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"The second action about materials is to tamper with the arsenal." Zhao Zhenzhong smiled faintly, "Since Zhang Xueliang has so many possessions but cannot use them for the full use, instead of letting him give it to Japan to support the war, it would be better to let us transport it away."

"If this can be really done, it would be a good thing, and we will make a big deal." Zhou Hao did not blindly optimistic. After calming down his excitement, he said: "However, places like the arsenal must be very cautious. If someone is sent to infiltrate and blow it up, I believe there should be no big problem. But it would be too difficult to transport the equipment inside under the noses of the Northeast authorities and the Japanese."

"Zhang Xueliang is ready to convert the arsenal into a civilian factory, and the defense is not as tight as imagined. Moreover, we are prepared." Liu Chenglin explained.

Before Zhao Zhen visited Yu Xuezhong again in Peking in July, although he asked Liu Chenglin to prepare for the preparation, he still hoped that Yu Xuezhong could persuade the Northeast Army to take precautions against Japan early. However, after the warning failed, Zhao Zhenzhong also let go of his concerns and set up relevant actions against the arsenals in the three eastern provinces.

The Arsenal of the Three East Provinces is located west of the East Tower outside the Dadongbianmen Gate, and to the east is the Shenyang Airport. After several expansions, the Arsenal of the Three East Provinces has now become the largest arms production plant in China. In addition to the technicians from Japan, Germany, Austria, Russia, Sweden and other countries hired, there are more than 10,000 workers in the factory, able to produce a variety of explosives, mines, rifles of different calibers, light and heavy machine guns, artillery, and various bullets and shells. In order to facilitate material transportation, the Arsenal has also built a platform on the west side of the warehouse and built a railway so that the train can directly access the factory.

In January 1929, after Yang Yuting, the supervisor of the Arsenal in the Three East Provinces, was killed by Zhang Xueliang, Zang Shiyi took over as the supervisor of the Arsenal. However, after Zang Shiyi became the chairman of Liaoning Province in 1930, due to busy official duties, he gradually paid less attention to the specific affairs of the Arsenal.

By 30 years, in addition to investing about 200 million oceans of construction funds in the arsenal, the factory's daily expenses reached more than 2 million yuan per month. The Northeast authorities were also unable to bear such a large amount of consumption. After the Central Plains War, Zhang Xueliang called for the Stop. With the permission of Zhang and Zang, the arsenal began to reduce its employees and use factory equipment to produce civilian supplies. Subsequently, Dongshengyuan Product Sales Office was established in Daxiguan, Shenyang. All hardware materials, boiler heating plates, water pump machines, tools and furniture could be ordered from the arsenal through Dongshengyuan. There was also a sample catalog for people to choose from. Zhang Xueliang also planned to convert the arsenal into a civilian factory, sending Wang Zhuoran and Ye Biliang to visit abroad, contact foreign experts to rebuild the arsenal in the third factory, and prepare to manufacture cars and tractors.

However, Wang and Ye failed to conduct an inspection. The Minsheng Factory established by the mortar factory was successfully cooperated with Huamei Company under the leadership of Li Yichun, and the processing of automobile parts and the production of automobiles were very exciting. In view of this, Zang Shiyi simply sold a favor and proposed to Zhang Xueliang this spring that Li Yichun would be responsible for the conversion of civilian products of the arsenal. Zhang Xueliang saw that the quality of the trucks produced by the Minsheng Factory was indeed good, and Zang Shiyi was busy with Liaoning Province affairs, so he agreed that Zang Shiyi would supervise the specific affairs of the arsenal first, and Zhang Xueliang would take over the specific affairs of the arsenal by Zhang Xueliang. At the same time, Zhang Xueliang sent his secretly Ye Biliang to assist Li Yichun.

After Li Yichun took over the arsenal, because he had tasted the sweetness in cooperating with Huamei Company to produce cars, he naturally hoped that Huamei Company could assist it in civil transformation of the arsenal. In this case, Ye Biliang, who was responsible for negotiating with Huamei Company, followed the meaning of Zhang Xueliang, Zang Shiyi, Li Yichun and others, and naturally told the relevant situation of the arsenal to the relevant personnel of Huamei Company. This brought great convenience to Zhao Zhenzhong and others this action.

On September 4 and 5, after the Japanese army encircled the Northeast Arsenal, technicians and workers in the factory took leave one after another. In order to avoid the situation from worsening, Zang Shiyi and Li Yichun ordered 1,300 factory security personnel, "No matter how Japanese people seek trouble, they must be tolerant and not resist", and took most of them home on vacation. The entire arsenal is now in a state of suspension, except for leaving hundreds of defense personnel and a small number of technicians and workers maintaining equipment.

After introducing the relevant situation, Liu Chenglin said: "In addition, we have made relevant documents, documents and orders from the Deputy General Command of Zhang Xueliang in Peking, and the command of Liaoning Provincial Chairman Zang Shiyi. With the help of the conspiracy, we have also provided force as a backing to solve the problem of more than 200 defense personnel in the factory."

