When there was a big battle in the mountains of the front.

Behind the base, Political Commissar Zhao walked into the machinery factory.

Today's Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory has developed greatly compared with three months ago.

The installed capacity of steam power generation converted by locomotives exceeded 160,000 kilowatts, which fully met the power consumption of the machinery factory, and by the way, the regimental headquarters were connected with electric lights, and the explosives factory was also making preparations, and the daily output of electric furnace steelmaking exceeded 100 tons, and the preliminary metal processing capacity also reached 100 tons per day, which was the same as the steel output.

However, because of the problem of raw materials, it is impossible to start work at full capacity, after all, collecting more than 100 tons of scrap steel per day on average is completely impossible for today's Shanxi Northwest.

On the other side, the production line of the gun factory has also been debugged and officially put into production, which can produce more than 50 sets of machine gun parts per day, and when the problem of skilled workers is solved, the production capacity can be further increased in the future.

And.

With more and more, the troops continue to mobilize technical personnel from all over the country.

As well as the strong support of Boss Chen - providing rare metal materials, sending food or weapons and ammunition, occasionally giving some advanced machinery and equipment for free, technical support and personnel training of the six masters.

The speed of development of Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory is getting faster and faster, and the technical level is getting higher and higher.

At the beginning of August, after the installation of the new 50-ton electric furnace, the production capacity was tested, the skills of the workers were honed, and the technology was tested for the planned artillery shell production line.

According to the devil's four-one mountain paper given by Boss Chen, under the guidance of the master, after a month, the trial production of five cannons and three base shells was successful.

The five cannons have been tested and are of excellent quality, and there is no difference between them and the devils.

However, because it is not as good as Boss Chen's Bofors, after all, the range of the devil 41 is only more than six kilometers, and it was sent to the brigade headquarters.

"Commissar."

Seeing Zhao Gang coming, Sun Desheng, the director of the machinery factory, came out to greet him.

"Camp Commander Sun."

Zhao Gang used to call Sun Desheng the battalion commander.

Looking at Sun Desheng in work clothes, Zhao Gang always felt indescribably weird.

This subordinate of Yuan Shi Yousan, who followed Li Yunlong at the beginning of the new regiment, when he first arrived at the independent regiment, his cultural level was not high, and he only knew daily words, that is, the level of entering elementary school.

When I first arrived, I didn't study seriously, and the regiment was of a medium level, and I only made up my mind to seriously study cultural knowledge three years ago.

But it is unbelievable that in just over a year, he can read a book independently, and it is a mechanical professional book, and understand the knowledge in the book, which is comparable to that of an ordinary high school graduate. Especially after the master came, under the guidance of the master, the level has risen gradually, and now, the knowledge of machinery is not inferior to any college student in this major.

In just three years, while taking into account combat missions and troop training, he was inferior to the level of novice mechanical engineers from primary school students. Moreover, this guy is still training with tank troops, while organizing the management and work of the machinery factory, grasping both hands, and nothing has gone wrong.

It made Zhao Gang instinctively feel unbelievable.

What is even more bizarre is that such examples are not uncommon in independent regiments.

Monk, Wang Xikui, Cao Mantang, Huang Baowang, Shen Quan, Yan Sheng······ The level of education is now very high, and the lowest level is high school graduation, which is comparable to that of a master's student.

For example, Huang Baowang, as the person in charge of logistics and material management, relies on a lot of statistical books, often consults the chemical master of the explosives factory, and has an extremely keen digital intuition.

It's the same as him, a real college student.

Even Li Yunlong, who has only recently started to study hard, has more and more ink in his stomach, and he can talk to him back and forth with a book.

This group of people seems to have no barriers to knowledge comprehension, as long as they come step by step, without jumping to learn, they can master any basic knowledge, even if it is a little more advanced, they can gnaw it down after spending some time.

This doesn't make sense.

The super top geniuses he saw at Yenching University, the guys who have made a big name abroad, are also this learning talent. There are only a dozen of them over the years. And there are a whole bunch of them in the separate regiment.

The good thing is that this is a good thing.

Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Zhao Gang said his thoughts:

"Do we have the capacity to produce a full set of railway facilities now?"

At present, there is a huge demand for transportation capacity in the base area.

Not only the food that Boss Chen's Wandu started, more and more weapons and equipment, but also the dozens of tons of scrap steel consumed by the machinery factory every day, and the large amount of coal consumed by the generator.

Now I rely on big mules to pull new board carts, and with a large number of people, I can still hold it up.

But at the current pace of development, another half a year will definitely not be enough, and no matter how many people there are, it will be useless.

Although the convoys were getting larger and larger, the growth of the two sides was completely disproportionate, and the large mules were mainly equipped with troops, and the troops were expanding rapidly.

Relying on Boss Chen's car is unrealistic.

Although the automobile transportation capacity is strong, it needs to be repaired and maintained by people who use machinery, and the army also plans to equip a large number of cars in the future, so Zhao Gang immediately thought of the train.

The capacity of trains is larger than that of cars, but the technical difficulty is lower.

Talent is also easy to find, and there are many workers in the base area who have worked in the railways before.

"But yes, let alone a rail, even if it's a locomotive, we can make it, these two things are very simple, there is no difficulty, there is a full set of design drawings and manufacturing data in the information book given by Boss Chen."

Sun Desheng spread his hands, and his tone was pityful:

"But we don't have enough steel."

"Even if it is a light rail, plus supporting facilities, it will consume a lot of steel, and now our output is insufficient, and the machinery factory has to expand the production of machine guns and some machinery and equipment, and it is impossible to vacate it at all."

He had thought about this for a long time, studied it, and consulted the master, and at present, the independent regiment base area has enough technology, but there is no such condition.

"I know that."

Of course, Zhao Gang knew that there was not enough steel in the regiment, and he asked:

"If there's enough steel, can it be produced?"

"Yes."

Sun Desheng nodded:

"There is nothing wrong with it."

"Then you and the master in the factory will prepare."

Zhao Gang continued:

"I am going to build 15 light railways between the unloading area, the warehouse group, the machinery factory, Dadongzhuang, Zuojiapu and Gecun, and use double lines between the unloading area and the warehouse group and the warehouse to the machinery factory to strengthen the transportation capacity."

Sun Desheng fell into deep thought.

The unloading area is the regiment's name for Boss Chen's delivery location, which is classified as a military restricted area, guarded by air defense units and reinforced companies. The warehouse group is a place where materials are stored in the base, and a large number of hidden cave warehouse groups are built. Dadongzhuang has the farm of the new second regiment and an open-pit coal mine. Zuojiabao is the station of the new regiment, and there are many collective farms under the management of the military there. Gecun is the starting point of the highway out of Ping'an County.

Connecting these places with light rail is a great thing for the base areas.

The 15th light rail is a track that weighs 15 kilograms per meter.

Light rail on the foundation requirements are relatively low, the ground is slightly leveled and sleepers can be laid, the construction is rapid, there is a foundation can easily lay more than ten kilometers per day, the carrying capacity is much higher than the horse-drawn cart, can fully meet the needs of the base.

The only problem is······

"Commissar."

Sun Desheng said, his face was sad:

"These places are all connected, almost 320 kilometers, all with 15 light rails, plus road spikes, about 13,000 tons of steel are needed, not counting the transport carriage and tractor head."

Even if there are enough raw materials, 13,000 tons of steel, it will take 130 days for the machine plant to reach its full strength. Although the production capacity is still increasing, and the processing capacity is also increasing, the problem is that there are not enough raw materials.

Unless, the regiment commander goes out and picks up the Zhengtai Railway.

"We actually have enough steel."

Zhao Gang smiled and said:

"You forgot about the tank business."

"Tank business?"

Sun Desheng was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted:

"You mean, made of steel inside reinforced concrete?"

Boss Chen's business, every time he kills a devil, he gives the independent regiment a ton of reinforced concrete, of which steel accounts for 30% and cement accounts for 70%, but in fact, reinforced concrete fortifications or buildings only need one-tenth of the steel of cement, and there is a large amount of surplus.

