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Chapter 453 Chapter 452, what’s the rhythm?
January of 41 was a seemingly ordinary month. But in this ordinary month, two interrelated major events occurred in the history of China's War of Resistance against Japan!
The first thing was that on January 1, the New Fourth Army headquarters and its subordinate troops of more than 6 people who were ordered to move north were suddenly surrounded and attacked by seven divisions of the Kuomintang army of more than 9000 people in Maolin, Jingxian County, Anhui Province. The New Fourth Army fought for seven days and nights. Except for more than 7 people who broke through the encirclement, part of the New Fourth Army was dispersed, and most of them died or were captured. On the 8th, Bald Chiang falsely accused the New Fourth Army of "rebellion" and announced the cancellation of the New Fourth Army's designation.

This was the Southern Anhui Incident that shocked China. It was clear evidence that Bald Chiang was pretending to resist Japan but was actually waging a civil war!
The reason is that Bald Chiang saw that the Eighth Route Army was developing too fast and was beating the devils too hard, and he was worried that his position would be lost, so he just wanted to be ruthless! This is the idea of ​​a gangster, and he is the eldest brother of the Qing Gang, a real gangster!

Of course, there were other reasons behind this. For example, Wang Jingwei surrendered and became a traitor. Bald Chiang thought he could do it too, so he secretly negotiated with the devils in Hong Kong Island to see what kind of treatment he would get after surrendering. After all, he had studied in Japan and received some education in Japan, so he had a foundation for being a traitor.

Bald Chiang did something that made his loved ones sad and his enemies happy. So what was the reaction of the Japanese he was trying to please? The Japanese really did react!
你不是调走了7个师，8万余人的精锐部队去了皖南么？鬼子觉得这是个机会！于是在1月24日这天，鬼子纠结了抽调第3、第17、第40师团及特种兵一部，集中在信阳以北地区，由第11集团军司令官_部和一郎指挥进攻豫南。

That's right, when the Japanese saw that the Chinese were fighting among themselves and Chiang Kai-shek was attacking the New Fourth Army, they felt that they had a chance and turned around to attack the Central Army.

Although in this battle, the Japanese and the preserved fruit army attacked and retreated, and there was no major battle between the two sides, and the Japanese retreated in the end. But what? The local people faced the Japanese troops head-on! When the Central Army saw the Japanese coming, they said they would fight and retreat at the same time, but in fact they just fired two symbolic shots and then ran away, as long as the Japanese could not catch up.

The common people brought their families with them, and it was the Chinese New Year, so they couldn't escape it! So the Japanese were happy! They took away all the New Year's goods and beautiful girls...

In the end, a battle in which the Japanese benefited, the civilians suffered, and the Central Army suffered little loss ended in such a ridiculous way.

So, what is this rhythm? Anyway, Li Yuexuan, who is in the hinterland of Taihang Mountain, can't understand it. Minister Zhang may understand it, but those who really understand it won't say it out loud...

In short, starting from this month, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army felt the difficulty of the current situation from all sides! Although the New Fourth Army and the stubborn army had fought a lot before, the losses were too great, and even the preserved fruit side did not need to cover it up, and showed its attitude nakedly.

There is a time for the transmission of news! When Li Yuexuan received the news at the Arsenal, the Spring Festival had already passed and it was already February.

The people who knew the news, while feeling grief and indignation, also wanted to seek revenge! However, the devils were watching them outside, so they could only hide their grief and indignation in their hearts and turn it into motivation!

Therefore, throughout the spring of 41, the enthusiasm for production at the Arsenal was unprecedentedly high! The workers started working at dawn and did not stop until it was dark. During the three meals a day, no one was willing to leave their workstations.

Such active production has resulted in a huge increase in production! In just over 2 days in February, 20 new Qi Lali light machine guns were built, and 150 assault rifles were built. Why are there so many more light machine guns than assault rifles? There are reasons for the difficulty of the process and the coordination of production capacity allocation! For example, although there are only 100 assault rifles, the semi-automatic ones in the same family have made 100 of them, which is enough to arm a battalion! Of course, this is not all. There is also a bolt-action rifle that has never given up production - the Type 300 horse rifle, which has made 800 of them this month! There are also many other things such as grenade launchers, grenade launcher grenades, and mortar shells.

What does this mean? The production capacity of the headquarters arsenal alone in one month is enough to arm an entire regiment!
Then, including the Naogou Arsenal in the east, they produced 100 Qi Lali light machine guns, 350 Type 200 rifles, 3500 grenade launchers, grenade launcher grenades, and hand grenades in one month...

Of course, there is also the Liangjia Village Arsenal in the north, which reported a production capacity of 2 assault rifles, 90 semi-automatic rifles, 200 Type 200 rifles, 100 grenade launchers, 3000 grenades, and more than 3 grenades of various sizes in February.

In short, this production capacity seems small and very scattered, but when added together, it is a very good output.

And don't forget, this is only the situation in the Taihang base area. There are also sporadic production in the Jin-Cha-Ji, Ji-Zhong, and Jiao-Dong base areas! In Jiao-Dong, by the time of liberation, it was said that there were as many as eight arsenals, and because they were close to the coastline and ports, they could get some industrial equipment and the output was quite high.

It has to be said that Shandong, which was not very famous during the Anti-Japanese War, also had some unknown things! For example, the blacksmiths in Zhangqiu, who usually made farm tools and iron pots, used hammers and pliers to make a lot of weapons under the leadership of the organization and put them into the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War.

The production capacity of the arsenal has increased, but the development of the troops has been greatly affected! That's right, with the intensification of the blockade and the scarcity of resources, the team has also felt the pressure.

Then, the policy of streamlining the military and government began to be implemented! Some main forces were mobilized and disbanded, and the main regiments were reorganized into local teams.

For example, a unit called the Basic Regiment has appeared on a large scale during this period!
What is a basic regiment? Actually, it is not easy to explain. You can think of this basic regiment as an intermediate force between the main regiment and the local regiment. The number of people is not too large, about 1000 or so. There are no battalion-level units, only five or six company-level units. Doesn't it look like the current scale and organization of the guerrillas? Yes, the guerrillas can actually be reorganized into a basic regiment, just change the name.

However, the headquarters has never changed the guerrillas' name and has always called it the Beishan Guerrillas, as it is more convenient to call it that.

(End of this chapter)