Rise from the sword

Chapter 573

"idiot."

"waste."

Makoto, in the Japanese Army Headquarters, after hearing the telegram from the base camp, Hattori Kotaro cursed angrily:

"I only know how to point fingers on the map, and never consider reality when making decisions."

"They actually want to send more troops to Chengde."

"You don't need to think about it with their rotten brains, Chengde can be defended by the imperial army! How strong is the Eighth Route Army, how big is the difference in strength between the two sides, the battle of Taiyuan, the battle of Pingxian, can't you see clearly! "

"A bunch of old trash."

After scolding for a long time, Hattori Kotaro, who was still furious, overturned the table, and various documents were scattered all over the floor.

The staff officer at the side lowered his head silently, not daring to speak.

Orders from base camp.

The First Division continues to stick to Chengde and must block the attack of the Eighth Route Army. The telegram also stated that considering the arduous task, there will be four divisions, one flying brigade, one heavy artillery brigade, etc. A total of 8 people will be recruited from the Kwantung Army The hinterland reinforces Chengde.

At that time, the total force around Chengde will reach 15.

It also mobilized a large amount of materials such as cement and steel bars, anti-aircraft guns, new anti-tank guns and other weapons to strengthen the strength of Chengde's defenders.

At the end of the telegram, a request was attached to wait for an opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Chengde Foreign Independence Regiment.

But seeing this telegram and seeing the arrival of reinforcements, including the Flying Brigade and the Heavy Artillery Brigade, General Hattori was not only unhappy, but was furious and cursed.

The staff understands very well.

From the data on paper, the orders from the base camp are not difficult to implement.

The 15 army is twice as large as that of the eight roads currently occupying Ping County. In addition, the heavy artillery brigade provides artillery support, and the flying brigade provides air supremacy. Although there is still a gap in weapons, it is not that big.

Northeast industry can also provide sufficient logistical supplies.

Moreover, the troops of the Eighth Route in Pingxian County are currently being assembled. In theory, the foothold is not stable. It is very easy for an army of 15 to defend Chengde, and there is also a chance to wipe out the main force of the Eighth Route.

The gap in weapons can be made up by tactics, and tanks can be restricted by terrain and then eliminated.

But the problem is.

The Eighth Route Commander fought steadily and did not make rash advances.

After arriving in Chengdewai, he did not rush to launch an attack, but put up a defensive formation and trained troops in Ping County. Obviously, he planned to launch an attack after the troops were assembled.

Although it is unclear what method was used, in a short period of time, the Eighth Route Army has built a large number of fortress-level concrete fortresses around Ping County, and even deployed more than a dozen battleship-level heavy artillery.

Behind the Pingxian position, there are more than three hundred 125 artillery pieces.

These alone have made them invincible.

The imperial army's attack in any direction will have the arrival of the plug-level reinforced concrete fortress, as well as the long-range bombardment of naval guns.

Even the 240 howitzers of the heavy artillery brigade cannot destroy those fortress-level reinforced concrete fortresses, let alone the heavy artillery brigade has no chance to launch artillery support in the face of the enemy's suppression of more than 300 125 howitzers.

Unless the imperial army can create the ground-penetrating aerial bomb of the opponent.

Not to mention that domestic research has no clue at all.

Even if the empire had one, it would be difficult to destroy those fortresses.

The enemy has more than 100 fighter jets. Even if the opponent's pilots are inexperienced, there are more fighters and more advanced fighter jets. A flying brigade may not necessarily be able to seize air supremacy.

Moreover, the terrain around Chengde is relatively flat, which is very suitable for mechanized troops to fight. Tracked tanks can quickly reach any county town and lure the enemy deep. There is no such condition for infantry to intersperse and encircle.

The enemy has more than 500 tanks.

Send a wing to lure the enemy, but before they reach the predetermined position, the opponent's armored forces may have already detoured and surrounded them.Night interspersed also proved unfeasible due to night vision goggles and fortresses.

Not to mention that the scale of Eight Roads is still expanding rapidly.

"idiot."

After being furious for a long time, Hattori Kotaro managed to calm down and accepted the reality helplessly.

Then he walked to the map, lost in thought.

It was impossible to retreat, and he had to stick to Chengde according to the orders of the base camp, otherwise, as soon as the order to retreat was issued, his position as commander-in-chief would be withdrawn, and he would even have to return to the country to be tried by a court-martial.

After thinking for a long time, Hattori ordered:

"Order, the 119th and 122nd divisions should establish defense lines in Heisei, Longhua, Lincheng..."

"Order the 73rd Independent Mixed Brigade...
Hattori completely forgot about annihilating the main force of the Eighth Route Army. What he was thinking about now was how to block the attack of the enemy's armored torrent of more than [-] tanks under the condition of inferior artillery fire and loss of air supremacy.

After much deliberation, Hattori can only think of using a large deep position to consume the offensive power of the eight routes layer by layer, and then wait for an opportunity to cut off its supply line.

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mountain city.

Inside the U.S. military mansion
"A bunch of idiots."

