The father of the sword is Kong Jie

For a better deal.

The U.S. military-industrial interest group also lobbied the military and gave Doolittle and his party the establishment of the Joint Air Force for the U.S. Special Dispatch in North China, and promoted Doolittle to the rank of colonel.

In addition, a special order was given to allow Doolittle and his party to stay temporarily with the Eighth Route Army to assist the Eighth Route Army in developing its aviation industry.

In the later period, there will be a U.S. Air Force, Soviet Air Force, and British Air Force stationed with prototypes to help train Chinese pilots until the aircraft production line is officially completed.

In order not to be smashed by the Eighth Route Army, the countries of Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union racked their brains.

within the headquarters.

Kong Jie congratulated Doolittle, "Old Du, congratulations! I should call you Colonel Du from now on!"

Doolittle grinned at his thin face with stubble, "Kong, I'm actually more interested in becoming the father of aviation in China than this Colonel!"

During the speech, Doolittle was more emotional.

Who would have thought that the Eighth Route Army, which was behind the enemy and surrounded by powerful enemies, could develop the aviation industry vigorously in such a short period of time?

When Doolittle and his party were forced to land in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi area after the air raid on Tokyo, they were rescued by Duan Peng and his commandos back to the base of a detachment of the Eighth Route Army.

Although Doolittle and his party were amazed that such a large anti-Japanese armed force could be active in the Japanese-occupied area, and such a stable and vigorous base area could be established.

But after all, they believed that the Eighth Route Army behind the enemy was restrained by a powerful enemy, and it was difficult to fully develop the military industry.

When Kong Jie made an invitation to ask Doolittle and his pilots to stay in a team and help the Eighth Route Army develop its own aviation industry, and even told Doolittle that he might be called the father of Chinese aviation .

Doolittle was more amused.

He felt that this general of the Eighth Route Army really had a wild imagination.

It's just a piece of loess land hidden in the deep mountains and flattened. Could it be that such an empty place can be used as an aviation base?
Not to mention the construction of a more advanced aviation base, Doolittle didn't even see a plane.

Then inquire.

The Eighth Route Army didn't even have a fighter plane.

At that time, if he hadn't considered that the Eighth Route Army was the savior of his party, Doolittle couldn't help but make a few sarcastic remarks.

In the absence of even a fighter plane, they shouted to build their own aviation force. Is it just a dream?
However, less than two months later.

Doolittle witnessed the miracle happen.

First, pilots with a large reserve of theoretical knowledge came from the so-called Yan'an headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to study with Doolittle.

Immediately afterwards, the aviation base built secretly by a team was further remodeled and constructed. The whole team was bustling up and down, and the construction of the secret aviation base was in full swing.

Kong Jie even built an aeronautical research laboratory specially for Doolittle and his party, and provided a considerable amount of aeronautical research data with considerable quality.

But after all, Doolittle still believes that if the premise of all this does not even have a fighter plane, it will never be realized.

Until the empty airport, inexplicably, a dozen fighter planes flew in.

Then it got out of hand.

Wave after wave of fighter jets, bombers, and transport planes were driven to a secret airfield of a team.

Knowing that these fighter planes were all captured from the Japanese military airfield and flew back, the dumbfounded Doolittle opened his mouth so wide that he could almost swallow his fist.

There are also aviation units built in this way?

After that, after owning the aircraft, the Eighth Route Army pilots who kept pouring in were full of enthusiasm. They almost regarded the aircraft as their everything, and devoted all their passions to the research and learning of aviation combat.

finally.

Licheng air battle broke out.

Kong Jie provided the most shining stage for a secretly built aviation force.

And on this shining stage, a team of pilots and soldiers really performed a wonderful air combat drama for audiences from all over the world.

So far, the rudiment of the strong army of the secret aviation unit first built by the Eighth Route Army has been revealed.

With the cooperation between the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union and the Eighth Route Army, it was stated that there would be successive fighter jets and fighter jet production lines entering China to assist the Eighth Route Army in its anti-Japanese operations and the development of aviation.

