Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 182: Border Region Reorganization
The desperate counterattack against the Japanese airport ignited the New Year's enthusiasm of the people at the front and in the rear.

At the same time, it also effectively vindicated the image of the border region and the Eighth Route Army. Even though the major media downplayed the news, as the border region transmitted the photos to the rear, the scene of the attack on the Japanese fighter planes was engulfed in flames, which drove the people crazy.

Countless young students took immediate action. They wanted to go to the border areas, demand the Eighth Route Army headquarters, and go to the front lines!
Taking advantage of this wave of border area enthusiasm, Ren Zhong recruited a group of new students.

Another 500 students were recruited under the name of the Anti-Japanese Military and Industrial Special Technology School.

But this time, the new students were not brought directly to the Dawn Institute.

Because almost every student at the previous Dawn Research Institute Cave Academy had undergone background checks, and most of them were from the base areas and border areas, so there was no major impact on entering the Dawn Research Institute.

The probability of students having problems is extremely low.

But among this group of new students, Ren Zhong was sure that there would be sand in the sand among them by the Statistics Bureau of the temporary capital.

Therefore, Ren Zhong opened a second campus of the Anti-Japanese University in the border area, allowing people in the border area to observe the freshmen. They would go through a month of freshman study and military training here, and then take professional courses such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry for the first half of the year. After passing the assessment, these students would be introduced to the Cave College for the second phase of practical professional course learning.

Become the successor talent of the Dawn Institute.

To this end, the second phase of construction of the Cave Academy has begun.

Fortunately, the border area has everything except hills. One hundred cave dwellings can be built around a hill by digging four or five rows from top to bottom.

Now the excavation of cave dwellings has changed from full manual to semi-manual. Ren Zhong introduced a horizontal milling machine from the main world. This kind of machine has a wide range of uses in engineering, whether it is tunnel excavation and trimming, mine caves, roads, and bridge excavation and trenching.

He can be described as an all-rounder in the excavation industry. He is an expert in tunnel coal excavation, cave excavation and even land reclamation and excavation.

With this kind of machinery, cave excavation is now not only fast and efficient, but also requires less manpower.

Now Ren Zhong is developing small hydropower plants everywhere, and new models that are constantly being developed can be used in large quantities wherever there is water.

Although this transverse milling machine is not as useful as an excavator, it is relatively simple in structure and quick to use. It has become Ren Zhong's preferred excavator and has been introduced into the world of Liang Jian.

Compared with manual labor, these machines improve efficiency by more than an order of magnitude.

The advent of the transverse milling machine means that the expansion of the Dawn Research Institute's factory no longer relies on an increase in manpower. The Eighth Guard Regiment alone is enough to complete the Dawn Research Institute's needs for building roads, dams, new cave dwellings and new factory buildings.

After working for Ren Zhong for a year, the 8th Guard Regiment is almost becoming an engineering corps!

However, these did not affect the combat effectiveness of the 8th Guard Regiment.

They are the first main force regiment in the entire army to complete the replacement of the entire regiment with 56 semi-automatic rifles. It is also the training base for the 107th artillery. Almost all 107th artillerymen from other places need to go to the training base of the th Guard Regiment before they can obtain the certification of rocket artillery artillery.

Therefore, the 2th Guard Regiment was also the first main force regiment in the entire army to be equipped with two 107mm rifles.

In addition, they have machine guns in the squad, grenade launchers and RPG rocket launchers in the platoon (taking into account both direct and indirect fire), 82mm mortars in the company (to suppress heavy machine guns and deal with Type 2 infantry guns), and a single-row regimental artillery company equipped with 107 2 rocket launchers and 41 S mountain guns, as well as an independent baggage company and a police and reconnaissance company. The current th Security Regiment can be described as a Type A regiment with twelve companies, an absolute first-class main force in the border area!
It can completely beat a small Japanese field reorganized infantry regiment alone! However, the border region leaders all said that such a regiment was strong but felt that they could not afford it. Apart from other things, the 120 mules and horses in the baggage company alone were a huge burden. With the current food and grass in the border region, this kind of large working animal itself is a scarce resource and a big consumption.

After the border region reorganized the 8th Guard Regiment, it reorganized the 1st Guard Regiment and the three main regiments of the 359th Brigade and then stopped.

The remaining main regiments were reorganized into three battalions, nine companies and a firepower company, with the same company-level assignments. The firepower company was changed to two S2 mountain guns or one 41 rocket launcher, and a baggage platoon was strengthened to transport a base number (1 artillery shells/rocket shells).

As the testing force for the weapons of the Dawn Research Institute, the Eighth Guard Regiment now has the upper hand and the advantage. It is useless for the other troops to envy it.

Ren Zhong required to strengthen the strength of the 2th Brigade. The two regiments that went north in advance, together with the Temporary rd Division, could resist the southward advance of the Japanese invaders from Jiuyuan, but they could not ensure the safety of the expanded area of ​​Ikh Ju League. The resources of Ikh Ju League were of great importance in Ren Zhong's plan, so Ren Zhong felt like a thorn in his side as to the Japanese invaders from Jiuyuan, and they must be removed.

Otherwise, the steel and uranium factories in Ikh Ju League would be threatened from the north at any time. Now that the border troops have been reorganized and their strength has greatly increased, they have enough energy to move north.

The 359th Brigade is such a sharp knife. After the spring, they will go north with the Temporary 3rd Division to swallow up the Japanese cavalry group in Jiuyuan in one fell swoop, and then control the Jiuyuan area to open up the road to the Bayan Obo mining area, and firmly control the resources in this area in their own hands.

With the strength of the modified and reorganized 1th Brigade and the 1rd Temporary Division, the Japanese troops stationed in Mongolia consisted of only 1 division + independent mixed brigade + cavalry group. After destroying the cavalry group in Jiuyuan, the Japanese were left with only one division and one independent mixed brigade in the vast prairie.

This strength is at most on par with the reorganized 359th Brigade + the 3rd Temporary Division. The next competition on the prairie will depend on which side has more reinforcements.

The arsenal opened up by Ren Zhong can arm more than 100,000 people a year. As long as he can hold on for another year, the border area will have an elite army of 100,000 again.

With this kind of strength, it would be useless even if the Kwantung Army dispatched two divisions.

What's more, Ren Zhong's weapons have been updated for a year, and a new generation of 105mm howitzers have come out. This kind of heavy weapon is also a powerful killer for the Japanese. Except for the air force they dispatched to attack, there are very few ground forces that can threaten them.

If the Japanese sent out their little tanks to try, they would basically never come back.

The RPG rocket launcher was a weapon that had been prepared for them long ago, and it would bury those little tanks that dared to come directly on the grassland.

Outside the Great Wall, the Japanese have not found many resources that can be used in these places.

Considering that the Japanese are now stretched thin after opening a new Pacific instance, Ren Zhong does not think that the Japanese will engage in a large-scale battle with more than 100,000 troops on the prairie and border areas.

On the one hand, they cannot afford to lose, and the mobilization of such a large number of troops will also worry the big bear in the north.

On the other hand, they might not win. With the vast prairie and the main forces from the border areas and northwestern Shanxi charging forward, the Japanese were faced with a long logistical supply chain and had no ability to support an army of 100,000 to confront or fight with the border areas on the prairie.

Even though they still have a strong air advantage, the Japanese Kwantung Army will not be able to get away with it in front of the elite border troops who are increasingly making up for their shortcomings in heavy weapons.

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