Chapter One Hundred and Seven: Before the War
In the following days, Zhang Mingyu found a patriotic overseas Chinese who could speak German, his name was Yang Liansheng, asked him to help transport workers and machines to China, and invited him to join the Reading Brigade as the deputy chief of staff of the Reading Brigade. After taking care of everything in Germany, Zhang Mingyu said goodbye to Hitler, took his two bodyguards and Yang Hong from Berlin on an express and sailed towards France, where he rested for a night and took a ferry from Boulogne to London, England.
After arriving in England, Zhang Mingyu immediately found the discoverer of penicillin, Alexander. Sir Fleming, at this time Sir Alexander Fleming, although he discovered penicillin, did not succeed in purifying penicillin.
Zhang Mingyu found him to cooperate with him to produce penicillin and apply for a patent. In addition to Sir Alexander Fleming, Zhang Mingyu found a biologist Qian En, united the two of them, and used the ready-made penicillin brought by Zhang Mingyu and the new purification method, and soon the penicillin could be purified, due to the butterfly effect brought by Zhang Mingyu, Sir Alexander Fleming has not purified penicillin until now, and Zhang Mingyu brought a ready-made bottle of penicillin to him, and he almost went crazy.
In the end, Zhang Mingyu shamelessly said that some methods of cultivating penicillin in later generations were discovered by his own research, and soon Dr. Qian and Sir Alexander Fleming successfully purified penicillin according to the purification method described by Zhang Mingyu, and they began to set up a pharmaceutical factory for the production of penicillin.
Soon the patent application was successful, and after the patent, Zhang Mingyu and Sir Alexander Fleming successfully obtained a loan from the bank, which would become the start-up capital for the establishment of a penicillin production plant, and Zhang Mingyu signed a contract with the two of them, and the company's shares Sir Alexander Fleming and Qian En each accounted for 30 percent, and Zhang Mingyu accounted for 40 percent. Finally, Zhang Mingyu proposed that after completing the construction of the pharmaceutical factory in the United Kingdom, he would go to the United States with this patent, where to build more pharmaceutical factories, and in the future, Zhang Mingyu's pharmaceutical factory will be the largest pharmaceutical company in the world.
After arriving in the United States, because Zhang Mingyu held a penicillin patent and was one of the inventors of penicillin, the big American conglomerates on Wall Street rushed to invest and make money with Zhang Mingyu. Zhang Mingyu took off the polyester shirt that was taken off the unlucky guy and the aspirin pills found in the Mercedes-Benz car, with these two cross-era things, Zhang Mingyu successfully borrowed 100 million US dollars from Citibank, and with the money, Zhang Mingyu moved out of the hotel and bought an office building in the Empire State Building on Wall Street.
After preparations, a company with the sign of Boston Sino-British American United International Co., Ltd. began to open its doors, the company has just opened, and there is an endless stream of Americans and overseas Chinese in the United States who have come to apply for jobs. Zhang Mingyu recruited a man named Charles. Thornton's young man came to serve as president of his company. Many senior employees with many years of rich work experience felt very incomprehensible when they saw Zhang Mingyu looking for such a young man, thinking how could a Chinese boss hand over such a big company to a young man?
But those people knew that this young man was a senior business executive who later served as president of Ford and president of the World Bank! He was a young and promising young man.
If it is not impossible to hire a ready-made senior CEO, but Zhang Mingyu is not at ease with those people, Zhang Mingyu is thousands of miles away, and they may change jobs or make fake accounts with finance at any time to deceive themselves, and Zhang Mingyu finds a future senior CEO, and gives him a stage to show his life value and cultivate him into a talent, then this person must be grateful to himself and will not betray himself!
Next, Zhang Mingyu handed over the company to Charles Thornton, and took Li Gang and Tie Niu with him. After a night of rest in the Soviet Union, Zhang Mingyu began to return to China, and after half a month of tossing and turning a difficult journey, Zhang Mingyu finally returned to Ningxia.
At this time, his arsenal had already produced the first batch of guns and ammunition, and because the scale was still small, only 1,500 imitation Soviet-style Mosin rifles and 200 Dzhegarev light machine guns were produced in the first month, which were rotary guns that were all powerful on the Korean battlefield. Mosinagan has 100 sniper rifles and 10,000 grenades Because these are Soviet technology and workers, this No. 1 arsenal named by Zhang Mingyu mainly produces Soviet-style equipment.