Doolittle was finally convinced that Kong Jie had done it, the blueprint for developing the aviation industry of the Eighth Route Army that they put forward when the Eighth Route Army didn't have a single fighter plane.

With the current good foundation, given time, the aviation industry belonging to the Eighth Route Army will surely become one of the aviation powers amidst its prosperity.

...Thousands of words can only be merged into one sentence of emotion.

"Kong, you are the most incredible and amazing general I have ever seen!"

"what???"

Kong Jie, however, scratched his head in a daze, wondering what was wrong with Old Du, and suddenly said this.

However, Kong Jie is still very grateful to Doolittle and his party, especially Doolittle and the others for their help in the development of an aviation force.

"Lao Du, our aviation unit can't develop to what it is today without your help. Just for this, I'll buy you a drink!"

"If you don't get drunk, you won't return!" Doolittle laughed.

"Must, come to my place to drink, if you can climb out of the house, I will lose!" Kong Jie laughed.

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After the plane visit.

Under the reception of Kong Jie, the leaders took the lead in visiting the military production base of the first team.

In this battle, the troops moved back from Yangquan and Jingxing a lot of iron and steelmaking equipment, especially in Jingxing, with the cooperation of several puppet troops who were instigated to rebel, the soldiers also found a five-ton and a three-ton Alloy steel smelting equipment.

These equipments were originally prepared by the Japanese army to install and produce special steel on the spot in Jingxing for use in the newly built military factory of SJZ. As a result, they directly made wedding dresses for the Eighth Route Army.

And the thermal power plant equipment built by the Jingxing Devils was also seized by the soldiers.

These equipment were originally very bulky. If they were left in the past, even if they could be captured, how to transport them would be difficult, not to mention the air firepower that the Japanese army might arrive at any time.

Fortunately, now that there are some tractors imported from various countries in the team, it will be much more convenient.

Lao Zhang and the others had an unexpected harvest in the freight yard of the station outside Taiyuan City. They found a five-ton Krupp alloy steel smelting equipment in the freight yard, and joined Lao Ding's troops to use heavy tractors to pull them back to the Luliang Mountain base overnight.

Just wait for a team to succeed in trial production and send technicians and engineers over to help with trial production.

In addition, after the troops completely captured Licheng, they also successfully seized a small arsenal, a power plant, a steel factory, and two five-ton smelting equipment special steel smelters.

Considering that the Licheng area is an important military base of the Japanese army, it will never sit idly by and remain in the hands of the Eighth Route Army. In the later period, the Japanese army will definitely usher in continuous retaliation and air strikes, and it is impossible to build a stable production base.

The Eighth Route Army used a large number of mechanized vehicles, towing vehicles, and even transport aircraft for transportation. In the end, a large number of factories and equipment in Licheng were transferred to the Eighth Route Army's most stable Huangyadong Arsenal.

One of the five-ton smelting equipment was also transported to Li Yunlong's new second regiment arsenal.

Li Yunlong has always wanted to make mortars, and now he finally has the raw material base.

These are all the harvests of the various troops during the May [-]st sweep, but they barely have a foundation and lack many supporting facilities, so they have not been able to carry out trial operations.

And there is a severe shortage of technicians and engineers.

So this time Kong Jie did business with the British, American and Soviet countries in terms of aircraft and production lines. He also wanted to introduce more talents from abroad, and at the same time help train domestic military production talents to make up for the huge gap in the Eighth Route Army's military production talent demand.

When visiting a military production base, the first thing to visit is naturally the steelmaking plant.

Ironworks built by a team.

Including specialty steel smelters.

There are also rifle production lines, light machine gun production lines, heavy machine gun production lines, grenade launcher production lines, rocket production lines, submachine gun production lines, bullet production lines, and shell production lines for new military factories.

Kong Jie said: “There are three of these ironworks, one was built with the equipment captured from the devils, the other was built with the aid of the Soviet Union, and the other was built with the aid of the United States. , as well as domestic experts, Japanese experts, and overseas Chinese experts formed a joint debugging team, which is debugging day and night.

