Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Sometimes a battle takes more than ten days. After the troops run out of grenades, they can only rely on the logistics department to deliver ammunition from the rear, which wastes a lot of time.

But if you have your own mobile grenade workshop, you can produce grenade while fighting near the battlefield, and directly supplement the front-line combat troops after production. What could be better than this?

Moreover, from the grenade production process just mentioned, it can be seen that as long as the troops have this set of equipment, except for high-performance explosives and detonators, everything else can be solved on the spot in their respective bases, which can also increase the speed of grenade production.

At this time, Brigade Commander Chen was already imagining a bright future in his heart. If the soldiers had enough grenades in their hands, they would definitely be able to beat the Japanese devils to tears.

However, Minister Zhang considered the issues more comprehensively.

He said seriously: "Before, hand grenades were too big and heavy. Every time our logistics department transported hand grenades to the guerrillas in the enemy-occupied areas, we had to take great risks. We were even seized by the Japanese several times, and many comrades died."

"If we are only transporting some gunpowder or grenade parts, we can transport them separately and assemble them after arriving at the destination."

"If this model is adopted, the risk will be greatly reduced. After all, one pound of gunpowder can be used to assemble ten grenades, and fifty pounds can be used to assemble a hundred grenades. Two adults can carry them along mountain roads or paths, avoiding the checkpoints set by the enemy and delivering them to the guerrillas without anyone noticing."

"If a guerrilla unit has 500 grenades, its combat effectiveness can be improved by at least several levels, and it can even ambush the Japanese patrol."

In fact, hand grenades are the most suitable weapons for guerrillas. After all, as long as you are strong enough, you can throw them accurately. You can also practice by cutting a few pieces of wood of the same weight during normal training.

Therefore, every guerrilla has the unique skill of throwing grenades. It's a pity that the production of grenades is limited, and they are mainly equipped for the main force. Due to the special situation of the guerrillas, it is lucky for a guerrilla to be allocated one.

If it was the main force of the Eighth Route Army, where each soldier had only three bullets on average, the guerrillas were even worse off, with only five members getting one old-fashioned rifle, and bullets were even more scarce.

This also meant that the guerrillas could only do some harassment. Sometimes a guerrilla force of hundreds of people might not be able to defeat even five Japanese soldiers in the wild.

But if each guerrilla had two grenades, it would be a different outcome and a different story.

Besides, the guerrillas’ tactics are flexible. As long as they have enough grenades, they can just throw one round and then run away, continuing to bleed the Japanese.

However, Political Commissar Qin was not as optimistic as the others. He said in embarrassment:

"My two commanders, it's not that simple. Making more grenades will require a lot of explosives and detonators, and our arsenal doesn't have that much in stock."

"We have only overcome the difficulty of smokeless gunpowder for bullets, but this is only single-base smokeless powder, while the explosives used in grenades and artillery shells are double-base smokeless powder. The current inventory of our arsenal is extremely limited and cannot support the large-scale consumption of grenades unless they are filled with black powder."

As soon as he finished speaking, Kong Hao hurriedly shook his head.

"Black powder has too little lethality. Sometimes a grenade exploding next to a Japanese soldier may not kill an enemy. This can easily waste the opportunity that the soldiers have worked so hard to get."

"As for the problem of insufficient double-base smokeless gunpowder inventory, I will make this a top priority for the next period of time and strive to overcome it as soon as possible."

"The same goes for detonators. Once we make a breakthrough, not only grenades, but also mortar shells can be mass-produced."

Minister Zhang, Brigade Commander Chen, Factory Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin were all filled with emotion when they saw Kong Hao take the initiative to shoulder this important responsibility.

This is truly a treasure bestowed by God on the Eighth Route Army. It can help solve any difficulties.

After that, the few of them encouraged each other for a few more words and then went their separate ways.

However, when Brigade Commander Chen left, he placed a box of bullets on each war horse in the cavalry platoon, and each person also carried a large bag, which added up to more than 20,000 rounds.

Since he came all the way here, he must bring something back.

Minister Zhang also transported a large number of weapons and ammunition. These products must be handed over to the front-line combat troops as soon as possible.

While the Eighth Route Army was busy preparing various combat supplies, a conspiracy was also taking place at the Taiyuan First Army Headquarters.

Some time ago, the Xiaorizi special envoy was assassinated, and both Shinozuka Yoshio and Yamamoto Kazuki were held accountable by the headquarters.

Especially Yamamoto Ikki, he is the captain of the special envoy's guard, and is also known as an expert in special operations. But now all the personnel are mobilized and they can't even protect a special envoy. It is simply a great shame.

In addition, many division commanders who did not like special operations took the opportunity to criticize it and sent telegrams requesting the military to cancel the implementation of special operations in the army and transfer all those veterans to permanent divisions to enhance the strength of the troops.

The army's resources are already not as good as the navy's, and now the special forces want to take away some of the resources and elite veterans. No one can tolerate this.

Moreover, the several special forces teams that were formed basically did not achieve any major results, and even their intelligence work was not as useful as that of professional spies.

Among these permanent division commanders, there was a strange one, that was the commander of the 4th Division, Matsui.

In order to suppress the existence of the special forces team, he came up with a very bad idea.

Take Yamamoto's special forces as an example. In order to train this special forces team of only more than 80 people, the various materials consumed were enough for the army to form an infantry battalion.

Since the cost of forming the two forces is almost the same, let's talk about strength, and whoever wins will be right.

So, at the strong request of Division Commander Matsui, an exercise that was rare in the military was launched.

All members of Yamamoto's special forces VS an infantry battalion of the 4th Division.

After all, Division Commander Matsui is a veteran division commander with a solid foundation. In addition, the 4th Division is financially strong and has good relations with other permanent division commanders.

In addition, since this concerned the interests of their entire army, most division commanders sent telegrams of support and also sent observers.

However, the final result of the exercise exceeded everyone's expectations.

Even though the soldiers of the Fourth Division had a weak fighting spirit when fighting against the Chinese army, they seemed like a weak unit.

Mainly because they know that people will die on the battlefield. They only like to make money and don’t want to fight for some illusory things.

But if they were to conduct an exercise without any danger, then their combat effectiveness would be maximized, especially this kind of exercise where the majority were fighting the minority, which was what everyone in the Fourth Division was good at.

Moreover, the 4th Division has the most sharpshooters. After all, only by conducting more live-fire shooting can more bullets be consumed. After the exercise, the saved bullets can be sold outside to exchange for money. Just based on this point, Yamamoto's special forces have no advantage at all.

According to rumors, when the 4th Division learned that it would conduct an exercise between a battalion and a small force of 80 people, it caused a sensation throughout the division.