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Wang Ye said: "Then let Zheng Gong and the others try to hurry up."
Li Mengshu said: "Ensan and the others are also working overtime to catch up. If there is no accident, it should be ready by the end of the month."
"Great." Wang Ye said excitedly when he heard the words, "In this case, the official production can start at the end of the month. This speed is a bit amazing."
"It's a small scene, it's just a small scene." Li Mengshu said with a chuckle, "When the Taiyuan Arsenal was first established, the speed of work was really fast, and at the beginning we were on the production line of 75 mountain guns and heavy machine guns. You have three bullet production lines in this area. What the hell, we'll fix it for you in minutes."
While talking, the two had already entered the deep cave.
That's right, the arsenal is hidden in a deep cave.
There are more than 7000 devil prisoners of war, Wang Ye has no reason not to dig a hole
Wang Ye asked these devil prisoners of war to almost hollow out several nearby hills.
After completion, the arsenal, power plant, and steel plant will be hidden in the mountain. The chimneys of the steel plant and the power plant are directly connected to the top of the mountain, and the entire flue is made of fired bricks.
……
At the same time, in the Jizhong Military Region.
Arimesei, the deputy chief of staff of the Japanese North China Front, rushed into the tent and reported to Neiji Okamura, "Your Excellency, the last formed unit of the Eighth Route Army's Jizhong Bandit Area has been wiped out!"
"As of today, there is no longer an organized Eighth Route Army armed in the entire Jizhong bandit area."
"Nearly [-]% of the armed forces of the Eighth Route Army have been annihilated by the imperial army, and less than [-]% of the remaining Eighth Route Army have also fled into the neighboring bandit areas of Jinchaji."
Speaking of this meal, Youmo Jingsan said again: "This big sweep has been a complete victory!"
"Okay, very good!" Neiji Okamura nodded happily, and then asked again, "Is there any latest news from Northwest Shanxi?"
"Still not." When it came to Northwest Shanxi, Youmo Jingsan's face immediately darkened, and he said, "The special high school has not been able to contact their latent personnel. I suspect that something may have happened to their latent personnel."
"There is Mo-kun, so don't doubt it." Okamura Ningji said in a deep voice, "If you can't get in touch for such a long time, something must have happened."
Arisue Seizo said: "In this case, due to the lack of intelligence support, it may be difficult for us to find out the construction progress of the Eighth Route Army's Northwest Shanxi Arsenal."
"Even if there is no intelligence support, I can probably guess about it."
Okamura Neji said quietly: "If there are ready-made machinery and equipment, factory buildings and power supply, it will take three to five days to build a small-scale arsenal."
After a pause, he said again: "You Mo Jun, our time is running out."
"So, what's your plan, Your Excellency General?" Yumo Jingsan said in a deep voice.
Neiji Okamura said in a deep voice: "You should immediately write down the sweeping operation against the Eighth Route Army's bandit area in Central Hebei. The more detailed the data, the better, and the speed must be fast."
"Hayi!" You Mojing nodded three times.
……
Chongqing, Huangshan official residence.
Dai Li drove to Yunxiu Building again.
However, when he came to Yunxiu Tower before, Dai Li seemed confident, but this time he seemed a little trembling, as if he was walking on thin ice.
He even asked Wang Shihe when he went upstairs.
"Brother Shihe." Dai Li asked in a low voice, "How is the principal feeling today?"
"Not very good." Wang Shihe was polite to Dai Li, the spy chief, and whispered, "Be careful later."
"Thank you very much." Dai Li cast a grateful glance at Wang Shihe, then bowed and pushed open the door into the study, and said to Chang Kaishen lying on the rocking chair with his eyes closed, "Principal, I'm here."
"Yunong, you're here." Chang Kaishen opened his eyes and was about to get up from the rocking chair.
Dai Li quickly took a step forward and reached out to help Chang Kaishen up from the rocking chair.
Chang Kaishen waved his hand and asked, "Yunong, is there still no news from Northwest Shanxi?"
"Yes, there is still no news." A row of fine beads of sweat broke out on Dai Li's forehead immediately, and he said cautiously, "The insiders lurking among the technicians of the arsenal have never passed on the news, and the few dials sent by Taiyuan Station to contact him All the liaison officers disappeared mysteriously one after another, so the students thought..."
"What do you think?" Chang Kaishen said angrily, "Don't hesitate."
"Yes." Dai Li hurriedly said, "The student thought that something happened to the insider, and most of the liaison officers sent to contact him were also murdered, so there was no news back."
Chang Kaishen said with a dark face: "There is no news from the Jinsui army and the Japanese?"
Dai Li hurriedly said: "There must be no news from the Jinsui army. The Japanese don't know for the time being, but the students think that there is a high probability that there is no news either."
