Chapter 320 Iron Armor Torrent
When Kenyoshi Ueda saw Shiro Ishii and Ichino Morita being both shirked each other, he said unhappy: "I don't care what your relationship is with the General Staff Headquarters. This is the Kanto Army, and I am the commander of the General Army! If you spend only the precious materials of the empire, Unit 569 and Unit 731 will become history tomorrow. Shiro Ishii and Ichino Morita, will you also be judged by military law?"
Kenyoshi Ueda's words made Shiro Ishii and Kazuo Morita suddenly burst into cold sweat. Kenyoshi Ueda's words clearly expressed the meaning, that is, the Kanto Army does not raise free food, and the person who eats idle food is almost a waste of food and drink every day. Ten million yen is a huge amount for Kenyoshi Ueda, who is the commander-in-chief of the Kanto Army. At least he cannot decide. He has to pass the imperial meeting of the military headquarters to get approval. Someone actually squandered it silently under his nose? Can Kenyoshi Ueda not be angry?
According to the glorious tradition of the Japanese Imperial Army, if Kenyoshi Ueda handled this money, at least 15% would be intercepted as special office funds. This so-called special office funds are actually equal to the commander's personal money. Japan is a typical poor person who enters politics and rich people join the army. This does not mean that they have money before joining the army. At least after joining the army, they will naturally become rich after reaching the position of the corps commander level. The politicians are getting poorer and poorer, so it is equivalent to Shiro Ishii taking out 1.5 million yen from Kenyoshi Ueda's personal pocket.
This is an absolute large amount! Shiro Ishii knew, and Ichio Morita knew, and Kenyo Ueda frowned and knocked on the table with his fingers unhappy. Such a large number of small amounts could actually bypass the Eastern Army? I'm afraid there is only the Army General Staff Headquarters.
Shiro Ishii and Ichio Morita realized that in front of Commander Kenyo Ueda, they were not the place where they slandered each other and sued each other. It would be awful if they died together. So Ichio Morita immediately said: "If we start from a practical perspective, it is undoubtedly the most ideal to release cholera virus. If conditions permit, we can try to release multiple highly contagious viruses at the same time to cause the epidemic to occur across the cross-disaster, making the transmission speed faster and difficult to control."
Shiro Ishii nodded and said, "The two biological viruses of cholera can be transmitted through water, food, flies and daily life contact. Water-type transmission is the most important way, because water is most susceptible to the excrement of infected people, and Vibrio cholerae survives in water for a long time, generally more than one week and for dozens of days. The contaminated water can contaminate many raw and cold foods. The role of food transmission is second only to water. Vibrio cholerae can survive on food for several weeks or even longer. Moreover, cholera can be said to have no species of infections for humans.
Clan, gender and age are generally susceptible to cholera, and can gain a certain amount of immunity after the disease, but the possibility of reinfection also exists. Cholera is a strong intestinal infectious disease, one of the two types of infectious diseases, which is caused by Vibrio cholerae contamination of water and food. Clinically, it is characterized by rapid onset, severe diarrhea, and excretion of large amounts of intestinal contents of rice slurry, dehydration, muscle spasm, oligouria and anuria. In severe cases, death may occur due to shock, uremia or acidosis. In the case of low medical standards and ineffective treatment measures, the mortality rate is very high and the cost is low."
Kenji Ueda nodded with satisfaction and said, "In two weeks, Unit 569 and Unit 731 must produce enough viruses. As for the method of delivery, it can be airdropped. Although bombing Rehe, Chahar, and Suiyuan is not an easy task, it is still easy to penetrate a few aircraft alone."
When Kenyoshi Ueda conspired to give Zhang Xuewu a fatal blow, the Ohara Rie Chariot Division and the 23rd Mechanized Division commanded by Hideki Tojo also faced a huge problem. This problem was something that Hideki Tojo had never expected, or considered at all. After suffering a great loss from Zhang Xuewu's mechanized army, the Japanese also formed a mechanized division and a chariot division, but the Japanese ignored their lack of qualifications.
In the fact that the commander of the mechanized army was Ohara Rie only commanded the cavalry gang, while the 23rd Mechanized Division Lieutenant General Yamashita Daiichi had been serving as the Minister of the Strategy Department in the General Staff Headquarters. Both of them were guys with a heavy head and a shallow foundation. In addition, a bayonet was more reliable than a chariot. At the critical moment, the Imperial Japanese Imperial Army's invincible steel spirit, and it seemed difficult to think of the two most elite divisions of the Kanto Army.
The distance of hundreds of kilometers seems not far, but for mechanized troops, especially for long-distance marching of tanks, the quality of the Japanese mechanical maintenance personnel is still insufficient. The vehicle's integrity rate has always been around 70%. In addition, there are constant vehicles falling behind in the long-distance marching. Hideki Tojo found that this chariot seemed to be more reliable than a bayonet? After all, the bayonet was hung behind the butt and left directly, and there was no danger of losing it. The chariot was different. A large piece of cold iron piece spent so much money, but all of them broke down on the road. Ohara Riki and Yamashita Freshman almost always listened to Hideki Tojo's nagging and roaring, and it was very difficult to push fifty kilometers every day. This made Hideki Tojo really unacceptable? How could this be a surprise attack? It was clearly a turtle racing.
