Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 390 Chapter 389, Hard Work Production

Although we have not received any orders to fight, we are all itching to fight, but we still have to execute the orders! This is our army, and we must follow orders in all actions!

Of course, others might be anxious, but Li Yuexuan was not! He knew that this order was the beginning of the Hundred Regiments Campaign, and this campaign lasted for several months, with more than 100 regiments participating in the war! Now, it was just the beginning, so there was no need to rush, as there were plenty of opportunities to fight.

Besides, the guerrilla force has grown to a size of more than 800 people, half of whom are new recruits. Their equipment is better than that of the main regiment. The head of the headquarters and the division commander will not give up on giving the guerrillas experience.

In the summer and autumn of 1940, seeing the little mustache leader's killing spree in Europe, Japanese imperialism actively prepared to implement the "Southward Advance" policy to seize the colonies of Britain, the United States, France, the Netherlands and other countries in Southeast Asia and the southwest Pacific. Therefore, it stepped up its political efforts to induce the Kuomintang government to surrender in the Chinese battlefield, while continuing to attack the anti-Japanese base areas with its main forces.

In particular, in North China, they stepped up the implementation of the 1940 "Rectification and Construction Plan" and the "cage policy" of "railways as pillars, highways as chains, and bunkers as locks" in an attempt to destroy the anti-Japanese bases in North China, consolidate their occupied areas, and make China a rear base for their "advance to the south."

In order to smash the "cage policy" of the Japanese invaders, strive for a more favorable development of the war situation in North China, influence the national anti-Japanese war situation, cooperate with the Kuomintang army in the front battlefield, and overcome the danger of compromise and surrender, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters decided to launch a large-scale strategic offensive campaign against the transportation lines and strongholds occupied by the Japanese army in North China.

The purpose of the battle is to carry out a comprehensive transportation sabotage operation with the Zhengtai Railway as the focus!

On July 7, the Eighth Route Army Headquarters issued the "Battle Preparation Order", stipulating that no less than 22 regiments of troops should be deployed to launch a large-scale attack on the Zhengtai Railway. At the same time, it was required to deploy appropriate forces to launch a wide-scale attack on the Tongpu, Pinghan, Jinpu, Beining, Deshi and other railways and some major highways in North China to cooperate with the attack on the Zhengtai Railway.

These are the information that Li Yuexuan remembered, but he does not intend to completely believe the introduction in the information to prepare. After all, times have changed, and there are too many possibilities for a battle.

Moreover, with so many participating troops in the data, Li Yuexuan sometimes couldn't figure out who was who, so he looked at the battle of the 129th Division where he was. And the location of the battle of the 129th Division happened to be in Yangquan, not far from Liangjia Village. So, this is very interesting!
Li Yuexuan had all kinds of thoughts in his mind, but he did not show them. Instead, he continued to focus on the production of the arsenal.

In the east of the village, in the grenade shed, 100 militiamen, 100 strong workers, and 200 women comrades were recruited by an order and divided into several production support groups by the officers of the arsenal. Comrade Xiao Fengyun was in charge of the overall production here. However, Li Yuexuan ordered the service soldiers to participate in the production protection.

"Tianchuan, Li Qingyun, Song Changsheng, your three tasks are to ensure the safety of these explosives! This time, Tianchuan will be the main person in charge, and the special service squad will assist the special operations team." On the north side of the woods, on the hillside 500 meters away from the work shed, Li Yuexuan looked at the warehouse surrounded by a row of wooden houses and said very solemnly.

"Don't worry, Captain, nothing will happen with these explosives!" Tian Chuan, Li Qingyun and Song Changsheng guaranteed jointly.

"Be sure to pay attention, no fireworks! I didn't expect that Division 10 and Division 20 valued us so much, and sent us 500 tons of ammonium nitrate explosives and 50 tons of black powder! How brave they are! If they explode, there will be no survivors within meters! So, take the militiamen assigned to you, and don't make any mistakes!" Li Yuexuan continued. "Don't worry, Captain, we guarantee it with our lives!" Tian Chuan continued.

"Well, I won't let you stay here for too long. I will try my best to arrange production. It will take about a month to consume these explosives!" Li Yuexuan said.

"Yes, captain, you can rest assured about the production, we will never make any mistakes!" said Li Qingyun.

"Okay, let me remind you one last time. You must ship the goods according to the process! People coming and going must strictly prohibit fireworks, prevent static electricity, lightning, theft, and prevent any danger. And the data in the list must match! All units coming to pick up explosives must wait 100 meters away, and you are responsible for delivering the explosives! In addition, your rotation..."

After Li Yuexuan explained the situation, he led his men away because he still had a lot of work to do. At this time, Li Yuexuan thoroughly understood that in Jin-Cha-Ji, the Eighth Route Army had already been able to produce various basic materials such as acids and alkalis, and there were also special personnel responsible for getting fertilizer powder, which was distributed by the devils to the people in the Japanese-occupied areas, to produce explosives in the base area.

Therefore, this time, no one knows where the leaders of the two military divisions found the channels to get so much explosives at once. The key is that these explosives are not as safe as TNT. Things that can explode at this point cannot be placed in the village like TNT. They can only continue to expand the explosives storage warehouse in the north to ensure the safety of the village.

Safety is very important. Such amount of explosives is enough to turn Liangjia Village into a big pit!

After arranging the explosives, Li Yuexuan returned to the village workshop and began to pay attention to the production there.

In the workshop, Li Yuexuan temporarily stopped the production of the Type 81 rifle, the semi-automatic rifle, and even the grenade launcher. Only the assault rifle still maintained its original production capacity. In his opinion, the semi-automatic rifle can be suspended, the rifle can be abandoned, but the assault rifle must be guaranteed!
He arranged more than half of the saved production capacity to produce grenade triggers, and arranged two-thirds of the remaining personnel and equipment to produce grenade launchers. The few workers who stayed were assigned to forging positions to produce steel pipes and steel tanks.

That's right, since 10 tons of ammonium nitrate explosives have arrived at once, we can make more of the 10 long-range grenades originally produced for experimental purposes and the 5 gas tank bombs that were borrowed from a certain Syrian country.

Of course, we have to take our time when making these, and the main thing is to ensure the production of grenades.

This time, there are 400 more people with experience in producing grenades, so the production capacity should be rising rapidly. In order to ensure the enthusiasm of the people, the military sub-district specially mobilized a large amount of food, not only providing one meal a day, but also allowing them to take one pound of coarse grains with them when they leave. This is food, who among the people doesn't want it?
What do you think of the production capacity? You can find out by calculating carefully!

(End of this chapter)