Deyang Heavy Tractor Factory, located in the heavy industry zone seven or eight kilometers away from the downtown area of Deyang, as one of the four major science and industry new cities in Sichuan, although Deyang does not have the high political status of Chengdu and Chongqing, nor does it have many high-tech industries and colleges and universities in Yibin, and even the scenery of Mianyang, which is not as good as the development of new science and technology, but it has a unique heavy industry.

In addition to a number of major military factories, Deyang No. 1 Heavy Tractor Factory is definitely one of the best in China, the production of crawler vehicles including tractors and Delong heavy trucks not only supply the army, marketing to the southwest, but also along the Baocheng Railway all the way to the north, sold to most of China.

Chen Zhijie is a technical cadre of the tractor factory, deputy chief engineer, now the business of the machinery factory is good, the tractor factory can produce how many tracked vehicles and Delong heavy trucks, how much can be sold, and as the main technical personnel of the tractor factory, graduated from Southwest University of Technology, he made great efforts.

From a tractor factory to the production of tracked vehicles and fist brand Delong heavy trucks, it was Chen Zhijie who took the technicians in the factory to run to Chongqing and Yibin again and again, invited experts, learned skills, and learned experience from other automobile factories. It just so happened that there was a diesel engine factory in Deyang's industrial layout, and Deyang Heavy Machinery Factory spontaneously developed heavy trucks, and after many efforts, with the help of superior experts, with the profits from the production of tractors, set up a truck production workshop, and realized the production of Delong heavy trucks.

After years of hard work, this tractor factory has become one of the top manufacturers of special vehicles and oversized trucks in China.

"Deputy Chief Engineer Chen!"

As soon as Chen Zhijie rode a bicycle into the factory gate, he saw Gao Qiang, the deputy director of the factory, jump off the bicycle and stop himself.

"Deputy Director Gao, where are you going?"

"I'm looking for you, hehe, that's right. Someone from the Mechanical and Electrical Bureau is coming, let's go, let's talk as we go. ”

The two pushed their bikes and walked slowly, chatting about some tractor factory matters.

"Lao Chen, all these years you have made a contribution to our tractor factory, everyone has seen it, yesterday at the meeting, a classmate of the Mechanical and Electrical Bureau revealed a little rumor, ready to promote you to the position of deputy factory director." Gao Qiang said playfully.

"Deputy factory director? There is a deputy director of a factory, and I went up, but I occupied the pit of Lao Gao. Chen Zhijie shook his head, with his current situation in the tractor factory, his income and status are very high, no less than a deputy factory director, if he really wants to compete for the position, he might as well be his deputy chief engineer.

"You, you're still the same, a science and engineering mind, you're afraid of trouble in everything, even if you are promoted. I naturally have my arrangement. This time, the chief engineer is a little older, and he doesn't know much about the new machinery, so it's your turn. ”

Chen Zhijie heard that the original factory was to be divided into three parts, and the old man Yu would be mainly responsible for the technical supervision of tractors and Delong heavy trucks, and the number of deputy factory directors would also increase by one, he and Gao Qiang.

"Specifically, let's go in and talk about it, there are superiors waiting."

When the two came to the factory director's office, Chen Zhijie found that the factory director was chatting with four people, two cadres in navy blue work suits, and two soldiers in military uniforms.

Among them, the rank of the soldier is still very high, two bars and two stars, Chen Zhijie also went to Deyang Heavy Industry, and saw such a high-ranking officer, lieutenant colonel, but it is amazing. The other officer was even more remarkable, he also knew the epaulettes on his shoulders, he was actually a fifth-level non-commissioned officer, judging from the calluses on that person's hand, this person was a technical officer with real skills, a fifth-level non-commissioned officer, and in the People's Army, which attaches great importance to talents, the status of the lieutenant colonel is only higher than that lieutenant colonel. At least, the military car experts stationed at the factories that Chen Zhijie came into contact with at the beginning who specialized in supervising the manufacture of military trucks were also second- and third-class noncommissioned officers.

