Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

The sound of gunfire continued all night long until the sun rose the next day, the blizzard stopped, the darkness was dispelled, and light once again spread across the land.

The area within 2km from Tailai County was filled with corpses. These were all traitor troops who tried to break out. Some horses that were not hit by the bullets stood in the pile of corpses in a daze, not knowing what to do.

After a night of fighting, countless traitor troops were killed. Zhang Haipeng's troops originally had 8000 people, but now the number of deaths is probably less than 3000.

Zhang Haipeng's cavalry unit has two regiments. One regiment launched a charge last night and all the soldiers were killed. When Li Qinwu and his men launched an artillery attack, the commander of the other regiment judged that breaking out would be a dead end, so he ordered his men to abandon their horses, rush into the city on foot, and use the cellars of houses as shelters to avoid the artillery attack.

They controlled an area northwest of Tailai County and kept gathering the fleeing soldiers in the city, and actually managed to stabilize their position.

Li Qinwu observed for a long time outside, and seeing that they had established their defense zone, he did not dare to attack rashly. Offensive operations would result in the greatest casualties, and he did not want his precious clones to suffer heavy casualties. He was fighting this battle for the purpose of training his troops, and if the casualties were too heavy, the gain would outweigh the loss.

As for continuing to attack with mortars, Li Qinwu gave up this plan. After a night of bombardment, the mortar shells were severely consumed. Now each mortar could only be allocated more than 50 shells, and he had to keep them for fighting the Japanese.

Moreover, the artillery fire was too intense last night and an explosion occurred.

The reason was that in order to quickly project firepower to the enemy, the clones kept stuffing shells into the mortar, causing the barrel to overheat. One shell exploded directly after being stuffed into the barrel, killing two ammunition feeders and an observer of the gun crew.

This kind of casualties that did not come from enemy attacks almost made Li Qinwu vomit blood. This was 4.5 kilograms of gold!

Li Qinwu used mind sharing to ask his clones to be more vigilant. Weapons can not only kill enemies, but also kill oneself. He asked his clones to control the firing rate of weapons and pay attention to weapon overheating in the future.

As for how to deal with the remaining soldiers in Tailai County, his plan was to wait until dark again and let Li Jianfeng and his gang sneak in to install 240mm artillery shells.

Of course, he didn't hold out much hope. After what happened last night, the other party must have been alert, and it would be difficult even for Li Jianfeng and his gang to sneak in.

Li Qinwu also had another strategy, which was to surround and kill this group of people in the city.

He ordered his clones to fire a mortar shell into the city every ten minutes or so, and to fire a burst of heavy machine gun fire from time to time, and then to make a false attack to prevent them from living in peace.

I don’t know how much food these traitors have. If not much, I’m afraid they will surrender in the next day or two.

Of course, compared to the food crisis, they might die of the cold first. With so many people crowded together and nothing to make a fire to keep warm, they will freeze to death tonight.

Li Qinwu ordered the position to move forward to about 800 meters from the urban area, to encircle the northwest area of ​​Tailai County controlled by the traitors, and then ordered his clones to bombard the houses with 75mm artillery, creating a 50-meter-wide hollow area in the northwest area of ​​Tailai County and the main urban area.

If this group of traitors want to run to the city to find supplies, they must pass through this hollow area. The heavy machine guns installed on both sides will teach them a lesson.

Fortunately, several 240mm shells exploded at this location before, destroying a large number of houses. It was not difficult to create an isolation zone. The clones spent more than 90 shells to create an isolation zone.

Next, Li Qinwu asked the remaining clones to collect the spoils.

Even though Zhang Haitong's troops had nearly 8,000 men, they were able to collect not many spoils of war after the battle, as most of them were destroyed by artillery shells and shattered by heavy machine gun bullets.

After a while of looting, all the usable things were gathered together, totaling about 1200 Type 800 rifles and about miscellaneous guns such as Hanyang rifles, Mosin-Nagant, and Liao rifles. These guns were very old and they were obviously old guns of Zhang Haipeng's troops. Li Qinwu looked down on these things and planned to find an opportunity to sell them to others in the future.

There are more than 600 Type carbines. The Type carbine is a shortened version of the Type rifle and is used by cavalry, tank soldiers and logistics soldiers.

However, this thing is not a specially designed product and the quality is very poor, so it is still collected and planned to be sold as garbage.

There are 45 Czech-style light machine guns, some of which are very old and not very useful.

There are 89 Type light machine guns, all of which are new. They should be the weapons issued by the Japanese to Zhang Haipeng’s troops.

However, the Type 99 light machine gun had design problems. Its trajectory always swung left and right when shooting, and its ammunition supply system was too complicated and prone to jamming.

In addition, this gun requires special reduced-charge bullets. This is the only light machine gun whose power is lower than that of a rifle, so I sell it as a package.

In addition, what surprised Li Qinwu was that they also seized 30 Maxim Tokarev light machine guns. This thing was a light machine gun that the Soviet Union modified based on the M1910 water-cooled Maxim machine gun, removing the water tank and installing an air-cooling sleeve and a bipod.

