Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 278 Chapter 277, Transfer
Ever since Xu Hongying was transferred to the field hospital as a nurse, the wounded soldiers recuperating in the field hospital have had new "entertainment activities".

Watching the nurses who usually gave them injections, applied medicines and changed bandages, and the girls who fed them and brought them water sweating profusely on the training ground, the wounded watched with great interest, just as if it were a cultural performance. Just by watching, these experienced officers and soldiers discovered the tricks.

"Lao Zhang, did you see clearly? Are there 40 nurses participating in training during their rest time?" asked a wounded person in a corner of the hospital.

"Well, look carefully, there are exactly 40 nurses participating in the training, divided into two shifts. Including the new nurse who serves as the team leader, there are exactly 41 people. Old Sun, do you see the trick? This new nurse is very good at training! In just seven days, the nurses have become like soldiers!" said the wounded Lao Zhang.

"Are these 40 nurses divided into four combat squads? I see that each nurse has her own rifle. Our old troops didn't have such complete equipment!" a wounded soldier came over and asked.

"It is divided into four classes, but each class has only nine people, and four nurses have been pulled out for separate training. From what I heard, they are planning to use those four nurses as grenade throwers!"

"Scared? Grenade throwers? These little girls are grenade throwers? Isn't this ridiculous? No, I have to recover from my injuries and return to the army. The nurses are tired enough changing our dressings and bandages, and now they have to pick up guns and fight. Isn't this a slap in the face of us men? Our Chinese men are not all dead yet, how can they get a chance to go to the battlefield?"

"In fact, it would be a good idea to train the nurses!" At this time, the director of the field hospital appeared beside the wounded and said, "You are all commanders in the front line. When you recover from your injuries, you will return to your old units! And you have heard or seen with your own eyes how cruel the Japanese devils are to women!"

"I don't want our field hospital to encounter the devils one day! But I hope that once our field hospital encounters the devils, our nurses can take up arms and fight, instead of being captured by the devils and then wantonly abused and slaughtered! So, I asked Minister Zhang for permission to transfer a batch of Type 81 rifles."

"Comrades, take good care of your injuries! After you recover, kill more enemies and avenge those Chinese who died unjustly." After the dean said this, he turned and walked towards the ward...

Li Yuexuan naturally didn't know about Xu Hongying's affairs, because no one told him. He only knew that this cheap sister of his went to work as a nurse in the field hospital, but he didn't know that Xu Hongying, who usually followed them without showing any signs, had learned all their guerrilla training methods and used them on the nurses in the field hospital.

The key point is that the little girl was "making trouble" here, and the dean and the political commissar supported her and got her weapons and ammunition. Even the wounded joined in the fun.

Just as Xu Hongying and her colleagues were practicing their skills and tactics on the simple training ground, some veterans who were about to recover from their injuries and were feeling uncomfortable came up to the nurses and told them about their combat stories and even demonstrated some of the unique skills they had learned on the battlefield.

Most of the veterans who survived the battlefield and made it to the field hospital even if they were injured were very skilled. Therefore, these originally weak nurses learned some skills to save their lives on the battlefield. When the nurses changed the dressings of some seriously injured soldiers, they also told them some battlefield knowledge.

Therefore, before they knew it, the nurses in the field hospital had a certain combat effectiveness. On October 10, more than two months had passed since Li Yuexuan arrived at the Arsenal. After the gradual expansion and addition of manpower in September, the Arsenal's production capacity increased again.

As for ammunition, the daily output of reloaded bullets is about 2000 rounds. Although it takes up a large number of people, this output is satisfactory.

As for grenades, Lao Qi still led the original staff to produce high-explosive bombs for military products, and the output was stabilized at 3000 per day. This month, they will be given more manpower and materials, increase the output of large militia grenades, and reduce the production of military grenades to alleviate Minister Zhang's demand for high explosives.

The reason for this is that the Xianwangzhuang branch over the mountain is stepping up the production of 50mm grenades and 82mm mortar shells for Dinglong grenade launchers. According to the information provided by Minister Zhang, Li Yuexuan knows that the Xianwangzhuang branch has several lathes and drilling machines, as well as smelting furnaces and other equipment, which can produce about 82 50 mortar shells and 200 grenade launcher grenades (normal power) a day.

In other words, as long as there are enough resources, the Xianwang branch can produce 1500 82 mortar shells and about 6000 grenade launcher grenades a month.

This output is really not high, but it is really gratifying! Of course, the demand for high explosives is also really uncomfortable! Therefore, the New 7st Regiment received a new order to send the explosives seized on the railway line to the arsenal. Even the high explosives sent to Liangjia Village were also transferred to support the production of the arsenal.

In order to compensate Liangjia Village for its losses, Minister Zhang waved his hand and allocated 100 newly manufactured semi-automatic rifles to Liangjia Village for use.

Minister Zhang was so generous because after the expansion of production in September, the daily output of the Type 9 rifle reached 50, and the grenade launcher remained at 10. In addition, 6 semi-automatic rifles could be produced a day, so Minister Zhang had more and more weapons in his hands!
Therefore, Minister Zhang did not feel bad at all about allocating 100 semi-automatic rifles to the guerrillas. In fact, he also came up with a concept based on the opinion of a guy at the experimental headquarters - how much would the combat effectiveness of a unit equipped with a large number of semi-automatic rifles be improved?

The best way to solve this idea is naturally to form such a team and then fight on the battlefield!

In Liangjia Village, after receiving the order from the headquarters, Zhao Danian brought his comrades together to hold a meeting.

"The headquarters wants to take out 8 tons of the 7 tons of explosives in our tunnel and send them to the arsenal, leaving us 1 ton for our own use! And they want us to organize a team of 80 people to go to the headquarters, and they have to be veterans with combat experience. What exactly does this mean? What do you think?" Zhao Danian spoke first.

"We really don't know what it means! I'm just concerned about how we can transfer 80 veterans to the headquarters?" Zhu Xingyu said.

(End of this chapter)