"Mother Xipi!" Chang Kaishen said furiously, "So, Northwest Shanxi has really become a dragon's pond and a tiger's den? Not only your military commanders have gone but never returned, even the Japanese spies have gone and never returned? Wang Ye and the others It’s nothing more than a good war, but the counter-espionage is so powerful? How can it compare with your military command?”
Dai Li didn't dare to answer the words, there was no way to answer them.
Because this is a proposition, no matter how you answer it, it will be wrong.
Chang Kaishen was still angry, and called Chen Bulei over again.
In fact, what makes Chang Kaishen most angry is not that the military command and the Central Command failed to get rid of Wang Ye and Li Yunlong, nor did they fail to destroy the construction of the arsenal. The development he had expected before was quite different.
So he was going to call Chen Bulei over to question him.
"Yanji." Chang Kaishen said with a dark face, "The Eighth Route Army in Northwest Shanxi is building an arsenal in full swing. Maybe they have already completed the arsenal. Why is Neji Okamura still not responding?"
After a pause, he continued: "Didn't you say last time that as long as the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army occupies Northwest Shanxi, it will become a thorn in Okamura Neji's side? Then Okamura Neji will mobilize heavy troops to sweep Northwest Shanxi Why, why Okamura Neiji still has no response? How do you explain this?"
"Appointment, maybe the Japanese army is not ready yet." Chen Bulei said.
"After all, the Japanese army in North China has not yet finished sweeping the Central Hebei region."
"Preparation? What preparations does the Japanese army need?" Chang Kaishen said, "Wouldn't it be better to launch an attack when the 69th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army had just fought a fierce battle with the [-]th Division of the Japanese Army and the consumption of personnel and supplies had not been replenished? Wait, do we have to wait until the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army builds the arsenal and continuously produces ammunition?"
"This..." Chen Brei was speechless for a moment, and this was also unexpected for him.
To be honest, when Chen Bulei made this judgment, he didn't expect that there would be an arsenal.
Chen Bulei couldn't figure out, which nerve in Yan Xishan's mind was wrong to make such a move?
……
In fact, Yan Xishan has already regretted it.
In this spy battle, the biggest loser is undoubtedly Yan Xishan.
Because the Army Command, the Central Command, and the Japanese Special High School lost only a few latent personnel and liaison personnel, but Yan Xishan lost not only the latent personnel of the special police department, but also more than 200 technical backbones.
These more than 200 technical backbones are the talent base of Shanxi industry.
At the beginning, Yan Xishan thought that this was a deal that could not lose money no matter what, so he agreed to exchange personnel with the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, but he did not expect such a result in the end.
In the final result, not only were the giants such as Wang Ye and Li Yunlong not eliminated,
They even let the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army snatch ordnance technicians.
If there are no accidents, there is a high probability that the arsenal will be completed soon.
All in all, the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has achieved what they wanted.
However, none of his Yan Xishan's intentions were achieved, not even his intention to use the Japanese prisoners of war such as Hattori Naomi to publicize the Jinsui Army's achievements.
Hattori Naotomi even became a hot potato.
Not only Chang Kaishen forced him to surrender, but the Japanese also forced him to release him.
To describe Yan Xishan's current situation in one sentence, he lifted a rock and shot himself in the foot.
If time could be turned back and choices could be made again, Yan Xishan would not be so stupid as to make this deal with the [-]th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army. What is he planning?Why bother?
……
In the northwest of Shanxi, the arsenal.
Xing Zhiguo happened to come to the arsenal to have something to do.
Therefore, Xing Zhiguo was fortunate to witness the first batch of bullet casings produced by the Northwest Shanxi Arsenal.
"Is this the bullet produced by our Shanxi Northwest Armory Factory?" Xing Zhiguo couldn't suppress the joy on his eyebrows as he looked at the brass shell case that had just been punched out in his hand.
"It's just a shell." Li Mengshu said with a smile, "There is neither a warhead nor a primer, and there is no smokeless powder in the shell. It is far from becoming a real bullet."
"I don't think there's much difference." Wang Ye said with a smile, "The foundation has been laid, and it will be much easier to build tall buildings."
"That's true." Li Mengshu said approvingly, "Mengling's workshop has already solved the trial production of primers and smokeless powder, and the suppression of warheads is even simpler."
After talking about this, Li Mengshu said again: "Bullets can be produced tomorrow."
Wang Ye immediately said expectantly: "Uncle, how many rounds can the daily output reach?"
Li Mengshu said: "Currently it's just a trial production, and the daily output is at most [-] rounds."
"Two thousand rounds?" Wang Ye was disappointed when he heard the words, "That's all? That's too little."
"It's just trial production." Li Mengshu said with a smile, "When all the machinery and equipment are debugged and the entire production line is in normal production, the daily output can reach [-] rounds!"
"[-] shots!" Wang Ye was overjoyed when he heard the words, that's right.
Li Mengshu said: "But you have to ensure the raw materials and power supply."
