"Good guy, the lab is still fighting."

Holding the good news from Lanzhou in his hand, Jiang Li felt comfortable in his heart. Naturally, it is also news about the breakthrough in gasoline refining technology. The benefits are self-evident, originally according to the plan, in order to meet the increasing demand for various oil in the northwest, the northwest had to increase prospecting and mining.

But doubling crude oil production in the Northwest and nearly doubling the equipment at the rear supply plants is a huge and time-consuming project. Now with this technology, the large amount of equipment saved, not to mention the value of directly meeting the needs of several divisions, the time saved in the middle, especially in wartime, cannot be exchanged for money.

"Commander, Mr. Lu called over there and said that the plane was ready." Soon, the adjutant reported the problems that Jiang Li had been concerned about.

"Really?" Jiang Li put the documents in his hand into the drawer and stood up happily, although the front line was disturbed by Han Fuyu and Wan Fulin, so that the battle of Shijiazhuang, which was originally supported, ended in failure, and Hebei was basically difficult to protect, but although the short-term military defeat was troublesome, it did not hurt the root cause after all. These technological breakthroughs in the rear can increase the blood transfusion of the northwest to the front money. The years-long contest between the two countries, a battle of hundreds of thousands of people, was not decisive. Before and after, battles of this scale have been fought with the Japanese army several times. Besides, the main forces of the two group armies of Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu have now maintained a relatively safe distance from the Japanese pursuers, and Jiang Li is still relieved for the time being on Sun Liren's side.

It's useless not to worry. Because everything that needs to be done has already been done. Rather than so. It's better to put a little more energy into the back. In fact, Jiang Li was directly in charge of the affairs of the Central Plains Field Corps at this time. In addition, it maintains direct contact with Suiyuan and Shanxi, and it is not the time to embody the art of personal tactics. Jiang Li's most important responsibility is to be responsible for ensuring that the entire corps does not make mistakes in the general direction, and at the same time keeping the legion's military orders unimpeded, so as not to let some arrogant generals of different factions below disobey military orders, which is more important than directly interfering in the command of the war. Compared with the army in Nanjing, the northwest at this time had cultivated a more effective staff system in long-term operations.

As the car drove not far from Luoyang Airport, it was on a platform finished with bricks and thick concrete. A huge pot-shaped thing was slowly turning. After hundreds or thousands of experiments, the Tianyan Project has officially taken a strategic step from the laboratory to actual combat. In fact, although the Northwest has made outstanding achievements in some aspects, there is still a part of the gap between the cutting-edge talents of the great powers in physics, chemistry, and radio, and as for the scientific giants like Nikola Tesla, Jiang Li can only hope that after the popularization of education in the entire Republic of China in the future, it will come into being.

However, it doesn't matter, the current Nikola Tesla has made an immortal contribution to the Northwest. As Jiang Li expected. Nikola Tesla still has a certain reservation, with his mastery of the radio field. What was revealed before was only the tip of the iceberg, and after the outbreak of the Nanjing tragedy that shocked the whole world, this scholar, who still yearns for peace in his heart, also accelerated the process of the Northwest Tianyan Project. After the initial experiment of radar with a distance of 35 kilometers, it was not long before another radar was experimented with a radar with a detection range of 50 kilometers and now a staggering 67 kilometers. Jiang Li wasn't sure if this was already the most cutting-edge level in the entire world at the moment, but at least there were only one or two of them whose strength surpassed that of the northwest. And that's just speculation. After all, in the history of World War II, radar only began to emerge in the later period.

At present, the Japanese army's most advanced Type 95 fighter can only drive at a speed of more than 400 kilometers when the engine is turned to the maximum, while the speed of the bomber is even slower, that is to say, even if the Japanese fighter planes go all out to attack the Northwest Air Force's airfield in Luoyang, it will probably take nearly 10 minutes from the discovery of the enemy plane to the early warning on the airfield, and the bomber with the most destructive power of the opponent will have to give the early warning time of more than 10 minutes. Maybe on the mahjong table, these ten minutes are just a few rounds of throwing. But for the airfield that was attacked, it was the fate of life and death.

The industrial production capacity of the northwest is still inferior to that of Japan, after all, Japan has developed for decades since the beginning of the Meiji Restoration, and the abundant capital accumulated by time is not something that Jiang Li can catch up with in just a few years. But with these radars, the northwest will be able to throw the Japanese army away in terms of the efficiency of the use of aircraft. The gap between the two sides in terms of industrial strength is narrowing in disguise because of this technological catch-up.

Previously, because Japan began to refine heavy oil as early as before World War I, and began the refining industry of crude oil, until now more than 20 years, the northwest is only six years, although the petroleum refining industry is not much weaker than Japan in the technology introduced, but due to the breakthrough in the laboratory technology, only need to extract one-half of Japan's crude oil, can refine the same output of gasoline as Japan, and in terms of quality to surpass the other party. That's the power of technology! It is only a matter of time before several oil mines have been discovered in the northwest surpass Japan in terms of output. As long as the output of steel is also increased, it means that the process of mechanization of the northwest army has taken a big step forward, after all, the technical foundation is already there, and the rest is how to expand production capacity.

In addition, the improved version behind the Feilong 2 is trying to streamline the parts behind it, although it is possible that the performance of the aircraft will be improved to the greatest extent because of these streamlinings, but the changes brought about by the simplification of production can make the aircraft production of the Northwest Army reach a higher level in a short period of time.

With Jiang Li's thoughts, the car was moving quickly on the road, and now Luoyang has been an officer, in order to prevent Japanese spies from mixing in to sabotage and assassinate the top leaders of the Northwest Army, soldiers patrolling with submachine guns can be seen on the street every other distance, and in the mixed crowd, there are also special agents belonging to the intelligence group.

Luoyang, the ancient capital, reveals the atmosphere of the war years everywhere, but in contrast, at this time, the people of Luoyang saw those soldiers on the road, but their hearts were filled with an inexplicable sense of security. (To be continued.) )