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The US military-industrial interest group also lobbied the military to give Doolittle and his entourage a special joint air force to North China, and promoted Doolittle to the rank of colonel.

In addition, a special order was issued for Doolittle and his entourage to continue to stay in the Eighth Route Army for the time being to assist the Eighth Route Army in developing its aviation industry.

In the later stage, there will be a U.S. air force, the Soviet air force, and the British air force will be stationed in prototypes to help train Chinese pilots until the aircraft production line is officially completed.

In order not to be smashed by the Eighth Route Army, the British, American, and Soviet countries can also be said to have racked their brains.

Inside the Command.

Kong Jie congratulated Doolittle, "Old Du, congratulations!" Now I should call you Colonel Du! ”

Doolittle grinned at his thin face with stubble, "Kong, in fact, I am more interested in becoming the father of your Chinese aviation than this colonel!" ”

Between the words, Doolittle was more emotional.

Who would have thought that this unit of the Eighth Route Army, which was behind enemy lines and surrounded by strong enemies, would be able to develop its aviation industry vigorously in such a short period of time?

At the beginning, Doolittle and his entourage were forced to land in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi region after the air raid on Tokyo, and were rescued by Duan Peng and his commando team back to the base of the Eighth Route Army.

Although Doolittle and his entourage were amazed that such a large anti-Japanese armed force could be active in the area occupied by the Japanese army and establish such a stable and vigorous base area.

However, they believed after all that the Eighth Route Army, which was behind enemy lines, was under the control of a strong enemy, and it would be difficult for the military industry to develop thoroughly.

When Kong Jie invited Doolittle and his team of pilots to stay in the team and help the Eighth Route Army develop its own aviation career, and even drew a pie to tell Doolittle that he might be called the father of Chinese aviation.

Doolittle was more amused.

He felt that this general of the Eighth Route Army really had an unbridled imagination.

It's just a piece of loess hidden deep in the mountains, especially bulldozed, can such an empty place be used as an aviation base?

Not to mention the construction of a more advanced aviation base, not even a single aircraft Doolittle has seen.

Then I inquired.

The Eighth Route Army didn't even have a single fighter.

At that time, if it weren't for the fact that the Eighth Route Army was the life-saving benefactor of his party, Doolittle couldn't help but say a few sarcastic words.

When you don't even have a fighter, you shout that you want to build your own aviation force, and it's just a dream, right?

However, in less than two months followed.

Doolittle witnessed a miracle happening with his own eyes.

First, pilots with a large reserve of theoretical knowledge came from the so-called Yan'an headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to study with Doolittle.

Immediately afterwards, the team secretly built an aviation base to further transform and build, and the team was lively, and the construction of the secret aviation base was in full swing.

Kong Jie even built a special aviation research laboratory for Doolittle and his party, and provided a considerable amount of aviation research data of considerable quality.

But Doolittle still believes that the premise of all this will never be realized if there is not even a single fighter.

Until the empty airport, more than a dozen fighters inexplicably drove in.

Then it was out of control.

Wave after wave of fighters, bombers, and transport planes were driven to secret airfields in detachments.

Knowing that the planes had been captured from a Japanese military airfield and flown back, Doolittle was so dumbfounded that his mouth was open enough to swallow his fist.

And how else to build aviation in this way?

After that, after owning the plane, the pilots of the Eighth Route Army, who continued to pour in, were enthusiastic, and they regarded the aircraft as almost everything they had, and devoted all their passions to the study and study of aviation operations.

Ultimately.

The air battle of Lê Thanh broke out.

Kong Jie provided the most shining stage for a secretly built aviation unit.

On this shining stage, the pilots and soldiers of the detachment really performed a wonderful air combat drama for the audience in all directions.

At this point, the prototype of the Eighth Route Army's first secret aviation unit has been revealed.

As Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union and other countries reached cooperation with the Eighth Route Army, they said that there would be successive fighter planes and fighter production lines into China to assist the Eighth Route Army in its anti-Japanese operations and the development of aviation.

Doolittle was finally convinced that Kong Jie had done it, and had achieved the blueprint for developing the aviation industry of the Eighth Route Army put forward when they did not have a single fighter plane.

With the current good foundation, in time, the aviation industry belonging to the Eighth Route Army will definitely become one of the aviation powers in the midst of prosperity.

…… A thousand words are only combined into one emotion.

"Kong, you are really the most incredible, the most amazing general I have ever seen!"

"Ah???h

Kong Jie scratched his head in a daze, not understanding which tendon was wrong with this Lao Du, and suddenly said this.

However, Kong Jie is still very grateful to Doolittle and his party, especially Doolittle and their help in the development of the aviation force.

"Lao Du, our aviation unit can develop to this day, and it is inseparable from your help, just rush this, I invite you to drink!"

"If you don't get drunk, you won't go home!" Doolittle laughed.

"You have to come to me for a drink, if you can climb out of the house, I'll lose!" Kong Jie laughed.

……

……

After the plane tour.

Under the reception of Kong Jie, the leaders took the lead in visiting the military production base of the detachment.

In this operation, the troops moved back from Yangquan and Jingcheng to make a lot of iron-making and steel-making equipment, especially in Jingcheng, with the cooperation of several puppet troops who were rebelled, the soldiers also found a five-ton and a three-ton alloy steel smelting equipment.

