Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

In the conference room, Guo Liandong's speech had a somewhat sad tone, which made everyone present feel a little embarrassed.

Actually, what Guo Liandong said was not wrong, because the battles on Guo Liandong's side were really... too few! If I remember correctly, Guo Liandong led his men to fight against the Japanese, probably? ? The time when the Sakata regiment entered the village? Anyway, it was a long, long time ago...

Although Guo Liandong's position has been rising all the time, his name only appears 62 times in this book up to this point. Even if you count this sentence, you can see how aggrieved Guo is!
So, with everyone feeling a little apologetic, it was unanimously agreed that the entire Second Battalion would set out to complete the task of delivering mortars to the headquarters and transporting back brass!

The second battalion is about to set off, so some things need to be adjusted, such as defense issues and the issue of supplies that the team must carry on the march, and this will take a day to complete.

One day, a battalion of more than 1000 people was ready to go, carrying 210 60 mortars, 1000 artillery shells, all kinds of supplies needed for their own combat, and also completing the replacement of guards with comrades from the Third Battalion and the First Battalion. This time was already very short!
In this short day, Li Yuexuan also made some adjustments to the carrying equipment of the 60 mortar! Well, the main adjustment object is the box that holds the mortar, and the other parts do not need to be adjusted.

According to Li Yuexuan's adjustment, the position of the bracket added to the box containing the 60 mortar barrel is fixed with a module to prevent the barrel and bracket from moving around in the wooden box! The base plate of the three major accessories of the mortar will be placed in another separate box, and the empty space will be used to add 8 more shells and the scope.

Of course, this is just the loading equipment used during ordinary marches, and it will not be easy for people to detect the level of equipment.

During combat marches, such as when leaving the road and entering a combat zone, the gun body and the bracket were carried in canvas bags on the back, without wooden boxes. Even in emergencies, the canvas bags were not used, and one soldier could carry a gun on his back!
Then, Li Yuexuan discussed with several people whether the soldiers of the artillery team should be equipped with rifles. Although the artillery platoon is now in place, it is still a new unit and there is no formation to learn from. Now that the second battalion needs to go out, let's solve this problem first!
Regarding the issue of the need for artillery to be equipped with guns, if it were placed in other units, there would actually be no need to discuss it at all. After all, the infantry do not have enough guns, let alone the artillery!
But this is the Beishan Detachment, with the arsenal behind it and a lot of spoils of war. The Beishan Detachment does not need to consider whether it has enough guns, but whether it needs them!

Logically speaking, the 60 mortars are the artillery units deep in the front line of the battle, and they are the artillery support of the company and platoon, so they should not need to consider the problem of guns. But it is precisely because they are on the front line that the artillerymen are most likely to face the enemy's close-range raids, detours, and other battles! After all, according to Tianchuan and others, once the enemy's artillery positions are discovered, they must find a way to get rid of them. What else do they want?

So, faced with the situation of having to deal with enemy infantry raids on the battlefield, everyone discussed it and finally came up with a result: the gunner and the second gunner were equipped with a box gun, the backbone veterans of the artillery squad were equipped with a submachine gun and 175 rounds of bullets; the ammunition soldier carrying the boxes was equipped with a semi-automatic gun and 40 rounds of bullets.

In this way, the artillerymen not only have the ability to deal with enemy raids, but also, when necessary, can send ammunition soldiers to the infantry positions to increase the firepower points of the infantry, thus achieving dual purposes.

After solving this problem and equipping the artillerymen with weapons, the Second Battalion set out at dawn on September 9!

An infantry battalion set out, a team of more than 1000 people walking on the road is very conspicuous! Moreover, the second battalion took the Pingliao Highway this time, and did not ask the comrades of the motor company to help, relying entirely on two legs to walk, which made the team even longer! Therefore, the travelers walking on the road found this scene.

But all I could see was that, with the rumble of horses' hooves, a cavalry platoon of 32 horses was galloping back and forth, clearing a 1000-meter-long open space on the road for the troops behind to march. In addition to galloping on the road, these cavalrymen also sent out rangers from time to time to check the situation on the mountains on both sides of the road.

Behind these cavalrymen borrowed from the quick reaction company were the Eighth Route Army marching in two rows, except that these soldiers were wearing camouflage uniforms and gray military caps, and each soldier had a cloth-covered helmet hanging behind him.

The soldiers marched in an orderly manner, with semi-automatic, light machine guns, assault rifles, submachine guns, and grenade launchers all carried on their shoulders, and everyone's face was filled with excitement.

In the middle of the infantry team, there were some wheelbarrows that made gurgling sounds as the soldiers pushed them, and they actually responded in sync with the soldiers' steps.

What the travelers didn't know was that every hundred or so marching troops had 15 wheelbarrows pushing a company's baggage, supplies, and mortars and shells from an artillery platoon.

A platoon has 4 mortars, which means a quota of 400 shells. With 18 shells in a box, only 22 boxes are needed to take away 396 shells. Then add the combination of 4 boxes of bottom plates + 8 mortar shells, which is exactly 428 shells. Well, the extra ones are extra, there is no need to divide them so carefully, anyway, there is no shortage of shells...

These shells, along with the mortar boxes, can be easily pushed by four soldiers on a cart. In other words, one soldier can only push more than 4 kilograms. The extra carts are used to push the food, ammunition, grenades, grenade launchers and other combat supplies needed by the entire company! Of course, medical kits are also indispensable.

The entire Second Battalion has 6 infantry companies, so there are 6 such infantry + cart combinations! In the middle of these teams are the teams of mules, horses, and carriages. These teams of mules, horses, and carriages are pulling 210 mortars and 1000 rounds of artillery shells for the headquarters, as well as mortars and artillery shells for the Second Battalion's artillery company, and even more supplementary supplies and ammunition for the entire battalion!
Well, except for Li Yuexuan, Guo Liandong and a few other cadres, no one knows how much ammunition the Second Battalion took away this time! Anyway, the Beishan Detachment of the Detachment is really not short of ammunition, especially since they have a large ammunition depot from Yangquan, so there is no shortage of bullets...

As for taking these ammunition away, what will we do if there is no battle? Then bring them back. For training, wouldn’t it be better to carry more weight? (End of this chapter)