Su Liguo did not live up to its high expectations. It only took a week to produce a batch of electronic tubes and passed the inspection... Electronic tubes are not actually high-tech gadgets. As long as the materials pass the test and the equipment is used, high-quality electronic tubes can be produced.
There is no difficulty, which is why New China had a professional electronic tube factory soon after it was founded.
(Note: The first professional electronic tube factory in China was the Nanjing Electric Factory founded in 1951)
This has gone to Wang Xuexin's big worry. Being able to produce electron tubes will not only solve the problem of developing computers and intelligent missiles in the future, but also provide major parts for military equipment such as radars, radios, and radio stations. It can be said that it has changed from the past where only high prices were available.
Disadvantages of importing from abroad.
If there is any shortcoming, it is that the high-purity metals needed to produce electronic tubes still need to be imported from abroad.
However, the road must be walked step by step and the meal must be stuttered, and the industry must move forward step by step in a down-to-earth manner. When one day each industry reaches a certain level and forms a scale, it will naturally lead to quantitative changes to qualitative changes and rise to another level.
It is taboo for this thing to move too fast or too fast, otherwise the modern Ah San is the best counterexample.
Wang Xuexin could not take care of so many things, so he could only and should leave them to Su Liguo to manage.
What Wang Xuexin could focus on was to form an airborne force in Liyuan.
The first batch of airborne troops was an airborne regiment with a strength of 1,500 people.
This number is determined by the number of C47s... 50 C47s can carry about 1,400 people at a time, which means they can airdrop about one regiment at a time (the extra people are used for elimination preparations and replenishment of troops).
To be honest, it was very difficult for Wang Xuexin to form this airborne regiment.
Because the airborne troops are also required to be elite... This is determined by the mission of the airborne troops. The airborne troops parachute to the enemy's rear to fight. They are surrounded by the enemy almost as soon as they land. If they are troops with poor quality, there is basically no need to fight.
, if you are annihilated or captured by the enemy in two and a half seconds, it is better not to airborne, because this way of playing is to airdrop equipment and prisoners to the enemy.
However, most of the elite soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were drained by the mechanized troops, and now the airborne troops have to drain elite troops again... First of all, these elite soldiers may not be considered elite soldiers anymore, and secondly, each unit is being drained layer by layer like strips of cocoons. They
How could you have no objection?
If it were in the past, this would actually be easy to do, just hold a big competition among the various units, let the soldiers show off their abilities, and then the winning soldiers would be selected and incorporated into the airborne regiment.
But now the armies are no longer interested in the form of competitions... It is not cost-effective to sacrifice their good soldiers in order to get the prize, so many armies really hide and tease soldiers who do not support them to participate.
Wang Xuexin thought about it and decided to start with equipment.
Before recruiting troops, he drew up an equipment list for the airborne regiment: company-level radios, folding repeating rifles, steel helmets, multi-functional engineer shovels, combined with Springfield rifles as sniper units and Type 60 mortars.
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Then Wang Xuexin deliberately revealed the equipment list, and soon it spread throughout the army.
As a result, the army has not yet begun to form, and all the soldiers are waiting eagerly:
"Good guys, these are all repeating rifles! They are also foldable!"
“What is a folding repeating rifle?”
"The butt of the gun can be stowed away!"
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It’s no wonder that the Eighth Route Army soldiers didn’t know what “folding” was. Infantrymen during this period were still using bolt-action rifles in large numbers and basically had no concept of folding stocks until Hans’ MP40 submachine gun ushered in the foldable era.
This successfully attracted the interest of the soldiers, because this was a rifle that was not even equipped by mechanized troops, and it also had a helmet... At this time, none of the Eighth Route Army units could be equipped with helmets, and they were all made of cloth military caps.
As for the radio station, let alone it. It is beyond the imagination of ordinary troops to even be equipped with a first-level radio station.
In fact, as airborne troops, it is necessary to enhance communications, because airborne troops are often scattered everywhere after landing at the target location, and they need more communication equipment to coordinate with other troops.
A helmet is also necessary, otherwise if you accidentally hit your head on a rock or something while parachuting, you will lose your combat effectiveness. Of course, Wang Xuexin will not let the airborne troops take this risk just because he saves the steel of the helmet.
But the soldiers didn't see it that way. They immediately recognized that this airborne soldier was the best among the best among the best, so when the official recruitment came, they rushed to sign up one by one without stopping.
In fact, this repeating rifle with a foldable stock had not even been produced yet.
But this is not a difficult task. All Wang Xuexin has to do is send someone to send Su Xin the blueprint of a steel foldable gun stock.
Because the other parts are exactly the same and only the wooden fixed stock is replaced, there is almost no difficulty in producing it, except for the extra iron and the increased cost.
It is said that Su Xin praised Wang Xuexin's drawing when he saw it: "With the butt folded like this, it is much more convenient for airborne troops. It will not bump around in the narrow cabin, and the rifle will not be too long when parachuting."
Resulting in injuries! Why does this little Dongbei have everything in his head?"
Of course Su Xin didn't know that this was just common sense to Wang Xuexin.
For modern people, it is certainly impossible for Wang Xuexin to make the same mistake as the Japanese paratroopers, parachuting with a samurai sword and a Sanba Gai on his back... This is what they call an "uncompromising tradition", which is equivalent to causing some officers and soldiers to commit suicide on the battlefield.
The helmet was also designed by Wang Xuexin.
In fact, it cannot be said that it was designed by Wang Xuexin. Wang Xuexin just painted it to look like the Type 65 paratrooper helmet of our army.
The Type 65 paratrooper helmet is beautiful in appearance and practical. More importantly, the structure is simple and easy to produce. It will be a classic piece of equipment in China that will serve for a long time in the future.
In this regard, Wang Xuexin believes that appropriateness is the best.
If the helmet were to be more advanced, the Eighth Route Army would immediately face problems such as production difficulties and inadequate materials.
As a result, the establishment of the airborne troops went smoothly beyond imagination. In just a few days, more than 2,000 elite troops were recruited from various places.
Of course, these "elites" can only be put in quotation marks.
Because they know nothing about airborne operations, they have very little in terms of strategy, tactics or parachute experience. They need to be trained from commanders to soldiers, which is even more difficult than building a mechanized force.
However, Wang Xuexin believes that under the pressure and demands of war, they will soon grow into a qualified airborne elite.