In addition, the versatility of guns and ammunition in this era is very poor, and even if the bullets of rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns are exactly the same, they often cannot be used due to different ammunition supply methods. In order to ensure the firepower of the machine guns, the arsenal had to spare the manpower to put the rifle bullets into the empty magazines and chains one by one, which consumed more labor than reloading bullets

In desperation, Hu Weidong had to ask the machine gunners to be as economical as possible, and if they could shoot short, they should not play long shots. In addition, those grass-roots commanders who basically use less than 20 bursts of fire can only look at the pistol team members and commandos with greed (the weapons are a flower machine, a single-shot pistol and a large knife, and the magazine of the flower mechanism can be used with 20 rounds. They took all the original Mauser pistol cartridges to themselves

In any case, it is not a bad thing that bullets can be reloaded, and in addition to the fact that there is a lot of surplus equipment and materials seized, and more than a dozen technicians from the former Guantian Arsenal who left behind to fight guerrillas after the main force of the Red Army left and survived came to vote one after another, so that the jishuliliang of the arsenal was greatly enhanced, so Hu Weidong quickly developed several new products with relatively simple production processes in addition to bayonets and reloading bullets, namely grenades with wooden handles, blasting canisters, mortar shells, and mines

The structure of the wooden-handled grenade is similar to that of the most commonly used Gongzao grenade during the Anti-Japanese War, and its power is slightly inferior because of the cheap ammonium nitrate explosive as the main agent, but because of Hu Weidong's extreme attention (he even gave a very precious pocket watch to the arsenal for testing) and the strict management system, the quality of the grenades made by the arsenal has always been very reliable. The detonation time error of its fuse does not exceed 0.2 seconds (2.8 seconds - 3.2 seconds), so that soldiers can boldly wait for two or three seconds before throwing, so that the grenade explodes in the air as much as possible, which greatly enhances the lethality of the enemy, and performs better than the grenades of Gong Zao and Jin Zao in actual combat. After Shiyan's success, Hu Weidong took the chairman's famous quote "A spark can start a prairie fire" and named it a "Xinghuo" grenade

The blaster was basically eliminated in later generations, but it was a very practical weapon until the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea. In terms of design ideas, Hu Weidong borrowed from the 98-type blasting canister used by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War, which can not only be used by the demoman, but also can be used as a 60mm mortar shell (in order to increase the power, you can even attach a grenade, or even a blasting canister, the lethality is very amazing, but the range and accuracy are a little bit, but it has a miraculous effect against the enemy groups that charge densely and the enemy hiding in the fortifications. ), the charge is 3 kg, the shell is an all-steel structure, and the explosive power is greater than that of a 75mm shell, but due to the lack of steel, it cannot be mass-produced for the time being

The content of mortar shells and the demand for materials are not high, with the talent and equipment of the arsenal and Hu Weidong's guidance, it is not difficult to make it, but the production speed is painful, but Hu Weidong's flat-firing transformation of a mortar still makes Liu Hai admire. With the flat-firing artillery, the militia company will be much less difficult to attack in the future, and the artillery of the militia company in addition to the conventional mortar shells, there are more powerful blasting canisters than ordinary mortar shells available, theoretically speaking, as long as it is not a reinforced concrete permanent fortification that can prevent heavy artillery, the militia company can be easily destroyed

The manufacture of mines is simpler, as long as there are enough materials, even handicraft workshops can produce them in large quantities, but Hu Weidong did not ask the arsenal to produce much, because the army is now mainly offensive, not to mention all kinds of mines made of grenades, blasting canisters and even rifle bullets improvised to use. However, in order to start the Jishu reserve as soon as possible, the arsenal produced a complete range of mines, such as trip mines, stepping mines, anti-engineer mines, anti-tank (vehicle) mines, delayed mines, and stone mines (including land mines with various civilian containers such as porcelain jars as shells, Hu Weidong himself does not know how to use them much, but just sets an example for the armed forces in the base areas in the future. is everything...,

By the end of January 35, the militia company had controlled more than eighty percent of the villages and nearly thirty percent of the towns in Xingguo County, with a population of more than 60,000 people, seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, and obtained a large number of soldiers from the villages and towns under its control and the rescued miners. More importantly, dozens of Red Army soldiers and party members who had escaped the enemy's hunting and hiding in various villages came one after another to join him. It was precisely because of the addition of these backbone cadres and the massive amount of weapons and ammunition that Hu Weidong's troops were frantically expanded, but their combat effectiveness increased instead of decreasing, and in just one month, they changed from a company to a regiment

Relying on the capture of previous battles, the militia regiment at this time already had 1,236 rifles (including 1,184 7.92mm German rifles including the Hanyang-made Type 88), 3 heavy machine guns, 10 light machine guns, 22 submachine guns, 99 20-rounds, and 104 single-shot pistols. There are more than 50,000 rounds of rifle machine gun ammunition, more than 10,000 pistol rounds, more than 100 grenades, and 356 bayonets, and there are 2,549 people on the staff, as well as 156 wounded soldiers who are recovering and 127 prisoners who still need ideological education. The scale of the arsenal has also been expanded, with a total of 132 cadres and employees

Although Hu Weidong has never shown the banner of the Red Army, the land in Xingguo County has in fact been almost occupied, and if the old men in the county town have not noticed, they are too dull. But even so, Hu Weidong's Taoguang Yanghui still had an effect, thinking that the militia regiment was only an armed group of bandits and the number of people was limited in the national army's security brigade commander was worried that the detachment commander of the biedong team would take the opportunity to completely empty himself, so he was willing to send a regiment to follow him to the countryside to suppress the bandits, although the detachment commander was a little dissatisfied, but he thought that he had more than 400 well-trained and well-equipped biedong members, as well as a security regiment of more than 1,000 people, and reinforced with submachine guns, machine guns and mortars. The combat effectiveness is stronger than a regiment of the regular army, no matter how powerful that bandit is, it should be easy to deal with it.

However, the expansion of the scope of control of the militia regiment not only represents an increase in income and military resources, but also means that the intelligence network is larger and denser, especially now that the militia regiment has also captured some horses, it is faster and more convenient to transmit information between villages and towns, so the reinforced regiment of the national army has just entered the control area of the militia regiment, Hu Weidong learned the news, and set up an ambush circle in a good time