Chapter 015 - The Wartime Production System

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Now, because he is once again facing a powerful opponent, the Soviet Union, Ji Feng now has to make some adjustments.

You must know that the Soviet Union sent almost all the young men to the front, so that for a long time the Soviet Union was a situation where there were more women than men. But compared to Germany's eight-hour workday and the fact that women could only serve in auxiliary units, the Soviets made factories go on a production frenzy and even set up a special unit for female snipers. This, of course, will include Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, all the factories in the United States were fully mobilized, and both blacks and women were given good jobs.

But at no time, even at the end of the war, did not have a single female soldier serving in the front-line units of the German army. Some jobs take up a lot of soldiers, but these jobs are obviously better done by women, so Ji Feng is ready to mobilize all the members and understand his own plan.

When Ji Fengyi proposed to let female soldiers participate in the front-line battle, Bowman was the first to stand up and object, and also cited scriptures to find a bunch of chivalry from which book I don't know which book to refute.

Ji Feng said: "Do you know that our opponent even has a combat formation composed entirely of female soldiers? These women are very suitable for sniper warfare, and we rarely see them even in field hospitals. How many male soldiers have been wasted? Now that our German Empire is facing a great crisis, if we do not allow our troops to increase rapidly, we will definitely be defeated. Because of those cloths. The Erssheviks were simply too difficult to eliminate. When we eliminate one of their integrators, we will find that they have ten integrators to fill the hole in that division. Even if it's Si. Dalin carried out a purge, but the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army was still not to be underestimated. Don't suffer on this. ”

But even the commander-in-chief of the army, Brauchitsch, did not believe it.

Ji Feng said, "Do you know what their most tanks are now?" No, you won't know, because you've never seriously and systematically investigated their tanks! According to my intelligence system, their armor and speed far outnumbered ours when they were all equal in battle. And the artillery is also slightly stronger than our 75-mm long-barreled tank guns, although they do not have on-board talking devices for various reasons, but their number is more than enough to compensate for this. If we don't pay attention to this, we will be defeated sooner or later! Now, I find that there are even more than 300,000 male soldiers serving in those auxiliary units. If we can send these soldiers who have undergone basic training to the battlefield as real soldiers, they will definitely be able to show greater combat effectiveness. ”

Field Marshal Brauchitsch finally made a concession for Ji Feng's sake of face: only female soldiers could be allowed to serve as members of auxiliary units, and a women's combat brigade (battalion size) was established to perform the same tasks as ordinary German soldiers. If they are able to do more, they will be allowed to join the front-line combat units. There are some of these requirements that are a bit more demanding, but in fact, no matter what class you are, you will go through this stage at the beginning. (For example, black pilots in the U.S. Air Force in World War II.) There is a detailed introduction in "Red Tail". )

But even these concessions are enough, Ji Feng can't lose the hearts of his subordinates, otherwise, he will be subverted sooner or later. At that time, even if he has three heads and six arms, he will not be able to return to his family's side.

During the entire meeting, Artoria, who was silently recording the content of the meeting, did not speak. Due to Ji Feng's leadership aura, she was chartered to be Ji Feng's chief secretary, and Bowman was still the director of the secretariat, but in fact, Artoria and Bowman were already equivalent to the same level in the system.

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Now Ji Feng is going to go to various factories to make statistics, because this has a great effect on the planning of the war. If the war plan is very ambitious, but the logistics and supplies cannot keep up, it will be bad, and then maybe like the "hegemon" of the Mediterranean, he will vomit out all the things he has just eaten, and vomit out all his heart, liver, lungs, and so on.

The Mauser Arsenal supplied the most important infantry weapon, the rifle, and although the original Mauser Kar.98K was finalized in the last century (the G98 was finalized in 1898, and later the 98 rifle was introduced), these weapons are still relatively advanced in the present era. At least for those countries in the East, it was quite advanced, but for a populous country like the USSR, such a rifle was not enough. Because this rifle can only be single-shot, with 5 rounds per magazine, the characteristics of pressing the magazine into the magazine with a cartridge plate for reloading strictly limit its rate of fire. Even a very skilled veteran can only do 10 to 15 rounds a minute, but the SVT-38 and SVT-40, two semi-automatic rifles that the Soviet Union has a large number of equipment, even have a rate of fire of nearly 60 rounds.

