Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 254 Preparations
"Fellow villagers, follow us. We have to walk 35 miles today. But don't worry at night. Someone has boiled hot water and prepared hot meals for everyone up ahead." Li Xiaoming, an officer dispatched by the township government, shouted loudly.

He was in charge of a team of more than a thousand migrating villagers. The villagers took their valuables and livestock with them, making the team very long. However, Director Li had good organizational skills, and so many people, carrying the elderly and children, moved forward in an orderly manner.

Although the team moved at a relatively slow speed, only three or four miles in an hour, the common people in that period were typical of hard-working people, and would not have too many complaints even after walking for a whole day.

It takes about three days and three nights to get from Qinyang to Zezhou, but it is almost May now and the weather is getting hot, so there is not much problem sleeping outside. The most important thing is to make sure there is hot water and hot meals every day, so there will not be any big problems for the migrating people.

The arduous plan of clearing the countryside was carried out in full swing thanks to the huge local organizational capabilities, and all the people in Hanoi were relocated in just over ten days.

According to the plan, these people would have to wait until the war was over before they could return to their hometown.

However, the local officials promised that after they came back, no matter what the harvest was, each family would be given enough food for a year. So they didn't have to worry about the crops, and just packed up their belongings and went to work in other places.

Even if there were some elderly people who were reluctant to leave their hometowns, some people explained to them the situation and told them that the Japanese would come back and that their hometowns might face a new chaos. Then these elderly people were helped to get on carts and headed for several relocation and evacuation sites.

In this way, the brigade commander was no longer constrained in Hanoi and could begin to deploy his troops without hesitation according to the tactics of positional warfare and mobile warfare.

Those who remain in Hanoi now are local guerrillas, regular main force regiments, and the five mechanized infantry brigades of the Thai Yue Military Region that have just been equipped!

This time, the brigade commander evacuated the civilians because he wanted to fight the Japanese southern troops in Hanoi without any scruples.

However, the five mechanized infantry brigades were all in hiding and quietly entered Hanoi at night. Outside the city, trenches began to be dug.

Now there is a new type of mechanical operation called bulldozer, so it is much faster to dig trenches than manual labor. This newly produced machine can build trenches very quickly on the soft soil in Hanoi.

Although the Japanese have not come yet, the brigade commander will not take it lightly. The current construction in Shanxi is beyond anyone's imagination. Whether in cities or villages, many things brought by Ren Zhong were quickly realized after the liberation.

The current organizational method is very conducive to mobilizing manpower to accomplish major tasks, and everyone is very motivated. In addition, the heavy responsibility of building water conservancy projects and high-yield farmland in rural areas essentially improves everyone's interests. Although some people do not understand it now, after mobilization, biogas projects, irrigation ditches, simple roads in rural areas, and a large number of small hydropower projects will be built.

With the large-scale construction of these infrastructures and five small factories in various places, Jin is actually changing rapidly. Although in Ren Zhong's eyes these are not worth mentioning compared with what he saw in the main world, in the eyes of the brigade commander, these are remarkable changes.

As long as there is even the slightest possibility, the brigade commander must not let the Japanese enter Shanxi and cause any damage!
The Condor Squadron now has nearly 2 pilots, and more than 19 PT8 training aircraft take off for more than hours almost every day in the border area. For the ground support brigade, they are all under great pressure.

Fortunately, aviation tires can now be produced by ourselves. The tires of the landing gear and trainer aircraft are updated strictly according to the take-off and landing schedule provided by the Rogue Eagle. After all, if this thing runs away, it will not be easy to come down after taking off.

Now the training base in the border area has expanded more than three times, and the number of field runways that can take off and land fighter planes has increased to five, making the border area airport one of the largest field airports in the north.

"Captain Wang, whatever good stuff we have today must be covered with oilcloth." A Willys jeep carrying pilot Wang Zhihang and two mysterious objects arrived at the airport.

Driver Liu Feng asked curiously.

"Don't ask what you shouldn't ask. Have you forgotten this basic principle of confidentiality?" Wang Zhihang, who was sitting aside, said calmly.

"I'm sorry, Captain Wang, I spoke too much." Liu Feng blushed and quickly admitted his mistake.

As the captain of the first squadron of the Border Region Air Force, Wang Zhihang is now not only responsible for training new pilots, but also for the trial use of new fighter weapons and equipment.

Ever since the Mustang fighter built in the border area came out, the Border Area Aviation Research Center has had new things almost every month. There is no way around it. The current Mustang fighter built in the border area is a bit hasty. The initial version only has a simple radio conversation and very few instruments necessary for flight.

Even the weapon systems had not yet been installed.

Because at that time they had to seize the training time for pilots, these newly-produced Mustangs made in the border areas had to be tested by elite pilots like Wang Zhihang before being put into actual training flights.

What Wang Zhihang is going to test today is a new weapon, a seven-rocket launcher.

