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Chapter 352, the brigade commander is in a hurry
"What are you talking about, and you want to send a gunpowder factory machine and raw materials?"

As soon as the brigade commander came back from outside, the political commissar told him that there was news from Li Yunlong.

But I never thought it would be such a big news.

Political Commissar Wang said: "Yes, it's not just the machines from the gunpowder factory. Yuan Lang promised to send more machines in the future to build a self-sufficient and systematic arsenal."

"Really, that would be great."

The brigade commander walked back and forth happily, "I knew that there must be a powerful arsenal behind who can supply a large amount of weapons and equipment.

When I asked him about it last year, Yuan Lang still played sloppy with me, and he never heard from him.

It seems that after more than a year of getting along and investigating, they believe that our Eighth Route Army has potential and is worth investing in, so they increased their bargaining chips. "

How important it is to have a well-organized arsenal, the answer was already known during the period of warlord melee in the Republic of China.

Armed with 30 troops, Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army entered the customs and swept half of Huaguo, becoming the person most likely to reach the summit after Lao Yuan.

It relies on a well-organized arsenal. Aircraft, cannons and tanks can be imitated, and there is a sufficient supply of cheap bullets.

If it weren't for Lao Zhang's inability to lead troops, and his lack of strict control, the feudal army was full of banditry, and it would collapse as soon as it fought.

Maybe it really made him succeed.

There is also Yan Laoxi, the tumbler. His Shanxi arsenal is not as good as that of the Northeast Army, but it is also very good.

Both light and heavy machine guns and mortars can be imitated. The 30 troops raised by cheap weapons controlled the five provinces of North China in their heyday. They were one of the four famous warlords.

Those warlords who have no arsenal and only rely on money to buy weapons from abroad dare not consume ammunition in wars, which is too expensive.

Therefore, none of them can grow bigger, and they can only end up being annexed by others in the end.

If the Eighth Route Army wants to grow and develop, it must have its own arsenal and a stable source of weapons and ammunition.

As a result, the Huangyadong Arsenal was born. Relying on the machines accumulated bit by bit, it now has the ability to imitate rifles, grenades, and shells.

Although the output is not very large, it has been supplying all kinds of weapons to the front-line troops, which has played a very important role in the Anti-Japanese War.

In this way, it is not difficult to understand the excitement of the brigade commander.

If there is a systematic arsenal like the Northeast Army, the Eighth Route Army can arm 100 million people, and it will be able to sweep North China in three years and connect the base areas together.

Even with an arsenal like Yan Xishan, life for the Eighth Route Army would be much easier.

Arm the existing troops and expand by another 30 to , and it is quite no problem to fight the Japanese army.

"Old Chen, now is not the time to be happy."

Political Commissar Wang adjusted his glasses, "There are two difficulties now. Yuan Lang said that those machines and raw materials will be transported up by boat through the Yellow River and unloaded in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. There are still more than tons of raw materials.

The machine is not easy to transport on land, and the raw materials are too much. It is almost an impossible task to transport it from Zhongtiao Mountain to our base area without the eyes and ears of the Japanese army. "

The brigade commander knew that what the political commissar said made sense. These were not two bullet production lines. The target was a one-shot deal. When the Japanese army knew about it, they would finish it.

The transportation of a systematic arsenal of machinery is a very large project.

Not to mention the difficult road, such a big goal can never be hidden from the eyes and ears of the Japanese.

It's too high to describe in almost two words.

It is absolutely impossible to safely transport from Zhongtiao Mountain to the base area.

"I suggest that the arsenal be set up in Zhongtiao Mountain, and it can be put into operation as soon as possible. Besides, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if the enemy knows it, we can defend it." The brigade commander said.

Commissar Wang also thought so, and the two wanted to go together.

But that's just one problem, there's another.

There are machines, but there are no engineers and skilled workers to start them.

A machine is not like a gun, you can learn it casually.From debugging and installation to final production, engineers who are proficient in this field must be able to do it.

The operation of the machine also requires a large number of skilled workers to operate, and local training takes time.

"Make a report and transfer people from the Huangyadong Arsenal. With an elite team, as soon as the machine arrives, we will put it into production as soon as possible."

The brigade commander sighed sincerely: "Time waits for no one."

The new Ningji Okamura is much more difficult to deal with than the original Jun Tada.

Recently, under the encirclement and suppression of the million-dollar war he launched, the Eighth Route Army was forced to abandon many base areas, and suffered a lot.

In particular, the people who suffer the most are the common people.

The retaliatory sweep of the Japanese army, and the devastation of the base area was terrible.Take Qinyuan County, the most prosperous Taiyue base area commanded by the brigade commander, as an example.

Almost all the houses were burned, more than 7000 innocent people were massacred, and hundreds of thousands of people had no food, clothing, or homes.

The situation in the other base areas is similar, and many villages that have been mopped up have been turned into ruins.

When such a thing happened, everyone in the Eighth Route Army was heartbroken.

The brigade commander tossed and turned day and night, thinking about what to do.

A clever woman can't cook without rice, and the conditions of the Eighth Route Army are here. No matter how many whimsy and whimsy there are, without the support of strength, it will be nothing but a bamboo basket.

Li Yunlong's new second regiment has repeatedly received good news, and the brigade commander once thought:

Not to mention that more than 100 regiments are like the New Second Regiment, even if only twenty or thirty regiments can reach the level of weapons and equipment of the New Second Regiment,
The current difficulties can be easily solved, and there is no place for the Japanese in Shanxi.

He didn't think it would become a reality before, but now, with Yuan Lang's promise, the machines for building the arsenal are already on the way, and the brigade commander suddenly has confidence.

For the bullet production line and the machines for producing explosives, the problem of supply should be dealt with first.

In the next step, a production line for rifles, grenades and grenades should be established.

If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese army was still pressing on, there would still be many battles to be fought, and the brigade commander could not wait to go to Yuan Lang for an interview and discuss what kind of machine to build first.

"No, I have to send a telegram to ask Yuan Lang to focus on the most important thing first."

The brigade commander couldn't sit still anymore, so he went straight to the transmitter.

Commissar Wang shook his head: "This old Chen, who is usually very steady, changed his temper when he heard that there was an arsenal, really."

He got up and walked to the next door, and stopped a combat staff officer.

"Staff Zhou, I have a task for you. Go to the Huangyadong Arsenal and tell Director Liu,
There are two bullet production lines, and a batch of explosives production machines that need engineers to start.

Let them immediately organize a smart and capable force, ready to go at any time. "

"what?"

(End of this chapter)