Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Chapter 827

Half a month later, Li Jin drew the brake rifle of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, and then took the drawing to find Liu Hexuan.

When Liu Hexuan saw the drawings, he was stunned.

"Battalion Commander, did you draw this?!" Liu Hexuan asked in a tentative tone.

"Well, this is a semi-automatic rifle..." Li Jin began to explain to him the functions of the gun and its various advantages.

Liu Hexuan was stunned after hearing what he heard. If it was really as good as Li Jin said, once this gun was made, it would probably be countless times better than the Japanese Type 38 rifle.

"Battalion Commander, I'm not questioning you. I'm just wondering, is this gun made according to the blueprint really as good as you said?!" Liu Hexuan hesitated and expressed his doubts.

He didn't know if the gun would work as well as Li Jin said. What if the gun jammed? Or exploded?

"It should be no problem. You can study it first. Good guns always require constant experiments before they can be made, just like the manufacturing drawings of the gun given by the brigade.
Isn't it also something that we have gradually improved through trial and error? !

Failure is not terrible. What is terrible is not having the courage to persist. Science is a road of exploration that requires you to move forward step by step.

This is a road without answers, or rather, every answer needs to be made by ourselves and requires innovation. "Li Jin said a lot.

Science is a road without answers, or rather, it is full of answers, but the answers need to be explored before they can be obtained.

"I understand. I will try to make this gun according to your drawings. Even if it is not as good as you said after it is made,
I will keep improving it until I can really make the kind of gun you want." Liu Hexuan was encouraged by Li Jin.

"Old Liu, then I leave everything to you. I believe you can do it." Li Jin smiled and patted Liu Hexuan's shoulder.

"Captain, I feel like you know a lot. You can fight and manufacture. What you said makes sense. You are right. We technicians need to explore various answers.

But I told you in advance that if I don’t do it, you can’t blame me.” Liu Hexuan also laughed at the end.

“No, it’s worth wasting a lot of things. Even if you can’t do it now, it can give some inspiration to others. If the road is right, future generations will follow this road.

If the path is wrong, it can also help future generations avoid taking the wrong path. We are not afraid of not being able to do it, but we are afraid of not having the confidence to do it because of the fear of failure." Li Jin comforted.

"Okay, I understand." Liu Hexuan nodded.

"By the way, before making the gun, you have to help me make this kind of bullet first. It must be manufactured according to my drawing!" Li Jin handed the manufacturing drawing of the armor-piercing bullet to Liu Hexuan.

"What is this bullet used for?!" Liu Hexuan was a little confused. The size of the bullet was the same as the Type 38 rifle.

"If armor-piercing bullets can be made, they can be used to attack the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, and they can be used with the guns we have," Li Jin explained.

"Is this thing really that powerful?!" Liu Hexuan was shocked.

"I'm not sure, but I think it should work. You can make it for me according to the instructions, and then we can experiment with it." Li Jin didn't dare to guarantee it.

After the armor-piercing bullet is manufactured, it still needs to be effectively tested, and he dare not use it directly.

"Okay, I'll try to make it as soon as possible. Give me five days, no, ten days." Liu Hexuan originally wanted to say five days, but it was the first time for him to make this kind of bullet, and he was worried that there would not be enough time.

"Ten days is too long. Let's just take a week. Once this bullet is made and confirmed to be useful, I can use it later." Li Jin gave Liu Hexuan a date.

He now only has more than a month, so he has to prepare these things as soon as possible.

"Okay! Then it'll be a week. After it's done, I'll send someone to notify you to come and see the experiment." Liu Hexuan agreed decisively.

"Well, I'm leaving first. You continue your research. Remember, don't show these two drawings to anyone else except you technicians and apprentices! Ask someone to sign a military order later!" Li Jin nodded and gave another reminder just as he was about to leave.

"Don't worry, I won't forget." Liu Hexuan was very clear about the importance of these two drawings, so even if Li Jin didn't say it, he would have someone sign a military order not to reveal it.

"I'm leaving first." After hearing this, Li Jin turned around and left.

On the way back, I happened to meet Xu Qingfeng.

"You went to the arsenal?! I was just looking for you." Xu Qingfeng looked at Li Jin.

