The time soon came to the beginning of June 1942.

The Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy is intensively preparing for an attack on the Midway Atoll, and although the Pacific Fleet of the U.S. Navy is at a clear disadvantage on the whole, it has not passively avoided war, but has been defending itself at all poles, and is ready to deal a head-on blow to the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet in the waters off Midway.

No one realized that a turning point in the Pacific theater was coming.

The only one who predicted the outcome of this naval battle was probably Wang Ye alone.

However, at this time, Wang Ye didn't care about the Pacific Theater at all.

At this time, Wang Ye had devoted himself to the construction of arsenals, power plants and steel plants, and he had to go to Wild Wolf Valley, Killing Pigs, Wild Boar Ditch and Xiji Fortress every once in a while.

In Wang Jiazhi's words, Wang Ye's whole person has lost weight, and he is so distressed.

Of course, then again, even if Wang Ye has free time, he will not intervene in the Battle of Midway.

It is all foolish to let the beautiful country lose the Battle of Midway and make the Pacific War last longer, so as to squeeze out the war potential of the beautiful country.

If he really does this, China will not be able to bear it before he squeezes out the potential of the beautiful country.

In any case, at this time, the beautiful country was the first industrial power, and its war potential was unique in the world, while China at this time was a purely agricultural country, and the war potential was all supported by the population, that is, every day the war lasted meant the sacrifice of thousands of compatriots.

Therefore, Wang Ye would never do such nonsense and stupid things.

The only thing Wang Ye thinks about now is to build the arsenal one day earlier.

As long as the Northwest Shanxi Arsenal is completed, their Northwest Jin Column will no longer be afraid of the attack of devils, and the more time goes on, the stronger the family foundation they will accumulate, and the larger the scale of the Japanese heavy army group that can be carried will be, and when their Shanxi Northwest Column can withstand the attack of the heavy army group of ten divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, they can turn to a strategic counteroffensive.

At that time, the whole of North China will be liberated ahead of schedule, and there will be nothing to do with the Kuomintang.

However, until the arsenal was built, all this was just a dream.

However, then again, people must have a dream to live, and if people don't have dreams, what is the difference between them and salted fish?

"Oh, Xiao Wang, what are you thinking?" Wang Ye was imagining the grand occasion of a large-scale counteroffensive after the completion of the arsenal, when Li Mengshu's voice suddenly sounded behind him.

After this period of getting along, the relationship between the two has become very close.

"Uncle, I'm thinking about how many bullets and shells the arsenal will be able to produce every day after it is built." Wang Ye smiled and said, "Then how should these bullets and shells be divided?" ”

Li Mengshu sneered: "The construction of the arsenal has just begun, and it hasn't been seen yet,"

"You're thinking about how to divide bullets and shells in the future? What's the difference between your virtue and those two fools who start arguing about how to eat before they shoot the geese down? ”

After a pause, he said, "You have this time to daydream here, why don't you help me debug the machine." ”

"Okay, can you debug the machine?" Wang Ye was overjoyed when he heard this, and the machine could be debugged, which meant that the arsenal could enter the trial production stage immediately.

Wang Ye really didn't expect that Li Mengshu's movements would be so fast.

Li Mengshu said with a snort: "In fact, the construction of the arsenal is not as difficult as imagined, it is nothing more than to find a suitable site, and then install the machine, and then lay the circuit and pipeline, and wait for the power supply to be solved, you can enter the trial production stage, but it is limited to trial production, and it is still far from the real production." ”

"I know that." Wang Ye said busily, "Real production also needs the supply of raw materials. ”

"It's not just about the raw materials." "The power supply is now all supported by generators, and the production capacity of the arsenal cannot be increased before the power plant is built." ”

Wang Ye said: "Then let Zheng Gong and them hurry up as much as possible." ”

Li Mengshu said: "Ensan, they are also working overtime, and it should be okay at the end of the month." ”

"Great." Wang Ye said excitedly when he heard this, "In this case, the official production can start at the end of the month, this speed is a bit amazing." ”

"It's a small scene, it's just a small scene." Li Mengshu smiled and said, "When the Taiyuan Arsenal was created, the speed of work was really fast, and we were on the production line of 75 mountain guns and heavy machine guns. ”

While speaking, the two of them had already walked into the deep cave.

