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#195 - Tankman, Pilot (2 in 1)

Being able to fleece a little more stuff from the Rogue Eagle, even if it's outdated merchandise, still feels incredibly satisfying to get for free.

Seeing that we're about to have tanks, and the trucks are almost here too.

Ren Zhong felt a surge of joy.

These two things are the real cornerstones of a mechanized unit. Although they still seem a bit weak to Ren Zhong, it depends on the comparison. These two pieces of equipment are by no means weak compared to the Japanese.

After all, the Japanese are also very weak in true mechanization. So far, they have only established three mechanized divisions, the so-called armored divisions. Not only are the numbers small, but the equipment is also at the bottom of the major powers. The main battle tanks of the armored division are the Type 95 light tank (super-light tank) and the Type 97 medium tank (medium tank).

Ren Zhong had checked in the main world. The Japanese treat these armored divisions like treasures. Each armored division has two armored brigades, each under two armored regiments. Each armored regiment has a total of 14 operational light tanks, 57 medium tanks, 27 cars, and a personnel of 1071. Then there is a motorized infantry regiment, a motorized artillery regiment, and a reconnaissance team.

Among them, the motorized infantry regiment, in addition to a light armored vehicle company, has 3 infantry battalions, a regiment artillery company, and a maintenance company, with a total of 25 light tanks, 15 armored personnel carriers, and about 90 cars.

The motorized artillery regiment has 3 artillery battalions. The 1st battalion has 12 90-type 75mm field guns towed by cars, and the 2nd and 3rd battalions have 12 91-type 105mm howitzers towed by cars.

The division's reconnaissance team has 4 companies, of which companies 1 and 2 are light tank companies, each with 15 Type 95 light tanks, while company 4 is a Type 97 medium tank company with 12 tanks. The 3rd company is a motorized infantry company, and the entire division has just over 13,000 people.

Such a division would be completely second-rate in the European theater, but in historical time and space, facing the Kuomintang troops in the Chinese theater, it is a great weapon, directly defeating the Tang Corps.

Honestly, when Ren Zhong brings out the modified M3 Stuart X1A, carrying the big ZIS-2 gun, no more than 200 vehicles will be enough to flatten the Japanese armored divisions.

Not to mention the T-34, a thick-skinned, robust behemoth, which can easily take on five at once.

Waking up from a beautiful dream, Ren Zhong realized that his side was not even as good as the Japanese armored divisions. All he had was an old-age entertainment brigade composed of old-age entertainment vehicles like Dali Wang! They weren't even on the same level as the Japanese's weak armored divisions.

Not to mention that besides equipment, he seemed to lack talent even more.

Seeing that the modified M3 was about to be produced, it seemed that there wasn't a single talent suitable to drive the modified M3.

Not only tank drivers, but also fighter pilots seemed to be even more lacking.

No, this talent cultivation must be put on the agenda.

Ren Zhong thought for a while, it seemed that the cave academy had to be expanded again.

The aviation class and the armored class can't just focus on development, they also need people who can fight!

Ren Zhong spent two days planning this matter. Tank driving is okay, it's similar to driving a car, but gunners and observers need skills and experience to shoot accurately. However, there are many things he can't do, so he has to find someone else.

Ren Zhong picked up the phone and cranked it for a while to get through.

"Hello, Mr. Ren, who are you looking for?" A gentle voice came from the microphone.

"Connect me to Staff Officer Ye," Ren Zhong said crisply.

This special line that he dialed, connecting the Dawn Research Institute to the border area, was the first generation of manual switchboard telephone system that Ren Zhong introduced to the border area, building a wired communication network for the important departments of several adjacent counties in the border area.

"Old Brother Ren, hello, what good news do you have to share today?" Soon, Staff Officer Ye's hearty voice rang from the other end of the phone line.

Ren Zhong understood Staff Officer Ye's complaint.