"Well, I want to talk to you too. You go first." Li Jin responded. He had some future development issues that he wanted to discuss with Xu Qingfeng.

"Now the 1,000 new recruits have been trained almost completely, and each of them can easily hit a moving target at a distance of 180 meters.
I think it's time to take them to actual combat, so as to deal with those bandits." Xu Qingfeng informed them of the matter.

In fact, the new recruits had already done this a week ago, but Li Jin had been busy in the room for the past half month, so Xu Qingfeng didn't say anything.

He rushed back from the training ground today after learning that Li Jin had come out of the room.

"It's not enough to just fight the bandits, we need to recruit some soldiers now," said Li Jin.

"You're not trying to recruit bandits, are you?!" Xu Qingfeng was stunned, but he felt that it was unlikely. Li Jin probably would not recruit bandits even if he was recruiting puppet troops.

"Of course it's impossible. We can't recruit all the soldiers from the common people. That would slow down the development too much.

We also need to consider whether we will over-recruit soldiers. I think we can accept some puppet soldiers.
After all, there were many puppet soldiers who joined the army just to make a living.

If they are puppet troops who have not bullied the common people, we can do some ideological work on them and let them join us.

Of course, we must be strict in this regard and not bring trouble to ourselves." Li Jin also expressed his thoughts.

To be honest, he didn't want to recruit puppet troops before, but he wanted to develop faster and make the troops more combat-effective. If he just recruited ordinary people nearby as soldiers, he might not even have enough people by then.

Of course, he would not recruit all the puppet soldiers. He would definitely ask people to investigate the family situations of those puppet soldiers. In any case, those who committed crimes would definitely not be recruited. They would have to be killed first to avoid any troubles for them in the future.

"According to what you said, you are planning to continue attacking the Japanese and capture those puppet soldiers at the same time?!" Xu Qingfeng understood what Li Jin meant.

He also thought that what Li Jin said made sense. If they wanted to develop their troops as quickly as possible, this was a good idea!

The main reason is that they are also quite strict.

"That's right. It's better to keep the Japanese soldiers away from us and not get too close to our base." Li Jin nodded. If they moved the Japanese soldiers nearby, it would easily expose the base. Moreover, they couldn't take action near the bases of other troops to avoid affecting them.

"Okay, then I'll do as you say." Xu Qingfeng nodded. "Tomorrow we'll start taking the new recruits to actual combat training, and we'll also start recruiting soldiers." Li Jin said.

"No problem." Xu Qingfeng nodded.

In the evening, Li Jin came to Xu Qingfeng's residence.

"Old Xu, this is the plan I wrote recently about the development of the base. Please take a good look at it. When the time comes, I will bring people to Changsha, and the subsequent development will depend on you." Li Jin handed a plan to Xu Qingfeng.

Xu Qingfeng took the plan and started reading it. Each company would train company instructors and battalion political instructors, and strengthen political studies.

“Battalion Commander, I can understand training company instructors, but isn’t it too fast to train battalion instructors now?!

Are you preparing for the regiment level upgrade? The brigade commander should have prepared talents for us in advance. "Xu Qingfeng said as he realized it.

Li Jin is already making plans to upgrade the special operations battalion to a regiment-level unit.

"We can't rely on the brigade commander for everything. It's better to train those we can ourselves. At least,

When the brigade commander sends people over, the people we train can catch up with them as soon as possible, so it won’t take too much time. ” Li Jin said.

It is indeed easy to rely on others for help, but they also have to train these talents themselves. They have no shortage of military cadres, but they lack these, so they have to train well in this aspect.

Li Jin didn't know how long he would stay there, but he would definitely be there for the first battle.

"Yes, that's the truth. It's better to have something yourself than to have it from your parents." Xu Qingfeng nodded and continued to read Li Jin's plan.

In addition to training company instructors and battalion instructors, it also wrote in detail how to persuade captured prisoners to join them. The methods seemed to be very effective and they were also something they had never learned before.

That night, Xu Qingfeng talked to Li Jin about the contents of the plan from time to time, and Li Jin patiently answered his questions one by one.

.........

The next morning, Li Jin set out with the new recruits.

