Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

"Everyone remember to read the introduction of Volume 10."

In mid-July 1942, the command center of the Suiyuan Military Region of the Eighth Route Army.

The golden afterglow of dusk splashed over the vibrant and flourishing city.

At this time when most people finished their work for the day, a fully armed and heavily guarded convoy went against the flow of people and slowly drove from the direction of the railway station to the city center.

At the same time, three tall soldiers walked out of the general's office accompanied by many guards.

They chatted and laughed while waiting for the arrival of visitors.

It is worth mentioning that among the above-mentioned soldiers, there was a foreigner wearing a white shirt, whose overall dress style was completely different from that of the Eighth Route Army.

At first glance, he was very conspicuous in the crowd.

The three stars and anchor embroidery on the shoulders revealed his extraordinaryness.

"Haha, why are you late today? You've kept us waiting for a long time. Let's go, let's go eat. I've asked the kitchen to prepare a table of special dishes, and we can chat while eating."

"By the way, I almost forgot to introduce you."

"This is Director Xiao, the future leader of our North Sea Fleet. The person next to him is Major General Philippe, the leader of the French Naval Advisory Group. You should have met him in Taiyuan before."

The main person was in place, and the army reorganization expert hurriedly led his colleagues to greet him.

The last time the two met was at the Baotou No. 1 Machinery Factory a few months ago. They were naturally very happy to meet again today.

After a few simple greetings, Huang He first greeted the legendary French captain, and then cast his eyes on the famous seasick commander.

"Director Xiao, I've heard of you for a long time. We finally meet!"

"Is the training of the navy going smoothly? Have you and Philip encountered any problems? If you have any needs, please feel free to ask. The Weapons Experimental Research Bureau is the strongest backing for comrades."

"We do not have a serious large surface ship now, but the supporting equipment and related technology are not behind others."

Although Xiao and Huang met in real life for the first time, they had used a series of communication tools such as telegrams to discuss work before today.

Offline communication between pen pals is naturally a different flavor.

When he thought of the other party who had specially asked someone to send him special seasickness medicine, Director Xiao couldn't help but laugh and scolded:

"Your name has been heard for a long time, but most people can't afford it. If you hear about it for a long time, I'm afraid the entire Suiyuan Military Region will know about my seasickness."

"Sometimes, I really don't know what's going on in your mind."

"LYL and I, one is seasick and the other is airsick, and you actually recommended us to manage the navy and air force of Shandong Province respectively. The border area and the headquarters really trust your decision."

Hearing this, Huang He showed a playful smile.

The faintly visible row of white teeth has a bit of the charm of his fellow villagers.

"Hehe, as the saying goes, the more capable you are, the more work you should do. Look at General Nie, he is almost 50 years old, but he is still working hard to build a new military region."

"The land warfare level of our Eighth Route Army is undoubtedly the best in Asia. However, moving from the inland to the shallows, and then from the shallows to the deep blue, is a time-consuming, labor-intensive and unimagined major project."

"With an old veteran like you in charge, comrades can be more confident."

Recommending the above two to the Army Morale Wizard and the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Huang He did have a mentality of playing jokes.

But apart from this, the main reason is that Director Xiao and 103 are capable and efficient enough to complete the tasks assigned by the border area and the headquarters.

When his colleague mentioned his name, the Army Reorganization Expert, who was originally eating melons on the side, immediately became excited. He pretended to be innocent, and then imitated Huang He's tone in the past:

"I'm just an old man who is about to retire. Do you think I want to shine?"

"Before I came to Suiyuan, the deputy commander-in-chief and the deputy chief of staff asked me to sign. I didn't think much about it. I thought I was going to collect my retirement salary. Who knew I was assigned to the prairie."

This vivid Zhan Hu-style speech immediately reminded Huang He of an old friend in his previous life.

After a brief recollection, he first handed the gift in his hand to General Nie, and then patted the other's shoulder and teased:

"Old man, don't think about retirement. After all, our bureau is under the jurisdiction of the Suiyuan Military Region. When our first generation of jet fighters, first generation of strategic missiles, and even aircraft carriers are put into service, I still need your signature."

"Let's go, let's talk inside."

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While you and I were talking, the four of them had passed through the office area of ​​the general's office and came to Chengyuan, which is located inside the east cross courtyard.

The layout of the lake here fully reflects the style and characteristics of Chinese gardens that are natural and superior to nature.

Among many courtyards, it is the best choice for General Nie to entertain important visitors.

"Come, come, taste the characteristics of our Suiyuan. By the way, considering Philip's eating habits, I also personally cooked half a table of French dishes."

"Let's eat, we are all family, there is no need to be particular about the dinner table."

As the first generation of the Republic of China, the army reorganization expert paid great attention to saving during his study in France. Unless someone invited him, he would not go out to eat easily.

The French dishes prepared today are naturally new things learned during that period.

Seeing the hometown dishes on the table, the legendary French captain was immediately interested.

It is good to eat seafood and German food in Shandong Province, but for a foreigner, the taste of hometown is more nostalgic.

