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Chapter 191 Ren Zhong's Little Abacus (Two in One)

The war situation in North China was turbulent and unpredictable, with changes back and forth, making it a little difficult for Ren Zhong to see how the future would develop.

After all, Ren Zhong himself does not have much strategic knowledge in this regard.

He doesn't have much military talent. He just read more information and has a better understanding of the history of the original time and space. Therefore, he is still clear about the development of the general trend of the War of Resistance so far. Even if he can't say that he knows it like the back of his hand, he will check it at any time.

For example, the current situation seems to have returned to history. The main force of the preserved fruits was all driven back to the south bank of the Yellow River, and the base in Central Hebei was also completely lost, allowing the Japanese to establish a large number of new strongholds in Central Hebei.

But what is different from history is that it can now be considered as lost territory.

Be it the main force of Ji Zhong or the main force of the Guosu Zhongtiaoshan troops, the losses now are much less than in history. Originally, two hundred thousand troops were wiped out as if their backbones were broken.

Now these troops seem to be tempered into steel and have grown in the flames of war.

Ren Zhong had no idea how the remaining troops from Taihang performed after they returned for reorganization.

But Ren Zhong knew that the eight main regiments of the Ji-Zhong Military Region, which had been reinforced with weapons, were now roaring. As soon as the main force of the Japanese invaders retreated, they would take advantage of the situation to fight back. With their current strength, it would take less than a month to recover their original territory!
It will even expand a lot!

After all, their equipment is much stronger than before, and they can even deal with the Japanese at the brigade level. This is completely different from the history when they were surrounded and retreated to western Hebei, with the death of old soldiers, lack of guns and bullets, and heavy losses of their main force.

In the original time and space, the Eighth Route Army in Central Hebei lost 1.68 people, a reduction of nearly one-third of its personnel, not to mention the consumption of weapons and ammunition due to continuous bloody battles!
If these eight complete main force regiments were put in the hands of the brigade commander, and if a Japanese brigade broke into the pocket, there was a very high possibility that the brigade would be swallowed up in one bite.

Of course, we must fight quickly and decisively, and try our best to wipe out the Japanese before their reinforcements arrive.

After all, in the Ji Zhong Plain, a place with convenient transportation, the Japanese reinforcements can arrive very quickly. It may take less than half a day to assemble a brigade or more to provide support. Therefore, if you want to fight an annihilation battle at the brigade level, the design must be clever, and you must also consider carefully how to block reinforcements.

The most important thing is that the main force of Ji Zhong is still lacking in firepower.

If each main regiment can be equipped with an artillery company with 4 107mm guns, it will have the powerful firepower coverage capability of more than 30 107mm guns on hand, and the speed of annihilating the Japanese will be much faster. The Hebei Plain has no strategic location to defend, and it is the same for both sides. In this case, the advantage of the side with superior artillery will be doubled.

Another thing that needs to be considered is the Japanese air superiority, so it is also important to destroy and interfere with the Japanese airports before the war, and to delay and prevent the Japanese air force from participating in the battle.

However, even with such a rest now, Ren Zhong is expected to return to central Hebei.

These eight regiments can at least tie down more than four brigades of the Japanese invaders in North China.

After all, the Ji-Zhong base area covers tens of thousands of square kilometers, and is surrounded by three basic railways: the Jinpu Railway, the Pinghan Railway, and the Beining Railway. The area is a vast area of ​​about 300 km long and 200 km wide.

This is the only way for the Japanese to pass through the important transportation route connecting the north and the south.

Even if the main force of the Japanese has retreated now, we must still leave enough troops to defend.

These Japanese devils control the railway arteries, so they must ensure their defense by increasing the number of troops. A station that used to accommodate a squadron may now require a squadron, while a slightly larger station must have more than a battalion of Japanese devils. Only in this way can they effectively resist the attack from a main regiment of the Ji-Central Military Region that can be assembled at any time and delay the arrival of reinforcements.

As a result, the Japanese troops deployed in Central Hebei increased instead of decreased, leaving the main forces of the North China Front Army with no room to maneuver. Not only could they stay where they were, but they also had to increase their troop support.

This is a great thing for Ren Zhong's northward strategy. Not only can the North China Front Army not withdraw troops to reinforce the south, but it also has no way to reinforce the changes in the Mongolian troops.

The only solution available is to draw on the Kwantung Army.

However, the Kwantung Army now has to keep an eye on the Northeast, which it considers to be its heartland.

Once the Pacific War broke out, even though the Kwantung Army had long lost the opportunity to advance northward, the pressure to keep an eye on its home base suddenly increased.

