After staying at the chariot factory site of the arsenal for a while, Qiao Youhua and Guo Meng went to inspect several factories such as the power plant, the steel mill, and other factories built in the northernmost part of the arsenal.

Although the scale of these factories is still very small, at present, it is enough to use only the production lines of the arsenal.

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If you want to supply power to Pingshan County and even the entire base area, it is far from enough, at this stage, the military is the mainstay, and the infrastructure construction in the future, when New China is established, there will naturally be people to build it, and everything will be better.

What Qiao Youhua and the four brothers need to do is to do their best to fight the Japanese devils for the sake of the motherland and the Chinese nation, strive to drive the Japanese devils out of China before 1945, and after the end of this great patriotic war, get more war reparations for the whole of China and the favorable factors for its rise.

For example, the position of a great power, the right to speak in the international community, etc., and this qiē corresponds to a strong military strength.

Therefore, Qiao Youhua will do their best to use the advantages of their traverser to fight for the development and growth of China's military strength, and after fighting the devils, their military duty and mission will be completed.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed quickly, and the establishment of the tank factory has come to an end, and production is imminent.

In the past half month, the regiments, battalions, and other garrison units of the Dragon's Tooth Column have also been effectively rested and recuperated, and their vitality has basically recovered.

In particular, the 2nd and 3rd Regiments, after half a month's rest, summed up the combat experience in the last transportation campaign, and further integrated the expanded troops, so that those captured recruits were more integrated into the collective of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and the combat effectiveness of the troops was greatly improved compared with before.

"Commander, I came to you today mainly because I have two ideas that I want to discuss with you." In the conference room of the column headquarters in the county town, Guo Meng, who was dressed in a gray-blue military uniform, looked very energetic, smiling, and came to Qiao Youhua.

Qiao Youhua was smoking a cigarette and was talking to Jiang Haidong, the head of the regiment who rushed back from the front of Lingshou County, when he heard the voice, he smiled at Guo Meng and waved his hand: "Oh, political commissar, you came just in time, sit down and talk." ”

Jiang Haidong hurriedly got up with a smile and saluted Guo Meng, Guo Meng smiled and saluted back, then motioned for Jiang Haidong to sit down, and then sat down himself.

After sitting down, Qiao Youhua asked, "Political commissar, you just said that you have two ideas, what are the ideas, let's hear them." ”

Guo Meng said: "That's right, first of all, the chariot factory of our arsenal is almost complete, and according to the construction of British and German engineers such as Johnson and Adru, we can already start preparing for the construction of the artillery factory."

Second, in the past period of time, all our units have received a rare rest, and now the situation of all units has tended to be stable, and judging from the speed of establishing tank factories, at most one to two months, the entire expansion of our arsenals will be completed, and by that time, new weapons, artillery, tanks and armored vehicles, military trucks, and other weapons and equipment will be produced in a steady stream.

Therefore, I believe that new recruits should be recruited in advance to prepare for the next step of the reorganization and expansion of the troops, after all, the recruitment and training of soldiers is more time-consuming and labor-intensive than the production of equipment! ”

Listening to Guo Meng's analysis, Qiao Youhua and Jiang Haidong couldn't help but nod in agreement, because this time Jiang Haidong came back to Pingshan, the base camp of the Longya Base Area, just to probe Qiao Youhua's tone and see how the troops should be expanded in the future, after all, his main regiment has now become the least troop among the three regiments.

Jiang Haidong understood that Qiao Youhua's arrangement must be temporary, and he must have his plans, so the two of them were discussing this issue just now, and Qiao Youhua also asked Jiang Haidong's opinion in this regard.

Qiao Youhua waited for Guo Meng to finish speaking, nodded and said with a smile: "Political Commissar Guo, don't hide it, I and the first regiment commander were discussing these issues just now, it seems that we are thinking of one place, so let's do it, the task of preparing for the construction of the artillery factory is still entrusted to you, and the matter of recruiting recruits in advance will be handed over to the chief and deputy commanders of their main regiments in Haidong."

Also, I already have a preliminary idea for the next step of the expansion of our dragon tooth column, and I will write it out when I go back, and you can send it to the head of the headquarters for me, and see their opinions, if there are no accidents, we can also expand it logically. ”

Guo Meng was a little surprised, but he didn't expect Qiao Youhua to think of it with him, and immediately got up and said happily: "Okay, please rest assured, commander, I will definitely try my best to do this well, as for the head of the headquarters, I think it shouldn't be a big problem, after all, if we develop well, we can also directly and effectively support the development and growth of other brother troops, strengthen the overall strength of our Eighth Route Army, and make another contribution to the War of Resistance against Japan, and kill more devils!" ”

After sending Guo Meng away, Qiao Youhua said to Jiang Haidong: "Haidong, don't rush back tonight, don't worry if the army has a knife with you, stay, our brother has a good drink and two cups." ”

Jiang Haidong nodded and said, "Okay, no problem, our brothers have indeed not drunk together for a long time, if only Wu Ming and Ma Biao could also come." ”

Qiao Youhua smiled: "I'm afraid the two of them won't be able to come back for the time being, now that the two of them have become the actual division commanders, they are very busy, and the captive soldiers of those gangs really have to be rectified and rectified, otherwise they won't be used in the future, but it will be troublesome." ”

"However, there are also people to accompany the wine tonight, German Yadru, this guy has urged me many times in the past half a month to ask me for the design drawings, I am in a hurry, and finally got it out for him, give it to him tonight, by the way, invite him to drink a good drink, in the end, this transportation plan, he did help us a lot.

Otherwise, how could our base area have such a good development! ”

"Dragon King, I'm afraid you're not just for that, right?" Jiang Haidong looked at Qiao Youhua with a smile that seemed to be understanding.

Qiao Youhua smiled knowingly and said: "A few of our brothers, you still know me, you have also seen that although our arsenal has been built, almost all of the skilled workers are British, Germans, these guys are all unprofitable guys, the reason why they are willing to stay in this deep mountain and old forest to work is nothing more than the salary we give."

However, our own people are extremely short of all kinds of knowledge and technical personnel, which is caused by the weakness of the entire nation in the past 100 years, and it can never be changed overnight.

If we want to change, we can't do it on our own, we have to rely on external forces, the Germans estimate that they should have launched a war plan to invade everywhere, Hitler, a war maniac, would not believe the Jews, and among the Jews there are quite a few of our workers, technicians, even scientists and other intellectuals, and these are what we urgently need.

So, for the time being, we still have to build a good relationship with the Germans, so that we can facilitate future recruitment plans! Although we have a temporary relationship with the Germans because of interests, it is still necessary to have a good relationship with people like Adru, who are actually in contact. ”

"Well, I see, it's really necessary." Jiang Haidong nodded approvingly and said, "Don't worry, tonight will definitely bring down all these Germans." ”