Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 242 A Great Game of Chess
The Japanese were determined to leave, and after the border area and the headquarters received the decoded intelligence information, they immediately launched a frenzied operation to beat the Japanese downed dogs.

The brigade commander surrounded the Japanese in the south and made the 34th Army of the Japanese a thing of the past.

In order to achieve this goal, Kong Jie's New Second Regiment and his guerrillas were almost wiped out!

The desperate Japanese finally launched a mad attack, and even the Japanese Air Force was willing to sacrifice itself. On the southern front, on the one hand, they launched a life-and-death entanglement with the Divine Eagle Squadron in the air, and on the other hand, they used their advantage in the number of fighter planes to launch a frenzied attack on Kong Jie's interception force!

In addition, the Japanese soldiers from Jiyuan also risked their lives to come and attack from both sides. The New Second Regiment was fighting fiercely on three sides almost every moment!

The Japanese soldiers in Yuncheng also went crazy and almost came out in full force, engaging in bloody battles with the New 1st Regiment and its guerrilla brigade.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the brigade commander had to give up the plan of slowly killing the Japanese who had been cut off from their logistics and launched a general offensive ahead of time. On the dozens of kilometers of mountain roads, more than a dozen regiments were dispatched at the same time. The 771st Regiment, the 772nd Regiment, the New Third Regiment and the New Fourth Regiment, four main regiments, took turns to attack the Japanese's rearguard regiment.

As the three roads were too narrow to deploy troops, it took three full days of bloody fighting before the Japanese were completely captured!
In order to achieve complete victory, Chen's brigade suffered heavy casualties this time.

Kong Jie's new Second Regiment was almost destroyed, with less than a quarter of them still able to breathe!

Even the independent regiment led by Li Yunlong suffered nearly 4% casualties after three days of holding out in the mountains!
The main attacking forces such as the New 2st, New rd and New th Regiments also suffered more than half of their casualties, but the direct sacrifice was slightly less, but more than % of them remained on this hot land forever.

Compared to the surprise attack on two divisions on the first night, the casualties increased by orders of magnitude!

After this bloody battle, nearly 3 men under Chen's brigade retired from active service forever, and more than of them died on this land.

When Ren Zhong finally received the battle report, he was silent for a long time.

Because he saw many familiar names in the list of victims.

Revolution is not a dinner party.

Although Ren Zhong is thousands of miles away, seeing these bloody numbers, I know how difficult it is.

He had nothing to say.

This bloody battle that came ahead of time was actually initiated by him.

It now seems that the goal is almost achieved. Once the Japanese reinforcements retreat, it will be like catching the Japanese First Army in a trap and eating it up in one gulp.

It has to be fast.

Because there will be a lot of trouble next.

There was such a big piece of fat meat in Jin, and Yan Laoxi was the first to smell the scent, and suddenly joined in the counterattack!
Because of the tacit understanding between the two and the strong strength of the 358th Regiment, the Japanese in Pingyang quickly fled south after a symbolic resistance and joined the Hedong line. Yan Laoxi returned to Pingyang.

Bingfeng headed north, preparing to take back the Taiyuan that he had been longing for.

As the situation changed so quickly, the Taihang and Northwest Shanxi bases had to speed up their actions. The main force of Taihang marched quickly to occupy Linggu, and began to push towards Beiping after reaching the stuck point.

The main force in northwestern Shanxi decisively launched the Taiyuan Campaign with the support of hundreds of cannons from the 105th Artillery Regiment and the 107th Artillery Regiment in the border area.

What remains is the time for the parties to quibble with each other.

Ren Zhong doesn't care about that.

Now the border area is connected with Jin, which means that the Eighth Route Army has formed a living eye in the huge chess game!
The areas north of Lingshi, east of Jiangxian, north of Yanqu, and west of Taihang now all belong to the Eighth Route Army's new base.

Ren Zhong now has the opportunity to launch a plan to develop heavy industry in Shanxi Province.

This was a big plan he had been planning for several years.

Now it finally comes in handy.

According to Ren Zhong's grand plan, the population of the current Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Suiyuan-Chahar base is close to 10 million, and there is no shortage of large coal fields and large steel mills, which are the absolute conditions for qualifying to launch a plan to produce tens of millions of tons of steel.

Compared with the conditions in the border areas, Jin and Jiuyuan are the fertile ground for building a real steel capital.

The talents and external conditions are incomparable to those in the border areas.

Therefore, when Li Yunlong and the division commander were still cleaning up the battlefield, Ren Zhong had already found Staff Officer Ye and began to discuss the grand plan of Heavy Industry Jin Province.

