A few days ago, Wang Haitao had just come to the arsenal, but because of the tight time, Wang Haitao only learned about the situation in the factory from the director of Rolf, and did not go to the production workshop to see. The director of the Rolf factory, who received Wang Haitao, naturally would not refuse Wang Haitao's request, and accompanied Wang Haitao to the special artillery production workshop first.

Now the Longzhou Arsenal is not only capable of producing mortars of various calibers, but also is mass-producing such artillery after the imitation of the German 75 mm caliber field gun, and not only that, but the technical department has also begun the imitation of the German 105 caliber howitzer. Rolf and the German mechanics in the factory are basically from the German Krupp company, and they also have a soft spot for artillery, and in their opinion, an arsenal that cannot produce high-quality artillery cannot be regarded as a real arsenal.

Rolf told Wang Haitao that the arsenal can produce ten 75 field guns a month at full capacity, but the reserve of raw materials is only enough for the arsenal to produce at full capacity for half a year. All the raw materials for the Zhuzhu Arsenal were transported by the United States once every six months, and now as soon as Guangzhou fell into the hands of the Japanese, the raw materials could not be delivered.

If it was only an occupation and blockade on land, Wang Haitao would naturally find a way to break the blockade, but in the face of the Japanese blockade on the sea, Wang Haitao could not do anything. So Wang Haitao told the director of the Rolf factory to suspend the production of artillery first, and the existing raw materials should first ensure the production of various bullets and shells. Without bullets and shells, the best weapons are just a pile of scrap metal.

Wang Haitao's confession made Rolf more aware that raw materials would become more and more scarce, so Rolf immediately ordered the artillery workshop to be shut down, the existing mortars were no longer sold, and the factory's production focus shifted to bullets and shells. As for the raw materials of the arsenal, Wang Haitao didn't have much to do, only thinking that he would have the opportunity to go to Shanghai again and think of a way through Shanghai's Lihe Foreign Bank.

However, this is a matter to be done in the future, and now I have to go back to the arms warehouse again as soon as possible and bring back all the weapons and ammunition I need. Thinking of this, Wang Haitao couldn't sit still, and after inspecting the inventory of the arsenal, Wang Haitao, who knew it, said goodbye to Rolf and left the arsenal. Then Wang Haitao went to the hospital to visit the soldiers who had not yet recovered from Jiujiang and comforted them before leaving the hospital.

Originally, Wang Haitao wanted to go to the pharmaceutical factory again, but the pharmaceutical factory was still on the side of Menghu Mountain, dozens of kilometers away from Longzhou County, and it was not early, so he could only go another day. Wang Haitao, who returned home, took the excuse of going to get some raw materials for the arsenal, and told Fenggu and Longzi that he would go out for a while. After going to the barracks the next day, Wang Haitao also told Su Zuxin and others for the same reason that he would go out for a while.

Wang Haitao told Su Zuxin and the others that he was just going to Guangzhou City to explore the road once, and he could go alone, but it was not safe if there were many people. So there is no need to bring someone to go, Su Zuxin and others know that Wang Haitao is not just going to Guangzhou to explore the way, but it is related to Wang Haitao's secret, Wang Haitao is reluctant to reveal it, so they naturally don't want to ask more.

The next day, Wang Haitao left the county seat of Longzhou in civilian clothes, with only a pistol and a dagger. Two days later, Wang Haitao, who was familiar with the road, came to the gate of the munitions warehouse again, where nothing has changed for more than a year, except that the forest has become more dense. Entering the arms warehouse, Wang Haitao went straight to the second warehouse where heavy weapons were stored.

Now in Longzhou, there is no shortage of light weapons, and the most lacking is artillery and chariots, so Wang Haitao's focus this time is on the heavy weapons in the warehouse. In the second warehouse, Wang Haitao first put the remaining 30 130 mm caliber 59-1 cannons, as well as 26 Type 66 152 mm caliber howitzers, 26 122 mm caliber 54-1 howitzers, and a large number of shells into the storage ring.

Next, there are 100 85 mm caliber Type 56 cannons, which use howitzer shells with a maximum range of 15,600 meters, far surpassing the Japanese army's 75 field artillery and 75 mountain artillery. When using armor-piercing bullets, the range also reaches 6,600 meters, and it is also a sharp weapon for attacking fortifications. After these guns were put into the storage ring, the space inside the ring was not large, and Wang Haitao put five 130 mm caliber Type 63 self-propelled rocket launchers into the storage ring, plus more than 5,000 rockets, the storage ring was basically full.

Because the time is still early, Wang Haitao checked the part of the storage vehicle again, the last time the time was tight, Wang Haitao did not look closely, only knew that there are hundreds of Dongfeng brand military heavy trucks here, this time a careful look, Dongfeng brand trucks are only 200, and dozens of bulldozers, excavators and other engineering vehicles, should be used by the engineering troops to open the road.

