Liang Jian: Commander, save some for me

Chapter 828

Li Jin went to the arsenal immediately and found Liu Hexuan inside.

"Battalion commander, I have made that armor-piercing bullet. Come with me and let's try it out to see if it has the power you expected." When Liu Hexuan saw Li Jin, a smile appeared on his face and he led the way.

Soon he brought Li Jin to a relatively open place.

"I'll go prepare the steel plate, you wait here." Liu Hexuan asked Li Jin to stay and wait, and he left first.

After Li Jin waited for a few minutes, Liu Hexuan asked someone to bring two two-centimeter-thick steel plates and guns and bullets.

Liu Hexuan had the two steel plates fixed front and back, and then loaded the rifle with armor-piercing bullets. After loading, he handed the gun to Li Jin.

"Within 150 meters, this armor-piercing bullet can easily penetrate this steel plate. I believe the Japanese tanks will not be able to stop it." Liu Hexuan explained the results of the experiments in the past few days.

"Let me try." Li Jin was also happy after hearing this. He came to a position about 150 meters away from the steel plate, then raised his gun and aimed at the center of the steel plate.

boom!
Ding.

As Li Jin pulled the trigger, the armor-piercing bullet shot out, instantly hitting the steel plate and piercing it, making a metal collision sound, and hit a steel plate behind it.

Li Jin hurried over to check.

The center of the steel plate was indeed penetrated by the armor-piercing bullet, and also left a mark on the second steel plate.

"So, tell me whether it can penetrate the Japanese tanks." Liu Hexuan said with a smile. It took a long time for his heavy machine gun to penetrate the steel plate, but the armor-piercing bullet directly penetrated the steel plate with huge power.

"Well, the Japanese tanks are not that powerful and can't withstand these armor-piercing shells. Old Liu, you've done a great job." Li Jin nodded with satisfaction. Liu Hexuan and his team were still quite capable and were able to produce armor-piercing shells so quickly.

"This armor-piercing bullet is powerful, but the production volume is a bit low. It took more than ten days to produce only a few thousand rounds." Liu Hexuan said with some regret.

It would be great if armor-piercing bullets could be produced in as high a volume as ordinary bullets.

"It's okay. We don't need too many armor-piercing shells. Enough is enough. The Japs don't have that many tanks for us to fight." Li Jin responded. He was already satisfied to be able to go up the mountain and fire armor-piercing shells.

Moreover, it is not so easy for other troops to encounter the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, so the current production should not be focused only on the production of armor-piercing shells.

"That's true." Liu Hexuan also felt that it made sense. The Japanese would not send out tanks and armored vehicles to deal with their troops.

"As for armor-piercing bullets, just make some when you have time. Don't take it too seriously. You should focus more on making ordinary bullets and semi-automatic rifles." Li Jin instructed.

Especially the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, Li Jin thought it would be best if he could make it after returning from Changsha.

"Aren't we going to make the rifles given by the brigade commander?!" Liu Hexuan was puzzled. Li Jin meant to focus on the manufacture of semi-automatic rifles.

He felt that they should first manufacture the rifle developed by the arsenal. After all, they had spent a long time researching this rifle and the success rate was very high.

"Do mine first. Believe me, this gun won't let you down. I will explain to the brigade commander." Li Jin patted Liu Hexuan on the shoulder.

Naturally, the things produced by the system will not be bad. It even figures out how to make them, what materials to use, and how to forge the materials. It would be unreasonable if Liu Hexuan couldn't do it with such detailed information.

"Okay, you have the final say." Liu Hexuan nodded. With Li Jin backing him up, he had nothing to be afraid of.

"Please make more of these armor-piercing bullets in the next few days. I will have someone send them to the brigade headquarters when the time comes." Li Jin continued to instruct.

Although the probability of their troops encountering Japanese tanks and armored vehicles is low, they still need to prepare.

The arsenal at the brigade headquarters should also produce some armor-piercing shells as a precaution.

In addition, new types of grenades are being manufactured, and Li Jin also plans to send someone to deliver them to the brigade headquarters.

The grenades made at the brigade's arsenal are still too weak. We need to make some more powerful ones so that we can kill the enemy better.

"No problem." Liu Hexuan nodded, and roughly guessed that Li Jin was going to send it to the brigade commander.

