Rebirth of the National Marshal

The m101A105mm howitzer was an artillery piece of equipment for U.S. divisions during World War II. It has a caliber of 105mm and a maximum range of 11 kilometers. It is also the most numerous light howitzer in the U.S. military.

It was produced from 1940 onwards and was mass-produced as division-level support firepower in various battlefields and provided to the Allied forces. It was recognized by the artillery for its low price, simple design and moderate firepower.

This type of artillery has not yet been manufactured and is still in the American laboratory. Of course, if it is available, there are only a few for experimental use, and the price should be more than 100,000 oceans.

The exchange price given by the system is 1 yuan.

If you use merit points, 1000 points are required to exchange for one cannon with 100 shells.

The price of the shells is 500 merit points for 1000 shells, which is already very cheap. If you buy it with money, it is considered that you have five dollars for a shell. At this time, the German shells are already sold for 80 dollars per shell.

The shell weighs 19 kilograms and is slightly more powerful than a 100mm mortar shell. Generally, when one shell is fired, people within 20 meters will definitely die, and people within 40 meters will be seriously injured if they are not well hidden.

Generally, the firing rate reaches three rounds per minute, but if the soldiers are skilled, it can reach four rounds. The theoretical firing rate can reach ten rounds. The highest firing rate in the history of World War II is five rounds per minute, but it can only be maintained for a short time.

It is impossible to operate such artillery with manpower, and it must rely on vehicles. Each squad has 10 people operating a piece of artillery and is equipped with a vehicle.

Fortunately, the daily exchange volume can now be 300 tons. If it is still 30 tons as before, these extra cars will definitely not be enough. A coal mine near Duolun has been renovated by Mao Yuanshan. He has long expected that he will be able to exchange a lot of oil when he is promoted next time.

If we only rely on the original small coal mine, even if the limit is increased, there will not be so much coal. The original small mine has reached its limit of producing 500 tons of coal a day. It is not that the workers in the mine are not working hard, but the reserves there are limited and the tunnels are relatively narrow. If we want to produce more coal, we must open up new coal mines.

After the 105mm howitzer was unlocked, it was decided to establish two artillery regiments.

The commander of the 1st Artillery Regiment is Sun Desheng, and the commander of the 2nd Artillery Regiment is Guo Liang.

The artillery regiment consists of a howitzer battalion, a mortar battalion, an infantry artillery battalion and a transport battalion.

The howitzer battalion has 60 105mm howitzers, and in the future they will be responsible for clearing the way for all the security regiments' heavy artillery.

迫击炮营有60门六零迫击炮，60门80毫米迫击炮，60门100mm迫击炮。

The infantry artillery battalion has 90 Type infantry guns.

The transport battalion has 245 vehicles.

The regiment has more than 3000 people, equipped with an infantry company to serve as close combat guards.

Originally, Mao Yuanshan wanted to use the 105mm howitzers as divisional artillery like the Americans, but the situation did not allow it at the moment. He could exchange so many artillery pieces, but the roads in the country were not very good, and the most important thing was the transportation problem. The cars could be exchanged, but the drivers could not.

The number of people in a security regiment today is about the same as that of a U.S. Army division during World War II, which was equipped with 36 105mm howitzers.

If I follow this standard, all security regiments will be equipped with 30 howitzers, which means I will need 30 vehicles. The amount of gasoline used is also astronomical, and I can't exchange that much gasoline even if I kill myself. There is another problem, that is, I don't have that many artillerymen. It is easy to convert infantry into artillerymen, as long as they get used to the training, but it takes a long time to actually put it into practice. There are plenty of ordinary artillerymen, but what I want is elite artillerymen.

When the 105mm howitzer was pulled out, both Sun Desheng and Guo Liang were dumbfounded. It had been a long time since they had seen such heavy artillery. You know, in the whole of China, the only howitzers with a shell larger than 100mm were the 24 150mm German-made artillery pieces in the hands of the central government. Apart from those, there were no other artillery in the whole of China.

Not to mention China at that time, even Japan now only has five heavy artillery brigades in its entire country.

