Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 759: Forming a Heavy Regiment

Tang Qiuli was recruiting troops all over the country, and the commotion was very big. This move hurt the lungs of powerful factions in various places, making them complain. They didn't dare to resist openly, so they made small moves behind their backs, and it was effective.

It was not big enough to stop the aspiring young people in their own territory. They broke through the obstacles and joined the army one after another. Then they took the idea to the National Supervisory Yuan, which was a government office dedicated to impeaching high-ranking officials.

For a time, Chongqing, the wartime capital of Southwest China, had many personal representatives from powerful local factions. They carried oceans and gold bars in their pockets, built relationships, found connections, frequently visited the homes of various supervisory committee members, opened up various connections, and monitored

The committee members had eaten all kinds of banquets, and their pockets were full of oceans and gold bars. Naturally, they worked hard, and the Supervisory Yuan quickly issued the document to impeach Tang Qiuli.

Chairman Chiang had long noticed the fact that Tang Qiuli was recruiting troops in various places. His desk was already filled with various reports from the Central Command and the Military Command, but he remained calm. In the country, only the war zone that Tang Qiuli was responsible for was at war.

Moreover, facing the Kwantung Army, the most elite Japanese army, there were reasonable excuses to recruit troops and they were on the table.

Another point is that he knows very well the nature of those local warlords who regard their territory as their destiny. They don't need to step forward themselves, these people will jump up immediately. The impeachment of the Supervisory Council is effective, and Tang Qiuli will naturally restrain himself.

If his vigor does not work, he will cause complaints and make many enemies. He will not suffer any loss inside or outside. However, based on Chairman Jiang's understanding of Tang Qiuli, how can he take a mere impeachment to his heart?

Chairman Chiang is more concerned about the decree issued by the national government to unify finance and taxation. It has lost its financial resources and cannot support it no matter how many soldiers it recruits. This strategy is not only targeting Tang Qiuli, but also weakening powerful local factions.

As a sharp weapon, under the banner of the Anti-Japanese War, Chairman Chiang can unify the country's finances and help him remain undefeated.

Tang Qiuli didn't care at all about the impeachment of the Supervisory Yuan. He knew the root cause of the impeachment and couldn't get away to go to the Supervisory Yuan for questioning because of the ongoing war in Northeast China. However, he had to take the government's financial and taxation decrees seriously and ponder them.

After a few days, I suddenly remembered that in later generations, the prime minister who was determined to change China's financial status quo adopted a tax-sharing system between the central and local governments.

I was overjoyed. I already had a countermeasure and wrote a document to the Chongqing Government and the Ministry of Finance. Currently, North China is on the front line against the enemy, and war can break out at any time. It is in a warring area, and the local financial resources cannot afford such a large military expenditure.

, However, in order to respond to the call of the national government and to set an example for local governments across the country, we have decided to allocate several types of taxes to be collected directly by the central government, while the rest are for local use.

Chairman Jiang read Tang Qiuli's telegram and was speechless for a while. He did not expect that Tang Qiuli would take such a countermeasure. The taxes allocated to the central government must be very low in oil and water, and he would keep the fat for himself. Instead of doing this

, it is better to be a favor and give Tang Qiuli a reputation as someone who understands the general situation, but I still feel uncomfortable that Tang Qiuli's fiscal policy has been hit back by a soft nail.

After solving this problem, Tang Qiuli devoted all his energy to the construction of the army. This was the foundation of his foothold. He transferred all the tanks that had been refitted by the Dingbian Arsenal to North China, and selected the tanks with the basis from each army.

Technical warriors entered the tank force, and more than 1,100 armored force trainees who graduated from the first batch of Dingbian Military Academy were all transferred to the tank force as grassroots commanders.

After a while of busy work, five brigades of armored troops were formed, with a total of more than 1,600 tanks and armored vehicles. However, the models of these tanks were too mixed. There were Japanese products captured in previous battles, some of pure German origin, and some of them were of pure German origin.

There are various hybrids assembled by the government itself. However, after modification at the Dingbian Military Factory, the tank's firepower and armor protection capabilities have been greatly improved, especially the speed of the tank. It has been replaced with a new engine and its speed has been greatly improved.

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Tank guns are generally equipped with "Sky Eye" gun sighting radar, which not only improves the shooting accuracy, but also allows the tank to shoot while driving. This was an absolutely leading technology at the time and was not available in several major military countries. Tang Qiuli

Regrettably, there are no heavy tanks, and the assault force of armored firepower is weaker. However, according to his own evaluation, the performance of these tanks in all aspects is comparable to the main battle tanks of various countries in World War II before 1943.

level.

Not counting all this, Tang Qiuli also ordered the arsenals in Huangyadong and Dingbian to urgently produce a large number of anti-aircraft guns, anti-tank guns, anti-tank guns and other weapons. The total number should be enough to equip four brigades. At the end of July, these weapons

All arrived in Peiping. Tang Qiuli organized the twelve field infantry brigades, the quick reaction brigade, and the two workers' anti-Japanese brigades of the corps directly under the division headquarters into ten brigades, and reorganized them into mechanized brigades.

Among them, there are four heavy mechanized brigades and six light mechanized brigades. Each mechanized brigade has two mechanized infantry regiments, one heavy artillery regiment, one light artillery regiment, one baggage regiment, one anti-tank artillery battalion and one anti-tank counterattack regiment.

