Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

There is a reason why the army morale wizards are so excited. Although the border area is in a semi-blocked state, the acquisition of intelligence has not been affected at all.

Thanks to the excellent intelligence network, the boss knew about the outstanding performance of aviation rockets in the Battle of Nomenkan.

Before the birth of rockets, aerial bombs and cannons were the main weapons used by aircraft for ground attacks.

Of the two weapons, the cannon is more accurate but less powerful. Unless it is a specialized ground attack weapon, it cannot cause effective damage to solid targets.

Although aerial bombs are powerful enough, they are difficult to aim and their use efficiency is low.

Even though some aircraft can use dive bombing to improve accuracy, this method of bombing has high requirements on aircraft performance and driving skills, and it is difficult to popularize on a large scale.

During the battle with Xiaori, the north mounted aviation rockets under the wings of the Yi-15 and Yi-16 fighter jets.

Not only did they achieve good results in the air, destroying many enemy planes, but they also stunned the Japanese on the ground.

After the war, the Kwantung Army also specially collected the remains of its own fighter planes and tanks. The amazing destructive power made them think that the north had developed an aircraft gun with a caliber of 40 mm or more.

Huang He now leads the Border Region Weapons Experimental Research Bureau to advance the fine tradition of our army by firing aviation rockets by more than ten years.

With our own air force having such advanced weapons, everyone is naturally happy from the bottom of their hearts.

"Xiao Huang, I remember you just said that our 41-1 aviation rocket doesn't have a name yet, right?"

"How about we call it the Red Sun? The rising of the red sun on the one hand indicates that we will walk out of the night and towards dawn, and on the other hand it indicates that it will bring a devastating blow to the enemy like the scorching sun in the sky!"

As soon as the name Hongri came out, it was immediately widely recognized by everyone present, and it also saved a lot of brain cells for a certain naming waste.

In the end, the decision was jointly made by Desperate Fox, Army Morale Wizards and Huang He, and the name of the Type 41-1 aviation rocket was officially determined.

In the following period, all students completed the assessment projects.

In addition to the first four, 287 comrades passed the test, with a pass rate of an astonishing 97%.

While more pilots would be better, there are currently not enough fighter jets. Huang He was almost worried to death. He secretly made a decision in his heart to go to the Military Industry Bureau to shake people after the meeting.

We must give every soldier his own car before the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain begins.

After the assessment, there was a photo session. Because there were so many pilots, everyone was divided into six batches to take photos separately.

The Desperate Fox and the Army Morale Wizards sat at the front, followed by the Director, Principal Chang and Huang He, and finally the trainees standing or standing on stools.

"Comrades! The sky over the motherland! I leave it to you!"

"Persevere in the war of resistance to the end! Fight and die for the country! It is extremely glorious!"×291

The outstanding graduates of the first border aviation school are about to go to the battlefield.

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The time came on May 5th. Early this morning, the director brought a correspondent to the Border Area Weapons Experimental Research Bureau.

As soon as the car stopped, he jumped out of the passenger seat. After briefly exchanging a few words with the comrade on duty at the door, he rushed into the door carrying a radio on his back.

Arriving at the door of the office, the director kicked open the door, quite like a commando.

"I'm really convinced by you! Look at your wretched place, I can't even contact you if there's any big issue!"

"I carried the radio to you, and also transferred a correspondent. I will send a telegram if something happens in the future! If I come to you again, I will be like a dog. If you don't know, you will think that I am your deputy."

Seeing the other party panting, Huang He quickly stood up and poured a glass of water. He didn't say anything, just stood aside and waited silently.

Sure enough, I took a short break. The director immediately started talking about today's business. He took out a piece of paper and a map from his pocket and said:

"This is the telegram sent by the Ideological Crusaders in the morning. The pressure on the southwest capital is a bit high. Today they have officially requested help from our Eighth Route Army."

"But the tone is so damn disgusting, and the whole telegram looks very unlucky."

"If the troops were not strong enough now, I would be the first to object to sending troops!"

After knowing the director for so long, Huang He saw him curse for the first time. He picked up the telegram on the table and read it carefully. After a while, he frowned and squeezed out the word "Sichuan".

The other side is still using the same old tricks, asking for reinforcements from its own side out of righteousness.

It can be said that there is no progress at all. It is just that sending troops will consume your strength, and if you don’t send troops, the power of public opinion will be used to make you stink.

