As soon as Zhang Boling talked about the army, everyone was silent -- recently a person in the newspaper named "Railway Expert Empty Two Grids" wrote several commentaries on the war between the Chinese and Japanese armies in the Battle of Songhu. Non-military personalities like Zhang Boling and Jiang Menglin can also know the difference between the combat effectiveness of an infantry division with light weapons as the core and www.biquge.info an infantry division with artillery as the core. Why did the army fight to the death in Shanghai instead of retreating to the rear defense line......

The article merely points out the country militarily. The mistake of the thinking of army building: that is, with China's national strength, it is impossible to build an infantry division with artillery as the core, not only because of the weak industrial base and the high cost of artillery shells - Germany alone consumed 520 million artillery shells in the last war, which is not something that an agricultural country like China can afford, and another fatal problem is the lack of horses.

In the pre-Qing Dynasty, there was still a nominal horse administration, and the former Qing Dynasty was destroyed for more than 20 years, and now there is no symbolic horse administration, and there are naturally not enough horses without horse politics, let alone good breed horses. For example, an artillery regiment needs eight horses to tow a field artillery, six to a mountain artillery, and two hundred and sixteen horses to pack a mountain artillery regiment. The artillery required 216 horses, plus the horses for transporting the shells, and each artillery regiment must have more than 1,000 horses, and these horses must also be semi-European stallions, not domestic horses. And the artillery has horses, do the baggage troops want horses? How many horses do you want?

The restraint of cannonballs and horses made the country. The army could not build an infantry division with artillery as the core, so it could only retreat to build an infantry division with light weapons - heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and rifles as the core, but the government only sought a model and did not focus on the unified improvement of the formal rifle and the localization of the Czech light machine gun, but instead built the so-called elite German armament division, advocating German mechanization, so that when the German armament division was insufficient, the army on the battlefield had mixed weapons and poor firepower, and the rifles used by many troops were even rifled. There is no chance of hitting the head......

In particular, he ridiculed Lieutenant General Zhang Zhi, the former commander of the 9th Group Army, who was stealing chickens and rice, saying that one of the so-called 'two staff officers in the army' was so unbearable that before the war began, he did not do reconnaissance, was not familiar with the terrain, did not make plans and targeted training, and pulled out soldiers to rush to the line of fire of the Japanese army, advocating 'spirit first'. The level of staff officers of the whole army is low, and the middle and high-level commanders are incompetent.

Scolding the national government, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and most of the middle and high-ranking officers, and praising low-level officers, non-commissioned officers, and front-line soldiers, especially non-central troops, is the style of 'railway experts are empty'. These articles began to be published in the declaration, because of the facts, and firmly believe that the War of Resistance will be won, for a time rave reviews, Luoyang paper is expensive, but because of the 'railway expert empty two grids' language, the article was banned by the state government on the grounds of leaking state secrets, and then it was published in the tabloids, and the businessmen with flexible minds collected it into a book, collected and issued a book, and immediately made a lot of money.

Of course, there are pros and cons to this person's article, because the 'railway expert empty two grids' predicted that the Japanese army would definitely carry out a massacre after taking the capital of our country, and for a time the people in the capital fled and Nanjing almost became an empty city. The role of public opinion is so great that most people refer to the country. The army sighed and thought of the country again. The military salaries spent by the army over the years can only be lamented.

Zhang Boling's mansion is nothing special, in fact, it is the housing of ordinary merchant gentry, but it is more decent. He sighed that the army scene was a little cold, and there was only the sound of hens laying pimples in the yard, and several people suddenly remembered that Zhang Boling said that he wanted to kill chickens to entertain guests.

"Let's not talk about the Army." As a student, Mei Yiqi spoke up, "We all have the talents that the Navy needs, isn't Meng Zhaoying from the Radio Institute very suitable?" He is an expert in vacuum electronics. ”

Meng Zhaoying is a figure mentioned by Yan Keats in Berlin, and if he wants to study radio detectors, he is the first person that Yan Keats thinks of. Li Kongrong also fully recognized this, especially after knowing that Meng Zhaoying had trial-produced a vacuum tube with a wavelength of only one centimeter, he even believed that this person was the talent that the radio project was looking for. It is precisely because of this that Yan Kici and Zhong Qiangong hurriedly came to Changsha by plane, for fear that Meng Zhaoying would leave the school due to the temporary university holiday.

"Is Professor Meng here?" Zhong Qian Gong said, looking straight at Mei Yiqi.

"Of course, he's probably in class now," Wu Youxun on the side said, he also knew that the matter seemed to be extremely important at this time, and immediately got up and said, "You wait, I'll call him over immediately." With that, he walked quickly.

