"This time, the artillery fire of the Second Artillery Corps covered it in a timely manner, and many positions of the Rì Army were taken by us thanks to your artillery support......" It is rare that the whole island of Yizhou has been roughly reached, and Lu Han and Li Yannian are laughing and talking in the office.

Before the start of this campaign, Lu Han did not know much about Li Yannian. It is only known that he was an old general of the national capital, and then joined the National Defense Force in the Battle of Jinan.

The direct commander of the Second Artillery Corps, the weapon of the Wehrmacht, was very low-key, and no one had even heard of his name before the unit came out.

Su Zongzhe, who was at the same time as him, had already reached the rank of chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces. The rest, including Yang Yuting, Chang Yinhuai, etc., all served as joint executives and were famous.

He alone seems to have been infamous. It was not until the Second Artillery Corps made a great name in previous battles that Li Yannian's name gradually became well-known to everyone.

"When it comes to shelling, the navy's fleet is better than ours." Li Yannian smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's just that Brother Houfu is busy going to North Korea to prepare for the landing operation against the mainland with the commander-in-chief, so he doesn't have time to pay attention to us." ”

Li Yannian's understanding of himself is still very clear. Artillery coverage is now the main means of combat of the Second Artillery, but the shelling of Jīng does still have to rely on traditional artillery units.

"Ji Fu, since the commander-in-chief has asked you to form an army alone, then there must be this consideration." Lu Han smiled and said, "It's true that the rocket artillery car still needs to be improved in terms of accuracy, and it is indeed a little close in terms of shè cheng. ”

"But what I know for sure is that our research institute must be working on this issue." Lu Han paused and whispered, "Jifu, you do the math yourself." Our rocket artillery went from scratch to an army. How much time did it take?! ”

"In just a few short years, our rocket artillery vehicles have been improved several times. The shè of a time is farther than a time, and the shè of a time is more jīng true than a time. Behold! For your Second Artillery, the commander-in-chief must have more consideration. Otherwise, why would you be called into an army alone?! ”

What Lu Han said, in fact, Li Yannian also considered. But as a military man, he thinks things more imaginatively than the crazy scientists come to.

In Li Yannian's view, there is almost no room for improvement in the direction of rockets. Power, shè cheng, jīng degree degree...... Wait, now rocket artillery has almost reached a limit.

If you want to go farther, then you can only use larger rockets. Larger rockets mean more fuel and less accuracy.

In fact, if it were designed this way, the cost of the rocket would be too high. The economy is not even as good as the train gun. After all, you build a train cannon, and the rest is the cost of maintenance and shells.

And rockets, if you make one, you knock one out. Moreover, if a large rocket is made, although it may be more powerful than a train cannon shell, at the same time, the accuracy of jīng is certainly not as high as that of a train cannon.

No matter how much it is calculated, it is not cost-effective.

If Li Yannian had come from a later life, he would have known what jīng guidance was. That way, he wouldn't have to wonder about the accuracy of the rocket.

Unfortunately, in this age when electrons are just beginning to see the light of day, if you tell people that electrons can be used for jīng guidance, more than 90% of people will think you're crazy.

Therefore, Tu Mengben will not tell the scientists of the Wehrmacht what electronic guidance is, epoch-making things, many times, the research costs a lot and will not achieve any results.

For example, the jet fighter ME262 developed by Germany during World War II, although this is an epoch-making fighter, his premature birth has caused a lot of problems.

The same goes for V1 rockets, early V1 rockets were even capable of being shot down by air guns and fighters. Subsequently, the Germans developed a more powerful and uninterceptable V2 missile.

But the war was running out for the Germans, even if they had most of their epoch-making weapons. But these weapons did not bring them victory.

On the contrary, it was the massive investment that led to the depletion of Germany's own economy and resources, which ultimately allowed Germany to lose the war.

Tu Mengben would not do such a stupid thing, he was careful with every step. Only when we understand our own productive forces can we make weapons and equipment that suit ourselves and this era step by step according to the plan.

And those weapons and equipment are what they need. For example, the Tiger assault rifle, which was born out of the AK-47, has the biggest problem with its bullets.

The ammunition consumption of automatic weapons is extremely staggering. If there is no supporting ammunition production equipment, and the corresponding smelting industrial base, a lot of resources. Then you build and fully equip your troops with this kind of gun, it's no different from looking for death.

A gun without bullets is no different from a burning stick. It's not even as good as a burning stick. And Tu Mengben's earliest purpose in manufacturing this kind of gun was to sell it to the United States.

And equip a small number of your own commandos, which can work wonders when you raid or sneak attack on the battlefield. Later, the Wehrmacht had a certain industrial base, and he did not dare to equip the Tiger assault rifle with the whole army at will.

The industrial base is a hard wound! At this time, the Wehrmacht needed to produce warplanes, artillery, tanks, machine guns...... and so on a large number of weapons and equipment, and at the same time, it is also necessary to produce replacement parts, ammunition, and maintenance tools required for these weapons and equipment...... Wait a minute.

