Show the sword, start from the guerrillas

Reform is not something that can be achieved overnight. It requires careful formulation of policies and then pilot testing. During the pilot testing, we can find loopholes and deficiencies in the policies, fill them, and continue to improve them. Ultimately, we will get a policy that both parties to the reform can adapt to and then implement it.

Fortunately, the purpose of this pilot is to strengthen the management of the people, increase cohesion, and enhance the overall strength of the base to cope with the changes in the next combat environment. Moreover, the designated purpose of the pilot policy is to ensure the basic interests of the people, so as long as the formulated policy is not artificially modified or distorted, there will be no problem in its implementation.

In fact, the human problem is what everyone is most worried about. After all, there are many different people, and everyone has different thoughts, selfishness and interests, so there will be various things. The military training, political studies, and ideological education are measures to unify thoughts, strengthen beliefs, and achieve unity!

As the saying goes, if we think in one direction and work in one direction, brothers working together can achieve great things... These are the theoretical bases for a unified mindset and a stronger organization.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army also had factual basis, so everyone also put forward some opinions on the policy making this time... Now, it depends on how the pilot project in Yanjiayu goes!
Yanjiayu is a large family village with clan power! The current situation is that the village committee has moved in and added military representatives, which, to some extent, has weakened the clan elders' control over the village. Now, it depends on whether this policy can be strongly resisted or supported by clan forces.

At this time, the Japanese outside the base actually helped. After all, when facing survival issues, some rights can be given up.

Everyone's eyes were on Yanjiayu, so every move of Yanjiayu would be reported to several cadres of the detachment headquarters. Li Yuexuan was also among them, but like Zhao Danian and others, Li Yuexuan did not put down his work and continued to supervise the arsenal to carry out production tasks.

It is now mid-November 43, and the Second Battalion has returned, bringing back the brass. However, before it was brought back, it was re-smelted at the Liugou Smelter and forged into copper plates.

Copper plates are naturally used to produce bullet shells and bullet armor, which is a big consumer of brass! Of course, the copper used in a bullet is only a few grams to a dozen grams, and these brass can make a lot of bullets!
The Second Battalion returned and brought back an order written by Minister Zhang himself, which made further adjustments to the artillery production at the Liangjia Village Arsenal.

According to Minister Zhang's instructions, the production of 82 mortars at Liangjia Village Arsenal was halved, and the production of 120 heavy mortars was completely stopped. Instead, Minister Zhang required the production of 60 mortars to be more than 200 per month. Based on this requirement, it is not difficult to guess that the next step, in terms of equipment, is to add 60 mortars to the infantry companies of each main force!

Such a change is definitely good news for the company commanders fighting on the front line! After all, when the situation on the battlefield changes quickly, having a few 60 mortars at hand can play a huge role! Comrades in Taiyue District have a deep understanding of this!
The Liangjiacun Arsenal has been adjusting its production capacity, so it is not difficult to adapt to the requirements of the headquarters. It just consumes some of the existing blanks and reduces the blanks reserved for the 82 mortar by half! Then the extra raw materials will be used for the production of the 60 mortar!
At this time, the 60 mortars were also being produced in the arsenals managed by the Central Army, but according to the data, the materials used there were mostly low-carbon steel. The Liangjia Village Arsenal used train axles, which were obviously made of better materials, so they were lighter, had better performance, and were more suitable for mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare.

It is understandable that after being tested in actual combat, the headquarters decided to mass-produce 60 mortars!
Three weeks have passed since the policy pilot in Yanjiayu was launched. During this period, the originally quiet Yanjiayu has become lively.

The first thing was that the village had 10 more cows, 40 more sheep, 8 more mules, 4 more horses, 6 more donkeys, and a large herd of chickens, ducks, and geese. Of course, there were also a large number of farm tools such as hoes, sickles, shovels, plowshares, rakes, and hoes. Therefore, the livestock were moved to the animal pens of the newly established production teams, and the farm tools were neatly placed in the warehouses.

Because it is the slack season for farmers, these farm tools were not used in time, and the livestock continued to stay in the cowshed and eat grass leisurely.

Of course, the children in the village also had things to do! Herding sheep, herding cattle, picking grass for pigs, catching grasshoppers all over the mountains and fields to feed chickens... In short, after school, the children had plenty of things to do! That's right, the one who taught the children was the new women's director, Comrade Su Shaomei.

Comrade Su Shaomei has been very busy these days! She has to take half a day off during the day to teach the children, and work late at night to teach literacy to the adults in the village. In the morning or afternoon, the people will have collective military training, which is mainly based on formations and military postures, and then interspersed with assassination training.

Of course, the intensity of this training is at most a warm-up exercise for the villagers of Yanjiayu who have been practicing martial arts since childhood! However, as the training progressed, the villagers gradually mastered the marching in formation, and their temperament changed. After the formation training of fighting with stabbing, the people also discovered the benefits of team fighting with stabbing.

Yes, the villagers practiced martial arts, but mostly alone! Now the assassination training has added the content of two-person cooperation, three-person cooperation, and four-person cooperation! The key is that as the number of people increases, the "bad ideas" given by the Eighth Route Army instructors will increase! Two-person bayonet fighting, some cover, some assassination, and they can be carried out alternately.

But when there were three people, they alternated between assassination and cover, and threw stones, lime powder, and even shoveled some dirt from the ground to call the enemy, which made the people stunned. So, this is what the real battlefield looks like? This is too unethical, isn't it?
But the instructor's words made everyone agree, and they were even enthusiastic about it! The instructor said that once you are on the battlefield, you are enemies of life and death, and all methods are aimed at killing the enemy! Do you want to talk about martial ethics or life? Besides, what martial ethics are there in fighting against the devils? (End of this chapter)