Chapter 431: Arms Problem
Let’s talk about Zhu Liangcheng and the others. They waited in the small conference room until the afternoon, and Zhong Yi finally came back.
Seeing Zhong Yi coming in, Zhu Liangcheng and the others quickly got up to meet. Zhou Erzi followed the last one and also came forward to greet Zhong Yi with his head and mind.
Sun Liren was as careful as his hair and found that Zhong Yi's white gloves had a lot of blood.
Sun Liren asked, "Zi Ren, why do you have blood on your hands? Are you injured?"
"No, this is not my blood." Zhong Yi said, then took off his gloves and threw them away.
"Other's blood?" Sun Liren said sternly, "What's going on? I'm meeting someone who is not open again?"
Now, Sun Liren is the major general captain of the Anti-Smuggling Corps, and has more than 5,000 people under his command. If there is still someone who dares to assassinate Zhong Yi without eyes, he will dare to lead troops to take over his lair!
"No." Zhong Yi shook his head and said, "I killed a brigade commander."
"What?" Sun Liren and several others looked at each other and killed a brigade commander after hearing this.
Zhou Erzi, who was hiding at the end, subconsciously shrank his neck, his face full of horror. He had heard from people that although Zhong Yi was just a chief of staff, he was extremely powerful. He didn't believe it at first, but today he believed it. Killing a brigade commander seemed like drinking water to him. There was no one else in this kind of fierce power.
Zhong Yi said again: "Since you all have arrived, then have a meeting."
Zhu Liangcheng and a few others quickly sat on the left and right sides of the conference table.
Zhong Yi took the initiative to sit in the main seat, circled around everyone and said, "Even if you don't come to me today, I will send someone to find you. The Wuhan Garrison Command has been officially established and the establishment has been officially established. The entire Garrison Command has eight brigades and two corpses, which is equivalent to the establishment of ten infantry brigades!"
"In terms of military strength, the Sixth Army, the Sixth Army, the Sixth Army, the Thirty-Seventh Army, the Seventh Army and the Ninety-Fourth Army have been split, and all the forces of the forty regiments will be used to supplement the ten brigades in the garrison!"
"But you also know the quality of the officers and soldiers of these forty regiments. Most of them are new recruits and are weak. If you don't train well for a period of time, it will be useless!"
"So, I plan to select twenty regiments from them, about 30,000, and add 30,000 veterans in Huangpi who are about to recover from injury to you. In this way, you can have about 7,000 people in each of your travels."
Hearing this, Zhu Liangcheng and ten others suddenly looked excited, and the soldiers finally had a place to settle down!
After pausing, Zhong Yi continued: "The soldiers are in place, start intensive training immediately. Remember, you must improve the intensity of the training as much as possible, sweat more in daily life and bleeding less during wartime. You must tell your brothers this principle!"
Chen Jing'an said: "It's no problem to improve the intensity of training, but the problem is that if the food cannot keep up, it will ruin the brothers' training. How to do it?"
"You don't have to worry about this!" Zhong Yi said, "I will find a way to solve the food!"
Sun Liren hesitated for a while and said, "Zi Ren, training is not difficult to solve, and food can be overcome. The most troublesome thing is weapons and equipment. When will the weapons and equipment be in place?"
"Yes, when will the weapons and equipment be in place?"
"There is no training without weapons?"
"You are good at traveling, we have nothing to do with it."
When the others heard Sun Liren's words, they immediately became uneasy.
"Don't worry!" Zhong Yi said, "I asked the Ministry of Military Affairs, and a batch of Soviet aid will arrive in Wuhan soon. In addition to guns and artillery, this batch of equipment also has tanks!"
"There are still tanks?" Zhu Liangcheng was immediately excited when he heard this.
Shi Zude and Liu Yuanlin were also overjoyed because there was a chariot battalion on the building table of their guard brigade, spy brigade and 367 brigade.
Zhong Yi seemed to be able to guess what the three of them were thinking.
Zhong Yi said now: "Don't think about Tank Battalion. The Ministry of Military Affairs only gave 48 tanks in total. This batch of tanks was originally intended to be given to the 200th Division, because I detained these tanks, and Qiu Fengzi turned against me!"
Shi Zude smiled flatteringly and said, "Zi Ren, since there are only 48 tanks in total, we don't want to do anything about the Tank Battalion, but we have a small-scale tank company. Our Guard Brigade and the Special Service Brigade, the 367th Brigade, are exactly one brigade and one tank company."
Liu Yuanlin also nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, the tank company is OK."
"Why?" Chen Jingan and the others became anxious when they heard this, "Why can you three brigades have tank companies? Can't our five brigades have tank companies?"
Shi Zude immediately had another face when facing Chen Jing'an and said proudly: "Why? Just because our three brigades are all elite, can you five new brigades compete with us?"
"I, you..." Chen Jingan was speechless when he heard this.
Sun Liren smiled and was too lazy to bother with Shi Zude.
"Okay, don't even think about the tank company!" Zhong Yi said coldly, "I'm very useful to these 48 tanks. I want to use these 48 tanks as the basics to form an armored assault column, so that it can be used when fighting counterattacks!"
"Armored assault column? Use it when fighting counterattack?" Chen Jingan and others looked at each other again.
God, the Wuhan Battle has not begun yet, and I don’t know what kind of situation it is. Zhong Ziren is already thinking about the counterattack? Isn’t this too far?
Shi Zude, Liu Yuanlin and Zhu Liangcheng were also very disappointed.
Zhong Yi continued, "But don't be too disappointed, I have good news!"
"Oh?" Shi Zude and others were excited after hearing this and asked, "What good news?"
Zhong Yi said: "I heard that the US Minister to China, Mr. Jansen, and military officer Colonel Stilwell, have returned from the United States and have just arrived in Wuhan. I am planning to order an emergency batch of arms from the United States through their relationship, including 200 37mm caliber war defense guns and 24 M1918 155mm caliber howitzers."
"What? 200 chariot defense cannons and 24 large caliber howitzers?"
Zhu Liangcheng and others were immediately excited when they heard this. Cannons are the king of land warfare! The reason why the national army could not defeat the Japanese army was closely related to the artillery that had an absolute advantage in the Japanese army!
Zhong Yi nodded and said, "When this batch of war defense artillery is in place, each of your brigades can form a war defense artillery battalion. When the street fighting is started, you don't have to worry about the Japanese's thin-skinned tanks anymore!"
"Zi Ren, in this case, our confidence will be even more strong!" Sun Liren said excitedly when he heard this, "To be honest, I have always been worried that there is no good way to deal with the Japanese tanks. It is easy to be countered by the mobilizer alone, but if there is a war defense cannon, there will be no problem!"
Chapter completed!