Under such circumstances, Tu Mengben estimated the ammunition consumption that might be generated by the whole army being fully equipped with Tiger assault rifles. After the General Staff gave a conclusion, Tu Mengben could only reluctantly give up this idea.

Rolling it out in full swing, the Wehrmacht itself will not be able to afford it in the first place. At present, the arsenals of the Wehrmacht departments are still expanding, but the production capacity of DNA has not caught up with the consumption progress.

War leads to a large consumption of resources, and every battle is a huge amount of money and human life. Here, we can cite some data so that you can know how these wars were fought.

In the Battle of Iwo Jima, the US 75-155 howitzers fired 450,000 rounds, 14,190 tons of naval guns, and more than 10,000 tons of aviation bombs.

Battle of Okinawa, U.S. naval artillery, heavy artillery, mountain artillery...... Wait for 2.11 million rounds of 75-155 howitzers, and the total ammunition consumption of the US army is also 200,000 tons.

In the Battle of Kursk, the Soviet army consumed 200,000 tons of ammunition and fuel each, and Zhukov consumed more than 40,000 tons of ammunition and 23,000 tons of oil in the stage of the digital castle in "Eastern Front".

The total amount of ammunition consumed by the Germans is not clearly recorded, but large-caliber artillery is more invested than the Soviet army, and it is possible that the ammunition consumption exceeds that of the Soviet army.

In the Ardennes counterattack on the Western Front, the German army consumed an average of 1,200 tons of ammunition per day, and the total ammunition consumption was 50,000 tons, and the consumption of various field artillery shells of the US army was 1.255 million rounds.

And in the later Battle of Berlin, the Soviet army fired 1.286 million shells on the first day! The total amount of ammunition that these shè sent out can reach 98,000 tons!

But! Keep in mind that these are just shells. I didn't bring machine guns, rifles, aerial bombs...... And so on, if you count those, then these numbers will be even more terrifying.

If you look at the data, you will be able to see how the war is fought. The consumption of ammunition, it will be a huge and incomparably depleted. And at this time, even the Wehrmacht had a certain industrial base.

But at the same time, the Wehrmacht needs to deal with the attrition of the entire Chinese theater, the Southeast Asian theater, and even the Korean theater. At the same time, the Wehrmacht also needs to build a large number of manufactured warships in the Navy.

Fighters also need to be developed and mass-produced, and tanks need to be replenished. The consumption of all this making, forming is terrifying and amazing!

The so-called war is burning money all the time.

And in World War II in history, many times even the zhōngyāng army had problems in terms of ammunition supply. Not to mention those local armies, many times on the battlefield can only be filled with human lives.

The broadsword team of the 29th Army is desperately fighting for a kind of glory. But it is more about the embarrassing state of the equipment, and the troops cannot even equip the whole army with rifles.

Even if you are equipped with a rifle, you will not be able to have enough ammunition. On the battlefield, against the Rì army, many times the soldiers of the ** squadron only have more than ten rounds of ammunition in their hands.

And what about the rì at that time?! According to Hideki Tojo's report to Hirohito in September 1941, the total ammunition reserve at that time was about 90 divisional divisions, with an average of 51 field divisions, and each division could receive about 1.8 divisional divisions.

The huge gap gave Rìben the confidence to sweep China. At the same time, it also gave them the confidence to challenge Britain and the United States. But the same rìben paid a huge price for these ammunition reserves.

According to the data, in 1937 56 percent of the army's defense expenditure was invested in ammunition production, and in 1938 76 percent of the army's defense expenditure was invested in ammunition production. Therefore, Rì was a weak industrialized country at that time.

In order to maintain a large amount of ammunition consumption, Rì Ben can only constantly try to encroach on new resources. And transport those resources to the country, and then make weapons and ammunition for war.

Plundering, consuming, plundering, and consuming again, constantly forming a vicious cycle. In the end, Rìben, who was already weak in national strength, was consumed alive in this long-term tug-of-war.

In later generations, some people beat their chests when they learned of the existence of the Daqing Oilfield. They even thought that if they had discovered the Daqing oil field as early as the Northeast period, then they would not have lost the war.

It's a pity that they ignore the reality of the situation. War is not a war of resources, but a competition of comprehensive national strength. Iron & Steel, Rare Metals, Petroleum, Chemicals...... Wait a minute.

You also need to have a large number of skilled technical engineers and a large number of scientific researchers. And there is a lot of money and food to consume. None of these are available in this book.

And the United States, as their opponent, has a large surplus. At that time, the weapons and ammunition produced by the United States not only supplied its own consumption, but also supported Britain, the Soviet Union and China in large quantities.

At that time, the Hump route alone transported 650,000 tons of supplies to China. The Ledo Highway, which was later opened, transported up to 147,000 tons of materials into China.

I have calculated only until the end of the war. In other words, the United States supplied China with 797,000 tons of materials at that time.