In the following half month, they wiped out all the bandit dens they had previously known about, and also captured several small towns guarded by the Japanese. They annihilated hundreds of Japanese soldiers and captured nearly a thousand puppet troops.

Without exception, all the Japanese devils who bullied the people were killed by Li Jin in front of the people in the city, which made the people applaud.

Li Jin and his men escorted the puppet army prisoners towards the base. Li Jin had each prisoner blindfolded.

On the way back, these puppet soldiers were all terrified, fearing that they would be killed by Li Jin and his men. After all, they had seen with their own eyes those colleagues who had committed crimes being killed on the spot.

What's worse, some of them even knelt down and begged for mercy, asking Li Jin to let them go and not kill them. This made Li Jin speechless. These guys really didn't believe him? If he wanted to take action, he would have done it long ago.

To this end, Li Jin had to spend a lot of time and effort to comfort these puppet soldiers.

After they were escorted back to the base, many soldiers were confused when they saw these puppet soldiers.

"Battalion commander, why are you capturing these puppet soldiers? Are you going to use them to practice bayonets with the soldiers?!" a soldier couldn't help but ask.

As soon as he said this, the puppet soldiers who heard it turned pale with fear.

"Don't kill us. We didn't bully the people. We joined the puppet army just to make a living. We don't deserve the death penalty!" A puppet soldier was so scared that he cried and knelt on the ground and kowtowed on the spot.

Other puppet soldiers also knelt down and began to talk about their family troubles, such as their elderly parents or young children.

"Damn it, what nonsense are you talking about!" After hearing this, Li Jin couldn't help but reach out and hit the soldier on the head.

"I was just joking, I didn't expect them to react so strongly." The soldier touched his head, looking embarrassed.

"Get out." Li Jin said unhappily, and then it took him some effort to pacify these puppet soldiers.

The puppet soldiers also breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that they would not be used for bayonet practice.

"Untie them and take off their blindfolds." Li Jin ordered.

Thousands of puppet soldiers were all untied and saw their own situation. They seemed to be in deep mountains and forests.

Xu Qingfeng also received the news and rushed over.

"Wow, quite a lot of people were arrested." Xu Qingfeng was also stunned when he saw this.

During this trip, Li Jin captured thousands of people. His efficiency was quite high. And judging from their conditions, they were basically puppet soldiers with no major problems.

"You should let those cadres start to do some ideological work on these puppet troops according to the method I gave you." Li Jin said.

Before setting off, he instructed Xu Qingfeng to first ask some cadres to remember how to do ideological work and try their best to get these puppet troops to join them.

"I've been waiting for this moment." Xu Qingfeng smiled after hearing this. He just wanted to try out what Li Jin wrote to see if it was useful. This time he could put it into practice.

"I'll leave them to you. As for their family situations, I've already sent people to verify them. This is their list. Please have someone divide it among the eight companies. This will make things faster." Li Jin took out a stack of lists and handed them to Xu Qingfeng.

"Okay, by the way, Liu Hexuan asked you to go to the arsenal as soon as you come back. He has already made armor-piercing bullets. I also took a look and found that they can penetrate steel plates.

I think it should be no problem to deal with the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, you can go and have a look." Xu Qingfeng explained.

Liu Hexuan produced the armor-piercing bullets on the fourth day after Li Jin left, and began experiments. At the beginning, the armor-piercing bullets were only slightly more powerful than ordinary bullets.

But later, as manufacturing became more sophisticated, the power of armor-piercing shells became increasingly powerful.

After experiments, Liu Hexuan has had people produce thousands of armor-piercing bullets. Although the output is a bit low, there is nothing that can be done about it. After all, the manufacturing of armor-piercing bullets is more complicated than ordinary bullets, and the materials are also complex.

"Oh?! I didn't expect that Lao Liu would figure it out so quickly. OK, I'll go there right away." Li Jin was very happy after hearing this. With armor-piercing shells, he could give the Japanese tanks a good beating when he went to Changsha later.

At that time, he would also have to seize the Japanese tanks and use them to bomb the Japanese, so that they would know what infantry-tank coordinated combat meant.

(End of this chapter)