As soon as he made the decision to relocate the arsenal, Wang Ping focused his attention again on Zhang Ding in front of him.
"Comrade Zhang Ding, the scale of the arsenal will definitely become larger and larger in the future. One underground factory is definitely not enough, and you have to dig out several warehouses dedicated to storing weapons and ammunition. Therefore, the task of building an underground arsenal cannot be stopped.
continue."
Seeing Zhang Ding nodding to express his understanding, Wang Ping immediately turned his attention to the two political commissars.
"Political Commissar Zhou and Political Commissar Luo, without engineers, there would be no underground arsenal that is so easy to defend and difficult to attack. As I said just now, the scale of the arsenal needs to be expanded, and Zhang Ding's task is still very heavy. Therefore, I plan to set up a directly affiliated arsenal under the arsenal.
Dual leadership of the barracks, arsenal and guard regiment, with Zhang Dinglai as the battalion commander!"
"I agree!" The two political commissars nodded in agreement without even thinking.
Wang Ping didn't waste any time and directly ordered Zhang Ding: "Zhang Ding, you heard it, from now on you will be the commander of the engineering battalion. I will temporarily give you an establishment of 500 people, and I will set up the structure of the engineering battalion within five days."
Get up. But there is one requirement, the progress of building the arsenal cannot be affected!"
In the next half month, the arsenal not only completed the relocation, but also directly expanded the production capacity of reloaded bullets to 25,000 kilograms per month.
Not only that, political commissar Zhou Yong also built a small-scale iron-making furnace under the joint guidance of Li Xuebin and Zhou Wu. As long as the raw materials are sufficient, it can smelt nearly 250 kilograms of pig iron every day.
In this way, the arsenal has the raw materials for producing grenades.
Because the arsenal has a complete set of parts processing machines, Li Xuebin directly used rail steel to create a set of grenade body molds with grooves on the inner wall. In this way, the arsenal has another product, with a daily production of 200 hand grenades!
Not only that, because of the existence of cutting, grinding, drilling and other machine tools, the mechanical group headed by Li Xuebin can make all the parts of five rifles except the barrel every day! As long as the barrel can be made, the arsenal will make one every month
Can imitate one hundred and fifty thirty-eight covers.
If there are a sufficient number of excellent technicians and a few machines producing around the clock, 300 imitation 38 caps can be easily produced in a month and equipped for an infantry battalion!
"Director, we must find a way to solve the problem of the machine that makes gun barrels as soon as possible!" Political commissar Zhou Yong came to Wang Ping and said very anxiously.
"The damaged rifles sent by the front-line troops basically have the barrels blown out. As long as there are barrels, the rifle parts accumulated by the mechanical team can directly arm 300 rifles and equip a battalion!"
"Also, if possible, it would be best to seize two more coal mines from the Japanese and bring back some equipment."
"I asked Professor Li. As long as we can get all the equipment in the two Japanese mines, he will definitely be able to copy all the equipment in the arsenal. In this case, our production of reloaded bullets can be doubled!"
"In addition, Professor Zhou has already developed a production method for smokeless gunpowder. I am responsible for the raw materials, but only you can handle the related machinery and equipment!"
Wang Ping was more anxious than Zhou Yong. Both the trust of the military commander and the concern of the commander-in-chief of Yan'an put great pressure on Wang Ping.
In the past few days, although he had not gone out, information from the Military Region Intelligence Office had been continuously delivered to him.
After a coal mine and a copper mine were attacked some time ago, the Japanese army directly strengthened the defense of these mines. If the arsenal wants to attack these mines again and again, it will definitely become more and more difficult. Therefore, Wang Ping is thinking
, when choosing, you want to capture a Japs mine through one battle, and then all the equipment in this mine can meet your needs.
After a few days, he finally found a target, a large iron mine controlled by the Japanese.
However, this iron mine is too big. Although it is far away from the city where the Japs have stationed heavy troops, the difficulty of taking it is not low at all.
Because it was far away from the city, the Japanese army directly built this iron mine as a military fortress.
