(Dingtian Novel Ju.dtxsj.) Taking 37 years as an example, although most of the new production capacity has not been officially produced until the end of the year, it still produces 60,000 tons of steel, 100,000 tons of crude oil, 2 million penicillins, 3 million tons of cement, 200,000 tons of industrial triacids, and more than 300 million kilowatt-hours of power generation; The military industry is even more fruitful, with a total of 300 million bullets, more than 200,000 grenades, more than 1 million grenades, more than 1 million mines, and more than 60,000 rifles (50,000 semi-automatic, more than 10,000 automatic) produced throughout the year. [. YZUU dot] (search nest.souduwo.) ), more than 100,000 submachine guns, more than 1,800 mortars, more than 2,000 light machine guns, and nearly 150,000 shells (including mortar shells)

In terms of military industry, not only has the output increased substantially, but a large number of new weapons have also been successfully developed, providing more and more powerful weapons for the soldiers in the War of Resistance against Japan. The first of them is naturally the 40mm anti-tank rocket launcher, which was named by Hu Weidong as the "Changying-1 40mm bazooka", the anti-tank weapon is designed with reference to the classic 69-III. rocket launcher in history, and its combat effectiveness far exceeds this era, and its 180mm/65° amazing armor penetration depth is enough to easily destroy any kind of tank during World War II, even the King Tiger heavy tank claimed to be indestructible by Nazi Germany later in history. []

No matter how you look at such a huge power to deal with Japan's thin-skinned tanks, it feels like a knife is killing chickens, so many Jishu personnel think that its excessive performance requirements have unnecessarily increased production costs, but Hu Weidong pointed out that "the chairman taught us." Shijie is moving and developing, we are improving, won't the devil's tank progress? If we are only satisfied with destroying the tanks in service of the Japanese army, and then we will study newer rocket launchers after their new tanks are equipped with troops, how many commanders and fighters on the front line will have to sacrifice in vain in the intervening period? What's more, no matter how expensive such a small thing is, how expensive can it be? Aircraft tanks or something to consider a little more cost, but it is reasonable"

Hu Weidong's remarks dispelled the concerns of Jishu personnel. The idea of "advanced research" was thus deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but at this time, perhaps only Taizu understood that this incomparably sharp individual anti-tank weapon was not designed to deal with the Japanese at all. Its real imaginary enemy is actually the Big Brother of the North

It is precisely because Hu Weidong knew that he could not use the powerful armor-piercing ability of the "Changying-1 40mm rocket launcher" in the Anti-Japanese War, so he also attached great importance to its supporting soft anti-personnel rockets, among which the first successful development was an anti-personnel grenade, more precisely. [. YZUU point] is a steel ball kill projectile, the bomb draws on the design idea of part of the anti-infantry jumping mine, the rocket hits the ground through the anti-throwing device to jump to more than 1 meter high and then explodes in the air, its dense killing radius of 20m, the power is equivalent to 122 mm cannon howitzer, the range can reach 1500m, and the power is huge in the field. The cloudburst rockets that were later developed (see below for details) were used as a mass killer against permanent fortifications, and could also be used as incendiary bombs. After the successful development of these two types of rockets, many Type 92 infantry guns captured in previous battles were completely reduced to chicken ribs (the effect of direct-aim artillery fire was not as good as that of bazookas, and long-range artillery fire was not as good as mortars). Soon it was given to the Eighth Route Army by Hu Weidong (due to the fast production speed of the bazooka, the Eighth Route Army was also equipped within a year, so all the infantry guns were lost to the "Japanese column"), which was another favor

In fact, at the beginning, Hu Weidong had thought of developing a single-use portable anti-tank rocket launch system similar to Nazi Germany's "Iron Fist" and later China's PF89 series individual rocket launchers. In terms of firepower density, it is certainly much larger than the RPG series of bazookas, but fortunately, he soon found that this design idea was completely inconsistent with China's current national and military conditions and decisively gave up. The reason is actually very simple, in principle, a disposable individual rocket launcher should be used by each person, and it is not easy to hit a tank moving at high speed. Considering that the number of squadrons exceeding 10 million in the late stages of World War II is almost a certainty, if a disposable individual bazooka is used. How many sticks do you have to produce? …,

Hu Weidong knew very well in his heart that no matter how smoothly the industrialization of the border areas was, they would never have the ability to produce so many disposable individual rocket launchers, and in history, Nazi Germany adopted the "iron fist" because of two points: first, Germany's population and army size were relatively small compared to its industrial strength, and second, the cultural quality of German officers and soldiers was generally very high, so that they could generally master this new weapon relatively quickly, thus greatly reducing the consumption of training. These are the conditions that today's China and the squadron do not have, so Hu Weidong had to choose to occupy the RPG series of bazookas, so that each infantry squad only needs to be equipped with a special bazooka hand, the need for bazooka is naturally greatly reduced, and the shooting accuracy of the special bazooka hand is definitely much higher than that of ordinary infantry who have only been trained simply, which further saves ammunition, thereby greatly reducing the pressure on military production

In addition to its important role in guerrilla warfare and special warfare, as the first type of rocket artillery on the Shijie, it can also completely hit the devil by surprise in the operation of the large corps. The 122mm 40-tube vehicle-mounted rocket launcher, which has a longer range and greater power, also began to be developed immediately after Hu Weidong returned to China

In addition, during Hu Weidong's visit to the Soviet Union, the 105mm light howitzer (this is the official name, but the fighters are still used to calling it "105 mountain artillery", and they will also use this name in the future. A large number of advanced equipment beyond the times, such as 122mm cannon howitzers, 25mm anti-aircraft guns, 37mm caliber anti-aircraft guns, and tank guns, have been successfully developed one after another, coupled with the continuous improvement of auxiliary equipment such as radar and radio proximity fuses, and the rapid expansion of industrial and military production capacity in the border areas, 1938 is destined to become a crucial turning point in the history of the people's military industry

However, to say that Hu Weidong attaches the most importance to the cloud burst bomb known as the "sub-nuclear weapon" in later generations, just its low price and huge power have enough attractiveness, and the high temperature and high pressure and negative oxygen suffocation effect produced by its deflagration have a miraculous effect that can not be matched by any other conventional weapon for the enemy hiding in the fortress fortifications, and the squadron will have to counterattack the northeast sooner or later, if there is no such big killing weapon, so many strong fortresses built by the Japanese Kwantung Army for many years are really difficult to deal with. Large-caliber heavy artillery and heavy high-explosive aerial bombs may be effective, but the cost can be many times higher than that of cloudburst bombs (your support is my biggest motivation.) )