readytorunbook Chapter 769: Powerful Independent Column
Chapter 769: Powerful Independent Column
What the Japanese lack most now is oil. Even in a big city like Shanghai, their fuel budget is limited. What's more, most of the oil is occupied by the navy, and the amount allocated to the enemy's army is already small. If this consumption continues, it will be equivalent to a lot of loss of enemy strength.
Next, Kong Hao introduced some other supplies, including one thousand grenades, two thousand egg-shaped grenades, and a batch of military supplies, which dazzled Cui Siye and Hei Hu.
If these weapons and equipment were used to form a troop, they could arm more than 2,000 people. No one would dare to underestimate these people gathered together in this place in Shanghai.
Finally, Kong Hao also suggested explaining some things, mainly to inquire about the Japanese poison gas bomb expert, who should be here in the next few days.
However, now that this kind of thing has happened in the concession, it is still unknown whether it will produce a butterfly effect. In short, we must be cautious in everything. If we fail to complete this task, it will be a huge disgrace.
After explaining things, the three of them separated. Kong Hao still had to investigate the intelligence through Jiuzhang, and also transfer some of the supplies to our own intelligence personnel to facilitate future operations here.
Jiuzhang never thought that in the heavily guarded city of Shanghai, the powerful Captain Kong could get so many good things. This was simply beyond all imagination.
However, this is also a good thing for our intelligence personnel, especially the two tons of high explosives and nearly five thousand grenades, which are enough for us to use for a long time.
There are also five mortars and more than ten grenade launchers, which are simply powerful weapons. Especially in urban combat, they can bombard the enemy's key positions at the right time, and the strike effect achieved is not comparable to that of pistols and submachine guns.
Grenade launchers can carry out curved attacks at a distance of several hundred meters, which will definitely catch the enemy off guard. As long as two or three of them are concentrated, they can attack No. 76 across several streets. They can fire thirty special grenades in a short period of time, and then leave without worrying about whether they hit the target or not.
If thirty high-explosive grenades dropped from the sky and landed in the yard of the pseudo No. 76 Special Agent Headquarters, even if they failed to kill a few people, they would scare these traitors half to death. In the future, no matter what they do, they will think for a long time before taking action.
Moreover, the grenade launchers provided by Kong Hao are equipped with special boxes for storage. Our comrades can easily blend into the crowd and evacuate with the suitcases. No matter how powerful the people from No. 76 are, they will not be able to find our trace in a big city like Shanghai.
The range of the 60mm mortar is even more impressive, with a maximum range of meters and a firing rate of rounds per minute. A skilled gunner can assemble it within five minutes, fire the shells within one minute, and then quickly evacuate.
This type of mortar was also specially developed for use in urban warfare. It weighs about 15 kilograms and can be divided into four parts and packed in a special box, which is an ordinary suitcase that will not arouse suspicion.
However, this kind of heavy weapon is a bit useless for gang forces because they cannot find a large number of excellent artillerymen, but it is different here.
At present, our 60mm mortars have been equipped to infantry companies, with almost two mortars per company. Even some large infantry platoons are equipped with mortars.
For example, Li Yunlong's independent column had an infantry platoon of about 100 people and an artillery squad of 18 people. With advanced weapons and equipment, it was no problem for them to defeat a field squadron of the Japanese.
If we were to encounter the Sakata Regiment of that year, we would probably be able to easily fight it by sending out just one infantry battalion. If we had two infantry battalions, it would not be very likely that we would be able to wipe out all the Japanese by taking advantage of the terrain.
Li Yunlong has a total of eighteen infantry battalions like this, not including the heavy artillery regiment, engineering regiment, motor transport regiment, air defense battalion, tank battalion, mechanized infantry battalion and rapid reaction battalion directly under the column headquarters, special forces directly under the command of the army.
If we have to compare the combat effectiveness of the independent column, it can probably be tied with an enemy field division, which is an all-round confrontation. This is not an ordinary field division, but an enemy permanent division.
Moreover, they were able to crush the enemy in terms of light weapons and individual soldier quality. After all, even the Japanese regular divisions could not provide enough staple food for every meal. They only had one egg a day and meat every other day. If they had a lot of prey, they could have a full meal.
At the same time, thanks to the large amount of soybeans brought back by Kong Hao, there is never a shortage of soy products, and delicious soy milk is also available frequently. In this way, the physical fitness of our soldiers is much higher than that of the Japanese.
As for other technical arms, we have basically all of them, except for the heavy howitzers.
By the way, we still have a lot to gain in terms of aircraft support, mainly because we have too few aircraft. Although their quality is relatively high, a tiger cannot stand up to a pack of wolves. Now is not the time to fight hard. Once our aircraft consume too many resources and there is no time to replenish them, the air advantage we have worked so hard to establish will be lost immediately.
Of course, this definitely does not include the rather bizarre Fourth Division. It is a smart unit and will not foolishly run to our most heavily defended area to die.
You know, the area around our industrial zone has been built to the scale of a fortress, which has consumed at least 20,000 tons of cement and more than 2,000 tons of steel bars. In order to attack a fortress of this level, heavy artillery is needed, but this is a mountainous terrain and it is too difficult to transport heavy artillery.
Li Yunlong, Kong Jie and Ding Wei each led their troops to form a V-shaped defense, which was enough to withstand the 200,000-strong Japanese army.
In this situation, there would be no problem at all in transferring a few sharpshooters from the front-line combat troops.
That afternoon, Jiuzhang sent people to transport three of the five material storage points provided by Kong Hao separately and distributed them to our comrades. In this way, the strength of our intelligence personnel in Shanghai was directly improved by several levels.
Especially those easy-to-carry grenades, everyone has one, and they usually carry them with them when performing tasks. Once they are captured by the enemy, they can take someone with them before they die, so that they can make up for it.
This is also because the material storage location that Kong Hao transformed through the system is so good that it can be used as a secret base. If it relies on manpower excavation, it is unknown how much manpower and material resources will be spent to achieve this effect.
As for the remaining material storage points, Kong Hao plans to keep them first, and then someone will pick them up with a token as needed.
The supplies we have now are enough to sustain Dafengtang and our intelligence personnel for a long time. We will talk about the future later.