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spn Xundian, the militia group's southernmost sphere of influence in Yunnan, is an ancient county that is gradually taking on a modern flavor. Although viewed from a distance, it is still a small county surrounded by vicissitudes of ancient city walls and mountains, but the county

But there was the sound of machinery.

That was half a year ago. Shusheng Company just took the lead in establishing several primary raw material processing factories in Xundian to use some basic resources in southern Yunnan, such as cotton and linen. In order to benefit people and take into account the actual local conditions,

Shusheng Company did not personally operate these raw material factories, but adopted the method of encouraging local enlightened businessmen or gentry to build their own factories. In this way, not only can ordinary people obtain economic resources by entering factories or entering related business links, but also

Being able to win over those enlightened gentry and businessmen will be very helpful in deepening and consolidating the dominance of the militia.

Of course, on the one hand, if these businessmen who are interested in setting up a factory are short of money, they can borrow factory buildings, equipment or even land and real estate from the Dongchuan Bank established by the militia. And ordinary workers or small traders can join with confidence.

Joining the money-making army, the militia has a labor code as thick as a brick to protect the rights and interests of workers.

"Rumble..."

At midnight, there was suddenly a low sound of cars on the road outside the city. The Xundian garrison immediately got into high spirits. The city gate was closed immediately, and the heavy machine gunners on the city wall fortifications also tightened their grip.

The grip of the Maxim heavy machine gun.[

The sentry post on the city wall had already swept three high-power searchlights into the distance. Under the bright lights, the situation ahead was clear. It was a long series of cars with no end in sight. The uniform military green color and the people sitting on them were

There were densely packed militia soldiers. The garrison in front of the city gate immediately took out a red reflective sign and waved it to signal the car to stop.

“Xundian is an important place, someone is coming to stop the car!”

The slightly thicker military truck in front of him screeched to a stop. A young soldier opened the door and walked out, followed by another officer of about the same age. Both of them had an extremely dazzling helmet hanging on their shoulders.

Insignia, one has the rank of major general of the militia and the rank of senior colonel of the militia.

"Yu Long, please lead a team to negotiate with them."

Chen Jun was still a little sad to set foot on the former battlefield of Xundian again. It seemed that the sound of artillery in the past could still be heard in the valley, but today, he led the second brigade back to this place again.

Although the army was expanded this time, he was not entrusted with the important task of becoming the commander of the first division. Instead, he remained as the military and political officer of the second brigade of the first division together with Ye Yulong.

Already with the rank of major general, he certainly knew how important this planned battle would be. His second brigade would serve as a fist force and become the vanguard of the entire Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi campaign on the day the battle begins.

Watching the trucks in front of him drive into the city one after another in the dark, Chen Jun did not move. Instead, together with Ye Yulong who had completed the handover, he watched the troops enter the city. The uniform 5-ton military trucks

, many cars also towed behind the militia groups' long-reserved large-caliber heavy artillery, including 105mm field guns and even 120mm heavy artillery.

At the end of the convoy are a dozen strange vehicles that are different from big trucks. They are shorter and thicker. There is a long barrel in front of it, and there are two machine guns on it. They travel on crawlers.

After driving over the ground, it will always leave two deep concave marks.

Chen Jun pointed to those strange vehicles and said to Ye Yulong in a tone full of expectation: "What a beautiful tiger style. Yulong, do you want to get on it yourself and go out to fight?"

"Forget it, my body is too weird. As soon as I get into the tank, I will be dizzy and staggering in half a second. Oh, I really envy you, brigade commander." Ye Yulong is very helpless about motion sickness, otherwise, he would

You can also get into tanks often and enjoy the feeling of armored assault.

"Haha, motion sickness is nothing. When these tough guys see Tang Jiyao, they will kill him." Chen Jun stretched out his hand to signal the last Tiger-1 medium tank to stop, and climbed in through the open roof, "Old man

Ye, you can go in by yourself in a small truck, haha..."

Ye Yulong smiled helplessly and could only board the command vehicle in the distance. Compared with tanks, this small command vehicle was much inferior.

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"...The defense changes in both directions of Xundian and Xuanwei have been completed secretly. Among the five strategic reserve warehouses, Warehouse No. 1 has been opened. Considering this Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi battle, the main battlefield will be concentrated in the city

, and the transportation conditions are basically there. We have mainly supplemented the troops with the new 24-year-old infantry guns, the 18-year-old 105mm field guns, and the 22-year-old 120mm heavy guns. The layout of the armored forces is that the main force at the brigade level is concentrated with a tank battalion.

, including 20 Tiger-1 light tanks and 22 Tiger-2 medium tanks...

In terms of infantry fire support, a new rocket launcher was secretly issued to a battalion for battlefield experiments. It is worth mentioning that the new H24 machine gun has been issued to the main force, and the eliminated Maxim heavy machine guns will be replenished according to the plan.

Go to the reserve forces..."

A combat staff officer in the militia war room is reporting to Zhang Shusheng on the preliminary preparations for the Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi campaign. Zhang Shusheng is not some leader in later generations who only nods and signs. No matter what military terminology this young staff officer speaks, or what he briefly describes,

He is familiar with some new weapons and equipment.

More than two months have passed since we first received the intelligence that Tang Jiyao was collaborating with the enemy and his country. The war machine of the militia in the mountains has been fully activated. Zhang Shusheng even personally ordered the air force and armored forces to prepare for the final battle.

, you will be thrown into the battle as soon as the battle begins.

