PFC Chapter 411 I have to fight with Chu Yunfei. If he doesn’t peel off my skin, I’ll write my name back
Chapter 411 I have to fight with Chu Yunfei. If he doesn’t peel off my skin, I’ll write my name back
They had planned to stay at the transfer station for half a day longer, but the news from the base kept Li Yunlong and Lin Zhenhua awake all night, so they had to wake them up and finish refueling before dawn. The eight of them hurriedly finished their breakfast and drove the transport plane back to the base. After rushing, they finally arrived at Maoershan Airport before six in the evening.
After the transport plane landed successfully, Li Yunlong and Lin Zhenhua immediately took a truck to the regiment headquarters, had a simple dinner with Zhao Gang, Ding Wei and the other three, and immediately started talking about business.
"College student, this is the telegram Wang Xuecheng just sent. The first treatment plan was not very effective, but the second treatment plan has achieved significant results. So far, no soldier from the 358th Regiment who has been treated has died. This is a great miracle."
"The combination of Chinese and Western medicine has achieved great success, which has effectively controlled the plague that just appeared in the 358th Regiment. This is a thank-you telegram from Chu Yunfei and Fang Ligong. They asked us to dispatch more medicines and use copper ingots and salt to offset the cost."
"This is the list of medicines sent by Chu Yunfei. In addition to these, Chu Yunfei also purchased 60 mortars and 24 Type infantry guns from us, plus more than artillery shells. As for bullets and grenades, the quantity required is too huge, completely beyond our current production capacity. I think we need to be cautious about this matter. We can't just get more raw materials without paying attention to our current ammunition reserves. Doing so is tantamount to seeking fish in a tree. Without sufficient strength to keep the arsenal, no matter how many raw materials we have, it will be useless!" Zhao Gang put all the telegrams in his hand on the table and said concisely.
Li Yunlong and Lin Zhenhua took a look at the contents of the telegram, and the smiles that had just appeared on their faces suddenly froze. They really didn't expect that Chu Yunfei's appetite would be so big.
"Damn it, this bastard Chu Yunfei actually wants to buy 300 million machine gun bullets and 150 million rifle bullets from us, and also 50 submachine gun bullets. He is really like a toad yawning and is so arrogant. Not to mention that so many bullets are very valuable, just the number alone is more than our current reserves. Chu Yunfei's intentions are really vicious. He wants to take all our bullets. What a wishful thinking!" Li Yunlong slammed the telegram on the table and cursed without any mercy.
Lin Zhenhua's face also looked very ugly. Chu Yunfei wanted too much this time. The Independent Regiment simply did not have that much inventory. More importantly, Chu Yunfei might not be able to come up with so many supplies. Could it be that Chu Yunfei was planning to get something for nothing this time?
"Old Li was right to scold Chu Yunfei this time. Chu Yunfei's idea is too idealistic. The price of arms has skyrocketed these days, and we are very conscientious to maintain the original price. The price of Chu Yunfei's copper ingots has increased by 30% compared to before. This is really unfair. Since Chu Yunfei did it on the first day, let's do it on the fifteenth. I decided to increase the price of weapons by 50% and reduce the number of arms transactions between the two sides by half. Only in this way can we make up for the previous losses."
"Old Zhao, you are responsible for this matter..."
Before Lin Zhenhua could finish his words, Li Yunlong interrupted him and said, "College student, you can't let Lao Zhao do this. Lao Zhao is a thin-skinned person. If Lao Zhao is allowed to negotiate, he will probably be fooled by Chu Yunfei. I will negotiate this matter myself. This time I will have a good fight with Chu Yunfei. If I don't peel off a layer of skin from him, I will write my name, Li Yunlong, upside down!"
"Now the price of medicines has skyrocketed, and we have to adjust the price as well. Not to mention other raw materials, the price of the Chinese medicinal materials we purchased has increased by 50% in the past month, which has caused our production costs to increase sharply. In fact, we have already suffered a big loss in this transaction with Chen Minggeng, but in order to get the machine tools and materials, we have to bear this loss."
"There are many people willing to do this business that will cost them their lives. The reason for this is that the profits are too great. They can stay for years without doing anything. But we are doing legitimate business, and the profits are not high. In addition, the cost of air transportation is high, so we can only barely maintain a balance."
Lin Zhenhua agreed with him, "What Lao Li said is true. The base area looks prosperous on the surface, but it is actually on the verge of collapse. If we hadn't exchanged a large amount of supplies for medicines, we would not be able to maintain the stability of the base area. If the price of medicines could not be raised, our profit margin would be greatly squeezed. However, the current situation forces us to compromise. Things are indeed very difficult to deal with!"