Even if a neutrality agreement was signed, they could not take it lightly, because the Northeast was now the core interest of the Japanese. The North had formed an alliance with the Rogue Eagles, so the fragility of the agreement could not stand the test at all, making the stable relationship that the Japanese had worked so hard to establish with the North suddenly become delicate.

The Kwantung Army maintained a strong military force to defend the seized territory, but they continued to face pressure from the headquarters moving south. Now the war in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific has fully unfolded. Even if the Japanese urgently expanded several divisions, they had occupied too much territory in Southeast Asia and needed to deploy more troops. You have to know that Southeast Asia alone is a vast area of ​​several million square kilometers.

Not only has the headquarters occupied British Burma, it is now also eyeing the curry land on the third brother's side. Having been raised by John Bull for so many years, the logistics and supplies for taking over Nanyang basically no longer need funding from the headquarters, and it can even provide support to the headquarters. Therefore, the headquarters is very jealous of the third brother's curry land and is very hungry for troops.

In comparison, perhaps the Jiuyuan grassland has become an insignificant abandoned piece with little strategic significance in the eyes of the base camp.

According to the capabilities of the North China Front Army, when they estimate that even with two divisions they cannot solve the Jiuyuan problem, I believe they will accept the reality because this is their limit.

After reading the battle report, Ren Zhong reviewed and pondered the current situation in North China, and felt that there was great potential in taking Jiuyuan.

If the production capacity of 107mm artillery could be higher, and the Border Area Garrison Corps had one more 107mm artillery regiment with 36 107mm guns, which could be deployed to the grassland to fight against the two Type B divisions of the Japanese, it would not be completely impossible.

Although we have the bonus of the Japanese Air Force, it is still very difficult to actually defeat them.

It is basically impossible for the Japanese heavy armored divisions to appear on the prairie. There are not many Japanese soldiers themselves, so it is impossible to drag them to the prairie and waste them.

Most of the troops that can appear on the grassland are the three infantry regiments of the Type B division. The division directly controls one regiment each of artillery, engineering, cavalry, and logistics. The total strength of the division is 3 people. In terms of heavy firepower, the artillery regiment has 13000 24mm mountain and field guns and 75 8mm howitzers, the three regiments have 105 3mm infantry guns, 92 heavy machine guns, 18 light machine guns, 72 Type 332 75MM mountain guns, 12 37mm rapid-fire guns, 12 81mm indirect-fire infantry guns, and 18 tank vehicles (Type 15 light tanks/Type 87 armored vehicles).

Frankly speaking, the Japanese Type B Division's artillery strength is still very strong. If two divisions are concentrated, there will be 6 artillery pieces with a range of more than 88 kilometers.

另外还有92步兵炮36门，37毫米速射炮24门和迫击炮36门，共计184门各种型号的火炮。拥有这样的火力，果脯那边10万大军都很难抵挡住。

But against 36 107 rocket launchers, it is not certain who will win, after all, each 107 rocket launcher has 12 tubes! A total of 432 tubes, in terms of power, the power of each rocket is at least equivalent to that of a 105 howitzer, or even stronger.

Although the accuracy of the 107mm cannon is much lower, it is very mobile after all. It can be pulled by a horse. It can fire a few volleys in one place, then harness the horse and move a few kilometers to another place to fire again.

If there is no problem with the ammunition supply, and more than 107 4 guns are concentrated to fire in salvos, a large area can be covered at a time. If 48 rockets are fired at once, maybe even an entire artillery position of the Japanese can be destroyed!
Even though the Japanese 105mm howitzer has a longer range, it is more difficult to transfer and aim this kind of heavy artillery. On an unpredictable battlefield, with a distance of several kilometers, there is no time to aim calmly.

Sometimes when two people meet on a narrow road, the outcome depends on luck.

Ren Zhong calculated on paper that there were 36 long-range artillery pieces with 107mm rounds, which meant that they could at least fight back against the two Japanese divisions and would not be completely powerless to resist.

至于主力团一级火力，现在基本上能配上2门107火，4门75毫米山炮和4挺G20高射机炮，加上普及到连的82毫米迫击炮，一个团有18门。

With such firepower, it is easy to crush a Japanese battalion, and there is also room for maneuver against a regiment. Three main regiments can easily defeat a brigade.

This is the pronunciation of the border area. The Japanese brigade-level troops would not dare to come out and die, because the border area and the Eighth Route Army had already proved that they could encircle and annihilate a Japanese brigade.

Now all that’s left is to encircle and annihilate the Japanese invaders at division level.

After some deduction, Ren Zhong felt that even if the Japanese sent two divisions, it would not be a big deal now. Even if it ended up being one for one, it would not be a loss. Relying on the border area, he could continuously send new troops there.