Although the two semi-automatic rifles had many problems, such as maintenance being a nightmare for Soviet soldiers with a lower literacy, they were still popular among the Marines because of their extremely high rate of fire; Although the muzzle flame is very large, it has no effect on offense or defense.

In Ji Feng's mind, the Mauser Kar.98K was only suitable for conversion and use as a sniper rifle, and the Germans had to be equipped with the G43 (Gar.43) as much as possible. The rifle's ten-round replaceable magazine is already very powerful, and coupled with its high accuracy, it was once welcomed by front-line snipers.

Ji Feng gave the research team of the Mauser Arsenal a task: to develop a semi-automatic rifle with a magazine of 10 rounds and firing Mauser standard rifle rounds, requiring that the rate of fire of this gun should not be less than 50 rounds per minute, and the impact point should be within a circle with a diameter of 20 centimeters. Although this requirement is a bit vague, with the background of those scientists in the Mauser Arsenal, Ji Feng doesn't believe that they can't even develop a gun.

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If the army is slightly more important, it is artillery. Now the 88-mm anti-tank \ anti-aircraft guns of the troops are mainly produced by the Krupp plant.

Krupp's ancestors started by making cannons in a thatched hut, so Krupp was very interested in making cannons. Ji Feng introduced him to a kind of future thing - radar fire control system and VT fuze [Note 1].

The radar fire control system can greatly improve the accuracy and aiming speed of the gun, and can save shells. Proximity fuses, on the other hand, are prepared to prevent strategic bombing of the homeland, and these fuses can control artillery shells to explode within 50 meters of the aircraft, which produces the greatest power.

Ji Feng believed that if these two things could be developed, the army division commanders would start to compete for this kind of cannon in the future, because although there was a scramble now, at least there was no big fight. But if the performance of this cannon is very powerful, and the enemy cannot imitate it, then this cannon is very sought-after. In a word, it has become a "fragrant dumpling".

Although Ji Feng explained for a long time, Krupp just couldn't understand what Ji Feng meant by the VT fuse.

When Ji Feng explained the internal structure and working principle of the VT fuze to Krupp in detail, Krupp patted his head and said: "Führer, I have tried to make a few of this kind of fuze, but the effect is not good, and some even exploded directly in the gun chamber, damaging some anti-aircraft guns. ”

When Krupp brought the VT fuze developed by himself, Ji Feng carefully checked it and finally understood what the problem was: this kind of fuse was not set with a proper fuse, generally speaking, it was best to be 0.25 seconds, so that the shell would be enough to fly to a safe distance.

Ji Feng began to tell Krupp about the insurance of this VT fuse, and Dr. Krupp finally succeeded after one hundred and one practices.

If it is possible to equip troops in large quantities, then the air defense efficiency of the heavy air defense battalion of the German ** team will definitely be able to have a qualitative mutation. At that time, it would be possible to envelop the entire German mainland in a barrel-like defense.

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The most important thing is to look at the air force, because the air force has played a decisive role in modern warfare, and only by occupying and maintaining air supremacy can the army make tactical actions, otherwise if all tactical actions are covered by the fire of enemy aircraft, then whether or not morale can be guaranteed has become a very strict problem.

So, Air Force manufacturing is very important. Even if Ji Feng takes out all the remaining deposits of the treasury now, he must build a more powerful air force.

Strategic Air Force, a type of air force that is used for deterrence most of the time. The strategic air force is dominated by strategic bombers, and the general strategic bombers are heavy bombers with four engines on a single wing, but it is not possible to rule out individual cases, such as the G10N "Lianshan" heavy bomber with six engines, and the He-177 heavy bomber with four engines to drive two propellers.

The strategic air force is of great importance in a strategic sense, but it is probably not as powerful as the tactical bomber for bombing tactical targets. Therefore, the strategic air force should be an air force combat unit with a long range, a large bomb load, strong reliability, fierce defensive firepower, and good personnel.

