plumnovel Chapter 32 Promotion to Regimental Commander, New Soldier Card, Japanese Landing at Hangzhou Bay
Chapter 32 Promotion to Regimental Commander, New Soldier Card, Japanese Landing at Hangzhou Bay
At this moment, he looked at Hiroshi Nakagawa.
"Has the Chinese army that broke through been found?"
"They haven't been found yet. It's as if they suddenly disappeared. Or perhaps they've already reached the south bank of the Suzhou Creek and joined up with the main force of the National Revolutionary Army."
This is, of course, the worst-case scenario, and the one that Yoshizumi Ryosuke finds most unacceptable.
He felt his dignity and intelligence being brutally trampled on by this group of enemies.
Seeing that Yoshizumi Ryosuke still looked unable to let go, Nakagawa Hiroshi could only offer words of comfort:
"Division Commander, those are just a bunch of annoying flies. The landing is imminent, and the Nationalist army will inevitably be defeated. That will be the time for our Ninth Division to show its strength."
Yoshizumi Ryosuke looked towards Hangzhou Bay, and after a long while, he said:
"I'm just... unwilling to accept it! Sigh!!"
The telegram announcing Li Jianghe's promotion arrived at noon that day.
At this time, Li Jianghe was promoted to the position of commander of the Provisional Third Regiment, and his military rank was also improved, becoming a lieutenant colonel.
The system's voice echoed once again the moment the transfer order was received.
[Congratulations on your advancement, host. System rewards are now available.]
[Reward 1: The host's system warehouse has been expanded to 10000 cubic meters. The host can also increase the warehouse capacity by consuming merit points, with each cubic meter costing 10 merit points.]
A volume of 1 cubic meters, roughly twenty meters in length, width, and height, is quite large, enough to hold a large amount of ammunition, supplies, weapons, and so on.
For example, the volume of an ammunition box is generally no more than 0.1 cubic meters. 10000 cubic meters means that 10 ammunition boxes can be stuffed inside.
Of course, ammunition boxes actually take up very little space among all the supplies.
The real bulk of the supplies consisted of food, baggage, heavy weapons, and other military supplies.
However, accommodating the military supplies for a regiment, as well as a large amount of captured supplies, should not be a problem.
It seems that the upgrade rule for the system space is that after a military rank is promoted, the volume is directly expanded tenfold.
Based on this, we can infer that in the future, a brigade commander will be worth 100,000 cubic meters, a division commander will be worth 1 million cubic meters, an army commander will be worth 10 million cubic meters, an army group commander will be worth 100 million cubic meters, and a theater commander will be worth 1 billion cubic meters.
You can also improve it by consuming merit points.
However, killing a Japanese soldier only earns 100 merit points, while officers earn more.
To increase the space by 10 cubic meters, it would take to kill one Japanese soldier.
To increase the volume by 100,000 cubic meters, it would require killing 10,000 Japanese soldiers.
Of course, a volume of 100,000 cubic meters is not small; an aircraft carrier with a displacement of 100,000 tons only occupies that much space.
The system's voice continued.
[Reward 2: The host is allowed to upgrade vehicles for combat units by consuming merit points. Different vehicles consume different amounts of merit points.]
[Reward 3: Unlock new unit cards, supply cards, and vehicle cards.]
Upon hearing these two awards, Li Jianghe's heart skipped a beat. This was a sign that his troops were about to transform from infantry into mechanized forces.
Even if it's not a mechanized force, a motorized force would work too.
Sure enough, upon closer inspection of the upgradable vehicles, they were still at a relatively basic stage, allowing for vehicle upgrades for the troops.
However, currently only bicycles, motorcycles, jeeps, and trucks are available; there are no combat vehicles such as armored vehicles and tanks.
Perhaps when he is promoted to brigade commander, he will be able to get some armored vehicles or light tanks.
However, this is not bad either. Putting aside everything else, it will definitely be a leap forward in improving the mobility of the troops.
Using two wheels instead of two legs sounds so comfortable.
There are also newly unlocked unit cards, supply cards, and vehicle cards.
Troop cards mainly include:
75mm field gun squads, sniper squads, electronic communications squads, rocket launcher squads, and medical squads.
What surprised Li Jianghe the most was undoubtedly the field artillery squad, the electronic communications squad, and the medical squad.
The 75mm field gun was still sufficient for China, whose overall artillery level was relatively backward.
Later, through promotion in rank, they will definitely be able to get a larger caliber artillery squad.
For example, a 105mm howitzer, or a 155mm howitzer, etc.
The electronic communications team allows Li Jianghe to maintain real-time communication with combat troops, and also provides guidance and enemy coordinates to field artillery units.
Medical teams can help wounded personnel recover faster and reduce the mortality rate of wounded soldiers.
Compared to these three, sniper squads and rocket artillery squads are merely icing on the cake, serving as an extension and supplement to infantry firepower.
As for the supplies card, it includes additional fuel, tools and spare parts needed to repair cars and trucks, communication equipment parts, more medicines, blood bags, even surgical tools, and some new weapons.
Including: 75mm field guns, Mauser rifles equipped with optical sights, Panzerfaust rocket launchers, etc.
The vehicle card allows you to purchase additional types of vehicles, mainly bicycles, motorcycles, jeeps, trucks, and even half-track trucks.
Li Jianghe wasn't in a hurry to use his merit points to buy a large number of vehicles or artillery squads. After all, he needed to survive for now, and these squads and vehicles would be much more useful when they broke through the enemy lines later.
He first spent his merit points to purchase three medical teams.
Medical Team
Staffing: 12 people, including 2 surgeons and 10 nurses.
Equipment: Surgical instruments, disinfectant, shadowless lamp, foldable field operating table...
Skills: Provides basic surgical procedures, wound dressing, soldier rehabilitation, battlefield first aid, etc.
Level: Beginner.
Merit Points: 500.
I have to say, this medical team is really expensive.
A single medical team can treat dozens, or even hundreds, of wounded and sick soldiers, enabling them to return to the battlefield.
And how many Japanese soldiers can these returning soldiers kill?
Therefore, 500 merit points can be considered excellent value for money.
After summoning three medical teams, Li Jianghe and his team continued to wait.
Instead of conducting a large-scale search of the area, the Japanese army continued to reinforce the north bank of the Suzhou Creek.
On the Nationalist side, there were also some adjustments in combat, with three divisions being deployed to the Hangzhou Bay area for defense.
At this time, the troop deployment along the Hangzhou Bay line increased from the original two divisions and one brigade to five divisions.
Although it was said to be five divisions, the total number of soldiers was less than 15,000, because all five divisions had been decimated in previous battles.
It wasn't that Chen Cheng didn't want to spare more troops, but he simply had limited manpower. The Japanese army on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek was launching a fierce attack, so he had to spare these men to deploy for defense.
Of course, following the advice of Chen Cheng, Xue Yue and others, the solution was to abandon the defense in Shanghai and move into the Wufu Line and Xicheng Line fortifications to continue resisting the Japanese army.
Unfortunately, this sound advice was not adopted.
The old prize still places its hopes for resolving the Sino-Japanese conflict on a conference of signatory states to the Nine-Power Treaty.
And so it went until November 4th, when the Japanese 11th Army officially landed in Hangzhou Bay in the damp, cold morning mist.