After eating and drinking, General Nie called the guard next to him and sent him to Wei Yu Xuan to get the documents.

While waiting, he opened the gift brought by Huang He and prepared to see what kind of little surprise the other party had prepared for him.

"Wow, a tank model, it's so interestingly made."

"Looking at this shape, it should be the T26 in the north. Could it be that the next stage of your Weapon Experimental Research Bureau's goal is to reverse-engineer the old Russian T26?"

Paper models are a very common scientific research tool in the Weapon Experimental Research Bureau.

Comrades in the bureau often use models with battlefield teaching materials to summarize and absorb the excellent designs of armored forces in various countries.

In a sense, everyone can be regarded as an early plastic man.

As for why it is T26?

It's very simple, because Guojian was once equipped with this outdated light tank, and its data is relatively easier to collect. And the next stage of decision-making of the awakening brave tiger system will also provide 100 T26.

Getting started now can be regarded as getting familiar with the new equipment in advance.

Hearing the doubts of the army reorganization expert, Huang He waved his hand casually.

"To be honest, although T26 is an outdated equipment, its firepower, armor and mobility are still good, and it is definitely more than enough to deal with the devils."

"But this thing weighs a full ten and a half tons. With the current infrastructure of our Republic of China, it is not enough to exert its full strength."

"The golden decade is a joke."

"But we can get hundreds of them, just as a preparation for the liberation of the northwest after the war."

As soon as these words came out, General Nie's eyes subconsciously circled the field.

Considering that there were no outsiders at the scene, he earnestly told Huang He:

"Let's talk about the future later. Our most important task now is to push the Japanese into the sea in the shortest time and liberate the people in the occupied areas as soon as possible."

"By the way, the border area issued new instructions some time ago on the plan to build a road to Sanma. I'll tell you about the specific arrangements later."

Just as they were chatting, the previous guard returned to Guanjia Pavilion with a brown briefcase.

Seeing this, General Nie took out a document and handed the Chinese and French versions to the two groups of people at the dinner table respectively.

As if he saw the puzzlement of the French legendary captain Philippe, he patiently explained in French after the three of them opened the folder:

"In order to open up a stable rear area for the Vietnam Aid Advisory Group, our Eighth Route Army specially sent out the ace unit, the Marine Brigade, to clear out the Japanese navy entrenched in the Qiongya area some time ago."

"This campaign took a total of 23 days. In addition to land battles, it also included small-scale naval battles and landing battles."

"You are the only senior military personnel from the navy among the four of us. In addition, Japan is also an enemy that France needs to face in the future, so I want you to help analyze and see what level the IJN is."

As a battle-hardened naval officer, Philippe can definitely find no problems with his professional skills.

He can even tell the surface strength and tactical system of the British, the ugly, the De San and even the Italians by heart.

However, the situation of the IJN is quite special.

Being in Asia, the French intelligence agencies are out of reach.

Moreover, the style of Pacific naval warfare is completely different from that of the Atlantic and Mediterranean, which led to the legendary captain not really knowing much about the Japanese Navy.

After hearing the explanation of the army reorganization expert, Philip's face was obviously surprised. He decisively opened the folder and tried to analyze the deployment details of the Japanese Navy from the battle.

But after only five minutes of reading, the international friend showed a disappointed expression, and even vaguely saw a bit of contempt.

"Ah? That's it?"

"Is the IJN's operational staff a grass-roots team? Isn't the bombed Etajima Naval School a military school that is known to be comparable to Dai Ying and Ah Chou? How can such a bug be taught?"

"Sure enough, they are taught by Dai Ying, and they are just as useless as their teachers. This kind of school, it's better to blow it up, there is no need for it to exist at all."

Extreme foul mouth, pure enjoyment.

As an authentic old Frenchman, Philip naturally would not miss any opportunity to spray his opponent, especially after experiencing the ballista plan.

Since graduation, Huang He has heard the Gallic rooster curse with such high purity for the first time.

Although he knew that his fellow countryman had won the victory in Qiongya through the changes in the military factories and civilian factories in the system. But Huang didn't know the specific situation.

Hearing this, he quickly opened the file to see what kind of mess the Japanese had made.

"Ah, Qiongya has become Guadalcanal?"

"Isn't this Tokyo Express and Ant Transport?"

"Now that there is a precedent in the Qiongzhou Strait, the Japanese Navy will definitely revise the original combat plan. In the Guadalcanal Battle, Ah Chou is likely to be in trouble."

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After suffering a joint attack from the 1st Marine Brigade and the Eighth Route Army Air Force, Vice Admiral Sunagawa Kaneo of the Qiongya Guard did not give up resistance.

In order to make a comeback and retake Manchuria of the Navy, the old devils chose to endure humiliation and survive.

After receiving his order, all the Japanese troops on the island decisively put down all the work at hand and gathered at the Sanya Bay military base without stopping.

Not only is it easy to defend but difficult to attack, it can also receive resources from the mainland and Southeast Asia in the future, which can be said to be the final capital for the Japanese to make a comeback.

