Chapter 732: Something New? (11 votes in November)
The winter of 1938 was getting colder and colder, but the 1938th Military Region in 217 was getting hotter and hotter.

The training of each unit and the coordination between the units were all proceeding in an orderly manner. Now the main force in the training ground was no longer Lao Chang, Qu Yong, Wang Tianhao and others, but the young 217s…

Although the little 217s who had experienced some losses in the last battle, most of them survived. These people were quickly added to the companies and platoons after the expansion of the army, becoming the absolute main force at the grassroots level of the troops, and carried out orderly training based on the training subjects written by Xu Chaoyang.

The current 217 has a new look.

“Hurry up!”

“Remember the essentials of infantry-tank coordination. The main task of the infantry behind the tanks is to open up the forward passage and make preparations for a smooth advance. Under the obstruction of the tanks’ line of sight, they should clear the individual firepower points…”

“Keep up, keep up with the tank!”

“Tanks speed up or slow down based on battlefield conditions, not based on the speed of your infantry. So, you must pay attention to the distance from the tanks while fighting!”

On the other side near Tuanchengkou, infantry and artillery coordination training was also accelerating!

“Remember, the coordination between infantry and artillery is based on distance. Calculate your running speed based on the bombardment time. If the bombardment time can support you to charge forward a distance of 100 meters, then you must reach a position 100 meters away from the enemy’s front line before the bombardment begins… no matter if you are facing a hail of bullets or artillery fire!”

“The key to infantry-artillery coordination is to rush to the enemy position at the moment the last shell falls, with the support of indirect firepower…”

“report!”

“speak!”

“What is indirect fire?”

“Indirect firepower refers to all weapons that cannot be aimed directly, such as the indirect firepower of heavy machine guns, artillery shells, mortars, grenade launchers, etc. However, in the training subjects of infantry and artillery coordination, indirect firepower is collectively referred to as – artillery!”

“report!”

“Why not just call for help?”

“Why do you have so many questions?”

“Report, my name is Gousheng, not Gouri…”

“roll!!!!”

Hahahahaha…

Well, that’s normal in recruit training.

When Xu Chaoyang was a new soldier, he even heard new soldiers asking even more bizarre questions, such as: “I am here to be a soldier, not to be a laborer. Why do you ask me to wash the car…”

Well, the person who raised this question is a new recruit in the motor vehicle company who had just come out of the recruit camp and was assigned to the company.

These are all true stories, not exaggerated at all.

But in this era, people don’t understand what “indirect fire” means. Can you not let them ask?

But no matter what era it is, if you treat asking questions as idle chatter, and someone punishes you, you deserve it.

“Line up!” “Prepare for three-way coordination of infantry, artillery and tanks!”

How brave is Xu Chaoyang?
He dared to let the troops conduct infantry, artillery and tank coordination training when he had only a few tanks and armored vehicles. This guy was determined to develop the troops in the direction of all-round modern warfare.

……

Xin County, 217th Headquarters.

“Report, a call from Yan’an.”

A translated text was delivered to Xu Chaoyang by a soldier from the communications company. He picked up the text and took a look at it. The smile on his face could not be lowered.

Our party members sent back news from the Soviet side that the BT-5 issue has been negotiated!

After nearly a month of mediation, the two sides negotiated the price of ten BT5s from the original asking price of US$5 million to US$ million!

Two million two hundred thousand dollars!
That means the unit price is $220,000 per car.

Even though the Russians are making at least a 50-50 profit, you can’t expect them to give you the factory cost, right?
This was already the best option during the war years. In order to get this price, it was said that Mr. Wu drank in the Kremlin until late at night every day, and even got the big shots of their Ministry of Defense drunk with his thin body, before he got the final price.

In addition, the promised 1910 million rounds of ammunition and M heavy machine guns also entered the substantive negotiation stage.

It’s not that I can’t buy more weapons and equipment, it’s just that I’m short of money…

The main reason why we were able to get the Russians to agree, in addition to being able to contain the Japanese invaders in Shanxi, was that we also handed over the secret that “radar” had been deployed along the entire coastline of the United States, as well as the latest radar information on cutting-edge technologies such as magnetrons.

After the Soviet side verified and discovered that the United States and Britain had been secretly advancing research on the whole matter, they began negotiations on weapons.

The only pity is that we don’t have the ability to build a radar base station before the Russians… After all, magnetrons and receivers are not something that can be produced domestically at this stage.

Of course, there is another possibility. That is, the Russians have already developed to this stage and deliberately pretended to be surprised and started negotiations with us, so that you will turn this information into doubts that make you undecided, and they will turn around and study it secretly on their own.

After all, their first Soviet-made radar was delivered to the Soviet army in 1939, model RUS-1, and due to technical reasons it was not practical on the battlefield at all.

No one knew whether the Soviets had already developed this thing by the end of 1938 but had not yet distributed it to the military for use. The information Xu Chaoyang provided to our party happened to make up for their shortcomings in this direction.

But the RUS-1940 in 2 played a key role. When the German army attacked Moscow in 1941, it detected the appearance of 200 fighter planes in advance, giving them time to prepare air defense in advance.

In the same year of 1940, RUS-2 was already installed on cruisers, such as the Molotov.

“Come here, pass on my order. Have the arsenal make room to prepare for the new tanks. There are still nearly two months until the Chinese New Year. Once the tanks arrive, they must be dismantled immediately. All the laboratory’s energy must be put into tank research.”

After Xu Chaoyang finished shouting this to the soldiers outside the door, he walked back eagerly. The progress of the telegram in his hand would become his capital to fight against the Japanese invaders after the new year…

“report!”

Just as he was feeling full of confidence, the signalman outside the door rushed in: “Commander, someone from the Arsenal came and asked you to go there quickly. It’s something important!”

Xu Chaoyang looked puzzledly at the communications soldier who “never lied since childhood”. He couldn’t imagine what big things could happen when the arsenal was so busy at this stage. The communications soldier lowered his voice and said, “It was Director Tong Meng who called personally. He said that your relative has tinkered with a new thing…”

(End of this chapter)