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This is a good opportunity.

The next moment, the fighter jet circled halfway through the air, its altitude slowly decreasing—four thousand meters, three thousand meters…

The fighter jets maintained an altitude of two thousand meters and swooped directly toward the cruisers, supply ships, and troop transports floating on the sea.

Without the slightest hesitation, three-ton aerial bombs fell silently from the sky, heading towards their targets below…

In just three or four minutes, Li Mu dropped nearly two hundred aerial bombs, weighing six hundred tons. Although most of them missed their target, about a quarter of them hit it.

Five cruisers, twelve supply ships, and nineteen troop transports were successively hit by aerial bombs, flooded, capsized, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

The Japanese navy hadn't fought a war in years and was completely stunned by the bombs. They fired into the air while retreating far out to sea to avoid the bombing.

Li Mu had limited time, so he didn't give chase. He circled around for half a turn before rushing directly toward the artillery, armored vehicles, ammunition boxes, and soldiers who had just disembarked on the beach.

First came aerial bombs, with Li Mu unleashing thousands of tons of bombs in the area within five minutes; then came napalm bombs, with thousands of tons of gasoline turning into a rain of fire and being poured onto the ground in a short time.

For a time, this area resembled a living hell. Not only were the various weapons and ammunition that had just been transported there almost completely destroyed, but countless small towns were also affected.

After finishing his business, Li Mu didn't linger and quickly disappeared into the night.

In the following days, Li Mu made two more trips. Because the Japanese had taken precautions, the losses were much smaller, but the Japanese lost the opportunity to take Guangzhou in one fell swoop.

After several rounds of bombing, the Japanese offensive gradually weakened, and the government quickly sent troops to reinforce the Guangzhou front. As a result, the battlefield also reached a stalemate.

Seeing this, Li Mu stopped worrying about it and continued transporting grain.

Chapter 455 Comprehensive Development

The battle on the front lines remained tense, and time quickly passed into 1939. In just over eight months, Germany would launch a blitzkrieg against Poland, and World War II would break out in full force.

Li Mu also began to intensify preparations for war, especially in terms of weaponry. In addition to importing a large number of weapons, he also began to produce more weapons on his own.

Six months ago, he established a weapons research institute and launched two projects, one of which was the reverse engineering and development of a grenade launcher.

As a small-caliber weapon carried by a single soldier, this weapon uses simple materials, has a simple manufacturing process, and is quite inexpensive to produce. The weapon research institute successfully replicated and developed it in just two months.

Four months ago, mass production officially began. At the beginning, the monthly output was only 300 grenade launchers. With the large number of machine tools and production and processing equipment imported by Li Mu, the monthly output of grenade launchers has now increased to 1,500.

Currently, it has begun to be deployed to front-line troops on a large scale, and production will increase further in the future, even reaching infantry squads.

Another project was the development of the Sten submachine gun.

As a famous gun from World War II, this weapon was produced using simple and crude technology, and was inexpensive. Given its technical level, it was one of the few submachine guns that could be manufactured domestically. More than three million of them were produced during World War II.

Based on the blueprints provided by Li Mu, a group of professors and technicians spent more than five months finally completing the replication of this gun.

A month ago, the arsenal officially began small-scale production of this weapon.

To date, several hundred Sten submachine guns have been produced and sent to front-line troops for testing to further improve and adapt the weapon to the domestic battlefield.

The next step is to mass-produce this submachine gun and equip it to all front-line troops.

After the development of these two weapons was completed, the Weapons Research Institute did not rest. Li Mu then gave them a new weapon, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

A semi-automatic rifle is a rifle that automatically loads and chambers bullets; it is also known as an autoloader rifle. The world's first semi-automatic rifle appeared in 1907, and subsequently, various countries began to develop it extensively, resulting in many well-known semi-automatic rifles.

For example, the M1 Garand rifle from the United States, a semi-automatic rifle developed by the US starting in the 20s. It was the standard-issue rifle of the US military during World War II, and after World War II and the Korean War, nearly 1000 million M1 Garands were produced worldwide by 1957. It remains one of the best semi-automatic rifles available today.

As for why Li Mu didn't buy this gun, it's simply because the price is a bit too high nowadays. The price of an M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle is comparable to that of a Czech light machine gun.

It's not worth it.

Not only the United States, but also the Soviet Union, Germany, France, Britain and other countries now have their own semi-automatic rifles, but they have not been widely deployed to front-line troops until the outbreak of World War II.

In this day and age, there are no technological blockades or restrictions. In theory, as long as the corresponding machine tools and production equipment are imported, semi-automatic rifles that can be produced abroad can also be produced domestically.

However, compared to copying foreign semi-automatic rifles, which would require paying patent fees, Li Mu set his sights on my country's classic Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

In the last century, as a policeman, I participated in many shooting competitions, including rifle competitions where I used the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

Although he couldn't disassemble the gun quickly with his eyes closed, Li Mu was extremely familiar with the construction of each part and structure of the gun.

