Just when the Anglo-French forces and the German army were in full swing on the Western Front, the bourgeoisie of the Russian Provisional Government planned to attack the German defense line on the Eastern Front, and on July 1, the Russian army launched an attack on the German Eastern Defense Line, dispatching a total of hundreds of thousands of troops, but the result of the battle was a big disappointment.

The failure of the Provisional Government's offensive against the Germans made the Russian soldiers and the population at the bottom of the Russian army deeply resentful, and on July 16, demonstrations of workers and soldiers broke out again in Petrograd, and there was a tendency to turn into an armed uprising. The majority, believing that the time was not yet ripe for the uprising, decided to take part in the demonstrations, giving the spontaneous movement a peaceful and organized character.

On 17 July, the demonstrations intensified and gradually turned into an armed uprising, and the bourgeoisie of the Russian Provisional Government, fearing that it would be overthrown, immediately mobilized the troops it could mobilize to suppress it, massacring the demonstrators, killing and wounding more than 400 people, and at the same time arresting and killing members of the majority. As a result, the heads of the majority faction were wanted, and the coexistence of the two regimes in Russia came to an end.

On July 21, Kerensky replaced Lvov as prime minister of the Provisional Government. On August 6, a second provisional coalition government headed by Kerensky was formed. Despite the fact that the right to councils of soldiers and workers' representatives was denied, the bourgeoisie did not benefit the workers and soldiers at the bottom, and the workers and soldiers were still on the line of poverty and life.

Since the beginning of World War I, more than 10 million people have been dragged into the army in Russia, and millions of people have been killed or wounded. Many soldiers on the front line did not have shoes. There are even several people sharing a gun. Large tracts of farmland in the country were barren and factories were closed. Prices are skyrocketing and food is in desperate shortage. The capital, Petrograd, could not buy even a loaf of bread one day. Russia's economic foundation is weak, and the economy is on the verge of collapse under the condition that the war drags on for a long time, which has caused various social contradictions in the country to be unprecedentedly intensified, and countless people in Russia are starving to death every day, which is also the reason why the Russian people at the bottom oppose the continuation of the war against Germany, because the war has to be filled with human lives, and a large amount of materials will be consumed, especially all kinds of materials must be tilted towards the army. Priority is given to supplying the army, and the common people themselves have nothing to eat, where is the strength to produce food and other materials? This shows how fierce anti-war sentiment really is in Russia.

Although the war on the Eastern Front launched by the Russian Provisional Government only lasted for more than ten days and ended in a crushing defeat, it still contained all the German forces on the Eastern Front, and Germany also sent the troops to the Eastern Front to strengthen the defense of the Eastern Front, which was also the reason why the German army could not fight against Britain and France on the Western Front with all its might.

However, it is said that after the British and French troops captured the northern city of Tours, the Loire River blocked the way south, and the German army deployed a large number of troops on the south bank of the Loire River. Complete trenches, pillboxes and other fortifications were built, and attempts by British and French troops to cross the river from other nearby sections were discovered and destroyed by the Germans.

Hamilton, the commander of the Anglo-French forces, ordered the army to collect boats, and after a week of preparation, the British and French troops collected thousands of fishing boats. August 13th. The Anglo-French forces organized troops to cross the river and prepare to cross the Loire.

However, the Germans on the south bank used fortifications such as strong pillboxes and complete trenches, as well as a large number of heavy machine guns and artillery, to carry out powerful fire strikes against the British and French troops who were crossing the river, and none of the fishing boats on which the attacking British and French troops were able to advance to the shore were sunk.

The battle lasted three days and three nights. Thousands of ships collected by the Anglo-French forces were all sunk, and floating wooden fishing boats were swept away by the rapids. The corpses of tens of thousands of British and French soldiers floated all over the river, flowing downstream with the river. The river was stained red with blood.

The crushing defeat hit rock bottom in the morale of the Anglo-French forces, and Commander Hamilton had to order his troops to stop the attack, but the artillery fire in the rear never stopped, and every day after that, shelling was fired at the German defensive positions on the south bank. Not to be outdone, the German artillery positions in the rear also shelled the positions in the northern city occupied by the British and French forces, and a large number of shells were poured on the positions of the British and French forces, and the British and French troops were immediately blown up.

Due to the Loire River in the middle, the British and French forces had no good way to cross the river for the time being, so they could only stop advancing, and the two sides shelled each other's positions with artillery, and hundreds of tons of shells fell on the positions of both sides every day, and the north and south cities of Tours on both sides of the Loire were bombed into ruins.

After waiting for a few days, the Anglo-French forces still did not find a chance to cross the Loire, and Hamilton could only order the army to conduct a standoff, and sent people to the upper and lower reaches of the river to find better places to cross the river, and occupied a state of anxiety for a while.

