Chapter 21: Will

"I heard that County Magistrate Shi has a way to contact the German arms dealers, and I would like to ask you to introduce them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½ā€

That's right, this is the purpose of Li Han's visit to Shi Dingzhong this time, the fourth battalion is now strong and strong, and the guns and ammunition are relatively sufficient, and even under Li Han's live-fire training at all costs, there is no problem with the supply of bullets.

However, the fourth battalion also had the biggest drawback, that is, they lacked heavy weapons. Not to mention the artillery, there was not even a single heavy machine gun, and the weapons that could carry out fire strikes in the army were grenadiers with limited lethality, and the only fire support was the Czech light machine guns.

In this way, it would be easy for the fourth battalion to fight the bandits, but if it was to fight the Japanese army equipped with tanks, planes, and artillery, it would definitely be as many people as there were dead.

Li Han has long wanted to get some big guys, but unfortunately he doesn't have the money in his hands. As the saying goes: 'A penny is hard for a hero', he didn't expect this sentence to be so applicable in the Republic of China.

Fortunately, recently, through the suppression of bandits, Li Han made a small fortune, and he had money in his hands, and the original idea naturally came to his mind again.

If it was in the peaceful and prosperous era before, Li Han might choose to live a good life with this money. But now is the time of national crisis, far from the time to enjoy happiness, the money in hand must be spent to be able to play their greatest value.

However, Li Han has been in the army all the time, his connections are really limited, and he doesn't know any arms dealers, and the war is coming, so there is no time for him to slowly develop this relationship. That's why I found Shi Dingzhong.

"Oh, what is Battalion Commander Li looking for an arms dealer, I heard that you have recently started to resell arms on a large scale, is it possible that you want to take the line of the Germans and specialize in the business of reselling arms."

Shi Dingzhong's face changed when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Han to sell arms and sell hidden, and now he still wants to do business with the Germans.

However, as far as he knows, all the surplus guns in Li Han's hands have been sold out at the last auction, could it be that he got the news that the Japanese are going to overwhelm the border, and wants to sell the equipment in the hands of the soldiers for money, and then leave with the money.

This can't be blamed for Shi Dingzhong's overthinking, it is really that there were too many troops doing this during the Republic of China. They couldn't win the war against the Japanese, but they were good at doing business, and of course they escaped with incredible speed.

"This is not enough, you also know, my fourth battalion is newly formed, the whole battalion does not even have a heavy machine gun, and even the equipment of the Xie Zhuang security team is better than ours, and it is nothing to fight bandits at the moment, if he is really killed by devils, it will be unpredictable!"

Li Han explained, seeing that Shi Dingzhong's face had changed, Li Han wondered in his heart, didn't he just ask you to introduce an arms dealer, and didn't he ask you to pay for equipment.

Of course, Li Han is thinking about all this, who told him to ask for help, in case he upsets others, he will not be far away to help thread the needle, and he will suffer like that.

"I see, it seems that the old man has misunderstood you. Yes, I do know a German named Will, and although I have only had a two-sided relationship with him, you can rest assured that businessmen seek profit, especially arms dealers, and as long as you have money, you don't have to worry about not being able to buy weapons. ā€

After listening to Li Han's explanation, Shi Dingzhong knew that he had misunderstood Li Han, and he was inevitably a little embarrassed, so his attitude suddenly turned 180 degrees.

"It's good to know! You'll have to trouble your old man to help him out with that will, and we'll take care of the rest. ā€

Li Han didn't know why County Magistrate Shi's attitude had changed so much, but he didn't care, in short, as long as he could buy weapons.

Shi Dingzhong is worthy of being the head of a county, and his work efficiency is still very fast, and in just one hour, he led a white-skinned, square-faced, high-nosed, and foreigner wearing a black tuxedo to come in, and then walked to Li Han's side and introduced him: "Camp Chief Li, this is Mr. Will." ā€

Then he turned to Will and introduced, "This is the Battalion Commander Li I told you." ā€

Will is a standard Westerner, and Westerners always have a natural sense of superiority in China during the Republic of China, so Will did not have respect and awe for Chinese soldiers like ordinary people, but only politely greeted Li Han.

"Hello, Mr. Li! I heard that Mr. Li wants to buy the ordnance of our German Empire, but I don't know how much Battalion Commander Li needs and what his ability to pay is. ā€

Will didn't test each other in a guerrilla fight like other businessmen, but said straight to the point.

Li Han did not answer immediately, but began to think about how to maximize the benefits of his arms purchase this time. And since the other party said so, Li Han knew that it was no problem to want weapons and equipment, as long as he paid the starting price.

It just so happened that the German weapons were all Li Han was more satisfied, and the German weapons were among the most advanced weapons in the world at that time, such as the Maxim heavy machine gun and the Mauser rifle.

There is no shortage of light machine guns Li Han, and he has even been equipped with squads, and each squad has prepared a crooked handle or a Czech light machine gun, in addition to Li Han also plans to form a machine gun company, but Li Han set this plan after this arms deal.

Mortars and heavy machine guns are heavy weapons, which are very important for fighting with the Japanese army in the future, and they must be bought, and Li Han can't afford to play with the Mauser rifle, but he also plans to buy some reserves, after all, in the future war with the Japanese army, there will definitely be damage to the rifle.

