Chapter 15: Tangled
While the Germans in the French occupation zone were busy squeezing the surplus value of prisoners of war and Jewish refugees, Zhao Zhi in Burma was also busy with the same thing, a large number of Jewish women and children who had not yet left Yangon were organized by Zhao Zhi under the leadership of Jewish mechanics, rummaging through the mountains of guns, the women selected all the guns that could still be used according to Zhao Zhi's requirements, and the children divided the scattered bullets according to different calibers after being taught by the technicians. According to the treaty between Zhao Zhi and the German army, among the weapons captured by the German army in Britain and France, Zhao Zhi should be given priority to provide Zhao Zhi with 30 percent, and those ships that Zhao Zhi escorted back to the United States for a long time were responsible for pulling weapons from the port of Marseille back to Yangon.
Weapons, Zhao Zhi is most lacking now is weapons, to feed 40,000 troops, according to Zhao Zhi's current financial resources, it is impossible to meet the equipment standards in his heart, Zhao Zhi, who has nothing to do, has no choice but to settle for the next best, and use the labor plan to exchange a large number of weapons captured from the coalition army from the Germans. Zhao Zhi had a large number of Jewish technicians and engineers who had nowhere to use, and in order to fill the stomachs of himself and his family, they had to repair those weapons that could still be used according to Zhao Zhi's requirements.
Zhao Zhi, who went to Germany, originally thought that he could build the Tiger tank himself by obtaining the manufacturing technology and drawings of the Tiger tank from the Germans, plus the steel mills and power plants brought back from Eastern European countries. But in fact, this is not the case at all, even if Zhao Zhi already has a large number of engineers and kidnapped experts and scholars in his hands, he can only use steel to pile up a fully armored and extremely fuel-consuming armored car, because Zhao Zhi does not yet have the technology to produce tank main guns, and Germany, which has just used Tiger tanks on the battlefield, has no surplus tank main guns to supply Zhao Zhi.
After being despised for him, Zhao Zhi decided to change his plans and convert the tank production base built on the outskirts of Kunming into a factory for the production of tracked armored vehicles, which were up to 20 mm thick and would be Zhao Zhi's magic weapon against Japanese tanks. According to the style of the police armored car in the previous life, Zhao Zhi equipped this armored car named Stalker with two heavy machine guns installed in a 360-degree rotating turret, the rotating turret mounted on the top of the car can provide stalkers with fire strikes in any direction, and the large-caliber heavy machine gun armor-piercing warhead can easily tear through the armor of most Japanese tanks and armored vehicles.
Another killer feature of the Stalker is the split armor covering skylight on the roof of the car, which reduces the main gun setting of the Stalker and cannot rely on the two heavy machine guns on the roof as all the firepower, Zhao Zhi also added two Bazooka operators for the Stalker. The 20-ton Stalker can carry a crew of 6 people at a time, two heavy machine gunners, two ammunition men, a commander, a driver, and the remaining two crew members are Bazooka shooters. The 20-ton Stalker is a powerful tool for breaking through enemy lines, and if the Stalker encounters enemy tanks and armored vehicles, Bazooka using armor-piercing rockets will turn enemy tanks and armored vehicles into a pile of scrap metal.
The overall weight is reduced, and there is no need to worry about the setting of the main gun, the current stalker is more suitable for the appetite of Zhao Zhi's group of Jewish engineers, the appearance of the stalker is like an iron box installed on the track, except for the generator transmission part, there is some scientific and technological content, the rest are the affairs of skilled workers, such a simple guy, the Jewish engineers guarantee that they can build several vehicles a month, the premise is that Zhao Zhi must provide them with enough steel and manpower.
Zhao Zhi now is the most important thing is manpower, the Jewish refugees in Yangon have not yet been transferred, those ships that carry weapons from Marseille have brought back a large number of Jewish refugees, Rowling has the latest figures, the number of Jews living in Myanmar has exceeded 600,000, about 400,000 in China, and this number is still increasing. The two steel mills on the outskirts of Kunming established by Zhao Zhi are not very large, because their annual output is less than 5,000 tons due to the limitation of raw materials, but fortunately, these steels are only used to make stalkers and grenades, and there is still a slight surplus after the production workshop is fully produced.
The war-torn Britain has long had no time to take care of Burma in Southeast Asia, as the governor of Capone is the emperor of the soil, Zhao Zhilao has long obtained the right to operate all the iron ore in Myanmar from Capone's hands, and a large number of mined iron ore was sent by truck from the Yunnan-Burma Highway to the Thunder Steel Mill on the outskirts of Kunming, and the scrapped guns were thrown into the furnace to turn into molten iron. The lead and copper needed for the production of bullets are also mined in a small amount in Myanmar, and these minerals are also included in Zhao Zhi's own bag, and Capone, who feels homeless, is now a grasshopper on the same rope as Zhao Zhi, after weighing the pros and cons, Capone, who has always been greedy for money, generously gave Zhao Zhi the green light, as long as Zhao Zhi wants what Myanmar has, Capone will give Zhao Zhi.