Ji Feng decided to establish a strategic air force to carry out large-scale bombing of the industrial areas in the interior of the Soviet Union, which could not only slightly weaken the industrial production capacity of the Soviet Union, but the most important goal was to completely crush the morale of the Soviet Union and defeat the enemy psychologically. [Note 2]

In the case of the strategic air force, the reliability must be strong, and it would be a pity if the engine caught fire on its own while flying. Therefore, Ji Feng specially produced one hundred and fifty super-heavy B-29 strategic bombers for the Air Force. The reason why this aircraft is super heavy is that Ji Feng has greatly strengthened the aircraft's defensive performance, and it is equipped with eight four-row thirty-two cylinder inline heavy-duty air-cooled piston engines, each with an output of 2,045 horsepower, and because it is equipped with an exhaust gas turbocharger, the high-altitude performance is exceptionally good. And because it is equipped with a pressurized cabin, the practical ceiling reaches 17,500 meters. It is very difficult to hit these strategic bombers even with anti-aircraft missiles.

Although the enlarged fuselage makes the aircraft look a lot bulkier, because of the clever design, the wingspan area of the aircraft is very large, and even if it carries 10 tons of bombs at high altitude, it can still glide at least 10,000 meters with 25% thrust output without losing altitude. So the combat radius of this bomber reached a staggering 7,500 kilometers, and this is when loaded with 16 tons of bombs.

Even Goering did not expect that the heavy strategic bomber promised by the Führer would be so heavy. Goering immediately took over the strategic bombers and began training pilots, and in order to increase the escort firepower, 20 of them were converted into gunboats, and even with multiple 37-mm anti-aircraft guns and 20-mm anti-aircraft guns, the aircraft was still more flexible than the bomb-loaded strategic bombers.

In addition, in order to allow the German army to have a unified command system, 10 aircraft were converted into high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and after dismantling the weapon system, these aircraft extended the stay time to 20 hours, which was very sufficient for combat command or high-altitude photo reconnaissance.

Ji Feng claimed that a certain supporter of the Nacrush Party had provided him with 150 super-heavy "Flying Fortresses", and would provide 5 such planes per month in the future to make up for the battle damage.

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Stimulated, Goebbels chirped vigorously in front of the radio station, eager to let the whole world know that Germany had super bombers and had the ability to strike ultra-long-range strategic targets.

After a fierce debate, Ji Feng finally refuted the important people who opposed the wartime production system, so the wartime production system was also implemented. This is very important for Ji Feng's victory. Because in any case, Germany and the Soviet Union are not much different in strength and wealth, and now the only thing that can compete is the plain and productive forces of the army.

Then Speer, who was in charge of the construction and production of the empire, received the news: all factories in the country would implement three shifts, and overtime pay would be doubled, and then assembly line production would be gradually introduced.

Coupled with the fact that a large number of German women were allowed to work in the factories, the German war planes quickly began to run at full speed.

The Japanese saw that the German boss was starting to expand its army frantically, so they thought that the plan of a sneak attack on Hawaii could be carried out, so they began to implement this plan that Japan regretted so much and let the United States enter the war.

At this moment, Ji Feng was enjoying the buff that he suddenly got with a brilliant mind, and Ji Feng had just received a very strange blessing, it seemed that his mind was very bright, so he began to make plans for the future. This plan is not only for himself, but also for his family to be protected from the effects of the end of the Dharma era.

[Note 1] In 1940, the United Kingdom developed a prototype of a radio-inducted proximity tube based on the same principle as radar. After the United States entered the war, the design of this type of signal tube, known as VT was completed under the Office of Scientific Research and Development, and mass production began. During World War II, the United States produced about 22 million VT fuzes. The VT fuse was first deployed on the battlefield on January 5, 1943, when the light cruiser Helena (an Atlanta-class light cruiser, displacement 6,000 tons, armed with 16 127mm guns) successfully shot down a Japanese bomber in the South Pacific with a VT five-inch (127mm) gun.

[Note 2] Attacking the heart is the top, attacking the city is the bottom, the heart is the top, and the army is the bottom. - "The Art of War" To be honest, this sentence still has a strong guiding significance.