Wedemeyer looked at a stack of 1000-yuan French coins on the table, threw them into the air, and then cursed:

"waste."

"Pig."

"..."

After scolding for a long time, swearing all the swear words in this life, his mouth was a little dry, so Weidemei had to stop, took a sip of water, and took a few breaths.

During the period, because I drank too much water, I choked and coughed several times.

No wonder Weidemei was so angry.

With all his heart and soul, he tried his best to persuade the Congress and the President, understand them with emotion and move them with reason, and finally let the country increase its arms and economic support for preserved fruits.

Why did he do this?
It's not that I hope that the Shancheng Township and the preserved fruit army will become stronger, and then block the group of reds that suddenly rushed up for the United States.Avoid the emergence of a force that is at odds with the United States.

result.

It's fine if the four big families embezzle US funds.

In order to keep the lost talents and the army, this group of people swallowed up the millions of tons of food that the Eight Routes planned to rescue the victims of the disaster. In just a few months, they spent more than ten times the total amount of currency before.

He cut off his hands and feet abruptly.

The issuance of credit currency is originally a supplement to the economic power of a regime, but this group of people actually use it as the main source of finance, accounting for more than 90.00% of the five.

Wedemeyer couldn't figure it out.

What is the use of printing so much money?

Is it possible that this group of people don’t know that currency needs to be supported by real objects. If they do this, their currency will become waste paper, the credit of (regime) power will also drop sharply, and will all the people’s hearts be lost?
Originally, although the value of the French currency had been depreciating, it was still relatively strong. The Japanese-occupied areas recognized this currency. After the emergence of food stamps, the status did not decline too much, and it was still the mainstream currency.

But now it is good, it suddenly became waste paper and was directly discarded by the market.

Of course, there is also the reason for the existence of food stamps. If there were no food stamps, the legal currency would still be the mainstream currency in the market, and at most it would depreciate severely. Unlike now, it was directly abandoned by the market.

A township-style currency has no credit, and the currency in circulation is issued by others. There is no need to do anything. It is only a matter of time before he falls.

'waste. '

Taking a deep breath, Wei Demai finally suppressed the idea of ​​swearing and began to think carefully about the countermeasures after he cursed one last time.

The teammates I found, even if they were crying, they could only continue to help.

After thinking for a long time, Wei Demei didn't think of a way.

Now that the legal currency is hopeless, the only way is to reissue a currency.

The issue is.

Any currency needs support, that is, credit endorsement and industrial support, such as the US dollar, which is supported by the credit of the US government, as well as the strong industrial and economic strength of the United States.

In the Republic of China, after the French currency, the credit of the town government was completely bankrupt, and it was itself a weak chicken. The industrial capacity was poor and white, and the industrial, agricultural and financial industries were completely unable to support the issuance of new currency. In addition, there were food stamps in circulation on the market, and it was impossible to invest in new currency.

As for completely banning food coupons and using the military to issue currency, Wei Demei has also thought about it, but food coupons are already in circulation across the country, and mountain cities also need to use food coupons to buy supplies. Doing so will only completely collapse the mountain city's economy.

If it doesn't work, just finish playing.

Therefore, there must be an anchor point that can be widely recognized by the market to issue currency.

He thought about directly linking the new currency to the U.S. dollar and directly issuing new currency based on the U.S. dollar, but this requires the Shancheng Township Government to have a huge amount of US dollar foreign exchange, that is, it needs to loan a large amount of U.S. dollars to the Shancheng Township Government.

In view of the recent behavior of the four major families, Weidemei directly gave up this idea.

Direct loans, I'm afraid it's not sending money to the four big families.

After thinking about it, Wei Demai's head is getting bigger. Although he has a high degree of education and rich experience in the army, but in terms of economics, he is just a novice, a rookie.

In the end, a staff officer around him gave him advice:

"General, the people of the Republic of China used to use silver dollars as currency. Although the town government banned the circulation of silver dollars in 35 years, there are still a lot of silver dollars in circulation in the market. There are a lot of silver in the hands of preserved fruits. They can also collect them to large amounts of silver."

"Our country is still implementing the Silver Act to increase the purchase price of silver."

"We can buy silver from the Republic of China in large quantities and at high prices. We can buy as much as they sell, and then let them issue new currencies with the support of US dollar foreign exchange."

Finally, the staff officer added:
"Based on the current situation in the Republic of China, even if we collect all the silver, the pressure on us will not be too great."

"Good idea!"

Wedemeyer was immediately moved.

The Silver Act, a bill promulgated in June 34, authorizes the U.S. Department of the Treasury to purchase silver at home and abroad at its discretion, in order to stabilize the price of silver at $6 an ounce.

As a trader, as a banker, and as the party with the largest silver reserves in the world, the Ministry of Finance actually made a lot of money in this bill by controlling the price of silver in the market at will.

Unless there is a huge amount of silver that suddenly lowers the market price of silver, the Ministry of Finance will always be the winner.

The international status of the U.S. dollar is definitely much better than the so-called food stamps. It is more popular with businessmen and can easily support currency issuance.

