Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

In addition, the 15th Red Army also obtained a lot of talents in Nanchang. Although in order to rush for time, Hu Weidong rarely forced people to join the army this time, but the hundreds of educated young people who voluntarily joined made him very happy. For this reason, he specially

Ask the Party Central Committee for credit to the underground party members to further increase their enthusiasm for work, and the underground party organization soon became another important source of intelligence for the Red Fifteenth Army in addition to deciphering enemy codes. Of course, this was very important.

To a certain extent, this is also because the status of Hu Weidong and the 15th Red Army has been further improved in the eyes of the central leaders. With Vice Chairman Zhou’s personal care, can the underground parties below not work hard to serve the 15th Red Army?

The 15th Red Army conquered Nanchang, which not only gained substantial benefits, but also had extremely important strategic significance, because they once again conquered the big city, proving that their previous capture of Hangzhou was not a fluke, thus forcing Chiang Kai-shek to move more

The troops are used to garrison major cities within the attack range of the 15th Red Army. In this way, how much mobile force can he have to continue to pursue the 15th Red Army? At this time, the troops of Chen Cheng and Sun Lianzhong were at odds with each other due to factional conflicts.

They were jealous and refused to rush forward to bite the hard nut of the 15th Red Army. The 15th Red Army easily crossed the Gan River eastward and entered Hubei almost without any hindrance. Before leaving Jiangxi, Hu Weidong also levied a large number of local

The metal antimony is abundant because this rare metal is an indispensable and important component of n kinds of alloy steel, and the reserves north of the Yangtze River are very small.

The first target after Hu Weidong led his troops into Hubei was the famous Daye Iron Mine, because this is currently the largest iron mine in China. In fact, it has long been controlled by the Japanese, and all the iron ore produced is sold.

It went to Japan, and eventually became the guns and ammunition that killed the Chinese! Due to the reputation of the 15th Red Army, the hundreds of national troops stationed in Daye thought that they were outnumbered and had no chance of winning, so they would kill them without firing a single shot.

They abandoned the city and fled, but the 600 marines sent by Japan to "protect" the Daye Iron Mine put up a resolute resistance. After finding that the 15th Red Army was outnumbered, they decisively detonated the ammunition depot and fired their own weapons.

Weapons were destroyed as much as possible, so that the 15th Red Army captured very few weapons and ammunition in this battle (in fact, it was also because the national army never destroyed weapons and ammunition, the contrast was too stark.). Fortunately, the Japanese army was too arrogant, and at the beginning

They seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the 15th Red Army. They actually thought that their 600 people could stop Hu Weidong's 100,000 troops. They did not make preparations for blasting in the mine in advance. This allowed the 15th Red Army to capture most of the mines.

Less than one-third of the machinery and equipment was too heavy to take away or was destroyed by some Japanese overseers and technicians who were deeply poisoned by militaristic ideas.

But this battle reminded Hu Weidong and the 15th Red Army that perhaps the Japanese army's combat effectiveness was not necessarily stronger than the elite units of the national army, but if the Red Army fought with the Japanese army, even if it won, it would be difficult to capture them.

How many weapons and ammunition are there, and the soldiers cannot be replenished by converting prisoners. This undoubtedly means that the Red Army's battle with the Japanese army is basically a loss-making business. The ammunition captured cannot keep up with its own consumption. Even if the veterans sacrifice themselves, they can only replenish them from the rear.

With inexperienced recruits, won't the Red Army become weaker and weaker as it fights?

Now Hu Weidong understands why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have historically avoided large-scale battles, because large-scale battles cannot end in a short time, so the Japanese will naturally have time to destroy weapons and blow up ammunition, and the larger the scale of the battle,

The ammunition you consume will also increase exponentially (a battle to annihilate one enemy generally only requires a few rounds of bullets, but a battle to annihilate a thousand enemies at a time often requires dozens or even hundreds of rounds for each enemy killed. Hand grenades and

Artillery shells are also indispensable.), so the chance of losing money is also increasing rapidly. For the People's Army, which mainly relies on captured ammunition, once the ammunition seized is less than what is consumed, it is easy to fall into the "reduced ammunition - reduced combat effectiveness -

"It's harder to seize ammunition" is a vicious cycle. In serious cases, the entire army may be in dire straits due to depletion of ammunition. But small-scale battles are different. Take the extreme example of dealing with a lone enemy. A sneak attack

The Japs were killed immediately, so naturally they would not have time to destroy the weapons. Even if the Japs in a small group had time to destroy the firearms, they would not be able to quickly destroy the bullets they carried. The People's Army would then have the possibility to enter a virtuous cycle and develop rapidly.

In comparison, the Fifteenth Red Army has a mobile arsenal accompanying the army, and the situation is slightly better. However, even if it finds a new foothold, the ammunition output is not enough to support the Red Fifteenth Army in frequently fighting large-scale battles.

Especially the exhaustive tug-of-war, even if Hu Weidong later led his army to capture the final destination, it would be the same, so it is essentially not much different from other Red Army...

Contrary to what Hu Weidong expected, although the 600 Japanese marines resisted resolutely, they had not yet reached the point where they were all exhausted and none of them surrendered. After the war, the 15th Red Army actually captured more than 100 Japanese prisoners (Note 1

), although it is still much lower than the "normal" ratio, but compared with the stubbornness of the Japanese army in the records, it is already a large number. Since the full-scale resistance war has not yet broken out at this time, this group of Japanese troops are affiliated with the naval establishment, and they are

There is no big blood debt yet, and Hu Weidong is no longer an angry youth, but he still wants to drag these prisoners out and kill them, because they actually destroyed their weapons and then surrendered...

But in the end, Hu Weidong suppressed his anger. After all, this was the first batch of Japanese officers and soldiers captured by the 15th Red Army. It was of great political significance, and if their minds could be reformed, these Japanese would become a

This seed has played an unexpected role. In addition, most of these Japanese prisoners of war can speak Japanese, which can greatly speed up the learning of Japanese by the 15th Red Army. Due to the development of information in later generations, Hu Weidong had the experience of studying in Japan at that time, and he had a deep understanding of the Japanese.

He knew the culture quite well, so he did not follow the Red Army's usual prisoner policy, but found a new way, which greatly improved the efficiency of reforming Japanese prisoners. Later, his experience was learned by many brother troops and contributed greatly to the victory of the War of Resistance.

Even Taizu began to pay attention to the impact of cultural differences between countries, and was not ashamed to ask Hu Weidong and others about their understanding of overseas affairs (Note 2). Later, China's foreign policy, especially its foreign aid policy, had a greater impact on history.

The difference...

Note 1: Judging from the 128-year-old "Songhu Anti-Japanese War" in 1932, the fighting will of the Japanese Marine Corps was far inferior to that of the Army's permanent divisions. This may be because the naval officers and soldiers have a higher cultural level and are relatively less poisoned by militaristic ideas.

Because of the shallowness, and this mine protection force obviously cannot be elite, it will naturally only be worse.

Note 2: Historically, Taizu’s understanding of foreign countries basically came from written materials such as books and newspapers. He lacked intuitive understanding. Although he relied on his extraordinary judgment to see many places accurately, there were also many misjudgments.

, and his mistakes on domestic issues were largely caused by his lack of understanding of foreign countries and lack of accurate understanding of modern society.

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