Bright Sword: An eight-year-old boy led a group to fight the Japanese invaders

That day, Wang Ye came back from the southern mountainous area and found Zhao Gang, "Political Commissar, I found a very secluded place in the southern mountainous area. I plan to build an independent brigade's arsenal and a flying regiment station there."

Zhao Gang has been busy dealing with the reorganization of the troops during this period. Fortunately, he had the help of Wu Chengkai, otherwise the brigade of nearly 20,000 people would have exhausted him to death.

"Brigade Commander, it's not that easy to build an arsenal. Where is the production line, where do we find skilled workers, and where do we get the raw materials?"

Zhao Gang only thought for a while before throwing three questions to Wang Ye.

"That's not difficult. I have already found ten production lines for bullets, four production lines for artillery shells, one production line for assault rifles, and one production line for rocket launchers.

Because the raw material problem has not been solved yet, I only selected these few. When the raw material problem is solved later, I will start the tank and aircraft production lines. "

Zhao Gang was stunned by Wang Ye’s words. Do you want to listen to what you are saying?

Not to mention the tank and aircraft production lines, the technology content of these things is the most advanced in the world, and no matter how powerful the independent brigade is, it is impossible to produce them.

Even with the weapons and bullet production line, the independent brigade is now unable to handle it.

Even if it can be produced barely, it's okay for a small amount, but there is definitely no hope for large-scale production.

Wang Ye saw that Zhao Gang's face was not right, and chuckled and said, "Political Commissar, please don't look at me like a fool. I know we are short of everything now.

But we have to think boldly. Once we take over Cha Province, our steel and coal resources will be improved, and our arsenals will be able to produce on a large scale."

Zhao Gang knew that Wang Ye was very mysterious. Even he didn't know where those weapons came from. "So this is why you insisted on going north to Cha Province?"

"Not only that, we have to produce our own weapons and ammunition. Otherwise, if we always rely on others, when will we be able to grow stronger?"

Wang Ye calculated that even if he killed all the more than 200 million Japanese soldiers, the merit points he would gain would be just that.

If we really want to form a million-man army, the amount of weapons and ammunition consumed in one battle will be astronomical, and the system alone cannot support it.

"Grow?" Zhao Gang thought about how busy he had been these days and didn't know how to understand the word "grow".

A brigade has 1.8 combat personnel, plus non-combat personnel, the entire force exceeds 2.2 people. Isn't this strong enough?

"How do you want to grow?"

Wang Ye pointed to the northeast and said, "There are millions of devils here, although they did not enter the country for various reasons.

But we can't pretend we don't know. Look at the comrades we brought back. They were lucky. There are many more comrades who can't come back because of the Japanese.

One day, I will lead my troops into the Northeast and wipe out all those Kwantung troops."

When Zhao Gang heard this, he didn't care whether Wang Ye's plan was reasonable or not. He knew that the independent brigade would one day take care of millions of Japanese devils.

He couldn't hide his excitement, he slammed the table and shouted, "Brigade Commander, you decide what to do. As long as you are willing to take me with you when we go to the Northeast, I, Lao Zhao, will hand over all these 100-plus pounds to you."

With Zhao Gang's cooperation, the large independent brigade and the Yu County local government began to operate at full capacity. The Wild Man Ridge in the southern mountainous area was rarely visited, so there was no problem with confidentiality.

After the engineering corps entered, they found several huge caves. There were even underground rivers flowing deep in these caves. The caves were tidied up in half a month.

Wang Ye took out the production line without waiting for others to arrive. The first production line to start was the bullet and shell production line.

The independent brigades are getting bigger and bigger now, and the weapons and ammunition consumed in training alone are frightening.

If it were to come into actual combat, the consumption of ammunition would be even more alarming. For the long-term development of the troops, they must produce it themselves.

Just as the independent brigade was developing its logistics at full speed, the Japanese selected the 108th and 109th divisions from Central China and joined the First Army.

These two divisions were originally in the First Army, but were later transferred out for the Central China War. Now the Central China War has entered a stalemate stage.

Based on Okamura's request, Nishio Juzo transferred them back.

Nishio Juzo was reluctant at first, but considering the destruction of the 20th Division, the situation of the Japanese in Shanxi Province was very passive. At Okamura's request, the two divisions rushed into Shanxi.

The 108th Division entered Zhengtai Road east of Pingxian County, and the 109th Division entered Ping'an County. In this way, the Japanese surrounded the 316th Brigade in Pingyang, Jingxian County and Pingxian County on a large scale.

After Kawamura Heizaburo took over these two divisions, he planned to join forces with the 3rd and 5th Independent Mixed Brigades to surround and kill the Independent Battalion.

However, his battle plan was not approved by Okamura. In Okamura's words, it was not suitable to launch a large-scale campaign at this stage.

As long as they used the railways and roads as lines and the artillery towers and strongholds as points, they could form a small encirclement in Shanxi Province, and the Eighth Route Army would starve to death or freeze to death.

When the strength of the Eighth Route Army is reduced to the lowest, it will be the time to destroy the independent battalion.

Kawamura Heizaburo's new job was full of fire, but before it even started, Okamura put it out and he had to stop.

The 108th and 109th divisions were blocked there, and no matter how powerful the independent battalion was, it did not dare to attack the two divisions at the same time.

Time passed day by day, and soon it was the end of October. The reconnaissance squadron directly under the independent brigade returned to Yu County with intelligence from Cha Province.

Wang Ye and Zhao Gang all returned to Yu County, and the independent brigade battalion commanders and direct team leaders in the command center all returned.

"It seems that the Japanese have a lot of troops in Sui and Cha provinces. There are Japanese troops stationed everywhere."

Wang Ye said as he looked at the information and map.

Zhao Gang chuckled, "Brigade Commander, the Mongolian Army was beaten badly by the 35th Army and our Eighth Route Army in the first half of the year. I wonder if the Japanese have recovered after a few months?"

"Whether they have slowed down or not is not our business. Anyway, from the intelligence we have received, the Japanese are carrying out the latest orders of the North China Expeditionary Force.

They built artillery towers every 10 kilometers along the highway outside each county town. It seems that the Japanese are very cautious. "

Wu Chengkai and the brigade staff made the introduction.

"The Mongolian Army Corps is under the command of the Japanese 26th Division, whose headquarters is in Suicheng, the center of Suiyuan. It has been in the hands of the Japanese since the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army lost it. The Second Independent Mixed Brigade is stationed in Zhang County.

The headquarters of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade was quite far away from us, but the 4th and 5th Battalions under it were located in the north of Yunzhong, and were relatively close to us.

Our main target at this stage is Mengbao, where the devil's professional cavalry group is located. This cavalry group has two brigades and four regiments, with a total strength of nearly 7000 people. "