The frontline battlefield was so anxious. The time soon entered the year 1939. In more than eight months, Germany would attack Poland and World War II would break out.
Li Mu also began to step up preparations for war, especially in terms of weapons. In addition to large-scale imports, self-produced weapons also began to gradually increase.
Six months ago, he established a weapons research and development institute and launched two projects at the same time. One was the research and development of imitation grenade launchers.
As a small-caliber weapon carried by an individual soldier, this weapon is made of simple materials, has a simple manufacturing process, and is quite cheap. It only took the Weapons Research Institute two months to successfully develop and imitate it.
Four months ago, mass production officially started. At the beginning, the monthly output was only 300 grenade tubes. With the large number of machine tools and production and processing equipment imported by Li Mu, the monthly mass production of grenade tubes has now increased to 1,500. Tool.
Nowadays, it has begun to be equipped with front-line troops on a large scale. In the future, the production will further increase and even spread to infantry squads.
Another project was the development of the Sten submachine gun.
As a famous gun of World War II, the production technology of this weapon is also simple and rough, and the cost is low. Based on the technical level, it is one of the few submachine guns that can be manufactured in China. During World War II, a total of more than three million were produced.
Based on the drawings provided by Li Mu, a group of professors and technicians spent more than five months finally completing the imitation of this gun.
A month ago, the arsenal officially launched small-scale mass production of this weapon.
So far, a total of hundreds of Sten submachine guns have been produced and have been sent to frontline troops for testing to further improve and improve this weapon to adapt to the domestic battlefield.
The next step is to mass-produce this submachine gun and equip all front-line troops with it.
After the development of these two weapons was completed, the Weapons Research Institute was not idle. Li Mu gave them a new weapon, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.
A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle whose bullets are automatically loaded, also known as an automatic loading rifle. The world's earliest semi-automatic rifle appeared in 1907, and then various countries began to vigorously develop, and many well-known semi-automatic rifles appeared.
For example, the M1 Garand rifle of the United States is a semi-automatic rifle that the United States began to develop in the 1920s. It was also the standard rifle equipped by the United States during World War II. It went through World War II and the Korean War until 1957. In 2006, nearly 10 million M1 Garands were produced around the world. It is also one of the best semi-automatic rifles today.
As for why Li Mu didn't buy this kind of gun, it's because the price is a bit expensive nowadays. The price of an M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle is comparable to that of a Czech light machine gun.
Not cost-effective.
Not only the United States, but now the Soviet Union, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom all have their own semi-automatic rifles, but they have not been deployed in large-scale front-line troops. This process did not begin to accelerate until the outbreak of World War II.
In this era, there are no technical blockades or restrictions. In theory, as long as the corresponding machine tools and production equipment are imported, semi-automatic rifles that can be produced abroad can also be produced domestically.
However, compared with imitating foreign semi-automatic rifles, which still need to pay patent fees, Li Mu set his sights on my country's classic first-generation rifle, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.
In the last world, as a police officer, I participated in many shooting competitions. In the rifle competition, I used Type 56 semi-automatic rifles.
Although he was not able to quickly disassemble the firearm with his eyes closed, Li Mu was extremely familiar with each component and structure of the firearm.
If you ask him to make it, he may not be able to make it, but it will be fine if he draws a rough drawing.
Speaking of which, this gun is a Soviet-made SKS semi-automatic rifle imitated in my country in the 1950s. It is light in weight, has good shooting accuracy, has reliable mechanism action, and comes with a folding bayonet.
You can also add accessories to the muzzle of the gun to launch grenades or throw grenades, so that individual soldiers have certain anti-armor capabilities.
This is also our army's first standard semi-automatic rifle. Together with the Type 56 light machine gun, the Type 56 automatic rifle is collectively referred to as the Type 56 gun family.
In the sixty years of border conflicts and the self-defense counterattacks in the eighties, this Type 56 semi-automatic rifle was still one of the main individual combat weapons of the army at that time, creating countless legends of sharpshooters for our army.
With current technology, it is naturally impossible to completely present the mature Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. If it were to be completely presented, it would definitely be the top individual weapon in the world today.
However, even if the quality and accuracy drop, as long as it can be produced and the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle can be mass-produced by itself, a drop in quality is not unacceptable.
Now, the design drawings of this weapon have been handed over to the Weapons Research Institute for them to study imitation and eventually achieve mass production.
After all, using Mauser 98k is not a long-term solution. After the outbreak of World War II, it will be difficult to purchase it. It is better to produce it yourself for stability.
On the other hand, as the mass production of penicillin gradually stabilized, the R&D team that had completed the mass production of penicillin was not only not idle, but also grew in size. Li Mu divided them into several groups, each responsible for new tasks.
First, a team is responsible for the mass production of sulfonamide. As an antibacterial drug, sulfonamide is a strategic material in short supply, and it is also one of the materials purchased by Li Mu from abroad. In the past year, just purchasing sulfonamide has consumed a lot of money, and sometimes he even wants to buy it. Less than.
