Chapter 586 Huge Change

Premier Zhou also set his sights on there, where an airstrip is being built and expanded.

Yes, this airport can be said to be aided by the other party, and it is even more advanced than the airport in Chongqing.

Because this is completely based on the construction of modern airports, and the aircraft used to transport supplies is directly similar to the large military transport aircraft like the US military C17, but the volume is larger, wider, longer range, and the cargo capacity is also larger.

Such large transport planes can land directly on improvised runways, and do not even require the construction of special airfields.

Even flat and hard dirt roads can be, so after the first batch landed, the cement and some construction machinery that were continuously transported behind were built on a modern runway, and a steady stream of materials was continuously transported.

The first to be shipped was a large number of rifles, and after improving the American Garand rifle during World War II, Zhao Chen directly used several other worlds to produce a large number of these rifles and directly transported them.

Zhao Chen directly produced more than two million Garand rifles. However, these rifles can no longer be called Garand rifles.

The Garand rifle was originally claimed to be the best semi-automatic rifle during World War II, and it was much stronger than the 38 big cover captured by the Chinese army at this time, mainly because the Garand was a semi-automatic rifle, and the firepower was not known how many levels stronger than the 38 big cover.

Zhao Chen has directly optimized these rifles, first of all, using a large number of modern metals, reducing the weight, making it more in line with the weight that Asians can use, and secondly, the ammunition supply magazine is optimized, which is not easy to jam, more reliable than the original Garand, and can adapt to all kinds of harsh terrain.

The second is its accuracy, bullets, etc. have been designed, easier to use, and the recoil is smaller, Zhao Chen directly named this new rifle Type 42. Zhao Chen directly used a large transport plane to transport hundreds of tons of rifles at once, and these firearms were enough to arm all the Eighth Route Army now.

It can be said that the Eighth Route Army, which was originally short of ammunition and guns, trembled all of a sudden, and when Zhao Chen just started to transport these weapons and ammunition, the chairman and they were already stunned.

And Mr. Zhu, they couldn't sleep for a few days when they were even more excited, when had the Eighth Route Army ever been so extravagant? But after learning that all these rifles were semi-automatic rifles, they were still a little worried, afraid that the logistics would not be available.

After all, the rate of fire of light machine guns at this time was not high, and the rate of fire of the famous crooked sub-machine gun was just that little, if you used a Type 42 rifle, even two rifles could suppress a crooked sub-machine gun by firing together.

However, when Zhao Chen almost directly transported the ammunition of 50 planes with a load of more than 100 tons and a large transport plane of 110 tons, Mr. Zhu and the others were completely stunned. You know, a transport plane can carry about 10 million rounds of ammunition.

50 is 500 million rounds. You must know that according to later historical statistics, the Eighth Route Army may not have used 500 million rounds of ammunition during the entire Anti-Japanese War.

Of course, this has something to do with firearms, and now after replacing the Type 42 semi-automatic rifle, 500 million rounds of ammunition can be easily used.

You must know that at this time, the national government also produced about 200 million rounds of bullets per year.

And what Zhao Chen sent over was not only rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns, all of which were general-purpose bullets, although they were not compatible with the bullets of the Japanese army on the battlefield and the bullets of the Nationalist Government.

But it doesn't matter, if the logistics can keep up now, it doesn't matter if you can use the enemy's bullets or not.

However, Zhao Chen couldn't give all the ammunition, so Zhao Chen simply sent several production lines that were much more advanced than this era, and at the same time sent some simple generator sets, so that these arsenals could run directly.

The production lines of these arsenals have reached the point of the assembly lines of later generations, and the speed of production is already very fast, and the most basic shells and so on can be directly produced here. Some cannons were also provided by Zhao Chen, but the large-caliber artillery was not provided, so it was enough to directly ask Mr. Zhu and them to seize them.

It's not that Zhao Chen is unwilling to provide it, but even if it does, it is difficult for Mr. Zhu to transport these large-caliber artillery pieces on the roads in their area, although the modern large-caliber artillery is hugely powerful, but the weight is also huge.

This is true even if the weight is reduced by using new materials, and the weight cannot be reduced too much.

So these large-caliber artillery pieces actually don't have much effect, but Zhao Chen provided a lot of small-caliber artillery such as mortars, and the shells didn't provide much, but the arsenal production line provided by Zhao Chen could produce these shells.

Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that the firepower of the current Eighth Route Army is at least ten times higher than before.

Sufficient weapons and ammunition, and the replacement of semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, heavy machine guns, and ammunition are not afraid of consumption, so that Mr. Zhu, who has been used to saving, is a little unaccustomed to it. After knowing that they had sufficient weapons and ammunition, Mr. Zhu and the others also began to extravagantly have a few handfuls.

That is a lot of recruit training, not just the use of wooden rifles, but the direct use of new guns, and at the same time there is live-fire target training.

In the past, the Eighth Route Army was too poor to afford to play, but now it is different, who is not willing to train if it can be trained.

Zhao Chen asked Su Jie to calculate, according to the number of soldiers killed in the battle of the Eighth Route Army in the same period in history, compared with the number of sacrifices in the battle of the Eighth Route Army after Zhao Chen changed clothes, the casualty rate was reduced by at least 700 percent!

This number is so staggering! That is to say, in history, 700 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army may have died in a single battle! Now only 100 have to be sacrificed.

And this is only the most general, you know, if it is a victory, to some extent, the increased firepower will probably bring more than 700 percent.

For example, it was originally an ambush and annihilation war, but in the past, because of the lack of weapons and ammunition, the enemy had time to resist, and later on the fight may have to sacrifice hundreds of soldiers.

But now, not only are there plenty of weapons and ammunition, but there are also plenty of grenades, artillery, and even semi-automatic rifles with more ferocious firepower, and in the same amount of time, the firepower delivery has increased seven or eight times.

This means that if the abnormal ambush battle is fought, it only takes a few dozen fighters to be sacrificed, and you don't even need to sacrifice to agree!

This means that the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who might have been sacrificed will all survive because of the logistics provided by Zhao Chen!

This data is data in a short period of time, and when it comes to the battle of the large corps in the later stage, I am afraid that this data will be even more dazzling at that time.

Because the current soldiers of the Eighth Route Army have all been trained in live ammunition, not recruits who go directly to the battlefield.