"I'm leaving first." Li Jin said, and left the arsenal happily. Then he went to the classroom to see Xu Qingfeng doing ideological work for the puppet army.

The progress seems to be quite good, which makes Li Jin quite satisfied.

These puppet soldiers did not really want to help the Japanese, so Li Jin accepted them because they could still be saved.

After reading it, Li Jin went to the communications room.

"Battalion Commander, we haven't received any telegrams recently, but the deputy battalion commander just asked us to send a telegram to the brigade commander, saying that we have captured puppet soldiers and want them to join us." Several telegraph operators hurriedly reported, thinking that Li Jin came to check if there was any telegram message.

"Okay, get me some paper and pen." Li Jin nodded and asked someone to get him something.

When he came back, he forgot to send it to the brigade commander. Xu Qingfeng was very considerate.

"Battalion commander, here you go." A soldier handed a pen and paper to Li Jin.

After taking the paper and pen, Li Jin began to write the content of the telegram. This was sent to the brigade commander, about sending someone to the brigade headquarters to deliver good things later.

"Just send a telegram to the brigade commander according to what's written here." Li Jin handed the telegram to the telegraph operator and gave instructions.

"Understood." The telegraph operator nodded, immediately sat down in front of the radio, and began to send a telegram to the brigade headquarters.

After finishing all this, Li Jin returned to the room and began to think about whether there were any other omissions in the development of the base.

.........

Brigade headquarters, in the conference room.

"Li Jin is a very bold boy. He directly chooses to capture puppet soldiers and make them his soldiers." The political commissar said with a smile.

"I estimate that most of the prisoners he captured are not sincere in working for the Japanese, and they don't harm the civilians." The brigade commander immediately guessed what the situation was with the puppet soldiers captured by Li Jin.

"This possibility is very high. Given Li Jin's temper, if those captives bully the civilians, he will probably kill those puppet soldiers directly." The political commissar also smiled.

"He actually had no other choice. There were indeed not many villages nearby that could recruit soldiers and met the recruitment requirements.

Therefore, Li Jin took a different approach and chose to capture puppet soldiers to serve as soldiers. ” The brigade commander also understood Li Jin’s difficulties.

He gave too many places to Li Jin. If he recruited all qualified people from the village, it would take a lot of time.

However, it would be much simpler to capture prisoners directly and then send people to investigate the families of the prisoners. Moreover, the captured prisoners would not cause the Japanese to vent their anger on their families. Who knows if the prisoners were killed? If you join the puppet army, get captured, and your family members are killed by the Japanese, who would dare to help the Japanese?

"That's why I say this kid is smart. If he continues to do this, it won't take long before the base is developed successfully." The political commissar sighed.

"It's not that simple. If we don't do a good job of ideological work on the captured puppet soldiers, it would be inappropriate to continue arresting them. There are too many people, which would cause trouble." The brigade commander didn't think so.

Even if those puppet soldiers did not do anything bad, it would still be difficult to get them to join Li Jin and his men in fighting the Japanese.

"Yes, it depends on how Li Jin does the ideological work on those puppet soldiers. I believe he can handle it well." The political commissar still has great trust in Li Jin.

"Come to think of it, this kid Li Jin is also preparing to be promoted to a regiment-level unit. He has even started training company instructors and battalion instructors." The political commissar changed the subject and brought up this matter.

This was the telegram Li Jin had sent earlier, telling them.

"Well, I guess it was Li Yunlong who reminded me. But, it was just the right time.

Li Jin starts preparing now, so that when the time comes, there will be no need to go through so much trouble later." The brigade commander nodded, probably guessing that it was Li Yunlong who reminded Li Jin.

"Yes, the people we send cannot help him all the time. He still needs to train more talents himself." The political commissar nodded.

Although they wanted to help Li Jin more, they still hoped that Li Jin could grow on his own. No one could help Li Jin all the time.

"Brigade Commander." At this time, a telegraph operator ran in.

"A telegram has been sent from Battalion Commander Li." The telegraph operator handed the telegram to the brigade commander.

"Well, you go down first." The brigade commander took the telegram, waved his hand, and asked the telegraph operator to leave first.

"Hiss... Did this kid come up with something good?!" The brigade commander frowned in confusion after reading the contents of the telegram.

"What did the telegram say?!" The political commissar was also a little curious after hearing it.

