The domestic Xinzhong Engineering Company was originally in accordance with Li Kongrong's meaning to gradually give up the business, and then all turned to foreign countries, but after all, the domestic Xinzhong is the starting family business, Zhi Bingyuan, Wei Ru and some Xinzhong old people are reluctant, not only reluctant but also hope to expand the Xinzhong factory that has moved to Qiyang, Hunan, so before the loss of Guangzhou, a large number of machine tools and equipment were transported to Qiyang through Guangzhou, and China Xinzhong also changed from the original parent company to the United States Xinzhong subsidiary. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Hundreds of thousands of dollars of machinery and equipment are really worthless in the United States, but they are extremely valuable at home. In the early days, Xinzhong only had three branches in Qiyang, one specializing in the production of machine tools, although the level lagged behind Europe and the United States, but the domestic level was definitely the top level; a production of rolling mills and steam engines for the supply of small private steel companies and factories and mines; The last branch mainly produces gas engines and generators, which provide power and lighting for various small factories and units.

The company's products are in short supply in China, and supporting industries are gradually filling and expanding. In 38 years, the Xiangjiang Power Plant was built, which was not only used for its own use, but also supplied to other factories in Qiyang; In the same year, the Qiliqiao Coal Mining Company was established with local capital, and the coal produced was supplied not only to Qiyang, but also to small ironworks and steel plants; Because the electric furnace steelmaking needs carbon rods, and the establishment of a charcoal factory, and finally the old business of the new agricultural machinery has not been left behind, the collection of all employees to set up a new machinery factory, the production of pumps, rice mills, threshing machines and other agricultural machinery.

Over the past two years, Xinzhong has vaguely become the largest private industrial company in China, thanks to the geographical location of Qiyang and the industrial foundation provided by Xinzhong, more and more private companies have settled in Qiyang, a small city on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, and the safety of Qiyang is very important at this time. In 1944, the No. 1 operation Hengyang was lost, and the private factories in Qiyang had to be relocated, and the small industrial base that had existed earlier ceased to exist. At present, since Qiyang has become a small industrial city and has a relatively complete industrial chain, Li Kongrong cannot watch him be destroyed by the Japanese, he must not only protect, but also make full use of it.

Lu Jingyun, head of the Jet Engine Research Office, wrote a report early on that the V1 was an improvised missile with only 280 man-hours, suggesting that the missile should be produced in China. In the report, he believes that except for two high-pressure gas tanks (the high-pressure gas in the tanks is used to control the flight attitude and navigation of missiles) and instruments and meters, which cannot be produced in China, other countries can be produced. Low-grade gasoline can be replaced with alcohol, warheads can be replaced with black medicine or incendiary bombs, wings can be made of wood, and aluminum alloy of the casing can be replaced with thin iron sheets......

Lu Jingyun is actually interested in the fact that the impulse engine is easy to produce in China (except for spark plugs, carburetors, etc.), and the engine can be built, so everything else is easy to say. But what R&D personnel see is technical feasibility, not cost feasibility. The reason why the V1 missile is cheap is because it completely uses stamping parts to manufacture the missile body, and there is no such large punch press in China, and the cost cannot be reduced by manual knocking. Now Li Kongrong thinks that it can be built in China because Zhi Bingyuan reported that large punches can be dismantled and transported from Yunnan and Burma to China. It costs 1,000 dollars a piece to produce abroad, and if you don't put it in domestic production without depreciation of equipment, you don't even need 50 dollars, which is an iron shell. Even if you add instrumentation, ammunition and fuel, the price will definitely not exceed that of the United States.

Production is feasible and control is simple. China only produces a radio navigation model with a range of 250 kilometers, which is like a short-range GPS navigation scud, once the GPS coordinates of the US imperialists fluctuate, the missile will be lost, and even a bad missile will turn around in the air and hit back to the launching party. What we really have to worry about is that the pulsed centimeter wave is found to be jamming and ineffective by the Japanese army, so the navigation system must be compatible with the liquid float gyroscope, and once it is interfered with, it will be replaced with an inertial navigation device.

The improvised missile shell, fuel, and warhead Qiyang can be produced, and the bazooka shell Qiyang can also be produced, and the recoilless gun does not have the complex hydraulic control device required for the barreled artillery, as long as the raw materials and steelmaking process are solved, Qiyang can also produce ....... Swiss and American laboratories have been discussing what Qiyang can produce with the domestic industrial base? Originally, some people also wanted to move to China for production, but Li Kongrong stopped it. If penicillin is put into domestic production, then don't want to make money, once the high-yielding strains bred by ultraviolet radiation are leaked, anyone can produce penicillin - isn't the myth of aircraft propeller stirring and corn syrup supported by 300 times the yield of strains? Without high-yielding strains, penicillin simply cannot be mass-produced.

