bookbashuk #275 - Northeast, Northeast
#275 - Northeast, Northeast
"It's nothing. Our most important task now is to vigorously expand military production, arm ourselves, and improve ourselves. I feel that the little devils have taken a heavy blow this time, and they can't possibly have no reaction. Let's prepare to welcome the little devils' strong retaliation.
This time may be an excellent opportunity for us to attack the Northeast. I hope that we can start secretly building a supply base large enough for 100,000 people in the Pingbei area. Although there is no definite information, I feel that this day is coming soon. The surplus fuel and ammunition produced in our border region can be quickly transported to Pingbei via the Ping-Sui Railway.
The main force of the Saibei Military Region can also be transferred to Pingbei for development. Now, with the support of the border region's rapid mechanized infantry brigade, even under the worst conditions, if Suiyuan changes, the Sui-Meng Autonomous Army can hold on for two or three days in the front, and the border region's mechanized infantry brigade can quickly rush to reinforce. There is nothing to worry about.
Moreover, I think Qi Lu Ban is a wise man. He will not do anything irrational under the current conditions. Don't look at Suiyuan having an army of 100,000, but it lacks heavy weapons. It's not enough for our two mechanized infantry brigades to fight."
After taking down Jin, Ren Chong's goal has always been to stare at the Northeast!
In his opinion, managing the Northeast is the most important thing, Northeast first, then other places.
Stirring up the battlefield in North China, turning it into a meat grinder for the little devils, was his calculation, an attempt to lure out the Kwantung Army from the Northeast and eliminate them.
Although the mechanized units were extremely fierce when advancing, they were also a huge burden on logistics. It was not like the era of millet and rifles, when most soldiers just carried two bags of fried noodles, dozens of bullets, and a few grenades.
The number of machine guns was seriously insufficient, barely reaching the company level, and could not be popularized at the platoon level. Artillery was even more scarce. Having a mountain gun was a treasure at the regimental level. A regiment with a few 82mm mortars was the absolute main force!
What is the situation now? Let's put it this way: now, just in the category of soldiers, bullets can be carried at will, depending on your ability, three or five hundred rounds are fine, but in reality, you can't carry that many at all.
Because there are better choices. Platoons have rocket launchers. Aren't rockets better than grenades? A two-man team operates an RPG rocket launcher, but it's not said that they can carry all the rockets. At least everyone in the platoon must carry more than 2 rounds, plus 4 grenades. Basically, a soldier's load is more than 20 kilograms!
So, relying on manpower alone is impossible. The Type 56 assault rifle must fire at least two hundred rounds in one battle. The number of bullets consumed is already too much for one person to carry. When you go out, you can't just fight three or five battles. Once you enter continuous high-intensity combat, the consumption of 7.62x39mm rounds for individual soldiers using the Type 56 semi-automatic and Type 56 assault rifle will be ten times that of before!
Not to mention that now machine guns are at the platoon level and mortars are at the company level. The ammunition base for these is not a small number now. If you add 107mm rockets and 75mm mountain guns, just one base number of rocket shells is 120 rounds, and these rockets weigh more than ten kilograms.
If it weren't for maintaining a large number of mule and horse transport teams, like Li Yunlong did in Heyuan and Yangcun, then there must be a mechanized transport fleet.
Otherwise, it would be impossible to handle so much firepower. Now the configuration of various artillery pieces in the company, battalion, and regiment, as well as the configuration of the number of shells, is completely different from before.
Relying solely on manpower, just the ammunition base for one 107mm rocket launcher would require the manpower of a company to move it a short distance. If it were a long-distance raid, it simply couldn't be carried away.
It can be said that the pressure on logistics and transport has completely increased by orders of magnitude compared to before.
Adding the fuel consumption of the fleet itself is also a large number. A thousand-mile raid consumes more than a hundred liters of fuel! According to the current transportation method, it is actually very strenuous.
Now, taking advantage of this opportunity, Ren Chong formally proposed the preliminary concept of managing the Northeast to Staff Officer Ye.
First of all, a bridgehead logistics base must be built, and the scale must be large enough to maintain the level of 100,000 mechanized troops.
This is not an easy task.
So Ren Chong proposed dispatching the main force of the Saibei Military Region. Now the Saibei Military Region has 3 Class A regiments, 5 Class B regiments, plus 2 cavalry regiments. After supplementing a large number of vehicles, they can be reorganized into highly mobile mechanized combat units. After strengthening a tank battalion and an artillery regiment, they can become a quite powerful attack group!
When the main force of the little devils' Kwantung Army is attracted out by Jin, this powerful attack group in Pingbei is enough to stir up trouble, so that the little devils dare not easily dispatch troops to encircle and suppress them.