At the same time, Kaneo Sunakawa also contacted the 23rd Army in Guangzhou, hoping that the other party could send troops to provide help.

Logically speaking, even if the relationship between the army and navy has eased, the commander, Lieutenant General Takashi Sakai, will not send troops to support the Qiongya Garrison.

but!

The emergence of the 1st Marine Brigade completely changed the army's thinking.

That was the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops who were alone overseas, without heavy weapons or unlimited air support.

The Japanese were eager to eat his flesh, eat his bones, break his tendons, and drink his blood for Li Yunlong, who was elusive and had repeatedly disrupted his strategic plans.

After reaching an agreement immediately, Takashi Sakai and Kaneo Sunagawa came up with a combat plan in the shortest possible time: crossing the sea in a bathtub!

In order to avoid reconnaissance and air attacks by the Eighth Route Army Air Force, the Qiongya Guards planned to dispatch all surface ships to transport a brigade of the 23rd Army.

The Japanese planned to use destroyers, gunboats, mine boats and all auxiliary ships to cross the Qiongzhou Strait at "high speed" at night when enemy planes could not attack.

After sending the army to the island, it can then use its mobility advantage to leave the strike range of the Eighth Route Army Air Force to achieve perfect non-injury reinforcements.

The above tactics were perfect in the eyes of Kaneo Sunakawa.

Even if their Qiongya Garrison loses air superiority, they can still take advantage of the Eighth Route Army's attempt to seize their own surface ships to avoid the threat of the enemy's air force.

Seeing this, Huang He laughed out loud.

Isn’t this the Guangzhou advanced trial version of Tokyo Express?

Along with Mr. Huang's hearty laughter, the legendary captain Philip also spoke at the same time, revealing the fatal problem in the naval combat plan.

"Destroyers around the world do not take transporting soldiers and supplies as the main indicator during the design stage. In other words, they have little space and redundant tonnage at all."

"Even if our French 4,000-ton Mogador class destroys the torpedo tubes and other equipment, it can transport 100-150 soldiers and supplies at one time."

"How do you transport this old-fashioned destroyer? Are you going to hang soldiers on the mast? Why don't they transport it on a submarine? It's such a ridiculous move."

It turns out that Philip’s understanding was very good. Not only does the destroyer have limited capacity, it is also not equipped with large cranes.

This means that the brigade-level troops of the 23rd Army cannot even carry large-caliber support artillery.

Even lightweight weapons like the Type 92 infantry gun have to be disassembled and assembled on the island.

As for the supply issue?

What supplies are needed? When did the Japanese think about supplies during a war?

Anyway, if we are going to fight to the death with the Eighth Route Army's airborne troops, then we should capture Li Yunlong and feed the Eighth Route Army directly!

Seeing this, Mr. Nie and Director Xiao had already thought about the outcome of the Japanese.

Sure enough, the 19th independent mixed brigade that arrived at Qiongya via the Guangzhou Express was only equipped with sixty ninety-two heavy machine guns.

There are only ten mountain, field and anti-aircraft guns combined, and only fourteen Type 92 infantry guns. With such a small amount of heavy weapons, there are only a pitiful 300 rounds of artillery shells.

Of course, the surface ships of Qiongya Guards House alone are not enough to transport a brigade-level support force.

Fortunately, the Army came to play at this time. They planned to cross the Qiongzhou Strait using the remaining boats and landing boats from the Republic of China.

Sakai Takashi believes that compared with destroyers, boats have smaller targets and cannot be discovered by Eighth Route Army aircraft.

Through this kind of ant transportation, their 23rd Army can even design a double-team attack plan, using a regiment as a surprise force to land on the west side of Haikou, and work with the larger troops to double-team Dayingshan Airport.

Seeing this, before Mr. Nie could speak, Naval Advisor Philip took the initiative to explain:

"Although destroyers are inefficient, they are serious surface ships after all. They can still sail in strong winds and waves. But what are boats and landing craft? Basically, a wave can knock them down."

"Besides, the target of the boat is indeed small, but as the number increases, the transport team will become denser. Once an aircraft passes by for reconnaissance, it will be difficult to miss it even with myopia."

Although the Qiongzhou Strait is not wide, the natural conditions and geology are very harsh. The climate in this sea area is complex, with strong winds and waves, and summer is a period of high typhoon incidence.

The army's boat had not gone far when it encountered a strong wind of level 9.

In strong winds and heavy rains, these boats often break down, leak, and capsize.

Fortunately, the bad weather did not last long, but as soon as the weather improved, the Japs encountered a reconnaissance force led by Captain Wang Hai himself.

One thing is that everyone in the King's team was dumbfounded at that time, and they didn't even understand what the enemy was going to do.

However, after confirming that they were Japanese, the comrades simply started diving to fry fish and fish for French fries at low altitude.

After much love, the support wing of the 23rd Army suffered heavy losses.

There were more than 1,000 good people on the island when we set out, but in fact there were only 360 on the island. These devils basically wore no equipment except a butt curtain, and they didn't even have a few rifles.

What awaited them were thousands of heavily armed Eighth Route Army soldiers. (End of chapter)