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Chapter 1830 Rear and Front

During An Yi's trip to Central Asia to meet with Lyuschenkov, the chairman of the Far Eastern Soviet Republic, Ou Chuer took Lin Shuangshu and visited various cities and industrial zones in South China. Everywhere www.biquge.info went, the sisters Lin Xiaotong and Lin Xiaoran were deeply shocked by the urbanization and industrialization that had taken place in this hot land.

The sisters saw that almost all the cities they went to had wide and clean cement roads, with endless traffic on them, and on both sides of the streets stood neat and tidy houses and buildings that appeared to be neat after unified planning, the streets were bustling with people, the main roads were set up with green belts, traffic lights were set up at intersections, the traffic police commanded traffic on the sentry platform, and on both sides of all the roads, there were garbage bins and wooden benches for pedestrians to rest at every distance, and the humanistic atmosphere was strong.

The only thing that bothered the two sisters was that there were no street lights on the streets. Ochol explained that it was a time of war and the lights needed to be controlled at night, so there was no need to waste steel on something like that for the time being. However, the underground pipe network has been preset, and the future will be peaceful, so it is only necessary to complete the wiring and erect lampposts.

Due to the wartime system in South China, more shops on the streets are closed than open, and most of the people who open are engaged in handicrafts or provide public services such as mail, communications, audio-visual services, movies, and catering.

The rumbling of machines in the production workshop and the huge trailers transport all kinds of parts and semi-finished products from the numerous downstream processing plants of single parts to the upstream assembly production workshop, all of which are completed quickly under the requirements of high efficiency, low energy consumption and high standards.

In the Taiyuan Automobile Factory, the two sisters learned that now Nanhua has opened up the authority and technology for the processing and production of various auto parts to many private investors, which makes many auto parts can be produced and processed in a relatively single processing plant, and the tens of thousands of parts that make up the car are continuously processed and produced from thousands of large and small factories, and then sent to the production line of the assembly workshop of the Taiyuan Automobile Factory for final assembly, and military trucks, jeeps, and off-road vehicles are manufactured in this way.

Ou Chuer proudly said that this not only greatly reduced the production cost, but also greatly increased the output and enhanced the overall industrial level of Nanhua.

You must know that with the influx of Jews and a large number of overseas Chinese into South China, they brought huge funds and urgently needed to invest in production, and this single and specialized processing method required less technology, and the factory was built very quickly. Although such an investment is less profitable, it is a sure profit, and a single processing can also promote the factory to improve the processing accuracy and innovate the processing technology, so as to stand out in product quality and reduce costs in innovative processing technology.

What surprised the two sisters even more was the training of junior, intermediate and senior skilled workers in the process of industrial development.

Today, Syrian University of Technology has established branch campuses in 49 cities in South China, Siberia and Central Asia, and a large number of overseas students have returned to China one after another, forming a huge scientific research force. Nowadays, in addition to the recruitment of high-end talents by the Syrian Research Institute, various factories and enterprises have also begun to set up their own scientific research institutions, which has greatly improved the scientific and technological content of Nanhua industry.

However, these scientific researchers, more just a variety of ideas into drawings, but lack of drawings into parts of the skills, very much need a large number of middle and senior technical production personnel from the side to cooperate, in the production process relying on the skilled workers of the superb technology and in the first-line production process of the actual ability to realize, the designer's intention to realize.

Similarly, in production, the machine is operated by people, and the technical level of the operator directly affects the quality of the product and the increase or decrease of the defective rate.

As early as the outbreak of the economic crisis in 29 years, a large number of skilled workers from Europe and the United States came to Syria, bringing advanced production technology. Since then, as Jews, French, and skilled workers from the Far East have been hired to serve as teachers in various vocational and technical schools, guiding the practical skills of the trained workers, the group of junior, intermediate and senior skilled workers in South China has continued to expand.

Today, the managers of major groups and enterprises have almost clearly recognized such a reality: a senior skilled worker can process five times the number of parts in a day than a junior skilled worker, and the defective rate is only one-tenth of that of a junior skilled worker.