Of course, this Pingbei base area is somewhat different from the Pingbei base area in history. 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, in this regard, Ren Zhong chose an ideal location: Zunhua in Jizhou, historically.
This is a small city in the mountains, strategically located for defense and difficult to attack.
Currently, Pingbei has the Feng (Ning) Luan (Ping) Mi (Yun) Anti-Japanese Base established by the 10th Regiment of the Jirecha Advance Army, but its location is not ideal, and its strength is insufficient. Now, the main force of the Saibei Military Region can be gradually transferred to this area to build a solid Pingbei base.
What Ren Zhong wants is a bridgehead as powerful as the Jire Liao Military Region in the historical timeline of the main world.
Of course, in that timeline, this all happened in August 1945, more than a year behind schedule. According to Ren Zhong's plan, this is completely out of the question.
It is imperative that while attracting the main force of the Kwantung Army to the Jinji Yu area to fight against the main force of the Eighth Route Army in Jin, the main force of the Saibei Military Region should be moved eastward from the Pingbei line to occupy the Jixian, Xinglong, and Zunhua lines, and control key points such as Xifengkou and Lengkou. Once the time is ripe, Chengde can be taken to the north, connecting with the Pingbei base to become a strong rear base for advancing into Northeast China.
In this area, if the Pingzhang Railway and Pingde Railway can be controlled, materials can be continuously transported from the Pingsui Line to the new Jire Liaocha Base.
Relatively speaking, this is a fast and safe transportation line.
Ren Zhong and Staff Officer Ye simulated his plan on the map for a while, and only stopped after confirming that Staff Officer Ye fully understood his meaning.
Regarding luring out the Kwantung Army, Ren Zhong has already invested heavily, using five cloud-explosive bombs.
After more than two months of combat and accumulation, the Jin area and the rear base of the border area have accumulated more than 200 new tanks, more than 2,000 cars, more than 600 new 107 rocket launchers and 105mm howitzers, 75mm mountain guns, etc., more than 1,500 RPG-80 disposable rocket launchers and more than 1,000 RPG rocket launchers, and even more than 20 new Mustang fighters!
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After changing the converter production model, the production capacity of special steel, which began to explode with full force, also began to gradually release the production capacity of tanks, cars, and artillery.
On the Japanese side, more than a dozen divisions have been severely damaged and their organizational structures crippled. The Ninth Area Army, which initially went south in an attempt to fight a decisive battle with the Eighth Route Army, is now basically only nominally existent, with less than a quarter of its original strength!
Under such new circumstances, Ren Zhong had no worries about the Kwantung Army going south at all.
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These visible increases in strength gave Ren Zhong full confidence in defeating the southward Kwantung Army.
After all, fighting the Kwantung Army in the Jinji Yu combined area is equivalent to fighting on home turf. The Japanese have to travel thousands of miles from the Northeast, bringing troops, logistics, and supplies. Even if the total strength is not less than the field troops on the Eighth Route Army side, the logistics supply line is much longer than that 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 the Taihang Mountains. Relatively speaking, it is safe, and the route is much shorter. In the attrition war with the Japanese in Jizhou and Shimen, they can fully 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 went to the Pingbei Base, preparing to seize the opportunity to realize Ren Zhong's conceived Jire Liao Base, and at the same time take the Beijing section of the three railway trunk lines of Pingsui Line, Pingzhang Line, and Pingde Line as the key target for capture, and fully control them when the time is ripe.
In the northern line, the Sui Meng Autonomous Army once again expanded by 5 Class A regiments to ensure the safety of the two new production bases of Jiuyuan and Baiyun Ebo. Here, there are not only large-scale metallurgical enterprises, but also artillery, tank, and automobile factories, realizing the production of heavy weapons outside the Great Wall.
Turning the materials from outside the Great Wall into weapons continuously, Qi Luban, although receiving this information, could only drool. Even if Guofu hinted that he could take action to take the entire Suiyuan, Qi Luban weighed it and still gave up the idea.
The more Qi Luban understood the Eighth Route Army, the more he knew the danger involved.
He was afraid that it would be easy to launch an incident, but it would be difficult for him to end it! Being used as a fool was something Qi Luban would never do.
Moreover, Ren Zhong knew Qi Luban very well, and suggested conducting large-scale tank and artillery training for Qi Luban, establishing a new training base in Jiuyuan, and training at least a dozen battalions of gunners and seven or eight battalions of tank driving teams for Qi Luban.
Although it is not yet possible to provide these deadly weapons to Qi Luban, Ren Zhong hopes that at a critical moment, Qi Luban can stand on his side, so that these people can be put to use immediately.
Regarding the battle with the Japanese in Northeast China, Ren Zhong is now doing everything possible to weaken them, just to bury the Japanese of the Kwantung Army completely in the land of Northeast China at an affordable price!
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