"Quick! Don't stop. Shanhaiguan, an officer stood at the entrance of the pass, looking at the convoy lined up in a long line, and shouted anxiously in his heart.

The Japanese moved so quickly that Wang Sirui was not fully prepared at all.

Although Wang Sirui had long expected that the Japanese would not be indifferent to his troop transfer, he did not expect that the Japanese would move troops so quickly.

The two veteran Japanese divisions, plus one North Korean division, made Wang Sirui feel great pressure for a while. There are too many recruits on his side, and his combat effectiveness has dropped by more than one grade, which is only one of the reasons, and more importantly, Wang Sirui does not have a rifle in his hands, and now the troops on the front line, there is almost a division of troops without any weapons.

The 2nd and 20th Divisions in the capital totaled more than 36,000 people, but these two divisions also lacked the necessary weapons and equipment, which was the most deadly.

Although the arsenal was close to replenishing, the equipment situation of the 2nd and 20th Divisions had been somewhat improved, but in the same way, the shortage of weapons was too large for the two divisions to be completely satisfied for a while.

Although there are still several hundred kilometers between the two sides, everyone knows very well that there is no defense between these hundreds of kilometers, and the war will officially start after two days or three days. If that time comes to prepare for war, it will be too late.

Therefore, Wang Sirui had to order the two divisions of the 2nd Division and the 20th Division to be reequipped, and the refitting was carried out in two parts, and all the original Japanese 30 rifles in these two divisions were transported to the front line to arm the troops on the front line.

In this way, at least in a short period of time, the front-line troops can do one shot per person.

The nearly 10,000 Mauser 1898 rifles that had just been replenished were left intact, and the remaining 20,000-odd rifles were temporarily replenished by the old Allied rifles they had captured before, and the remaining part was waiting for the arsenal to make new additions.

On the side of the capital, Wang Shuqi sent people to guard the arsenal almost every day, and every afternoon, he would send people to the arsenal to transport the weapons produced in the past 24 hours away from the armed forces.

Perhaps the only thing that can be thankful is that because of the adoption of the assembly line production model, and the workers in the arsenal are becoming more and more proficient in their work, and the speed of work is getting faster and faster, so the output of the arsenal has been increased again.

At present, the daily production of rifles has increased from about 300 to nearly 400 rifles, and if this progress continues, the monthly production will be about 12,000 rifles. And as the factory continues to produce and the workers become more skilled, this output will increase a little.

The bad news, however, is that even if the manpower is at its peak, the number of existing equipment is unlikely to significantly increase the production of weapons, and the arsenal will have to be expanded to meet the needs in the short term.

It is now a little impossible to buy equipment from the Americans, because the Americans have just sold them three sets of equipment, although two of them are very old and have seriously delayed the production speed, but in the eyes of the Americans, the output of this arsenal is enough for Wang Sirui to protect himself, and the Americans do not want Wang Sirui to expand his strength in the short term.

This idea obviously contradicts the previous agreement between the two sides, but there is no way, and the Americans actually do not want to do it, because the Americans are worried that Wang Sirui's action too quickly will lead to the dissatisfaction of other powers, and then it will bring certain diplomatic difficulties to the United States.

After all, it was the United States that abandoned those powers and quietly supported Wang Sirui, thus obtaining countless benefits.

Therefore, after Wang Shuqi received Wang Sirui's order, he once again found the German Mumo, hoping to introduce 50,000 Mauser rifles and two production lines of rifles and bullets.

Although Germany has just had an unpleasant experience with China, it is obvious that with the coming to power of Wang Sirui, Germany, the country that was the most cruel to the Chinese people before, has become China's partner second only to the United States, and they need a lot of resources, so they dare not embarrass them too much in these aspects.

In one case, Wang Sirui used a tactic of adding fuel to the Germans and Americans, bringing in only a little bit at a time, and it did not make people feel that they could change the current status quo.

This is also one of the reasons why the Germans and Americans will agree to cooperate, if you get the list that Wang Sirui handed over to the Americans, then it will be clear at a glance, there are many equipment on it, but there are few duplicates, and although the output of each set of equipment is the middle and upper class of the same size factory, but compared to a huge country, these outputs are still too small.

In the end, the Germans agreed to Wang Shuqi's request, and in this way, the Mauser factory received the first overseas order for the Mauser 1898 rifle, and the first order for tens of thousands of rifles.

Despite the large scale of production and the large number of technicians in the Mauser Arsenal, it will take at least a month and a half to produce 50,000 rifles. It will take so long for all those equipment and everything, and it will take at least three months for all these things to be shipped to Huaxia, that is to say, Wang Sirui will get these equipment and weapons in September at the earliest.

