Chapter 230: The Face Problem of the Thirty-Sixth Division
After hesitating for a long time, Li Ziyuan still handed over all the two Makqin heavy machine guns he had captured to the military sub-district, and exchanged them for a Type 92 heavy machine gun with more ammunition in his hand. The rifle is barely able to use seven or nine bullets, and there is still this kind of bullet-swallowing tiger used?
These two are the Type 24 Makqin heavy machine guns that have just been manufactured by the Great Arsenal for less than two years, and they are not those rags that are imitated by messy steel and have to be repaired in a short time. Although the maintenance is a little worse, the rifling is quite complete.
One 92-style exchange for two Makqin, although Li Ziyuan did not hand over many bullets, he was still very satisfied with the exchange of the newly transferred divisional main force. Li Ziyuan was not satisfied, but there was nothing he could do, the number of seventy-nine bullets on his hand was insufficient, and it was also an ornament for himself to keep these two two-four type Makqin.
At present, the military district, which is also not wealthy, allocated 2,000 rounds of ammunition reloaded by the military district itself. But it can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket, these reloading bullets can only be used for rifles, and Czech machine guns are not yet used. In desperation, Li Ziyuan could only ask the military division and send someone to use the line he had set up before to buy it from the puppet Jin Southern Jianguo Army.
The puppet Jin Southern Jianguo Army was the original Jin Sui Army troops, and all the weapons used were Jin-made. Seventy-nine rifles are not absent, but there are not many of them. Moreover, the Japanese, who do not have a high degree of trust in this puppet army, also have a very tight control over the ammunition of this puppet army. Although the officers of this puppet army have some privately hidden ammunition on hand, the amount is not much.
In order to solve the problem of ammunition for the separate battalion, it was approved by the local committee and the military division. The enemy engineering section of the Hubei County Party Committee managed to raise some of the funds, and the prefectural party committee allocated some cash from the balance of the funds handed over by Li Ziyuan in the previous meeting. Li Ziyuan took out some counterfeit coins and handed them over to the local appointee to go to Taiyuan in exchange for a large ocean.
It took the price of 5,000 oceans and 50 gold rings to buy 25 boxes of Jin-made Hanyang-made 79 bullets, 10 boxes of Jin-made submachine gun bullets, and 15 boxes of Fengtian-made barge shell bullets. In addition to this batch of bullets, a batch of Jin-made and Fengtian-made grenades were also brought in.
Although the cost is higher, half of the ammunition has to be handed over to the military sub-districts. But at least the Hanyang-made, Yuannian-style in Li Ziyuan's hands, plus the ammunition of the Manlixia rifle is sufficient. He could allocate all the seven or nine pointed bullets he had left in his hand to the Czech machine gun.
In fact, if you want to say that the seventy-nine bullets are really not enough, it is the seventy-nine pointed bullets used in the Chinese and Czech-made rifles. If it is said that the 79 round-headed bullets used in the first year of Hanyang and the first year, after getting a batch from the Jinnan Jianguo Army and allocating 15 boxes to himself, he can basically meet the needs for a period of time.
However, Li Ziyuan tried his best to get enough of the seventy-nine bullets used in Czech machine guns and Chinese and Czech-made rifles. The Jinnan Jianguo Army was not equipped with official rifles and Czech machine guns, so they were unable to provide the ammunition used in this gun.
That kind of bullet is now in the hands of the Japanese army in the whole of Shanxi, which has just finished the Zhongtiao Mountain operation and defeated the two group armies of Zhongtiao Mountain. The puppet Jin Southern Founding Army did not have it in their hands, and they did not have firearms that used this bullet in their hands. So although they are also thinking about the current ocean of the Eight Roads, they can't help it.
After several tosses, Li Ziyuan even took back the bullets used in the Gongzao Type 98 rifle assigned to the district team. Only then did he ensure the number of seventy-nine pointed bullets, and he barely made up some old foundations. But although the performance is very good, the Czech light machine gun is also very picky, and it can only use seven or nine pointed bullets. The round-headed bullets used in Hanyang-made rifles are not used in Czech machine guns.
Although very reluctant, Li Ziyuan could only take internal adjustments. All the seven-nine pointed bullets were given to a few Czech machine guns, and the rest of the medium-sized and Czech-made rifles were all withdrawn from the front-line combat units and replaced with the Manlisha rifles in his stock.
Looking at the regression of the Chinese official and Czech-made rifles, two weapons with superior performance to the Manlisa rifle, being withdrawn from the front-line troops, Li Ziyuan was quite reluctant in his heart. But this is also a matter of no choice, the Czech machine gun can only use seven or nine pointed rounds. Before using a nationally made bullet, you have to close the chamber one by one, and you can't even think about using round-headed bullets.
For him, the Czech light machine gun was the main support firepower of the second company. Although there are now more crooked handles and strong-barreled light machine guns in the troops, after all, the Czech light machine guns are more solid than these two machine guns. Moreover, although the number of strong-barreled machine guns is large, if the original captured bullets are exhausted, there is really no place to replenish them.
The 7.7 mm bullet used in this machine gun is not at all compatible with the bullet used in the Japanese 92 heavy machine gun. If the bullets run out, the machine gun will be scrapped. As for the source of bullets from the crooked machine gun, it was better, but the overly expensive bucket was just as deadly.
With the level of maintenance of their own troops, the probability of having a problem with ammunition supply on the battlefield has even reached about 30 percent. In the case that the light machine gun is its main support firepower, if multiple machine guns have problems at the same time, it is also quite fatal for oneself, which is insufficient in its own firepower.