The amount of supplies supplied by the United States to Britain and the Soviet Union at that time was even more terrifying. Even so, the United States still has the spare capacity to support its own troops in the fight.

According to available information, in 1940, the United States produced 28 million tons of steel, the highest in the world at that time. By the end of the war in 1945, the total strength of the U.S. military reached 10.5 million, and the U.S. industry was able to produce 40,000 aircraft and more than 20,000 tanks a year, while the United States produced more than 80,000 tanks during World War II.

Nearly half of them were M4 Sherman tanks produced at the Kleist plant in Detroit. The annual production capacity of military vehicles has reached the scale of one million units.

In 1941-1945, the United States built 131 aircraft carriers and their escort carriers, 10 battleships, 48 cruisers, 355 destroyers, 498 frigates, and 203 submarines!

And the United States has never been short of ammunition for these warships, tanks, artillery, and soldiers' guns.

Even with such a large investment, the United States still had the spare energy to secretly start the atomic bomb research program - the Manhattan Project in 1939!

The program took more than six years and cost nearly $2 billion. That's more than $20 billion today. At the same time, the project employs more than 130,000 scientific researchers and peripheral personnel!

With such a huge consumption, they were able to make such a huge investment to complete these research and development. Would you have been able to do it?! Obviously, rì couldn't have done that.

This is the limit of national strength. Therefore, even if Rì himself found the Daqing oil field at that time, it was at most a slow time for them to die. For the end of the defeat, it does not help at all.

The national strength is there, no matter how much you toss the foundation, it is like that. You can't change that. Tu Mengben is better than Rì himself in that he knows what he can do. I know what I'm up to.

Therefore, he used all kinds of ways to continuously introduce all advanced means of production and technical personnel from other countries. He did not hesitate to use the way of joint stock sharing and resource sharing to introduce the British and American technology at that time.

There is no way, all the so-called progress without an industrial base is just empty talk. Without an industrial base, even if you have the blueprints for a missile, you still won't be able to make a missile.

The Ganges Powers of later generations are the best example of this. They did not think about building their own industrial base, and all day long they were buying advanced weapons and equipment from abroad.

As a result, they are now unable to produce even qualified ammunition, and the ammunition they produce themselves cannot match the guns. It's really laughable.

Their so-called fighter planes cannot be produced themselves. It can only be dependent on imports. They said that they would develop the tank on their own, which began in 1984 and entered service only in 2004.

And the cost of manufacturing this tank was more than four times the price they bought from the Russian T90S tank at that time. What's even more terrifying is that this tank quickly revealed huge problems after entering service.

Let's not talk about the small problems, and the most important of them is the problem that the tank engine failure cannot be eliminated. After a long time of hesitation and finding that it could not be solved, the Indian Ministry of Defense had no choice but to hand over the problem to the German manufacturer of the engine manufacturer.

It is almost impossible for a country without an industrial base to become an industrial power overnight. The only thing that can be done is to continuously introduce a large number of technical personnel and technical materials.

Then continue to invest a large amount of money in technology research and development and improvement, and slowly form their own productivity and production capacity.

Many people in later generations are talking about the problem of cottages, but in fact, the real name of cottages is not cottages. Its name is "reverse engineering". Reverse engineering is not a simple project that can be done.

Even if you can understand the structure, you can deduce the problems of the product from these structures. But materials are an obstacle that you can't overcome.

Reverse engineering, on the other hand, is the only way for any industrialized country to rise. Germany had reverse-engineered what was then England, and they won the market by reverse-engineering and producing cheap products. In the end, a large number of production experience and mature skilled workers were accumulated, and the rising industry of Germany exploded.

The United States also carried out a lot of reverse engineering in the early days, and they even poached British technical workers at the time at high salaries for this purpose. And the most famous one is none other than "Slater the Traitor".

It was he who brought the core of British textile technology to the United States. Of course, he was appreciated by the United States at the time. Former President of the United States Andrew . Jackson later called Slater "the father of the American Industrial Revolution."

But in the UK, due to the core secrets of the British textile industry. They called the father of American industry "Slater the Traitor".

Therefore, it is indeed normal for the common people of the British Empire to look down on the Americans in later generations. Because anyone who knows some history between Britain and the United States knows how this country rose.

Now, we all know that Rìben's products are actually good. "Casio", "Toshiba", "rìli", ...... And so on, these rìben brands have a good reputation both domestically and internationally.

But the real situation is that the product quality problems in the forties and fifties were extremely serious, and it can even be compared to the early domestic products. In Europe and the United States at that time, "Oriental goods" had a bad reputation.

They have also been honed step by step, and after a long period of accumulation, they have formed their own technical capital. The transformation and change were finally completed. You know, there is still a large industrial base and a large number of skilled workers!

Tu Mengben came from later generations, and he came into contact with more people and things. He knows better than anyone what it takes for a country to rise. Those accumulations can't be completed in a day or two!

It will take a generation, if not several generations, to do so! (To be continued.) )