Since the beginning of the business, plus the destruction of devil warships, there are almost 6,500 tons, of which nearly 2,000 tons are steel. Moreover, in the latest tank business, after killing 10,000 devils, each devil added ten tons of reinforced concrete during the business, which is also fast.

In this way, it is indeed enough.

"Yes."

Zhao Gang said with a smile: "Boss Chen said that he can also help with light processing of steel bars, I will ask if I can directly make fifteen steel rails, which can save a lot of trouble." ”

"Is it okay?"

Sun Desheng was stunned for a moment, then thought about it, and it seemed to be really good.

Rails, that's also rebar!

"I'll talk to the master and the technician right away."

Sun Desheng immediately went into action.

Today, in addition to more than 3,500 workers, Zhaojiayu Machinery Factory also has a technical team of more than 200 people.

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At the same time.

The 358th Regiment of the Jin Sui Army was stationed.

"Tuanza."

Fang Ligong walked in:

"Chief Yan's headquarters has come to order, let us send the batch of workers from the former Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant who stayed in our regiment to the 772nd Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and let us escort the fifteen college students who came over from Beiping."

"Send them all?"

Chu Yunfei raised his eyebrows.

As a commander with vision, after Chu Yunfei stabilized the station, he began to consciously collect the scattered workers of the Taiyuan Arsenal and collect talents, hoping to one day recast the Taiyuan Arsenal of the year.

For such a long time, he had collected a lot of them, and he had also reported them to Chief Yan, how could he give them to others for no reason?

"They will use three 41 mountain guns and 240 shells in exchange."

Fang Ligong continued.

"Three four-in-one mountain cannons! Three base shells. ”

Chu Yunfei raised his eyebrows.

The workers he collected did not have any high-level technical talents, and the price was very high, no wonder Chief Yan would agree.

"The men of the 772 regiment are already outside, artillery and ammunition have been brought."

Fang Ligong continued.

"Okay."

Chu Yunfei nodded and agreed to the exchange.

A few hours later, Chu Yunfei returned to the regiment headquarters with Fang Ligong, and the accompanying guard platoon also carried three 41-type mountain guns, as well as more than 200 shells.

"Good new artillery."

When he walked into the regiment headquarters, Chu Yunfei found that the 41-type mountain cannon was very new, as if it had just left the factory not long ago.

Fang Ligong knocked on the barrel of the gun, listened to the crisp voice and said:

"The quality of this 41-style cannon steel is very good, and this rifling wire is very standard, we can't produce such a good mountain cannon ourselves, it should be a captured devil."

Fang Ligong is also an old man of the Jin Suijun, and he has seen the most glorious time of the Jin Suijun, at that time, the Taiyuan Arsenal can produce cannons, but the quality of the steel is not as good as that of foreign countries, and the processing technology is also poor.

"However, this cannon is a little different from what we've seen before."

At the same time, Fang Ligong found something strange, the 41-type mountain cannon in front of him was very different from the Japanese army's, in short, there was no style made by a little devil.

"I'm afraid these three cannons have been out of the factory for less than two months."

Touching the barrel, Chu Yunfei also found something strange.

The four-one mountain cannon is easy to produce, but the performance is relatively poor, and the little devil has long been out of production, how can there be such a new appearance?

"Maybe it's the old ballast?"

Fang Ligong speculated, and then he looked at the inscription engraved next to the gun carriage:

"There is an inscription here, and the devil's cannon will be numbered when it leaves the factory."

Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong looked at each other, only to see that the engraved inscription next to the gun carriage read: Produced by Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory.

The expressions of the two froze in unison.

Without hesitation, the two continued to look at the other two mountain guns, rummaged for the inscriptions on the gun mounts, and then saw the same Chinese character - produced by Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory.

"Such a high-quality mountain cannon... How is this possible. ”

Fang Ligong's muttering was full of disbelief.

Chu Yunfei fell into silence for a long time.

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The other side.

After Zhao Gang left the machinery factory, he came to the warehouse group.

A two-lane highway extends in all directions, connecting the mountains composed of small hills, one by one, large cave-type and sheltered brick warehouses are located in these mountains.

