Going to Huoshan? Wang Gui and the others were a little surprised, because, judging from the map, the Tiger Bentuan is now closer to Jinzhai County.

There was in the middle and late stages of the Anti-Japanese War, for the country. The army is in the rear of the Anhui Anti-Japanese War, the seat of the provincial government.

Surrounded by mountains on three sides, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is very suitable for the Tiger Ben Regiment to establish a base area.

Therefore, Wang Gui, Xu Hailang and others thought that Yang Chen would lead his troops to advance into Lijinzhai County.

"That's right, it's Huo Shan! It is also located in the Dabie Mountain Mountains, the most important of which is close to the Yangtze River and the southern Anhui water system, which is conducive to the transportation of materials and equipment purchased from outside!

If we want to establish a solid anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines, we must think long-term! It is also imperative to develop our own arsenal! ”

After saying this, Yang Chen continued: "Moreover, as long as we can gain a foothold in Huoshan, we can rely on the Dabie Mountains to defend it, and then we can attack Lujiang, Shucheng, Lu'an and other important towns in Jiangbei, and even threaten Hefei and even Nanjing."

The most important thing is that this area is densely populated, which is conducive to recruiting and expanding our troops.

More capable, feed more anti-Japanese teams! ”

After listening to Yang Chen's reminder and analysis, Wang Gui, Xu Hailang and others all showed a sudden expression.

If we want to establish a solid anti-Japanese base behind enemy lines, the most important thing is to see whether we can be self-sufficient.

It is the same both financially and in terms of weapons and equipment.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to achieve success by seizing it.

In order to achieve self-sufficiency in weapons and equipment and other combat materials, it is inevitable to establish a series of military factories such as arsenals and clothing factories.

To build an arsenal, all kinds of machinery and equipment, as well as various raw materials such as steel, brass, gunpowder, explosives, and crude oil.

Where do these things come from?

As it stands, purchases can only be made through certain channels.

And if it is too far away from Jiangnan, then even if those equipment and raw materials can be bought, I am afraid it will be difficult to transport them to the hands of the Tiger Bentuan.

Therefore, it is necessary to choose a base place that is closer to the waters of the Yangtze River and Chaohu Lake.

Huoshan County is undoubtedly a good target.

It's a great place to get in and out, and it's geographically well-located.

It's just that what they don't know is that through the accumulation of more than half a year, Yang Chen has already exploded several sets of electric furnaces, milling machines, planers, lathes, drilling machines, hand grinding wheels, optical speculums, and all the other basic equipment needed to establish the arsenal.

Generators, diesel, coal, drawings, and other raw materials are also stored in abundance.

At the same time, there are also detailed explanations of various weapons and equipment in the special forces training course.

Coupled with various drawings, Yang Chen only needs to think about it simply, and he can manufacture all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment.

The only thing that is lacking now is the staff of the arsenal.

However, these are not problems, the Tiger Bentuan already has a group of college students as a talent reserve.

As long as they are simply trained, they can be certified to work.

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In addition, Yang Chen also saw that with the current scale of the Tiger Regiment, it was still difficult to reverse the entire anti-Japanese war situation, so it was imperative to develop and grow!

After the end of the Battle of Gushi, the remaining strength of the Tiger Regiment, plus the wounded and sick, the total number was less than 2,500.

Moreover, in that battle, the Tiger Regiment not only suffered heavy casualties, but also lost a lot of light and heavy machine guns and most of the heavy weapons such as mountain artillery and field artillery.

The Tiger heavy tank was also not taken away, and it was all blown up by the little devils or themselves.

Not only weapons, but also more than 1,000 war horses of the Tiger Ben Regiment were all left in Gushi County.

Weapons and equipment are dead things, and if you blow them up, you will blow them up,

But the war horse has life, and the cavalry warriors have been fighting side by side with the war horse for a long time, and they already have a deep feeling, and they really can't bear to kill them.

Therefore, all the more than 1,000 war horses were abandoned in Gushi City, even if they would become the trophies of the devils, it was better than death.

Therefore, the current Tiger Ben Regiment is already a pure infantry anti-Japanese armed force without many heavy weapons.

There is an urgent need to develop troops, as well as to replenish weapons and equipment.

But it doesn't matter, with the existence of the system BUG, Yang Chen wants to restore the former majesty of the Tiger Bentuan, it is just a matter of thought.

All we have to do now is to find a base area and re-recruit troops.

However, at this time, Yang Chen also realized a more serious problem.

That is, to fight the little devils, you can get merit points.

But for the consumption of merit points, it is also extremely staggering.

Weapons, ammunition, medicines, and everything else require a huge amount of merit points to be exchanged.

Especially bullets and shells, it seems that the unit price is not expensive, and a little merit value can even be exchanged for 10 bullets; However, the brothers of the Tiger Bentuan Regiment held almost all automatic weapons.

For example, the Bayi automatic rifle, a magazine of 30 rounds, requires 3 merit points.

But often a shuttle bullet may not kill a little devil.

Vulcan Gatling's consumption, not to mention.

There are also artillery shells, and in every battle, the artillery battalion is also very good to build.

Therefore, after a series of battles, Yang Chen's merit value in his inventory is actually not too much.

Among them, it is because some useless items can be recovered, such as weapons and equipment seized in the hands of little devils, merit cards and so on.

Otherwise, the merit points required to kill a ghost soldier are often not enough to spend on his head.

That is, to kill some devil officers, you can return to your capital, or make a net profit.

Yang Chen simply estimated that with the previous way of fighting and fighting to nourish the war, the most important thing to do was to maintain the strength of the Tiger Ben Regiment at 8,000 to 10,000 people.

No matter how much it is, the merit value will be more than it can make ends meet.

Of course, Yang Chen would not reduce the supply of equipment for the Tiger Ben Regiment because of this, he would rather waste more merit points than increase the casualties of the Tiger Ben Regiment in order to save ammunition.

Because in his opinion, the merit is gone, and it can be earned again.

But the lives of the brethren are priceless.

Therefore, after the Battle of Gushi, he hurriedly put the plan of building an arsenal on the agenda.

Once you have an arsenal, you can continue to produce the equipment you need, as well as ammunition supplies.

It can also greatly reduce the waste of merit points.

Of course, the reason why Yang Chen built the arsenal was not only to develop and expand the anti-Japanese armed forces, but also to have a more important purpose.

That is to pave the way for his next use of various advanced weapons.

With the arsenal, it is reasonable to say what advanced weapons the Tiger Regiment will use in the future? Yang Chen no longer has to hide like before, afraid of revealing his secrets

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Wang Gui, Xu Hailang, Liao Yong, and Liu Zheping had already worshiped Yang Chen as a god, so they never had any opinions on his decision.

With this decision, the Huben regiment rested for another day in the temporary station of the small mountain village, and then began to retreat south.

On the contrary, the independent regiment of the New Fourth Army decided to stay in the mountainous area at the junction of Gushi and Jinzhai counties.

They absorbed a large number of people who had been transferred from Gushi City and established a new anti-Japanese base on the spot.

Of course, that's a story for later.

Without the people to follow, the Tiger Ben Regiment marched very fast.

It only took two days to pass through Jinzhai County and enter the territory of Huoshan County.

Of course, a large part of the reason is because the focus of the little devils is on Huangchuan and faith.

Without the little devils blocking them, everyone's marching speed naturally flew up quickly.

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