Yuan Shushan has been particularly impatient these days.

Taking advantage of Zhou Cheng's opportunity to surrender to the Japanese, his belief in taking over the command of the National Salvation Army was shaken again.

After knowing that the negotiations between the National Salvation Army and the Japanese did not break down, and the two sides had a very smooth negotiation, Yuan Shushan rekindled his fighting spirit...

More than half a month has passed, and the National Salvation Army has made no other move except to carry out development and training step by step.

As for the regiment commander Zhou Cheng, he actually went to the arsenal and never came back.

This is too abnormal. If Zhou Chengzhen plans to defect to the Japanese, it is now the most critical moment for the negotiations between the two sides. As the leader of the regiment, he must be in charge of the regiment headquarters to prevent anyone from sabotaging and disrupting his plans.

But the regiment commander was not worried about these issues at all, and he was also interested in going to the arsenal to carry out production. The Japanese recruited the National Rescue Army gradually disappeared and was not mentioned by anyone, as if it had never happened...

Faced with this situation, Yuan Shushan felt that the war zone had made a wrong judgment on this matter, and the National Salvation Army seemed to have no idea of ​​defecting to the Japanese as traitors.

If these inferences are true, then my hope of taking the opportunity to take over the command of the National Salvation Army will definitely be smashed to pieces again.

Yuan Shushan didn't know how many times he had experienced the feeling of falling from the top of the mountain to the abyss. Every time he experienced it, his mind had to endure a huge test.

He could not stand it anymore, so he decided to take the initiative and no longer passively wait for the opportunity to come to find him.

Because in the regiment, the officers and soldiers who defected to him were also suffering.

The less hope Zhou Cheng has for his resignation to the Japanese, the less hope they have for him to take command of the National Salvation Army, and the greater the pressure will be.

If their plan fails, they will definitely be excluded and liquidated by the regiment headquarters.

So recently, there have been incidents where subordinates do not contact me like hiding from the plague god.

If you don’t act as soon as possible, give them some hope, and stay away from your subordinates will definitely increase and more, and more efforts will be gone for more than half a month.

The inner unwillingness and pressure from subordinates forced Yuan Shushan to fight against the enemy, intending to fight with Zhou Cheng last time.

He really couldn't stand this kind of life that was dependent on others. He even had to look at others' eyes, and could not make decisions on his own. He was frightened every day.

If you succeed, you can not only take the position of commander of the National Salvation Legion, but also give you a bright future.

If you lose, it’s nothing more than being killed by Zhou Cheng in advance!

He thought of it and did it. He decided to take the risk and took advantage of Zhou Cheng's failure to be in the regiment headquarters to control the National Rescue Army by force. Then he sent his appointment and removal telegram through the war zone and forced the commander of the National Rescue Army.

As long as you are fast enough, you will kill Tang Yufeng, Chen Zhengyu, Zheng Yunshan, and Zhou Cheng as soon as possible, and then control the communications, so that the National Salvation Army will fall into a state of headlessness. As the only deputy commander of the National Salvation Army, and with the support of the war zone, you will definitely take over as the regiment commander.

Zhou Chenghao said that when he went to the arsenal, he only brought one squad of guards, assembled two platoons of confidants, and set up an ambush on his way back to the regiment headquarters, and he would definitely be able to kill him!

The most difficult thing is the regiment headquarters. No matter when, there is at least one company of guard troops here.

They are well-equipped and well-trained. If they want to take it off by a strong attack, they must assemble more than three times their troops, and they must also quickly fight and end the battle immediately, otherwise the nearby troops will lose when reinforcements come!

At this moment, he had confidence in controlling only one more battalion of troops, which means that if he wants to succeed in the mutiny and take over the command of the National Salvation Army in a short period of time, he must pull all these troops up, and no one can be left behind.

In this way, the few deputy company commanders who were stationed by Tang Yufeng next to Yuan Shushan knew the entire mutiny plan and even grabbed the task of ambushing the regiment commander.

In the arsenal shell production workshop, Zhou Cheng was staring at dozens of workers filling the shell shell with fired medicine.

For a few days, he stayed here most of the time.

The arsenal is developing very fast. Except for mountain artillery and infantry artillery shells, it can basically produce all the other ammunition required by the troops.

This is also the most important willingness of Zhou Cheng to threaten the safety of the Zhengtai Railway and insist on asking the Japanese and puppet troops every month to ask for 200 mountain artillery shells.

The current National Savior Army has equipped more than 20 artillery artillery and infantry artillery. They can shoot normally on the battlefield, and they can shoot more than 100 artillery shells in one minute.

