When the Japanese army had about 25,000 to 28,000 men at its full strength, there were about 64 field artillery pieces, including 12 105 howitzers and 44 infantry guns. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

He planned to expand Xu Hu's artillery regiment into a large artillery regiment equipped with 36 field guns and 12 105 howitzers, and the artillery battalion directly under the 145th Division would also be changed into an artillery regiment equipped with 20 mountain artillery.

In this batch, 84 Bofors mountain guns were removed, and only 6 howitzers remained, and there would definitely be losses in the battle, and these guns were regarded as being used to supplement the battle damage.

In this way, the security forces will be equipped with more than 130 field artillery pieces, and they will be fully capable of fighting evenly with a division of the Japanese army, and will even be able to gain local superiority.

Now that the Western powers have lifted their arms embargo on China, and Japan has not yet begun a full-scale invasion of China, the West does not have to worry about the dissatisfaction of the Japanese if it sells weapons to China.

As long as you have money, you can buy these cannons from other powers, which is why Li Han said this to Weimar. Because the main purpose of buying arms from the German government this time was not to buy guns, but to get a complete set of rifle production lines.

"Commander Li, your choice to buy German weapons is definitely the wisest choice, although the rifle production line is a little troublesome, but I can help you solve it. However, the amount of this transaction is relatively large, and Commander Li must pay half of the deposit first. ”

Although Weimar was not a businessman, as the German government's consul in China, he certainly wanted to seek benefits for the German government.

How could this kind of door-to-door business let it slip away, originally he was also troublesome, and he was not far away to help Li Han get the rifle production line done, after all, it would take a lot of effort.

After seeing Li Han's attitude, Weimar knew that if the morale of the rifle production line was not settled, the deal would definitely be hopeless.

However, in his opinion, Li Han was just a small local warlord, and Weimar still had some doubts about whether Li Han could afford to pay such a large order, so he asked to pay half of the deposit first.

"Since Mr. Weimar can solve the rifle production line, it is not a problem to pay half of the deposit, but I ask that the German government can help me build a steel plant that can produce 100,000 tons of steel per year."

I am willing to hire all the engineers at a high price, and I can also buy all the materials and machinery needed for the steel plant from the German government, and I must have a production line for the shells that respond to the shells, and I need 50,000 sets of gas masks in addition to the weapons in the order. ”

Li Han knew that Weimar didn't believe in himself, otherwise he would pay half of the deposit. But he also understood Weimar's thoughts, after all, he was working with him for the first time.

After robbing the Japanese of silver, Li Han is not short of money now, if it were not for the construction of both the steel mill and the shell production line. He will also buy another anti-aircraft artillery battalion, the security forces do not have an air force, anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns become his only means of fighting devil planes.

However, in these years, when buying arms, especially artillery, the artillery itself is not the most expensive, the most expensive is the shell, a German-made anti-aircraft gun of 88 caliber costs 50 dollars for a shell, and a Mauser 98K rifle is also the price.

That is, every time the 88 anti-aircraft guns are fired, it is equivalent to knocking out a Mauser 98K rifle, a big battle is fought, a cannon has to shoot dozens of shells, twelve guns are fired together, and the money for an anti-aircraft gun is knocked out, if he can't produce this kind of shells by himself, Li Han can't afford this guy.

The artillery production line of the Chahar Arsenal is capable of producing only seven or five caliber shells, and only a hundred rounds a day.

After the newly purchased artillery is in place, the number of field guns of 75 caliber in the ranks of the security forces will reach more than 140.

One hundred rounds a day, even if the artillery does not fire one shot a year, it can only save less than 300 shells, which is far from meeting Li Han's requirements, and what about his howitzer battalion and anti-aircraft artillery battalion.

"As long as Commander Li can afford the price, for the German government, these are no problems."

The annual output of 100,000 tons of steel in Germany is not as good as that of a private enterprise, since Li Han paid for it himself, what else is there to say about Weimar. The production line of shells is also not a problem, anyway, the production line of rifles is also given.

Besides, Li Han himself has equipped each cannon with 500 shells, and there has been no war in North China recently, and the German government wants to make money for his shells, but it doesn't know that it will wait until the Year of the Monkey.

Now that the Reich Führer is expanding its armaments on a large scale, it also needs a lot of money, and once the war starts, the artillery shells must first be used by the German Imperial army, so Weimar has no opinion on delivering the production line of artillery shells to Li Han.

Neither side had any other opinions, and after discussing some details, Weimar began to prepare, although they had a lot of arms in China, but they were still far from being able to meet Li Han's demands. So it still needs to be shipped from China.

