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Chapter 275 Northeast, Northeast

"Nothing. The most important thing for us now is to expand our military production capacity, arm ourselves, and improve ourselves. I feel that the Japanese have been hit hard this time. It is impossible for them not to react. We should be prepared to face the Japanese's strong retaliation.

This may be a great opportunity for us to attack the Northeast. I hope to start secretly building a supply base in the Pingbei area that can accommodate 100,000 people. Although there is no definite information, I feel that this day is coming soon. The excess oil and ammunition produced in our border area can be quickly transported to Pingbei via the Pingsui Line.

The main force of the Saibei Military Region can also be transferred to Pingbei for development. Now with the support of the border area's rapid mechanized infantry brigade, even if there is a change in Suiyuan under the worst conditions, the Suimeng Autonomous Army will hold on for two or three days, and the border area's mechanized infantry brigade can quickly arrive to reinforce. There is nothing to worry about.

And I think Qiluban is a wise man. He will not do irrational things under the current conditions. Although Suiyuan has 100,000 troops, they lack heavy weapons and are not enough for our two mechanized infantry brigades to fight. "

After conquering Jin, Ren Zhong's goal has always been to the Northeast!

In his opinion, managing the Northeast is the most important thing, first the Northeast and then other places.

He plotted to provoke a war in North China and turn it into a meat grinder for the Japanese devils. He was trying to lure out the Kwantung Army in the Northeast and kill them.

So when the blood-letting operations in Jizhou and Shimen could not be implemented and the frightened Japanese were no longer in a hurry to come up and offer their lives, Ren Zhong actually became a little anxious.

Because he was afraid that time would not be enough. If the Japanese did not continue to come and kill people, what would happen to the Northeast?
It would be difficult for his iron torrent to accumulate an overwhelming advantage in a short period of time, and the most fatal aspect was logistics. The Eighth Route Army now had basically no reliable transportation lines before completely taking over North China.

Although the mechanized troops are very powerful in their advancement, they are also a huge burden for logistics. It is nothing like the previous era of millet and rifles, when most soldiers just carried two bags of fried noodles, dozens of bullets and a few grenades.

There is a serious shortage of machine guns, which can barely be distributed to the company level but not to the platoon level. Artillery pieces are even more scarce. A mountain cannon is a treasure for the regiment, and a regiment with several 82mm mortars is an absolute main force!

What is the situation now? Let me put it this way, now it is only for soldiers. You can carry as many bullets as you want, depending on your ability. Three hundred to five hundred rounds will do, but in reality you can't carry that much.

Because there are better options. The squad has a rocket launcher. Aren't rockets much better than grenades? A two-person team operates an RPG rocket launcher, but it doesn't say that they can carry all the rockets. At least each person in the squad should carry more than 2 rockets, plus 4 grenades, which basically means that a soldier's load is more than 20 kilograms!
Therefore, it is impossible to do it with manpower alone. A Type 56 submachine gun requires at least two hundred rounds of bullets for each battle. This amount of bullets consumed is too much for a single person to carry. When you are out, it is impossible to fight three or five battles and be done with it. Once continuous high-intensity combat begins, the amount of bullets consumed by a single soldier for the Type 56 semi-automatic and Type 56 submachine guns alone will be more than ten times as much as before!
Not to mention that now there are machine guns in the squad and mortars in the company. The ammunition base is not a small number now. If we add the 107 rocket launchers and 75mm mountain cannons, there are 120 basic rocket shells alone, and these rockets weigh more than ten kilograms.

If it is not necessary to maintain a large number of mule and horse-powered transport teams, like what Li Yunlong did in Heyuan and Yangcun, then there must be a mechanized transport team.

Otherwise, there would be no way to handle so much firepower. The configuration of various artillery pieces in the company, battalion and regiment, as well as the number of artillery shells, are completely different from before.

If we rely solely on manpower, the number of shells for a 107 rocket launcher alone would require the manpower of an entire company to move it over a short distance. If it is a long-distance raid, it cannot be carried away at all.

It can be said that the pressure of logistics and baggage transportation has increased by an order of magnitude compared to before.

In addition, the fleet's own fuel consumption is also a huge number. After traveling a thousand miles, it consumes more than 100 liters of fuel! According to the current transportation method, it is actually very laborious.

Now, taking this opportunity, Ren Zhong began to formally propose to Staff Officer Ye the preliminary idea of ​​governing the Northeast.

The first thing to do is to build a bridgehead logistics base, and the scale must be large enough to sustain 100,000 mechanized troops.

This is no easy task.

Therefore, Ren Zhong proposed to dispatch the main force of the Saibei Military Region. Now the Saibei Military Region has 3 Type A regiments, 5 Type B regiments, plus 2 cavalry regiments. After adding a large number of vehicles, they can be reorganized into highly mobile mechanized combat forces. After strengthening a tank battalion and an artillery regiment, they can become a very powerful attack group!

When the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army was attracted out of Jin, this powerful attack group was enough to stir up trouble in Pingbei, making the Japanese dare not easily launch an encirclement and suppression.

Of course, this Pingbei base is somewhat different from the historical Pingbei base. In terms of location, it needs to be closer to the northeast.

It would be ideal to be as close to Shanhaiguan as possible.

