The problem of producing penicillin is gradually on the right track after getting John's commitment.
Of course, there will be a series of areas that require Kong Jie to take the helm in the future, so that this antibacterial drug during the war can be officially put into industrial mass production.
It even supplied the needs of the Eighth Route Army troops to reduce the casualties caused by the war.
Regarding the industrial mass production of penicillin, Kong Jie now has a fairly advanced production process provided by the system, but what is missing is some corresponding advanced production equipment.
As for the production of these advanced equipment, we need to use the highly skilled industrial production company behind John.
However, Kong Jie will naturally not be so stupid. These equipment will send out corresponding drawings in batches, allowing John to find the company behind them to produce the corresponding equipment.
Even the original equipment is produced according to different components and requirements.
After all the accessories are returned, Gao will reassemble them according to the steps and put them into use.
As a result, the Americans do not understand the specific purpose and usage of these equipment, and cannot even see the complete equipment. Naturally, they cannot easily steal the equipment and processes required for the industrial mass production of penicillin.
The other is to look for excellent penicillin strains.
For this reason, the medical professors and medical staff who stayed in the first team searched for the entire first team and even the entire Taihang base area for nearly half a month.
Finally, a strain with a relatively high yield of penicillin was found in the loess dug out from under the side wall of the pavilion where Li Yunlong slept.
It is said that at that time, a big hole was dug under the side wall of the bunk bed where Li Yunlong slept, and the cold wind penetrated directly into it when he slept at night.
Li Yunlong was so angry that he cursed his mother on the phone he called the headquarter of a team the next day.
Then I heard that strains of bacteria with high yields of penicillin were found in the soil dug out from under the wall where I slept.
Once penicillin is successfully cultured and purified, the lives of thousands of wounded Eighth Route Army soldiers can even be saved.
Lao Li immediately became overjoyed, and even threatened: "If you can really get this life-saving dose of medicine, you can just tear down our Lao Li's house and let us sleep in the wild, and I, Li Yunlong, won't be able to do it."
Two words!"
When I looked back and thought about it, I couldn't find the high-yielding strain that Kong Erluzi mentioned in the entire Taihang base area. I found it under the wall where Lao Li slept.
What does this mean?
In the words of the brigade commander, Li Yunlong is a lucky general.
Lao Li was secretly thinking in his heart:
Could it be that it was too cold a few days ago and I was too lazy to run too far, so I peed a few times under the wall?
Hey, what kind of penicillin strain is this? You’re so fucking knowledgeable!
Fortunately, no one knew what Li Yunlong was thinking, otherwise he would be dumbfounded on the spot.
A team headquarters.
Penicillin has entered the industrial mass production stage, and now the only difference is equipment and time.
Kong Jie's worries, which he had been worrying about, temporarily relaxed. In his mind, he was thinking about seizing the time and trying to get the equipment and material support he needed from the Americans before the Pearl Harbor incident broke out.
When analyzing the current international war situation with Political Commissar Li Wenjie and Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, Kong Jie decisively put forward his own opinions:
"Japan's domestic economy is in decline, and the war against China has gradually fallen into a protracted tug-of-war. The little devil is unable to succeed and has gradually shown its defeat.
In recent years, in order to obtain more resources to sustain this unjust war of aggression, the Japanese army has gradually set its sights on Southeast Asia.
As the Japanese military invades and expands into Southeast Asian countries, it will inevitably affect the United States' established interests in Southeast Asia, and it is only a matter of time before a conflict breaks out between the two sides.
Especially in July last year, after the Japanese army illegally invaded parts of Southeast Asia, the United States responded quickly and directly froze all Japanese assets in the United States and banned the export of oil and various military supplies to Japan.
The US Army's Far East Command was even established, forming a multinational defense front to compete with the Japanese army.
By August this year, the US President officially signed a document imposing an oil embargo policy on Japan.
Now, Japan, which has extremely limited oil reserves and extremely limited mining capabilities, will inevitably fall into a shortage of extremely important military supplies such as oil. Not only will the huge war machine used for aggression be unable to operate, Japan's domestic economy will even further deteriorate.
Suffering a shock!
You can imagine what kind of crazy things a kid who has always had a gambler's mentality will do when the time comes."
