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Chapter 1467 A Visitor in the Snowstorm

In the days after Christmas, Syria was shrouded in falling snowflakes, and although there was no snow on the ground, the cold weather still made the people of southern Sichuan, who are accustomed to warmth, reduce the opportunity to go out. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Twelve kilometers northwest of Syria City, the new site of the Syrian Aircraft Manufacturing Company under the Turtle Mountain, through the rows of neat factories, An Yi led a group of people into a rectangular house covering an area of nearly 10,000 square meters, pointed to the advanced production lines, and said to the guests with a surprised face:

"Look, this is the B2 bomber manufacturing workshop that we have just finalized. Our aircraft manufacturing adopts the world's most advanced assembly line operation technology, where the aircraft will be moved to different areas and receive a step-by-step workflow arrangement. In order to keep the production line running, we have set up a secondary line to produce a variety of parts to ensure that the correct number of parts can be supplied to the final production line. Our production line can continuously upgrade our fighters according to battlefield experience, and we have set up twelve modification centers for this purpose, which are specially designed to make some local fine-tuning of new fighters according to the latest air combat information, and if these adjustments prove to be beneficial in the end, they will be immediately expanded to the entire production line. ”

An Yi approached one of the production lines, where he was responsible for the process of covering the huge fuselage of the aircraft with an aluminum alloy shell. The two workers standing on the top of the alloy bracket nodded kindly to An Yi and the visiting guests, and continued to work in their hands.

The aluminum alloy has just been half installed, and the back half of the body is still exposed with an arc-shaped aluminum alloy steel frame, An Yi affectionately touched the surface of the aluminum alloy with his fingers, and heard a pleasant metal sound, so he continued:

"The B2 bomber is based on the wreckage of the Japanese four-engine bomber that we got on the battlefield, and then compared with our previous design ideas, the four-engine bomber developed after summarization, and the technology has been upgraded on the basis of the Japanese four-engine bomber. What we see now is the middle of the aircraft, the skeleton of the semi-monocoque fuselage, which is formed by a series of large aluminum alloy rings tightly tied to aluminum strips, which form the aluminum rings of the original fuselage, called peripheral ribs, and their outer edges are folded, forming a plane that can be installed on the aluminum shell; Each V-shaped groove is opened on the inner edge, so that the aluminum strip or the longitudinal strip can lie in the groove appropriately, and these aluminum rings are fixed to form a circular fuselage skeleton, and each piece of metal cover plate of the shell is pierced with a small aluminum tube, and each small aluminum tube plays a role in the aluminum plate stuck at the intersection of the aluminum ring and the longitudinal strip, waiting for the riveting shell. The rivets pass through the holes in the middle of these small aluminum tubes, melting them all into the aircraft's aluminum shell. ”

After the guests read it carefully and were amazed, An Yi took everyone to continue to walk forward, pointing to the busy workers around and the production lines with different functions, and continued to introduce:

"This four-engine bomber consists of four parts, the front, the middle, the rear half and the tail of the 'stinger'. Each part has its own independent fixture. The skeleton of the fuselage is first manufactured and made strong, then partitions that divide the different parts are installed, and then the shell of the aluminum alloy plate is covered on the body of each part. Once this is done, it will be transported to the initial assembly line not far from the final assembly area via an aerial gondola......"

During the conversation, everyone came to the production area where ten planes with aluminum alloy plates were being installed on the outside, and pointed to one of the aircraft hulls where four female workers were working intensively in the cabin:

"Please note that our bomber is designed with four remote-controlled fire turrets that can concentrate ten large-caliber machine guns, as well as a direct-controlled turret in the tail. In order to improve the comfort of the crew during long high-altitude flights, the fuselage is divided into three separate sealed cabins, the front part is the pilot, bombardier and engineer cabin, the middle part is the gunner and observer cabin, and in the tail there is a separate sealed cabin for the gunner in the tail section. Thanks to the latest technology, the interior of our B2 bomber's cabin is completely isolated from the outside world, allowing the crew to move freely, even at high altitude, breathing air at normal temperatures, without everyone wearing oxygen masks and electrically heated flight suits. ”

