Tractors can only be regarded as the most ordinary agricultural machinery in later generations, and there is nothing to make a fuss about, but for some time before World War II, the production capacity of tractors was directly linked to one thing, that is, the king of land warfare tank!

As long as the tracked tractor is welded with protective armor, and then installed with tank guns and machine guns, it is a simple tank, and the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries in World War II also used tractor production plants to produce a large number of tanks, relying on the torrent of steel, completely submerged Germany.

The current tank is still in its infancy, counting from the Battle of the Somme, it has only been put into actual combat for more than a year, and it is far from mature.

If you want to win a future war, it is absolutely inconceivable that there is no tank as a weapon with strong mobility and integrated offensive and defensive capabilities, and tanks are indispensable for both the Soviet Union and Japan.

And the tractor itself also has a huge value, the three eastern provinces have a vast fertile land, and the plains are widely spread, is the most suitable area for large-scale machine farming in China, but the northeast is vast and sparsely populated, lack of sufficient labor, if a large number of tractors can be produced, the agricultural output of the three eastern provinces is bound to increase greatly.

Whether it is to calculate military accounts or economic accounts, tractors are an indispensable weapon, and Zhang Tinglan can not be excited to find a factory that produces tractors in Boli. In front of this rough tractor, Zhang Tinglan walked twice repeatedly, and then asked Sun Anhu to arrange a driver to drive on the spot to see how the situation was.

Soon two Russian workers were brought in and asked to drive the tractor to demonstrate, and the two Russians got on the tractor with trepidation. After a lot of effort, it finally started, and the tractor drove in front of Zhang Tinglan and Sun Anhu with black smoke and loud noise, and then walked twice again.

Sun Anhu watched carefully from the side, his brows furrowed slightly, and then he seemed to wake up like a dream, patted his thigh, and suddenly realized: "Commander-in-chief." I can see the usefulness of the tractor, this thing is fast and has strong cross-country ability, especially after using tracks, the general ditch and ditch. You don't have to care at all, you can run over it easily. If the steel plate is welded on it. Ordinary machine guns are absolutely impenetrable, this is simply a moving point of fire! ”

Sun Anhu, a veteran of the industry, saw the key at a glance, and he could be described as a unique vision, but the more he thought about this, the more excited Sun Anhu's heart became. Since Zhang Tinglan took charge of the army, he has continuously instilled the most advanced military concepts in these generals. Let them focus on the battlefields of Europe and explore the most advanced strategies and tactics from them.

The big guys are familiar with the trench warfare in Europe, which is simply a flesh and blood mill, constantly devouring all kinds of life. But in all fairness, in the kind of terrain conditions in Western Europe, with the existing equipment, it is really difficult to find a better way, so you can only keep throwing your life into it.

But with tanks, criss-crossing trenches are no longer a soldier's nightmare, trenches, barbed wire, machine guns and other infantry killers in the face of tanks, almost no lethality, can be directly crushed in one go.

The tractor in front of you is no longer an ordinary agricultural machine, but a soldier who is covered with armor and installed with guns, and can charge on the battlefield unscrupulously, brave and invincible!

"The British have developed similar weapons more than a year ago and put them on the battlefield, but because the jishu and tactics are not mature, they have not broken the deadlock, but I dare to say that as long as time passes, armored Liliang is definitely the king of land warfare, and now we have the ability to produce tractors, and we will soon have a powerful weapon that integrates attack and defense."

"Commander-in-chief, what I said is itching in my heart, let's quickly move all this equipment back to the three eastern provinces!"

"Well, let's go and prepare immediately, not only to get the machine back, but all the jishu personnel must not be left behind, and all of them will be sent back to the three eastern provinces, and our military personnel will also follow up and study how to load the weapons on it."

Zhang Tinglan gave the order, and the Fengjun moved up and down, and they quickly counted the equipment of the machinery factory and controlled all the workers.

"Commander-in-Chief, I'm afraid the situation is not so optimistic! The production capacity of the machine shop is very limited, you can take a look at it first. ”

Sun Anhu sent the results of the investigation to Zhang Tinglan, the manufacturing capacity of this machinery factory is not strong, and the main business is ships, machine tool power systems, these tractors are just by-products, even if they are full horsepower, they can only produce about 60 vehicles a year, and it is difficult to have more breakthroughs.

All sixty tractors were converted into tanks, that is, the size of a regiment, and there were no other support logistics vehicles. Although the armored cluster is extremely powerful, but the test of logistics is very amazing, each tank is an oil tiger, after starting, it must be followed by enough fuel and ammunition trucks, but also to carry maintenance equipment, at any time to repair the failure of the vehicle.

This is an overall combat system, it is definitely not something that can be solved by a few tanks, after thinking of these, Zhang Tinglan's mind has calmed down a lot, and it seems impossible to quickly get a tank force now, but this factory can still be used as a seed.

As long as it is used well, it will be possible to train workers in tractor manufacturing and production, and then it will be possible to train the first tank crews, as for the expansion of the scale, it will have to wait for the increase in industrial capacity, and it cannot be forced.

Fortunately, the First World War is coming to an end, just in time to copy Germany, get enough equipment from Russia, if everything goes well, within three years, the initial establishment of armored liliang, it is still possible, at that time it happens that the Russian civil war has not yet ended, the Feng army may be able to use armored troops to crush the Russian sea of people, let them taste the blood lesson!

