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Chapter 287 Thank you Captain Li!
This LEFH18 howitzer is the main support firepower of the German division.

The maximum range is 10671 meters, the shell weight is 14.97kg, and the maximum rate of fire is 7 rounds per minute.

The performance is not as good as the American M2 105mm howitzer.

美式M2式105榴弹炮最大射程11160米，炮弹重量14．98公斤，最大射速16发每分钟。

The crew of both guns is 8 people.

However, the weight of the US M2 105 howitzer is as high as 4600 catties, and this big guy needs to be towed by a truck.

The German LEFH18 howitzer weighs only 3050 catties, and can be pulled by two or three mules or military horses.

Although the two 105 howitzers are not suitable for mountain guerrilla warfare, compared with the American M2 105 howitzer, this German 105 howitzer is obviously more suitable for the Eighth Route Army.

Moreover, in terms of performance alone, the performance of the LeFH18 howitzer is good enough to compete with the Japanese Type 91 105mm field howitzer.

But it was unable to deal with the heavy field artillery of the Japanese army. But having said that, the Japanese First Army did not have many field heavy artillery.

Li Yunlong held up the binoculars to watch at this time, his face was full of surprises, and his saliva almost flowed down.

When he saw the big 105 howitzer, it was as if he saw a beauty, and he couldn't move his eyes away.

If the boss hadn't asked Li Yunlong to accompany the head of the headquarters to meet the production line, Li Yunlong would definitely be receiving the goods at the old place now.

Li Yunlong was not the only one who couldn't take his eyes off. The heads of the headquarters also stared closely at the 12 howitzers.

Although the chief executives had never seen the listening plane with the howitzer, no matter how amazing that thing was, it belonged to someone else.

This howitzer was obviously aided by Li Yunlong's channel to the Eighth Route Army, and it soon belonged to the Eighth Route Army.

So the eyes of all the chiefs were almost all focused on the howitzer.

The transport plane and helicopter flew over the hilltop of Huangyadong with a buzzing sound, and completely disappeared from sight.

All the chiefs first whispered to each other, with excitement and shock in their eyes, and then all the chiefs looked at Li Yunlong in unison.

Rao is that Li Datuan is thick-skinned enough, being stared at by so many chiefs, he feels panicked.

The brigade commander, the division commander, the boss and the chief of staff, which chief can easily handle him?

"Li Yunlong, why didn't you report this howitzer battalion?" The brigade commander asked, "You don't want to start a howitzer battalion, do you?"

Li Datuan quickly explained: "Brigade Commander, all the leaders, I really didn't know this beforehand. This must be a surprise given to me by Brother Chen. It is not surprising that I was suddenly surprised by my relationship with Brother Chen. After all, he used to often Surprise me."

"Are you telling the truth?" The brigade commander was dubious.

"Truth!" Li Yunlong nodded hastily, "If you don't believe it, brigade commander, you can ask Brother Chen yourself."

Anyway, Brother Chen doesn't get in touch with you big chiefs, and he can't even find anyone.

Why ask?

The brigade commander wanted to ask a few more questions, but the sky was buzzing with the roar of planes again.

There are also a lot of rattling helicopter sounds.

Li Yunlong pointed to the sky and said, "Look, chiefs, another plane is coming."

Immediately Li Yunlong fired another red signal flare.

A group of chiefs quickly raised their hands and looked into the distance. Dozens of dragonfly planes got off and flew towards this side with large machines mounted on them.

In addition to dozens of Dragonfly aircraft, there are more than a dozen large transport aircraft.

Everyone was refreshed, and the production line for mortars and smokeless gunpowder came!

These dozens of dragonfly planes flew to the open space in the valley of Huangyadong in a file, put down the machine tool equipment in the air, and then flew away quickly.

The transport plane dropped densely packed airdrop boxes.

In just a few minutes, the open space in the valley was filled with large machine tools.

And those airdrops, some fell in the valley, and some fell down the mountain.

This situation attracted many personnel from the arsenal to watch. Seeing this scene, everyone's eyes widened.

After the boss ordered the soldiers of the cavalry company to collect the airdrops, all the chiefs walked quickly to the valley, and Li Yunlong quickly followed.

When they got close, they looked at the dozens of machine tools and equipment placed all over the place, and all the heads looked very satisfied.

At this time, Cheng Mingsheng, the director of the Huangyadong Arsenal, heard the report and came with a group of technicians.

The head of the headquarters had notified the arsenal before he came, so the arsenal was prepared, but not many people knew about it.

At present, the scale of the arsenal has 2000 people, more than 40 machines and equipment, and more than 20 machine tools.

The director of the factory, Cheng Mingsheng, is a talented student who has studied abroad and graduated from the Electrical Engineering Department of Waseda University in Japan. He is known as a small gun maker.

"Chief!" Cheng Mingsheng saw that the heads of the headquarters were all there, hurried over with the technicians, and saluted with a snap.

The boss returned the gift and said with a smile: "Director Cheng, this is the mortar and smokeless gunpowder production line that Captain Li Yunlong bought for your arsenal."

Wow... There was a lot of clattering around, and Director Cheng's eyes widened suddenly, and the eyeballs were about to fall off.

"Mortars and smokeless powder production lines?"

