"If you have any other requests or good suggestions, you can put them up now. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 In the conference room, Chang Kaishen, who had carefully discussed various unexpected issues, looked at the commander-in-chief Xue Yue and Yan Xunfu with a smile, and then looked at Xu Tingyao and Du Yuming, and finally his eyes fell on the faces of Du Yuming and Liao Yaoxiang.

The battle was arranged according to Chang Kaishen's intentions, and at least most of them were arranged according to his intentions -- after the failure of the command of the Battle of Songhu, Chang Kaishen reflected for a while, but finally found that the problem was not with himself, but with the senior generals, because they did not make efforts to think about tactics and did not want to come up with a way to deal with the Japanese planes and artillery. In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the 88th Army, which was directly under the Supreme Command, was actually commanded by him, and he was very pleased to achieve such results.

Chang Kaishen immediately felt that he could personally arrange and command this battle and annihilate the 14th Division, otherwise Taierzhuang commanded by Li Zongren would dominate the limelight, and it was precisely because of this that he frequently paid attention to the Eastern Henan Corps and the Battle of Lanfeng.

Xue Yue and Yan Xunfu are both old fritters, they know the big news that the leader wants to make, and they do have a great chance of success in the war, and they also have a reputation after the big victory, so they are to fuel the fire from the beginning and mobilize elite troops that can be mobilized; And Xu Tingyao didn't know Chang Kaishen's thoughts, but he was still worried that Chang Kaishen's blind command would make this battle's efforts come to naught, but just now he heard Chang Kaishen talk about Lieutenant General Muto Akira of the Operations Section of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters, and he was completely relieved.

The secret discussion of several people just now was very smooth, and all the details were extremely thoughtful, and now Chang Kaishen suddenly asked if there were any other requirements or suggestions, and several people were speechless for a while. In silence, Du Yuming still spoke hard, he said: "The battle plan has been repeatedly considered and formulated, and I have gone to the field to measure and calculate, and it has been determined that there is no loophole deviation, but the student still wants to make a request." ”

"Yes, you say." In Gui Yongqing's eyes, Shaanxi is stupid and lacking Chang Kaishen is more and more pleasing to the eye, if nothing else, it is that he can fight and win, so he looks at Du Yuming's eyes extremely kindly and kindly.

"Will the Air Force's dive bombers be able to fight at all." Du Yuming finally put forward the request he had been asking all along. "It doesn't take long, just use it once on the day of the breakout. The only obstacle to our armored corps was artillery, especially its field heavy artillery units, and the students were particularly worried that the would-be wouldn't be able to march at night and defend on the spot during the day, but if dive bombers bombarded enemy positions with their 250 kilograms of bombs, the losses of the pantry division would be greatly reduced. However, this requires the Air Force and the Army to cooperate very tacitly and punctually. ”

"Dive bombers?" Chang Kaishen was puzzled. Du Yuming followed Li Kongrong to say that the dive bomber, but in fact it was a 'bomber that landed in a hurry'. "We have such planes?"

"Yes. During his stay in Germany last year, Dean Kong ordered 100 planes [Note 51: "Youhu? Hostile? -- Germany and China's War of Resistance, p309. Later, due to the war, some of them were canceled, and the students learned that these planes were not completely canceled, and at the beginning of this year there were thirty planes. Du Yuming said.

In fact, this was not what he inquired about, but Li Kongrong informed him. Kong Xiangxi was supposed to cancel all of these dive bombers in September last year, but Li Kongrong suggested that he keep about 30 of them to support the army's operations, because this kind of bomber is accurate in bombing and is not comparable to ordinary bombers. And the price of the aircraft is not expensive, thirty less than three million marks. That's eighteen more than the original history. In the original history, twelve planes arrived, but it was not that anyone had blue eyes, but that Kong Xiangxi's order was canceled late, and twelve planes had already been loaded. Du Yuming has been looking forward to this batch of planes, when the planes were just assembled in Taierzhuang, the air force was still familiar with the performance, and now the performance has been familiar for almost a month, he thought that this time he would send all 30 dive bombers to the battlefield.

"Okay, I'll inform the Air Force to let them send this dive bomber." In order to achieve a great victory, Chang Kaishen is responsive. He did not inform the Air Force to prepare dive bombers after the meeting, but immediately wrote a warrant to Wang Shihe, asking him to immediately inform the Air Force that such dive bombers must be dispatched for this operation.

An hour later, the warrant was in the hands of Lieutenant General Qian Dajun, executive director of the Aviation Committee. At this time, because of the cooperation with the Battle of Lanfeng, the Aviation Committee was brightly lit, and Deputy Director Mao Bangchu, former Director of the Aviation Committee Zhou Zhirou, American adviser Chennault, and Zhigarev, the leader of the Soviet Air Force to aid China, were all present.

