Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

"You kid, you have done something great without making any noise. I don't even have a cavalry battalion, but you have created one first. You are really good!"

"Commander, my New 1st Regiment will always be your soldiers."

Li Yunlong immediately responded with a smile, saying that as long as the brigade commander didn't want his cavalry, everything would be negotiable.

"How long have you been training?"

"It's been over a month, and we've already completed the run-in. I've also developed a combat coordination plan with the other battalions!"

Li Yunlong once again blocked the brigade commander's mouth. He had completed the training on his side, and the brigade commander couldn't ask for more people, right?

"You boy!"

The brigade commander thought for a moment and said, "I don't want him anymore. You keep him. Does this battalion commander know how to train soldiers?"

"Brigade Commander, Sun Desheng was previously the captain of Shi Yousan's guard company. The entire company is composed of cavalrymen, so you can rest assured."

"Hmm!" The brigade commander looked at Sun Desheng for a while, then nodded with satisfaction and said, "He's a good soldier. I'll give you two more. You train the cavalry battalion well!"

The brigade commander took the initiative to send someone to Li Yunlong, which made Li Yunlong feel a little surprised. After all, the brigade commander was similar to himself and rarely took the initiative to send things.

"There are two cavalry experts at the brigade. I originally wanted to form a cavalry company, but I didn't expect you to create a cavalry battalion. Keeping them at the brigade would be a waste of talent. Sending them to your new regiment is perfect."

After he finished speaking, Brigade Commander Chen turned to the guard and said, "Send a telegram to Ma Renxing and ask him to report to the New 1st Regiment."

"Ma Renxing?" (Note 2)

Li Yunlong was very familiar with this name and couldn't help but widen his eyes. Isn't this the future commander of the Ji Zhong Cavalry Regiment?

"know?"

"heard about it!"

"Well, it's enough that I've heard of it. You can decide what position to assign to me."

The brigade commander took a reluctant look at the cavalry battalion before turning and rushing towards the arsenal.

"Brigade Commander, I have something else to report to you. I recently developed a new submachine gun, but I haven't named it yet. The arsenal has already produced ten submachine guns. Eight of them were tested in actual combat during the Yixiantian battle just now, and the results are quite good. Now that you've come, it's just in time to give this gun a name."

As Li Yunlong spoke, he called over eight soldiers using Sten submachine guns.

"Submachine gun? Can you make a gun?"

The brigade commander was immediately attracted by Li Yunlong's words and forgot about the cavalry battalion.

"Brigade Commander, you used to praise me as a genius. I've been researching how to improve the firepower of the New 1st Regiment recently. I happened to capture a submachine gun from the Japanese special forces and after a simple modification, I was able to create this."

As Li Yunlong spoke, he handed over the submachine gun in his hand.

Li Yunlong handed over the Sten submachine gun. This weapon was invented by the British in 1940, and there are no design drawings yet. So Li Yunlong decided to change the name and give the naming rights to the brigade commander or headquarters. Anyway, he would definitely get the credit.

The brigade commander held the Sten submachine gun in his hand, looked at it carefully, then looked at Li Yunlong with surprise, picked up the weapon and checked it carefully, and finally pulled the trigger at a target in the distance.

"Da da da……"

After firing more than a dozen bullets, the brigade commander walked to the target and took a careful look. He felt that the recoil was very small when he shot just now. This gun is easy to control and has a fast rate of fire. After checking the shooting target, he found that this submachine gun has good accuracy.

"Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong, you really keep surprising me in various ways!"

The brigade commander couldn't let go of the submachine gun in his hand and was not stingy with his praise for Li Yunlong.

Chapter 28 The Excited Brigade Commander and Li Yunlong's Purpose

"How much can the Yixiantian Arsenal produce in a day now?"

Along the way, the brigade commander couldn't let go of the Sten submachine gun, which had a fast firing rate, high stability, great power, and most importantly, could be produced independently.

If large-scale production can be achieved, the Eighth Route Army will no longer have to worry about weapons.

"At most two or three a day. The main problem is that there is not enough raw materials. Another problem is that there is not enough bullets. Even if we can produce them, the bullets are consumed at an alarming rate."

