1119 Visiting the industrial zone is an eye-opener for “domestic cars”
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The U.S. military-industrial interest groups also lobbied the military and gave Doolittle and his team the establishment of the U.S. Special Joint Air Force stationed in North China, and promoted Doolittle's military rank to colonel.
In addition, a special order was issued to allow Doolittle and his party to temporarily stay with the Eighth Route Army to assist the Eighth Route Army in developing its aviation industry.
In the later stage, a U.S. Air Force, Soviet Air Force, and British Air Force will arrive with prototype aircraft to help train Chinese pilots until the aircraft production line is officially completed.
In order not to be smashed by the Eighth Route Army, the countries of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were racking their brains.
Inside the headquarters.
Kong Jie congratulated Doolittle, "Lao Du, congratulations! I should call you Colonel Du from now on!"
Doolittle grinned his thin, stubbled face and said, "Kong, actually, I'm more interested in becoming the father of China's aviation than you are in this colonel!"
As he spoke, Doolittle expressed more emotion.
Who would have thought that this Eighth Route Army unit, located behind enemy lines and surrounded by powerful enemies, could develop the aviation industry with great vigor in such a short period of time?
When Doolittle and his party were forced to land in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region after an air raid over Tokyo, they were rescued by Duan Peng and his team of commandos back to the base of a detachment of the Eighth Route Army.
Although Doolittle and his party were amazed that such a large anti-Japanese armed force could be active in the Japanese-occupied areas and establish such a stable and vigorous base.
But after all, they believed that the Eighth Route Army, which was behind enemy lines, was constrained by a powerful enemy and could not fully develop its military industry.
When Kong Jie made an invitation, he wanted Doolittle and his pilots to stay in a team and help the Eighth Route Army develop its own aviation industry. He even told Doolittle that he might be called the father of Chinese aviation.
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Doolittle was more amused.
He felt that this Eighth Route Army general had an unbridled imagination.
It's just a piece of flattened yellow land hidden deep in the mountains. Can such an empty place be used as an aviation base?
Not to mention the construction of a more advanced aviation base, Doolittle did not even see a single plane.
Then ask around.
The Eighth Route Army does not even have a single fighter plane.
At that time, if he had not considered that the Eighth Route Army was the savior of his party, Doolittle would have even been tempted to make some sarcastic remarks.
Even though we don’t even have a single fighter plane, we are clamoring to build our own aviation force. Isn’t this just a dream?
However, less than two months later.
Doolittle witnessed the miracle happen with his own eyes.
First, pilots with a large amount of theoretical knowledge came from the so-called Yan'an headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to study with Doolittle.
Immediately afterwards, the aviation base secretly built by a team was further transformed and constructed. The whole team was bustling with excitement, and the construction of the secret aviation base was in full swing.
Kong Jie even built a special aviation research laboratory for Doolittle and his party, and provided a considerable amount of aviation research data of considerable quality.
But Doolittle still believed that all these prerequisites would never be realized if there was not even a fighter plane.
Until that empty airport, a dozen fighter planes arrived inexplicably.
Then it got out of hand.
Wave after wave of fighters, bombers, and transport planes were driven to a team's secret airport.
After learning that these fighter planes were captured from the Japanese military airport, Doolittle was so dumbfounded that he could almost swallow his fist.
Are there any other aviation forces built in this way?
Later, after owning the aircraft, the Eighth Route Army pilots who continued to pour in became very enthusiastic. They regarded the aircraft as almost everything to them and devoted all their passion to the research and study of aviation operations.
Finally.
The air battle broke out in Licheng.
Kong Jie provided the most shining stage for a secretly built aviation force.
And on this shining stage, a team of pilots and soldiers indeed performed a wonderful air combat drama for the audience.
At this point, the prototype of the secret aviation force first established by the Eighth Route Army to strengthen the army has been revealed.
As the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries reached cooperation agreements with the Eighth Route Army, they indicated that fighter aircraft and fighter aircraft production lines would gradually enter China to assist the Eighth Route Army in its anti-Japanese operations and the development of its aviation industry.
Doolittle was finally convinced that Kong Jie had achieved it, and had achieved the blueprint for developing the Eighth Route Army's aviation industry that they proposed when the Eighth Route Army did not have a single fighter plane.