"Lao Kong, do you mean that the United States and Japan will go to war?" Xu Guoan asked thoughtfully.
Kong Jie said: "This result is obvious, and we are not the only ones who can infer such a result.
During the last meeting at the headquarters, didn’t the boss and brigade commander also foresee such a result?
I just can’t determine the specific time.”
Li Wenjie's face became a little more joyful, "If the United States also goes to war with the Japanese army, it will definitely have a positive impact on China's Anti-Japanese War."
Kong Jie does not deny this.
"But in the final analysis, if we want to save our motherland and nation, we can only rely on ourselves. Don't expect the United States to be able to reverse the war situation between China and Japan after joining the war. We must rely more on our own continuous struggle."<
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Changing the topic, Kong Jie added: "Analyzing the possible future evolution of trends between the United States and Japan is mainly to take into account the subsequent change of business partners of our team.
Once the United States goes to war with the Japanese army, the American businessmen in the concession and their industries in China will inevitably be impacted, and may even be forcibly seized by the Japanese army.
Around April this year, the Soviet Union signed a Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty with Japan.
Therefore, we still follow the original plan to attract more Soviet businessmen as our business partners and stabilize some of our industries in the Japanese-occupied areas."
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Li Wenjie expressed hesitation: "Do the Japanese really care about this contract?"
Such doubts are not without purpose.
For example, when have the internationally signed Geneva Conventions been observed since the Japanese invaded China?
Kong Jie knew the final result. It was not until around April 1945 that the Soviet Union unilaterally tore up the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Agreement.
Before this, the Japanese had always abided by this contract.
So Kong Jie was very confident about this: "In the Battle of Nomenkan in 1939, the Japanese army was defeated at the hands of the Soviet army. I personally saw the strength of the Soviet military. For the little Japanese who have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, the impression was
Profound.
This is one of them.
The Japanese army, which is afraid of the Soviet military power, has also been worried about the Soviet army assisting us in China. Therefore, the Japanese will never break this neutrality treaty easily. This is the second reason.
Third, Japan wanted to seek help from the Soviet Union in diplomacy.
Based on these three points, at least what we can be sure of is that in a short period of time, the Japanese army will never ignore the Soviet-Japanese neutrality treaty and easily offend the Soviet side.
At least this is the current situation. Even in the occupied areas, anyone flying the Soviet flag can be protected by the Japanese army. However, all Soviet businessmen have always been able to flow unimpeded, and there is no reason to say that it was deliberately done by the Japanese.
Difficult.
The attitude of the Japanese has explained everything.
Therefore, if we want to gain protection from our commercial base in the Japanese-occupied areas, we must use tiger skin as a banner and rely on the golden signboard of Soviet businessmen."
Li Wenjie and Xu Guoan suddenly realized this, and both expressed their gratitude to Kong Jie for his far-sightedness.
Time flies like an arrow, and the sun and the moon fly by.
At this time, it was almost the end of October, and the temperature in the entire northwestern Shanxi dropped sharply. The weather in the morning and evening could make people shiver with cold, and the cold wind blowing over was as sharp as a knife.
Only when the sun shines down at noon, you can still get a moment of warmth.
In the biting cold winter, one cannot distinguish between friend and foe.
For the Japanese, this winter in northwestern Shanxi is unbearable.
This is especially true for the Eighth Route Army troops.
It was another cloudy day today. When a gust of cold wind came in through the crack in the door, Xu Guoan couldn't help but shiver. Then he tightened his clothes and said, "This winter seems to be colder than last year!" p>
Kong Jie said with a smile: "We are cold, and so are the little devils. This year, the material conditions of our Eighth Route Army troops have improved, and the little devils in the occupied areas, let alone the distant ones, the First Army currently stationed in Shanxi can be said to be short of food.
Clothes.
This winter, our lives will be easier than in previous years, but the Japanese will be even more miserable than in previous years.
In this situation, Lao Xu, tell me, wouldn’t this winter be very interesting?”
Xu Guoan was stunned for a moment, but he immediately keenly captured the meaning of Kong Jie's words. He asked tentatively: "I mean, Lao Kong, are you trying to do something else this winter?"
