Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 93 Go to Taiyuan

After a few days of rest and reorganization, the units of the New Second Regiment gradually recovered their condition, and the training of each company gradually got on the right track.

Especially for the reserve battalion, the combat effectiveness has changed significantly. Zhou Weihan selected the weapons and equipment seized from the puppet army and allocated them to the reserve battalion. He also added one Type [-] heavy machine gun and two light machine guns to each company separately.

The companies of the reserve battalion are basically replenished. They are veterans who have come down from the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness has recovered quickly.

Zhou Weihan was so still that he wanted to move, and the matter of finding a few skilled workers that had been hidden in his heart could finally be put on the agenda.

Some time ago, the New Second Regiment had set up a repair shop. The personnel were selected from the veterans who were disabled in previous battles. At present, they can only reassemble a new rifle from a few broken rifles. A new rifle industry takes two or three people and an hour to complete.

All the broken rifles are disassembled into parts, and all parts of the same rifle can be used in common to find out the good parts and reassemble a new rifle, which minimizes the technical requirements.

But the reality is that due to the limited production level, many rifles produced by the same production line have different parts and components. As a result, the efficiency of the new second regiment's repair shop has been unable to improve, not to mention that there are hundreds of parts. machine gun.

Zhou Weihan understands that repairing guns is a technical job, and you have to find a special person to do it. Many rifles are damaged by a simple part, and there is no way for the repair shop to repair them.

It is best to find a blacksmith or fitter with a higher technical level to reshape or process the parts.

Now the place where the new second regiment is resting is not far from Taiyuan, only across JZ City, which is the best time to find skilled workers.

Zhou Weihan made a decisive decision, called several company commanders, held a meeting, and explained the follow-up work.

"Regimental Commander, you said this, but I remembered that there are several skilled workers in a town in Shouyang County, my hometown, who worked in the Taiyuan Arsenal, but I don't know if they returned to their hometown after the fall of Taiyuan. " Han Zhiqian, commander of the fourth company of the reserve battalion, said.

Hearing that Weihan was overjoyed this week, why did he forget about it, and immediately asked each company to go back and look for local soldiers who knew the relevant clues.

If you don't ask, you don't know, there is a soldier in the fourth company of the reserve battalion. An uncle of his family used to be the technical backbone of the Taiyuan Arsenal, and now lives in Taiyuan.

A soldier from the fifth company of the reserve battalion was from the labor guard and knew the residences of several former workers.

In the end Zhou Weihan decided to divide the troops into three groups: "I will personally take people to Taiyuan, Han Zhiqian to your hometown of Shouyang County, Gao Zhiheng to take people to the Jinzhong area, no matter whether people are found or not, they must come back within half a month at the latest. "

Before leaving, Zhou Weihan said to everyone: "We are the Eighth Route Army. The first thing we talk about is discipline. You can't force others. I will give you two thousand yuan for each team to settle down. If you want people to follow our Eighth Route Army, you can't treat them badly. "

The three teams set off separately, and Zhou Weihan led Dong Jiang, Li Dabenshi, Wei Dayong and other ten people disguised as a caravan selling mountain goods and headed towards Taiyuan.

The closer they were to Taiyuan, the stricter the investigation was. Plainclothes teams often appeared in the town below. In order to prevent being targeted, Zhou Weihan and others buried the long guys outside the city of Taiyuan and hid the short guns under the carriage.

Taiyuan used to be Yan Laoxi's territory.

Although Yan Laoxi has a bad reputation, he has made a lot of contributions to the development of industry and education.

Just like the Taiyuan arsenal he ordered to establish is the only large-scale arsenal in China that can be compared with the arsenal founded by Zhang Zuolin. Even the arsenal under the chairman's hand cannot be compared with it in terms of weapon manufacturing!
In October 1936, before the outbreak of the all-out Anti-Japanese War, the factories under the Machine Management Department of Northwest Industrial Company were changed into Northwest Manufacturing Factory, which was divided into 10 branch factories, all of which were transferred to military production.

There are more than 8000 workers, 4300 machines, and the highest monthly output is 79 3000 rifles, 65 800 rifles, 600 light machine guns, 90 heavy machine guns, 150 mortars, 8 mortar shells, and 30 grenades. 150 million rounds of various shells and bullets, and 123 tons of various gunpowder.At the same time, it produces mountain artillery, field artillery, heavy artillery and other heavy weapons.

It is a pity that as the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, everything in the arsenal became Japanese!
In October 1937, the arsenal hurriedly organized more than 10 workers to start the difficult relocation work, transferring the main machines and valuable materials to Fenglingdu and Shaanxi. After hard work, more than 500 pieces of equipment were successively shipped out, accounting for about one-fifth of all assets.

Then they settled down in Xingping near Xi'an, Guozhen near Baoji, Chenggu near Hanzhong, and Guangyuan in northern Sichuan. Wait, support the war of resistance.However, large heavy weapons such as mountain artillery, field artillery, and large-caliber heavy artillery can no longer be produced.

On November 11, Taiyuan fell, and the Japanese invaded and occupied the Northwest Manufacturing Plant. They disassembled and packed more than 8 machines and equipment that had not been transferred in time, and shipped them to Tokyo, Osaka, and Northeast China in June 3500.