"Eight 60-mm mortars, each equipped with 200 shells, 20 Maxim heavy machine guns with 1 million rounds of ammunition, 98 200 Mauser, and 50 submachine guns. Each gun requires ten base ammunition. Li Han thought for a moment and said.

Will was originally drinking coffee slowly while listening to Li Han's words, and when he heard Li Han's words, he immediately sprayed the coffee he had just drunk in his mouth.

Originally, he thought that Li Han, a small battalion commander, would be able to take out thousands of oceans to do business with him, but he didn't expect Li Han's appetite to be so big, if this business was done, he wouldn't be able to stop it without 100,000 oceans.

Although Will is said to be an arms dealer, he is actually just a middleman, equivalent to the current intermediary, which mainly relies on hand intermediary fees to make profits, so the larger the amount Li Han buys, the greater the benefit Will can share.

However, after coming to Peking for so long, Will found that the business here was not easy to do, because both the local government and the warlords here were biased towards the Japanese when buying weapons, and the Japanese were so powerful in this area that it was difficult for them to carry out their business. Li Han's order is tantamount to a big pie falling from the sky, and Will who smashed it can't believe it.

"Lee, are you sure you want to buy these weapons?"

Will confirmed in disbelief, even the tone of his speech changed, although he could not care about the identity of Li Han Chinese in front of him, but the ocean in Li Han's hands Will must care, no one will be unable to get along with money.

"Why, is there something wrong with Mr. Will?" Li Han frowned and said, if Will has a problem, it will be difficult to deal with it, there will be a war soon, the heavy weapons of his troops have not yet landed, and except for Will, there is really no other arms dealer in a short period of time.

"No, no problem, as long as you pay the starting price, I can also help you get the German Army's weapons in service." Will immediately replied, for fear that Li Han would regret it and lose this big business.

Listening to Will's words, Li Han smiled and said nothing, the German active army is only about 100,000, and it is not easy to sell their active equipment, if it were not for Hitler to come to power, even a normal arms business would be difficult to do. However, doing business is like this, how can they show their ability without bragging, anyway, there will be arms in the end.

"I don't know if Mr. Li has any requirements for the price and payment method of these arms."

Will carefully considered his language and said, he thought that Li Han's transaction must have been instructed by someone, otherwise with a small battalion commander, how could he come up with such a large sum of money, so in order to obtain a long-term arms business partner, Will secretly warned himself in his heart: This Li Han must not be offended.

Li Han said directly: "Although Mr. Will offers a price, even if the transaction cannot be done, benevolence and righteousness are still there, so we should be regarded as making friends with each other." ā€

Will glanced at Li Han and didn't find any clues, so he said: "As for rifles, we can provide Mauser 98 rifles, each sixty oceans, eighty-zero mortars four thousand oceans, two thousand oceans one, and a submachine gun, how about I give you a preferential price of forty yuan." ā€

Will talked about the price. Li Han calculated, plus the bullets and shells that needed to be equipped, were less than 100,000 oceans. Originally, Li Han still wanted to buy field artillery, but considering that he is only a battalion commander now, the impact should not be too great, otherwise even if he buys artillery, he will not be able to keep it.

This time he formed a cavalry company is a good example, originally Li Han captured enough horses and weapons to build a cavalry battalion of 300 people, or the kind of one person with two horses. However, he was intercepted by his regimental commander halfway, and he forcibly took more than 400 war horses from him, so that he was overstretched to build a cavalry company.

This is still because Shi Shi'an values Li Han more, and Shi Shi'an has always turned a blind eye to his small actions, if it weren't for the great temptation this time, Shi Shi'an would not have opened his mouth to Li Han and Li Han.

Since withdrawing from the Northeast, Shi Shi'an's cavalry battalion has become smaller and smaller, and by the time of the Battle of Yuguan, there was only one company left. Besides, you Li Hancai is a battalion commander, there is a cavalry battalion, and Shi Shi'an is a regiment commander, but there is only one cavalry company, isn't this a mess. Whoever else is replaced, they will do it.

Moreover, eating alone like this is very taboo in the army, and it is inevitable that the brothers of several other battalions will gossip. Therefore, under the persuasion of the head of the Shi regiment, Li Han unwillingly handed over most of the war horses. Fortunately, Commander Shi was merciful in the end, leaving Li Han with horses that could equip a cavalry company.

In addition to these objective reasons, there is also financial support. Field artillery and mountain artillery are different from mortars, this thing costs tens of thousands of oceans or even hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of oceans at every turn, and with Li Han's current strength, he can't afford to support such a big guy at all.

Let's wait and see! He also had to leave a small treasury for the fourth battalion, knowing that there would be a long time to fight in the future, and the more he went to the rear for troops like them who were not in the central military system, the more difficult it would be to get supplies, and then everything would have to rely on himself.

Li Han basically has no objections to Will's offer, Will's offer is about the same as the market price, and Li Han is now in urgent need of these equipment, especially mortars, and there are no ready-made artillery in his team. However, Wang Wei knows artillery, and he used to be an artilleryman, so Li Han hopes that this batch of weapons will be delivered as soon as possible, and then he can conduct special training.