However, on the first day of its establishment, the arsenal encountered a very troublesome problem. There were no equipment, not even improvised tools, and the arsenal was faced with no work when it was first established.

Li Qinghe had no choice but to come up with another sum of money and hire blacksmiths from several nearby villages to build a set of special tools for them. It took a short time for the workers to build their tools. As the tools were about to be regained, the arsenal was about to start working, and a huge problem was encountered, the problem of reloading bullets.

Due to the fact that the industrialization of the country has not been completed, all the smokeless gunpowder production lines in China are only concentrated in the four major arsenals of Taiyuan, Gongxian, Hanyang and Fengtian. In the absence of any raw materials, it is impossible for the people to prepare single-base gunpowder and double-base gunpowder.

Although the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was able to produce yellow explosives in small quantities, the production was extremely low due to the poor production conditions. Moreover, there are no chemical talents needed here, and it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, so she cannot do any consideration.

In other words, the only gunpowder used by Li Qinghe now is black powder. To be honest, Li Qinghe really doesn't plan to engage in black powder. Black powder is not only seriously inpowerful, but also causes a lot of dirt to the chamber of all rifled bolt-action rifles, accelerating rifling wear.

But now there is no way, and our army will not be able to produce smokeless gunpowder at all before the base area is open enough to open up a large enough area, so this can only temporarily use black powder.

However, fortunately, Li Qinghe completed the basic technology of gunpowder in the system, and the gunpowder knowledge in his mind reached the standard level of Western militarized black powder production. Although it is still not comparable to the high explosives of yellow explosives, *** and ***, it is still reluctantly acceptable.

After the bullet reloading came to an end, Li Qinghe began to look elsewhere. The current Funing City is a piece of meat on the chopping board, he can knead it as much as he wants, with those more than 300 puppet troops, the opposite side can't turn the sky.

As for seizing the city, Li Qinghe thought it would not be difficult, but he was not ready to take the city now. Although the total destruction of the puppet army will make the remaining garrison in the city more cautious, there are less than 300 people left in the city, and there is nothing to be done, and they can only barely guarantee their control of the county seat.

In the next task, he needs to solve a more important stronghold behind the southern mountain: the stronghold of Qifengkou. This is one of the important nodes on the highway leading from Funing to the Lulong area, and from here to the south is Leting County, where the 23rd Anti-United Nations Corps is now active, and there are other anti-United Nations forces also operating in the Leting area.

The Japanese army brigade that was originally guarding Funing County attached great importance to this place, and not only arranged a squadron of Japanese troops, but also arranged a company of puppet troops. However, due to the need to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese army was withdrawn, and only one detachment was left in this squadron here, and a large part of a company was also withdrawn, leaving only one and a half platoons, and the strength entered an unprecedented stage of weakness.

This left Li Qinghe with an opportunity, as long as he controlled this place, then all the requests for help from Funing County to Lu Long could not evade the surveillance of the troops except for the radio. And among the counties and cities in eastern Hebei, Funing County is not a very important county, so there is a high probability that there is no radio station in this county, as long as it is broken here, Funing City is an isolated island, and the victory of the final attack on Funing City to liberate the entire Funing County region is inevitable.

Therefore, the next day, Li Qinghe sent out the reconnaissance troops and began to monitor and reconnoiter this stronghold. Oh, and also, on the day of the establishment of the military factory, Li Qinghe formed a reconnaissance team, and the entire reconnaissance team was composed of soldiers who had performed well in these battles, and was responsible for the combat or tactical reconnaissance tasks of the troops.

Scouting in the morning, the task was completed in the afternoon. The results of the entire reconnaissance were very gratifying, a detachment of Japanese troops and a half platoon of puppet troops, without heavy weapons and grenadiers, only 2 light machine guns. Moreover, it is very likely that there is a fairly large ammunition reserve in this stronghold, which is estimated to be the sum of the ammunition of the two base bases of the Japanese army in one squad.

This news startled Li Qinghe, such a number of ammunition is nearly 10,000 rounds of ammunition. What kind of concept is this, which means that the original reserve of ammunition here is very likely to reach 4 bases or even more, and Li Qinghe really can't understand that 4 bases are stored in such a place.

Since you can't figure it out, you just don't want to think about it, and when it comes to the meat in your mouth, how can you let it go. Li Qinghe immediately ordered: "Inform the squadron commander-level cadres to immediately assemble in the compound of the brigade headquarters." ”

The squadron leaders, who received the order, quickly rushed to the brigade headquarters. After making sure that everyone was ready, Li Qinghe began to say, "Comrades, after several battles, our fighters have gained full self-confidence, they have combined their fighting ability with their bodies, and I believe that they already have great strength. ”

Hearing Li Qinghe's words, all the squadron leaders knew Li Qinghe's thoughts, and hurriedly geared up, everyone was so eager to try.

"Captain, you can give the order, our soldiers have already rested this week, and they are shouting to fight the Japanese puppet." Zhang Niu, who was already impatient, hurriedly said. "You bastard," Li Qinghe scolded with a smile, "What's the hurry, we do have a battle to fight." ”

"Next, according to the requirements of the organization and the changes in the situation of the Anti-Japanese War in the eastern Hebei region, we will begin to clean up Funing City and its periphery to ensure our army's control over Funing County."

"First of all, in the first stage, we will attack some important strongholds on the outskirts of Funing City. Let Funing City become blind, deaf, and completely become an island. ”

"In the second stage, we will make the final seizure of this county town under the condition that the garrison of the Japanese puppet army in this city cannot communicate with the outside world, so as to ensure the development of the third phase of our army's mission."

"In the third stage, our army will take Funing County as the center, scatter and attack the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army, turn the entire Funing area into the base of our army, and start a new stage of development of our army."

"Therefore, in the first battle, our task is to seize the stronghold of Qifengkou, and if we break this stronghold, we will completely cut off the Japanese army's access to the Lulong area. The next time the Japanese army moved troops into Lulong, they had to go further and more rugged on the railway line. ”

"Next, we bypassed the county seat and hit the Xiaohongzhuang stronghold on the other side. The Xiaohongzhuang stronghold monitored the Japanese troops from the Beidaihe and Qinhuangdao areas, and according to the clues, the Japanese troops in the Xiaohongzhuang stronghold had all been withdrawn, leaving only a platoon of puppet troops, and there were no machine guns. ”

"After these two strongholds are attacked, the puppet army in Funing County is the turtle in the urn, and they can start to deal with the remaining puppet army in Funing City." Li Qinghe clapped his hands, "So, next, your task is to immediately assemble troops to move near the Qifengkou stronghold, cut off all the telephone lines of the other party, ensure that the Japanese puppet army has no contact with Funing County, and then wait for the order to prepare for battle." ”

"But, Captain." Xie Zicai said with some difficulty, "How can we take the stronghold?" Whether it's day or night, we don't have heavy weapons, and we can't take down such a watchtower. ”

"Who says we don't have heavy weapons?" Li Qinghe suddenly showed a mysterious smile, "This time, look at me to get you a big killing weapon." ”

Several squadron leaders looked at each other, and his captain always liked to play all kinds of tricks, and he didn't know what tricks he did this time. But they all know in their hearts that their bosses have said so, and they will definitely not lie to themselves or get anything impractical.