With the current good foundation, given time, the aviation industry belonging to the Eighth Route Army will surely become one of the aviation powers as it continues to prosper.
...Thousands of words can only be combined into one emotion.
"Kong, you are truly the most incredible and magical general I have ever seen!"
"Ah???"
Kong Jie scratched his head in a daze, wondering what was wrong with Lao Du, who suddenly said this.
However, Kong Jie was very grateful to Doolittle and his team, especially Doolittle and his team for their help in the development of the aviation force.
"Lao Du, our aviation unit can't develop to what it is today without your help. Just for this, I'll buy you a drink!"
"You won't come home until you're drunk!" Doolittle laughed.
"You must, come to my place to drink, if you can climb out of the house, I will lose!" Kong Jie laughed.
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After visiting the plane.
Under the reception of Kong Jie, the leaders took the lead in visiting the military production base of the first team.
In this battle, the troops moved back from Yangquan and Jingxing to make iron. There was a lot of steel-making equipment, especially in Jingxing. With the cooperation of several puppet troops who were instigated to rebel, the soldiers also found a five-ton and a three-ton steel pipe.
Alloy steel smelting equipment.
These equipments were originally planned by the Japanese army to be used to install and produce special steel in Jingxing for use in the SJZ's newly built military factory. However, they were directly used to make wedding dresses for the Eighth Route Army. Before they could even be installed, the equipment was completely taken advantage of by the Eighth Route Army.
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The newly built thermal power plant equipment of the Jingxing Japs were also seized by the soldiers.
These devices were originally very heavy and bulky. If they had been left in the past, even if they could be captured, transporting them would have been difficult, not to mention the Japanese aerial firepower that could arrive at any time.
Fortunately, the team now has some tractor vehicles imported from various countries, which makes it much more convenient.
Lao Zhang and the others also had an unexpected gain in the freight yard of the station outside Taiyuan City. They found a five-ton Krupp alloy steel smelting equipment in the freight yard. They combined with Lao Ding's troops and used heavy-duty tractors to pull it back to the Luliang Mountain base overnight. Just wait until a team here succeeds in trial production and send technicians and engineers over to help with trial production.
In addition, after the troops completely captured Licheng, they also successfully captured a small arsenal, a power plant, a steel mill, and two special steel smelting plants with five-ton smelting equipment.
Considering that the Licheng area is an important military area for the Japanese army, it will never sit idly by and remain in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. It will definitely usher in continuous retaliation and air raids by the Japanese army in the later period, making it impossible to build a stable production base.
The Eighth Route Army used a large number of mechanized vehicles, tractor vehicles, and even transport aircraft for transportation. In the end, a large number of factories and equipment in Licheng were transferred to the Eighth Route Army's most stable Huangyadong Arsenal.
One of the five-ton smelting equipment was also transported to Li Yunlong's New Second Regiment Arsenal.
Li Yunlong has always wanted to make mortars, and now he finally has the raw material basis.
These are the gains of each unit during the May Day raids. They only barely have a foundation, and there are still many supporting facilities missing, so they have not been able to carry out trial operations.
And there is a serious shortage of technicians and engineers.
Therefore, Kong Jie’s business with the British, American, and Soviet countries this time about aircraft and production lines was also to bring in more talents from abroad, and at the same time help cultivate domestic military production talents to make up for the huge gap in talent demand for the Eighth Route Army’s military production.<
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When visiting a military production base, the first thing to visit is naturally the steel mill.
An ironworks built by a team.
Including special steel smelting plants.
There are also rifle production lines, light machine gun production lines, heavy machine gun production lines, grenade launcher production lines, rocket production lines, submachine gun production lines, bullet production lines, and artillery shell production lines in new military factories.
Kong Jie said: "There are three of these iron smelting plants. One was built with captured Japanese equipment, one was built with the aid of the Soviet Union, and the other was built with the aid of the United States. Experts and technicians sent from all aspects of the Allied forces arrived one after another.
, there are also domestic experts, Japanese experts, and overseas Chinese experts forming a joint debugging team, which is debugging day and night.
