Chapter 65 An unexpected surprise
Qin Yangming did not stay at the regiment headquarters for dinner, but returned to the vanguard camp.
Start preparing for a new round of pioneer camp formation.
"Lao Zhang, we will probably stay in northwest Shanxi for a while. You will be in charge of the new recruits and their training. Can we recruit enough new recruits in a month?"
In the meeting room of the Pioneer Battalion.
Qin Yangming, Zhangye, Sun Zhigang and others were holding a meeting.
Zhangye listened to Qin Yangming's question, and he really wanted to ask what kind of recruits Qin Yangming was talking about?
If they are recruited directly, then there won't be much of a problem. However, if the requirement is to recruit new soldiers who can be directly added to the Vanguard Camp, then it will be extremely difficult.
But thinking that Qin Yangming could even get more difficult weapons and was just asked to be in charge of new recruits, he was too embarrassed to say it was difficult.
"Captain, are you referring to the kind of recruits who can directly charge into the vanguard battalion and serve as the main force?"
"Of course, the kind that can rush directly into the main force."
"Then Captain, one month is not enough. It takes three months to train new recruits, unless we directly recruit civilians with a solid foundation."
"Or we can capture prisoners. For example, some puppet soldiers are not willing to be puppet soldiers. We can reform them and have them join us."
Zhangye did not speak, but Sun Zhigang did.
Qin Yangming listened to what Sun Zhigang said and nodded: "Well, this can be considered. I will pay attention to it in the future. If the puppet army surrenders, I will let it go."
"As for the wounded soldiers we sent to the headquarters hospital, it's been almost two months. They should be reporting back soon."
Qin Yangming shook his head: "Don't worry about the wounded soldiers. The commander is also short of veterans. Those wounded soldiers will probably be taken away by the commander."
"How about looking for the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp?"
Captain Luo, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.
"That's possible. Many of our soldiers were captured by the Japanese, as well as many from the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army and the Central Army. The Japanese prisoner-of-war camps only held those who refused to surrender. These people were indeed good soldiers."
Listening to what Zhangye and Captain Luo said, Qin Yangming thought of the prisoner-of-war camp where the monk escaped from in the plot of Bright Sword.
According to the monk, there were probably quite a few talented people in that prisoner-of-war camp.
If we could bring back all the prisoners in that POW camp, we might be able to form a complete special forces team.
Instead of the current assault platoon which is only at a half-baked level.
"Well, that's fine. After the meeting, I'll go collect information about the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp."
"The other person is Duan Peng. Take the assault platoon out during this period of time and get a feel for the situation nearby. Make a small sand table for me."
"There are too many Japanese artillery towers nearby, and it's uncomfortable to look at."
"Yes!"
"Okay, adjourn the meeting. I will issue the new troop organization tomorrow, and then each unit will adjust its troop structure according to the new organization."
Qin Yangming then got up and left the living room which served as a meeting room and returned to his room next door.
Looking at the organization chart of the former Pioneer Camp placed in front of him.
Qin Yangming did not intend to make too many changes.
The initial organization is already very complete. Now the main focus is to increase the firepower of the grassroots teams and equip each infantry platoon with two more submachine guns.
However, he did not plan to prepare MP38 submachine guns for grassroots troops.
Instead, it was replaced by the Russian PPSh submachine gun.
There is no way. The MP38 submachine gun is good, but the price is a bit high, costing more than twenty points.
The Russians' PPSh only costs ten points, and it is a system-improved version.
Moreover, the Russian PPSh can hold a large drum magazine of 71 bullets, which is more useful than a magazine with 30 rounds in defensive operations. It can also be replaced with a magazine with 30 rounds during a charge.
More importantly, grassroots troops will no longer need to prepare two calibers of pistol bullets.
The Mauser C96 semi-automatic pistol issued uses *25mm Mauser pistol bullets.
The PPSh uses *25mm Tokarev pistol bullets. Although the two bullets appear to have different calibers on the surface, they can actually be said to be basically the same bullet.
It’s just that everyone measures in a different way, so there are two calibers: and .