If you ask him to build it, he might not be able to, but he can at least draw up a rough blueprint.

Speaking of which, this gun is a copy of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle made in my country in the 1950s. It is lightweight, has good shooting accuracy, reliable mechanism operation, and comes with a folding bayonet.

It is also possible to attach accessories to the muzzle to fire rifle grenades or throw hand grenades, giving individual soldiers a certain degree of anti-armor capability.

This is also the first semi-automatic rifle that has been put into standard service by our army. It is collectively referred to as the Type 56 rifle family along with the Type 56 light machine gun and the Type 56 automatic rifle.

Sixty years of border conflicts and the self-defense counterattacks of the 1980s have made the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle one of the main individual combat weapons of the troops at that time, creating countless legends of sharpshooters for our army.

With current technology, it is impossible to fully reproduce the mature Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. If it were to be fully reproduced, it would definitely be the most advanced individual weapon in the world today.

However, even if the quality and accuracy are slightly reduced, as long as it can be produced and the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle can be mass-produced independently, a slight decrease in quality is not unacceptable.

The design blueprints for this weapon have now been handed over to the weapons research institute for study, imitation, and eventual mass production.

After all, using the Mauser 98k was not a long-term solution. Once World War II broke out, it would be difficult to procure more, so it would be more stable to produce our own.

On the other hand, as the mass production of penicillin gradually stabilized, the research and development team that had successfully completed the mass production of penicillin not only did not sit idle, but actually grew larger. Li Mu divided them into several groups, each responsible for a new task.

First, a team was put in charge of the mass production of sulfonamides. As an antibacterial drug, sulfonamides are scarce strategic materials and one of the materials that Li Mu purchased from abroad. In the past year, the purchase of sulfonamides alone has consumed a lot of money, and sometimes it is even impossible to buy them.

Although bringing it to China could earn more, it's still not as convenient as producing it yourself.

Most importantly, although sulfonamides can be mass-produced nowadays, the technology is not advanced, resulting in high production costs, poor quality, and high prices.

However, in the 21st century, sulfonamides are not only nearing obsolescence, but their production methods have also become commonplace.

He knew a lot about various simpler production methods and processes, which were much cheaper, even less than one-tenth of the current production costs, and of better quality.

Given the current high production costs and the huge market, it would be inappropriate not to get involved. Selling at a discount will ensure a good market.

At the same time, this is also a source of great potential revenue. At the very least, as long as other pharmaceutical companies cannot find a more advanced mass production process, no pharmaceutical company can compete with it in terms of price and quality, given the low labor costs in China.

Just from sulfonamides alone, you could easily reap the benefits for seven or eight years.

The other two research teams, based on the information provided by Li Mu, respectively developed streptomycin for treating tuberculosis and praziquantel for treating schistosomiasis.

Streptomycin is an aminoglycoside antibiotic. In 1943, Selman Waxman, a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and a professor at Rutgers University, isolated it from Streptomyces. It was the second antibiotic to be produced and used clinically after penicillin, and Waxman was awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this discovery.

Streptomycin's highly effective treatment of Mycobacterium tuberculosis ushered in a new era in tuberculosis treatment. From then on, there was hope of curbing the millennia-long ravages of human life by Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

This drug also has huge market potential, but it was put into mass production later than penicillin. It wasn't until the 1950s that the extraction technology was further improved and large-scale mass production began.

In this day and age, mass production of streptomycin would be very complicated, but in the 21st century, the method of mass production of this drug is too simple.

Li Mu wrote down the specific production methods and handed them over to the research and development team to try mass production in this era, striving to make it a major source of revenue second only to penicillin.

Furthermore, schistosomiasis is very common nowadays, especially in China, where it is ubiquitous. For example, in the 1950s, it broke out on a large scale in the southern regions, commonly known as "big belly disease," and was a cause for great fear.

Praziquantel is a broad-spectrum anthelmintic synthetic drug discovered abroad in the 1970s. After its effectiveness against schistosomiasis was discovered, it was trial-produced in China in the same year. It has been on the market for over 30 years and has consistently served as a primary drug for treating schistosomiasis and an effective treatment for other parasites, playing a vital role in frontline clinical application and contributing significantly to human health.

In the future, there will be many simple production methods for this drug, and with the technology of this era, mass production is entirely possible.

The last research and development team was tasked with developing and mass-producing praziquantel based on the information provided by Li Mu.

With these three drugs, which are widely used and considered miraculous in this era, one can definitely acquire a large sum of money and build this era in one's own way.

That afternoon, Li Mu visited the short-term officer training course to watch tactical drills.

Looking at the figures below, one soldier peeked out to check and then led the charge. The eight soldiers beside him also split into three groups and charged up from different directions.

With agile movements and skillful tactics, Li Mu nodded in approval. It truly lived up to its reputation as a classic three-three system tactic for the future of our army.

