CHAPTER XXII
Of course, although there is no objection in his heart, but on the surface, Li Han still has to bargain with Will, if he just lets Will Zai do it without saying a word, it will be even more difficult to want some discounts next time, business is not like this. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Mr. Will, I came to negotiate business with you with the mentality of making friends with you, originally my subordinates suggested that I buy Japanese arms, their 38 big cover is only 30 oceans, although the 38 big cover is not as good as the Mauser 98, but it is enough for us, and the Japanese mortar is cheaper than yours, although I and people are not interested in the Japanese, but if we can't come up with a unified opinion, I think this transaction can only be carried out here." Li Han said to Will with a smile.
"Li, my price is fair enough, you are a soldier and you should know the value of this batch of munitions, so let's do it, your batch of munitions is about 100,000 oceans, I will give you a 95% discount, and then send you 100,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets, so it's always okay!"
Will said with a painful face, this time it was not pretended, after giving these discounts, although Will was still able to reap a lot of benefits, but it actually obviously exceeded the bottom line in his heart.
However, Will firmly believes that there is someone behind Li Han, this deal is just the beginning, and the war of the Republic of China is commonplace, and the demand for arms will never be satisfied, and what he has to do now is to put a long line to catch a big fish.
I have to say that Will is worthy of being an arms dealer in the shopping mall for a long time, and he grasps the opportunity very well, although there is no bigger figure behind Li Han, but Li Han has decided to cooperate with Will in the future when buying and selling arms, because Will gives him a very good impression.
"Haha! It was Mr. Will's pleasure, but I hoped that the shipment would be delivered to me within this month, and I would like to add another thousand oceans to Mr. Will's reward. Li Han said with a smile.
"No problem, I can definitely do it, but Lee, you have to pay half of the 30 percent deposit upfront."
Listening to Li Han's words, Will's eyes suddenly lit up, this thousand oceans all belonged to him, although the amount of this arms transaction reached nearly 100,000, but Will could only get about two or three hundred oceans. Li Han paid him four or five times more wages at one time.
After the two sides agreed, Will hurried to prepare, this is a big deal, the thought of a thousand oceans of tips, Will felt that his spring was coming.
Li Han was also very happy, after solving this matter, he felt that a big stone that was pressing on his heart had finally been put down, and now all the preparations that should be made have been made, and now he only needs to prepare to fight devils.
In the following days, Li Han began to train the soldiers of the fourth battalion ruthlessly, because of the abundant money, Li Han's training became much bolder, and he had to conduct live-fire training and cross-country training every day.
In order to ensure that the soldiers can train normally, Li Han is completely open in terms of food, with meat and unlimited rice, and the soldiers can eat as much as they want.
Over the years, warlords have been fighting each other all over the country, and many local taxes have been collected for decades, and it is good for the vast majority of families to be able to eat dry food every day, let alone eat meat.
More people eat dry for half a year, eat thin for half a year, so they can only maintain two meals a day, and when they are not harvested, they can only dig wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger, and if they encounter some natural and man-made disasters, they will basically wait for death.
Therefore, many soldiers who were dissatisfied with Li Han's training arrangement, after hearing the news, instantly put the dissatisfaction in their hearts behind and participated in the training with joy. Many scrawny soldiers have only grown stronger after two months of training.
In addition to training hard, in order to avoid the unfavorable situation that no one will use the guns bought. Li Han asked for ten artillery pieces from the regiment commander.
Not only that, Li Han was also digging people everywhere in Rehe, but fortunately, Tang Yulin, the 'bandit governor', had already lost any hope for the war, and began to pack up his family property early, and began to retreat to Guannai as soon as the war started.
Therefore, not only did he not stop Li Han's movements, but deliberately let him go, in his opinion, every extra day that the soldiers on the front line held out, he had an extra day to transfer his property.
Although Tang Yulin is a bastard, he still has a lot of veterans of the original Northeast Army, these are all old people who stayed with the marshal, and they are not ambiguous when they fight.
It's a pity that Li Han's military rank is too low after all, and only more than 20 artillery pieces have been dug up, and the biggest official position is an artillery platoon commander named Xu Hu, who is also an authentic northeast man.
Although there are not many people who can shoot artillery, but anyway, the batch of munitions has not yet arrived, Li Han organized these more than 30 artillery pieces into a platoon, and Xu Hu still served as the platoon commander of the artillery platoon, and trained first.
At the same time that Li Han was conducting intensive training, the Japanese were increasingly threatening Rehe, and began to urgently mobilize troops to prepare to seize Rehe by force. At the same time, the young marshal finally did something that made the Northeast Army feel bright, that is, to compete with the Japanese, actively mobilize troops for defense, and prepare for war.
At the end of January, Sun Dianying's 41st Army had been stationed in Chifeng, and at the same time, in the name of the anti-Japanese support of the people in Northeast China, the young marshal incorporated the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army in Beilindong, Kailu, Redongxiawa, Fuxin and other places, and a total of seven regiments were incorporated before and after.
