Many people at the meeting were speculating about what Tu Qianjun's method was, and how he wanted to develop firepower to resist the Japanese attack. But Tu Qianjun directly gave up this topic, and only issued a request for work in the new year.

First of all, the production line of aircraft and tanks had to keep up. The minimum requirement is to produce a thousand fighters per month, and so do tanks! The monthly output of 600 vehicles is the minimum requirement, and now the blast furnaces with a daily output of 300 tons in the three eastern provinces have reached four.

New blast furnaces are under construction, and according to the provincial governments and plans of the three eastern provinces, they can build at least two blast furnaces here within a year after getting familiar with the construction and operation!

The influx of people from all over the country has gradually surpassed the human resources of the three eastern provinces. Most of the people who entered the three eastern provinces in the early days were trained to enter the factories. In the past few years, after studying in night school, I have basically formed a basic technician.

This has led to a direct increase in the reserves of skilled workers in the three eastern provinces. The land reclaimed by a large number of victims has entered a stable harvest period, and although the three eastern provinces have not yet begun to collect taxes, the grain purchased has also greatly enriched the warehouses of the three eastern provinces.

At the same time, the people who have money in their hands are no longer what they were when they first entered the three eastern provinces. They now hold their heads high and often attend gatherings and meetings under the leadership of their respective village chiefs, township teachers, and others.

After studying, these ordinary people also got rid of some bad habits. For example, drinking raw water, not taking a bath, brushing your teeth...... Wait a minute. But there's another thing they've been doing. Even though officials at all levels and teachers who support rural construction have tried to persuade them many times, they have not changed it.

They always try to get their hands on the photographs of Tu Qianjun, the commander-in-chief of the Wehrmacht, or newspaper clippings in the newspapers. Then it was directly pasted on the tablet in the morning and evening. Those who are rich will offer fruits, and those who are not rich will also be offered steamed buns.

This made the officials at all levels below cry and laugh, and persuaded many times. But these ordinary people promised to do whatever they wanted to do when they went back. Many people also lead their children to kowtow to Tu Qianjun's image every day.

"We are not stupid, we know that the commander-in-chief can't eat the steamed buns we offer...... an old farmer smiled at the village chief who persuaded him, "This is our thoughts, and the commander-in-chief is good to us." We've got to remember. O this man! Gotta Thanks! The white-eyed wolf can't die well! ”

The village officials were silent. Having worked at the grassroots level for a long time, they know these fellows. Indeed, there are always some bullshit things, and there are some second-rate people who eat, drink, prostitute and gamble and are abducted. This kind of person is looked down upon by the people in the village

Most of the folks are good. They are industrious, and they are willing to endure hardship. They are not stupid. As long as what you say makes sense, they will listen. Sometimes their homegrown methods are no worse than what you call "smart" methods. If you respect them and treat them well, they will be doubly nice to you.

Basically, it is extremely difficult for the current three eastern provinces to produce village tyrants. Village officials at all levels are veterans from the Wehrmacht, and all of them are murderous. Those second-rate people took a detour when they saw it.

And most of these veterans are also from farming families and know the suffering of farming families. The soldiers' sense of honor, strict discipline and the harsh laws and regulations of the three eastern provinces make them afraid to touch the red line.

With the efforts of all parties, the three eastern provinces have entered a period of rapid development!

The second week after the high-level meeting of the three eastern provinces, Tu Qianjun took Chen Haihua to a secret research and development institute on the outskirts of Fengtian. The number of R&D personnel here has increased to more than 1,000, and more than 700 are Chinese.

The rest of the various R&D departments. It is a researcher from Germany. In the other place, there is the joint research and development institute of the Wehrmacht and the United States, and the two places do not know each other. I just know that there is an R&D institute that does the same work as myself, but there is no information at all about where and who is in charge.

After a series of rigorous inspections. Tu Qianjun was led by Shen Hong to the secret showroom of the research institute. On a table in the showroom, a pointed cylinder is placed.

The cylinder has a honeycomb-like hole in it, about a meter long. And next to this weird iron cylinder, there are more than a dozen round strips with tail wings!

"Commander, this is the rocket we put together according to your thoughts!" Shen Hong looked at Tu Qianjun excitedly and said loudly: "According to our tests, it can destroy 20mm thick armor ...... within a thousand meters."