After all, in this suffering world of ours, even eating is a problem. It's not that we haven't seen the world of tanks. The Kuomintang has armored units in full formation, but the Eighth Route Army really consists of mostly peasants.

Now it's not easy for everyone to have a gun. Two years ago, the main forces still used old-fashioned muskets, can you believe it!

"Staff Officer Ye, I understand. In the border area, we don't have the conditions to be exposed to tanks.

Now I'm afraid we have to dig up a few people from the Kuomintang in the rear.

As far as I know, the Kuomintang's Expeditionary Force already has specialized tank units equipped with the M3 Stuart tanks and M4 Sherman tanks that we are going to produce.

These people have studied and fought abroad for more than half a year. After repeated battles, I understand that most of them lost their tanks in battle and had to return to China.

These talents are useless in China, but they are very precious to us. I hope to find out the whereabouts of these tank drivers and gunners scattered in China as much as possible, recruit them to the border area, become seed instructors at our cave academy, and train our first batch of tank drivers as soon as possible."

Ren Zhong didn't make things difficult for Staff Officer Ye, but revealed his well-thought-out method. He had checked all this information in the main world, so it was very convincing.

"Okay, we will send a telegram to the Eighth Route Army office in the capital today, and let them follow your method to find ways to recruit a few tank drivers to the border area." Staff Officer Ye listened to Ren Zhong's analysis, and since there was a clear path, what else was there to say? Just do it.

"There's one more thing, I don't know if it's possible," Ren Zhong saw that the tank driver matter was progressing, and couldn't help but think of the pilot matter. Although it was a bit far away now, the training cycle was longer, so he had to prepare in advance.

"Contact Staff Officer Ye to get in touch with General Shi and see if he can send a few pilots with an aircraft to help us train a batch of pilots. Tell General Shi that we now have the ability to attack and capture the Japanese devils' airport. Sometimes, even when we capture the Japanese devils' fighter planes, we can't fly them back and can only blow them up. We hope they can help us train a batch of pilots so that we can establish a flying squadron to strike the Japanese devils," Ren Zhong said to Staff Officer Ye.

"In addition, the Kuomintang side has suffered heavy losses of warplanes, and many of the original pilots have no planes to fly. We might as well send people to look for them. We'll be making a profit even if we can find a few. According to our current progress, our fighter planes should be able to be manufactured by next year."

Ren Zhong's words ignited Staff Officer Ye's emotions.

"Old Brother Ren, are our fighter planes also showing promise?" Staff Officer Ye knew what the Dawn Research Institute was researching, but he knew the difficulty of this thing and never thought that there would be hope so soon.

"There has been progress now. The prototypes of several core components have been researched. Next, we will wait for the successful research of our large ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press. Once the research of the ten-thousand-ton hydraulic press is completed, we can process components such as landing gear and airframes. It won't be long before our fighter planes take to the sky," Ren Zhong replied with a smile.

"That's great, that's really great!" Staff Officer Ye said excitedly.

Fighter planes! This was the area where the Japanese devils flaunted their power. Now, the border region would also have its own air power, and the Japanese devils would no longer be able to dominate the skies unilaterally.

"Old Brother Ren, don't worry, we will dig three feet into the ground to find pilots for you. We will try our best to fight for it with General Shi, but in order to complete such a task, I am afraid we will have to plan a new battle."

"Without any battle achievements at hand, it is not easy to ask for help," Staff Officer Ye said with a wry smile after returning to normal.

There was no other way now; you had to have an attitude of asking for help when asking for help.

After all, with the conditions on the border region's side, it was not entirely impossible to train a batch of tank drivers and fighter pilots from scratch, but the speed was too slow.

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Once the M3 tanks entered mass production, at least a dozen would roll off the production line every month. Now that the tanks had been developed, Ren Zhong would definitely have Jiang Chongjing constantly replicate new tank production lines for large-scale production.

This thing was more important than guns and artillery. If applied properly, the role of a tank on the battlefield was better than that of an infantry company!

