lovenovelstory Chapter 51 Inventorying Weapons and Equipment, Strengthening the Defense of Yuhuatai
Chapter 51 Inventorying Weapons and Equipment, Strengthening the Defense of Yuhuatai
"Not many, only about two thousand rounds."
"Huh? That's not enough?"
Zhu Chi glared at him, thinking to himself, "Li Jianghe, you really are a case of the well-fed not knowing the hunger of the starving, and the starving not knowing the emptiness of the well-fed."
You think two thousand shells, and they're heavy artillery shells, aren't enough?
In fact, Li Jianghe did not know that during the entire Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army fired a total of 30,000 shells with their 105mm and 150mm heavy artillery.
My two thousand shells, if you only count them on these few cannons, are not a small amount; they are basically equivalent to half a battle's worth.
"Huh? A lot?"
Li Jianghe asked with some doubt.
After all, he had captured nearly 10,000 75mm field gun shells during the previous raid on the Japanese artillery regiment's position.
In comparison, two thousand rounds are really not enough; that averages out to just over three hundred rounds per heavy artillery piece.
"A lot, a lot. As for the river, you see, we are jointly defending Yuhuatai. If the Japanese army launches a fierce attack on our brigade's position, can your artillery support us? Don't worry, I definitely don't need much, just enough for two rounds."
Zhu Chi put his arm around Li Jianghe's shoulder and began to complain to him.
"I had no choice; the entire artillery of the 88th Division was lost in Shanghai."
Now our brigade only has a few mortars left, which we got from the Nanjing Arsenal warehouse, and we barely have any shells left.
As he spoke, he pointed to the Jinling Arsenal to the north of Yuhuatai.
The arsenal and Yuhuatai are separated by only one wall.
"arsenal?"
Li Jianghe's eyes lit up, feeling that he had grasped an important piece of information.
If he remembered correctly, the Jinling Arsenal was hastily moved westward at that time, and a large number of equipment and workers were transferred to the west.
However, due to the chaos in Nanjing at the time and the hasty retreat, many raw materials and equipment were abandoned in the factory and warehouse.
Li Jianghe had a new idea. After all, his system space had a decent capacity, and he might be able to fit in quite a few military production equipment.
If all else fails, there's also the supply battalion, which can also carry these equipment and raw materials for relocation.
Well, if we could build our own arsenal, we could obtain a large number of weapons and ammunition without spending merit points in the future. Merit points could then be used to exchange for more valuable resources or troop cards.
"No problem, no problem. We have plenty of shells in reserve, and we'll definitely fire a few shots at you when the time comes."
Li Jianghe agreed, but then immediately changed the subject.
"By the way, Commander Zhu."
Before he could finish speaking, Zhu Chi interrupted him, saying:
"Hey, that's a bit too formal. From now on, let's call each other brothers."
"Oh, Brother Zhu, what's the situation inside the arsenal? Are the equipment and raw materials still there?"
Li Jianghe inquired.
Zhu Chi then said:
"There is a lot of equipment and raw materials, but the weapons produced in the warehouse have basically been taken away by various military units."
Li Jianghe secretly made a mental note of it, planning how to take the equipment and raw materials with him when the time came.
As dawn broke, Long Wencheng compiled a list of the captured supplies and handed it to Li Jianghe.
As Li Jianghe looked at the list, he discovered that the Japanese army had captured more than 500 rifles, more than 30 light and heavy machine guns, more than 20 grenade launchers, and most importantly, 6 heavy artillery pieces last night.
In addition, they also seized a considerable amount of fuel, which was used by the Japanese heavy artillery units' tractors, and they brought it back with them.
Following that was Xu Dingguo, who attacked the Japanese army's supply camp. He led the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment and captured more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 20,000 hand grenades, more than 10,000 cans of beef, and more than 20,000 kilograms of rice.
This much food is enough to last them for several days.
After all, there are many people now, a team of more than 5,000 people, and the daily consumption of food alone is several thousand kilograms, which is more than 20,000 kilograms, which is the consumption of several days.
Of course, there's also the large amount of merit points you acquire.
In this operation, we killed a Japanese regimental commander and wounded over a thousand Japanese soldiers, earning a total of over 60,000 merit points. Adding those remaining from before, we now have around 80,000 merit points in total.
Of course, they also suffered losses, losing more than two hundred soldiers.
After replenishing the soldiers, and deducting the costs of ammunition, shells, truck and motorcycle fuel consumption, vehicle wear and tear, and purchasing medical supplies for the wounded, a total of 70,000 merit points are still left.
This is enough to summon a motorized force of over three thousand men, with a complete combat system and ample ammunition reserves.
Of course, Li Jianghe didn't plan to summon it now, since Yuhuatai was only so big and it wouldn't be able to spread out properly even if he summoned it.
The best time to call them up would be during the subsequent street battles with the Japanese army and the possible breakout operation.
After reviewing the list, Li Jianghe said to Long Wenzhang:
"I'm giving you a task: take your men to the riverbank and collect as many boats as you can."
"Boat?"
Long Wenzhang asked in surprise, "Are we going to cross the river?"
"Not now, and it's not just for us to use. You'll find out when the time comes."
Li Jianghe said.
He knew very well that it was almost impossible to hold Nanjing unless he was given several heavily armed combined arms brigades.
Upon receiving the order, Long Wenzhang gathered some soldiers and rushed towards the riverbank.
They weren't the only ones collecting ships; other units were doing it too. Even Commander-in-Chief Tang, who had vowed to live and die with Nanjing, kept a small steamer for himself to escape.
At dawn, a commendation order from the garrison command arrived, highly praising Li Jianghe and Xu Dingguo's troops for taking the initiative in attacking, killing a large number of Japanese soldiers, and relieving the siege of Niushou Mountain.
Li Jianghe knew very well that the loss of Niushou Mountain and Chunhua Town was only a matter of time, and they did not have enough troops to consolidate the outer defenses.
The next step is to strengthen the defenses of Yuhuatai.
Li Jianghe first spent 5,000 merit points to purchase a batch of ammunition.
It mainly consisted of large quantities of anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines, as well as ammunition, shells, grenades, and so on.
In addition, he spent merit points to summon an extra 10 field artillery squads, 10 engineer squads, 5 heavy machine gun squads, and 10 anti-tank gun squads.
The engineering squads were responsible for laying landmines and constructing defensive fortifications.
The newly added heavy machine gun squads were used to increase firepower and eliminate Japanese infantry.
Anti-tank guns and anti-tank mines were used to deal with Japanese armored forces.
The Japanese were accustomed to using tanks and armored vehicles for attacks because most of the National Revolutionary Army units were not equipped with anti-tank weapons such as anti-tank guns.
However, Li Jianghe can now make up for this shortcoming by using the anti-tank gun squads and engineer squads summoned by the system.
Finally, there are 10 newly added field artillery squads.
Including the 6 captured Japanese heavy artillery pieces and the 10 field guns he already had, Li Jianghe now possesses 26 artillery pieces, as well as a large number of mortars.
If we only talk about artillery firepower, even a fully equipped German-trained division at its peak cannot compare with them.