"The machine tools and equipment for the Type 56 gun family production line given by Boss Chen are already being transported to Wohushan Industrial Zone, using large helicopters."
Zhaojiayu Village, New Regiment Headquarters, Deputy Head Xing Zhiguo reported to Li Yunlong:
"More than 200 machine tools and equipment for the three production lines are expected to be delivered within three days."
"In addition, Boss Chen will first provide 1,500 tons of high-grade steel to make guns for us."
"Moreover, Boss Chen also provided 10 technical consultants to provide technical guidance on gun making."
After the reimbursement of military horses, business and weapons and ammunition is all arranged and transported.
Boss Chen also arranged for a large Dragonfly helicopter to transport the complete production line airport and equipment of the Type 56 gun family to Wohushan Industrial Zone.
Including 3 complete production lines for Type 56 guns and 3 complete bullet production lines.
The other two gun production lines and two bullet production lines were sent to the Huangyadong Arsenal in southeastern Shanxi under arrangements by Chen Feng at Li Yunlong's request.
1,000 tons of high-grade steel were sent to Wohu Mountain in northwest Shanxi, and 500 tons of steel were sent to Huangyadong in southeastern Shanxi.
Li Yunlong said in a satisfied tone: "Very good!"
After building up its own military industry, even if Boss Chen stops providing assistance, the Eighth Route Army will continue to develop.
This will not stop the pace of development.
If you have guns and bullets, you can develop your troops.
Moreover, after you have your own production line for guns and bullets in the future, you will no longer need to exchange the credits of the enemy you killed for guns and ammunition.
You can exchange the credits of the enemy you kill for more heavy equipment, such as aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery.
It's just that the current military industry has not yet formed a large scale, and the output is not high yet.
Even if 3 gun production lines and 3 bullet production lines are now assembled.
Due to unskilled technical workers and insufficient materials, the output of the arsenal will not be very high.
Like the Type 56 guns, in addition to having high requirements for the wood of the gun stocks, they also have high requirements for steel.
"However, Commander..." Xing Zhiguo sounded worried, "To make guns, especially good guns like the Type 56, you must use good steel. Although Boss Chen gave you a batch of steel, you can't make many guns."
Although the requirements for the wood of the gun stock are high, there is still a way to solve it. Mobilizing the masses is the traditional art of the Eighth Route Army.
But things like gun steel and gun steel cannot be achieved by mobilizing the masses.
For example, in another time and space, there was a vigorous steel movement, which mobilized all the people to make steel, hoping to catch up with the United Kingdom and the United States in steel production, but most of the steel produced was scrap steel.
Without good smelting technology and equipment, as well as good iron ore, you can't make good steel at all.
However, the Xinyi Tuan Steel Plant has been built and is currently in production, located in the Wohu Mountain Industrial Zone.
Similarly, Boss Chen also provides excellent technical consultants, has the most advanced smelting technology and equipment in the world, and uses the new technology of oxygen bottom-blown converter to make steelmaking very efficient.
However, due to the lack of ore resources in northwestern Shanxi, the current steel output of Xinyi Tuan is not high, with an annual output of only a few hundred thousand tons. This is enough steel for the construction of airports, bridges and houses, as well as permanent fortifications, but it is not suitable for gun steel.
and gun steel.
Li Yunlong's tone was very calm, without any panic: "How many guns can be made with the high-quality gun steel provided by Boss Chen? How long is the service life of the barrel?"
The Eighth Route Army Huangyadong Arsenal in southeastern Shanxi can also manufacture guns.
The main product is the August 1 horse rifle, but since there is no good steel, the gun barrel and parts can only be made by melting the steel from the railroad tracks.
The Type 81 horse rifle is an excellent manual rifle, but due to limitations of raw materials, its lifespan is only a few hundred rounds of bullets.
In other words, the barrel of the Type 81 horse rifle will be scrapped after a few hundred rounds of bullets. This data is not even as good as that made in Hanyang. The sadness and helplessness behind the data are even more touching.
The service life of the barrel of the Japanese Type 38 rifle is about 10,000 rounds.
Xing Zhiguo, who is in charge of this aspect, is very clear about the data and replied: "The gun steel provided by Boss Chen can make at least 20,000 Type 56 guns, and the barrel life span exceeds 15,000 rounds of bullets."
Li Yunlong stared at the map and said.
"In other words, we have the most advanced smelting technology, but we lack good iron ore."
"The closest iron ore factory to us is in Baotou. It is said that Baotou has many metal mines, even rare earth mines, and a lot of coal."
"The Japanese occupied Baotou and used the Ping-Han Railway to transport Baotou's metal mines and rare earth mines to the northeast to make weapons and ammunition."
"As long as we get this piece of land in Baotou, we will have all the steel and coal, and there will be no shortage of explosives!"
After listening to Li Yunlong's words, Xing Zhiguo's expression changed and he looked at the map.
After a moment, Xing Zhiguo raised his head and looked at Li Yunlong with a touch of admiration in his eyes.
He was just worried that there would be no good gun steel and cannon steel in the future, but in fact Li Yunlong had already considered this and had already thought of a solution.
But Xing Zhiguo still hesitated:
"But Commander, Baotou is now occupied by Fu Zuoyi's Sui Army, and Datong is still in the hands of the Japanese 1st Division."
Xinyi Tuan wants to transport Baotou's steel, coal and rare earth ores to the Wohushan Industrial Zone in northwestern Shanxi.
