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

The only difference is in light artillery. Although the Central Army is equipped with mortars, they are generally only available to troops above the battalion level.

Each Japanese squad had a grenade launcher squad, equipped with two to three grenade launchers. In special circumstances, a reinforced combat squad of the Japanese would even be equipped with a Type 99 light machine gun and a grenade launcher.

A platoon of ordinary Chinese troops facing a combat unit of the Japanese devils cannot gain any advantage in terms of firepower output. This is the real gap.

The firepower of our army's squads and platoons is basically centered around light machine guns, but the Japanese's is centered around grenade launchers.

Take the Type 50 grenade launcher commonly used by the enemy as an example. This small weapon has a caliber of 413 mm, a total gun length of 5.5 mm, a weight of 500 catties, an effective range of 700 meters, and a maximum range of meters.

The most common tactic used by the Japanese infantry was to send out skirmishers to scout our heavy firepower positions, use the grenade launchers that travel with the army to knock out the light and heavy machine guns on the positions, and then use the pig-surfing tactics to capture our defensive positions.

This tactic is rather rigid, but it is very effective. Every time there is a small-scale battle between the enemy and us, our army suffers a great loss and our defensive positions are easily breached by the enemy.

The main reason was that our riflemen did not have enough bullets, were not well trained, and had very poor marksmanship. If the light and heavy machine guns were destroyed, they would not be able to withstand the repeated attacks of the Japanese infantry.

This is also the reason why the Chinese army has a love-hate relationship with the Japanese's grenade launchers. This weapon is very suitable for mountain warfare. If we can equip them in large quantities and ensure sufficient ammunition, then the Japanese will be the ones giving us a headache.

Five hundred grenade launchers can be produced in a month. If each platoon can get one, and a regiment has about thirty platoons, then about ten regiments can be equipped in a month, and one hundred and twenty regiments in a year, which is already very good. At least it narrows the equipment gap between us and the Japanese.

"Brother Tongzi, help me exchange a 60mm mortar production line with a monthly output of 100 guns, and another production line with a monthly output of 2 rounds of artillery shells."

"Commander, you need to consume merit points. Currently, there are points left."

Faced with this situation, Kong Hao only felt distressed for a dozen seconds. There was nothing he could do about it. The merits in his hands could not be used to make any difference, so he could only convert them into weapons and ammunition as soon as possible.

"Brother Tongzi, help me exchange twenty tons of high-performance explosives. How many merit points do I need?"

"It only takes 200 points, and there's still some merit left."

At present, the arsenal's production of explosives is seriously insufficient. If it is not exchanged through the system, it will be useless even if the production line is built. This kind of artillery shell is not like a grenade. It requires high-performance explosives. If it is filled with black powder, it will be useless.

One Type 145 fragmentation grenade is charged with 7 grams of explosives. If one kilogram is used, 1 rounds can be loaded. If one ton is used, 7000 rounds can be loaded. If 20 tons is used, only rounds can be produced, which is equivalent to three months of output.

If we add in the explosive consumption of the mortar shells, this amount of stuff can only last for a month.

After returning to the arsenal, we must solve the problem of shells and gunpowder as soon as possible, otherwise everything will be castles in the air.

After doing all this, Kong Hao first used the system to collect all the materials in the two warehouses into his personal space, and then put the exchanged production line in.

A large amount of supplies were stored in You County, including weapons, ammunition and various combat supplies, especially food and bedding, which were piled up like mountains.

It just so happened that this time the system was upgraded, the space became 50m*50m*50m, and the storage space was greatly enhanced.

At the same time, because You County cannot be defended, the Japanese reinforcements will arrive in two days at most. There is not much time to transport so many weapons. In the end, they will probably all be blown up. It is better to store some of the supplies in space insurance.

Merit points are hard to earn nowadays, and the exchange production line consumes too much energy. If you use them to exchange for weapons, ammunition and supplies, it is not cost-effective.

There are so many ready-made ones in this warehouse. After they are stored in the space, they can be slowly taken out and used to subsidize the Eighth Route Army when needed in the future.

Then Kong Hao asked the other team members to guard in the fortifications outside the warehouse group, while he went to the warehouse alone to check the actual situation.

The first warehouse was filled with food, including rice, flour, military canned food and military compressed biscuits, totaling a total of 3,000 tons.

Kong Hao directly asked the system to collect 1,500 tons, and the rest was placed in the warehouse. The troops behind would consume as much as they could. Those that could not be consumed or taken away would have to be destroyed. In any case, not a single hair could be left for the Japanese.

Next came the military uniforms, bedding, and a lot of miscellaneous military supplies. This kind of stuff was considered pretty good, but for the current Eighth Route Army, it was a bit useless.

When time is so tight and transportation capacity is limited, we must choose those that are urgently needed and have the highest cost-effectiveness.

All the military supplies in the warehouse were stored in the space. For Kong Hao, who had enough space, this was just a piece of cake.

The warehouse at the back was for weapons and ammunition. Two-thirds of the rifles, half of the light machine guns and heavy machine guns were stored there. As for the grenade launchers, mortars, Type 92 infantry guns and the like, they were not moved. To be honest, these good things were urgently needed by the troops, and no matter how many there were, they had to be shipped back as soon as possible.

Of course, the same is true for ammunition, but considering that the base arsenal already has two bullet production lines, Kong Hao still collected half of the bullets into the space, so that the transport team can focus on carrying more important supplies such as artillery shells.

These warehouses directly support the front-line combat troops and basically store finished products. Cotton cloth, for example, can only be piled up in other warehouses.

However, Kong Hao also found a small fuel depot in a small warehouse nearby, which contained about 500 tons of various fuels.

Seeing this situation, Kong Hao was overjoyed. Just as he thought, it came true. The Eighth Route Army also seized a lot of military trucks. They were short of fuel, so this solved everyone's urgent need.

He directly collected four hundred tons into the space, and left the rest for the trucks transporting supplies later.

After doing all this, Kong Hao asked the system to count the inventory of materials in the space and found that there were quite a lot:

The materials harvested today mainly include: 1500 tons of rice and flour, 300 tons of military canned food, 200 tons of compressed biscuits, 400 tons of fuel, 5000 Type 220 rifles, 110 Type 650 light machine guns, 400 Type heavy machine guns, Turtle Box pistols, and a total of million rounds of various bullets, which is considered a big fortune.

In addition, there are enough military supplies for nearly 8,000 people, including some commonly used shoulder bags, military uniforms, leather shoes, etc. They are not valuable, but they are somewhat useful.

If all these things were handed over to the brigade commander, at least five main force regiments could be formed, and they would be well-equipped and Japanese-equipped regiments with sufficient ammunition.