Chapter 11: The Harvest
Headquarters.
"That's it?"
The boss, who was smoking outside to relax, looked at the mule-drawn cart behind the deputy general staff and the boxes of materials on the horse-drawn cart, spit out a puff of smoke, and looked surprised:
"So much? All of them? ”
There are five carts, each of which is full of weapons and ammunition boxes, and the mountain road near the headquarters is flat, and the carriage can easily pull hundreds of kilograms of heavy loads, which is really a lot of money.
"All of them, that kid is rich, much richer than I thought"
The deputy general staff shook his head with a smile, dismounted and walked to the boss, with exclamation in his tone:
"He gave thirty machine guns this time, and fifty thousand rounds of 6.5 pointed bullets, and..."
Speaking of this, he paused, and said in an even more amazed tone: "There should be another batch in the follow-up, although the kid didn't say the specific quantity, but it should not be much worse than this batch."
"Thirty machine guns, fifty thousand pointed rounds!" The boss raised an eyebrow.
After seeing the five horse-drawn carts, he was mentally prepared, but the actual number surprised him.
The headquarters of the Eighth Route Army accompanied the 129th Division in its actions, counting the special service regiment of the escort headquarters and the nine main regiments directly under the 129th Division, all the belongings added up to only 100,000 rounds of ammunition, while Li Yunlong's regiment commander shot 50,000 rounds and brought 30 machine guns, which is the number of machine guns in a main force regiment.
"It's really richer than we expected, this kid," the boss sighed.
Li Yunlong has been mixed under him for so many years, how can he not know what kind of character that kid is, he is definitely a mouse, and his family background will never be revealed, since he can take out thirty machine guns and fifty thousand rounds of ammunition, then there are definitely more in his hands.
"Thirty machine guns, of which twenty-seven are crooked handles and three are Czech, most of them are of decent quality, the rifling is still intact, especially a few of them are crooked, almost new"
As he spoke, the Deputy General Staff beckoned the people from the headquarters to take down the boxes from the carriage.
He still borrowed this mule cart from the 386th Brigade, and he would have to return it later, and he didn't think that Grand Master Li would give supplies so readily before he set off.
"This is normal, the Sakata Wing is a permanent division of the devils, and the machine guns they use are the ones with the best quality, Li Yunlong will definitely be able to capture a few of the better ones if he defeats Sakata."
The boss smiled, his brows furrowed.
Thirty machine guns and 50,000 rounds of ammunition made him feel noticeably better.
"However, the bullet he gave this time is very interesting."
The Deputy General Staff walked to a horse-drawn cart, took out an ammunition box from it, put it on a stone table in front of the boss, and pointed to the ammunition box: "Look at this ammunition box"
The boss then turned his attention to the ammo box in front of him.
At this glance, he immediately raised his eyebrows in surprise: "This box is actually made of the same material as the previous barge gun gift box, and it is also painted, and the appearance has also undergone a frosted process."
As the boss, that is, the deputy commander-in-chief of the entire Eighth Route Army, his insight can be described as extraordinary, and he can see at a glance that the ammunition box on the table is made of pineapple wood, painted on the outside, and has also been treated with a frosted process.
The wood treated by this process feels excellent, does not knock hands, is not slippery, and even has a certain waterproof and moisture-proof function, but it is very time-consuming. It is generally used in the manufacture of gun stocks.
Not to mention devils, even the European and American powers rarely use this process to make ammunition wooden boxes, not to mention the waste of time, but also a waste of money.
"50,000 rounds of Arisaka 6.5 pointed bullets, 2,000 rounds per box, a total of 25 boxes, all of them are of this kind of wooden box, and the quality is almost identical."
The General Staff said this sentence almost word for word, and then he opened the box on the stone table, pointed to the horseshoes that had been opened inside, and the oil-paper wrapped bullets, and said:
"And, look at these bullets"
"It's not a devil's bullet"
The boss stretched out his hand and touched the bullet in the box, and then raised his eyebrows,
Whether the bullet is good or not, the veteran knows exactly that the boss has been in the army for decades and has not shot on the front line for a long time, but he is still the veteran who has been tempered by a hundred battles.
At this touch, he felt the extraordinaryness of this bullet.
