Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"How about it?"

Li Yunlong looked at Zhao Gang with a smile. This was a small surprise Li Yunlong gave to Zhao Gang. After all, Zhao Gang looked down on Li Yunlong when he first came. Li Yunlong prepared this method to make Zhao Gang let go of the little arrogance in his heart.

Chapter 19 Li Yunlong's Golden Finger

"I admire you, Captain Li. When I came here, I heard that you were a rough man. I didn't expect you to have such ability!"

Hearing Zhao Gang's words, Li Yunlong immediately laughed: "It's true that I, Li Yunlong, am a rough man, but I, Li Yunlong, have a hobby, which is learning. When I was a soldier, I couldn't understand maps at all. I would study beside the company commander while he was looking at the map. I learned all these military maps in just a few days!"

"The brigade commander, who was still a regimental commander at the time, praised me, saying, 'Hey, Li Yunlong, you are truly a genius!'"

While Li Yunlong was sorting out the drawings, he used his previous experience of looking at maps to increase the credibility of his words. The brigade commander had indeed praised Li Yunlong as a genius at that time.

"You really can't judge a person by his appearance. I'm going to write a letter to my classmates right now and ask them to come over!"

Some of Zhao Gang's worries have disappeared. Since Li Yunlong is a person who loves to study, he should be able to get along well with him.

Li Yunlong took the blueprints and went straight to the arsenal.

"Captain Li, we've also looked at your design drawings, but honestly, we don't have the equipment to produce them right now!"

After saying that, the factory director Yang Dahu took Li Yunlong directly into the production line of the Yixiantian Arsenal.

"Captain Li, this is our entire production line!"

In the arsenal's factory, each worker sat in front of a table with the collected shells on the table. They carefully put the gunpowder into the shells according to the proportion, and then loaded the bullets into the shells one by one, and finally installed the primer manually.

Although there are not many steps, it takes at least one or two minutes to produce a bullet. This production speed cannot keep up with the production speed on the front line.

"Didn't you say you could produce rifles?"

"It is indeed possible to produce it. I will show you and you will know!"

I followed Director Yang around the factory and came to a room. As soon as I opened the door, I felt the heat wave.

I didn't see the expected pneumatic hammer for making gun barrels. Instead, I saw workers using primitive weapons such as pliers, chisels, drills, files, wrenches, and sledgehammers to produce them. I watched carefully and saw that a gun barrel was being hammered bit by bit by hand.

“How are gun barrels produced?”

Director Yang shook his head and said, "We can't produce gun barrels and rifling here. We take some broken rifles and remelt them."

As he spoke, he picked up a very old rifle nearby and skillfully disassembled it, revealing the barrel inside. "If the barrel is still usable, we will continue to use it. If it is not usable, we will process it."

After hearing this, Li Yunlong nodded and said, "If that's the case, do you have these materials here?"

The production of gun barrels requires seamless steel, which requires cutting steel rods into blank gun barrels and then drilling a through hole in the center of the steel rod. This type of machine tool is actually not complicated to manufacture, but the drill bit material for drilling the through hole is relatively rare.

Li Yunlong handed the written materials to Director Yang. After seeing them, Director Yang frowned and said, "Yes, but what do you want these materials for?"

"Send these materials to the New First Regiment Headquarters, quickly!"

When Li Yunlong heard Director Yang say that he had the materials, his eyes immediately lit up.

Director Yang looked at the document and wanted to say something, but Li Yunlong glared at him and said, "This matter concerns the equipment of the entire army. You must do it immediately!"

"Yes!"

After hearing what Li Yunlong said, Director Yang did not dare to delay and immediately sent someone to deliver the materials Li Yunlong needed to the headquarters of the New 1st Regiment.

When all the materials were delivered to the New 1st Regiment, Li Yunlong began to assemble the simplest machine tool, a manual punching machine.

Although it is a manual punching machine, it still needs electricity, but people need to control the direction of the punching machine to prevent it from deviating. In addition, due to the lack of alloys with sufficient strength, Li Yunlong's punching machine can only punch holes when the steel pipe is still at a high temperature, and then grind it uniformly. Although the process is a bit complicated, as more materials become available in the future, better punching machines can be assembled.

A day later, Kong Jie brought his men to the new regiment.

"Li Yunlong, why are you studying steel pipes instead of fighting? Are you planning to be a blacksmith in the future?"

