Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 302
Compared with Chief Xue's scheming, Gao Jianwu didn't care about these, he just acted according to the established combat policy.

After simply cleaning the battlefield and resting overnight, Gao Jianwu led the main force to cross the Xiangjiang River in one fell swoop. This time, the tank attack group and the first attack group Zhang Dabiao and the second attack group Xu Shida made a big detour, breaking the little devil formation from the edge , Wrapped around behind the 68th and 116th divisions.

Then Gao Jianwu led 4 heavy artillery regiments, the Kong Jie Department of the third attack group, and the Lu Fan Department of the fourth attack group, opened the way with direct artillery fire, and defeated the offensive formations of the 68th and 116th Divisions of the Little Devils in one fell swoop. .

Destroy their artillery force, and then use the tank attack group to crush and divide the little devils of the two divisions into several brigade-level isolated battlefields. At this time, the main battalions of each attack group began to launch violent attacks.

Facing the chaotic battlefield of several square kilometers, Li Xiazhong finally discovered some mysteries, that is, Gao Jianwu and the others can almost completely control the command. In the general headquarters, they know the progress of each main battalion like the palm of their hands.

And the heavy artillery regiment of the expeditionary army group can always follow the front line to call for demand, and deliver the shells to the little devil in time!
In this way, the assembled little devils and the heavy firepower are always focused on by the artillery in the distance, and then the infantry battalion's attack is as smooth as flowing water.

Li Xiazhong discovered that the biggest mystery was hidden in Gao Jianwu. Even if he was sitting in the headquarters, Gao Jianwu clearly provided the heavy artillery regiment with accurate bombardment elements.

To do all this, the observation post on the front line needs to clearly describe the location characteristics of the little devils, and Gao Jianwu seems to be able to calculate their location coordinates based on these.

Li Xiazhong, a high-ranking member, was not only based on his connections. In fact, he came from a serious artillery department and had very rich experience in the operation of artillery.

Although he felt that all this was a bit absurd and that it was not done by normal people at all, but judging from the rewards, Gao Jianwu's command was extremely precise, and he could basically hit the target without making corrections a few times.

Now Li Xiazhong has completely trusted Gao Jianwu's command and reporting system, because everything is real-time. Gao Jianwu's walkie-talkie covers the entire battlefield, and every move is the result of direct observation on the spot.

No one thinks of making a fake in this situation, because such a direct action will lead to the death of himself and his brothers!

The huge battlefield seems to be in Gao Jianwu's mind. Gao Jianwu has an extremely accurate mental calculation, calculating the elements of the artillery's shelling.

This was the first time Li Xiazhong saw such an awesome artillery commander.

If he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes, Li Xiazhong would never have believed it.

But after watching too much, Li Xiazhong became numb. The two divisions of the little devils were almost powerless to fight back under the attack of the 4 attack groups commanded by Gao Jianwu. The regiment was destroyed again within 2 day.

In fact, Li Xiazhong had already come to his senses after being stunned, that is, the firepower of the expeditionary army group was more fierce and accurate than any army he had seen!
The 4 heavy artillery regiments add up to more than 100 105mm howitzers, and there are also howitzer battalions directly under the attack group itself. The little devil is several times!
Not to mention that you can call the air force for bombing support when you encounter the difficult artillery positions of the little devils!

Under this kind of crushing firepower, Li Xiazhong had the illusion that I can do it myself, feeling that he has mastered the code for the expeditionary army group to win the battle.

But looking back, aren't these things very clear?But it just can't be done.In the national army system, now the elite main force has four 4mm mortars per regiment, and one division has one mountain artillery battalion with more than a dozen 82mm mountain artillery.

For example, the 105mm howitzer is only equipped with the expeditionary force of the national army now, and the rest of the troops are basically ruined in the previous series of wars.

Like the 105mm howitzer, in addition to the old marshal’s arsenal, which can be imitated and produced, neither Jinzao nor Shanghai-made can be mass-produced. Hanyang Arsenal used to imitate two Krupp 2mm howitzers, and the second arsenal made in Guangdong also successfully trial-produced 120mm and 75mm howitzers. mm howitzers, but none were put into mass production.

On the one hand, the production process and technology are not up to standard, and the product quality is worrying. On the other hand, there is no way to refine Pao Steel in China, and all of it has to be imported. For this strategically controlled product, it is difficult to buy even if you want to buy it. What's more, the price is still sky-high. In that era, it was really better to buy than to make!

So Li Xiazhong returned to the real world for a while, and soon accepted his fate. Gao Jianwu's set cannot be copied at all.