There are 5 main regiments in the Saibei Military Region, and 4 main regiments in the Temporary rd Division. Together with the Daqingshan Detachment, even if it is a one-for-one exchange, these two divisions of the Japanese enemy can be worn down on the prairie!

After Ren Zhong's calculations, the goal is now very clear. The top priority is heavy weapons, especially artillery production. The 107mm artillery that can fight against the Japanese heavy artillery units has an extremely high priority, followed by mountain artillery, anti-aircraft guns and mortars.

With his own deduction, Ren Zhong communicated his ideas with Staff Officer Ye. Then the Border Region’s Staff Headquarters recalculated Ren Zhong’s ideas and supplemented and improved the new tactics. The Staff Headquarters basically agreed with Ren Zhong’s ideas.

The plan to go north is related to Ren Zhong's ultimate weapon. Only a few high-ranking officials in the border area know about it, and Staff Officer Ye is naturally one of them. Now that they have the ability to execute it, there is nothing to hesitate about.

The General Staff began to formulate a northward attack strategy based on the premise of capturing Jiuyuan, while taking into account the Japanese reinforcements.

The tactical plan based on the 107th Fire Division's confrontation with the Japanese invaders was also being continuously deduced and improved in the General Staff, while also gathering the wisdom of many military experts in the border area.

On the other hand, Jiang Chongjing's arsenal accepted the latest task and gave priority to adjusting its production capacity to the production of 107 rockets and their supporting rockets. The initial goal was to complete the production of at least 9 36 rockets and more than 107 rockets by September.

In terms of automobiles, Ren Zhong also began to allocate resources to increase the production of Daliwang and Victory I at the Red Star Automobile Factory. The monthly production capacity of Daliwang was increased to 120 vehicles, and that of Victory I was increased to 80 vehicles.

Now we have fully mastered the technology of the two types of diesel engines. After a period of running-in and training, we have more and more skilled workers and the equipment invested in the diesel generator production line is also increasing.

According to the current trend, the monthly output must at least double, and by August the diesel engine production capacity will reach at least 300 units.

It will not be a problem to achieve the goal of mass production of 3 units in 600 months.

In this way, by September, Ren Zhong will have 9 Victory I tanks and 240 Power King tanks on hand, and all four main regiments will be mechanized. Although the marching speed may be slightly slower than that of truly mechanized troops, the gap is not that big.

At least we have gotten rid of the simple practice of running on foot, and the main force has achieved mechanized marching, which has essentially improved its mobility.

More importantly, the main force regiments in the border areas are now equipped with heavy weapons.

Although there are no big guns larger than 105mm now, the 107mm fire and S41 mountain cannons are already heavy firepower equivalent to the Japanese brigade and division levels. If the G20 machine gun is added and equipped with RPG rocket launchers, the new main regiment will have a qualitative improvement in firepower.

北上的部队，已经确定下来新增的一个36门107火和12门G20高炮的炮兵团，同时为每个主力团标配上2门107火、4门75毫米山炮，4门G20机炮的炮兵营，每个营标配6门82毫米迫击炮。

Each company is equipped with one RPG rocket launcher, three grenade launchers and six Type 1 machine guns. Half of the soldiers have replaced their rifles with Type 3 semi-automatic ones, making the company's firepower quite fierce, no worse than that of the Japanese squadron.

In this way, the border area prepared 9 main force regiments and one artillery regiment for the Jiuyuan Japanese devils for this battle, plus the Daqingshan detachment, with a total number of more than 2 people.

Although it is not too many, it should be a direct defeat for the Jiuyuan Japanese cavalry group and puppet troops.

Even if we have to face the two Type B divisions of the Japanese that may arrive later, we have prepared a full meal for them to send back home. If they come, they will die!
However, there is more good news. After the glass factory went into mass production, the Optical Research Center's quadruple scopes suddenly saw a surge in production, with hundreds of quadruple scopes being produced every month.

This laid the material foundation for Ren Zhong's goal of training a precision shooter in each infantry squad, thereby further enhancing the combat effectiveness of grassroots infantry squads.

It is well known that a well-trained elite shooter veteran can often support an entire squad by himself, and even kill more enemies than others.

In July of 42, Ren Zhong directed the construction of the second thermal power plant and electrolytic aluminum plant in Yulin. In August, the third thermal power plant was built in the capital of the border area. In September, the main force of the newly built Saibei Military Region began to load and head north, reaching the south bank of the Yellow River in Ikh Ju League!
Because the road had been newly repaired and wide, the troops could adopt the method of marching during the day and hiding at night. In just three days and three nights, the main force of the Saibei Military Region quietly arrived at the Yellow River!
Even though the Japanese reconnaissance planes often flew into Ikh Ju League and the border areas for aerial reconnaissance, they did not discover this large mechanized force.

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