Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 205: The Great Development of the Independent Group

After listening to the introduction and looking at the materials, Staff Officer Ye felt relieved after having an in-depth discussion with Ren Zhong on some of the details and gaining a thorough understanding of them.

Because this job is really difficult to do, you must know yourself and your enemy. As for the information written by Ren Zhong above, although Staff Officer Ye has a general understanding of it, how can he compare with the later generations who have thoroughly studied this issue in the main world in terms of details?
Therefore, this military reorganization plan is also a very valuable piece of intelligence information.

Considering that the organization behind Ren Zhong even knew about such a big event as the Pearl Harbor attack, it was not surprising for Staff Officer Ye to receive the intelligence about the Japanese invaders.

The regiment level is the cornerstone combat unit of the regular forces of the Eighth Route Army, and above it are the military sub-districts and military regions. Once the regiment level is straightened out, the higher levels will naturally flow smoothly.

Staff Officer Ye stared at the combat effectiveness of the Type A regiment above, and couldn't help but feel a surge of emotion. When did the border area improve to the point where a regiment could defeat a regiment? You know, two years ago, even a division couldn't do it.

With the development of the military industry in the past two years, after seeing the configuration of weapons and equipment, Staff Officer Ye was not surprised at all that the Type A regiment had an advantage over the Japanese field regiment. 4 75mm mountain guns, 7 107mm guns, and 40 82mm mortars, against the Japanese regiment artillery squadron, 75 "Type 2" 90mm mountain guns and 6 24mm mortars, and 54 Type 40 infantry guns, the artillery was a complete victory. The Japanese only had 82 heavy machine guns and grenade launchers to occupy the front-line firepower advantage, but against the mm mortars, the Japanese firepower advantage was just a passive attack.

Taking advantage of the production advantage in mortars, the front line has begun to achieve real firepower coverage.

In the opinion of Staff Officer Ye, the only drawback of this Type A regiment plan is that it has wasteful ammunition and wasteful vehicles. Without vehicles, the supply company cannot properly support the huge consumption of ammunition.

However, just looking at the data on paper, an aura of invincibility comes to the fore. It is true that one regiment is equivalent to a division in the past!
According to Ren Zhong's plan, as for the Type A regiment, according to Ren Zhong's estimation, only the old 9th Regiment in the border area could be reorganized into a Type A regiment.

In addition to the four regiments of the Saibei Military Region that were reorganized into Type-A regiments, there are still five guard regiments in the border area that can be reorganized into Type-A regiments. Within 4 years, the production capacity of the automobile industry has basically reached its limit.

The remaining newly expanded troops in the border area can at most be reorganized into Type B regiments. With the border area's weapons reserves, about 5 Type B regiments can be reorganized. These are the real core field troops of the border area.

Then, relying on county-level cities, each county reorganized a Type C regiment, with a total of more than 20, with a main force of more than 6 people. The food produced after reclaiming wasteland was supplied to this army, and basically there was no need for local governments to bear the burden.

According to the current situation of the Taihang-Taiyue base of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, it is estimated that the Taiyue Military Region can reorganize 5-6 Type A regiments, of which Li Yunlong's troops are estimated to account for half. As for Type B regiments, the Taiyue Military Region and Taihang can gather about 10 in total, and Type C regiments can be gathered together according to the surrounding counties, with a total of more than 20, with a total of more than 7 main forces.

In the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei area, the base area shrank a lot in 42, and it is estimated that they could not even gather a few Type B regiments, 3 or 5 at most. For example, the Eighth Regiment of the Hebei-Central Military Region was only the size of a Type C regiment. The main force's first division could pull out 2 Type B regiments, making 5 or 6 Type C regiments. Together with 2 or 3 Type C regiments from other military divisions, there were 5 Type B regiments and more than 30 Type C regiments, which totaled more than 6 main forces.

Of course, this is based on Renzhong's standard, not the original standard. In the original time and space, the main force of Jin-Cha-Ji was organized into 11 Type A regiments and 21 Type B regiments, with about 6.7 people. However, the combat effectiveness of the two systems is too different. Judging from Renzhong's firepower configuration, the Type A regiment in the original historical time and space is only equivalent to the Type C regiment of Renzhong standard, that is, there are more people, and the artillery and infantry light firepower are far behind.

