Comrade, your ingredients are too complicated.

"Everyone, remember to read the introduction to Volume 10."

In mid-July 1942, the command center of the Suiyuan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.

The afterglow of dusk is like gold, splashing across the city full of vitality and flourishing everything.

At this time when most people have finished work for the day, a fully armed and heavily guarded convoy goes against the flow of people and slowly drives towards the city center from the direction of the train station.

At the same time, three tall and straight-limbed soldiers walked out of the general's office accompanied by many guards.

They were chatting and laughing while waiting for the arrival of visitors.

It is worth mentioning that among the above-mentioned soldiers there was a foreigner wearing a white shirt, whose overall dress style was completely different from that of the Eighth Route Army present.

At first glance, he stood out in the crowd.

The three stars and anchor embroidery on the shoulder reveal this person's extraordinaryness.

"Haha, why are you late today? You've kept us waiting for a long time. Come on, let's go eat. I've asked the kitchen to prepare a table of special dishes, and we can chat while we eat."

"Oh, I almost forgot to introduce you to it."

"This is Director Xiao, the future head of our North Sea Fleet. The person next to him is Rear Admiral Philippe, the leader of the French Naval Advisory Group. You should have met him in Taiyuan before."

The real boss was in place, and the Army reorganization expert hurried over with his colleagues.

The last time the two met was at the Baotou No. 1 Machinery Factory a few months ago, so they were naturally very happy to meet again today.

After a few brief greetings, Huang He first greeted the legendary French captain, and then turned his attention to the famous seasick commander.

"Director Xiao, I've heard a lot about you. We finally meet!"

"Is the navy's training going smoothly? Have you and Philip encountered any difficulties? If you have any needs, please feel free to ask. The Weapons Experimentation and Research Bureau is your strongest backing."

"We do not have large surface ships at present, but our supporting equipment and related technologies are by no means behind others."

Although this was the first time Xiao and Huang met in real life, they had used a series of communication tools such as telegrams to discuss work before today.

Offline communication among pen pals is naturally a different experience.

Thinking of the special seasickness medicine that the other party had specially asked someone to send him, Director Xiao couldn't help but laugh and scold:

"Your fame is something most people cannot bear. If you continue to be so famous, I'm afraid the entire Suiyuan Military Region will know about my seasickness."

"Sometimes, I really don't know what's going on in your mind."

"LYL and I are seasick and airsick respectively, but you actually recommended that we manage the navy and air force of Lu Province respectively. The border area and the headquarters really trust your decision-making."

Hearing this, Huang He showed a playful smile.

The vaguely visible row of white teeth has some of the charm of my fellow villager.

"Hehe, as the saying goes, capable people should do more work. Look at General Nie, he is almost 50 years old, but he is still working hard to build the new military region."

"The land warfare level of our Eighth Route Army is undoubtedly the best in Asia. However, moving from the inland to the shallows and then from the shallows to the deep blue is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and unimaginable project."

"With an experienced person like you in charge, the comrades will be more confident."

I recommend the above two people to the Army Morale Wizard and Deputy Commander-in-Chief. Huang He is indeed a man who likes to play with memes.

However, the most important reason is that Director Xiao and 103's abilities and learning efficiency are outstanding enough to fully handle the tasks assigned by the border area and the headquarters.

When his colleague mentioned his name, the Army Reorganization Expert, who was watching the show on the side, immediately became alert. He pretended to be innocent, and then imitated Huang He's tone in the past and continued:

"I'm just an old man who's about to retire. Do you think I want to shine?"

"Before I came to Suiyuan, the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of staff asked me to sign. I didn't think much about it and thought it was just to collect my retirement pay. Who knew I would be assigned to the prairie instead?"

This lifelike Zhan Hu-style speech immediately reminded Huang He of an old friend from his previous life.

After a brief reminiscence, he first handed the gift in his hand to Mr. Nie, then patted him on the shoulder and said jokingly:
"Old man, don't think about retirement. After all, our bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Suiyuan Military Region. I will need your signature before our first generation of jet fighters, first generation of strategic missiles, and even aircraft carriers are put into service."

"Let's go inside and chat."

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While they were talking, the four of them had already passed through the office area of ​​the general's office and arrived at Chengyuan, which was located inside the east wing.

The layout along the lake here fully reflects the style of Chinese gardens that draw inspiration from nature but transcend nature.

Among many courtyards, it is Mr. Nie's best choice for entertaining important visitors.

"Come on, come on, try the specialties of Suiyuan. By the way, considering Philip's eating habits, I also personally cooked half a table of French food."

"Let's eat. We are all family. There is no need to be polite at the dinner table."

As the first generation of overseas students in the Republic of China, the army reorganization expert paid great attention to economy during his study in France. He would not go out for dinner unless someone invited him.

The French dishes prepared today are naturally new things learned during that period.

Seeing the hometown dishes on the table, the legendary French captain immediately became interested.

It is nice to eat seafood and German food in Shandong Province, but for a foreigner, the taste of hometown is more nostalgic.

After eating and drinking, General Nie called the guard nearby and sent him to Weiyuxuan to get the documents.

