Now, in order to grab time, many businessmen in Henan and Hebei are willing to hire local transportation companies to transport by car, which makes the business of transportation companies in Taiyuan very prosperous, and many companies have seized the opportunity to start expanding their scale. It's just that cars are not produced in China, and they can only buy them from abroad.

Cars from Europe and the United States purchased from abroad are not only expensive, but the key problem is that they have to wait for a long time, and there is no place to explain the problem.

Now, Taiyuan can manufacture trucks, not only the price is low, but also can provide free repair services within half a year, which makes the bosses of these transportation companies happy, and the dozens of cars are not counted, the businessmen have begun to book a large number of orders, and only the current orders are scheduled for next year. There are even businessmen from Pingjin, Shandong, and Henan who have come to make reservations.

Jia Jingde once suggested expanding the production of "Iron Horse" trucks, and with such a momentum, "Iron Horse" trucks would soon be able to be sold throughout the country, and sales would never be a problem. The car factory will soon become another profitable product. This suggestion made Xiao Guodong also a little tempted, but he was resolutely blocked by Song Zhewu.

At present, what Song Zhewu needs most is a military vehicle with large load capacity and strong off-road ability.

The Puma, which has 10 wheels and a load capacity of 5 tons, and the "Tiger Young", which has excellent cross-country ability and is suitable for fast driving in various terrains, are what Song Zhewu urgently needs. Because of this, almost all of the production capacity of the car factory is occupied by these two cars.

Before the completion of the Taiku Railway, it was impossible to build large factories in the vicinity of the Baiyun Obo mining area in southern Mongolia and the large mining areas in northern Mongolia, or in newly built cities, to meet military needs. Prior to this, all the military supplies and national defense construction materials of the Northern Mongolian troops, as well as the transfer of troops and the replenishment of troops, needed to be transported by trucks by the Taiyuan Administration.

Because of the long distance between Taiyuan and Northern Mongolia, Song Zhewu's vehicles purchased from abroad have a high damage rate, so that the transportation capacity is very tight now.

In particular, the "918" incident is imminent, and according to Song Zhewu's plan, he will send troops from Beimeng to the northeast. At that time, a large number of weapons and ammunition needed to be transported to Beimeng by trucks to ensure the logistical supply of the troops.

Now that we have our own "Puma" trucks that are sturdy and have excellent cross-country ability, we must give priority to meeting the military needs of our troops. All the "Puma" trucks, which now produce more than 80 units a month, have been handed over to the transport unit directly under the Northern Frontier Governor's Office, which is under the direct command of Xiao Guodong. According to Song Zhewu's plan, in the future, all units will gradually be equipped with a sufficient number of "Puma" 10-wheeled trucks in order to enhance the troops' mobility capability.

The production of the four-wheel drive "Tiger Cub" jeep must also be guaranteed, and it is the best means of transport for personnel transportation and reconnaissance in war.

Now that the car factory is already studying the assembly line production management method and plans to start using it in the second phase of the plan, his cars will not produce dozens of cars a month.

Song Zhewu did not take out his "tiger cub" to show off, and now he will not take it out and sell it, except for the use of the officers above the brigade level in the Taiyuan Administration and Southern Mongolia, the rest are also sent to Northern Mongolia.

Of course, his Northern Frontier Chief's Office is also equipped with more than a dozen vehicles, and every time Song Zhewu goes out now, he will sit on his special "tiger cub" in a very stylish manner.

Because the tank could not be put into production for a while, in order not to idle the production equipment, Song Zhewu asked Xiao Guodong to arrange the production of the Tieniu brand tractor designed by Wang Dong.

Only, there is a problem, and that is that no one will buy his tractor now.

This is not only because the Taiyuan Administration has now carried out land reform, and each family has very little land, and it is enough for several families to share a cow, and there is no need for expensive modern tools such as tractors. Moreover, not only the landlords of Taiyuan and Suiyuan, Nanbeimeng, but also the big landlords of the provinces of the country did not need it, because almost all the big landlords rented their land to the peasants, and they only managed to collect the rent when the time came.

Despite this, Song Zhewu will not be idle and produce tractors that are useless. Tractor, he is still useful.

Originally, Song Zhewu only planned to set up a demonstration farm on the reclaimed wasteland to demonstrate and eventually promote new agricultural techniques. However, with the reclamation of a large amount of wasteland, Feng Rui suggested that the reclaimed wasteland should no longer be sold, and that agricultural companies should be established under the Committee of Agriculture, and many government-run demonstration farms should be set up to form economies of scale.

In this way, not only can a large number of people be resettled. Moreover, because of the centralized management and organization of production, it is more convenient for the resettlement of disaster victims and the development of grain and animal husbandry.

Regarding Feng Rui's suggestion, Song Zhewu completely agreed. With the help of tractors and other modern agricultural tools, the demonstration farm can absorb middle-aged and elderly people and women who are not fit to serve as soldiers and workers, liberate the strong labor force for cultivating the land, and even resettle the families of disabled soldiers and sacrificed personnel in the future, so that the commanders and fighters of the Fourth Route Army have a stronger sense of belonging to the Fourth Route Army.