Except for tanks, planes, and heavy artillery, which cannot be produced for the time being due to technical and various reasons, Zhang Mingyu's arsenal can basically produce light and heavy weapons needed by the army.
In addition to the above-mentioned infantry weapons, the arsenal also produced 200 45-mm anti-tank guns with 10,000 shells, and the 45-mm anti-tank gun was more than enough to deal with the light and thin iron tanks of the devil, which was more powerful than the German 37mm anti-aircraft guns.
In addition to the anti-aircraft guns, the arsenal produced thirty Type 85 anti-aircraft guns and forty 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
The main thing is that these anti-aircraft machine guns can be fired flat, and they can also be used to hit the thin-skinned tanks of the army.
There are more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition of all kinds, and in addition to the 40 percent of the above equipment, there is still a large amount of weapons and equipment left.
In addition, Zhang Mingyu also divided Sun Dali's machine gun battalion into two and set up an air defense battalion and an artillery battalion, mainly to deal with the tanks of the Chinese army. Zhang Mingyu sent about 200 fighters to the Soviet Union to learn how to work and drive tanks.
At the same time, Yang Liansheng also transported German machines and workers to Germany, and Zhang Mingyu's No. 2 arsenal began to be put into production.
Over the next two months, Zhang Mingyu began a massive recruitment campaign, at which point Zhang Mingyu's army rose to more than 10,000 men. A veritable promotion to a reader. The original title of reading force has not changed in the sequence of [***], but Zhang Mingyu later compressed it privately.
After two months of running-in, the productivity of the No. 1 and No. 2 arsenals has also been greatly improved, and Zhang Mingyu's reading division has three brigades, a reading air defense regiment, a cavalry battalion, a special forces company, a sniper company, and a guard company. In the other three brigades, almost every squad is equipped with a sniper.
At this time, except for the third brigade, which was relatively weak in combat effectiveness, was still using the first brigade and the second brigade of the replacement of the equipment, and the remaining two brigades, the first brigade was all-Soviet equipment, and the second brigade was all-German-style equipment, and Zhang Mingyu's training of the troops for more than two months was not left behind, and basically all brigades and regiments were proficient in using new weapons, except for the air defense regiment directly under the division, the original machine gun battalion was expanded and dispersed to all brigades and regiments, and each regiment had one battalion or two companies of artillery firepower.
In the establishment of the Reading Division, the division commander Zhang Mingyu and the division chief of staff Liu Cheng concurrently served as the head of the logistics department. Zhang Biao, commander of the First Brigade, has three regiments under his command. Second Brigade Commander Ling Tianbao and Deputy Brigade Commander Wang Tiehan. Lai San, commander of the 3rd Brigade, Sun Dali, commander of the Reading Air Defense Regiment, Chen Xiaochun, deputy regiment commander, Ma Liqun, commander of the cavalry battalion, Li Gang, commander of the special forces company, Tie Niu, commander of the guard company, and Zhang Haisheng, commander of the sniper company.
At this time, Zhang Mingyu could be said to be a strong soldier, with more than 18,000 people in the whole division plus the baggage team, including 15,000 combat troops. Since the army had already advanced the front to Wuhan at this time, and the defense of Wuhan had begun, of course Zhang Mingyu could not participate in the defense of Wuhan, and it was too late.
But Zhang Mingyu's ambition to resist has not weakened, his first goal is to drive all the Yue troops in North China out of Guannei, seize Shanxi to obtain rich resources, but the first thing in front of Zhang Mingyu is the Yue Army Garrison Corps, so Zhang Mingyu plans to launch a counteroffensive against the Yue Army, first recapture the southern part of Inner Mongolia and the Shanxi border, and then say, the Yue Army Garrison Corps in Mongolia except for a second mixed brigade and the Mishima Brigade that were annihilated by Zhang Mingyu, there is only one 26th Division and four infantry brigades, a total of more than 40,000 people, However, the army is scattered in the border areas of Inner Mongolia and Shanxi, so Zhang Mingyu still has a chance. Zhang Mingyu pointed the first target at Ordos.
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There are also book friends who have suggested that I plagiarize, I don't deny this question, and indeed there are a few chapters in this book that refer to other writings! But again, I promise that it was just a reference, and I wrote it all by myself. Let's just watch two shifts today, I'm too tired, I want to think about the Battle of Ordos.
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