Immediately, the first one to visit was the first steel plant established by Yangquan Iron Works, Jingxing Iron and Steel Works, and Jingxing Special Steel Works. It was full of Japanese-made machinery and smelting equipment, and there were many originally purchased during the Republic of China. Equipment, even equipment from the Beiyang period, and some equipment plundered from the National Army in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places were transported and installed to form complete production lines.

Li Wenjie, the political commissar who walked in the front, introduced: "The devils plundered our iron ore in Yangquan and Jingxing areas to smelt iron ore to make iron and steel, and then transported to their rear or domestic for further processing.

The five-ton and three-ton special steel smelting equipment was produced by Manchuria Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., and it was only recently transported to the Jingxing Special Steel Factory for installation and trial production. During this anti-May Day raid, we occupied Jingxing and took over their complete set of equipment. We have moved back and today we invite everyone to visit and participate in the opening ceremony of these two special steel smelting production lines. "

The leader on the side asked: "We know something about iron and steel making, what is this special steel? Are they all steel?"

Kong Jie said: "This special steel is actually an alloy steel. The five tons are smelted from the nickel-chromium-platinum series. During smelting, vanadium, tungsten, manganese and other additives are added according to demand.

The emergence of alloy steel is a revolution in the steel industry, completely replacing the status of ordinary carbon steel as the material of the barrel. The barrel made of them is thinner and lighter, but it is resistant to high temperature and high pressure, and can greatly increase the range of the gun. tube life.

This three-ton smelting equipment smelts molybdenum-chromium steel, specifically for making gun barrels. "

The deputy commander said: "It was this alloy steel revolution that instantly widened the gap between China's military industry and foreign military industries.

Just like the artillery produced by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau of the former Qing Dynasty, which spent a lot of money to import military equipment, it is directly behind an era!
Comrades, technology is a powerful weapon to improve productivity, we are too far behind! "

At this time, Commander Fu looked at the equipment and said puzzledly: "I think some of the equipment was originally from the period of the Baojin Mining Industry and the Republic of China. Why did the nameplate change to the Beiyang period? I remember seeing it when I visited it!"

Kong Jie said with a smile: "Commander Fu, the so-called seeing through is not telling the truth. This steel factory has already produced normally except for alloy steel, and the quality is not bad. We deliberately changed the nameplate, saying that the equipment is old and the quality is uneven. It's a lie. human!"

Xu Guoan added: "Actually, we have reordered and replaced a lot of equipment here, but the nameplates are still the original ones, and the old equipment that cannot be used has been sealed up and will be used as an industrial museum.

It has been produced here for a while, and we are combining the technical standards of the Soviet Union and the United States to establish our own standards. Other people's things belong to others after all, and we have to absorb and digest them to be our own.

This place is all formed by our own iron and steel industry workers and smelting experts. The foreign experts of the Allied forces are not interested in seeing the patchwork products here. I don't pay attention to this at all, and it just happens to cooperate with us to set off smoke bombs. "

Kong Jie said with a smile: "That's the reason. If you don't behave a little behind, how can you get the western countries to come to help you willingly?"

Fu Yisheng: ...

"Everyone says I'm an old fox, Kong Jie, Kong Jie, I think you are more like that cunning fox!"

Everyone laughed.

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After visiting the industrial production lines in this way, following Kong Jie's introduction, the leaders were all happy from ear to ear.

The commander-in-chief who came from Yan'an was even more emotional: "At the beginning, our military production level was poor. Even the largest Huangyadong arsenal could not even produce one gun and one cannon.

Today's conditions are getting better and better, we can finally produce our own guns, no longer have to be stuck in the throat, even a little guns and ammunition can only look at other people's eyes and ask for help! "

Who said no!
Looking back at the bitter history of the Eighth Route Army fighting behind enemy lines in recent years, it was isolated and helpless in the environment behind enemy lines, and lacked a military-industry foundation.

"No guns, no cannons, the enemy made it for us!"

These words are cheering, but more sad and helpless.

As long as the Eighth Route Army has its own military production capacity and sufficient arsenal and military industry foundation, why bother to make huge sacrifices to seize equipment and supplies from the little devils?