The National Salvation Army will definitely fight against the Japanese in the future, and the role of artillery on the battlefield will become increasingly greater. Any attack will require the artillery battalion to fire for a few minutes...

After a big battle, the artillery battalion's firing time is definitely more than twenty minutes. According to the consumption rate of more than one hundred shells per minute, more than two thousand shells will be consumed in twenty minutes.

If the National Salvation Army cannot produce shells by itself, it can only rely on seizing and the two hundred shells sent by the Japanese every month. At most two major battles can consume all the mountain artillery shells reserved by the National Salvation Army.

If one does not have a long-term plan, one will have immediate worries. As the commander of the National Salvation Army, Zhou Cheng must consider more about the future of the National Salvation Army.

After figuring out the production steps of mortar shells, he spent every day in the shell production workshop, and worked with several ammunition experts to overcome the production technology of mountain artillery shells...

Compared with mortar shells, mountain field shells are more complicated.

It can be said that it is a combination of mortar shells and bullets. It has shell shells like bullets and bomb bodies that can explode like mortar shells. The production process is very complicated.

Several people studied the shell shells for several days. As for the bomb bodies that exploded, the raw materials level alone blocked them.

The shell body must not only be in close contact with the shell shell to ensure no air leakage, but also closely match the rifle in the barrel, so that the shell can rotate at high speed at the moment it is out of the bore and hit the target accurately.

This means that the bullet bodies of mountain artillery shells are much more complex than those of mortar artillery shells, and the characteristics of raw materials are much higher than those of mortar artillery shells. After all, mortar artillery shells do not need to be considered rifled.

Looking at the semi-finished shells on the table, Kong Dewen was disappointed and helpless, and looked at Zhou Cheng with anticipation.

"The leader of the regiment, after all, the raw materials are not up to standard. The processing of raw materials in the arsenal is too weak. Except for pig iron, all other raw materials are seized and collected, which greatly limits the development of the arsenal. If we have talents in this field and produce raw materials ourselves, we can also produce more weapons and ammunition, and maybe the mountain cannon shells can be made!"

The longer you stay in the arsenal, the more Zhou Cheng understood the importance of materials.

With the existing equipment and technology of the arsenal, as long as there are materials, many spare parts for weapons and ammunition can be made.

I immediately replied: "I promised you to ask for someone in the war zone before, and you will definitely keep your word!"

"As time comes, I will definitely send the talents you need to the arsenal!"

"Although we do not have qualified raw materials now, our research and development cannot be stopped. You can first understand the production technology of manufacturing mountain artillery shells. When we find talents in the future and produce qualified raw materials, the arsenal will be able to start production immediately!"

Kong Dewen very much recognized this answer: "Don't worry, leader, I understand all these things you said!"

"There is another thing, because during this period we have produced a large amount of ammunition, and the raw materials for shells are consumed very quickly, and the remaining materials are only enough for three days to produce!"

"If the regiment does not send new raw materials in time, the mortar shell production line must stop."

"It's the raw material again!" Zhou Cheng frowned even deeper.

All the raw materials used to produce mortars were extorted from the Japanese. After using them, they could only wait for the next transaction between the National Rescue Army and the Japanese.

If you remember correctly, it was less than half a month after the last transaction, and almost twenty days later, the Japanese would send new scrap steel.

This means that in the next twenty days, the arsenal will stop producing mortar shells because there is no raw material.

Faced with this situation, Zhou Cheng's own desire to produce raw materials is even more urgent.

After thinking for a while, I replied: "If there is no raw material, the production of mortar shells will be suspended. Concentrate manpower and material resources to produce bullets and grenades. The production of mines must also be arrested. In half a month, the arsenal will concentrate manpower and material resources to produce mines on a large scale. The more the better!"

"Why?" Kong Dewen asked subconsciously.

In his impression, since the establishment of the arsenal, mines have always been supporting roles. Basically, the troops only need to produce a batch temporarily, and they have never produced them specifically.

Moreover, landmines have very limited roles on the battlefield. In addition to fighting and blocking, combat troops are generally rarely used, so they are also a supporting role on the battlefield.

Zhou Cheng didn't explain, but he was clear about it.

The battlefield is fair to everyone. The Eighth Route Army killed and injured the Japanese North China Front Army through the Hundred Regiments Battle, causing them to suffer heavy losses. The Japanese and puppet troops who were vengeful will definitely not suffer such a huge loss. According to history, they immediately gave the Eighth Route Army an unprecedented winter sweep.