The mortar alone is several times or even dozens of times more than that!
In the original time and space, Jinchaji could not make 82mm mortars by themselves, and even grenade launchers were very difficult to make. Mortars are high-end firepower, and everything depends on seizures and early accumulation. Until the liberation period, mortars were still a very scarce resource.

After all, the level of iron smelting in that time and space was very low, the quality of pig iron was unusable, and military steel had to be made by tearing off rails.

In this time and space, Ren Zhong has solved all the problems of steel and manufacturing technology needed for mortars. Although the threshold for traditional blast furnaces and open-hearth furnaces is still a bit high, Ren Zhong took samples of iron ore and pig iron to the main world for precise re-measurement, and readjusted the local iron ore process ratios in each base. The quality of the gray cast iron and wrought iron produced is stable, and No. 45 carbon steel is even better than the rail steel of this period.

With the spread of machine tools, the 82mm mortar has become a common item that each major base can manufacture on its own.

The production quantity of grenades, mines and artillery shells has increased by orders of magnitude compared with the original time and space.

The tactics of the old Eighth Route Army naturally changed as well, and they began to consider using firepower coverage to deal with the Japanese.

A single artillery shell has a much faster effect than a bayonet.

"Brother Ren, can we really support the vehicle configuration of your Type A regiment?" Staff Officer Ye was flipping through Ren Zhong's information and couldn't help feeling a little annoyed when he saw the configuration of the motor vehicle supply company, which included 100 Red Star G506 trucks and 50 Red Star F1 pickups.

Currently, the G506 trucks and F1 pickups are still in the primary production stage, with barely a dozen being produced per month. If a Type A regiment needs to be equipped with cars, hundreds or even thousands of them, how long will it take?
"Staff Officer Ye, our factory now only has a primary product line. After the subsequent processing of various components has been realized in assembly line operations and the equipment has been debugged in place, the subsequent new product lines can be quickly replicated. We can build a large automobile factory in the capital of the border area and add a dozen production lines. Then, a monthly production capacity of two to three hundred vehicles will not be a problem." Ren Zhong explained with a smile.

Nowadays, this kind of simple automobile production line does not even need spray painting, the paint is applied by hand, and it can be expanded quickly by adding people. As the machine tools become more and more complete, the production capacity of core components, especially engines, has increased rapidly in the engine factory of the Dawn Research Institute. Now it is no problem to produce four to five hundred engines of all kinds per month.

If we adjust the production capacity, there will be no major problem in supplying automobiles.

"That's great. I will go back and find a hundred people to come and learn from them. There is a clear increase in the number of students and workers coming to the border area from all over the country. Hundreds of people will enter the border area tomorrow. We can completely solve the problem of workers." Staff Officer Ye's eyes lit up. Since Ren Zhong said so, it meant that the preparations were quite reliable.

"Cars will be our main means of transportation in the future. It won't hurt for us to train more workers now. After we drive the Japanese away, I will come up with a few new cars suitable for ordinary people. In the future, we won't have to rely on riding horses or our own legs to travel long distances." Ren Zhong said with a smile.

It is definitely not possible to have a car in the short term. Even Ford's Model T is too expensive for Chinese people today, and not many people can afford it.

However, passenger buses will definitely be a rapidly developing field in the future. The current domestic transportation conditions are almost blank. It takes two or three days to travel a distance of 100 kilometers. The transportation efficiency is too poor.

Ren Zhong certainly won’t wait for another few decades to solve the problem.

As soon as the war is over, Ren Zhong will push for the large-scale construction of road and railway transportation. After all, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads. If the transportation is not smooth, you will never develop.

Now the Chinese people are united without too many individual thoughts. It is time to mobilize and work hard. As long as we take the right path, it is normal for us to accomplish in one year what others do in three years.

After finishing the important task for Staff Officer Ye, Ren Zhong perfected the military industrial upgrade plan for the Independent Regiment.

