Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

The new second regiment came back and immediately came to Liangjia Village. The purpose was naturally to get a batch of weapons from the arsenal for the development of the team. Although Kong Jie did not say it clearly, Li Yuexuan knew it very well! Of course, there are independent regiments and new regiments in front of them, and the detachment will not favor one over the other. Everything will be done according to the standards given to the independent regiments and the new regiments.

After more than half a year of development, the production capacity of the Liangjiacun Arsenal has expanded again and is fully capable of supplying weapons to the New Second Regiment.

As of December 2, 12, the Liangjiacun Arsenal's gun output (in December) was 31 semi-automatic rifles, 12 assault rifles, 700 Qi Lali light machine guns, 150 grenade launchers, 200 grenades, 400 submachine guns, 8000 rounds of ammunition per month, 400 2mm mortars, 120 rounds of shells, 20 1500mm mortars, and 82 rounds of shells.

With this production capacity, the Liangjia Village Arsenal can provide enough weapons for a main regiment in a month, and they are mainly heavy weapons, or even artillery. Of course, the Eighth Route Army is not yet so extravagant as to form an artillery battalion for each regiment, but just counting the firearms, it can also allow a main regiment's light weapons to be upgraded!

Moreover, judging from the production situation of artillery, at least in the troops around the Pingdong base, the demand for 120mm mortars has been close to saturation. On the contrary, the production capacity of the main combat 82 mortars has been greatly enhanced, and the number of artillery shells has also been expanded to meet the combat needs of the troops.

Well, due to some reasons, there haven’t been many large-scale battles in the past six months, and after the weapons and ammunition produced were distributed to various units, most of them were stored as strategic reserves!

It is a good habit to store weapons and ammunition! Of course, this is not the kind of storage that is like putting the horses in the mountains and putting the weapons in the warehouse, but a kind of storage similar to the small deposit and lump sum withdrawal. That is, usually store weapons and ammunition, accumulate them, and when the Japanese raid, take them out and greet the Japanese.

In the final analysis, it was because the Eighth Route Army's military production capacity was too weak to keep up with the team's combat needs that the team was forced to fight frugally.

At the edge of Huishuiwan Reservoir, Li Yuexuan and Kong Jie squatted by the campfire, chatting casually, and kept turning the grilled fish in their hands. Finally, a grass carp was grilled, but Li Yuexuan was embarrassed to eat a lot in front of Kong Jie, so he could only give the grilled fish to the drooling children. He himself took Kong Jie and the others back to Liangjia Village.

At the same time, on the road south of Huidong Village, the soldiers of the New Second Regiment, led by their political commissar, bypassed Liangjia Village and headed towards Jigongling.

Back then, when the New Second Regiment was ordered to stay in the Jizhong base area and continue to fight, it had only more than 1000 soldiers and was weak, so it was ordered by the headquarters to stay and fight. To be honest, if the New Second Regiment had not stayed in Jizhong and continued to fight and develop, the losses of the New Second Regiment in this breakout battle would definitely be huge!

It’s meaningless to say all this now. The New Second Regiment stayed in Central Hebei, and with the local militia and civilians, they used tactics such as tunnel warfare, mine warfare, and sparrow warfare to hold out until the Japanese could no longer hold out and evacuated. Then they continued to develop in the local area, and eventually grew to its current scale!

Of course, the number of people has increased, and the training has also kept up, but the weapons have not kept up! After all, the New Second Regiment did not win a big victory like the New First Regiment and the Independent Regiment, and had many captured items. It was not easy for them to hold on, not to mention getting additional weapons. Of course, all of the above is the information Li Yuexuan got when talking to Kong Jie. How difficult the specific things are, if expanded, it would be at least a 20-word novel.

In Liangjia Village, in the cafeteria of the detachment, Zhao Danian, together with Lu Xiaoran, Guo Zhongmin and other cadres, warmly welcomed Kong Jie's arrival and treated him to a simple lunch of four dishes and one soup.

After lunch, several people sat in a circle in the conference room and started chatting. This was not because Zhao Danian and his men had any ideas, but because the Beishan detachment was stationed in Pingdong District. It was rare to see a team that had persisted in Jizhong for so long, so naturally they wanted to know some details.

"Captain Kong, don't worry. When you come back this time, the arsenal has prepared 300 semi-automatic guns, 50 light machine guns, 50 assault rifles, 40 submachine guns... Your political commissar has probably received these weapons by now! Come on, let's continue talking about what the situation was like in Ji Zhong when you came? Why did you come back?" Zhao Danian said.

"Wow, so many semi-automatic and submachine guns? Thanks to the arsenal for its support! The situation in central Hebei is actually nothing much to say, it's just fighting and development!" Kong Jie finally calmed down, drank a sip of hot water, and then told the story.

"During the May 1st mopping-up operation, our regiment was ordered to stay and fight in the Jizhong Plain. There's really nothing much to say about this, it was just underground warfare! In fact, we have to thank the comrades who broke through the encirclement. Their breakout action broke through the enemy's blockade and took away a lot of enemy troops, which reduced the enemy's encirclement and suppression forces and created a gap in the encirclement and suppression."

"At that time, our regiment insisted on staying in the tunnels of three villages, supporting each other and hiding first. After the Japanese mopping-up vanguard passed, we moved from underground to above ground and launched an attack on the Japanese follow-up troops... The specific battle was just a routine for me. Anyway, we had enough weapons and ammunition at that time, and finally we held out until the Japanese retreated completely."

"After the Japs retreated, the puppet troops and the maintenance associations that were left behind were like Zhang Fei eating bean sprouts, a piece of cake for us! By the time we dealt with these forces, it was already winter! Guess what happened? We were short of food! That's right, we were short of food!" Kong Jie slammed the table when he said this: "When the Japs came, it was summer harvest time, and they stole a lot of food and destroyed a lot of crops!"

"With the Japanese here, the people dared not go to the fields to work during the day and could only secretly harvest wheat at night to gather some food. However, the summer harvest was over and the summer planting was delayed again..."

"In short, the enemy's raid hit our weak spot! We are short of food before winter comes. Our team cannot compete with the people for food, so we have no choice but to return!"

"Alas... If it weren't for the shortage of food, the strength of my New Second Regiment wouldn't be just over 1600 people now! Even if we lack weapons, Old Kong is not in a hurry, because I know that our arsenal is getting better and better, and there will always be weapons for use! But food can't be produced in the factory!" (End of this chapter)