As for the armored forces, after many studies and trade-offs, the final models were the Tiger 1 light tank and the Tiger 2 medium tank. The former has a total combat weight of 19 tons, which is similar to the data of the later American M24 Joffre tank. It’s just that

The special alloy steel technology of the militia has made a breakthrough, so that the Tiger 1 tank is not covered with a thin layer of iron, but a new type of armor. In the West, similar technology is still being tested in military laboratories. Compared with Japan,

The Type 97 thin iron coffin tank is much more powerful. The main weapon is a 76mm tank gun, which uses a single barrel, a semi-automatic horizontal wedge breech and a concentric anti-recoil device, and a parallel H24 machine gun

and a 22-year-old anti-aircraft machine gun. The latter retains the original basic design, has a total combat weight of about 28 tons, and uses an 88mm tank gun, which is more powerful and has stronger armor defense capabilities.[

These two tanks, except for the light tank, which is based on the American M24 tank as a design reference, the Tiger-2 medium tank is designed independently, fully taking into account the mobility, firepower, and defense of tank operations on the battlefield in the early days of World War II.

, fire control and other aspects of demand. It can be said that these two tanks are a little stronger than the same type of tanks currently in Western countries, but compared with the advanced tanks being designed by various countries, they are basically on par.

Originally, Zhang Shusheng was hesitant about using advanced weapons in the Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi Campaign. After all, this incident involved the Japanese. If the Japanese discovered the existence of these advanced weapons, the future Anti-Japanese War would definitely encounter some variables. However,

It is already the end of 1924 and 1925 is about to come. In addition to showing off their power in the Northeast, the Japanese are also worried about the Southwest. This is a historical butterfly effect caused by the birth of Zhang Shu.

If Zhang Shusheng still hides advanced weapons instead of putting them into actual combat, then the training of new units such as armored forces and air forces will be seriously delayed, and the process of new weapons from research and development to actual combat equipment will also become more complicated.

A long time. The most important point is that Zhang Shusheng could not guarantee that the Japanese would not launch a full-scale war until 1937. If the Japanese launched a full-scale war in advance and Zhang Shusheng was not ready, he would regret it for the rest of his life.

.

Therefore, he chose to use advanced weapons. If the confidentiality work is done well, the problem will not be big. The idea of ​​strategic reserve of advanced weapons is not wrong, but the armored forces and air force units urgently need to prepare for actual combat in advance.

"Okay. All preparations are being carried out in an orderly manner. When we go back, we will look for problems in coordination and cooperation in all aspects. This is a rare major training. Only when problems are discovered early by each department can they be solved early."

"yes!"

The whole morning's work was finally finished, and Zhang Shusheng felt a little hungry, so he notified Mao Yunxian that lunch break was finally here.

When he got home, Lu Yunyan, who heard the sound of the car, was standing behind the door with his mouth pouting, waiting for him.

"Hey, Yunyan, it's almost 2 o'clock, why haven't you gone to eat yet?" From Zhang Shusheng's point of view, the eldest lady of the Lu family in front of him was probably waiting for him to eat and got hungry again. Judging from the way she pouted, if

If not for the guards, he would have wanted to bite him.

"If the master doesn't come back, how dare you eat?" Lu Yunyan snorted, angrily took Zhang Shusheng's coat, and muttered in a low voice: "If I don't come back early, I told you that He Ning would come over for dinner today."

Zhang Shusheng was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then he remembered that before going out in the morning, Lu Yunyan told him that He Ning would come over for lunch today. Although He Ning's family had moved to Lishuping New City, they still refused to come over and live there, and occasionally came to eat.

It was just a word with this future sister. Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but often wanted to call her and ask her to come over and have a meal with her.

"He Ning." Zhang Shusheng suddenly pointed to the corridor on the right and shouted. Lu Yunyan quickly changed his expression of grievance after hearing this, and followed the words with a happy face, but there was nothing He Ning said: "Woo...

"

He felt something hot pressed against his lips. Lu Yunyan felt secretly annoyed that this guy had taken advantage of her again. However, after receiving such a passionate kiss from him, her whole body felt weak and her hands naturally hugged his neck.

Ministry, let him pick it.

"Ugh... Zhang Shusheng, you are such a big hooligan..." It wasn't until he couldn't breathe anymore that Lu Yunyan pulled away, breathing heavily, angrily blaming him for bullying her again. "Okay, okay. What happened in the morning?

Ning came here early by herself, and I couldn't call you. She and I sat there for a long time without saying a word."

Only then did Zhang Shusheng realize that it was this little girl who felt embarrassed. However, He Ning had always been like this. Unlike Lu Yunyan, although He Ning went overseas for a few years, her personality did not change at all after she came back. Normally,

She looks indifferent to everyone, but it will be different only when she meets Zhang Shusheng.

"Don't be angry. If you work overtime next time, I will have someone notify my secretary from Mainland China."

The whole lunch was eaten in a hurry. Zhang Shusheng was so hungry that he took a big mouthful of rice. The two women stared at him with big and small eyes. After the meal, Lu Yunyan made an excuse to clean up, leaving the two women with the opportunity to be alone.

people to meet.

"Ning'er, when we just had dinner, you seemed to want to say something, right?" Zhang Shusheng asked Lu Yunyan while holding the post-dinner tea that Lu Yunyan had brewed himself and slowly blowing the leaves floating on the tea water.

He Ning smiled faintly, came over and sat next to him, and whispered:

"Dad asked me to ask you when you plan to marry me..."

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I'm back. I got on the train on the 9th. After standing on the train for two days, I finally came back. Fully restored and updated. Brothers, I'm so sorry.[

My son traveled thousands of miles and my mother was worried, so I went home and spent 10 days with my parents, which made me feel relieved. I will definitely work hard this year, and this book will become more and more exciting.

In addition, I would like to express my special thanks to the third new leader of this book - Brother Reader: Prosperous China, Zhenme Tianwei for his support, and also to other readers for their persistence. The fishermen will definitely cheer up. 3671, free gossip.v!~
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