"Xiao Chen, come, let me introduce to you, this is Deputy Director Wang of Deyang Electromechanical Bureau, and this is XCMG of Southwest Heavy Machinery Factory. This is Lieutenant Colonel Zhang of a certain bureau of the Equipment Department, and this is Professor Tian, an expert on special vehicles of a certain department. ”

The director of the factory gave a brief introduction, sat there, and signaled them to communicate, the two projects are very important to the tractor factory, and they are the mission of the national level. Since the four of them came to the factory, until now, the factory director has not completely calmed down.

Deputy Director Wang of the Mechanical and Electrical Bureau briefly said about his visit to the tractor factory this time, "Xiao Chen, we have just briefly told your factory director and deputy factory director. After careful assessment and approval by the superior departments, Deyang Tractor Factory was assigned two major tasks.

First, on the basis of the existing tracked vehicle production workshop, the tractor plant will add two tank production lines, which will be responsible for the production of the current model of a certain type of main battle tank, depending on the situation, the rest of the tracked vehicle production lines may be transformed into tank production lines in the future. Second, after the approval of experts from the Ministry of Armament, the task of developing a certain type of military special truck was sent to your factory, which is a branch project of a major military project in our country.

Everyone also knows that there is a war in the north, and there are wars in many parts of the world, and I think you should be familiar with this kind of thing as a tank as a vehicle expert, especially Xiao Chen and Xiao Gao, both of whom are from technical backgrounds.

These two tasks are very important, and after the higher authorities assigned the tasks to our Deyang, the bureau selected you. ”

Chen Zhijie pondered for a moment, of course, the tasks assigned by the state must be completed unconditionally, and what era is it now? It was an era of national dedication, and even sanitation workers were striving for advancement, and he felt very excited to receive these two major tasks.

"Personally, I have no opinion at all, the equipment of the tractor plant is very advanced, add some equipment, and after a few months of modification, two tank production and assembly lines can be completed.

As for the development of new vehicles, I have no opinion, as long as the organization believes in me, I can choose one of the two tasks. ”

That's a lot of self-confidence, solid theoretical knowledge, many years of practical technical experience, and he is not afraid of any challenge.

Immediately, the two of them combined, and these two major tasks will be taken care of by a deputy technical director, which is separated from the traditional vehicle manufacturing, which can be regarded as a new chapter in the tractor factory.

"I chose the tank production workshop, I was disappointed that I didn't go to the army back then, I couldn't go to the battlefield, and it was good to participate in tank manufacturing." The two discussed, and with the results, Gao Qiang chose tank manufacturing.

"I'll just choose the task of developing a new vehicle. In terms of tanks, I usually study the senior deputy factory director, but I still choose vehicles. "This is not modest, today's republic, indeed do the system to manage people, take the tractor factory as an example, from the promotion of employees, welfare, there are clear provisions, special circumstances are handed over to the factory workers' committee to vote, the rights of the director and deputy director, far less than imagined.

Chen Zhijie and Gao Qiang didn't know what their choice meant. One is to lead Deyang Heavy Industry to embark on the road of more and more vigorous tank manufacturing, becoming the three largest tank manufacturing bases in China in the future, and the number of tanks produced per month can scare Americans or Germans with bad hearts to death.

And Chen Zhijie didn't know that although he only developed a new vehicle, but then this series of vehicles has always been China's ace special vehicle, this kind of car does not pull people, only missiles and rockets.

...... "The world situation has changed dramatically, and it is very different from the World War II in my memory. ”

Zhang Shusheng looked at the latest intelligence clips, and his heart was mixed, first of all, Southeast Asia, he said that he occupied Indonesia, reaped the fruits of the extremely huge war, every day there were 100,000 tons of various goods set sail from Indonesia, transported back to the country, stimulated by the war, not only out of the haze of the economic crisis, but even the whole people were excited, climbed out of the huge pain of the defeat of the war, brace up their spirits, fully prepare for the war, and prepare to launch a larger-scale war of aggression.

Invading China is obviously a thankless task, and at least at this stage, it is said that it is not capable of invading China.

Therefore, it is natural for the military headquarters to set its sights on the Far East and Southeast Asia.

I said that I first started in Southeast Asia.

