Rise from the sword

Chapter 578
South of the Yangtze River.

East of Wu County.

There is a village called Xiaotuozi Village.

As the saying goes, there are only wrong names and no wrong nicknames, and the village is naturally like this. The reason why this place is called Xiaotuozi Village is because the terrain here is composed of mountains and hills, and there is no flat land. Little Tuozi.

But at this time, the place has changed drastically.

If you look down from the sky.

The original Xiaotuozi Village has disappeared, and the topography of the small hills has also disappeared. The first thing that catches the eye is a huge flat ellipse, which is outlined by barbed wire, blockhouses, and sentry towers.

Of those bunkers, there are four dark gun barrels that are visible to the naked eye.

The middle area of ​​the ellipse has obviously been transformed by manpower, the ground is flat, and there are two concrete runways that extend straight and occupy almost four-fifths of the entire ellipse, and are more than 60 meters apart from each other.

The interval area is a grass field, occasionally a few small new buildings of unknown purpose can be seen.

At the back of the runway, there are diagonally distributed and symmetrical aprons, which are full of planes, roughly two hundred, and at the end are more than thirty arched closed hangars.

On the two wings of the apron, there are large cylindrical concrete warehouses.

Outside the oval airport, there are more than a dozen houses under construction. The foundation is being laid at the moment. From the depth of the foundation, it can be guessed that the floors of these houses must not be low.

"This···"

Looking at the airport in front of him, Song Yun, the battalion commander who came from Song County and was in charge of airport defense, widened his eyes.

As Kong Jie also began to expand the army on a large scale, Song Yun, who had come from the miscellaneous division before, also officially became the battalion commander. He had a battalion in his hand, and it was an infantry battalion standard of the independent regiment, with the same level of equipment.

On the day when the whole battalion changed clothes, Song Yun was horrified.

A battalion of Guofu is generally only five or six hundred people, but his battalion has 800 troops, which is already too much in terms of strength. He didn't know until the distribution of weapons and equipment began.

Good guy, it turns out that the weapons and equipment are even more outrageous.

His 800-strong force has an independent artillery company equipped with six 120-caliber mortars.Then each infantry company also has an independent 82 mortar platoon, and each platoon has an independent 60 mortar group.

There are more than 100 light and heavy machine guns and more than a dozen recoilless guns.

The firepower is as strong as the previous main division.

As long as the logistics supplies are strong, he has the confidence to confront and defeat the Devils with a full formation.

But right now, the sudden appearance of the airport made him even more horrified, even incomprehensible, incredible.

"When did they build it?"

Song Yun didn't understand.

When did this airport, which is even bigger than Songxian Airport, emerge?

He has been to Xiaotuozi Village, and it was in May of this year.

At that time, there were still small hills and wasteland all around here, and the so-called Xiaotuozi Village was just an empty village. Because of military disasters, banditry, and famine, the people in the village had left.

But now, a large mountain has disappeared, and there is a vast flat land, two runways three kilometers long and tens of meters wide, dozens of large warehouses, dozens of large hangars, and a large number of concrete buildings.

How did they build it in such a short time?
There are machinery and equipment, reinforced concrete, manpower, explosives to open mountains, machines to bulldoze, steel bars to tie house molds, and concrete to fill. Construction is not difficult.He had seen this situation in Song County before.

Such a huge mountain belongs to this group. It should not be said that the construction team on their side blasted it with explosives and then pushed it with a bulldozer. In a few days, the entire mountain disappeared, leaving only a large flat land.

But how are the machinery and equipment, as well as materials, transported?
Where did it come from?

Looking at the scale, it must be at least tens of thousands of tons, and there is no decent road near Xiaotuozi Village, only a narrow horse road.

"It seems."

Beside Song Yun, a deputy battalion commander said:

"There are still many mysterious places in our army, and it is much stronger than we imagined."

In words, this person is full of rejoicing.

"Leader, you still have the foresight, go to the Eight Routes early, otherwise..."

As he spoke, he shivered.

"How many times have I said it?"

Song Yun frowned when he heard it, and looked at his old subordinate, the former deputy head:

"Call me Commander."

He also now fully understands why Captain Kong didn't separate his old subordinates, but gathered them together in one unit.

People are not afraid of him pulling the hill at all.

Although he has never understood why this Kong Jie, whose strength is comparable to that of General Tang, is only a deputy head of the regiment, but the current situation has made him understand that the strength distributed by the Song County Independent Regiment may not be as strong as that of Yuzhong. General Tang is probably not worthy of carrying shoes.

When the two were puzzled, Kong Jie had already arrived at the newly built Wuxian Airport Command Headquarters by transport plane, and a staff officer was reporting to him:

"Currently, the initial construction of Wuxian Airport has been completed, and the remaining military dormitories, teaching buildings and other supporting facilities are still almost there."

The independent regiment stipulates that every team must study cultural knowledge regularly. In order to promote the learning spirit of the soldiers, the non-commissioned officer assessment and the promotion conditions for officers and cadres are added to the cultural knowledge level, and even the higher the cultural class, the higher the salary. .

"Speed ​​up without compromising quality."

Kong Jie exhorted.

"Yes."

The staff officer nodded and continued:
"Currently, Wuxian Airport has six aviation battalions, one air defense battalion, and two infantry battalions."