Because Gao Jianwu was able to obtain these equipment from the United States, it was also a special product under special circumstances.Now, even if someone wants to send a batch of troops abroad, it is useless.

However, Li Xiazhong was wrong about one thing.That is, these heavy artillery regiments of Gao Jianwu are not only American equipment, but many Japanese 105mm howitzers have been mixed in.

These 105mm howitzers were captured and loaded with Gao Jianwu after returning home.Many shells, including many of them, are obtained in this way.

Otherwise, after losing the logistical supplies, the shells of the American cannons of the Gao Jianwu Department have already fired one less shell.

Therefore, Gao Jianwu has mainly replaced the cannons with Japanese ones, which is convenient for replenishment on the battlefield.

So at the end of the battle, Li Xiazhong sometimes noticed that Gao Jianwu would often leave the headquarters and go to the front to personally command the logistics and supply troops that besieged the little devil.

But Li Xiazhong never dreamed that Gao Jianwu would use this method to release the weapons and ammunition he had exploded, and mix them into the little devil's actual luggage.

In this way, Gao Jianwu's weapons and ammunition are actually more and more.

It's just that no one has discovered this yet.

As if inadvertently, Gao Jianwu's expeditionary army group ate up the reorganized Type B division of the three little devils, although Li Xiazhong reported the battle situation immediately.

But Chief Xue always felt a little uneasy, and often had the illusion of doubting whether Li Xiazhong had been instigated by the expeditionary army group!
However, after the first wave of battle reports were quickly verified, no matter how exaggerated Li Xiazhong said, Chief Xue knew that it was also true.

It's just that the rapid advancement of the expeditionary army group and the speed of annihilating the little devils have completely exceeded Chief Xue's best expectations, so he can't keep up with the mobilization of troops to reorganize the siege!

Therefore, Li Xiazhong put forward a new request for Gao Jianwu, so that the expeditionary army group can encircle the 34th and 58th divisions following up on the second line of the little devils faster, but the annihilation can be slower.

To prevent the little devil from going back to his old nest in Hankou after the two divisions were wiped out, Chief Xue needs time to mobilize and deploy troops to encircle the little devil's left army.

For Li Xiazhong's request, Gao Jianwu followed suit with kindness.After encircling the two little devil divisions, only a small number of troops were sent to train every day.

If the little devils try to break out, heavy artillery fire will teach them to be a ghost!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Jianwu collected ships everywhere. After solving these little devils, he divided his troops into two routes, water and land. The luggage and most of the soldiers traveled downstream from the Xiangjiang River to the Yangtze River to reduce the fatigue of the soldiers.

The artillery attack group and the tank attack group mainly focused on railway movement. Under the cover of the two infantry attack groups, they fought all the way along the railway!
Although the little devils have many strongholds along the Guangdong-Han Railway, they basically have little room to struggle in the face of the artillery fire and tanks of the expeditionary army clusters.

Seven days later, when Commander Xue commanded the Ninth War Zone to complete the encirclement of the Little Devil's Left Army, Gao Jianwu's side immediately started to eat up the 7th and 34th Divisions cleanly.

After quickly cleaning the battlefield, Gao Jianwu collected enough ships with the cooperation of Li Xiazhong. Except for the heavy equipment such as the heavy artillery regiment and the tank battalion that could not be transported on the river, the rest of the materials were collected and transported on board.

Most of them were Gao Jianwu's re-explosion of the little devil's mountain artillery and field artillery on the battlefield. From the destruction of the five little devil's reorganized divisions, he re-purchased more than 5 little devil's artillery and a large number of shells for his troops.

Among them, there are 105 24mm howitzers, 75 75mm mountain guns, 75 28mm field guns, and nearly a hundred 2 infantry guns, which are enough to form 6 heavy artillery battalions, 6 mountain artillery battalions and [-] [-] infantry artillery battalions.

The rest of the light and heavy weapons, such as [-] heavy machine guns, crooked machine guns and [-] large caps, were seized on the battlefield. The things that can be used, although they are a little garbage compared to American equipment, but now Gao Jianwu is about to do a big event, and every bit of material is precious.

Under the cover of the air force, the entire fleet began to flow down the Xiangjiang River to the Yangtze River.

Head towards the three towns of Hankou and kill them!

With the air support of the Air Force, Gao Jianwu, who followed the fleet down the river, appeared very quickly in the three towns of Hankou. Yokoyama Yong, who fought against Dadi in the Ninth War Zone, was stunned.

He never dreamed that the group of expeditionary forces who gave him a fatal knife near Tanzhou turned around and went straight to steal the house!

Only two little devils who were housekeepers of the independent mixed brigade and more than 3 puppet troops were left, trembling in the face of the expeditionary army.

