"In the past, even the Tomahawk tanks were powerless against some of the Japanese ground fortifications, but this self-propelled artillery can destroy some simple fortifications and pave the way for the infantry to attack."
"Okay, how is the output of this self-propelled artillery?"
Jiang Li asked, looking at the low self-propelled artillery in front of him.
"Due to the slight decrease in tonnage and the cancellation of the turret design, the craftsmanship and cost have dropped a lot.
The cost and labor hours of building a self-propelled gun of this kind are only about half of that of a Tomahawk tank.
The factory technicians will Name it the sword-type self-propelled artillery," the test officer said.
"That is to say, the effort and cost of building one Tomahawk can be used to build two such self-propelled artillery."
At this time, everyone present's eyes lit up.
"The self-propelled artillery is not enough to show its prestige.
Let's call it a sword-type assault gun."
Jiang Li also smiled when he heard about the performance and cost of this self-propelled artillery.
At this time, when the 57 tank guns in various countries were considered large-caliber, the northwest had already He was the first to install a 75-gun on his tank.
"The assault gun does sound much louder."
The officers and others who were testing it all nodded after hearing this.
Then the performance of some sword-type assault guns was introduced.
With a speed of 36 kilometers per hour, it can run more than 150 kilometers with one refueling.
Compared with its physique, the overall performance is pretty good.
"Although there is no turret and no way to rotate and fire, the advantages of the assault gun are obvious.
It is no less safe than the Tomahawk, and the installed cannon is large enough.
More importantly, it is cheap.
In other words, with the same investment, , our armor strength can be doubled.
The advantage in strength is enough to offset the shortcomings in other aspects.
Commander, I have never been disobedient in my life, and I am completely convinced this time."
Yang Hucheng looked at this new type of assault gun with shining eyes, and he was completely convinced by Jiang Li.
For the sake of the military, the local army like them was buying more machine rifles and ammunition to expand their ranks.
Jiang Li has surpassed everyone, and has developed many weapons that are in sync with the great powers, and even surpassed them to some extent.
At least it has surpassed the Japanese army at this time.
If he had not experienced this personally, Yang Hucheng would not even dare to imagine it.
Whether it is the Feng 918 semi-automatic rifle that has begun to serve in large numbers, the Flametongue general-purpose machine gun, the imitation German heavy artillery produced in the northwest, the tank in front of you, the aircraft overhead, or even the poisonous gas used by the Japanese army.
If he were to come, he wouldn't even know where to start.
When he was in Shaanxi, he stayed in the northwest longer than Jiang Li.
I understand the poverty in the northwest better than anyone else.
He also understood that if it weren't for what Jiang Li brought, the Japanese army would have invaded the Central Plains and captured Wuhan long ago.
Yang Hucheng has come all the way from the late Qing Dynasty, from a passionate young man to the current military leader, and has seen too many heroes of the generation.
However, these people eventually fell silent in the long river of history.
Apart from gaining a temporary reputation, they did not They did not have much impact on the current situation, nor could they change the current situation of poverty and weakness in the Republic of China.
In a sense, these people even exacerbated the turmoil of the Republic of China.
In the Republic of China, it was simply a miracle that the northwest was in the current situation, and it was Jiang Li's miraculous hands that shaped this miracle.
"Yes, the cost is so low.
Expanding production can replace the current position of the Tomahawk tank.
Although we have some foundation in the northwest, we cannot withstand the squandering.
We can use this sword-type assault gun as the main force in the future."
Zhang Zhibang He nodded repeatedly.
"Although it has many advantages, if it is really compared with the Tomahawk, this assault gun will probably suffer.
After all, the performance of the Tomahawk tank is more flexible than this assault gun.
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Now the conditions do not allow it, we can make more Some of these assault guns take the place of tanks, and that is because the assault guns we manufacture are not inferior to the Japanese tanks.
But in the future, tanks should still be our main force."
Jiang Li said that after such a long period of hard work, Northwest successfully developed an assault gun from the chassis of the Avengers tank.
However, the assault gun eliminated the flaw of the turret and was not the main armored force in Jiang Li's ideal. gun.
It is also because the cost of the sword assault gun is lower.
Mass production is only an emergency move.
After all, the sword assault gun is enough to meet the northwest's demand for armored forces at this time.
The biggest enemy of the Northwest Army is not the Japanese, but the Soviet Russia in the north.
By then, with the development of northwest industry, only a large number of tanks will be equipped to compete with the Soviet army.
But it is enough to deal with Japanese tanks.
The one with the best performance is not necessarily the most suitable.
At least for now, the sword assault gun can replace the Tomahawk in combat with the Japanese armored forces.
