Chapter 369: Dog-Faced
Was he Li Ziyuan too bold in doing this, or did he have a thorough understanding of the psychology of the Japanese army, so that he had this capital? Although the soldiers do not tire of deception, they can dare to do so even when the enemy army is heavily encircled, but it is not a simple sentence that can explain that the soldiers do not tire of deceit. In addition to boldness, carefulness is probably more important.
This successive sortie first hit Yuncheng three times, and blew up its ammunition depot under the nose of the Japanese 36th Division. Later, there were a large number of Japanese puppet troops sweeping behind, and the Japanese army was on strict alert in front. Under the nose of the Japanese army, a large number of military rations were stolen and the most important bridge of the Baijin Railway in Ludong was blown up.
A small unit was also left behind, and a single shot killed the chief of staff of the First Army, Major General Hanaya Masa. Regarding Li Ziyuan's series of performances in this attack, Rao is the deputy commander-in-chief, who has always been serious, and the division commander who has always been sweating for him, also praised a classic battle in private.
From an outsider's point of view, a large part of this is Li Ziyuan's shit luck, which allowed him to catch several opportunities under the heavy encirclement and suppression of the Japanese puppet army. But the two battle-hardened veterans knew that Li Ziyuan's detachment with a small regiment had made so many movements in a row, which was definitely not something that could be described by the word lucky.
There was no meticulous thought in this, and it was impossible to accurately judge the direction of the possible retaliatory actions taken by the Japanese puppet army, as well as to grasp the scale of the Japanese army's activities. In the whole operation, even if you take a small wrong step, the whole army may be destroyed. These battles are the greatest test of a cadre's overall quality, especially his ability to react on the battlefield.
And Li Ziyuan handed over an extremely satisfactory answer sheet in this test. This undoubtedly made the two old handsomes love Li Ziyuan to a higher level. However, for Li Ziyuan's boldness, once he had the opportunity to dare to poke the sky into a hole, the two old commanders still shook their heads and said nothing.
Of course, if you praise Li Ziyuan, Li Ziyuan's two mentors in the real military career did not praise him directly because they were worried that Li Ziyuan's tail would go up to the sky. However, in the end, this evaluation was made by coming to Li Ziyuan's department for investigation, and several staff officers and officers of the headquarters came out.
For the praise of the old handsome, Li Ziyuan was a little embarrassed. But Li Ziyuan is not clear about the worries of several leaders. After handing over the seized medicines to the Ministry of Health of the Military Region, Li Ziyuan took his two guards and rode the ocean horse captured in Changzhi City to return to the Ludong Military Sub-district's own unit station slowly.
After returning to the sub-district troops, Li Ziyuan handed over two mortars and three heavy machine guns to the sub-district. Of the British-made weapons seized from the Nanguan Freight Yard, except for two machine guns and a few rifles, the rest were handed over to the military sub-district. As for how the military sub-district deals with these British-made weapons that lack a source of ammunition, it has nothing to do with him.
He was now a small regiment, with two mortars and a mountain gun plus an anti-aircraft gun, and five heavy machine guns sufficient. Especially in the current situation where the number of light machine guns has been achieved to one per squad, too many weapons cannot be raised.
The most important thing is that Li Ziyuan is very worried that his superiors will transfer the mountain cannon he brought. After all, a regiment is equipped with a mountain gun, which is really too luxurious for the Eighth Route Army, which does not even have a large number of light and heavy machine guns. In order to keep this mountain artillery, Li Ziyuan simply handed over the two mortars.
After receiving the weapons and ammunition handed over by Li Ziyuan, the commander of the military division also knew what he wanted. Not only did they not take away his mountain cannon, but they also did not ask for his weapons in vain. I don't know where I got the reserves on hand, and I was going to send them to the arsenal to take out the *manufactured*, and gave him more than two dozen Jin mountain-building shells.
After receiving these two dozen mountain shells, Li Ziyuan was not embarrassed at all. As for the cannonballs, he has always been Han Xin's soldiers, the better. However, the first thing Li Ziyuan did when he came back was to adjust the weaponry of the troops. Each infantry platoon was issued a grenadier and several heavy machine guns were grouped together into a single company of heavy machine guns.
Some adjustments have also been made to the small arms of each company, and the light machine guns and rifles in the infantry companies have been adjusted to the same caliber as much as possible. The overuse of Jin-made light weapons was eliminated to the militia. As for Liu Lianming's reconnaissance company, the shell gun was distributed to the squad leader level.
This reconnaissance company, which is the most important thing for Li Ziyuan, is in addition to the Type 99 light mortar that He Huizhang is very greedy. Each platoon had a Type 96 light machine gun and a grenadier canister, and each squad had a shell gun and a *. Each platoon commander had one carbine and one barge gun, two long and two weapons.
If it weren't for these British-made Bren light machine guns, as well as those Enfield rifles, once the ammunition ran out and there was nowhere to replenish, Li Ziyuan really wanted to use these weapons to replace those Japanese-made rifles in the army. These two British weapons, Li Ziyuan really likes them too much.
The Bren light machine gun is an improvement on the Czech machine gun, and its performance is much better than that of the Czech light machine gun. At least 30 rounds of ammunition have a magazine capacity of more than 20 rounds of the Czech type, and the fire duration is better than that of the Czech machine gun. Moreover, the manufacturing process of these machine guns also exceeds that of domestic Czech machine guns.
