While the three of them were talking, they had already arrived at Zhaobaoshan Fortress.

Until now, Zhaobaoshan Fortress is still under continuous construction.

Of course, the main project of Zhaobaoshan Fortress has been completed, and the peripheral facilities are under construction.

Because the Zhaobaoshan-Jinjishan Fortress designed by Zhong Yi and Zhang Yuanxi is not just two large fortresses, but a systematic fortification with two fortresses as fulcrum.

From a military perspective, Yin River is adjacent to the seaside, which can be said to be easy to attack and difficult to defend.

Among them, the direction of Zhenhai is the weakest. Even if the Yinjiang River is blocked, once the Japanese army successfully landed from Zhenhai, they would be able to reach the outside of Yinjiang City less than fifty miles southeast.

Zhong Yi spent such a big price in Yinjiang and finally built an industrial base. Of course, he could not let Japanese troops come to the city at will!

Therefore, Zhenhai's weakness must be blocked.

So, Zhong Yi and Zhang Yuanxi made an overall plan.

Specifically, it is based on Zhaobaoshan and Jinjishan Fortress, and it is built in a total of more than 300 large Yonggu bunkers to the northwest through Jiaochuan, Shahe River to Jiulonghu.

Then, relying on these more than 300 large Yonggu bunkers, a triple Yonggu trenches were built, and barbed wire had to be even pulled out of these three trenches.

However, this takes time, and the project has just been launched.

However, Zhong Yi's intention was very clear, that is, to build the weakest front of Yinjiang into a wall of iron. If the Japanese army attacked from the front in the future, they would definitely be beaten to death.

Of course, to build such a large-scale defense project, the materials and money to consume are huge.

But Zhong Yi was confident in building it, because now he has mastered almost all underground industries in the Shanghai Public Concession and the French Concession, and his monthly net income is more than 50 million yuan!

What's more, Yinjiang Industrial Park is now entering a virtuous cycle. Not only does the Yinjiang Municipal Government need to transfusion blood to it, it can even begin feeding back to national defense projects.

So, in a sense, Zhong Yi’s life is better than Principal Chang.

Although President Chang has a big family and a big business, he still needs more expenses. Not to mention anything else, just so many party and state officials and the army have to support him, he almost dragged down his finances.

Get back to the point.

Because Zhong Yi was in a hurry to see the batch of arms, he didn't have time to climb to Zhaobaoshan to see the shape of the fortress, so he asked Li Ziren to open the large iron lock of the warehouse and then walk into the underground warehouse.

There are three iron gates in the underground warehouse of the fortress.

After opening three iron gates in a row, Zhong Yi finally walked into the large warehouse where the arms were stockpiled.

But I saw that the huge underground space was filled with mountains of wood boxes.

Next to the mountain of wooden boxes are samples of various types of firearms, including Galand rifles, Thomson submachine guns, Bronning light and heavy machine guns, Bronning heavy machine guns, 60 mortars and 81 mortars.

Zhong Yi walked straight to the Browning heavy machine gun as a sample and tried the feel.

Li Ziren said excitedly: "Mayor, uh no, we have tried the gun!"

"Oh, is that?" Zhong Yi smiled, "How do you feel? How can you kill, is it convenient or not?"

Li Ziren said: "The lethality is even better than our Min-24 style, and it is more convenient to use, because the Bronning heavy machine gun does not require a cooling water system."

Zhong Yi smiled slightly and didn't say much.

When it comes to machine guns, the best thing to use is the German mg-42 universal machine gun.

It’s just a pity that Germany has formed an alliance with Japan, but China cannot buy a general-purpose machine gun.

Fortunately, the American Bronning heavy machine gun is also good, at least one level higher than the Japanese pheasant neck. With this heavy machine gun, the infantry support firepower is no less than the Japanese.

Zhong Yi looked back at the piles of wooden boxes and asked, "Has all the firearms been checked?"

"Don't worry, all the guns have been checked!" Li Ziren said, "I personally brought people to verify each rifle and every machine gun, and every gun, have already tried the gun, no problem."

Zhong Yi nodded and said, "Where is the ammunition? Has there been a random inspection?"

"There are also random inspections." Li Ziren nodded, "The quality of American goods is quite good."

Zhong Yi completely relieved when he heard this. Now that he has a guy and a backbone veteran, he can consider starting to form a coastal defense corps.

After all, this time, it is the foundation to come to Yinjiang and form the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps.

As for other things, such as building an industrial park in Yinjiang and carrying out black industry rectification in Shanghai, they are just to establish the Zhejiang East China Sea Defense Corps.

At that moment, Zhong Yi turned around and said to He Wenxi: "Instructor He, uh, no, Director He."

He Wenxi hurriedly said, "What are the instructions for the attendant?"

Zhong Yi said in a deep voice: "This time I returned to Yinjiang, I brought back more than 5,000 veterans of the National Army from Shanghai. These are the backbone veterans I prepared for the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps!"

He Wenxi nodded, indicating that I understand.

The key to whether an army can quickly form combat effectiveness lies in whether there are experienced veterans.

If an army has a certain number of elite veterans, even if it is newly formed, it can quickly form combat effectiveness. If it can win a few battles after the formation, it will soon become an elite force.

Zhong Yi said again: "However, the composition of these more than 5,000 veterans is very complicated, including the Central Army, the Northeast Army, the Sichuan Army, the Gui Army, and even the Security Corps. Moreover, they have been away from the army for too long and have forgotten what collective life is. So, you have to train them!"

He paused and said, "Let them train with the cadets of the officer training regiment."

"Yes!" He Wenxi stood attentively, "I'll go make arrangements when I turn around."

Speaking of this, He Wenxi said again: "I have something to do if I take part in the seat..."

Zhong Yi said: "Director He has anything to say, but it's okay."

"That's right." He Wenxi hurriedly said, "I have some friends who have been soldiers before. I heard that Yinjiang was going to form the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps, so I wanted to come to join the army. I wonder if the participating seats would be accepted?"

Zhong Yi immediately smiled, and this should be the comrade sent by Minister Zeng.

However, He Wenxi did not know Zhong Yi's identity, so he was inevitably a little nervous at this moment.

To be honest, He Wenxi was resistant to the task arranged by the organization, because it was really eye-catching to install more than 100 commanders and fighters into the Zhejiang East China Sea Defense Corps at once.

However, he must obey the instructions from the organization.

However, what made He Wenxi overjoyed was that Zhong Yi agreed immediately.
Chapter completed!