During this period, because there were bears to help transport supplies, the Eighth Route Army's transportation capacity could be concentrated on transporting missiles and other important equipment. Therefore, Chifeng has stored more than 200 missiles, of which more than 100 are equipped with television guidance.
After using fifty of them, I immediately replenished them.
In fact, after missiles with TV guidance, missiles without TV guidance are completely useless.
The reason is that TV guidance is not expensive and is not difficult to modify. It just requires adding a camera, two antennas, and a radio control system.
The reason why two antennas are needed is because the Eighth Route Army's communication technology is limited, and it is necessary to use one antenna to transmit radio signals and another antenna to receive signals.
A radio control system needs to be installed because the old version of the missile is automatically controlled and does not have the function of receiving radio signals and adjusting its trajectory according to instructions.
None of these are difficult to implement, but the results that can be achieved are much better.
Although the TV guidance still had some problems in the last actual combat, such as the signals of several missiles interfering with each other if they were too close, the image displayed on the TV was blurry, and the target confirmation time was too short, etc., compared with before
It would be much better if the missile could easily deflect from the target by a few kilometers or even more than ten kilometers.
Based on this calculation, it is not cost-effective to launch older missiles.
Su Xin analyzed this with Wang Xuexin: "Although TV-guided missiles cannot guarantee a direct hit on the target, they can guarantee that most of them will fall into the target area. Old-fashioned missiles are completely uncontrollable, and two or three out of ten can fall into the target."
The area is quite good! So in terms of actual combat effects, two TV-guided missiles are at least worth ten older missiles, but their prices are completely unequal!"
Wang Xuexin understood what Su Xin meant.
Equipment cannot be compared simply by quantity.
For example, the unit price of old missiles and TV-guided missiles is cheaper than the old missiles, which of course have nothing.
But what if we put it into the battlefield and talk about cost-effectiveness?
What the old missiles can do with ten missiles, TV-guided missiles can do it with three or even two missiles, and they are even more precise. For example, TV-guided missiles can go straight towards an enemy's car loaded with ammunition after seeing it.
, the damage it causes to the enemy, that is, the results required by the Eighth Route Army, will be much greater than that of the old missiles. There are even some tasks that are impossible to achieve with the old missiles, but TV guidance can.
Therefore, a fairer comparison should be between ten old missiles and two TV-guided missiles.
Obviously, the price of two TV-guided missiles is much cheaper.
In addition, ten old missiles require more transportation capacity, more maintenance, and more launchers. Even because of their large number, they will cause greater danger to missile soldiers.
After calculating all the factors, it was found that changing the missile to TV guidance would actually save money.
This resulted in more than a hundred missiles originally shipped to Chifeng not knowing what to do with them:
Transport it back and refit it, it's not cost-effective to risk being bombed by Japanese air force along the way.
If you don't transport them back, these missiles are piled up in a place that needs to be managed and maintained.
If the parts are transported to Chifeng for modification, Chifeng does not have the supporting equipment and technicians, especially the technicians... They are completely inseparable, whether they are producing artillery, tanks or missiles, one by one
They were all very busy.
This thing is so strange. Before the industry developed, there seemed to be no shortage of technicians or even the need for them, because there was no soil and environment for them to survive.
After the industry developed, it became increasingly scarce as it developed. I wished I could transfer all the educated talents in China to Taiyuan.
However, now that Wang Xuexin's bombing plan is in place, these old missiles can finally exert some of their residual heat.
Wang Xuexin postponed the plan to bomb Chengde Airport for a week.
This is not due to insufficient preparation. The missile launcher has even been set up and camouflaged. It can be said that everything is ready and all it takes is the east wind.
The reason why Wang Xuexin postponed the plan was that he thought it would be better to postpone it for a longer time.
This is how Wang Xuexin reported to the leader: "I believe that not only the puppet troops will be suspicious of missiles, but also the Japanese are not very sure. If we bomb the Japanese airport with missiles now, they will only find it as soon as possible."
'Answer, then there will be no controversy, and the final effect will not be very good!"
"That's right!" The leader nodded: "The only way to make them suspicious for a period of time is to make them suspicious for a period of time. It is best if the devils firmly say that the accuracy of our missiles has improved. When the puppet troops are already inclined to believe in the devils, our army will suddenly do something like this...
…The effect is best at this time!”
"That's right!" The chief of staff clenched his fist and said, "Because this proves that the Japanese are lying to deceive the puppet army, which will further damage the morale of the puppet army and their confidence in the Japanese!"
Therefore, the delay time is actually undetermined, which means that the planned time for bombing Chengde is yet to be determined. It is determined by the information obtained by the headquarters.
Things developed just as the commander and Wang Xuexin predicted. After the Japanese army retreated, they immediately transferred Yoshikawa Saki back to Fengtian to hold him accountable... At first, it might just be a show of force. After all, the Iron and Stone Forces had opinions on Yoshikawa Saki's orders.
It was so big that Naosaburo Okabe and even Yoshijiro Umezu didn't dare to ignore it.
But as time went by, the situation became more and more troubled, and even several puppet troops wanted to "rebel". There was an undercurrent in the Northeast and dangers arose.
This is not a good thing for the devils.
You must know that the Japs in the Northeast are in the north at this time, and the area around Manchuria in the east and northwest corners is full of glaring Mao Xiong troops, and the Eighth Route Army can attack in the direction of Chifeng. If there is another problem with the puppet troops internally at this time, there will undoubtedly be
It would make the Kwantung Army so anxious that they would no longer be able to care about this side.
Naosaburo Okabe's handling method is still the same as before, using a combination of grace and power from two directions at the same time:
On the one hand, troops were sent as quickly as possible to eliminate a puppet camp that planned to defect to the Eighth Route Army, and very cruel methods were used: more than 400 people in the camp were executed regardless of whether they participated or not, and more than 1,000 relatives, old and young, were all executed.
Being used as a coolie.
On the other hand, they used gentle methods to appease the Iron and Stone Forces. Naosaburo Okabe even personally visited the Iron and Stone Forces barracks and said that the 39th Division did not provide fire support because the artillery was basically bombed by the Eighth Route Army's missiles at that time.
It has been destroyed and lost its combat effectiveness. The Eighth Route Army's missiles may have improved their accuracy, and the empire will continue to reuse the iron and stone troops.
At this time, Wang Xuexin knew that the time had come to bomb Chengde Airport.