With the assistance of the special operations division and the underground party, sets of simple machine tools and bullet reloading production lines were transported from the Taiyuan Arsenal in North China and the three northeastern provinces heavily defended by the Japanese army to the Mengshan base area. Following Wang Dao
Guang was appointed as the director of the Logistics Department, and a large number of mechanical equipment was handed over to Director Wang Daoguang. The arsenal affiliated with the logistics department of the base area was also established in the shortest possible time.
With the hard work of the new column and 20,000 commanders and fighters for more than half a month, the rear of Shimen Ridge, in the center of the base area, is located in the lofty mountains with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters in the Outline Mountains. Relying on the underground caves and the Outline Mountains
The underground river was excavated and expanded into a huge underground cave. And this underground cave, not surprisingly, became the most important and core location of the entire base area.
With the establishment of the entire cave, there was a newly established arsenal in the base area, a logistics ammunition depot in the base area, and the largest field hospital in the base area. Unsurprisingly, they became the first batch of units to enter the underground cave.
After walking a full twenty meters along the wide underground passage, a huge cave appeared in front of everyone.
Because the entire cave has an underground river with a very large flow of water. Under the order of Liu Hua, the special warfare division transported two days of high-power motors from the Shanxi base area through underground transportation lines. Several engineers from the former Northeast Arsenal
With their assistance and efforts, a small hydropower station suddenly appeared in this underground cave. It began to provide a steady stream of electricity to various units in the cave.
Although the entire small hydropower station only has three generators, the power generated by the three generators is enough for the small arsenal. Just walking into the huge cave, a huge lamp
The searchlight illuminated the entire cave. On the cave wall at the edge of the cave, several large cave entrances that were heavily guarded by soldiers appeared in front of Commander Liu Hua again.
"Commander, go to the right and you will find our arsenal production workshop. There are ammunition and weapon production workshops, grenade production workshops, and gunpowder production workshops. The hole in the middle leads directly to our logistics warehouse, including the logistics material warehouse and ammunition.
Warehouse. As for the hole on the left, it leads directly to the largest field hospital in our base. Commander, next, which direction should we go." Pointing to the three directions in front of him, Director Wang Daoguang introduced.
"Old Yang, there are three directions ahead. Which place do you think we should go to first?" Regarding Wang Daoguang's question, Liu Hua did not return immediately. Instead, he cast his questioning eyes towards the person beside him.
A look of curiosity was on Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu, who was looking around.
"Commander, our Mengshan base area has always been tied up by ammunition. Because ammunition cannot be self-sufficient, the entire base area will eventually be unable to expand and develop. Now that we finally have our own arsenal, of course we must first go
Let’s take a look at the arsenal. To be honest, I can’t wait now.” Yang Jingyu answered without hesitation without thinking.
"Okay, let's go to the arsenal first..." After saying that, Commander Liu Hua was the first to walk towards the arsenal.
"Buzz buzz..." Just as a group of people, led by Commander Liu Hua, had just walked less than ten meters away, a huge roar of engines slowly reached everyone's ears from far to near.
When he walked into the first production workshop, a busy scene appeared in Liu Hua's eyes.
When Liu Hua and his group suddenly appeared at the door of the workshop, a middle-aged man covered in oil and wearing glasses put down the tools in his hands and walked over quickly. He saw Liu Hua standing next to him.
Director Wang Daoguang, a middle-aged man said quickly: "Director Wang, why did you come without notifying us? Look, now I am covered in oil and stains, and I don't even have clean clothes."
Facing the greasy middle-aged man, Wang Daoguang did not hesitate at all. He stretched out his hands, held Director Zhang's hands tightly, and said with excitement: "Director Zhang, today, we
Just come to take a look, see the comrades of the arsenal and the current scale of the arsenal. Come, let me introduce to you, the person next to me is Comrade Liu Hua, the commander of our Northeast Field Army. I believe that the name of our commander
, you big intellectuals must have heard about it. Also, our deputy commander Yang Jingyu, you should be very familiar with it, so I won’t introduce it anymore."
"Ah, Commander Liu, you are just inside the pass, making the little devils scared. As soon as you arrived in the Northeast, you led the anti-alliance forces with less than 10,000 people left to annihilate hundreds of thousands of Japanese and puppet troops. Commander Liu Hua!
"As soon as Wang Daoguang finished speaking, Director Zhang in front of him opened his mouth and couldn't help but exclaimed.
"Haha! Hello, Director Zhang, I am Liu Hua. As for what you just said, is it the Liu Hua who scares the little devils? I don't know about this. You should ask the little devils. Director Wang, also
Why don't you introduce to us, Director Zhang in front of us?" Liu Hua also did not hesitate at all, tightly holding the oily hands of Director Zhang in front of him, and said with a smile on his face.
