In addition, the annual output of more than 300,000 tons of chemical fertilizers, more than 20 million antibiotics, more than 10,000 automobiles, more than 12 million tons of cement, more than 15 million tons of coal, and more than 300,000 tons of refined oil (due to the early start of the oil refining industry, the refineries in the Central Plains and Northwest Border Regions are enough to digest all the crude oil produced by themselves. and other industrial sectors. However, in the war environment, if you want to say that the fastest development, in addition to the military industry, can there be other industrial sectors?

According to incomplete statistics, in 1938, the arsenals of the major border areas produced a total of more than 1 billion rounds of various guns and ammunition, and the era of insufficient ammunition for the people's army is gone forever, and although the demand for grenades and grenades, which were the favorite of soldiers in the past, was relatively declining due to the growing strength of artillery and air force, the output in 1938 still doubled compared with the previous year, reaching 2 million and 400,000 respectively. Even with the replenishment of captured shells, the total production in 1938 exceeded 100,000 rounds, and this was without counting more than 300,000 mortar rounds

In 1938, more than 200,000 semi-automatic rifles, more than 100,000 assault rifles, more than 400,000 submachine guns (most of which were "exported"), more than 10,000 machine guns of various types, nearly 4,000 mortars of various types, and more than 2,000 rocket launchers were produced

The bigger breakthrough is that in 1937 was basically not able to produce heavy weapons, after entering 1938 has begun mass production, of which the output of barreled artillery has reached more than 600 (including more than 100 anti-aircraft guns of various calibers), and the output of aircraft and tanks are also more than 100, although most of them are assembled with captured or recovered spare parts, aircraft are more mainly trainer aircraft, but compared with before. It's already a huge step forward

It was precisely because of this increasingly strong industrial and military base that the Red Party was able to launch a series of major offensives, especially the two heavy divisions that were very well supplied and supplied, and went all the way to the northeast battlefield to support. This was unthinkable before. After obtaining these two trump card troops, Mr. Lin, who has always been cautious in the use of troops, couldn't help but be arrogant, and even rarely rushed eastward with only 300,000 troops, and successively captured Yingkou and other places. After capturing tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers at the cost of small losses, the troops pointed directly at Shenyang, an important town of the puppet Manchurians.

For a time, the Japanese Kwantung Army was panicked, while the confidence of the Chinese military and civilians in the northeast was greatly increased. At the same time, the South Manchurian Column, which once had only more than 3,000 people left, also took advantage of the great opportunity when the main force of the Kwantung Army in South Manchuria was pinned down, and quickly formed a beacon fire situation, not only quickly restored the Changbai Mountain base area, but also actively expanded outward, seized many counties and developed the armed Liliang to 100,000 guns. As expected by the Chief Plateau, South Manchurian is relatively densely populated due to the unique struggle environment in the Northeast. This is not a good thing for guerrilla warfare, but as long as it can survive and enter the counteroffensive stage, the potential of South Manchuria is simply incomparable with that of North Manchuria, which is vast and sparsely populated.

However, when the situation of the Anti-Japanese War in Northeast China was in full swing, the Soviet government secretly made peace with the Japanese army without concealing the Red Party. After receiving an order from the Supreme Command, Zhukov, who had cooperated quite happily with the Anti-Japanese Federation during this period of time, said sorry to Xu Gao and the others, and reluctantly withdrew his troops to the Soviet Union. It was only then that the Chinese side learned the bad news. They hurriedly sent a telegram to the major military regions, especially the Northeast Military Region and the North China Military Region. After learning of this sudden change, even Mr. Lin, who has always been taciturn, couldn't help but spit out several dirty words

But "if Seon loses his horse, he doesn't know if it's a blessing." Such an unjust act of the Soviet Union made Germany confirm that China and the Soviet Union were indeed at odds with each other, and thus strengthened its determination to win over China, and the secret cooperation between China and Germany in the negotiations not only quickly reached an agreement, but also exceeded the initial expectations of both sides in depth and breadth

In order to show its sincerity, the German side first unconditionally presented the Red Party with a large number of important equipment that Hu Weidong had long longed for, even if the cost price was as high as more than 100 million US dollars, and among them, Germany has always been proud of the military precision machine tool and the unique 30,000-ton die-forging hydraulic press on Shijie and the most advanced 15,000-ton freestyle hydraulic press on Shijie (this Soviet Union also has it, and it is also a German jishu. However, considering that the Red Party had already spent $1.5 billion to pay off Germany's huge debt of $2 billion, and the Germans even "took" a few copies of Hu Weidong's design drawings for free, it was their right thing to repay the favor now

After trust was established, the volume of transactions between the two sides began to increase rapidly, and according to some information declassified many years later, between April 1939 and 1941, the total value of machinery and equipment imported from Germany alone was more than $3 billion. At the same time, the German government has also sent tens of thousands of scientific and technological experts (although the number is not very large, but they are all real scientific and technological experts, at least senior engineers, not the kind of ordinary technicians that the Soviet Union used to pretend to be when it came to aid China in history). Supporting China's various constructions, including even shijie-level bulls, is by no means a small amount if it is all counted as money. Even so, with a debt of $2 billion (Note 1) in debt alone, the Germans were unable to empty the Red Party of all the hard currency (and about $1 billion)

Note 1: At first glance, settling with China is not much different from settling with the U.S., but it is not. On the one hand, Germany could transfer jishu to China to offset its debts; On the other hand, the Chinese need German machinery and equipment, and the Americans only need hard currency, but in the context of the economic crisis, the Shijie powers have set up trade barriers to restrict the import of industrial products, and Germany, which cannot import resources and export industrial products but is difficult, has a long-term trade deficit and it is impossible to earn dollars through foreign trade. Therefore, Germany can afford to pay off the $2 billion debt in the hands of the Chinese, but it cannot afford to pay off the money owed to the United States. Besides, the United States will definitely be Germany's future enemy (on the one hand, Germany still owes the United States at least five or six billion dollars in debt, and on the other hand, Germany wants to become the hegemon of Shijie, and the United States, the number one industrial country and economic power, will have to face it sooner or later. Isn't it a financial enemy to pay them back? (To be continued.) )