"But those moths..."

But thinking of the four wonderful families, Wei Demei has a headache.

These four families are more disgusting than house mice.

Rats can't steal from this group of people.

"We can just take this opportunity to send someone to supervise the foreign exchange circulation of its central bank, and then..."

The staff officer smiled slightly and continued to make up his mind.

"good idea."

Wedemeyer's eyes lit up immediately.

In this way, the finances of the mountain town government are completely controlled, which is tantamount to economic colonization.As for the United States, it only needs to print a batch of dollars, and it doesn't even need to worry about inflation.

A country with a population of more than [-] million is such a huge market that can accommodate billions of dollars.

"You make a preliminary plan."

Wedemeyer said to the staff officer.

Although the American air force and bomber fleet have withdrawn, the material and economic support for preserved fruit has not stopped, and the import of weapons has not stopped. In addition, the Eighth Route is gradually growing, so the current US influence in the mountain city is greater than before.

It's not hard to do this.

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the next day.

Outside Chengde.

Heisei.

"The little devil is building up positions in Heisei, Longhua, and Lincheng?"

Looking at the latest investigative information, Ding Wei stroked his chin, pondered for a moment, and then understood what the devil was thinking:
"The little devil is planning to pass through the deep position, blocking the attack layer by layer, and consume my offensive power."

"Ah, what shall we do then?"

Beside Ding Wei, a new staff officer immediately asked.

He remembered that regiment leader Ding said that the most feared thing in an armored blitzkrieg is a deep and multi-layered block, so that the attacking troops will easily get bogged down and unable to move, and finally be unable to attack and be counterattacked by the opponent.

"How to do?"

Ding Wei smiled calmly:
"Nothing to do, let's continue to follow the original plan and attack after the troops are trained."

In the stupefaction of the staff officer, Ding Wei smiled and continued:

"However, I really appreciate the little devil."

"Ok?"

Ding Wei's words made the staff members even more confused.

But Ding Wei didn't explain, but carefully studied the devil's defensive position, still very calm.

At this time, Ding Datuan was sneering in his heart.

Common sense, to fight the three eastern provinces, blitzkrieg is the best choice, it can quickly end the battle!
But is the purpose of the Independence Regiment to end the fighting quickly?

He is worried that he has no place and no time to train soldiers!
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Ping An County.

Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong received information about the new business.

"This is all business information?!"

Li Yunlong was very surprised when he saw the materials filled with dozens of ten-wheel trucks.

"Correct."

After Chen Fan nodded, they chatted for a long time before he left directly.

"Execute devil war criminals."

Afterwards, Zhao Gang opened the business information, flipped through the pages, and then he clicked his tongue and said with emotion:

"sharp."

"I actually collected all the criminal evidence of the devils, and every devil who committed a crime has not been left behind."

"Then don't let go of any of them."

Li Yunlong flashed sharply.

The support from Brother Chen has completely let go. The tank business started in July last year. Up to now, the price of a devil has increased by nearly 7000 times. Otherwise, they would have given more than [-] tanks to others at one time.

"nature."

Commissar Zhao was also murderous.

When political commissar Zhao turned to the price tag, just the first page, his eyebrows twitched, and his tone was full of surprise:

"This price is interesting."

"what."

Li Yunlong looked over curiously:

"Yo ho, killing the little devil can also explode silver."

"There are quite a few little devils. This business is profitable."

After muttering, Li Yunlong didn't pay much attention to it.

Now that there are food stamps and silver dollars, that is, silver, they are useless.But when he saw Lao Zhao's deep eyes, he immediately understood that his old partner was thinking about something bad.

And [-]% is related to silver.

"Old Zhao, what do you want to do?"

Li Yunlong asked.

"Do you remember the Silver Act in the United States?"

Zhao Gang asked.

"of course I remember."

Hearing these four words, Li Yunlong also flashed sharply.

"The Yankees used this bill back then, and our country suffered a big loss, and the economy almost fell back for several years."

Leader Li's tone was gloomy.

He has read a lot of books and read a lot of secret materials, and he is very clear that the Yankee is a good person on the surface, but in fact, he is not a thing at all.

"Then we'll make them vomit some blood."

Political Commissar Zhao narrowed his eyes, and his tone was gloomy. After a pause, he emphasized his tone:
"No, let him spit out a mouthful of blood."

"What are you going to do?"

Li Yunlong was a little curious.

Although he has read some economic books, in this respect, he is not 01:30 worse than Lao Zhao.

"Let's give the German a little bit of news first."

Zhao Gang smiled all over his face:

"Let's just say that the study of space transmission technology requires silver, a huge amount of silver, and then let the Americans know the news."

Leader Li suddenly shuddered.

He is no longer the big-headed old Li. Now Li Yunlong is a knowledgeable horse, with a lot of ink in astronomy, geography, economics, politics, military science and technology.

Relying on his rich knowledge, he easily thought of the subsequent development.

"Haha, old Zhao, you are quite insidious."

Leader Li laughed loudly:

"However, I like it."

(End of this chapter)