Chapter 769: Turnaround

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I don't even know who to fight, and when I mention fighting, I am happy as if I have eaten bee feces, and the three oxen are jumping high, and their faces are full of excitement, and the old soldiers at that time are basically this virtue.

Li Yong was a little crying and laughing by Sanniu, so he had to explain: "Don't guess, you kid, there is no battle to fight for the time being, our brigade is too far away from the main force, and the logistics supply is very difficult, even if the food can be solved by itself, what about weapons and ammunition?" Troops have to train even if they don't fight, but once they are trained, they will be very expensive, and you can't expect bullets and grenades to grow out of the ground. ”

It turned out that the brigade commander was worried about this matter, Sanniu thought about it and replied: "Brigade commander, there is no problem with ordnance repair, even if the parts are insufficient, we can remove some of the waste weapons, and it can be maintained for the time being, but if you want to produce, it will be difficult, there is no shortage of technicians, there are two main difficulties, one is raw materials, and the other is equipment, at present, we don't have either of them, and it is basically impossible to produce weapons." ”

Li Yong knew that what Sanniu said was very reasonable, the independent brigade has been fighting vicious battles since the day it became an army, and the loss of weapons and equipment is considerable, Sanniu and the repair company basically did not spend a day of stopping, and they were busy to death every day, but there are also benefits to this way, and the soldiers are busy day after day to feel the performance of various types of weapons and equipment, Li Yong believes that as long as there are raw materials and equipment, and then explore for a period of time, simple weapons and ammunition production should be feasible.

Production is different from fighting a war, and it is a huge project to be self-sufficient in weapons and equipment, and it is possible to complete such a project in the interior under the responsibility of the state, but it is almost impossible to rely on a brigade-sized unit to do a good job in Houzang, and without upstream supporting enterprises, it is simply a utopian dream to produce equipment with a single force.

Military production is an exhibition of the industrial system, and every link is indispensable, and the acquisition of industrial raw materials is indispensable. It requires dozens or hundreds of complicated processes such as mining, smelting, design, and technology, as well as a large number of special equipment and engineering and technical personnel, for example, seamless steel pipe technology, rifling processing technology, and smokeless gunpowder technology, which cannot be mastered for a while and a half, and with the technical ability of the independent brigade at this stage, it is too difficult to produce weapons and equipment out of thin air, and prospecting alone cannot be completed in a day or two.

Shigatse is surrounded by rich mineral resources. There are dozens of kinds of rare metal minerals, among which the reserves of copper, zinc and iron ore, which are necessary for the production of weapons and equipment, are not small, but these are reserves that have only been proven in later generations, Shigatse in the 50s. The only mines that can be opened are coal and salt mines and a small amount of borax mines, so to speak. The idea of the independent brigade smelting rare metals by itself Li Yong did not dare to have it. It's not realistic, but it will be at least ten years from now.

It is basically impossible to smelt raw materials by itself, and the current strength of the independent brigade cannot do it, in fact, Li Yong's idea entered a misunderstanding at the beginning, because the independent brigade does not need to complete everything by itself and report to the superiors. Asking for help from brother troops can solve some of the raw material problems, but this equipment is a headache.

The so-called arsenal is still a prototype, Li Yong thought about it. Dispelled the idea of obtaining raw materials by themselves, for the time being, they can only rely on their superiors to solve it, and the next thing that needs to be solved is the machine equipment, and the raw materials are good to say, if the machine equipment also needs to be solved by the superiors, it is actually equivalent to reporting to the superiors to set up an arsenal in Shigatse.

Establishment of an arsenal in Shigatse??? The closed Houzang has no industrial base, no engineering and technical personnel, no upstream and downstream supporting enterprises, can the plan of the independent brigade be approved by the superiors? It is estimated that there is a 90 percent chance that he will be shot directly.

If an independent brigade wants to maintain its combat effectiveness without declining, it must ensure that the quality of training is the same as before, and even that it will be improved in the future, but training will consume a large amount of material reserves and increase pressure on logistics, which is the biggest shortcoming of the troops at the present stage, and they are not capable of producing their own products.

Just when Li Yong was worried, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, Zhang Jinsong, ran in again in a hurry, Zhang Jinsong recently took their reconnaissance battalion around the surrounding areas of Shigatse, grasped a lot of first-hand information on humanities and resources, and gradually became familiar with the local people.

"Brigade commander, brigade commander, we caught a big-nosed foreigner in a settlement more than 60 kilometers away from Shigatse, you say that this guy is not a ghost, wearing the clothes of a local villager, and the local dialect is even more slippery than ours, if it is not for the villagers to provide information, it is really difficult to arrest."

