"General."

Picking up the phone, Kazuki Yamamoto spoke in a very respectful tone.

Life is the best teacher.

In the past few years, in the hands of Li Yunlong, Yamamoto has been beaten in various ways, and none of the plans have succeeded. No one paid attention to him wherever he was from above, even if he tore his throat and uttered a real shout, no one paid attention to him.

After experiencing the double beating of Li Yunlong and reality, Yamamoto has matured.

After Yoshio Shinozuka returned, he reorganized the General Staff and sent various battle reports from Ping'an County to Taiyuan as soon as possible. The various decisions made must also be sent as quickly as possible.

Yamamoto knows very well that even if he has been promoted to major general, even if many of his classmates in the same period have become the commanders of the lieutenant general division, he is actually not qualified to control tens of thousands of troops around Ping'an County because of his research direction and qualifications.

No violations.

But it doesn't conform to the unspoken rules of the Imperial Army.

Such a large-scale force needs to be commanded by a lieutenant general, after all, the imperial army around Ping'an County has exceeded a full division regiment, and if you add new recruits who have not yet formed a formation, there are more troops than the peak of the First Army.

For the full strength in his hands, he made up his mind to hug his thighs, General Shinozuka, and General Gangmura.

"Yamamoto-kun."

Yoshio Shinozuka made a fatherly voice:

"I have seen the results of this operation, obviously, we underestimated Li Yunlong again, the intelligence was wrong, and the tactics were also wrong."

"The general taught me a lesson."

Yamamoto bowed his head, his tone sincere.

General Shinozuka's words have two meanings.

He made mistakes in intelligence work, that's a fact, he admitted.

He took it for granted before, and after discovering a large number of scrapped tanks, he took it for granted that the tank units of the Independent Regiment could not participate in the war, and did not conduct an in-depth investigation, of course, this is also related to the recent improvement of the counterintelligence level of the Independent Regiment.

The security section had searched out almost all of his spies who had infiltrated the army.

And also.

Vaguely stated that his plans for a large-scale special operation would not work.

Yamamoto doesn't fully agree with this.

Special operations are about surprises, and this time it is not a matter of tactics, but that his intelligence work has not been done well, and the preparation time is too hasty.

But he also understands that no matter how much he says, it is useless, and he can only use facts to prove it, but unfortunately he can't do it for the time being.

"Suspend offensive operations."

Yoshio Shinozuka said suddenly:

"The strength shown by Li Yunlong is beyond our expectations, and it is not appropriate to continue the offensive until we are fully prepared."

"Hey."

Yamamoto bowed his head should be.

"You'll come to Taiyuan in a few days."

Yoshio Shinozuka continued.

"Hey."

Yamamoto bowed his head should be.

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A few days later.

Taihang Mountains.

Sun Desheng came to the vicinity of a newly built factory building, and there was a line of words written on the door number - Bullet Factory. He was accompanied by Zhang Wanhe, director of the logistics department of the headquarters. This is a joint establishment of Zhao Jiayu and the headquarters arsenal.

Technology and equipment are provided by Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory. And the equipment is all made in-house.

Zhang Wanhe has been very busy recently, and he went to the border area not long ago, and he only recently had time to come and have a look.

Sun Desheng began to introduce:

"The bullet factory has completed the commissioning of the equipment and officially put it into production yesterday."

"Considering the lack of lead in the base area, there is a lead mine in Luliang Mountain, but we can't mine it yet, and it is not cost-effective to order the full amount from Boss Chen, so we first made 7.92 steel core bullets."

"The steel core bullet is not bad either."

Zhang Wanhe said with a smile.

Although compared with the lead core bullet, the steel core bullet has insufficient storage speed and the ballistic performance is not as good as the lead core bullet, but the difference is not as big as him, and the steel core bullet is very easy to produce.

Solve the problem of existence first, and then consider the problem of quality.

"The shells are pure copper."

Zhang Dabiao continued:

"Through the collection of excess shells, the amount of copper is now sufficient, and the total reserves are more than a thousand tons."

When Zhang Wanhe heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

At present, the Republic of China basically does not have the ability to produce copper ingots on a large scale, and so does the national government, as for why Zhao Jiayu is not short of copper, he naturally knows part of the reason, and he really doesn't know what to say for a while.

Zhang Wanhe changed the subject:

"Is the propellant enough?"

After working as the logistics minister for so many years, and also in charge of the arsenal, Zhang Wanhe is well aware of the difficulties in the production of bullets.

The production of bullets, the warhead is easy to solve, the current raw materials are sufficient, it is a big deal to lower the standard, the independent group of bullet shells is also very simple to solve, Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory can produce special machine tools, as for the primer, it is even simpler, with a small stamping machine tool, he can be manufactured in large quantities there.

The biggest trouble at the moment is the propellant.

That is, smokeless flames.

This thing, they can produce, and it is relatively simple, but mass production, there is no such condition at all, and this is the biggest problem.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Hearing this, Sun Desheng smiled confidently:

"Our own production capacity for propellants is seriously insufficient, but we can just make room for it elsewhere."

"Somewhere else?"

Zhang Wanhe was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood the meaning of this sentence:

"You mean the propellant with a shell?"

There are six cartridges behind the tail of the mortar, and the larger the range, the more cartridges are used, but generally all of them are rarely used, and there will be two or three left.

Although the propellant of shells and bullets is actually not used, it is now the forties, and the quality of the shell propellant produced by Boss Chen is very good, and it can be used for gun propellant after testing.

"Yes."

Sun Desheng nodded.

"Hahaha..."

Zhang Wanhe couldn't help laughing.

At this moment, the raw materials for the production of bullets were completely solved.

"That's right."

Zhang Wanhe smiled for a while and asked:

"What is the maximum production capacity of this bullet factory?"

"Two months later, it will reach 100,000 rounds per day."

Sun Desheng held up two fingers.

"100,000 rounds!"

Zhang Wanhe's breath stagnated.

That's not a small amount.

"In fact, the maximum designed production capacity is 350,000 rounds per day."

Sun Desheng's tone was a little regretful.

This bullet factory, some of the main equipment provided by Boss Chen, they only produce peripheral machine tools, but because of the limited production capacity of Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory, and although the technical requirements of the surrounding machinery and equipment are not high, the quantity needs to be very large, and it cannot be made up in a short time.

"Take your time."

Zhang Wanhe's tone was casual.

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A few days later.

Pan County.

Kotaro Ito sat on a chair and closed his eyes in contemplation.

"Captain, they're all gone."

Suddenly, a devil walked in, his tone excited.

"Yo Si."

Ito's eyes lit up.

A few days ago, an order from General Yamamoto of Ping'an County asked the Panxian garrison to go to the front line of Ping'an County to garrison, and his airfield garrison brigade, because of its rich combat experience, was left in Panxian County for defense.

At this time, he had become the largest officer in Pan County.

"Are you all connected?"

Ito asked.

On the side of Heyuan County, the Eighth Route Army is collecting all kinds of basic machine tools, and the bid is extremely high, and the price makes people unimpressed.

"It's connected."

The devil who came to report nodded and said:

"Over there in the South Seas, in Southeast Asia, there are a lot of these machine tools and equipment."