In this way, the grassroots infantry platoon will only have two calibers of bullets, and logistics will be much easier.
As for the main rifle, Qin Yangming did not choose to change it. He still used the original Mauser 1924 rifle of the Zhongzheng rifle (the domestically produced one is called Zhongzheng, which the protagonist exchanged from the system, and the weapon performance is the top one) and a Czech light machine gun.
However, the heavy machine gun was changed because the improved model of Guoliunov appeared in the system exchange list. The overall weight of the heavy machine gun was reduced. The Guoliunov heavy machine gun (domestic 57) with a tripod instead of a wheeled gun mount was suitable for mountain combat. There was also a heat sink on the barrel, which made the endurance longer.
As for the artillery, the mountain artillery company is no longer equipped with the Type 41 mountain cannon, but is preparing to replace it with the more user-friendly Type 94 mountain cannon.
At the same time, an additional 107 rocket launcher company, an anti-aircraft machine gun company, and an anti-aircraft artillery platoon were added.
Qin Yangming made some revisions and also calculated the number of ammunition.
It didn't matter that the calculation came out. When the number appeared on paper, Qin Yangming was also shocked by the huge number.
If we round it off, it would cost him nearly one million points just to equip himself with all these equipment and ammunition!
Of course, the main thing is the shells.
The shells alone cost almost 700,000 points.
The cannons in the Vanguard Battalion are more valuable than all their other weapons and equipment combined.
However, Qin Yangming now has million points, which is enough.
Qin Yangming only left himself 500,000 points as a reserve, and exchanged the rest for weapons and ammunition.
Considering that the regiment commander or brigade commander might come to rob, Qin Yangming exchanged for ten Shanghai-made Ke-type mountain cannons.
During the last sweep, except for a number of mortars and infantry guns, most of the other artillery, such as mountain guns, were gone.
That is to say, when retreating, Qin Yangming had his men dismantle the most important parts of the artillery, and then find someone to piece them together to make a few more cannons.
However, he did not plan to use these cannons. He would give them to the brigade commander or regiment commander when they came.
After all, he has now unlocked the more useful Type 94 mountain cannon.
If Bofors wasn't too expensive, he would have used Bofors directly.
"Alas, I'm poor again. Let's see if there's a way to go to Taiyuan."
Seeing that only one third of the points were left, Qin Yangming’s brain started to work again.
He saved 500,000 points in the hope that he would have time to go to Taiyuan and have a chance to find out where Yoshio Shinozuka was.
Then he can directly exchange for cannons and blow Shinozuka Yoshio into the sky!
The points of a garrison commander would definitely not be small, maybe even at least 10 million!
……
"Captain, Commander, we have found out the location of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp."
At noon the next day in the evening, Duan Peng happily found Qin Yangming.
"Captain, I captured a puppet company commander this afternoon. He told me that there is a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Chiyang Town, not far from us."
"It is the largest prisoner-of-war camp in the vicinity, holding nearly a thousand prisoners."
"Besides the prisoners, there is another good thing over there. Guess what."
"What the hell? When did you learn to keep people in suspense?"
Qin Yangming looked at Duan Peng who was keeping him in suspense, and asked directly: "What is there? There can't be a gold mine, right?"
Qin Yangming was driving a toy and looking at Duan Peng.
Duan Peng was surprised: "Captain, how did you know?"
"No, there really is a gold mine?"
"Almost. That puppet soldier said the Japanese recently discovered a small gold mine over there, and also a huge copper mine!"
Listening to Duan Peng's report, Qin Yangming quickly stood up and asked, "Is the news really true?"
"Captain, don't worry. I have a puppet company commander and three puppet platoon leaders living with me. I have also asked the locals for information. There is absolutely no problem!"
"And the puppet soldier said that a lot of ore has been mined in that mining area recently. The mine has completed preliminary refining and is preparing to transport it away!"
"Goudan, Goudan, come on, accompany me to the regiment headquarters!"
"Hahaha, I'm rich, I'm rich!"
Thanks to Hellcat for the reward
(End of this chapter)
