Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 268 Receiving Problems and the Dream of Large Aircraft
Li Yunlong didn't know what was going on. After hearing what the brigade commander said, he opened his mouth and wanted to take on everything. Ding Wei pulled him back.

"Brigade Commander, is it possible to transport the things we need?" Ding Wei asked calmly.

"Well, it is said that it is not very convenient. There are hundreds of tons of equipment, and some of the equipment is relatively heavy. It is said that some of the equipment weighs more than 20 tons!" The brigade commander replied after a moment of hesitation.

"So on the way back, I'm afraid some of the roads will need to be repaired. This is also the most difficult part of your operation. According to the plan, we need to transport from the port of Qilu to Taiyuan. The premise is that you have the ability to do so."

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"In terms of routes, you have two options. The first is a combined rail and road transport method. Open up the Jiaoji Line and the northern section of the Jinpu Line, transport from Daocheng by train to Dezhou, then transfer to the road to Shimen, and then rely on the Zhengtai Line to Taiyuan. Choosing this method requires dealing with the Japanese strongholds along the line and other defensive forces. It is extremely difficult to penetrate the entire transportation line and control it."

"The second method is to transport the goods to Shimen by pure road transportation, and then transfer them to Taiyuan via the Zhengtai Line. You will bring a convoy, and the Allied forces will also send some large transport trucks to take the road from the island city. However, this method has greater restrictions. Some roads in mountainous areas have poor traffic capacity for large trucks, and they may need to be repaired before they can pass. It is also quite difficult."

"You guys need to improvise on these. Our goal is to get the goods back."

Li Yunlong was dumbfounded by the brigade commander's words.

Li Yunlong is now not uncommon to see things weighing dozens of tons. The M3 tank is a piece of iron that weighs more than ten tons, and the T-34 is more than 30 tons. Li Yunlong has an idea of ​​how to tow these things. The current means of transportation are completely incapable of transporting large items like tanks.

This is very different from simply fighting a war.

Fortunately, I didn't say anything nonsense just now. Thinking of this, Li Yunlong was a little scared. He looked at Ding Wei with some gratitude. At the critical moment, the old brother was still reliable, otherwise he would be embarrassed in front of the brigade commander.

"I don't think road transportation is reliable," Ding Wei said, looking at the large map of North China at the brigade headquarters. "Let's not talk about anything else. The Yellow River alone is difficult to cross. Although we now have the ability to build a floating bridge across the Yellow River for vehicles weighing dozens of tons, we are not yet able to pass dozens of tons of tanks. This alone is difficult for us to solve in the short term."

"So, our only plan is to seize the section of Jiaoji Line and Jinpu Line from the north of the Yellow River to Dezhou, take the northern section of Jiaoji Line and Tongpu Line to Dezhou, and then transport by land."

"If we rely solely on our own strength, there is no way to control such a long railway line, so we need a lot of new support from local guerrillas and the headquarters. We are responsible for taking some points, but our manpower is limited, and we can't guard these hundreds of kilometers of railway at all."

Ding Wei was telling the truth. There were still many Japanese soldiers in these places. With just these three mechanized infantry brigades, it was impossible to directly reverse the situation in the entire Qilu base area. Even if they were good at fighting, they only had more than 2 soldiers. The Jiaoji Line alone was nearly 400 kilometers long. How could it be controlled?

Therefore, the full cooperation of local forces is necessary to temporarily wrest control of the railway from the Japanese devils.

"There will be no problem in this regard. The Qilu base will fully cooperate with your mission." The brigade commander nodded. This was the proper way, and he did not agree without thinking.

"Your mission is not only to receive the supplies, but also to help the Qilu base expand its territory and connect the multiple separate territories of the Qilu base. Isolate the Japanese rule in Qilu."

"As for the port city, you don't need to take it down completely. The most important thing is to receive the supplies safely. We don't have any navy at this stage. Although the Japanese have lost most of their fleet, even the small part that remains cannot withstand their tossing. Therefore, the port city is not strong enough now and cannot be touched at all, otherwise you will only get hurt." Under the current conditions, there are still many things that are not available. The number of troops to be expanded is also limited, and there are no conditions for a full-scale counterattack. Therefore, this time the material transfer campaign cannot rush in and fight hard, but you have to use your brain. It is better to implement such a plan by making the Japanese confused about the real and the fake.

Ren Zhong had not thought about these things. According to his idea, there was nothing wrong with placing the new large aircraft production factory in the current heavy industrial center of Taiyuan. In fact, most of the equipment of a production line still had to be produced by themselves, especially those large castings. It was not realistic to transport them from the Rogue Eagle. Therefore, after reaching a deal with General Shi, he did so based on the technical information provided by the other party.

Ren Zhong did not take any machine tools that could be produced in Shanxi and the border areas. He knew that with the current transportation conditions, if he really wanted to move a production line here, he would not be able to move these things from the port back to Taiyuan.

If that doesn't work, Ren Zhong will have to find a place to land in the Qilu base.

However, the Qi-Lu base area is still relatively scattered. The base areas in central Shandong, western Shandong, Jiaodong, Bohai, and Binhai are scattered, and a stable and integrated base area has not yet been formed.

It also lacks the industrial foundation of a big city. Relatively speaking, it is too difficult to develop an aviation industry here. What's more, it is not convenient for Ren Zhong to come to the Qilu base to preside over the construction of this production line.

Therefore, as long as there is a certain possibility, Ren Zhong wants to build this factory in Taiyuan.

After all, there is too much supporting work, and now he has to build so many supporting factories bit by bit, which Ren Zhong can't handle now.

Especially the supporting facilities of machine tools, as well as the supporting facilities of airports and workers, and the supporting facilities of raw materials for the industrial chain, these cannot be built on the spot in a day or a night.

After Ren Zhong got the DC-4 production line, he couldn't start producing C-54 transport aircraft immediately. He was lucky to get the C-47 out first. Relatively speaking, the C-2 with two propeller engines can still fly between several large airports in the base area, but the C-47 needs to be renovated and expanded before the airport can take off and land.

It’s just that Ren Zhong has the DC-4 production line and the C-54 drawings. When the situation stabilizes further and there is time to prepare the new airport, he can develop the DC-4 and C-54 as large aircraft.

The experience gained from the C-20, which could transport more than 47 people, to the C-50, which could transport more than 54 people, would further evolve and upgrade to the perfect route of DC-6 and finally DC-10 large passenger aircraft. From the perspective of mission responsibilities, although this route was not as stable as that of Airbus and Boeing, it did not completely fail until the 70s. It was just a step slower in the process of evolving from three engines to two engines.

Three-engine DC-10
If Ren Zhong was given a chance, he would certainly not sit idly by and watch such a failure. He would push for the early development of twin-engine large aircraft as soon as possible, and there might be a chance for him to become one of the three giants in aviation, truly forming a new situation of three-legged competition among the new aviation hegemons of ABC.

You know, this is a trillion-level market in the future. Although Rogue Eagle has obtained new rocket technology and has suppressed Big Bear technically, Ren Zhong has not suffered too much. This transaction has laid a very solid foundation for large aircraft.

On this basis, there is still an opportunity to become one of the world's three largest air transport aircraft giants.

Regardless of whether others believe it or not, Ren Zhong will continue to move forward on this basis and strive for a future for China Airlines!
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