On January 10, 1941, the 68th Division was temporarily established in Qijiang County.
Without seeing the head of the headquarters or waiting for the Black Island Morita guy, after receiving a batch of materials used by the Eighth Route Army to pay off the debt, Wang Yue flew back to Qijiang County overnight. Although he was in Qijiang County when he came here, At that time, Wang Yue flew the Lager-3 fighter jet through the air and did not land at all.
It seems that Wang Yue has also been in this time and space for a while. He hasn't been here for so many days, and he really wants to see the changes in Qijiang County. There is no way, Lao Zhao is flying all over the world now, and there is really no one around Lao Li who can control him. Wang Yue is really worried that Li Yunlong will cause something bad.
When landing, something almost went wrong because there was too much smoke on the ground. Wang Yue was able to use the system to observe the airspace conditions, but he ignored the dust in the air, which caused the plane to crash due to insufficient oxygen supply to the engine during the landing process. When it comes to mid-air parking, if it weren't for Wang Yue's skill, this aircraft would have been scrapped.
I didn't want to be shocked by Li Yunlong's tricks as soon as I got off the plane. This guy actually used a few guys who narrowly escaped from Hans Concentration Camp to open a foreign store in the mountain city, and then used this foreign store to make vests and conquered Qijiang County. The special steel produced was sold to the Ordnance Industry Administration as imported special steel, and a large amount of foreign exchange was obtained from the Ordnance Industry Administration.
"Old Li, will Comrade Hu Bicheng allow you to do this?" Wang Yue felt that this matter would not be so simple. Old Li is no longer the small group leader he used to be. He has a proper chief level and there must be people from higher-level departments around him. Security personnel, your superiors must know about this, right?
"The technicians from Hans helped us improve the production process of small open-hearth furnaces and came up with several good special steels. I wanted to sell them to the Ordnance Industry Administration, but those experts who came back from abroad didn't believe it at all. We had no choice. Li Cai did this, and the 50mm seamless steel pipe we made ourselves, they were stunned and said it was an iron pipe, but they recognized it when they slapped the Krupp trademark on it." Li Yunlong said angrily.
The seamless steel pipe he mentioned was invented by Wang Yue. It is a very primitive extruded steel pipe device. Due to the limitations of raw materials and equipment, the length of the steel pipes produced is generally only 60 to 70 centimeters, and the maximum diameter is no more than 5 meters. Ten millimeters, the pressure resistance is not good, but this thing is indeed a real seamless steel pipe. It cannot be used to make barrel artillery, but it can be used to make small-caliber mortars and grenades.
"Alas, these guys really need to be dealt with." Wang Yue nodded. He had no choice but to earn this money even if he didn't want to. He really earned the foreign exchange with tears in his eyes.
Wang Yue's plan was to let the mountain city government and the Eighth Route Army explode mortars and grenades to increase the firepower output of the grassroots troops. Unexpectedly, his kind-hearted Ordnance Industry Administration did not appreciate it. What do you have to be proud of? , a scum that is about to bankrupt the domestic military industry.
"Who says it's not the case? They didn't want to use the grenade technology we provided to the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. In the end, it was the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs that forced it to be implemented. Even the fat man from the Ministry of Finance couldn't stand it anymore and directly dismissed the military and industrial affairs department. The funds of the agency were transferred to the account of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and we will not allocate a penny directly to the Ordnance Administration in the future." Li Yunlong said with some gloating. General Chen was also sad about the Ordnance Administration this time. It is said that in 1941 The budget has not been approved as of today.
"My heart is higher than the sky, my life is thinner than paper. One by one, apart from causing trouble, I can't do anything serious." Wang Yue thought of the series of military products that were cut off by the "bricks" of the Ordnance Industry Administration before the Anti-Japanese War. Even the backbone of the Anti-Japanese War "Made in Hanyang" was almost cut off by them. If it can be successfully converted to other weapons, the problem is that these guys cut off the original weapons but have no ability to make the factory smooth. The production of new weapons led to a cliff-like decline in the production of domestic weapons before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
In fact, the common problem we faced when the Anti-Japanese War broke out was not that the weapons were not advanced or anything, but that there was a serious shortage of weapons and equipment. There were not even weapons, but you were struggling with whether the weapons were cash and whether the standards were unified. This is not crazy. What is it?
"The Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Finance are promoting industrial construction, but the number of workers they can deploy now is seriously insufficient. As a result, some early-stage projects originally planned have been put on hold and they can only wait for our training. For this, then A man who passed the attendant's office out of anger ordered all the primary school students and junior high school students in the entire mountain city to be sent here for training." Li Yunlong continued, saying that in the past few days, he had really made a fortune, and a thousand junior high school students had been recruited to the teacher training camp. , in half a year he will have a thousand reserve company and platoon officers.