According to the current production capacity of the tank factory, if a certain number of tanks are produced, coupled with this kind of assault gun, with the current combat intensity, by next year, while further completing the expansion of Sun Liren and Zhang Chujiu, next year Then pull up the airs of an armored division.
After the Japanese army launches the Pacific War, it will not be too late for the Northwest Army to launch another attack.
After all, although Northwest had accumulated a certain amount of strength at this time, despite the continuous increase in troops, the Japanese army still had no more than one million troops fighting in the pass.
During the entire World War II, the Japanese army was said to number more than six million.
Historically, after the Japanese army moved south, a large number of elite Japanese troops were deployed to the Pacific battlefield.
In fact, since the outbreak of the Pacific War, the mainland of the Republic of China has no longer been the main battlefield of the Japanese army.
Although Northwest has also accumulated a certain amount of strength at this time.
But relatively speaking, if the Republic of China challenged the entire Japanese army on its own, it would still be unable to do so.
For the Republic of China and the Northwest at this time, delaying the outbreak of the Pacific War was a victory.
According to the current situation, Jiang Li is not worried about the Japanese army not going south.
After all, the oil he desperately needs has been heavily dependent on imports from white countries.
Once this channel is cut off, the Japanese army's huge war machine will face the danger of collapse, and even Japan's domestic industry will lose the motivation to move forward.
As a big country, especially a country with great ambitions like Japan, it will never allow its lifeline to be held by Britain and the United States.
The output of the Borneo oil fields was almost irresistible to Japan at this time, and it was also the only large oil field that Japan could control at this time.
At this time, Europe was undergoing drastic changes, and Britain and France declared war on Germany.
The situation was the same as it was more than 20 years ago.
Britain and France simply did not have enough energy to take into account the situation in Asia.
Nor does it have the strength to compete with the Japanese army in Asia.
For such a large oil field that seems to be easily available, it can be used for several purposes without spending much money, and it will completely solve the Japanese army's oil needs for more than ten years.
If the Japanese army can hold back, then there is really something wrong.
The situation is generally developing within the control of the leader and Jiang Li, but some aspects are not based on personal will.
The formal order for the Japanese navy and the Republic of China fleet to cooperate with the army to occupy the vicinity of Anqing was issued.
The Botian Detachment left Zhenjiang Port, Jiangsu Province under the escort of the 11th Mine Team.
The navy's river-tracing force set out from Nanjing.
The two met at Wuhu and headed westward.
The Japanese fleet entered Tiebanzhou, about 20 kilometers southeast of Anqing, and the Jiangjun Temple area.
On the same day, the Botian detachment landed on the north bank.
Advance along the river to Anqing.
No strong resistance was encountered along the way.
Following the Botian detachment, the Japanese special marines landed on the south bank.
After a short period of fighting, they occupied the upper ditch fort.
In the evening, the Botian detachment occupied the airport.
The Yang Sen Department of the Sichuan Army lost its command because its main force was dispersed.
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At this time, we were in the disadvantageous position of being attacked from both sides, so we gave up Anqing and retreated towards Qianshan and Taihu Lake.
As a result, the Japanese army occupied Anqing on August 16.
A regiment of the Japanese 6th Division also occupied Tongcheng that day.
The fall of Tongcheng and Anqing allowed the Japanese army to use the highway from Hefei to Anqing to gain a more favorable position to attack Wuhan.
Although the garrison in Huainan had as many as nine divisions and more than 100,000 troops including local teams, they lacked effective command due to their scattered deployment and lack of effective command.
The troops' fighting will has declined sharply under the successive attacks by the Japanese army.
In just over ten days, hundreds of miles of ground were lost.
The Japanese army had long hoped to occupy Anqing.
The original Japanese army was based in Guangde and Wuhu.
Whenever its bombers or attack aircraft attacked Wuhan, the escorting fighter planes could only shorten the air combat time over Wuhan to 15 minutes due to endurance reasons. within.
Due to insufficient escort, Japanese aircraft were intercepted by Soviet volunteer fighters and the Central Air Force in Wuhan, causing heavy losses.
After the Japanese army occupied the airport in Anqing, the Japanese air force gained an excellent access to the airport to attack the central air force bases in Wuhan and other places.
The Central Army's Madang blockade defense line was directly exposed to the Japanese attack.
The difficulty of Jiang defense has further increased.
However, some troops are weak in combat, but most of the troops are extremely tenacious in combat.
In the Jiangnan area, the dense rivers and mountains have become a good line of defense against the Japanese army.
