Li Hao has been guarding the repair shop and ammunition factory, watching everyone dismantle the equipment!
In his eyes, these seemingly scrap metal equipment are treasures that will determine whether the garrison can develop and grow in the future. Even if they are damaged, he will be heartbroken for several days!
Suddenly, the chief of staff and Li Yunshan came together!
"Captain, there is a big problem now!" Hong Linfeng reported with a frown!
"There are too many equipments in the repair shop and ammunition factory. We searched the entire Datong City and seized the ones we seized on the battlefield, and only managed to collect a total of 68 vehicles. We couldn't transport all the equipment in the city twice!"
Li Hao frowned quickly, with a serious look on his face, "Calculate how many cars we need to prepare if we want to clear out all the equipment here!"
Hong Linfeng and Li Yunshan discussed for a while before replying: "Including the machinery and equipment we hide in the mountains, we will need at least two hundred cars!"
Seeing Li Hao frowning and not saying anything, Hong Linfeng proposed a solution that he had just thought of!
"Captain, can you use a big car?"
"Comrade Li Yunshan and I discussed it and decided that all the small equipment should be transported in large trucks. Sixty-eight vehicles will definitely be enough to transport the remaining large equipment!"
"Datong City is so big and it's close to the base area in northwestern Shanxi. It's definitely no problem to raise three to four hundred carts!"
"No!" Li Hao refused without thinking!
Cars, like cars, cannot live without the road!
But there is a problem, the speed of the big car is too slow!
From Datong to Lingqiu base area, it is nearly 200 kilometers. If you take a car, you can complete it in one night!
If it is a big car, it may not be possible to complete the journey in two days and two nights!
Compared with the transportation plan that Li Hao had already thought of, there is a huge gap!
"Then what should we do!" Hong Linfeng asked, frowning!
A car is not a big car, it can only be owned by little devils!
Even if we search all over Datong, there are only so many!
So it is absolutely impossible to collect more than 200 cars in a short period of time!
Li Hao's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and he couldn't think of a solution in a short time!
Not having enough cars means that some of the military equipment we already eat must be discarded!
But all these devices are treasures in his eyes, and no matter which one is thrown away, it will make him heartbroken for a long time!
"Commander: The chief of staff of the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region is here, right at the door!" Sun Jiawu, the guard company commander, suddenly rushed over and reported, with a nervous look on his face!
The Chief of Staff of the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region is an officer at the same level as the Chief of Staff of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region!
If Sun Jiawu remembered correctly, this was definitely the highest-ranking Eighth Route Army commander he had ever seen since he was a soldier!
Li Hao was also scared!
Although he is the head of the garrison and has an official establishment and military rank in Chongqing! But compared with the chief of staff of the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region, he is still several levels behind!
Rush directly to the factory door!
When he saw the chief of staff, he quickly saluted and reported!
"Hello, Chief!"
"Hello!"
The chief of staff looked at Li Hao carefully, then returned a military salute and said with a shocked look on his face!
"Comrade Li Hao, to be honest, your youth is a bit disappointing to me!"
"However, this also proves the old saying: Heroes emerge from youth! Now it seems that our Eighth Route Army has a successor!"
"The purpose of my visit is very simple: our commander of the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region has also arrived in Datong, where he was located at the original Japanese garrison headquarters! He also wanted to see you, the anti-Japanese hero, so he asked me to come over specifically to invite you over!"
"The chief is here too?"
The news brought by the chief of staff shocked Li Hao again!
Compared with the chief of staff in front of him, the commander of the Northwestern Shanxi Military Region is a true hero-level figure. It is also the first time that Li Hao has met such a high-level leader face to face in this era!
He quickly replied: "I'm going over now, I won't keep the Prime Minister waiting for long!"
Then he ordered Hong Linfeng beside him, who had not yet recovered from the shock: "Chief of Staff: There are not enough cars, so I will find a solution!"
"Now your top priority is to use the only 68 cars on hand to send all the equipment of the repair shop and ammunition factory out of Datong City at all costs before dawn and hide it in the woods outside the city!"
At the former enemy headquarters in the northern Shanxi base area, Li Hao saw the commander with his back turned to look at the map. He suppressed his excitement and loudly reported: "Hello, chief! I am Li Hao, the leader of the garrison regiment, and I have been ordered to report. Please
Forgive me, Chief!"
"Comrade Li Hao...hello!"