Because of this, since the beginning of 38 years, in the middle of July every year, the South Chinese government has held various technical competitions in Saigon, specially produced trophies, medals and certificates, and set aside 2 million Chinese dollars as a bonus to reward the winners, so as to stimulate the workers to continue to forge ahead, keep improving, constantly hone their skills, and have the courage to climb the peak of the industry.

The reason why the venue for the competition was chosen in Saigon was that the industrial atmosphere in southern South China was not strong at that time, and An Yi very much hoped to stimulate the industrial development of the south through such a first-class professional skills competition. In fact, with the recovery of Siam and the influx of a large number of overseas Chinese in Nanyang at the end of 38 years, the industry in the south finally started, and by last year, the north-south railway was completed, which greatly stimulated the industrial development of the south.

On July 14, on behalf of An Yi, the National Democratic Party and the Central Government of South China, Au Chuer presided over the opening ceremony, and then took the Lin sisters to various competition venues.

The three wives of An Yi were greatly welcomed, and there was thunderous cheer everywhere they went, and the Lin sisters also confirmed one thing, almost all of the 8,462 contestants sent by major factories and enterprises to participate in this grand event were equipped with unique skills.

For example, in the preliminary round of the fitter's competition, many people completed the required accuracy and speed test within the specified time, and calmly entered the semi-finals. In order to pass the extra time and show their strength, and at the same time exert psychological pressure on others, more than a dozen masters took off the watch on their wrists, put it on the fitter's table, coated some lubricating paste butter on the glass case of the watch, and then waved a large fitter hammer to the watch case, and used the hammer surface of the fitter hammer to stick the butter on the glass case a little bit, which made the Lin sisters widen their eyes and marveled.

It has to be said that such a game is very ornamental, the fitter's hammer will not be stained with butter if it falls off and high, and the glass case will be smashed if it falls low. Without millions of hammer drills in actual work, it is impossible to achieve such millimeter-level control accuracy, and at the same time, without absolute trust in the flexibility and feeling of your arms and wrists, you will not be able to do such a hammer at all.

The Lin sisters themselves are the managers of the enterprise, and they know very well that reaching such a level is not just for the sake of good looks, which means that these skilled workers already have a very high technical level, and this exercise of the hammer alone represents their fitter strength.

The ensuing competition confirmed the judgment of the two women, and these workers even blindfolded a piece of iron ten millimeters thick and chiseled out a horizontal line with uniform light transmission, which means that in actual production, they can produce the required parts faster, better and more accurately.

During their stay in Saigon, the Lin sisters once again felt the strength of Nanhua, such as the forklift opening bottle cap in the industry competition, the crane lifting needle targeting, the garment factory female worker folding clothes quickly, the postman sorting letters, etc., all made the two daughters deeply aware that the current Nanhua is rapidly becoming an industrial power, a powerful country, and they entrust their lifelong lovers to indeed have the talent of the world, otherwise how to explain all this they see in front of them?

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On 15 July, a sudden torrential rain struck the entire Huanghuai region, the land of Qilu, and the mountain floods flooded and the rivers swelled.

However, due to the continuous rainfall, the water level of the Xue River rose sharply, and the water level rose by 3 to 4 meters, coupled with the outbreak of mudslides on Longtou Mountain and Xiaonan Mountain, resulting in the defensive positions of the 131st and 188th Divisions of the 84th Army along the banks of the Xue River and on the mountains on the south bank were all destroyed by floods.

Xia Wei, commander of the 41st Group Army, who received the report, was greatly shocked and hurriedly ordered the officers and men of the two divisions to rush to repair the fortifications overnight, and they were in a state of confusion for a while.

Due to the heavy rain, the assembly of the Japanese army was also very difficult, and the date of the forced crossing of the army was repeatedly postponed.

After unremitting efforts, the 68th Division, the 12th Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 13th Division of the puppet army, with a total of 200 light and heavy artillery pieces, were concentrated to the north of the Xue River.