Among these people, that is, only Qian Dajun, who had just taken office, did not understand airplanes, and he took a telegram and asked Zhou Zhirou, "The chairman wants all dive bombers to participate in the war, what kind of plane is this?" ”

"It's ...... German HS.123-1 bomber. "Zhou Zhirou is smoking hard - he has no other hobbies, but he is very addicted to smoking." Since March, the planes have arrived in Hengyang one after another, and Du Guangting asked about these planes a few months ago. He said he was going to use the planes as artillery to clear the obstacles in front of the armored forces. ”

Zhou Zhirou said about the incident two months ago, when Du Guangting also invited him to dinner, and specifically talked about the use of these planes. Unfortunately, a month later, he ceased to be the director of the Aviation Committee - on April 29, after learning that many of the Chinese Air Force planes were concentrated in Hankou, the Japanese army launched a large number of planes to raid Wuhan. After the war, the Air Force began to passively avoid the war, and Zhou Zhirou, the director of aviation, who was the initiator of the mobilization of the planes, was transferred to the Kunming Air Force Military Academy as the chief of education because of Chang Kaishen's anger, and Qian Dajun, the attendant room, was appointed director of the Aviation Committee. This is tantamount to recording the fault of the 4.29 air battle on Zhou Zhirou's head, Zhou Zhirou has been reluctant to take up his post, this Lanfeng operation is not just two air force groups to support like last time, but the entire air force is dispatched, so Zhou Zhirou returned to the aviation committee to assist in command. [Note 52: For this statement, see "Memories of Zhou Zhirou", p104, recalled by Zhou Zhirou's former subordinate Fang Yao, with more detailed content and a more correct attitude.] ]

"Gentlemen, this thinking is wrong, I have rejected the Army's proposal before." Qian Dajun didn't understand what Zhou Zhirou meant, and Chennault, the aviation consultant on the side, heard 'hs.123-1', and immediately guessed what kind of plane it was, and through translation, he also understood the consciousness on Chang Kaishen's telegram. "The HS.123 aircraft carry too little ammunition and are very slow, and they are hardly useful. Gentlemen, we must not forget that we only have five airfields in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Xuchang, Zhoukou, and Luohe, and according to the plan, we can only arrange them in Luohe, but with their pitiful voyages, they can only stay in the sky over the war zone for half an hour at most. ”

Chennault had seen this kind of biplane bomber specifically, and in his opinion it was completely chicken ribs -- when carrying auxiliary fuel tanks, the aircraft had a range of only 860 kilometers, and at this time it could only carry four 50-kilogram bombs, and the total bomb load was only 200 kilograms; If 250 kg of bombs were carried under the belly of the aircraft instead of auxiliary fuel tanks, the range would be only a pitiful 480 kilometers. The airspace over the Luohe airfield to the theater of operations is nearly 200 kilometers, and the bombers stay in the airspace over the theater for half an hour at most, perhaps less than half an hour.

Chennault said that this was wrong, that there were practical considerations, and there was also an underlying consciousness of disliking German aircraft. Qian Dajun doesn't understand airplanes, he can only watch Zhou Zhirou and Mao Bangchu, but in fact, Mao Bangchu doesn't understand much. Zhou Zhirou was not easy to speak, but the chief of staff Yan Yucong said: "This type of aircraft does have the problem of too short range, and the bomb load as a bomber is too small, only 450 kilograms, but the 6th Brigade reacted after using it, this type of bomber is more accurate than ordinary bombers, and the 15th Squadron has used it to bomb a lot of Japanese patrol boats in the past half a month." I think the chairman of the committee is aware of this, so he has to transfer these planes to support the army's operations. ”

Qian Dajun was originally going to listen to Advisor Chennault, but as soon as Yan Yucong said that the chairman of the committee knew, he changed his mind, but before he could speak, Zhou Zhirou was worried: "It is not possible to arrange the plane at Luohe Airport, it is too far here, at least it must be arranged in Xuchang, but it is estimated that the time for the attack is in these two days, is it enough time for us to adjust?" ”

"What time is the attack?" Qian Dajun suddenly woke up a little, the plane is extremely delicate, this operation is almost the entire Air Force, do you really have time to adjust?

The night in Wuhan was the afternoon in Europe, and Li Kongrong was having afternoon tea with Sa Bentie, Wang Yinglai, and others from the Pharmaceutical Research Laboratory -- he had come to Switzerland for nothing else, he just wanted to see how big his cash cow had grown.

