560 Captain Kong cleverly persuaded his superiors and determined to develop penicillin.
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Soon, the call was connected.
"Hey, brigade commander, it's me, Kong Jie, who is here to report to you on the situation of the experts, professors, and representatives escorting this time."
Kong Jie spoke, hearing this tone, not to mention how warm he was.
On the other end of the phone, the brigade commander could not understand what Kong Jie was thinking, and said: "Wenjie has already called and reported the specific situation of the mission."
When the conversation changed, the brigade commander laughed and scolded: "Kong Jie, I know better than anyone what you are thinking. During the previous call, Wenjie hesitantly covered for you, saying that experts, professors and representatives were temporarily staying here.
It will take two days for your independent group to be delivered to the headquarters."
"Now that you have called me to report in person, I would like to ask. Your task has been completed, and it has been done well. Experts, professors, and representatives have all been brought back to me. Why don't you be the first to do so?
When will it be sent to the headquarters?"
Kong Jie asked tentatively: "Brigade Commander, could it be that the headquarters has come to you personally to ask for someone?"
The brigade commander asked: "What do you think?"
"You're so frivolous, don't you just want to keep the people you escorted back in your independent group?
I have also provided cover for you. The headquarters said that they will only give you a few days of grace at most. The experts, professors and representatives must be sent to the headquarters as soon as possible. The headquarters has other work to arrange for these comrades, so you can't delay any longer.
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Kong Jie suddenly shouted aggrieved: "Brigadier, you have wronged me."
"It's not that I delayed on purpose, but you also know that there are many wounded people coming from Jizhong this time, and their lives are at stake. After returning to the Independent Regiment, I have to make arrangements as soon as possible, right?"
"So, the matter of escorting experts, professors and representatives to the headquarters has been temporarily left behind."
"...You can rest assured that our independent regiment has sufficient medical supplies and medicines. As long as the wounded in our regiment can be treated, they will never be sent to the brigade headquarters to cause trouble to you, brigade commander."
The brigade commander said happily: "Did I mention this? Don't you come here, the escort task will not be carried out personally by you, the commander of the regiment, right? Just send a team at random, and send the professor representatives to the headquarters.
Already?"
Kong Jie said: "What the brigade commander said is that there is too much work in the regiment these days. I am very busy and exhausted. After the wounded have been arranged properly, I will think of business without looking back and report to you quickly, the brigade commander."
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"It's just, Brigadier, I'm afraid I won't be able to send these professors and representatives away now."
On the other end of the phone, the brigade commander was stunned for a moment and cursed: "Kong Jie, what are your plans?"
Kong Jie said: "Brigadier Commander, I was about to report the specific situation to you. It's like this. After the expert representatives were sent to the Independent Regiment this time, I was not busy arranging for the wounded comrades coming from Jizhong. p>
Wenjie conveniently allowed experts, professors and representatives to visit our independent group. As a result, the professors and representatives were all enthusiastic and expressed their desire to lend a hand and help in our independent group."
"Isn't this what I'll leave behind?"
"Professors such as Zhao Guo in the academic community are busy compiling anti-Japanese textbooks suitable for the education of students in our base areas these days!
Mechanical physics professors such as Qian Xuezhong and Chen Dong, considering that our base area will often fight guerrilla warfare, it is best to have a mobile mechanical institute, so they are researching a movable mechanical lock that integrates lathes, milling machines, planers, and drilling machines.
Where is the equipment!
There are also some professors of medicine and chemistry who are studying what kind of disinfection and surgical equipment should be equipped at the medical research institute of our independent group, and are also developing our own antibacterial drugs similar to sulfa!
Representatives of overseas Chinese are also busy helping. For example, Comrade Sun Nianguo is helping to translate various Japanese documents that our independent group has seized over the past year."
"Due to the rapid progress, everyone's research is at a critical time. I'm afraid it would be inconvenient for them to leave at this time. Anyway, I can't blast them away. Brigadier, if you really can't wait, you can come in person.
Let’s see if we can pick everyone up.”
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On the other end of the phone, the brigade commander choked up.
After a while, the brigade commander grasped the key point and asked: "Kong Jie, I just want to ask you, these things you mentioned, educational books, machinery equipment, translated Japanese books, especially this sulfa, can it really be produced?" Kong Jie said flatly: "Brigadier, even if you can't trust me, you still have to trust the experts and professors who were personally ordered to be brought back by the headquarters. Do you represent these talents?"
"I will definitely get sulfonamide for you. If everything goes well, we can even mass-produce it independently."
"There are no jokes in the army!" On the other end of the phone, the brigade commander's breathing was obviously a little faster.
The brigade commander, whose expression remained unchanged even as Mount Tai collapsed before his eyes, couldn't suppress his excitement when he thought about how many lives of soldiers could be saved if antibacterial drugs like sulfa were mass-produced.
"Listen up, Kong Jie, if you can really make this sulfa work, I will personally go to the headquarters to ask you for credit and record your great merits. No, even one great merit cannot stop you.