Now that the headquarters has expanded the base, the resources have increased by several orders of magnitude. There are many minerals that Ren Zhong didn't dare to mine before. Now he has given the brigade commander the latest resource distribution map of each county in the base, and asked them to mine the most convenient ones first.

Although the land in the Taihang and Taiyue mountain areas is barren and growing crops is challenging, the expansion of farmland area is very limited. If Ren Zhong's approach is adopted, the land reclaimed along river basins will soon reach its limit. For example, in Heyuan, basically all the land suitable for farming has been reclaimed under Ren Zhong's planning.

As for the forest land on the hills that were not suitable for farming, Ren Zhong had already ordered that fires should not be set on the mountains for reclamation. The forests in those places had been formed over hundreds or thousands of years, and it was already very difficult to cultivate. It was not easy to dig out a piece of land from the cracks in the rocks, and it was not easy to cultivate and irrigate the land, and the yield was not high, so it was completely not worth the effort.

Therefore, according to Ren Zhong's standards, any land that cannot be taken care of by streams, wind power or water wheels, and any land that cannot be developed into a large-scale area of ​​hundreds of acres should not be reclaimed indiscriminately.

Zhao Gang implemented Ren Zhong's request very well. In addition, coal was mined and used in large quantities in advance. Even in the mountainous areas, firewood was no longer the main fuel. This allowed Ren Zhong to develop industry while preserving the precious green mountains and clear waters in Taihang.

Considering that the base area was still a high-risk area for bombing by the Japanese, Ren Zhong suggested not to build a thermal power plant near the city, which was too obvious, but to continue to look for suitable terrain in the mountainous area for low-key construction.
The air defense capabilities of the base are weak now, so large infrastructure must temporarily try to avoid the Japanese aerial reconnaissance and bombing.

Build the factory in the mountains. Small hydropower has natural concealment. Ren Zhong gives priority to developing small hydropower in the base. Now the construction cycle is fast and the equipment production is very mature. It is the best way to quickly expand the power supply of the base.

Ren Zhong has people conduct investigations and studies on rivers and streams in various places. As long as there are hydropower resources with a capacity of more than 50 kW and they are not too sparsely populated and transportation is extremely difficult, they can be considered for development.

By developing new factories in mountainous areas close to mountains and rivers, various production activities can be carried out covertly. At this stage, this is better than anything else.

As for the various local cities in the newly recovered Luzhou, industrial construction will not be carried out for the time being. Only after the construction of anti-aircraft artillery bases in the surrounding areas and the gradual formation of an air defense network will industry begin to develop in the city.

Now let’s double the military industry under the Independent Regiment!
The original monthly output of Type 56 semi-automatic rifles in Heyuan and Yangcun was more than 2000, more than 56 Type 100 machine guns, more than 82 50mm mortars, more than 50 RPG rocket launchers, and seven or eight Type 107 fire guns. According to Ren's new planning, the number will double in an instant, which is very impressive.

If the new steel is successfully smelted, then together with the production of mountain cannons and anti-aircraft guns, there will be at least 20 guns per month. However, with the manpower in the base, that is about it. After all, many jobs still require workers with certain skills. The base is not like the border areas, and it is very difficult to attract outside talents. With Ren Zhong's efforts, he has basically absorbed almost all the workers in the newly occupied territory.

The radio waves carried Ren Zhong's plan and first conveyed the infrastructure requirements to the independent regiment. Under the leadership of Zhao Gang, construction work was carried out first. Mineral resource maps and process design drawings still needed to be delivered to the base by manpower. Ren Zhong couldn't rush it, but fortunately, the construction of the previous infrastructure also took time, so it was not a waste.

If the base's production capacity is fully utilized, one more Type A regiment's equipment can be produced in a month. This is a remarkable thing for the rapidly developing Eighth Route Army Headquarters.

After all, they were blocked inside and could only rely on spoils of war. Now they have finally achieved self-sufficiency and their strength is increasing every day.

It probably won’t be long before the brigade commander’s next attack.

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