Those mechanical equipment that cost countless painstaking efforts and money to purchase were all dismantled and destroyed by the little devils. Those skilled technicians also fled desperately, and the good arsenal was turned into ruins.

The little devil has occupied Taiyuan for more than two years. Under the strong pressure of the little devil, Taiyuan has gradually restored some prosperity in the past, but the life of the subjugated slaves is not easy.

"We're going to enter the city, everyone stay calm." Zhou Weihan said, a few hours ago, a few people just killed a few plainclothes teams who oppressed the common people outside the city of Taiyuan. Fortunately, they didn't use their guns. I ran for my life.

The puppet troops stationed at the city gate had long noticed Zhou Weihan and the others who were queuing up to enter the city, and Qian Er, the leader of the puppet army platoon leader, immediately said: "See these people, there is a lot of oil and water, Xiao Shuan Son, take a few people there and question them carefully."

"Platoon leader, these people are not easy to mess with at first glance, let's not worry about it." Xiao Shuanzi said with a guilty conscience when he saw Zhou Weihan and the others who were tall and burly.

The platoon leader Qian Er was furious when he heard this, and immediately kicked Xiao Shuanzi over: "Why do I have such a good-for-nothing nephew like you, who dares to make trouble under the eyes of the Japanese? You watch." He said and led the people towards Zhou Weihan and others.

"You guys, let's just talk about you, where are you going to look?" Qian Er straightened his hat, pulled out the pistol from his waist, and said to Zhou Weihan and the others.

Zhou Weihan gave Li Daben a wink, Li Daben stepped forward, stopped Qian Er, and said with a smile on his face: "Sir, we came from Wuyi to resell mountain goods, we are good people." He took out his pocket Li handed over Qian Er's certificate of good citizenship, and conveniently stuffed five ocean dollars.

Qian Er flipped through the good citizen's card and looked at it, then looked at the carriage and said, "Wuyi's good citizen's certificate is not valid in Taiyuan. How about five oceans for beggars? These carriages are worth at least three hundred oceans."

After finishing speaking, he walked towards the carriage and said as he walked, "Search them all for me. I think these people seem to be Tubalu from the mountains, and they want to cause trouble in the city."

Zhou Weihan couldn't help laughing when he heard this. If he really has a way with the money, food and cards, he really hit the mark.

Zhou Weihan took out the samurai sword on the carriage, jumped out of the carriage, and cursed angrily: "Baga, you're dead, you're dead." As he spoke, he pointed at the puppet soldiers who were about to search the carriage Take away.

Qian Er was stunned by the beating, and covered his bleeding forehead and shouted loudly: "Taijun, someone is causing trouble."

Several little devils at the city gate saw the movement here, and surrounded them one after another.

Ma Dazui in the team immediately shouted in Japanese: "Misunderstanding, it's our own people. We came from Wuyi to do business."

It happened that a small group of little devils passed by in a car, and the leading little devil, the second lieutenant officer, jumped off the side three wheels with a command knife in his hand.

"What happened?"

Cao Chang, the little devil guarding the city gate, gave a military salute, and said respectfully: "Report to Second Lieutenant Yoshida, there are several caravans who are said to have come from Wuyi and the Imperial Association Army guarding the city gate. They seem to be our own people. I'm mediating!"

"My own?" Yoshida Akima became interested.

"Are you from Wuyi?" Yoshida Akima asked in Japanese.

"Yes, we came to Taiyuan from Wuyi to do business?" Zhou Weihan replied in Japanese.

"Yo Xi, your accent seems to be from Cheung Chau?"

"My name is Eguchi Eguchi, and my ancestral home is in Changzhou. When I was young, I came to China with my parents. Now I have forgotten my local accent. How could you hear me?" Zhou Weihan said with feigned surprise.

Masato Ito, who taught Zhou Weihan Japanese, is from Changzhou, so Zhou Weihan also has a Changzhou accent.

"Mr. Jiangguchi, I, Yoshida Mingzhen, is also from Changzhou. I really didn't expect to meet people from my hometown in China. Who are you?" Yoshida Mingzhen said excitedly, pulling Zhou Weihan's arm.

"I had some business cooperation with the local garrison chief Si Neiyong in Wuyi. China is rich in products. This time I came to Taiyuan to pave the way, you know.

It's just that these Chinese people are too greedy. I didn't want to reveal my identity. After all, there are too many enemies in China. I didn't expect the law and order in Taiyuan to be so poor. "Zhou Weihan said as he took out the official document approved by Isamu Terauchi and handed it to Yoshida Mingzhen.

"Eguchi-kun, I'm sorry for the trouble I caused you, please don't mind." Yoshida Mingzhen bowed to express his apology, turned his head and took out the Nanfang [-]-style pistol, and shot several puppet soldiers on the spot, Qian Erjian He was so frightened that his face turned pale and he fainted to the ground.

"Eguchi-san, don't let these Chinese trash disturb your mood."

Akira Yoshida belonged to the Taiyuan Gendarmerie. Although his rank was only a second lieutenant, he had a lot of authority. It was not uncommon to shoot several puppet troops.

Zhou Weihan looked at the puppet soldiers who died, and was really angry, but they were not wronged at all. They usually bullied people who entered the city. Can't touch the blood of one's own people.

(End of this chapter)