Then the topic turned to the recent situation of the 28th Regiment.
Only then did Chief of Staff Xu Guoan receive the news from Jizhong.
"Lao Kong, according to centralized information, just one day ago, Lao Lu led the 28th Regiment and, with the assistance of Monk and Duan Peng, conducted a large-scale military training for the entire regiment."
"In addition, I heard that the 28th Regiment is also preparing to follow the path of our independent regiment. It has begun to streamline its troops and streamline its administration, and has begun to hoard food and supplies to cope with the increasingly serious disaster."
After hearing this, Kong Jie thought in silence and took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.
Nowadays, Kong Da’s tobacco pipe no longer uses the previous pipe.
The independent group's level has improved, and its own cigarette factory can produce cigarettes. Can it still wrong Kong Jie?
The cadres of the cigarette factory specially select some good ones and send them to Kong Jie every time.
After a puff of smoke, Kong Jie slowly opened his mouth and said:
"The brigade commander once said something that I very much agree with.
War is a test of a nation's endurance. Both we and Japan are enduring through consumption, let's see who has more endurance!
Perhaps now, for us, we have reached the moment when we need the most patience.
In the days to come, the objects we will fight against are not only the Japanese invaders, but also more and more serious disasters, so we must endure the hardships of survival."
Having said this, Kong Jie looked at Li Wenjie and asked:
"Wenjie, our expansion of grain purchase channels to the southwest needs to go further and speed up!"
"Nowadays, disasters in various places are becoming more and more serious. Natural disasters, diseases, and man-made disasters caused by war are all mixed together. This is an unprecedented disaster."
"I just hate that our first team can only do so much and cannot save all the suffering people and the troops who are struggling to survive. All we can do is try our best."
"Don't be reluctant to part with your family. I also told Xu Qingnian from the Finance Department that as long as we leave a certain amount of funds, we can barely maintain all aspects of economic operation in our base area.
Don’t feel bad about the remaining money, just spend it all.
Faced with the current disaster, only by exchanging money for food can our soldiers and civilians truly feel at ease."
"Hey! Don't worry, leader, I will arrange all these things."
Li Wenjie nodded solemnly.
Kong Jie was naturally reassured about the abilities of political commissar Li Wenjie.
With Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan here, he saves a lot of things. He only needs to be his own boss, use the wisdom of standing on the shoulders of giants, and lead the overall situation from a high position.
"By the way, Lao Xu, Monk and Duan Peng are here for the 28th Regiment's training. They have plenty of experience in our independent regiment's training, but they do lack some equipment needed for training right now."
"Then send over a batch of shotgun shells for training gunners and machine gunners, and also send over some reduced-charge blank ammunition for training that we collect bullet casings dropped on the battlefield."<
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"The conditions of the 28th Regiment are difficult, they lack equipment for training, and they are reluctant to practice with live ammunition."
"Sending these training firearms and blank ammunition over, the training efficiency of the soldiers can also be improved."
"Okay!"
Xu Guoan responded, then smiled and said: "Training equipment, to be honest, I feel envious after hearing this. When did our army have such conditions?
In the past, we either practiced aiming guns or training with wooden guns. When there was a shortage of firearms, many soldiers never even touched a real gun when they went to the battlefield."
"I acted directly as a reserve team. The soldiers in front died, so I rushed to pick up the fallen guns. I participated in the battle the first time I touched the gun."
"If earlier, we had the current conditions and put the training in place, our soldiers would not have suffered such heavy casualties."
Kong Jie said: "Yes, the improvement of our current conditions and training conditions can be said to have been paved with the blood and sacrifices of the martyrs."
"We should cherish it more and get the training in place early so that the soldiers will not rush to the battlefield without even touching a gun."
"Well, definitely!"
"By the way, Lao Kong, there was news from the armory workshop two days ago that a batch of training machine guns had been completed. Do you think you should also send some to the 28th Regiment now?"
What is a training machine gun?
It is a simple training machine gun produced to train machine gunners in the army and to simulate real machine guns in combat when training machine gunners.
The most fundamental purpose of developing this kind of training machine gun stems from the Eighth Route Army's shortage of equipment and ammunition.
In order to save ammunition, soldiers can actually touch training firearms similar to machine guns and become familiar with combat before going to the battlefield.
This training machine gun of the Independent Regiment was found in the Japanese warehouse after the soldiers destroyed a gun tower some time ago.
At first glance, it looks like a Japanese Taisho 11-year-old light machine gun, which is crooked.
But when the soldiers took a closer look, they found that it was completely different from the crooked machine gun. Compared with the Japanese crooked machine gun, this gun actually looked like an oversimplified toy gun.
Normal 6.5mm bullets cannot be fired when loaded.
What’s even stranger is that this firearm, which resembles a crooked target machine gun, actually uses a magazine to feed ammunition.
After the soldiers brought this firearm back and sent it to the regiment headquarters, Kong Jie said that they had found a treasure.
In the teaching class, Kong Jie, a lecturer, introduced to the cadres:
"This is the little devil's southern-style training machine gun. It is a training machine gun that imitates the crooked machine gun. It is specially used to train gunners."
"Japan is a small country with very few resources. The little Japanese wanted to train excellent machine gunners but were reluctant to consume a lot of bullets, so they developed this training rifle."
“In order to simplify the structure of the firearm, the gun did not use the gas-guided automatic principle of the crooked handle, but was changed to a simple free-action bolt type, and the complex milled receiver and funnel-type ammunition supply of the crooked handle were eliminated.
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"It was changed to magazine feeding, and the threaded fins on the barrel were also removed to save manufacturing time."
"In addition, because the structure of this gun is too simplified, it cannot fire normal 6.5 mm bullets and can only use blank bullets for training."
"In other words, this kind of gun is basically incapable of killing people."
"But if it is used for training, it is quite effective. You can use the most economical blank ammunition to train machine gunners who are familiar with crooked machine guns. Later, with some live ammunition exercises, it is easy to train them.
Come up with a qualified machine gunner."
"Production!"
At the end of the teaching class, Kong Jie made a direct decision:
"All the little devils know how to use this kind of training machine gun to train soldiers. Our independent regiment can't be worse."
"We also produce this type of training machine gun, including simplified rifles for training, and we also have to produce blank ammunition for training."
"We can't let the soldiers go to the battlefield without even firing a bullet. If they really can't afford it, can we use recycled bullet casings to reload the blank ammunition assembly?"
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Back in front of us, there is this training machine gun mentioned by Chief of Staff Xu Guoan.
"Send, of course, a batch should be sent over, so that the comrades in Jizhong can also taste the sweetness of training machine guns."
After Kong Jie finished speaking, he explained his long-term follow-up plans to Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie.
"I expect that the large-scale military training of the 28th Regiment is just the beginning, just like in our Taihang area, our independent regiment started the large-scale military training first, thus driving surrounding troops to follow suit and improve the combat effectiveness of the troops." p>
"This time in Jizhong, the 28th Regiment took the lead in launching large-scale troop training. Once the results are reflected, other units in Jizhong will definitely follow suit."
"That's the final result we want to see."
"The comrades in Jizhong now have authentic tactics, but they still lack training. Only by improving the overall training can they quickly improve their combat effectiveness to cope with the subsequent large-scale raids that the Japanese army may launch against Jizhong at any time.
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Kong Jie is still worried about the upcoming May Day crackdown.
And all he can do is to make as many preparations as possible...