"Uncle, just ask what you want." Wang Ye said, "We have to meet the conditions, and we must meet the conditions if we don't have the conditions. In short, our brigade commander said that the production of the arsenal is an overriding political task."
"Yes." Xing Zhiguo also echoed, "The Brigadier did say that, and I can prove it."
Li Mengshu said: "For nitric acid, there are nitrate mines nearby. It's not a big problem, but there are no copper mines in Northwest Shanxi. However, the production of bullets requires a lot of copper, and the supply of copper must be resolved."
"Copper?" Wang Ye was immediately dumbfounded when he heard the words, "Are there no copper mines in Northwest Shanxi?"
"There is copper ore, but the grade is too low, and there are too many types of associated ore, making it difficult to refine." Li Mengshu shook his head and said, "And we don't have copper ore smelting equipment in Northwest Shanxi, which is different from steelmaking."
"Steel?" Wang Ye's heart moved, "Uncle, can I use steel shells?"
"Steel shells?" Li Mengshu was stunned for a moment and said, "I really haven't tried this before."
"Then try it, maybe it will work." Wang Ye remembered very clearly that most of his bullets in the army before crossing were made of steel shells, which shows that steel shells are also feasible.
"Of course it's okay to try." Li Mengshu nodded, and said again, "However, if the troops are in a hurry to use bullets, there is actually an emergency method, reloading."
"Yes!" Wang Ye slapped his forehead and said, "I actually forgot about this."
After a pause, Wang Ye said again: "Every time we fought before, we picked up the bullet casings. Now we have accumulated more than 500 million bullet casings of various types!"
Li Mengshu said with a smile: "In two months, I can reload all these more than 500 million bullets."
"Great!" Wang Ye was overjoyed when he heard that, at least there would be no shortage of bullets.
Otherwise, they could fight a medium-scale battle with the only two or three basic ammunition in the Northwest Shanxi Column. Once the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops to sweep Northwest Shanxi, the entire column could only be blinded.
If the arsenal can reload 500 million rounds of ammunition in two months, that's another matter.
At that moment, Wang Ye said again: "Uncle, bullets can be reloaded, so can shells, right? We have accumulated more than [-] rounds of shell casings of various calibers, why don't you help us reload them too?"
"Of course there is no problem." Li Mengshu said, "However, the accuracy and range of the reloaded shells will be much worse. In fact, the bullets also have the same problem. With the same rifle, the effective ranges of the original bullets and the reloaded bullets are different. Yes, we have made the reassembly process to the extreme, but we can only achieve [-]% of the effect of the original bullet.”
"600% is enough." Wang Ye nodded and said, "Based on the effective range of the original bullet of 300 meters, [-]% of the effect still has an effective range of more than [-] meters, which is enough."
Li Mengshu said: "Then there is no problem."
Chapter 522 Ten Divisions
Beiping, No. 11 Iron Lion Alley.
Time soon came to September 1942, 6.
Arisue Seizo rushed into Okamura Neiji's office with a thick stack of documents, but was surprised to see that Adachi 23, the chief of staff, was there, and both of them had solemn expressions.
Moritake Tanabe, the former Chief of Staff of the North China Front Army, has been transferred back to the Army Headquarters as the Deputy Chief of Staff.
Anda 23 replaced Moritake Tanabe as chief of staff of the North China Front Army at the beginning of last year, and will soon be transferred to the Southern Army as the commander of the No.18 Army.
Today is probably a special trip to say goodbye.
"Your Excellency General, Your Excellency Chief of Staff." Arimo Seishi paused.
Okamura Ningji waved his hand, and said in a low tone: "There is Mo-kun, what's the matter?"
Youmo Jingsan asked in surprise, "Your Excellency, is there any major problem in the empire?"
Neiji Okamura nodded silently, but Adachi 23 said in a low voice: "The Navy's joint fleet suffered a disastrous defeat at Midway Island. All four aircraft carriers participating in the battle were sunk. More than 300 combat aircraft were shot down or fell into the sea due to exhaustion of fuel. The Air Force's elite pilots are nearly wiped out!"
"Ah?" Youmo Jingsan couldn't help being surprised when he heard this.
A few seconds later, Arisue Seizo said angrily again: "I knew it, I knew there would be such a day. When I went back to Tokyo last time, I had contact with those idiots in the Navy, and found that these idiots have been fighting since Pearl Harbor. After the battle, one by one their tails were raised to the sky, and I knew at that time that sooner or later there would be defeat!"
Okamura Ningji said quietly: "Arrogant soldiers must be defeated, arrogant soldiers must be defeated!"
"Yes, a proud soldier must be defeated." Anda 23 also sighed, "The Chinese classics not only hide the philosophy of life, but also the philosophy of military use that has been accumulated for thousands of years. Unfortunately, the imperial military circle There are very few high-ranking generals who can lay down their bodies and learn the ancient Chinese philosophy with an open mind like Your Excellency the General.”