With a large area of reclaimed land on the farm, Song Zhewu could just hand over the tractor to his farm to save manpower. In particular, a larger amount of wasteland will be reclaimed in Northern Mongolia in the future, and if all the newly reclaimed land is sold to the newly resettled victims, it will occupy huge human resources, which will not be conducive to the expansion of the army in the future, and will even compete with industrial production for strong labor.

Zhou Liqun's weapons research institute has also achieved fruitful results, and mass production of Type 26 semi-automatic rifles equipped with new sights has begun. With the use of this new type of sight, the recruits, who have only been trained for one month, are no less successful than veterans who have been trained for more than a year when they hit directional fixed targets at the range. It's just that when hitting moving targets, there is no veteran who is skilled and quick to react, which is obviously a matter of experience. Now, Type 26 has achieved a monthly output of 1,000 pieces.

It's just that machine guns and submachine guns are still being developed, which is mainly due to the high design standards proposed by Song Zhewu, and it will take some time.

However, the development of anti-aircraft machine guns has been very smooth, and two types of anti-aircraft machine guns, 12.7mm and 14.5mm, have been developed, and the 14.5mm caliber anti-aircraft machine guns have also developed a two-company type, which is very suitable for the anti-aircraft protection of artillery positions and important targets.

Both anti-aircraft machine guns can not only shoot aircraft with anti-aircraft fire, but also hit ground targets with flat fire, and they are extremely powerful. Even if it is a 12.7mm caliber anti-aircraft machine gun, within 500 meters, the armor-piercing bullet can even penetrate an ordinary steel plate with a thickness of 5mm, and it was unanimously named a killer by Zhou Liqun and others.

In particular, the killer can also be mounted on the "Tiger Cub", and it can also shoot at high speeds, which is very popular with the soldiers of the Teaching Corps who have given priority to trial.

Because of the limited number of production, the troops could not change their equipment on a large scale for the time being, and even one army was not enough, so Xiao Guodong had no choice but to hand over a small part of these new weapons to the teaching corps for inspection and teaching use.

This can make Zhang Yafei look straight at him, how could his first army not give priority to such a good weapon? was so anxious that he asked Xiao Guodong to grind a few times, but Xiao Guodong just didn't let go. In the end, Zhang Yafei was ruthless and ran to Song Zhewu to complain and complain.

Zhang Yafei's reason is that his First Army number is at the forefront of the Fourth Route Army, and to put it mildly, the combat effectiveness is also the strongest, and if such a powerful weapon is not equipped with him first, it will not be compared to other troops? Although they are all his own people, he Zhang Yafei can not care, but he is worried that Song Zhewu, the commander, will not look good.

Song Zhewu, who was made to cry and laugh by Zhang Yafei, had no choice but to call Xiao Guodong in person and ask Xiao Guodong to give Zhang Yafei twenty "killers" to try first.

After Zhang Yafei, who was overjoyed, returned to the army, he immediately forcibly confiscated all the young tigers that Song Zhewu had assigned to officers above the brigade level of the First Army, and installed a 12.7mm killer-1 anti-aircraft machine gun on each car.

Although large-caliber heavy artillery and large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are still stuck on special alloy steel, the 45mm anti-aircraft gun has been successfully developed, and after test firing tests, its surname can be much better than the 37mm anti-aircraft guns commonly equipped abroad, this 45mm anti-aircraft gun, can easily penetrate 20mm thick armor at a distance of 1000 meters.

What made Song Zhewu happiest was that the development of the bazooka was very smooth, and the hollow charge technology had also been mastered by the Weapons Research Institute.

At the range, the bazooka named Iron Crossbow-1, at a range of 200 meters, the armor steel after 40mm was like paper paste, because now there is no thicker high-quality armor steel, and the ultimate power test has not been carried out. However, Song Zhewu estimated that there should be no problem in penetrating 60mm thick armor steel within 50 meters.

Although the armor-piercing thickness of the Iron Crossbow-1 is much lower than that of the American M1 and the German Iron Fist in World War II, this is an intentional act of Song Zhewu and Zhou Liqun, and it is not a technical problem.

Now, just in case, the rocket warhead of the Iron Crossbow-1 does not use hollow charge technology and high-explosive charges unique to Song Zhewu at all. If the hollow armor-piercing projectile body is replaced, the vertical armor-piercing thickness will definitely not be less than 120mm.

The development of the bazooka was only known to some of the participating soldiers and a small number of high-ranking officers of the Teaching Corps. Iron Crossbow-1 has been classified as a first-class secret, and Song Zhewu is not willing to let others know about its existence at this time.

Regarding the bazooka, Zhang Yafei also came to grind Song Zhewu, but this time Song Zhewu's attitude was very resolute and he didn't give a single one.

(To be continued)