For the Japanese, a 6.5 million tons of steel plan, is a huge project they can not imagine, such a large project, not overnight can be built, 6.5 million tons of steel base total investment, the final production time is 2 years, the largest number of one-way, including a one-time production will exceed 600,000 tons of single steelplant project, this is Japan has never carried out a modern steelplant. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nearly one million tons have been put into production, most of which are ordinary construction steel, rebar and standard steel, but among the initial investment, there is one that is related to the situation in Alaska, that is, the special steel project with an annual output of 100,000 tons, which is specially opened for militarized purposes, and the priority is the highest, this project is also the first time to complete the investment, and was delivered in early 1917.

For China, the special steel project is just a huge steel project, an insignificant one, even 100,000 tons of special steel project, in the overall investment of 6.5 million tons of steel project, no more than 7%, in terms of technical indicators, can be regarded as the world's more advanced level, compared with China, not to mention China's most advanced special steel, even if it is ordinary civil steel, many Chinese special steel enterprises, but also more than the Japanese standards.

The strength of the steel given to Japan is the level of China 5 years ago, such artillery steel, put on the level of World War I, can only be used to make artillery below 100 mm, and cannot be used above 100 mm, 155 or naval guns, or used on it, the barrel must be thickened, which will make the weight of the artillery unbearable, just like a Japanese artillery in later generations, the same caliber artillery, compared with the developed countries in Europe and the United States, at least 30% heavier, in the field of infantry artillery, Not to mention 30%, for large-caliber artillery, 10% means that this is unbearable, and an extra ton of weight is a nightmare for infantry.

For China, this is backward, has not been applied to the military in the steel marking, but for Japan, is not the case, in the time to get these special steel indicators, the Japanese have a sense of treasure, before returning to the Chinese system, Japan even if it is seamless steel pipes, ordinary war defense guns, can not be self-produced, from this extent, suddenly jumped to the production of 100 mm artillery, this degree of improvement, so that Japan as if in a dream, even do not believe that all this is true.

Time slowly forward, under the hard work, at the beginning of 1917, the 100,000-ton special steel project was successfully put into operation, and in February 1917, the first batch of special steel was successfully produced, in Japan cheered when they finally went to the artillery era, as a 100,000-ton special steel project supporting the project, a gun factory, has been a month ago, entered the trial production time, and in January 1917, the first artillery was successfully produced.

This point is very representative of the history of Japan's occupation of Alaska, and even high-ranking officials of the army and the imperial family participated in the commissioning ceremony of such an artillery, although such an artillery, only a 50mm mortar, played a very small role on the battlefield.

Most of the special steel has to be produced in the military, only a very small part, in the civilian use, when there is no way to reach the peak output, it will basically be inclined to the military, and such a gun factory in the special steel is not in place, the Japanese use imported Chinese steel, do running-in, production of artillery.

Japan has a tradition of producing guns, as early as the Warring States Period, there were masters who made guns, but the technology is not high, and the long-term industrialization has also allowed Japan to accumulate a group of skilled workers, as before China, these skilled workers have not been applied, they are scattered to various factories, just as a slightly more skilled laborer, doing hard work.

In fact, in this era, this is the habit of most countries, including Britain, France and Germany, no one has seen the importance of skilled workers, that is, Germany, they do not see the importance of industrial workers, they themselves attach importance to workers, attach importance to production, coupled with a rigorous style, which has formed a relatively primary industrial worker system.

This is also the fundamental reason why Germany can fight against the whole world with a province, because of Yang Yuanzhao's crossing, China used the essence of the Westernization Movement in advance, as a seed, coupled with the technical materials brought by Yang Yuanzhao from later generations, which made China get reborn changes, and in just a few years, it has caught up with and surpassed the world's advanced level, and the industrial capacity is so strong that I am afraid that even ordinary senior government officials do not realize where the limit is.