"Among them, there are three transport aircraft battalions, one fighter battalion, two attack aircraft battalions, and one firepower battalion."

After the air gunboats showed great combat effects, Li Yunlong and Huang Quan decided to form a separate aviation firepower battalion, consisting of air gunboats, with 54 aircraft in each battalion.

"Pilots and enemy personnel are also in place."

The staff officer finally added.

"Huang Quan did a good job."

Kong Jie was a little surprised.

In such a short period of time, so many pilots have been trained, even with unlimited fuel and aircraft, it is not easy for the lack of talents on our side.

"Head Huang even asked someone to tell you."

The staff officer added:

"At the end of next month, we can provide three hundred pilots for each of the three parties."

"sharp."

Kong Jie raised his eyebrows.

It is now the middle of July, and until the end of next month, there are only [-] days left. That is to say, Huang Quan and others can train [-] pilots in almost two months.

This number is a bit high for European and American powers, let alone a country that is generally illiterate.

The difficulty is so high that it is unimaginable.

"It is said that a large number of pilots from the mountain city defected to us."

The staff officer added a sentence.

"Oh?"

Kong Jie became interested, and he asked:

"what happened?"

Recently, Kong Jie has been busy with the construction of the Songxian base area and the expansion of the army, and rarely pays attention to other things. He only has a little understanding of the international situation and the domestic situation.

"Fiat currency crashes."

The staff officer said:

"The price of goods in the mountain city has skyrocketed hundreds of times in the past two months, the economy has completely collapsed, and their high-level officials have not acted. In addition, this group of people and devils are procrastinating, which has caused the people below to be very dissatisfied. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Under the planning of the political commissar, many factory technicians and pilots fled to our side."

"I see."

The corners of Kong Jie's mouth twitched, his tone suddenly.

A few months ago, Zhao Gang organized a food rescue for the disaster victims in Shancheng and other areas.

The plan is very simple. The overall plan is to supply the mountain city with a large amount of coarse grain, mainly low-quality coarse grain, to rescue the victims. Of course, this plan has another meaning, which is to promote itself and enhance the reputation of the army.

In order to give the people in the mountain city a little sweetness, help suppress the inflationary legal currency, and prevent the common people from living a miserable life, Zhao Gang also plans to trade a batch of grain to stabilize the currency through grain.

Some people disagreed with this approach after thinking about it, but Kong Jie understood Zhao Gang's thoughts very well.

Now, with the expansion of the army, the replacement of weapons and equipment, and the establishment of industrial zones in the base area, those people in the mountain city are already outdated, and it is not qualified to be an enemy or an opponent.

Squeeze to death casually.

Helping a group of ordinary people, even if that group gets a little benefit, it will have no effect.

But what people didn't expect was that those people didn't know how to live or die. Instead of purchasing grain through market regulation as planned, they issued a large amount of currency to buy fine grain after discovering that the supply of coarse grain was unlimited, and even distributed the grain to the victims. Replace it with freshly printed fiat currency.

Truly an eye-opener for everyone.

As a result, in just a few months, this group of people played themselves to death.

"Ha ha···"

Kong Jie sneered.

The staff officer continued:

"Today it is planned to send 350 sorties of transport aircraft to Hengyang, which will carry a large amount of artillery to strengthen the scale of the artillery force. There will be [-] sorties of attack aircraft and [-] sorties of aerial gunboats."

Wu County is closer to Hengyang, and the round-trip time is shorter, so the scale of transport aircraft can naturally be increased.

"it is good."

Kong Jie smiled and nodded.

Weapon support is determined by the staff department. He usually does not intervene in order to cultivate the staff's ability. Now Kong Jie's biggest idea is to expand the size of the army as soon as possible without affecting the quality of the troops, and then have a good fight with the devils.

Don't worry about supplies, there are plenty of them.

There is no need to worry about grassroots officers and cadres, because of the lack of direct land access, he will be assigned more officers and cadres and fewer elite recruits.

So, his biggest problem is soldiers.

At present, Song County, not counting the air force, has only twenty battalions, the smallest of the three parties. Among them, there are five armored battalions and five artillery battalions. Because they are technical arms, these soldiers are all airlifted from Zhao Jiayu.

Twenty battalions are too few for the devils in the south.

For this reason, Kong Jie focused on those miscellaneous masters, the Sichuan army and so on.

Kong Jie found that these people had a certain military foundation, and many troops were not bad at all. As long as they were recruited by officers from the higher-ups of the Anti-Japanese University, and then spent some time training and learning the spirit of the army, they could form an army.

If it doesn't work, it can also be used as a second-level army.

Therefore, he fully supported the Tenth Army's weapons and equipment, medicines and ammunition, and food supplies for free.

Accustomed to the powerful firepower of the Independence Regiment, abundant and sufficient supplies, and the military salary that was never deducted, he did not believe that there were still people who could go back.

At that time, based on the Hengyang Tenth Army, using materials as the medium, the influence of the troops will be spread, and then with a little planning, they will be able to swallow a large number of surrounding troops and expand fifty battalions at once.

　Water content, 90.00% nine...

　　So, when the heat of recommendation passes, I will order more.

　　There are still five days left in the surgery class.

　　


(End of this chapter)