There were more weapons and ammunition, and Hu Weidong immediately expanded the army without hesitation, and recruited all the teenagers who had joined the militia team before but were brushed down by him, so that the strength of the militia team exploded to more than 70 people, but not to mention the new soldiers, even the so-called "veterans" of the militia team generally lacked training, although Hu Weidong has been strict, but it will take a lot of time to train them

Relying on the joint efforts of Hu Weidong and the militiamen, in the following three days, the militia further expanded its scope of activities, including areas of more than two townships into the joint defense system, and the total population under its jurisdiction exceeded the 10,000 mark for the first time, during which the militia eliminated five reactionary militia groups, killed 266 prisoners, and quickly developed into a militia of 374 (another 56 wounded soldiers and 82 prisoners who have not yet been converted), 12 pistols, 286 rifles, The powerful (relatively speaking) armed Liliang with 4 light machine guns, and with the support of everyone, it was reorganized into a more formal militia company, with three platoons and nine squads, and its strength was greatly enhanced. More importantly, after the victories in the battles, the cohesion of the whole army was also greatly enhanced, even those soldiers who had been converted from prisoners began to be proud of being a member of the militia company, and the villagers began to really regard it as a dependence, rather than just because they needed a spiritual sustenance, as at the beginning, which can be seen from the fact that everyone began to call Hu Weidong "Company Commander Hu" instead of the former "Comrade Commissioner".

After the militia platoon was expanded into a militia company, the equipment and "heavy artillery" buried in the Red Army Arsenal mentioned by Liu Hai before suddenly became important, but the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. First of all, the so-called heavy artillery is actually just an old 75mm field howitzer, and that's it, and the worst thing is that it has no shells at all

According to Liu Hai, this "heavy artillery" was captured in the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression battle, but when the main Red Army began the Long March, it really couldn't think of a way to keep up with the team with this big guy of more than 2,000 pounds, Zuihou could only give up, if it weren't for the cadres and employees of the arsenal who were reluctant to destroy this most powerful artillery since the establishment of the Red Army artillery unit, it would have been a pile of scrap metal now

"But a cannon without shells, no matter how powerful it is, is still scrap metal!" , Hu Weidong said unceremoniously.

Liu Hai explained that the Red Army's arsenal was actually capable of making artillery shells (although the production efficiency and quality were miserable), and that there were no shells here because the shells of this field gun could be used in conjunction with mountain artillery, so naturally its shells were taken away for those mountain artillery that could move with the army. When Hu Weidong heard this, he was happy at first, but Liu Hai immediately said that it was the former arsenal, but now most of the equipment is gone, and it is either taken away by the Red Army or blown up, and it is almost impossible to build a 75mm grenade with such a little equipment preserved here

"According to this, this is still scrap iron", Hu Weidong couldn't help but have a black line, sure enough, as the grandfather said back then, the older generation of military workers are all stingy ghosts, and they have always been poor, even if they are tattered, they are reluctant to throw it away

But after all, Hu Weidong is a Shijie-level military genius, and he also knows the history of our party's military industry very well, after spending half a day to complete the overhaul and testing of those residual military equipment, Hu Weidong found that they are not worthless, at least he can use these equipment to piece together a production line that uses empty bullet shells to reload bullets, and the production efficiency can reach more than 1,000 rounds per worker per month, if he can get a more powerful engine and obtain a stable supply of energy and raw materials, In the future, it will be possible to produce bullets completely autonomously

"1,000 per person per month? Or at least? Xiao Li, don't talk about it, there were hundreds of people in our arsenal back then, and we only reloaded more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition in two years", Liu Hai said unconvinced. …,

"I can make a military order, as long as Lao Liu can get me the materials I need, in addition, this production line is very convenient to disassemble, handle and assemble, even if the enemy is coming, it can be quickly transferred without falling into the hands of the enemy." , Hu Weidong smiled confidently.

In fact, the method that Hu Weidong thought of was the kind of bullet reloading production line that Wu Yunduo, the "Chinese Baoer" in the history of copycating, had built in the arsenal of the Second Division of the New Fourth Army. In fact, the bullet reloading production line designed by Wu Yunduo back then can allow a production team composed of eight workers to reload 600,000 rounds of ammunition every year, although in reality because bullet casings and propellants are often not fully supplied, and the arsenal has to be frequently transferred due to the threat of the enemy, and later it was assigned to manufacture mortar shells, anti-aircraft guns and other topics that need to be tackled and occupy a large number of manpower, and on average, it can produce more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition a year, but just by greatly saving labor and making the equipment easy to disassemble and handle, it can complete the Central Red Army Guantian Arsenal where Bang Hai originally worked

"Bullet casings are not difficult to do, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of them can be picked up by mobilizing the villagers to pick up on the previous battlefield, but the gunpowder is a little more troublesome, unless the requirements are lowered and black powder is used," Liu Hai said worriedly.

"Black powder is not good, the damage to the barrel is too great, and the range is short, the power is small, the accuracy is poor, the most terrible thing is that the barrel has to be cleaned after shooting", Hu Weidong couldn't help but shake his head, changed his original plan, "I want to find a way to capture the explosives from the enemy, before that, let's try to get such a thing out."

"Is this a bayonet? Well, yes, although it looks a little weird, it is indeed a sharp weapon for killing", Liu Hai looked at the sketch drawn by Hu Weidong and exclaimed.

For militia companies with insufficient bullets, close combat is unavoidable, considering that most of the national army is afraid of white-knuckle combat, sometimes militia companies even take the initiative to engage in white-knuckle combat, but the rifles captured from those returning regiments are basically not equipped with bayonets, so they can only build their own. But this is not necessarily a bad thing, the lethality of the triangular military stab is much more lethal than the sword-shaped bayonets that were common in this era, and it is not easy to damage, if it can be equipped with a large number of troops, it will definitely play a great role. In addition, it is worth mentioning that considering that white-edged stabbing was still very common on the Chinese battlefield in this era, and the 38 style and the sword-shaped bayonet used by the Japanese army, the main opponent of the stabbing in the future, were particularly long, and they had a great advantage in stabbing, so Hu Weidong specially lengthened the original three-edged military spur a lot, which played a miraculous effect in the later war against Japan