Li Yunlong directly pointed out a problem currently facing the Sten submachine gun, which is that it consumes too many bullets.

An ordinary Type 38 rifle consumes about three to eight bullets per minute in positional warfare. Some rapid-shooters can fire twenty shots. However, due to the lack of ammunition in the Eighth Route Army, the amount of ammunition allocated to each soldier was not much, and they would deliberately save bullets on the battlefield.

The Sten submachine gun used up a whole magazine of bullets, which were thirty bullets, in less than five seconds.

"This is indeed a problem!"

The brigade commander couldn't help but sigh. The production of bullets requires a complete supporting production line. The Eighth Route Army currently has two, but due to the lack of electricity and raw materials, they have never been used.

When he arrived at the arsenal, the brigade commander was immediately attracted by the roar of a car engine at the door. He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a car engine removed from a car and placed on the ground running. There were wires on the engine leading to another machine not far away.

A simple stamping machine, where several workers put cooled molten iron into the mold, and after it cooled and solidified, they put it under the stamping machine and hammered it. An accessory similar to the buttstock of a Sten submachine gun was soon produced.

On the other side is a punching machine. After the punching machine stops working, the power supply is immediately turned off and the punching machine is connected to the power supply. A rough-processed iron rod is placed on the punching machine and fixed, and then drilling begins.

There was another worker next to him who collected the iron filings and put them back into the furnace for re-refining.

"This is?"

"Commander, these are the stamping machine and punching machine I designed. Submachine gun parts are all made using stamping technology, and the punching machine is used to make gun barrels. The barrel of the gun in your hand was punched out by the punching machine. It's just that the rifling is not very well drawn, which affects the accuracy to a certain extent."

The brigade commander looked at Li Yunlong as if he were a monster. If Li Yunlong had designed a submachine gun based on the inspiration from the captured Japanese submachine guns, the brigade commander could still understand it, but now Li Yunlong could actually design a stamping machine and a punching machine.

Brigade Commander Chen is an educated man and is very clear about the importance of machine tools. The reason why the bullets produced by the border area military factory are easily off target is because they use manually refilled bullets, the bullet heads are not polished by machine tools, and the sealing of the cartridge case and bullet head by manual hammering is not sufficient.

If there is a stamping machine, these problems can be easily solved.

"Did you really design it?"

Li Yunlong nodded and took out a book he had brought with him: "I captured this from the Japanese. I learned a lot from reading it every day."

The brigade commander took the book, glanced at it, and then stared at Li Yunlong carefully: "Li Yunlong, I underestimated you before. You are not only a genius, but also a treasure! A great treasure!"

After that, he pulled Li Yunlong and asked, "Is there any way to produce these machine tools?"

"Yes, as long as there is enough material, it can be produced again."

"What about the molds for making bullets? What about the buffer and rebound device for the punch press?"

"That's fine, but I don't have the ingredients!"

The stamping machines used in arsenals now are of the drop-pound type, which uses electricity to drive a turntable to lift and then lower the machine to hammer the mold. However, if you want to produce bullets, it will certainly not be so simple and violent. You need to control the height of the descent, which is just the height to press the bullet into the cartridge case, and then quickly rebound and pull up to continue the next round of assembly.

The technical content is not high, but Li Yunlong does not have the materials at hand so he did not manufacture it.

"I'll find the materials for you. I'll give you whatever you want. Just make it for me!"

Li Yunlong immediately said after hearing this: "I promise to complete the mission, but Brigade Commander, I know where there are mines. Can you give the New 1st Regiment some authority to act accordingly? This will make it easier for me to lead people to find mines?"

"Do you know where there are mines?"

In fact, this is Li Yunlong's purpose. The reason why Li Yunlong laid so much groundwork is to get the right to act at his own convenience, so that in the future, if the New 1st Regiment has any action plans, it can act directly without reporting.

It is now 1940, almost 1941, and the Eighth Route Army's development policy was not promulgated until 1942. There are still more than two years left. If Li Yunlong wants to get a higher military rank when he is awarded medals and protect more people during that period, he needs to continue to make meritorious contributions.

But Li Yunlong did not intend to violate the military orders, so he came up with this idea.

"Bring me the map!"