Kong Jie looked at Li Yunlong fiddling with an iron rod in front of him and asked curiously.

"Go, go, go away! Get out of the way! Weapons are ready for you. Leave the people here and take the things!"

Li Yunlong looked up at the people behind Kong Jie. The three of them looked at Li Yunlong somewhat at a loss. Kong Jie had already persuaded them to join the New 1st Regiment and told them the conditions offered by Li Yunlong. The three of them never thought that they could exchange for so many weapons.

"You change your face faster than turning the pages of a book. I give it to you!"

After Kong Jie finished speaking, he looked at the three people behind him and said, "You guys should work hard in the New 1st Regiment. If this Li Yunlong bullies you, you can go back to the Independent Regiment. The Independent Regiment will always be your home!"

Li Yunlong rolled his eyes at Kong Jie, and after finishing the equipment inventory, he sent Kong Jie away. Kong Jie did not stay for long.

Li Yunlong was afraid that Kong Jie would go back on his word, and Kong Jie was also afraid that Li Yunlong would go back on his word. Both of them felt that they had won too much.

"Now you three are members of my new regiment. Follow me back to the regiment headquarters."

After seeing Kong Jie off, Li Yunlong smiled and looked at the three people in front of him, patting each of them on the shoulder, seeming reluctant to let go.

Sun Desheng, who had just returned to the regimental headquarters and was called in by Li Yunlong, immediately stood at attention and greeted Li Yunlong: "Captain, are you looking for me?"

This was the first time Li Yunlong met Sun Desheng, a lean man from Northwest China. His expression was very determined: "I have a mission for you."

"Yes, please give the order, Captain, and ensure the mission is completed."

Sun Desheng, Shen Quan and four others stood in a row, looking at Li Yunlong eagerly, waiting for Li Yunlong's order. The three members of the independent regiment did not resist being transferred from the independent regiment to the new regiment, as long as they could fight the Japanese.

"Well, I'll arrange the tasks, Wang Gensheng!"

"To!"

"You stay at the regimental headquarters and select forty soldiers from the New 1st Regiment who are good at throwing grenades accurately to form a grenade platoon. As long as every soldier can throw wherever they point within fifty meters, I will make you the platoon leader!"

Wang Gensheng was originally just a squad leader. When he heard this, he immediately said excitedly, "Yes!"

"Xizi!"

"To!"

"Select ten soldiers with good marksmanship from the entire regiment and form a sniper squad. You will be the squad leader!"

After hearing that he was only a squad leader, Xizi didn't show any disappointment on his face. Instead, he said calmly, "Yes, Captain. I guarantee that the mission will be completed!"

"Do it well. If you can train these ten men to shoot as well as you do, you will be the shooting instructor of the new regiment!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

After Li Yunlong finished speaking, he looked at Shen Quan. Shen Quan's work was very easy to arrange, so he directly let Shen Quan go to the Second Battalion as the deputy battalion commander. In the last Yangcun annihilation battle, the Second Battalion lost a deputy battalion commander, so Shen Quan could take over.

Finally, Li Yunlong set his sights on Sun Desheng.

Chapter 20 Li Yunlong designs a submachine gun

"Sun Desheng!"

"To!"

Sun Desheng stared at Li Yunlong, not understanding why the commander suddenly asked him to come here with the three newcomers. However, according to the arrangements made by the commander for the other three people, he should be allowed to form a team, but he was only good at riding horses.

Sun Desheng suddenly looked at Li Yunlong in disbelief, feeling a little excited. Could it be that the new regiment would have cavalry?

"I remember you were in the Northwest Army?"

"Report to the regiment commander, yes, my parents died when I was twelve. It was Shi Yousan who gave me food and shelter. To repay Shi Yousan for saving my life, I fought for him and was wounded twice during the Central Plains War!"

"Although I, Sun Desheng, don't know much about the truth, I wouldn't hesitate to kill the enemy if Shi Yousan asked me to. But I absolutely wouldn't agree to become a traitor, so I joined our army!"

After hearing Sun Desheng introduce himself, Li Yunlong patted Sun Desheng on the shoulder. He was a man who valued loyalty and understood national justice.

"Were you a cavalryman?"

"Captain, I used to be a cavalry company commander under the Northwest Army."

Li Yunlong knew all the information about Sun Desheng. When he was watching "Bright Sword" before, he was moved to tears by the sight of Sun Desheng shouting "Charge" when there was only one man left in the cavalry company and one of his arms was broken.

