I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

"Lingfu, you have just recovered from a serious illness, and your body is still very weak. Don't force yourself!" Du Yuming shouted to Zhang Lingfu.

Although Zhang Lingfu turned pale, he still shook his head firmly: "No! I can't let the principal and the second son down! Brothers, work harder!"

The roar in the team was like thunder and the momentum was like a rainbow.

Du Yuming and the other officers sitting in the car were a little embarrassed. After all, Zhang Lingfu, who was just recovering from a serious illness, set an example by running with the soldiers, but these officers with sound limbs and no injuries or illnesses were "lazy" in the car.

After hesitating for a long time, Du Yuming and other officers had to jump out of the car and run with Zhang Lingfu and other officers and soldiers with a straight face.

Looking at this scene, Jiang Weiguo couldn't help laughing. At this moment, Liao Yaoxiang came over: "Jianhao, are you awake?"

"Well, good morning, Vice-Chancellor!" Jiang Weiguo saluted Liao Yaoxiang in a dignified way.

Liao Yaoxiang smiled and said: "Brothers are all fighting! Oh, yes, Jianhao, the group seat and I had an idea this morning. We think that since our two regiments are the first armored force of the national army , not only has a great responsibility, but also has great significance. The historical status of our two regiments is by no means comparable to that of other troops, so our two regiments should have their own military flags, and even their own military songs!"

"Good idea!" Jiang Weiguo clapped his hands very much in agreement.

If an army wants to be strong, internal cohesion is very important. Therefore, it is necessary for the officers and soldiers to feel that their army is different and feel the honor of the army they belong to. Therefore, the flag and military song is very important. It is necessary to come up with it.

Liao Yaoxiang handed over a few pieces of paper: "Look, Jianhao, here are more than ten military flags designed by everyone. Which one do you think is the best?"

Jiang Weiguo took it over and looked at it carefully. The military flags designed by Liao Yaoxiang, Du Yuming, Sun Liren, Qi Xueqi, Zheng Dongguo, Qiu Zhiji, Huang Baitao, Zhang Lingfu and others can be described as varied. Some of them are indeed interesting, but they are all flawed or slightly complicated. , either a little rough, or too simple, just add a line of "[-]th Armored Regiment" or "[-]th Armored Regiment" to the national army flag, and the remaining few sides are not enough to highlight the patriotic theme or Features of Armored Forces.

Jiang Weiguo looked at it repeatedly, but didn't see what he wanted, so he scratched his head and looked around. When he saw the red flag and the party flag flying high in the camp, his heart moved.

"Yes!" Jiang Weiguo pointed to the Qing Tian Bai Sun party flag, "Change the 'Bai Sun' from white to black, and change the background color of 'Qing Tian' from blue to red!"

"Ah?" Liao Yaoxiang was taken aback. He imagined the "red sky and black sun" military flag conceived by Jiang Weiguo.

Jiang Weiguo said enthusiastically: "We are an armored force. If the white sun pattern on the party flag is changed to black, wouldn't it look like a machine gear? The twelve 'forked lights' can also show the sharpness of steel, representing armor The army is invincible; as for the red background color, it represents blood, and represents the fearless spirit of serving the country loyally and facing death as home.

Black gears, red blood, steel, and blood, this army flag is called the 'Iron Blood Army Flag', and it is just different in color from the party flag, but the pattern is still exactly the same, showing our loyalty to the party-state!"

"It makes sense!" Liao Yaoxiang was suddenly enlightened and praised again and again, "Not bad! Very good! Iron-blooded military flag, iron-blooded spirit, good! Very good! Black steel and red blood are indeed the best portrayal of an armored force! Jian Pickaxe, your design is great!"

With the approval of Chiang Kai-shek, the "red sky and black sun" iron-blooded military flag designed by Jiang Weiguo officially became the flag of the 918th Armored Regiment and the 128th Armored Regiment, and later became the flag of the National Army Armored Forces.

"As for the military song, I've thought about it too!" Jiang Weiguo smiled at Liao Yaoxiang, and he pulled Liao Yaoxiang into the military vehicle and chased after the running troops.

