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

Facing this situation, Li Yunlong had already thought of a countermeasure. He said proudly:

"I've already thought about this. When I was in the New 1st Regiment, I sent people to investigate the Xiaolin Town stronghold. There were mortars from the Japanese inside."

"As long as we take this place, we will definitely get artillery. If we have one, we will give it to your new regiment. But you have to compensate our independent regiment with two heavy machine guns and three veterans."

"If there are more than two, our two groups will split it equally."

Seeing that Ding Wei was still hesitating, he quickly said:

"Old Ding, if you don't want this, then the other way around is also possible."

"As long as you give me the cannon, I will compensate you with heavy machine guns and veterans."

After hearing this, Ding Wei immediately rejected Li Yunlong's bad idea.

To be honest, the Japanese have become increasingly difficult to defeat recently, especially when setting an ambush. If the Japanese find that they are about to be wiped out, the first thing they will do is destroy their heavy weapons.

Especially for mortars and Type 92 infantry guns, as long as you throw a grenade in the ammunition box, there will be basically nothing left.

This is also the reason why our army is seriously lacking in heavy weapons. Type 92 heavy machine guns and Type 99 light machine guns can be seized from time to time, but heavy weapons such as artillery are basically difficult to obtain.

The Japanese wanted to create this situation, and then they would rely on their firepower advantage to bully us unscrupulously.

At present, the independent regiment does not even have a mortar. Even the powerful New 90st Regiment has only a mm light mortar captured from the Japanese, and the shells were used up in the last battle with the Sakata Regiment.

This is also the reason why the brigade commander was so excited when he seized four Type 92 infantry guns and thousands of artillery shells during the last attack on Zhangcun.

If it had been in the past, even if the entire independent regiment was put into it, it would probably have been difficult to achieve such a great harvest.

This is reality, the bloody reality. The gap between a traditional agricultural country without industrial support and a top industrial country makes people despair just thinking about it.

Moreover, the Japanese's artillery towers were built in a disgusting way. If placed in Europe, where the 75mm artillery can only be considered light artillery and tanks and armored vehicles are everywhere, this kind of bunker without steel bars and concrete is simply a joke.

Even in the areas where they were confronting the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, the Japanese rarely built artillery towers, because Commander Yan's Shanxi-Suiyuan Army still had many mountain artillery and field artillery, and sufficient artillery shells.

For example, the ace unit of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, Chu Yunfei's 358th Regiment had a mountain artillery battalion. If they were willing to spare the artillery shells, the Japanese artillery towers would not be able to trap them at all.

Only the Eighth Route Army was the most frustrated. They had nothing and could only rely on the soldiers' belief in defending their country and the blood in their chests to fight the most brutal enemies with the most crude weapons.

No matter how great the losses were, our heroic troops persevered and their fight can be described in two words: never retreat.

The main force, the county brigade, the district squad and the village militia cooperated with each other. If the troops were dispersed, they would all reorganize and rest. Within a month, they would appear on the battlefield again.

China is such a large territory that even if a district team can kill five Japanese soldiers in a month, thousands of teams combined can at least cause the Japanese to lose a brigade of troops.

What's more, there are so many main forces fighting every day, which can tie down a large number of Japanese troops. This is the significance of fighting behind enemy lines. Its effect is no worse than fighting the enemy head-on, and may even exceed it.

However, Ding Wei still asked doubtfully: "Old Li, if we do this, will the brigade commander have any objections?"

Li Yunlong smiled mysteriously and said confidently:

"If you don't tell me and I don't tell you, who will know?"

"Besides, the brigade commander still owes me a favor. In the last battle, he captured four Type 92 infantry guns, but he was reluctant to give me any of them. This time, I must get the artillery myself no matter what."

"You said that my entire regiment didn't even have a cannon. How embarrassing it would be to tell others about it."

Ding Wei was not a good boy either. After hearing what Li Yunlong said, he agreed.

This kind of good thing is earned by the New 1st Regiment anyway. Even if the superiors blame them, they can put the blame on Li Yunlong. It was all that guy's idea and had nothing to do with him.

Sure enough, the following battle went very smoothly. After all, we had fought it several times and were familiar with it.

"Congratulations to the host, you have eliminated 13 Japanese soldiers and 82 puppet soldiers. You have been awarded 302 merit points for your contribution."

"The remaining merit points add up to 810 points, and the accumulated merit points are 1671/5000."

Kong Hao thought about it carefully and thought it was a bit unreasonable for this small turret to suddenly have a Type 92 infantry gun, so he chose to exchange it for a small-caliber mortar, which would also improve the strength of the troops.

"Brother Tong, help me open the mortar exchange list."

1. 日制九七式90mm轻迫击炮 2门/1功勋；敌人的小钢炮，八路军使用正合适　　2. 英制ML MKII型76.2毫米迫击炮 2门/1功勋；射程最短的迫击炮　　3. 美制M1型81毫米迫击炮 2门/1功勋；美制M1型81毫米迫击炮 　　4. 德制Gr.W.34型80mm迫击炮 2门/1功勋；三德子的火炮，一个字，帅　　5. 苏制82毫米系列迫击炮 2门/1功勋；毛熊的火炮，永远是傻大黑粗　　6. 炮弹 200发/1功勋。

The above list is full of good stuff, but some of them are not ready yet, so I chose the Japanese mortar.

However, the Japanese's light mortar is also quite good, mainly because it is relatively light, with one gun weighing only more than 130 pounds, and can be split into three parts, allowing soldiers to carry it and run.

The range of this mortar is also good, up to 2850 meters, which is even farther than the famous Japanese Type infantry gun. It is quite good to equip our troops.

"Brother Tongzi, please help me exchange two Japanese-made Type 2 90mm light mortars and 1000 rounds of shells."

"In addition, according to the usual rules, we will exchange 5000-type rifle bullets, other rifle bullets, 2000 heavy machine gun bullets, and grenades."

"For grain, I will exchange it for 10,000 catties, half of which is rice and half is flour, and 400 catties of pork."

After all, this is a small stronghold. With these ammunition and supplies, plus the things originally in the artillery tower, even if the New 1st Regiment can only get half, its combat effectiveness can be increased by two levels.

At this time, no matter how strong any unit of the Eighth Route Army is, it will be a good thing for China's critical situation.

"As you command, host. A total of 40 merit points will be consumed, and 770 merit points are left."

Kong Hao plans to save the remaining merits for later use. It would be best if some mechanical equipment can be upgraded to produce various weapons and ammunition.

Otherwise, even if he was exhausted to death, he could only support a few regiments of troops at most, which would not be of much use.

Next, Li Yunlong asked the special forces to transport the mortars back first, and asked Ding Wei to send a transport team to transport the remaining shells. He then led the people transferred from the New 1st Regiment to escort the Independent Regiment.

Those who were selected were extremely excited. After all, now they could follow the old commander to fight the Japanese again. What could make people feel more happy than this?

Especially Sun Desheng, who always had a smile on his face on the road. Li Yunlong once told him privately that after the independent regiment had cavalry, he would be allowed to do his old job again.

After everyone returned to the Independent Regiment, Kong Jie was also very excited. The Independent Regiment now had heavy weapons and was definitely a main force regiment.