Yes, that's right, the arsenal is hidden in a deep cave.

With more than 7,000 devil prisoners of war, Wang Ye had no reason not to dig a hole

Wang Ye let these devil prisoners of war almost hollow out several nearby hills.

The arsenal, power plant, and steel plant are hidden in the mountain, and the chimneys of the steel plant and power plant lead directly to the top of the mountain, and the entire flue is made of fired bricks.

……

At the same time, in the Jizhong Military District.

The deputy chief of staff of the Japanese North China Front Army, Yusue Sei Sanxing, rushed into the tent and reported to Okamura Ninji: "Your Excellency, the last formed unit of the Eighth Route Army in the Jizhong Bandit Region has been annihilated!" ”

"As of today, there is no longer a formed Eighth Route Army in the entire central Hebei bandit area."

"Among them, nearly ninety percent of the Eighth Route Army's armed forces have been annihilated by the imperial army, and less than twenty percent of the remaining Eighth Route Army has also flowed into the neighboring Jinchaji bandit area."

Speaking of this, Seizo Yusue said again: "This sweep has been a complete victory!" ”

"Good, good!" Okamura Ninji nodded happily, and then asked, "Is there any latest news from the northwest of Jin?" ”

"Still not." Speaking of the northwest of Jin, Yusue Jingsan's face immediately became gloomy, and he said, "The special high class has not been able to contact their hidden personnel, and I suspect that their hidden personnel are likely to have an accident." ”

"There is a last gentleman, don't doubt it." Okamura Ninji said in a deep voice, "I can't get in touch for so long, something must have happened." ”

"In this case, due to the lack of intelligence support, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to find out the progress of the construction of the Eighth Route Army's Jinxi Northwest Arsenal. ”

"Even if you don't have intelligence support, you can guess about eight or nine."

Okamura said quietly: "If there are ready-made machinery and equipment, plant and power supply, it will take three to five days to build a small-scale arsenal. ”

After a pause, he said, "There is Mojun, we are running out of time. ”

"So, what are the plans of Your Excellency the General?" There are three deep voices of the last essence.

Okamura Ningji said in a deep voice: "You immediately form written materials for this sweeping operation against the Eighth Route Army's central Hebei bandit area, the more detailed the data in all aspects, the better, and the speed must be fast." ”

"Hello!" There are three times of the last essence.

……

Chongqing, Huangshan Residence.

Dai Li drove to Yunxiu Tower again.

However, when he came to Yunxiu Tower before, Dai Li seemed confident, but this time he seemed a little trembling, looking like he was walking on thin ice.

When I went upstairs, I even asked Wang Shihe.

"Brother Shihe." Dai Li asked in a low voice, "How is the principal feeling today?" ”

"Not so good." Wang Shihe was quite polite to Dai Li, the spy leader, and whispered, "Pay attention later." ”

"Thank you." Dai Li threw a grateful glance at Wang Shihe, then bowed open the door and walked into the study, and said to Chang Kaishen, who was lying on his back on the rocking chair with his eyes closed, "Headmaster, I'm here." ”

"Yunong, you're here." Chang Kaishen opened his eyes and prepared to get up from the rocking chair.

Dai Li hurriedly took a step forward and reached out to help Chang Kaishen up from the rocking chair.

Chang Kaishen waved his hand and asked, "Yunong, is there still no news from the northwest of Jin?" ”

"Yes, or no news." Dai Li's forehead immediately covered a row of fine beads of sweat, and he said cautiously, "The inside line lurking among the technicians of the arsenal has never passed on the news, and the several groups of liaison officers sent by Taiyuan Station to contact him have all disappeared mysteriously, so the students thought it was ......."