Although you can earn more by bringing it home, it is not as convenient as producing it yourself.
The most important thing is that although today's sulfonamides have high production capacity, the technological level is not high, resulting in high production costs, poor quality, and high prices.
However, in the 21st century, not only are drugs like sulfonamides about to become obsolete, but their production methods are also ruined.
He knows a lot about various simpler production methods and processes, the cost is very low, even less than one-tenth of today's production cost, and the quality is better.
Since today's production costs are so high and the market is so big, it is really not appropriate not to get involved. If you sell it at a discount, you don't have to worry about losing the market.
At the same time, this is also a source of great potential. At the very least, as long as other pharmaceutical companies cannot find a more advanced mass production process than this one, no pharmaceutical company can match the low domestic labor costs, price and quality. .
For sulfonamide alone, there is no problem in receiving dividends for seven or eight years.
The other two R&D teams, based on the information provided by Li Mu, respectively developed streptomycin to treat tuberculosis and pyridinone to treat schistosomiasis.
Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic. In 1943, Dr. Selman Waxman of the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of Rutgers University isolated it from Streptomyces. It was the second product to be produced and used after penicillin. For clinical antibiotics, Waxman won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The specific effect of streptomycin against Mycobacterium tuberculosis has created a new era in the treatment of tuberculosis. Since then, there is hope to curb the thousands of years of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ravaging human life.
This drug also has huge market potential, but it was mass-produced later than penicillin. It was not until the 1950s that the extraction technology was further improved and large-scale mass production began.
In today's era, the mass production of streptomycin is naturally very complicated. In the 21st century, the mass production method of this drug is too simple.
Li Mu wrote down the specific production method and handed it over to the R&D team. In this era, he tried to mass produce it and strive to become a major source of wealth second only to penicillin.
In addition, in this era, schistosomiasis is very common, especially in China. For example, in the 1950s, there was a large-scale outbreak in the south, commonly known as potbelly disease.
Pyridoxine is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic synthetic drug discovered abroad in the 1970s. After learning that it was effective against schistosomiasis, it was trial-produced in China in the same year. It has been on the market for more than 30 years and has been used as the main drug against schistosomiasis and other parasites.
Effective drugs, used in front-line clinical applications, play an important role in human health.
In the future, there will be many simple production methods for this kind of medicine, and mass production is completely possible with the technology of this era.
The last R&D team was to develop and mass-produce pyridone based on the information provided by Li Mu.
With these three kinds of medicines that are widely used in this era and can be called miraculous, you can definitely get a lot of money and create this era in your own way.
That afternoon, Li Mu came to the officer's short-term training class to watch the tactical drill.
Looking at the figures off the field, first a soldier stuck his head out to check, and then took the lead in rushing forward. The eight soldiers around him also divided into three groups, rushing upward from different directions.
With vigorous movements and skillful tactics, Li Mu nodded. It is worthy of being the classic three-by-three tactics of our army in the future.
This tactic first originated in the Anti-Japanese War, matured in the Civil War, and was widely used in the Korean War. It is one of the core tactics of our army's infantry training syllabus and is mainly used for infantry team assault tactics.
It once shone brightly on the Korean battlefield. The Volunteer Army relied on this tactic and caused the American soldiers to suffer a lot with their crude weapons and equipment. As soon as the Korean War ended, the American West Point Military Academy listed it as a teaching classic.
Nowadays, this tactic has not yet appeared. Based on some information he had read before, Li Mu roughly sorted out some simple methods of three-type and three-type tactics and gave them to the officer training class to practice and improve them on their own. The results were not bad.
This tactic takes the squad as a unit and divides it into three combat groups. Each combat group has three people. In order to facilitate mutual coordination, they are usually arranged in three echelons.
The three-person combat team is in a triangular attack formation, with each soldier having a clear division of labor: attack-cover-support. The squad leader, deputy squad leader, and team leader each lead a combat team.
When the combat team attacks, two soldiers are in front and the team leader is behind, forming a triangular formation. Three combat teams form a combat squad, and three combat squads form a combat group. When attacking, they unfold in a "skirmish line" formation.
Change the battle formation at any time according to the instructions of the team leader or squad leader...
After watching the tactical drill and looking at the complete version of the three-three tactics booklet summarized in his hand, Li Mu nodded. Next, the booklet will be printed in large quantities and provided to the frontline troops and the troops in the north.
Recently, cooperation with the north has gradually increased, such as oil mines.
In the Yan'an area of northern Shaanxi, there are records of oil dating back to the Han Dynasty two thousand years ago. At that time, Yan'an was called Gaonu County and the Yan River was called Jishui. Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, mentioned this in his "Hanshu Geography"
He wrote: "There is water in Gaonu, Shangjun, which is flammable."
