Rebirth of the National Marshal

Mao Yuanshan did not continue talking because he felt bad. Although he was very powerful now, domestically, even President Chiang's Central Army was not as powerful as him. But compared with the entire Japanese Empire, he was still far behind. Although they defeated the most elite 11th Division of the Japanese Army in the Battle of Shanghai, that was because the Japanese Navy did not participate in the war. If the Japanese Navy really participated in the war, what could they do?

One shell from a battleship could kill hundreds of people right there. We were no match for the enemy. Although you might say that we have planes on the front line, the Americans also had planes back then.

Hundreds of planes did not do anything to the Japanese Navy. Even if all the 200 planes on the front line were sent in, they could not cause any substantial damage to them. It is very likely that the main force of the Japanese Navy would be attracted, which would cause trouble. After all, the Japanese Navy here is only a squadron.

Now the Japanese Navy is ranked third in the world, second only to the Americans and the British. It can be said that it has no enemies in Asia. The battle in the Yangtze River Delta is taking place on the seashore. Once all the battleships and aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy are involved, the entire situation will take a sharp turn for the worse. Even a large number of bombers will not solve any problems. On the contrary, it can bring the world's navy into the aircraft carrier era ahead of time. Then the golden finger in Mao Yuanshan's hand will not be of much use.

What is being said here is that you have a large number of bombers, but the problem is that I have bombers but no pilots. Now the pilots have reached their limit. They are almost qualified after flying in the air for 100 hours, and then they will be sent to the front line. Originally, Mao Yuanshan set the requirement of hours, but later, as the war situation became more and more tense, the training time had to be shortened.

In terms of pilots, Mao Yuanshan also took some other measures. For example, he arranged for clone soldiers to participate in all missions that would cause heavy losses, because clone soldiers could be resurrected after their death, and it would just cost some money.

But if all the dead were ordinary people, you would not be able to resurrect them no matter how much money you spend. People only have one life, and the lives of these pilots are even more precious. As long as they are alive, you can provide them with planes continuously and kill the Japanese devils without leaving a single survivor. But if they die, it will not be so easy to train another pilot like this, and it will only waste a lot of manpower and material resources.

"In addition to these 18 security regiments, I have also formed three new armored regiments, using all the tanks you left behind, as well as five special armored regiments." The special armored regiments mentioned here are trucks that are simply covered with iron sheets to form special armored vehicles. The combat effectiveness of such armored vehicles is not very high, and they are almost useless when the terrain on the front line is complex, but having such a regiment is much better than having nothing at all.

Mao Yuanshan did not ask about the special armored regiment, because such a team had already been tested on the battlefield. It was just slightly longer than an ordinary infantry regiment, and the gap compared with a real armored regiment was too big. Mao Yuanshan was very optimistic about the three armored regiments that had been formed.

The ability of the armored regiment has been seen, especially on the Soviet battlefield. The armored regiment led by Qiu Qingquan can be said to be invincible. On the Northeast battlefield, the armored regiment led by Sun Liren was also good, but because they did not have a large depth, their performance was not as outstanding as Qiu Qingquan's.

"The number of armored regiments is still not enough, and we still need to increase it. I'm sorry to bother you with this. You can see that the power of the armored regiment is indeed very strong. If the number of armored regiments under Qiu Qingquan was doubled, I think our current battle line could be advanced another 300 kilometers." Mao Yuanshan's ambition is really big. Now that he has occupied two major cities in the Far East, he is still thinking about advancing.

Of course, this is just a hypothesis. Even if he is given the ability to move forward now, he does not have the ability. It was very easy to occupy other people's territories some time ago, but he encountered some troubles in clearing out the resistance organizations in the occupied areas during this period. After all, the Soviet Union has existed in this country for a long time, and it is not so easy to change the minds of these ordinary people in a short time.

In addition, some of the retreating soldiers had already sneaked into the homes of ordinary people, which also caused some trouble to local security. However, these are minor problems and can be solved well as long as it takes a certain amount of time.

This problem occurred not only on the Soviet side, but also in the Rehe region. This was because the armored combat assault capability was too fast, making it difficult for both their own infantry and the enemy's infantry to react. This provided an opening for the enemy's defeated soldiers, who could take off their military uniforms and blend into the ranks of the civilians while the armored regiment passed and the enemy's infantry had not yet arrived.

At the beginning, these guys must have thought that as long as they could escape this disaster, they would never join the army in the future. But after their lives became stable, they must have had other ideas in their minds, especially those Japanese soldiers who would definitely come out to bully the common people.

There is no good way to deal with this. We can only strengthen the militia as soon as possible and let the regular army send out more patrols to clear them out around. There is no other good way.

"As for the armored regiment, I think it's better to put it aside for a while. Our focus should be on the heavy artillery regiment. Now our arsenal can produce 150mm heavy artillery. Can we appropriately build a few heavy artillery regiments? And it's okay to form an armored regiment, but the problem of energy has also arisen. The armored regiment is a big fuel consumer, and our energy is already stretched to the limit." Mao Yuanshan had not expected this question raised by Mr. Jiang Baili. There has been no upgrade in recent times, and there is no way to increase the output of fuel again. It seems that another big battle is needed, just to keep himself from being idle!