This is the warehouse complex of the independent regiment, which stores a large amount of food supplies, weapons and equipment, ammunition, and fuel.

The three jumpers drove all the way in, and a large number of people from the construction brigade could be seen around them building new warehouses, some of which were built of reinforced concrete.

Recently, Boss Chen has given too many materials, and the warehouse can't be loaded at all, so the independent group can only frantically expand the warehouse and let Boss Chen deliver the goods in batches. At the same time, some plans have been implemented, and material consumption has also increased.

"Commissar."

Walking to a house in the center, Huang Baowang came out to greet him.

"What is the current situation of materials out of the warehouse?"

Zhao Gang asked.

Huang Baowang is in charge of logistics materials, and after getting food stamps, ordinary people can exchange them for food materials at the corresponding price through the exchange point in front of the warehouse group. Fine grains, coarse grains, bacon, canned meat, and even sugar can be exchanged.

After the tank business, you can exchange the grain quota for sugar.

"Last week."

Huang Baowang took out his statistical table:

"A total of 21,000 tons of fine grains, 60,000 tons of coarse grains, 1,300 tons of meat, and 2,700 tons of sugar were shipped out of the warehouse."

"So much sugar?"

Zhao Gang raised his eyebrows and took over the thick stack of statistical tables.

The northwest of Shanxi Province was already barren, and the grain produced was completely insufficient, so the base area itself consumed a very large amount of grain.

Nearly 40,000 troops, more than the construction brigade of the North China Front Army, a transport brigade of more than 10,000 people, and workers in dozens of factories, collective farms, and mines, all of which need to be provided with grain from the base areas, almost 500 tons of grain per day.

Under the organization of Boss Chen and the active propaganda of the troops, a large number of victims poured into the base area, especially in Henan Province, which has suffered a famine in recent years. Through cash-for-work, these ordinary people were organized to repair water conservancy facilities and open up wasteland, but they also needed to be provided with food by Zhao Jiayu's base area, which was the bulk of food consumption.

Those who support other base areas are to exchange food stamps for the people in the base areas.

There are also thousands of large mules that feed large mules, as well as a large number of ordinary mules, as well as free-range chickens and ducks, which consume no less.

It's normal to consume so much grain out of the warehouse in a week.

But more than 3,000 tons of white sugar were also out of the warehouse, which was a bit unexpected by Zhao Gang, this thing, from Boss Chen's side, is a fine grain one-to-one, but the base warehouse sells very, very, very expensive.

"Political commissar, next time you have to change more sugar, this thing is very popular, and it is very suitable for recycling food stamps (funds)."

Huang Baowang's tone was excited.

The base area uses food stamps as wages, and then collects food and materials through recycling, so as to mobilize the manpower of the entire base area, forming a virtuous circle.

"Okay."

Zhao Gang naturally knew what these white sugars were for.

Boss Chen has sealed white sugar, which is of good quality and has a long shelf life, but it is in short supply, and the government and the devil-occupied areas sell dozens of times more expensive than the best fine grains. Several times the profit, and naturally someone will go crazy.

He is happy to see it happen.

This is a good thing for the Zhao Jiayu base area, which can form a good economic cycle and help the flow of materials into the base area.

Food stamps are mainly issued to the army and construction brigades, and those traders and brokers who want to obtain food stamps, or let the people exchange them for sugar and buy them, generally need to come up with something that satisfies the people.

As for the use of violence or deception, ahem!

It's a time of war.

What's more, the devils are also vigorously collecting sugar, and a large part of these materials will go to the devils, plus the food obtained, the little devils will increase their efforts when they taste enough sweetness, and then, the independent regiment will earn more.

"Also, coarse grains are also on the exchange point. The common people in the base area like to exchange coarse grains the most, and fine grains are not very popular. ”

Huang Baowang continued:

"The quality of the coarse grains given by Boss Chen recently is also better than before."

"There is no sand and gravel in it, and there is no need to sieve before eating, although the granules are not one and a half worse than hardcover fine grains, and there is no cotton moisture-proof packaging bag, but it can be boiled directly to eat, and it is also strong when you are full."

