Rise from the sword

Chapter 486 Ito Kotaro's New Business!
"General."

After answering the phone, Kazuki Yamamoto spoke very respectfully.

Life is the best teacher.

In the past few years, in the hands of Li Yunlong, Yamamoto has been beaten in various ways, and none of the plans have succeeded.Where the superiors are, no one pays attention to him, even if he rips his throat and utters a real cry, no one pays attention to him.

Having experienced the double beatings of Li Yunlong and reality, Yamamoto has matured.

After Yoshio Shinozuka returned, he reorganized the staff department and immediately sent a copy of various battle reports from Ping'an County to Taiyuan.All kinds of decisions made must be sent as quickly as possible.

Yamamoto knew very well that even though he had been promoted to major general, even though many of his classmates at the same time had already become commanders of lieutenant general divisions, because of his research direction and his qualifications, he was not qualified to control tens of thousands of troops around Ping'an County. of.

No violation.

But it does not conform to the unspoken rules of the Imperial Army.

Such a large-scale military force needs to be commanded by the generals. After all, the imperial army around Ping'an County has already exceeded a full division. If the recruits who have not yet formed a formation are added, they will have more troops than the first army at its peak.

For the full strength in his hands, he made up his mind to hug his thighs, General Shinozuka, and General Gangmura tightly.

"Yamamoto-kun."

Shinozuka Yoshio made a fatherly voice:

"I've seen the results of this battle. Obviously, we underestimated Li Yunlong again. We made mistakes in intelligence and wrong tactics."

"That's what the general taught you."

Yamamoto lowered his head, his tone sincere.

There are two meanings in General Shinozuka's words.

It was true that he had failed in his intelligence work, he admitted.

He took it too much for granted before. After discovering a large number of scrapped tanks, he took it for granted that the independent regiment had tank units that could not participate in the battle, and did not investigate in depth. Of course, this is also related to the recent improvement of the independent regiment's anti-espionage level.

The security department found out almost all his spies who had infiltrated the army.

and also.

In a veiled way, his large-scale special operations plan doesn't work.

On this point, Yamamoto does not fully agree.

Special operations are all about surprise. This time it was not a matter of tactics, but that his intelligence work was not done well and the preparation time was too hasty. If he was given another chance and given more time, the outcome would definitely not be like this.

But he also understood that no matter how much he said, it was useless. He could only prove it with facts. Unfortunately, he couldn't do it for the time being.

"Pause offensive operations."

Shinozuka Yoshio suddenly said:

"The strength displayed by Li Yunlong exceeded our expectations. It is not appropriate to continue to attack before making complete preparations."

"Hi."

Yamamoto bowed his head.

"Come to Taiyuan in a few days."

Yoshio Shinozuka continued.

"Hi."

Yamamoto bowed his head.

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a few days later.

Taihang Mountains.

Sun Desheng came near a newly built factory building, and there was a line written on the door plate - Bullet Factory.Zhang Wanhe, Head of the Logistics Department of the Headquarters, accompanied him.It was jointly established by Zhao Jiayu and the headquarters arsenal.

Both technology and equipment are provided by Zhaojiayu Machinery Factory.And the equipment is all made by ourselves.

Zhang Wanhe has been very busy recently, and he went to the border area not long ago, and only recently had time to come and have a look.

Sun Desheng began to introduce:

"The bullet factory has completed the debugging of the equipment and officially put into production yesterday."

"Considering the lack of lead in the base area, there are lead mines in the Luliang mountain area, but we have no way to mine them at present, and it is not cost-effective to order the full amount from Boss Chen, so we first manufactured 7.92 steel core bullets."

"Steel core bullets are also good."

Zhang Wanhe said with a smile.

Although compared with lead-core bullets, steel-core bullets have insufficient storage speed and ballistic performance is not as good as lead-core bullets, but the difference is not too big, and steel-core bullets are very easy to produce. At present, except for the independent regiment, the bullets of other troops are not counted. plenty.

Solve the problem of availability first, and then consider the problem of quality.

"The cartridge case is pure copper."

Zhang Dabiao continued:
"Through the collection of redundant shell casings, the current amount of copper is sufficient, with a total reserve of more than one thousand tons."

When Zhang Wanhe heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

At present, the Republic of China basically does not have the ability to produce copper ingots on a large scale, and so does the government. As for why Zhao Jiayu is not short of copper, he naturally knows part of the reason, and he really doesn't know what to say for a while.

Zhang Wanhe changed the subject:

"Is there enough propellant?"

Having worked as the logistics minister for so many years and also in charge of the arsenal, Zhang Wanhe is well aware of the difficulties in producing bullets.

The production of bullets and warheads is easy to solve. At present, the raw materials are sufficient, and it is a big deal to lower the standard. The independent group of bullet casings is also very simple. Zhaojiayu Machinery Factory can produce special machine tools. Can be manufactured in large quantities.

The biggest problem right now is the propellant.

That is, a smokeless flame.

They can produce this thing, and it is relatively simple, but there is no such condition for mass production, which is the biggest problem.

"Hey hey..."

Hearing this, Sun Desheng smiled confidently:
"Our own propellant production capacity is seriously insufficient, but we can make room elsewhere."

"Create somewhere else?"

Zhang Wanhe was taken aback for a moment, and then he immediately understood the meaning of this sentence:
"You mean propellant from a cannon ball?"

There are six ammunition packs behind the tail of the mortar. The greater the range, the more ammunition packs are used. However, they are rarely used up. There will be two or three left. The Bofors cannon is also divided into ammunition. The charge pack adjusts the range, and generally there are many launch charge packs left.

Although the propellant for shells and bullets is actually not used, it is now in the 40s, and the quality of the propellant for shells produced by Boss Chen is very good, and it can be used for propellant for bullets after testing.

"Correct."

Sun Desheng nodded.

"Hahaha···"

Zhang Wanhe couldn't help laughing out loud.

Now, the raw materials for producing bullets are completely solved.

"correct."

Zhang Wanhe smiled for a while and asked:
"What is the maximum production capacity of this bullet factory?"

"In two months, it will reach a daily output of [-] rounds."

Sun Desheng raised two fingers.

"One hundred thousand shots!"

Zhang Wanhe was breathless.

This is not a small amount.

"In fact, the maximum design production capacity is 35 rounds per day."

Sun Desheng's tone was a little pity.

Boss Chen provided some of the main equipment for this bullet factory. They only produced peripheral machine tools. However, because the production capacity of Zhaojiayu Machinery Factory is limited, and although the technical requirements for peripheral machinery and equipment are not high, the quantity required is large, and they cannot be assembled in a short period of time. .

"take it easy."

Zhang Wanhe's tone was casual.

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a few days later.

Pan County.

Kotaro Ito was sitting on a chair, closing his eyes and meditating.

"Captain, they are all gone."

Suddenly, a ghost came in with an excited tone.

"Yo Xi."

Ito's eyes lit up.

A few days ago, an order from General Yamamoto of Ping'an County ordered the Pan County garrison to go to the front line of Ping'an County to garrison, while his airport garrison brigade, because of its rich combat experience, was left in Pan County for defense.

At this time, he has become the largest officer in Pan County.

"Is everyone connected?"

Ito asked.

In Heyuan County, the Eighth Route Army is collecting all kinds of basic machine tools, and the price is extremely high.

"Contacted."

The devil who came to report nodded and said:
"There are a lot of these machine tools in Nanyang and Southeast Asia."

　As soon as the water was released, I was called out temporarily...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)