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Chapter 802 Type 0 Fighter!

As Boss Chen arranged the delivery, the sky in the northwest of Shanxi and the sky in the southeast of Shanxi were buzzing all day long.

Various large transport planes and fighter jets soar.

After the devil's reconnaissance plane and fighter jet saw it, they didn't dare to touch it at all. They turned around and stepped on the gas pedal to escape without looking back.

The North China Front Army Command soon learned of the situation.

"Your Excellency, Commander, there are many transport planes transporting combat materials to the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi and Southeast Shanxi."

In Beiping, Iron Lion Alley, the headquarters of the North China Front Army.

Chief of Staff Moritake Tanabe reported solemnly to Neji Okamura who was wiping his samurai sword:

"According to our pilot's report, there are at least 500 sorties of large transport planes every day to transport combat supplies to the bandit areas of the Eighth Route Army."

Okamura Neiji heard this, his face was as dark as the bottom of a pot: "500 large transport planes every day?"

"Yes!" Moritake Tanabe bowed his head, "And according to the pilot's judgment, these large transport planes carry no less than 10 tons of cargo per flight!"

Moritake Tanabe knew why Okamura Ningji had an ugly face.

Because the latest L2D Zero transport aircraft of the Japanese army has a maximum cargo capacity of only 5 tons, and the number is not much.

The large transport planes for the Eighth Route Army carried 10 tons of combat supplies each time.

This means that the Eighth Route Army will receive 5000 tons of combat supplies every day. This is extremely bad news for the North China Front Army.

"Have you found the airfield of the Eighth Route Army?"

Neiji Okamura asked in a deep voice.

If the Eighth Route Army's airport is discovered, Neiji Okamura will definitely send fighter jets and bombers. Even if the pilots commit suicide attacks, they will destroy the Eighth Route Army's airport and prevent the Eighth Route Army from obtaining combat supplies.

The transportation of so many combat materials to the bases of the Eighth Route Army every day should not be airdrops.

"The airfield of the Eighth Route Army has not been found yet."

Moritake Tanabe replied:

"The large transport planes for the Eighth Route Army have machine guns and aviation machine guns, and the firepower is very fierce."

"And there are fighter escorts, our planes dare not approach at all, let alone follow..."

Neiji Okamura took a deep breath, a look of helplessness flashed across his face.

Very angry, but there is no way.

I can only watch those large transport planes transporting combat supplies to the base of the Eighth Route Army.

And the most annoying thing is that the Japanese army doesn't know where these large transport planes came from, where these combat materials came from, and which side they belong to.

"idiot!"

Neji Okamura flashed a sharp light, and suddenly erupted, the blade swept across, and smashed the blue and white porcelain vase beside him with a snap.

Afterwards, Neiji Okamura felt a little better and retracted the saber into its scabbard.

"Empire, empire..."

The war has reached this point, Okamura Ningji is not very optimistic about the war.

In the Pacific and Southeast Asian battlefields, the beautiful country did not return to the negotiating table as expected, but increased its troops in the Pacific and Southeast Asian battlefields.

He put on a posture of wanting to fight the Japanese army to the end.

In North China, with the rise of the Eighth Route Army, it has threatened the North China Front Army, and even the Kwantung Army and the Central China Dispatch Army.

North China is indeed a vast land and rich in resources. The area and population of the five provinces in North China alone exceed the entire Japan.

The Japanese army has occupied North China for nearly five years, and obtained a large amount of mineral resources and food in North China, which the empire urgently needed.

However, since the Japanese army occupied North China for more than four years, in order to maintain law and order, they had to invest a lot of troops and combat materials, as well as resources such as steel bars and cement.

However, the public security situation has not improved. The Eighth Route Army has grown from 4 to 50 people a few years ago to a total strength of [-] million people today. The speed of development can be called terrifying.

Coupled with the sudden appearance of external aid two years ago, the strength of the Eighth Route Army soared like a rocket.

The current Eighth Route Army has been able to conduct frontal large-scale combat with the North China Front Army.

If it weren't for the five divisions mobilized by the base camp to North China, barely stabilizing the situation, the entire First Army and the Mongolian Army might have been wiped out at this time.

Based on reliable intelligence and staff analysis.

Every time the Eighth Route Army wins a big battle, its strength will increase a lot, and some weapons of mass destruction will appear.

This time is probably no exception.

The strength of the Eighth Route Army has risen sharply, while the strength of the North China Front Army and even the entire Imperial Army has stagnated or even retreated.

This time, five divisions mobilized from the base camp managed to stabilize the situation.

What about next time?

At present, the battles in other battlefields are tight. It is impossible for the empire to mobilize troops and combat supplies to North China all the time, and it will even transfer troops from North China.

But even if the battle situation is so dire, Okamura Ningji still believes in the courage and fighting power of the Japanese, and he firmly believes that they can win.

At this moment, Deputy Chief of Staff Yusue Seizo walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand:

"Your Excellency!"

"The base camp called back and rejected the request to mobilize combat troops and combat supplies to North China and to withdraw the First Army from Shanxi."

"And urge our North China Front Army to launch a sweeping operation against the Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi as soon as possible, to eliminate Li Yunlong and the Xinyi Regiment..."

