Chapter 697 Chen Cheng's Request

In order to train this force, China has invested a lot of money:

Selected from the 2 million troops in the country, after strict screening, only 8,000 people were left;

Invited German instructors to conduct strict training, using German submachine guns and other equipment, known as the most elite combat force in the entire Northeast Asia.

It must be said that in the Battle of Nanjing, the 600 soldiers of the Chairman's Special Guard staged a magnificent scene at the Yuhuatai position!

At that time, their 600 soldiers were directly defending a Class A division of the island country, that is, the Meicun Division.

Two battalions faced 30,000 devils, each soldier was responsible for defending a 25-meter-long position, and each person was responsible for dealing with 50 devils!

The battle lasted from morning to dusk, and batches of devils fell to Yuhuatai, but they could never move forward!

Seeing this, the division commander Meicun was furious and personally led the death squad to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the 600 soldiers.

As a result, Meicun was chopped on the arm, and the heirloom sword of Jiang Jieshi, which he won by competing with his classmate Jiang Jieshi, was also seized.

If it weren't for his subordinates who fought to the death to protect him, Meicun would definitely die on the spot!

His life was seriously threatened, and in extreme panic, Meicun led his troops to retreat in a hurry!

And only more than 50 Chinese military police died in the battle!

What makes people sigh is that when they found that the frontal defense was not working, the devils launched a big move.

Because of the betrayal of traitors, the island country's intelligence agency learned the location of the garrison of this unit.

Late that night, the island country's air force dispatched more than 50 bombers to bombard their garrison!

Most of the military police died in their sleep, and only more than 200 people escaped by chance!

This ace tiger guard, which the government has spent many years and put all its efforts to build, has such a tragic ending.

After the fall of Nanjing, the remaining 200 people were divided into small teams and deployed to various battlefields, and continued to create miracles.

In the Changsha Battle that shocked China and the world, a military police team successfully attacked the temporary airport of the Japanese, which made the Japanese lose air superiority and laid a solid foundation for the Changsha Battle to eliminate more than 100,000 Japanese.

In 1942, the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma to fight.

When the troops were surrounded by the Japanese, three military police stood up.

With their super survival ability in the wild, they successfully crossed the Japanese blockade and contacted the British and American troops, which saved the New 5th Army from the fate of being wiped out.

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Jiang Jieshi decided that in the Songhu War, including these ace elites, a total of 78 divisions, 7 independent brigades, 3 temporary brigades, and 7 artillery regiments would be dispatched, with a total force of more than 750,000.

In addition, the Air Force would also participate in the war.

The participating air force units are the 2nd to 9th squadrons and 1 temporary squadron, with about 200 aircraft.

The navy is not to be outdone, with the participating units being the 1st and 2nd fleets and 1 training fleet, 1 torpedo boat squadron and fortress units in Jiangyin and other places, with about 40 naval ships.

There is no doubt that this battle is of great importance.

In particular, the Chairman's Special Guard, although it was established in 1927, although there were frequent wars and crises, Jiang Jieshi has never been willing to use it.

This is enough to show how great Jiang Jieshi's determination is!

However, like Chen Cheng, Jiang Jieshi also faced serious confusion.

China's national strength is too weak, and it is seriously lacking in heavy weapons such as cannons, anti-aircraft guns, and heavy machine guns.

On the other hand, the devils, like airplanes, have an absolute advantage over China in these heavy weapons.

It can be imagined that once the Battle of Songhu starts, the Chinese troops will definitely suffer countless casualties!

In fact, visiting Germany and communicating with Jiang Jieshi first was one of the purposes of Ye Tian's visit to Nanjing this time.

"Captain Ye, it's up to you!"

Looking at Ye Tian, ​​Chen Cheng sighed and had high expectations for him.

Without waiting for Ye Tian to explain, Chen Cheng, a senior general from the artillery, added another sentence.

"Captain Ye, let's not talk about heavy machine guns and submachine guns, etc., but you must pay more attention to cannons, anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc.!"

Yes, although China also has an air force, the number of aircraft is too small.

That's not all. In order to protect Nanjing and other places, these few aircraft are not convenient to be deployed all over.

In order to deal with the devil's aircraft, China urgently needs anti-aircraft machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, etc.

In fact, in addition to being responsible for the upcoming Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Chen Cheng has a more important task.

This task is very simple, that is, to establish 60 German-equipped divisions, that is, German-equipped infantry divisions.

As a European land power, Germany can be said to be Germany's single challenge to the world in both World War I and World War II.

Therefore, some countries that are relatively backward in military affairs often learn from Germany.

Among them, the wretched island country is included.

China began to learn German military very early. The new army established in the late Qing Dynasty had the imprint of Germany.

After 1927, because of the conflict with the Soviet Union, China began to seek military assistance from Germany.

In fact, China and Germany cooperated in a win-win way.

Coinciding with the defeat in World War I, according to the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany could only have an army of 100,000 people, so a large number of professional soldiers were forced to leave the army.

These soldiers became the objects of competition for employment in various countries.

However, the Treaty of Versailles clearly stipulated that German citizens were not allowed to serve as military advisers in foreign armies.

On the other hand, the German military wanted them to do this.

The reason is simple. Through exchanges with foreign armies, German officers can be improved.

Most importantly, when Germany provokes a world war again, these officers can immediately go to the battlefield because their skills have not been wasted.

Therefore, the German military secretly encourages and supports officers to go abroad as military advisers.

In 1933, Hitler won the German election and became the German Chancellor.

It is rumored that Hitler received financial support from the Chinese during his difficult period.

In addition, in terms of bloodline, Hitler believed that Germany and China were closely connected.

Therefore, after Hitler came to power, Sino-German military cooperation became closer and closer, and the areas involved became wider and wider.

Of course, Hitler's financial support for China was not unconditional.

Germany was seriously lacking in various natural resources, especially strategic resources such as tungsten and antimony.

In addition, because of its developed industry but small domestic market, Germany urgently needed the large market of China.

In order to realize his ambition to dominate the world, Hitler gradually abolished the various restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles.

The level and scale of German military advisers to China have gradually increased. Originally, they were private aid to cover up the truth, but now they have become open official aid.

Hitler was very bold. He said that in order to fully help China, he planned to launch two major moves.