On January 1, 1941, in the mountainous area of Li County, Jin Province

"Lao Zhang, you are a dead old man, don't think I don't know, you have secretly saved things with old noses in the past six months." Brigade Commander Chen said with a smile that 500,000 troops have the methods of 500,000 troops, and 1 million troops have the methods of 1 million troops, and in the battle sequence of the national army, a division can be 5,000 people, 10,000 people, 2,000 guns, or 7,800 guns.

"Lao Chen, I won't hide it from you, our weapons and equipment and food reserves can be fooled at present. However, the problem is that the harvest in North China in the past two years has not been good, and once the expansion of the army is too large, it will easily affect the agricultural production in North China, and our army expansion is for the purpose of fighting a war, and it will certainly not work without sufficient reserves of materials and ammunition; according to the minimum requirements of the current headquarters, a soldier will need 10 rounds of ammunition a month for 1 million troops, and it will cost 10 million rounds of ammunition just to meet the minimum shooting training needs. Zhang Wanhe said worriedly, the problem is that this is only the need for bullets in the absence of high-intensity combat, food, clothing, housing, transportation, needles, threads, and brains, as long as the things are related to one million, it is a great number.

"My Minister Zhang, you don't want to equip the troops with the weapons they have replaced, do you?" Brigade Commander Chen had a headache when he remembered the days when he needed to prepare dozens of caliber bullets for the troops, and every day he was either looking for bullets or on the way to find bullets, he really didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, and it was very likely that after you took the initiative to attack once, the troops didn't even have the ammunition to deal with emergencies for a long time.

"Some of them will be appropriately retained, in addition to the weapons provided by Mr. Wang, the rifles are mainly made in Hanyang, 38 style, Jin 65, such as Zhongzheng, Sichuan 79, and Hu Kuaili, which will definitely be eliminated." Zhang Wanhe said busily.

Here is a typical example, that is, the official rifle, said to be the latest imitation of the Mauser rifle, but the drawings that Hans asked for several times are not the same, not to mention, the mold fixtures provided by people are not the same, plus the self-righteous simplification of the Ordnance Industry Department, so that the performance of this rifle is simply different from the original rifle, the accuracy is poor, there are many failures, the parts are not universal, if it is not for a good name, it is estimated that it would have been discontinued.

It was not until the end of the Anti-Japanese War that the production of Hanyang was completely discontinued, and the final version was made with the help of some technical masters, and then there was a mature Zhongzheng, so during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the backbone weapons of the national army were actually made in Hanyang, and they were not formal at all. As for why Hanyang Manufacturing was finally discontinued, the backwardness of technology is only one aspect, and the more important thing is the change in the war situation, which makes the national army's demand for weapons less urgent.

As for the post-war period, a large number of captured weapons will not be used up, where is the need to manufacture Hanyang on a large scale, and after the war, rifles in the international arms market are sold by tons, and the price of scrap iron is the same, who will spend a lot of money to make guns?

"Then why did I hear that those guns are still being repaired at the arsenal?" Brigade Commander Chen asked puzzled.

"Mr. Wang's side wants to exchange the repaired old gun for a new gun, an old gun that can be fired, and ten rounds of black powder reloading bullets can be used to offset the payment of a new gun, and the deputy commander-in-chief is still counting on using these old guns to pay off the previous debts." Minister Zhang explained in a whisper.

"What does Mr. Wang want so many old guns for?" Brigade Commander Chen asked, as for the tattered old guns of the Eighth Route Army, it is not safe to take them for hunting, he really can't understand what Wang Yue can do with these old guns?

"According to the information obtained by the Ministry of Social Affairs, in recent times, some people have distributed weapons on a large scale in the four eastern provinces, the number of which is in the millions, and now the number of anti-Japanese forces in the four eastern provinces is more than at the peak, and the Japanese army has to transfer the divisions that originally supported North China to the Kwantung Army, and Yoshio Shinozuka's plan to rectify the North China dispatch army has been revised several times, and it is estimated that it will have to be changed in the future." Zhang Wanhe said with a smile, arming the masses, the Eighth Route Army has been doing this all along, but they can transport weapons to the four eastern provinces and then distribute them to the people, and they can't do it.

"It's really a big deal, this is going to dig the roots of the devil, but even if we gather all the weapons, we don't have much." Brigade Commander Chen smiled and nodded.

"There are not many, but we can build them ourselves, the small repair institutes in the base area are rectifying and expanding, but the production has not stopped, the only one, the Bayi horse rifle is being produced, all of which are customized for Mr. Wang." Zhang Wanhe's face was full of smiles, we can't make regular firearms, but it's really not difficult for them to make those messy weapons, use the rags they make to offset the money for good guns, there are still such good things in the world?

"And this one, the troops haven't picked up the railroad tracks for a long time, how can you solve the raw materials?" Brigade Commander Chen asked, the Eighth Route Army does not have high-quality steel in its hands, and the only source of steel is the devil's railway, but now is the armistice period, and the Eighth Route Army will naturally not take the initiative to attack Yamamoto Kazuki if it wants to develop.