"Taiyuan will be the core of our new 500 million tons of steel production capacity. Here, we will build a huge military-industrial complex," Ren Zhong took out the materials he had prepared in the past few years.

Pointing to the target column, he introduced it to Staff Officer Ye.

"This Taiyuan Heavy Industry is a heavy weapons production center. The monthly production capacity of tanks should reach 200, various types of artillery should reach more than 300, and various types of vehicles should reach more than 1000."

"Taiyuan Aviation is a fighter production base, and its monthly production capacity must reach more than 20 aircraft,"

"Taiyuan Machine Tool Factory has a monthly production capacity of more than 1000 machine tools of various types."

"Taiyuan Chemical Plant has a monthly production capacity of over 10,000 tons of fertilizer and over 1,000 tons of explosives."

"Taeyuan."

Staff Officer Ye looked at Ren Zhong's plan and took a deep breath.

This is so scary.

How dare Ren Zhong imagine a steel production capacity of tens of millions of tons?

How many tons are there now? Staff Officer Ye's mind was somewhat wandering.

But he knew that Ren Zhong would not bring it up to make people laugh at this time.

"Wait, Brother Ren, to be honest, my brain can't keep up," Staff Officer Ye stopped him.

"Don't talk about goals, just tell me the implementation plan and what we need to do."

"To be honest, Brother Ren, you have painted a pie too big for me to digest."

Staff Officer Ye made a joke.

"If I remember correctly, the Japanese's national steel production capacity should not even reach 10 million tons."

"Ah, five-year plan, this is my five-year plan," Ren Zhong realized that he was indeed a little anxious. Rome was not built in a day.

Although in the main world the production capacity of Taigang alone can reach 1200 million tons, that was built on the basis of the main world's huge basic resources and after many years of construction. Starting from the planning and construction plan in 32 years, it was not until the 70s that the first million-ton steel consortium was built.

It was not until after the millennium that production exceeded 500 million tons.

It is indeed not something that can be achieved overnight.

Of course, time waits for no one, and Ren Zhong is not completely unable to break through the constraints of history.

First of all, he did not rely solely on the huge steel conglomerate, but combined the two into one, combining the core steel enterprises with the distributed large-scale steel production.

In various iron ore locations, we continue to vigorously develop earthen blast furnaces to smelt crude iron, wrought iron, ferrosilicon and other basic steel raw materials.

Open hearth furnace to produce carbon steel.

At Taiyuan Iron and Steel Plant, the focus is on developing electric furnace steelmaking and refining special steels. The initial plan is to produce one million tons of special steel per year. According to current resource conditions, stainless steel, cold-rolled silicon steel sheets (coils), carbon steel hot-rolled coils, railway axle steel, alloy mold steel, and various military steels can all be arranged.

The goal of building four to five hundred distributed steel mills of all sizes across the country is to produce 10,000 tons per year, which is something that current conditions can sustain.

Now that the aviation fleet is getting stronger and stronger, Ren Zhong can start a large-scale steel construction group. Although it is still not on the same level as the main world in terms of energy consumption and environmental protection, the production efficiency will definitely be greatly improved after scale-up.

Once we have the basic steel production capacity, we can talk about mechanization next.

Now that the population is expanding, the pressure of food is also increasing. With a population of tens of millions and the current level of labor productivity, it is difficult to ensure that everyone has enough to eat.

In this regard, we can learn from the experience of border areas and promote it, and then expand the use of chemical fertilizers. It is estimated that the problem can be completely solved in about two years.

The border region has made some encouraging progress in the production of high-quality seeds. If nothing unexpected happens, we will be able to produce one million mu of quasi-high-quality seeds and high-quality farmland this year. Next, we will work hard to develop tens of millions of mu of irrigated land and high-quality seeds.

Now the arable land area of ​​the base has exceeded 3000 million mu.

If one-third of the land is converted into irrigated farmland, even if high-quality crops are not planted there, the yield can at least double by using irrigated land and chemical fertilizers.

If the yield per mu can jump from about 200 kilograms to more than kilograms per mu, it will also be a hope for solving the problem of food self-sufficiency in the new base.

Ren Zhong is quite confident about this grain growth target, because under the current border area mode, it has reached more than 500 kilograms.

Now all we have to do is promote this model.

Industry, agriculture, science and technology, and education are the four most important priorities.

Since Staff Officer Ye had said so, Ren Zhong simply put forward his requirements one by one.

