Chapter 91, The Chaotic Year of 1936 Continued from 7.
Jiang Qiang finally waited for the arrival of a special forces brigade. At this time, Jiang Qiang took out a map drawn by the Japanese Special High School and said, you can see the Japanese ambitions by looking at the map. Our map is so detailed, just look at it.
They didn't give up on a single well. What we have to deal with this time is the Shandong bandit Liu Heiqi. This is Dawu Mountain, and two kilometers away is Xiaowu Mountain. We won't drive the truck in this time to avoid disturbing this group of people.
Bandits, you must also bring enough ammunition. There are five people in each of the five exits, and they all wear body armor. Also, do not kill them at close range, but snipe them from a long range. Each group will bring one gun.
Mortar.
Jiang Qiang said, I don't want casualties in this operation, but I can't be careless. Zhou Yubing is in charge of the perimeter this time. Huzi and I led 30 people to greet the bandits from the front, and Qin Siyu led 30 people from the front.
The bandits were attacked from behind, and Song Xiaobao led ten people to Xiaowu Mountain. If you are not sure, don't take action. Do you have any questions? Qin Siyu or I should lead the team to face the enemy from the front. Jiang Qiang said, just follow this arrangement.
Do it and don't talk so much. Qin Siyu said. Yes. Jiang Qiang said, the most important thing is to pay more attention to traps.
Let's have a good meal today and set off early tomorrow morning. Those who are soldiers know that it is easy now, but they don't know what kind of difficulties they will encounter tomorrow, because this time a hundred special forces have been sent out. In other words, these gangs
Bandits are not ordinary bandits. Everyone knows it well. When it comes to using 100 special forces, it happens twice. One is the trip to Jiangxi. At that time, it was to deal with spies and bandits. The other time was when Zunyi also used 100 special forces.
The special forces were used to deal with the returning regiments and spies. This time, more than a hundred special forces were used to deal with a group of bandits. They were a group of tough bandits. Jiang Qiang also went to join them in cooking together.
After a while, the investigating soldiers came back and said, Boss, your guess is correct. There are indeed Japanese there, and there are several military instructors. There is also a woman named Kitajima Yuko who is a doctor, and another named Kimura.
Yifu. This group is called Kimura Group. There are fifteen Japanese in total. Liu Heiqi has never shown up. The one who always shows up is his younger brother named Ba Ye. There are about 500 bandits now.
There are less than ten bandits in Xiaowu Mountain. Jiang Qiang said, there are still situations in Xiaowu Mountain that we don’t know about. In this case, it is better not to attack in Xiaowu Mountain and intercept them from the outside. Long-range interception is the best. At this time, Liu
Hei Qi must be in Xiaowu Mountain, and there must be tunnels somewhere else. This clearly explains why so many people were arrested just to dig out tunnels. Liu Hei Qi was able to save his life in so many sieges because of him.
He was very cunning. Our people surrounded and suppressed him and escaped behind us. This move was called the golden cicada's escape plan. Damn it, in order for him to escape again, we had to ambush a few people three kilometers away, and we just didn't care.
No one is allowed to escape, not even ordinary people.
After a while, Jiang Qiang called Song Xiaobao over again to make arrangements, so that only two special forces and Lao Song's family could be left at home. In addition, the officers and soldiers in Haizhou were serving Liu Heiqi purely for money. Jiang
Jiang Qiang finally discussed with Lao Song and decided to hide the truck. Jiang Qiang was still wary of Haizhou's security team because they also had their own spies serving them. They finally decided to hide it in Jiagou Mountain, where Song Xiaobao often went to fight some
When the prey came back, Jiang Qiang thought about it and finally decided to do this, because he knew very well what this group of militiamen were like. They were a completely reckless group of people who acted without regard for the consequences. Sometimes they were worse than bandits.
While everyone was having dinner, Jiang Qiang talked about the arrangements for Xiaowu Mountain. Jiang Qiang said that the most important thing is that as long as the Japanese still have weapons in their hands, they will not surrender. Everyone must remember that there are still people who are dead.
Replenishing guns is just for your own safety. If you have good intentions on the battlefield, you will harm others and yourself. The cost of training a special force is equivalent to 100 ordinary soldiers. Everyone goes to rest after eating.