A Garand bullet production line smuggled from the United States has settled in Kunming, this rifle with a capacity of 8 rounds is too consuming bullets, and if there is no own bullet production line, Zhao Zhi would not dare to equip those Jewish soldiers with Garand rifles. In order to maintain the normal production of the bullet production line, Zhao Zhi not only looted raw materials from the German occupation zone, but also spent a lot of money in Burma, transporting all the lead and copper in the hands of the Burmese people to Kunming. In the future, a large number of Garand rifles will be shipped from the United States, and the weapons factory in Florida is working overtime to produce Garand rifles for the US military, and the manager in charge of the factory will deduct some of the savings from the daily production, and the ships of the Rockman family will send the rifles to Burma to Zhao Zhi.
"Sir, good news, Ms. Hei's fleet has entered the Bay of Bengal and will soon arrive at Yangon Port" This is the best news that Zhao Zhi has heard today. After the Ocean fleet arrived in Yangon, the Black Lady and several other large ocean-going freighters returned to the United States laden with teak, and while the other ships were busy transporting refugees and weapons from Marseille, the Black Lady was carrying 30 newly built 8-barrel rocket launchers and a batch of Garand rifles from the Mia Dock to the hold.
Rocket artillery technology was obtained by Eugene and the Soviet Union, not only the manufacturing drawings, including several Belarusian engineers who developed this weapon, Eugene also sent it to the United States, and under the temptation of preferential treatment, the Belarusian engineers who were forced by the Soviet Red Army were eager to leave this insecure country as soon as possible. With the manufacturing drawings of the rocket artillery and the Belarusian engineers, the weapons laboratory quickly came up with the second generation of the rocket artillery, a new 8-barrel rocket launcher that uses a hydraulic rod to raise and lower the firing range of the rocket artillery at any time.
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the weapon maniacs in the weapons laboratory, the range of this 8-barrel rocket launcher has reached 4,000 meters, and this rocket artillery vehicle can be equipped with armor-piercing warheads and incendiary warheads. At a distance of 1,500 meters, an armor-piercing rocket launcher can easily penetrate a 15 mm steel plate, which means that in the current Chinese battlefield, this 8-barrel rocket launcher can destroy any type of Japanese tank and armored vehicle.
"Great" Zhao Zhi, who had been frowning all day, pushed away the mountains of documents on the table, and there was a smile on his face, the 10 British-made Sherman tanks that had just been transported from Marseille yesterday had been sent to the armored training camp, and once the Black Lady fleet arrived in Hong Kong, the armored troops integrating the Tiger tanks, Sherman tanks and rocket artillery vehicles could advance to Yunnan. According to the current level of training and firepower configuration of the Jewish armored units, they can withstand the attack of a Japanese tank wing, and with the addition of new 8-barrel rocket artillery vehicles, the Jewish armored units can completely break through the defense line of any Japanese tank unit.
The situation in Myanmar is not bad, and the upcoming Black Lady fleet has not only weapons on board, but also a batch of counterfeit dollar bills printed in Florida. Domestic speculators like to exchange dollars in the black market, and these guys who hoard materials and disrupt the market will be Zhao Zhixin's target, and these counterfeit dollar bills from across the ocean will bring Zhao Zhi a large number of continued materials and convenience. "Wudao, do they have any news" Zhao Zhi is most worried about Yan Wudao, who has not been heard from now, after receiving Zhao Zhi's order with some mercenaries and miners, Yan Wudao directly led people across Mongolia into the territory of the Soviet Union, they will join Eugene and serve as tactical instructors for the White Russian guerrillas.
"Not yet, the last time they contacted us was when they just entered the Soviet Union, according to the calculation of days, they should have already connected with Eugene" Yu Dazhi, who stood up, also looked worried, he and Yan Wudao were the first to follow Zhao Zhi, but now they are separated by thousands of miles. His husband's stall is getting bigger and bigger, and the brothers who followed him first have become commanders of greater or less, and even the scout troops under his command have increased to 500 people, but Yu Dazhi has no mood when he first followed Zhao Zhi to attack Xiaozhangzhuang.
"With their news, I want to tell me as soon as possible" Zhao Zhi rubbed his temples slightly tiredly, a large number of documents were sent to him every day, and it took Zhao Zhi a lot of energy just to deal with these things. The door of Zhao Zhi's office was vigorously pushed open, and Rowling, whom Zhao Zhi hadn't seen for many days, walked in quickly, Rowling was busy training a group of Jewish female soldiers all day with the assistance of Hans, and rarely came to Zhao Zhi's office, "Honey, guess what we found outside the armored training camp today?" Two Japanese, two Japanese spies who came to spy on intelligence"