Several jeeps and Jiefang trucks stopped at the door. Li Yunlong and Zhang Wanhe greeted each other. Several of the staff officers who followed Li Yunlong looked at the Wohu Mountain Industrial Zone, and their eyes widened slightly.
"This is our Xinyi Tuan Industrial Park?"
These staff officers have just been transferred from the headquarters and Yan'an.
Now that the new regiment is expanding, it naturally needs more various staff officers and officers who can lead troops to fight. In this regard, the headquarters is not stingy at all and has sent many outstanding officers.
From the door, you can have a clear view of the industrial park.
in sight.
Factory buildings stand one after another. These factory buildings are lined up next to a small river. Each factory building is made of reinforced concrete and has a very solid structure.
Such a factory is nothing to an industrial park, but it is possible to build an industrial park in such a quiet place.
In just over a year, Xinyi Tuan's industry was able to reach such a scale, and it was started from scratch. If the Japanese knew about it, they would go crazy about it and do everything possible to blow it up.
In the past, the Xinyi Regiment's factories were basically hollowed out and built in Crouching Tiger Mountain in order to prevent Japanese bombing.
Now that the Japanese have lost air control in North China, they don't have to worry about bombing by Japanese planes, so the newly built factory buildings were built directly beside the river.
Steel plants, arsenals, etc. all need water resources, and this river supplies water to the Wohushan Industrial Zone.
Although it has air superiority, air defense facilities are indispensable.
In the middle of some factories, there are anti-aircraft gun positions. In addition to 20mm machine guns, there are also 37mm anti-aircraft guns and 88mm anti-aircraft guns.
Soldiers from an anti-aircraft company are stationed here, and there are also three infantry companies responsible for maintaining security and protecting the industrial park.
Except for a cement-built four-lane road leading to Heyuan County and Dagu Town.
There is also a two-lane railway leading to Heyuan Station.
Not far from the factory area, there are houses of various sizes located on both sides of the road.
Many skilled workers, engineers and intellectuals have settled here with their families, making it a very popular place.
It is only 10 kilometers away from Heyuan County. With the new industrial park and aviation branch settling here, Heyuan County has also restored its prosperity before the Anti-Japanese War, and even more so.
It’s hard to imagine that this place had only been recaptured by the Eighth Route Army for about a year, but it had already developed into such a large-scale industrial park.
In a few more years of development, the scale and technology here will be very close, if not to the industrial level of European and American countries.
Several young staff officers were thinking to themselves.
Seeing the great changes in the Wohu Mountain Industrial Zone, Li Yunlong was slightly surprised. The scale of the Wohu Mountain Industrial Zone had increased several times compared to the last time he left northwest Shanxi.
Zhang Wanhe and other factory directors accompanied Li Yunlong during the inspection.
Li Yunlong personally visited the steel plant workshop, the Type 56 firearms production workshop, as well as major workshops such as artillery shells and bullets.
"Lao Zhang, how is the output of weapons and ammunition in our Wohushan Industrial Zone now?"
After looking around, Li Yunlong looked very satisfied and looked at Zhang Wanhe and asked.
Zhang Wanhe smiled slightly and replied: "Currently, we can produce 4,000 Type 56 firearms a month, 3.5 million rounds of bullets, 120,000 grenades, and explosives..."
Each item of data was reported, and Zhang Wanhe knew everything about it.
Apply to the head of the headquarters to move from the position of logistics director of the 129th Division to northwest Shanxi to serve as the logistics director of the new regiment.
This is the second most correct decision Zhang Wanhe feels he has ever made in his life.
The first and most correct decision is to join the Red Army and join the team led by the Communist Party.
Seeing factory buildings rising from the ground and various weapons, ammunition and materials being produced, Zhang Wanhe's sense of accomplishment became more and more intense.
Compared with these weapons, ammunition and various materials, the technical backbone and engineers who participated in the training and the factory are even more priceless.
"The output of weapons and ammunition is a bit low." Li Yunlong raised an eyebrow, "I remember that in the past few months, the raw materials and equipment shipped by Boss Chen for the weapons and ammunition production line were enough to produce 9,000 guns, 9 million rounds of ammunition and 300,000 bullets per month.
A grenade...Are you, Lao Zhang, just trying to make a fool of yourself?"
Although the output is already very high, Li Yunlong is still a little dissatisfied, as it is far from what he expected.
Currently, both the New Second Regiment and the Independent Regiment still use fine art equipment.
The annual output of the Wohu Mountain base is only enough for one of the two regiments to be equipped with Type 5 and 6 regiments.
In the last battle of Zhengtai, the Eighth Route Army killed 16 Japanese generals and obtained dozens of production lines. Although some were handed over to the headquarters, the new regiment still obtained 8 factories and 20 production lines.
Including those previously earned, the monthly output of weapons and ammunition can reach 9,000 guns, 9 million rounds of ammunition and 300,000 grenades.
Even though there are not a lot of weapons and ammunition, compared to the Huangyadong Arsenal, there are a lot of them.
