Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 221 Five Bases
The Japanese's dormancy did not really reassure Ren Zhong. Ren Zhong knew that when the entire Pacific War was about to end, the Japanese had launched a last-ditch Operation No. 1. Judging from the current situation, the Japanese could not be said to be in a last-ditch struggle.

The Japanese who were able to suffer a big loss and remain motionless must be holding back a big move.

Maybe the plan for Operation No. 1 is already being prepared.

Therefore, the time window is even more important to Ren Zhong. The Japanese are also like springs. The longer they are compressed, the stronger they will rebound.

In addition, the Japanese's usual basic operation is to throw everything they have at the drop of a hat. If they can hold back to develop an ultimate trick and force the Japanese to empty out their entire fortunes in a final struggle, in their final frenzy, the number of troops they will deploy will be unprecedented.

In the original time and space, the Japanese's Operation No. 6 tore through the weak disguise of the millions of Chinese troops, and they fought their way from central Henan to Annan. 146 cities in 20 provinces fell, and more than square kilometers of land were occupied by the Japanese.

The crushing defeat of the Guofu army caused widespread criticism among the Allies and made the international community completely disappointed in Guofu. This unprecedented defeat changed the war situation in Northeast Asia, and the Allies no longer hoped that Guofu could defeat the Japanese, but instead placed their hopes on Daxiong.

This is where the reason why millions of bears sent troops to the Northeast started.

For the Dragon Kingdom, this was an extremely humiliating defeat, and it lost too much benefit because of this defeat.

Not only were all the industrial facilities in the Northeast swept away by the big bear, but they also lost the respect of a true great power.

In the original historical time and space, the republic, which had not yet completed its reconstruction from a blank slate, was forced to fight a bloody battle in Goryeo to restore its reputation before it regained its reputation.

For Ren Zhong, the reason why he took the risk and launched the Battle for the Three Mountains in Jin was that he wanted to use his greatest effort to transform these resources into the strength of the Eighth Route Army, and then use his own way to prevent this disaster from happening.

In order to gain the strategic initiative, Ren Zhong must provide the Eighth Route Army with thousands of tanks, hundreds of fighter planes and at least 100 fully equipped Type A regiments before the Japanese launch Operation No. !
Only with such strength can the Eighth Route Army be able to shoulder all the responsibilities in North China on its own without relying on rotten dried fruits!
But now Ren Zhong has no way to mention these things to anyone.

As for Staff Officer Ye, he could only tell the importance of building the Three Mountains (Lüliang Mountain, Wutai Mountain, Taihang Mountain and Taiyue Mountain) base. By building the Three Mountains base, minerals and human resources would be provided for the Eighth Route Army's ordnance production capacity explosion.

But the deepest reason behind it is that Ren Zhong is prepared to deal with the major changes in Operation No. 1.

According to Ren Zhong's plan, when the Japanese launched the Battle of Central Henan, the Eighth Route Army would suddenly attack and directly capture the Shanxi area, and then directly sweep across the North China Plain, abruptly cutting off the Japanese's Operation No. 1 in half.

However, they hid their trump card at the beginning and kept the steel torrent intact. After the Japanese turned back and reached the North China Plain, this powerful steel torrent rushed in from Shanxi and taught the Japanese a severe lesson on the North China Plain about what a steel torrent was!
The idea is very promising, but it is not something that can be accomplished by Ren Zhong alone.

It is necessary to concentrate all the strength of the Eighth Route Army's new base in Shanxi, carry out high-intensity construction around the clock, and make good use of the hard work of millions of ordinary people, only then will there be a slight possibility.

After Ren Zhong has to provide the most extreme technical support for this slight possibility, it will depend on whether the Japanese can cooperate to leave a time window of about half a year so that Ren Zhong's wave of construction can successfully bear fruit.

After Ren Zhong completed the construction of most of the key facilities of the electrolytic aluminum plant, he returned to the Liming Institute.

We began to organize a major tank expansion plan with all our strength.

The production of tanks requires a large number of mechanical equipment, which cannot be fully transported from the border areas to the bases. Although the channels connecting these bases have been opened, the traffic conditions are really too bad.

The Japs are not blind. It is impossible for them to do nothing. Without a large force to escort them, they will attack at any time.

Therefore, it is impossible for border areas to provide production capacity.

Most of the mechanical equipment still needs to be provided by industrial mother machines in the border areas, and then the base will produce most of the mechanical equipment itself.

This part of the work has already begun. The Heyuan and Yangcun bases, which are fast in action and have good foundations, have now begun mass production of tank production line machinery and equipment.

The newly built Heyuan Machine Tool Factory and Yangcun Machine Tool Factory have gathered most of the mechanical workers in Taihang and Taiyue, and are working hard to produce various standard machine tools for the border areas.

They not only produce equipment for Taihang and Taiyue, but also need to provide some for the Wutai base in the north.

As the Wutai base with the weakest strength and the worst industrial foundation, it currently has no ability to produce machine tools on its own and has to rely on assistance from the Northwest Shanxi Military Region and Taihang.

