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#182 - Border Region Reorganization

The great counterattack on the Japanese airport ignited the New Year's passion of the people in both the front and rear areas.

At the same time, it effectively vindicated the image of the Border Region and the Eighth Route Army. Even though the Kuomintang's main media downplayed the news, the Border Region sent photos to the rear, showing the scene of the attack where Japanese warplanes were engulfed in flames, driving the people into a frenzy.

Countless young students immediately took action, wanting to go to the Border Region and requesting to join the Eighth Route Army headquarters and the front lines!

Riding on this wave of enthusiasm for the Border Region, Ren Zhong recruited a new batch of students.

In the name of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University's Special Technology Department of Military Industry, he recruited another 500 students.

However, this time he did not directly bring these new students to the Dawn Research Institute.

Because almost every student in the previous cave dwelling academy of the Dawn Research Institute had undergone a background check, and most of them were local to the base areas and the Border Region, there was no major impact on entering the Dawn Research Institute.

The probability of problem students appearing inside was extremely low.

But among this new batch of students, Ren Zhong was certain that the Statistics Bureau of the accompanying capital would definitely infiltrate some spies.

Therefore, Ren Zhong opened a second campus of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University in the Border Region, allowing people from the Border Region to observe the new students. They would undergo a month of freshman studies and military training here, followed by half a year of professional courses such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry. After passing the assessment, these students would be introduced to the cave dwelling academy for the second stage of practical professional learning.

Becoming the future talents of the Dawn Research Institute.

For this reason, the second phase of construction of the cave dwelling academy has already begun.

Fortunately, the Border Region lacks everything except hills. A hundred cave dwellings, dug in four or five rows around a hill, would be enough.

Now, the excavation of cave dwellings has also changed from a fully manual method to a semi-manual method. Ren Zhong introduced a transverse milling machine from the main world. This machine is widely used in engineering, whether it is tunnel excavation and edge trimming, mining, road surface, or bridge excavation, ditching, and grooving.

It can be called an all-rounder in the excavation field, and it is a good hand in tunnel coal mining, cave dwelling excavation, and even wasteland reclamation.

With this kind of machinery, cave dwelling excavation is now not only fast and good, but also consumes less manpower.

Now Ren Zhong is engaged in small hydropower projects everywhere. Where there is water, the newly developed models can be used in large quantities.

Although this transverse milling machine is not as good as an excavator, its structure is much simpler and it can be realized relatively quickly, making it Ren Zhong's first choice for excavation machinery to be introduced into the Bright Sword world.

Compared to manual labor, the efficiency improvement of these machines is more than an order of magnitude.

The advent of the transverse milling machine has made the expansion of the Dawn Research Institute's factory area no longer dependent on the increase of manpower. The Garrison Eighth Regiment alone is enough to complete the road construction, dam construction, and construction of new cave dwellings and new factory buildings that the Dawn Research Institute is constantly proposing.

After working here for a year, the Garrison Eighth Regiment is almost becoming an engineering corps!

However, this has not affected the combat effectiveness of the Garrison Eighth Regiment.

They are the first main regiment in the entire army to complete the unit-level replacement of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, and also the training base for the Type 107 rocket launcher. Almost all Type 107 artillerymen from other places need to come to the training base of the Garrison Eighth Regiment for a run before they can obtain the rocket artillery certification.

Therefore, the Garrison Eighth Regiment is also the first main regiment in the entire army to be equipped with two Type 107 rocket launchers.

In addition to their machine guns being assigned to the squad, grenade launchers and RPG rocket launchers to the platoon (taking into account both direct and curved fire), 82mm mortars to the company (to suppress heavy machine guns and deal with Type 92 infantry guns), and a single regimental artillery company equipped with two Type 107 rocket launchers and two S41 mountain guns, as well as an independent logistics company and reconnaissance company, the current Garrison Eighth Regiment can be called a first-class regiment of twelve companies, the absolute main force of the Border Region!

It can completely single-handedly defeat a Japanese field-organized infantry regiment!

However, the high-level officials in the Border Region felt that such a regiment was strong but couldn't afford it. Not to mention anything else, the 120 mules and horses in the logistics company alone were a huge burden. With the current food and grass in the Border Region, these large livestock that can work are themselves scarce resources and a large expense.

After the Border Region reorganized the Garrison Eighth Regiment, they reorganized the Garrison First Regiment and the three main regiments of the 359th Brigade before stopping.

The remaining main regiments were reorganized according to the three-battalion, nine-company system and a firepower company. The company-level allocation was the same, and the firepower company was changed to two S41 mountain guns or one Type 107 rocket launcher, strengthening a logistics platoon to transport one base number (36 shells/rockets).

As the test unit for the Dawn Research Institute's weapons, the Garrison Eighth Regiment now gets the first opportunity due to its proximity, and the other troops are envious but it's useless.

And strengthening the strength of the 359th Brigade was Ren Zhong's request. The two regiments that went north earlier, together with the Provisional Third Division, can resist the Japanese from Jiuyuan from going south, but they cannot ensure the safety of the expanding area of ​​the Ik Zhao League. The resources of the Ik Zhao League are crucial in Ren Zhong's plan, so Ren Zhong feels threatened by the Japanese in Jiuyuan and must get rid of them.

Otherwise, the steel and uranium factories in the Ik Zhao League will be threatened from the north at any time. Now that the Border Region troops have greatly increased their strength after reorganization, they can free up their hands and have the energy to go north.

The 359th Brigade is such a sharp knife. After the spring, they will go north with the Provisional Third Division to wipe out the Japanese cavalry group in Jiuyuan in one fell swoop, and then control the Jiuyuan area to open the road to the Baiyun Ebo mining area. Firmly control the resources in this area in your own hands.

With the strength of the reorganized and reorganized 359th Brigade and the Provisional Third Division, the Japanese garrison in Mongolia only has 1 division + 1 independent mixed brigade + 1 cavalry group. After destroying the cavalry group in Jiuyuan, the Japanese in the vast grassland will only have one division and one independent mixed brigade left.

This strength is at most comparable to the reorganized 359th Brigade + Provisional Third Division. The next competition in the grassland depends on whose reinforcements are stronger.

The arsenal opened by Ren Zhong can arm more than 100,000 people a year. As long as it lasts for another year, the Border Region will have another 100,000 elite troops.

This strength, even if the Kwantung Army sends two divisions to come, is in vain.

What's more, Ren Zhong's weapons have been iterated and updated for a year, and a new generation of 105mm howitzers has come out. This kind of heavy weapon is also a great killer for the Japanese. Except for their dispatch of air power to carry out strikes, there are already very few ground troops that can pose a threat.

If the Japanese send out their Mame-Type tanks to try, then basically they will never return.

RPG rocket launchers are the guys that have been prepared for them long ago, so that these Mame-Type tanks that dare to come will be directly buried in this grassland.

Outside the Great Wall, the Japanese have not yet found many usable resources in these places.

With the Japanese's current shortage of troops after opening the Pacific new copy, Ren Zhong does not think that the Japanese will have a large-scale battle of more than 100,000 people on the grassland with the Border Region.

On the one hand, they can't afford to lose, and such a large-scale troop deployment will also affect the heart of the Great Bear in the north.

On the other hand, they may not be able to win. In the vast grassland, the main forces of the Border Region and Jinxi North will kill them. The Japanese are facing a long logistics supply line and have no ability to support 100,000 troops in a confrontation or battle with the Border Region on the grassland.

Even if they still have a strong air advantage, in front of the Border Region's elite troops that have gradually made up for the shortcomings of heavy weapons, the Japanese Kwantung Army will not be able to take advantage of it.

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