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As a result, the harvest of the Red Eighth Army in Taiyuan made Hu Weidong giggle in his dreams, the total value of hard currency such as gold and silver alone exceeded 20 million oceans, and the harvest of machinery and equipment made him even more ecstatic, especially the thermal power generation equipment with a total installed capacity of more than 20,000 kilowatts, and the design of a full set of steel smelting equipment that can produce 75,000 tons of crude steel and 45,000 tons of steel per year (historically, this steel plant was occupied by the Japanese as soon as it was completed and put into operation, and it was all cheaper for the Japanese if not even a ton of steel was provided to China). It's really embarrassing to think about. and the special steel production equipment that can produce more than 50 kinds of alloy steel, which surprised Hu Weidong the most.

As long as these equipment are transported back to the Soviet area, and then through Jishu innovation and scientific management, the installed capacity of the thermal power station in the Soviet area is expected to exceed 30,000 kilowatts, and the annual output of steel can break through the 100,000-ton mark. In Hu Weidong's view, it is also completely worth it.

In addition, the Red Army also seized the manufacturing equipment of pressure vessels, although it is a small equipment with a low level of Jishu, but with this foundation, synthetic ammonia, industrial oxygen production, etc. are possible, and its potential linkage effect is even more incalculable (for example, the popularization of pure oxygen top blowing converter Jishu can double the production capacity of ordinary steel)

Although the Taiyuan Arsenal was forced to destroy a large amount of equipment and lay off more than eighty percent of its staff after the defeat of Yan Xishan in the Central Plains, it has now regained its position as one of the largest arsenals in China after several years of recovery, capable of producing 800 6.5mm rifles, 3,000 7.92mm rifles, 600 Czech light machine guns, 90 Type 92 heavy machine guns, 40 Type 17 75mm mountain guns, and 200 Type 12 75mm mountain guns every month, 150 75mm field guns, 24 heavy guns (105mm caliber, raw materials need to be imported. ), 150 mortars, 80,000 mortar shells, 300,000 grenades, 1.5 million bullets, and 123 tons of explosives. Moreover, Yan Xishan took this opportunity to eliminate some of the original backward equipment, making the Jishu level of the Taiyuan Arsenal second to none in China. After the merger of the Taiyuan Arsenal and the Gongxian Arsenal, the leading military production in the western Henan Soviet District was naturally strengthened. In addition, there is another advantage, most of the ammunition in the Taiyuan Arsenal is of Japanese caliber, and with the increase in seizures after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, the people's army will be equipped with more and more Japanese-style weapons, and it is undoubtedly a great convenience to have a ready-made ammunition production line

However, Hu Weidong really looked down on the guns produced by the Taiyuan Arsenal, and except for some of the equipment for the production of ammunition, the others had to be improved to varying degrees in order to switch to the production of new products such as the Type 24 semi-automatic rifle, which also led to the fact that the Red Eighth Army did not begin to enjoy the benefits of the equipment seized by the Taiyuan Arsenal until the following year. But in any case, after getting the machinery and equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal, Hu Weidong can finally give full play to his professional advantages in manufacturing artillery, considering that the Anti-Japanese War is imminent, it is too time-consuming to develop from scratch, Hu Weidong still directly chose those ready-made plans as written in many novels, and as the top artillery experts in later generations, as long as the machinery and equipment meet the requirements, it only takes ten days and half a month to produce samples.

When Hu Weidong crossed, China's artillery was already first-class, especially in the three aspects of cost performance, reliability and power, it was recognized as the first in Shijie. Unfortunately, due to the fact that the level of technology and craftsmanship in this era is not up to the requirements, and other factors such as cost (for example, aluminum is very cheap in later generations, and this era is very expensive, and the same is true for electricity. Those latest models are basically not in the possibility of industrial production now, so we have to push forward to find a usable model. Due to the high requirements for steel quality and forging equipment for body barrel artillery, even if the Soviet area that can not produce seamless steel pipes is barely produced, it is not economically cost-effective, so Hu Weidong naturally focuses on mortars with lower requirements, mainly 60mm, 82mm and 120mm These three classic calibers, the prototypes are PP89 60mm mortar, PP87 82mm mortar and W86-120mm mortar, the latter two need to be slightly modified, And the classic PP89 type 60mm mortar could have been produced a long time ago, but at that time, the task of producing bullets in the Gongxian Arsenal was too heavy, and there was not enough excess capacity, and a small amount of production was not only too costly, but also caused jishu to leak secrets in advance, so it was better not to make it, but now I have eaten the Taiyuan Arsenal, which has a larger production capacity and also takes mortars as one of the main products, then everything is no problem. It was only due to the delay in the transportation and transformation of the equipment that these three "Red Star" series mortars, which were called by the fighters "Little Red Star", "Red Star" and "Big Red Star", did not begin mass production until the second half of 36 ...

In addition, with the current production conditions of the arsenal in the western Henan Soviet District, in later generations by the European and American powers depreciated as "low jishu, low price, low quality personnel use", but in the Shijie range is the most popular among soldiers, especially soldiers from poor countries, among the three "three low weapons", in addition to the 107mm rocket launcher still needs to be studied and tested for a period of time, AK-47 series assault rifles and RPG series rocket launchers can be produced quickly. But the production speed is limited by the equipment conditions and can not be satisfied, and then considering the possibility of imitation of the devil, Hu Weidong can only give up temporarily, although China in this era can not say that nothing can be made, but for Hu Weidong, who wants to build a large industrial system, it is really poor and white!

After the capture of Taiyuan, we were able to make such a great gain, thanks to the special combat personnel who entered the city in advance, the underground party organizations that responded to the city in Taiyuan, and the mountain brigades that rushed to the city of Taiyuan in time. Without them, even if the Red Eighth Army could capture Taiyuan, I am afraid that a large number of factories and facilities would be destroyed in the war, and the wealth in the city would definitely have time to be transferred, and it might even give Hu Weidong a "scorched earth war of resistance", in which case the harvest would be much smaller

Hu Weidong, who has always been a meritorious deed, immediately announced that he would report the list of special combat personnel and underground party members who had made meritorious contributions to the central authorities for commendation, and the mountain brigade was directly upgraded to a mountain division, and the strength of the army was also ready to be expanded from more than 8,000 to more than 30,000, and some of the vacant soldiers were selected from Zhang Fang's more than 20,000 green forest soldiers, and the remaining 10,000 or so were drawn from the Red 28th Army in Dabie Mountain, and this mountain division would also be included in the establishment of the Red 28th Army. At the same time, Hu Weidong also carried out a series of personnel adjustments, the former chief of staff of the corps Fang Yongle was reappointed as the commander and political commissar of the mountain division, and returned to the command of his old superior, Gao Jingting, and the post of chief of staff of the corps was temporarily concurrently held by Su Yu; at the same time, because Gao Jingting had never made left-leaning mistakes in the past six months, and had become more and more accustomed to dealing with those suspected subordinates through military courts, Hu Weidong was relieved to transfer Zhang Dingcheng back to the Soviet District of Western Henan to serve as the president of the court and the director of the political department of the corps, while the political commissar of the 28th Army was also concurrently served by Gao Jingting. After all, as long as he doesn't make the mistake of expanding the anti-rebellion, Gao Jingting is also outstanding in political work, and it would be a pity not to use this talent