Fortunately, this system has completed a complete set of technical reserves in the replication of the border areas. From operation and maintenance manuals to the training of technicians, the most familiar task of modern industrial development is to summarize and write while testing. When a set of production lines is completed, a set of very practical manuals will also be completed.

Relying on this advanced awareness, the heavy task of industrialization experiment in border areas was advanced very solidly.

Not only the construction of the Sanshan base, but also the Jiuyuan Iron and Steel Plant, Jiuyuan Machinery Plant and other facilities developed based on the Bayan Obo super mineral resources have been put into production. The expansion and opening of the Jiubian Highway and the mass production of G506 trucks, coupled with the large-scale Lao Tou Le Dali Wang/Victory I fleet, have formed a close whole between Jiuyuan, Ikh Ju League and the border area. Now it is possible to get from the border area to Jiuyuan in one day and one night!

As a steel base outside the Great Wall in the main world, in Ren Zhong's time and space, Jiuyuan's pig iron, crude steel, and steel production capacity reached 1912 million tons, 2220 million tons, and 1962 million tons, respectively. For Ren Zhong, this was the biggest reason why he took the risk to send the border area north to occupy Jiuyuan, a key node. If it weren't for the inconvenience of transportation, Ren Zhong wouldn't have to launch the strategy of the Sanshan base in Jin and concentrate on building the northern base.

However, the current road traffic conditions in Shanxi and the Japanese's control over the transportation lines forced Ren Zhong to separate the eggs.

Avoid becoming too big and strong in one place, which would directly attract the covetousness of the Japanese. You have to know that the Japanese may still look down on a scale of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of tons.

However, if a place builds a steel production capacity of millions of tons, and the Japanese do not go crazy and rush here desperately, they will not be the Japanese who are willing to gamble with the country's destiny at any time.

Nanyang was occupied by international powers, and was far away from the Japanese, but it did not hinder their southward strategy, and they were willing to go to war with several major powers to take it down, because there were resources here that they could not get anywhere else.

If the Kwantung Army could get millions of tons of steel resources on the grassland, it would definitely go crazy.

Therefore, the construction of the base outside the Great Wall can be carried out, but Ren Zhong has to control the scale and develop it secretly.

In fact, apart from him, no one knows that this place can support tens of millions of tons of steel production capacity.

The construction project that Ren Zhong is responsible for now is only tens of thousands of tons a year. Just like what he has done elsewhere, it is aimed at practical benefits and low-key development.

Even among the top leaders of the Eighth Route Army base, the people who know the development of production capacity in various places best now only have themselves to shoulder the responsibility.

Therefore, after such a long period of development, the intelligence departments of the Japanese and the Chinese have not yet grasped the potential of the military industry in the border area, although they have seen some results on the battlefield.

But what is exposed now is only a small part of the iceberg.

Just like the 107 rifle, the number that the Japanese and intelligence personnel have always known is more than 100, but in fact, the number has exceeded 500 so far.

As for the 82mm mortar, it is now generally equipped in battalions and companies not only in the border areas and Shanxi, but also in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei region.

Now the Eighth Route Army has not achieved unified production registration, and the guns are sent to different units as soon as they are produced. In fact, Ren Zhong deliberately did this for the sake of confidentiality.

The less written material is produced, the less likely it is that intelligence will be leaked.

This is the experience Ren Zhong learned from the main world. If you want to keep a secret, it is best not to create a secret.

In order to truly master the combat effectiveness, Ren Zhong completed the standardization of the troops by reorganizing the three types of regiments, A, B and C.

Coupled with the highly distributed military industrial production system, now not only the Japanese, but even the border areas and base areas have no idea of ​​the total production volume.

Just as Li Yunlong could rely on his advantage of being close to the water and arm the independent regiment to a level that was unique in the entire base area, if unified management was truly achieved, it would be impossible to achieve it according to the standards.

Of course, this approach has great flaws for the development of real large-scale industry, such as independent construction, duplicate construction, low efficiency, unstable quality, and countless other shortcomings.

But now is an era of war. The biggest advantage of this system is that the Japanese themselves don't even know how much military industrial capacity they have built. How could they possibly destroy the military industrial strength of the Eighth Route Army?

Therefore, the current task is to adhere to the policy of promoting the development of military industry everywhere. At the top level, we have been pushing through Chief of Staff Ye to encourage local bases with resources to strive to build their own military industry.

Even if it is just a simple iron smelting plant plus a mine and grenade manufacturing plant, this is already the lowest technical level of the base. It can be built with an earthen blast furnace, a simple cylinder tower sulfuric acid production line, some charcoal production and other simple equipment.

However, it can also greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of local armed forces.

Although the steel quality is unreliable, with reliable explosives, these mines and grenades are still very reliable in terms of lethality.

It is much better than the ones that Ren Zhong made when he first came to the border area, which could produce several pieces at a time.

After all, the production formula that Ren Zhong gave them was real high explosives, not low-end explosives like black powder.

Time flies, and when the golden autumn harvest season comes, Ren Zhong receives good news from all over the country one after another!
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