area51novel #218 - The explosion of new production capacity
#218 - The explosion of new production capacity
"Mr. Zhou, your battles have been very effective, strongly supporting the positive development of the Asia-Pacific war situation. As the Chief of Staff of the war zone, I personally hope that the strength of the Eighth Route Army can grow even faster and more powerfully! To play a more important role in North China and even the north. To this end, Mr. Zhou, let's see what we can do to help you."
"We can't do much in terms of material support now. For the huge Eighth Route Army, a few sorties of military supplies are just icing on the cake and cannot play a key role. If we can help you improve your strength at this stage in terms of technology, please don't be polite, Mr. Zhou."
General Shi said sincerely to Mr. Zhou.
General Shi is a relatively pure military strategist. After seeing the potential of the Eighth Route Army, he began to seriously consider this main force in the north fighting against the Japanese devils.
It is not very realistic to provide them with large-scale material assistance now. Although the Japanese joint fleet is crippled, the Japanese have naval aviation units cooperating with the joint fleet to escort them from the South Pacific to the coast of Japan.
Although the Allied South Pacific Task Force is constantly replenishing and strengthening its strength, and has always been a major concern for the Japanese in the South Pacific, it is still high-risk to transport goods to the mainland through the ocean in the South China Sea.
Freight still has to be transported by air across the Himalayas from the Indian Ocean, which is a very big constraint on the Eighth Route Army's material supply, not to mention having to argue with the KMT authorities.
Materially, there is no way to adjust.
So General Shi changed direction, considering that the production capacity of the border area has grown very rapidly with his help. After this battle result was reported, General Shi took the initiative to ask what kind of urgent technical support the border area needed.
"General Shi, thank you for your support and affirmation of us. Of course, we will continue to fight against the Japanese devils and eliminate them as much as possible in the north. Considering our current needs, after the large-scale application of artillery by the troops, the demand for transportation is even more urgent. Now we are starting to equip a large number of mortars at the battalion and company level. The G506 trucks produced in the border area are not well adapted to the mountainous areas of Jin and even the north. We don't have too many real roads to drive such big trucks on. If possible, we hope that you can provide a Jeep production technology so that we can produce a large number of small mountain off-road Jeeps to provide assistance for the mobility of grassroots units."
The director of the Eighth Route Army Office said with some delight.
(Classic Willis MA)
"If there is no problem, we hope it is the Willis MA. In terms of mountain operations, it can greatly improve the artillery mobility of our grassroots troops, especially the ammunition carrying capacity, and enhance the sustainability of our combat firepower."
"General Shi, you know that our troops are still basically infantry-based, and artillery only has a few light artillery pieces. If possible..."
He didn't just say this casually. This was relatively high on the list of technologies that Ren Zhong asked Chief of Staff Ye to obtain.
The Dali Wang and Victory I are essentially tractor chassis. Although they can be used, the gap between them and highly mobile and flexible cars is not small.
Therefore, in terms of automobiles, in addition to trucks, Ren Zhong especially needs a small off-road vehicle to supplement them. Although the current F1 pickup is under development, it is not Ren Zhong's ideal battlefield partner.
What really roams the battlefield is the Jeep that the rogue eagle runs all over the place. Relatively speaking, the mature Willis Jeep is definitely stronger than the F1 pickup that Ren Zhong is currently developing.
Now on the North China battlefield, whether it is in the mountains or plains, there is no need to consider the road surface of the roads, they are all very bad. If we want to enhance the Eighth Route Army's transportation capacity in mountainous roads, the best is an all-terrain vehicle, but the difficulty of developing an all-terrain vehicle now is not low, and we don't have this ability for the time being.
Combined with the actual situation that the border area can already mass-produce G506 trucks, if we can get a Jeep, it would definitely be the best.
"Mr. Zhou, your idea is very constructive, and I will try my best to fight for it. Speaking of which, our Willis Jeep is indeed very suitable for use on the North China battlefield."
Under the circumstances that aid resources cannot be shipped to the North China war zone in large quantities, General Shi felt that providing necessary technical assistance was a better way to enhance the strength of the Eighth Route Army at the moment.
You must know that there are still millions of Japanese troops in North China and Northeast China. If they are left alone, even if 400,000 to 500,000 go south, it would be a disaster for the Allies.
Although the US military, which fought bloody battles in the Pacific, has begun to gain the upper hand in the ocean in terms of naval and air power, in the fierce battles on the islands, the rogue eagle's Marine Corps has suffered a lot. Every island is piled up with flesh and blood.
So if the Eighth Route Army in North China can eliminate one more Japanese devil, the rogue eagle in the Pacific may sacrifice one less young man.
Chief of Staff Ye passed the news to Ren Zhong, so that Ren Zhong was prepared to receive the information. This time, General Shi took the initiative to provide technical assistance to the border area. The Willis Jeep technology is not too sensitive, and Mr. Zhou estimates that there will be no major problems, but it may still take some time to transfer the technical process design information across the ocean.
Ren Zhong received the news, it was simply an unexpected surprise.
You must know that this car has a lot of room for development in the future. If it enters civilian use after iteration, it will probably be the most popular car on the mainland for the next thirty years.
