"Good stuff?"

Hearing the regiment commander say something good, Zhang Dabiao, who was looking at the half-track armored car from a distance, immediately came over, and when he saw the list, he frowned and said in disgust:

"Five hundred noisy self-guided torpedoes?"

"What's the use of this? We don't have a navy, we don't have an outlet to the sea, we don't have a riverbank port, we don't have torpedo boats, we don't need it at all. ”

No matter how good it is, it's useless if it's not used.

"Who said a torpedo had to be launched by a torpedo boat?"

Grand Master Li snorted.

"You want the special forces to launch directly in the water?"

Zhang Dabiao instantly followed Li Yunlong's thoughts.

Today's Zhang Dabiao is not four years ago, and through continuous reading and study, he knows all kinds of basic knowledge of the army and navy, as well as the functions and uses of various weapons.

The torpedo is divided into two parts, the power system, the warhead, which is generally launched by the compressed air in the launch tube, and then pushed downstream to the target by the self-power system, and the depth can be preset before launch, and some torpedoes can even completely hide the wake, such as the oxygen torpedo of the devil.

Since the torpedo is propelled by its own power, it is completely possible to fire manually without a torpedo tube.

Of course, the launch speed will be very slow, and it will give the enemy warship more space to escape, but fortunately, the torpedo given by Boss Chen is a battery-driven torpedo, with a maximum speed of 37 knots and a range of 10 kilometers at the highest speed, which is very good. It can even automatically track targets based on the sound of a warship's propellers.

Li Yunlong licked his lips:

"The devil's navy, the price is really high."

"Indeed."

Zhang Dabiao was deeply touched.

Not long ago, Wang Gensheng led people to blow up two small warships of the devils, sank 1,300 tons, killed 247 devil sailors, obtained 3,200 tons of weapons and ammunition, and more than 65,000 tons of grain.

And that's not even counting the price given in the tank business.

It can be seen that the price of the devil navy is high.

Moreover, they still killed two old warships from the Russo-Japanese War, which were decommissioned and delisted ten years ago, without even names, and most of the ships were newly recruited sailors.

It's hard to imagine how much it would cost if it was a regular combat warship?

"Still."

Looking at the detailed information in his hand, Zhang Dabiao's brows continued to wrinkle:

"This mine weighs 1,500 kilograms, and the lowest distance we are from the sea is more than 700 kilometers, so it is basically impossible to transport it without being discovered by devils."

Although the independent regiment pressed the devils to the ground and rubbed them, and the Jinchaji base area became like an iron bucket, and the devils could not enter at all, it was impossible to transport a ton and a half of torpedoes to the sea without being discovered.

As he spoke, he saw Zhang Dabiao behind him and suddenly frowned:

"Oh, Boss Chen delivers nationwide, that's fine."

Then Zhang Dabiao fell into deep thought, he never understood how Boss Chen did it, tens of thousands of tons of food materials, more than 100 half-track trucks, can arrive in a few hours, and it is delivered to them in the mountainous area of northwest Shanxi.

"Looks like we're going to have to establish a sub-base by the sea."

Li Yunlong closed the torpedo information in his hand and muttered to himself.

Subsequently, he called for a guard company soldier:

"Let Wang Gensheng wait for me at the regiment headquarters."

Li Yunlong naturally remembers that the last time the special squad bombed a devil warship on the Huangpu River, it had contact with a nearby guerrilla unit.

That guerrilla unit is developing very well in the local area.

"Commander."

Seeing that there was no one else nearby, Zhang Dabiao couldn't help but ask:

"You say, how did Boss Chen transport these things? We only said in the morning, and the delivery will be delivered to our homes in the afternoon. And it's exactly the same, it's just..."

For a while, Zhang Dabiao felt that he didn't know how to describe the outrageousness of this matter.

"Why do you care so much?"

Grand Master Li glared.

Could he not have known that something was wrong and unreasonable?

This valley, surrounded by mountains of several hundred meters, leads to the warehouse area of the independent regiment on a road, silently, tens of thousands of tons of grain, hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles transported over, and the front foot sends a message, and the back foot people deliver the goods to the door, during which there is no movement, there are no planes in the air, there is no tunnel on the ground, and there is not even a sound.

