Chapter Seventy-Five: Gifts and Requests

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This meeting between the two armies benefited the Central Red Army a lot. Hu Weidong immediately supported more than 7,000 rifles, more than 300 light and heavy machine guns, and 5 million rounds of rifle machine gun ammunition of the Red First Army, and also expressed his willingness to send instructors to train special forces, engineers, and other types of troops for the fraternal troops. For these students, Hu Weidong specifically requires that their education level should not be lower than that of high primary school, otherwise even if they are experienced in a hundred battles, they will have to spend time teaching literacy and arithmetic before they can start professional training, which will be too inefficient

The next day, Hu Weidong also invited the chiefs to visit the product display of the Gongxian Arsenal, and Taizu and Peng, Lin and other generals were all experts, and they were full of praise after seeing it. Whether it is the "conscienceless cannon" and flat-firing mortar produced because of simplicity, or the Type 24 semi-automatic rifle that has reached the advanced level of Shijie, it has opened their eyes. The appearance and workmanship are extremely simple, but the performance is far better than the flower mechanism, and the magazine can also be used with 20 rounds of the "cheapest submachine gun in history" Type 24 submachine gun is even more so that those experienced red generals have become problematic primary school students one by one, the Red Army has always loved submachine guns, if this submachine gun is really so cheap, doesn't it mean that the Red Army can be equipped in a large area in the future, it is exciting to think about.

But Mr. Zhu, who has rarely led the troops in person, is much calmer, and said with a little regret after reading it, "Even if the gun is cheap, the problem of bullets can't be bypassed, the submachine gun consumes bullets too quickly, and the kind of two-four rifle you made has the same problem, which is good, but the speed of consuming ammunition is also much faster than the rifle we are equipped with now, if there is too much equipment, no matter how much ammunition is captured, it will not be enough." In fact, it is the flying thunder cannon that is the closest to the current situation of our army."

Hu Weidong said with a smile, "Don't worry too much about bullets, this year, the Gongxian Arsenal will strive to produce 200 million rounds of guns to eject, and next year it will reach more than 300 million rounds, and the total of our Red Army will be less than 400,000, as long as it is not too wasteful, it should be enough." ”

Peng Lin and the others were immediately overjoyed, but Mr. Zhu was much kinder, "There are more than 200,000 people in the Red Eighth Army, and they need much more bullets than the First Army, you two don't think that Xiao Li is young and easy to bully." ”

"The Red Army in the world is one family, and it is natural for us to communicate with each other, and our troops' fighting style consumes more bullets, but it is no problem to take out 5 million rounds of ammunition to support our brother troops this year. In addition, we can also transfer part of the production line to the Shaanxi base area, so that the army on the one side can at least be self-sufficient in bullets. It's just that you need to send someone to pick it up yourself, and the task of R&D and production in the arsenal is too heavy to spare that manpower. Hu Weidong admitted frankly.

General Peng, General Lin, Xu Haidong and other Red Army generals were all overjoyed when they heard this, and Hu Weidong simply brushed his reputation in the army on the one hand to worship

In addition, Hu Weidong also handed over to Taizu the "Code of Conduct for All Arms of the Chinese National Defense Force," which he co-compiled with Sun Liren, and was immediately highly praised by him. Later, Taizu also took the time to personally write an introduction to it, and Luo Ronghuan and other outstanding political workers also put forward many opinions and suggestions in his field of expertise, so that this important military work was finalized and began to be printed and published in July of this year, becoming the most important military textbook of the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. It is precisely with this solid foundation that the people's army was able to make the little devils suffer greatly when the weaponry, individual quality, and even ammunition and strength of the Japanese army were inferior to the Japanese army in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

Of course, Hu Weidong did not help in vain, and he unceremoniously made several requests to the central government that he had wanted to haode for a long time:

First, the speed of expansion of the Eighth Army of the Red Army was too fast, and there was a serious shortage of officers, especially military commanders at the political and battalion and regimental levels, so Hu Weidong exchanged more than 20,000 captured soldiers who had not yet been converted to the First Army more than 1,000 veteran Red Army and political work cadres who had experienced the Long March, which greatly enhanced the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the troops.

Second, Henan was seriously plagued by bandits, and Hu Weidong asked the central authorities to transfer Comrade He Changgong, who was good at educating and transforming people in the green forest, to the Eighth Army of the Red Army, which was specially responsible for recruiting and educating the bandits from all walks of life.

Third, Hu Weidong asked Su Buqing and other mathematicians to develop a mechanical decoder that can automatically decipher the code, although some results have been achieved, but it is still far from his expectations, Hu Weidong's view on this is that these mathematicians have not even been exposed to code before, and their practical experience is seriously insufficient, so he asked the Central Committee to transfer Zeng Xisheng, the best code expert in the party and director of the Second Bureau (Intelligence Bureau), to lead the project in the Soviet District of Western Henan, which was approved by the Central Committee.

First, under the leadership of Zeng Xisheng, the automatic decoder was finally successfully developed at the end of 1937 and continuously improved in the following years, making indelible contributions to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War; The second is that Zeng Xisheng was positioned as his most suitable Jishu cadre from then on, and did not become an administrative cadre for whom he was incompetent, as in history, thus avoiding the tragedy in history; Third, the vacant seat vacated by Zeng Xisheng was taken over by Li Kenong, thus enabling this historical "king of agents" to ascend to the most suitable post for him ten years ahead of schedule, thus raising the already excellent intelligence work of the Red Party to a higher level, so that there was a saying at home and abroad that "no one in the world can understand the Red Army."

Fourth, although the conditions in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Soviet Region and the Red Army were difficult, there were still many progressive intellectuals who threw themselves into the revolution, and they were basically under the direct leadership of the Central Committee. Hu Weidong had long been greedy for this, and after this meeting, he cheekily asked the central authorities to transfer those science and engineering talents to the western Henan Soviet region on the grounds that the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Soviet Region lacked equipment and instruments, so as to further enhance its already leading domestic scientific and technological research and development and industrial production capacity. Taizu, who has always been bold, naturally will not be stingy, he waved his hand and said, "Yes, all the experts are at your disposal, and if necessary, you can take them all away, and the intellectuals from the white area will also be sent to Luoyang first." ”

"Chairman Xiexie!" Although the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border area is not as talented as he robbed everywhere, there are also domestic first-class experts and scholars such as Zhu Zuoqi, and there are more talents from the white area in the future