When the crooked handle machine gun is used, it is necessary to ensure that the lubricating oil is not to mention, and once the overly expensive barrel gets into a little dust, the ammunition will fail. Who can guarantee that on a battlefield full of artillery fire, that thing won't get any dust in it? So for these Czech machine guns, Li Ziyuan still attaches great importance to them.
If these Czech machine guns were muted, it would be equivalent to weakening their own strength on the battlefield. Therefore, Li Ziyuan could only be very reluctant to withdraw the two high-performance rifles of Zhongzheng and Czech-made from the troops, and replace them with the old Manlixia rifles in reserve.
On the one hand, while adjusting the equipment, Li Ziyuan also had to cooperate with Chang Juan and Ma Yongcheng to carry out political education for those soldiers who were added to the troops. The Eighth Route Army has no military salary, and there is still a long way to go if we want to keep these guys and stabilize the morale of these guys.
Although these people were in Nakajo Mountain, because the land was barren and the people were poor, and the grain production was low, the standard of living was not as good as their own. But fortunately, the other side is a regular army in their eyes, and even if there is a deduction every month, they can more or less receive a part of the military salary.
When you get to yourself, don't talk about these dirt roads that don't even have a number. Even those regular main forces have never had military salaries to receive. What kind of communism in the book is, most people don't understand. But the current Eighth Route Army is a communist life.
This army, which from top to bottom was still stuck in the Puritan way of life, everything was a supply system, and sometimes some food tails were issued, and this was still an army that had to operate in the rich areas. If the troops were operating in those poor places, they would not even have this.
The issue of military salaries is a very unstable factor. As for those recruits from all over the world, the idea of being homesick as a deserter is a big problem. Therefore, Li Ziyuan asked Ma Yongcheng to put aside other problems for the time being and concentrate on the stable work of the recruits.
And feel the foundation of these soldiers, and see if they can choose some of them with some education and send them to the military sub-district teaching team for further study for a period of time. At the same time, Li Ziyuan also asked He Sanliang to spare some of his energy to organize a teaching team of squad and platoon-level cadres and find a way to train a group of backbones.
Li Ziyuan has always maintained that in training and training, we cannot only train troops and not officers. In particular, the quality of those squad and platoon-level cadres who are at the head of the army and the end of the army even directly determines the casualties of the troops on the battlefield. Therefore, Li Ziyuan selected some veterans from those recruits and added them to his own old army, and sent a group of veterans to the teaching team, ready to be used in a disorderly manner after training.
Li Ziyuan's new and old problems here are one after another, and he is a little big-headed. The Japanese troops over there, who had completed the battle at Zhongtiao Mountain and were retreating one after another, were constantly making big and small moves. Of course, the first thing the Japanese army did was to reorganize the Hubei puppet garrison, which had been defeated several times.
This time, the 36th Division ignored Tsuruta Numasu's suggestion and continued to adopt the suggestion of organizing a garrison with old-fashioned weapons brought from China, and mobilizing competent personnel from other directions to take charge of it, and transferred 500 people from among the captured personnel at Nakajo Mountain to directly reorganize the puppet garrison.
And using the weapons captured in Zhongtiao Mountain, this garrison was fully armed. After the reorganization, each squad reached a Czech machine gun or other miscellaneous machine guns, plus a machine gun squadron consisting of three 30-section heavy machine guns, all of which were Hanyang-made 79 rifles.
Imamura Shintaro Osa, chief of staff of the 36th Division, thought that Tsuruta Numa's opinion was indeed good. Cutting off the Eighth Route to obtain ammunition from these puppet armies is a good way to curb the development of the Eighth Route without supplies. But the problem is that those old rifles, which are now not in the hands of divisions.
At present, the re-establishment of the garrison is imminent, and after those old weapons have been approved by the base camp at various levels, the daylilies transported from the mainland are cold. At present, the participating troops of the 36th Division have seized a large number of weapons and ammunition of the government army in the Zhongtiao Mountain battlefield, and there is no reason to leave them alone.
However, this is only the reason why Imamura Shintaro can say it on the surface, but the private reason is only clear to the commander of the 36th Division, Iseki and Imamura Shintaro. That is, the reorganization of the Hubei County Garrison this time is the third reorganization since last year.
It was less than half a year before the re-organization at the end of '41. During this period, so many weapons and equipment were lost, and the 36th Division was really unable to communicate to the base camp. You must know that although the Murata 22 rifle is an old gun, it is also the standard weapon of the Japanese Empire.
In such a short period of time, he actually asked the base camp for replenishment again, where is the face of the 36th Division? The garrison under his control was repeatedly defeated by the Eighth Route Army, and almost became the arsenal of the Eighth Route Army. Are the two people incompetent, or are the officers of the 36th Division all levels of waste?
Fortunately, these garrisons are controlled by the divisions and regiments where they are stationed, and all the weapons are generally handled by their respective divisions and regiments. This time, the 36th Division participated in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain and captured so many weapons of the Chinese Army. Also asking the base camp for additions, this is an idiotic behavior. For the sake of the face of the 36th Division, this matter can only be resolved in private.
Therefore, Imamura Shintaro did not hesitate to refuse Tsuruta Nunan's request, and insisted on reorganizing the pseudo-Hubei garrison with weapons captured in the Battle of Nakajo Mountain. The final decision on this matter is in the hands of Shintaro Imamura, and there is no way for Tsuruta Numan to do it even if he is reluctant.