Although I don't know how many hands the Enfield rifle is, it is still in good condition because of its excellent manufacturing process. The rifling is all in good condition and there is hardly any wear. Moreover, although this rifle is a manual rifle, this rifle can use a magazine with a 10-round reload, so that the rate of fire and fire duration far exceed that of ordinary manual rifles.
Moreover, the accuracy of this rifle is not inferior to that of the Type 38 rifle. Except for the fact that it is a little heavy and the bayonet design is too bad, which does not conform to the tactics of the Eighth Route Army fighting bayonets, the performance of this rifle can be described as quite good. It's a pity that there are so many ammunition, and there is no place to replenish it when it runs out.
Although the original Manlixia rifle had special ammunition, it could be used in Hanyang-made rifle ammunition. The ammunition of the Murata 22 rifle is also special, but after all, it is a weapon of the Japanese army, and the ammunition is not impossible to get at all. In the case of these British-made weapons, although the performance is quite good, the problem is that the ammunition is special.
The 77-caliber ammunition used with the Japanese 92 heavy machine gun is definitely not universal. The limited ammunition was exhausted, and coupled with the poor bayonet design, there was no capital to fight the bayonet. So Li Ziyuan had no choice but to hand over all these weapons. Otherwise, these hundreds of rifles would be enough to reequip his troops.
In fact, these British-made weapons handed over by Li Ziyuan did not know what to do. Don't, such a large batch of weapons is blind. Equip the troops, there is only so much ammunition, and when they run out, there will be no place to replenish them. There is no way for the military sub-districts, so they simply hand over all these weapons and ammunition to the military districts.
Compared with Li Ziyuan and the military sub-district, who did not recruit with these weapons, after all, they had an arsenal in their hands, and the military region was overjoyed. The British-made rifles were expanded and changed to 79 calibers. Removed the magazine and replaced it with a magazine structure. The rest of the ammunition was concentrated for the machine gun.
Although the performance has decreased somewhat, after changing to 79 caliber, it is still stuck from time to time because of the structure. But in a hurry, something is better than nothing. In addition, although there are some stuck problems, the performance and accuracy have not decreased significantly, which can be regarded as meeting the requirements.
The only small disturbance was that the military arsenal responsible for modifying these rifles scolded Li Ziyuan for a bloody sprinkler. In the absence of mechanical equipment, the step * caliber is not much easier than the production of a new rifle. Li Ziyuan brought such a batch of British-made equipment, which was enough for the arsenal to be busy for half a year.
You must know that during the anti-sweeping operations of '42, the losses of the ordnance industry departments, which became the key targets of the Japanese army's sweeps, were not smaller than those of the troops, and the losses of workers and machinery in the arsenals were very large. At the moment, it is barely possible to maintain the reloading of bullets, as well as the production of grenadiers* and small quantities*. Li Ziyuan brought in such a large number of British equipment to change the caliber at this time, and it would be strange if he was not scolded.
Of course, Li Ziyuan didn't know about the people in the arsenal scolding him behind his back. In fact, even if he knew, he would have treated it as if he hadn't heard it. Scold and scold, it won't have any impact on yourself anyway. Li Ziyuan not only didn't care, but after learning that this batch of weapons was sent to the arsenal by the military region to change the caliber, he also got down the donkey and asked for a lot of * fuses from the arsenal.
The logistics minister of the military region was overwhelmed by him, but finally reported to the military region for approval, and under the persuasion of Li Ziyuan's very affectionate health minister, he gave him a batch of * fuses. These *fuses are not used to deton*, but to deton*.
However, the logistics minister of the military region, who has always been very good at calculations, is not good at stubble himself, and from the things that Li Ziyuan asked for, he directly judged that this guy must have a batch of standards in his hands*. In addition, there are legends in the whole military region that this guy made a fortune from this outside attack, so he proposed to exchange * for it.
Regarding the exchange request put forward by the logistics minister of the military region, Li Ziyuan rolled his eyes and resolutely did not pull out a dime. What are you kidding, what I lack most now is the standard*. The fertilizer powder in my hand that can be used as *, and some of the seized* ones are not enough for my own use, so where will they be exchanged?
As soon as the military region's logistics minister expressed his intentions, he complained about the military region's logistics director's ingratitude. In and out of the words, I reminded this veteran cadre that during the summer sweep of the devils in 42. The logistics department of their military region was surrounded together with the headquarters organs, and it was he who led the troops to rescue them. At this time, from him to reach out for something, is this not ungrateful?
Also, the engine-modified machines used in the arsenal were obtained by him from the Japanese light tanks and armored vehicles destroyed by his own troops. When he handed over these things, he Li Ziyuan didn't say anything about the price. When he led his troops back and forth to rescue them, he never reached out to them to ask for anything.
This veteran logistics minister originally wanted to squeeze out some* from the hands of Li Ziyuan, who is now rumored to be rich, to alleviate the urgent need for raw materials. was made by Li Ziyuan's words, with a gun and a stick, as if he owed Li Ziyuan a lot of affection, not only turned his face and didn't recognize people, but also beat him up.
It was a little embarrassing to be made, and the logistics minister could only shake his head and smile bitterly at Li Ziyuan's yin and yang weirdness. Pointing to this guy and counting the dog's face, he said that turning his face is faster than turning a book. In the end, not only did not a catty* be dug out of Li Ziyuan's hands, but he was squeezed by Li Ziyuan, and he had to add another 200 meters* to compensate for Li Ziyuan's injured weak mind.