This kind of bullet, not to mention the appearance and color, is better than the devil's bullet, the lubrication of the bullet case alone is several times that of the devil's bullet, and the hand has a slippery and moist feeling to the touch, but it will not slip the hand to fall.
It's like wiping gun oil, but there is obviously no gun oil on this bullet case.
With this kind of bullet, the probability of jamming when firing a gun is much, much lower.
"The devil's bullet is not so good," the boss said in a positive tone.
If the devil had this bullet, the crooked handle would be a good gun.
The biggest problem with the crooked handle is that it is easy to jam, and the ammunition supply funnel must be continuously supplied with oil to ensure the lubrication of the bullet when shooting, otherwise the machine gun can be jammed into a rifle alive by just jamming.
Then he took out a few bullets and looked at them in his hand for a while:
"This shell, it's a good thing."
The boss was overjoyed, he rummaged through the bullets in the box, touched them one by one, and then said in a serious tone:
"It is necessary to strengthen the discipline of shooting, and after using this batch of bullets, all the shells must be recycled, and not a single one can be missed, and all of them must be recycled to the arsenal for reloading."
Firearms and bullets are indispensable.
Now the arsenal built by the Eighth Route Army, although the road to making guns is bumpy, it is barely finished, and using devil rail steel, it can still make rifles and even a very small number of machine guns by itself.
But make your own bullets... It's still far from it.
I always know about it myself.
Today's Taihang Landscape Waist Arsenal, even if you try your best, it is impossible to make a bullet from scratch.
No way, bullets are much more technically difficult than guns.
Just a copper-zinc alloy needed to produce bullet shells makes the arsenal dumbfounded, and steel can also rob the rails of devils, a small amount of copper can be manufactured locally or bought elsewhere, but zinc is really no choice.
Even if there are materials, but the follow-up cartridge case stamping, extension, squeezing... Dozens of processes down, although not helpless, but the road ahead is long, and long-term exploration is needed.
Therefore, today's arsenal can only be reloaded, although the warhead, propellant, and primer of the bullet are relatively high-tech, but there are alternative schemes, and the effect is a little worse, better than nothing.
"He must have a lot of them there, take this opportunity to grab his pigtails and get more" The boss put down the bullet in his hand and waved his hand: "At least squeeze him another 50,000 rounds, this kid is a mouse, there must be a lot"
Such a good thing, you have to get more of it.
"If he really gives, then this punishment..." The Deputy General Staff took the opportunity to ask Grand Master Li for a favor.
Although he has reached a unified opinion, he still feels that it is best to offset the merits and demerits, mainly because this punishment is meaningless, and in the future, Grand Master Li will definitely and will definitely commit it again.
"The punishment is still needed, let him remember it for a long time, but if there are another 50,000 bullets, then let him stay in the clothing factory for only two months, so that he can reflect on himself"
"The new group will be handed over to Ding Wei for the time being, I have already sent someone to call him back, and it will be there in a week."
The boss was in a good mood at this time, and decided not to punish him heavily, he originally planned to let Grand Master Li work for half a year.
"More than a month later, there is a company of more than 50 old Red Army soldiers in Yan'an, these are all trained veterans, and they were originally planned to be incorporated into the special service regiment, so use these veterans as the backbone and transfer 500 people from the teaching regiment to form a new second regiment."
"That's right, those thirty machine guns will be given to the new second regiment."
The training regiment is actually a recruit training regiment, and its main role is to train new recruits.
"Ding Weiken goes to the new second regiment?" Deputy General Staff asked.
Everyone wants to pick up ready-made, and no one wants to go to a newly formed regiment, after all, it is a very difficult thing for a new regiment to integrate combat effectiveness.
"Moreover, in our current situation, is Ding Wei suitable for integrating a new group?" The Deputy General Staff continued to raise doubts.
It is not difficult to integrate a new army, but the Eighth Route Army lacks materials, and the new troops have almost no materials allocated by their superiors, and they all rely on themselves.
"This, let the 386 Brigade solve it by itself" The corner of the boss's mouth twitched, and he decided not to care about it.
The entire 129th Division, which can even be placed in three divisions of the whole army, deserves to be the first choice for the integration of troops under difficult conditions. The new regiment was originally the tail of the crane, but he made it into the first main force.
However, handing over 100,000 rounds of ammunition, dozens of machine guns, and transferring people from the old units is really not very kind. The boss decided that he should not be the bad guy.