My client Li Yunlong

"The Shuijing Town Railway Bridge was destroyed, and the aircraft nose malfunctioned, causing the military train to be delayed?"

Shimen.

North China Front Frontline Headquarters.

Within the staff department.

A lieutenant Japanese staff officer picked up the phone and received a telegram from Dingxing and learned about the delay in the military train.

Suddenly.

"idiot!"

"waste."

Even if he is just a lieutenant logistics staff officer, he is considered a very small staff officer within the headquarters staff. Just pouring a ladle of water on them can affect a lot of staff officers who have greater control than him.

But he couldn't suppress the anger in his heart and cursed directly into the phone.

Up to now, the North China Front Army has been conducting raids on Tuba Road entrenched in southern Hebei for a total of thirty-five days.

At the beginning, the locust army was overwhelming, attacking cities and territories, and captured dozens of county towns occupied by Tubal Road.

However, since the vanguard troops arrived in Ze County, that is, when they arrived at the end of the road where Tubal Road connects the three base areas, they encountered a tenacious blockage from Tubal Road.

It has been thirteen days.

The battle lasted for thirteen days and was very fierce. The empire launched attacks continuously, but failed to break through the Eighth Route Army's defense line. It also lost a large number of locust troops and consumed a large amount of supplies.

Especially those staff officers in charge of logistics supplies knew that just one month of fighting consumed two months of combat supplies.

Much bigger than expected.

The senior management was very angry and aggrieved about this, but they were helpless in the face of Tubal Road. If he went to report the bad news now, a severe beating would definitely be inevitable.

To make matters worse.

Based on battlefield research by combat staff.

The reason for the huge consumption of supplies is not the advanced weapons of Tubal Road, for which the Locust Army has long been prepared, but its tenacious fighting will. Almost every position will experience brutal competition.

as well as!

The military quality of Tubal Road is obviously much better than that during the Hundred Regiments War last year.

The soldiers are well-trained and the officers command them appropriately.

As a staff officer, he understood the thinking of his superior officers.

Being defeated by advanced weapons would not make people feel too angry. After all, the weapons of the Locust Army are not advanced and inferior to those of the great powers. The navy will not agree with this, but the army has long been aware of it.

After all, the Army’s military expenditure is too low. The advanced 105 howitzer,
More of a helpless feeling.

The advantage of the Locust Army is its morale, its tenacious spirit, and its loyalty to the Locust and the Empire.

but···
Today's Tubal Road not only has weapons and equipment that are more advanced than the Locust Army, but also displays a very tenacious combat awareness, which is not inferior to the Bushido fighting will of the Locust Army.

This is unacceptable to the top leadership of the Locust Army.

Presumably, the current senior executives must be filled with anger.

The battle was fought against the attack on the highway.

As the offensive pace intensifies, frontline supplies have been very tight recently.

For this reason, many troops on the front line had to stop attacking. One after another, telegrams urging supplies were denser than snowflakes, making the staff officers responsible for supplies breathless.

It was hard to wait until supplies arrived.

It turned out to be delayed.

At least one day?
When the superiors receive this news, they will definitely be furious, and then they will be the unlucky ones.

Can he not be angry?

Probably the only good news is that the loyalty to Locust and the empire has never changed, and there has never been a retreat.

"Hi!"

The reporting guy on the other side of the phone was obviously a low-level officer, and he let out a habitual shout of excitement.

"idiot!"

After scolding again, the Japanese staff officer who answered the phone seemed to accept his fate.

Then he put down the phone and walked into the headquarters.

Snapped!
idiot!

Hi!
After a while, a clear and pleasant sound of slaps, an angry squeaking sound, and a sound of falling to the ground came from the headquarters.

···
at the same time.

Outside Shimen City.

Shuijing Town.

Qian Dayun looked at the information in his hand and couldn't help but yawned.

Before the Japanese began to attack, he was ordered to come here to organize intelligence work and assist the local guerrillas, break the Japanese transportation lines, and destroy the Japanese transportation supplies.

The day before yesterday, they successfully organized a raid and destroyed the Japanese Railway Bridge in Shuijing Town.

The ensuing work of hiding the aftermath kept him from sleeping well for the past few days.

Unfortunately,
The guerrillas here only had some black powder, which was much less powerful than yellow explosives, and the amount of explosives was not enough. They could not completely destroy the bridge, so the Japanese repaired it overnight.

It opened to traffic yesterday.

"Dynamite."

Qian Dayun frowned.

Nowadays, the weapons and equipment of the guerrillas are much better. Although there are not many guns allocated by the superiors, only a few twenty-shot rifles, these days, if you have money, you can buy any gun.

Nowadays, the guerrillas in Shuijing Town have three machine guns, two of which are Czech-style guns purchased from the puppet army, and one is a crutch.

