That’s three chapters today, and four more chapters tomorrow.
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"Step ***, 5.82 million rounds."
"Type 38 rifles, three thousand two hundred and seventy-two!"
"Machine guns, seven hundred and fifty-one!"
"Sixty mortars, two hundred and eighty-three!"
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Li Yunlong smiled from ear to ear when he heard the equipment numbers that Zhao Gang counted for him. Among them, the mortar can be used by the independent regiment. Once this thing is fixed behind the half-track vehicle, the tracked vehicle will immediately turn into a
The gun truck is gone.
Moreover, the half-track car can also carry artillery shells, so it can almost be said to be tailor-made.
In addition, there are more than 100 cars and more than 300 shoulder bags... Most of these are the "heritage" of the Military Police Brigade. They took the train to the front line to fight, and the car bags are all left in the city.
All of them were captured by the independent group.
That's all. In addition, there were five trains parked at the train station, and 23 Japanese transport planes were found in the hangar of Datong Airport.
When he first saw these transport planes, Li Yunlong felt a little disappointed. He said: "I thought such a big thing would be very capable, but I didn't expect that it was just for transporting people and cargo, and it didn't even have a machine gun!"
However, Zhao Gang knew that this thing was not simple, and hurriedly said: "Let me tell you, Lao Li, are you stupid? You think about fighter jets all day long. Don't we have fighter jets? What we lack is this kind of transport plane that can transport people and cargo!"
"What?" Li Yunlong asked in confusion: "Why... do we need this plane?"
Zhao Gang immediately made a calculation for Li Yunlong: "Old Li, we can't use the Japanese bullets, right?"
"Of course not!"
"We have to transport bullets from three stores, right? First to the steel plant and then to us..."
"Can't fighter jets also be transported?" Li Yunlong retorted.
During this period, the independent regiment's supplies have been replenished from the airport: after occupying the airport, they land by plane and parachute on the road. Two transport planes and dozens of fighter jets are constantly flying back and forth between the front line and the steel plant airport.
This can barely support the independent regiment's ammunition supply!
Zhao Gang smiled, patted the surrendered Japanese transport plane and said, "Don't even look at it. This guy's stomach is as empty as a house. Can it hold as much stuff as our fighter planes?"
Li Yunlong said "Oh" when he heard this, and secretly thought that's what happened. This thing is used in logistics to transport bullets. In that field, it is also a treasure.
So he smiled and ordered to take good care of it, and to keep Japanese maintenance personnel, otherwise no one would be able to repair the plane if it broke down.
It's no wonder that Li Yunlong didn't know the role of this transport plane. People in this era had almost no contact with airplanes. Since Wang Xuexin introduced fighter jets from Yingjiang and Mao Xiong, they had only seen Japanese planes flying overhead on the ground.
Although there are airplanes now, we know almost nothing about their types, performance, functions, etc. It is Zhao Gang, a literate person, who knows something about them.
Wang Xuexin couldn't help but be overjoyed when he learned that 23 transport planes had been seized at Datong Airport. Not long ago, he was worried about the lack of transport planes, but he didn't expect that the transport planes would arrive soon...
It is not surprising that there are so many transport planes at Datong Airport. This is the distribution center for Japanese supplies. Almost all the Japanese military supplies in Shanxi are transported here.
The meaning of placing the transport aircraft here is that once there is an emergency need on the battlefield, the transport aircraft can be used to transport materials directly to the front line.
Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army was now advantaged.
Originally, Wang Xuexin was worried that the repair and maintenance of such a large number of transport aircraft would be a big problem. After all, the number of ground crews recruited from Japanese prisoners would definitely not be enough... A considerable number of these ground crews were killed in the battle.
Another more important thing is that the Japanese ground staff are not reliable... Who dares to let the Japanese ground staff repair and maintain these transport planes? Even if they are brave enough to do this, no pilots dare to fly. Isn't this obviously seeking death? The Japanese ground staff are looking for death. Who would know if the staff does anything casually?
What Wang Xuexin didn't know was that Li Yunlong had already done this. This guy thought that as long as the plane could fly with general repairs, it would be enough. If it couldn't fly, the Japanese would be killed. Which one?
However, when Wang Xuexin saw that the model of the captured transport aircraft was L2D, Wang Xuexin no longer worried about this problem.
The l2d transport aircraft was copied by the Japanese after obtaining a production license from Yingjiang in 1938 at a price of US$90,000. Yingjiang's model was 3.
It's just that this aircraft was a civilian transport aircraft in Yingjiang, and the Japanese used it for military purposes.
If that's all it is, then the Eighth Route Army will still be in trouble... The ground staff at Yingjiang are not easy to find, and there will be a large number of them when they are found.
However, this transport aircraft hawk sauce was exported to Mao Xiong. After Mao Xiong succeeded in imitating it, it was renamed "Li 2". (After liberation, China imported it from Mao Xiong, and it was the airplane image printed on the two-cent banknote)
In other words, Eagle Sauce's 3, Guizi's l2d, and Mao Xiong's "Li 2" are actually the same thing.
There must be someone on the ground staff of Mao Xiong who knows "Li 2" well.
Wang Xuexin immediately sent a telegram to Alexei who was at the "La-5" production base in Xinheba: "Comrade Alexei, do we have anyone familiar with the repair and maintenance of the 'Li-2' transport aircraft?"
Alexei laughed "haha" when he received the telegram, and replied teasingly: "Are you asking me if I have eaten bread?"
Wang Xuexin couldn't help but was stunned when he saw this call back.
Then it soon became clear that Alexei had been working in the rear for a long time and was used to joking. He did not understand the seriousness and rigor of battlefield telegrams, so he gave such an answer.
Although this answer was off-topic, Wang Xuexin understood it. The meaning of this statement should be that it should be a routine operation for Mao Xiong ground crews who are familiar with the "Li-2" transport aircraft.
Later Wang Xuexin found out that this was indeed the case.
The reason is that many of the Mao Xiong ground staff are maintenance technicians from civil aviation... When the war suddenly started, Mao Xiong was in short supply of all kinds of personnel, so they could only recruit maintenance personnel from civil aviation and undergo simple training to maintain fighter jets.
The "Li-2" has been used as a civilian transport aircraft since it was put into production in 1939... It was not until 1942 that there were not enough Mao Xiong transport aircraft, and the "Li-2" was urgently requisitioned and converted to military use.
It can be said that among Mao Xiong’s ground crew, repair and maintenance of “Li 2” is their major, while fighter jets are their sideline.
And Wang Xuexin actually asked them if they were familiar with "Li 2"...
Wang Xuexin called back: "Great, I need a group of ground staff who are familiar with 'Li 2', preferably... 23 people!"
Wang Xuexin did not dare to ask for too much, otherwise it would be difficult for the "La 5" production base. After all, there were not many talents there.
23 is just right, one for each plane. At least they can understand and keep an eye on the Japanese to prevent them from making small moves.