But anyway, it's a great thing, people don't want to talk about it, so why bother to get to the bottom of it?

"Yes."

Zhang Dabiao shrunk his neck, he naturally knew, but he just couldn't help it.

"Is it a good day?"

Li Yunlong changed the subject.

"Good day? Nope"

Zhang Dabiao thought about it, but he didn't come up with what a good day it was.

"That's weird."

Grand Master Li felt very inexplicable.

Except for the 500 mines, the things behind the list are all good, 50 10-wheeled trucks, a lot of machinery and equipment for the production of guns, which add up to 10,000 tons smaller, and a mechanical master.

Giving away so many good things for free is bound to be a big festival.

"Forget it, I don't want to."

Li Yunlong shook his head.

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One morning three days later.

A group of the special squad, led by Wang Gensheng, went to the mouth of the Huangpu River.

Meantime.

The gunsmith that was separated from the machine factory was to organize the personnel to accept the new batch of machinery and equipment, and the new master mechanic was also mainly responsible for the work of the machine factory.

This previously unknown firearms factory was also officially named the Northwest Shanxi Firearms Factory, and the director of the factory was named Yang Chengcai.

Yang Chengcai is 25 years old this year, he has a high cultural background, he is a college student, he used to work as a technician in a foreign machinery factory, and he can drive a truck.

Two years ago, when the Independent Regiment was still in Xujia Village, he was supported to the Independent Regiment by his superiors as a mechanical talent, and then he followed Sun Desheng to serve in the Jibu Company, driving three jumps for more than half a year.

Later, the army was transferred to Zhao Jiayu, and when the machinery factory was formed, he also took off his military uniform and entered his old profession in the machinery factory.

Because of his high level of education, outstanding technical ability, and good management level, he stood out and was appointed by Zhao Gang as the director of the Northwest Shanxi Firearms Factory.

At this time, the director of the Yang factory looked at the form of machinery and equipment being installed, as well as the master who belonged to the gun factory, and an idea came to his heart.

It's time to expand rifle production.

As the director of the factory, he naturally knew that he, the Northwest Shanxi Machinery Factory, was mainly responsible for the production of weapons and equipment for other troops, and the weapons and equipment on the side of the independent regiment were provided by Boss Chen.

At present, the troops are running in small steps, unifying the equipment of the main forces and simplifying logistics.

For each regiment reloaded, a hundred machine guns, one thousand fifteen hundred rifles,

Today, the firearms factory, in cooperation with the Taihang Mountain Arsenal, can produce 1,000 light machine guns and 1,500 Type 1 horse rifles every month. Machine guns barely met the needs of the troops, but there was a serious shortage of rifles, which delayed the process of reloading.

And the design of the Bayi horse rifle is really a little worse, even if it is improved, it is much worse than the little devil's 38 big cover.

Therefore, the rifle model also had to be replaced with a Mauser modified rifle equipped with a separate regiment.

There are a large number of standard Mauser rifle parts in the warehouse, which can be utilized, and with these parts, he is sure that he will increase the production to more than 6,000 units per month, or even 10,000 per month.

The Mauser rifle given by Boss Chen, there are really a lot of spare parts.

Also on the same day.

Afternoon.

Independent regimental headquarters.

Zhao Gang is listening to the work report of the construction brigade.

"The construction of the two-lane light rail between the unloading points and the warehouse area has been completed."

An engineer wearing a gray hat said with a folder in his hand, it is worth mentioning that the folder at this time is no longer a dilapidated folder seized from the devil, but a pure cardboard folder provided by Boss Chen.

"The tractor manufactured by the machinery factory, the carriage has also passed the test and began to be delivered, from the unloading area to the warehouse, it is expected that after half a month, it can reach the maximum transportation capacity of 20,000 tons per day."

In order to rush the work, the design of the tractor was also done by the master himself, and directly used the tank's 330 horsepower diesel engine as power, which has high torque and amazing rail traction.

"Okay."

Political Commissar Zhao's eyes lit up.

Taking into account the huge throughput between the unloading area and the warehouse, at the beginning of the design, the construction of the roadbed was added to the two-lane light railway, which, together with the short distance, and the engines of the tanks, made it possible to achieve a maximum transportation capacity of 20,000 tons per day.

