The chief of staff on the side heard this and said with an expression on his face.
"Boss."
"This 4th Battalion of the Chinese Air Force is the famous Zhihang Brigade."
"Almost all the National Air Force pilots in this brigade are experienced veteran pilots with rich combat experience, and there are even ace pilots."
The chief of staff shared the information he learned.
When the boss heard this, a flash of memory suddenly appeared in his eyes.
In the Battle of Songhu in 1937, the Japanese army dispatched hundreds of bombers to carry out indiscriminate bombings on Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.
The Fourth Battalion, led by Gao Zhihang, took the initiative to face the enemy and fought fiercely with the Japanese invader's Kisarazu Air Force over Hangzhou's Aoqiao Bridge. It set a record of the Chinese Air Force's first victory against Japan, six to zero, and achieved a major victory in the August 14th air battle.
In recognition of the military merits, the Fourth Battalion was renamed Zhihang Battalion.
Unfortunately, in October of the same year, the Japanese army attacked Zhoujiakou Airport and Gao Zhihang died for his country.
Later, due to the heavy losses of the Chinese Air Force, the 4th Aviation Group withdrew to Liangping, Sichuan to assume the task of protecting the mountain city.
At present, Chennault, with the secret help of the United States, has established the Flying Tigers in China as a mercenary force.
Chinese pilots and American pilots are currently fighting Japanese pilots in Southeast Asia, Central China and South China.
And I heard that the Eighth Route Army also suddenly had aviation units, and even wiped out all the aviation units of the Japanese North China Front Army.
The top brass of the National Army's Air Force suddenly couldn't sit still and wanted to send their 4th Aviation Group to Shanxi to explore the strength of the Eighth Route Army's aviation force.
"Who is the captain of the 4th Aviation Group of the Chinese Army now?" the commander asked, looking at the chief of staff.
Although the head of the headquarters really wanted the 4th Aviation Group to stay in the Eighth Route Army.
But at present, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are still in a state of cooperation and are nominally friendly forces.
If the Nationalist pilots are willing to stay, the Eighth Route Army will certainly welcome them. If the Nationalist pilots are unwilling to stay, then the Eighth Route Army will not force them to stay.
"It seems his name is Zheng Shaoqiang, a major in the Chinese Air Force."
the chief of staff replied.
The commander nodded: "Immediately call back to the Shancheng Eighth Route Army Office to welcome the friendly air force to Taiyuan for exchanges and studies, and to determine the time for the friendly forces to arrive in Taiyuan."
"In addition, send another telegram to YA to report the situation, and then request to investigate Zheng Shaoqiang's situation. When you see it, can you win over this person?"
As long as the captain of the Chinese Air Force can be taken care of, there is a high probability that the squadron leader, squad leader and pilot of the Chinese Air Force can be taken care of.
"clear."
The chief of staff quickly drafted two telegrams. After the chief signed them, they handed them over to the telegraph operator.
The telegraph operator took the telegram, gave a military salute, and turned to leave.
…
Noon the next day.
There is an open space around Wusu Airport.
At present, the main force of the New Regiment is basically stationed near Wusu Airport, and there is also Ding Wei's New Second Regiment, stationed north of Taiyuan City.
Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo arrived at Wusu Airport and prepared to receive the goods.
Today is the delivery day agreed by Li Yunlong and Boss Chen.
Ding Wei, the leader and chief of staff, as well as a group of headquarters officers, all came to watch.
At this time, there were dozens of planes parked on the runway of Wusu Airport.
Among them are 5 transport aircraft, 5 reconnaissance aircraft, 20 Saber fighters, and 50 heavy bombers.
Around the airport, the engineers and workers of the Eighth Route Army in North Shanxi are intensively constructing infrastructure such as ammunition warehouses, oil depots and control towers.
at present.
The construction of Heyuan Airport has been completed. The team of engineers and workers who built Heyuan Airport has built several airports.
After completing the repair of Wusu Airport, this team will immediately repair the Xincheng Airport.
It rained the past two days.
But today, God is kind and the sky is clearing up.
While all the leaders were looking forward to it, the buzzing sound of airplanes sounded in the sky. All the leaders were shocked and quickly looked to the sky.
Huang Erhu, the guard next to Li Yunlong, immediately took out the flare gun from his waist, loaded it skillfully, opened the safety, and pulled the trigger toward the sky.
A signal flare slowly rose.
Obviously, Boss Chen's pilot had seen the flare, and the plane was flying this way.
Soon, the roar of planes became louder. The leaders raised their telescopes and saw a dense group of dragonflies-like planes appearing in the eastern sky.
Under every plane, there is a cannon!
The main officers and commanders of the new group around them also raised their heads and looked up, their eyes and expressions showing both shock and joy.
"Chief, look, our cannon is coming!"
Li Yunlong laughed, pointed at the plane in the sky, and said to the leader with a smile.
The faces of the commander and chief of staff quickly showed joy. Through the telescope, they saw a cannon mounted underneath each Dragonfly helicopter.
And they are all heavy artillery!
The commander put down the telescope on his chest, looked at Li Yunlong and said: "Li Yunlong, what caliber is this heavy artillery?"
"Report to the chief."
For heavy artillery of this caliber, Li Yunlong was already familiar with the parameters, and reported:
"This is a 122mm howitzer. Its full name is the Soviet M1938 122mm howitzer, but this is an improved version from Boss Chen's arsenal."
"It is a Soviet division-level support artillery that fires 21.8 kilograms of high-explosive grenades, with a total weight of 2.45 tons. It is more powerful and has a longer range than a 105mm howitzer!"