Don’t think of junior high school students as cadres. Judging from the current level of education, training a junior high school student is definitely no less difficult than training a college student in the 21st century, not to mention that they can still stay on campus in a state of war. Junior high school students are even more precious. They are good intellectuals and do not accept refutation.
"The production of one hundred thousand sets of industrial equipment has been implemented, but something went wrong here. It's really unpredictable. Lao Li, you must do a good job in coordinating the training work when Lao Zhao is not at home. We can't have problems here." Wang Yue smiled bitterly. He was still thinking about whether he could level the industrial gap with Japan in 1941. Now it seems that he really can't be too optimistic because there are too many uncontrollable factors. , sometimes he really sympathizes with the highest authorities. What kind of teams are they leading? As long as such a team has not tricked him to death in the end, it can be considered really powerful.
"Old Wang, if that doesn't work, let's just transport it back to North China. With a population of tens of millions, we can still digest 100,000 sets of small equipment." Li Yunlong curled his lips. The longer he stayed in the mountain city, the worse his mentality became. It's complicated. On the one hand, he admires those people in the government who want to turn the tide wholeheartedly. On the other hand, he feels more and more that the mountain city government is hopeless. Now he wants to lead his troops into the mountain city immediately and carry out a real purge. Kill all those monsters and monsters.
But Li Yunlong also knows that even if all the top officials of the mountain city government are replaced, it won't work, because the roots are already rotten, and it will still be the same after a new batch is replaced. Just like the one from the Ministry of Finance, it seems that he can definitely be shot, but If you think about it carefully, if it had been anyone else, you might have been killed with an atomic bomb.
"Old Li, developing the country's industry, increasing the proportion of industry in national production, and expanding the scale of the industrial population are all national tasks. They are by no means a North China, nor a base area. No matter how difficult it is, we can't Can't back down!" Wang Yue was also a little bit worried, but the economic size and population of the base area were still too small, and the mineral resources and transportation conditions were not optimistic. Moreover, he had to directly face the military pressure of the Japanese. At least to So far, the Eighth Route Army does not have the strength to completely block the military pressure from the North China Expeditionary Force and the Kwantung Army.
"Old Wang, let's do whatever you say. Comrade Hu Bicheng has explained that the 68th Division and I are here to serve you. We can do whatever we want." As he spoke, Li Yunlong's eyes actually showed some emotion for a moment. The feeling of emptiness, the life in Qijiang County was so comfortable, he felt like he was in a dream, and he didn't dare to confirm whether everything that happened to him now was true.
Li Yunlong understands that his current value does not lie on the battlefield. Whether he is a temporary 68th Division, the political and practical significance of being placed in Qijiang County is greater than that of being placed on the front line. In the words of Comrade Hu Bicheng, He is now not only the face of the entire Eighth Route Army, but also the face of the entire organization. They are even the face of the entire United Front and the entire country.
"Old Li, at least we have achieved the rank of general. Don't be so negative. I have heard about it. You have been fighting fiercely with those Hans technicians these days. You even built a rifle, and you still crushed Huangya. The quality of the Cave Arsenal." Wang Yue even admired Li Yunlong. He can achieve some results in anything he does. In Qijiang County, people are not satisfied with just making grenades and mortar shells. The land actually made a standard rifle. If he hadn't accidentally discovered the assembly workshop located underground at the division headquarters when he used the system to scan, he would still have been kept in the dark.
"Well, brother Wang, you know, our old Li is just doing some side business on a small scale, and he is not a good gun. He just got the drawings, fixtures, and templates made in Hanyang from Huaxing Machinery Factory. In Hanyang, With the help of technicians from Hanyang, I built something made in Hanyang, marked it as the original factory, and prepared to sell it to the military leaders as Hansian goods to earn some pocket money." Li Yunlong's eyes almost popped out of his head. He didn't even think about this in the south. The game didn't have time to report, but Wang Yue knew it unexpectedly. At this moment, his back began to sweat. His brother Wang was too powerful, wasn't he?
"Made in Hanyang, it's not a leaky clip, it's a magazine. It can be used for pointed bullets and round-nose bullets. The barrel is thickened and the diameter is one millimeter larger than the original. Don't tell me, Lao Li, you are really engaged in the military industry. The potential." Wang Yue said in amazement. Li Yunlong didn't try to make any advanced rifles. Instead, he chose Hanyang, which has a simple process, low requirements for raw materials, and mature technology. In this regard, it is better than the one from the Ordnance Industry Administration." "Zhuanjia" is more than a little clever.
"Technician Hans said that this thing is most suitable for training workers. In fact, I originally wanted to build a Kirari machine gun, but technician Hans said that the gun's short barrel and recoil principle caused the gun's firing rate not to be fast enough, and the structural design was also more complicated. It's more precise. Those template fixtures from Huaxing Machinery Factory can't make a qualified machine gun at all." Li Yunlong was a little embarrassed by Wang Yue. How much money can he make by making rifles? But our old Li was aiming at it from the beginning. The machine gun went.