With this light rail, Boss Chen's large-scale delivery no longer needs to use a huge transportation team to transport, and can save a lot of manpower and material resources to build in other places.

"Next, hurry up and build a light rail from the warehouse to the machine factory."

The political commissar admonished.

In order to increase the output of materials, after discussing with Li Yunlong, he decided to directly use fine grains and sugar to purchase steel, machinery and equipment, medicines and other materials that were lacking in the base area.

Just half a month later, under the blockade of devils, more than 100 tons of scrap steel were secretly transported in by merchants in North China every day, among which there were many devil merchants, and the steel that was transported in had everything, rails, machine parts, etc., and even a lot of weapon parts, some devils, and some Jin Suijun.

The temptation of big interests and the great mobilization of social forces by commercial means really made Political Commissar Zhao feel emotional and vigilant.

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A week later, on October 10th.

In the morning.

Ping'an County.

Japanese Command.

"Dazuo."

A staff officer walked in and reported to Shinji Kosa and Kazuki Yamamoto:

"The new heavy artillery brigade has departed from Beiping and will arrive in Yuxian in four days, and the command has ordered us to do a good job of safety."

"Yo Si."

Kosa's face was full of joy at the time.

In the last battle, the core factor for the victory of the imperial army of Ping'an County was the four Type 92 105 long-range cannons of the heavy artillery brigade, and when this new heavy artillery brigade arrived, Ping'an County would be able to have eight long-range cannons, which could comprehensively suppress the artillery of the independent regiment on the entire battlefield.

The staff officer continued to report:

"Since September 25, a total of 10,000 tons of hardcover sugar, 12,000 tons of hardcover flour, 10,000 tons of hardcover rice, and 20,000 tons of various coarse grains have been collected."

"10,000 tons of sugar..."

Yamamoto and Kosa looked at each other at the same time.

This number made the two feel a little wrong.

Too much!

Naturally, the two of them also knew that the base area of the Independent Regiment was using fine grain and hardcover sugar to purchase scrap steel, medicines, and machinery and equipment, and the bid was several times the market price, which directly caused a frenzy in the surrounding areas of Shanxi, and a large number of businessmen frantically transported steel and medicine to the base area of the Independent Regiment.

They tried blockade, but it didn't make sense.

The mountain roads in the mountainous areas northwest of Shanxi Province are complicated, and there are still large areas of Tubalu base area behind the independent regiment, so the blockade can only be a waste of manpower and material resources.

In addition, although the imperial army mastered the main transportation routes in Shanxi, controlled the main county seats, and was able to completely loot supplies, the materials they collected should only account for between one-third and one-quarter of the outflow materials, so it is speculated that the independent regiment flowed out as many as 100,000 tons of materials every night.

The outflow of such a huge amount of materials cannot be explained by a runaway management.

It is very likely that these materials were deliberately released by the independent map.

"What does he want to do?"

Shinji Kosa had a chill down his spine.

"I don't know."

Yamamoto flashed.

Although it is not clear what Li Yunlong is thinking and what conspiracy he is preparing.

But he knew very well that he and the garrison of Ping'an County had no way to retreat, and after receiving the batch of sugar and grain, the empire immediately increased the dispatch of new soldiers, and at the same time ordered the North China Front to increase the collection efforts.

The will from the top has left the First Army with no way out.

"However, our plans have to be accelerated."

Yamamoto looked at the map hanging on the wall.

"Yes."

Shinji Kosa agreed.

No matter what Li Yunlong wanted to do, all they could do was to carry out the final general attack plan as soon as possible. The support wing of the Mongolian army has arrived, and the last four 105 long-range cannons are about to arrive.

The time is almost up.

·······

At the same time.

Zhao Jiayu is based in the rear of the area, a mountainous area.

Buzz...

In the low valley northwest of Shanxi, there was a sudden sound of crawlers crushing and the roar of diesel engines, and after a while, thirty half-track armored vehicles towed thirty new 105 howitzers into a flat field.

The thirty armored vehicles towed thirty artillery pieces and parked neatly in the valley, and among the leading vehicles, the commander of the first artillery company, Iwamori, walked out of the passenger cab and gave the order:

"Assemble."