, Jiang Qiang and Hu Zi sleep in the same room. Hu Zi said, I am still a little nervous. Jiang Qiang said, that is normal. I am more careful than now for the first time.
General Tang Juwu took the intelligence reported by Jiang Qiang and said to Jiang Baili, "Do you think the war can be avoided?" Jiang Baili said, "In fact, this arrangement is already good. The only variables are the Nanjing government and the Chairman. If he clearly stated
When it comes to dividing war zones, this is our shortcoming. Jiang Qiang's actions in Haizhou this time have revealed the actions of the Japanese army. A large-scale war is unavoidable. Also, if the Japanese army lands in Qingdao, then twenty
The Ninth Army is in danger. Tang Juwu said that arrangements have been made here for the 29th Army to temporarily evacuate to Handan. Where to hold on in Handan, Ma Hongkui, Yan Xishan and the Red Party will hold on to Shanxi. Once the war starts, we will
Order Yan Xishan's Taiyuan arsenal to evacuate Taiyuan immediately. The arsenal cannot be left to the Japanese. Yan Xishan's arsenal still has a certain scale.
Taiyuan Arsenal is an artillery and ammunition arsenal founded by Yan Xishan in Shanxi. Taiyuan Arsenal, Shenyang Arsenal and Hanyang Arsenal are the three major arsenals in the history of the Republic of China. Yan Xishan was able to rule Shanxi for 38 years, and the Taiyuan Arsenal manufactured weapons and ammunition for him.
, which is directly related to the recruitment of troops and the expansion of power. The predecessor of Taiyuan Arsenal was the Shanxi Military Crafts Training Factory. After the Revolution of 1911, Yan Xishan was promoted from the 86th Biaotong Commander (equivalent to the regimental commander) of the Qing Army to the Governor of the Western Region, with monopoly control
Great power. In May 1914, Yan was appointed as General Tongwu by Yuan Shikai, and in 1916 he was appointed as the Governor of Shanxi. In 1917, when Yan Xishan attended the meeting of the Governor's Army in Beijing, he visited the Ministry of War's domestic weapons test firing competition. See the on-site test
The guns produced by the Hanyang Arsenal were excellent, so he came up with the idea of making his own weapons.
In 1917, General Yan expanded the Jin Army into 4 mixed brigades, with 12 infantry regiments, 2 cavalry regiments, 4 artillery battalions, and 1 machine gun battalion. They were equipped with more than 10,000 firearms of various types, including dozens of machine guns.
, dozens of mountain guns. These weapons are in disrepair and are especially short of ammunition. Only a few bullets are issued to the troops during wars. Most of the bullet belts carried by soldiers are empty, and the imported weapons and ammunition are not allowed by the Beijing government.
.At that time, there were many warlord factions competing for each other. In order to maintain the territory and consolidate the rule, Yan felt that preparing to build a gunpowder factory and a ammunition factory was a top priority.
As early as 1898 (the 24th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu), Hu Pinzhi, the governor of Shanxi Province, was influenced by Zhang Zhidong's Westernization efforts to establish the Hanyang Arsenal, so he built a factory on the site of the Thousand Buddha Temple in Cypress Garden outside the Xiaobei Gate (Gongji Gate) of Taiyuan.
22, named the Machinery Bureau. At that time, the equipment was simple and there was a shortage of craftsmen. They could only repair spears, sabers, small cannons and other items. Later, a group of craftsmen were hired from Tianjin and other places, and more complex used weapons could also be repaired, such as
New. In 1912 (the early years of the Republic of China), Yan Xishan appointed Li Mengshu (Tao An), a native of Dingxiang who had studied in England, as the director of the Machinery Bureau. He slightly expanded the scale, but still lacked the ability to manufacture weapons. Yan Xishan was afraid that Yuan Shikai would be jealous and be punished.
eradicated, and in 1914, the Machinery Bureau was changed to the Shanxi Army Repair Institute. After Yuan Shikai's death, Yan Xishan boldly carried out activities to expand armaments. In order to solve the funding problem, Yan added the Copper Yuan Bureau in the repair institute, using the money earned from casting copper coins.
With huge income, he expanded the factory, purchased machinery, and recruited mechanical technicians from Tianjin and other places. The number of employees increased to five to six hundred. In March 1920, Yan ordered the repair shop and Tongyuan Bureau to be merged and renamed Shanxi Military Craftsmanship
Internship factory.