"I bought it, the Japanese have a batch of small steel rails in their hands, the kind that can't be seen, let's take it back at a low price, and it can be used to build a gun barrel." Zhang Wanhe said mysteriously, Yamamoto Kazuki was about to kill crazy some time ago, he didn't get his own people, and there were naturally a lot of hoarding things in his hands, these small steel rails were all from the Hubei Bureau, and the quality was average, Kuroshima Morita operated it and got the base area, and it was also a direct border ticket, now, in the occupied area, the border area ticket is more popular than the military ticket and the middle reserve ticket, so that Yamamoto Kazuki has to match some when he pays the salary of the Japanese army, without the border ticket, the devils can't buy things on the street.

"Lao Zhang, there is really you, but I heard that you kid is now growing mushrooms and raising rabbits, and there are really a lot of good things in your hands, how about it, allocate a little to me, I don't want your rabbits, just the dried mushrooms, give me a hundred carts first." Brigade Commander Chen took Zhang Wanhe and said enthusiastically, before the change, the production activities in the winter must have stagnated, but this year is different, Wang Yue gave Zhang Wanhe mushroom breeding technology, so that Zhang Wanhe has built tens of thousands of mushroom farms in the base area, and can produce more than one million catties of fresh mushrooms every day.

"Lao Chen, don't be dissatisfied, I haven't been bad for your supplies during this time, the canned food of the noodle country, the rations for individual soldiers, and the food of the soldiers have never been cut off from oil and water, what's so good about dried mushrooms, canned meat stewed with radish and cabbage is not the same?" Zhang Wanhe pursed his lips and said disdainfully.

"Lao Chen, you have your own number of canned food we rationed, throw it into the cauldron and cook it, that is, a little more oil star, and also radish and cabbage, last year's drought, the grain harvest failed, and the vegetables did not grow well, so there was no way to open up the supply, and the soldiers were bitter." Brigade Commander Chen said helplessly: The current situation is that there is too much shortage of material reserves in the base areas, and there are also many arrears that need to be made up, so the troops naturally need to be patient when they have no combat mission.

"Lao Chen, you don't have to worry too much, the deputy commander-in-chief has contacted Mr. Wang, and he will use Changle Sapphire to buy 200 million canned 'Roma brand' luncheon meat, and the food shortage should be alleviated." Zhang Wanhe said in a low voice.

"Two hundred million? Lao Zhang, now the population of the base area in North China alone is more than 48 million, and 200 million canned food seems to be a lot, but in fact it is really nothing. "Brigade Commander Chen is not optimistic, in fact, the supply of materials for the Eighth Route Army should be very sufficient, but in the face of the suffering of the people, our army will never turn a blind eye.

"Lao Chen, we all came all the way from the period of the domestic revolutionary war, this is the tradition of our army, it can't be changed, you just said that you want some mushrooms, but what you don't know is that every day, there are 100,000 catties of dried mushrooms that will be shipped to Henan Province, and then sold to the people in the base area at a low price." Zhang Wanhe continued, it is hard to imagine that he, as the logistics minister, only ate the first batch of mushrooms once when they were harvested.

In order to deal with the possible famine in North China, the Eighth Route Army has done its best, if it weren't for Wang Yue's repeated explanations, Zhang Wanhe wanted to use the rice noodles sold by Wang Yue to Kuroshima Morita, and unlike the history of having more than enough strength and not enough strength, although the current Eighth Route Army is also very difficult, but it is really capable of changing this situation, and it is certainly impossible to have a little impact, but it can still be done with as few dead people as possible.

Wang Yue once thought that he would not die with his own intervention, but later realized that this was just his wishful thinking, not to mention the period of the Great Famine, it was a year of good weather and good weather, this damn man would still starve to death, and it could not be avoided at all.

"Lao Zhang, I don't want you to give me supplies, so you can support a few of my workers who can grow mushrooms, but I've heard that the difficulty of that thing is really not that big." Brigade Commander Chen also knew that there was no benefit from Zhang Wanhe here, and the entire army of the Eighth Route Army had changed into new uniforms, but Lao Zhang and their logistics were still wearing last year's cotton clothes.

"Okay! This is no problem, I will also share some of the mushrooms, fertilizers, and pesticides with you, and strive to let the soldiers eat the mushrooms we grow before the Spring Festival, as well as the new experimental mealworm breeding, and also get it for you, and it is good to fry some insects for the soldiers to eat when the time comes. While speaking, Zhang Wanhe took out a handful of fried mealworms from his pocket as if offering treasures.

Well, no more pretending, inspired by the "Roman brand" egg powder, Wang Yue helped the Eighth Route Army to start mealworm breeding, according to Wang Yue's meaning to use mealworms as raw materials to help the Eighth Route Army develop the breeding industry, as a result, Zhang Wanhe directly simplified.