"It's great." Zhong Qiangong breathed a sigh of relief, and after he finished speaking, he asked again: "Is Professor Sa from the Department of Chemistry here?" ”

Professor Sa is Sa Bentie, Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, and this is Yan Keats's first choice for the chemical pharmaceutical program. According to his words, in addition to the engine, other talents must be found at Tsinghua University.

Zhong Qiangong and Yan Keats were full of hope, but Mei Yiqi, Jiang Menglin, and Zhang Boling looked unhappy, and Mei Yiqi said: "Professor Sa's family and parents are in Beiping, so they ......, so they didn't go south." ”

"Humph! Is he going to take up a false position? Yan Keats sensed that something was going on and became very angry. He originally thought that Sa Bentie was a native of Fuzhou, and he was the nephew of the same branch as the navy veteran Sa Zhenbing, and it would be good to let him preside over the chemistry project, but he didn't expect this person to stay in Beiping. What parents and family, these are not reasons at all!

"Of course not." Mei Yiqi was very uncomfortable under Yan Keats's forced gaze, he lowered his head and explained: "We mobilized him several times when we went south, but he was tired of family affairs and couldn't get out of it, and he had already transferred to Fu Jen University to teach. ”

"If you don't go south to go to the national disaster together, you will lose some backbone." Yan Keats flicked his sleeves in disappointment.

"This ......" Zhong Qiangong didn't think about it so much, he just wanted to find people: "Professor Sa also has a relationship with the navy, so let's do it, the navy asks Sa Lao to come forward and invite him again." ”

"That couldn't be better!" Mei Yiqi immediately interfaced. Although Fu Jen University is a religious university and directly under the Pope of Rome, it is not glorious for Sabentie not to go south after all, and he is not like Zhou Zuoren who wants to 'guard the school property'.

"If he doesn't go south, Mr. Zhuang can also lead the project." Yan Keats mentioned another famous chemist in China, Zhuang Changgong, director of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academia Sinica, "I don't know if Mr. Zhuang is willing to go to Europe, he also understands German." ”

Zhuang Changgong's qualifications are older than Sa Bentie, and this person is also from Fujian, which is the second choice. But his identity is a question, the director of the Institute of Chemistry of the Academia Sinica is not like a university professor who can immediately leave with his bag, which involves many affairs of the state government.

"Lieutenant Zhong, can you tell me what kind of talent this chemical talent is mainly looking for?" When it comes to chemists, Zhuang Changgong and Sa Bentie are the best chemists in China, and when Zhang Boling saw that these two people were not located for a while, he immediately wanted to know what kind of talents the navy needed. After he finished speaking, he seemed to have guessed something, and said: "Isn't the navy going to make poison gas?" ”

"Of course not." Zhong Qiangong replied, according to the version provided by Li Kongrong, he explained slightly: "The navy is actually going to study a kind of microorganism, a kind of mold, and the secretion of this mold is very useful. ”

"Studying mold ......" This is not inorganic chemistry or organic chemistry, it is a very unpopular biochemistry. Whether it was Zhang Boling, Jiang Menglin and Mei Yiqi all began to think deeply. After a long time, Zhang Boling said: "I have a person who recommends it, this person is called Wang Yinglai, a few years ago in the graduate school of Yenching University, he wrote several articles and published internationally with soy milk, milk digestion and proteases. I don't know if this protease is similar to the kind of mold you said, if it is similar, then you can send him a telegram, he is now a lecturer at Jinling University, and he should go to Chongqing at this time. ”

Li Kongrong didn't say that it was penicillin, Zhong Qiangong naturally didn't know what kind of mold it was, and at the same time, he was told by Li Kongrong that he must be careful when looking for this kind of talent, because the Ministry of Finance has funded Huang Minglong to do research. Zhuang Changgong can't ask for it, and if Sabentie can't come, then this Wang Yinglai will be the most suitable person. Zhong Qiangong, who didn't want to miss it, said, "Then ask Mr. Zhang to send a telegram on his behalf, and don't want Mr. Wang to come, I will go to Chongqing immediately after Changsha." ”

"Okay, I'll go and telegraph to Jinling University in the afternoon." Zhang Boling carefully noted down this incident. After saying this, he asked again: "The navy still needs engine talent and precision ......."

"Precision navigation talents." Zhong Qiangong immediately added with a smile that he gradually developed a good impression and trust in Zhang Boling, hoping that he could open his mouth and solve the problem completely.

