Snow Leopard: Building the Strongest Elite Group through Robbery

Chapter 516 Why do we need weapons? Why don’t we just need a production line?

However, regarding Tongguan, Shancheng and the Second Army knew about this matter, but no one else knew about it, not even the headquarters.

The headquarters had been expecting the troops to enter Tongguan and threaten the northern part of the mountain city.

Will the other countries agree? Maybe they are already thinking about how to stop this.

"It's already very clear that the headquarters and European countries don't know about this. Therefore, we analyze that they should be able to judge that the Japanese army is occupying Tongguan and threatening the mountain city from the north, so as to take advantage of the current surrender of Wang Laoba and force our people to surrender again. We think that various countries will definitely take action, and how can we benefit from it?"

Nanzō Yunko had a good idea. On the third day after she told Nakamura about this matter, Zhou Weiguo showed up at the Ninth War Zone Headquarters in Changsha on time and told him about the emergency meeting he had held with the regiment headquarters.

"Is it possible that they would intervene militarily?" Commander Bai, who had been standing by the window pondering for a long time, glanced at Chief of Staff Wu, who was also in the office.

Chief of Staff Wu picked up the teacup and shook his head; "It's difficult. Now it's a war between us and Nanjing. It's a civil war. The Japanese army can find a reason and say that they were invited to fight. It's impossible for other countries to participate in it in this way."

"We think so too. They can't intervene militarily, but they will stop it. So, this..."

"Weapons aid." Commander Bai smiled calmly and turned around. "Since the war began, due to repeated pressure from the Japanese army, various countries have restricted the transportation of our weapons. Large-caliber artillery is completely unusable. The 150mm howitzers originally purchased from Germany have to be dispersed because of the lack of ammunition. Several German-equipped divisions have also been defeated due to the problem of ammunition supply. Therefore, this time, the most effective way for them is to provide us with weapons aid."

its not right.

After Commander Bai said this, he looked up at Zhou Weiguo in front of him. Judging from the abilities of Zhou Weiguo and the people in his regiment, how could they not see it? Even if they couldn't see it, couldn't Xiao Ye, who loved money like his life, see the twists and turns here?

"You...you are no longer satisfied with the other party's simple weapons assistance."

oops ……

Chief of Staff Wu was a little confused. He was blowing on the teacup when his mouth suddenly hit it. He cried out in pain and turned to look at Zhou Weiguo. "What do you want to do?"

Zhou Weiguo didn't know what to say, but Chao Xiang Xiuling next to him said weakly, "Two commanders, isn't it a good time to ask them for some weapons production lines now?"

Commander Bai and Chief of Staff Wu looked at each other without saying anything.

However, they were both obviously moved.

In fact, in the true sense, Shancheng does not have a real military production line at present. There used to be a Northeast Arsenal and a Shanxi Arsenal, which were the largest arsenals in Shancheng, and the Jinling Arsenal was the worst among the several. It could only imitate some light weapons, and heavy artillery could not be produced at all.

Zhou Weiguo and his men didn't know, but the top brass of the headquarters and commanders of various war zones knew clearly that the ability to have ammunition available and replenished at any time was only available to the elite troops in each war zone. As for the ammunition of other troops, it was impossible for them to have such treatment.

Take the Ninth War Zone for example, the only ones that could enjoy such treatment were the 74th Army and the 5th Army. As for the others, they were basically cleaned up after a battle, and then they had to wait anxiously for the next batch of supplies.

There was no way out. First, the Japanese army was very determined. As soon as the transport vehicles were dispatched, they would launch bombings. Second, production could not keep up.

Several arsenals in Jinling were bombed by the Japanese army on their way to the mountain city, and several production lines were lost. In the end, they had to produce goods by hand, which was simply unable to meet the demand for a large-scale battle.

Therefore, they both fell in love with it at the same time.

"Tell me in detail." Commander Bai sat on the sofa, then motioned Zhou Weiguo and Chao Xiang Xiuling to sit down and talk.

Chaoxiang Xiuling nodded and sat down. She was a brave person, after all, her father was a prince.

"Sir, I haven't eaten yet." Chaoxiang Xiuling had heard from her husband a long time ago that Sir Bai has been here for a long time.

Zhou Weiguo glanced at her lovingly and said, "You are just being spoiled by your favor. Commander Bai only has two bottles of good wine, and you want to drink them all."

Humph……

Officer Bai looked at the two men singing the same tune and then looked at Adjutant Li beside him. "Go prepare a meal and put it on my personal account."

Today, Commander Bai was very generous and ordered all the dishes, including a fish, a chicken, old duck soup, stinky tofu and cabbage, a plate of peanuts and some stir-fried vegetables.

These meals, perhaps for Chaoxiang Xiuling and the wealthy families in Changsha, are just simple meals that cannot be simpler, but for the army, they are already very sumptuous.

At least Zhou Weiguo hasn't eaten so boldly for a long time. He has money, but has no place to eat these. Firstly, he doesn't have time, and secondly, if he wants to eat, he has to summon several people from the group department, which is not cost-effective.

"It's all thanks to you." Zhou Weiguo smiled as he opened the Liuyang River brought by the squire, then he stood up and poured white wine for the two of them. Then he sat down and filled a glass for Chao Xiang Xiuling, then poured himself a full glass of white wine and sat down again.

"Eat." Commander Bai picked up his chopsticks and looked at Chao Xiang Xiuling across from him. "If it makes sense, let alone treating you to this meal, even if you come to eat every day for a month, I can afford it."

Chaoxiang Xiuling nodded repeatedly and began to eat. After eating for a while, she picked up the wine glass to toast and sat down and said, "Sir, let me borrow a sentence that Ono said not long ago. Aid, whether it is free aid or paid aid, is the most deceptive thing."

Commander Bai and Chief of Staff Wu nodded slightly, and neither of them denied that what he said was correct.

Let’s not talk about aid, that needs to be used in advance, let’s just talk about free aid.

For example, weapons assistance is given to you, and the real thing is in your hands. Logically speaking, you should be grateful.

Yes, you should be grateful in the early stage, because it really greatly improves your strength.

But this problem appeared in the later stage.

Later on, if your ammunition runs out, if you want to continue using it, you have to pay for it, and the price is not set by you, but by the other party. If you want to use it, you have to pay.

This can be said to be using a piece of candy to get you to buy his bag of candy. The 5th Army's equipment was originally mostly British equipment, but now, after the Ninth Theater of War, they have all been replaced with Zhongzheng. There is no other way. After a battle, the consumption is down. If you don't have the same type of bullets to replenish, you have to pay.

Shancheng doesn’t have that money.

"So, you thought of taking advantage of this incident to ask for the production line." Staff Officer Wu asked after summarizing what Chao Xiang Xiuling said.