Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Chapter 433 Chapter 432, to the Arsenal
The Eighth Route Army has strict discipline, and the guerrillas have even stricter discipline and training system! Therefore, conscription is only the first step, followed by physical training, cultural learning, and ideological education...

The guerrilla cadres were very skilled in all this and easily added 650 new recruits to the guerrillas. Intentionally or unintentionally, among these 650 new recruits, the youths from the 70 newly joined villages accounted for more than % of the total number.

In this regard, one reason is that some of the original 35 villages have already recruited soldiers, and there are already fewer young people of military age, so they can only select more from the newly joined villages. On the other hand, they also focus on training the young people in these villages to facilitate the establishment of a militia system in these villages!
650 young people were trained, and the 250 young people who were selected would become the backbone of the militia in these 70 villages! Although there were less than 4 people in a village on average, the difference between having backbones and not having backbones was huge! Of course, these were still later stories, and everything would have to wait until the training was over.

At the headquarters arsenal, near Yitiantian, after several days of marching, Li Yuexuan and his party finally arrived here exhausted.

Although the team only has more than 190 people, less than 200 people, including the special operations team, special service team, and the first company, no one dares to underestimate the combat effectiveness of this team! Who dares to underestimate a team with functional teams such as the communications team, the health team, and the cooking team, as well as 12 combat teams, all equipped with semi-automatic rifles, assault rifles, grenade launchers, and box guns?
In order to show his importance to this team, the battalion commander of the special forces regiment responsible for protecting the arsenal was waiting outside the narrow passage in person.

"Hello, Battalion Commander!" Li Yuexuan and the battalion commander were old acquaintances, so he greeted him first, and then asked, "I saw a new yard built over there. Did they move the field hospital here? Wasn't the field hospital originally located over at your battalion headquarters? Why was it moved here?"

"What are you worried about? That's not a field hospital. It's just a temporary medical team stationed there. Because of the continuous fighting, there are too many wounded and the hospital is full, so a new medical team was added here. Usually, they are also responsible for treating the workers in the arsenal! By the way, the headquarters plans to move the field hospital to a part of Yixiantian, specifically for the arsenal!"

"Can we still do this?" Li Yuexuan said, but in his mind he thought of the little girl Xu Hongying, and wondered where she was assigned to. Of course, this was not the time to think about it.

"By the way, this is the team I brought. Does Minister Zhang have any instructions?" Li Yuexuan asked, pointing at the team behind him.

"We have received instructions that all of your teams will be incorporated into the arsenal's guard team. I will lead you in later, and you will be active in the arsenal from now on!" said a battalion commander with a hint of envy.

"Let's go without further ado!" Li Yuexuan did not hesitate and followed the battalion commander into the narrow gap. They soon arrived at the factory headquarters in Shanghe Village.

"Haha, Comrade Peregrine, we meet again! Hello, comrades..." Minister Zhang was very happy to see everyone coming and shook hands with Li Yuexuan, and then waved to everyone in the team.

"Hello, Chief!" Everyone answered in unison, and the sound was so loud that the surrounding birds flew away.

"Haha, good, good! Order: Zheng Changfeng, temporarily serve as the captain of the third team of the arsenal guard, responsible for guarding the Yitiantian Pass! Tianchuan, your special operations team, and the special service squad, are responsible for the internal security of the factory area, and work together with the original security department. The Security Department is responsible for the protection of internal workers, and you are responsible for the protection of the commanding heights and checkpoints around the factory area!" said Minister Zhang.

"Understood, we will complete the task resolutely!" Zheng Changfeng and Tian Chuan stood at attention and agreed. Immediately, an officer came over and took them to hand over the work. This matter cannot be sloppy, and it must be explained clearly. Of course, Li Yuexuan knew that the arsenal also had its own security work, and it was also an expedient to arrange the first company with the special operations team and the special service team here. Purpose? Li Yuexuan didn't know, but he would know soon.

"Okay, I transferred you here! The purpose is, of course, the long cannon grenade and steel cannon shell you recently tinkered with. The comrades all said that they are very useful! How about you make some at the arsenal? And for assault rifles, it's time to open a new production line at the arsenal! We have also tested the use of assault rifles in actual combat on the battlefield, it's time to increase production!"

"No problem, I will complete the task resolutely! By the way, this is the smelting technology of bulletproof shield plate steel. Currently, it can only be smelted in a small crucible smelting furnace. The small blast furnace still lacks control over the quality. The smelted steel is okay for bayonets, and other uses at most can be made into some steel plates, but not bulletproof shield plates." Li Yuexuan said as he took out the document.

"Haha, we don't mind if the scale is small, as long as we can make it! You are also a front-line commander, and you know that our heavy machine gunners suffer the most casualties. Most of them were hit by the Japanese's concentrated fire, and a few were bombed by the Japanese's grenade launchers! Even this happened after we mastered grenade launchers with better accuracy and longer range. In the past, the sacrifices were even greater!" Minister Zhang said with a slight sigh.

"So, with shields, we can avoid the sacrifice of some heavy machine gunners! Well, should I still live in the same place as before?" Li Yuexuan talked about the most practical issue.

"Well, it's still your old place. We've prepared a new set of bedding for you. It's just been dried in the sun and is very useful! You go first. No tasks will be assigned to you today. You will start working early tomorrow morning! By the way, do you have any objection to this arrangement for the team you brought with you?" asked Minister Zhang.

"I have no opinion, but it would be better to strengthen the security of the field hospital. After all, those wounded are our experienced officers and soldiers. We must not let the spies sneak in and kill them!" Li Yuexuan mentioned the field hospital again. The purpose was self-evident, which was to strengthen the protection work.

"Haha, you miss your little sister, right? In half a month, some of them will be arranged to go to Yixiantian, so transfer your sister over! The little girl has trained more than 100 nurses now, and each of them is very brave and takes good care of our wounded. Haha..." Minister Zhang laughed happily.

"I'm glad you got it. I'll go down first!" Li Yuexuan said hello and went to where he lived. Cai Xiaotian followed him.

From today on, even if he started working in the arsenal again, he didn't say how long he would work. Anyway, he was not in a hurry to leave.

Time passed, and 20 days passed. The Japanese finally launched a comprehensive sweep of the base, and reports of Japanese raids came from everywhere. Li Yuexuan stayed at the arsenal and led the workers to tinker with the long-barreled grenade, and then made 5 large, rustic steel tank flying thunder cannons with 25 flying thunder bombs.

(End of this chapter)