The Japanese mechanized troops attacked Baotou? This was like a thunderous attack on Zhang Xuewu, who was preparing to deal with the Kwantung Army in Chaoyang area. So Hao Wenbin, deputy commander of the 10th War Zone, immediately took a plane from Dingyuan Battalion to Baotou to prepare for the defensive counterattack. A supplementary regiment drawn from the First Armored Division and the Second Armored Division was trained in Baotou to prepare for the formation of the Third Armored Division, but now most of the chief officers of the Third Armored Division have not been transferred from the First and Second Divisions, so there is urgent need for powerful figures like Hao Wenbin to go to the battlefield.
After Hao Wenbin arrived in Baotou, he asked Zhang Xuewu to air strike against the Japanese army, and on the other hand, he quickly temporarily requisitioned all the students of the Armored Soldier School, and then equipped the personnel of 260 jackal light tanks and 220 Iron Cavalry medium main battle tanks.
There are no weak soldiers under the strong generals? This sentence is often spoken by Hao Wenbin, but it is Zhang Xuewu. Now he is very confused? Because Baotou itself is a huge industrial circle, there are not many permanent national defense fortifications. Hao Wenbin, who has barely arranged enough personnel to drive tanks, can't find anyone to defend Baotou, a line of defense with exposed winds on all sides. No matter where the Japanese attack, they are all the weaknesses of Baotou. More than 400 tanks look a lot, but it is a drop in the bucket on the long defense line. The most important thing is that Hao Wenbin can only provide him with more than 8,000 people from a Baotou security division?
But the Japanese whom I was about to face had two divisions? Especially the Japanese chariot division was a very special organization. The Japanese chariot cluster was different from the armored divisions in the 10th War Zone. In Japanese, it was generally written as "chariot regiment". This was both a very "special" organization and a very common organization.
The specific organization of the Japanese "chariot regiment" may be the chariot regiment, the chariot regiment, the chariot regiment, the chariot regiment, the chariot regiment, the chariot regiment, etc. The Japanese "chariot regiment" is precisely a temporary unit, similar to the "battle groups" or "armored combat groups" in Europe and the United States at that time. The same as the "battle groups" is that the Japanese "chariot regiment" is not permanently organized, but is temporarily organized based on combat tasks. The chariot regiment is undoubtedly the largest among them. Not only has four chariot regiments, but also has no less than two mobile infantry regiments, anti-aircraft artillery, and war defense artillery units.
Each tank wing has more than 1,100 combatants, equipped with 78 tracked vehicles, twenty wheeled vehicles, and the chariot wing unit has two light tanks, one medium tank, and one light tank squadron under its jurisdiction. Each light tank squadron is equipped with ten light tanks and one medium tank squadron. Each medium tank squadron is equipped with two light tanks, ten medium tanks, and one artillery tank squadron, equipped with two light tanks, ten artillery tanks, and the preparation squadron is equipped with a total of 78 armored vehicles and trucks. The motor infantry gang of the Japanese mechanized division must be equipped with 220 armored vehicles and ninety wheeled vehicles.
Baotou is the heart of the entire tenth war zone. It is not a problem to deal with the two divisions of the Japanese. The key is how to reduce the losses in Baotou? Baotou Industrial Zone is Zhang Xuewu's heart and cannot bear any loss. If it is based on the city's defense, even if the Japanese army is defeated, most of Baotou will be destroyed. Hao Wenbin estimated that the Japanese were probably planning this way, setting the battlefield in Baotou. Even if they lose, they are smashed into pieces and are still Baotou. Therefore, the Japanese boldly bypassed a garrison in Datong and rushed to Baotou directly.
Hao Wenbin made a very bold and important decision. He decided to use 100 Iron Cavalry medium main battle tanks as the main force, equipped with fifty jackal light tanks on both wings, and to put all 75 75 "pants" and 105 mm "strike" automatic artillery with the chassis of the jackal light tanks in the main attacking iron cavalry cluster, giving the aggressive Japanese a headache!
In Hao Wenbin's opinion, Baotou cannot suffer any loss anyway! Because Baotou really can't afford to lose!
Before this, Hao Wenbin had never seen so many tanks and self-propelled artillery put into battle. Before the battle started, Hao Wenbin already felt why Zhang Xuewu didn't put the armored division easily into use. It turned out that this thing was too expensive? Oil, ammunition, spare parts, and logistics supply to support 100 Iron Cavalry medium main battle tanks. 400 combatants, followed by a mechanized infantry regiment with a formation and a comprehensive support cluster of more than 2,000 people!
Chapter completed!