These older generation of selfless revolutionary leaders.

He never frowned even when he fought bloody battles on the battlefield.

At this moment, as they visited along the way, many people secretly had red eyes and secretly wiped their tears.

Those were tears of excitement!

That is the relief and joy of watching one's motherland grow from weak to strong step by step!

At this time, Kong Jie, who was accompanying the leaders, suddenly asked mysteriously to Xu Guoan beside him: "Old Xu, have the security measures in our core production industrial zone been in place?"

How could Xu Guoan not understand what Kong Jie meant, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the security is strict, especially the representatives from various countries and parties who came to visit our base area this time, they will never easily discover our secrets." !"

"That's good!"

"Hey, leaders, please move, I will show you something special!"

Afterwards, Kong Jie led a group of leaders to a secret core industrial production area.

The first person to visit was the penicillin processing plant at the first team’s pharmaceutical production base.

Kong Jie on the side introduced: "Compared with Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other industrial powers, we are far behind in the production of aircraft, artillery, tanks and other military industries, as well as in the production of civilian products.

But we are not without leading technologies and brands.

For example, the penicillin that comrades are seeing now can almost be mass-produced, which is what we often call penicillin. "

"For a long time, especially after the outbreak of the war, penicillin has been hard to find on the battlefield. Everyone knows that this thing is a special medicine that can save lives at critical times, but due to the low production volume, the supply has been in short supply."

"As for the production technology of mass production of penicillin, even the western powers may not have studied it thoroughly, but we are now able to achieve mass production, and can even supply the needs of our armed forces!"

"This is already leaving Western countries far behind!"

A leader asked with concern: "Have all our troops been issued penicillin?"

Kong Jie said: "After exploring the mass production technology of penicillin, we have been carrying out continuous production, and the corresponding medicines have been continuously distributed to various troops, especially the frontline combat troops, which are most prone to casualties, so a large number of additional equipment. "

Speaking of this, Kong Jie smiled and gave an example:
"Our team now has more penicillin than our team ever had bandages!"

"Okay, okay!"

Regarding the secret mass production of penicillin, even Doolittle and his party were totally unaware of it.

Kong Jie even used penicillin to do business with Western countries and make money back from the West to reduce the trade deficit.

If you not only buy Western products, but do not have your own products to sell, then sooner or later, all the real money in China will be swindled out.

Then, Kong Jie continued to visit with the leaders.

The next factory I entered was just entering. Seeing the situation in the factory, many leaders couldn't help but blurted out:
"This is... a car processing plant???"

The leaders were stunned. China could produce its own cars. This had been a dream for many years. During the golden decade of the Republic of China, producing national cars of Chinese brands had always been one of the slogans shouted.

But after all, there is no thunder but no rain.

In the end, even a decent wheel could not be produced.

While this makes people feel ridiculous, it is more sad and helpless.

Now in the Eighth Route Army, a team of secret factories can actually build and produce their own car brands?
Kong Jie explained with a smile on the side: "Actually, it is not a full-featured fuel car produced by various industrial powers in the West in a practical sense.

In fact, we are still a long way from getting there.

At present, what you see is some simpler military mechanical vehicles that we are trying to produce, mainly to ensure the performance of its engine, as well as the mobility and load capacity of the overall vehicle.

To put it bluntly, it is actually able to run and pull things, mainly to be more adaptable to our battle with the Japanese army.

As for other aspects of performance, as well as some precision accessories with higher production process requirements, we do not have the capacity to produce them yet.

But after all, it is also a vehicle independently produced by our Eighth Route Army! "

The leaders suddenly realized, and then couldn't help laughing, feeling that their thinking was too far ahead, this meal had to be eaten one bite at a time, and they couldn't become a big fat man.

This detachment would suddenly have the industrial capability to produce state-of-the-art mechanized vehicles.

That would be a little unrealistic.

In the end, until a group of leaders walked out of the core industrial area of ​​a team, the sky was clear and the air was clear, feeling the harmony of Huifeng, and they all exclaimed happily.

This trip to visit the industrial zone of a team really opened everyone's eyes.