After the car drove to the side of the team, Jiang Weiguo looked at his own army in high spirits: "Brothers! Let me teach you a song! This song will be the military song of our armored regiment in the future!"

Soon, the officers and soldiers of the 918th Regiment and the 128th Regiment all learned this military song full of patriotism and made them feel passionate and proud of China:

"The great river is like a dragon, the mountains are like a tiger, roaring up to the sky, and singing long songs like weeping;

There are bells and drums, dragons and tigers, there are literature and martial arts;

A sword pierces the sky, and a blood annotates the history books of thousands of years;

Delegating to a big task, working hard, working hard; taking on morality, writing articles, and developing ambitions;

He is a majestic man with a majestic body and a majestic man. The sun and the moon are ups and downs, and the wind and clouds are blowing out. He is a good Chinese nation: hidden dragons and crouching tigers;

There are countless rivers and mountains in your eyes, and you can see the streamer and light flying across, the sun and the moon are ups and downs, and the wind and clouds are blowing out, so the Chinese nation hides dragons and crouching tigers;..."

While the iron-blooded military flag became the military flag of the 918th and 128th regiments, "Hidden Dragon and Crouching Tiger" also became the military song of the 918th and 128th regiments.

When Du Yuming, Zheng Dongguo and other officers led the troops to continue the drill, Liao Yaoxiang and Jiang Weiguo reported affairs in the regiment headquarters. In fact, Liao Yaoxiang was Jiang Weiguo's superior, and it should be Jiang Weiguo who "reported" to Liao Yaoxiang.

On the other hand, although the 128th Regiment is equal to the 918th Regiment in name, it is actually attached to the 918th Regiment. The regiment headquarters of the 918th Regiment is the "joint headquarters" of the two regiments.

Jiang Weiguo is the commander of the 918st Battalion of the 1th Regiment. In fact, he is the co-owner of the 918th Regiment and the 128th Regiment, but these two regiments have not yet formed a brigade or a division.

Section 056 Daily (2)

"Jianhao," Liao Yaoxiang opened a document with fresh ink, "After the rectification of our two regiments yesterday afternoon and this morning, a total of 1147 people were dismissed.

What needs to be said is that the more than 1000 people who were dismissed are basically voluntary discharges.

As you know, a small part of the members of our two regiments come from the teaching corps, and most of them come from the tax police corps. There are no recruits, no strong men, and all of them meet the requirements for joining the army in terms of physical fitness, mental strength, etc. You want to streamline the army, but there is no way to streamline it. Everyone is qualified, and only more than 1000 people who are tired of military life choose to leave.

According to your previous instructions, we have issued a severance pay of two hundred yuan to each of the personnel who left, and the total cost was 22 French currency!" He looked at Jiang Weiguo, "This money must not have been paid by the Military Commission, because the army sent out Nameless!Dismissing personnel as soon as we form the army?Those bigwigs in the Military Commission will definitely not give money.

So... we have to embezzle funds first, and we must make up for it..." The military pay of the national army (mainly the Central Army) at this time is very high. The annual income of a farmer with 10 acres of land (in 1936, the annual income of a farmer with 100 acres of land in China was about [-] French currency).

Jiang Weiguo distributed 200 yuan of French currency to each of the demobilized officers and soldiers, which is indeed very kind.

It is worth mentioning that according to the national army salary regulations, Jiang Weiguo was an army captain at this time and received 80 yuan in French currency a month. discount", so Jiang Weiguo's actual monthly salary at this time is 50 yuan in French currency, Liao Yaoxiang, a major, is paid 80 yuan a month, Zhang Lingfu, Huang Baitao, Qi Xueqi, and Qiu Zhiji are lieutenant colonels, they get 100 yuan a month. Sun Liren and Zheng Dongguo are colonels, and they get 120 yuan per month (both figures after discount).

Jiang Weiguo's monthly salary is approximately equal to 3 yuan in later generations, and his actual purchasing power is higher. As long as he saves two months' salary, Jiang Weiguo can buy a sixteen or seventeen-year-old pretty girl from a trafficker to be his concubine. Groups are not a dream at all (monogamy was not practiced during the Republic of China, and concubines were allowed after marrying a wife).

