Arsenal.

It is the first modern mechanized factory in Nanjing, and one of the four major arsenals, known as the "cradle of China's national military industry".

This arsenal was born in the fourth year of Tongzhi, Li Hongzhang was promoted from the governor of Jiangsu to the acting governor of Liangjiang, built a factory on the ruins of the Xitian Temple in the east of Broom Lane outside Jubaomen, and opened the Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau. In 1888, the Jinling Machinery Manufacturing Bureau was the first in China to manufacture the first retractable Crusen rifled gun with wheels, with a caliber of 37mm and a 2-pound breech.

After the iron-blooded brigade captured Nanjing, it immediately took over such an important organ as the Jinling Arsenal, after all, with the arsenal there will be a steady stream of equipment and ammunition.

"Okay, I'll check it out right away!" After listening to Wei Dayong's words, Li Yunlong quickly got up and went to the Jinling Arsenal with Anthocyanin, Hua Mulan, Wei Dayong and others.

At this time, the defense of the Jinling Arsenal was a unit subordinate to the Earthquake Thunder, and the main person in charge was the monkey.

Li Yunlong and his entourage came to the Jinling Arsenal and walked into the arsenal all the way unimpeded, but found that the situation was not optimistic.

When Zhentian Lei saw Li Yunlong coming, he immediately greeted him and said: "Brigade commander, this Jinling Arsenal has been almost destroyed by the little devils, and everyone who can move away has moved away, and if you can't move it, it's blown up!" ”

"It's a really difficult situation."

Li Yunlong looked around the entire Jinling Arsenal and found that the entire arsenal was very damaged, there was hardly a machine that could be turned, and the walls collapsed and were in a mess.

Obviously, the Japanese army knew that Nanjing was not guaranteed, and since they couldn't wait for this arsenal, they chose to destroy it!

"A good Jinling Arsenal has become like this...... Hey......" Shaking Sky Thunder couldn't help but sigh when he saw this situation.

As one of China's four major arsenals, Jinling Arsenal became a large-scale arsenal with machine factories, wrought iron factories, sand turning factories, wood factories, rocket factories, gunpowder factories, mine factories and other factories in its heyday, with thousands of workers, and it was an earlier and large-scale factory in the late Qing Dynasty's Westernization Movement, and its main products were guns, cannons, ammunition, gunpowder, mines, etc.

Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Jinling Arsenal produced 35 Maxim Shuiling heavy machine guns, 250 repair rifles, 50 Czech light machine guns, 1,000 formal Chinese rifles, 2,000 Han-style rifles, 10,020 82 mortar shells, 5,000 82 yellow phosphorus bullets, 3,000 yellow phosphorus grenades and a number of other products, the output accounted for about 60% of the total weapons output of the national arsenal.

But now it is in ruins.

Seeing such a situation, it was almost impossible for the Jinling Arsenal to recover in a short period of time, and after pondering for a while, he said: "In this way, since the Jinling Arsenal has become like this, immediately report it to Lao Zhao in Taiyuan and ask him to send someone over to solve it!" ”

"At the same time, find the original Arsenal employees in Nanjing and prepare for the re-rotation of our Jinling Arsenal!"

"Got it!" Heaven-shaking Thunder nodded.

The arsenal is a very important factor in the combat effectiveness of a unit, although the Iron Brigade has its own arsenal in Taiyuan, but now the Iron Brigade is on the Eastern Expedition to the East, and the transportation of weapons and equipment is a big problem.

If there is an arsenal on the coast, this will also be very beneficial to the development of the arsenal.

After dealing with the matter of arranging the arsenal, Li Yunlong had just returned to the command of the Iron and Blood Brigade when he met Xiao Qiao head-on.

Xiao Qiao is now the head of the dark web telecommunications department, in addition to processing the intelligence sent back by the dark web, there is also the transmission of telegram information!

"Brigadier Commander, you're just in time to come back!" Xiao Qiao said: "The Northern Expeditionary Force sent a telegram on the battle situation!" ”

The Northern Expeditionary Force and the Eastern Expeditionary Force were both expeditionary forces that set off from Taiyuan together, and the current general person in charge of the Northern Expeditionary Force was Zhang Dabiao.

When he was in Taiyuan, Li Yunlong formulated the goals and objectives of the Northern Expedition.

The main purpose of the Northern Expedition was Beiping and the three northeastern provinces, and the northward expedition route was as long as the troops from Shanxi first attacked Hebei, entered Shandong from Hebei, and then went north from Shandong and the troops of the Eastern Expedition to the three eastern provinces.

All along, the Northern Expeditionary Force and the Eastern Expeditionary Force have been in contact with each other and sharing intelligence.

"What's going on with the Northern Expeditionary Force?" Li Yunlong opened his mouth to smell.

Xiao Qiao looked at the telegram: "At present, the speed of the offensive of the Northern Expeditionary Force is relatively slow, and it is still in Hebei. At present, the Japanese army is engaged in a fierce battle at Xifengkou. ”

XifengkouXifengkou is located in the north of Tangshan, where Qianxi County borders Kuancheng County. It is the pass of the eastern section of the Yanshan Mountain Range, which was called Lulongsai in ancient times, and the road leads to the north and south.

It can be said that the terrain of Xifengkou is very complicated, surrounded by a low mountain and hilly, the altitude is more than 200 meters in the south, and rises to more than 1,000 meters in the north, the terrain is abrupt, and the traffic is difficult. The valley road formed by the Luan River has become a natural channel for the north and south, and the left and right high cliffs are facing each other, and the terrain is dangerous.

This path has always been a traffic artery leading from the Hebei Plain to the northeast. Xifengkou is a choke point, and the importance of its strategic position can be imagined.

"In the Battle of Xifengkou, we launched dozens of attacks on the Japanese army, and the longest one-night attack reached three days and three nights, but none of them were able to defeat Xifengkou!"

Compared with the Eastern Expeditionary Army, the progress of the Northern Expeditionary Force was relatively slow, and it must have suffered a lot of defeats.

Now it is blocked by the Japanese army at the Xifeng Pass, and the situation is very unfavorable to the Northern Expeditionary Force, and the more time passes, the more unfavorable it becomes.

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