"What did you say? You also need to send a gunpowder factory machine and raw materials?"

The brigade commander had just returned from outside, and the political commissar told him that there was news from Li Yunlong.

But I never expected that there would be such a big news.

Political Commissar Wang said: "Yes, it's not just the machines of the gunpowder factory. Yuan Lang promised to send more machines in the future to build a systemic arsenal that can be self-sufficient."

"Really, that's great."

The brigade commander walked back and forth happily, "I knew that if you can supply a large amount of weapons and equipment, there must be a powerful arsenal behind it.

When I asked him last year, Yuan Lang was sloppy with me and had no news.

It seems that after more than a year of getting along and investigating, they think our Eighth Route Army has the potential to be worth investing, so they have increased their bargaining chips."

How important it is to have a systematic arsenal? In the period of warlords fighting in the Republic of China, there was actually an answer.

Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army armed a 300,000 army, entered the pass and swept half of China, becoming the most likely person to reach the top after Lao Yuan.

It depends on a systematic arsenal, aircraft, cannons and tanks, and it can be used to imitate it, with sufficient and cheap bullet supply.

If Lao Zhang hadn't led his troops and was not strict in the control of the feudal army, the feudal army was full of bandit atmosphere and would have been defeated as soon as the war broke out.

Maybe he will succeed.

There is also the tumbler Yan Laoxi. His Shanxi Arsenal is not as good as the Northeast Army, but it is also very good.

Both light and heavy machine guns and mortars can be copied. The 300,000 troops raised by cheap weapons controlled the five provinces of North China at its peak and was one of the four famous warlords.

Those warlords who had no arsenal and only relied on money to buy weapons from abroad did not dare to consume ammunition in wars, which was really too expensive.

Therefore, they were unable to grow bigger and ended up being annexed by others.

If the Eighth Route Army wants to grow and grow, it must have its own arsenal and a stable source of weapons and ammunition.

As a result, the Huangyadong Arsenal was born. With the machines accumulated bit by bit, they now have the ability to imitate rifles, grenade launchers, and artillery shells.

Although the output is not very large, it has always provided various weapons to the front-line troops, which has played a very important role in fighting Japan.

This makes it not difficult to understand the excitement of the brigade commander.

If there was a systematic arsenal like the Northeast Army, the Eighth Route Army could arm one million people and swept across North China in three years and connect the base areas.

Even if there is an arsenal like Yan Xishan, the Eighth Route Army can live much better.

Armed the existing troops and expanded them to 200,000 to 300,000, and there is no problem in fighting with the Japanese army.

"Old Chen, it's not the time to be happy yet."

Political Commissar Wang helped out with his glasses, "There are two difficulties now. Yuan Lang said that those machines and raw materials will be transported by ships through the Yellow River to unload goods in the Zhongtiao Mountain area. There are still more than 10,000 tons of raw materials.

The machine is not easy to transport on land, and the raw materials are too much. It is almost impossible to complete the transportation from Zhongtiao Mountain to our base, and to avoid the eyes and ears of the Japanese army."

The brigade commander knew that what the political commissar said made sense. These were not two bullet production lines. The target was just a small deal. When the Japanese army found out, they would finish it.

The transportation of a systematic arsenal machinery is a very large project.

Not to mention that the road is difficult to move, such a big goal is definitely not hidden from the Japanese.

It's too high to describe it as almost two words.

It is absolutely impossible to transport it safely from Zhongtiaoshan to the base.

"I suggest that the arsenal should be set up in Zhongtiao Mountain, and the nearby place can be put into production as soon as possible. Moreover, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if the enemy knows it, we can defend it." said the brigade commander.

Political Commissar Wang thought so too, and the two of them thought of going together.

But this is just one problem, and there is another one.

The machine has no engineers and skilled workers who are moving.

Machines are not like guns, you can learn them casually. Only when debugging and installing them until they are finally put into production can engineers who are proficient in this.

The operation of the machine also requires a large number of skilled workers to operate, and it takes time to train it on the spot.

"Get a report and transfer people from Huangyadong Arsenal. With an elite team, we will get it into production as soon as the machine arrives."

The brigade commander sighed sincerely: "Time waits for no one."

The newly appointed Okamura Yasuji is much harder to deal with than the original Toshi Tada.

Recently, under the encirclement and suppression of the million-dollar war he created, the Eighth Route Army was forced to give up many bases and suffered considerable losses.

Especially the people are most affected.

The Japanese army's retaliatory storm, and the base was ravaged by terrible surprise. The Taiyue base under the command of the brigade commander was the richest Qinyuan County as an example.

Almost all the houses were burned out, more than 7,000 innocent people were brutally massacred, hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless.

The situation in other bases is similar, and many villages that have been swept away have turned into ruins.

When such a thing happened, the Eighth Route Army was heartbroken.

The brigade commander tossed and turned day and night, thinking about what to do to countermeasures.

A skillful woman cannot cook without rice. The Eighth Route Army’s conditions are here. No matter how many wonderful ideas you have, without the support of your strength, you will be nothing.

The brigade commander once thought:

Not to mention that more than one hundred regiments are like the New Second regiment, even if only twenty or thirty regiments can reach the weapons and equipment level of the New Second regiment,

The difficulties can be solved now, and Shanxi has no place for the Japanese to gain a foothold.

He didn't think that would become a reality before, but now, with Yuan Lang's promise, the machine to build an arsenal was already on the way, and the brigade commander suddenly became confident.

Bullet production lines and explosives production machines, first solve the problem of supply.

The next step is to set up a rifle production line, grenade launcher and grenade production line.

If the Japanese army had not been pressing forward step by step, there would be many wars to fight next, and the brigade commander would have been willing to go to Yuan Lang for an interview and discuss what machine to build in the future.

"No, I have to send a telegram to ask, let Yuan Lang come first with the most important thing."

The brigade commander couldn't sit still, so he went directly to the sender.

Political Commissar Wang shook his head: "This old Chen is a very steady person. When he heard that there is an arsenal, he changed his temper. It's true."

He got up and walked to the next door, and called a combat staff officer.

"Staff Officer Zhou, I will give you a task, go to Huangyadong Arsenal and tell Director Liu,

There are two bullet production lines and a batch of explosives-producing machines that require engineers to start.

Let them organize their smart and capable forces immediately and set off at any time."
Chapter completed!