"What do you think?" Chang Kaishen said angrily, "Don't swallow and spit out. ”

"Yes." Dai Li hurriedly said, "The students thought that most of the inside lines had an accident, and most of the several groups of liaison officers sent to contact him had also been poisoned, so there was no news back." ”

Chang Kaishen said with a dark face: "There is no news from the Jin Suijun and the Japanese? ”

Dai Li hurriedly said: "There must be no news from the Jin Suijun, and the Japanese don't know for the time being, but the students think that there is a high probability that there is no news." ”

"Niang Xipi!" Chang Kaishen said angrily, "So, the northwest of Jin has really become a tiger's den in Longtan?" Not only did you military commanders go and never returned, but even the Japanese spies did not return? Wang Ye, it's just that they are so good at fighting, but counter-espionage is also so powerful? Actually compare your military commanders? ”

Dai Li didn't dare to answer, there was no way to answer this.

Because this is a proposition, it is wrong to answer it.

Chang Kaishen was still angry, and called Chen Bui over again.

In fact, the thing that made Chang Kaishen angry the most was not that the military commander and the central commander failed to get rid of Wang Ye and Li Yunlong, nor did they fail to destroy the construction of the arsenal, but until today, the Japanese army still did not attack the northwest of Shanxi on a large scale, which was very different from the development he expected before.

So he was going to call Chen Bui over for questioning.

"Hikoji." Chang Kaishen said with a dark face, "The Eighth Route Army in the northwest of Shanxi is in full swing to build an arsenal, maybe the arsenal has already been built, why is Okamura Ningji still not responding?" ”

After a pause, he said again: "Didn't you say last time that as long as the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army occupies the northwest of Jin, it will become a thorn in Okamura Ningji's side?" Then will Okamura Ninji mobilize heavy troops to sweep the northwest of Jin? Why, why is there still no response from Okamura Ninji until now? How do you explain this? ”

"Bench, maybe the Japanese army is not ready." Chen Bui said.

"After all, the Japanese army in North China has not finished sweeping the central Hebei region."

"Ready? What preparation did the Japanese army need? Chang Kaishen said, "Isn't it better to launch an attack while the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has just fought a vicious battle with the 69th Division of the Japanese Army, and the consumption of personnel and materials has not been replenished?" Wait, do you have to wait until the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army builds the arsenal and continuously produces ammunition? ”

"This ......" Chen Bui was speechless for a moment, and he didn't expect this.

To be honest, Chen Bui didn't expect that there would be an arsenal when he made this judgment.

Chen Bui couldn't understand which tendon in Yan Xishan's mind was wrong and would make this move?

……

In fact, Yan Xishan had also repented.

In this spy war contest, the biggest loser is undoubtedly Yan Xishan.

Because the military commandery, the central command, and the Japanese army's special high school department lost only a few sleepers and liaisons, but Yan Xishan lost not only the sleeper personnel of the special police department, but also more than 200 technical backbones.

More than 200 technical backbones are the talent base of Shanxi industry.

Yan Xishan originally felt that this was a deal that could not be lost no matter what, so he agreed to exchange personnel with the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, but he did not expect that this would be the result in the end.

The final result is not only that Wang Ye, Li Yunlong and other fierce generals have not been eliminated,

even let the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army grab the technical talents of the military industry.

If nothing else, the arsenal is likely to be built soon.

All in all, the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army has achieved what they wanted.

However, none of his intentions of Yan Xishan were achieved, and even the intention of using Japanese prisoners of war such as Hattori Naotomi to publicize the achievements of the Jin Sui army was not achieved.

Naotomi Hattori has even become a hot man.

Not only Chang Kaishen forced him to hand over, but the Japanese also forced him to release him.

Yan Xishan's current situation can be described in one sentence, lifting a stone and hitting himself in the foot.

If time can be turned back and the choice can be redone, he Yan Xishan will definitely not be stupid enough to make this deal with the 386th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, what is the picture? Why bother?

……

In the northwest of Shanxi, the arsenal.

Xing Zhiguo happened to come over to the arsenal and had something.

As a result, Xing Zhiguo had the privilege of witnessing the first batch of bullet casings produced by the Northwest Shanxi Arsenal.

"This is the bullet produced by our Jinxi Northwest Arsenal?" Looking at the brass bullet casing that had just been stamped out in his hand, Xing Zhiguo's eyebrows couldn't be suppressed.

