Such a big weapon distribution cannot be decided by the Eighth Route Army Headquarters in just one sentence. It needs to be reported to Yan'an, and the decision can only be made after the Yan'an meeting.

However, the deputy commander-in-chief can make the decision on using railroad steel for weapons.

The day after leaving the Jin-Cha-Hebei Military Region Command, a telegram went to all the Eighth Route Army troops that could receive the radio station.

Although Yangquan did not directly lose their combat effectiveness in the battle between Yangquan, the huge casualties and equipment loss could be called a trauma.

In the opinion of the detachment leader, even if the troops return to the base area and want to restore their pre-war strength, it will take at least half a year.

Not because there is no one!

The more than 3,000 people who came back alive in the entire detachment were all veterans and elites.

As long as you recruit new recruits and let them carry training, you can recover your combat effectiveness within three months at most.

The biggest problem is equipment and ammunition.

The entire detachment had more than 5,000 rifles before the battle, and only less than 2,000 were intact after the battle. As for those scrapped rifles, even if they were sent to the arsenal for repair, it would be thankful that one thousand rifles could be repaired.

In this way, the entire detachment is still short of at least 2,500 rifles.

With the light and heavy machine guns and artillery that were damaged on the battlefield, after the entire detachment was full, at least half of the soldiers were trained empty-handed because they were not equipped.

If it was put before, the equip the captain was not worried at all.

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

However, since the first team returned from Yangquan, the Japanese and puppet troops in the detachment had no idea what was wrong with it, and they were trapped in the county town and strongholds, not giving the other team a chance to attack them.

In this way, 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 detachment to restore combat effectiveness after a detachment returned to its garrison.

Without weapons and equipment and ammunition, no matter how well the troops are trained, it is useless. We can't let the soldiers fight against well-equipped Japanese soldiers with bare hands!

Just when the detachment leader was worried about weapons every day, things turned around five days ago.

The Military Sub-district suddenly ordered the political commissar of the detachment to take a battalion, but the Military Sub-district reported and received the equipment!

At the beginning, the captain did not 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 sub-districts are poorer than their combat troops.

In this case, what equipment can the superior have for himself?

Even if there is equipment, it is a drop in the bucket for a team of more than 7,000 people.

However, when the political commissar came back with more than a dozen big cars, the captain was directly frightened, and at the same time brought good news that surprised him.

The military sub-district actually gave it a thousand 38-large covers at one time, thirty light machine guns, ten heavy machine guns, and more than one regiment.

More importantly, the captain finally understood the fundamental reason why the headquarters was abnormal and ordered him to confront the Japanese and puppet troops head-on for several days!

"Political Commissar, you mean that our arsenal can also produce its own weapons and equipment in the future!" The captain 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 snatched from the warehouse of the Taiyuan Arsenal. They must have snatched back a lot of equipment that can make guns and cannons!"

As an old revolutionary, the captain may have been really scared by the days when there were no guns and bullets in the past, and replied with a serious face: "If we can really move the Taiyuan Arsenal to our base and let us build guns and cannons by ourselves, even if our team is fighting all of them, it will be worth it!"

At this moment, the communications consultant suddenly broke in.

"Detachment leader, political commissar, military district secret message!"

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

Not long after, the political commissar's face was replaced by a strong smile, and he said happily.

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

"This is from the military region. We have to transport the railway tracks in our hands to the headquarters logistics office to change the equipment. If nothing unexpected happens, these equipment must have been made by our arsenal."

The captain quickly received the telegram, and soon the captain's face was covered with an unprecedented firm expression. Then he said affirmatively.

"It can definitely be built, otherwise the military region will have no reason to collect so many rails! Just like the military region asked us to exchange bullet shells for bullets!"

After saying that, the captain showed a thoughtful expression.

"Political Commissar, I remember that some time ago, we took back a lot of railway tracks, all hidden in the forest, and there must be hundreds of them. According to the exchange standards above, a two thousand kilograms of railway track can be exchanged for twenty rifles, but those one hundred railway tracks can be exchanged for two thousand rifles!"

"Just just now, I was worried about how I got more than 2,000 rifles. Now not only the rifles have been solved, but also the light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and even artillery have been solved!"

After saying that, the detachment leader made a decision: "Political Commissar, come and guard the home. I will bring a reinforcement battalion, and then bring the guards together, send all the bullet casings brought back from the railway tracks and battlefields to the military region, and replace them with the bullets and weapons and equipment we urgently need!"

"As long as I have guns and ammunition, I will have the intention to spend three months to restore my combat effectiveness."

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

"As long as there are enough weapons and ammunition, I'm not afraid of how many people the Japanese came!"

At the same time, all the Eighth Route Army equipped with radio stations were also received.

For them, weapons may also have to be gunned from the Japanese, but the railway tracks are everywhere. As long as there is a railway, you can seize the Japanese defense loopholes and you can take back more than a dozen railway tracks in just one action.

At this time, some people may say that so many troops brought rails to the arsenal to change weapons and ammunition, and with the current production capacity of the arsenal, it will definitely not be able to supply it.

However, everyone obviously underestimated Wang Ping’s gains in Taiyuan City.

In addition to seizing more than 3,000 rifles of various types from the Japanese, the Japanese seized a total of 4,000 new guns in the temporary arsenal arranged by the Japanese in four city gates.

As for the arsenal warehouse, the arsenal repairs and newly built rifles, there are more than 11,000.

After 10,000 rifles were distributed as compensation for all participating troops this time, the remaining seven or eight thousand rifles were left in the arsenal.

Wang Ping directly treated these rifles as hens who borrowed chickens to lay eggs in the arsenal, exchanged them for steel, produced more rifles, and then formed a virtuous cycle!

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