But now this move is indeed a strategy that kills two birds with one stone. After the North signed a neutrality treaty with Xiaori, the border area was also affected.

After thinking for a moment, Huang He patted the director on the shoulder and said comfortingly:

"Forget it, don't argue with them. Our fight against the Japanese and the Japanese is not for those moths, but for the suffering people."

"And the army itself also has the idea of ​​attacking the First Army of the North China Front. In a sense, supporting the opponent can be regarded as an unexpected help."

"Although this ally may not necessarily be powerful, it can play a certain role to a certain extent. And as far as I know, there are several good troops on the other side of Zhongtiao Mountain."

After hearing Huang He's words, the director nodded helplessly. After receiving the request for help, the border area made several requests and directly ordered the Kongyi Division to make pre-war preparations.

Now that support is a foregone conclusion, these military workers can only continue production and wait for the outcome of the war.

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After the director left, Huang He opened the map he had just brought, which contained the enemy dynamics collected by the intelligence department in recent months.

Zhongtiao Mountain is located in the southwest of Shanxi Province, stretching across the north bank of the Yellow River, with gullies and mountains undulating in the territory.

It runs in the northeast and southwest direction, with high in the east and low in the west. It is a strategic location in North China with Taihang, Luliang and Taiyue Mountains as a horn.

This mountain range is flanked by the Fenhe River Valley on one side and the Yellow River on the other. It can be said to be a natural barrier for the three provinces of Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi, and has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.

For the Chinese army, relying on Zhongtiao Mountain to advance can disturb the enemy and contain the strength of the North China Front Army. Retreating can rely on the danger to defend and actively defend.

With such a good geographical location, the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain should be very stable. But Huang He is pessimistic about the defenders of Guosu for the upcoming battle.

The first reason is that this so-called Eastern Maginot is actually just a facade, and its real defense capability is not even one percent of the original one.

Except for some simple trenches and traffic trenches dug on the front line and some fortresses built, other areas can be said to have only done surface work.

Those important military locations such as traffic arteries, passes, command posts, military supply lines, and the Yellow River ferry basically lack defensive fortifications and troop deployment.

Military advisers laughed after visiting the site. They wanted to touch the Maginot Line with such a level.

Although the Maginot Line was bypassed again, the ground contains machine gun fortifications and artillery fortifications made of armored reinforced concrete, and even a 420mm mortar can withstand two bullets.

Underground are command posts, food storage rooms, ammunition depots, first aid stations, power stations, filter ventilation rooms, etc.

The entire defense line has a total of about 5,800 permanent fortifications of various purposes, with a density of 15 per kilometer of front. There are also passages connecting the fortifications, and even traffic can pass.

The Zhongtiao Mountain is not dug and not protected from artillery, so the only way to fight the devils is to rely on the soldiers.

The second point is naturally the temporary change of commander, which is a taboo in military strategy.

The original supreme commander of the Zhongtiao Mountain defense line was the Tiger General among the Five Tiger Generals. He had been defending well from the beginning of the garrison in 1938 to March this year, and repelled the enemy's thirteen attacks.

However, because he repeatedly refused to execute the orders of the bald man, he was semi-under house arrest when he went to the southwest capital to report on his work some time ago. The person who replaced him was the Chief of Staff of the Military Commission.

It would be fine if he was replaced by someone who could fight, but he ended up with a mother-in-law.

Not to mention that this guy has not fought any big battles so far, it is disgusting to put on the attitude of fighting on two fronts on the first day of taking office. He has no ability to fight back against bandits and drive away the enemy, and he doesn't even want to be ashamed.

The third reason is that the micro-manipulation master came online and directly drained the defenders.

Originally, the defense line of Zhongtiao Mountain was jointly responsible by the preserved fruit troops and the Eighth Route Army. Both are indispensable, and the inside and the outside complement each other.

One side held the enemy's main force in the front, while the other side fought guerrilla warfare in the enemy-occupied area to cut off supplies. In this process, the two sides must have exchanges and communication.

But since 1939, the master of micro-manipulation has continuously withdrawn the main forces on the original defense line on the grounds that the devils have not made any achievements in Zhongtiao Mountain in recent years.

The most typical example is the Fourth Army, and several main forces have been transferred to the south of the Yellow River. This is the main force of the defense line, which is simply cutting off one arm.