A total of a reinforced squadron of the Japanese army, a brigade of the mine protection team, and a regiment of the Imperial Army were stationed inside. They relied on several permanent firepower points around the mine to defend it. Whether it was a force attack or a sneak attack, it would be difficult to capture it.
At first, Wang Ping also thought about digging trenches to get closer to the opponent's permanent firepower points and shorten the attack time.
However, after the reconnaissance platoon informed him of the topography around the mine, Wang Ping gave up.
Because the entire mountain is a huge iron mine, the entire mountain can almost be called a stone mountain, with only a few dozen centimeters of soil covering the surface. Not to mention digging trenches, even the troops' offensive bunkers cannot be dug.
Because there was no way to attack, Wang Ping had been unable to make up his mind to send troops for several days.
Now I see Zhou Yong is so anxious, and he really wants to make some achievements in the arsenal to repay the commander and the commander-in-chief in Yan'an.
After some hesitation, Wang Ping finally decided: "Half a month, political commissar, give me another half month, and I promise to get the equipment you want back!"
That night, Wang Ping called the regiment's political commissar Luo Wenbo and chief of staff Yang Xiong to his room, along with battalion commander Hong Tao.
Due to insufficient cadres, except for one battalion commander of the three battalions of the Guard Corps, the former first company commander Hong Tao was directly promoted. The remaining two battalion commanders are temporarily served by both political commissar and chief of staff. The original two company commanders only served as deputy battalion commanders.
, until Wang Ping thinks they can be the battalion commander before taking over as battalion commander.
Focusing on the sketches returned by the reconnaissance platoon, Wang Ping quickly introduced the situation of the iron mine.
"Commander, we are short of artillery. If we are equipped with mountain artillery or field artillery, just shoot one at a time to name the enemy's firepower points!" Political Commissar Luo Wenbo spoke first.
Chief of Staff Yang Xiong directly denied: "The power of mountain field artillery is definitely not enough. I have seen turrets and machine gun bunkers made of reinforced concrete. When a field artillery shell is fired, it will hit a white dot at most. Unless the shell is directly fired into the shooting hole."
But it’s almost impossible to achieve a shooting distance of several hundred meters!”
"Unless we use the heavy artillery company of the independent brigade to borrow three 105mm heavy guns and shoot them directly, there may be hope of destroying it!"
"Don't even think about heavy artillery!" Wang Ping retorted without hesitation.
"It's so heavy, even if you borrow it, you won't be able to transport it to the mountain!"
Luo Wenbo, who frowned, couldn't help complaining: "Cannons won't work, and digging trenches to shorten the attack distance won't work, so what should we do! If that doesn't work, let's just rush in. I still don't believe it. The little Japs can defeat us with just a few firepower points."
Kill them all!"
Regarding this complaint, Wang Ping didn't even think about answering, and simply ignored it to express his denial.
At this moment, Hong Tao, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said: "Commander, it turns out that when we were still in the Red Army, what we used most was explosive pack blasting. Even if it cannot destroy the bunker, the powerful shock wave can set the enemies in the bunker on fire.
die!"
"It's just that I can't figure out how to deliver the explosive package to the Japanese gun tower."
"If we let the demolitioners charge, the casualties of the demolitioners in the army will definitely be very high, and they may not be able to charge up!"
Chief of Staff Yang Xiong couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said: "Old Hong, you didn't say this!"
"If I can rush to the vicinity of the Japanese bunker, what explosive packs should I use? I can just throw a few grenades into the bunker through the shooting hole. No matter how many Japanese soldiers are hidden inside, they will be blown up!"
The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. An idea suddenly flashed through Wang Ping's mind, and he felt that he had found a breakthrough, but he just couldn't think of a specific method.
"The explosive pack... deliver the explosive pack to the bunker to ambush, and use the shock wave to kill the Japanese in the bunker!" Wang Ping, who frowned, couldn't help but muttered to himself. Finally, a clear idea appeared in his mind. Just now
The eyes, which were still dim, gradually became fiery.
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