After Zhang Yanxiang left, what Li Kongrong was thinking about was what the Qiyang Small Industrial Base could do, and it wasn't until Huang Baitao came in that he let go of these thoughts. Seeing the yellow bald man who came in, he greeted happily: "Brother Huan Ran......"

"Brother Hansheng." For several months, Huang Baitao already knew who the boss was, and he saluted Li Kongrong solemnly.

"Huh. No matter how you say it, I'm also a lieutenant general, and I'm a colonel, so it's indecent. Li Kongrong stood up and shook hands with him.

"Where." Huang Baitao admired Li Kongrong's achievements very much, and he said: "Brother Han Sheng went to sea this time to destroy more Japanese troops than a group army of the army, why is it inappropriate for me to salute the commander of a group army?" ”

"It's all acquaintances, so don't be polite." Li Kongrong invited him to sit down, and as soon as he came up, he asked, "How many people have been pulled?" ”

"There are already two hundred and nineteen." Huang Baitao sat down upright: "It's not me who pulls it, I wrapped this matter out and asked one of my former classmates to help pull people, and I paid a lot of money for it." ”

"I know about it." Li Kongrong nodded and said, "Don't worry, since you are the chief official, then you are responsible for everything." ”

It is not enough for officers to just look for the wounded, first, there is no big war in the country, and second, they will treat the wounded on the spot and eventually return to the team, and they will be transported to Hong Kong for treatment and their lives are in danger, so Huang Baitao asked his military academy classmate Zhang Jinye, who is now already in business, to help pull people, so that he got more than 200 low-ranking officers and sergeants, most of whom were brought from the north.

"Brother Hansheng, can you collect the whole group?" Li Kongrong's generosity completely reassured Huang Baitao, and he asked about another matter. "I am familiar with the north, which is already a occupied area, and the army is either hiding in the mountains to fight guerrillas or surrendering and becoming a puppet army.

"There's no problem with the whole mess," Li Kongrong smiled, his face becoming serious. "I'm worried that these people are mothers if they have milk. You look at Ling Xiao of the Qingdao Navy, Shen Yi is good to him, what is the result? When the time comes, these people kill you and ask me to appoint him as a commander, what do you think I should do? There are such people in the Northern Navy, and there are many such people in the Army. Did you reveal that our treatment is higher than that of the Central Army? ”

"This ......" Huang Baitao was dumbfounded. If he wants to pull people, of course, he has to make a fuss about the treatment, and many of those people also come from the treatment.

"I have only one requirement for my subordinates, and that is not to surrender." Li Kongrong continued. "If it is to look at the treatment of the whole regiment, it is hard for me to believe that they will not surrender, especially if the army has been mixed for a long time, one is better than the other, and the battle against the wind is better, and the battle against the wind is either fleeing or surrendering. Even if you don't kill the commander, it's not good to surrender the Japanese army. ”

As Li Kongrong spoke, Huang Baitao sweated down. He felt that he was in too much of a hurry to form an army -- the army from the north was ready-made, and there was no need to retrain at all, just a little training, but he did not pay attention to the problems that Li Kongrong said.

"In the past, our strategy was to hold on to Myanmar and keep the Yunnan-Burma road. Later, I thought about it, in fact, this is not quite right, instead of retreating to Burma, it is better to help the British army to hold on to Singapore, which is the key point. Once Singapore loses, Myanmar will not be able to defend. Only by holding back Singapore, did the Japanese army dare not rush deep into Burma. Li Kongrong talked about the geographical situation in Nanyang, and finally said: "The role of the Singapore Navy is more important than that of the army, so you don't have to be in such a hurry to train and fight." ”

"When will the troops fight?" Huang Baitao tried to distinguish for a while before asking, he was worried that Li Kongrong didn't want the Marine Corps.

"It's not going to be delayed, it's even going forward." Li Kongrong's answer was unexpected. "But the number is not three divisions, maybe one brigade will be enough. Where? I haven't thought about it yet. You should go to Hong Kong with me this time, there are a few people who want to meet. If it goes well, the overseas Chinese recruits from the United States will enter Yunnan after the New Year, and you, the officers, will also bring them over. ”

"To Yunnan?" Huang Baitao thought that there would be a base at the end of 40 years, but he didn't expect it to be after the year. "How many recruits are there?"