Tu Qianjun nodded when he heard this. This is his secret weapon - rockets!

In fact, the use of rockets as an air strike force is nothing new. In 1916, during the First World War, France used air-to-air rockets to attack German reconnaissance balloons.

And exert the power of the battle. It is the Battle of Normenheim in later history. On that occasion, although Japan did not admit it, in fact they undoubtedly suffered heavy losses. This also forced Japan to go to the negotiating table and negotiate with the Soviet Union.

And the Soviet side was equipped with a secret weapon that the Japanese did not react to at all - the RS-82 rocket!

Of course, this rocket is very different from the rockets of later generations. The first is its volume, which is very large! And it is assembled with a guide rail. A fighter jet can only fit four to six rockets.

You can probably see the air-to-air missiles of today, and the earliest air-to-air rockets of that time looked like that. This rocket is the original air combat rocket, obviously! The rockets are extremely crude and have limited targets.

But this is the kind of early rocket. But it caused great damage to the Japanese army! In the Battle of Nomenkhamp in 1939, batches of I-16s armed with rockets carried out the task of covering the SB-2 under the command of Captain Zvonarev.

After discovering a group of Japanese interceptors, according to the order of the captain, five planes launched a salvo at a distance of 1000 meters, shooting down 2 Japanese fighters in one fell swoop.

And Captain Zvonarev's flying squadron had a total of 14 I-82s equipped with RS-16 launchers, and shot down 13 Japanese planes throughout the Battle of the Khalkhain River**, leaving themselves unscathed.

It should be said that the Soviets' victories were achieved under extremely favorable circumstances. Since the Japanese did not know in advance that the Soviets had weapons with an effective range of more than 800 meters, their interceptors discharged a dense formation of horizontal movement at a uniform speed, and the Soviets described the rocket attack on the formation of enemy planes in this formation as smashing light bulbs on the side of the road with stones.

The Japanese were dizzy by the bombing, and after the Japanese ground forces found the wreckage of the plane, they dragged it back for analysis, and once thought it was a bomber shot down by 75mm shells.

So he rushed to start the development, but he wasted a lot of money and did not develop a 75mm cannon that could be mounted on a light fighter, of course, in the end it turned out to be a rocket.

But before the advent of R4M, the efficiency of air-to-air rockets was very poor. The Soviets experimented with aviation rocket launch rails. I found that the wind resistance was not small. It has a great impact on the flight performance of fighters, and the large-caliber aviation rockets used by the Germans to counter heavy explosions are even more killer in flight performance.

And Tu Qianjun doesn't have to take the detours that his predecessors have taken, what he uses is rocket miniaturization! The launch slots used for these rockets were the honeycomb launch slots that were later installed on fighter jets and helicopters.

The large rockets were miniaturized, and all of them became small rockets that were no more than 30mm!

"I don't want precision! I want power and concentration! This is what Tu Qianjun said when he found Jia Xiaohou at that time: "I want small ones for this batch of rockets." It can fit on an airplane and hit a kilometer! It will automatically detonate after one kilometer! I need it to smash! ”

"The killing range of each piece is required to be 5~10 meters! Depending on the load, my fighter must be able to hold at least twenty rockets! Tu Qianjun said to Jia Xiaohou.

"You can understand it this way: before entering the cannon battle, my fighter has to carry out a fire cover on the enemy aircraft!"

And after all that was said. Tu Qianjun gave Jia Xiaohou a design drawing. This is the cellular rocket launcher we see now. One of these launchers can hold twelve 32mm rockets.

According to Tu Qianjun's requirements, this kind of rocket can be detonated by touch, or it can be automatically delayed at a distance of one kilometer. However, Jia Xiaohou's habit allowed him to strengthen the accuracy of this rocket.

And because the distance is reduced, the error of the rocket is also reduced. To put it simply. Jia Xiaohou controlled the error of the rocket within 2 meters.

At this time, Jia Xiaohou walked into the showroom, looked at his commander with drooping eyelids, and said, "Coming?!" Then let's test shoot it once and show you......"

As he spoke, he led Tu Qianjun and Chen Haihua out of the showroom together. Chen Haihua was a little inexplicable, this time Tu Qianjun specially found him. He only said that he should see the new weapons of the Air Force, and he did not say what kind of weapons they were.