Then, An Yi took four white men in their thirties and forties who had flashing Marshal and General Venus on their shoulders respectively, drilled into the fuselage and pointed to the four walls that had been covered with aluminum alloy plates:

"In order to eliminate this problem and speed up production, our engineers have devised a new method, which is the partial production that we see now, and then finally assemble the various parts of the aircraft before leaving the factory. In the past production line, workers need to assemble all parts of the aircraft before thousands of internal devices are installed, which means that a large aircraft like B2 will have a lot of workers constantly entering and exiting from the small door of the aircraft, and the final assembly line production method, by dividing it into several small production lines, eliminates this huge loss of time and efficiency, and each small production line is dedicated to the production of a part of the aircraft. We are now in the prefabricated parts of the front fuselage of the B2 bomber, which, after completing the internal installation, will be sent to the next working section to be connected to the tail section. ”

Blyukher, who walked out of the fuselage with An Yi, couldn't hold back any longer, and said with a faint sigh: "Such a professional aircraft production process is unheard of, compared with our aircraft factory in the Far East, it is more like a handicraft workshop. Originally, before coming to Syria, many of our comrades still had doubts, saying that the cooperation between our Far East and Syria could only unilaterally benefit Syria, and we did not benefit at all. To put it mildly, it is to sit in a well and watch the sky. ”

A colonel in his forties, wearing glasses and silver hair, blushed, took the initiative to review:

"I'm sorry, Comrade Blyukher, I underestimated my Chinese comrades too much, and I now understand that the high-performance bomber that they have begun to officially put into production is much better than the new bomber that I only envisioned. Commander, Chairman, Comrade Vasily and Comrade Hulin, I have a request here, please allow me to stay in Syria to work and study and develop better aircraft for the Republic. ”

"Comrade Tupolev, you are already the forty-ninth expert in the delegation who made such a request to Comrade Blyukher, and I even suspect that if the visit continues, the comrades on the scientific and technological front will run out." Lyuschenkov teased with a smile.

Tupolev was a well-known Soviet aircraft design expert, and three years ago, he developed the "AHT-20" Maxim for the Soviet Union. The Gorky large passenger plane, medium and heavy bombers, torpedo planes, and reconnaissance planes, and the "SB2" bomber and Tu-35 passenger planes were developed before last year, but during the Great Purge, they were accused of leaking designs to Germany, betraying the country, and defecting, and were sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to Gugra. If history had not changed, he would not have been released until after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, and continued to engage in aircraft research, and successfully developed Tu-2, Tu-4 and other bombers and Tu-104 passenger aircraft.

In this era, after being liberated by the Far Eastern Republic, Tupolev and his family, who were full of fear of the rebellion, completely gave up the idea of returning to Moscow, and Tupolev took the post of director of the Institute of Aircraft and Power of the Far Eastern Republic, and in Boli and Vladivostok respectively, he and his students Sukhoi, Petlyakov, Myasishev, and Arkhangelsky founded the Sukhoi Aircraft Design Bureau, the Petriyakov Design Office, the Myasishev Design Office, and the Arkhangelsky Office, which were overseen by Tupolev.

Tupolev had the same experience as aircraft design experts Yakovlev, Borikarpov, Gorbunov, Gudkov, Kon. Pander to. Kalinin, director of the Research Institute of Rocket Sciences Kreymyunov, and his deputies -- Langemak, the inventor of the "Katyusha" rocket launcher, Korolev, the rocket designer, Bekaury, the artillery designer, Kurchevsky, the recoilless gun designer, the tank designer Zaslavsky, the radar expert Ossepkov, and the Smirnov physicist Landau, all of them set up research laboratories separately or in partnership.

