Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Ma Zhanshan left with a worried look on his face. Li Weiguo sent people to deliver guns and ammunition to the north bank. As for the 15 oceans of money, Ma Zhanshan needed time to raise it from the rear.

The reporters' filming and interviewing lasted until noon. They sent the Punitive Army's battle records to all parts of the world through various channels, which immediately caused a huge sensation.

When the people heard that a spontaneously organized civilian armed force had actually wiped out a large battalion of Japanese invaders, they were overjoyed. They all ran around to tell each other and bought out all the firecrackers in the firecracker shops. The crackling sound of firecrackers echoed throughout the country, and it was as festive as New Year's Day.

On the night of September 18th, the implementation of the policy of non-resistance caused the country to lose most of its land in the Northeast in three days, which caused a lot of resentment to accumulate in the hearts of people across the country. When they heard about a great victory, most of the resentment was instantly dissipated.

But compared to the joy among the people, the top leadership of the Nationalist government was shrouded in gloom. Although the punitive army had won a great victory, it had also undermined the policy of non-resistance.

They had previously thought about not giving Japan an excuse to escalate the situation and hoped that the League of Nations would mediate. If the Punitive Army wiped out a Japanese battalion in one go, the other side would not stop until the Punitive Army was killed. They probably could not count on the League of Nations to mediate.

On that day, the chairman cursed the punitive army at the meeting, saying what a bunch of bullshit spontaneous armed forces from the people and the wise men living in seclusion in the mountains, could they be any more evil!

In his opinion, apart from his Central Army, any armed forces were enemies! They should all be eliminated! It was just that he couldn't do it.

What made him even more annoyed was that the Japanese ambassador had recently protested to the Nationalist government, saying that the advance battalion of the 16th Regiment was only heading north to defend the railway, but was shamelessly ambushed by the Punitive Army, and the commander of the 16th Regiment, Kawasaki Koichi, was captured alive. This was a provocation to the Empire of Japan.

The Japanese ambassador clamored that the Nationalist government must immediately order the punitive army to release Kawasaki Koichi and order the punitive army to lay down their arms and surrender to the Kwantung Army, otherwise the Kwantung Army would take necessary measures!

In his eyes, Japan was a powerful modern industrial country that could not be defeated by backward and divided China. He did not dare to challenge the Japanese and could only satisfy them in everything, hoping that they would not escalate the situation. It didn't matter if the Northeast was lost, as it was not his territory anyway. He hoped that Japan would stop its military operations after it had satisfied itself.

The president immediately dispatched a special envoy directly under the central government to fly to the north.

While putting pressure on the Nationalist government, the Japanese army dispatched a large army to the north. The Second Division dispatched two infantry regiments, a cavalry regiment, an artillery regiment, 40 field guns and eight heavy artillery. It also dispatched a battalion from the 39th Mixed City Brigade. With the support of four tanks and four aircraft, they marched north to Jiangqiao in a mighty force.

This Japanese army had more than 2 people and was equipped with all kinds of heavy weapons. Its overwhelming force made Ma Zhanshan and the Punishment Army hundreds of kilometers away feel a huge crisis. The Jiangqiao Anti-Japanese War entered the most brutal third stage.

However, the Japanese army did not dare to use trains to go north, so the speed would not be too fast, and the punitive army still had enough time to build fortifications.

The construction work on the high ground has not stopped in the past few days. The position is full of various turrets and concrete bunkers. There are almost no open-air trenches. Only white concrete trenches can be seen, with fist-sized shooting holes opened in these concrete trenches.

In order to build these bunkers quickly, Li Qinwu kept transporting cement from the rear. Cement was easy to get, but there was not enough steel bars, so Li Qinwu used bamboo as steel bars.

Concrete was poured inside the bamboo and used as temporary reinforcement. These bunkers were not expected to last long. As long as they could withstand the Japanese artillery fire, they would be lost after the battle.

In order to increase firepower, Li Qinwu also dismantled the broken Japanese tank turret. There was a small 37mm water pipe in the Japanese tank gun. Its power was a bit weaker, but the firing rate was not slow.

Li Qinwu first transported the four broken tanks to the repair shop in Hutoushan, used the tools of the repair shop to separate the vehicle body and the turret, and then took some steel bars and welded them to the bottom of the turret, so that the turret could be inserted into the ground for use.

The turret is very small and is difficult to be seen by the enemy when it is stuck on the ground. However, the armor of the Japanese tank is too thin. If it is hit by enemy artillery, it will probably be scrapped directly.

Li Qinwu thought that since this could be used as a fixed turret, he might as well stack more armor. He then asked his clones to weld a large number of armor plates on it, increasing the thickness of the armor to 50mm.

It can only be increased to 50mm. The Japanese turret is driven by humans, and it will not be able to rotate if it is thicker.

Li Qinwu felt that this was not enough, because the Japs had heavy artillery. Even if the heavy artillery shells did not hit the small turret directly, they would probably be able to kill the clone inside.

Li Qinwu also asked his clones to make some thick circular cement covers to cover the turret, leaving only the firing port in the front, so that the indirect fire shells would not reach the turret.

In addition to the four small turrets, the Punishment Army is also building a large number of mortar bunkers.

The mortar bunker is a round concrete cover with a round shooting hole in the middle of the concrete cover. The mortar team can hide inside the concrete cover and safely fire the shells out of the shooting hole.

This type of mortar bunker requires digging a large pit on the ground first, and then covering the pit with a cover with a diameter of seven or eight meters.

Due to its special shape, the cement cover cannot be replaced by bamboo instead of steel bars, so Li Qinwu can only let Li Hanchao, who was building a school for the Japanese, steal the steel bars.

In addition, tunnels must be dug underground to connect all the bunkers. If the Japanese army cannot be stopped, the clones can evacuate safely to the headquarters through these tunnels, and Li Qinwu can open a portal to send them away leisurely.

However, the project is quite large and I don’t know if it can be completed before the arrival of the Japanese army.

In addition, it takes a relatively long process for cement to go from initial setting to final setting and then to hardening, and this process will be prolonged in the cold winter.

The clones could only cast various modules in the hot island space, dry them in the sun, and then pull them to the battlefield full of ice and snow, connect them with riveted structures, and then seal the riveted structures with mud.

The Punishment Army was preparing for war in full swing, ready to deal with the Japanese attack, but after waiting for several days, the Japanese army did not arrive, but the Japanese envoys and special envoys of the Nationalist government arrived first.