Haven't waited for them to react.

The Song Tiecheng Assault Brigade, who was ordered to attack the airport, seized the airport and seized 5 Nakajima Type 88 fighter jets, 7 Kawasaki Type 99 reconnaissance planes, and [-] Kawasaki Type [-] twin-engine fighters that were too late to be destroyed. Light bomber (Kawasaki Light Bomber).

The new Jianghan Group Assault Brigade, which has upgraded its specifications to the level of an attack group, now has three special assault squadrons, one air commando, one armored commando, and a huge special operations unit of a surface commando. 1 people, but under special circumstances, the combat effectiveness is no worse than that of an assault group attack.

For example, if they attacked the airport this time, if they sent an attack group to attack step by step, it might not be too late to capture all the little devil's fighter jets.

However, Song Tiecheng commanded two special assault squadrons to sneak into the vicinity of the airport and launch a frontal attack. Then, with the help of the two little devil armored vehicles captured by the armored commando team, they attacked and wiped out all the airport guards in one fell swoop.

Such a ferocious and stealthy attack method, the little devil is impossible to guard against!

When the heavy artillery attack group and the tank attack group reached Hankou with the assistance of the two attack groups of the guards, Gao Jianwu used his powerful deterrent force to force the puppet army to surrender, and at the same time went through bloody street fighting and ate the two guards defended by the little devils. Brigade, win the three towns of Hankou!

This time, after another round of frantic explosions, Gao Jianwu took advantage of the many warehouses in the central city occupied by the little devils, inspected them, and used the opportunity to reveal the Japanese weapon inventory of 4 reorganized divisions!

In addition, tens of thousands of tons of food, canned salt, sugar and other scarce supplies were released, and dozens of urgently needed machine tools were secretly purchased for the Hanyang Arsenal!
Starting from this, Gao Jianwu began a large-scale reorganization of captured puppet troops and new recruits in the three towns of Hankou to expand his troops on a large scale.

Since these tasks were very standardized, Gao Jianwu handed over the military matters and the rearming of the three towns of Hankou to Kong Jie, Zhang Dabiao, Xu Shida, and Lu Fan.

Gao Jianwu concentrates on urban construction, economic recovery and factory reconstruction.

"Commander Gao, how should we deal with the currency now? The panic outside about this currency is getting stronger day by day." Li Fuqing, secretary-general of the Economic Committee who has changed from a local underground organization to an open identity, proposed to Gao Jianwu solved the first problem.

This gave Gao Jianwu a headache.

For him, this question is basically almost unsolvable now.

The little devil's military ticket and the legal currency that has depreciated by an unknown number of times have no way to continue to use it. Even if Gao Jianwu seized a lot of such currency this time, Gao Jianwu decided not to use them for circulation.

"We first use the original silver dollar and copper dollar as the substitute currency. At the same time, we issue a batch of equivalent silver dollar replacement certificates, and issue a batch of 1 yuan and 2 yuan through the newly renamed Hansheng Bank, the bank run by the confiscated little devil. Yuan, 5 yuan, and 10 yuan replacement bills can be exchanged for silver dollars at Hansheng Bank at any time, or the equivalent value of grain can be purchased through the government-run Hanyang Trading Company, and silver dollars and grain can be temporarily anchored for us.” Gao Jianwu thought for a while and proposed an emergency method.

If you want to stabilize the local life, you must first solve the actual problems of people's livelihood.Although it was said that when the little devil occupied the three towns of Hankou, it was almost evacuated, but after all, this is the core of a fertile land. After five or six years of painstaking management by the little devil, it has gathered more than 100 million people again.

With such a large population, there are many hidden enemy agents to carry out sabotage activities, and profiteers also take the opportunity to collect money. Measures are always dubious.

The price of food changes three times a day, and the collapsed currency system. If some ambitious people succeed in fanning the flames if they are a little careless, then the city will suddenly lose control and fall into chaos.

Gao Jianwu had to use a method with the least cost to solve the currency problem first. Fortunately, there was a banknote printing factory in Hankou, and there was no problem in the production of silver dollar replacement rolls in Gao Jianwu's place.

Gao Jianwu seized hundreds of thousands of silver dollars and a batch of gold bars, plus a large amount of supplies and food, using the assets and supplies of the little devil or his expatriates seized at the first time. It should be no problem to issue several million replacement rolls for the first batch. big.

At least in this way, Gao Jianwu can ensure the monetary credit of these replacement volumes.

Next, when Gao Jianwu has time, he will call a group of experts to carefully construct the currency system. This is an extremely professional and huge subject, and there is no way to solve it perfectly in the short term.

