Bright Sword: Develop alone, bring back an artillery regiment

Chapter 159 Build an arsenal and send equipment to Li Yunlong

Wang Chengzhu looked at Zhao Hong, the commander of the reserve company, and said, "Old Zhao, the task of training the militia is entrusted to you."

Zhao Hong stood up and promised: "No problem, I promise to complete the task!"

Wang Chengzhu: "In addition to forming the militia, I have one more thing to announce, that is, I plan to build an arsenal."

"Want to build an arsenal?"

Hearing this news, the cadres of the independent battalion were both surprised and happy. If an army wants to grow and develop, it must have its own military industry.

Otherwise, if we simply rely on fighting to support fighting, there will always be an upper limit to the combat effectiveness of this army.

Just like the current independent battalion, which seems to be very powerful, it can already easily wipe out a devil infantry brigade in a frontal battle.

But this strength is still not worth mentioning in front of the powerful Japanese army.

However, the development of the independent camp has reached a bottleneck, and it will only become more and more difficult to continue to develop.

Why is the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army so weak?It is because there is no military industry of its own.

It is true that the Eighth Route Army also has its own arsenal, such as the Huangyadong arsenal.

But the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army is far from the arsenal of the Japanese army, even Yan Laoxi's arsenal. It can't even be called an arsenal, but can only be regarded as a small workshop.

Moreover, it is still a small workshop that can only reload bullets and make wooden-handled grenades. Even bullets and guns cannot be produced, but can only be repaired.

The so-called repair is to disassemble the parts of several damaged guns and then reassemble them.

If the barrel is broken, it can only be declared scrapped.

In addition, the quality of the hand grenades made by the Eighth Route Army in the border area is also extremely worrying. The lethality of the explosion is negligible, not to mention non-existent; Li Yunlong was disgusted when he said it was a smoke bomb.

Of course, he said he disliked it, but Li Yunlong's body was very honest. If there were hand grenades made in the border area, he would still accept them all without hesitation, or even dislike the few.

It is precisely because the conditions are so difficult that the weapons in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, even if the rifling is almost worn out, are still treasures and are reluctant to throw them away.

After the surprise, everyone quickly regained their calm. Zhao Hongdao: "Battle Commander, building an arsenal is not as simple as talking about it. First, you need to have production equipment, such as lathes, production lines, generators, and various raw materials."

"I wonder what kind of weapons and equipment you plan to produce when you build an arsenal?"

Wang Chengzhu smiled and said: "I plan to build an arsenal, of course not because my head is hot. I know an overseas Chinese who helped me purchase a production line for Bobosa submachine gun bullets in the Soviet Union, a diesel generator, and 200 tons of bullets. raw materials needed."

"Of course, the Bobosha submachine gun bullet is only the first product of our independent battalion arsenal. In the future, we will increase the purchase of equipment to produce bullets of various calibers such as 7.92mm and 6.5mm, as well as various weapons and equipment, etc."

"However, it will take some time!"

Zhao Hong couldn't wait to say: "Oh? That's really great. With the production equipment and raw materials, the arsenal can be put into production immediately."

"By the way, Battalion Commander, when will these equipment arrive?"

Wang Chengzhu: "It should be these few days."

As he said that, Wang Chengzhu looked at Shi Yichuan, the commander of the supply company, and said, "Old Shi, I plan to build the arsenal in the cave in the mountain behind our village, so that even if the devils send out planes to bomb them, we won't be afraid.

Starting tomorrow, your supply company will be responsible for clearing out the cave and building it into a production workshop. "

"Yes!"

Shi Yichuan stood up and suddenly agreed.

Wang Chengzhu said again: "By the way, the matter of building an arsenal independently must be strictly kept secret, understand?"

"understand!"

The crowd agreed in unison.

After a pause, Tian Shuisheng asked again: "Battle Commander, don't you even report to the Commander?"

Wang Chengzhu: "Yes!"

"But……"

Tian Shuisheng was about to say something more, but was interrupted by Wang Chengzhu sharply: "There is nothing wrong! Shuisheng, you should be very clear that the devils have planted many spies inside my Eighth Route Army, that is, my independent battalion has just been established. Probably no devil's spies have infiltrated yet."

"But our independent battalion doesn't have devil's spies, it doesn't mean the other battalions don't have any. If the news about our arsenal building comes out, the devil will definitely send a large army to encircle and suppress it."

"And with the current combat power of my independent battalion, I can at most fight against a regiment of devils, and no more."

"So, for safety's sake, this matter must be kept strictly confidential!"

"Of course, when the time is right, I will personally report to the leader, understand?"

"understood."

With Wang Chengzhu's explanation, Tian Shuisheng was relieved.

Then, Wang Chengzhu looked at Xu Hailang again and said: "Deputy Battalion Commander, count the number of guns seized in Lijiapo today, and divide half of them. Each rifle gun is equipped with two bullets, and the light machine gun is equipped with 30 bullets. Tomorrow morning I'm going to hand these guns over to regimental headquarters."

"Yes!"

Xu Hailang stood up and suddenly agreed.

"Okay! That's the end of today's meeting!"

Wang Chengzhu announced the end of the meeting. Immediately, everyone got up one after another, saluted Wang Chengzhu, and then left.

On the other hand, Wang Chengzhu returned to his residence, turned on the lights to fight at night, and wrote down the training methods related to the three-three system tactics in detail.

……

Nothing happened overnight, and early the next morning, Wang Chengzhu led the guard platoon and a platoon of the supply company, and rushed towards the regiment headquarters with weapons and equipment.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, Liujia Village, Xinyi Regiment Headquarters.

"Oh! Zhuzi, you came in time!"

"By the way, what about the batch of weapons and equipment?"

As soon as Wang Chengzhu arrived at the regiment headquarters, he was immediately warmly received by Li Yunlong as a VIP. It wasn't that Wang Chengzhu had such a big face, but the batch of weapons and equipment.

However, when he thought that half of this batch of equipment would soon be taken away by the brigade commander, the smile that Li Yunlong had just shown disappeared immediately.

Wang Chengzhu said unhappily: "Commander, I have come all the way to deliver equipment to you, and you don't even ask us if we are thirsty or hungry, and you are thinking about the equipment, isn't it too unkind?"

"Hey hey hey!"

Li Yunlong chuckled: "As long as the equipment is not discounted, sweet potatoes are enough!"

With that said, Li Yunlong turned his head to look at the guard Huzi on the side again: "Huzi, lead the guard platoon to count these guns carefully. Half of the devil brigade's equipment is missing a gun. I am the only one who asks." !"

"Right? Pillars!"

Li Yunlong seemed to be threatening Wang Chengzhu, but in fact he was warning Wang Chengzhu that this kid had already tricked him last time, so he must count carefully this time.

Wang Chengzhu smiled and said, "Of course, if we fool anyone, he won't dare to fool you!"

Wang Chengzhu did not discount weapons and equipment, but he did discount bullets.

Seeing Wang Chengzhu's sincere face, Li Yunlong didn't seem to be lying, and even if he lied, he couldn't escape, so he put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Okay! Let's go, go into the room and say, I know you are coming, I will prepare it for you. A few catties of sweet potatoes were burnt."

Wang Chengzhu: "Then I will independently battalion these soldiers..."

Li Yunlong: "They brought us equipment, how can we treat them badly? Don't worry, we have asked the cooking class to steam two sweet potatoes for each of them to ensure that they are full..."

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