Yes.

As the Japs' standard machine gun, the Kuaibao was naturally purchased from the Japs.

But explosives, especially high-yield and high-quality explosives, are not so easy to buy.

The Japanese explosives basically refused to be sold, no matter how high the price was.

There are no preserved fruits or puppet troops.

"Report."

At this moment, a guerrilla member came in and reported to Qianda Yunhui:

"The latest intelligence report, we have received news that a military column transporting 800 Japanese soldiers and reinforcements will arrive in Shuijing Town the day after tomorrow."

"Eight hundred men to replenish the troops."

Qian Dayun's eyes flashed sharply.

Eight hundred people, equivalent to a full infantry brigade.

Although they are supplementary soldiers, these are Jaap recruits who have undergone rigorous training. It is said that they have half a year of training, while the recruits in their own base area only have more than five months of training, even including the militia training.

These new recruits, the Japs, will become soldiers capable of fighting after a little training on the battlefield.

The recent battles on the front line have been very fierce, and both the troops and the Japanese have suffered huge losses. If these Japanese soldiers can be killed, the senior Japanese leaders will definitely feel very distressed.

Qian Dayun immediately opened the map near Shuijing Town.

The clear map makes the terrain near Shuijing Town clear at a glance.

Soon, Qian Dayun found an excellent ambush location.

A railway passes through a cliff area.

On one side of the cliff is a rock wall, more than 20 meters high, a shale rock wall, with fine rocks falling from time to time. On one side is a river. During the recent snow melting season, the water in the river is fast and bitterly cold. If you fall, you will basically die.

If a large number of explosives can be planted on the cliff and the rock wall is broken, it can not only destroy the military column, kill a bunch of Japanese soldiers, but also push the general column into the cold and fast river.

Thinking of this, Qian Dayun frowned.

The Japanese have patrols near the rock wall. This is not a big problem. They can just plant bombs at night and use telephone wires to detonate them.

The issue is.

The guerrillas did not have enough explosives.

"Correspondent." After thinking for a while, Qian Dayun called the correspondent:
"Send a report to headquarters."

Bombs, the capabilities of guerrillas, are almost impossible to obtain.

He could only ask headquarters for help.

If the headquarters cannot support high-quality explosives, then the battle plan will have to be abandoned.

···
Taihang Mountain.

Water waist arsenal.

As the strength of the troops increased and the base area expanded, absolute safe zones that could not be touched by the Japanese even if they launched raids began to appear, and the base area had room for development.

However, at that time, Japanese planes were still able to come and go freely. In order to prevent Japanese bombing damage, key facilities also needed to consider terrain factors.

However, with the popularization of anti-aircraft machine guns, especially the emergence of J-1, the dangerous terrain of Shuiyaozi Arsenal has become less important, so the original site has been abandoned and remains as a commemorative address.

After all, transporting supplies to the cave consumes too much manpower and material resources.

Absolutely unnecessary if there is no security requirement.

Instead, a newly built huge explosives factory appeared near the village under the water.

Although most of the imported machinery and equipment are used to implement future industrial plans and be used to mix advanced technology machinery and equipment, some are actually preparing to manufacture supplies for the army to continue.

Among them is the Shuiyaozi Explosives Factory.

Thanks to the technical information obtained from Boss Lu, the headquarters organized the population and built an explosives factory in Shuiyaozi to manufacture explosives using tung oil as raw material.

Although the independent group can produce one thousand tons of explosives every month.

But it's still not enough.

The construction of roads in the base area requires a large amount of bombs, and fighting also requires a large amount of bombs.

So starting from October last year, the headquarters organized manpower to build this bomb factory, firstly to meet the demand for explosives in the base area, and secondly to train technical workers.

Thanks to advanced manufacturing technology, sufficient funds, and technical consultants, after half a year of development, the explosives factory was officially put into operation last month. It has 3,000 workers and a monthly output of 200 tons of tung oil explosives.

It can also produce refined tung oil for painting wood. It has no peculiar smell, has a long shelf life, and has a bright color. It can produce 900 tons per month - in fact, the latter is the main output of the explosives factory.

The large amount of wood, high-quality wood, and the construction frenzy in the base area brought by Li Yunlong have prompted a large demand for furniture, and naturally there is a huge demand for refined tung oil.

As for tung dynamite, it is not as effective as yellow dynamite.

After the explosives factory in southern Hebei was destroyed by the Japanese, Li Yunlong acquired new explosives factory machinery, equipment, and technical data - an explosives factory with a maximum monthly output of 10,000 tons.

By the way, it can also produce 20,000 tons of fertilizer every month.

