Among the complex things, the Spring Festival in 1940 was over, and Jiuzhai was still immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival, but the tense atmosphere was gradually felt by the people.

First, the first battalion, which had been stationed in the north, was replaced by the second battalion, and the first battalion returned to Jiuzhai for rest and training. This strengthened the defense of the northern line.

In Linjia Village, the defense zone of the Second Battalion was replaced by the Third Battalion, completing the change of defense against the nearest defense circle outside Jiuzhai, and also ensuring the safety of the east line.

As for Liu Gan's supplementary camp, he still stood on the second slope line, guarding the safety of Jiuzhai's southern line with the tunnel fortifications in Dongshan.

However, the difference is that the supplementary battalion did not place the main force on the second slope, but only placed one company there to cooperate with the militias in each village for defense.

More main forces have been placed in Jing'er Town, guarding the rugged and winding mountain path towards the west.

Of course, it is not just this intensive defense swap that makes the people feel nervous.

Instead, Hu Yizhou strengthened the firepower and equipment for the village militia platoons, and also dispatched a group of cadres from the injured and repatriated veterans, and sent a military representative to each village outside Jiuzhai to help the militia platoons and even militia companies in each village to command the team.

As for the enhanced equipment, most of the submachine guns and a batch of 10 Jiuzhai rifles have been eliminated. Submachine guns are naturally used for guerrilla captains, and good rifles are also used for backbone members of the militia.

Hu Yizhou did this, on the one hand, because the equipment in the warehouse could not be placed there for rust, but it still had to be used. On the other hand, the militia team in Jiuzhai was also gradually expanding.

Now it is not only those men in their thirties to fifties who have become militias, but even the older girls and wives have conducted initial military training under the organization of military representatives and become female militias in various villages. Even the little kids who have herded sheep have become children's corps.

Well, Jiuzhai is now like everyone else is soldiers.

There are actually benefits to the number of militias, but don’t underestimate the combat effectiveness of militias.

In the blink of an eye, February 9th was on this day. In the eastern part of southern Hebei and Wei (He) areas, the Eighth Route Army gathered 17 regiments to counterattack Shi Yousan's 39th Army, and quickly surrounded the main force of the 39th Army in the area of ​​Mamingtang, Xiabao Temple, southeast of Wei County, southern Hebei.

At this time, the Japanese were entangled in the puppet army and organized a team of more than 3,000 people to rescue Shi Yousan. So, after more than 2,800 people were wiped out, the Japanese were rescued and fled to Qingfeng and Puyang areas, and moved closer to two other traitor forces, Ding Shuben and Gao Shuxun, to avoid being completely wiped out.

This battle was directly fought on February 18, and the purging of the stubborn forces in southern Hebei was completed, making southern Hebei a solid anti-Japanese base.

Although the security team did not participate in this battle, Hu Yizhou learned about the daily battle process through the radio station in full.

Even the grenade production line in Jiuzhai is operating with all its strength, organizing women and strong laborers from various villages to produce at a rate of 20,000 civilian grenades per day, and then transfer these grenades through the Nanweiquan to the Eighth Route Army and sent to the front line.

After that, the Eighth Route Army will deliver any materials that can be used in the arsenal seized from its hands to Jiuzhai, and then pull away the new grenades.

Of course, in this way, the black gunpowder in Jiuzhai consumes a lot, and the white starch explosives and cheap Kaizi explosives are also consumed very well.

Well, white tin is better. The Eighth Route Army sent a lot. After it is replenished, it can be transformed into gray tin, and then it will be turned into a grenade shell.

Although, the civilian grenades made in this way are not a little worse than military grenades, and the effective explosion radius is only five or six meters, and the fragments are dozens or even dozens of them.

However, it is much better than a halve of the Japanese to make a border area where they are so black-faced. Anyway, every time the grenade is transported to the front line, don't show them the number of "Jiu" on the grenade box. As long as you see it, the political commissars of the main group are rushing to ask for it.

Well, if there is a brand effect these days, then the word "Jiu" has already shown a brand effect in the minds of the Eighth Route Army.

Of course, the Eighth Route Army favorite is the military grenades from Jiuzhai. However, Hu Yizhou controlled the things strictly and rarely traded them in large quantities, with only about one thousand each time.

This is not Hu Yizhou's stinginess, but whether it is the explosives filled in this thing, which are processed into 3MM thickness and then cut into 3MM long steel column fragments, it is too much material and labor time.

Not only that, it is also time-consuming for women to stuff pieces into the interlayer of the shell.

But that thing is really useful, both the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese like it. Well, the Eighth Route Army likes it because it is powerful, and the Japanese like it because it dies quickly.

"It's a pity that we don't have the ability to make plastic now, or I don't know how to make plastic at all. Otherwise, it would be better to just use the plastic shell to add steel ball pieces? Just like the handleless grenade we often used at that time?"

Well, after knowing the complaints between the Arsenal and the Eighth Route Army, Hu Yizhou could only smile helplessly, and then missed the former Type 86 fully plastic handleless grenade in his heart. The thing was lightweight, but there were 1,600 steel ball fragments inside, which was an absolute melee killer.

Of course, not only grenades were used to go out of the security team, but also a large number of bullets were sent to the Eighth Route Army with the transportation team, and hundreds of thousands of bullet fire hats were also sent to the Eighth Route Army.

Bullet fire hats require detonating drugs such as thunder and mercury. The small arsenals of the Eighth Route Army cannot be built, so they can only go out of Jiuzhai.

Fortunately, this thing is not used much like the launching medicine, and Jiuzhai can afford it.

After the fire caps of these bullets were sent to each regiment, the small workshops of the Eighth Route Regiment will start, and use the reloaded bullet shells to turn into new bullets and send them back to the soldiers.

As for those shells that cannot be turned into rifle bullets, they can also remove the bullet neck and turn into shotgun shells and use them.

Well, the Eighth Route Army is poor and has limited resources. If a bullet shell is not used for three or five times, it is unwilling to return to the furnace and smel.

Behind these, whether it is reloading bullets or changing from scrap rifles to shotguns, it seems that they are affected by Jiuzhai Arsenal.

That is, when the Eighth Route Army prevented the Eighth Route Army from taking ruthless attacks against Shi Yousan, the 97th Army also attacked the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountains as scheduled, especially Shexian, which was the main attack direction. It seems that they also like this city on the Handan Chang Highway.
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