In Shanxi Province, a large-scale literacy and primary technical school plan was launched, with border organizations at all levels organizing county-level technical schools and night schools, and township-level literacy classes. The university plan was restarted in Taiyuan, and technical colleges and vocational and technical education schools were opened to the private sector to activate the vitality of private capital in technical training.

In the short term, we need to make up for the shortcomings of technical workers.

Tens of millions of tons of heavy industry require millions of skilled workers to transform steel production capacity into different weapons and much-needed industrial products.

For Ren Zhong, these basic issues cannot be solved until the subordinates automatically realize that there is something wrong.

So right from the start, Ren Zhong proposed a school scale of 10,000 people for universities and 100,000 people for technical schools, with the university sector to be led by the government.

As for technical schools, they are opened up and coordinated by private capital, factories, and the government to expand the scale of school construction through reasonable economic incentives.

In addition to the one in Taiyuan, at least 2-3 professional schools should be built at each regional level to supplement the existing ones.

To support such a large-scale construction plan, if it were not for the current extraordinary period, migrant workers could be mobilized on a large scale and large-scale infrastructure construction could be launched by consuming a small amount of food.

Through the large-scale import of penicillin by Ren Zhong in recent years, it was even sold to the Allied forces for tens of millions of US dollars, making the border area a fortune.

Ren Zhong reinvested most of his earnings into the ever-expanding Dawn Research Institute.

Now the Dawn Research Institute is not only under construction in one place, but also in the desert, outside the Great Wall, and now preparing to build a new center in Taiyuan, forming a scale of tens of thousands of people.

The technology that has been developed now does not bring any economic returns to the border areas, and everything is centered around defeating the Japanese.

Although in the new factories opened in the border areas, those in which the Dawn Research Institute has invested in production technology basically have a clear stipulation of 20% of the shares.

Become the largest single shareholder in the border area and the base underground.

But unfortunately, none of these factories are profitable now, so this shareholder is still just a shell.

But Ren Zhong didn't mention it, so no one noticed it.

In wartime, no one slacked off because of this.

Almost everyone is working at the 007 pace and burning themselves out.

After Staff Officer Ye had basically understood Ren Zhong's plan and implementation requirements, he took this heavy plan back to discuss. Of course, no one dared to ignore Ren Zhong's suggestions, so Ren Zhong's new plan was implemented without any surprise.

In each newly occupied base, local organizations directly notified every corner of the recruitment and school opening notices, making sure that everyone knew that they had entered a new era.

Literacy and recruitment have become one of the most important indicators for grassroots assessment.

In this regard, we will strive to develop industries for which local resources are available in accordance with the Five-Year Industrial Development Plan.

The Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, the United Nations University, and all other places that could recruit new technical personnel, and now the base areas began to openly recruit talents nationwide.

Because the recovery of Jin has brought the reputation of this border area to a new peak.

Countless people have placed their hopes here.

It was not just to drive away the Japanese, some people even saw the hope of revival. The powerful fighting force suddenly erupted in the border area, and countless people traced the source and were shocked to find that there was a mysterious research institute in the border area that was silently supporting the huge leap in the weapons of the Eighth Route Army!

The Dawn Research Institute is now truly beginning to surface, becoming a new hotspot pursued by passionate young people, and also a fortress that intelligence personnel from all sides are desperately trying to break through.

After witnessing hundreds of people attempting to break into the headquarters of the Dawn Research Institute every day, Ren Zhong was also surprised that he suddenly became the center of attention.

Until now, he has never promoted the research institute in any place.

The name of Dawn Research Institute would only appear among scientific and technological talents from all over the country when the subordinate departments were looking for talents. But at that time, they usually looked for talents in a semi-secret way.

Never before has the Dawn Research Institute become a hot topic with extensive coverage by various major newspapers and tabloids in the private sector.

He is a phenomenal internet celebrity in the world of Bright Sword.

Although this brought a lot of new troubles to Ren Zhong, his identity had always been highly confidential among the top leaders in the border area. Many people, even the middle and lower levels of the border area, were not clear about the connection between the Dawn Research Institute and Ren Zhong.

Ren Zhong's closest contacts have always been with Staff Officer Ye and Jiang Chongjing, so although the Dawn Research Institute suddenly became famous all over the world, Ren Zhong's reputation is still lurking underwater.

Even if some powerful reporters get some news, it will be erased by someone and will not appear in the reports.

Therefore, this wave of hot spots not only attracted flies, but also attracted many butterflies and bees, which began to contribute to the industrialization of Shanxi, which was just starting!

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