On 20 July, the officers and men of the 131st Division of the 84 th Army of the Gui Department were still struggling to repair the fortifications, but because the progress did not meet the requirements, they were severely scolded by the division generals who came down to inspect them.

"*** grandma's!"

A short soldier wiped the muddy water from his face and scolded the officer standing under the tree and scolded loudly: "Company Commander Gu, you know how to scold people when you are a dog, since you think the progress is slow, why don't you come down and work with us?" What's the matter if you're just talking? ”

The officer who scolded was Gu Zhengtao, the company commander of this company, who was staring at the dense rain curtain in front of him with a sad face, wondering if he could complete the repair work at night.

Due to the rain for several days, the Central Air Force has stopped reconnaissance, and now the 84th Army, from top to bottom, does not know the situation of the Japanese troops on the north bank, suddenly heard the shouting and scolding, turned his head and saw a soldier stopped there and did not move, he was already unhappy and yelled angrily:

"*** mother's skinny monkey, don't you want to sleep tonight? Yes!? It's not for me, it's for you! No one knows how many cannons the little devils brought, and how to hold on without a trench that can safely cover the barrage of shells? ”

"Skinny monkey, get to work! Now use a little more force, and say that you may not be able to save your boy's life when you fight! The squad leader next to the skinny soldier hurriedly whispered an order.

"Humph! I know the defense, let's learn from the Anjia army to fight, only learned the skin, if it is replaced by General An's command, it may not be all fought to Teng County, no matter how bad it is, it will also reach Guanqiao, where is it so unlucky to be raining here? Defending passively, I don't know what kind of counterattack this is? ”

The skinny soldier scolded back as he obediently struggled to dig up the muddy dirt.

"Don't blame the sir!"

The squad leader was in his early thirties, wiped the water droplets on his face, continued to wave the sapper shovel, and said: "The Central Army is following us, it is a full four or five days away from here, and the various fronts of our group army are also uneven.

"Encounters are no better than defensive battles, if you lose, you may be swallowed by the little devils and there will be no slag left, so it is better to use the terrain to defend and counterattack! Listening to the commander's meaning, he first consumed a part of the Japanese army at the Xue River, and then waited for the Central Army to catch up, and after converging, they crossed the river together to launch a counterattack! The strategy for this all-front offensive was formulated by Chairman Chiang himself, so we can't always ask our Gui army to take the lead, right? The Central Army has been training for several years, and it is a mule or a horse, and it is time to pull it out for a walk! ”

Between the words, a serpentine trench more than one meter wide slowly took shape with the continuous efforts of the soldiers, and at this time, the sky gradually darkened.

Seeing that the trench was almost built as required, the company commander Gu Zhengtao shook his wet head, and the water droplets splashed everywhere, and he was about to announce the assembly, when suddenly an earth-shattering explosion sounded not far away, and a huge fireball rose into the air carrying the whole ball of mud. After the explosion sounded violently, the whistling of shells was heard through the air, which were heavy artillery shells flying faster than the speed of sound. There were also continuous explosions on the surrounding positions, and huge orange fireballs rose one after another!

"Not good, the shelling of the devils! Hide, hide! ”

Gu Zhengtao, who rushed into the trench when he heard the first explosion, saw that there were some recruits with sapper shovels, standing on the edge of the trench in a daze, looking around in a panic, not knowing how to deal with it, he couldn't help but be angry and funny, and shouted repeatedly: "Quick, pull them down!" ”

The first to react were all veterans from Guangxi, knowing that this was a corrected artillery shell fired by the Japanese army, and the Japanese artillery after adjusting the firing angle was about to start a large-scale artillery bombardment. Most of those recruits were recruited in the Central Plains, and although they had also undergone relatively strict training, they had no combat experience, so they had such an unbearable performance.

Under the urging of the company platoon commander and the veterans, the recruits finally reacted and quickly jumped into the trenches. Due to the continuous rain in the sky, the anti-artillery holes that had been built had long been filled with water, so all the officers and men had no choice but to hide in the trenches more than one meter deep and the bottom was soaked with muddy water, waiting for the Japanese artillery bombardment to arrive.

