshan finished speaking, he walked out of the command center again.

His intuition told him that the purpose of the Japanese attack on southern Zhejiang this time was probably not to capture cities and plunder territory.

Because the terrain in southern Zhejiang is too complicated.

It would be impossible for just two Japanese soldiers to take over southern Zhejiang.

The national army only needs to rely on the continuous mountains in southern Zhejiang to block the enemy layer by layer.

The Japanese had only two divisions, which was enough to make it difficult for them to move forward.

It is estimated that Gu Zhutong also realized this, so he did not mobilize Ye Qingshan's 86th Army to participate in the war.

Although, Ye Qingshan was a little disobedient.

However, Gu Zhutong knew that Ye Qingshan was determined to fight the Japanese.

Therefore, as long as he was giving normal orders to Ye Qingshan to fight the Japanese.

Ye Qingshan would definitely obey.

It can be said that Ye Qingshan’s 86th Army is definitely the most combat-effective among the several armies under Gu Zhutong at this time.

"Old Zhou, has your 208th Division changed its uniforms?"

Ye Qingshan looked at the soldiers who were still training on the parade ground and asked.

"Commander, our division has already changed its uniforms.

You sent us so many American-made weapons, we can’t just leave them gathering dust in the warehouse.

Now, our entire division of more than 17,000 people has put away the Hanyang-made, old sleeves and water-linked rifles that they had before.

All eliminated.

All of them were replaced with the same 'big eight-grain' gun, which is really great.

High accuracy and fast firing rate.

Compared to this gun, the ones we used before were all junk."

Zhou Pingkou talked about their division's new weapons and was very excited.

The "big eight" that Zhou Pingkou mentioned is the American-made M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle.

This was also the standard weapon for American soldiers at this time.

This time, Ye Qingshan purchased nearly 1 M Garand rifles from American arms dealers.

At present, nearly 30,000 have been delivered.

It just happened to complete the equipment replacement of the 86th Army infantry under Ye Qingshan, and it also became the standard weapon of the 86th Army.

In addition, Ye Qingshan also purchased more Thompson and Browning heavy machine guns to strengthen the firepower of the 86th Army.

It's a pity that the artillery

In addition to the previous 60mm small steel cannon, Ye Qingshan also added two more artillery pieces.

81mm heavy mortar and 75mm howitzer.

Although Ye Qingshan has placed an order for larger caliber artillery, it has not been delivered yet.

Even so, at this time, Ye Qingshan's 86th Army had even surpassed the National Army's Teaching Corps in its heyday in terms of firepower.

"General, I still like those howitzers.

It would be nice if there were more.”

Wang Dachuan, who was standing next to him, also interrupted with a smile.

"Me too."

Lu Dahai, a good friend, agreed very much.

"You two, you only know how to shoot well."

Ye Qingshan scolded with a smile.

"That's right, you two fools.

Staring at those artillery pieces all day long.

During the battle, you two are the ones who request the most artillery support.

I don’t know, if we need to increase the artillery, how much logistical pressure will it put on us.”

Sun Mingxu said unhappily.

At this time, Sun Mingxu had already resigned as the commander of the 209th Division, as he was not suited to being a commander.

He went back to his old job.

He is now in charge of the logistics of the 86th Army.

Zhang Fa took over as the commander of the 209th Division.

"Ha ha!"

Hearing what Sun Mingxu said, everyone laughed.

"Commander, I've also seen the American weapons we replaced.

It is indeed good, much better than the Japanese Type 38 rifle.

However, these American-made weapons are good.

There is only one major drawback.

It's just that they consume ammunition too quickly and rely too much on logistical support.

A month ago, Commander Zhou organized a live-fire exercise.

In just one day, we destroyed the amount of ammunition we had for a small battle in the past.

It makes me feel heartbroken.

If a war breaks out, our logistics will be cut off.

That would be troublesome. "

Xiao Shanling had been in the national army before and was used to being poor.

After seeing the terrible ammunition consumption of these American weapons, I realized that this is a big problem.

"Yeah. I know that."

Ye Qingshan nodded.

Ye Qingshan was very aware of the problem that American weapons consumed a large amount of ammunition.

After all, the weapons developed by the United States are definitely based on their own country's conditions.

They are a big industrial country and have no shortage of bullets.

Therefore, when designing the game, the designer did not worry about not having enough bullets.

“That’s why I chose southern Zhejiang as our base.

It is because we are close to the sea and can obtain overseas supplies.

In addition, I also sent two bullet production lines from the United States.

It is to ensure the ammunition supply of our 86th Army."

Ye Qingshan also considered these issues.

At this time, the two divisions under Ye Qingshan could be said to be purely American-equipped divisions.

All American-made equipment.

All that’s missing is large-caliber artillery, which will be indispensable in the later stages.

“Okay, stop talking about this.

Let's go to the parade grounds and see how our soldiers are training."

Ye Qingshan and a group of generals quickly arrived at the training ground of the 208th Division.

At this time, the soldiers were still conducting various obstacle training.

This is also the training method that Ye Qingshan brought from later generations.

Bang bang bang!

Not far away, there were continuous gunshots.

At this time, all soldiers of the 86th Army had the opportunity to practice live-fire shooting with ten rounds of bullets every day.

If other national army troops saw this, they would probably be heartbroken.

What a waste of bullets.

But in Ye Qingshan's opinion, it can only consume a few bullets and improve the soldiers' shooting skills.

Totally worth it.

Ye Qingshan felt itchy and picked up a large eight-grain rifle, quickly loaded it and fired.

"All on target!"

A soldier shouted in the distance.

"Haha, Commander, your shooting skills are amazing."

Zhou Pingkou and others who came later also praised him.

In fact, they had already seen Ye Qingshan's marksmanship a long time ago.

Only Deputy Commander Xiao was seeing him for the first time and was extremely surprised.

"Commander, urgent military information."

"explain."

"Commander Gu called and said Ningbo had fallen.

The 28th Army was defeated by the devils.

Now, the Japs are marching towards Taizhou.

Commander Gu ordered our army to assist Commander Xu in defending the Taizhou and Wenzhou lines.

Stop the advance of the Japanese 21st Division."

Zhou Pingkou took the telegram and read it.

"The 28th Army was defeated so quickly?

This is a bit fast, it’s only been a few days.”

Ye Qingshan frowned.

"Intelligence says that the Japanese have the support of the air force and the naval fleet.

The 28th Army was bombed by the Japanese air force on the way to Ningbo.

When they arrived at Ningbo for defense, they were hit by the Japanese naval artillery.

Can't hold on at all.

In just three days, an army was defeated."

"Now, Wentai garrison commander Xu Zhiqian is very panicked.

He had only one brigade.

Even the 28th Army couldn't last more than three days, let alone his brigade.

Therefore, Commander Xu had no choice but to ask Commander Gu for help urgently.

The closest to Wenzhou and Taizhou is now our 86th Army."

"Humph, don't mention Xu Zhigan.

This guy had previously prevented us from getting close to Wenzhou.

Now that the Japanese are here, we are afraid.

I know I need help.”

Sun Mingxu said at this time with an angry look on his face.

When he led the 209th Division to Wenzhou, he was stopped by troops sent by Xu Zhiqian.

In the end, Sun Mingxu had no choice but to lead his troops to station in Nanyan Dang Mountain.

Never got closer to Wenzhou City.

At that time, Xu Zhiqian was worried that Sun Mingxu's 209th Division would enter Wenzhou City.

Then his position as the Wentai garrison commander would be in name only.