After banging and banging, Zhang Ding climbed dozens of meters up the cliff along the path, and then walked down.
"Captain, the whole mountain is actually a stone mountain. It can be repaired, and the built roads and mountain roads can withstand Japanese bombings without reinforcement. However, it is very difficult. I need a lot of people, and also
We need a lot of explosives!" Zhang Ding replied solemnly.
Seeing that Wang Ping was silent, Zhang Ding continued: "Director, I suggest changing to another place. If it is an ordinary mountain, it will be at least half as difficult!"
"No, it's right here!" Wang Ping said with certainty.
"Although the mountain is a stone mountain, there is water on it. More importantly, there are coal mines and iron mines around this mountain. After the arsenal is established, these two resources are in greatest demand. It is most convenient to build the arsenal here.
Transportation of two resources!”
"Also, the terrain here is difficult. As long as you place a company to guard the stone road you are planning to build, even if the Japanese come with a regiment or a brigade, they will not be able to capture our arsenal in a short time!"
"As for people and explosives, I will find a way for you. In a word, I will give you whatever you need. Two months, I will give you two months at most, you have to complete the construction of the road and a cave. As for
We can take our time with the rest of the cave!"
After thinking about it, Zhang Ding affirmed: "As long as there are enough explosives and people, I promise to complete the mission within two months!"
"Okay, in the next five days, you can plan a route for me and choose a location in Shandong. After five days, I will have everything you want ready!"
After returning to the temporary base of the arsenal, Wang Ping found Yang Xiong.
"Director, people are definitely not a problem. Not to mention anything else, there are thousands of people in the new corps directly under the military region. If you go to the military region to ask for people, they will definitely give them. The only problem is explosives. Although the military region guard corps is to protect the head
Yes, but the equipment is the worst among all the troops. The equipment and ammunition obtained by the commander from below are almost always attached to the front-line combat troops. Therefore, the military region will definitely not be able to provide us with explosives!" Yang Xiong analyzed with a frown.
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"Then let's steal it from the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops!" Wang Ping decided directly without saying a word.
Then he stared at Yang Xiong and asked, "How are the troops prepared?"
When Yang Xiong mentioned the troops, his face was covered with a thick smile, and he happily answered: "The military region sent five hundred recruits, and I took them all without missing a single one. Now, the three infantry companies are fully established, and the artillery platoon,
The heavy machine gun platoon is also fully staffed and we are seizing the time to train!"
"The only problem is that these new recruits are all guerrillas who have just been recruited by the military region. It turns out that a group of local troops have been transferred and they have been added to the guard regiment and front-line combat troops. We can only choose the remaining guerrillas. There is no
It’s impossible to develop combat effectiveness in two or three months of training!”
Wang Ping frowned and analyzed: "The arsenal can't wait that long. I promised Zhang Ding that in five days, I would prepare two thousand kilograms of explosives and five hundred strong laborers for him, including one hundred masons. So, five days
Within this period, we must fight a war to solve these problems!"
"It's too difficult!" Yang Xiong shook his head and replied.
As the battalion commander, no one knows better than Yang Xiong how to strengthen the battalion's current combat effectiveness.
It can be said that except for the veterans brought out by the independent regiment, the others can only shoot. In this case, dragging them to the battlefield is not letting them fight, but letting them die.
After some hesitation, Yang Xiong suggested to Wang Ping: "Can we borrow troops from the guard regiment? If there are more than one company, it would be good to have a company!"
"No!" Wang Ping replied firmly.
"The guard regiment protects the military region headquarters and the commander. It must not be moved unless it is absolutely necessary."
Wang Ping also knew that it was very unrealistic for a group of recruits who had just emerged from the guerrillas to fight against the elite Japanese soldiers, but in the face of increasingly tight time, he had to do so.
After some hesitation, he made a decisive decision: "Select a reinforced company from the entire battalion and conduct training alone. Don't we still have tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition? We will use 5,000 to practice marksmanship and pull them into the woods for training.
, and also reserve some meat for the arsenal. There will be a lot of manual labor in the arsenal, and there must be a sufficient supply of meat to ensure the progress of the arsenal!"
"You go handle this matter. I'll go to the Military Intelligence Office to collect information and see where there are things we need around!"
Because the Japanese army is well-equipped and has sufficient ammunition, it rarely equips explosives.
Unless the arsenal is heavily defended by the Japanese army, but if Wang Ping wants to rely on a reinforced company to capture the arsenal that is heavily defended by the Japanese and puppet troops, Wang Ping will never make such a decision that is close to death unless his head is burned out.
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After much deliberation, Wang Ping set his target on the large and small coal mines and iron mines controlled by the Japanese and puppet troops.
Whether mining coal or iron ore, a large amount of explosives are required. Because the Japanese and puppet troops are insufficient, most of the troops are concentrated on the front line to launch attacks on the Chinese army. Although these mines bring a steady stream of income and resources to the Japanese army, the defensive
There are very few troops.
The Japanese who controlled these mines also knew that these mines were targeted by the Eighth Route Army at any time. In the absence of a shortage of regular troops, they recruited a large number of rogues and veterans from the country to form mine protection teams to assist the army in protecting the mines.
Although these mine protection teams are not regular armies, because they are composed of veterans who have retired from the army and have good equipment, their combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the regular army.
More importantly, the mines are all in the mountains, and the terrain is very dangerous. The mine protection team defended the mines and built many permanent firepower points around the mines. Unless there are enough troops and artillery, the Eighth Route Army will definitely not be able to attack them.
Will attack these mines at will.
And this gave Wang Ping an excellent opportunity to sneak attack on the mine.
Having not been attacked for a long time, the Japanese army and the mine protection team must be very lax in protecting the mine. As long as you find the right time and launch a sudden attack, you will definitely be able to capture a mine.
Based on the information provided by the intelligence office of the headquarters, seven or eight nearby mines controlled by the Japanese and puppet troops were marked on Wang Ping's map.
Soon, a mine protected by more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops was selected by Wang Ping.
The scale of this mine is not small. The reason why there are only more than a hundred Japanese and puppet troops is because the county town is less than five kilometers away from the mine. The Japanese army has stationed an entire infantry brigade in the county town. They use cars to march quickly to reinforce the mine.
You can get there in ten minutes at most.
It is for this reason that the Japanese army was so arrogant that they used more than a hundred people to protect a mine, and they also had to watch over nearly two thousand people absent from the mine.
You must know that these absentees are not ordinary people. They are all anti-Japanese soldiers who were captured by the Japanese army on the battlefield and were unwilling to be used as dogs for the Japanese.
"That's it. As long as the whole operation is fast enough, we can definitely win it!" Wang Ping made a decisive decision.
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