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Chapter 202 Chapter 201, The guy who makes use of waste

The guerrillas were equipped with semi-automatic rifles, but this news was not spread and was kept within the team.

At this time, the external situation became even more tense, so all the troops that could be mobilized were mobilized. The 1st Company of the Independent Detachment received an order to guard the Weijia Village line and support the Beishan guerrillas. The New 1st Regiment was also mobilized to the Zhengtai line in the north. The other main regiments also disappeared. Only the st Company, a brother unit, was left to watch over the guerrillas.

Under such circumstances, Captain Guo could not come to the guerrillas every day, but was urgently reinforcing the defense work near Weijia Village, and he had no idea that the guerrillas had new weapons. In fact, the 1st Company had more soldiers at this time, reaching about 280 people, and even every combat squad had a gun, which made it a very good reinforced company.

On the guerrilla side, everyone's training intensity was significantly reduced, and the alert distance was significantly increased. They were ready to fight at any time. Even Chen Laodao, who had just become a squad leader, had been practicing stretcher carrying with the new recruits in the supplementary squad these days, intending to be a good military doctor.

On Li Yuexuan's side, he "ruthlessly" abandoned the Mosin-Nagant and replaced his main weapon with a semi-automatic one, which was also "new and old". Of course, his secondary weapon was still a box gun, and the grenade launcher was still his. He also took the time to teach Jiang Daquan how to use the Dinglong grenade launcher for bombing.

In the blink of an eye, it was early July, and the Japanese finally started their big move! They gathered a total force of more than 7 people, and under the personal command of the commander of the First Army, Mei Jin, they set out from Tongpu, Zhengtai, Pinghan, Daoqing and other places at the same time, and divided into nine routes to carry out a large-scale "mopping up" of the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan Anti-Japanese Base Area, with a focus on the Anti-Japanese Base Area in Southeast Shanxi.

That's right, more than 5 Japanese soldiers were divided into 9 groups, just like last year, and once again besieged Southeast Shanxi, and even the routes they took were not much different. However, last year, the Eighth Route Army in Southeast Shanxi only had the 129th Division and the 344th Brigade, with a total of more than 129 people. This year, the 5th Division alone has more than troops!
Although the combat effectiveness of many troops has declined due to the expansion, the combat effectiveness of troops such as the New 1st Regiment, which have fought several major battles, has increased instead of decreased! In addition, there are also small units such as the Beishan Guerrillas, which have also expanded their manpower and weapons during this period.

Especially the hand grenades. In addition to the hand grenades made by the Liangjia Village Arsenal for their own use and those sent to the 386th Brigade, Minister Zhang took good care of the guerrillas. The light-weight grenades loaded with high explosives were naturally used by the main force. However, the large grenades loaded with black powder were no problem to be distributed to the guerrillas.

So, Minister Zhang jokingly named the high-explosive grenades "military grenades" and the black powder grenades "militia grenades" to distinguish them.

Therefore, both the head of the headquarters and the officers and soldiers below are full of confidence in winning this anti-mopping-up operation.

On July 7, the Japanese army had already moved down along Zihongkou and occupied several villages and towns along the route. After occupying several villages and towns adjacent to the Baijin Line in Wuxiang County, they expanded their occupied area again. Then, they moved south to Qin County. The 5th Army, the defenders of Guosu, abandoned the city, and the Japanese army occupied Qin County for the second time. Then, on the 98th, they occupied Changzhi City and took control of the northern section of the Baijin Line.

This time the Japanese were very well prepared. While mobilizing troops, they even prepared a lot of construction materials, planning to build a railway along the Baijin Highway.

That's right, the Japanese had to put a lot of effort into building railways, because this would allow them to transport more troops and the looted supplies as quickly as possible, and would also allow them to separate the Taihang and Taiyue regions in the middle, which was of great strategic significance.

Of course, during this period, the Eighth Route Army was not idle and was also actively fighting. However, unlike last year when everyone fought against the Japanese together, the hungry troops either fled or provided false intelligence. It was no longer a situation of fighting against the Japanese together, which made the Eighth Route Army's battle more difficult.

"So, it is better to rely on yourself than on heaven or earth! It is better to have something yourself than to have it from your parents!" The guerrillas in Liangjia Village, who had waited for more than ten days without seeing the Japanese coming, finally got some sporadic news. The one who said this was naturally Comrade Zhao Danian. "Captain, what you said is right! Look, isn't our weapon like this? We don't rely on anyone but ourselves!" Li Yuexuan took over the conversation.

"So, you tinkered with these new weapons?" Zhu Xingyu asked with a smile.

"What kind of new weapon is this? We just made it because we can't stand the waste of materials!" Li Yuexuan ended the conversation, then pointed at the things on the table and said, "Shotgun, caliber 18mm, the barrel is made by drilling holes in discarded barrels, bolt action, magazine loading, can hold 6 shotgun shells, the shotgun pellets are homemade 5mm cast iron beads."

"The bolt and action of this gun are made by reforging those unqualified scraps. It doesn't use the push-pull method like those in foreign countries to load the bullet. It is bolt-action."

"And this one, a double-barreled shotgun, also 18mm in caliber. This one is even simpler, you just have to reload after firing two shots!"

"And this one, which can also be called a shotgun, is made from scrap barrels from making grenade launchers. Because the barrel is only 50cm long and 50mm in diameter, the effective distance is very short, which is equivalent to the power of our directional blasting. These, even the wood, are made from scraps from making the Type carbine."

Under Li Yuexuan's guidance, three new but very simple weapons appeared in front of everyone.

"Isn't this shotgun too short? The total length is less than 1 meter, right? And this double-barreled shotgun is also so short, and the shotgun is also so small... Are you preparing this specially for the guards platoon?" Xing Weiguo saw through the trick at a glance and asked while pointing at three samples.

"Yes, these are specially designed for use in tunnels! Don't be fooled by their small size and the fact that they fire shotgun shells, their power is not small at all! For example, if you stick your head out from here, one shot can hit half the people in the room." Li Yuexuan demonstrated to everyone the scene of shooting inside a room through the shooting hole in the partition wall.

"Okay, these weapons are all good. Let's make them now before the devils come! The more weapons the better!" Zhao Danian said. After saying that, he felt something was wrong and continued, "We have enough weapons, and the more ammunition the better!"

After everyone nodded, in the room where the Liang family reloaded bullets, shells were hammered out manually, primer holes were drilled, and then loaded, and shotgun shells were made. Although only thirty or so could be made a day, which was not as good as machine-made, it was good enough to have this thing!

You said it's hard to do it manually? A straight shell with a ridge on the bottom to position the ammunition is not difficult, it's just a matter of production efficiency...

(End of this chapter)