In fact, the real reason is very simple. It is nothing more than the tacit cooperation with the Eighth Route Army, frequent exchanges between the two sides, and the closely connected transportation lines can directly reach the base.

But it is obvious that this level of micro-management is not the limit. In the next two years, the defenders changed their defenses continuously.

All the main forces of the Second Army, the Fifth Army, the 14th Army, and the 17th and 76th Armies of the 36th Army have all left.

In other words, the troops that had been conscientiously defending Zhongtiao Mountain for three years were all replaced, from the highest commander of the war zone to the front-line combat officers and soldiers.

Although two armies and some miscellaneous troops totaling 200,000 people were put together, even a military blind person knew that the defense force of the Eastern Maginot Line was not as strong as before.

These new troops who were replaced not only had poor equipment, insufficient training and low combat effectiveness, but they had not even figured out the terrain.

Even if they changed to a genuine Maginot Line, it would probably be pierced by the Japanese due to internal problems.

According to intelligence, since April, the Japanese have been increasing their troops while transporting river crossing equipment to the south every day, and it seems that they are going to cross the Yellow River in Fengling.

Logically speaking, a normal commander must send a large number of troops to conduct reconnaissance to see what the enemy's motives are, so as to make corresponding defensive strategies.

But the Chief of Staff of the Military Commission was good. He gave three plans at a whim.

The first plan was to retreat the main force to the south bank of the Yellow River and directly consolidate the river defense.

Although retreating without a fight would be criticized by the people across the country. But at least it was to preserve strength and harm allies for their own benefit, which was in line with their style of doing things.

The second plan was to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and attack first to break its offensive.

This is the choice of a true man. If we can cooperate with the current Eighth Route Army and Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, there is a high probability that we can eat up six divisions of the Japanese and win a great victory.

Although it is difficult, it is not impossible to try.

The third option is to adopt mobile tactics, change the inner line to the outer line, and rely on the terrain to block the enemy step by step.

This style of play is not bad, it is a tactic that Tiger General has been using for three years. Although the current defenders are not very good, they are at least capable of fighting.

But the result is according to the intelligence. The defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain didn't choose anyone, they just spread their forces evenly along the entire defense line and set up the ancestral one-word long snake formation.

The defense line is a full three hundred miles long. With no roads, no horses, and no air superiority, such a deployment is clearly a passive posture.

Moreover, the deployment of troops is too unreasonable. The eastern section of the defense line is deep and wide. Even if it is raided, it can trade space for time, and the pressure on the defensive troops is relatively small.

The situation in the western section is just the opposite. Once the battle starts there, it is deep and narrow and it will be a decisive battle. The Fourth Army, which used to be the most powerful, is here.

In theory, the troops capable of fighting hard should be deployed in the western sector, but the Chief of Staff of the Military Commission placed the most passive troops in the most critical position of the defense line.

What's more, as a later traveler, Huang He knew a situation that even a border area did not know, that is, at this time, the defenders of Zhongtiao Mountain were already struggling due to military supply problems.

All troops were short of food and combat preparation materials, especially the Fifth Army in the western sector, which was facing a military-wide famine.

The food collection ability of the Preserved Fruit itself is not very good, not to mention that priority must be given to replenishing the direct lineage. The miscellaneous army is inhuman compared to the Central Army.

The few grains had to be transported by the defenders themselves to various fords on the Yellow River.

The farthest forward position is a full 100 miles away from the ferry, and there is a high possibility of enemy attacks on the road.

So, the defenders moved directly. Not only did they sell the few weapons and ammunition, they even started a lollipop business in the military camp.

In order to survive, the commander of the Fifth Army could only watch as his business grew bigger and bigger, and military discipline became worse and worse.

A good military camp was made so smoky that it looked like a market. Many of the people who came in to do business were traitors, and even the Japanese spies could come in and out freely in the later period.

As a result, Xiaoli was very clear about the deployment of the Fifth Army, and knew the locations of the headquarters, communication center, hospital and arsenal.

Once a war breaks out, the defender's command system will most likely collapse. The enemy's special high-tech department in charge of espionage activities was dumbfounded. He had never seen such an easy mission.

Huang He pinched his eyebrows and then hung the map on the wall. In such an unbearable environment, now we can only wait and see how the deputy commander-in-chief can turn the tide.

I'm really speechless about this situation.