And by that time, his troops were actually no longer short of weapons and equipment. In three months, the current output of the arsenal was enough to complete the refitting of the 2nd and 20th Divisions.

If we count the 50,000 rifles purchased from Germany, after deducting the battle losses in this battle, we can basically get a statistic that before November, Wang Sirui was able to replace all his troops with Mauser rifles.

However, these do not seem to be within the scope of Wang Sirui's consideration, he only cares about whether he can produce and whether he has such a large output.

While waiting for the Germans' response, the Type 30 rifles of the 2nd and 20th Divisions were loaded into trucks, and this time, the 2nd Division sent a full regiment of men to transport the weapons and ammunition.

"Commander, the brothers haven't rested for much along the way, and people can still hold on for a while, but look at those people and livestock, I'm afraid they can't hold on, why don't we spend the night here? Wait until dawn tomorrow before leaving? Han Zhen wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, walked to the side of the head of the regiment, Qin Chunfeng, and suggested.

"No, after leaving the customs, we will be able to deliver the weapons to the front-line troops at this time at most, if we delay on the road for one more night, what if the front line fights tonight? That's the strength of a division, and none of us can afford this responsibility. Qin Chunfeng directly shook his head and rejected the proposal of the battalion commander under him.

When leaving the capital, Wang Shuqi deliberately found Qin Chunfeng, told him the truth about the situation on the front line, and ordered him to send weapons to Jinzhou as soon as possible, and then his regiment stayed in Jinzhou, as for the people who were temporarily recruited, just let them go back by themselves.

"Sir, you just order to rest for an hour or two before leaving, this person can still hold on, but the livestock really can't hold on, you see, this leg is starting to weaken, panting so heavily, if you don't take a break, I'm afraid these animals will die." A coachman happened to walk up to Qin Chunfeng's side, heard his conversation with his battalion commander, and couldn't help but ask.

"Old man......" Qin Chunfeng just wanted to explain, but unexpectedly, there was chaos not far behind.

Qin Chunfeng, who was frightened by this scene, was not in the mood to continue to explain, and directly stepped up and quickly ran to the place of the incident, he was the highest officer of this escort mission, and he must be responsible for everything.

Half a minute later, Qin Chunfeng squeezed through the crowd and saw the old horse that had fallen to the ground and was lifeless, and everyone knew that this horse was exhausted to death.

The owner of the horse was sitting next to the carcass of the horse, silently wiping his tears, this horse was the source of their family's livelihood, and the whole family was counting on this horse to live, and now that the horse was dead, he didn't even know what to do in the future.

"Uncle, we will compensate you for the silver taels......" Qin Chunfeng looked at it for a long time, and he didn't know how to comfort the people who were sitting on the ground, this horse was equivalent to the foundation of life for him.

Although this is an old horse, even if it does not die here today, it will not live for a few years, and according to the market price of this horse, it is only worth about fifteen taels of silver at most, and the price offered by the Han army is twenty taels of silver.

Of course, this price is not a mouthful, nor is it a uniform price. When these carriages were recruited, Wang Shuqi found more than a dozen traders who were more familiar with livestock to evaluate on the spot, and after many verifications, they came up with a price of only fifteen taels of silver at most, which still took into account the reason why horses were not easy to buy, so the Han army raised five taels of silver as compensation for the death of horses.

Although he could buy a slightly older horse with the money, the question is, where are you going to buy a horse now? Even if you have money, you don't have anywhere to buy it.

Soon, Lian Kuan, the chief of staff of the 10th Regiment, came to the scene with two staff officers, and just heard the words of the regiment commander Qin Chunfeng, so he ordered his staff officers to find the corresponding livestock on the livestock registration book, and wrote the word sudden death on the back, and then wrote another note, and after Lian Kuan signed it himself, he handed the note to Qin Chunfeng, and Qin Chunfeng also signed his name.

Finally, the slip was handed to the old man.

This slip is the proof that he went to ask for twenty taels of compensation after returning to the capital, of course, and the livestock book they took out before was also sent back, and the two corresponded before the capital would give the money.

If the strip is lost, then it will be a little difficult to get the compensation, and he must wait until the troops come back, and Qin Chunfeng and Lian Kuan will testify at the same time before he can pay the compensation.

And the 10th Regiment is going to stay on the front line, and it is still a question whether these two people can come back alive. Therefore, this piece is particularly important.

"After all the customs are out, the team will rest for an hour!" Seeing the sudden death of the horses, Qin Chunfeng finally gave the order to rest for an hour, two horses and a cow had already died along the way, if it continued at this intensity, more livestock would be lost next, and Qin Chunfeng also had to consider the feelings of the people. (To be continued.) )