"These two ......" Zhang Boling thought for several times, and finally shook his head, but his student Mei Yiqi said: "These two kinds of people are not easy to find!" Later, I will bring Professor Zhuang Qianding and Professor Gu Yujing, who are both experts in the field of mechanical engineering, and Professor Zhuang is also the vice president of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. ”

"Principal Mei, can't the two professors do it?" Zhong Qiangong didn't know the details of the two professors, so he asked.

"Nope." Mei Yiqi shook his head, and he said: "Professor Zhuang mainly studies generators, not engines, and Professor Gu studies textile machinery, so it's even more irrelevant." In fact......" Mei Yiqi said helplessly: "There are very few people who study engines in my country, no matter what engine it is, whether it is an airplane or a car. If the navy needs aviation talents, Tsinghua University has many of them, such as Professor Wang Shizhuo of the Nanchang Aircraft Factory, who has built the largest wind tunnel in China in Nanchang......"

"Wind tunnel talent is also needed." Zhong Qiangong added that he knew that Li Kongrong wanted to build something that could fly, and since he wanted to fly, of course the wind tunnel experiment should be done, so in the aviation jet engine project, wind tunnel talents and aviation talents are also needed, but they are still secondary to engine talents.

"Let's talk about it when Professor Zhuang comes." After Mei Yiqi finished speaking, she snorted again, "We principals are all scholars, and we are useless scholars." I knew this was the case, and I didn't study literature before. ”

Mei Yiqi's haha also made Zhang Boling and Jiang Menglin smile lightly, they have always thought that Wen can educate people, and it is not until today that they realize that compared with educating people, 'Wei Ren' is more important, and 'Wei Ren' needs science and technology. However, as far as the study style of the whole country is concerned, there is a tendency to favor theory over practice. For example, there are many people at home and abroad who study aeronautical engineering, but there is no one who can build aero engines, after all, they are doctors, who want to deal with wrenches and oil pollution every day like mechanics.

Mei Yiqi's worries became a reality after Zhuang Qianding's arrival, as soon as he heard that the navy needed engine talents, he hadn't even said what kind of engine it was, so he said: "I'm afraid this kind of person is difficult to find." Everyone is sitting in the school and teaching, who is going to build an engine. I remember that the only person who could build an engine was Zhi Bingyuan of Shanghai Xinzhong Engineering Co., Ltd., but they built a Diesel engine, and the Navy didn't want to build a Diesel engine, right? ”

"It's not." Zhong Qiangong shook his head in disappointment, he thought that Professor Zhuang Qianding, who was the vice president of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, could introduce a few people, and he didn't want to have only one car engine. He then asked: "Then may I ask Professor Zhuang, is there such a talent in precision navigation machinery in China?" ”

"There are very few such talents," Zhuang Qianding once again gave a negative answer, "There are no such talents in the ...... of the Mechanical Engineering Society and the Physical Society, as far as I know." ”

After Zhuang Qianding finished speaking, Gu Yuying also shook his head, "There is no such talent, at least not in China, if there is, this kind of talent should also be in the navy." Aren't the gyroscopes and compasses used in torpedoes and ships all for the Navy? ”

Although Zhong Qiangong belonged to the navy, he was not a navy, and he had to explain: "I was in the army before, and after Chief Li arrived in Berlin at the beginning of the year, he was transferred to the navy. I think the navy also lacks talents in this area, so I ......"

"What exactly is your navy going to do?" Zhuang Qianding bluntly wanted to ask, "The strength of our three schools is not small in China, we can also do what Tongji and Jiaotong University can do, and we can also do what the Central Machinery Factory and Arsenal can do." Can the Navy entrust us with what you want? We don't want to make money, we just want to do our part to resist Japan. ”

"Yes, that's what it means!" Zhang Boling spoke on the side, looking at the country, the faculty of Linda is already very strong.

"The Navy needs to develop an inertial navigation device," Zhong Qian said, saying that he saw that the two professors did not know much about it, so he had to say again: "It is a navigation device used on airplanes, which requires automatic control, and the plane can reach its destination without human pilot." ”

Zhuang Qianding was a little scratchy, although he was all mechanical, but he specialized in generators, this kind of navigation equipment really didn't understand, let alone Gu Yujin, where did he need this kind of navigation equipment on his textile machine.

Seeing that the two professors of the Department of Mechanical Engineering were scratching their heads, Zhang Boling, who knew that Linda couldn't hold up, had to say: "Let's think about this person, let's inquire more and see who is studying this aspect of things." Lieutenant Zhong can talk about radio first, and this is Professor Meng Zhaoying, director of the Tsinghua Radio Institute. (To be continued.) )