area51novel #203 - Brigade Commander Attacks
#203 - Brigade Commander Attacks
There are many types of suspension technology, so many that Ren Zhong was dazzled. Each type has its own purpose and characteristics, and Ren Zhong found it difficult to balance comfort and performance.
To adapt to the current usage, Ren Zhong chose a specially customized design for the Red Star F1 pickup truck for off-roading - a solid axle structure. The single wheels of a solid axle structure cannot move freely, otherwise it will affect the positioning parameters of the opposite wheels. But it is precisely this characteristic that when the suspension on one side of the axle is compressed, the other side can increase the downforce through the solid axle, making the wheels tightly adhere to the ground. This design is undoubtedly the strongest in terms of strength, performance, and travel for off-road vehicles.
However, this design also lacks comfort and is extremely stiff and bumpy!
But what it brings is almost all-terrain driving ability! For Ren Zhong, this is the most useful car at this stage. At this stage, even the roads are not well repaired, and many places don't even have roads. There's no point in not improving off-road performance.
So Ren Zhong did not hesitate to choose this suspension structure for the Red Star F1 pickup truck.
As for comfort, Ren Zhong will only take out the MacPherson suspension after driving away the Japanese devils to improve a truly passenger-oriented pickup truck.
Although the new suspension system is still stiff and bumpy, the grip is much stronger. Unlike the first version of the F1 pickup truck, when it was bumpy, you were always worried about rolling over!
In fact, when the Red Star I-type goes faster, it really loses balance and rolls over when it hits bumps! Ren Zhong has received many accident investigations of rollovers, but there is no way to solve this at this stage. He can only require the driving speed to be lowered, especially on rough roads, which must be reduced to below 30 kilometers per hour.
After the F1 pickup truck is replaced with the new suspension, this problem will be solved with the new car. The Red Star I-type may really be suitable for farm work, and it is a bit difficult for it to act as a mechanized corps now.
While Ren Zhong was busy burying his head in building his own industrial system.
The Border Region and the Eighth Route Army headquarters planned a big news.
Just as New Year's Day in 1943 was approaching, the Border Region and the Eighth Route Army headquarters launched the Luzhou Campaign to connect the several base areas of the Eighth Route Army headquarters into one piece.
This battle was mainly undertaken by the Taiyue Military Region. The Luzhou Campaign, personally commanded by the Brigade Commander, took seven days and seven nights of fighting to take Luzhou and its surrounding six county towns in one fell swoop!
This is another important counter-offensive campaign launched after the Border Region attacked Jiuyuan.
As the number one main force of the Taiyue Military Region, the Independent Regiment showed its power this time.
Not only did it gather 10,000 main force troops from the Heyuan and Anping base areas, making it the champion of all regiments.
In terms of weapons and equipment, it far exceeded friendly forces. The Independent Regiment now has 8 main infantry battalions with 107 rockets, not to mention that each infantry battalion also has a 6-gun 107 rocket artillery company. Plus, the Independent Regiment's regimental artillery battalion is equipped with 18 guns, and the expanded cavalry battalion is also equipped with a 6-gun artillery company. The Independent Regiment has a total of 12 artillery companies, a powerful artillery force of 72 107 rockets!
Relying on its powerful firepower, the Independent Regiment has undoubtedly become the Brigade Commander's number one main force.
Thanks to the land reclamation plan left by Ren Zhong and Zhao Gang's super internal affairs capabilities, even without the assistance of improved varieties, the Independent Regiment's cultivated land, which used a large amount of self-made organic fertilizer for fertilization, has had bumper harvests year after year, and took the lead in achieving self-sufficiency in grain for the entire regiment in the Taiyue Military Region.
With no worries about food, plus the Brigade Commander's green light, Li Yunlong can go all out to expand and focus on training, so this time the decisive battle order was issued.
When Li Yunlong gathered all the field troops, even he was taken aback!
Although the Independent Regiment only has 4 main infantry battalions and 1 cavalry battalion on the surface, the four local guerrilla brigades that were allowed to develop below are all fully staffed with the strength of a main battalion!
Therefore, after gathering the main force according to the Brigade Commander's requirements, plus the newly built artillery battalion that was drawn out, the Independent Regiment suddenly became a super-large regiment with 10 battalions, unique in the Taiyue Military Region!
In terms of weapons, three of the five major ordnance factories in the base area that were operating at full capacity were located in the Independent Regiment's territory. Even though a lot of the production was transferred out, the Independent Regiment still got the first pick, equipping its ten main battalions to the limit.
It is unimaginable for other regiments to equip a battalion with 6 107 rocket launchers. Li Yunlong had already laid the foundation before, grabbing a cavalry company and having a strong cavalry transport team. With the solution to the food problem, he expanded a lot of mules and horses, and fully equipped the cavalry battalion. The newly added mule and horse brigade was just equipped with 107 rockets and became a mobile artillery unit!
Abundant mule and horse resources allowed Li Yunlong to easily add an artillery company to each battalion, realizing the long-range firepower of the battalion. Compared with other regiments, many entire regiments only had 1 or 2 107 rocket artillery companies.
There was no way, although the 107 rockets were also light artillery, it was really possible to move them by manpower for short distances, but long distances were simply unrealistic. They had to be mule-drawn. Other regiments did not have the freedom of grain obtained by the Independent Regiment's land reclamation and farming, and even eating was a problem, so naturally they could not afford to raise mules and horses.
