Chapter 18: Zhang Haipeng ran away
Hearing such a rich accumulation in the warehouse, Jiang Li gasped, in the historical War of Resistance, Lao Jiang's group army was not equipped with many artillery, but he didn't expect that the Northeast Army still had so much inventory when it met the supply of more than 300,000 troops, but fortunately it was snatched back in time, if these arms fell into the hands of those puppet armies, what a disaster would it be for ordinary people?
"What is the current capacity of the arsenal?" Jiang Li asked again, in the past, he had no access to these core data, but now in the name of resisting the Japanese, Jiang Li must also know the general situation of the arsenal for the sake of the war arrangements in the future.
"The arsenal is now able to produce about 58,000 rifles, more than 500 light machine guns, and more than 1,270 heavy machine guns a year. Among them, the light and heavy machine guns are relatively elastic, and if there are enough skilled technicians, there is still a large room for growth. Pistols are on demand. It can produce about 180 million rounds of various types of ammunition. ”
"IN TERMS OF ARTILLERY, IT CAN PRODUCE ABOUT 103 37MM FLAT-FIRE GUNS, ABOUT 97 75MM MOUNTAIN GUNS, ABOUT 59 75MM FIELD GUNS, 17 105MM HOWITZERS, AND 155MM GUNS CAN ALSO BE PRODUCED IN A YEAR, BUT THE NUMBER IS RELATIVELY SMALL, AND IT CAN PRODUCE ABOUT 9 GUNS A YEAR. NOW THE ARSENAL HAS BEGUN TO TRIAL PRODUCE 240MM MORTARS, MOST OF THE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS HAVE BEEN SOLVED, AND THE ARSENAL IS ALSO TRYING TO PRODUCE, AND AT MOST ONE A YEAR WILL REACH THE TOP. Otherwise, it will occupy too many resources and easily affect the production of other weapons. There are now more than 50 thousand rounds of shells of all kinds. ”
"THEN IN TERMS OF MORTARS, IT CAN PRODUCE ABOUT 730 60MM MORTARS, 370 82MM MORTARS, AND ABOUT 90 150MM MORTARS A YEAR. The output can be increased a little more, but it needs enough input, and the same is true for artillery shells, according to the capacity of the machine, it is not a problem to produce four or five hundred thousand rounds a year. Grenades can also be produced more than a million units a year. ”
"Military uniforms and military shoes are also produced, mainly depending on the number of workers, and there is a lot of flexibility in this regard." Chen Jingguo explained the general situation of the arsenal one by one.
"If such an important arsenal were in the hands of the Japanese, the Japanese would have nearly 100,000 rifles, nearly 200 million rounds of ammunition, hundreds of artillery pieces, and hundreds of thousands of shells a year. This is a disaster for the Republic of China, and I don't know what the top thinks, it's really a fucking mess! Jiang Li was so angry that he slapped the table, due to the financial problems in the Northeast, since Zhang Zuolin launched the second Zhifeng War and successfully entered Beijing, military spending has been high, and the production capacity of the arsenal has not been maximized, and even in order to alleviate the financial pressure, Zhang Xueliang also asked the arsenal to receive some private business orders.
At least in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Fengtian Arsenal was put into full production, and under the expansion of production at any cost, several shifts day and night, this data could be expanded by at least more than half. What's more, the arsenal can even build a 24CM mortar gun, this kind of large-caliber artillery technology, for Japan, is also very advanced, indicating that the technology of the Fengtian arsenal at this time is not much inferior to Japan, of course, the most important aircraft, at this time the Republic of China can not find an aircraft that can be designed to compete with the Japanese aircraft.
"Regarding the weapons production materials of the Fengtian Arsenal, you prepare one for me, and prepare another for me, in case the situation in Fengtian changes, these valuable materials must be brought to the Guannai, so as to retain a little more vitality for the military production of the Republic of China." After the anger, Jiang Li sighed heavily.
"Battalion Commander Jiang means that the young marshal may give up the arsenal and give up the Northeast?" Chen Jingguo was shocked.
