In the first month, a huge transport convoy passed through Inner Mongolia, passed through Suiyuan, and finally arrived in northern Shaanxi.
The strange thing is that when the transport convoy passed through the defense area of the 35th Army of the National Army, the other party not only did not block it, but instead had personnel directly under its military headquarters go to various traffic arteries to give orders to let it go.
After that, the weapons and equipment of the three divisions first arrived in the defense area of the 120th Division, and finally arrived in northern Shaanxi.
40 years ago, especially from 1937 to 1939, because Big Brother needed to assist the National Government through the highway from the border to Lanzhou, this highway was almost completely in the hands of Big Brother, so Big Brother deliberately arranged the Eighth Route Army stationed in the border and Lanzhou.
The office was responsible for secretly receiving and transferring weapons from Big Brother, and the Eighth Route Army naturally transported a large amount of weapons and equipment from it.
However, in the second half of 1938, this matter attracted the attention of the Nationalist Government, which began to strengthen surveillance of Big Brother's transportation convoys and control road traffic to Yanzhou. The number of secret weapons assistance began to decrease, but it has not stopped.
It was not until mid-1939 that the Nationalist Government completely cut off the secret transportation route.
The weapons and equipment transported successively were given priority to the establishment regiments of the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army. The Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shandong divisions of the 115th Division received the most, the Taihang, Taiyue and Jinan Divisions of the 129th Division were in the middle, and the 120th Division received the least weapons and equipment.
After the 40-year Tainan anti-rebellion campaign, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party reached an agreement, and the Nationalist government allowed the Eighth Route Army to secretly open new transportation lines.
However, after that, the Nationalist Government deliberately shelved the matter until the Battle of Changzhi started, and the matter was brought up again.
Fu Ben of Suiyuan had a good relationship with the Eighth Route Army. Shaanbei Public School and Anti-Japanese University in Yanzhou sent a large number of outstanding students to the 35th Army, which enriched Fu's anti-Japanese strength.
The Eighth Route Army then contacted Zhou Nanfeng, a member and secretary of the Political Guidance Office under the Political Working Committee of the North Route Army.
At that time, Fu's troops had dominated Suiyuan and had close relations with the Eighth Route Army, but it was not enough for Fu to take the "risk" and allow the Eighth Route Army to pass through the defense zone.
Fortunately, Suiyuan was a sparsely populated area with poor products. In the end, the Eighth Route Army exchanged materials produced by various factories in northern Shaanxi for transport convoys to pass through Suiyuan's transportation channel.
The end of the first year.
The weapons and equipment of the three divisions were successively transported from northern Shaanxi to base areas in various places. According to the comprehensive considerations of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the equipment of two divisions was transported to the Taihang Mountain base area where the headquarters is located, and the weapons and equipment of the other division were transported to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area.
According to the final negotiation between the senior leadership of the Eighth Route Army and Big Brother, Shui Lianzhu was replaced with heavy weapons and ammunition.
The weapon equipment standards of the last division are as follows: each division is equipped with 84 76MM field guns (a total of 36 guns, with 36,000 shells attached), and 44 M1930 37MM combat anti-cannons (24 guns in total, with 2.4 shells attached).
million rounds), 24 PM1910 Maxim heavy machine guns (72 in total), 40 DP27 light machine guns (120 in total), and provides 2 million rounds of light and heavy machine gun bullets.
At the headquarters, the boss and others also made distribution plans in advance.
It was originally decided that the four military regions of Taibei, Taiyue, Tainan, and South Hebei would equally distribute the weapons and equipment of two divisions, but during the Chinese New Year, Zhou Weihan made a suggestion.
The Tainan Military Region did not want to allocate four anti-tank guns and replaced them with 80,000 rounds of 38-cap bullets. The boss was so angry that he scolded Zhou Weihan for his shrewd calculation.
The words are divided into two parts.
At this time, Zhou Weihan was still too far south, but Yanwangshan and Pingshun were running from both ends.
Tan Lin, who was far away in Hebei, Shandong and Henan, did not rush to send a telegram to urge Zhou Weihan to go back. Instead, Zhao Gang suggested that Zhou Weihan should pay attention to the impact, stay away from his hometown, and return to Hebei, Shandong and Henan as soon as possible.
"Old Zhou, if you count the time, it must have been a month since you came back. Is it appropriate for you to leave Comrade Tan Lin alone in Hebei, Shandong and Henan?" Zhao Gang glanced at Zhou Weihan and said.
Zhou Weihan had his own explanation: "Old Zhao, you don't think I'm really indulging in the land of gentleness, do you?"
"The combat effectiveness of the new regiment is still recovering, and the first division is still forming its basic troops. The most important thing is that Comrade Tan Lin needs to establish prestige in Hebei, Shandong and Yu. My absence will give him a chance!"
Anyway, what Zhou Weihan said was clear and logical, and Zhao Gang couldn't tell whether it was an excuse or something real.
While the two were talking, the telegraph operator from the headquarters came to report.
"Report, a telegram from headquarters!"
"read!"
"Political Commissar, we don't have the code book for the corresponding level, so we can't translate it!" the telegraph operator said.
Then Zhou Weihan waved the telegraph operator down, and Zhao Gang took out a code book.
Regarding this highly encrypted headquarters telegram, Zhou Weihan and the others did not dare to neglect, and took the code book to translate it word for word.
"The weapons supported by Big Brother have arrived, six 76MM field guns, 6,000 rounds of artillery shells, 12 Maxim heavy machine guns, 20 light machine guns, 300,000 rounds of light and heavy machine gun bullets, plus 80,000 rounds of 38-cap bullets
!”
"Old Zhou, this deal is worth it. The national army paid for it with real money and silver. We got it for free. Big brother is quite interesting. It comes with the equipment of three divisions!" Zhao Gang said excitedly.
"It's a pity that our Eighth Route Army's troops have developed too fast. These equipment are of no use and can only be equipped to the first-class main force. But I am satisfied with getting these weapons and equipment for no reason!"
"It would be great if we could bring in some large-caliber heavy artillery, or support a few tanks!" Zhou Weihan said with a little regret.
"Yes, but how do we divide these equipment? We can't just divide them evenly, right?" Zhao Gang asked Zhou Weihan's opinion.
"That's definitely not possible. I have already said hello to several group leaders before. Don't worry about these equipments. I will form a special weapons group for these equipments, so that I can take advantage of them and replenish ammunition!"
"At present, the two mountain artillery batteries of the artillery battalion have been transferred to Hebei, Shandong and Henan. It is not easy to get started with these six field guns. It is better to replenish them to the artillery battalion and let Chen Feng study how to use them first. However, the two 105 howitzers and the combat anti-aircraft guns are not easy to use.
Go to Jiluyu!"
"I will take all the remaining weapons and equipment to Hebei, Shandong and Henan. The Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions are mostly plains, so the chariot company cannot be left to rust in nooks and crannies. I will take them with me this time!"
At the end, Zhou Weihan added: "Old Zhao, do you have any objection?"
"Oh, I said you were holding on, it turns out you were thinking about this batch of weapons and equipment. Okay, our Tainan area is not short of these equipments. The Hebei-Shandong-Henan base area has a weak foundation, so let's attack them first. In short, the meat is
Rotten in the pot!" Zhao Gang said with a smile.
Zhou Weihan chuckled: "You, Zhao, still understand me!"
"Hurry up!"
"Monk, go and send a report to the Shexian County Cadre Group and ask Ding Sheng to send someone to the headquarters to get equipment!"