"Yes, Commander." Wang Daoguang, who reacted from his excitement, replied affirmatively. Then, he introduced to Liu Hua in front of him: "Commander, Director Zhang in front of me is a talented person, and he is one of the few in our base area.
Before entering the base area, Director Zhang was the director of the rifle production workshop of the former Northeast Arsenal. Because he was dissatisfied with the Northeast Army's refusal to fire a single shot, he lost the entire three Northeast provinces. In addition, he was unwilling to serve the Japs.
I brought my family to our base area. Because Director Zhang has very important experience in the production and development of various firearms and ammunition. Therefore, I directly appointed Director Zhang to produce weapons and ammunition for our arsenal.
The director of the factory. He will lead everyone to produce the ammunition and various weapons that our army urgently needs. Of course, now we can only carry out bullet reloading and firearm repair work."
"Okay, okay, okay... Director Zhang, here, on behalf of the entire field army and hundreds of thousands of commanders and fighters, I would like to thank you. Without your high integrity and your participation, perhaps, until now, the establishment of our arsenal would not have been possible."
Where is the shadow? Our soldiers can only hold rifles without bullets and fight with the little devils. Director Zhang, we are here today just to understand the production situation of the entire ammunition and weapons factory?" Liu Hua solemnly
After paying a military salute to Factory Director Zhang in front of him, he asked excitedly.
Because Liu Hua, who comes from later generations, clearly knows that a senior engineer plays a vital role in both the current base area and the new China after liberation. And he already has many advanced weapons in his mind.
Drawings. As long as you have skilled technicians, a certain number of engineers, and advanced weapons production equipment, these advanced weapons and equipment will definitely be equipped to your troops in the shortest possible time.
Director Zhang, whose face was stained with oil, couldn't help but be enveloped in a blush after hearing the praise of the commander in front of him, who was called a national hero. He replied sheepishly: "Commander, you
Well done, you are the national hero we admire. I am a Chinese, and these are the things a Chinese should do."
"Well said, as a descendant of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, you should have such integrity. Okay, no more, Director Zhang, please tell us about the current specific output and scale of the arsenal? The more you believe it, the better."
Factory Director Zhang's answer, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction and then asked.
"Yes, Commander." As he spoke, Director Zhang pointed to the bullet reloading production lines in front of him and the simple machine tools one by one, and began to introduce them.
"Commander, currently, the entire workshop has two bullet reloading production lines. With sufficient raw materials, it can reload 30,000 rounds of Type 38 rifle bullets and 10,000 Type 92 heavy machine gun bullets every day. As for the remaining
The dozen or so machine tools are all modified using car engines and various machinery seized by the troops at the front line. However, these machine tools can only repair some weapons that were originally incapable of repair. For half a month, we have relied on
These machine tools have successfully repaired 1,200 Type 38 rifles, 30 light machine guns, and 10 heavy machine guns." Regarding the output of his workshop, Director Zhang answered confidently.
"Okay, it's great to be able to create such great value with such simple equipment. Director Wang, these workers and technicians in the arsenal are all rare intellectuals in our base area, and they are the treasures of our base area.
.So, now I order that all personnel in the arsenal should have twice the daily food expenses as ordinary soldiers in the field army. Of course, you have to decide the food expenses for engineers at all levels according to the situation. In a word, you must take good care of these treasures.
Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered Wang Daoguang beside him.
"Yes, Commander..." Wang Daoguang replied affirmatively.
After visiting the ammunition production workshop, under the leadership of Wang Daoguang, a group of people quickly came to the grenade and mine production workshop next to it. As soon as they walked to the door of the workshop, a burst of hot air spurted out from the workshop. Although, at this moment, Northeast
The weather in the three provinces is very cold. However, in the grenade production workshop, almost every worker is shirtless, assembling grenades and filling gunpowder.
The most important part of a grenade, the grenade iron shell, was being carried out continuously from the inside. Feeling the bursts of heat that kept coming to him, Liu Hua slowly walked towards the casting workshop of the iron molds. Each one was huge.
In the furnace, the rails captured on the railway were burned into red molten iron. Then, jars of red molten iron were poured into the models of grenade shells in the hands of the foundry...
After a few minutes of cooling, the grenade shells, each black and still emitting heat, appeared in front of everyone.
"Commander, because the manufacturing process of grenades is relatively simple for bullets. Therefore, the current grenade output of the entire workshop can already supply the fifth column's daily combat consumption. In total, two thousand grenades are produced every day.
." Wang Daoguang introduced to the two commanders beside him.