"If God doesn't take it, it will be blamed. With such convenient conditions, we will do the most of his votes!" After being excited, Zhou Hao asked hesitantly: "But how do we transport the supplies? If we use a car, it will not only expose Huamei Company, but also not much of it will be transported."

"The arsenal has its own traction locomotive and 38 car wagons, so we will use this train to make a fuss." Liu Chenglin's eyes shining. "Among the people who came from Shandong, 6,7 of them drove trains on the Jiaoji Line. In the past two months, they have taken the train from Shenyang to Huludao and have been familiar with the route along the way. It is absolutely fine to drive the train to Huludao Port."

After robbing Zhang Zongchang's army a few years ago, Zhao Zhenzhong remembered the incident of the railway guerrillas. In addition, considering that he would build a railway in the northwest base in the future, and it was impossible to start, the personnel who repaired the train were not allowed. Therefore, after that, Zhao Zhenzhong asked Li Yuntian to arrange a group of reliable personnel to enter the Qingdao section of Jiaoji Railway to learn about railway matters. In three years, although those people did not achieve much improvement on the Jiaoji Line, they were already very familiar with railway matters. Several of them who mastered the train driving skills could be used in this operation.

"But, 38 car wagons, each load of 40 tons, does not transport too much." Thinking of the huge amount of military supplies in the arsenal that he learned, Liu Chenglin felt a pity, "It would be great if we could transport them all away."

In this era, most of the vehicles on the railway were two axles. With the existence of narrow-gauge vehicles, the average load capacity of trucks was only more than 20 tons. In the northeast, the Zhang family and his son worked hard on the railway. The load capacity of their trucks was at the leading level in China, and each section reached the standard of 40 tons. But even so, a 38-car truck only transported 1,520 tons of supplies, which was indeed not worth mentioning compared to the many supplies in the arsenal.

"Don't be too greedy. With this load capacity of more than 1,500 tons, we can transport a lot of things away." Zhao Zhenzhong patted Liu Chenglin on the shoulder and smiled. "Since there is this restriction in transportation, we must determine the goal of this operation and find the meat bottom. Those that are too bulky, occupy a large area, and those that do not match our current and future standards will be discarded. Specifically, we only need to imitate Mauser rifles, 75-caliber and 105-caliber artillery, mortars of each caliber, and ammunition corresponding to these equipment."

"To follow this standard, it can indeed transport everything we need. However, there will be more things to abandon, which is a pity." Liu Chenglin couldn't help feeling a little sad when he thought of the many materials that were about to be abandoned in the arsenal.

In addition to imitating Mauser's 1-caliber rifles and imitating Japanese-made 1-caliber light machine guns, there are also imitating Japanese, German, Austrian and other cannons. If Zhao Zhenzhong follows the standards mentioned by Zhao Zhenzhong, there will be not many that can be transported away this time, and even the load capacity of a train cannot be used.

The weight of the Type 13 rifle is 4.27 kilograms per unit, and 100,000 Type 13 is only 427 tons; as for artillery, since its establishment, the Arsenal of the Three East Provinces has produced a total of 180 75-caliber artillery and 16 105-caliber artillery. These artillery will not exceed 300 tons in one piece. Moreover, many of these artillery have been equipped to the army, and there will never be many left in the arsenal. In this way, the load capacity of 1,520 tons may even be surplus.

"It's no pity. We will definitely build better equipment in the future than in this arsenal." Zhao Zhenzhong waved his hand and decided to say, "In this operation, in addition to the guns, cannons and other supplies I mentioned before, we must try our best to get the ammunition as much as possible. In the materials that cannot be taken away, we must place timed blasting devices. We must never be cheaper for the Japanese!"

After this Shenyang operation, if Zhao Zhenzhong and others want to meet with the Japanese again, they will have to wait a few years later. With this period of preparation, Zhao Zhenzhong and others can basically build their own military-industrial system. There is no need to get equipment from imitating Japanese and increase logistics pressure. If there is room left on the train, it is better to install more military-industrial materials.

"What Lao Zhao said makes sense. In the future, we will establish our own standard equipment system. Now there is no need to trouble yourself with Japanese equipment in addition to American and German equipment." Zhou Hao agreed, "Besides, those stupid guys, we will transport them to Qingdao or Tianjin, and it will be a big trouble when we transfer them to the two base areas."

Liu Chenglin thought about it carefully and felt relieved. He had followed Li Yichun and Ye Biliang to visit the arsenal, and there were indeed some big guys that were too heavy and difficult to transport. Among them, the two 24-centimeter caliber heavy howitzers in trial production may have good power, but each weighs more than 30 tons. Such monsters are even loading trains, let alone transporting them to the two base areas.

After thinking it through, Liu Chenglin asked, "Then when will we take action?"
Chapter completed!