Of course, the Independent Regiment now has 4 infantry battalions, 1 cavalry battalion, and an over-birth artillery battalion with formal numbers.
The other 4 battalions exist in the form of the Heyuan Independent 1st Brigade and the Anping Independent 2nd Brigade, allowing Li Yunlong to live the life of a division commander in advance while still in the position of regimental commander.
The New Second Regiment carried out a feigned attack on Japanese strongholds in Zhongtiao Mountain to hold back the main force of the Japanese in Jincheng, preventing them from sending reinforcements!
If it weren't for the concern about unnecessary casualties from Japanese air raids during the day, the brigade commander wouldn't have needed seven days and seven nights at all.
Currently, the Eighth Route Army headquarters still severely lacked air defense capabilities. The base area had no electric furnace steel plant, and the produced steel and processing equipment couldn't meet the requirements of the G20 anti-aircraft guns.
The brigade commander adopted a method of resting during the day and attacking at night, eating away at the Japanese from one county to another in Luzhou, from north to south, and finally blasting through the Luzhou city walls in one fell swoop, wiping out all the Japanese here!
This battle was fought in a straightforward manner, expanding the directly subordinate base area of the Eighth Route Army headquarters to seven new counties, forming a contiguous area in the Jin Southeast base area, and beginning to have strategic depth.
(Headquarters Taihang Taiyue Base Area New Sphere of Influence)
As soon as the battle report was announced, it immediately shocked the world, causing the Japanese, who were originally eager to come out and sweep, to become honest all of a sudden, temporarily canceling the sweeping plan and having to increase troops to Jin Province.
Based on the strength displayed by the Taiyue Military Region this time, at this stage, the Taiyue Military Region alone was no longer an object that the Japanese in Jin Province could easily enter the mountains to sweep.
Another brigade was forcibly eaten, which was already the third time in just over half a year for the Japanese.
The Japanese never dreamed that the Eighth Route Army in North China had grown to such an extent that it could easily defeat two divisions and swallow a brigade in one bite. This series of failures made Okamura, the Japanese commander, inevitably reprimanded by the headquarters!
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As for Yoshio Shinozuka of the First Army of the Japanese in Jin Province, he was directly replaced and sent home to teach and farm!
After all, the losses were so great now that there had to be someone to take the blame. Yoshio Shinozuka was obviously the most suitable person to take this heavy blame.
Yoshio Iwamatsu, who succeeded him, immediately began to complain, and sent several telegrams to the North China Front Army to formally request assistance!
He requested the North China Front Army to increase the deployment of 2 to 3 divisions to Jin-Sui to form a joint defense in order to curb the deteriorating trend of the entire Jin-Sui situation. It should be known that Jiuyuan has been lost, and Qingcheng has been newly defeated. If Qingcheng can't hold on and the Eighth Route Army outside the Great Wall goes south along Qingcheng, there are now only 3 divisions and 2 brigades (one brigade has just been eliminated) in Jin Province. The vast Jin Province needs to be defended everywhere, and it is really difficult to spare extra troops to strengthen the defense of Yunzhong in the north.
Although Okamura, the Japanese commander, did not satisfy his appetite, a Korean division that had just arrived in North China was sent directly to Jin Province. After all, the Eighth Route Army suddenly came to Luzhou, and the nearby Jincheng was also very empty at once. There was only one brigade there, and if reinforcements didn't come, it was feared that it would not be able to hold it.
In fact, there was a discussion about whether to take them down together, after all, these two basins are adjacent to each other. Taking advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, from the perspective of troop strength, there is no big problem in defeating them one by one.
However, the problem ultimately appeared in terms of ammunition. The number of rocket launchers stored in the Taiyue Military Region was not enough to take down two important basins in a row.
So the brigade commander could only do a one-wave push.
However, the Japanese didn't know this. Even though the First Army's troops were stretched thin after Yoshio Iwamatsu took office, he quickly sent 3 large teams to Jincheng to strengthen the defense!
Then he kept asking the North China Front Army for tactical guidance, forcing Okamura, the Japanese commander, to pinch his nose and increase troops to Jin Province to strengthen the defense.
The Japanese paid a great price, exposing many spies lurking in the Eighth Route Army, and finally figured out that the Eighth Route Army's mysterious heavy weapon was a rocket launcher, and mastered the basic performance parameters of this weapon.
Now, rocket launchers are no longer a cutting-edge secret weapon, but before that, the Japanese had not conducted in-depth research in this area. Now, seeing that this weapon has such great power, the Japanese also saw its future.
In order to counter this newly emerging weapon of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese also sent relevant technical information back to the mainland, requesting research on similar products. They also attempted to defeat magic with magic!
Ren Zhong was not clear about this change.
However, he had long known that this thing could not be kept secret forever. With the Japanese's ubiquitous intelligence penetration, they would figure it out sooner or later.
Although we do not lack benevolent people with lofty ideals who are willing to die for the country, there are also many traitors who betray the country for glory.
Ren Zhong was not afraid that the Japanese would know about this weapon. As long as the rocket launcher entity did not fall into the hands of the Japanese, then if the Japanese wanted to imitate it, the propellant formula alone would not be solved in a short time.
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