Chapter 43 Beginning to take shape
This unexpected result caused Hu Weidong to think deeply, "In terms of killing efficiency alone, the bayonet is actually not as good as pure cold weapons such as broadsword shuttles, but it is almost impossible for the broadsword team and the shuttle dart team to collapse instantly just by rushing the enemy, it seems that it is worth studying carefully Maybe because before the bayonet, the enemy's psychology was still in a state of adapting to long-range attacks, and it suddenly turned into a bloody and tragic white-knuckle assassination battle, and the weak-willed warriors were psychologically difficult to withstand such a huge change. And if the broadsword team fights, the enemy will know at a glance that it is going to fight white-knuckle combat, and there is enough time for psychological preparation, and firearms will also have a psychological advantage over pure cold weapons, which can partially offset the negative impact of white-knuckle fighting. Therefore, in modern history, there are often examples of hundreds, or even dozens of soldiers, using bayonets (and when individual force does not necessarily have an advantage) to defeat thousands, or even tens of thousands, of enemy troops, but I have never heard of anyone who can rely on broadswords to defeat a hundred."
It was precisely because of the influence of this battle that Hu Weidong paid more attention to the training of the officers and men of the 15 th Red Army in assassination techniques and tactics, and later specially organized the old Red Army, who were better trained and good at white-knives assassination, and some of the "liberation fighters" who were born under Hu Lian in the past, into a regimental-level unit of the 65 th Regiment, which emphasized close and hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat. In the sequence of the Red XV Army, the equipment of this regiment was not the most haode, but their bayonets won them numerous honors, and they were later awarded the glorious title of "Tiger Regiment", of course, this is all a later story
Because Zhao Guantao's family is hugely rich, and it is good to be regarded as the Central Army, and it has just been replaced with new equipment two or three months ago, the equipment of the Eighth Army is actually better than that of the Eighteenth Army of the Central Army, plus the battle was fought very quickly, most of the enemy surrendered, and the Red 15 th Army captured more intact equipment, including 149 heavy machine guns, 512 light machine guns, 12 anti-aircraft machine guns (the Chinese were actually the first to know how to use them to hit ground targets), 12 75mm mountain guns, and 24 82mm mortars, 6 37mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as more than 10,000 German-style rifles and thousands of pistols of various types, the only regret is that the victory in the field generally does not capture too much ammunition, with the increase of artillery, the shells of the Red 15th Army are not enough
But in any case, it is always a good thing to take down almost all of the enemy's artillery undamaged, and during this period, Long Feibao's special combat team has made great contributions, and this embryonic special forces has now grown to more than 500 people, of which 67 have become regular members, although they are still far from Hu Weidong's higher requirements such as "being proficient in at least two foreign languages, being able to drive cars, planes, and ships, and deceiving people without drafting", but they have begun to play an increasingly important role. However, what surprised Hu Weidong even more was that Su Yu understood the special tactics very quickly, and it turned out that in order to survive, the advance division had already practiced a lot of them intentionally or unintentionally, but after all, it was all up to his own exploration, and mistakes and setbacks were inevitable, thinking of the twenty or thirty outstanding Red Army soldiers who sacrificed, Su Yu shed tears after the victory
With Su Yu in (also because the damage in Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Soviet areas is relatively light, the proportion of population is quite reasonable. Hu Weidong was not only able to expand the army faster than before, but also more boldly divided his troops into three routes, with him leading the instructor, Su Yu leading the advance division, and Ye Fei leading the independent division to fight separately, and the efficiency of attacking cities and conquering places suddenly doubled. As a result, by the end of May 35, Yiyang, Hengfeng, Shangrao, Guixi, Yujiang, Wannian, and Dexing in Jiangxi, Kaihua and Qingyuan in Zhejiang, and Wuyuan in Anhui were all recovered, and they also seized the two counties of Guangfeng and Leadshan in Jiangxi outside the former Soviet area, plus the several counties occupied before, the jurisdiction reached a total of 16 counties, and the regular Red Army exceeded 120,000 people. Moreover, it is connected with the Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Soviet regions, forming the largest revolutionary base area since the Agrarian Revolutionary War -- "Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong, and Anhui Border Areas"...,
What made Hu Weidong even happier was that Liu Ding and other surviving cadres and workers of the original Yangyuan Arsenal also got in touch with the Red 15th Army one after another, and dug up those buried machinery and equipment to join the Red 15th Army's arsenal, plus the Red 15th Army Arsenal's own foundation and the previously annexed Northern Fujian Arsenal, as well as some equipment previously traded with the Guangdong warlords, in fact, has begun to take shape, with this good foundation, Hu Weidong has carried out the necessary jishu transformation, and also built a new bullet production line, Since then, the arsenal has been able to produce more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition of various kinds per month, which has exceeded the total production capacity of the arsenals in the base areas during the heyday of the Red Army, and the production capacity and quality of mortars, mortar shells, grenades, mines, and other products have also been greatly improved. More importantly, the cadres and workers of the arsenal have been tempered in the process of renovating and building production lines, laying a solid foundation for the construction of larger and more advanced production equipment in the future
In addition, the arsenal also produced a kind of unsightly, even extremely rudimentary, submachine gun according to the design drawn by Hu Weidong, which is the British Stern submachine gun that has been a headache for both enemies and users in history. The structure of the Stern submachine gun is very simple, and at first glance it seems to consist of tubes of various sizes: the barrel is round, the sleeve is round, the butt is round, and the bolt handle is also a small round tube. It was ridiculed as a "plumber's handiwork" and that the submachine gun had some major flaws in its design. But it also has three great advantages: high power, low cost, and extremely simple production process. In particular, the third point is simply too important for the current Soviet arsenal, the Stern submachine gun can even use an iron tube instead of a steel tube as a barrel, although this will greatly shorten its service life and affect the accuracy of shooting, but for the Soviet arsenal in poor conditions and under the blockade of the enemy, it has practical significance that cannot be ignored.
At the same time, the production of the Stern submachine gun also had low requirements for machinery and equipment and personnel, the former was fully equipped in the arsenal, and the latter was even illiterate and could work competently after simple training. Therefore, it is natural for Hu Weidong to choose this kind of bargain with the worst evaluation among those classic firearms of World War II