Chapter 31 Promise to Exchange Weapons
Hunter has been really busy these days. Not only did they have to send a telegram to lawyers in the United States, but they also had to contact Cantorolla in the name of the CIA, asking them to immediately prepare another 50 walkie-talkies. After following Zhao Zhi to the South Bank Villa, Hunter, a guy who saw the seams, finally caught up with Song Meiling after giving a valuable gift. Through Soong Meiling's relationship, Hunter showed Chiang Kai-shek the Garand rifle, although this new rifle is strictly ordered by the United States to be exported, but Hunter has his own channels, as long as Chiang Kai-shek's order is not super large, he has a way to follow.
The cost of Garand was sold by Hunter at a sky-high price, and the factory price was only a few dozen dollars, and Garand was sold several times the price by him, poor Chiang Kai-shek and the people in the national army did not know that they had fallen into Hunter's calculations, Garand is a 7.62 caliber bullet, and any kind of firearm in China is not of this caliber, that is to say, once Chiang Kai-shek ordered a Garand rifle, he had to buy bullets from Hunter in a steady stream, otherwise the Garand rifle ordered back was a burning stick.
As for the problem of the consumption of bullets by Zhao Zhi's mercenaries, Hunter has already thought of countermeasures, the next batch of cargo ships transporting weapons and ammunition will bring a production line of 7.62 caliber bullets, Hunter believes that Zhao Zhi must have a place to place this production line, once this bullet production line is settled in China, Hunter can basically sit at home and count the money. The establishment of the bullet production line, Hunter and Zhao Zhi discussed it privately on the first day he arrived in Chongqing, according to Zhao Zhi's idea, it was arranged in the control area of *** or the national control area of Xi'an, only in this way could Zhao Zhi get the bullet supply in time.
After the weapons and ammunition of Hunter and Dai Li arrived at the training camp, the weapons and equipment that Chiang Kai-shek had promised long ago were also shipped one after another, and in terms of personnel structure, Zhao Zhi's 600 mercenaries were basically the same as the 1,500 people of the national army, all of which were the structure of brigades, squadrons, and squads, but there were fundamental differences in weapon configuration. In addition to the full-time sniper team, the mercenaries under Zhao Zhi are all automatic firepower, either submachine guns, light machine guns or Garand rifles, and the 1500** of the national army are still bolted Mauser 98K rifles, and there are not many submachine guns and pistols, which makes Zhao Zhi a little annoyed.
The elite soldiers who have worked hard and worked hard to train have to carry bolt-action rifles to fight with the enemy in the end, and this kind of firepower configuration cannot play their level of combat at all, even if it is to give some German-style P40 submachine guns, it is better than a bolt-action rifle with a bolt and a bolt. Zhao Zhi, who couldn't bear to watch these soldiers go to death in vain, had to take up the idea of other national army troops, and while the troops were still in the weapon run-in stage, he secretly took Luo Ying to find Dai Li's help.
"What you say is true? Can we really take that place, and you take that place? Zhao Zhi's sincerity was not insignificant, except for Dai Li, who had never been angry, he could sit still, and several other officers of the national army in the room all exclaimed. Zhao Zhi's sincerity was to promise to take the target they designated in Shanxi for the national army, you must know that on the Shanxi battlefield, the Japanese army is now very strong, not only the national army Jin Sui army, but also the always tough Eighth Route Army is a little unbearable. Not to mention recovering the lost territory, as long as you can hold on to the Japanese attack, you will be praised and promoted by the chairman.
If it is really as cooperative as Zhao Zhi said, with the help of Zhao Zhi's power to regain the lost territory from the Japanese army, it will not be a compliment from the old man, it is very likely that he will be promoted to one level immediately, and it may even be several levels, Zhao Zhi's promise is really tempting. The generals who were invited by Dai Li were all generals of the national army who were good friends with him on weekdays, although they were only school officers, but if they really agreed to Zhao Zhi's plan, as long as they applied to be transferred to the Shanxi battlefield, with Zhao Zhi's help, they might become generals in a few years.
"Why, you don't believe in the strength of my mercenaries?" Zhao Zhi smiled and took a sip of his coffee, and nestled a little lazily in the sofa and stopped talking. Zhao Zhi took dozens of mercenaries to do something in Shanxi, the officers present all knew, and these enthusiastic young officers have long admired Zhao Zhi, today Dai Li summoned them to come over under the guise that Zhao Zhi was coming, otherwise Dai Li would not have gathered so many young officers in his own home, you know, the most annoying thing for Chiang Kai-shek is that his generals gather together.
"The soldiers in my training camp lack automatic weapons, explosives and pistols, you first mobilize some of them from their respective units to me, as long as my people enter the territory of Shanxi, the captured Japanese-style heavy firepower will be yours, and I also promise to shoot for each of you once, as long as I don't let me hit Taiyuan City, other places are easy to say" Zhao Zhi's words were a little big, but the officers present didn't think so. They all have a certain number of automatic weapons in the troops guarding Chongqing, Chongqing is far away from the war zone, and the automatic weapons in their hands are not used at all, and it is not impossible to transfer them to Zhao Zhi.
"This is the list of the number of weapons I need, as long as I make up enough of the above quantity" Zhao Zhi, who had not spoken for a long time, took out a piece of paper from his pocket and slapped it on the table. The number of weapons on the list was carefully considered by Zhao Zhi, and considering the mixed weapons of the Chongqing Guard, Zhao Zhi only indicated the number of submachine guns and pistols on the list, but did not indicate the model of the required firearm. It is simply impossible to get thousands of Thomson and 1911 pistols in the national army units that are also short of weapons, so Zhao Zhi can only ask for the quantity but not the model.
"I made 20 Thomson submachine guns and 25 Mauser fast and slow machine guns"
"I have 30 P38s and 30 shell guns."
"I sent out 50 Thomson submachine guns, which were a batch of smuggled arms intercepted a few days ago, but there were not a few pistols."
The officers summoned by Dai Li squeezed toothpaste and poured out their own family funds, people are selfish, although they believe in Zhao Zhi's ability very much, but let them give Zhao Zhi all their family funds, this is not possible at all. "You guys, Boyuan is giving you a future for nothing, you are still so perfunctory, I, who are not involved in the border, have supported Boyuan 50 Czech light machine guns" In the end, Dai Li spoke, and Zhao Zhicai successfully got a batch of automatic firearms, although it was still a little short of his ultimate goal, it was better than nothing.