This thing received a good response in the Soviet army, but unfortunately it was replaced by the more advanced DP-27 light machine gun, also known as the Dapanji.

When the clones dug out 30 of these things from the corpses, Li Jianfeng smelled the scent and ran over. Their special forces team had been troubled by the problem of not being able to find suitable weapons, and when he heard that 30 light machine guns were found, he ran over to check it out without caring about anything else.

Li Jianfeng was instantly excited when he saw that this light machine gun could hold 250 rounds of ammunition. He threw away his MP18 submachine gun on the spot, picked up a Maxim Tokarev light machine gun, pulled the bolt to load the bullet, put the butt against his shoulder, held the cooling sleeve, aimed at a tree next to him and pulled the trigger.

There was a burst of gunfire, and dense bullets flew out from the muzzle, hitting the big tree and sending chips flying everywhere.

"Hahahaha!! Powerful! Very powerful!! Now this gun belongs to our special forces team! Exactly 30 positions for 30 of us, hahahahaha!"

All thirty Maxim Tokarev light machine guns were assigned to the special forces. However, when the guns were first designed, it was not expected that anyone would be able to run and fight. An empty gun weighs more than 10 kilograms, and there is only a cooling sleeve on the barrel. When they hold the cooling sleeve and fire a few dozen rounds, it becomes too hot, so they have to modify it.

Li Jianfeng asked Li Qinwu to open the portal and run back to the island, find a welding gun and steel, and weld an oblique grip onto the heat dissipation sleeve so that the special forces can use this gun as a submachine gun.

In addition to these weapons and ammunition, the clothes, belts, shoes and backpacks of the traitors who died in the battle are all excellent supplies. There are also thousands of horses that were killed, all of which are now frozen into popsicles. These are all precious meats.

Li Qinwu ordered his clone to take away everything that could be taken away. These things he didn't need could be taken back to the Hutoushan base for use.

Li Xiao had almost killed all the bandits in Hutou Mountain, and he had completely controlled several entrances to the mountain.

Because the Japanese were fighting everywhere in the Northeast, more and more people were fleeing to Hutoushan. So far, Li Xiao has received nearly 5000 people.

There will be more people fleeing in the future. As long as Li Qinwu can absorb these people, his power will reach a new level.

After arranging the cleanup of the battlefield, Li Qinwu came to a corpse with its butt sticking up and its head facing downward. He looked at the frozen corpse with multiple fractures on its body and clicked his tongue in amazement. The corpse in front of him was none other than the big traitor Zhang Haipeng.

Last night, Chen Zhongyong brought Zhang Haipeng back to die. This scene made the machine gunner very confused. After he operated the heavy machine gun to kill the two men, he remembered the location where the bodies fell.

The machine gunner was afraid that there might be other enemies at night, so he did not check immediately. Instead, he waited until daybreak and then called a team to go out and check what was going on.

It snowed lightly that night and the bodies were covered. Fortunately, the machine gunner had a good memory and took a few people to dig out the bodies.

Only the lower half of Chen Zhongyong's body was left, with one leg stuck on the horse stool and left together with the horse's body. As for his upper body, it was hit by dozens of heavy machine gun bullets and could not be found. However, the big traitor Zhang Haipeng fell to death, and his body was preserved intact.

The machine gunner was so curious. Why did these two people come back to die after they had clearly run away? His desire to explore increased, so he began to study Zhang Haipeng's body.

Zhang Haipeng ran in such a hurry that he had nothing with him. He only wore a pair of leather military boots, a pair of shorts and a large military coat. He didn't bring any identification items.

The clone studied the frozen corpse for a long time. His eyes stayed on the corpse's face. He seemed to have an impression of his face. He searched his brain repeatedly and finally came to the conclusion that this was Zhang Haipeng!

He immediately called other clones to check, and the other clones also felt that this person looked like Zhang Haipeng.

Li Qinwu had seen black-and-white photos of Zhang Haipeng on the Internet before. He felt that he was a very fat and fierce man, and one could tell that he was a bandit just by looking at his face.

However, the black-and-white photo was a bit distorted, and the person could not be recognized from a distance. But now the body was lying on the ground, and several people stared at his fat face for a long time before they realized that the other person was Zhang Haipeng.

Zhang Haipeng's body was sent to Li Qinwu. He studied it for a while and felt that it was indeed Zhang Haipeng. However, he was also curious. Why did this guy come back after he had clearly slipped away?

The heavy machine gunner studied it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. He could only spread his hands to Li Qinwu. Since he really couldn't figure it out, Li Qinwu had to give up his research.

As for this guy Chen Zhongyong, no one remembers his final act of rebellion, no one knows his helplessness, and no one knows how painful it was for him when he was forced to become a traitor. Future historians will only conclude that Chen Zhongyong was just a traitorous officer under Zhang Haipeng.

History is such a cruel and ruthless thing.

Now Li Qinwu doesn't care about history. He is thinking, can he trick the traitor hiding in Tailai County out by creating a clone that looks exactly like Zhang Haipeng?