Even with superior firepower, the large number of Japanese troops cannot Being able to break through the defenders' positions, poison gas was used extensively in the battle.
The Japanese Army Han Yuan Gong Zai Ren not only issued an order to use sneeze gas in the Republic of China, but once the order reached the Japanese army, it would always be somewhat distorted.
The Japanese army soon increased the use of more toxic suffocating gas.
In the Battle of Wuhan, the number of national military and civilian casualties directly caused by poison gas reached an astonishing number of more than 50,000.
Three months later, when most of Wuhan's outer positions were lost, in order to retain a certain amount of strength and avoid suffering heavy losses like when retreating from the Battle of Songhu, Chairman Chiang persisted for nine months.
Wuhan was ordered to be abandoned.
With the last batch of machinery, they were gradually transferred to Changsha, Hengyang and other places.
The Japanese army lost more than 200 aircraft of various types, nearly 100 tanks, and directly killed more than 460,000 people.
At a heavy price of nearly 200,000 casualties, they captured Wuhan, a waterway transportation hub that controlled the throat of the Yangtze River. button.
As the Japanese army suffered a major setback in the Battle of Xuzhou, Chairman Chiang gained a few more months to deploy the Wuhan defense line.
These relatively sufficient preparations, coupled with the national army entering the later stage, reached an astonishing number of nearly 900,000 troops.
In case of counterattack.
The casualties of the Japanese army also resulted in the loss of a large number of manpower in hundreds and thousands of battles.
In view of the fall of Wuhan, Jiang Li canceled the early East Henan battle plan based on the situation.
At the same time, in order to avoid stretching the battle line too long, it is not conducive to tight defense in the later period.
They only launched a certain degree of counterattack in northern Henan, but they soon encountered a stronger counterattack by the Japanese army.
The Northwest Army's positions in Yunbei were almost destroyed.
Since 1938, the remains of more than 500 aircraft and 200 tanks have accumulated on the front lines of both sides.
With little to rely on in the position, Jiang Li ordered Wang Tiehan, who was responsible for the battle in northern Henan, to retreat southward.
At this point, Anyang and other places that had held out for more than a year fell under the control of the Japanese army.
In the more than a year of fighting in northern Henan, the Japanese army lost more than 10,000 troops compared to the Battle of Wuhan, but the number and quality of the aircraft and tanks damaged in the battle were much better than those in the Battle of Wuhan.
If the losses in the East Henan battle are included, it actually exceeds the data of the Wuhan battle.
Although the armor strength of the Northwest has been greatly strengthened at this time, after the Sword assault gun was put into production, the total number of tanks and assault guns shipped out of the Northwest tank factory in one month reached 53, and the Snow Leopard armored vehicle also Achieved 23 vehicles.
Not only did the 2nd and 3rd Mechanized Brigades add more than 100 tanks and assault guns in addition to armored vehicles during the war, each had more than 40 Snow Leopard armored vehicles.
Moreover, after Tian Jianlong, a pioneer of armor in the Northwest Army, resigned as director of the Armor Department of the Northwest Military Academy, half of the 1st Northwest Armor Division formed has also been reorganized.
But Jiang Li still shrank the fronts in eastern Henan and northern Henan inwards.
Move the troops to the second line of Central Plains defense circles such as Xinxiang, Kaifeng, Zhoukou, and Zhumadian.
At this time, large cities and strategic areas such as the eastern coast of the Republic of China, the northeast, Guangzhou in the south, and Wuhan in the center all fell under the control of the Japanese army.
Although they paid far more casualties than in history, the Japanese army finally achieved its set strategic goals.
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Pushing Wuhan into the Changsha area of Hunan.
Most of the large and medium-sized cities in the eastern and central parts of the Republic of China fell into the hands of the Japanese army.
After occupying the Sudetenland, the German army occupied Czechoslovakia again.
And divided Poland with the Soviet Union.
After Britain and France declared war on Germany, there was no movement, and it was jokingly called a strange sit-in war by the current situation.
Poland was flanked by two of the world's top military powers, and millions of troops were wiped out in a month.
The weakness of Britain and France in Europe was seen by Japan at this time.
In the Battle of Nomenkan, although the Japanese army had a good record, they were also severely beaten by the Soviet Union's huge artillery group and the torrent of steel that could almost make people despair.
He was so shocked that the previous voice coming from the north was suppressed.
At this time, the proposal to go south was once again placed in front of the emperor's imperial cabinet.
The emptiness of Southeast Asia and the weak attitudes of Britain and France gave good reasons for the southward faction.
The war in the Republic of China stopped for a while, and another wave of huge disputes broke out in the Japanese base camp
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