Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 98 The Brigade Commander is Here Again

Zhang Wanhe's painting style changed so quickly that Ren Zhong was a little overwhelmed to react.

How come Mr. Zhang has learned Mr. Li's shameless face-changing technique? They were just talking about running a school, how come it suddenly turned into a transaction mode?

Moreover, Lao Zhang has tasted the sweetness and now no longer mentions the big money or the small yellow croaker. He just settles the bill according to the paintings. Lao Zhang is embarrassed to disclose the cost of some of the paintings. He received some for dozens of dollars, and some even gave them away for free.

Of course there is no problem in drawing ten large pipes in one picture, and it is also very OK to draw a machine tool in one picture, but these things can be discussed after Ren Zhong has calmed down.

We were clearly talking about something very sacred just now, but it suddenly turned into a naked transaction in reality.

"Hey, Lao Zhang, you have become as realistic and vulgar as Lao Li." Ren Zhong also changed the way he addressed Zhang Wanhe. Now that they had the school, the relationship between the two became like that of colleagues.

Just like Li Yunlong.

After all, Ren Zhong admired Zhang Wanhe very much. It was really not easy for him to manage the logistics affairs of the base in such difficult conditions.

"Hey, Brother Ren," Lao Zhang was not polite and imitated Lao Li's address, "Your things can help us a lot. To be honest, the leaders have started to pay attention to the movements in Yangcun at any time. The machine tools and large pipes you brought back are important resources that our base cannot obtain from the outside world."

Ren Zhong was silent for a while.

"Old Zhang, I won't hide it from you. It's really hard to get this stuff in. The quantity is extremely limited." Ren Zhong replied. "As for the production of mortar shells, now that we have high-quality gray cast iron, we can produce them on a large scale. The number of workers in Yangcun is limited. Can you transfer the manpower of the arsenal to Yangcun and start to produce mortar shells with all your strength? Relatively speaking, the quantity of shells is the most important."

Zhang Wanhe was a little disappointed.

But he didn't bother about anything else and was about to say goodbye. Ren Zhong couldn't get it done, so he had to find a way to produce some on his own. Now that Yangcun carbon steel was available, he could use the mold to produce a batch of new tubes, but the quality and effect of such tubes were far worse than those brought by Ren Zhong. He didn't dare to use the 82mm large tube, so he might as well focus on copying the Japanese grenade launchers.

"In the past few months, I can get in at most 70 to 80 of those large pipes, and as for machine tools, I may be able to get one or two more," Ren Zhong added.

When Zhang Wanhe heard this, he thought there was something wrong with his ears.

"Brother Ren, how many big pipes do you think we can get?" Zhang Wanhe said in a lost voice.

"Seventy or eighty of them. This thing is really hard to deal with." Ren Zhong said.

"Enough, enough!" Zhang Wanhe's blood suddenly boiled. My God, how many artillery battalions is this enough?
For the Eighth Route Army's current regular artillery battalion, having seven or eight 82mm large barrels is considered elite. It cannot be compared with the elite artillery battalion of Guo Su's direct line, not to mention Chu Yunfei, a natural son of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army.

With Ren Zhong's actions, wouldn't it mean that the Eighth Route Army Base Headquarters would have more than ten artillery battalions? No wonder Ren Zhong asked for more artillery shells. With so many large barrels, wouldn't the demand for artillery shells be huge?! At least they should stockpile several thousand shells before the counterattack.

With such an important hidden firepower, Zhang Wanhe suddenly gained confidence in the counterattack planned by the headquarters.

In the past, when fighting against Japanese troops above the battalion level, the most lacking thing for the besieging troops was artillery support. They could not solve the suppression of Japanese artillery and heavy machine gun fire points. It was often difficult to defeat a Japanese battalion in a short period of time even if it was surrounded by several main regiments. But if there were really 70 or 80 large barrels, let alone a battalion, even if a brigade came in, they would not be able to return in one piece!

"Brother Ren, Brother Ren, if we can really get these things you said, the leaders will be very happy." Zhang Wanhe said with a red face. "Let's go and have a drink with Lao Li before going back!"

Zhang Wanhe has always been busy and rarely stays in one place for a long time. When he heard this good news today, he really couldn't help but give himself half a day off!
Ren Zhong was deeply involved in this world, and he knew the impact this matter had on Zhang Wanhe, so he smiled. "But Lao Zhang, this matter has not been completed yet, so don't tell Lao Li, otherwise Lao Li, who is a big mouth, would have already told his comrades about it."

"That's right, that's right," Zhang Wanhe calmed down, "Brother Ren, when your organization sends the big tube over, please inform me so that I can come and receive it myself. Otherwise, Li Yunlong might have hidden something."

Li Yunlong, who was cultivating new land outside Yang Village, suddenly sneezed.

"Who the hell is this? He always misses me!" Old Li put down his hoe and stood there looking at the busy land. The officers and soldiers of the independent regiment were happily turning the soil on the riverside land that had just been burned. Hundreds of people took turns to turn over hundreds of acres of land in a day!
These weed-covered lands could be burned and then turned over, and they would become perfect land for growing corn. Combined with the biological fermentation organic fertilizer and biogasified manure that Ren Zhong had prepared, Ren Zhong was confident of getting a good harvest, so Li Yunlong did not hesitate to pull out the independent regiment to do the work.

Old Li didn't expect that people were talking about him behind his back, so he took a short break and started working again.

"Oh, Lao Zhang, you are a rare guest. Why did you come here without saying hello?" When it was dark, Li Yunlong returned to Yangcun and found Zhang Wanhe at the regiment headquarters, waiting for him. He was a little surprised.

"Old Li, today is a happy day. Our Anti-Japanese Military and Industrial Special Department has been officially established, and Brother Ren has taken office as the Dean of Education. I was thinking about celebrating, but Brother Ren happened to say he had a bottle of good wine, so let's drink it together today." Zhang Wanhe said with a smile.

"It's such a good thing, so we must drink. Brother Ren, I've known you for such a long time, but I've never seen you offer me wine. Today, Lao Zhang came and you were willing to offer me wine. Do you have a problem with me, Lao Li?" Li Yunlong grinned and said, "What kind of wine is it? Is it better than my sweet potato wine?"

Ren Zhong shook his head and took out two bottles of Jiucheng Special Liquor with even the label torn off. There were only four people in the regiment headquarters today, him, Zhang Wanhe, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie. Two bottles of wine were a little too little. After all, Li Yunlong was a drunkard and even one bottle was not enough.

But Ren Zhong couldn't get used to Li Yunlong's behavior.

"Haha, Brother Ren's wine must be high-quality stuff. It's really delicious!" Kong Jie rubbed his hands and laughed. He threw his pipe aside long ago. Ren Zhong's good wine is really rare. Kong Jie had to keep an eye on that kid Li Yunlong.

The main dish to go with the wine was a few pounds of miscellaneous fish that the soldiers had caught from the creek. There was a kind of fish that was about ten centimeters long and looked like a loach. It was fried. Ren Zhong had eaten it and found it particularly delicious.

Then rinse a few plates of wild vegetables with water and some salt. They will have a crisp taste and are naturally delicious.

A bottle of wine was opened and the fragrance filled the whole house.

"Brother Ren, your wine is really not simple!" Kong Jie closed his eyes and smelled it, and said intoxicatedly, "It's delicious! It's really delicious! I'm afraid that even the brigade commander has never drunk this wine, right?"

"What a great guy, Li Yunlong and Kong Jie. How come you forgot about me after drinking so much wine?!" Just as Kong Jie finished his words, a familiar and hearty voice came from outside the regiment headquarters.

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