In Li Ziyuan's impression, compared with the Jin Sui Army at that time, the quality of light and heavy weapons of the Central Army was much better. At least the quality of the Chinese rifle is much better than that of the Jin-made rifle, not to mention those imported Belgian and Czech goods? After crossing the Yellow River in the east, he came into contact with these central armies. A division, the number of rifles is at least about four thousand.

At that time, even though he was a platoon commander, because the army itself was underarmed, he was still carrying an old sleeve gun made in Sichuan. He still remembers when the troops met a brigade of the Central Army at that time. Looking at the medium and Czech rifles, Czech and Belgian light machine guns, dozens of twenty-four heavy machine guns in this brigade, the envious gaze of the brothers at that time.

The number of light and heavy machine guns in the brigade of any division far exceeds that of the 129th Division. What's more, most of the weapons and equipment of the 129th Division where he was in that year were of very poor quality, and even many old sleeves and other rifles were about to be smoothed out because of their long service life. There is no way to compare with other people's imports and regular arsenals.

How come this time, together with the stored material depots, fell into the hands of the Japanese army, and together with the captured weapons, there were only such a few rifles. Even if the troops were defeated by the Japanese army, the weapons did not all fall into the hands of the Japanese army. Spare weapons that can be added to the stockpile, and it shouldn't be just like that. This can not be compared with the impression of Li Ziyuan back then, the wealthy Central Army.

Later, I asked the second lieutenant to find out that with the continuous expansion of the number of troops, as well as the huge battle losses on the battlefield. In addition, the source of imported raw materials and weapons is not smooth, and its own military production capacity is too weak. The number of weapons produced per year can only meet the minimum needs.

At the moment, not to mention the miscellaneous army, even the Central Army is in the same difficulty, and the number of weapons in the establishment has dropped by more than one grade. The vast majority of the miscellaneous armies that used to have their own replenishment channels can now only rely on the central army to replenish them. In this way, the gap in the replenishment of troops after each battle loss is even greater.

Even for the elite of the Central Army, such as the 27th Army, it is equally difficult and insufficient to replenish, and the number of equipment has been repeatedly reduced. What's more, it will be more difficult for them to be transported from Henan through enemy-occupied areas. Although it is the best equipped of the three armies in Linxian County, it is also very difficult now.

They now have one division, and even the main division has more than 2,000 rifles. The heavy machine gun has been changed from a battalion to a heavy machine gun company, and now it has been changed to a regimental one. Even in the main divisions, the number of heavy machine guns fell by half. There was also a significant decline in the number of light machine guns, which, with the exception of individual main forces, could no longer be distributed to each infantry squad.

Being able to do two infantry platoons can be said to be quite good. At the same time, in the anti-sweeping operation last year, the 27th Army, which had always been attacked by the Japanese army because it was a symbol of the Central Army remaining behind enemy lines, suffered heavy losses, which further aggravated the shortage of weapons.

At present, in addition to the number of mortars, the whole army meets the needs of the troops. The number of light and heavy machine guns has long since changed. Even the number of rifles has not only repeatedly declined, not to mention. The supplementary rifles have also been replaced from the original Belgian and Czech-made rifles to the current Chinese-made official rifles.

Plus some of the troops that broke out of the encirclement and some of the weapons that were carried out. There are also weapons that have been lost and not discovered by the Japanese army, and this number should be about the same. These more than 1,000 rifles, in addition to the part originally equipped with the Pre-Eighth Division where he was located. There should still be some supplementary weapons shipped in the spring of this year, but the number is not enough to exceed 300.

These additional weapons and ammunition were brought back from the First Theater at the beginning of the year, together with a supplementary regiment. The light and heavy machine guns in this batch of weapons are used to fill the gaps in the equipment. Rifles are temporarily used as reserves, to be replenished to the divisions after the distribution of troops by the replenishment regiments. Because of this little addition, several division commanders stared.

The commander of the military department was also a little difficult to handle, so he did not send it immediately. As a result, in this battle, almost all of the weapons and supplementary ammunition that had been painstakingly transported fell into the hands of the Japanese army because the defense line collapsed too quickly. There is also the batch of military uniforms in stock, which are all the spare military uniforms of their army.

After listening to the second lieutenant's explanation, Li Ziyuan was a little relieved. However, for him, the Central Army, which turned out to be wealthy, was also mixed up like this, although it was somewhat unexpected to him. But for him, at most, it's just a sigh or a sigh, and nothing else.

Originally, Li Ziyuan wanted to ask if they didn't have US aid? But in the end, he thought about how he was a second lieutenant platoon commander, how could he know the things that the upper echelons knew, so he dispelled the idea of getting to the bottom of it. It's already good that this platoon commander can know these things, and I'm afraid he won't be able to ask anything more.

Anyway, for him, since these weapons have fallen into his own hands, it is absolutely impossible to return them again. Wouldn't it be better to keep it in your own hands than to transfer it to the puppet army by the Japanese army? The Japanese army has always used the weapons captured in Chongqing to distribute and equip the puppet army. Instead of going through a formality, it is better to use it yourself.