Therefore, Ren Zhong chose an ideal place in this regard. That is Zunhua in Jizhou in history. This is a small city in the mountains, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack from the terrain.

Now in Pingbei there is the Feng (Ning) Luan (Ping) Mi (Yun) Anti-Japanese Base established by the 10th Regiment of the Hebei-Rehe-Chahar Advance Army, but its location is not very good and its strength is not strong enough. Now we can slowly transfer the main force of the Saibei Military Region to this area to build a stable Pingbei base.

What Ren Zhong wants is a bridgehead as powerful as the Jireliao Military Region in the historical time and space of the main world.

Of course, in that time and space, this happened in August 1945, and the timeline was more than a year behind schedule. According to Ren Zhong's plan, it was completely out of time.

While the main force of the Kwantung Army was being attracted to the Shanxi, Hebei and Henan areas to fight with the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, the main force of the Saibei Military Region had to be moved eastward from the Pingbei line to occupy Jixian, Xinglong and Zunhua lines and control key points such as Xifengkou and Lengkou. Once the time was ripe, Chengde could be taken to the north and connected with the Pingbei base to form a strong rear base for the march into the Northeast.

In this area, if the Pingzhang Railway and Pingde Railway can be controlled, supplies can be transported continuously from the Pingsui Line to the new Jireliaocha base.

Relatively speaking, this is a fast and safe transportation line.

Ren Zhong discussed his plan with Staff Officer Ye on the map for a while, and only stopped when he was sure that Staff Officer Ye fully understood what he meant.

In order to lure out the Kwantung Army, Ren Zhong had already invested a huge amount of money in five fuel-air bombs.

经过了两个多月的战斗和积累，晋地和边区后方基地又积累了200多辆新的坦克和二千多辆汽车，6百多门新的107火箭炮和105毫米榴弹炮、75毫米山炮等大型火炮，超过1500门RPG-80一次性火箭筒和1000多具RPG火箭筒，甚至还多出来了二十多架新的野马战斗机！

After changing the converter production model, the production capacity of special steel began to explode, and the production capacity of tanks, cars and artillery began to be gradually released.

As for the Japanese, more than a dozen divisions have been severely damaged and crippled. The Ninth Front Army, which had earlier moved south in an attempt to engage in a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army, is now basically in name only, and its strength is less than a quarter of what it was before!

Under such new circumstances, Ren Zhong had no worries at all about the Kwantung Army's southward advance.

The nine newly formed tank battalions and thirty-six artillery battalions of different types of artillery not only added nine more mechanized infantry brigades to the Jin territory, but also more than twenty more Type A regiments! This added more than a hundred thousand main field troops.

These visible strength increases gave Ren Zhong full confidence in defeating the Kwantung Army heading south.

After all, fighting against the Kwantung Army in the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan junction is equivalent to fighting at home. The Japanese have to come all the way from the Northeast with their troops and logistical supplies. Even though their total strength is no less than that of the Eighth Route Army's field troops, their logistical supply lines are much longer than those of the Eighth Route Army.

Now the division commander has the Zhengtai line for supplies from Taiyuan, and the brigade commander has supplies from Lu'an and Zezhou behind Taihang Mountain. Relatively speaking, it is safe, and the route is much shorter. In the bloody battle with the Japanese in Jizhou and Shimen, we can completely use artillery coverage to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese!
Ren Zhong's thinking received great attention from the border area and the headquarters. After replenishing a wave of ammunition, the Saibei Military Region headed for the Pingbei base, ready to seize the opportunity to realize Ren Zhong's ideal Jireliao base. At the same time, the Beiping sections of the three railway trunk lines, Pingsui Line, Pingzhang Line, and Pingde Line, were identified as key targets for attack, and the entire line could be controlled when the time was right.

On the northern front, the Suimeng Autonomous Army once again expanded five Type A regiments to ensure the safety of the two new production bases of Jiuyuan and Bayan Obo. Here, there were not only large-scale metallurgical enterprises, but also artillery, tank and automobile factories, realizing the production of heavy weapons outside the Great Wall.

The information from outside the Great Wall began to be transformed into weapons continuously. Although the Seventh Route and a Half received the news, they could only drool. Even though the preserved fruits hinted that they could take over the entire Suiyuan, the Seventh Route and a Half gave up the idea after weighing it over.

The more they understood the Eighth Route Army, the more they realized the dangers of the Seventh and a Half Route Army.

He was afraid that it was easy to start an incident, but it would be difficult for him to end it! Being treated like a fool was something that Qiluban would never do.

Moreover, Ren Zhong knew the 7th and a half Route Army very well. He suggested that they carry out large-scale tank and artillery training for the 7th and a half Route Army and establish a new training base in Jiuyuan. This would train at least a dozen battalions of gunners and seven or eight battalions of tank driving teams for the 7th and a half Route Army.

Although it is not possible to provide these deadly weapons to Qiluban now, Ren Zhong hopes that Qiluban can stand on his side at the critical moment so that these people can be put to use immediately.

As for the battle of the Japanese invaders in the Northeast, Ren Zhong is now maneuvering left and right to try every means to weaken them. He wants to bury the Japanese invaders of the Kwantung Army completely in the land of the Northeast at an affordable price!
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