Tank gun battalion, an engineer battalion, a communications battalion, a reconnaissance battalion, a field hospital directly under the brigade, a guard battalion and other units.

The strength of each brigade reached about 18,000, of which heavy equipment reached an unprecedented proportion. This was the first mechanized force formed in the Chinese Army at that time. At the same time, six artillery brigades and

Six cavalry brigades were organized into the directly affiliated corps to form artillery and cavalry units. Zheng Yong and Liu Chun were officially appointed as artillery and cavalry commanders, and unified command of the artillery and cavalry units.

The five detachments of the special operations detachment were organized into the special operations group directly under the corps. Fu Gang, the former captain of the sniper brigade of the special operations detachment, was the group leader. The four newly formed air defense brigades were organized into the air defense force, and the commander was the former Huang Ya

Chang Enduo, commander of the Dong Air Defense Brigade, and the five newly formed tank brigades were also incorporated into the battle order directly under the corps. Unfortunately, the tank unit did not have a suitable commander, so Tang Qiuli had to take up the post himself.

I can't help but think of Battelle, who has been studying tank combat technology at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany for more than three years. His younger brother is already twenty years old. He doesn't know when he will return to China. And Bai Luoyu, who went to Germany with him, has been here recently.

In a letter, Battelle said

He is going back to the country in the near future. If he is here, he must be the commander of the armored forces. Why should he do so reluctantly? He has not seen him for three years and has been in the army. It was only in a dream that his brother walked in. After waking up, he

I feel like I miss him so much. I wonder if his temper has changed?

The designation of the Taihang Mountain Field Corps of the ** Division was revoked, and the units were assigned to Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps and Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan Garrison Corps. The former acting commander of the Corps, Chang Feng, still returned to the division headquarters as chief of staff.

At the same time, he also serves as the chief of staff of the directly affiliated corps, and this super powerful corps commander is concurrently held by Tang Qiuli himself.

Compared with his former chiefs of staff Feng Jiwu and Li Honggang, Tang Qiuli prefers Chang Feng. He is a clear-minded, thoughtful and unconventional person who can always look at problems from another perspective and come up with appropriate solutions.

His opinions, good at managing complex affairs, good educational background, and several experiences in commanding large corps alone made him the best choice for Tang Qiuli to choose chief of staff. Feng and Li, on the other hand, tended to be strong-willed and sometimes had strong personalities.

More impulsive than myself.

In this way, the corps directly under the ** Division has ten mechanized brigades, six artillery brigades, six cavalry brigades, four air defense brigades, one special service regiment, and five tank brigades, with a total strength of about 270,000 people, becoming *

Among all the corps of the * Division, it is the leading main corps, and its firepower equipment is many times better than other corps. Chief of Staff Chang Feng has established a complete, efficient, and capable corps in the shortest time.

command system.

The commanders of other corps in the ** Division don’t know what the division commander’s intention is to put so much effort into forming this heavy armored corps? If we were to deal with the Japs, the original organization, strength, and firepower structure would be sufficient. How many times would we fight the Japs?

The battle also proved this point, but the strength of this mixed-arms corps is terrifying enough.

Several other corps commanders were secretly envious and jealous, and the officers and soldiers directly under the corps were even more impressive, because everyone had another symbol on their uniforms, a lifelike five-clawed golden dragon soaring in the blue sky and white clouds.

, holding one in the mouth

Underneath the earth, embroidered with a few large golden characters "Regiment directly under the North China Division of the Nationalist Army", he looked mighty and handsome. He looked at the other regiment soldiers resting in Peking with envy and jealousy, and secretly sighed that they did not have such good luck. Editor

Join the troops directly under the division commander.

The officers and soldiers directly under the corps walked with straight necks and spoke loudly. Their air and pride made people look at them with envy. Within a few days of being happy, one night in July, the entire corps suddenly had an emergency.

They gathered together and walked in the dark all night. At dawn, they realized that they had reached the depths of Yanshan Mountain. This was a subject of Tang Qiuli's training troops, and the large corps was mobilized urgently at night.

The effect was very unsatisfactory. The various units were in disorder. Some mounted infantry regiments actually inserted themselves into the ranks of the artillery regiments and followed them in confusion all night. Some cavalry brigades even lost their way at night and walked to another branch of the road.

, and several artillery regiments and tank brigades were also lost. After an emergency call from the radio, they caught up with the main force just before noon.

The most annoying thing is that more than a dozen artillery carts actually drove into the ravine. Fortunately, it was a shallow ravine. The cars were damaged and the personnel were slightly injured. More than 30 cavalrymen fell into the deep ravine. The horses were killed and everyone was dead. Even the corpses were found.

Before long, the logistics troops that followed delivered the much-needed fuel and ammunition to a certain location.

In an area with the same place name but in opposite directions, we saw cavalry mixed with tanks, artillery carts mixed with medical vehicles from field hospitals, and dozens of broken down tanks, armored vehicles and cars parked on the roadside. It was a complete chaos.

Tang Qiuli was furious at the scene.

Now, the commanders and soldiers of the brigades directly under the corps saw the division commander standing on the roadside with a livid face and saying nothing, and the chief of staff, Major General Chang Feng, with a look of discomfort on his face, stood beside him.

(To be continued)