Chapter 665: Large-scale construction, large-scale production, and large-scale military training
As the military and political meetings progressed one after another, one resolution after another was finalized, and one order after another was sent from Chongqing to all parts of the country, and for a time all the military and political officials and ordinary soldiers and civilians in China were mobilized, like a high-power machine ready to explode at any time.
According to the strategic concept of Chen Feng and the members of the Central Military Commission, it will take about a year for the troops to go from reorganization to rearmament to formation of combat effectiveness, and if the combat effectiveness of the entire army's more than 6 million troops can reach about half of the original Eighth Theater, then it will take two years at most to wipe out the Japanese puppet army in China, or even less.
If the United States, Britain and other countries also joined the operational sequence of the counteroffensive against Japan during this period, then it would not be impossible to counterattack the Japanese mainland within two years, and based on this judgment, Chen Feng believed that he had every hope of completing the glorious mission given by the system before August 15, 1945.
However, Chen Feng also knew that with China's current industrial strength, it is completely impossible to maintain the daily consumption of more than 6 million troops, even if the industrial base of Saibei Province has been formed, but according to the calculation of the industrial production capacity of Saibei in 1941, Saibei Province can supply up to 2.5 million troops, and no more.
Therefore, Chen Feng believed that while carrying out military and political reform, it was necessary to carry out comprehensive construction of China's industry, mainly to develop the military industry in heavy industry.
Chen Feng is not unaware that light and heavy industries must be developed in tandem, otherwise the two legs will be thick and thin, and it is very likely to follow the old path of the Soviet Union. But he can't help it, now the Chinese can starve. However, we cannot do without weapons and equipment, and we cannot but develop military strength.
If you starve and suffer a little, you can't kill the country, but if you don't have a strong military force, you will destroy the country and destroy the species. As for other things, it can be said after defeating the Japanese devils, anyway, as long as the tasks assigned by the system are completed, he Chen has time to fight with those big countries.
At Chen Feng's request, the government urgently convened a conference on industrial construction, and according to Chen Feng's request, the government should build 30 large-scale iron and steel plants with an annual output of 10 million tons of high-quality steel, 50 large-scale cement plants, and 10 large-scale power stations within one year, and also establish military industrial bases in Shanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, and Shanxi. The Chen family paid for all of these construction costs.
Of course. After the country developed and the economy relaxed, the money needed to be returned to the Chen family.
Regarding the construction of these military bases to be built, Chen Feng referred to the construction experience of Huaxia Company. Each military-industrial base is required to independently produce light and heavy weapons such as rifles, machine guns, mortars, grenadiers, cannons of various calibers, tanks and armored vehicles. It is possible to equip troops in various theaters of operations nearby.
Other than that. Chen Feng also planned to expand the industrial production capacity of the northern part of the country, and in addition to light weapons, it was also necessary to increase the production capacity of various types of aircraft. to prepare for the next battle.
Chen Feng knew very well that domestic industrial construction could not be separated from a relatively stable environment, so Chen Feng ordered all units not to clash with the Japanese army for the time being, let alone rush to counterattack, all the troops had to do was to defend, and when appropriate, they could even retreat backwards.
At the same time, Chen Feng specially set aside $3 billion from the Chen family's development fund to order a large amount of industrial equipment from the Soviet Union and the United States, and asked them to ship all of this equipment to China within six months.
In view of the surging consumption of the Chen family's funds during this period, Chen Feng ordered Yan Changxi to immediately enclose land in North and South America according to the map he gave, without any scruples, and just make great strides.
In recent years, Huaxia has developed rapidly, but there are many industries that have not set foot, especially in profiteering industries such as petroleum energy and minerals. It is not that Huaxia Company does not have resources and strength, on the contrary, Huaxia Company not only has the capital and strength, but also has the advantages that others do not have, they have the specific distribution map of all undiscovered mineral resources in North and South America, as long as they are willing, they can find large oil fields rich in oil and gas resources at any time, and they can also find large gold mines with extremely high gold stocks.
However, due to the good and bad relations between the two countries, Chen Feng was worried that he would make a wedding dress for the US government, so he did not dare to let Huaxia Company develop freely. Now that almost all the situation is clear, there are no more worries, and you can do what you want, and China is now the largest employer in the United States, and the American society believes in the belief that the customer is God's creed, so such a huge order will definitely make the US government excited.
With Chen Feng's instructions, Huaxia Company suddenly cheered, and Long Jian, Jingjing, Kang Xiaowei and others immediately took action, and soon the news that Huaxia Company had discovered a large oil field in the southeast of the United States and would exploit it together with Mobil Oil Company made the front page headlines in the American media.
Then, the news of Huaxia's discovery of a huge gold mine in Alaska spread, and for a time the reports about Huaxia were full of American society, even more attention than the current ongoing war.