"It's just a bullet casing." Li Mengshu said with a smile, "There is neither a warhead, nor a primer, and there is no smokeless powder in the cartridge case, so it is still far from becoming a real bullet." ”

"I don't think it's much worse." Wang Ye said with a smile, "The foundation has been laid, and it will be much easier to build a tall building." ”

"That's right." Li Mengshu said with deep understanding, "Mengling's workshop has already solved the trial production of primer and smokeless gunpowder, and as for the suppression of the warhead, it is even simpler." ”

After saying this, Li Mengshu said again: "Tomorrow we can produce bullets." ”

Wang Ye immediately said with an expectant face: "Uncle, how many rounds can the daily output reach?" ”

Li Mengshu said: "At present, it is only trial production, and the daily output is at most 2,000 rounds. ”

"Two thousand rounds?" Wang Ye was disappointed when he heard this, "That's it? That's too little. ”

"It's just a trial production." Li Mengshu said with a smile, "When all the machinery and equipment are debugged and the entire production line has entered normal production, the daily output will be able to reach 50,000 rounds!" ”

"Fifty thousand rounds!" Wang Ye was overjoyed when he heard this, this is right.

Li Mengshu said: "But you have to ensure that the raw materials and electricity are supplied. ”

"Uncle, if you have any requirements, just mention them." Wang Ye said, "We have conditions to be satisfied, and if there are no conditions, we must also meet the conditions, in short, our brigade commander said that the production of arsenals is an overriding political task." ”

"Yes." Xing Zhiguo also echoed, "The brigade commander did say this, I will prove it." ”

Li Mengshu said: "If nitric acid is nearby, there is a nitrate mine nearby, and the problem is not big, but there is no copper mine in the northwest of Shanxi, but the production of bullets requires a large amount of copper, and the supply of copper must be solved." ”

"Copper?" When Wang Ye heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded, "Isn't there a copper mine in the northwest of Jin?" ”

"There is copper ore, but the grade is too low, and there are too many types of associated ores, which is difficult to refine." Li Mengshu shook his head and said, "And we don't have copper smelting equipment in the northwest of Shanxi, which is different from steelmaking." ”

"Steel?" Wang Ye's heart moved, "Uncle, can you use steel bullet shells?" ”

"Steel shells?" Li Mengshu was stunned for a moment and said, "I really haven't tried this." ”

"Then try it, maybe it will work." Wang Ye remembers very well that many of the bullets he used in the army before crossing were steel shells, which shows that steel shells are also feasible.

"Of course it's okay to try." Li Mengshu nodded, and said, "However, if the troops are in a hurry to use bullets, there is actually an emergency solution, reloading." ”

"Yes!" Wang Ye patted his head and said, "I actually forgot about this stubble." ”

After a pause, Wang Ye said again: "Every time we fought before, we picked up the shells, and now we have accumulated more than five million shells of various types!" ”

Li Mengshu said with a smile: "In two months, I can reload all these more than five million bullets." ”

"Great!" Wang Ye was overjoyed when he heard this, at least there would be no shortage of bullets.

Otherwise, with only two or three base ammunition in their northwestern Jin column, they would be able to fight a medium-sized battle, and once the Japanese army mobilized heavy troops to sweep the northwest of Jin, the entire column could only be blinded.

It would be a different matter if the arsenal could reload five million rounds of ammunition in two months.

At that moment, Wang Ye said again: "Uncle, the bullets can be reloaded, and the shells should also work, right?" We have also accumulated more than 100,000 rounds of shells of various calibers, so why don't you help us reload them together? ”

"Absolutely." Li Mengshu said, "However, the reloading of artillery shells, whether it is accuracy or range will be much worse, in fact, bullets also have the same problem, with the same rifle, the effective range of the original bullet and the reloading bullet is not the same, we make the reloading process to the extreme, but also can only achieve the effect of the original bullet sixty percent." ”

"Sixty percent is enough." Wang Ye nodded and said, "According to the effective range of 600 meters of the original bomb, there is still an effective range of more than 300 meters for sixty percent of the effect, which is enough." ”

Li Mengshu said: "Then it's no problem." ”

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