In addition, mathematicians Luzin, microbiologists Zdrovsky and Nadesson, marine and fisheries specialists Mekhonosin, botanist Mikheyev, medical scientist Hollitzman, medical figure Koch, hydraulic scientist Tyr Tholl. Astvatsitryan and others have also become the backbone of scientific research institutions in the Far East.

The science and technology now possessed by the Far East, because it retains the main personnel of the former scientific research institutions, is even more advanced than Moscow, which destroyed all "reactionary materials".

In this delegation, 52 experts from various fields visited Syria, and although for the sake of secrecy, the Syrian government only demonstrated a small part of the advanced technology, which was enough to fascinate the experts and scholars and force them to stay in Syria to study in order to catch up with the world's advanced technology and level.

Tupolev said with a serious face: "Over the years, due to serious mistakes in the guidelines, our technology has fallen behind the times, and I was greatly touched by this trip. Among the more than 10 enterprises visited in the past few days, including Syria Aviation Power Company, Syria Aircraft Manufacturing Company, Syria Power Company, Syria Aircraft Company, Syria Aircraft Equipment, six aircraft manufacturers involved in the category of my research, involving the production and manufacturing of large passenger aircraft, fighters, bombers, reconnaissance aircraft, transport aircraft, training aircraft and other aircraft, the fuselage required by an aircraft such as spars, longitudinal beams, bulkheads, ribs and frames and other structures, as well as aluminum alloy shells, including the number of 150,000 or 60,000 parts, 1450,000 rivets, what a big process. I have heard that nearly 100 factories carry out standardized production around aircraft parts, and such strict organization and scheduling are really unimaginable to ordinary people. ”

Speaking of this, Tupolev turned respectfully to An Yi, translated by a girl named Lilia who was selected from among the Belarusian students of the Syrian non-commissioned officer school:

"Dear Ann, may I ask what is the monthly production of the B2 bomber now?"

An Yi patiently explained: "The B2 bomber is our newly developed model, although it has been tested in the wind tunnel and other related parts, it is still in the stage of actual combat testing, so as to find defects at any time and make up for them at any time, so now we have only opened this one production workshop, and the factory that supplies related parts has not opened full production capacity." Such a workshop can produce twenty fighters in two months. However, as long as the front line needs it, we can increase the production workshop at any time, and there is no problem with the monthly output of 20 or even 50 aircraft.

"At present, the whole southwest has entered a wartime system, and all production is carried out around the current war, so we can freely allocate resources. Now the entire southwest, including Syria, Luzhou, artesian, Zhaotong, Yunnan all the steel groups, the cumulative monthly output of steel is only 400,000 tons, which is already our current production limit, and due to the French Annam government last month to us blockade measures, it is expected that the future output will drop significantly, therefore, the rational allocation of resources, has become our current urgency, the B2 bomber that occupies too much manpower and alloy materials is still in the scope of limiting production. ”

The members of the delegation, including Blyukher, Lyushenkov, Vasily and Hulin, nodded thoughtfully.

In the past few days, everyone has followed An Yi and visited more than ten representative enterprises, such as: Luzhou Iron and Steel Company, which produces various steels, pig iron, alloy steel, light weapons, ammunition, various types of infantry guns, cannons, howitzers, howitzers, rocket artillery, and various machinery and equipment;

Luzhou Automobile Factory, which produces trucks, buses, off-road vehicles, cars, ambulances, fire trucks, radio command and communication vehicles, etc.;

Luzhou Heavy Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd., which produces heavy machinery and equipment, heavy transport vehicles, heavy crawler vehicles, excavators, road rollers, cranes, drilling machines, and gantry cranes;

Luzhou Railway Locomotive Factory, which produces train locomotives, carriages, rails, and train vehicle maintenance;

Luzhou Machine Tool Factory, which produces all kinds of machine tools, including stamping machines, hydraulic presses, hydraulic presses, forging presses, cutting machines, planers, lathes, milling machines, machining centers, gears, bearings, beds, tailstocks, slide boxes, tools, cutting tools, and measuring tools;