Kong Jie did not answer directly, but sighed to himself: "Winter is good, especially this winter, when the heavy snow falls, it will be extremely good.
The little Japs were locked in the room, unable to move. In the freezing and snowy environment, even the mechanized advantages the Japs had always had were gone.
Maybe even the fuel in the tank of the Japanese bomber was frozen.
Under such circumstances, what advantage do the little devils have over us?"
Xu Guoan was a little surprised and said: "Lao Kong, are you planning to take advantage of this winter to send out troops to sneak attack on the Japs?"
Kong Jie shook his head, with a bright smile on his face.
"Sneak attack? What's the point of such a small fight?"
Hearing this, the shock on Xu Guoan's face became even greater.
Kong Jie continued:
"Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, our Red Army has accepted changes, joined the national army's battle sequence, and has persisted in fighting the Japanese army behind enemy lines.
In terms of the general battle situation, the little devils have always bullied us. This year has been endless, with spring sweeps, summer sweeps, and from time to time there will be autumn crusade, winter offensive and the like."
His words changed, and his words gradually became more passionate and sharp:
"Now the situation is different, the situation is changing, it's time for us to kill the little devil's arrogance.
Especially since this year, our team, including our entire Eighth Route Army troops in the Taihang Base Area, has developed quite rapidly and made great progress.
In contrast, the Japanese army was unable to succeed and gradually ran out of supplies.
Especially the little Japs around the base area of our first team, they don’t have enough food and clothes today.
After winter, the weather is extremely cold and covered with heavy snow. Let alone fighting, these Japanese and puppet soldiers can stay at home with their heads shivering and not freeze to death, which is considered good.
This is the best fighter plane God gave us!"
Having said this, Kong Jie finally expressed his attitude:
"I plan to use our first detachment as the main combat force this winter, when the time is right, to launch a major winter counterattack into the Japanese-occupied areas around the base area."
When these words came out, it was really shocking.
The jaws of Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie on the side almost dropped to the ground.
All along, the Eighth Route Army has been constantly attacked by the Japanese during its strategic defense phase.
The stage of strategic stalemate is actually basically the same.
As for some counterattacks, most of them are small fights, or gradual encroachment, or covert actions, or some guerrilla warfare or ambush warfare.
As for a comprehensive counterattack?
At least Xu Guoan and Li Wenjie have not thought about it at all.
After being surprised, Xu Guoan couldn't help but ask: "Lao Kong, is this too hasty? After all, the main strategy of our army is to defend.
I’m afraid our troops haven’t reached the stage of strategic counterattack and regaining lost ground, right?”
Seeing Xu Guoan's surprised look, Kong Jie knew that Xu Guoan had gone astray. He smiled and explained: "Old Xu, what are you thinking about?
The major winter counterattack I am talking about is naturally not to directly launch the main force and launch an attack on key counties in the Japanese-occupied areas without mercy.
It’s not like you imagine that we can directly conquer Yangquan, Shouyang, or even Taiyuan!”
Huh——
Xu Guoan breathed a long sigh of relief, touched the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead, and said happily: "It's okay if it's not.
Lao Kong, you might as well finish your words at once, these half-baked words can really scare a person to death."
Kong Jie said: "That's what I think. The current international situation is complicated and changeable, and the Japanese army's combat operations are gradually showing its weakness.
No matter who the little devils will fight in the future, whether they will continue to fight us, China, or the United States.
At least near the base of our first team, only if we take the initiative to open up an inch more land, the Japanese will withdraw an inch of land.
Today, the size of our team is still growing, but the base area is still mainly established in the vast rural areas.
To be honest, our land is no longer sufficient.
Basic industrial land, basic agricultural land, including military garrison and training all require land.
So I thought, we will not become a big fat man in one bite and directly launch attacks on the main counties and towns of the Japanese army, breaking our general strategic policy.
But can we take a step forward?
We will first target some of the more remote towns and villages of the Japanese, capture these towns, expand the territory of our base, and continue to strengthen the foundation and strength of our team.
And the best time, I think, is this winter, when the Japanese are unable to exert mechanized superiority or even air superiority."
"We launch a major winter counterattack targeting the remote villages and towns of the Japanese army!"
In the last sentence, Captain Kong was extremely confident and domineering...