In the early days of the founding, the personnel structure, machinery and equipment were very simple. They mainly repaired weapons and produced broadswords, spears and muskets. At that time, there was no deep hole processing equipment, and the barrels were made using native methods, wrapping wire rods around a core.
, heated, hammered, and finally quenched. A gun stock requires a carpenter to work for 3 or 4 days, and it takes one month to repair a rifle. There is no plan for production at this time, with a monthly production of 3, 5, 8,
There are 9 rifles, and even if they are qualified, they are not inspected. The muskets produced in this period also have wheels and mounts. The butts and mounts are engraved with "Made in the Gengzi Year of the Jin Bureau", so it becomes
It became a self-produced weapon. This production method lasted for several years, but it also trained a group of technical backbones. Especially after assembling guns and artillery with foreign parts, the production technology has indeed been greatly improved.
Generally speaking, weapons production was in its early stages at this time. After the Revolution of 1911, Yan Xishan served as the governor of Shanxi in 1912, stepped up arms manufacturing, introduced advanced management experience and mechanical equipment from Japan, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and hired foreign military factories.
Before the Shanxi Military Craft Practice Factory was renamed Taiyuan Arsenal, it had a general office, with Shang Zhen, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Jin Army, and Li Mengshu as the factory director. It had three departments, of which the second department was responsible for the manufacture of gunpowder and bullets.
.In 1921, the internship factory ordered a set of bullet machines from the State-owned Ordnance Factory of the Ministry of War in Gaochang Temple, Shanghai, with a daily output of 10,000 bullets. Later, the Taiyuan Yucai Machinery Factory imitated the bullet machine, and the output doubled, with a daily output of 2
Ten thousand rounds. In addition, bullets for 65 rifles, 79 rifles and handheld machine guns can be manufactured. This is the beginning of Shanxi's manufacturing of armaments. While successfully manufacturing guns and ammunition, it also began to develop hand grenades. The projectile bodies are divided into two types: iron sheet and cast iron. After
Through many experiments and battlefield practice, the wooden-handled cast-iron hand grenade body can explode into dozens or even hundreds of shrapnel, which is highly lethal. It has become a famous brand in Shanxi-made munitions, with a maximum daily output of more than 100,000. Nanjing and Shenyang Arsenal
All were imitated, and it was recognized that the grenades developed in Shanxi were the most powerful. In July 1923, the Shanxi Military Craftsmanship Practice Factory was reorganized again, and the production workshops belonging to the three departments were changed into factories, and new gun and ammunition factories, bomb factories, and artillery shells were set up.
factory, smokeless medicine factory, explosives factory, and acid making factory. In addition, Yan Xishan also established an independent black powder factory and press powder factory in Dongshan, Taiyuan. As the production of bullets, bombs, and artillery shells increased day by day, gunpowder production could not keep up with demand.
In addition to white detonating explosives, Pickering acid explosives were also produced. In order to reduce costs, lead powder explosives were developed and produced, but explosion failures occurred during use. In 1924, Zhang Kai, who was studying chemical engineering at the Imperial University of Japan,
After graduation, he succeeded in imitating the low-cost ammonium nitrate explosive. Yan named the explosive Kaizi dynamite. In 1926, Yan separated the acid making factory, smokeless medicine factory and explosives factory from the Shanxi Military Crafts Training Factory, and black powder
The factory and the press factory were merged and reorganized into the independent Taiyuan Gunpowder Factory, and Zhang Kai was appointed as the director. Not only did the output of gunpowder increase, but also quick-burning smoke powder was developed successively, which solved the problem of large-scale production of projectiles and fuzes required for artillery shells.
Timed and slow medicine.
The successful trial production of Kaizi explosive promoted the mass production of bombs and artillery shells. In January 1927, Yan Xishan changed the Shanxi Military Craft Practice Factory to Taiyuan Arsenal. This marked the rapid development of Shanxi's arms production from light weapons to heavy weapons. Taiyuan Arsenal
The gunpowder factory has a total of 3,800 sets of equipment and 15,000 employees. Its scale is comparable to the Hanyang Arsenal and Shenyang Arsenal, the largest in the country. In August 1928, in order to weaken other people's plans, the Chairman of the General Assembly held a demobilization meeting on the grounds of the victory of the Northern Expedition.
