may have been influenced by Zhang Wei's extortion, and all the British in Tonggu withdrew the next day, and the two sides had a stalemate.
However, this has nothing to do with Zhang Wei, he wished that the British would leave quickly, before leaving, Zhang Wei sent Zheng Yiqun and Li Shaoyan, the commander of the communication company, to bid farewell to the British army "hypocritically", and when he came, Zheng Yiqun also got a full set of topographical maps of Tonggu and its surroundings from the British, and at the same time, the right to use the train in the ancient city also fell into the hands of Zhang Wei, so to speak, when the British withdrew, Zhang Wei blackmailed the British a little.
At this point, there were no more British troops in Tonggu, and the main forces of the Anglo-Burmese army were almost all concentrated in southern Burma, and they were engaged in the confrontation with the main force of the Japanese army.
Zhang Wei was quite happy about the success of the extortion, and the outskirts of the ancient city, the garrison of the Second Supplementary Regiment was also full of joy, the reason is, of course, the arrival of a large amount of new equipment and ammunition, more than 100 American-style GC trucks, going back and forth between the ammunition depot in the same ancient city and the garrison of the Second Supplementary Regiment.
The composition of the two automobile companies of the British Army is the same as that of the Anglo-Burmese Army, with British officers and senior non-commissioned officers being British and Indian, low-level squad leaders and soldiers being Burmese, and almost all of the drivers of the two truck companies being Burmese.
After the British handed over the automobile company to Zhang Wei, in order to appease these Burmese automobile soldiers, Zhang Wei selected a more authoritative person from the Burmese automobile force and assumed the positions of company commander and platoon commander, and assured them that after being assigned to the command of the Chinese army, all the treatment would not deteriorate, the military salary would be paid as before, and the payment would be higher than before, and the level of food would be treated equally with the soldiers of the Second Regiment.
Zhang Wei sent He Kun, the commander of the baggage company, to exchange some serious pounds sterling in the same ancient city to pay the Burmese automobile soldiers two months' military salary.
Zhang Wei's two-pronged approach quickly won the hearts and minds of the Burmese automobile soldiers, so the two automobile companies just left the British on the front foot, and began to work for the national army with high efficiency on the back foot.
Burmese soldiers, it is indeed easy to use, Zhang Wei slightly improved the treatment, this group of people will serve Zhang Wei with all their hearts, it may be that they have been oppressed by the British for a long time, and the Burmese car soldiers feel like heaven under Zhang Wei.
In the open space of the garrison of the second regiment, Zhang Wei and the battalion commander of the whole regiment and the officers of the company platoon directly under him looked at the equipment they had, and they were very satisfied, and they were in good spirits on happy occasions, not to mention that they had extorted at least eight and a half tons of weapons and ammunition Zhang Wei was now full of energy, and now, seeing the weapons and equipment that were pulled out of the warehouse and placed neatly, Zhang Wei was even more full of fighting spirit, and the fourteen British-made two-pounder K2 anti-tank guns, eight six-pounder anti-tank guns, four twenty-five-pounder field guns and twelve Bren armored vehicles in the warehouse, Neatly placed in the open space.
These heavy equipment are all new equipment of the British army, two-pounder guns, caliber 40 mm, heavy shields, strong gun mounts, the only drawback is that it is inconvenient to move, 40 mm caliber, enough to deal with all the armored vehicles of the Japanese army, even more no problem to fight infantry, not to mention the six-pounder anti-tank gun, the caliber of this thing is 57 mm, which is the predecessor of the US army's Type 1 57 mm anti-tank gun, two kinds of anti-tank guns, which are too enough to deal with the Japanese army.
The four 25-pounder field guns, the caliber is converted to 88 mm, the proper body barrel suppression artillery, the weapon of mass destruction, in the cognitive category of the national army, belongs to the heavy field artillery, there are four 25-pounder guns, Zhang Wei once came up with the idea of taking the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and Li Yunlong got the feeling of getting the Italian artillery.
"Regiment commander, this time I really made a fortune, so many cannons, our regiment is going to heaven."
Mu Chao, commander of the second battalion, said.
Ye Zhenhua, commander of the third battalion: "Yes, these cannons, if they are placed in China, they can't be collected by a group army, and there are so many in a warehouse of the British, and they are really great powers, with guns, artillery and money." ” Qiu Wei, the commander of the first battalion, asked: "Regiment commander, how to use these artillery, armored vehicles and guns?"
Qiu Wei asked the point, the equipment can't be obtained, and it has to be seen how to use it, how to divide it, for these eight and a half tons of weapons and equipment, Zhang Wei has a plan for distribution and use in his heart.
