Bright Sword: Infinite Logistics

Chapter 32 Mortars are on the agenda

Just as the Japanese were wailing because the supplies could not arrive, there was joy in the new group.

After the third battalion reported the battle, Li Yunlong burst into laughter.He likes to fight against Japanese transport teams. Once he wins, he will seize a lot of supplies.

"Haha, I was worried that I didn't have enough food stamps, so the third battalion commander helped me move more than ten trucks! What a great job!"

In the cafeteria, Li Yunlong changed his embarrassment from being too scared to speak by the brigade commander a few days ago and laughed loudly.

The surrounding soldiers all looked happy. Director Luo posted the results of the third battalion on the wall of the cafeteria. Now the soldiers all knew that the third battalion won a battle today and captured a lot of things.

However, one person looked at Li Yunlong in confusion: "Are you short of food?"

Meng Zhige looked at Li Yunlong and then at the rice in his bowl.He eats well every day, but he doesn't realize that he is short of food now.

In Meng Zhige's memory, the most difficult days of the Eighth Route Army were probably 42 years.At that time, assistance from friendly forces had stopped for more than two years. The harvest had been poor due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, so a large amount of food was allocated to relieve the victims.During that time, the Eighth Route Army and the people in the base area ate leaves to satisfy their hunger.

As this was not enough to eat, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region even issued a "Leaf Order", requiring soldiers to leave the leaves within fifteen miles of the village to the common people and go to no-man's land to pick the leaves themselves.

And a certain bald man commented on these practices as "you can buy people's hearts, but their hearts can be killed."

Seeing that Meng Zhige didn't understand, Luo Yuanfan explained: "We implement a food stamp system. We collect public grain and store it in various places. The troops only need to carry food stamps and can exchange for grain, such as millet, wheat, and corn, at the grain chiefs of various places. Noodles. In some places, you can also buy flower materials.”

"What Lao Li just said is that there are not enough food stamps, and there is a difference between not having enough food stamps. The food stamps we have now are probably enough for the whole group to eat until September. If the food stamps are not enough, we will take food from the Japanese. If it doesn’t work, just ask other regiments to borrow some, or ask the brigade commander for some.”

Meng Zhige understood now: "Don't go to such trouble. If you don't have food stamps, just come to me. I can't afford to support your entire division, but it's no problem to raise a regiment."

"No, no, Brother Meng's transportation capacity should be reserved for weapons and ammunition. As long as we can win on the battlefield, many things will be easy to handle." Li Yunlong waved his hand in rejection.

"Don't worry about transportation capacity. It's just some food. It can be purchased domestically and delivered without much impact."

This is not entirely nonsense from Meng Zhige.Transport capacity was a random reason at first, but it is true that the impact is not big.As Xin Yituan gradually lets go of using supplies, the points in his system grow faster and faster.The amount of supplies has not increased these days simply because he is holding back a big one.

Li Yunlong and Luo Yuanfan looked at each other: "Okay, if the food stamps are not enough, then it depends on Brother Meng."

Li Yunlong is not a fool. He has cooperated for so long and received so many batches of supplies. He has also noticed many abnormalities.

For example, when receiving supplies, the entire secret service company was dispatched, but there was no trace of transportation at all. The supplies seemed to appear out of thin air at the place he designated.

Another example is the force behind Advisor Meng. So far, only Meng Zhige has appeared, and they don't even have anyone to guard the supplies.

Therefore, Li Yunlong already has some ideas about the transportation capacity mentioned by Meng Zhige.Perhaps what Consultant Meng said about the transport capacity was different from what he thought... "Old Li, how many people in your group can fire mortars?" Meng Zhige suddenly asked after swallowing a mouthful of food.

"As for mortars, that guy Wang Chengzhu knows how to shoot them accurately. Several grenade groups should be able to shoot them, but the accuracy is not guaranteed. If you are talking about the kind that has been professionally trained and can calculate the impact of artillery shells, There are none." Li Yunlong said, his eyes suddenly lit up: "Brother Meng, you ask this, are we going to send mortars?"

This time Li Yunlong didn't clamor for a grenade.After knowing that Meng Zhige had no shortage of artillery shells, he opened his eyes.

The advantage of the grenade is that the ammunition is easy to find, and the Japanese grenades can be used, and there are also special grenades.Moreover, an experienced veteran can quickly hit the target with a grenade and his reaction speed is extremely fast.

But compared with mortars, grenade launchers are still a bit less interesting.

In terms of power, not to mention hand grenades, even the dedicated grenades are only 50mm, which is far behind the 60mm mortar.

In terms of range, the grenade can hit the sky to 700 meters, and when using a grenade, it is only within 200 meters. The range of the 60mm mortar is at least 1.5 kilometers, and more close to 2 kilometers.

In terms of accuracy, the accuracy of the grenade depends solely on the personal experience of the shooter, but the mortar has an extra gun mount, which can calculate the shooting elements and strike the enemy more accurately.

In general, mortars have greater advantages. They do not need to rely entirely on the shooter's personal experience, and they are suitable for large-scale training equipment.

"The mortar will have to wait for a few more days. The main thing now is to ask how many people in the regiment know how to use it. I can't say that I have sent the weapon and you still can't use it, right? Then you can only put it aside to gather dust."

"In the past few days, Lao Li, you just happened to drag out the cannon in the regiment and let the soldiers practice more. It doesn't matter if you can't bear to shoot the cannonballs. What about setting up the artillery position, and the disassembly and assembly of the cannon itself? You can still get familiar with these. Yes. In addition, I will give you some information after dinner, and you can read it and learn something."

Li Yunlong frowned: "What information? It's not like I'm doing it myself, what should I learn?"

Obviously, countless persuasion from people around him had no effect on this guy.If you want him to study seriously, you must either have the ability of a teacher, or you must let him see the usefulness of studying.

Meng Zhige chuckled: "If you only want to lead an infantry regiment, then you really don't need to study anymore. You can now command the troops to intersperse and encircle. When my mortars arrive, you won't even have to accompany the infantry with artillery." No. If I give you a few more infantry cannons, you can go head-to-head with brigade-level Japanese in the field, and maybe you won’t suffer much loss."

"But that's it." Meng Zhige put down his clean job: "Because of your insufficient education and lack of understanding of the new equipment, it will be difficult for you to take advantage of my future assistance. . Give you heavy artillery, but you can’t use infantry and artillery coordination; give you tanks, and you can’t use armored clusters; give you airplanes, and you can’t even understand the most basic performance parameters, let alone command.”

"All the good things have been taken away by other troops, and you are still here guarding a few infantry cannons and holding a few heavy machine guns. What will you do by then? It's too late for you to blame anyone."

"So, learning is essential. Especially for new equipment in the army, at least you need to know its operating principles and actual combat effects, and how to maximize their effects. The information I have prepared for you is about forced Gunners train and cooperate with infantry in combat."

Hearing Meng Zhige speak so seriously, Li Yunlong had to nod his head: "Okay, okay, I can't learn enough."

(End of this chapter)