"Each heavy artillery is equipped with 3 base shells."
"Like previous howitzers, it can fire high-explosive grenades, incendiary grenades, smoke grenades and illumination grenades."
As for accuracy, the cannons produced by Boss Chen have always been very accurate and are among the best in the world.
In addition, the weapons and ammunition produced by Boss Chen Arsenal, from guns to cannons, to tanks and aircraft, have very low failure rates and are highly praised by front-line soldiers of the Eighth Route Army.
Eighth Route Army soldier: I have never used such good weapons and ammunition in my eight lives.
After a pause, Li Yunlong continued to introduce: "Boss Chen's transport planes and helicopters will transport 1,000 cannons to us today. The ammunition will be delivered by large transport aircraft starting tomorrow."
After hearing Li Yunlong's introduction, the faces of the boss and chief of staff suddenly showed a look of deep happiness.
1,000 heavy artillery pieces, even if one artillery regiment has 36 heavy artillery pieces, it can be organized into 28 artillery regiments. Calculated as 2 artillery regiments, 1 artillery brigade, 2 artillery brigades and 1 artillery division, that is 14 artillery brigades.
, that is, 7 artillery divisions!
And there are still 7 heavy artillery divisions!
You know, the Japanese army is only six or seven heavy artillery brigades...
Thinking of this, the boss looked extremely satisfied, it smells so good!
"This is only the first batch of 200 122mm howitzers. There are a total of 5 batches today."
Li Yunlong continued:
"Today there will be 300 122mm howitzers, 240 152mm howitzers, 160 Katyusha rocket launchers, and 100 self-propelled 155mm howitzers."
"After that, tanks, aerial bombs, fuel, civilian factory equipment, arsenal production lines, as well as mechanics and artillery instructors from the arsenal production lines will arrive within half a month."
"However, the quantities of food and fuel are relatively large, and Boss Chen's transportation team will complete the delivery within two to three months."
Currently, in the entire Eighth Route Army, only Li Yunlong has contact with Boss Chen. Li Yunlong is basically proficient in the receiving process.
The boss and chief of staff looked increasingly satisfied.
The chief of staff nodded and said: "Our civilian factories are mainly divided into three areas, the Southeast Shanxi Industrial Zone, the Northwestern Shanxi Industrial Zone, and the Taiyuan Industrial Zone."
Based on the principle of not putting eggs in one basket.
The head of the headquarters decided to divide the arsenal and civilian industrial factory into three parts.
The arsenal in southeastern Shanxi has already formed a large scale and is mainly responsible for the 129th Division. The industrial zone in northwest Shanxi is under construction and is under the responsibility of Li Yunlong's new regiment.
The industrial zone of the headquarters is mainly built in Taiyuan, and was built on the address of the former Taiyuan Arsenal.
Although the current Taiyuan Arsenal is just an empty shell, the original factory's houses, dormitories and other buildings are still there, which can save the Eighth Route Army a lot of time to find them.
Although the troops of the new regiment are not currently very dependent on the weapons and ammunition produced by the arsenal.
But Li Yunlong is still preparing to develop his own military and civilian industries.
If one day Boss Chen stops providing assistance, the New Regiment will have its own logistical supply channels, right?
and.
After the military industry in northwestern Shanxi becomes bigger and stronger, it can also provide a large number of weapons and ammunition to support the fraternal troops.
"Chief, please don't worry."
Li Yunlong said:
"I have already communicated with Boss Chen. According to the chief's wishes, various equipment and military production lines from the factory will be sent to Taiyuan and northwestern Shanxi."
Not just the head of the headquarters.
Even Ding Wei, Wang Dehou, Zhao Gang and others standing next to Li Yunlong were all smiling.
While talking, the first batch of 200 122mm howitzers had been unloaded, and 200 helicopters took off and quickly flew away.
Looking at the 200 new cannons in the distance and the new regiment stationed nearby, the soldiers all had bright eyes and resolute faces.
"very good!"
"I can rest assured that you will do the work."
The chief patted Li Yunlong on the shoulder, his expression extremely satisfied.
At present, Li Yunlong is the most popular person around the chief and chief of staff. When Li Yunlong is beside the head of the headquarters, even the operational staff of the headquarters have to step aside.
The commander said: "The artillery school over there in YA has recently graduated a group of artillerymen. I will give them all to you."
"Thank you very much, chief." Li Yunlong looked happy, "But just give me half. After all, our brother troops also need artillery."
After a lot of live-fire training and actual combat experience, the new regiment has no shortage of artillery.
Even if the size of the artillery unit of the new regiment was to be tripled, Li Yunlong was not too worried. At worst, the original artillery soldiers would be divided into three and a new artillery battalion would be formed with the old artillerymen leading the new artillery units.
Supplemented by a large amount of live ammunition training and a few real battles on the battlefield, new artillery rookies will become veterans.
On the battlefield, there are many artillery shells and actual combat training for the rookies.
The quality of the Japanese artillery troops is indeed very high, but the Japanese artillery is relatively weak, and the number of artillery is still very small.
The support artillery at the Japanese division level is nothing more than 75mm mountain guns and 75mm field guns.
In a frontal artillery battle, the new regiment's artillery unit will beat the enemy's artillery unit to pieces.
Moreover, Li Yunlong also heard that Boss Chen's arsenal was researching an anti-artillery radar.
Needless to say, Li Yunlong knew that this was definitely developed by Boss Chen for the Eighth Route Army.
After a pause, Li Yunlong asked: "Chief, do you still remember what I said at the Hongyadong Arsenal about two years ago?"
"What words?"
The leader looked away from the 200 122mm howitzers and asked.