Just when the high-profile propagandists of the Japanese Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army helped the victims in order to strive for their own glorious image.
The First Independent Anti-Japanese Detachment in Northwestern Shanxi.
According to the three-step plan proposed by Kong Jie at the military meeting held by Kong Jie, the first detachment is currently focusing on three aspects: hoarding food, food defense operations, and defense and operations of the base area.
In Niukou Village.
Since we have Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, plus the newly formed staff department, plus political commissar Li Wenjie.
It can be said that Kong Jie has a right and left hand, and he has more and more leisure.
Anyway, no fighting broke out. All the matters in the regiment were left to Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie to deal with.
At the beginning, it was an independent regiment with only three battalions.
Now the entire base area has already become a mess, even the first detachment.
Commander Kong is still taking his time.
According to Kong Jie's principle, a good group leader is the leader who can keep the cadres busy but himself so leisurely that he becomes panicked!
Inside the detachment headquarters.
Chief of Staff Xu Guoan and Political Commissar Li Wenjie became a pair of close friends, busy dealing with the affairs of the regiment, grinning bitterly.
Xu Guoan finally understood why when he first met Political Commissar Li Wenjie, Political Commissar Li was so busy that he was sweating profusely and couldn't even land on the stool.
Our Captain Kong is really good at calling people...
Of course, I am tired and happy at the same time.
After getting busy, Xu Guoan gradually felt that he could play a silent role in the first team, and he felt more and more comfortable, and he became more and more integrated into the first team.
After the establishment of the first detachment, Dong San, the director of the logistics department, was busy in the repair shop that was expanded again.
Among the entire first detachment, Commander Kong is probably the most idle at the moment.
Kong Jie told the sentry that there was no need to report.
He entered the repair shop silently and watched the operations inside the repair shop. The employees were busy going back and forth.
After a while, Dong San suddenly noticed Kong Jie's arrival.
"Captain, why are you here?"
Dong San had long admired Kong Jie to the point of admiration.
The repair shop has grown to its current scale.
Dong San once said to all the employees of the repair shop:
If the credit for the development of our repair shop is divided into ten shares, I will have one share, and all our employees, technicians, and soldiers will have six shares.
The other three are exclusive to our group leader!
Like nothing else, Kong Jie can always repair, collaborate and provide some very delicate and important production drawings from time to time.
Plus, from time to time, I say a word or two of enlightenment.
For technicians such as Dong San of the repair shop, it feels like "listening to your words is worth ten years of reading."
If there are any problems in military production or technology at the repair shop, Dong San often goes directly to the headquarters to seek advice from Kong Jie.
Whenever this happens, Commander Kong will basically never let him down.
Dong San was even thinking that if the regiment leader did not lead the troops to fight, he would stay in the repair shop.
The fear of repairing weapons is that nothing will happen to you.
Even the headquarters arsenal probably has to invite the regiment leader to serve as a technical advisor.
I really don’t know where the head of the regiment is filled with knowledge, fantastic ideas, and his superb vision in military industry.
Back in front of him, Kong Jie didn't have time to pay attention to Dong San's little thoughts, so he asked directly:
"The test product you were told to produce at the repair shop last time was a curved thin steel plate with explosives tied to the back. Has it been produced yet?"
"Don't worry, Captain, how can I fail to complete the work you assigned me? It's just Captain, I'm a little curious, what is this thing used for?"
Dong San replied.
"What do you think?" Kong Jie asked with a smile, playing a riddle.
Dong San smiled bitterly and said: "How could I have guessed this, but I guess it should be a new type of weapon, used to fight Japanese invaders. There is no doubt about this."
"You have a good brain, kid. Bring a few experimental objects and I will take you to see them. Then you will know what these things are."
"Hey!"
Dong San responded excitedly, and quickly called for people to bring two or three test steel plates with curvature and explosives tied to the back, which were produced by the repair shop in accordance with Kong Jie's requirements.
Then, Dong San brought several more technicians and followed Kong Jie to the hidden ravine where the first detachment usually used to test explosives such as dynamite.
After arriving at the place, Kong Jie inspected the bent steel plate test product.
He was a little helpless. The experimental product was too crude, and it was far from the broadsword mine he planned to produce with the help of the experience of later generations.
By the way, what is a broadsword mine?
In other words, it is called an anti-infantry directed fragmentation mine.
Once this new type of anti-personnel weapon similar to landmines appeared and was used in warfare, it was quickly highly praised by the military forces of various countries.
It directly subverts the soldiers' understanding of the role of landmines on the battlefield.
According to the conventional understanding of military forces in various countries, although landmines are insidious and difficult to guard against, they are fortunately not directional and cannot move.
According to the tactical principles of many troops:
The mission of landmines is only to create a restricted area and then drive the enemy into our own crossfire.
In other words, landmines cannot serve as an effective killing tool.
In this regard, even the Eighth Route Army troops, who have mastered landmine warfare, are no exception.
Once the presence of landmines is discovered, the Japanese army often becomes extremely cautious, and engineers will clear the mines immediately.
The conventional role of landmines is only to delay the Japanese advance, but they cannot inflict a heavy blow to the Japanese troops simply by relying on landmines.