"Fourteen two-pounder guns, half of them are left, all the six-pounder guns are left, and an artillery platoon is formed, seven two-pounder guns are arranged into a platoon, and eight six-pounder guns are arranged into an artillery company, Dong Erli, the two 37-pounder artillery platoons under your artillery company will replace the old 37-pounder guns and replace them with two-pounder guns and six-pounder guns, and there will be no way to make up for them if there are not enough manpower, I will give you some miscellaneous soldiers from the regiment headquarters for you, and start training immediately after changing the artillery, and we must form combat effectiveness before the Japanese army invades to Tonggu."
"Yes, look at you."
Dong Erli, the commander of the artillery company, said with a light in his eyes.
"Those four twenty-five-pounder guns are serious field suppression artillery, we infantry can't play it, after the inspection, send people to look at it, and wait until the large army in the back comes up to make a decision, according to our army's battle plan, the vanguard division of our expeditionary force, the 200th division will come to Tonggu to defend it, they are all friendly forces, we can't patronize ourselves, the batch of Thomson submachine guns in the warehouse, we only take one hundred and fifty in case of emergency."
"Bren light machine guns, leave forty left, the rest will be left in the warehouse, these infantry light weapons are of little significance to our regiment, just leave it to the friendly forces to strengthen the firepower, by the way, there are still forty Browning large-caliber machine guns, leave twenty-five, the rest is still for the friendly army, when the two hundred divisions arrive, transfer this batch of equipment, Division Commander Dai will definitely be very happy."
Zhang Wei said.
It is true that the quantity of this batch of weapons and equipment is very large, but the guns are of little use to the second regiment of the supplementary regiment, and the submachine guns, which originally supplemented the second regiment, have reached the level of four articles in one squad, and then strengthen the equipment of submachine guns, then the supplementary second regiment will simply change its name to the submachine gun regiment, and the Enfield rifle and the Bren light machine gun are also a reason, and the caliber is not the right way with the 79 caliber of the national army, Zhang Wei does not plan to stay in large numbers, so he simply handed it over to Division Commander Dai to strengthen the firepower of the 200th division.
The firepower of the grassroots infantry of the second regiment is already very strong, and it is in a saturated state, and it is of little significance to stuff the equipment into the hands of the grassroots infantry.
Zhang Wei's principle of equipment distribution was to supplement the firepower of his second regiment with flat-firing guns and large-caliber heavy machine guns, and to supplement the firepower of machine guns and submachine guns with the 200th Division, and the firepower of the grassroots infantry of the 200th Division was indeed insufficient, and the infantry was Czech-style except for rifles, and if more than 1,000 Thomsons and a large number of Bren light machine guns were supplemented, it would be a qualitative improvement in the firepower of his infantry.
"Commander, what should these Iron Kings do?"
asked Zheng Yiqun.
Zhang Wei waved his hand: "Simple, you go to those Burmese car soldiers in a while, find out twelve people, and let them drive this personnel carrier, this thing is not a tank, at most it is a light armored vehicle, which is used to pull infantry, and those who can drive a truck should also be able to drive a troop carrier, find it out, and tell them that the military salary will be doubled." ” "I understand, the driver has been found, how to use this troop carrier," Zheng Yiqun asked.
"It's a tracked one, you can't waste it, I plan to form an armored fleet of these twelve vehicles, use them as combat vehicles, expand the reconnaissance and search range of my regiment, and also use them as armored forces, the space of this Bren armored personnel carrier is not big or small, each vehicle has a machine gun mount, it can be loaded with Bren light machine guns, and it can be loaded with five or six people, if it is not loaded with people, you can also add things to it, Dong Erli, transfer a mortar platoon from your artillery company, and install three 82 mortars on personnel carriers and transform them into mortar vehicles, The other nine cars were all loaded with Bren light machine guns on the machine gun mounts above. ” "By the way, He Kun, did you turn out a lot of Bren light machine gun cartridges when you searched the warehouse?"
He Kun nodded: "Yes, the light machine guns of the British are all 100 rounds of large ammunition plates." ” Zhang Wei said: "The Bren light machine gun mounted on the tracked personnel carrier is all equipped with a 100-round ammunition disc to enhance firepower, twelve tracked personnel carriers, nine are normal to pull people, and the other three are equipped with 82 mortars, Xue Rong's spy platoon is on the nine vehicles that pull people, responsible for reconnaissance and search, and in wartime it is a sharp knife force, attacking the Japanese army by car, all the arrangements will be implemented immediately, and the whole regiment will prepare ammunition and equipment to prepare for war."
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