Before roads are widely implemented with concrete or asphalt roads, the passability of Jeeps will be a rigid need for people. The entry of Willis into the mainland will replace the historical status of 212 in advance. You must know that this is a magical car with a life cycle of more than half a century, with a cumulative output of more than 1.2 million! This is an era when automobiles were not popular at all.
Happily waiting to receive General Shi's gift package.
Ren Zhong continued to monitor the post-war intelligence feedback. After only a few days, the news in this regard basically disappeared. It was as if everything was calm everywhere. The public opinion controlled by the North China Front Army was downplaying its own casualties, covering up the reality of the disastrous defeat.
In the rear of the GMD, they were suppressing the news to prevent the new round of victories of the Eighth Route Army from becoming a hot topic, lest the people of the country see how incompetent they were through comparison.
It was as if this was just a small battle, and the news was quickly turned into a thing of the past. However, this time it was exactly what Ren Zhong wanted. He finally breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that the Japanese devils would not be desperate in the short term.
After Ren Zhong made his judgment, he met with Chief of Staff Ye again and formally requested that the construction of these three new bases be accelerated.
The three major base areas of the Eighth Route Army launched a general mobilization! Almost all the young and middle-aged people in the local area were mobilized to start large-scale construction.
The first priority was the construction of small hydropower stations, small thermal power plants, and the infrastructure of mines and factories.
Nearly all of the millions of young and middle-aged people in the base areas were mobilized. With the help of thousands of technicians sent by the border region and hundreds of technicians trained in Yangcun and Heyuan, they adopted the three-shift system created by Li Yunlong through self-study to work day and night.
In order to obtain production capacity as soon as possible, the design of many infrastructures was further simplified. The designed lifespan no longer considered long-term operation for more than ten years. In Ren Zhong's view, these were temporary transitional facilities running for three to five years, so the design considerations for extending the lifespan were simplified a lot, and many intermediate links were cancelled.
In Ren Zhong's view, the situation in Jin Province would change drastically in three to five years. In the next few years, most of the infrastructure would be moved to the city for construction. Therefore, during the design, Ren Zhong took out some simple solutions from the construction of Yangcun. After multiple optimizations, these indigenous methods reached the peak state of this simple production model and directly blossomed everywhere in the mining area.
These indigenous blast furnaces, which had long been eliminated in the main world, had fast construction speed and decent crude iron efficiency. Burning coal and producing coke were both possible. Among the rapidly launched steel production capacity, indigenous blast furnaces accounted for a large part, and massive construction was carried out one after another in the iron ore plant area.
Ren Zhong needed to quickly build a new production capacity of more than 3,000 tons per day through this method to achieve the goal of producing more than one million tons of steel per year.
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The T-34 tank will also be increased to a level of 100 vehicles.
For the M3 Stuart tank, the future production capacity will be distributed in the border area, Lüliang, Wutai, and Taihang Taiyue, and will be built into five major branch factories.
The core equipment is produced in the border area, but the car body and assembly are placed in the branch factories for production. This is the only way to achieve the goal of production and equipment, without having to spend a lot of effort transporting it from the border area to the front line.
The most difficult part of the tank to make is the communication products and the gun barrel. Even the engine part can spread the technology. The production of new gun steel for the border area is also the mass production and gun barrel processing realized by the steel plant directly under the Dawn Research Institute. That is to say, in the future, the border area will mainly produce the communication part and the gun barrel, and then transport them to the other tank branch factories to complete the assembly.
In this way, the amount of steel consumed by tanks alone will be tens of thousands of tons per month.
As for cars, although the Dali Wang and Shengli I are not very useful for military use, they will have huge market space in the current mountain transportation and future civilian use. Each base area must build a car factory with a monthly output of thousands of vehicles. Not only these two types, but the G506 and Willis Jeep will also be produced in large quantities, and the total production capacity will exceed 3,000 vehicles, which is another consumption of several thousand tons per month.
In addition to the construction needs of large-scale factories, hydropower, and thermal power, the demand for steel cannot be supported without 100,000 tons per month.
Of course, this is a large plan that affects the whole body. After Ren Zhong draws the blueprint, the people below will realize it.
The scale of the cave academy is also constantly expanding. One-year and two-year professional technical courses and three-year high-end researcher training courses form a coverage from technicians to undergraduate majors.
Talent is also constantly being output to factories to serve as major technical jobs.
With the spread of factories and the further shortage of technical talents, the cave academy has started an unprecedented expansion. Young people are selected from various base areas and sent to the cave academy, and a huge academy of tens of thousands of people will soon be formed.
Due to the large scale, the surrounding area of the Dawn Research Institute can no longer accommodate so many people. These newly recruited personnel are placed in the branch school built in the capital of the border area. Teachers are sent out by the cave academy to teach. Now the highway between the border area and the Dawn Research Institute has become a three-lane road, which has realized a one-hour traffic circle, ensuring the integration of the two places.
At the same time, the schools that were opened in Yangcun and Heyuan in the early days are now continuing to be opened, but they have been transformed into technical schools, relying on local factories for integration of work and study, providing a continuous stream of technical workers for Taihang and Taiyue factories and even brother base areas. Cooperating with the industrial expansion process, Ren Zhong had been prepared for this, so he would not lose sight of one thing and attend to another in the new wave of production capacity expansion.
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