The Huangyadong Arsenal in another time and space only produced a total of more than 10,000 guns in the past few years. It also had no bullet production capacity and could only reload ammunition.
"Captain, you have wronged me. The main reason is the lack of technical personnel and raw materials."
Zhang Wanhe's tone was helpless:
"Although we have many production lines and equipment, and the human resources in northwestern Shanxi are sufficient, the production and transportation of iron ore, copper ore and various rare ores are insufficient."
"In addition, although Yan'an and the headquarters have given us some intellectuals, it will take some time for them to grow into the technical backbone of each workshop."
Li Yunlong nodded when he heard this. There was a shortage of raw materials and technical personnel, which he expected.
After all, the Wohushan Industrial Zone has only been established recently and has a weak foundation. It needs time to develop.
It is impossible to say that we can produce tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of guns per month right from the start. That is unrealistic.
For example, the Type 56 butt has to withstand recoil, bayonet fighting, and various forces during daily operations, so the requirements for materials are relatively high, and the butt needs to have high toughness, moisture resistance, and corrosion resistance.
Therefore, the wooden stock of the gun is generally made of high-quality white camphor wood, oak wood, beech wood and walnut wood.
The gunstock alone takes a lot of time from material selection to transportation, to workshop production, and finally to the finished product.
"I know you have difficulties, but don't be afraid of difficulties. If you have difficulties, overcome them."
Today, Li Yunlong is a general with more than 200,000 main troops and militia, while Zhang Wanhe is Li Yunlong's subordinate and is Li Yunlong's logistics minister.
So now when the two of them meet, there won't be the same scene where Li Yunlong acted like a rogue and asked for equipment.
After a pause, Li Yunlong continued: "Our Eighth Route Army is planning to expand its main force to several million within two or three years. These main forces will be equipped with new Type 56 guns, so Lao Zhang, your task is very heavy.
"
Li Yunlong was wearing a black leather jacket, with his hands behind his back, looking far away to the east, which is where the Japanese mainland is.
By the time.
The Eighth Route Army now had sufficient capital, not only to drive the Japanese out of China, but also to have the opportunity to counterattack the Japanese mainland.
Zhang Wanhe's face suddenly showed a look of yearning.
The main force of the Eighth Route Army, which consists of millions, all use powerful Type 56 guns, which is really exciting.
However, so many troops, all using semi-automatic and automatic weapons, require extremely strong logistics.
Even today's little devils cannot afford the logistics of using all semi-automatic rifles and automatic rifles in such a large army.
With today's Japs' resources, productivity, transportation capabilities and logistics support system, they need to be expanded eight times to support such a high-cost war.
Zhang Wanhe thought for a moment, then his eyes became more focused and he said: "Commander, how about letting Lao Wang serve as the logistics minister? I will serve as the military industry minister of the new regiment, and from now on I will only be responsible for military production.
"
In the past, the logistics director of the New Regiment was Minister Wang Baowang.
After Zhang Wanhe came to the New Regiment and took up the post of logistics director, Wang Baowang helped Zhang Wanhe.
The weapons and ammunition, food, wages and transportation of the new regiment, as well as the Crouching Mountain Industrial Zone, will all be dispatched and managed by Zhang Wanhe.
During normal rest, training and expansion periods, things are fine, and the workload in logistics is not heavy.
But once wartime comes, Zhang Wanhe will be in charge of logistics supplies for hundreds of thousands of people and such a large industrial park, and he will definitely be overwhelmed.
"That's fine." Li Yunlong nodded, "But how about you, Lao Zhang, take charge of logistics and let Lao Wang serve as the Minister of Military Industry? Logistics is your old profession after all."
"No, I will serve as Minister of Military Industry!" Zhang Wanhe shook his head, with a new goal in mind.
That is, within three years, he will equip at least 1 million troops of the Eighth Route Army with weapons and equipment produced in the Wohu Mountain base area, and provide sufficient combat materials for these more than 1 million troops.
This is much more difficult than being a logistics minister!
The resources, productivity, transportation capabilities, and logistics support system of the existing Wohu Mountain base area need to be expanded at least dozens of times within three years to have a chance to achieve this goal.
However, Zhang Wanhe has that confidence.
"OK!"
Seeing Lao Zhang full of energy, Li Yunlong nodded.
Next, Li Yunlong listened to Zhang Wanhe's plan to expand resources, productivity and transportation capabilities as well as logistics support systems, and expressed his full support.
Then, Li Yunlong inspected the employee dormitories and the employee canteen.
Seeing that the environment and treatment of the engineers, technical backbones and employees were very good, I was satisfied and took a jeep to Heyuan Airport.
then.
After boarding the transport plane and escorted by four Saber fighter jets, Li Yunlong returned to the headquarters of the New First Regiment in Taiyuan.
When we returned to the Taiyuan regiment headquarters, it was already dark.
After dinner, Li Yunlong called Wang Dehou and asked how the battle plan and contingency plan for the attack on the North China Front were going.
