Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

This unexpected result caused Hu Weidong to think deeply, "In terms of enemy-killing efficiency alone, the bayonet is actually not as good as pure cold weapons such as broadswords and spears, but it is almost impossible for the broadsword and spear teams to have this kind of attack just by charging at the enemy.

The situation of instant collapse seems worthy of careful study...perhaps because before the bayonet was attached, the enemy's psychology was still in a state of adapting to long-range attacks, but the result suddenly turned into a bloody and brutal hand-to-hand assassination battle, and the will was relatively weak.

Weak warriors cannot withstand such a huge change psychologically. If the broadsword team goes into battle, the enemy will know at a glance that they are going to fight hand-to-hand combat. They will have enough time to prepare psychologically, and firearms will still have psychological impact on pure cold weapons.

Advantages can partially offset the negative impact of hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, in modern history, hundreds or even dozens of soldiers often defeated thousands or even tens of thousands of enemies with bayonets (and this was when personal force may not have an advantage).

There are examples of soldiers, but I have never heard of anyone who can fight one against a hundred with a sword..."

It was due to the influence of this battle that Hu Weidong paid more attention to the training of assassination techniques and tactics for the officers and soldiers of the 15th Red Army. Later, he specially trained those old Red Army soldiers who were better at training and were good at hand-to-hand assassination, as well as some of the former Hu Lian soldiers.

The "Liberation Fighters" under his command were organized into the 65th Regiment, a regiment-level unit with a special emphasis on close-quarters hand-to-hand combat. Among the Red Fifteenth Army, this regiment's equipment was not the best, but their bayonets won them victory.

He won countless honors and was later awarded the glorious title of "Tiger Regiment" by the government. Of course, this is all a story for another day...

Since Zhao Guantao's family is extremely wealthy and he is considered a member of the Central Army, and he had just replaced his equipment with new equipment two or three months ago, the equipment of the Eighth Army was actually better than that of the Eighteenth Army, which is the direct line of the Central Army.

The fighting was fast, and most of the enemies surrendered. The 15th Red Army captured a lot of intact equipment, including 149 heavy machine guns, 512 light machine guns, and 12 anti-aircraft cannons (the Chinese were actually the first to use them to hit ground targets).

), 12 75mm mountain cannons, 24 82mm mortars, 6 37mm anti-tank guns, as well as more than 10,000 German rifles and thousands of pistols of various types. The only regret is that they are generally not captured after winning a field battle.

There was too much ammunition. With the increase in artillery, the artillery shells of the Red Fifteenth Army were not enough...

But no matter what, it is always a good thing to take down almost all the enemy's artillery without any damage. Long Feibao's special forces played the most important role. This special forces, which has just taken shape, has now grown to more than 500 people, among whom it has become an official

There are now 67 team members, although they are still far from Hu Weidong's higher requirements of "being proficient in at least two foreign languages, being able to drive cars, planes and ships, and deceiving people without drafting..."

, but it has begun to play an increasingly important role. But what surprised Hu Weidong even more was that Su Yu understood special tactics very quickly. It turned out that the advancing division had already practiced many of them intentionally or unintentionally in order to survive.

, but after all, it was all on his own, and mistakes and setbacks were inevitable. Thinking of the twenty or thirty outstanding Red Army soldiers who had sacrificed their lives, Su Yu shed tears after the victory...

With Su Yuzai (also because the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet areas were relatively lightly hit and the population ratio was reasonable), Hu Weidong could not only expand the army faster than before, but also boldly divide the troops into three groups, with him leading the army.

Instructors, Su Yu led the advancing division, and Ye Fei led the independent division to fight independently, and the efficiency of siege of cities and territories was doubled. On the other hand, due to the serious shortage of troops, the Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi Soviet areas had just been "recovered" not long ago, and people's hearts still turned towards the Red Army.

As a result, by late May 1935, ten counties including Yiyang, Hengfeng, Shangrao, Guixi, Yujiang, Wannian, Dexing in Jiangxi, Kaihua and Qingyuan in Zhejiang, and Wuyuan in Anhui were all recovered, and another

The two counties of Guangfeng and Qianshan in Jiangxi outside the former Soviet area were captured. Including the previously occupied counties, the jurisdiction reached a total of 16 counties. The regular Red Army numbered more than 120,000, and it was closely related to the Fujian, Jiangxi and Guangdong Soviet areas.

Together, they formed the largest revolutionary base area since the Agrarian Revolutionary War - the "Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Guangdong and Anhui Border Region"...

What makes Hu Weidong even more happy is that Liu Ding and other cadres and workers who survived the original Yangyuan Arsenal also successively contacted the 15th Red Army and dug out the buried machinery and equipment and added them to the 15th Red Army's arsenal.

The Red Fifteenth Army's arsenal has its own foundation, the previously annexed Fujian arsenal, and some equipment previously traded with the Guangdong warlords. In fact, it has begun to take shape. With this good foundation, Hu Weidong made the necessary adjustments to it.

After technological transformation, a new bullet production line was also built. The arsenal can produce more than 500,000 rounds of various firearms and ammunition every month, which has exceeded the total production capacity of the arsenals in the base areas during the peak period of the Red Army. And mortars, mortar shells, grenades

, the production capacity and quality of other products such as landmines have also been greatly improved. More importantly, the cadres and workers of the arsenal have been trained during the process of production line transformation and construction, preparing for the construction of larger and more advanced production lines in the future.

Equipment lays a solid foundation...

In addition, according to the design drawings drawn by Hu Weidong, the arsenal also produced a submachine gun that was inconspicuous and could even be said to be extremely crude. This was the British Sten submachine gun that historically caused headaches for both enemies and users.

The structure of the mount-type submachine gun is very simple. At first glance, it seems to be composed of tubes of different sizes: the barrel is round, the sleeve is also round, the butt is also round, and the bolt handle is also a small round tube. So.

Some people ridicule it as a "plumber's masterpiece", and this submachine gun also has some major flaws in its design. But it also has three huge advantages: high power, low cost, and extremely simple production process. Especially

The third point is simply too important for the current Soviet arsenal. The Sten submachine gun can even use an iron pipe instead of a steel pipe as the barrel. Although this will greatly shorten its service life and affect the shooting accuracy, it

For the arsenal in the Soviet area, which was in primitive conditions and under enemy blockade, it had practical significance that could not be ignored.

At the same time, the production of Sten submachine guns has low requirements for machinery, equipment and employees. The former is all available in the arsenal, and the latter is even illiterate and can be qualified after simple training. Therefore, Hu Weidong naturally chose among those classic firearms of World War II

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