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Chapter 337 Chapter 336, Develop

It took Li Yuexuan and his team three days to visit all 3 villages. Seeing the militiamen still insisting on bayonet training in the winter, and seeing baskets of soil being brought up from the underground in villages with suitable conditions, Li Yuexuan was deeply touched: What is the vast ocean of people's war? This is it.

The traffic line from Liangjia Village to Qigan Village was once a channel for the 20th Division to attack. When the devils attacked, killing and arson were basic operations, rape and looting were commonplace, and slaughtering the whole village was a normal process. Therefore, after these people who had a blood feud with the devils had an organization and leadership, and after seeing the results of the guerrillas' angry attack on the Sakata Brigade, their enthusiasm was aroused.

So, after returning, Li Yuexuan discussed the output of the ordnance workshop with Xiao Fengyun, and agreed to support Xiao Fengyun's suggestion at the meeting.

In July, when the arsenal moved out, it left some equipment for the guerrillas. After adding automobile engine transmission devices to these equipment, the output was also increased.

In the six months since Li Yuexuan left, the Ordnance Workshop has used those simple machines and two senior fitters to produce 125 semi-automatic rifles, 226 carbine rifles, 106 bolt-action shotguns, and 265 double-barreled shotguns. In short, once a barrel is made, there is no such thing as waste.

It is worth mentioning that the caliber of a double-barreled shotgun is the same as that of a shotgun. The difference is that a bolt-action shotgun can hold up to 6 shotgun shells, while a double-barreled shotgun can only hold two shotgun shells.

The most important thing is that these newly made guns and shotgun shells were kept in the guerrilla warehouse and were not distributed to other troops.

What's even more amazing? The common people spontaneously sent all the steel, copper, wood and other materials they could find to the small workshop, and even found some blacksmiths to help with the work. As a result, the small workshop also put the shotgun, which had never been the mainstream equipment of the guerrillas, into production and produced 70 of them.

Although these shotguns are slow to load, they have a large caliber. Huang Tianyang, who has nothing to do, also changed the trigger-fire loading method to a loading method similar to the mountain cannon pulling the matchlock. This method, after strengthening and lowering the chassis tripod, is more friendly to the gunner.

At this time, these 70 shotguns have been evenly distributed to the militias of each village! Two per village, no one suffers...

Of course, the hand grenades, which are the flagship products, have also been produced in the ordnance workshop. Together with the previously stored supplies and the gifts from the New 840st Regiment, the guerrillas have at least one and a half tons of TNT explosives. Those explosives were used by the Japanese to build railways and open up mountains. Now kilograms of them have been filled into the shells of the grenades.

What does this mean? The standard charge of military grenades is 70 grams, which is the output of 12000 military grenades. Of course, there are not many of these 12000 grenades left. 5000 of them were taken away by the independent detachment, and then 600 kilograms of Kaizi explosives and a large amount of pig iron were delivered. Well, it seems that some explosives and iron materials were also earned.

Of the remaining 7000 military grenades, 6000 were taken away by the New 1000st Regiment, leaving for the guerrillas in the warehouse. Well, Lao Li still had some conscience and left some.

What kind of grenades do the militiamen use? The militiamen and the people don't care about the power, but prefer the larger militia grenades. So, the militiamen in each village found the materials themselves, and under the guidance of the technicians sent by Xiao Fengyun, each village produced granulated black powder on its own, and then sent it to the small workshop for production.

The common people usually don't want to eat eggs, but when they heard that egg whites were needed for granulation, they contributed all of them without saying a word, and even touched the old hen's buttocks. The common people made their own black powder, took the iron materials they found, helped work in the small workshop, and then took the finished grenades back, leaving some food for the small workshop as hard work fees. Therefore, Xiao Fengyun didn't know exactly how many militia grenades were made. He only had a rough number here, about 3.

Well, it doesn’t seem like much. There are 35 villages, and each village has less than 1000 bullets... This is the rhythm of not having enough bullets, so we use grenades to make up for it.

In short, during the time when Li Yuexuan was away, Xiao Fengyun was not idle, and the people were also working hard to protect their homes. After all, only when the weapons in their hands are strong, they will have the strength to fight when the Japanese come, and protect their houses from being burned, their wives and daughters from being insulted, and their children from being thrown into the fire, thrown into boiling water, and placed under the millstone...

After experiencing deep hatred, the power released by the people is strong, selfless, and they dare to face everything.

The main hall of the Liang family compound, where bullets were once reloaded, has now become a meeting room for guerrilla cadres at the platoon level and above.

The iron plate stove was burning on a low fire, the stove ring was upside down, a circle of small sweet potatoes was stuffed inside, and a kettle was stewing on top. At this time, the water in the kettle was bubbling, and the sweet potatoes in the stove ring also exuded an attractive fragrance.

And none of this broke the atmosphere in the conference room.

Zi... puff... Zhao Danian exhaled a long puff of smoke and then said, "This is all the wealth that the small workshop has accumulated for us. Add to that the guns given by the brigade and the captured weapons in our warehouse, and we will have no problem arming these 800 people. We will even have at least 100 rifles. If we add shotguns and hunting rifles, we will have even more."

"So, what do you think about Comrade Xiao Fengyun's proposal to strengthen militia training?" Zhao Danian said, and looked at the many cadres attending the meeting.

"I agree to train the militias in each village!" Li Yuexuan had already reached a consensus with Xiao Fengyun, so he was the first to raise his hand and said, "The militia is our foundation. Strengthening the militia's combat effectiveness is also strengthening the defense of our base! If each village can have about 50 militiamen and can rely on tunnels to fight, then our guerrillas can free their hands to fight!"

"I agree too! If the people can protect themselves, then we can mobilize collectively like this time without worrying about a fire in the backyard. Let us fight with all our might. 800 soldiers are also a considerable force!" Xing Weiguo said.

"I agree..." Everyone raised their hands to show their agreement.

"Well, let's decide to train with the militia this time! But if that's the case, it won't be appropriate to concentrate them all in Liangjia Village! So, how should we arrange the training for these new recruits next?"

(End of this chapter)