Now it has finally been developed and is ready for deployment.

What Wang Zhihang is going to do today is the first experiment.

If there are no problems, all 20 Mustang fighters in the border area will be refitted and flown to the Jinsui front-line airport to prepare for war.

The Mustang fighter has two wing mounting points, which can theoretically carry two 2 kg bombs or six 454 mm rockets. Now Ren Zhong has chosen a 6 mm rocket launcher that is more commonly used in the main world. It uses a symmetrical 127-unit launcher, which is much lighter than a 90 kg bomb, but its scattered attack range is more extensive than two bombs. For the infantry array of cluster charge, the lethality is also much stronger. With the assistance of ground support personnel, Wang Zhihang loaded the transported new weapons, started the fighter plane and took off smoothly, and then flew to a shooting range more than 6 kilometers away. A striking target area had been arranged on the ground.

Wang Zhihang dived in the Mustang fighter and aimed at the current area. He lightly pressed the rocket launch button on the left. Immediately, flames began to emerge from the rocket launch nest on the left and the rocket was launched!
One rocket after another flew straight towards the target area. Wang Zhihang then pressed the rocket launch button on the right, and 6 rockets were launched. Soon, clouds of smoke erupted in the target area. Wang Zhihang saw from the Mustang fighter that the place where the smoke rose covered several thousand square meters.

Although the coverage area is not uniform, the target area is bombed relatively evenly. Compared with bombs, the area killing power is obviously much greater.

For enemies marching or charging in the wilderness, this attack is much more powerful than machine gun fire.

It can be said that the fighter jet's lethality against the enemy has been enhanced by an order of magnitude.

Wang Zhihang successfully completed the test of the new weapon and flew the plane back to the border airport. On the ground, a group of test personnel sat in a jeep and rushed to the test area.

They need to truly assess the rocket's lethality on the ground.

Soon, the new weapon was finalized and full-scale testing began.

The rocket's finalized production technical data will also be sent along with the fighter jets to the two core manufacturing bases with the most complete industries in Taiyuan and Lu'an.

This is a great dish prepared for the Japanese, and it will definitely give them a surprise at the critical moment.

However, compared with what Ren Zhong prepared, this rocket launch nest is just a small dessert.

The most powerful weapon in Ren Zhong's hand now is the Dongfeng 1A. Although the Japanese are very careful to disperse the fighter jets, it still has to be parked at the airport anyway.

The Japanese now do not have the ability to dig so many hangars to hide the fighter jets.

Therefore, before the real war broke out, Ren Zhong needed to carry out a covering strike on several major airports of the Japanese. This time there was no need for close observation, so the scouts could just fly over from a distance for several days outside, which greatly reduced the difficulty and risk of them sneaking into the vicinity of the airport.

Ren Zhong carefully analyzed the information they sent back and needed to compare and analyze the photo materials with the historical materials that could be found.

Not only that, after returning to the main world, Ren Zhong also has to visit these historical airport address areas to measure the precise longitude and latitude information.

Although the airport is no longer so confidential now, Ren Zhong was very busy for many days to complete the research of more than ten airports in North China in the main world.

Fortunately, he can now travel through several addresses regularly, which allows Ren Zhong to move in the main world and then travel back to the research institute near Taiyuan in the world of Bright Sword smoothly.

Of course, the people in the world of Bright Sword were completely unaware of this. They just followed Ren Zhong's request and set up several observation posts more than ten kilometers away from the Japanese airport to continuously observe the takeoff and landing of fighter planes at the airport.

Then this information will be fed back to Taiyuan Renzhong through the radio for concentration.

Now the underground armed work teams in North China are booming. Since the Japanese are now focusing their main attention on Shanxi, although they are also cleaning up the local guerrillas from time to time, the main force is now gathering to attack Shanxi, and the local gendarmerie and local puppet troops are unable to organize large-scale mopping-up operations. In addition, the source of weapons for the armed work teams is completely different from the self-sufficiency in history. Large quantities of weapons and ammunition can be transported out of Shanxi through secret transportation lines.

This resulted in the underground armed work team's extremely strong combat effectiveness.

Not to mention mines, grenades, machine guns, etc., they are all basic configurations.

More often than not, they are in the hands of armed forces such as district squads and county brigades, often with mortars and RPG rocket launchers!
This is a huge threat to the Japanese gendarmerie.

Therefore, wherever the guerrillas did not hold down their strongholds and launch a fierce attack, the Japanese county's gendarmerie would hide like ostriches and would not dare to go down to the countryside to provoke the guerrillas.

Apart from the transportation lines and strongholds, large areas are now dominated by guerrillas, making the observation and transmission of intelligence relatively simple.

Therefore, after receiving the observation results from the local area for two weeks, Ren Zhong already had a clear idea of ​​the distribution and take-off and landing patterns of the Japanese fighter planes at each airport.

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