"It's not possible, it's already given up, the arsenal is the cornerstone of the existence of the Northeast Army, and the young marshal can give an order not to resist, do you think that once such an important thing falls into the hands of the Japanese, don't use troops to snatch it back, do you expect the Japanese to return it automatically? When have you ever seen a Japanese spit out fat that has been eaten in their mouths? Jiang Li said lightly.
"How is this possible, if the young marshal abandons the arsenal, how will the arsenal deal with itself?" Chen Jingguo muttered, obviously Jiang Li's words hit him hard, although he didn't want to believe it from the bottom of his heart, it can be seen that the style of the Japanese, Chen Jingguo also knew that what Jiang Li said was probably the truth, a worrying fact!
"Okay, Director Chen, from today onwards, all the equipment of the arsenal will be dismantled immediately, and all the machinery will be ready to be transported away at any time, even if the Japanese occupy Mukden, this batch of machinery must not fall into their hands." Jiang Yu said in a firm voice.
"Dismantle all machinery, this, this, without the order of the young marshal and the factory director, who dares to dismantle?" Chen Jingguo was embarrassed and said, Jiang Li is just a little-known battalion commander, let alone a battalion commander, even if he is a military commander, without Zhang Xueliang's order, don't want to get things done.
"If I don't see the factory disassembling machinery today, I will let the soldiers blow up all the equipment in the factory, you can do it yourself." The official position is a hard injury, the people in the arsenal are no better than the soldiers, and they are not in the same system at all, Jiang Li knows that it is useless to say too much, so he simply be direct.
"You, you're foolish!" Chen Jingguo was so angry that his beard trembled, the Fengtian Arsenal has consumed more than 200 million times, and it has been on today's scale for nine years, it can be said that it is the crystallization of the joint efforts of the people of the three eastern provinces, and Jiang Li is now saying that it is going to be blown up.
"Executing the order of non-resistance and giving the arsenal to the Japanese is messing around, Director Chen, don't think I'm joking, Zhang Haipeng, that bastard thinks it's great to be the chief of staff, Lao Tzu still doesn't buy his account, even if Zhang Haipeng is here, Lao Tzu dares to say that, maybe he will never come to the arsenal, because Fengtian City is about to be broken by the Japanese army, maybe people have already ripped off their feet and started to run away and give Fengtian City to the Japanese army!" Jiang Li patted the table and stood up and rebuked angrily, "Director Chen, you were promoted by the young marshal, and he has the grace of knowing you, but you should know better that you are first and foremost a Chinese." Do you know how harmful the Japanese occupation of the arsenal was to the Republic of China? ”
"In any case, your order, I refuse to carry it out." Chen Jingguo said insistently.
"Zhao Tieshu!"
"Yes!"
"Give you a company to plant bombs on all the construction and equipment of the arsenal and prepare for blasting!" Jiang Li said with a cold face.
"Yes!" Zhao Tieshu took the order, since he followed Jiang Li to counterattack the Japanese army in Beidaying, he put his future on Jiang Li, or the entire Northeast and the entire Republic of China, not on the young marshal Zhang Xueliang.
"You, you're making trouble!" Chen Jingguo was so angry that the beard on the side of his mouth was straight into it.
"You say yes, that's it, let's start disassembling the equipment now, you can keep some of it, you can weigh it yourself."
"Director Chen, Director Chen, it's not good."
At this time, a young man ran over and said panting, "Tibet, the governor of Tibet Province called and said that the chief of staff, Zhang Haipeng, took all the officials in the staff department, ran away, ran away, and the Japanese army has attacked Fengtian City!" ”
Chen Jingguo's body shook and asked in a staggering manner, "Did Chief of Staff Zhang give any instructions before leaving Mukden?" ”
"Stand up and sacrifice your life for the country!" The young man said with red eyes and astringency, "What kind of mess is this, this is to give up the hard work of the old blood to the Japanese, Director Chen, I, what should we do?" ”