Immediately, the first one to visit was the first steel plant established by Yangquan Iron Works, Jingxing Iron and Steel Works, and Jingxing Special Steel Works. It was full of Japanese-made machinery and smelting equipment, and there were many originally purchased during the Republic of China.
Equipment, even equipment from the Beiyang period, and some equipment plundered from the National Army in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places were transported and installed to form complete production lines.
Political Commissar Li Wenjie, who was walking at the front, introduced: "The Japanese plundered our iron ore on the spot in the Yangquan and Jingxing areas, smelted the iron ore, made iron and steel, and then transported it to their rear areas or the country for deep processing.
The five-ton and three-ton special steel smelting equipment was produced by Manchuria Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., and it was only recently transported to the Jingxing Special Steel Factory for installation and trial production. During this anti-May Day raid, we occupied Jingxing and took over their complete set of equipment.
We have moved back and today we invite everyone to visit and participate in the opening ceremony of these two special steel smelting production lines."
The leader on the side asked: "We know something about iron and steel making, what is this special steel? Isn't it all steel?"
Kong Jie said: "This special steel is actually alloy steel. Five tons of it is smelted from the nickel-chromium-platinum series. During the smelting, vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other additives are added according to demand.
The emergence of alloy steel is a revolution in the steel industry, completely replacing ordinary carbon steel as the gun barrel material. The gun barrels they make are thinner and lighter, but are resistant to high temperatures and high pressures, and can greatly increase the range of the artillery.
Pipe service life.
This three-ton smelting equipment smelts molybdenum-chromium steel, specifically for making gun barrels."
The deputy commander said: "It is this alloy steel revolution that instantly widened the gap between China's military industry and foreign military industry.
Just like the artillery produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau of the former Qing Dynasty, which spent a lot of money to introduce military equipment, it was directly behind an era!
Comrades, technology is a powerful weapon to improve productivity. We are too far behind!"
At this time, Commander Fu looked at the equipment and wondered: "I see that some of the equipment was originally from the Baojin Mining Period of the Republic of China. How come the nameplates were changed to the Beiyang Period? I remember seeing it when I visited!" p>
Kong Jie said with a smile: "Commander Fu, as the saying goes, see through but don't tell off. Except for alloy steel, this steel plant has been producing normally and the quality is pretty good. We deliberately changed the nameplate to say that the equipment is old and the quality is uneven. It's deceiving."
Human!"
Xu Guoan added: "Actually, we have reordered and replaced many of the equipment here, but the nameplates are still the same. The old equipment that cannot be used has been sealed and will be used as an industrial museum.
We have been producing here for some time, and we are combining the technical standards of the Soviet Union and the United States to establish our own standards. After all, other people’s things belong to others, and they must be absorbed and digested before they become our own.
This place is all established by our own steel industry workers and smelting experts. The foreign experts from the Allied Forces are not interested in the patchwork products here. They simply do not believe that we can independently produce steel and iron materials with qualified quality and stable technology.
You don’t pay any attention to this place, it’s just a good match for us to set off a smoke screen.”
Kong Jie smiled and said: "This is exactly the reason. If you don't behave backward, how can you make Western countries come to help willingly?"
Fu Yisheng:......
"The world says I am an old fox, Kong Jie, Kong Jie, I think you are more like that cunning fox!"
Everyone laughed.
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After visiting one industrial production line after another, with Kong Jie’s introduction, the leaders were so happy that they couldn’t open their mouths from ear to ear.
The commander-in-chief who came from Yan'an even lamented: "At the beginning, our military production level was poor. Even the largest Huangyadong Arsenal could not even produce one gun and one cannon.
Today's conditions are getting better and better, and we are finally able to produce our own guns. We no longer have to be choked by others. Even if we have some guns and ammunition, we can only look at other people's eyes and ask for help!"<
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Who says it’s not!
Looking back on the bitter history of the Eighth Route Army fighting behind enemy lines over the years, it was in an environment behind enemy lines, isolated and helpless, and lacked a military industrial foundation.
"There are no guns, no cannons, the enemy made them for us!"
These words are exciting, but more importantly, they are sad and helpless.
