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Brigade Commander Meng, who felt as if he had been pardoned, hurriedly pulled several regiment commanders aside to discuss the matter.

Ten minutes later, several people returned.

"Young Marshal, we have discussed it. We will buy 3000 Lee-Enfield rifles, 1000 SVT semi-automatic rifles, 26 ZB-200 light machine guns, and I will buy all Type 100 heavy machine guns and Type 20 infantry guns as long as they do not exceed ! As for the Bofors mountain guns, we will buy !"

"Good!" Xu Le was overjoyed. This number was great. There were still 2900 Lee Enfield guns in stock, which was just enough to be processed. The heavy machine guns and infantry guns could also all be processed.

"Well, to avoid mistakes, I'll repeat the prices! A Lee-Enfield rifle is 40 dollars, an SVT semi-automatic rifle is 100 dollars, a ZB26 light machine gun is 150 dollars, and a Type 1000 heavy machine gun is 8 dollars. As for artillery, the Type 10 infantry gun is tons of steel, and the Bofors mountain gun is tons of steel."

"No problem, just like last time, pay the deposit first and then pay the balance after the transport team arrives!"

....And just like that, a huge order was placed.

However, several of the Japanese mortars were not sold. The Tang Dynasty army did not have the ability to manufacture artillery, but artillery fire was indispensable for troop combat, so the National Guard and some strong local troops vigorously manufactured mortars, and the technology in this area was barely mature.

Among them, 60mm and 82mm are the main ones. There are not many of them, but they are not in short supply.

Xu Le had no choice but to give away more than 10 mortars as a bonus since it was useless to keep them. Anyway, if he took them back, he would get less than 1000 military merit points, so he might as well do them a favor and let the other party promote himself!

Only 1000 SVTs were sold, but Xu Le understood that if he hadn't given 200 rounds of bullets with each gun and the bullets were cheaper if purchased individually, the Jin army probably wouldn't have dared to buy any because they couldn't afford it.

In the Chinese world of the past, even after the war was over, only the United States had the strength to use the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle as a standard weapon. The Bear Country and Germany were strong enough that they did not dare to fully equip themselves with semi-automatic rifles because their logistics could not keep up.

Xu Le was also puzzled, and the remaining balance was delivered within three days.

"These Jin soldiers are quite cautious. They clearly have enough money, but they don't bring it all at once. They have to divide it into two batches. Are they afraid that I will rob them?"

"Young Marshal, we're going to make a fortune on this business!" Jiang Feng had unknowingly changed from an honest man to a money-obsessed person. In the past two days, he had been urging his subordinates to calculate the total price over and over again.

"Well, barely. This amount is not enough for us to buy two regiments of vehicles! By the way, how much money and steel did we get from this transaction?"

Jiang Feng is the acting minister of the three major departments, so he was the first to know about it.

Moreover, it would be impossible for Xu Le to be personally responsible for every buyer in the future, so Xu Le had already assigned the arms trading matters to the Quartermaster Department of the Logistics Department.

"Young Marshal, 3000 Lee-Enfield rifles cost 12 silver dollars, 1000 SVT semi-automatic rifles cost 10 silver dollars, and 200 ZB26 light machine guns cost 100 silver dollars, plus an additional 7.62 million 1 rounds of ammunition cost 26 silver dollars. The Jin army traded all of these in cash, so the total is silver dollars!

90 Type 30 heavy machine guns, 20 Type 53 infantry guns, and 530 Bofors mountain guns, with a total value of yuan. This was paid for with tons of pig iron! "

[I think the prices were messed up during the last transaction. It’s a pity. I’ll just calculate it based on one dollar per kilogram of pig iron and one dollar per half kilogram of steel. Don’t worry about the actual price. Everything is for the convenience of calculation! ]

Xu Le was slightly puzzled: "All of them are dollars and pig iron?"

"That's right, there isn't a single gold bar! Gold bars are the hard currency of the world. Everyone wants to save some and won't use them unless it's absolutely necessary. This time they bought it on behalf of the 89th Division. With such a large army, the gold bars must have other uses, or maybe they were all divided up by their officers."

"That's fine. It's useless for me to hold the gold bars. I have to take the risk to exchange them at the Chamber of Commerce in the devil's city. We have enough money now, and we must not miss out on the soldiers' salaries and military awards! Especially the soldiers who died in the Zhaozhuang battle. Each of them has a 200-dollar death pension. Not a penny of these can be left behind!"

Jiang Feng was also very emotional: "Since Fusang launched a massive attack on the Tang Dynasty in 937, the Tang army has been defeated step by step. A national army division with tens of thousands of people is no match for a regiment of the devils, and the losses are heavy!

Now that we have your leadership, we have wiped out an entire battalion of Japanese soldiers at the cost of only five lives. I never thought we could fight like this before!"

"Commander Jiang, there is an iron rule you must remember. In the face of absolute firepower suppression, all enemies are just paper tigers, and will eventually be slaughtered! If this can still cause heavy casualties with so many artillery and heavy weapons suppressing us, all of our officers and soldiers will have no face to live!"

"What the young commander said is true, but our Tang army has never fought such a rich war, and many soldiers have not yet recovered from the joy of that battle."

“It does take some time to accept this. Oh, and let the troops learn how to drive and shoot accurately. My escort team is not loaned out so easily. Let Captain Liu cherish them!

Especially when it comes to driving, the more people who learn it, the better! ”

"Don't worry, young commander. Driving is just like that. Some smart people can learn it right away, and even those who are not so good can learn it in a few days! But accurate shooting requires a certain amount of talent, and it can't be achieved overnight!"

Xu Le couldn't help but sigh in his heart how good the present is. To learn how to drive, one only needs to distinguish between the accelerator, brake and how to shift gears. There are no traffic lights and no traffic rules to follow.

In this case, unless one's limbs are really uncoordinated, there are few people who cannot learn it, and it has nothing to do with whether one has been to school or not.

As for fuel, I don’t care at all. One military merit point is one ton, so I can produce as much as I want.

.....

This is enemy-occupied territory. No one knew where the 89th Division of the Shanxi Army gathered so many people, but they actually took away so much ammunition at one time.

Xu Le was curious, so he sent his guards to follow them quietly. The Jin army transport team actually made it out of the enemy-occupied area safely by taking detours.

When we were near some strongholds we had to pass through, all the Japanese soldiers guarding nearby were replaced by puppet soldiers, and those puppet soldiers didn't seem to notice anything unusual.

This is a bit of a big deal! Xu Le had to admit that the Jin army was really capable and actually reached into the puppet army.

The price to pay must be quite high!

Moreover, the purchase of arms this time cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. I'm afraid that the capital of the 89th Division has been drained, and it is very likely that it has even owed foreign debts!

But this is not what Xu Le should consider. He is only responsible for handing over the money and the goods, and then he will exchange all the iron for military merit points.

"System, exchange all materials for military merit points!"

"Ding, exchange successful, congratulations to the host for obtaining 53 million military merit points!"