You have to know how much time, energy and money Zhou Wen spent on the more than a thousand people in the Guards and Security Team. Most of the equipment and ammunition that he took away from the arsenal for cheap were basically used for the training of these recruits, then
It is already 800,000 yuan, and there are military salaries higher than those of other armies, a full set of German equipment, French artillery, etc. If he was finally taken away by others with a transfer order, Zhou Wen would not be able to cry.
That's it, the marshal agreed personally, and wrote it down in black and white at Zhou Wen's insistence. It wasn't until he saw the marshal sealing the decision with his personal seal that he put the worries of the past year back in his heart.
Another good result is that the mercenary group can finally produce ammunition legitimately. This is the greatest guarantee for the mercenary group's future operations and training. At least the bullets and artillery shells for future combat training must be self-sufficient, and there will be a large number of wars.
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Imported weapons are so expensive that even Zhou Wen, a rich man, can't stand it. Especially the training model of the mercenary group regardless of the cost of ammunition. It's like throwing out a white ocean and green dollars. The weapons are just that.
Although Zhou Wen asked Mandel, who had returned to Taiyuan, to help order a second batch of weapons and equipment to supplement training losses, but due to domestic production technology, these exquisite, advanced and practical weapons could not be produced, and the total number of mercenary groups plus affiliated troops was only
Zhou Wen could afford to support more than a thousand people even if he gritted his teeth.
But the consumption of ammunition is a bottomless pit. The most expensive thing is not bullets. There are still a lot of 6.5mm caliber bullets for semi-automatic rifles and 7.9mm pointed bullets for machine guns, but the 9mm Magnum for Somi submachine gun
Bullets and those 81mm mortar shells, 75mm mountain artillery shells are very distressing. The ammunition purchased at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars has been fired in just three months, and more than half of it has been fired, and Zhou Wen's plan
It will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to train according to this standard in the next few years, but if you can make it yourself, it only costs raw materials and labor costs, and the cost will naturally be greatly reduced, and you can still reserve a considerable amount.
Quantity of inventory.
Achieving these two goals is a great harvest for Zhou Wen. The only price he paid was to go to the Office of Appeasement to be a counselor and to set up an intelligence agency. In fact, these two things are also important to Zhou Wen.
The advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The title of Senior Counselor allows him to legitimately participate in major plans and decisions of the Office, and he can also directly make suggestions through his own memories for future generations. This is a great benefit for the future war of resistance.
Zhou Wen does not ask the commander to do everything according to his own suggestions, but as long as he adopts some of them, he can avoid some mistakes, take less detours, and be more prepared. This has far exceeded Zhou Wen's original expectations.
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In fact, before leading the mercenary group into Shanxi, Zhou Wen really did not expect that he would have the qualifications and opportunity to speak in front of the commander. The best idea at that time was to gain a firm foothold in Lishi County and then develop slowly.
Unexpectedly, things are unpredictable, and I am really a lucky person. I accidentally got into a fight with the Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Party Headquarters, and something bad turned into a good thing for no apparent reason. I actually became the Director of the Security Department of the Shanxi Provincial Party Headquarters, with thousands of troops under his command.
There are countless industries.
As a prince, the special commissioner of the provincial party headquarters is his eldest brother, the Taiyuan garrison commander in charge of thousands of troops is his senior, and the three people who have long been at the top of the pyramid in China have become his partners and backstage bosses.
Thinking about it carefully, Zhou Wen was secretly surprised. Unknowingly, he was not yet 20 years old. In the eyes of ordinary people, he was still a young boy, but he was also considered a number one person in Shanxi. No wonder he was so valued by the commander.
Appointed as senior counselor of the Office of Appeasement.
As for the establishment of an intelligence agency, Zhou Wen is even more happy to see it succeed. In fact, in his plan, even if the commander does not set up such an agency, he must find a way for the mercenary group to take care of this responsibility. This is not impossible.
It is not a problem to do, but something that must be done. The lessons of later history have raised Zhou Wen's importance to intelligence warfare to a strategic level.
What's more, the reason why his mercenary group was wiped out in the last life was because of incorrect intelligence. He thought he was going to capture the informant of a rebel group, who was an ordinary citizen living in a small town called Manduka.
How much bodyguard power does an ordinary person's spy have? Giving him 3 bodyguards is too much to look down on him.
It turned out that he was not an ordinary person at all, but a big shot in that powerful group. As a result, the six people fell into the middle of more than 20 rebels who were armed to the teeth, and finally died together with the enemy.
Therefore, setting up an intelligence agency has always been something Zhou Wen wanted to do but had no conditions to do. Now, with the support of the commander and his own knowledge of future generations, Zhou Wen cannot get involved in other areas, but the Japanese are stealing Chinese intelligence unscrupulously in Shanxi.
The days are coming to an end.
The early establishment of an intelligence agency in Shanxi also hid some of Zhou Wen's little thoughts. After the September 18th Incident, Nanjing also realized that an all-out war with Japan was inevitable, so it also planned to establish a foreign intelligence organization and organized a military-based
The Fuxing Society (some people call it Blue Clothes Society) was the main body. In 1932, the Lixing Society, the core organization of the Fuxing Society, was set up, with a secret service specializing in espionage activities. It was the predecessor of the Military Command Bureau.
At the end of 1937, the Lixingshe Secret Service merged with the Secret Service Headquarters (the "National Government Military Commission Secret Investigation Team" established in 1927) to form the "National Government Military Commission Investigation and Statistics Bureau", referred to as the "Military Unification Bureau". Part 2
It has two divisions, the first division is responsible for party affairs, and the second division is responsible for intelligence and reports directly to the principal. The Lixingshe Secret Service is organized into the second division of the bureau.
In the few years after the establishment of the Lixingshe Secret Service, branches were established in major cities or provincial capitals in China. Zhou Wen encouraged the general to establish an intelligence agency first to avoid the Lixingshe Secret Service stationing a branch in Taiyuan in the future.
When the Lixingshe Secret Service plans to set up a branch in Taiyuan, you will find that Taiyuan already has an intelligence organization that operates earlier than you and is more experienced and efficient than you. How dare you send people to manage and direct it? At that time
As long as Nanjing doesn't want to fall out with the commander-in-chief, they can only pinch their noses and endure it.
In addition, the predecessor of the Central Unification Committee, the "Party Affairs Investigation Section of the Central Party Headquarters", was already at loggerheads with Zhou Wen. According to Zhou Wen's growing momentum in Shanxi, it is no longer possible for them to set up a branch in Taiyuan.