Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 426 The Eighth Route Army's Confidence (Second Update!)
The allocation of weapons is such a big matter that the Eighth Route Army headquarters can't decide with a single sentence. It needs to be reported to Yan'an, and the decision can only be made after a meeting in Yan'an.

However, the deputy commander-in-chief can make a decision on the exchange of rail steel for weapons.

On the second day after leaving the headquarters of the Jinchaji Military Region, a telegram was sent to all units of the Eighth Route Army that could receive the radio.

Although the first detachment of the First Military Division was stationed, although they did not directly lose their combat effectiveness in the First Battle of Yangquan, the huge casualties and equipment loss could be called traumatic.

In the view of the detachment leader, even if the troops return to the base area, it will take at least half a year for a team to restore its pre-war strength.

Not because there is no one!
The more than 3000 people in the whole detachment who came back alive are all veterans and elites.

As long as recruits are recruited and they are trained, they can recover their combat effectiveness in at most three months.

The biggest problem is equipment and ammunition.

The entire detachment had more than 5000 rifles before the war, but less than [-] remained intact after the battle.As for those scrapped rifles, even if they were sent to the arsenal for repair, it would be thankful that a thousand rifles could be repaired.

Calculated in this way, the whole detachment is at least [-] rifles short.

In addition to the light and heavy machine guns and artillery worn out on the battlefield, after the entire detachment is full, at least half of the soldiers will train empty-handed because they have no equipment.

If it is placed before, the equipment detachment leader is not worried at all.

As long as there are veterans, fight the devils a few more times, and you will have equipment, ammunition, and food.

However, since the detachment came back from Yangquan, the Japanese and puppet troops in the detachment's jurisdiction didn't know what was wrong with them, but they were all trapped in the county and strongholds, not giving the detachment a chance to attack them.

In this case, a team's dream of obtaining equipment from the Japanese and puppet troops will be shattered.

This is the fundamental reason why the detachment leader judged that it would take at least half a year for a team to recover its combat effectiveness after a team returned to the station.

No weapons, no ammunition, no matter how well trained the troops are.You can't let the soldiers fight with the well-equipped devils with bare hands!
Just when the detachment leader was worrying about the weapons every day, things turned around five days ago.

The military division suddenly ordered the political commissar of the detachment to bring a battalion, but the military division reported and received the equipment!
At first, the detachment leader didn't take it seriously.

Everyone knows that the Eighth Route Army is poor, but the detachment leader also knows that in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the front-line combat troops, the Eighth Route Army headquarters, military regions, and even military divisions are poorer than their combat troops.

In this case, what equipment can the superior provide for himself.

Even with the equipment, it is a drop in the bucket for a team of more than 7000 people.

However, when the political commissar came back with a dozen or so carts, the detachment leader was frightened, and at the same time brought a piece of good news that surprised him.

The military sub-division actually gave itself a thousand [-] big covers, thirty light machine guns, and ten heavy machine guns at one time, and equipped a regiment with more.

More importantly, the detachment leader finally knew the root cause of why the headquarters, uncharacteristically, ordered himself to confront the Japanese puppet army head-on for several days!

"Political commissar, you mean that our arsenal can produce weapons and equipment by itself in the future!" the detachment leader asked in shock and surprise.

The political commissar shook his head and replied: "I don't know if it can be produced. Anyway, the weapons and equipment I brought back were all snatched from the warehouse of Taiyuan Arsenal. They must have snatched back a lot of equipment that can be used to make guns and cannons!"

As an old revolutionary, the detachment leader may have been really scared by the lack of guns and ammunition in the past, and replied with a serious face: "If we can really move the Taiyuan Arsenal to our base area and let us make our own guns and cannons, our team will It's worth it even if it's all over!"

At this moment, the communications staff officer suddenly barged in.

"Detachment leader, political commissar, secret message from the military region!"

The political commissar who heard the word "secret telegram" immediately took the telegram, found out the code book, and began to translate it himself.

It didn't take long for the commissar's face to be replaced by a thick smile, and he said happily.

"Old Chen, our Eighth Route Army may really have its own arsenal! Not only can we make guns, but we can also make cannons!"

"This is from the military region. Let us have the rails in our hands and transport them to the logistics department of the headquarters to change the equipment. Not surprisingly, these equipment must have been made by our arsenal."

The detachment leader quickly took the telegram, and soon, the detachment leader's face was covered with an unprecedented firm expression.Then he affirmed.

"It must be made, otherwise the military region has no reason to collect so many rails! It's like the military region asked us to exchange bullet casings for bullets!"

After finishing speaking, the detachment leader showed a thoughtful expression.

"Political commissar, I remember that some time ago, we carried out a raid. We picked up a lot of rails and hid them in the woods. There must be hundreds of them. According to the exchange standard above, a rail of two thousand catties can be exchanged for twenty rails. Rifles, wouldn't those one hundred rails be exchanged for two thousand rifles!"

"Just now I was still worrying about how to get more than 2000 rifles. Now not only rifles have been solved, but also light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even artillery!"

After finishing speaking, the detachment leader made a decision: "Political commissar, you come to guard the house. I will bring a reinforcement battalion, and then the guards, and send all the bullet casings brought back from the railroad tracks and the battlefield to the military area, and replace them with the ones we urgently need." Bullets and weapons!"

"As long as I have a gun and ammunition, I have the confidence to spend three months to recover my combat effectiveness."

"At that time, when the puppet army comes, I will kill the puppet army, and when the Japanese come, I will kill the Japanese."

"As long as I have enough weapons and ammunition, I'm not afraid of how many people come from the little devil!"

At the same time, all regiment-level and above units of the Eighth Route Army equipped with radio stations also received the telegram.

Weapons may have to be shot from devils for them, but railroad tracks are everywhere.As long as there are railways, if you catch the devil's defense loopholes, you can pick up a dozen rails with just one action.

At this time, some people may say that with so many troops bringing rails to the arsenal to exchange weapons and ammunition, the current production capacity of the arsenal must not be able to supply them.

However, everyone obviously underestimated what Wang Ping gained in Taiyuan City.

In addition to seizing more than 3000 rifles of various types in the hands of the devils, a total of [-] new guns were seized from the temporary arsenals arranged by the devils inside the four city gates.

As for the arsenal warehouse, there are more than 1000 rifles repaired and newly manufactured in the arsenal.

After distributing [-] rifles as compensation for this battle for all participating troops, the remaining seven or eight thousand rifles were all left in the arsenal.

And Wang Ping directly regarded these rifles as hens borrowed from chickens to lay eggs in the arsenal, and exchanged them for steel to produce more rifles, and then formed a virtuous circle!
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