Thinking of this, Zhang Tinglan also came to the fighting spirit: "For the time being, we will transport all the machinery and equipment to Harbin, set up an agricultural machinery factory, produce tractors first, and focus on training our workers and drivers!" ”

Sun Anhu also nodded yes, and then said with a smile: "Commander-in-chief, the production capacity of this machinery factory is limited, but that steel plant is a complete treasure, according to the investigation, this steel plant was originally in Europe." However, due to the war, the Russians moved the equipment to the Far East, wanting to use the resources of the Far East to continue production, the original steel plant was a very large factory, with an annual production capacity of more than 300,000 tons, which is six times that of Anshan Iron and Steel! ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Tinglan's eyes were not round, and he couldn't believe his ears, there was such a large-scale factory in Boli, it was a pie in the sky. What a surprise!

He hurriedly took the document from Sun Anhu's hand, looked through it carefully, and sure enough, as Sun Anhu said, this steel plant was indeed moved from Europe, and the original production capacity reached 300,000 tons. The jishu of the factory, like the equipment and the original equipment of Angang, are French. In this day and age. It is the top of shijie, and it can throw off a few streets of Japanese factories.

If we can really get a factory with 300,000 tons of steel at once, the gap between the Fengjun and the Japanese will be narrowed to less than twice as much at once, and it can be said that we will reach the sky in one step. Zhang Tinglan barely suppressed the joy in her heart and looked down carefully.

After seeing the content behind, Zhang Tinglan was also a little lost. The factory was not relocated, only about half of the machinery and equipment were transported, and the Jishu workers were not in place, so they were all left in Europe.

It can be said that this plant is only half. If you want to point to this factory and turn things around in one fell swoop, you can't do it. However, Zhang Tinglan is also very content, and if he can digest this half of the factory, Fengtian's steel production capacity will also take a big step, and it is not difficult to easily cross 100,000 tons and climb to 200,000 tons.

"Okay, this factory should also be transported back as quickly as possible, this time we sent troops to Russia is simply too worthwhile, just these factories, the value is difficult to measure."

"That's right! In the past, when I led troops to fight, I always felt that it was enough to have enough weapons, but now I understand that industrial capacity is the core of everything, if Russia does not have a civil war, with their industrial capacity alone, they can arm an army ten times and a hundred times, and we have no chance of winning at all! ”

With Zhang Tinglan's advocacy, there were more and more industrial parties in Fengtian, and the degree of attention to industry also reached an unprecedented height.

Boli's benefits are almost squeezed, and another piece of fat in the Far East is Vladivostok, and Zhang Tinglan also ordered Feng Jun to enter Vladivostok in the name of Felix, the regent, and prepare to make a big profit.

Just when the Feng army was wantonly looting and desperately enriching its industrial strength, there was also a fierce debate on the Japanese side. In fact, for some time, the Japanese have not had any doubts about the source of the arms and weapons and industrial equipment of the Feng army, and these things cannot be conjured out of thin air.

However, the Japanese carefully searched, Britain, France, the United States and other countries did not provide much equipment to the Feng army, let alone Japan, the biggest suspicion is Russia, and the Japanese have also found evidence of the Feng army's smuggling from Russia, but they have not yet figured out how big the scale is.

However, since the Feng army sent troops to Hailan Bao, they wantonly moved industrial equipment back and forth, which was difficult to hide from others, and the Japanese also got information, and after learning that the Feng army had obtained a large amount of heavy industrial equipment, the Japanese were about to go crazy.

From the cabinet to the emperor, down to the diplomatic institutions of the Kwantung Army and the Feng Army, all of them were in chaos, the Japanese are not fools, how can they bully China, don't they rely on advanced industrial strength!

If the Feng army also has the corresponding industrial strength, and then with China's manpower and material resources, where will Japan be enough? The Japanese finally felt the unprecedented pressure, and they had the intention to stop it, but all the transport equipment of the Feng army passed through the Middle East Road, and the Japanese could not intervene at all.

Since it was impossible to prevent the movement of the Feng army from the front, it was necessary to start from the side, and after repeated discussions in the cabinet, the Japanese decided to send troops to Russia no matter what, not only to contain the majority party, but also to contain the Feng army, so that the Feng army could not be allowed to swell any further.

The Japanese government also wanted to create an excuse for sending troops to Russia, and their two diplomats in Vladivostok happened to "disappear" at this time!

After the Japanese Government received the news, it immediately made a big deal of hype, saying that it would send troops to the Far East to protect the Japanese nationals.

They mobilized five warships and then went north and directly entered Vladivostok, and the 12th division of the country was also mobilized, and a brigade, plus cavalry and artillery units, was sent as a vanguard, to quickly land in Vladivostok and seize the bridgehead for intervening in Russia.

In addition, the Japanese set up a headquarters here, and Kolchak also came to Vladivostok from Japan to form a new government, and the Japanese set up a position for full-scale intervention in Russia.

After hearing the actions of the Japanese, Zhang Tinglan also knew that this was inevitable, and when the Japanese arrived in the Far East, the Feng army did not want to comfortably receive industrial equipment, the Feng army could only speed up its own actions, and before the Japanese gained a firm foothold, they could get more benefits, this is a speed competition, it depends on who can rob faster and more! (To be continued......)