Many base areas will be looted by Japanese and puppet troops during the sweep.

If the Eighth Route Army had a sufficient number of mines, it would definitely cause a large amount of killing and injury to the Japanese and puppet troops, reduce the combat pressure of the troops, and also make the Japanese and puppet troops entering the base area more worried and dare not engage in unscrupulous destruction in the base area.

After the Hundred Regiments War ended, the Japanese would definitely continue to recruit the National Rescue Army, and would even ask the National Rescue Army to attack the Eighth Route Army base as a meeting gift for seeking the Japanese.

It would be difficult for the National Salvation Army to delay this matter through negotiations.

And the National Salvation Army cannot really surrender to the Japanese. The negotiations between the two sides will definitely break down, and the Japanese will also know that they have been fooled by the National Salvation Army.

The Japanese and puppet troops who suffered heavy losses must have hated the National Saving Army to the core and eliminated the National Saving Army at all costs.

In addition, the war zone will put aside its losses, and the National Salvation Army will usher in an unprecedented sweep.

In order to reduce the losses of the base area in the anti-sweeping and reduce the casualties of military and civilians in the defense zone, the best way is to block the Japanese and puppet troops from outside the defense zone. If the arsenal could provide sufficient mines at that time and mines were everywhere on the Japanese and puppet troops' offensive road, the combat pressure of the main force would definitely be much smaller.

In line with Kong Dewen's gaze, he ordered: "No reason, just execute the order!"

"In half a month, the arsenal can return to its original production state, but it must extract enough manpower and material resources to produce landmines on a large scale. Any type of landmines must be produced, the more the better."

"After the warehouse is full, I will send someone to notify the regiment headquarters immediately, and I will send someone to take it away."

"During this period, the arsenal will focus on producing all kinds of ammunition and grenades. I will send someone to pull it once every three days."

Kong Dewen decisively took the order: "Please rest assured, the arsenal will never let you down!"

Zhou Cheng continued to ask: "In addition to the two questions you just asked, what other problems in the arsenal need me to solve?"

Kong Dewen thought for a while and replied: "The copper ingots in the arsenal are almost used up!"

"How long can it last?" Zhou Cheng asked immediately.

"A maximum of one month!" Kong Dewen replied.

Zhou Cheng frowned deeper than before, and after thinking for a while, he asked, "In addition to copper ingots, scrap copper can also be used?"

Kong Dewen nodded: "It can be used, as long as it is copper!"

Hearing this, Zhou Cheng stretched his frown a lot and immediately replied: "If scrap copper is OK, then there will be no problem, and he will definitely solve it for you within a month!"

While he was about to continue talking, Wang Tieshan, the captain of the investigation team, suddenly appeared at the door of the workshop.

Zhou Chengyi changed his expression when he saw him.

The reconnaissance team had just been expanded into three assault teams. Wang Tieshan was taking them to train for vain and night. Zhou Cheng also gave them the order that the reconnaissance team would not have any combat missions within three months, just to allow them to concentrate on training.

Logically, Wang Tieshan should be on the training ground at this time.

It must be an emergency in the regiment headquarters when it suddenly appeared here.

Immediately took him to find a place where no one was, and asked with a worried look on his face: "Why are you here? Is something wrong in the group?"

"Report to the leader of the delegation, Deputy Leader Tang asked me to come. There was indeed an emergency in the delegation." Wang Tieshan reported with a serious expression.

"The deputy regiment commander received the news: Deputy regiment commander Yuan planned to lead troops to control the regiment headquarters in two days, and at the same time, send troops to ambush you on the road and seize the command of the National Rescue Army by force."

"The news is confirmed?" Zhou Cheng was shocked and showed an expression of disbelief on the spot.

He thought that Yuan Shushan would take the opportunity to make trouble and steal the command of the National Rescue Army through some conspiracies, but he never thought that he would take the risk and seize the command of the National Rescue Army by force. This was simply touching a stone with an egg. It was too crazy?

Wang Tieshan nodded: "It was reported by the two deputy company commanders arranged by Deputy Commander Tang to beside Yuan Shushan. They also grabbed the task of ambushing you. In order not to arouse Yuan Shushan's suspicion, they are secretly dispatching troops in the army. When the time comes, attack immediately!"

"The other troops controlled by Yuan Shushan also had abnormal movements. Deputy Commander Tang asked: Should we take the initiative and directly order the battalions and battalions leaders to hold the list we already have to arrest people and disrupt this operation!"
Chapter completed!