The gunshots in Songhu shocked the north and south of the Yangtze River. The Ninth Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with about 50,000 people from the third division and six brigades, attacked Shanghai, sweeping the country like a hurricane.
For a time, everyone in the country was shocked!
When the shock passed, what followed was...
Be inspired!
Excited!
And the little expectation in my heart.
Can you win?
have no idea.
But they hope that this battle can be won, that the Songhu Battle can be won this time, and that it can bring almost impossible good news.
For hundreds of millions of people who have been on the verge of national subjugation and genocide for a long time, they have heard too much bad news, from the Eight-Power Allied Forces entering Peiping, to the loss of Shandong in 1914, to the loss of Shandong in the September 18th Incident.
In the three provinces, China has been being beaten, and China has been falling into the abyss of national subjugation, and it has never stopped.
The demise of China is not an empty talk, but a fact that people in today's era have truly felt. Many Chinese people are full of pessimism and even despair about China's future.
Why?
Because Japan is too powerful, powerful enough to be suffocating.
Japan, across the sea, has completed its industrialization process and has an almost complete industrial system that can produce aircraft carriers, battleships, destroyers, carrier-based aircraft, land-based fighters, tanks, a complete artillery system including large-caliber heavy artillery, and a complete artillery system including large-caliber heavy artillery.
For the light weapons system including light and heavy machine guns, we independently innovated and developed the 6.5mm Arisaka bullet.
These are only strengths in the military industry and do not involve the heavy industry.
What does China have?
In the field of military industry, it can produce some rifles and bullets, as well as a small number of mortars. If Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal is included, it can barely produce 105mm howitzers.
We cannot build airplanes, tanks, warships, aircraft carriers, or any weapons, equipment, or industrial products that can surpass Japan.
In the field of heavy industry, the annual output of the most important steel is less than a fraction of the annual output of Japanese steel. There is almost no production layout and planning for other industrial raw materials such as sulfuric acid, nitric acid, petroleum, ethylene, toluene, etc., and the output is pitifully low.
This is the gap. The apparent gap between China and Japan. When it comes to potential content such as international influence, education system, comprehensive scientific and technological potential, etc., the gap between the two sides cannot even be described as "a world of difference".
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the three-month plan to destroy China proposed by Japanese Army Minister Gen Sugiyama would only seem arrogant to people with lofty ideals in China, but to the people at the bottom and middle-level people, this plan is extremely real.
At the moment, the sudden outbreak of the Songhu Battle is like a shot in the arm for countless Chinese people who are shrouded in the crisis of national subjugation and genocide. It seems to push away thousands of dark clouds, revealing a little gap, allowing that wisp of misty but dazzling light.
, shining into the hearts of countless people.
This is the hope that is springing up like mushrooms after a rain, the hope that China will continue to exist forever.
Destruction or continuation, choose with war.
With the outbreak of the Songhu Battle, the Chinese people were all rejoicing and excited. People in the coastal areas had money and strength to contribute, and there were many actions to assist the Anti-Japanese War.
What is different from the original history is that the industries in the coastal areas that should have been relocated at this time have benefited from the top-secret intelligence provided by deciphering the red secret data and the influence of the Zhongzheng brother who has not made continuous decision-making mistakes.
The vast majority of industrial facilities and machinery and equipment, as well as related production materials and raw materials, have gradually arrived in important inland cities such as Wuhan and Changsha.
More industrial power has been preserved today than before.
However, for Brother Zhongzheng, these things alone are not enough to support the war of resistance. We must try our best to buy more time and obtain more materials and equipment.
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As a major port in the south, before Shanghai was developed, the city of Guangzhou was like a shining pearl, embedded in the territory of China, shining brightly and exuding unique beauty.
This is the earliest place for China’s foreign contact and trade. It is also the fastest-growing and most powerful city in China.
The Pearl of the Orient was first described not as Shanghai, but as Guangzhou.
One of the three branches of the Chinese Society of Engineers is located here.
The branch office of the Guangzhou Society of Engineers is located close to the city government. The main body is a three-story building, not too big or too small. As a quasi-official organization second only to the Academia Sinica, the academic status and technical strength of the Chinese Society of Engineers are unquestionable, and Guangzhou
The branch is the well-deserved NO.1 among the three major branches. It has 28 senior members, 65 corresponding members, and 350 ordinary members. It has a mechanical department and a civil engineering department, covering power machinery and machine tools.
, houses, bridges, tunnels and other engineering contents.
In an office on the second floor of the institute's branch, Xu Jinyuan was working at his desk, using his glasses to obtain information on the contents of the document. This was a hard-won structural drawing of a lathe, designed by a Swiss and referring to many German design elements.
Exquisite, advanced and complex, this is Xu Jinyuan’s comprehensive evaluation of the internal structure of this machine tool.
"I can't imagine that this is a lathe structural design from 1920... The West is too far ahead of us. At my level, in Switzerland, I might not even be as good as a third-rate mechanical engineer." Xu Jinyuan carefully skipped every design.
Parts, I learned the secrets in my heart, but I was amazed.
It has been three days since he got this lathe structural drawing, but as a senior member engineer and a master's degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, he still has not been able to grasp the essence of it.
The most important thing is that this is the lathe structural design of Switzerland 17 years ago.
Over the past seventeen years, I have become almost everywhere after China. - Xu Jinyuan couldn't help feeling filled with emotion.
"Dong dong!" At this moment, the office door suddenly knocked.
"Please come in." Hearing the knock on the door, Xu Jinyuan frowned slightly and looked up at the door.
"Mr. Xu, this is your letter." The staff of the branch of the society showed respect to Xu Jinyuan, and then stepped forward and handed over the letter.
"My letter?" Xu Jinyuan was slightly surprised, and then took the letter from the young staff member. After the other person left, he turned to the sender's column with a curious look.
In an instant, the whole person was stunned. The sender suddenly wrote three words - Zhuang Qian Ding, and the shipping address - Yancheng, Shaanxi Province.
This is a letter from Yancheng!
Xu Jinyuan was certainly familiar with who Zhuang Qianding was. He was his mentor at Tsinghua University who taught him both through words and deeds. He had both his undergraduate and master's degrees under Zhuang Qianding.
"What's going on with the professor's letter?" Xu Jinyuan reacted, with a look of confusion on his face, opened the seal and took out the letter paper.
Jin Yuan saw in person:
How are you doing lately? I think back to the time when you graduated with a master's degree, one year ago.
I once heard that you returned to your hometown, passed the entrance test of the Chinese Society of Engineers, and became a senior member. I was very happy.
This letter is for one thing only, inviting Jin Yuan to join the development of China's industry.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, China faced an unprecedented crisis of national subjugation. Master Zeng said that he would devote his life to saving the country through industry. If China wanted to have a way out, it must rely on industry. But now that China wants to win the war of resistance, it can only develop industry while resisting.
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However, the government is corrupt and robbery is common. Technical intellectual property rights and knowledge achievements cannot be protected, and they are easily obtained by the Japanese invaders through the hands of the government. The importance and value of advanced technology are immeasurable.
The teacher wanted to change, but there was still no hope. He thought he could only teach and educate people, but he never thought that one day he would find an opportunity to develop China's industry.
The division is based in Yancheng, Shaanxi Province, where we have personally created the spark of China's industry with our colleagues. We are in urgent need of talents to build China's complete industrial system and achieve the goal of substantive industrial salvation.
China's complete industrial system cannot be accomplished by just one teacher. It needs you. It needs thousands of you who have knowledge and talent.