"Regiment leader, Captain Xiao reported that there have been a lot of spies near the pharmaceutical factory recently, some of them are little devils, and some are from Chongqing." Zhou Liang handed the telegram to Li Hao and reported with a serious face.

"They learned from the captured prisoners that Chongqing had begun to suspect that the pharmaceutical factory was run by our Eighth Route Army, and it was said that the Japanese leaked the news to them."

"There are also rumors that our pharmaceutical factory produces penicillin on the surface, but secretly it is an arsenal of the Eighth Route Army, which has a large amount of weapons and ammunition hoarded in it......"

Li Hao was silent for a few seconds, then replied with a frown: "This must be a little devil!" ”

"Sneak attacks, assaults, bombings, kidnappings...... All the means that can be used have been used, but we can't get the production formula of penicillin, and then they hit Chongqing with the idea, wanting to use Chongqing's hands to get rid of us, and they are good at profiting. ”

Speaking of this, Li Hao was silent again.

He thought of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments that the Eighth Route Army was underway.

After the battle, everyone was shocked by the strong combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army, and regained confidence in whether China could defeat the Japanese.

At the same time, Chongqing's strong strength also made Chongqing more and more afraid of the Eighth Route Army.

That is, at the beginning of this year, because of the large-scale expansion of the Eighth Route Army, Chongqing completely cut off the salary of the Eighth Route Army.

In this case, the pharmaceutical factory will definitely not be able to stay in Chongqing forever.

An extra day is one more danger.

"It's time to think about transferring!" Li Hao replied with a long sigh.

"Our goal of keeping the pharmaceutical factory alive in Chongqing has been achieved, and it is time to retire."

"Call Xiao Yuan back: I will return to Chongqing in half a month and organize everyone to evacuate Chongqing in an orderly manner."

"Before I returned to Chongqing, he was in charge of handling the spies who were active near the pharmaceutical factory, and if anyone wanted to check the pharmaceutical factory, they would go directly to the Americans and let them resist it."

"With so much money from us every month, we have to make some contribution to the pharmaceutical company."

"Drag me back to Chongqing at all costs."

As soon as Zhou Liang left with the order signed by Li Hao, Hong Linfeng rushed in with an excited face.

"Good news, Captain."

"The repair shop just sent someone to report that half of the chariot we captured on the battlefield has been repaired."

In several counter-sweeps, the garrison captured more than 30 tanks and armored vehicles, all of which were lying in the woods like scrap metal because the battlefield was damaged by bombing.

The arsenal wanted to dismantle these chariots several times, return them to the furnace as scrap metal, and make guns and cannons, but they were all stopped by Li Hao.

These tanks were only broken and not scrapped, and there is definitely a possibility of repair.

Although Li Hao looked down on these iron chariots in his heart, they were still a powerful weapon of mass destruction on the Chinese battlefield that lacked heavy weapons.

Therefore, as soon as the battle ended, Li Hao personally went to the arsenal and transferred manpower to set up a base repair shop to repair these tanks and damaged cars.

They really didn't let themselves down, and half of the battlefield was repaired in just half a month.

"Let's go, we'll go to the repair shop now!" Li Hao grabbed his hat and armed belt and rushed out of the headquarters, with a smile on his face.

After less than twenty minutes of horseback riding, the repair shop hidden in the woods came into view.

Li Hao rushed all the way to the door before stopping, jumped off the war horse and walked inside, very anxious.

"Hello Commander!" The director of the repair shop covered in oil didn't expect Li Hao to come over in person and hurriedly greet him.

"Don't engage in those false things, tell me about your achievements." Li Hao interrupted with a wave of his hand, and then his eyes were attracted by a row of chariots covered with camouflage nets not far away, and he strode towards those chariots.

"This is the tank we repaired, a total of three medium tanks, three light tanks, five armored vehicles!" The factory director pointed to the chariot and reported excitedly.

"There is one more armored car that will be completely repaired in another day."

Li Hao patted the cold body of the tank and asked with satisfaction, "How did it all be repaired?" ”

"Just like we repaired weapons in the arsenal, the same chariots demolished the east wall and repaired the west wall, and these twelve chariots were made." The director of the factory hurriedly replied.

"The rest of the vehicles were all dismantled into parts, left intact for backup, and broken ones sent to the arsenal for repair or rebuild."

"If the arsenal can fix those parts, we can assemble five or six tanks."

"Great!" The smile on Li Hao's face became even stronger.

"With these tanks, our garrison regiment is even more powerful."

"But there is a problem, in addition to these three medium tanks, the protective armor of light tanks and armored vehicles is too thin, not only can the anti-aircraft machine gun easily penetrate, but if the firing angle is adjusted, the heavy machine gun can also penetrate at close range."

"Director Wang, think about it, you can use the armor removed from other tanks to add a layer of armor to the light tank."

"I don't ask for the entire body to be retrofitted, I just want the most vulnerable fronts to be welded with a layer of armor to increase the vehicle's chances of surviving on the battlefield."

Director Wang thought for a while and replied: "If you just add a layer on the front, the weight of the body will only increase by a few hundred catties, and it will have little impact on power and mobility, I think it can." ”

"Then do it!" Li Hao made a decision immediately.

Back at the headquarters, Li Hao was still immersed in this good news.

Because of these dozen or so chariots, he has one more hole card in his hand. If it is used well on the battlefield, it is definitely a killer weapon to beat the little devils.

"Chief of Staff, I have decided to transfer manpower from the whole regiment to form a tank company, which will directly belong to the regimental headquarters."

"After the repair shop has put out the equipment, it will start training, and within three months it will initially form combat effectiveness, and after half a year, it will fully form combat effectiveness and participate in the battle."

Hong Linfeng had already thought of this day, but he still couldn't suppress his excitement.

It is a fact that the Eighth Route Army is poorly equipped and lacks ammunition, otherwise it would not be called the Eighth Route by outsiders.

As a member of the Eighth Route Army, Hong Linfeng never imagined that he would one day have heavy artillery and tanks.

It took a long time for his excited heart to slowly calm down, and he stared at Li Hao and asked.

"How to form it? Regiment commander, I have never been in contact with the tank unit before, and I guess I can't find a single tank in the whole regiment. ”

"It's completely black-eyed, and I don't know anything."

"Even if you put the tank in front of me, I don't know where to start."

Hong Linfeng is not exaggerating at all, the officers and men of the garrison regiment are almost all from ordinary people, poor people, and they can't know a few characters, let alone drive a tank, and many people may never see what a tank looks like in their lives.

Li Hao frowned, writing and drawing in the notebook while thinking.

It took five minutes before he spoke: "A tank needs a commander, a tank driver, a machine gunner, a gunner, a total of four people." ”

"So you need to draw fighters who can drive from the whole regiment, and then a dozen squad and platoon leaders as commanders, and then some gunners and machine gunners."

"In addition, these people must be the best fighters in the whole regiment."

"I have a feeling that as long as the tank company forms combat effectiveness, it will definitely become the ace elite in our hands."

Hong Linfeng thought for a moment and continued to ask: "Then who should be the company commander!" ”

"Tao Yongbo, the commander of the baggage company, is the only one in the regiment who can drive a car and understand a little bit, and he has read books and learns things quickly."

"In a few days, I will go to Chongqing and find a way to get some books about tanks and come back, so that the tank company can learn and practice at the same time."