Chapter 125

The Gai Liang gun had undergone the test of actual combat. Its lightweight design endowed it with exceptional flexibility and adaptability on the battlefield, proving outstandingly effective whether on flat plains or in mountainous terrain. Consequently, armored vehicles came into being. Wang Diren also set about reorganizing the Artillery Battalion into a mechanized artillery battalion, referred to as the Artillery Battalion. This unit consisted of a heavy machine gun company, a mortar company, a Type 92 Infantry Gun company, a heavy mortar company, a howitzer company, and a field gun company. The first three could be transported by motorcycle sidecars, but the latter three required pickup trucks. While they could purchase small quantities themselves, large-scale procurement was beyond their capabilities. Fortunately, the factory buildings in the Industrial Zone were essentially complete, so they selected a section to serve as a vehicle factory and installed the necessary equipment. Since mass-producing pickup trucks was not realistic, they started with sidecars, simultaneously conducting armored modifications while measuring and reverse-engineering them. Whatever they couldn't build for the time being, they simply bought.