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

In fact, when Minister Zhang first entered Gaojiazhuang, he was already very excited when he saw the open space full of ammunition boxes.

As the steward of the Eighth Route Army, he was always worried about weapons, ammunition and various supplies.

The main reason is that their base has no industrial foundation at all, and most of the supplies have to be captured. However, the troops cannot seize a large amount of supplies in every battle, and often they even suffer losses.

With so many main regiments under the headquarters, huge amounts of supplies are needed every day. Moreover, because their equipment is relatively poor, they need to rely on a large number of troops to participate in the battle in order to offset the Japanese advantage in weapons.

But even if he tried his best, he could at most allow the soldiers to eat sweet potatoes every day, and there was nothing else he could do.

This was also when he received a telegram saying that a secret arsenal of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army had been discovered, containing at least one division's worth of equipment.

Minister Zhang was well aware of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army's arrogance. If it were the equipment of a main division, there would be at least several thousand rifles and millions of bullets. Once they were all obtained, the Eighth Route Army's combat effectiveness would immediately be raised to a higher level.

This is also the reason why he immediately led the logistics department's transport team here after receiving the telegram. Some things must be put into bags before he can feel at ease.

Upon hearing Minister Zhang's words, Brigade Commander Chen and Kong Hao immediately came out.

"This young comrade must be Kong Hao, right? I've heard a lot about a fierce general emerging from the 386th Brigade's Independent Regiment. Now it seems that his reputation is well-deserved."

"You have solved a huge problem for our army in one go. I don't know how to thank you enough."

Kong Hao quickly responded politely: "Minister Zhang, you are too polite, I am just lucky."

"Hurry in, we'll be relieved now that you're here."

After the three of them walked into the armory, Minister Zhang saw that the huge space in front of him was filled with all kinds of weapons and ammunition.

He complained dissatisfiedly: "This old man Yan is so stingy that he chooses to hide all the good things and refuses to take them out to help us fight the Japanese invaders."

"When we sent troops to fight the Japanese, I went to the Second War Zone Logistics Department in person to collect some military supplies that Commander Yan had promised. In the end, I only received some unimportant supplies such as lunch boxes, belts and water bottles. I didn't even get a single bullet. This is really outrageous!"

"But fortunately, God has a good vision. We accidentally found the arsenal hidden by that stingy old man. It's great."

"By the way, Lao Chen, have you counted the supplies here?"

Brigade Commander Chen said proudly: "Due to time and manpower issues, we only did a rough count."

"There are 120 light machine guns, 60 heavy machine guns, and countless rifles. As for the bullets, it is estimated that there are at least millions of rounds."

"In addition, there are 40 mortars, 75 12mm mountain guns, and shells are piled up like mountains."

"Oh, come and take a look at these. They are all Type 17 submachine guns and Mauser pistols produced by the Taiyuan Arsenal. There are a total of 1,500 of them. This will greatly increase the automatic firepower of our troops."

Minister Zhang picked up a submachine gun from the box, tried it out, and praised it loudly:

"Yes, this old man Yan is not good at fighting, but he is good at industry. This submachine gun is a copy of the American Thompson submachine gun. It is quite powerful and can be regarded as the first standard submachine gun in China."

"The reason why the class firepower of the Jinsui Army is so fierce is largely due to the support of this submachine gun."

"By the way, how many are there?"

After hearing this, Kong Hao immediately replied: "There are about 1000, and there are hundreds of thousands of bullets."

"That's great. Now we can distribute this submachine gun to the frontline combat troops. Even if a company is divided into five, it will greatly improve the close combat firepower of the troops."

At this time, Kong Hao remembered something and said with a smile:

"By the way, there is a separate area inside. It seems that there are some special things piled there. I will take you to have a look."

Hearing that there were good things to come, Brigade Commander Chen and Minister Zhang also went there happily. At this time, no matter what it was, it was all their profit.

The three of them came to a row of shelves in the corner. Because the light in the armory was dim, they would not be able to find it if they did not look carefully.

There were thirty wooden boxes on the shelves, carefully wrapped with many waterproof things. They were a bit out of place with the surrounding weapons and ammunition, but they were obviously good stuff.

Kong Hao took action himself, took down a box, opened it, and showed it to everyone.

Minister Zhang took a closer look and exclaimed:

"This is a radio. Judging from its specifications, it looks like it belongs to the Japanese."

Brigade Commander Chen looked at the environment in front of him and said with a hint of meaning:

"This should have been imported by the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army from the Japanese before the war. Perhaps they were defeated so quickly that they didn't take the radio with them."

"This is a bargain for us. I just counted and there are thirty boxes. This means we have seized thirty radios at once, which is enough to match the equipment of an entire regiment."

When Minister Zhang heard that he had acquired so many radio stations at once, he was so excited that he kept circling around the radio stations.

The Eighth Route Army has always been worried about the scarcity of radio stations. Even if the logistics department tries its best, it can only equip the division and brigade levels with radio stations, and the regiment-level combat units below can forget about it.

Now it is entirely possible for the thirty main regiments to obtain radio stations, which will be a significant improvement to the combat effectiveness of the Eighth Route Army.

Then Kong Hao opened a box beside him, took out two M1910 Browning pistols and handed them over along with the holsters.

"Two commanders, your service guns are already very old. We have a batch of Browning pistols in stock here. We can replace them for you."

When Brigade Commander Chen saw the small pistol in his hand, he stroked it carefully and simply couldn't let it go.

"The flower-mouthed Luzi is a good gun, a really good gun!"

"Looking at the condition, it's still 90% new. It's really rare."

"By the way, Xiao Kong, how many of these Browning pistols are there?"

"There are about 500 of them, all in these boxes."

Hearing that 500 pistols were obtained at once, the brigade commander was very happy and said happily:

"In fact, this type of pistol is most suitable for our intelligence personnel to use behind enemy lines. As long as the pistol is put in a pocket or a bag, it can be done without anyone noticing."

"Even if you are being hunted by the enemy, if you have a handy weapon in your hand, your chances of escaping will be much greater."

Hearing what Commander Chen said, Minister Zhang put down the pistol in his hand and said in a low voice:

"Old Chen, you are a combat commander and need to have some self-defense ability. I am just a logistics officer and will never go to the front line. It would be a waste to use such a good gun. It is better to leave it to the intelligence personnel to kill the enemy."

However, although he said this, his eyes were still fixed on the gun.

As a soldier in wartime, who doesn't like a small pistol? Although at his current level, a Browning pistol is more than enough.

But he couldn't start this. These 500 flower-mouth revolvers that he had obtained with great difficulty must be used where they are most needed.

If he, the Minister of Logistics, doesn't want the position, then other leaders of the logistics or administrative departments are even less qualified.

In this way, these weapons will appear on the battlefield and severely hit the Japanese.