Li Kongrong cares about the cash cow, but Sa Bentie and Wang Yinglai are talking about their major discovery: purified penicillin has a miraculous effect on mice and tuberculosis in someone in the institute. Li Kongrong, who was drinking tea and eating biscuits, waited quietly for them to finish speaking, and then began to ask his own questions.

"How's the screening of strains going?" Li Kongrong put down the teacup and talked about his business.

"This ......" Sa Bentie, who was the chief researcher, restrained his smile and shook his head, "It's still not ideal, the current strains can only produce 290 units of penicillin per milliliter, and the extraction is not a problem, the problem is the yield." ”

"Two hundred and ninety units is not low!" Li Kongrong was shocked. He remembered that at that time, the penicillin researcher obtained from the Australian wholesale market only had a production of more than 200 units of rotten cantaloupe strain, and his own strain production was close to 300, and industrial production should be put on the agenda immediately.

"This ......" The last time Li Kongrong came, he talked to Sabentie about the significance of the penicillin project, so after learning about the efficacy of penicillin, he has been paying attention to the unit yield of penicillium, and also asked people in the physics laboratory to calculate. Now seeing Li Kongrong's surprise, he handed over the prepared paperwork and said, "We have already calculated the deep tank fermentation method mentioned by Brother Hansheng last time, and with the current strain yield, the cost of penicillin is very high. ”

"How tall?" Li Kongrong took the report and quickly flipped through a few pages, only to see that the final cost was written 'fifty...... Pound sterling! ’

"How is this possible?!" He shouted, "Fifty pounds? How much is this dose? ”

Li Kongrong's shouting startled Sa Bentie and Wang Yinglai, but Li Kongrong didn't know it, he said: "The use of the deep tank method is the foundation of industrialization, and there are aircraft propellers, the output of aircraft propellers can be increased by ten times, and corn syrup, which is the lowest cost culture medium ......"

Li Kongrong said a lot of nonsense, all he said was hearsay, he knew history and military affairs very well, but what he knew about medicine was big road goods and overhead novels, and other people's penicillin was done with a few efforts, and he told Saben Tie everything he knew, how could he make a 150 dollar loss penicillin!!

"You must have miscalculated!" Li Kongrong said angrily, he was really angry. How can the information of the Hereafter be wrong! How can there be anything wrong with an alternate novel! There are only a few ways for people - strains, corn culture liquid, tank fermentation, aircraft propeller stirring (which can make the culture liquid in the fermenter contact with air and increase the reaction area), sterile air, what else?! What else?!

"Brother Hansheng, this is ......" Saben Tiewang Yinglai was frightened by Li Kongrong (more than ten years later, when the two won the Nobel Prize, he sighed, fortunately, Colonel Li lost his temper at the beginning, otherwise penicillin would never be mass-produced), at this time it was Zhi Bingyuan next door who ran over, and he heard Li Kongrong's angry voice.

"Who the hell counts this?!" Li Kongrong took the cost report and glared at Zhi Bingyuan to speak.

"This is the Chinese ...... Professor Hua took someone to calculate, and he calculated it three times at that time...... "Zhi Bingyuan is still inexplicable, he doesn't know where Li Kongrong is unhappy -- he has never seen Li Kongrong get so angry."

"Which Professor Hua? How did he calculate?! Li Kongrong continued to ask, he had no respect for professors, at least when he was in college, many of those professors would only brag and fart in class.

"It's Professor Hua Luogeng of Tsinghua University, he just came to ...... last month," Zhi Bingyuan said, as soon as he said Hua Luogeng and Li Kongrong, he sat down, but the position was not upright, and he fell to the ground as soon as the chair was crooked.

"Brother Hansheng, Brother Hansheng......" Zhi Bingyuan hurriedly wanted to help Li Kongrong up.

"Don't panic! I'll sit down for a moment. Li Kongrong patted his head with the cost report, of course he knew who Hua Luogeng was, but he didn't expect Hua Luogeng to calculate the cost of the product for himself in his own research institute, is this figure wrong? It shouldn't be wrong, the laboratory is completely aware of the strain yield, and has also simulated tank fermentation production, and then set the cost of raw materials, where can the numbers be wrong! Even if it's wrong, can it be ten times wrong? It costs five pounds per dose, which is twenty dollars, plus sales expenses, what money do you still make? The aircraft carrier fleet seems to be in vain.

It's just that how did the Yankees manage to buy it for twenty dollars a dose? Are they losing money? Li Kongrong's mind became more and more chaotic, and he sat on the ground for a long time and couldn't get up. Zhi Bingyuan Sabentie was at a loss for a few moments, and only after a long time did Sabentie say: "Brother Hansheng, industrialization is only valuable if the output of strains is increased by a hundred times, and this is too difficult for now." (To be continued.) )