Li Yunlong said to the guard and spread out a map. "Brigade Commander, you know I grew up in the mountains. There are mines in our Dabie Mountains. I learned exploration techniques from a master. When I came to the area around Yixiantian, I surveyed the terrain and knew where the mines were."

Li Yunlong had read some books on exploration techniques, but he relied more on the later generations' understanding of various mines. There were a large number of coal mines, iron mines and copper mines in the Taihang Mountains, especially in the southern section of the Taihang Mountains, where there were countless coal mines.

"You kid, you're not going to be any weirdo, are you?"

"No brigade commander!"

"Okay, from now on, your New 1st Regiment can directly dispatch a battalion of troops without asking for permission, but remember this, kid, don't get into trouble, okay?"

"Yes!"

Li Yunlong immediately laughed. He could dispatch a battalion of troops without asking for permission. Then Li Yunlong would have a lot of autonomy in the future. For example, some Japanese strongholds around Taihang Mountains would become Li Yunlong's supply stations and training grounds.

"By the way, please write me a copy of this method for converting a car engine into a generator!"

"Yes!"

After receiving the blueprints, the brigade commander was about to report what he had seen and heard today to headquarters when a guard approached him and said, "Reporting to the brigade commander, the 771st Regiment, the 772nd Regiment, and the independent regiment have arrived at Yixiantian."

"You're here now? The battle is over. Let them rest and return to their original base!"

At this point, the brigade commander turned to look at Li Yunlong and said, "Li Yunlong, your New 1st Regiment performed well this time. You don't have to hand in the captured guns and ammunition!"

Li Yunlong was delighted when he heard this. Why did the brigade commander suddenly become so generous?

"But you have to find a way to get three radios. Without them, the connection between the troops is too loose, and the three main regiments will have made a wasted trip."

"Brigade Commander, two radios are enough. The independent regiment already has a radio!"

Li Yunlong sold Kong Jie directly. The Yamazaki Battalion seized a total of four radios, all of which were broken and needed repair. It was just right to leave one extra for the newly formed cavalry battalion.

Chapter 29 Kong Jie came to the door

"Li Yunlong, stop right there!"

The brigade commander continued to stay in the arsenal for a visit, and Li Yunlong met Kong Jie as soon as he returned to the base.

When Kong Jie saw Li Yunlong, he immediately became furious and started shouting.

"Kong Erlangzi, what's your name? What did I do to you?"

"You know it well enough. Let me ask you why you told the brigade commander that our independent regiment had a radio station."

Li Yunlong pretended to slap his head and asked in surprise, "Don't you have any in your independent regiment?"

"you……"

Kong Jie pointed at Li Yunlong and continued, "I don't care. Originally, the brigade commander said that the three regiments that rushed to Yixiantian were equipped with a radio, but now our independent regiment doesn't have one. Give me another one. Don't wait for you to repair it. I want the one your new regiment is using now!"

Hearing this, Li Yunlong immediately got angry: "Kong Erlangzi, I always thought you were an honest man, but I didn't expect you to have so many tricks. Why should I give you a radio? If you have the guts, go ask the brigade commander for it!"

Seeing that Li Yunlong ignored him, Kong Jie immediately grabbed Li Yunlong and said, "If you don't give me the radio today, I won't leave. I will stay at your regimental headquarters. Li Yunlong, don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You just want to keep one for yourself. Every battalion in your New 1st Regiment already has a radio. What else do you need a radio for? Are you planning to give each company a radio?"

Hearing Kong Jie's words, Li Yunlong immediately grinned and said, "Kong Erlangzi, you are right. I want every company to be equipped with a radio!"

"you!"

Kong Jie pointed at Li Yunlong, his eyes widened in anger but he didn't know what to say. Li Yunlong's radios were all seized and repaired by himself. They were not issued by the headquarters, so Li Yunlong distributed them however he wanted.

"Kong Erlangzi, don't say that I, Li Yunlong, am heartless. We are old comrades. If you can come to my rescue faster today and help me kill a few devils, I will give you this radio for free!"

As he spoke, Li Yunlong shook his head and said, "I've been waiting and waiting, but it's not coming. I want to give you a radio. Won't the soldiers of the New 1st Regiment call me a prodigal son behind my back?"