What makes Wang Haitao even happier is that there are also 10 military command vehicles, which are improved Beijing Type 212 military jeeps, 30 Type 63 armored personnel carriers, and Type 75 105 mm recoilless guns installed on 50 jeeps. Fifty double-barreled anti-aircraft guns of 37 mm caliber. There are still a lot of good things, but Wang Haitao really can't take them with him anymore, and in the end, Wang Haitao can only pack them into two more military command vehicles before leaving the arms warehouse.

Wang Haitao decided to come again after going back, and he must move all these weapons and ammunition in the warehouse back, because it would be a pity if these weapons, ammunition and military supplies were just silently stored in this warehouse. Wang Haitao estimated that he would have to come to these two warehouses at least twice before he could empty them, but fortunately, he could stay in Longzhou during this time, and he should have time to come back again.

Wang Haitao quietly returned to Longzhou County, and entered the barracks at night and found Tang Renli. Without alarming others, he asked Tang Renli to take him to the warehouse area, found a few empty warehouses, and took out all the munitions in the storage ring. Tang Renli was no longer surprised, and Tang Renli was accustomed to miracles to the military seat he was loyal to.

Wang Haitao instructed Tang Renli to seal up these warehouses first, and wait for him to return to the barracks publicly, and then instructed him to prepare a few more empty warehouses, and then left the barracks at night, and Wang Haitao was preparing to go back to the munitions depot again.

Wang Haitao, who returned to the military warehouse again, first put the big guys such as trucks, anti-aircraft guns, recoilless guns, command vehicles, and construction machinery into the storage ring, and then put all kinds of ammunition and materials stored in the warehouse, including 2,000 sets of gas masks, 500 sets of flamethrowers, 1,000 blasting canisters, and 10 tons of TNT explosives separately. By this time, the warehouse had been completely emptied.

The first warehouse also contained a third of the light weapons and ammunition supplies. Wang Haitao does not plan to move again for the time being, first, there is now the production of Longzhou Arsenal, and there is no shortage of light weapons for the time being, and the other is that Wang Haitao wants to stay as a retreat in the worst case. Everything has to be considered, especially in these war years.

With the mentality of trying it out, Wang Haitao carefully searched every inch of the second warehouse that had been emptied, thinking that he could find the entrance of another warehouse, but after searching for two days, he found nothing, so Wang Haitao gave up and left the munitions warehouse. This time, Wang Haitao went back to Longzhou in the Ming Dynasty, and when he arrived at a place with a highway, Wang Haitao took out a command car, and then drove this command car to Longzhou.

After returning to the barracks, Wang Haitao didn't care about what Su Zuxin, Zhao Zhongwu and others who came to Wenxin to say more, and after breaking up Su Zuxin and them, Wang Haitao asked Tangshan Leopard to take people to guard the warehouse, and then came to the empty warehouses with Tang Renli, and took out all the weapons, ammunition, and military supplies brought back from the storage ring.

In the next few days, Wang Haitao was allocating this batch of weapons, all the artillery was handed over to the army's heavy artillery brigade, and each division was also allocated eighteen 85 mm caliber cannons. Five rocket artillery pieces were handed over to the guard brigade, and a separate rocket artillery company was formed, and Wang Haitao personally taught them how to use them. Thirty armored personnel carriers, each of which can transport a squad of fighters, can transport a battalion of fighters at the same time when used together, which is a sharp weapon for sports warfare, and these armored personnel carriers Wang Haitao handed over to the armored brigade.

Two command vehicles were given to the military headquarters, then two were allocated to each division of the 90th and 91st divisions, three were allocated to the independent division, and one was handed over to the logistics office. In addition, self-propelled 1o5 mm recoilless guns and 50 37 mm double-barreled anti-aircraft guns were assigned to the three divisions, and a special independent engineer regiment was set up by the logistics department to learn to use them.

With the addition of these weapons and equipment, the 90 th Army will undoubtedly increase its combat effectiveness by a large margin. In a single heavy artillery brigade, there are 50 130-mm cannons, 50 152-mm howitzers, 50 122-mm howitzers, 34 85-mm cannons, and 48 German-made 105-mm howitzers. Such a heavy artillery brigade is divided into four heavy artillery regiments, and the number of people has reached several thousand, which is already the number of a division.

In order to have enough fighters to operate so many artillery, Wei Zhiyuan, the commander of the heavy artillery brigade, had to select another 3,000 artillery from several divisions. Wei Zhiyuan's behavior made several division commanders secretly complain, but no one said anything, and when they really arrived on the battlefield, everyone hoped to get fire support from the heavy artillery brigade. Several division commanders can only recruit troops again.

In this way, the 90th Army expanded to 58,000 people at once, and truly became a steel lion. The actions of the 90th Army not only alarmed the Gui army, but also was densely covered with General Chen Cheng and Lao Jiang, and Lao Jiang did not say anything about this, because Wang Haitao did not ask the government for a penny of military expenses to expand the army, and the 90th Army was still in the establishment of the Central Army, and Lao Jiang was still relatively happy to have such a central army on the territory of the Gui family.