The commander had a smile on his face and answered very appreciatively!
"You are the hero of our Eighth Route Army, and the anti-Japanese hero of the entire Chinese nation. I have wanted to know you for a long time! Now that I have captured Datong City with a main force, I am even more curious about you!"
Li Hao was flattered!
After a few words of greeting, the commander got straight to the point and said: "Comrade Li Hao, I urgently called you here. In addition to wanting to see you and understand the entire siege battle, there is another very important reason!"
"I want to know how much military equipment you have seized from the Japanese ammunition factories and repair shops!"
"If possible, can you share some with us?"
"Although there is a lot of ammunition seized in Datong City, it will eventually be used up!"
"Only by producing our own weapons and ammunition and being self-sufficient can we continue to grow and develop and completely solve the problem of lack of ammunition in the troops!"
"Of course, we won't get those military equipment in vain!"
"After all, the Eighth Route Army headquarters has an order, and those equipments belong to you! Moreover, your garrison regiment made great efforts to capture Datong City. In the end, it was our base in northern Shanxi that took advantage!"
"My idea is: if the garrison sticks to Lingqiu, it will definitely lose a lot of veterans!"
"If the garrison can give us some military equipment, our Northwestern Shanxi Military Region is willing to deploy some grassroots veterans to supplement the garrison so that the garrison can regain its strength as soon as possible!"
Li Hao’s eyes started to shine right then!
Just now I was worrying about how to transport the extra military equipment back to the base!
Unexpectedly, as soon as I dozed off, the commander sent me a pillow!
There are too many military equipment. With the current strength of the garrison, it is impossible to send them all back anyway!
If this is the case, then use them to exchange for hundreds of grassroots veterans from the base area in northwestern Shanxi!
Like military equipment, veterans are also in short supply in the garrison!
Seeing Li Hao's expression changing, the commander thought he was unwilling and continued!
"I don't need much, just a production line for machine gun bullets, a set of weapons maintenance equipment, a set of bullet reloading equipment, and if possible, a set of mortar shell production equipment!"
"If the garrison agrees, I can transfer two hundred grassroots veterans from each regiment to supplement the garrison!"
"I guarantee that fifty of these two hundred veterans are former Red Army soldiers and are qualified to serve as squad leaders and even company commanders! The remaining 150 are veterans who have been in the Eighth Route Army for more than one year and are qualified to serve as squad leaders and grassroots level officers.
backbone!"
Li Hao was completely jealous!
Fifty old Red Army veterans who are qualified to serve as squad platoon leaders are all the grassroots cadres of an entire main force regiment!
With the addition of 150 veterans, the rebuilt garrison now has the backbone!
Li Hao no longer hesitated and answered decisively: "Thank you, chief!"
"The ammunition factory and repair shop have more military equipment than I imagined. The garrison's current strength will definitely not be able to absorb it! And even if we can swallow it in one gulp, we won't be able to transport it back!"
"So as long as the commander likes those military equipment, he can keep them and transport them back to the base!"
"If I remember correctly, the leader also left behind a lot of military equipment that can produce weapons and equipment!"
"Although they are all old equipment that has been eliminated by Western partners, in the eyes of our Eighth Route Army, they are still treasures, but the output is lower!"
"I will go back to the chief of staff to discuss it now. First, transport all the equipment out of Datong City and then distribute it!"
"Can!"
The commander answered readily!
"I've also started arranging for the deployment of veterans that are urgently needed by the garrison!"
Datong Ammunition Factory, when Li Hao rushed back, the troops were loading trucks!
Dozens of cars, one after another, are loaded with equipment, weighing thousands or even thousands of kilograms, transported out of Datong City!
"Captain, you are back. What does the commander want from you?" Hong Linfeng rushed over and asked!
"The chief has sent us pillows!" Li Hao replied!
"Weren't we just worried about how to get so much equipment back to the base? We went to the chief and this problem was solved directly!"
"I decided to take only part of the equipment back!"
"All other equipment will be left to the northern Shanxi base area, allowing them to set up their own arsenal!"
"Of course, the northern Shanxi base area will not need these equipment in vain. The head of the army decided to transfer two hundred veterans from the northern Shanxi base area to compensate our garrison, including fifty grassroots cadres from the old Red Army!"
"With these veterans and the absentees we just rescued, as long as we return to the base area, it won't take long for our strength to reach its peak again!"