Regarding this, Jiang Weiguo sighed with emotion while hearing it: "Without corruption, the national army really deserves to be the national army, and the treatment is higher than that of the communist army!"

"Okay, I got it!" Jiang Weiguo had no choice but to pay for the money himself, "Secretary Yang...no, Adjutant Yang!" He called Yang Mei outside the door.

Yang Mei walked in.

Jiang Weiguo took out a check and swiped his pen: "Go to the central bank to withdraw 23 French currency!" Yang Mei nodded, picked up the check and walked out.

Liao Yaoxiang smiled and continued: "Our two regiments originally had 31234 members, and 1147 members were dismissed, and now the number is 30088 (with Yangmei added).

Wen Yingxing's six people have already taken the six infantry battalions out of Nanjing. According to your instructions and the approval of the chairman, three battalions went to Wuhan and three battalions went to Fuzhou.

Each of these six battalions has more than 2500 people, totaling about 15000 people. Now there are almost 15000 brothers here in Nanjing. Among them, there are more than 918 people in the 7000th Regiment, and more than 128 people in the 8000th Regiment. As you know, we don’t have that many for the time being. Tanks, so the 918th Regiment is the real armored regiment, the 128th Regiment is called the Armored Regiment, and is actually still an infantry regiment at present, in fact, the 918th Regiment can only be called a mechanized infantry regiment, because there are still relatively few tanks after all!"

Jiang Weiguo nodded: "Very good.

By the way, tell me about the training outline of the army! "

Liao Yaoxiang adjusted his glasses: "It's nothing, I, the Tuan Zuo, and the deputy Tuan Zuo have already drafted it, which mainly consists of five parts, physical fitness, shooting, throwing, bayonet fighting, and tactics.

As for physical fitness, it means daily running, sit-ups, push-ups, pull-ups, swimming and so on. Shooting is more troublesome. Although we have enough bullets, they are not enough. Target training is more expensive. Throwing is just throwing grenades. There is no need to talk about bayonet fighting, the most troublesome thing is tactics.

Infantry tactics are fine, how to use tanks?We are all half-knowledgeable and ignorant of this, so we can only rely on those German instructors and consultants of Hans!"

Jiang Weiguo nodded again, and then asked: "Deputy Counselor, what is the current situation of our two regiments' weapons and equipment?"

廖耀湘道：“先说坦克吧！我们现在共有84辆坦克，50辆是建镐你从德国那边弄来的，另外的34辆里，来自教导总队战车队的18辆，来自税警总团战车队的16辆，这84辆坦克分别是：10辆三号坦克、10辆二号坦克、30辆一号坦克、18辆英国产‘卡登·罗伊德’式轻型坦克、8辆意大利产cv33式轻型坦克、3辆苏联产t-26轻型坦克、2辆法国产雷诺ft-17式轻型坦克…哦，这两辆雷诺是张学良送给委员长的。

Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army originally had 36 Renault tanks. After the September 25th Incident, 11 of them were seized by the Kwantung Army, and 3 were brought to the pass by the Northeast Army. When encircling the Communist Party, 6 were blown up by bandit troops. , The Northeast Army now has [-] Renault tanks!"

Jiang Weiguo lit a cigarette, exhaled smoke from his nose, and snorted coldly: "This is the number one prodigal son in the country!"

廖耀湘笑了笑，然后继续道：“除了坦克，我们两团还有装甲车47辆、装甲汽车24辆、各型卡车73辆、侧三轮摩托车89辆、其它车辆23辆。

The model comparison is messy, German, British, French, Italian, Polish, Soviet, American...all of them!"

Jiang Weiguo sighed: "Wanguo brand! It's so sad and deplorable, I am a big China, and I even have to import cars!"

Liao Yaoxiang smiled and said, "Not exactly.

There are more than a dozen vehicles produced by the Northeast Automobile Factory, and several armored vehicles were also assembled by the Northeast Arsenal!"

Jiang Weiguo snorted again: "This unprecedented super prodigal son!"

