Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 174 Spoiler Pearl Harbor
The only work left at the hydropower station was equipment installation, and Ren Zhong didn't need to worry about it at all. Ever since the successful development of the Haojiaping Power Station next to the Liming Research Institute, the construction of mixed flow turbine generator sets had become a successful experience.

Compared with Ren Zhong's previous 50KW water flow generator, the mixed flow hydroelectric generator is naturally much more complicated. Fortunately, the information in this area is not confidential. Ren Zhong led Li Jixiang and others to complete the construction of the first mixed flow hydroelectric power plant according to the model of the main world.

At the same time, the 10KV power transmission and distribution equipment has been developed. With this set of power transmission and distribution equipment, Li Jixiang can barely adapt to generators ranging from 500KW to 5MW.

But if it is bigger, 35KV power transmission and distribution will be required. Fortunately, with the research experience of 10KV, the team is confidently preparing to go to the next level within half a year to solve the problem of 35KV power transmission and distribution equipment.

They have even started preliminary research on some 66KV/110KV technologies. After all, Ren Zhong has provided quite detailed reference materials for power transmission and distribution equipment from 10KV to 220KV. The team has already solved the fundamental problems, mainly in terms of process and basic materials, which many of them are not yet available.

110KV has been a bit difficult in the past two or three years, but Ren Zhong believes that they can still make 66KV. In this way, the 3-kilowatt generator set will have matching power transmission and transformation equipment to use.

The good news from the Physics Research Center made Ren Zhong feel better for several days, until Staff Officer Ye came to visit.

"Mr. Ren, sorry to bother you." Staff Officer Ye was very polite. "Right now, the Japanese are sweeping across North China in waves, and have even begun to arrest civilians on a large scale in the base areas. They are said to be escorting them to the Northeast. Our army is in a very serious situation now. I would like to ask your organization for any advice on how to deal with this situation."

In the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, Ren Zhong's three strategies allowed the main force of the preserved meat to escape the encirclement of the Japanese invaders and prevented the situation in North China from deteriorating to an unmanageable level. However, due to the presence of two divisions of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Japanese invaders still had an absolute advantage and carried out repeated sweeps in Taihang, Taiyue and other areas.

Not to mention the Ji Zhong Plain area, the Japanese relied on their easy-to-access transportation network to carry out more intense raids on the base, which was known as the Iron Wall encirclement, making it virtually impossible for large troops to survive.

According to the correct approach, at this stage we can only break up into small pieces, hide in the form of armed work teams, and use piecemeal guerrilla warfare such as sparrow warfare, tunnel warfare, and mine warfare to carry out widespread operations, making it impossible for the Japanese to catch the main force and unable to withdraw. After a few months, the Japanese will naturally not be able to bear it and will retreat.

But if he told the truth, Ren Zhong was worried that Staff Officer Ye would not be able to accept it.

However, a piece of big news suddenly flashed in Ren Zhong's mind. Perhaps he could use that shocking news to convince the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to change its strategy.

"Staff Officer Ye, I just happen to have some news to share with you. According to the latest intelligence our organization has obtained," Ren Zhong sorted out the order of the matter and said, "If nothing unexpected happens, the Japanese will launch a surprise attack on the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor in early December and march towards Southeast Asia at the same time!"

Ren Zhong's news was like a bolt from the blue, and even Staff Officer Ye was a little pale for a moment!
"How is it possible?!" Staff Officer Ye said in a lost voice, "Under the current circumstances, how could the Japs think of provoking a strong enemy?"

"It's very simple. The Japanese are a resource-importing country. In July, the United States announced the freezing of the Japanese assets in the United States and imposed an embargo on their trade. As for oil alone, they have no choice but to rob it themselves after the embargo!" "And the oil that can be robbed is in Southeast Asia! However, to rob Southeast Asia, the Japanese cannot avoid the Pacific Fleet, so their first goal is to do their utmost to destroy the Pacific Fleet. Therefore, after receiving the intelligence, our organization basically confirmed the accuracy of the intelligence after verification, and deduced their combat situation based on the intelligence information of the Japanese Combined Fleet."

"In fact, there are traces of this. In the 20s, someone in the United States wrote a fantasy novel called "The Great Pacific War". This book describes a hypothetical Japanese fleet attacking Pearl Harbor, Guam and the Luzon Islands. So there is reason to believe that the top leaders of the Japanese Combined Fleet referred to this novel."

"The Japanese are born gamblers. They are best at gambling. So before they go south, they must destroy the Pacific Fleet to remove the biggest stumbling block to their southward march. If they destroy the Pacific Fleet, the Japanese will have no rivals for at least one or two years. The US fleet cannot recover that quickly, and there will be no rivals for the Japanese Combined Fleet on the west coast of the Pacific."

Staff Officer Ye only partially understood what Ren Zhong said. There was nothing he could do. For the high-ranking officials in the border area who were short of information, these words completely touched upon their blind spots in knowledge. However, Staff Officer Ye did not make any rebuttal. Instead, he quietly took out his notebook and began to frantically record what Ren Zhong said.

After all, the development of the Zhongtiaoshan Campaign completely conquered the border area's staff team.

They really believed that there were high-level Japanese insiders here, although they didn't know why they would help the Chinese in this way.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the intelligence obtained by Ren Zhong was so accurate.

"According to our intelligence and deductions, in addition to the surprise attack on the Pacific Fleet, the Japanese will definitely launch an attack on Hong Kong Island to eliminate another stumbling block in their southward advance. With John Bull's current strength, Hong Kong Island will be completely wiped out in less than two weeks."

"Mr. Ren, if the Japanese choose to go to war with the West, will our lives be better?" When Staff Officer Ye heard this, he suddenly had an idea. The Japanese troops are limited, and they will definitely have to transfer a group of troops to go south. Will the severe situation in North China improve as a result?

"No, on the contrary. In order to fight southwards, the Japanese will inevitably launch more brutal mopping-up operations in North China, which they consider to be their rear base. They will build North China into what they consider to be a logistics base before they will feel at ease to transfer troops southwards." Ren Zhong shook his head.

"Although we haven't received any clear information yet, it is believed that the Japanese have already begun planning Operation Plan No. 3. They are expected to launch an unprecedented large-scale sweep around May next year. The key sweep area will be the Jizhong Plain, which is the place the Japanese have been dreaming of turning into their logistical granary. After they move south, they will not allow these core areas to destabilize."

Ren Zhong's reason was so powerful that even Staff Officer Ye couldn't refute it.

Moreover, as Ren Zhong introduced it, the logic behind why the Japanese had carried out such a crazy raid in recent times gradually emerged in my mind. Now it all made sense.

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