"Head Li Yunlong did it?"

The headquarters called last night and didn't say anything about the production line, only that they would come to inspect.

The surprise was simply too great.

Director Cheng and the technicians threw themselves in front of the machine tool equipment, looking at the brand-new machine tool equipment, they couldn't move their eyes away.

Li Yunlong saw the howitzer as if he saw a beauty, and this group of technicians saw the machine tool equipment as if they saw a beauty.

"Come and see, the factory manager, this is a high-power diesel generator!"

"There are three!"

A technician exclaimed loudly, and Director Cheng hurried over to take a look, his expression was so excited that he couldn't help crying.

Right now, the Huangyadong Armory has only one generator with a power of 10 kilowatts, which can only provide partial lighting.

Insufficient power is also an important reason restricting the productivity of arsenals.

However, Chen Feng had considered this a long time ago, so he provided a complete production line, including generators, machine tools, equipment and gun steel.

Even the initial diesel is ready for the arsenal.

Three 500-kilowatt diesel generators are enough to meet the daily needs of the arsenal's production line.

Even other things like grenades, grenades, and rifles will be greatly improved.

In addition, there are complete sets of equipment for the production of smokeless gunpowder, such as beaters, gelling machines, sheet rolling machines, and slicers.

The machinery and equipment for the production of mortars and shells include more than 40 machine tools such as steam engines, turning machines, planing, drilling, punching, cutting, and cutting.

In addition, there are 3000 tons of gun steel for 80 mortars.

Now the entire production line of mortars and mortar shells is fully active.

The 60th factory of the national army imitating the French 100mm mortars can only produce 150 mortars per month, but once the mortar production line of the Eighth Route Army's arsenal is established, it can produce [-] mortars per month.

Factory Manager Cheng was in tears but excited, and led the technicians to Li Yunlong.

"Thank you, Captain Li!"

Director Cheng snapped a military salute.

The technicians behind them all saluted and shouted in unison: "Thank you, Captain Li!"

Thousands of onlookers from the arsenal saluted Li Yunlong in unison, shouting loudly: "Thank you, Commander Li!"

Li Yunlong quickly raised his hand in return.

Immediately, Li Yunlong looked solemn, and said loudly: "Comrades in the arsenal, please be polite. This is what I, Li Yunlong, should do. If you produce more mortars and shells, we can kill more devils on the front line. Everyone works together to fight Drive the little devil out of China as soon as possible!"

clap clap clap!
The personnel of the arsenal applauded Li Yunlong one after another.

Li Yunlong and the heads of the headquarters also began to applaud.

Director Cheng Da said: "Commander Li is right. We must produce more mortars and shells. Are you right?"

"Yes!" As soon as Director Cheng finished speaking, there was an overwhelming response.

There is light in everyone's eyes and determination in their faces, and they focus their energy on one place and make their hearts think about one place, concentrating their hearts and strength.

"Move the equipment into the cave!" Director Cheng waved his hand, and the personnel of the arsenal rushed to the equipment.

The heads of the headquarters who saw this scene were extremely satisfied.

The cavalry company commander walked up to the boss and the chief of staff, and saluted with a snap: "Report to the chief! The airdropped materials are basically diesel and steel."

"En!" The boss nodded heavily, "Mobilize the soldiers and common people to collect the diesel and steel as soon as possible, not even a single airdrop is allowed, and move them to the warehouse."

Li Yunlong then took out a stack of papers and handed them to Director Cheng: "This is a list of machines, machine tools, diesel and steel, like the instruction manuals for machines and machine tools. Every piece of equipment is available. You should be able to find it if you look for it."

"Teacher Li, thank you so much." Director Cheng looked excited, grabbed Li Yunlong's hand and shook it vigorously twice before taking the list and looking at it.

A combat staff officer said to the boss: "This aid is a one-off, and we have to find a way to solve the gun steel and diesel in the future."

"There are 3000 gun steels, so don't worry about not having enough gun steel within one and a half years." The boss nodded, "The key is diesel."

The chief of staff asked: "How long can the diesel aid this time support the production line?"

"About 2 months." Li Yunlong said.

The boss said decisively: "Then mobilize all forces to produce diesel oil, and make sure that the production line cannot be shut down."

"You can spend money to buy some from the Jinsui Army and the Central Army." The division commander said, "But the price is a bit expensive, and gold must be used, but good steel is used on the blade, I think it is worth it."

In fact, democrats from all walks of life and their overseas Chinese donated to the Eighth Route Army's military supplies.

Some of them are materials such as diesel and gasoline, but the secret transportation lines of the Eighth Route Army cannot afford such a huge material transportation task, so they can only go to the Kuomintang-controlled area, but if they go to the Kuomintang-controlled area, they will be seized by the KMT. how much.

"It's not difficult to solve this problem." Li Yunlong said, "I will continue to do business with Brother Chen, and I can get diesel from him, and he will deliver the goods directly to the door."

"Yes!" The boss nodded, "However, we can't rely entirely on assistance, we have to rely on ourselves."

Afterwards, the boss looked at the chief of staff: "From today, let the comrades on the hidden front collect as much information as possible about diesel oil. Once the information is confirmed, order the combat troops to snatch it!"

(End of this chapter)