The year 1942 was a turning point for China, and it was evident to the people at home that the government was unprecedentedly tough in carrying out all matters, and as long as orders were given to all parts of the country to act quickly, the pace of the whole country was accelerating.
In addition, this year's money seems to be very profitable, as long as there are hands and feet and willing to work, there will be people everywhere they go, and the previous things such as catching strong men and robbing public grain have never happened again, and what is even more strange is that the previous series of war reports have also disappeared, and the newspapers report on construction and production, and rarely report on the war, which makes the people very puzzled.
Originally, in accordance with the requirements of the Central Military Commission, the whole country, whether it was the central army or the local army, whether it was the regular army or the militia self-defense forces, was unified and reorganized, and all the qualified soldiers were left behind, and those who did not meet the standards were eliminated from the troops, and only 5.65 million were left behind the 6.06 million army, and more than 400,000 unqualified troops were laid off.
After the reorganization of the troops was completed, they all thought that there would be a big action on the side of the Military Commission, but in fact, almost all the troops took the initiative to retreat and distance themselves from the Japanese army, which seemed to be subservient to the Japanese. The front line was indeed calm, but the officers and men did not relax at ease, and an order for a large-scale change of outfits and large-scale training of troops kicked off an upsurge of redressing and training of various units.
Among the 11 newly established theaters, the Northeast Theater and the Northern Cyprus Theater are the troops of the former Eighth Theater, and the change of outfits has already been completed. The North China Theater has completed a part of the change, so the costume change started from the North China Theater.
According to the requirements of the Central Military Commission, the principle of changing clothes is to first go east and then west, with the North China Theater, Central China Theater, Southeast Theater, and Burma Theater being the first batch of redress theaters, the Southwest Theater, the Chongqing Theater, and the Yan'an Theater being the second batch of refitting theaters, and the Northwest Theater being the last theater.
In addition, there are certain differences in weapons and equipment, because the weapons and equipment now possessed are limited, so the Northeast Theater, the Northern Theater, the North China Theater, the Central China Theater, and the Burma Theater are reequipped according to the standards of the former Eighth Theater Reorganization Division, and their main battle weapons include AK assault rifles, Type 79 sniper rifles, Thompson submachine guns, artillery and tanks of various calibers.
The units of the Chongqing Theater, the Southwest Theater, the Southeast Theater, and the Yan'an Theater were all replaced with Mauser rifles, Makqin heavy machine guns, and Czech light machine guns, and then equipped with a large number of artillery pieces and a small number of armored units.
Since the Northwest Theater is far away from the battlefield, the main responsibility of its troops is to guard the rear, so Chen Feng's equipment to the Northwest Theater is all-Japanese equipment, rifles are 38 big covers, light machine guns are crooked handles, heavy machine guns are Type 92, infantry fire support is Type 92 infantry guns, mortars, and grenadiers, long-range artillery is 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery, and the armor strength is captured Type 95 bean fighting vehicles and Type 97 medium combat vehicles, and the main responsibility of these armored units is not to fight, but to train.
At the same time, Chen Feng transferred a large number of officers and soldiers from the former Eighth Theater to various theaters to be responsible for the centralized training of the soldiers in each theater, and the standard of training was the same as that of all units in the Eighth Theater. All the officers went to the Army University in Sumushan and Chongqing in batches to study, mainly to learn the operation of new weapons and equipment and new tactics. In Chongqing, Chen Feng personally gave lectures to officers at the rank of major general and above in various theaters.
Originally, many officers were very uninterested in Chen Feng's order to require officers of various units to be trained in rotation, believing that with their experience in leading troops to fight in wars for several years or more, they still needed to learn. But when they actually arrived at the school, they realized that the road was nothing more than a rat in a toad hole at the bottom of the well, and the sky before was only as big as an import, and their vision was even short-sighted.
This is especially true for those generals who have been taught by Chen Feng himself, and they knew that the marching formation and operational command of the road were those conventional tactics, but after studying, they learned that there is also a tactic called information warfare and electronic warfare in this world, and there is also a tactic called biochemical warfare, there is a branch of the army called radar soldiers, and there is a weapon called automatic rifles.
From the initial disapproval to the deep admiration at the end, these senior officers of the former Nationalist Government and the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army truly realized that they had fallen far behind the world.
Chen Feng's series of orders set off a vigorous wave of large-scale production, large-scale construction, and large-scale military training throughout China; although there was no combat mission, and although it seemed to be retreating, China's originally disorderly social order and economy were being restored, the chaotic army establishment and equipment were being adjusted, and the combat effectiveness was rapidly improving, and all this was stimulating the nerves of the Japanese all the time. (To be continued......)