The headquarters plans to reduce the production of tung oil explosives to increase the production of refined tung oil. Firstly, it will promote economic development in the base area. Secondly, it will train high-level technical workers for the upcoming explosives factory.

superior's plan.

This explosives factory was established as a priority factory and concentrated efforts.

First, the troops need explosives to produce artillery shells and build roads.

Secondly, the base area needs fertilizer, otherwise it cannot rely on other people's food. The base area needs to be self-sufficient in food. Therefore, the new explosives factory must cooperate with Nanniwan's large-scale production movement and build a granary belonging to the base area.

"Director."

Just when the director of Shuiyaozi Explosives Factory was thinking about where to get some talents to come back.

The new explosives factory has a huge demand for talents.

A communications officer came running over and handed the factory director a telegram.

"Pack three tons of explosives and hand them over to the transport team?"

Seeing the order from the headquarters, the factory director frowned.

Tung oil oil is not very effective, so why do we need three tons?

However, although the factory director was confused, he immediately organized people to pack and transport the explosives. Two hours later, three tons of explosives were packed and handed over to the transportation team for transportation to Yangcun Airport.

···
Yangcun.

Taiyue Base Area, Logistics Center Office.

"political commissar."

"This is a new batch of military uniforms."

Zhao Gang sat in the office, looked at the list of supplies handed over by the clerk, and nodded.

Although the main person in charge of the logistics center is Zhao Gang, the visitor is from the Logistics Department of the Independent Regiment, so he is habitually called political commissar Zhao Gang.

"A total of three hundred thousand sets."

Lai Renhui reports.

"Three hundred thousand sets."

Zhao Gang couldn't help but smile when he heard the numbers.

Although there is a quilt factory in the base area, due to technical reasons, the military uniforms, military shoes, military caps, and quilts produced are far behind those produced by Boss Lu.

The quality is worlds apart.

It even affects combat effectiveness.

The front-line troops even once refused to accept military uniforms produced in the base areas, preferring to wear worn-out old military uniforms and military shoes.

Fortunately, after a series of trials and experiments, Li Yunlong finally reached the limit of what Boss Lu could allocate for military uniforms every month.

Two sets per person per day.

In fact, the initial application for 150,000 sets was not approved, but Li Yunlong personally led a battalion of the main force for a day of cross-country training and bayonet training.

After a whole day of tossing and tossing, dozens of wounded were found, and finally the military uniforms were riddled with holes, and even the shoes were badly worn.

I came back and changed into a new set of military uniforms and shoes.

Then Li Yunlong conducted another emergency actual combat drill at night - under the fatigued state of training, the reaction speed of the troops successfully wore down the military uniforms.

Although after a day and night of hard work, the soldiers were almost exhausted, and many were even injured and needed treatment. They successfully made the troops lose their combat effectiveness for a week, but they also successfully damaged two sets of military uniforms.

Thus, the daily requirement for two sets of military uniforms was adopted.

There are 5,000 people in the Independent Regiment. Each person has two sets of military uniforms per day, which is 300,000 sets per month.

Three hundred thousand sets per month can basically meet the needs of the army.

"Two hundred thousand is in the treasury."

Zhao Gang smiled and said:

"The remaining 100,000 sets of new military uniforms will be transported to the southern Hebei base area."

Fighting consumes not only weapons, ammunition and food, but also military uniforms.

After a long and brutal battle with heavy casualties, the soldiers returned to the rear to recuperate, eat delicious food, and then get a new set of military uniforms and new military shoes, which can greatly restore morale.

Regain the courage to fight.

···
Jinan base area.

South Town.

As a frontline material transfer center, it is also a transfer station for reinforcements.

The third battalion of the 772nd Regiment is preparing here.

"Comfortable."

After getting off the truck, Wang Ran, the commander of the third battalion of the 772nd Regiment, stretched and felt not only comfortable physically, but also mentally.

Wang Ran is also an old Red Army soldier.

The old Red Army walked through the grassland and the snow-capped mountains.

The Taiyue base area is only the southern Hebei base area, with a distance of only 300 kilometers, which is not worth mentioning compared to the grassland snow-capped mountains.
But a three-hundred-kilometer march is a huge burden for any army.

Even if the troops march continuously on foot and only march thirty kilometers a day, it will still be the same.
Any troops marching on foot, even if there are a large number of mules, horses and carts to transport baggage, will be difficult to maintain combat effectiveness after marching for 300 kilometers, and must repair for a period of time before they can enter the battle.

But this time, their entire battalion came by truck.

Twelve Taihang heavy trucks, carrying the third battalion of the 772nd Regiment, arrived in Nanzhen, the southern Hebei base area, nearly kilometers away from Liao County in one day.

"It's mechanized!"

Wang Ran sighed with emotion. (End of chapter)