Hearing Jiang Li's offer, Weng Zhaoyuan was speechless. This fifteenth Route Army is really magnanimous, and I don't know how much net worth Zhang Xueliang saved in the Northeast at the beginning, Weng Zhaoyuan has the same idea as most of the others, if there is no foundation for Zhang Xueliang's savings in Fengtian, Jiang Li was just a small battalion commander before, even if there is no soldier in the entire battalion, how much can he eat for a lifetime? However, the obvious contrast is that Zhang Xueliang's wealth was almost thrown to the Japanese, and he never thought of using it to do some practical things before, but Jiang Li took the money to lay these industrial foundations in Gansu and formed an army to invest in the battlefield against Japan, which is also the reason why Weng Zhaoyuan chose to come to the 15th Route Army.

"When will the production of such transport trucks be available?" Jiang Li looked at Yang Ming, the director of the automobile factory next to him, and asked.

"Now the monthly output of 16 vehicles, mainly relying on the first batch of engines purchased from the United States, in addition, Lanzhou's own engines have been debugged. When their production capacity is provided, it will be fast on the lowly side, and it will be about 127 units next month, and the lowly side will also be able to produce 80 trucks. Taking advantage of the fact that there is still some time at the moment, the lowly workers are organized to give lectures and train in turns every day. Now a technician has to bring several technicians, and no matter how fast it is, there is no way to ensure the quality. Yang Ming said.

"Well, the production process has been simplified to a certain extent, but it can't affect its general performance." Jiang Li nodded, there is no need to be too anxious in this regard for the time being, it has been less than a year since the establishment of the factory, and there is still such a long way to transport in the middle, it is good to be able to make the car now, but it will take two years to set up an automobile factory. It's not an exaggeration to produce a thousand or so transport trucks. After all, Jiang Li's hard work on this is beyond the imagination of ordinary people. If it weren't for the economic crisis, I am afraid it would not be so easy to put together the automobile factory, the tractor factory, and the engine factory.

"With these trucks, plus the road rollers and road machinery that we bought from the United States. The speed of road construction in the future should be much faster. But you have to hurry up over there, the tank and the armored car have each been dismantled for you, and there are detailed production drawings, if the tank can't be made, don't blame me for playing the board when the time comes. Jiang Li put his hand on the front cover of the truck, sighed, and looked at Tang Shijian, who was in charge of the development and production of the tank.

"How can you produce a tank by drawing a scoop with a gourd. However, it may take a little longer. The trucks for transport were ok. Technicians are also easy to invite, but it is not easy to hire technicians who can build tanks, the experience of the Republic of China in this area is equal to zero, and one or two technicians sent by Vickers Company cannot solve all the problems, from tank engines, on-board radio stations, tracks, and a series of problems on vehicles. Tang Shijian said with a wry smile. If you can please some more British, French cars. Or a German technician. ”

"If only the technician was so good to please, but also England, France, Germany...."Jiang Li shook his head helplessly, but when he talked about Germany, it suddenly seemed like a bright light crossed his head. Jiang Li seemed to be electrocuted, and exclaimed, "There is!" ”

"What's there?" Tang Shijian and Weng Zhaoyuan both looked at Jiang Li and asked.

"I have some ideas, but I haven't skimmed them yet. You continue to follow up on the development of tanks, and as for the foreigner technicians, I will think of a way to see if I can get them. "The German side may be able to think of a way, but it may not be possible, calculate the time, Hitler should be about to come to power, but isn't it not that he has not yet come to power, as long as he is willing to burn money, in short, there is still a glimmer of hope.

Lanzhou is still studying the production of tanks, and it seems that it is already a little eyebrow-raising, Weng Zhaoyuan thought that there were enough surprises today, but after knowing the lineup of the temporary 1st Army for this expedition, Weng Zhaoyuan found that he had never understood the 15th Route Army. Originally, Weng Zhaoyuan thought that Zhang Zhibang's 2nd Division would be at most twice as strong as the 2nd Brigade, and that the establishment of an additional 18-gun battalion would be at its peak. After all, even the German armament division in Nanjing had only one 12-gun artillery battalion. But when he learned that the Provisional First Army had additionally equipped a 36-gun heavy artillery regiment, Weng Zhaoyuan's mouth never closed. In addition to the division headquarters having an air defense company, it turned out that the military headquarters also allocated another one. One-third of the air defense units of the entire 15th Route Army were deployed to the Provisional First Army. The heavy artillery was transferred in half. And the aviation force is more than 80 percent. Fighters plus bombers together amounted to a staggering 52 units. Such an elite force is a few points stronger than the combined force of Nanjing and the 19th Route Army in the Battle of Songhu.

It can be seen from this that Jiang Li really spared no effort in the matter of the Anti-Japanese War, and it was not the kind that some newspapers in Nanjing deliberately belittled. When the 2nd Provisional Brigade and the more than 5,300 soldiers of the 2nd Provisional Brigade embarked on the journey, Weng Zhaoyuan felt an unprecedented confidence in his heart. In the Songhu War of Resistance, the 19th Route Army, whether it was a military army, a supplementary army, or a supply of guns and ammunition, was stuck by Nanjing. Even if Zhang Zhizhong's elite 5th Army is added, it is too inferior to the Japanese army, when Jiang Wenhao arrived in Shanghai, Weng Zhaoyuan personally fought side by side with the mixed fourth brigade.

For the equipment of the mixed four brigades, the eyes are extremely red. At this time, the provisional 2nd Brigade led by him was slightly inferior to the original 78th Division in terms of strength, but its combat power was a little stronger, whether it was a brigade artillery battalion, or a flat-fire gun, a heavy mortar and a battalion-level 82MM mortar, the combined firepower was far greater than that of the 78th Division. NOT TO MENTION THAT THERE IS AN UNPRECEDENTED ANTI-AIRCRAFT COMPANY, 12.7MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT MACHINE GUNS, AND 4 20MM MACHINE GUNS. When it comes to technical arms, compared with Nanjing, which attaches more importance to quantity, the equipment of the 15th Route Army is small in the front, but this kind of advanced consciousness is incomparable to Nanjing at this time. It's a pity that Liu Zhanxiong didn't come to the 15th Route Army, Weng Zhaoyuan thought so. It's just that a unit like the Temporary First Army, with the strength of the 15th Route Army, can only make up one such team, and there is no way to supplement the second one.

The Lanzhou people, students, and gentry who saw off them in the middle of the road. Together with other soldiers, he walked through the spacious concrete streets. Before the expedition, Weng Zhaoyuan could feel that Lanzhou's overwhelming propaganda about anti-Japanese resistance was very different from Nanjing's concealment and single-mindedness. At this time, the minds of the people of the entire Lanzhou were focused on the army of the Eastern Crusade. Looking at the people, the expectant eyes of the students, as well as Jiang Li, Shao Lizi and other military and political officials personally sent each other, Weng Zhaoyuan, who was sitting on horseback, also straightened his waist a little, Lanzhou, only Lanzhou, Weng Zhaoyuan can feel such a strong anti-Japanese atmosphere. This point is not felt even in Fujian, the base camp of the 19th Route Army. Under the overwhelming newspapers and radio propaganda in Lanzhou, all the people had a stronger hatred and war spirit for the Japanese army that invaded the west. With such outstanding armament and such support from the people, this trip to Rehe must be worthy of these people! (To be continued.) )