"Take a look. Li Jin said that he would send someone to deliver some bullets and grenades to the brigade headquarters in a few days." The brigade commander handed the telegram to the political commissar.

"Strange, what is this kid up to? So mysterious?!" The political commissar was also a little confused after seeing it.

The brigade is not short of ammunition now, and the arsenal's bullet production is still quite good. Even without the arsenal's bullet production, they can rely on the previous bullets for a long time. Li Jin knows this better than them!

"Could he have researched something interesting? Powerful bullets and grenades?!" The brigade commander spoke tentatively, expressing his guess.

"You're right, this is really possible." The political commissar also reacted.

In the past, he really didn't believe that Li Jin could develop new things, but since he saw the walkie-talkie developed by Li Jin, he believed it.

This kid Li Jin is an all-rounder who knows everything.

"Damn, I was really looking forward to seeing how powerful the thing he came up with this time was." After the brigade commander thought of the walkie-talkie, he still felt a little regretful.

"By the way, it seems that the two months that Li Jin mentioned are not far away now, right?!" the political commissar spoke. Li Jin had said before that he would return to the base and set off for Changsha in two months. Now the time is almost up.

"There's still more than a week left. Time is passing quickly," the brigade commander responded.

"It seems that Li Jin will not come." The political commissar had previously thought that Li Jin would come to the brigade headquarters before leaving, but now it seems that he was overthinking.

"It's not a big problem. This kid will be fine." The brigade commander was not particularly worried about this. If there was any danger, Li Jin would take his men and run away.

"Well, this kid is as smart as a monkey, how could anything happen to him?" The political commissar said with a smile.

.........

Three days later, Li Jin asked Tian Xiaoqi to take people back to the brigade headquarters and also to the headquarters of the New 1st Regiment to deliver some things.

"These two boxes of ammunition are for the new regiment. The rest should be sent to the brigade headquarters. Do you understand?" Li Jin began to instruct Tian Xiaoqi.

Two boxes of armor-piercing bullets, a total of fifty rounds, enough for the new regiment, and fifteen boxes are for the brigade commander.

"Don't worry, Captain. I'll remember it." Tian Xiaoqi nodded.

"Let's go. Be careful on the road. If there is anything, just send a telegram to contact us." Li Jin said. As for the new type of grenades, Li Jin has not prepared any for Li Yunlong for the time being. After all, the special operations battalion does not have many of them at the moment.

If Li Yunlong knew about this, he would have to ask them to do more.

"Battalion Commander, we'll leave first." Tian Xiaoqi led ten soldiers to leave the base.

"Everything that needs to be prepared is ready. When are we going to take everyone out?!" asked Xu Qingfeng on the side.

"About four days later, it's time to go meet Commander Liang and the others." Li Jin said. Two days ago, Liang Gu and the others had already started urging him to go over and meet up.

"Yeah." Xu Qingfeng nodded without saying anything more.

"While I'm away, the affairs of the base will be handed over to you. You must do a good job of ideological work for those puppet troops and don't expose our position." Li Jin instructed.

He captured these puppet soldiers and blindfolded them. They were not sure where this place was.

"Don't worry, even if they want to run, they can't. Besides, for now, they have no intention of running away. Being able to eat meat every day is better than anything else for them." Xu Qingfeng smiled when he said this.

He originally thought that these puppet soldiers might not join them so easily, but when they saw that they could eat full meals and meat every day in the canteen, they didn't want to leave at all.

"Really? Well, we should find an opportunity and ask them to join. If they don't want to join, we will blindfold them again and send them away." Li Jin couldn't help laughing after hearing this.

It seems that no ideological work is more important than having enough food to eat.

"Okay, I'll do as you say. But I still say that when you get there, you have to be very careful.
I'm not worried about the Japanese, I'm worried about the others, so be careful." Xu Qingfeng couldn't help but tell Li Jin to be careful after he passed by.

Because sometimes, the danger does not come from the Japanese, but from the rear. Once Li Jin is careless, something bad can easily happen.

"Don't worry, I'm not that stupid!" Li Jin was also moved and patted Xu Qingfeng on the shoulder.

"In comparison, the base has to rely on you during the time I'm away. Thank you for your hard work," said Li Jin.

To be honest, staying in the base to guard and develop the base is much harder than going to fight the Japanese, so Li Jin felt a little sorry for Xu Qingfeng for leaving everything to Xu Qingfeng.

(End of this chapter)