The cloud in Okamura Neiji's heart became more and more intense, and the group of guys in the base camp couldn't see the situation in front of them clearly.

Judging from this battle, the Eighth Route Army has an advantage over the Japanese Army in terms of strategy and tactics, weapons and equipment, and logistics supplies. The North China Front Army will take the lead in attacking?

"Your Excellency the General."

"In addition to the Flying Team 2, the Flying Team 1, which is equipped with Zero fighters, will also be transferred from the Kwantung Army to North China."

Seeing Neiji Okamura's face as dark as the bottom of a pot, Seizo Yusue told him good news.

"Oh?"

Okamura Ningji's eyes finally lit up slightly.

At present, the Zero fighter is mainly equipped with the Japanese Navy and is the most important carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy. However, there are not many Zero fighters currently equipped by the Japanese army.

In the early days of the Pacific War, the Japanese Navy had 300 Type Zeros, of which 250 were used in the Pacific Theater and participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of the Philippines.

Due to the superior maneuverability and endurance compared with the F2A fighters, F4F fighters, CW-21B, Hawker 75A, P-40 fighters, etc. at that time, coupled with the lack of preparation of the allies, the lack of correct analysis of the characteristics of the Zero, the use of wrong The air combat tactics of the World War I system led to the Zero fighters shining in the months after the war.

Yousue Jingsan said: "The Zero fighter may be able to deal with the fighter called by the Eighth Route Army."

Neiji Okamura asked, "When will the Flying Team 1 arrive in North China?"

"We'll have to wait until next month." Arisue said three times, "The Flying 1st Squadron has just been equipped with Zero fighters, and it will take some time for training. It will arrive at about the same time as Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Teiichi's appointment as the commander of the [-]st Army. North China."

"Yo Xi!"

Okamura Neiji nodded, and after flying the second team to North China, Okamura Neiji did not let him return to Manchuria.

Even if the first flying team equipped with Zero fighters is added, the situation of the battle will not change much.

But it can make the Japanese army's air superiority more stable, and even deal with the fighter without propellers called by the Eighth Route Army, destroy its large transport planes and airports, and cut off its air supply channels.

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Zhaojiayu Village.

The regiment headquarters of the new regiment.

Li Yunlong is lying on the table, calculating how many troops need to be expanded this time.

Expanding a rocket battalion equipped with 1 Katyusha rocket launchers requires more than 18 people.

Expanding a howitzer battalion equipped with 1 B24 heavy howitzers requires more than 4 people.

The expansion of a tank battalion requires more than 1 tank soldiers, logistics personnel, automobile soldiers, and armored soldiers.

The expansion of a 1mm howitzer battalion requires a total of more than 105 artillerymen, logistics personnel, and auto soldiers.

The expansion of 3 cavalry battalions requires more than 2000 people.

To replenish the infantry battalions with fighters lost in battle requires more than 3000 men.

In addition, 4 new car companies will be built with more than 400 people.

Calculated in this way, the new regiment needs to add more than 1 people.

Technical arms such as artillery, tank soldiers, and automobile soldiers, because of a special technical learning and training mechanism, technical arms are cultivated one after another, and there is not a shortage of new regiments of technical arms.

The main shortage now is the logistical support soldiers of the technical troops, such as those who carry artillery shells, who are responsible for guarding the artillery on the battlefield.

Li Yunlong is going to adopt the old method and use American equipment to replace Ding Wei and Kong Jie.

However, instead of replacing the recruits from last time, the militiamen were replaced. The teaching battalion of the new regiment trained these militiamen into recruits and expanded the new troops.

At present, in the new regiment's defense zone, those who are suitable for joining the army have basically been absorbed into the army.

However, the expansion of the new group cannot stop because of this, because there will be bigger business in the future.

but.

The young and strong men in the defense area of ​​the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment will be sucked dry by the New First Regiment sooner or later.

"If this development continues, the speed of troop expansion is still too slow."

Li Yunlong frowned slightly.

It took less than a year for the Xinyi Regiment to go to Northwest Shanxi, from more than 6000 members to today's more than 5 members. The expansion speed is indeed very fast.

But now, as the young and strong in the new regiment's defense area were drained, the number of recruits in the teaching battalion became less and less, and the speed of troop expansion slowed down visibly.

The Xinyi Regiment seized a large amount of Japanese equipment on the battlefield, all of which were used to equip the militia, and it can be said that all the people are soldiers.

The common people are very enthusiastic about joining the army. If Xinyituan wants to, it can expand to tens of thousands of people at any time, but it can't do that.

"If you want to quickly develop the army, there are currently two ways."

"The first way is to open up new partition bases."

"The second way is to recruit the national army!"

Li Yunlong thought to himself.

With the weapons, equipment and food of the new regiment, as long as Li Yunlong shouted loudly, a large number of puppet troops would be willing to take refuge.

However, Li Yunlong looked down on the puppet army, even if it was sent to the door for nothing.

At this moment, Huang Erhu ran in, saluted Li Yunlong and then reported: "Reporting regiment commander, Chu Yunfei, commander of the 358 regiment of the Jinsui Army, is here!"

Li Yunlong's expression changed: "Please!" (End of this chapter)