Now Li Yunlong would never let Sun Desheng face that desperate situation again.

"Very good, I plan to form a cavalry battalion, and you will be the battalion commander!"

As soon as these words came out, Sun Desheng froze in his place, pointing at himself in disbelief: "Commander, you want me to be the commander of the cavalry battalion?"

"What? Don't want to?"

"Yes, yes, thank you, Captain, thank you, Captain!"

Li Yunlong looked at Sun Desheng and said, "I have only one request for you, that is that the cavalry battalion must become the sharpest knife of the new regiment!"

"Please rest assured, Commander. I promise to train the cavalry battalion into the sharpest sword of the new regiment!"

"Alright! We only have over 400 war horses in the cavalry battalion right now. You can choose the personnel from among the current ones. The new regiment will be recruiting in a couple of days. Come along and see if there are any good candidates!"

"It's the leader!"

When Zhao Gang learned about the cavalry battalion, he was stunned for a moment: "Captain Li, when did our New 1st Regiment have a cavalry battalion?"

Li Yunlong immediately laughed and said, "Old Zhao, calling me Captain Li is too strange. Just call me Old Li. This is a commendation from the brigade commander. I destroyed the Bantian regiment's headquarters on Cangyun Ridge. The headquarters commended us by allowing us to add an additional battalion to the new regiment, so I set up this cavalry battalion."

"What about these war horses?"

"While surveying the terrain on the way here, I ran into a cavalry battalion of the puppet army chasing Wei Heshang and Yu Zhiqian. I took advantage of the situation and took care of them. What a coincidence! I just got a battalion of troops organized, and the puppet army sent us a battalion of cavalry!"

Although Zhao Gang was reluctant to believe Li Yunlong's words, he nodded and said, "However, it is still difficult for our regiment to support a battalion under the current circumstances."

Zhao Gang's consideration was indeed correct. Cavalry was different from ordinary infantry. The daily rations of war horses were a huge consumption. However, Li Yunlong smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, Old Zhao. Our New 1st Regiment has no shortage of supplies!"

When the New 1st Regiment cut off the entire puppet army cavalry battalion, it seized a large amount of supplies. These supplies were enough for the New 1st Regiment to use for more than half a year. After this more than half a year, when the cavalry battalion had formed combat effectiveness, Li Yunlong would no longer worry about supplies and food.

"You are responsible for the military affairs, just keep it in mind."

Li Yunlong nodded and whispered, "Old Zhao, don't tell the brigade commander about this. You just arrived and don't know his character. He has never seen anything good. If he knew that our regiment had a cavalry battalion, he would definitely come and take advantage of the situation to rob us."

Zhao Gang nodded in agreement, but he always felt something was wrong. However, he had already promised Li Yunlong, and according to Zhao Gang's personality, he would not say anything nonsense.

After dealing with Zhao Gang and assigning tasks to the four people, Li Yunlong began to devote himself to his own research and development.

The weapon that Li Yunlong wants to develop now is the Sten submachine gun. This type of gun is very cheap, the materials needed are easy to obtain, and the manufacturing difficulty is very low, which is very consistent with the current situation of the Eighth Route Army military factory.

This type of gun is the cheapest weapon in the world. It was explained separately by the teacher when Li Yunlong was in his sophomore year. Li Yunlong remembered it very clearly, so it was very easy for him to imitate it. Li Yunlong also made a simple modification to this submachine gun and added a safety procedure to avoid accidental discharge.

You should know that the nickname of the Sten submachine gun "Comrade Killer" is not for nothing. In order to reduce costs to the extreme, this rifle does not have a safety. It is very easy for Li Yunlong to add a safety, and it will not change any gun structure.

In addition, the caliber of the submachine gun also needs to be changed. It cannot use 9mm Parabellum bullets, but instead uses the Japanese Type 14 Nambu pistol bullets. This makes it more convenient to replenish and seize on the battlefield.

Another difficulty in manufacturing this weapon is the stamping press. This thing is not available in the Yixiantian Arsenal, but Li Yunlong can make a simple stamping press.

There was no electricity in the arsenal, so Li Yunlong dismantled a car engine and converted it into a small generator that could provide power for a simple stamping press.

While Li Yunlong was improving the equipment for the entire regiment, Yamamoto Ikki also came to Taiyuan City in a dusty state and met Shinozuka Kazuo again.