Whatever, it's your own in your own hands. Everyone is fighting devils, and these weapons are being transferred to them through the hands of devils, even if they support the Eighth Route Army. These Chinese themselves make their own weapons to fight devils, and they will certainly not be wasted in their own hands.

It's just that after talking about the origin of this batch of weapons, this one also knows this batch of weapons, and the commander of the Eighth Route in front of him is a second lieutenant who will not change back no matter what, although he hesitates slightly. But after hesitating, he didn't say what he was thinking in the end.

Looking at this batch of weapons that were issued back to his troops, he was stunned for a long time before finally shaking his head and returning to his own side. It's just that his hands were a little trembling when he left, and he didn't know if it was painful or distressed about these weapons that had never returned.

Although these guns have been sent back now, he also knows that these weapons have only been issued to these captured people temporarily. If he and these people wanted to leave, this Eighth Route Chief, who had a very kind face at the moment, would never let himself take a gun or a bullet with him.

Look at how clean they were when they cleaned the battlefield, and this second lieutenant would know. Not to mention the weapons and ammunition on the Japanese puppet army, the belts, water bottles, steel helmets, and ammunition boxes on the bodies of the Japanese puppet soldiers who were killed, these things that he had always disdained in the original army were cleaned cleanly. Even the leather shoes of the Japanese soldiers were stripped off, and the clothes were almost stripped off.

Even the chief who wanted the shoes on the corpse, so many weapons and equipment that they needed more could be returned? That's the real ghost. In fact, this platoon commander didn't know that Li Ziyuan wanted not only weapons, but also those recruits under him, and Li Ziyuan had no intention of putting them back at all.

And when Li Ziyuan and Ma Yongcheng were talking about dealing with the aftermath, He Sanliang over there not only finished the battle, but also rushed back with two Japanese prisoners. After He Sanliang returned, Li Ziyuan did not hesitate at all, took the prisoners and carried the captured materials, and went all the way north from Xiyaogou on the spot, and then turned back to the line of Shililing.

For Li Ziyuan, it is not time to move south or north at this time. And the plan to enter the territory of Changzhi is not a suitable choice before so many materials are disposed of. With so much stuff, he had no way to conduct maneuverable combat.

This battle, together with the puppet baggage troops that were completely captured in Xiyaogou, plus the puppet army prisoners captured on the battlefield, totaling nearly a thousand puppet army prisoners, are not used as laborers, can they let their troops carry them? As for the seven or eight hundred Lin County prisoners who were rescued, Li Ziyuan did not politely integrate all of them into his own troops.

As for when they will be allowed to go back, only God knows. Anyway, for Li Ziyuan, he needs soldiers when the third battalion doesn't know where to go for the time being. Although it cannot be said that more is better, this group of trained soldiers has been very satisfied with their previous performance on the battlefield. Anyway, they can't go back now, so there's no need for him to be embarrassed.

For Li Ziyuan's unceremonious approach, the second lieutenant could only shake his head and smile bitterly. There's no way, now I have to bow my head under the fence. If you can find your own troops, why did you follow the Eighth Road in the first place? Presumably, the brothers who rushed out now should have reached the edge of the Yellow River. Even if I have wings, I am afraid that it will not be possible to catch up.

When evacuating the front line of Xiyaogou, the platoon commander took one last look at Lingchuan in the south of Xiyaogou, is there still his brother in the mountains over there? After being silent for a long time, looking at the troops that had been transferred one after another, he could only shake his head and follow helplessly.

Li Ziyuan moved very quickly, without any dragging. But when he withdrew, he found that when he was marching all the way, he was leaving behind him, and he was always followed by a troop of more than 100 unidentified people, ragged and yellow-skinned.

This small army of more than 100 people, when they saw Li Ziyuan's department in front, they neither dared to lean on or break away, so they cautiously followed behind Li Ziyuan, maintaining a distance. It's just that although they were very careful, they were actually noticed by Li Ziyuan as early as when they were keeping up with Li Ziyuan.

It's just that after Liu Lianming found out the identity of this group of people, Li Ziyuan didn't care. Since this armed force has always refused to reveal its identity, if it wants to take advantage of its own big tree, let them follow, but reduce the trouble of having to send guards. As for the rest, let's wait until we get to the destination.

Li Ziyuan's decision to rush to transfer is quite correct. Less than three hours after Li Ziyuan left Xiyaogou, a brigade of Japanese troops who arrived from Lingchuan County had already arrived at Xiyaogou. Most of the Japanese troops in Huguan were sent to pursue Li Ziyuan, and the only remaining Japanese troops in Huguan County, the closest to Xiyaogou, were unable to rescue at present, so they could only count on the Japanese troops in Lingchuan to go north.

It was only when the Japanese troops in Lingchuan arrived at the Xiyaogou battlefield that they were left with nothing but corpses, artillery wreckage, burned cars and gasoline, and abandoned carts that had lost their horses and were smashed to pieces, and the attackers had long since lost their whereabouts.

Even if the Japanese army was furious, they could only collect the bodies of the Japanese soldiers killed in the battle first. As for the puppet army that was dispersed, especially the regiment commander who was terrified, he had dropped directly from nearly a thousand people to a puppet army with only twenty or thirty kittens, but after rushing back, he was captured by the Japanese army and cremated the bodies of the Japanese soldiers.