Was the firepower of the Central Army far superior to that of the Japanese in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War?

In the Anti-Japanese War, China's military power in general was far inferior to Japan's, especially in the rear battlefield. The Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army, not to mention mortars and cannons, even bullets are very scarce, and weapons and ammunition are mainly manufactured by captured Japanese troops, pseudo-military, and their own arsenals. The National Army on the front battlefield, due to the factions, naturally the number and quality of weapons of each unit varied. However, it is generally said that the Central Army was well-equipped and numerous. The former clear German weapons, was the best of the Chinese army at that time, also stronger than the Japanese army. So, was the Central Army really better equipped than the Japanese Army? How much difference was there between the military strength of the Chinese army and the Japanese army? Lack of heavy weapons and artillery shells of the Chinese army Weapons, the national *** Although the procurement of Germany, France, Italy and other countries weapons, but in terms of heavy weapons is very scarce. For example, the so-called elite German armored divisions did not have the clear German equipment as we thought. Before the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance, the 20 adjusted divisions equipped with a small amount of German weapons, such as the 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions, used medium-formal rifles for the entire division, and the machine guns were their own imitations of Czech and Maxim heavy machine guns (the imitations were called "Type XXIV"). The mortars used at regimental and battalion level were copies of the French Blonde 81-mm mortar, the Type XX 82-mm mortar, with a very few regiments having Hajiha 75-mm infantry guns. The 87th and 88th Divisions of the Division's direct artillery used Japanese-made Taisho Sixth Year 75mm mountain guns (Type 41), 12 per battalion, and the 36th Division had no artillery battalions. Only the 87th and 88th Divisions were assigned 6 guns in 1 company each for chariot defense, while the 36th Division had none. (Previous content of the original article, the existing original archives are difficult to prove that the 87th and 88th Divisions had mountain artillery) At present, the author can use the archives to find out that the only field units with some German ordnance are the General Teaching Corps and the 4th Division, which has a flat-fire battery (47mm flat-fire guns 4/6), an infantry battery (German 75mm infantry guns 4/6), and four German 37mm anti-aircraft guns for each of the 1st, 3rd, and 5th regiments The direct artillery battalion is a subsidiary of the German Krupp arms industry, the Swedish Bufors factory manufacturing production of Bufors M1930 75mm mountain guns, *** counting 12. Chinese Army German Division But this equipment was still a huge gap compared to the Japanese, with far less adequate artillery shells, as well as an extreme lack of heavy artillery. According to an artillery statistical table of the Ordnance Department kept in Taiwan, the artillery brigades and regiments directly under the central government at that time *** had the following artillery: the K-type mountain guns were very old, with a maximum range of only 4,300 meters, far inferior to the Japanese 41-type mountain guns and 94-type mountain guns; the 38-type 75mm field guns were purchased from the Japanese arms dealers before the war, but at this time, the Japanese army's permanent divisions, the three unit divisions were using modified Type 38 field guns, which had a much greater range than the Type 38. Fuchs M1930 75mm Mountain Guns Powerful Japanese Army By contrast, each Japanese division had a field artillery battery, of which the permanent division artillery battery was 36 75mm field guns and 12 105mm howitzers, the ad hoc divisions were 36 mm field guns/mountain guns, and the 3-unit divisions were 24 75mm field guns and 12 105mm howitzers. Among them, the 27th Division regiment adapted from the Chinese Garrison, the 2nd brigade of the 27th unit of mountain artillery has jurisdiction over the new 6/8 Type 96 150mm howitzers and has participated in battles such as the North China Campaign and the Battle of Wuhan. The Japanese army in China, the army directly under the artillery (excluding the Kwantung Army) as of the end of December 1937, just field heavy artillery group has 11, independent field heavy artillery group 2, independent siege heavy artillery brigade 2. The Chinese army counted the 150mm howitzers of the 8th Regiment of Artillery, 17th Regiment and the rest of the local units, plus the German 150mm howitzers of the 10th Regiment of Artillery, *** counting 69 guns, which was far inferior to the Japanese army in number. In terms of the number of artillery shells, the Japanese army is even far more than the Chinese army. Shanghai Battlefield Japanese 150mm Howitzer Positions As an analogy, the 10th Chinese Artillery Regiment had less than 500 shells for each cannon, which were not available after firing and needed to be imported for replenishment. When the Japanese 10th Army landed in Hangzhou to fight, the 6th Brigade Regiment of Field Heavy Artillery, which was directly under the Japanese army, had 20,000 shells for its 48 150mm howitzers. Although the German 150mm howitzers had a long range, there were fewer guns and even fewer shells. Plus the Japanese also had 105mm cannons with a range of 15 kilometers and 150mm cannons with a range of 18 kilometers, and absolute control. At the same time, the national army has few heavy artillery, very valuable, shelling of the Japanese army basically belongs to the guerrilla, can not effectively suppress the Japanese firepower, that is, the artillery regiment split up, each group army, army are temporarily assigned a company or a platoon of artillery shelling of the Japanese army, and every round of the attack should be replaced by an artillery position, to prevent the Japanese artillery counter-attacks and aerial bombardment. The Japanese heavy artillery types, quantity, and sufficient shells, in the observation equipment, level are higher than the Chinese army, more absolute air superiority. The Japanese army will strengthen the artillery force every time they focus on attacking a place, such as the Battle of Songhu Battle of Daba Town, the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Nanchang, the Second Battle of Changsha, the defense of Guilin and so on.