Huaguo, Nanjing.

Xiao Zhenlei and several members of the presidential staff and principal officials of some institutions under the presidential office inspected here, and the main purpose of Xiao Zhenlei's visit to Nanjing this time was to inspect the scale and production of the military industry and the production process of military products.

At this time

Xiao Zhenlei and others visited and investigated the ammunition production workshop of an arsenal, which has three production lines, two of which are in intensive production, and the other production line is in a state of shutdown, and several workers are busy with maintenance tools.

When Xiao Zhenlei saw it, he pointed over there and asked the director of the arsenal next to him: "Huang Factory, why did this production line stop, and what are those workers doing?" ”

Director Huang hurriedly explained: "President, this 7.92mm bullet production line is currently undergoing technical upgrading and improvement of the production process and process of the assembly line!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei suddenly became interested when he heard this, and asked, "Oh? How long does it take to upgrade and retrofit the technology? After the upgrade and retrofit, how much more production has increased than before? ”

Director Huang said: "It takes about three days, after the completion of upgrading and transformation, the output can be increased by 60 percent, at present, due to the large demand of the military logistics department, we can not stop all the production lines for technical upgrading and transformation, so we can only carry out one production line, so that we can not only maintain the vast majority of production lines without stopping production, but also can orderly carry out technical upgrading and transformation of each production line!" ”

After listening to Director Huang's explanation, Xiao Zhenlei praised on the spot: "Well, good, this method is good, how long did it take you to make this technical upgrade and transformation plan?" How much time did it take to develop the technology? ”

"Through the efforts of our technical engineers, we only took a week to complete the research and development of the technology, which is the result of the efforts of the engineers, we have been making technical reserves before, so this time we can win the technical difficulties so quickly!"

"Well, it seems that you people still put a lot of thought into their work!" Xiao Zhenlei expressed his satisfaction and asked: "After the completion of the technical upgrade and production line transformation, how much output does this production line have every day?" ”

Director Huang said: "If three shifts are adopted, the machine does not stop, and the production line does not fail, 22,000 bullets can be produced every day!" ”

This output is not low, at least it will not be lower than the current output of the US military-industrial complex, and may be even higher.

Xiao Zhenlei walked towards the workers who were doing technical upgrades and transformations, and the others followed, each holding a small notebook and a pen, ready to record what Xiao Zhenlei said at any time.

"How long will it take for these masters to complete the technical upgrade and transformation?" Xiao Zhenlei walked behind several technical engineers and asked.

At this time, an engineer was holding a pen and notebook and calculating something, and his train of thought was suddenly interrupted by Xiao Zhenlei's question, and he was suddenly a little annoyed, and said angrily without looking back: "Don't make noise, don't you see that we are busy?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei's face was as usual, and the other officials suddenly looked at each other one by one, and Director Huang's face immediately turned the color of pig liver, and he said angrily to the technical engineer: "Huang Xiaogang, you have a good temper, stand up for Lao Tzu!" ”

The engineer who was yelled at heard his father's voice and quickly turned around, and said with a rather embarrassed face: "Dad! I didn't know it was you".

Director Huang hurriedly said to Xiao Zhenlei: "President, blame me for not being strict in discipline, so that this kid has no rest and no politeness, this is his son Huang Xiaogang, he is unintentional, please forgive him for being young and igno??????rant."

Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand to stop Director Huang from continuing, Huang Xiaogang heard his father actually call this president, and then look at it, doesn't this person look like a coin? He was startled, remembering that he had yelled at the president just now, and it was a big crime to kill his head before, so he hurriedly stammered: "Great, big president!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei smiled: "Young man, you haven't answered my question yet!"

"Oh, oh!" Huang Xiaogang hurriedly said: "President, judging from our current progress, it will take at least eight hours."

Xiao Zhenlei nodded when he heard this: "Okay, do a good job, not only to maintain work efficiency, but also to ensure that there are no problems in the transformed production line, the soldiers on the front line are still counting on the ammunition you produce to be transported as soon as possible!" ”

"Yes, please rest assured, President!" Huang Xiaogang immediately straightened his waist.

Director Huang took the opportunity to say at this time: "President, the workers of a production line are about to get off work, why don't I send someone to hand them all over, and ask the president to take a photo with the workers, so that the workers can get to know the president?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei pondered for a moment when he heard this, and then agreed: "Okay, you send someone to prepare, prepare within a quarter of an hour, I have to go somewhere else, and I don't have much time to stay here!" ”

"Yes, yes, I'll send someone to prepare it immediately, and it will be ready within a quarter of an hour!" After Director Huang agreed, he immediately sent a deputy director to organize the workers in person. (To be continued......)