Xufu Machinery Factory, which produces various professional mechanical and electrical production lines, high-precision machine tools, 10,000-ton hydraulic presses, heat treatment furnaces, vertical centrifugal pouring machines, metal forming equipment, electric welding and oxygen welding equipment, hammocks, general parts, and instrumentation spare parts;

artesian well tractor plant for the production of tractors, seeders, harvesters, rice transplanters, bulldozers, various types of tanks, and various types of armored vehicles;

the Syrian military factory that produces steelmaking, rolling steel, armor steel for tanks, thin steel plates for vehicles, anti-aircraft machine guns, heavy machine guns, general-purpose machine guns, large-caliber sniper rifles, automatic rifles, semi-automatic rifles, grenades, mines;

Zhaotong Iron and Steel Plant, which produces alloy steel, rail steel, vehicle steel plates, construction steel, cannons, howitzers, howitzers, infantry guns, anti-aircraft guns, etc.

All of these enterprises are monsters that devour steel, and it is said that An Yi guided the visit to only some of the representative enterprises, and there are a large number of similar enterprises in the southwest, Xiangxi, and southern Yunnan, so you can imagine how much pressure on the steel side is.

An Yi struck while the iron was hot, and asked Lieutenant General Zhanzhi, director of the General Political Department who accompanied the visit, Lieutenant General Mu Chaiyi, deputy chief of the General Staff, and Lieutenant General Zhang Yang, deputy director of the General Logistics Department, to lead the guests to visit around, and then brought Blyucher, Lyuschenkov, Vasily and Hulin, four teachers from Whampoa, to the staff lounge of the production workshop, and told Shen Fengdao and Lin Yaodong to watch the door and not let outsiders enter, so he lowered his voice and said:

"All of you are my teachers when An Yi was in Huangpu, so I don't hide from you that the steel production in the southwest is now very self-sufficient, let alone supporting other places. Therefore, I sincerely hope that the construction of Mongolia can be fully supported by the teachers. At present, although the war in Western Siberia has temporarily ended in victory in the Far East, we must not neglect to be vigilant against Moscow, because it is a matter of life and death for a regime, and in order to save the defeat, anything can be done, and I am afraid that at a critical moment, Stalin may collude with the Japanese.

"In this context, as the most loyal ally of the Far Eastern Republic, I believe that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of Mongolia, and it must be implemented as soon as possible. We have already started to expand coal mines and build thermal power plants in Mongolia, Mongolia is rich in coal and iron resources, and I want to make use of the resources nearby, and then introduce the advanced technology of our Syrian province, speed up the industrialization process of Mongolia, and fundamentally solve the logistical supply problem of the Mongolian army and the Northeast Army.

"However, if you only rely on Syria to transport machinery and equipment to Mongolia, it is not enough to rely on air transportation alone, teachers think about it, one by one parts are disassembled and loaded on the plane, and then slowly assembled there, it is too delayed, and the transportation of 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses required for casting large-diameter seamless steel pipes is even more unimaginable. Therefore, I would like to ask the Far Eastern side to produce the production lines and machinery and equipment of power plants, steel plants, machine factories, vehicle factories, tractor factories, etc., for the cost of which will be settled by us in US dollars. In July this year, Syria opened an air route between Syria and Berlin, Germany, from Syria to Berlin and then to any part of Europe, and teachers can send someone to open an account in a Swiss bank, and then I can transfer the money directly to the account. ”

Blyukher, Lyushenkov and others glanced at each other and were moved.

You must know that the present Far East, which seems to be in all directions, has already occupied more than half of the territory of the Soviet Union, and if it takes Moscow's republics in Central Asia in one fell swoop, then three-quarters of the territory of the Soviet Union will be occupied by the Far East, and it seems that victory is only one step away.