Zhang Jinsong shouted when he entered the door with a loud voice, and almost all the people in the brigade headquarters heard it clearly, and the guard company commander Li Jia asked a little strangely: "Battalion Commander Zhang, no, can there be foreigners in such a remote place?" Am you mistaken? ”

It's no wonder that Li Jia is curious, in China in the 50s, foreigners are rare in big places, and occasionally one can cause onlookers, who would have thought that it could be seen in such an extremely closed area.

Zhang Jinsong was a little disdainful of Li Jia's curiosity, and this guy patted his chest and replied: "It's not wrong, what are we Lao Zhang doing!" Our old Zhang is a scout, and the kid who was caught has yellow hair and green eyes, and he is definitely not Chinese. ”

Zhang Jinsong explained that everyone was silent, but isn't it, can a person with yellow hair and green eyes still be Chinese? If he were Chinese, the sow would be on the tree.

Li Yong also came to be a little interested at this time, when he first arrived in Lhasa, he captured a group of foreigners, but they were all clicked by Li Yong, is this guy a fish that slipped through the net: "Jinsong, where are you?" “

Zhang Jinsong took a big sip of water, then wiped the beads of sweat on his head and replied: "Hehe, people are outside, come here, bring the prisoners over." ”

The last sentence was shouted outside, and several fighters from the reconnaissance battalion dragged a guy in and threw it on the ground with a bang.

Li Yong looked at it carefully, heh, it's really a fucking foreigner.

This guy was about 30 years old, wearing a leather robe that Tibetans were accustomed to wearing, and a hat similar to fox skin on his head, and his eyes were spinning and bone, and when he was thrown in by the soldiers, the leather hat fell off, revealing a golden head.

Good fellow, no one really suspects that he is an ordinary local person when he is dressed so far away, but when the wolf always shows its tail, the unchangeable yellow head and green eyes expose the bottom of this kid.

There was still a set of methods for interrogating the prisoner Li Yong and the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion, and after careful questioning, it was really a small fish that was caught, according to his own confession, this guy was British, belonging to the British Far East Intelligence Bureau, and came to Tibet in order to carry out the M6-Baier plan, but later because the plan was exposed, most of the members were captured by the People's Liberation Army and failed, and he had no way to escape for the time being, so he had to hide and wait for the opportunity.

The captured captives mentioned the Baier plan, and Li Yong's psychological violence swept through a lightning bolt, and suddenly became bright, yes, why did Lao Tzu forget about this matter.

The British Empire, known as the sun never sets, formulated the M6-Baier Plan in order to forever occupy the crown jewel of the LinkedIn king, colonize India forever, and ensure the safety of the vegetable basket forever.

The difficulties faced by Li Yong and the Independent Brigade seem to have taken a turn for the better, a full set of equipment and equipment, and all of them are made in Britain, they are all fucking good things, but where is this good thing? I haven't heard of any arsenals in Tibet.

From the beginning of entering the Tibetan area, the Independent Brigade has been constantly dealing with the Tibetan army on behalf of the regiment, in Yushu, in Qamdo, in Wuqi, and later in Lhasa and Shigatse, the weapons and equipment of the Tibetan army seen everywhere they went were extremely inferior, and when they fought with the independent brigade, they were completely suppressed, and they did not see any modern equipment at all.

There was a very detailed record in the Baier Plan, the British Empire did support the Tibetan Kashag government with an ordnance factory, which was a full set of British equipment, and ordinary weapons and ammunition could be produced, but it was also true that the Tibetan army's weapons were inferior. Li Yong couldn't figure it out.

The equipment is made of steel, it is impossible to bite and chew, it is impossible to fly out of thin air, Tibet is far away from the UK, and it is impossible to move back, it is impossible not to have it.

Thinking of the weapons manufacturing plant in Baier's plan, Li Yong's heart was hot, damn, if he could really get these machines and equipment into his hands, it would be really rich, and it would also solve the big problem at hand.

Li Yong's head kept turning, if he had the machine and equipment, and then reported to his superiors to apply for some raw materials, tanks and cannons could not be obtained, but the production of simple guns and ammunition was very promising.

However, it was not enough to be in a hurry, and the Independent Brigade was the first to reach Lhasa and Shigatse, and under the sweep of the dragnet, I did not hear of or see any large-scale arsenals in these two places.

Lao Tzu did not believe that these machines and equipment could fly into the sky, and Li Yong, who was stimulated by the Baier plan, ordered Zhang Jinsong, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, to devote all his next work energy to finding the so-called weapons manufacturing plant, and in order to provide convenient conditions for the reconnaissance battalion, he also specially seconded Suo Lang Phuntsok of the communications platoon to cooperate with them.

According to the interrogation records, Li Yong asked the reconnaissance battalion to focus its reconnaissance on the Lhasa area, knowing that Lhasa is the center of Tibet, and if there is such a factory, it is likely to be built in the Lhasa area. (To be continued......)