For the infantry, this was definitely a weapon with a technological advantage that could take on a hundred enemies.

The current situation was that tank manufacturing might be ahead, but qualified drivers might be far behind the tank production schedule.

It was even more so for fighter pilots. The training cycle was longer and the difficulty was greater. Without an experienced pilot to lead, it would be difficult to learn to fly by looking at the manual.

However, Ren Zhong had no choice. Although he had instructed the border region to find people, he had to prepare for the worst in case he couldn't find anyone.

With the limited conditions at hand, Ren Zhong had to return to the main world to see how our first generation of tank soldiers and first generation of pilots were trained.

Ren Zhong searched for the first tank unit of our army in historical time and space and found that the time still had to wait for several years. The Japanese devils had all run away, and the first tank driver of our army was not a proper professional at all!

Instead, he was a car driver who was forced to act as a guest during the Liberation Period!

Well, in essence, a tank is also a kind of motor vehicle. It doesn't require a driver's license to drive it in the Bright Sword time and space. If it is purely against infantry, it seems to be okay to drive it and can truly crush all the way.

However, for now, facing the Japanese devils' tank divisions, it is definitely not okay for drivers who can only drive to face the Japanese devils' tanks face to face.

No matter how bad the Japanese devils are, they still have an advantage over the border region troops and the Kuomintang.

They don't have many fully mechanized troops, which doesn't mean that there are no tanks in the troops.

In fact, at the division level, the Japanese devils not only had tanks, but also anti-tank guns. Even 37mm anti-tank guns were very terrifying against the M3 Stuart, which was actually a thinly skinned armored vehicle.

Without qualified tank drivers and gunners, even if the tanks were produced, it would be useless to just rush forward recklessly. It would easily become a tin can target that was beaten everywhere.

The T-34 was thick-skinned and resistant to beatings, so it was okay if it was hit a few times in non-critical parts, but the M3 was not. This one had armor that was generally only 20 millimeters thick all over, so it really couldn't withstand a few anti-tank guns.

The only way was to strike first. The 76mm big tube on top must be used well, fire first, and solve the opponent first to be safe!

For the tank drivers in China in this time and space, if Ren Zhong remembered correctly, he found that the Kuomintang expeditionary force formed in 1942 in historical time and space had already been in contact with the hooligan Eagle's tanks. The entire expeditionary force formed a total of 7 battalions of armored troops, which happened to be equipped with M4 Sherman tanks and M3 Stuart tanks, which happened to be very suitable.

In the original time and space, some of these warriors who fought in foreign lands died on the battlefield, while others returned home sadly.

After Ren Zhong inquired about the memories of many veterans of this period of history and conducted a lot of investigation and research, he recorded the places where they used to live and had a general understanding of the movements of this group of people.

Ren Zhong brought this information back to the Bright Sword world and handed it over to Staff Officer Ye without hesitation. Compared to searching for a needle in a haystack, Ren Zhong's information at least reduced a lot of the difficulty of Staff Officer Ye and his team's activities.

Not only the tank drivers, but also the information of the pilots. Ren Zhong also inquired some clues from the historical time and space, and also threw these clues to Staff Officer Ye, so that he could send the information to the people in the Eighth Route Army Office in Peidu.

Through the clues provided by himself, secretly send people to find and dig out those people.

Whether it is a tank driver who returned to China from Burma and England, or the precious pilots cultivated by the Kuomintang in those years.

Let them try to invite them to the border area to serve as the first generation of seed instructors.

Ren Zhong believed that for these people, if there was a place to exert their abilities, they would definitely rush to the new battlefield without hesitation!

In the original time and space, they disappeared silently because they did not find a stage to shine. Ren Zhong believed that among these people, once they were given hope, most of their blood was hot!

As long as they are given a real opportunity to kill the enemy and serve the country, they will always go to the battlefield again without hesitation!

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