Thirty seconds later, more than 200 pieces of artillery, including 75-mm infantry guns, 105-mm mountain guns, 120-mm cannons, 150-mm mountain guns and field guns, and 240-mm heavy howitzers, fired fiercely at the Gui army's position on the other side of the Xue River.

Almost every second, dozens of shells would fall on the muddy trenches, and in the sky, rain mixed with dark red bullet marks like flying locusts whistled from the north bank of the Xue River.

The cannonballs, with a shrill whistling sound, fell frantically to the ground, and in an instant, the whole earth began to tremble violently as if there had been a violent earthquake. With a dull roar, clusters of black and red flames rushed into the sky in the rain, and in the flames and smoke, the mud that exploded into the air quickly turned into a rain of mud and fell to the ground.

The Japanese artillery units, which had been fired in advance, accurately hit the positions of the officers and men of the Gui Army in this round of shelling, and the trenches were buried by the soil that fell one after another, and some trenches that were unfortunately directly hit by large-caliber shells collapsed with a bang, and the flesh and blood of countless officers and men lying at the bottom of the tunnels quickly merged with the soil.

Shells of various calibers fell densely on the ground, and no single "boom" explosion could be heard, and the only thing that could be heard was a series of huge roars like rolling thunder.

The flames that soared in the torrential rain, while making the sound of "snorting" the fusion of water and fire, formed a wall of flames on the ground, and the raging air waves mixed with the wind and rain, flying in all directions, damp stones and sand and flesh and bones with flesh and bones, mixed together, quickly rolled into the air, and when they fell to the ground, only bursts of sand and stones that could be pinched into powder remained.

In this rainy night, the Japanese artillery of various calibers covered the positions of the Chinese defenders over and over again, and the trenches and fortifications that had been painstakingly managed were blown up to pieces in the light of the flames that rose into the sky.

The Japanese shelling came suddenly and ended quickly.

Just as the officers and soldiers of the defenders opened their mouths wide, endured the torment of the sound, and silently recited the blessing of the Bodhisattva in their hearts, the thunderous explosion disappeared at once.

The first to come to their senses were the officers, who desperately crawled out of the muddy water, followed by the veterans, and the pale and shivering recruits.

The whole position was in shambles, full of large and small potholes, and now those craters were full of water because the rain had not stopped. The serpentine trenches were blown to pieces, and many of the jagged parts that blocked the sputtering of shrapnel were blown up, and the position became strangely wider.

Despite the rain, it could not hide the traces of the baptism of war, the air was filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke and the pungent smell of blood, and the battlefield was littered with human stumps and severed arms.

It is also strange to say that the big tree where Gu Zhengtao took shelter from the rain just now escaped such a dense bombardment, but what is shocking is that several bloody and blurred broken arms are actually hanging on the branches, shaking constantly, and blood drips from the white fingertips to the ground......

The surviving officers and men of the 131st Division and one regiment of the 188th Division stationed on the river beach on the south bank of the Xue River and on the positions of Longtou Mountain and Xiaonanshan behind them were nervously lying on their positions like ruins, preparing to meet the frenzied attack of the Japanese army.

However, there was not the slightest movement on the Japanese positions on the north bank of the Xue River, and the officers and men of the 131st and 188th Divisions, who speculated that this large-scale artillery bombardment might have only been a test of the Japanese army's firepower, immediately turned to the work of treating the wounded and repairing the positions.

Xia Wei, commander of the 41st Group Army, who was in Lincheng County, received a telegram from the Japanese army on the south bank of the Xue River and the positions of Longtou Mountain and Xiaonan Mountain, and his first reaction was that the Japanese army could not wait to launch a counteroffensive.