This tactic originated in the War of Resistance against Japan, matured in the Civil War, and was widely used in the Korean War. It is one of the core tactics in the PLA infantry training syllabus and is mainly used for infantry squad assault tactics.

Having shone brightly on the Korean battlefield, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army relied on this tactic to inflict considerable suffering on American soldiers with rudimentary weapons and equipment. As soon as the Korean War ended, the United States Military Academy at West Point included it as a classic teaching case.

Currently, this tactic has not yet appeared. Li Mu has compiled some simple methods of the three-three tactic based on some materials he had read before, and handed them over to the officer training class so that they could practice and improve them on their own. The results were quite good.

This tactic is based on squads, divided into three combat groups, each with three members, and usually arranged in three echelons to facilitate mutual support.

The three-man combat teams formed a triangular attack formation, with each soldier having a clearly defined role: attack, cover, and support. The squad leader, deputy squad leader, and team leader each led a combat team.

When a combat team attacks, two soldiers are in front and the team leader is behind, forming a triangular formation. Three combat teams form a combat squad, and three combat squads form a combat group. During the attack, they deploy in a skirmish line formation and change their combat formation at any time according to the instructions of the team leader or squad leader.

After watching the tactical drills, and looking at the complete summary of the three-three system tactics in his hand, Li Mu nodded. The booklet will be printed in large quantities and distributed to the frontline troops and those in the north.

Recently, cooperation with the north has gradually increased, such as with oil fields.

Records of petroleum in the Yan'an area of ​​northern Shaanxi can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, more than two thousand years ago. At that time, Yan'an was called Gaonu County, and the Yan River was called Wei River. Ban Gu, a historian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote in his book "Book of Han: Geography": "There is a Wei River in Gaonu, Shangjun, which is flammable."

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Yan'an was called Fuyan Road. Shen Kuo, a renowned Song Dynasty scientist, conducted a thorough investigation of the Yan'an area while serving as the military commissioner of Fuyan Road, concluding that petroleum existed within its borders. In his book *Dream Pool Essays*, he first definitively used the concept of "petroleum": "There is petroleum within Fuyan; the old saying 'Gaonu County produces oily water' refers to this… This substance will surely become widely available in the future… Petroleum is abundant, inexhaustible in the earth, unlike pine wood, which is sometimes depleted."

By the early 20th century, petroleum had become widely available. Cao Hongxun, the governor of Shaanxi, repeatedly petitioned the emperor to "compete with foreign kerosene using Yanchang Petroleum," arguing that "only by quickly establishing its own operations can the covetousness of foreigners be prevented." In 1904, Cao Hongxun's petition was finally granted. The Qing court allocated over 8 taels of silver to the local government as start-up capital.

On June 5, 1907, China's first oil well was drilled outside the west gate of Yanchang County. After three months, oil was encountered at a depth of 69 meters. The well was completed at a depth of 81 meters, with a daily crude oil production of 1 to 1.5 tons. That year, the kerosene refined by the Yanchang Petroleum Refinery was delivered to Xi'an. The kerosene lamps were so bright and dazzling, like small suns in the night, that they caused a sensation in Xi'an.

In 1935, the Yanchang oilfield, which had been through many storms, fell into the hands of the north. They didn't have much money to buy machinery for oil extraction and refining, so they could only use the most primitive methods, which still yielded a few hundred tons of oil a year.

Then, these petroleum products were used to produce gasoline, kerosene, paraffin wax, ink, gun polish, petroleum jelly, and other products. This not only ensured the oil needs of government agencies and the military and civilians in the border area, but also allowed them to sell a batch of these products as funds for the northern region.

However, an annual production of a few hundred tons of oil, while seemingly substantial, is actually quite small. Li Mu could easily purchase twenty to thirty thousand tons of gasoline from his spatial storage during a single trip abroad; this production volume is truly insignificant.

However, we must also consider the future. If shipping routes are disrupted, we must be self-sufficient, both in weapons and energy.

Coincidentally, seeing Li Mu's influence—he could procure various weapons and goods from abroad—and the North was also interested in cooperating to jointly develop Yanchang Petroleum, the two sides quickly reached an agreement. Li Mu would be responsible for procuring oil extraction and refining equipment, while the North would be responsible for production.

Although he doesn't think much of the current output, with oil extraction and refining equipment, the output will be much higher. According to his understanding, the Yanchang Oilfield has not been depleted even after the turn of the 21st century, and its annual oil production has generally exceeded ten million tons, indicating great potential.

This gave Li Mu more ideas. The key to the country's poverty and weakness was the lack of industrialization. Although dozens of factories had been built thanks to Li Mu's efforts and many things could be produced domestically, it was still far from enough.

With penicillin and several other drugs, he will have no shortage of money and can purchase all kinds of machinery and equipment to improve Nanyang's industrial system. At the very least, even if shipping routes are interrupted, he can still produce various industrial products on his own.