"We have to take advantage of this opportunity to take stock of our financial situation and finalize our production plan for the new year. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, so we have to give the soldiers a day off so they can have a good rest."
Lin Zhenhua's proposal was recognized by everyone present. They had been running around these days and had no time to rest, but the base did not prosper. Instead, various problems became more and more numerous. The production capacity of the arsenal dropped sharply, and the people in the base were even more panic-stricken. This situation must be changed as soon as possible, otherwise, there would be a high possibility of civil unrest in the base even without the Japanese attacking again.
Lin Zhenhua took a sip of the warm tea on the table, moistened his dry throat, and said in a serious tone: "Let's talk about the medicine later. Let me talk about our arsenal first. Since the arsenal was bombed by the Japanese, it has been dispersed from the original industrial cluster to small factories one after another. This has brought a lot of trouble to our military production and left many hidden dangers. Otherwise, the Japanese action team would not have been able to successfully carry out sabotage operations against our arsenal so many times. It's time to solve this matter."
"I took this situation into consideration when setting up the Ordnance Branch, but I had to compromise due to practical reasons. More importantly, the roads between the branches are not connected, and we did not set up roadblocks and checkpoints. Coupled with the cooperation of the inner traitor, it was easy for the Japanese to infiltrate successfully."
"In order to solve the current crisis facing military factories, I decided to open 12 underground arsenals. After two months of emergency construction, these 12 underground arsenals have been completed, and the power plant has been connected to them. Tomorrow we will start moving machine tools and equipment inside, and production will begin after the new year."
"We must restore our military production capacity to the level two months ago within half a month. One month later, we must increase our military production capacity by 3% to 5%. We must reserve at least 300 armored vehicles, 180 tanks, thousands of artillery pieces of various types, 300 heavy-duty trucks, 1000 tricycles, 1000 light and heavy machine guns, 6000 submachine guns, 200 million rounds of bullets, 8 artillery shells, 100 gas masks, and fighter planes of various types before the war begins."
"I am very confident about this goal. After adopting special machine tools and large-scale castings, the production capacity of military products can be greatly improved and can keep up with our consumption rate. In particular, we already have nine bullet production lines, four rifle production lines, four machine gun production lines, and one submachine gun production line. We can produce 100 million rounds of bullets every month, and we can produce 200 million rounds of bullets within two months!"
Ding Wei interrupted at the right time and said, "College students, we have a very large reserve of rifle bullets, which can fully meet the needs of a large-scale battle. What we lack most now is machine gun bullets and submachine gun bullets. The reserve quantity of these two types of bullets is a bit small, and they are consumed very quickly on the battlefield. We should increase the production of these two types of bullets and reduce the production of rifle bullets."
Kong Jie objected, "Old Ding, I don't agree with your proposal. At an effective combat distance of four or five hundred meters, the rifle's shooting accuracy is very high, and submachine guns are completely useless at this distance. Submachine guns are close combat weapons. They are used to fight the devils at close range. The lethality is indeed very large, but the amount of bullets consumed is also very alarming. We can't afford them at all."
"The drum magazine that the college students are equipped with now has 72 rounds of ammunition, which can indeed ensure the continuity of firepower and can be used as a machine gun. In the previous street fighting to attack Ping'an County, we achieved very good results, but when we counted the ammunition later, we found that in just one hour of fighting, we actually consumed nearly 1000 rounds of submachine gun bullets, but only killed hundreds of devils. On average, it took rounds of bullets to kill one devil. If we want to kill a battalion of devils, we will need millions of bullets."
"With the flexibility of our current reserves, we can only destroy 4,000 to 5,000 Japanese at most. We can't afford to fight such a battle. We can't just consider firepower without considering logistics. This is completely irresponsible."
Ding Wei immediately stood up and argued, "Lao Kong, the reason why we consumed so many bullets in the last attack on Daping'an County was mainly because the soldiers were nervous and kept their hands on the triggers, so a whole magazine of bullets was used up in just a few seconds. But as the soldiers complete the battlefield transformation, the consumption of ammunition will be drastically reduced. By then, only 1/5 of the bullets will be needed to achieve the same victory."
"The bullets we have in stock can kill nearly 20,000 Japanese soldiers. If we add our artillery shells and other weapons, there will be no problem in killing 30,000 Japanese soldiers. I, Ding Wei, am not exaggerating. Compared with the Japanese soldiers, our weapons have a slight advantage. The Japanese soldiers are stronger than us in overall strength, but weaker in some areas. This is an indisputable fact!"