Previously, the military commander had also received the news of the Kwantung Army's entry into the pass, but due to the heavy rain in North China, it was not clear the specific number of Japanese troops who had entered the pass, let alone whether the reinforcements would go south along the Jinpu Road or take a boat to Qingdao and then rush to the front line. In Xia Wei's opinion, it is better to fight late than early, first eat the Japanese army in Shandong, and then pack up the Japanese reinforcements, and then the battle will be much easier, if the Japanese army completes the assembly, it will be a big trouble!

It is a pity that the Central Army moved slowly, and under the pretext of heavy rain, it was stationed in Hanzhuang and Yicheng County for several days, resulting in the current counterattack situation not to mention, and it had to be passively defended.

Just when Xia Wei was restless and wondered whether to urge the 90th Army of the Central Army, which was still stranded in Hanzhuang, to quickly go north for reinforcements, he received a telegram that the Japanese army on the front line had not launched an attack.

Xia Wei, who was puzzled, held an operational meeting overnight, and the generals and staff members attending the meeting all believed that even if the Japanese army did not attack tonight, they would launch an attack tomorrow, and a big war was imminent.

Lin Cixi, commander of the 131st Division, and Liu Ren, commander of the 188th Division, who arrived overnight to report on the battle situation, immediately reported the losses of the frontline positions, and the combined casualties of the officers and men of the two regiments were nearly 1,000, which made all the officers gasp. The strength of nearly three battalions was gone, and this was just a tentative bombing by the Japanese army, if it really launched, how many people would survive the two regiments on the front line?

Lin Cixi, who looked helpless, said: "Commander, judging from the scale of the Japanese army's artillery bombardment, it can be completely judged that its main attack direction is the Xue River defense line faced by Longtou Mountain and Xiaonan Mountain!" And we only have two divisions, and it may be difficult to complete the commander's order to defend for a long time and then converge the main forces and counterattack on all fronts to destroy the enemy! ”

Lin Cixi's words made the atmosphere in the conference room suddenly tense, and Xia Wei's face was gloomy and terrifying.

Lin Cixi and Liu Ren glanced at each other, and the latter walked to the map to explain the situation of the Xue River defense line.

"The Xue River defense line that we are holding is 25 kilometers long, of which the key defense line is 10 kilometers, and our two divisions have to put all their troops into the positional defense without leaving reserves, resulting in the entire front being extremely weak, once the Japanese break through a little, it will lead to the collapse of the whole line!"

Liu Ren's analysis made all the officers ponder.

Seeing that Xia Wei's face softened, Liu Ren struck while the iron was hot: "So, Division Commander Lin and I hope that the commander can consider sending an additional division to reinforce the Xue River defense line!" ”

Deng Longguang, deputy commander of the group army, saw that Xia Wei was silent in thought, and took over the conversation and said: "Division Commander Liu's analysis is very reasonable, but the strength of all units of our group army has been deployed, the first division defends Weishan Town, and General Liu Shiyi's 31st Army needs to defend the Panlong River north of Zaozhuang and the line of Yulugu, and there is no way to draw troops at all!" ”

Xia Wei waved his hand: "Liu Shiyi is not under much pressure there, since the Japanese army brazenly shelled the defensive positions of Longtou Mountain and Xiaonan Mountain tonight, it proves that the enemy's main attack direction is still on the side of Jinpu Road." ”

Speaking of this, Xia Wei glanced at Lin Cixi and Liu Ren with sharp eyes, and asked, "If I transfer the 173rd Division over again, are you sure to hold Xue He for four days?" This is the time we have made with the 26th Army to counterattack! ”

Lin Cixi and Liu Ren had happy faces, saluted respectfully, and replied loudly: "As long as the military order can be unified, we guarantee to complete the task!" ”

"Good!"

Xia Wei nodded: "Okay, I will transfer He Weizhen, the commander of the 173rd Division, to the headquarters, and his three regiments will be your reserves, which will be distributed equally, and I will be on top at the critical moment!" Remember, as long as you hold out for four days, regardless of whether the Central Army arrives or not, you can all withdraw, and if the counteroffensive fails at that time, it will not be the responsibility of our Gui Army! ”

"Yes!"