When he arrived at the test shooting site, Jia Xiaohou first smiled. Several people waited for the car and went to the target a thousand meters away to inspect the Japanese tanks placed there. Needless to say, this tank was captured from the Korean battlefield.

Everyone looked at it, and the tanks were basically intact except for a large hole that had been blown out. So I went back to the launch site. At this time, Shen Hong and the others came out of the warehouse with a cart pushing the honeycomb rocket launch slot.

It is now filled with rockets, and the launch method is electric ignition. When the crowd retreated. Tu Qianjun and Chen Haihua raised their binoculars on the side and looked at the tank in the distance.

"Ready! Launch!! With an angry roar, the honeycomb rocket launch slot of the dense array sounded the rocket jet sound of "whoosh~whoosh~......"!

But when I saw those rockets rushing towards the Japanese tank that was a target in the distance, they rushed into it in an instant!

"Boom! Rumble!! Boom ......" constant explosions were heard, and smoke filled the tank! When the smoke dispersed, Chen Haihua grabbed the telescope and couldn't help but be dumbfounded! Then he trembled and said, "Si...... Commander, I'm ...... I ......"

Looking at Chen Haihua's appearance, Tu Qianjun smiled at Chen Haihua and said, "Go!" Let's go check it out! He said. After pulling Chen Haihua, he boarded the car and ran towards the bombarded tank.

Along with them were Jia Xiaohou and the excited Shen Hong. When a group of people arrived at the place, they saw that a radius of dozens of meters was bombarded by rockets! Seven or eight craters and shreddrapnel scattered everywhere are densely distributed within more than 50 meters, which makes people shudder!

Chen Haihua couldn't wait to jump out of the car, ran to the tank as a target, and took a closer look. This tank can no longer be called a tank, it was hit by at least two rockets.

Chen Haihua put his head into the car that had been blown up with a big hole, but saw that the car was full of shrapnel! It can well be imagined. What are the consequences if someone sits inside. That was properly torn to pieces by shrapnel!

"Commander, this is the rocket we made according to your request......" Jia Xiaohou still looked weak, and he had spent a lot of energy on this new type of rocket during this time.

Fortunately, with the previous experience of 107 Tiger Roar and 40 Fire Raven, the development of this rocket is only slightly smaller than those two. At most, it is just to reduce the range and increase the power, but this is still too much work for Jia Xiaohou.

This weapon Tu Qianjun gave a death order, and no foreigners should participate! It must be developed by us. He didn't want the weapon to be exposed. As a secret weapon, the more secret the better!

"I've seen our Tiger Shark I, and after calculation, it's not a problem to install two such launch slots......" Hearing Jia Xiaohou say this, Chen Haihua couldn't wait to jump up and kiss this old guy's face fiercely! This thing is so refreshing!

You must know that in this era, fighter planes rely on aircraft artillery to attack at close range because they do not have missiles. That is, it is basically a charge battle similar to that of an army. Therefore, the Air Force is accustomed to charging in formation. This is somewhat similar to a group assault!

If you have this kind of rocket, just one salvo is equivalent to the army's artillery coverage before the attack! For a concentrated fighter lethality is great!

The power of this rocket is beyond doubt, adhering to the requirements of Tu Qianjun, after shortening the attack range, Jia Xiaohou and others spent a lot of energy on improving accuracy and power! Jia Xiaohou, a blasting expert, also specially increased his power! This kind of pervert that makes this small rocket, which only maintains a certain accuracy within a kilometer, powerful!

Piercing 20mm of armor is enough to take out a fighter! Chen Haihua could even imagine the situation when his air force shot a rocket at the Japanese fighter plane, and the Japanese fighter plane crackled like a dumpling.

"Uncle Jia, hard work!" Looking at this kind of rocket similar to that of later generations, Tu Qianjun said softly to Jia Xiaohou sincerely. But Jia Xiaohou waved his hand and said to his commander-in-chief.

"Commander, can you explain to me why you are so fond of rockets?! From 107 Tiger Roar to 40 Fire Raven, and this time the airborne rockets! Looking at Tu Qianjun, Jia Xiaohou said with emotion: "I always feel that ~ you are premeditated!" (To be continued)