At the beginning of February, the Japanese army stepped up preparations for the attack on Rehe, and the young marshal decided to set up two group armies, with the commander-in-chief of the first group army concurrently serving as himself, mainly commanding the brigades of Wang Yizhe, Ding Xichun, Miao Chengliu, and Sun Dequan of the Northeast Army and the 29th and 30th brigades of Heilongjiang Province, with about 35,000 people.
The commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army was served by auxiliary commander Zhang Zuoxiang, and deputy commander-in-chief Tang Yulin commanded Sun Dianying's 41st Army. The two brigades of Tang Yulin's 36th Division and Zhang Tingshu's 12th Brigade, as well as the Northeast Volunteer Army in Rehe, totaled about 70,000 people.
The operational boundaries of the two group armies are divided into: the highways of Chaoyang, Jianchang, Lingyuan, Pingquan, and Chengde are bounded, the south is the combat ground of the First Group Army, and the north is the combat ground of the Second Group Army.
On 28 January, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Muto Nobuyoshi, issued Operational Readiness Order No. 466 in Shinkyo and completed the military deployment, and war was inevitable.
Fortunately, the ammunition purchased by Li Han finally arrived, and the artillery of the fourth battalion also played with real guys, and Xu Hu, who had just jumped from Tang Yulin, saw the eight 80 mortars for the first time, and was instantly stunned, and his eyes were about to pop out.
"Sir, this, this is really for us."
Xu Hu stammered and said, don't look at him as a big official, but he is a master of goods, these mortars are German, and the mortars of the little devil cannot be compared with it at all.
"Nonsense, don't give it to anyone! Do you still have its cubs? But I can tell you, you have to get used to these things in the shortest possible time, the war is about to start, and you don't want to drop the chain for me at the critical moment. If necessary, live-fire training can be carried out, and Lao Tzu is not short of shells now, as long as he wins this battle, he can earn back anything. Li Han scolded with a smile.
With eight mortars, the 30-odd people in the artillery platoon were not enough, so Li Han added more than 100 people to the artillery platoon at one time, so that the number of the artillery platoon reached 150 people, which was already about the same as the number of an artillery company.
Of course, the additional recruits basically don't know how to play artillery, they are all responsible for logistics, and they also serve as guards. Li Han also gave Xu Hu an order that among these new soldiers who joined the artillery platoon, Xu Hu had to teach at least one-third of the people to shoot artillery, otherwise he would have to be replaced.
"No problem, sir!"
Xu Hu said with a smile, thinking that these eight German-made mortars would immediately be under his own jurisdiction, Xu Hu's heart didn't know how happy he was, as for Li Han's task, it was not a trouble for him, an old artilleryman.
What Li Han didn't know was that Xu Hu had been a soldier for five or six years, if it weren't for the fact that there was no one above and he was always excluded, he would at least be a high-level officer now, and if he was lucky, he might even be able to become a battalion commander. The artillery that he brought out was enough to form a battalion.
At that time, China's intellectuals were very limited, and even fewer scholars were willing to serve in the army, so most of the people in the army were farmers, even artillerymen.
The vast majority of artillery was slowly cultivated from an ordinary infantryman, and Xu Hu was very experienced in this area, and Li Han's requirements were not difficult for him. Even if Li Han didn't say it, he would do it, otherwise if the artillery suffered losses in the future, there would not even be additional personnel.
Li Han didn't know that he had unknowingly picked up the treasure, originally he planned to let Wang Wei manage the artillery platoon, but since he had Xu Hu, there was no need for that. Li Han is not at ease when the logistics of the fourth battalion is handed over to others, and Wang Wei is still in charge.
Twenty Makqin heavy machine guns were three for each company, of course, this refers to the infantry company, Wang Dazhu's cavalry company Li Han also gave two, and allocated eight more to form a temporary heavy machine gun company, with Wang Wei temporarily serving as the company commander.
However, Li Han has already reported to the head of the regiment, and it is estimated that it will not be long before Wang Wei will be able to turn positive. The last three were used as a reserve to facilitate the replacement of damaged heavy machine guns at any time and maintain the combat effectiveness of the troops.
At the same time, Li Han reequipped all the guard platoon with submachine guns, and the reconnaissance platoon was all equipped with Mauser 98 rifles as the fire support of the whole battalion, which greatly increased the firepower of the two platoons.
After being equipped with these weapons, the combat effectiveness of the four battalions will be improved in all aspects, and at the same time, due to the addition of a lot of heavy weapons, the number of troops has been expanded by 300 again, and now the four battalions have three infantry companies, a cavalry company, a heavy machine gun company, an artillery platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, a guard platoon, and so on, with a total number of 1,150 people.
I think that at the beginning, when the fourth battalion was first formed, there were less than 400 people, and the weapons were only rifles and light machine guns, which was at best the establishment of a reinforced company.
Now, after two months of development, the 4th Battalion has finally been reborn and has become the largest battalion in the 626th Regiment, accounting for a quarter of the total number of the regiment.
The armament was also much better than that of the other three battalions. It can be said that except for the two 75mm mountain guns of the artillery company directly under the regiment headquarters, the entire 626th Regiment has no weapons and equipment that can attract Li Han.