In addition, the production line of bullets and artillery shells was not available in the arsenals of the Far East, and the equipment and personnel of the steel plant had to be transferred from the German mainland.

It cost nearly six million silver dollars to buy guns and artillery, nearly two million silver dollars for the machinery needed to build a steel plant, and a million silver dollars for the production line of bullets and shells combined.

If it weren't for the rise in silver prices, the more than 200 tons of silver that Li Han snatched from the Japanese would not be enough to spend. Even so, he only had about two hundred silver dollars left in his hand.

Thinking of this, Li Han didn't dare to continue to stay in Beiping, and the more than 10 million silver dollars were almost spent by him in a few days, and if he continued to stay, it was estimated that the remaining two million silver dollars would not be able to be saved.

In modern warfare, there are too many types of weapons, tanks, armored vehicles, airplanes, and cannons with a caliber of more than one hundred and fifty millimeters. Li Han wanted to have it all, and with this thought in his heart, of course he didn't dare to stay any longer, so he would return to Chahar as soon as possible, out of sight and out of mind.

After returning to Chahar, Li Han immediately recruited Wang Wei and Liao Zhilong, the director of the arsenal.

"Throne!"

After the two arrived at Li Han's office, they first greeted Li Han, and then sat down at Li Han's signal.

"I've got you two here in a few days to discuss matters related to the arsenal. Wang Wei, let's talk about it first. ”

After instructing the guards to serve tea, Li Han began to speak.

"Commander, according to your orders, we have already built a supporting power plant for the arsenal, and after a while, we will be able to undertake the power work of the arsenal.

In addition, I have already asked people to increase the plant of the steel plant, and I am already recruiting workers, but there is still a lack of sufficient funds, and I am afraid it will take a few months to really put it into production. Wang Wei said.

Although the steel plant is still just an empty shell, the provincial government makes a profit of more than one million every month, so Wang Wei is not very worried.

"But don't worry, the arsenal is not short of raw materials for the time being, in addition to the inventory we have hoarded before, there are now several small steel mills in Chahar, which can provide us with about 2,000 tons of steel a month."

Steel is the top priority of the arsenal, Wang Wei knew that Li Han valued this very much, not only told himself to prepare before going to Beiping, but also came to find himself as soon as he came back.

With Li Han's help, Wang Wei has now officially become the chairman of the Chahar provincial government, but he still sees himself as Li Han's big butler, managing all other issues in Chahar except for military accidents.

With the help of Yan Zhonghua and Shi Shi'an, Chahar is currently undergoing rapid changes under his governance.

The reason why Li Han didn't choose to be like Song Zheyuan, Shang Zhen, and Han Fuyu held the position of the top military and political leader in a province in his own hands.

It is to send a signal to the Nanjing government and the local powerful faction around Chahar that they have no intention of playing this power game where land occupation is king.

This will not only eliminate the hostility of the national government and local forces towards him, but also give his subordinates more thoughts. The chairman of a province can be regarded as a feudal official, even if he does not have military power, he already has enough temptation for them, and this is an opportunity to leave a name in history.

Whether it was Wang Wei, Yan Chihuo, or Shi Dingzhong, they had already served as the chairman of the Chahar Provincial Government for Li Hanhui, and the Nanjing Government did not object to this, but they did not expect Li Han to take the initiative to push Wang Wei to the position of chairman of the provincial government.

Now not only Wang Wei is full of energy, but even Shi Dingzhong and Yan Zhonghua's hearts are stirring, because they know that Wang Wei, a hairy boy, can become the chairman of the provincial government because of Li Han.

Now they choose to work under Li Han's name, and Li Han also respects them very much, so the two feel that they have every chance to sit in the position of provincial chairman.

Of course, what Li Han did was not because he had no desires, on the contrary, he was very possessive, but he knew the development trend of history, and the entire land of China would eventually fall under the command of our party.

Therefore, for him, if he wants to occupy land, he also has to occupy land abroad, and the indigenous people in Southeast Asia do not deserve to have such fertile land.

"Hehe, Chairman Wang, I don't worry. Director Liao, how is the arsenal doing? Li Han said jokingly to Wang Wei. There is no money in his hand, and he is already very satisfied that Wang Wei can do this.

"The military seat, the arsenal has produced 2,000 Liao-made 98 rifles, 79 pointed bullets 500,000 rounds, 65 bullets 600,000 rounds, and all the rifles and bullets have been delivered to the chief of staff." Liao Zhilong replied.