"Well, that's right. After we take over the Anshan area, we will have iron mines, enough steel, and cast more grenades. By the way, will the thick smoke produced by these large furnaces cause the Japanese army to
Pay attention to the reconnaissance planes. You must know that the little Japanese reconnaissance planes are constantly visiting our base every day." Liu Hua nodded approvingly, and then asked the questions in his mind.
"Commander, not at all. The entire arsenal and all the chimneys were designed by a mechanical engineer. According to his design plan, we buried all the chimneys in the entire arsenal underground and eventually spiraled into the dense forest.
.And divided the thick smoke in the chimney into several strands, and released them bit by bit into the dense forest. Looking down from the air, there are no signs at all." Wang Daoguang answered with confidence.
"Very well done. Director Wang, this design can not only be promoted in arsenals. In the future, the iron smelting plants, cement plants, and even the kitchens of the cooking classes of each army can use this technology."
In this case, we can carry out vigorous development under the nose of the little devil plane." Liu Hua answered affirmatively.
Ammunition factory, grenade factory, gunpowder factory... Under Wang Daoguang's explanation all the way, it took almost a full day to complete the visit. After a one-day visit, Commander Liu Hua and Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu both
Personally, I have a more intuitive understanding of the scale of the arsenal in the base area.
Looking at the grenades that had just been assembled and still had a trace of residual heat in front of them. The grenades that had just been reloaded on the production line were filled with yellow bullets. Commander Liu Hua did not show too much excitement. However,
Yang Jingyu, who was following Liu Hua, was filled with emotion and excitement.
"Commander, I really didn't expect that in one month, our arsenal would develop from scratch to such a large scale. From now on, the army's ammunition supply will no longer need to rely on seizures. And we
We have replenished the ammunition and freed ourselves from the seizure. It is really exciting. Director Wang, on behalf of the entire field army, I salute you. Thank you for your contribution to the entire base area." As he spoke,
Deputy Commander Yang Jingyu, who looked excited, saluted Director Wang Daoguang in front of him with a solemn military salute.
"Deputy Commander, please don't try to beat me up. Such achievements are all due to the Commander, and I don't dare to take the credit. Without the Commander's attention and the cooperation of the special operations division, I would have just relied on my kingly rule.
Just one person, even if he really has three heads and six arms, cannot reach the current scale." Wang Daoguang quickly returned the greeting and said.
"Okay, don't be humble, this is the credit of all of us." Liu Hua said.
"Director Wang, although the current arsenal has been established, its ammunition production capacity, except for grenades, the remaining weapons and ammunition cannot even guarantee a sufficient supply of the fifth column. Let alone the consumption of one column of the fifth column.
Said, after the arrival of the main force, the consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops. Therefore, the Veterans Factory will continue to expand. If nothing else, it will reach the size of the Taiyuan Arsenal in at least one year."
"Yes, Commander. However, Commander, if the arsenal wants to develop, it must have sufficient equipment. However, the existing equipment in our arsenal is all pieced together slowly. Not to mention,
The production lines for rifles, machine guns and artillery have already started." Wang Daoguang said with an embarrassed look on his face.
"Director Wang, you have been following me for so long. When did you see me tell baseless lies? As for the equipment problem, you can rest assured. Within one year, the production lines of rifles, machine guns, artillery, shells...
, all of them will be delivered to you. In addition, the equipment of the iron-making plant and the steel-making plant will also be handed over to you. So, all you need to prepare is to give us the equipment we will set up.
As well as the expanded arsenal, prepare enough manpower." Liu Hua said with confidence.
"Yes, Commander, I promise to complete the mission. I will train more military talents for the base area in the shortest possible time. Commander, please rest assured." Wang Daoguang breathed a long sigh of relief and replied with a satisfied look on his face.
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"Okay, I believe you. Let's go, everyone has worked hard all day. I'm treating you tonight. Then, we all have a good rest. Tomorrow, we will go to the next place for inspection. Let's go back to the headquarters..." was affirmed.
After answering, Liu Hua nodded with satisfaction. Then, he gave a decisive order to the commanders behind him.
However, on the way back, from the arsenal to the headquarters, the more than ten kilometers of mountain roads with almost no people and defensive formations caught Liu Hua's attention. After all, walking these more than ten kilometers of mountain roads is the most important part of the base area.
, is also the core arsenal.
If the Japanese army detects the distance to the arsenal and assembles heavy troops. With the cooperation of air support and superior artillery fire, they will break through the Shimenling defense line and attack their arsenal.
Then, without any defense, even if the entire arsenal is hidden in the mountains, it will still be like a naked beauty, letting the little devils knead it. There is only one final result, and that is the result of your hard work.
The established ordnance industry system was reduced to ashes under the iron heel of the Japanese army. Everything had to be started from scratch. The entire base area would surely suffer heavy losses due to the destruction of the arsenal.