Not to mention his place, the current base areas include Jindi, and the border area currency that has been used for a long time is not very good now. Obviously, a certain overall planning is needed in the future.

At present, most of the tokens used in various bases are the same tokens as Gao Jianwu's alternative rolls.

Due to the lack of corresponding reserves and materials, they do not have Gao Jianwu's current anchoring method, resulting in currency credit and scope of use are not too high.

What Gao Jianwu is better than them is that he immediately seized all the material warehouses, company assets and various assets of the expatriates under the control of all the little devils!

A large number of materials and assets have been obtained, and the tokens issued can be anchored to a certain extent, the credibility of these tokens will be improved, and these tokens will be slowly promoted to this newly occupied base and a broader place in the future.

Li Fuqing got the answer to the first question. Although he felt that it was not perfect enough, this was the only way to go at present. It was impossible to use the military ticket of the little devil, although this time he received a lot from this big city.

That's it for the currency.Li Fuqing didn't just ask this question. He went on to ask: "How do we set the price of grain? The market is very chaotic now. Some have doubled or even tripled the price before the war, and some have hoarded it and simply don't sell it! The public reacted greatly." .”

This is the most important issue related to people's livelihood. If the food problem of millions of people cannot be solved, it is obvious that Gao Jianwu and the others cannot stay here any longer!
For such a problem, Gao Jianwu had some ideas for a long time, and after thinking for a while, he gave a principled idea.

"We must severely crack down on price gouging. We issued an announcement, stipulating that within three days from the date of the announcement, the price of grain will not be restored to the sales price before the restoration, and any increase of more than 20% will be seized and frozen! Our newly established The public Hanyang Trading Co., Ltd. forcibly carried out public purchases according to the prices before the war, and then sold them at par prices and limited household registrations.

Anyone who stores grain for more than one year and the company does not use it for sales, please report and seize it, and conduct public purchases as price gouging.

This announcement is valid until the new grains are launched this year.We must use tough measures to ensure the minimum living standards of thousands of households, and prevent these profiteers from taking advantage of troubled waters. "Gao Jianwu said very strongly.

At this time, if they dare to commit crimes against the wind, these businessmen are obviously profiteers, and they must not be tolerated.

Even so, the interests of grain distributors will be greatly damaged, and it will affect their enthusiasm for distribution in the three towns of Hankou in the future, but Gao Jianwu can't control so much now.

Solve the urgent needs first.

"Commander Gao, now some big businessmen have their own armed guards, and our people will be physically threatened when they go to check. How to solve this problem." Li Fuqing said again.

Now the army is in turmoil, and there are many capable and resourceful people, including dozens or even hundreds of armed private guards. In addition, various guerrillas are mixed up, and civilian force has indeed affected grassroots execution.

But in the face of national crisis, there are actually not many good management methods for guerrillas in various places.

When Gao Jianwu heard this headache question, he couldn't help rubbing his forehead with his fingers, and thought for a while before he could speak.

"In the base area, we do not allow private individuals to own military weapons and ammunition. For those who have already established private armed forces, they are required to hand in their weapons and ammunition, and they are given some financial compensation. This incident caused the first attack group to send a company help you do it.

For their business security protection, we allow the establishment of some third-party security companies similar to bodyguard companies.However, these security companies must be registered to accept the supervision of our public security agency. In the early stage, we tried our best to adopt a public approach, allowing the county and district guerrillas to deploy some members to set up a group of security companies to provide them with security protection services for merchants. "

Gao Jianwu thought about some of the practices of later generations, and felt that it would be better to prohibit the development of military force against the people.

Especially now in times of chaos.Allowing some ambitious people to have force is very detrimental to the stability of the situation.If they have these needs, Gao Jianwu simply asked some guerrillas to separate a group of people and set up a special escort company to do this.

On the one hand, these escort companies can be supported by private financial resources. At the same time, these escort companies are also supervised and trained at any time, and they are also a force that can be used in wartime.

Gao Jianwu's ideas are just a general direction, and the specific measures need to be refined and completed by Li Fuqing and others when they implement them.

Fortunately, Li Fuqing and the others were also very capable of action. After a series of combined punches in just a few days, Gao Jianwu stabilized the entire situation in this big city.

Following a series of company restructurings based on the Jinyang model, Gao Jianwu rebuilt a preliminary industrial management system in the three towns of Hankou.

The most important of these is the restoration of the military-industrial system.As early as Gao Jianwu was planning to restore the three towns of Hankou, he had already sent a telegram to Jinyang Heavy Industry for personnel support.