Do you know what it means if such antibacterial drugs can be mass-produced? Let me tell you, it can be worth at least three divisions, and they are three elite ace divisions!"
Kong Jie responded: "Don't worry, brigade commander, I promise to complete the mission!"
The brigade commander said: "Okay, for more than a year, Kong Jie has never let me down. Since you dare to say that, I believe you can do it.
I will report the specific situation to the headquarters and fight for you for a while."
"It's just that with so many talents escorted back this time, we can't all be put into your independent regiment. If this is the case, other troops should be jealous."
"Three months, I can only give you three months. After three months, you still have to send these experts, professors, and representatives to the headquarters. As for which ones will be reassigned to your independent group, it depends.
See the headquarters’ specific arrangements.”
"Yes, thank you brigadier!"
When the call came, Kong Jie answered without hesitation.
Captain Kong snickered in his heart, whether it was a matter of defaulting on a debt or relying on someone else, the tactic of procrastination was universal.
After all, I tried hard for three months first.
As for three months from now, who knows?
It's hard to say that the research work of these talents has reached a critical point. By then, let alone brigade commanders, it will be difficult for the headquarters leaders to come.
And what Kong Jie said is the question of whether the work we are doing can be successful.
Professor Zhao Guo will probably have no problem compiling anti-Japanese textbooks. There are also many educated people in the Independent Group who will help with the compilation.
Not to mention Li Nianguo's translation into Japanese, it's just a matter of time.
The mobile machinery station that Kong Jie mentioned earlier is not a lie.
According to the advancement of history, the Eighth Route Army did have military engineering talents. Soon after, a mobile machinery station with a length of only 2.5 feet was developed. It integrated a lathe, milling machine, planer, and drilling machine, and could follow the Eighth Route Army's guerrilla operations at any time. p>
Two mules and one cow can be used as the driving force for operation, which is called a factory on horseback.
What Kong Jie has to do is to speed up the emergence of this kind of mobile machinery, and the specific technology provided is secretly supported by the system.
In addition, what Kong Jie wants to develop is not the sulfonamide currently on the market, but penicillin, which is a life-saving medicine in war.
This is much more effective than sulfa.
But before it was developed, Kong Jie did not boast about Haikou to the brigade commander.
The formula for penicillin was obtained through the system not long ago.
Now we just need to let the chemistry professors try to develop it, and Kong Jie plays an enlightening and quietly leading role in it.
If mass production can be carried out, that would naturally be the best.
In recent years, the Eighth Route Army has carried out an arduous and outstanding war of resistance behind enemy lines. In fact, a large number of casualties were caused by the lack of drugs, especially specific antibacterial drugs like penicillin (penicillin), which led to a high mortality rate.
If the Eighth Route Army can master its mass production methods, it can definitely greatly improve the survival rate of soldiers on the battlefield.
This is why calm as a brigade commander couldn’t suppress his excitement when he heard that penicillin could be mass-produced.
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Regiment Headquarters.
The brigade commander hung up the phone, and Kong Jie also put down the phone with a smile on his face.
Li Wenjie on the side smiled and said: "Commander, have you deceived the brigade commander?"
"That's not true..." Kong Jie came back to his senses and scolded with a smile: "You kid, what do you mean by cheating? How can I fool such a shrewd person as the brigade commander?"
"It's just, Commander, the prices of antibacterial drugs like sulfa are sky-high outside. In addition, the Japanese army and the national army have extremely strict control. It is difficult for our army to obtain channels. How can we really make this happen?"
Plant something and develop it?"
Li Wenjie expressed concern.
Kong Jie said confidently: "I am not exaggerating about the medical level of our independent regiment. Even if it is compared to the field hospital at the headquarters, it is definitely not bad. Moreover, we have specially invested money to build a drug research institute."
"In the past year or so, Ye Min has been doing a lot of things. What are the various equipment and medicines in the Japanese hospital and what are they moving back?"
"As for drugs like sulfa, the headquarters hospital doesn't have much of them, but all the health clinics in our independent group have them in reserve."
"If our independent regiment can't develop this experimental antibacterial drug, other troops can't even think about it."
Speaking of this, Kong Jie was quite emotional: "The difference between us and the troops of the little devils and Yankees is not only in equipment, but also in the medical level."
"When we go to the battlefield, as long as those little devils and Americans are not killed on the spot, they can basically be saved whether they are missing an arm or a leg or are seriously injured and dying.
But when we got here, many soldiers suffered only minor injuries, but due to wound infection, they continued to deteriorate and eventually died."
"Seeing this scene makes me feel bad. Even if our soldiers die, they should die on the way to charge, instead of being tortured to death by wounds and diseases!" Kong Jie shouted.
"Yes! Leader, I understand! The resources of the regiment will be allocated to the Institute of Drug Research as much as possible to help professors develop antibacterial drugs as soon as possible." Li Wenjie responded loudly...