One by one, the troop carriers began to sail from the mainland to Indonesia, where they received further training in jungle warfare, and a large number of weapons and equipment also arrived in Jakarta, and everything from the aircraft carrier fleet to the tank division, from the army to the special operations squad, was undergoing a kind of high-intensity pre-war training.

My goal is self-evident, Malaya occupied by the British and Vietnam across the sea!!

Compared with the Philippines on the side, China's Hanzhong Island, Cambodia, Laos, and even Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya and Vietnam are all accessible at any time.

In response to the increasingly fierce Southeast Asian offensive, the British finally decided to compromise with the Burmese people's political axe led by Tu Chung in northern Burma, and Burma was divided into north and south. Moreover, the British made an extremely difficult decision to allow the China-Burma railway to enter the sea from Yangon in southern Burma, but in exchange, China could no longer 'conditionally support' the political axe of northern Burma to attack southward, nor could it pass through the Sino-Vietnamese and China-Burmese borders to facilitate military operations in Southeast Asia.

When the British and the French made an offer, Zhang Shusheng understood how difficult it was for the two robbers to make concessions; first, the attack of the political axe in northern Burma could directly cut off the main artery of the British and French support for the whole of Southeast Asia from land; second, if his offensive in Southeast Asia was secretly supported by the Chinese, the British and French would lose all their colonies in the Far East.

This is not an empty word, and his own family name has made Britain and France vigilant enough, otherwise they would not have organized the Far Eastern Army again under such a tense situation in Europe.

The two sides finally reached an agreement that the China-Burma Railway would continue to be repaired to the south, and that the Ruili-Mandalay artery would be opened to traffic by the end of 1940, and that the Mandalay-Yangon artery would be opened to traffic at the mouth of the sea in mid-1941, thus drawing a successful end to this China-Burma artery, which had been under construction for several years.

In the north, the Soviet Union was intensively mobilizing the Red Army units in preparation for a major war with China on the Khudairi-Kyakhta line. The scale was larger than Zhang Shusheng imagined, but Stalin did not give the order for all-out war in the end.

Zhang Shusheng understood that this Bolshevik bloody reader was not as the world evaluated, but a cautious person, ruthless enough and cautious enough. In his opinion, this may be a much larger battle than the later Battle of Nomenkan, but it will not be much bigger, at least the territory of the two countries will not be greatly damaged.

There was no movement in Xinjiang Province and Northeast China, but in the skies over Mongolia and Kyakhta, the air forces of the two sides had already fought several times, and the Soviets had more and more planes, but the surname Neng was completely suppressed by China's Jian-2 fighters, and according to accurate information, the Soviets were developing a certain type of new fighter and preparing it to be used on the Sino-Soviet battlefield.

But all this will take time, and Zhang Shusheng is very suspicious that after the Soviet-German war began, they will not be able to come up with enough fighters to fight the J-2. The Soviet Union was not Germany, a perverted country that was able to come up with jet fighters and controllable rockets (missile prototypes) at the end of World War II.

In Europe, the Germans are preparing for an invasion of France, and not only have Chinese secret intelligence agents and members of the orphanage infiltrated sent back accurate information, but even the French intelligence services have received information that Germany may invade France this year.

However, the French, though prepared, were too dependent on the Macedonian line on the German-French border, drinking coffee and wine in the trenches, imagining that if the Germans rushed over, they would shoot a hundred Germans or a thousand Germans in the trenches, and perhaps, rely on trench artillery or fortress artillery to destroy a German panzer division.

As the days passed, Germany was in full swing preparing to invade France, but France hid in the trenches with binoculars and laughed at the Germans on the border line, and then sent troops to the Far East, ready to clean up himself.

"Germany and France, maybe they should fight more fiercely."

Zhang Shusheng took out the drawer, looked at the plan that was less than half written, and closed it again, this plan must be implemented, and it will give all parties a huge surprise when the time comes.

In addition to the war clouds in Eurasia, the United States seems to be very jubilant, the economy that has not rebounded for many years, finally after the advent of World War II, rose sharply, although some Chinese divided part of the world trade orders, including the wealth of the Americans, but still could not stop the American people from making money, snowflake orders flew to China or the United States, shipwhens of goods from the docks of China or the United States, sailed to Germany, France, Britain and even the Soviet Union.