During the Northern Song Dynasty, Yan'an was called Fuyan Road. When Shen Kuo, a famous scientist in the Song Dynasty, served as Yanlu's envoy, he conducted a thorough inspection of the Yan'an area and concluded that there was oil in Fuyan. In his book "Dream"
In "Xi Bi Tan", the concept of "petroleum" was used for the first time: "There is oil in the territory of Fuyan. It was said in the past that 'Gaonu County produces fat water', that's what it is... This thing will become popular in the world in the future... Covering petroleum
At most, it is born in the ground endlessly, not like a pine tree that is exhausted from time to time."
By the beginning of the 20th century, oil began to "become popular in the world." Cao Hongxun, the governor of Shaanxi Province, once again advocated "competing Yanchang kerosene with foreign kerosene" and said that Yanchang Oil "cannot be managed quickly by itself, and we cannot prevent outsiders from coveting it." In 1904
, Cao Hongxun’s petition was finally approved. The Qing government allocated more than 80,000 taels of local official silver as start-up expenses.
On June 5, 1907, China's first oil well was drilled outside the west gate of Yanchang County. It took three months. When the depth was drilled to 69 meters, oil was found in the well. When it was drilled to 81 meters, the well was completed. The daily crude oil production reached
1~5 tons. Back then, the kerosene refined by the Yanchang Petroleum Plant was sent to Xi'an. The kerosene and vapor lights were bright and dazzling, like a little sun in the night, and once caused a sensation in the city of Xi'an.
In 1935, the weather-beaten Yanchang Oil Mine fell into the hands of the north. They had no money to buy machinery for oil extraction and refining, so they could only use the most primitive methods to collect hundreds of tons of oil a year.
Then use this oil to produce gasoline, kerosene, paraffin, ink, gun cleaning oil, Vaseline and other products, which not only ensure the oil needs of the government agencies and the soldiers and civilians in the border areas, but also sell a batch to provide funds for the north.
However, the annual output of several hundred tons of oil seems to be a lot, but in fact it is really very little. Li Mu can purchase 20,000 to 30,000 tons of gasoline during a casual trip abroad. This output is really not enough.
However, we must also consider the future. If the route is interrupted, we must be self-sufficient. This is true for weapons and energy.
It just so happened that, seeing Li Mu's energy, he was able to purchase various foreign weapons and commodities, and the North was also interested in cooperating to develop Yanchang Oil. The two parties hit it off immediately. Li Mu was responsible for the purchase of oil extraction and refining equipment, and the North was responsible for production.
Although he looked down upon the current output, with oil extraction and refining equipment, the output would be more than this. According to his understanding, after the 21st century, the Yanchang oil deposits will still not be exhausted, and the annual oil production will basically exceed
Ten million tons, great potential.
This also gave Li Mu more ideas. The key to the country being so poor and weak lies in the lack of industrialization. Although with Li Mu's efforts, dozens of factories have been built and many things can be produced by oneself, there is still a long way to go.
Far from enough.
With penicillin and several other drugs, he will not be short of money. He can purchase various machinery and equipment to improve Nanyang's industrial system. At least if the shipping routes are interrupted, he can also produce various industrial products on his own.
However, there is another weakness. Nanyang's territory is large enough, nearly 30,000 square kilometers, and its population is large enough. The influx of so many people migrating westward has already exceeded 10 million, including a large proportion of intellectuals and workers.
There is no shortage of workers and factory machinery, but there is a lack of necessary raw materials, such as steel...
However, there is a shortage of materials in Nanyang, but there is no shortage in the north... As far as he knows, although the ground in the north is barren, there are treasures underneath. There is no shortage of coal, steel, and oil. What's more, further north in northern Shaanxi, there is Ordos and Baotou.
Countless energy and minerals are buried underground.
Not only in northern Shaanxi, but also in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Although the grain output is not high, there are a lot of good things buried underground. For example, the Yumen Oilfield currently controlled by Guofu, and the good iron ore in Gansu are all
It is an excellent raw material base.
The north side is responsible for the raw materials and Nanyang is responsible for the production. They work together perfectly.
After the two sides communicated, Beibei was naturally very happy. However, whether it was oil fields, metal mines or coal mines, they were all enviable things, especially in the hands of Beifang. Can Guofu tolerate it?
In the final analysis, whether it can be defended depends on force.
Coincidentally, the weapons purchased by Li Mu began to arrive one after another. Whether it is to resist Japan or to lay the foundation for the country's industrialization, it is necessary to strengthen the strength of the north.
Li Mu directly allocated 100,000 Mauser 98k, two thousand grenades, and a batch of M2 heavy machine guns, Czech light machine guns, mortars, howitzers... and sent them over.
Also sent along were two firearms production lines, three bullet production lines, a mortar production line, and two grenade production lines... to enhance the north's war potential and self-sufficiency.
With the quality of the soldiers in the north, these weapons and production lines, not to mention chasing away the little Japs, resisting the threat of Guofu, and taking over control of parts of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia from the Ma family in the northwest will be no problem.