"Build artillery positions."

Suddenly, hundreds of soldiers from 30 artillery groups jumped down from the half-tracked car, some soldiers began to build positions with military shovels, and some began to unfold the artillery frames, and then pushed the cannons to the positions with joint efforts, and pressed the garrison pestles fiercely into the dug positions.

Eight minutes later, thirty guns were deployed.

Looking at this scene in front of him, Iwamori was very satisfied.

Although the new 105 howitzer weighs nearly 2.5 tons and requires car towing to maneuver at high speeds, it is very well designed, and the trained crew can go from completing the march to the combat state in a matter of minutes.

"Target, twelve kilometers, azimuth····· Grenade, five rapid-fire. ”

Iwamori gave the order for live firing.

Thirty gun crews demonstrate their action in unison, the gunner adjusts the direction machine to aim at the target through accurate maps and firing elements, the loader selects a high-explosive grenade from the half-track carriage to advance the gun chamber, and finally pulls the firing rope in unison.

Boom...

Thirty artillery blasts erupted, and 30 grenades weighing 16 kilograms crossed an arc and flew towards a target 12 kilometers away. Immediately after that, the artillery crew fired continuously, and in just 30 seconds, 150 shells flew continuously towards the intended target.

"Shift positions."

Iwamori ordered again.

Flatten the barrels, put away the shelf, hung the towing hook on the half-track armored car that had not yet been turned off, and in just two minutes thirty guns left the position.

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A few days later, on October 15th.

"Shinozuka-kun."

Okamura Ninji sent a telegram to Yoshio Shinozuka:

"This is the Emperor's commendation order from the base camp."

In this sentence, Gangmura Ningji said in a very kind tone and smiled.

Now, Yoshio Shinozuka is in the limelight.

The proposal to directly send inferior recruits, or even recruits who are not in the establishment, to the front line for sharpening, has greatly alleviated the contradictions in the country.

The departure of a large number of C-class recruits allows the local community to concentrate on training excellent soldiers, and at the same time, it also relieves the anti-war pressure at home, after all, in the current lack of resources, there are fewer people, there is less demand, and the contradictions are naturally reduced.

After the first batch of supplies was delivered to the Japanese mainland, although less than 10,000 tons of supplies was just a drop in the bucket for a country, it also gave hope to the Japanese military leadership, and immediately stepped up efforts to put a large number of criminals, bankrupt people, and even anti-war people into the ranks of recruits and send them over.

"In this, half of Yamamoto-kun's credit is due."

Yoshio Shinozuka smiled and took the telegram.

The recruits sent to Ping'an Prefecture are extremely complicated, there is everything, and it is not a simple matter to make good use of these people, and Yamamoto's training and management are very important.

"Yamamoto-kun is a pillar of the empire."

Gangmura Ninji says:

"Tomorrow, 10,000 tons of sugar and 10,000 tons of white flour rice will arrive in Beiping, all of which were collected by the Ping'an County garrison."

"So much?"

Yoshio Shinozuka frowned.

The outflow of thousands of tons of important materials can be said to be a problem with management and control, but tens of thousands of tons is not.

"Shinozuka-kun."

"There's good news."

Okamura Ninji didn't notice Yoshio Shinozuka's expression and tone, he then handed Yoshio Shinozuka an order and said:

"The base camp has decided to promote your love to Yamamoto Kazuki Daisa, and Kosa Shinji Daisa!"

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At the same time.

Li Yunlong also received a message from Ito.

"Sending a large number of recruits to Heian County was an idea that Yoshio Shinozuka came up with?"

Looking at the information sent by the headquarters, Li Yunlong narrowed his eyes:

"It turned out to be Yoshio Shinozuka, this old boy!"

"It's him!"

Zhao Gang, who happened to be at the regiment headquarters, also smiled slightly.

I have to say that this trick did not cause any pressure on the independent regiment, but helped a lot.

"The materials we sent out are all the credit of this old devil."

Li Yunlong's fingers tapped on the table:

"It seems that it's time for Yoshimoto to step down."

How to remove the commander of the First Army? In fact, this is very simple, as long as one important problem affects the security of the so-called Japanese-occupied areas.