Disarmament. Yan Xishan followed suit and reorganized the Taiyuan Arsenal into the Shanxi Military Crafts Training Factory, using the fake to counter the fake, but its internal organization remained the same. Arms production continued unabated. From 1928 to 1930, the monthly output of the Taiyuan Arsenal
They were: 35 light and heavy artillery, 100 mortars, 3,000 rifles, 15 machine guns, 900 handheld machine guns, 15,000 artillery shells, 9,000 artillery shells, and 4.2 million bullets. Yan Xishan relied on these weapons and equipment to make the Jin army
It developed to a strength of 300,000, and had the remaining strength to sell weapons at high prices to warlords from other provinces such as Li Zongren, Ma Hongkui, and Ma Bufang. In 1930, the half-year-long battle between Chiang Kai-shek, Feng Zhongyuan, and Yan Zhongyuan ended with the Chairman of the Standing Committee winning. Yan Xishan went to the countryside and fled to Dalian.
Chiang Kai-shek tasked Zhang Xueliang to unify the control of military and political affairs in Shanxi and Sui provinces, and decided to dispatch the Shanxi-Sui Army. As a result, the arms production of the Taiyuan Arsenal and the Gunpowder Factory stopped. The two factories merged into the Taiyuan Arms Repair Institute in April 1931. The original 15,000
The number of employees was reduced to 1,800, and only some ordnance repairs and civilian product production were done.
After the "September 18th" Incident in 1931, under the situation where the people of the whole country unanimously demanded resistance to Japan, the Chairman of the Standing Committee and Yan Xishan shook hands and made peace. In March 1932, Yan Xishan was appointed by the Chairman of the Standing Committee as the Director of the Taiyuan Appeasement Office, regaining the power of civil and military affairs.
.So the Taiyuan Arms Repair Institute was divided into two parts, that is, the Taiyuan Arsenal part was changed to Renshen (this year was the year of Renshen) Manufacturing Factory, and the original gunpowder factory part was changed to Renshen Chemical Factory. The number of employees in the two factories was restored to 5,000.
In addition, Taiyuan Yucai Machinery Factory and Taiyuan Yucai Steelmaking Factory were merged into Taiyuan Yucai Steelmaking Machinery Factory. After the equipment of the former Taiyuan Arsenal was transferred to Renshen Manufacturing Factory intact, in order to avoid the chairman's suspicion, the artillery factory and hydraulic press factory were merged
The two factories were collectively called Renshen No. 1 Factory, the artillery shell and bomb factories were collectively called Renshen No. 2 Factory, the rifle factory was renamed Renshen No. 3 Factory, the gun and ammunition factory was renamed Renshen No. 4 Factory, and the machine gun factory and the four smelting factories were collectively called Renshen.
The fifth factory, the handheld rifle factory, was renamed the Renshen Sixth Factory. The organization collectively known as the Renshen Manufacturing Factory was not substantially different from the original arsenal, except that it increased the production of civilian products. In September 1934, Yan Xishan, in order to prevent
The Chairman's Nanjing regime's attempt to "nationalize" turned these reorganized factories into "private" factories overnight, and placed the above-mentioned factories under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Industrial Company. Because the Northwest Industrial Company was newly established
Private enterprises led by the Shanxi Public Utilities Board actually just changed their factory names. For example, Renshen No. 1 Factory was renamed Northwest Locomotive Factory, Renshen No. 2 Factory was renamed Northwest Agricultural and Industrial Machinery Factory, etc. The current arsenal has 7,000 employees.
A large military factory with multiple people.
Tang Juwu definitely didn't want such a military factory to fall into the hands of the Japanese. Besides, there were a large number of military workers in the military factory. Jiang Baili said, that's fine. Tang Juwu said, I have arranged for Yan Xishan to dig a cave.
, make preparations first, Jiang Baili said, you should think carefully, Tang Juwu said, there is no way to force the Nanjing government to resist Japan now. Only in this way can we avoid civil war. If the war continues, the country will be destroyed. We must think now
Only in this way can we face the worst outcome calmly. Jiang Baili said that this is a protracted war, the largest war in the past century, and a war for the rise of the Chinese nation.