Of course Liao Yaoxiang knew who Jiang Weiguo was scolding, so he smiled and continued: "In terms of weapons and equipment, our two regiments are key troops after all, and the Military Commission still takes good care of us. Rifles, pistols, submachine guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, Mortars, anti-aircraft rapid-fire machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns (anti-tank guns), mountain guns (light howitzers), field guns (cannons), shells, mines, grenades... everything is available, but..." He paused, "Our ammunition is not enough like other troops of the national army!" He sighed, "Hans and the German guys handed us a live ammunition training outline, which was well written, but was rejected by the regiment. Zuo Zuo, Deputy Tuan Zuo, Can Zuo, I, Zheng Tuan Zuo, Qiu Deputy Tuan Zuo, Huang Shen Zuo, and Zhang Deputy Can Zuo all voted down.

Why?Because those German guys don't consider China's national conditions at all, let us train with live ammunition every day, God!We only have that little ammunition reserve, yes, after ten days and half a month of training, the marksmanship of the brothers will definitely improve a lot, but we can only go to the battlefield with empty guns!What's the use of guns, marksmanship, and no bullets?It's better not to train! "He smiled wryly.

Jiang Weiguo's heart became heavy: "Are we short of ammunition?"

Liao Yaoxiang nodded: "Very lacking.

In fact, the Military Commission has taken special care of us. We have more than 3 brothers in the two regiments, and they have allocated 300 million rounds of ammunition to us! "

"Damn! Only one hundred bullets per capita?" Jiang Weiguo was taken aback, "Is that so much?"

Liao Yaoxiang smiled wryly again: "What do you mean by 'just so little'? There are already many! You don't know, the national army... I'm talking about the direct line troops of the Central Army. The per capita bullets are only 29 to 29 rounds, and we have a hundred rounds! Yes! Yes, during the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War three years ago, in the battle of Xifengkou, Song Zheyuan’s 29th Army killed the Japanese army, crying ghosts and howling wolves. The big knife cuts off the heads of the devils' is so soul-stirring! What about the actual situation? Of course I am not belittling the brothers of the 200th Army. Use a big knife to kill the enemy like chopping melons and vegetables, because the members of the big knife team are basically one in a hundred cold weapon experts. The big knife and the bayonet engage in hand-to-hand combat. Unless the soldiers who use the big knife have undergone strict training, they will not take much advantage. This is also the reason why broadswords are not commonly equipped in the national army; another more important reason is that the members of the broadsword team have two shell guns and [-] rounds of ammunition. Should we use the shell gun or the broadsword first? The official name of Song Zheyuan's broadsword team was originally 'Pistol Team'.

Because the team members have many pistols and enough bullets, they have the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat, and the big sword is only auxiliary.

Killing devils with a big knife is definitely better than shooting devils with a pistol, which makes people all over the country believe and are more willing to believe that devils can be killed with a big knife.

If you don’t believe me, ask Zheng Dongguo, he participated in the Great Wall War!”

"Really?" Jiang Weiguo's heart moved. In fact, he had an idea that all the officers and soldiers of the regiment would have a big knife instead of a bayonet.

Liao Yaoxiang nodded: "Yes.

A soldier with a broadsword and a soldier with a bayonet, with the same level of training, the former can basically defeat the latter, unless the soldier with a broadsword is a good hand at this aspect, but it is more difficult to train a soldier to be a good swordsman than a bayonet good hand.

Cold weapon confrontation, one inch long and one inch strong, the Japanese 1.28-type rifle is 1.7 meters in length, and after adding the bayonet, it has a total length of 29 meters. The broadswords of the 0.9th Army are basically less than one meter long, generally around [-] meters.

Jianhao, if you think about it, one side is a bayonet with a length of 1.7 meters, and the other is a big knife with a length of less than one meter. The bayonet only needs to be stabbed to kill, and the big knife needs to be swung up and chopped down or swung up with the backhand , which is more advantageous?And a bayonet is less labor-intensive than a broadsword.