Over there, a team of hundreds of engineers and skilled workers was scattered towards the three towns of Hankou, so when it was captured here, those engineers had basically just rushed here secretly.

Gao Jianwu started to form a new Hanyang Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. with these people as the backbone, and directly brought Hanyang Arsenal under the banner of Hanyang Heavy Industry.

Due to the rapid attack on the three towns of Hankou and the assistance and protection of the underground organization, the little devils had no time to destroy the various factories. It was built by the little devil to be able to produce various weapons and ammunition below the 75mm mountain cannon. , The Hanyang Arsenal has been restored to the level it was under the management of the little devils before the war, and the ammunition production of large quantities of Japanese equipment has begun.

At the same time, the most elite team began to conduct imitation research on the ammunition of a large number of American weapons and equipment owned by Gao Jianwu. After all, Gao Jianwu now owns more than 5 American weapons and equipment, ranging from Garand rifles to 60mm mortars. , as well as 75mm howitzers and tank guns, 105mm howitzers, and 155mm howitzers, all of these are Gao Jianwu's trump cards!

Fortunately, Jinyang Heavy Industry already has complete production experience from 60mm mortars to 105mm howitzers. Therefore, these ordinary shells have more advanced machine tool models with Gao Jianwu explosives, and dozens of authentic Desan advanced machine tool equipment , imitation was soon completed.

That is to say, the explosives and other items used the captured items left by the little devils, which are inferior in quality and power to the ones made by the beautiful country itself, so the imitation products are also slightly less powerful than the original ones, but Gao Jianwu is already very satisfied.

He mainly focused his resources on the production of ammunition. After all, in terms of weapons, the captured Japanese weapons had filled the warehouse, and the American weapons alone were enough for the main force.

毕竟高建武是薅美丽国羊毛的小能手，迄今为止，前前后后已经薅到了98门155毫米榴弹炮组成了4个155毫米重炮团，148门105毫米榴弹炮组成了5个105毫米炮兵团，200门75毫米榴弹炮组成11个炮兵营，以及200多辆谢尔曼坦克组成12个坦克营和100多架野马战斗机组成3个飞行大队。

还有将近小8万人的制式装备加兰德步枪、M1918勃朗宁机枪、M2型60毫米迫击炮和M1型81毫米迫击炮步兵营主战武器！

So Gao Jianwu went out for a trip, and the harvest was really fruitful. Although after long-term battle losses, and Chu Yunfei and Ding Wei took away a small 3 troops, Gao Jianwu now has more than 5 main troops left with a full set of beautiful weapons.

The four 4mm heavy artillery regiments are still there, and 155 Japanese 150mm howitzers were obtained through seizure and explosion, and two heavy artillery regiments were added.

5个105毫米榴弹炮炮兵团也保留着，高建武通过潭州大战和汉口三镇缴获和爆装从小鬼子手里拿到了90多门，重新又增加了3个105毫米炮兵团，足足变成了8个105毫米炮兵团。

The more than 20 doors seized in Qiongzhou earlier were given to Chu Yunfei, and the more than 40 doors seized in Hong Kong and Kowloon were given to Ding Wei, and none remained.

As for the 75mm artillery battalion, Chu Yunfei and Ding Wei left 3 each at the beginning, and there are 5 left.

Now that more than 75 little devil 200mm mountain guns and field guns have been newly seized, 12 new artillery battalions and 5 main attack groups have been re-established. Now each is assigned to a US 1mm artillery battalion. The six attack groups were assigned to a Japanese Artillery Battalion.

For the remaining 11 artillery battalions, Gao Jianwu plans to assign them to the nearly 4 second-line garrison troops that have been newly created for this expansion. The weapons are two 5mm Japanese mountain artillery or field artillery. In the infantry battalion, after there is no M2 75mm mortar company, they are equipped with an 2-81 infantry artillery company.

At the company level, each squad is equipped with 1 grenadier and 1 crooked handle, and each company adds 4 nine-two heavy machine gun firepower platoons to make up for the lack of mortar firepower.

Although this kind of configuration has increased the burden on the arsenal, it needs to undertake the production of two sets of weapons and ammunition of different systems, but now there is no need to produce equipment, and it can be supported relatively speaking.

With the recruitment of workers and the completion of the ramp-up of production capacity, Hanyang Arsenal will then turn to the Jinyang Arsenal system to produce new weapons such as Type 43 assault rifles and 107 rocket launchers, and even tanks and fighter jets until the replacement is gradually completed.

But before Gao Jianwu could flex his muscles, he heard bad news.

Little devils, the remnants of the 11th Army actually escaped from the encirclement of Chief Xue!

(End of this chapter)