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Chapter 528 Chapter 527, Headquarters Development Plan

"A tractor with armored protection, converted into an attack vehicle equipped with heavy machine guns, shotguns, mortars and other weapons, would be a nightmare for the cavalry in the plains! I have learned about our affairs and know that there is still a group of horse bandits in the northwest that need to be dealt with, so this idea is very practical."

"Well... don't worry about the Northwest bandits for now. Although you haven't mentioned it, we all know that you probably want to go back to Liangjia Village, right? But I suggest that you stay here before the New Year to study the direction of these modifications, and then go back before the New Year. I promise you that when you go back, I will bring you 6 120mm heavy mortars and 360 rounds of artillery shells."

"As an important weapons and ammunition supplier for the First Division, Liangjia Village has performed well over the past year! This time when you go back, the Arsenal has promised to bring you some workers who can produce heavy mortar shells and bullets, as well as the technology for producing shells and bullets! Since hydraulic power is combined with steam, workers, and automobile engine transmission, we can make bullets, and Liangjia Village can do the same!"

"Stay here until the New Year? That's fine! But during the New Year, I have to go back to Liangjia Village. I feel I'm needed more there! Another thing is that it's time for my first battalion to return to the organization, and it's time to expand the strength of our guerrillas!" Li Yuexuan said here, looking to the north with a little nostalgia.

"Yes, expand our strength!" Minister Zhang repeated and then said: "In the past year, our Eighth Route Army has been blocked from all directions and has suffered repeated raids, which has caused great economic difficulties in some of our bases and prevented my army from expanding further!"

"Although there are some effects of streamlining the military and government, as well as the development of local armed forces and the transfer of the main forces to local areas, it is precisely these blockades and raids that caused all this! It's like a vicious circle set by the Japanese and the Central Army for us, making us go back and forth in this circle, getting lower and lower."

"However, our people are strong, our soldiers are fearless, and the leadership is on the right track! In addition, you have been continuously developing these equipment in the arsenal, which has enabled us to gradually acquire the ability to fight the devils head-on with heavy equipment. Even at the company, platoon, and battalion level, our main force's equipment is better than that of the devils!"

"It is precisely because of this that we have broken this vicious circle, allowing our combat effectiveness to soar without increasing our manpower! Peregrine, you have made an invaluable contribution to this!"

"Of course, in North China and Central China, we still have too few troops. Even if our combat effectiveness has soared, our overall strength is still not as large as that of the Japanese and puppet troops! In addition, the Central Army and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army are making small moves behind the scenes, and the horse bandits are not honest either. They always restrict our development and tie down our troops!"

"In the past few days, the headquarters held a meeting on the construction of the arsenal and the development of the army's equipment. The head of the headquarters summarized the combat experience of your guerrillas, Li Yunlong's independent regiment, Ding Weixin's first regiment, the 386th regiment of the 769th brigade, the 14th regiment and other units equipped with new weapons, and made a more universal and easier to implement equipment plan."

"First, the arsenal will maintain the production of existing equipment products, because this is our main equipment for the next five or even ten years! The equipment plan is that each brigade will have a 5mm heavy mortar battalion, a mountain artillery battalion, and an 10mm artillery battalion; at the regiment level, the main regiment will have 120 82mm mortars and 4 120mm mortars as their artillery."

"Both the basic regiment and the local regiment must have an artillery company with at least six 6mm mortars as artillery firepower! As for the battalion, company and platoon levels, the 82mm mortars can be split and equipped to the battalion and company, and no new artillery will be added to them. Of course, all of this will take three years to complete, and at least 82 troops must be able to achieve this level."

"As for the squad level, if each squad has a grenade launcher, it can actually crush the enemy's troops of the same size. We just need to do this! As for firearms equipment, we will strive to have all the main regiments' 5-man infantry squads have one light machine gun, two assault rifles, eight semi-automatic rifles, and one grenade launcher within five years." "Let all the basic regiments' 12-man infantry squads have one light machine gun, four assault rifles and semi-automatic rifles, six bolt-action rifles, and one grenade launcher."

"Let all local regiments' 12-man infantry squads have one light machine gun, two semi-automatic rifles, eight bolt-action rifles, and one grenade launcher!"

"Then, a platoon of the main force regiment will have 2 heavy machine guns, a company of the basic regiment will have 3 heavy machine guns, and the local regiment will try to have 1 heavy machine gun per company!"

"As for shotguns and shotguns, the headquarters means that there should be no less and no more. It all depends on the requests of the battalion and company commanders underground! If they have enough people, they can bring more. If they have fewer people, they should at least have one piece of equipment, so that there will be enough firepower in an ambush."

"Of course, this is the final equipment concept. At least 30 people should be equipped with this level of equipment! Therefore, in the next few years, both the headquarters' arsenal and the underground arsenal should work hard to produce and ensure the equipment for these 30 people! Because we have seized a large number of bolt-action rifles, the main production direction is still semi-automatic ones!"

Minister Zhang finished speaking, looked at Li Yuexuan and said: "I know you have an idea, to make the Eighth Route Army stronger and stronger, with better equipment, even armored vehicles and tanks, and heavy artillery... But, you have to eat one bite at a time, and do things one step at a time! Once we have ensured the construction of a main force of 30 people, we can let go and develop better equipment!"

"Of course, we will not give up on the tricks you've been suggesting, which is to go to the bear's house and take advantage of him! Not only will we not give up, we will double our efforts, and strive to equip these 30 troops while also laying the foundation for the development of heavy equipment. In short, don't be in a hurry, take your time... Do you understand?"

"I understand. We can't take steps that are too big, otherwise we'll easily fail! However, it's okay for me to modify some trucks and tanks to provide some basic data for future development, right? I just need to modify these vehicles and install the existing equipment on them to make plans and conduct preliminary experiments for our future development." Li Yuexuan said.

"Of course there is no problem! If you want to conduct experiments, just go ahead. I will give you a group of people, and you can experiment as much as you want!" Minister Zhang said.

"I understand. I won't delay the production of existing equipment. I promise!" Li Yuexuan made a promise. He actually knew that what Minister Zhang said was right. Some things really can't be rushed. After all, the Japanese are just like that. Some advanced things are not actually for the Japanese to use...

(End of this chapter)