While waiting, he opened the gift brought by Huang He, ready to see what kind of little surprise the other party had prepared for him.

"Wow, a tank model. Such interesting workmanship."

"Looking at its shape, it should be the T26 from the north. Could it be that the next stage of your Weapon Experimental Research Bureau's goal is to reverse-engineer the Russians' T26?"

Paper models are a very common scientific research tool in the Weapons Experimental Research Bureau.

Comrades in the bureau often use models in conjunction with battlefield teaching materials to summarize and absorb the excellent designs of armored forces in various countries.

In a sense, we can all be considered early plastic artists.

As for why T26?
It's very simple, because Guojian once equipped this outdated light tank, and its data is relatively easier to collect. In addition, the next stage of the decision to awaken the brave tiger system will also provide 100 T26s.

Getting started now can be considered as a way to familiarize yourself with the new equipment in advance.

Hearing the questions raised by the army reorganization expert, Huang He waved his hand casually.

"To be honest, although the T26 is outdated equipment, its firepower, armor and mobility are still pretty good. It is definitely more than enough to deal with the Japanese."

"But this thing weighs a full ten and a half tons. With the current infrastructure of our Republic of China, it is simply not enough to exert its full power."

“The Golden Decade is a complete joke.”

"But we can get a hundred of them as a preparation for the liberation of Northwest China after the war."

As soon as these words were spoken, President Nie's eyes subconsciously moved around the venue.

Considering that there were no outsiders at the scene, he carefully instructed Huang He:
"We'll talk about the future later. Our most important task now is to push the Japanese into the sea as quickly as possible and liberate the people in the occupied areas as soon as possible."

"By the way, regarding the plan to build a road to Sanma, the border region issued new instructions some time ago. I'll tell you the specific arrangements later."

While they were chatting, the guard from before returned to Guanjia Pavilion with a brown briefcase.

Seeing this, President Nie took out a document and handed the Chinese and French versions to the two groups of people at the table respectively.

As if he had seen the confusion of the French legendary captain Philippe, he waited for the three to open the folder and patiently explained in French:
"In order to open up a stable rear area for the Vietnam Aid Advisory Group, our Eighth Route Army recently dispatched its ace Marine Brigade to wipe out the Japanese navy entrenched in the Qiongya area."

"This campaign lasted 23 days in total. In addition to land battles, it also included small-scale naval battles and landing battles." "You are the only senior military personnel from the navy among the four of us. In addition, Japan is also an enemy that France will have to face in the future, so I want you to help analyze and see what level the IJN is at."

As a battle-hardened naval officer, there was absolutely nothing wrong with Philip's professional skills.

He can even tell you by heart the surface strength and tactical system of Daiying, Achou, De San and even Yimian.

However, the situation of IJN is rather special.

Located in Asia, the French intelligence agencies are out of reach.

What's more, the style of naval warfare in the Pacific is completely different from that in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, which led to the legendary captain not really understanding the Japanese Navy.

After hearing the explanation from the army reorganization expert, Philip's face was obviously surprised. He decisively opened the folder and tried to analyze the deployment details of the Japanese navy from the battle.

But after just five minutes of watching, the international friends showed expressions of disappointment, and even a hint of contempt.

"Huh? That's it?"

"Is the IJN's operational staff a makeshift team? Wasn't the bombed Etajima Naval Academy known as a military academy comparable to Dai Ying and Ah Chou? How could such a jerk be trained?"

"As expected, they are taught by Daiei. They are just as useless as their teacher. This kind of school should be blown up. There is no need for it to exist at all."

The ultimate bad mouth, pure enjoyment.

As a genuine old Frenchman, Philip would naturally not miss any opportunity to criticize his opponents, especially after experiencing the ballista plan.

This was the first time that Huang He had heard the Gallic Rooster curse in such a pure form since graduation.

Although he knew his fellow villagers had won the victory in Qiongya through the changes in the military factories and civilian factories within the system, Huang was not sure about the specific situation.

Hearing this, he quickly flipped through the files to see what kind of shit the book had done.

"Ah, Qiongya has become Guadalcanal?"

"Isn't this Tokyo Express and Ant Transport?"

"Now that we have the precedent of the Qiongzhou Strait, the Japanese Navy will definitely revise the original combat plan. In the Battle of Guadalcanal, Ah Chou will most likely be in trouble."

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After suffering a joint attack from the 1st Marine Brigade and the Eighth Route Army Air Force, Vice Admiral Kaneo Sunagawa of the Qiongya Garrison did not give up resistance.

In order to make a comeback and take back Manchuria for the navy, the old Japanese chose to endure humiliation and survive.

Upon receiving his order, Japanese troops on the entire island decisively dropped all their work and rushed to the Sanya Bay military base.

Not only is it easy to defend and difficult to attack, but in the future it can also receive resources sent from the mainland and Southeast Asia. For the Japanese, it is the last capital for a turnaround.

At the same time, Kaneo Sunagawa also contacted the 23rd Army in Guangzhou, hoping that the other party could send troops to provide assistance.