In order to support Japan and resist the United States, of course, it is necessary to come up with something real, except for the weapons and equipment, to satisfy Japan as much as possible, what remains is only a process of adjustment, but these adjustments, if they are replaced by their own understanding, will take a long time, and even take countless detours, but as long as China breaks through, it is just a simple adjustment of Japan, and the limited number of industrial workers and technicians are used in the right places, and the power will be immediately displayed.

A factory with only 8,000 workers, most of whom are workers from the original Japanese arsenal, and a small number of workers from other industries who can't make guns and cannons, The original arsenal has more than 15,000 people, and no more than 800 guns are made every day.

But the real output shocked Japan, the construction of the military factory, has been running-in, is produced separately, there is no total number out, but almost after the run-in, the output of the first overall trial production, has exceeded Japan's imagination, the daily production of rifles reached 1600, 150 machine guns, 60 mortars, bullets and shells, basically a day can be equipped with half a wing, this is also a separate arsenal, the largest output, and even in a sense, the total output of the entire Japanese arsenal before, are not necessarily comparable to this number.

1,600 a day, more than 500,000 a year, according to the current Japanese standing army, that is, in two or three years, it can be reloaded, not to mention one-tenth of the machine guns and a large number of artillery, such a factory, only more than 8,000 people, which is beyond the imagination of the Japanese. The Japanese thought that this was the limit, but with the run-in of skilled workers and the guidance of the Chinese side, the daily production capacity of rifles did not increase much, doubling to 3,200, the number of machine guns increased significantly by more than 500, and the mortars were also strengthened by a lot of 80, and most importantly, there were 37 more than 50 anti-aircraft guns and 3 75 mm and 90 mm guns.

Guns, as long as there are enough people, Japan can also produce it, the big deal is that the cost is lower, the labor cost is larger, but the artillery is different, this is the king of the army, from Napoleon, artillery is the king of the army, the god of the battlefield, artillery has been in the land war, occupies an important position, in contact with China's ordinary army system, the Japanese know that the gap between themselves and China, how huge, under the dense artillery, any crowd tactics, is to send people's heads, Not to mention China alone, according to different situations, artillery shells are also divided into many kinds, especially infantry anti-personnel shells, Japan does not know, why the Chinese are so powerful, produced such a dense killing shell, thousands of steel balls, driven by gunpowder and explosive power, densely shrouded in the shell explosion area, after China with computer calculations, basically reached more than 90% of the lethality.

This kind of lethality is very terrible, you know, ordinary shells, from solid to hollow, have gone through one or two hundred years, or even longer, in the early days of solid artillery, although it has a huge effect on siege, but the lethality of personnel is not strong, artillery fire is called the king of the army era, more is the deterrent power of artillery fire, a solid cannonball, under the impetus of gunpowder power, to destroy all madness, crush everything, not many people can withstand such a strong pressure.

When the hollow bullet appeared, relying on the lethality of fragments and gunpowder itself, the lethality of artillery for infantry was significantly improved, and in the face of large-scale infantry charges, artillery can also play a certain role, but I saw the Chinese infantry anti-personnel bullet, an ordinary 75 mm gun, It will carry thousands of steel balls with a diameter of no more than 0.3 cm, and these steel balls will operate irregularly in the range of the shell explosion, and the small steel balls will turn the range of the cannonball power into a peerless area under the premise of being blessed by the gunpowder of the artillery to a certain speed.

Before Japan, it was not able to produce artillery, 37 war defense guns were very difficult, mortars were imported from the United States after the seamless steel pipes, and then processed, the overall efficiency was not high, but now, a factory with only 8,000 workers, but produced large-caliber artillery that had not been produced in the whole of Japan before, if there were more personnel, what would it be, maybe relying on the Alaska arsenal alone, it was enough to support the war situation in the entire Americas, with enough equipment and ammunition to arm the Japanese samurai, Not only were they able to hold off the US military, but they might even carry out a counteroffensive, and the fire of ambition burst out quickly, and Japan not only sent people to learn from the experience of this arsenal, but also took the initiative to ask China for advice on why a simple arsenal with only 8,000 people has such great power and production capacity. (To be continued.) )