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Chapter 92: Don't worry about the gun, give me a bunch of these big barrels

Looking at the four big tubes, Li Yunlong was almost drooling.

No matter how you look at it, it pleases your eyes.

It turned out that when he was in the New 60st Regiment, Li Yunlong got a Type mm mortar, which he treasured very much. Fortunately, it was with that mortar that Wang Chengzhu killed Colonel Sakata with two fatal shots, otherwise Li Yunlong's frontal breakout would have been a joke.

When he arrived at the independent regiment, there were no cannons and only a few heavy machine guns. In terms of heavy firepower, Li Yunlong's hunger for it was only after Ren Zhong developed the Flying Thunder Cannon that his thirst was slightly relieved.

However, the Flying Thunder Cannon's poor range and the cumbersome foreplay of firing can drive people crazy. It is because there is really nothing that can hit the turret that Li Yunlong and his men treat the Flying Thunder Cannon as a treasure.

However, in positional warfare, the Flying Thunder Cannon is almost useless and cannot accompany the infantry to attack the enemy's firepower points and suppress the opponent.

The independent regiment now has no shortage of guns and bullets. The personal quality of the soldiers has also been greatly improved due to the opportunities for live-fire training. In terms of marksmanship alone, almost everyone in the independent regiment can be considered elite.

Not to mention those freaks in the sniper team, all of them transformed into experts in shooting accurately from a hundred paces away after the Heyuan battle. With a four-fold scope and a range of four to five hundred meters, they can hit the target eight or nine out of ten times, if not every time.

The individual combat effectiveness of the independent regiment can be said to be the strongest team Li Yunlong has led since he joined the army.

Of course, the Second and Third Battalions of the Independent Regiment have not fought any tough battles yet. The First Battalion did suffer a heavy loss at the hands of Colonel Yamamoto's special forces team. After Zhang Dabiao was brought in, they were mobilized to go to Heyuan and trained into a company of elite troops.

It can be said that Li Yunlong is now craving for a few cannons. With mortars, the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment is not as simple as a 1+1 increase. It can suppress the infantry artillery and grenade launchers of the Japanese battalion. Li Yunlong dares to lead the independent regiment to fight against an elite Japanese battalion!

It's not that Lao Li has become arrogant, but the regular organization of the independent regiment now, except for the company taken away by Zhang Dabiao, has more than 1500 people, and all of them have strict live-fire training opportunities. The organization of a battalion of the Japanese devils is usually around 1100 people. If the soldiers' marksmanship is similar, and if the artillery advantage is eliminated, Li Yunlong will still not be able to defeat the Japanese even with 400 more people, so he can just find a piece of tofu to kill himself.

"Brother Ren, can you do more with your big gun, for example, set him up with a mortar artillery battalion?" Li Yunlong said with a smile.

"Old Li, you are so bold. The brigade commander's artillery battalion is not even fully staffed, yet you dare to think of setting up an artillery battalion in the independent regiment. Aren't you a bit inflated?" Ren Zhong looked at Li Yunlong and said with a smile.

"Hehe, it's not that we have the conditions. The one who is close to the water gets the moon first. Brother Ren, I don't want this gun. Can you see if you can get more of these big barrels? If nothing else, just looking at them will boost our morale! Bang bang bang, a large number of Japanese soldiers died!" Li Yunlong didn't care at all and didn't feel embarrassed at all. When it came to doing things like this, Old Li had no shame at all.

He looked at Ren Zhong with an eager look, as if Ren Zhong must have a solution.

"Hey, Old Li, you really want to rely on me, aren't you afraid that the brigade commander will congratulate you on your fortune?" Ren Zhong didn't comment, which made Li Yunlong even more anxious. It seemed like a good idea, but Brother Ren didn't give in, and Li Yunlong didn't have anything good to impress Ren Zhong. "Brother Ren, you really have a way. Let's do this," Li Yunlong scratched his head, "next time you fight the Japanese and get a command knife, I won't report the credit to you, I'll leave one for you to play with."

"Really?" Ren Zhong didn't expect Li Yunlong to be so hypocritical. "If you can help me get a general's sword, I can even build you a real artillery battalion."

"General's sword?" Li Yunlong was dumbfounded. How could a mere independent regiment like him get his hands on this? "If you don't want to give it to me, then don't give it to me. Brother Ren, are you kidding me? I'm afraid it's difficult for us Eighth Route Army to deal with a brigade."

"That may not be the case," Ren Zhong saw Li Yunlong getting discouraged and remembered the famous scene when Li Yunlong led his team to ambush the Japanese observation group. He couldn't help but cheer Li up, "Maybe one day you, Li, will catch a big fish and even a general."

"Haha, thanks for your good words, brother. When I kill the Japanese general, I will definitely get you the general's sword. You must not go back on your word then. A real artillery battalion does not want this kind of big barrel. We must replace it with the big-barreled Italian cannon!" Li Yunlong was a little excited by Ren Zhong's words.

"That day will come." Ren Zhong smiled. Although he didn't know whether the flapping of his wings like a butterfly would affect the things in this dimension, as he introduced different new weapons, Li Yunlong's independent regiment would definitely become stronger than in the original time and space. Even if he didn't encounter the observation group, there might be a chance in the future to seize the opportunity of a brigade being out of touch and attack a brigade headquarters.

There must be more than just these 82mm barrels. According to Ren Zhong's idea, it is unrealistic for Li Yunlong to have an artillery battalion. It would be too conspicuous for an independent regiment to have 12 mortars.

But before the latest major counterattack, a 4-gun mortar company plus a 2-gun mortar platoon for each battalion was expected.

Although Ren Zhong can now carry 6 large barrels at a time, with the processing capacity of a machine tool in Yangcun, it might be considered good if he can complete 2 mortars in a week. In this way, at most 8 cannons can be completed in a month. From now to the start of the war, it will be 4 months at most. No matter how many large barrels Ren Zhong brings here, he can only complete 32 cannons.

Of course, in terms of machine tools, Ren Zhong estimated that he could produce about 4 machines in the next 6 months. If skilled workers could keep up, and add two machines a month, at most he could produce 80 guns.

These cannons had to be distributed to the dozen or so regiments around the headquarters. Li Yunlong had the advantage of being close to the enemy and got the upper hand. At first, he could only get four cannons for training. It was on the eve of the major counterattack that he got the last six cannons completed by the Yangcun Military Industry.

Of course, Ren Zhong didn't tell Li Yunlong these words first, to prevent him from showing off.

After all, for the Eighth Route Army, it was an era when a regiment could brag if it had one cannon, and even the brigade commander couldn’t even dream of a regiment having ten mortars!
The structure of the mortar is relatively simple among all the guns, without a doubt. Ren Zhong had already obtained a complete set of drawings of the Type 20, and he also bought a batch of matching sight parts from the main plane. So when Gao Kaiming and his team got the information and accessories, they felt like they had found a treasure, and they started processing and casting day and night.

Of course, Ren Zhong did not let the 56 and a half be completely neglected. The core parts have been solved, and the remaining spare parts can be manufactured by themselves after the world has machine tools. Ren Zhong arranged manpower and chose a method of stopping the machines while the people are working.

Although Lao Li doesn't think much of it now, Ren Zhong is waiting for the real gun to come out. He is looking forward to Lao Li saying it's really good!
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