Hong Linfeng was visibly relieved when he heard that the troops would also increase their number of heavy weapons.
But it didn't last long, and his brows wrinkled again.
"But commander, excluding the heavy weapons that Battalion Commander Peng just took away, we only have four mortars, three heavy machine guns, and more than ten light machine guns. After the battlefield losses are made up, there will be even less. This
Are some weapons enough?"
"Definitely not enough!" Li Hao answered directly.
"What about the expansion of the army?" Hong Linfeng asked subconsciously.
A flash of mystery quickly flashed across Li Hao's face, and then he replied: "Don't forget, we still have a large number of weapons that were damaged by bombing on the battlefield. If we use them properly, they can also turn waste into treasure!"
"Political Commissar, Chief of Staff, I have decided to set up a weapons repair station in the independent regiment to repair weapons damaged by bombs on the battlefield!"
"If I remember correctly, including the weapons we captured in previous battles and the weapons we used ourselves, the number of scrapped rifles in the warehouse alone exceeds 1,500."
"There must be fifty light and heavy machine guns in total!"
"If we can repair half of these weapons, we will have 700 to 800 rifles and nearly 30 light and heavy machine guns, which can fully meet all the weapons needs of our independent battalion when it expands into an independent regiment!"
Political Commissar Wang Hong only thought for a few seconds before agreeing: "I agree to set up a repair shop to repair the weapons and equipment damaged on the battlefield!"
"But Captain, we don't have any skilled workers at all. Without workers and without skills, we can't repair it even if we have the raw materials!"
Li Hao shook his head and explained: "The repair shop does not need highly skilled workers for the time being, just ordinary veterans!"
"Didn't dozens of soldiers become disabled in this battle and had to leave the combat unit? Let's build an armory based on them!"
"Can they do it?" Wang Hong asked with an expression of disbelief on his face!
He also wanted to turn those broken weapons into treasures, but he couldn't believe it and had no reason to convince himself to let a group of severely wounded people with no skills repair them.
Hong Linfeng was more direct and retorted with certainty: "It's impossible. Repairing weapons is a technical job. If everyone could do it, then making and repairing guns wouldn't be so difficult!"
"Captain, I don't believe that their dozens of seriously injured people can repair more than a thousand useless guns in the warehouse!"
Li Hao had a smile on his face, his expression not changing at all.
Then he looked at the two men and replied: "They definitely don't know how to repair a gun!"
"But if you want to turn those useless guns into treasures, they don't necessarily need to be repaired!"
"Let's go, I'll take you to see it now!"
"Political Commissar, all the scrap guns we captured in this battle are still at the battalion headquarters. Let's go directly to the warehouse and take out a few scrap guns to try. You will understand!"
In a thatched house hidden in the woods, Li Hao randomly picked a few guns and walked out.
Under the gaze of several pairs of eyes around him, he started to dismantle the gun using very simple tools!
Soon, he dismantled a rifle into dozens of large and small parts and placed them on the table in front of him!
After dismantling the remaining four useless guns with the same movement, Li Hao began to install the guns.
"Lao Hong, help me. We don't have equipment to help. Some steps require two people to put the parts in!" Li Hao ordered while loading the gun!
Because it was the first time to assemble the 38 large cover, it took two people a full hour to complete.
After weighing the loaded rifle, Li Hao quickly held it flat in his hand, then loaded the bullet, aimed forward, and decisively pulled the trigger!
A crisp sound of the firing pin emptying came from the barrel of the gun, which meant that it was a good gun that could be used, and a smile flashed at the corner of Li Hao's mouth!
"It's really done!"
Political Commissar Wang Hong asked with his big eyes wide open, with a look of disbelief and shock on his face!
Li Hao directly handed the loaded rifle to Wang Hong.
After careful inspection, Wang Hong had to admit that Li Hao really repaired a useless gun!
Seeing Wang Hong looking at him in confusion, Li Hao explained: "Real repair of a gun means that if a part is broken, the worker will re-build the part and then replace it with the rifle!"
"And the repair shop we are going to set up has limited conditions because there are no skilled workers, so we can only skip this step!"
"All scrap guns are dismantled into parts. Taking advantage of the fact that all parts of the same rifle can be used interchangeably, we find the good parts and reassemble a new rifle!"
"This reduces the technical requirements to a minimum. As long as our workers are familiar enough with the 38-inch cover, they can repair the gun."
"Of course, if a repair shop wants to develop and grow, it cannot just dismantle and install, and then install and dismantle!"
"We must develop our own skilled workers. The first step is to find blacksmiths, blacksmiths with very good skills!"
"When the repair shop reassembles the rifle, it will find out which parts are most likely to be blown up on the battlefield. With highly skilled blacksmiths, we can let them use the most primitive blacksmithing methods to forge these damaged parts.
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"In this way, we will have more useless guns to be repaired!"
“The second step is to find a way to find a few workers who have spent time in the arsenal to join the repair shop and make them the backbone of the repair shop, and then find a way to get them some equipment to produce and process more parts through the equipment.
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"In the future, when the repair shop has more and more equipment and more skilled workers, and can produce all the parts on a rifle, then we can imitate and produce the 38 cap ourselves!"
"In addition, there is one more thing we have to do in the whole process, which is to find talents who can make bullets and find a way to get them to reload bullets for us in the repair shop!"
"Of course, this process will definitely be long, but we must take this step!"
"Still what I said just now, today's wars are more about logistics. We cannot rely on all our logistics supplies on battlefield captures. We must find ways to be self-sufficient, even if we have to pay a very high price.
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The expression on Wang Hong's face slowly changed from disbelief at the beginning to seriousness.
It took a long time before he came back to his senses and replied: "I agree with the leader's intention to establish a repair shop!"
"You have to eat one meal at a time, and you have to walk one step at a time. The first step is to set up a repair shop. Through this method of disassembling and assembling weapons, we can turn the used guns in the warehouse into treasures and reuse them as soon as possible! That's the only way
, we have enough equipment to expand the troops and turn the independent battalion into a truly independent regiment!"
"Captain, I'll take care of this!"
"When the repair shop is established, you will be responsible for training the first batch of workers and repairing a batch of rifles as soon as possible!"
"As for the search for skilled workers, I will personally follow up when the time comes. There is a Taiyuan arsenal in Shanxi. As long as we look for it, we will definitely find it!"
Hong Linfeng also reacted at this time: "Regiment commander, political commissar, if these scrap guns can be repaired half, then our independent battalion will not be short of weapons to expand the independent regiment!"
"Also, the military division has given us an order to expand the troops. Let us finalize the establishment as soon as possible and then report it. I wonder if you, the regiment commander and the political commissar, have thought about it?"
Li Hao thought for a moment and replied: "I have a preliminary idea!"
"It is certain that the three main companies and the independent companies will be expanded into battalions. The only thing I am hesitant about now is the firepower allocation of the troops!"
"If the infantry company is still the current strengthened company, the four main battalions plus the directly affiliated troops will have three to four thousand people. It is too unrealistic. With the current base and foundation of the independent regiment, it will definitely not be able to support so many troops and heavy weapons!"
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