One ton of grain can be exchanged for one ton of fine grain, or four tons of coarse grain.

Huang Baowang could only sigh in his heart that Boss Chen was generous,

In the past, the coarse grains mixed with sand could be understood, but now the coarse grains, rice bran and wheat bran are only about 20%, and the color is also good after being sifted out.

"Corn is the best deal."

Huang Baowang added.

Although I am a little afraid that Boss Chen will lose money, the more food, the better.

Corn coarse grains, there are no impurities, they are all corn kernels, although the grains are not full, pitted, but it is no problem to eat at all, especially to feed the big mules, it is very cost-effective.

"Okay."

Zhao Gang nodded.

The people's requirement for food is to be full, especially those who have fled from the famine, and their hearts are even more so, so they are naturally reluctant to eat fine grain.

"You check Ninety-Seven Farm carefully, there is a problem with the consumption of meat here."

After a cursory glance at the statistical list in his hand, Political Commissar Zhao's eyes narrowed, and he suddenly said.

"Yes."

After taking the list and looking at it carefully for a while, Huang Baowang found the problem and was shocked.

It is worthy of being a political commissar and a college student, but it is different.

He had read it a few times before and didn't send it.

At this point, Huang Baowang thought of one thing.

Speaking of which, in recent years, the cultural knowledge level of the political commissar has really become deeper and deeper. Data statistics, chemical engineering, machinery, can be learned quickly, and relatively proficient.

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Same.

The fourth line of Japanese positions.

After the biggest engagement in two months, Yamamoto and Kosa came to the front together.

"What about the casualties?"

Coming to the frontline position, Yamamoto suddenly asked.

"Preliminary statistics."

The accompanying staff officer flipped through the folder in his hand:

"Five hundred and twenty people were shattered, ninety-seven were missing, and five hundred and ten were seriously injured."

Hearing the data, Jia Zuo immediately wiped his forehead.

The casualties were too great.

In this attack, most of the troops used were tempered by actual combat, only one-third of the recruits were recruited, and the tactics were also made in a targeted manner, and the formation of the troops was very open, but the total casualties were still more than 1,000, and more than one brigade was missing.

Fortunately, two-thirds of the jade crushed are recruits.

Instead of continuing the topic, Yamamoto looked at the supplies stacked in one of the bunkers.

This is the seized material.

An elite squadron leader of his special squad broke through a position of the Independent Regiment and seized some of the supplies stored in the stacked position—some canned meat, and a few bags of white sugar.

Yamamoto suddenly changed his words:

"Continue to strengthen forward positions, focus on strengthening the protection of mortars, and strengthen flat-fire firepower."

Yamamoto's eyes were vicious, and he could see at a glance that it was these machine-gun forts that focused on strengthening the mortars that prevented the independent regiment from continuing its offensive.

"Hey."

Several captains on the front line bowed their heads one after another.

The two men then inspected the mountain artillery unit and the long-range cannon unit, praised the long-range artillery unit, and rewarded the captured sugar and canned meat.

In the end, the two returned to the Ping'an County Headquarters, and the staff officers who had been waiting here for a long time immediately began to report:

"In the past half a month, through acquisitions and other means, 7,000 tons of finely packaged rice, white flour, etc., 20,000 tons of bulk coarse grains, and 2,000 tons of finely packaged white sugar have been obtained."

"Yo Si."

"Yo Si."

Yamamoto and Shinji Kosa applauded in unison.

Since they began to infiltrate the independent regiment at night, more and more materials have flowed out of the other party's base areas, and even white sugar has been flowing out in large quantities recently. This shows that the attack of the Imperial Army has greatly affected the internal management of the base area of the Independent Regiment.

"Transporting all the white sugar to Beiping."

Yamamoto's words are full of power.

White sugar, the empire itself is urgently needed and in short supply, with this batch, it must be able to win more reinforcements for the First Army.

Then, Yamamoto and Kosa glanced at each other, and a thought flashed through their hearts at the same time.

It is necessary to intensify efforts and launch a more fierce offensive against the independent regiment.