Logically speaking, even if the relationship between the two major forces, the Army and the Navy, had eased, Commander Lieutenant General Sakai Takashi would not send troops to support the Qiongya Garrison.

but!

The emergence of the 1st Marine Brigade completely changed the thinking of the Japanese Army.

That was the Eighth Route Army's airborne force, isolated overseas, without heavy weapons and unlimited air support.

The Japanese wanted to eat Li Yunlong's flesh, bones, tendons and drink his blood, as he was elusive and had repeatedly disrupted their strategic plans.

After reaching an agreement immediately, the two old Japanese soldiers, Takashi Sakai and Kaneo Sunagawa, came up with a combat plan in the shortest time: crossing the sea in a bathtub!

In order to avoid detection and air raids by the Eighth Route Army Air Force, the Qiongya Garrison planned to dispatch all surface ships to transport a brigade of the 23rd Army.

The Japanese planned to take advantage of the night when enemy planes could not attack and use destroyers, gunboats, torpedo boats and all auxiliary ships to cross the Qiongzhou Strait at "high speed".

After sending the army to the island, they could use their advantage in mobility to leave the attack range of the Eighth Route Army Air Force and achieve perfect harmless reinforcement.

The above tactics are perfect in the eyes of Kaneo Sunagawa.

Even if their Qiongya Garrison lost air superiority, they could take advantage of the Eighth Route Army's attempt to seize their own surface ships to avoid the threat of the enemy's air force.

Seeing this, Huang He laughed out loud.

Isn’t this the Guangzhou advanced experience version of the Tokyo Express?

Along with Huang's hearty laughter, the legendary Captain Philip also spoke at the same time, pointing out the fatal problem in Japan's naval combat plan.

"During the design phase, destroyers around the world do not take the transportation of soldiers and supplies as the main indicator. In other words, they simply do not have much space or redundant tonnage."

"Even if our French 4000-ton Mogador-class destroyers were stripped of their torpedo tubes and other equipment, they could only transport 100-150 soldiers and supplies at a time."

"How do they transport the Japanese destroyers? Do they have to hang the soldiers on the mast? Why don't they use submarines? This is a ridiculous trick."

It turned out that Philip's understanding was very accurate. Not only was the destroyer's carrying capacity limited, but it was also not equipped with a large crane.

This means that the brigade-level troops of the 23rd Army cannot even carry large-caliber support artillery.

Even lightweight weapons like the Type 92 infantry gun had to be dismantled and assembled on the island.

As for the supply issue?

What supplies do they need? When did the Japanese ever consider supplies when fighting?

Since we have to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops anyway, we might as well capture Li Yunlong and eat the Eighth Route Army's food directly!
Seeing this, General Nie and Director Xiao had already thought of the Japs' fate.

As expected, the 19th Independent Mixed Brigade, which arrived in Qiongya via the Guangzhou Express, was equipped with only sixty Type 92 heavy machine guns.

There were only ten mountain, field and anti-aircraft guns in total, and only fourteen Type 92 infantry guns. With so few heavy weapons, there were only a pitiful 300 rounds of ammunition.

Of course, the surface ships of the Qiongya Garrison alone are not enough to transport a brigade-level support force.

Fortunately, the army came into play at this time. They planned to cross the Qiongzhou Strait using the boats and landing boats left over from the landing of the Republic of China.

Sakai Takashi believed that compared to destroyers, boats were smaller targets and could not be detected by the Eighth Route Army's aircraft at all.

Through this kind of ant transportation, their 23rd Army could even design a double-team attack plan, with a regiment landing as a surprise force on the west side of Haikou and joining the main force in double-teaming Dayingshan Airport.

Seeing this, before General Nie could speak, Navy Consultant Philip took the initiative to explain:
"Destroyers are inefficient, but they are still proper surface ships. They can still sail in strong winds and waves. But boats and landing craft are nothing. Basically, a single wave can knock them down."

"Besides, the boats are indeed a small target, but if their numbers increase, the transport team will be more dense. Once a plane passes by for reconnaissance, even a nearsighted person will find it difficult to miss it."

Although the Qiongzhou Strait is not very wide, its natural conditions and geology are very harsh. The climate in this sea area is complex, the wind and waves are strong, and the summer is the peak season for typhoons.

The Japanese Army's boats had not gone far when they encountered a force nine gale.

In the strong winds and heavy rains, these small boats were often broken down, leaked, and capsized.

Fortunately, the bad weather did not last too long. However, just as the weather improved, the Japanese encountered the reconnaissance team led by Captain Wang Hai himself.

To be honest, Captain Wang was stunned at the time, and for a moment he didn't even understand what the enemy was going to do.

However, after confirming that they were Japanese, the comrades simply began diving to fry fish and scoop up French fries at low altitude.

After some painstaking efforts, the 23rd Army's support corps suffered heavy losses.

There were more than 1,000 good people when they set out, but in fact there were only 360 on the island. These devils had basically no equipment except a fart curtain, and they didn't even have many rifles.

What awaited them were thousands of fully armed Eighth Route Army soldiers. (End of this chapter)