First, we need to capture a large piece of land in Baotou, and then organize trains to transport the ore from Baotou to Datong along the Ping-Han Railway, and then from Datong to Heyuan County along Tongpu Road.
It is then transported from Heyuan County to Wohushan Industrial Zone. In order to speed up transportation efficiency, railway tracks have to be laid from Heyuan County to Datong.
Li Yunlong said: "Please negotiate with Fu Zuoyi at the headquarters first. If Fu Zuoyi refuses to give up Baotou, we will have to use force."
After a pause, Li Yunlong's eyes were deep: "Fu Zuoyi's Sui Army does have a lot of tricks. It is known as the Seven and a Half Routes. The troops are more active in training and combat. The troops have a simple style from top to bottom. In some tactical styles, they are very similar to our Eighth Route Army.
But after all, it’s half way behind us.”
"As for the 1st Division, there is no need to worry."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "As long as the main force of our regiment moves north and forms a posture to surround Datong, the 1st Division is guaranteed to be frightened and flee."
The Sui Army was indeed active in fighting. The 26th Division left Baotou twice to reinforce the First Army, but Fu Zuoyi found the opportunity to occupy the Baotou and Wuyuan areas both times.
In the last battle, the 1st Division lost more than 1 regiment and 1 infantry group of combat troops. Now the 1st Division is frightened.
If the new group makes the slightest move, it will slip away from Datong.
Hearing this, Xing Zhiguo was relieved. It turned out that the group leader had already had a countermeasure.
Everything is under the control of the group leader.
At this moment, Chief of Staff Wang Dehou walked in quickly and reported to Li Yunlong:
"Captain, the last company of the second battalion of the division that went to participate in the airborne training has boarded Boss Chen's transport plane and headed for overseas military bases."
"good!"
Li Yunlong nodded with a satisfied expression and said with a smile:
"It seems that we will have to earn more transport aircraft in the future, otherwise our airborne troops will not have transport aircraft to transport them."
Currently, the new regiment has a total of 15 infantry battalions, each with a strength of more than 2,500 troops.
After killing four lieutenant generals, the new regiment can choose an infantry battalion and go to Boss Chen's overseas military base to participate in airborne training. Boss Chen will arrange for the best airborne special forces to be responsible for the training.
The main force camp is the main force of the synthetic camp in the future and will not be considered for the time being.
Therefore, Li Yunlong selected the second battalion of the division with stronger combat effectiveness among the battalions in the division to participate in paratrooper training. The battalion commander was Zhao Youliang.
The famous battle of the 2nd Battalion of the Division was that it participated in the ambush of the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the 5th Heavy Artillery Regiment of the 1st Division.
In addition, several infantry battalions from the division, as well as part of the teaching battalion, have gone to the Wutai Mountain and Hengshan areas to develop base areas.
The main task is to recruit new soldiers and expand the base area.
As the main force of the new group, all the guys in hand have been replaced by Type 5 and Type 6, and all the American equipment has been eliminated.
Li Yunlong each gave Ding Wei and Kong Jie 10,000 American-style equipment, in exchange for more than 10,000 militiamen from Ding Wei and Kong Jie's defense areas. These militiamen are currently undergoing unified training in the training camp.
There are also American equipment for 30,000 people, which Li Yunlong plans to use to recruit new soldiers and expand his territory and development base.
There are not many young men in the defense areas of the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment who can join the army.
Fortunately, the Japanese troops reduced their defenses and withdrew their troops from many towns to Taiyuan and the Zhengtai Railway.
In the past, the New Regiment had its own territory expansion troops, and the New Regiment fought frequently, so it did not pay attention to these territories. Now Li Yunlong directly sends troops there to develop.
Fortunately, there are local units of the Eighth Route Army in these areas. The mass base is very good, and the troops have developed smoothly there.
That day, Chu Yunfei came to visit Li Yunlong and wanted to ask for the equipment of the reinforced battalion.
Li Yunlong was very generous and directly gave Chu Yunfei the American equipment of an infantry reinforcement battalion.
This made Chu Yunfei never expect that Li Yunlong, who had always been stingy, would be so generous this time.
The two chatted happily. Li Yunlong took Chu Yunfei to see the new group of Katyusha rocket launchers and large-caliber heavy artillery. Chu Yunfei almost drooled when he saw it.
When Chu Yunfei was still using Jin-made 75mm mountain guns and Jin-made 75mm mortars.
Li Yunlong has already played with heavy artillery fire coverage and large-caliber heavy artillery exceeding 200 caliber.
When Chu Yunfei left with a reinforced battalion of American equipment, Li Yunlong began to draw the pie again:
"Brother Chu, I have a deputy captain position here. I hope Brother Chu can consider it."
"Brother Chu, to be honest, this group will grow to more than 1 million people in the future, and I, Li Yunlong, cannot always be the group leader."
"By then, I, Li Yunlong, will be at least a marshal and the commander of the front army. Then you, Brother Chu, will also be honored and at least be the deputy marshal and the second-in-command of the front army."
"Brother, I know that Brother Chu is not willing to get involved in partisan disputes. He only wants the independence and freedom of the nation."
"With all due respect, Brother Chu, you have no future following Principal Chang and Yan Laoxi. Brother Chu, you might as well become my deputy commander and let's kill the Japanese together."
Although Chu Yunfei still rejected Li Yunlong's kindness, Li Yunlong saw a hint of hesitation deep in Chu Yunfei's eyes.