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"The range is 1440 meters, the total weight is less than 40 kilograms, one shell is less than three kilograms, and the effective explosion radius is 12 to 20 meters..." After listening to Li Yuexuan's introduction, the three regiment commanders fell silent for a while. Only Ding Wei was talking about the data he had heard incoherently, and no one knew what he was thinking.

"Ahem, everyone look here!" Looking at the three regiment commanders who were stunned, Zhao Danian showed an expression of "as expected" on his face, but he still interrupted the silence of the three people: "Our mortar is a new product. Although the headquarters has obtained a finished product and all the technologies, the response given by Minister Zhang is that we can try to promote it in the Beishan Detachment and the surrounding areas, but not in the entire army for the time being!"

"So, what about you? Do you have any opinions? If you don't want it, then we won't give you the equipment?"

Li Yuexuan almost laughed out loud when hearing Zhao Danian's slightly teasing voice, but Li Yunlong immediately put on a dog face: "No, how can you not want such good equipment, right, Lao Ding?"

"That's right, who wouldn't want such good equipment? Lao Kong, why don't you say anything? If your team doesn't want it, we can take it away together?" Ding Wei followed suit.

"You dare? We, Old Kong, at least have some good equipment, but you two are still thinking about it?"

"Haha..." The conference room burst into laughter...

"By the way, Captain, can I ask how many of these 60 mortars the arsenal has produced? I'm just curious!" Ding Wei asked.

"Not many actually..." Li Yuexuan glanced at Zhao Danian and Zhu Xingyu, and after getting a nod of affirmation, he said, "This 60mm mortar has only been produced for more than three months. As for the specific number... In the first month, because we needed to cut materials, prepare the production line, and complete the handover with the 120mm heavy mortar, we produced 60 guns!"

"In the second month, we basically sorted out everything, so we built 90 guns this month! In the third month, there weren't many more, only 130 guns! Well, in these three months, we only built 280 guns!"

"280 guns?" Li Yunlong's voice became louder. "So many? No, no, our three regiments have only taken 54 guns. We need more!"

"18 guns are quite a lot. Considering that there are 9 companies in your regiment, each company has two guns!" said Zhao Danian.

"Nine companies? Who are you looking down on? Hey, hey... that..." Li Yunlong wanted to say more, but Ding Wei interrupted him: "Old Li, 9 guns are not a small number. Don't forget that we are surrounded by more than just three main regiments. The detachment also has four regiment-level units! By the way, detachment leader, can I ask if production will continue later?"

"As long as the headquarters doesn't stop and we still have the train axles, we will continue production! I still say the same thing, the 120 mortar is used by the detachment and brigade headquarters, and it can't be used all the time; the 82 mortar is used by the regiment and battalion headquarters, and there are not many opportunities to use it. But the 60 mortar is the same as the grenade launcher, it is needed by the company and platoon, and this is the mortar with the highest frequency of use!" said Li Yuexuan.

"It's good enough as long as we can continue to build them. Lao Li, Lao Kong, we need to send more trainee soldiers over and try to equip each of our companies with 60 mortars!" said Ding Wei.

"Yes, our New Second Regiment cannot be missing from this matter!" Kong Jie said directly without waiting for Li Yunlong to speak.

"Hey, OK, whatever you say, we should send more trainees here!" Li Yunlong said. "Okay, now that we have finished talking about the mortars, let's formally discuss a few things arranged by the headquarters. In addition, it is necessary to re-plan our current defense zone, and strive to garrison the largest area with the least number of troops, so that we can free up more troops for attack! To be honest, our current strength is still a little weak, otherwise we should really counterattack the devils!" Zhao Danian said.

"Yes, although our several regiments and the Beishan detachment are very powerful and well-equipped, we are guarding the arsenal after all, and we can replenish better equipment at any time! Moreover, Beishan has basically been unaffected by droughts and floods in recent years, so the troops are best preserved! But other areas are different!" Ding Wei said.

"I think what Old Li said is right! The entire base area, Beiyue District was not affected by natural disasters, and northwest Shanxi was also better. The only ones left were Beishan Base and Jiaodong... Other places, especially northern Henan, southern Hebei and southern Taihang, suffered a locust plague some time ago. The grasshoppers were flying all over the sky, and the ground was covered with a thick layer!"

"Fortunately, the comrades at the base had received instructions from the headquarters long ago and asked the people to raise more chickens and ducks, and organized people to catch them by hand. The chickens and ducks can eat some locusts, and people can eat chicken eggs and duck eggs. Otherwise, people would really starve to death! By the way, this method seems to have been proposed by Peregrine Falcon in the book, right?" Li Yunlong looked at Li Yuexuan.

"Well, that was a long time ago. When writing about epidemic prevention and control at the end of the barefoot doctor, it listed some issues related to floods, droughts, and locust plagues, and also gave some solutions!" said Li Yuexuan.

"Water, cold, locusts, Tang! I heard from comrades in northern Henan that the people all say this. Tang is Tang Enbo! We have ways to deal with floods, droughts, and locust plagues. It's that Tang Enbo..." Ding Wei shook his head.

"Well... there is no way to deal with him now. He will be dealt with sooner or later!" Kong Jie said.

"Hehe, we just need to discuss these things among ourselves. We still need to maintain a cooperative relationship on the surface!" Zhu Xingyu said.

"Cooperative relationship? If Hu Zongnan's army of hundreds of thousands were not busy dealing with us, they could have gone east through Tongguan and directly crossed the Yellow River. How could the Japanese division in Yuncheng hold out? Then they could have gone all the way north along the Tongpu Railway. The Shanxi-Suiyuan Army hiding in the mountains in the north would have pressed straight for Taiyuan. In the meantime, our brigade commander would have attacked the middle section of the Tongpu Railway from the west. The Japanese would have been exhausted. Wouldn't it be easy for us to take down the entire western Shanxi?"

"Old Li, you think too much! In the five encirclement and suppression campaigns, which one didn't he want to wipe us out? Can he fight the Japanese together with us? You'd better go home and dream!" Kong Jie said.

"Okay, let's get down to business..."

After a small meeting, everyone returned to their respective bases, and the autumn harvest and planting were about to begin.

By this time, the troop structure of the Beishan Detachment had basically been established, including the equipment level and troop deployment!

The current organization of the Beishan Detachment is: the detachment headquarters is established in Liangjia Village, with Zhao Danian as the detachment commander, Zhu Xingyu as the political commissar, and Li Yuexuan and Lu Xiaoran as deputy detachment commanders. Then it has three infantry battalions, a main force regiment, a special operations team, a quick reaction company, and a combined security regiment (artillery battalion, guard company, transport team, factory guard team, etc.) (End of this chapter)