But this is only superficial, even if you add the newly incorporated areas of Western Siberia, the entire Far Eastern Republic has a population of only 38 million, while the area controlled by Moscow has a population of 150 million, and at the same time, 80 percent of the industrial areas of the Soviet Union are in the European part, and at present, the oil and gas of Western Siberia are still buried deep underground and no one knows each other, and the water, mineral and forest resources of Eastern Siberia have not been exploitedAfter the establishment of the Soviet Union, with the completion of the two five-year plans, many new iron ore and coal mines were discovered in Western Siberia, so there were steel plants, machinery factories, military factories and tractor factories, but compared with the European part, the scale was much smaller.

To compare just a simple figure, the total steel production in the USSR is now 35 million tons (pig iron + steel), and only 7 million tons in the area under the control of the Far Eastern Republics, accounting for 20% of the total production. Siberia and the Far East are rich in resources, and the reason why they cannot be expanded is mainly due to the population, after all, all walks of life need people, and if any one link occupies too many resources, then there will be problems in other sectors. Therefore, the leaders of the Far Eastern Republics, although they were very loud and fearless in the face of Stalin and Moscow raising their coercive butcher's knives, were fighting-for-tat, but in their hearts they were already seeking a way out.

The present Far East, like the Soviet Union, implements a planned economy, and the money in the hands of the people is of little use at all, and the food, clothing, bicycles, and houses they need are all distributed or rewarded by the government according to their performance in their jobs, and there is nothing to buy in the market with the rubles in their hands.

Therefore, it is most convenient for the top leaders of the Far Eastern Republic to pretend to be public and private, because even if they produce more, the government can pay for it.

With the open establishment of the Far East and its open break with Moscow, although only Mexico has established diplomatic relations with the Far Eastern Republics, the foundations of European and American countries dedicated to the elimination of the red regime have begun to send a steady stream of strategic materials needed to maintain the war to Vladivostok through the United States, Mexico, Australia, and other countries, in an effort to make the Far East persist in maintaining the war and die in the war. They don't know that many high-level officials in the Far East are not too optimistic about their own future, but it is a pity that Moscow has blocked all the retreat routes, and can only find a way through other aspects.

The four of Blyukhel got together to discuss it, and finally Lyuschenkov, who had the closest relationship with An Yi, grabbed An Yi's hand and said with an extremely solemn expression:

"An Yi, we agree to your request, this money should be reserved as an emergency fund for all officials, Red Army soldiers, technical experts and workers in the Far East, we will not use it easily, but if it is used, it means that the Far Eastern regime is already in turmoil, and the situation has reached the most dangerous time. We are now dependent on each other, no matter for others, we will support the construction of Mongolia, all the machinery and equipment you need, you can open a list to us, seven large machinery factories in the Far East, five machine tool factories, are all new machines purchased during the economic crisis in the United States, can produce various types of machine tools and electromechanical production lines, but about large-scale thermal power generator sets, 10,000-ton hydraulic presses, automobiles, airplanes and other production lines, we have to rely on you to send technical experts to help us solve. I think with such a multi-pronged approach, Mongolia's construction will soon be on track. However, we also have a request, that is, to help us improve our fighters, bombers, and reconnaissance planes, and the next battle will become more and more fierce, and we are really not at ease without high-performance fighters to cooperate with the operation. ”

"Don't worry, this is a matter of duty, and it is our duty to do it!"

An Yi nodded in promise, his heart was full of joy, with the help of the Far East, through convenient railway transportation, a steady stream of production equipment can be transported from the major cities of the Far East to Mongolia, with the establishment of light and heavy industry, the strength of the Northeast Military Region and the Mongolian Military Region will be strengthened. At that time, even if the Soviet Union makes a comeback, it can be easily dealt with, after all, with Hitler eyeing the West, Stalin may not dare to invest more troops on the Eastern Front, let alone wait until the Soviet-German war starts, and Stalin, in turn, will have to act according to the eyes of Mongolia.