What's more, it was a melee, a group of people fighting with another group of people, not a one-on-one fight by martial arts masters. A group of Japanese soldiers held 1.7-meter bayonets back to each other, like a group of hedgehogs. If you want to go up and slash, you will be stabbed by the tip of the opponent's bayonet first, and you will start to defend yourself. If your blade cannot reach the opponent, the opponent's bayonet will reach you. There is a difference of seventy or eighty centimeters. Decided! (The armed police forces of later generations have done experiments. Two groups of armed police with the same number used wooden bayonets and wooden broadswords respectively, and infantry cooperated with tactics to simulate hand-to-hand combat between the two armies. The result was: the bayonet team defeated the broadsword team.

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Jiang Weiguo was shocked, he sighed: "Ammunition, we are not as good as the Japanese army, cold weapons, we are still not as good as the Japanese army!"

Section 057 Daily (3)

Many things are "obsessed by the authorities, cleared by the bystanders", but there are also many things that are "obsessed by the authorities, cleared by the bystanders", such as the ammunition issue of the Chinese army during the Anti-Japanese War.

Bullets are the most important and main consumables for war, and the Chinese army was short of heavy weapons and even the most basic bullets during the eight-year war of resistance.

According to authentic and reliable historical data, during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, China produced and imported a total of about 3 million rounds of bullets each year (the United States aided China a lot after participating in the war, but it was only 3000 to 300 million more rounds per year), while at that time The Chinese army has a total of more than 100 million people, that is to say, an average Chinese soldier can only get [-] rounds of ammunition a year.

With one hundred bullets per person per year, one can imagine how difficult it is for the Chinese army to fight.

A serious shortage of bullets will cause two major problems. One is insufficient firepower, and the other is that soldiers do not have enough bullets for training, and their marksmanship is very poor.

More than half of the Chinese soldiers had no shooting training. As soon as they got their guns, they fired a few bullets and went to the battlefield. After shooting these bullets, they could only start hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army. Chinese Army.

Some people in later generations asked, why didn't the Chinese army train a large number of snipers to shoot and kill the Japanese army?The answer is not so many bullets.

Some people in later generations asked, why did the Chinese army suffer so many casualties?Killing a Japanese soldier would cost the lives of at least five or even ten Chinese soldiers?The answer is not so many bullets.

The Chinese soldiers who ran out of bullets rushed to the Japanese army with enough bullets in their hands, and then became the target of the opponent in vain.

Some people in later generations asked why thousands or even tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers were hunted down by hundreds of Japanese soldiers but dared not turn back and fight?The answer is that these Chinese soldiers may have run out of bullets, and if they turn around, they will die. They can't fight at all, and they can't fight hard.

Some people in later generations asked why the Chinese army rarely won a battle but couldn't win it neatly?The answer is that the Chinese army has consumed most of the bullets at this time. Without bullets, it is naturally incapable of launching a successful pursuit of the Japanese army and cannot expand the results of the battle.

In the later period of the Battle of Changde in history, the national army who defeated the Japanese army wanted to take advantage of the victory and pursue it, but there was no way, because the national army consumed 2000 million rounds of ammunition in this battle, which was half of the ammunition stocked by the national army at that time; the historical battle of Hengyang In the middle of the battle, the defenders of the city performed well, but they surrendered in the end. The reason was that there were no bullets, and rushing to the Japanese army full of bullets with a bayonet was tantamount to death.

As a comparison, the pre-war shooting training of the Japanese army invading China consisted of [-] rounds of ammunition per person per month, so the marksmanship was very accurate, and the average Japanese soldier carried more than [-] rounds of ammunition during the war, while the Central Army of the National Army had only [-] rounds of ammunition. Thirty rounds, let alone those local motley crews.

The Japanese army was able to "bully" the Chinese army because it had more bullets, and when the Japanese army encountered the U.S. army, the U.S. army had more bullets than the Japanese army, so the U.S. army could also "bully" the Japanese army.

In the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army died more than 40 people, and the Chinese army died about 380 million (the KMT and the Communist Party combined). The ratio is about one to thirteen.

why?Because the Japanese army has more bullets than the Chinese army, and the American army has more bullets than the Japanese army.

During World War II, Japan produced 5 million rounds of bullets a year, and the United States produced 200 billion rounds of bullets a year.