"A few thousand estimates." Li Kongrong said. "They have completed the most ordinary individual training in the United States, and what they lack is tactical training. Another thing to note is that there are Chongqing spies everywhere in Yunnan, so it's not that you can't send more people, but if there are too many people, Chongqing will definitely find that according to Chairman Long, 7,000 people is the limit, and if there are more, there will be problems. ”

"What about the ammunition?" Li Kongrong and Pantuo said, Huang Baitao was grateful and asked about the equipment.

"Ammunition for equipment and training will be transported by sea through Burma, and military uniforms will be from the Dian army." Li Kongrong said and took out the map of Yunnan left by Zhang Yanxiang and pointed to Longchuan Road above Ruili on the China-Myanmar border. "It's in this location. The Yunnan-Burma Highway is from Lashio to Wan Town, 20 kilometers east of Ruili, and few people pay attention to the west, and we are still dozens of kilometers north of Ruili. ”

Li Kongrong pointed to the location of the training camp and was quite satisfied. This is the result of Zhou Yingcong's negotiation with Long Yun during this time, in addition to the training camp Longchuan also has to build an airport, but Long Yun means that it must be kept secret, so Zhang Yanxiang does not know this secret.

"I'm relieved to have somewhere." Huang Baitao breathed a sigh of relief. "Because the instructors in Hong Kong are not on the ground and there are no soldiers, a lot of things are really hard to say,"

"More than 200 people will be screened in advance before they set off, and I will come up with a plan at that time." Li Kongrong said. "Remember, no one else knows where you're going, and you can't know where you are. The following is said to be in the territory of Myanmar, the province of leaked information. ”

"That's for sure." Huang Baitao is not surprised by such secrecy measures.

"I can foresee that the first combat will not be at home, but overseas." Li Kongrong handed him a cigarette and picked one up himself. "The emotions of the soldiers should be paid attention to, we use troops overseas in order to obtain bases, and only with bases can we expand and attack Japan, this truth must be explained clearly to the people below, otherwise when we go to the battlefield and find ourselves fighting thousands of miles away, I am afraid that many people will not be able to figure it out."

"Are you going to the Caribbean?" Huang Baitao remembers the Caribbean Sea that he once mentioned.

"In the Caribbean, that's where the navy is. I thought about the place of the army, it would be better to put it in East Africa. Li Kongrong pointed to Ethiopia and said: "This is an Italian colony, if Germany attacks France and France surrenders, then now neutral Italy will declare war on France and Britain, and Italy will attack British Somalia from Ethiopia in addition to attacking France......

"Are we going to help the British?" Huang Baitao's thoughts were pulled far away, and he was very surprised that the troops went to fight in East Africa.

"Nope. Why should we help the British? Li Kongrong shook his head. What we are going to do is cut a piece of land in this position after the Italians drove the British out of British Somalia. ”

"Here?" The location Li Kongrong was referring to was not the Red Sea, but the Indian Ocean, near the Somali border off the coast of Kenya.

"Yes. British Somalia is strategically located in the Red Sea, and there is no need for us to grab it. On the contrary, this piece of worthless place, in the case of a full-scale counteroffensive by the British army, the price paid will be very small. Li Kongrong said, "This will be the base of the Marine Corps in the future, and recruits from all over the country can gather here, and when the soldiers are trained, the Japanese will also go south." Whether it's Singapore or Myanmar, we can all go. ”

"But what if the Japanese come?" Huang Baitao remembered that Li Kongrong had talked about East Africa last time, but he was worried about the Japanese, and he wondered why he wasn't worried now.

"We were there to raise the flag of the British, nominally belonging to the British colonial army." Li Kongrong explained. "So the Japanese can't find a handle, and if they hide it well, maybe the Japanese don't even know that we have such an army in Kenya. The trouble is the issue of independent command, we just want a place by the sea, and if Britain does not agree, then we can only return to the Caribbean, which is too far. So this time I'm going to talk to the British about this issue formally, and when the time comes, you go with you, and after you get to know people, you follow up on this matter, and then report it to me if there is a problem. ”

"But I ......" Huang Baitao hesitated, and said with a difficult face: "But I don't understand foreign languages." ”

"You have two translators." Li Kongrong thought that there was something difficult about him, but it turned out to be this problem. "Your task is to get a piece of land by the sea with the permission of the British, like Kismayo or Mogadishu, or at worst Rasini. At that time, even if the navy does not have regular aircraft carriers, the training aircraft carriers will have to be pulled out to cooperate with the operation. ”