Later, the Eighth Route Army soldiers used their wisdom to invent various types of combat mines, and used various exquisite mine warfare tactics to deal with the little devils in villages and houses.
The principle of these mine warfare tactics is to use landmines, a passive defensive killing tool, in active attacks.
But the effect is actually not that ideal.
Although these specially manufactured landmines can cause certain damage to the Japanese and puppet troops entering the village.
It is almost impossible to destroy the Japanese and puppet troops entering the village with the help of landmines.
Until the emergence of broadsword mines, the above common sense was directly overturned.
In open areas, the lethality of each broadsword mine is even equivalent to that of a large-caliber artillery shell.
In addition, it can shoot the fragments generated by the explosion in a direction with extremely strong destructive power and terrifying speed, and it can also control the explosion artificially.
Greatly improved the fatal shortcoming of mines not being able to actively attack.
In fact, the function is somewhat similar to the remote detonation explosive pack produced by the Independent Regiment Repair Machinery.
It's just that the killing effect of this broadsword mine is even more terrifying.
"Try the effect after the explosion!"
Kong Jie opened his mouth and took one of the test items himself.
Since this is the original model of the broadsword mine, the production is still very crude. The entire external structure is composed of steel plates, and it is very heavy once you get started.
The weight of the entire steel plate, plus the weight of the explosives fixed behind the steel plate, weighs more than ten kilograms in total.
These areas still need to be improved. You must know that the external structure of the broadsword mine that was perfected in later generations can even be replaced by plastic.
It’s just that the repair shop doesn’t have such technology yet.
Dong San behind him was a little worried: "Captain, this is dangerous, it's better for me to do it!"
Kong Jie said: "It doesn't matter, I will demonstrate it to you personally."
As he spoke, Kong Jie inserted the tripod welded under the first experimental object into the soil, then turned around and ordered: "Everyone hide behind the turn of the ditch."
Then, Kong Jie placed the protruding back side of the curved steel experimental object facing the no-man's land, pulled off the fuse of the explosive tied behind the steel plate, and quickly retreated to the area where Dong Shan and others were hiding. p>
Boom——
After a violent explosion, Kong Jie took Dong San and others back to the explosion area to investigate the situation.
The entire area was still filled with some smoke from the explosion, but it was quickly blown away by the wind.
After the explosion, the original thin steel plate had already been torn apart. Kong Jie asked about the situation after the explosion: "How was it? What did you see?"
Dong San knew that the group leader was testing himself.
He carefully checked back and forth in the area after the explosion.
Suddenly, he noticed that after the originally curved steel plate was blown into pieces by explosives, there were a large number of steel plate fragments in the forward direction, flying and scattering in an area within 20 meters, but there were only a few fragments on the back. p>
"The main scattered area of the fragments that were torn apart after the explosion seemed to be in the direction that the protruding surface of the steel plate originally faced!"
Knowing the problem, Dong San summarized his answer.
Kong Jie smiled and nodded: "That's right.
Each military-industrial weapon has its own theoretical support.
The current experimental products are no exception.
Detonate an explosive behind a curved steel plate. When the explosive detonates, most of the impact force will act on the steel plate. The brittle steel plate will be torn into countless high-speed flying fragments. The destructive power is very amazing. The fan-shaped impact surface presented includes
The range is also very large.
This is a special effect principle. If it is named after the inventor, ahem... you can call it the old hole explosion effect."
After listening to this, Dong San, who was extremely talented in military production, immediately realized the key points and answered with some shock on his face:
"Captain, I was just trying to imagine what would happen if after the steel plate exploded, more than a dozen or even twenty Japs surged up in the fan-shaped impact area in front of him."<
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Kong Jie suddenly burst into laughter and patted Dong San on the shoulder and said:
"Your kid's brain circuit is really beyond imagination."
The conversation changed, and Kong Jie's words contained a chill that made Dong San and others feel chilly:
"Yes, the new weapon we are trying to develop this time can be called an anti-infantry directional fragmentation mine to be more precise. It is an application of a new type of landmine."
"What needs to be subverted is the inherent understanding that landmines cannot actively attack."
"What I want is to be able to kill a whole group of Japs at once."
"If they can be successfully developed, mass-produced, and used in the offense and defense of the troops, if the Japanese army invades the territory with large numbers of troops and sweeps away our base areas, you can clearly think about the role these weapons will play by then." Dong San shuddered, "I'm afraid there are not enough little devils to kill!"
Kong Jie said: "It's too early to say this now. The production of this new type of landmine is still far away!"
"I have drawn some sketches regarding the production drawings of this new type of directional fragmentation mine. You can go to the headquarters to ask me for them later."
"You can decide the specific details yourself. The fragments of the steel plate alone are far from achieving the maximum damage effect. At that time, some steel balls, nails, etc. can be added inside."
"It's like an enhanced version of a shotgun fixed on the ground. The steel balls, fragments, and nails contained in it flew out like splashing ink during the explosion. No one who faced the enemy head-on would be spared.
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"Yes!"
Dong San responded, swallowing his saliva, already impressed by this new weapon that has not yet taken shape, but has exploded with amazing potential in its embryonic stage.
He has even thought that after successfully producing this form of directional landmine, he must give this landmine a domineering name.