The Japanese artillery seen in the anti-Japanese war movies and TV shows seems to be as shabby as those small-caliber artillery such as the Type 92 infantry gun and the Type 60 mortar. However, in fact, the Japanese army was also equipped with a lot of large-caliber heavy artillery. Although the Japanese army in World War II was shabby, the artillery was quite impressive.

重炮旅团对于日本人来说已经是属于战略性质的部队了，一支标准的重炮旅团下设有两个重炮联队，其中包括大正七年式150mm口径的重加农炮30-40门，九零式240口径的重加农炮20门，九六式305口径的重型榴弹炮10门，有的重炮旅团还配备有九八式320口径的臼炮3-6门。

Of course, for European and American armies, such heavy artillery brigades must be equipped with more than five, but it is already very good for the Japanese devils to achieve such an achievement. If the heavy artillery brigade can be preserved until the end of World War II, it will also cause considerable casualties to the Americans.

Fortunately, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade has not arrived yet, otherwise, according to Mao Yuanshan’s current strength, it would be impossible for the artillery to fight against the enemy head-on.

In addition to the artillery, another unit that needed to be expanded on a large scale was the air force. The air force now only had one fighter squadron, which was not enough. Sixty or seventy pilots could be selected from the cloned soldiers, and Mao Yuanshan had recently recruited more than 20 pilots from other places. Mao Yuanshan decided to form a flying brigade.

A flying brigade consists of three flying squadrons, each squadron consists of three flying squadrons, and each squadron has six BF109 fighters.

The air force strength now exceeds 50 fighter jets.

Although it cannot be compared with the hundreds of planes of the Japanese devils, it is already the second largest air force after the central government.

There were still high-quality pilots serving as team leaders, and hundreds of students were recruited across the country. Flying an airplane at that time was much easier than in later generations. The main reason was that the planes flown now were propeller planes, which were much smaller than later planes in terms of take-off altitude and flying speed, so learning was much easier.

Because the main function of the Bf109 fighter is to fight with other aircraft, not to bomb, so the army urgently needs a bomber. They have mentioned it to Mao Yuanshan many times, but Mao Yanshan has no way to do it, right? Do you really think my plane came by chance? It needs various coincidences to unlock it. If it is not unlocked, I can't get the plane.

From the 32st Security Regiment to the nd Security Regiment, each regiment has obtained a lot of new equipment, but they also face a problem, that is, there are too few veterans.

No matter whether it is the old troops or the clone soldiers, even if they are all dispersed and distributed, they cannot fill up the 32 security regiments.

With 32 security regiments and two artillery regiments at full strength, the army would have nearly 60 people. Now there are only more than 40 people. In any case, Mao Yuanshan's opinion is that every soldier who comes in should be trained, and there is no need to wait until everyone is recruited before training together.

Although the current situation in North China is relatively good, the General Staff has already formulated a plan to capture the two counties of Rehe. The battle should begin soon, and the soldiers only have more than a month to train.

Mao Yuanshan has already given orders to the company commanders of the new recruit companies below. No matter how you train them during this month, as long as you don't kill them, nothing is excessive. What I want is combat effectiveness, and they must be given enough combat effectiveness.

The commander of the recruit company also tried his best to train these recruits. Whatever you don't know, they will train you. Some soldiers were not very good at shooting, wasting bullets all day long. The commander of the recruit company made these soldiers shoot as hard as they could until they vomited. After they vomited for several days, they found that their shooting skills were much more accurate than before.

A month later, the total number of security forces rose to about 45.

It would be good if there were 20 people who could fight among them, so Mao Yuanshan arranged the rest to continue training in local areas.

The combat plan against Qinglan County and Kulan County in Rehe began to be further improved.

The Japanese side did react to Mao Yuanshan's acceptance of Chahar, but now they are not eyeing Chahar alone, but the entire North China.

If they mobilized a large force to sweep Chahar at this moment, it is estimated that Mao Yuanshan and his men would not be able to hold out for a month. After all, most of them are new recruits and the old soldiers have already been dispersed. When Mao Yuanshan made this decision, he was very scared. Wang Bing and others thought that a regiment of troops should be left behind, but in order to make everyone form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, Mao Yuanshan did not keep them but dispersed them all. Later facts also proved that Mao Yuanshan's gamble was correct. If these people were not sent out to train the new recruits, it would take at least a few more months for those new recruits to mature.