The strange phenomenon is that several major countries are holding back their strength and preparing to make a big move, while China and the United States are holding back their strength to grab orders all over the world. According to the secret agreement of the Sino-US economic cooperation agreement signed earlier, the two countries will maintain a special economic cooperation relationship for the time before and after the war.

This is undoubtedly a proof to the nations that we are not against or participating in your wars, but you cannot oppose our trade with any party.

Later generations of Americans did not have such a convenient economic ally, but this time, together with the Chinese, they made money around the world, only this time, the Chinese had more new products, and the trade volume seemed to be larger than theirs.

At the same time, energy and resources that China controls or secretly controls around the world are being shipped to China day and night, from Mexico to the Middle East, from Australia to Africa. Moreover, before China enters the war, these mining or exploration rights, which were bought at low prices from indigenous regimes or colonizers, will bring huge resource reserves to China.

In order to prepare for war, China also began to expand its army in great strides, the army expanded to 3.8 million by the end of 1941, and the reserve and militia forces remained at nearly 4 million, that is, when the Soviet-German war broke out in 1941, if needed, China could mobilize about 7.8 million troops, barely reaching the level of the Soviet Union and the Germans.

In addition, China's tank manufacturing, aircraft manufacturing, and ship manufacturing have also accelerated in an all-round way, countless tank factories have begun to build, countless tractor factories have begun to add tank production lines, and the demonstration work of transforming tractor production lines into tank production lines has been carried out. These are not something that can be completed at one time, and it must be laid out in advance, otherwise, not to mention the production of tens of thousands of tanks, the factory will have to be built slowly.

"Chairman of the Committee, Commander Lu Ziyun is here."

The sound of Mao Yun knocking on the door first interrupted Zhang Shusheng's contemplation.

"Come in."

Immediately, an officer wearing a major general's uniform walked in, looking in his forties, old and serious, but it was Lu Ziyun, a veteran in the southwest, who was first born in the Guangzhou Army, because he was framed by a superior officer, he fled to Yunnan overnight to enlist in the army, and then entered the military academy. Now, however, he has left the regular army and is the commander of a special service.

"Chairman!" Lu Ziyun entered the office, closed the door, and saluted.

"Sit, you've been used to living in Xinjiang Province in the past few years, right? Look at you, completely tanned. ”

Zhang Shusheng looked at it with a smile, Lu Ziyun was indeed tanned, and the whole person looked relatively old, which could be seen to be caused by long-term high-intensity work. After all, he is in charge of a newly established branch of the military, and the intensity of work is far greater than that of ordinary troops, and everything is advancing in exploration, and the only thing he can rely on is technical information and expert guidance.

"Thank you Chairman for your concern. Great China, where can not take root, compared to those people in the No. 12 base, we are still latecomers, this is bitter" Although Lu Ziyun was born in a rich family, but after being framed in his early years, he suffered a lot during his time in Yunnan, as a knowledgeable soldier of the old society, the reason why he joined the Xiaoqingshan militia was very simple: because they had enough steamed buns!

"How's it going? My commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces! ”

This is what only Zhang Shusheng can say to Lu Ziyun, as long as he goes out of this door, Lu Ziyun will become the commander of Unit 1199 again, and it is also an establishment subordinate to the Logistics Department.

Lu Ziyun: "Report to the chairman, the plan is going very smoothly, I just went to the rocket laboratory the day before yesterday, they have already built a live bomb, and the supporting project will be completed soon." In May, you will be able to see our first rocket test launch in China. ”

He returned to Hanjing this time to report to Zhang Shusheng, and because it was top secret, Lu Ziyun was only responsible for Zhang Shusheng at present, and no one else had the right to intervene.

"Very good, then I wish you all the best in all your preparations, and in May, I will personally go to Xinjiang Province to attend the launch ceremony."

Zhang Shusheng is also very excited, no less than the joy brought by the successful explosion of the atomic bomb, although the atomic bomb is powerful, but the missile will also bring a series of military revolutions, for example, satellites that are already under development, no rockets, no controllable flight rockets, how satellites go to the sky.

In the blink of an eye, it's May!

(To be continued)