As long as the Eighth Route Army has its own military production capacity and sufficient arsenal and military industry foundation, why bother to make huge sacrifices to seize equipment and supplies from the Japanese with difficulty?
These older generation of selfless revolutionary leaders.
I never frowned even when I fought bloody battles on the battlefield.
At this moment, as we visited along the way, many people had secretly red eyes and secretly wiped away tears.
Those were tears of excitement!
That is the gratification and joy of watching your motherland grow from weak to strong step by step!
At this time, Kong Jie, who was accompanying the leaders, suddenly and mysteriously asked Xu Guoan beside him: "Old Xu, are our core production and industrial zones fully vigilant?"
How could Xu Guoan not understand what Kong Jie meant, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the security is tight, especially the representatives from various countries and parties who are visiting our base area this time. They will never discover our secrets easily.
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"That's good!"
"Hey, leaders, please move over, I'll show you something special!"
Later, Kong Jie led a group of leaders to the secret core industrial production area of a team.
The first one to visit was the penicillin processing plant at the First Team Pharmaceutical Production Base.
Kong Jie on the side said: "Compared with industrial powers such as Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, we are far behind in the production of aircraft, cannons, tanks and other military industries, as well as in the production of civilian products. p>
But we are not without leading technologies and brands.
For example, what comrades have seen now is almost mass-produced penicillin, which is what we often call penicillin."
"For a long time, especially after the war broke out, penicillin has been hard to find on the battlefield. Everyone knows that this drug can save lives at critical times. However, due to low production volume, the supply has been in short supply."
"Even the powerful Western countries may not have thoroughly researched the production technology for mass production of penicillin, but we are now able to achieve mass production and can even supply the needs of our three armed forces!"
"This has already left Western countries far behind!"
A leader asked with concern: "Are all our troops issued with penicillin?"
Kong Jie said: "After the mass production technology of penicillin was discovered, we have been continuously producing it, and the corresponding drugs have been continuously distributed to various troops, especially the frontline combat troops, which are most prone to casualties, so a large amount of additional equipment is needed.
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Speaking of this, Kong Jie smiled and gave an example:
"The amount of penicillin our team has now is even more than the number of bandages our team had before!"
"Okay, okay!"
Even Doolittle and his team were completely unaware of the secret mass production of penicillin.
Kong Jie even used penicillin to do business with Western countries and bring money back from the West to reduce the trade deficit.
If we only buy Western products but don’t have our own products to sell, sooner or later all the real money in the country will be defrauded.
Then, Kong Jie took the leaders to continue the visit.
As for the next factory they entered, they had just entered it. When they saw the situation in the factory, many leaders couldn't help but blurt out:
"This is... a car processing plant???"
The leaders were stunned. China has been able to produce its own cars. This has been a dream for many years. During the golden decade of the Republic of China, producing national cars of Chinese brands has always been one of the slogans shouted.
But after all, it’s thunder but no rain.
In the end, not even a decent wheel could be produced.
While this is ridiculous, it is also sad and helpless.
Now, as for the Eighth Route Army, a team's secret factory can actually build and produce its own car brand?
Kong Jie explained with a smile: "In fact, it is not the kind of full-performance fuel vehicles produced by Western industrial powers.
In fact, we still have a long way to go before we can get there.
What you see now are some more simplified military mechanical vehicles that we are trying to produce, mainly to ensure the performance of its engine, as well as the mobility and load capacity of the overall vehicle.
To put it bluntly, in fact, being able to run and pull things mainly allows us to be more adaptable to the battle against the Japanese army.
As for other aspects of performance, as well as some precision accessories that require higher production technology, we do not have the ability to produce them yet.
But after all, they are vehicles independently produced by our Eighth Route Army!"
The leaders suddenly realized it, and then they couldn't help laughing. They felt that their thinking was too forward. They had to eat this meal one bite at a time, and they couldn't eat it and become a big fat man.
What if this team suddenly had the industrial capability to produce the most advanced mechanized vehicles?
That would be a bit unrealistic.
Finally, until all the leaders walked out of the core industrial area of the first team, the sky was clear and the air was clear, feeling the gentle breeze, they all exclaimed happily.
This trip to visit the industrial area of the first team was really eye-opening for everyone.