These equipment, the Japanese army was originally intended to be used to install and produce special steel on the spot in Jingcheng for the new military factory of SJZ, but as a result, it directly made a wedding dress for the Eighth Route Army, and before it could be installed, it was all cheap for the Eighth Route Army.

There are also the equipment of the thermal power plant newly built by the Jingcheng devils, all of which were seized by the soldiers.

These equipment were originally very cumbersome, and if they were left behind, even if they could be captured, how to transport them would be a problem, not to mention the fact that there was air fire that could be stopped by the Japanese army at any time.

Fortunately, now the team has some traction vehicles imported from various countries, which is much more convenient.

Lao Zhang and they also had an unexpected harvest in the freight yard of the station outside the city of Taiyuan, and found a five-ton Krupp alloy steel smelting equipment in the freight yard, and combined with Lao Ding's troops to use heavy tractors to pull back to the Luliangshan base overnight.

Just wait for the successful trial production of the team, and send technicians and engineers to help with the trial production.

In addition, after the troops completely captured Licheng, they also successfully captured a small arsenal, a power plant, a steel mill, and two special steel smelters with five-ton smelting equipment.

Considering that the Licheng area, as a military location of the Japanese army, will never sit idly by and watch it fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and the later period will definitely usher in the continuous retaliation and air raids of the Japanese army, and it will not be possible to build a stable production base at all.

The Eighth Route Army used a large number of mechanized vehicles, towed vehicles, and even used transport planes to transport, and finally transferred a large number of factories and equipment in Licheng to the Huangyadong Arsenal, the most stable of the Eighth Route Army.

One of the five-ton smelting equipment was also transported to Li Yunlong's new Second Regiment Arsenal.

Li Yunlong has always wanted to build mortars, and now he finally has a raw material base.

These are the gains of various units during the May Day Sweep, but they barely have a foundation, and there is still a lack of many supporting facilities, so they have not been able to carry out trial operation.

And there is a serious shortage of technicians and engineers.

Therefore, Kong Jie's business with Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union in terms of aircraft and production lines this time is also thinking of introducing more talents from abroad, and at the same time helping to cultivate domestic military production talents, so as to make up for the huge gap in the demand for talents in the military production of the Eighth Route Army.

When visiting a military production base, the first thing to visit is naturally the steel mill.

A team built an ironworks.

Including special steel smelters.

There are also rifle production lines, light machine gun production lines, heavy machine gun production lines, grenade launcher production lines, rocket production lines, submachine gun production lines, bullet production lines, artillery shell production lines of new military factories.

Kong Jie said: "There are three of these ironworks, one is built with the help of the captured devils, one is built with the aid of the Soviet Union, and the other is built with the aid of the United States.

Immediately, the first to visit is the Yangquan Ironworks, as well as the Jingcheng Ironmaking Plant, the first iron and steel plant established by the Jingcheng Special Steel Plant, which are all Japanese-made machinery and smelting equipment, and there are many equipment purchased during the original Republic of China, and even equipment from the Beiyang period, and some equipment from the plundered national army in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places to install and form a complete production line.

Political Commissar Li Wenjie, who was at the forefront, introduced: "The devils plundered our iron ore in Yangquan and Jingcheng on the spot, smelted iron ore, made iron, made steel, and then transported it to their rear or China for deep processing.

And this five-ton and three-ton special steel smelting equipment is produced by Manchuria Heavy Industry Co., Ltd., and it has only been transported to the Jingcheng Special Gang Factory for installation and trial production during this recent period. ”

The leader on the side asked: "We know something about ironmaking and steelmaking, what is this special gang?" Is it all steel? ”

Kong Jie said: "This special steel is actually alloy steel, five tons of smelting is nickel-chromium-platinum series, and vanadium or tungsten, manganese and other additives are added to the smelting according to demand.

The emergence of alloy steel is a revolution in the steel industry, completely replacing the position of ordinary carbon steel as a barrel material, they make the barrel thinner, lighter, but high temperature resistance, high pressure resistance, can greatly improve the range of the gun, the service life of the barrel.

This three-ton smelting facility smelts molybdenum-chromium steel, which specializes in barrels. ”

The deputy commander-in-chief said: "It was this alloy steel revolution that instantly opened the gap between China's military industry and foreign military industry.

Just like the former Qing Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau spent a lot of money to introduce artillery produced by military equipment, but it was directly behind an era!

Comrades, science and technology are a powerful weapon to improve productivity, we are too far behind! ”

At this time, Commander Fu looked at the equipment and said suspiciously: "I see that some of the equipment is from the original Baojin Mining Republic of China period, why did the nameplate change to the Beiyang period?" I remember seeing it when I first visited! ”

Kong Jie said with a smile: "Commander Fu, the so-called see through is not broken, this steel plant has been in normal production except for alloy steel, and the quality is not bad, we deliberately changed the nameplate, saying that this equipment is old, the quality is uneven, and it fools people!" ”

Xu Guoan added: "In fact, we have re-ordered and replaced a lot of equipment here, but the nameplate is still the original, and the old equipment that cannot be used has been sealed and used as an industrial museum."

We have been producing here for some time, and we are building our own standards by combining the technical standards of the USSR and the United States, and other people's things are someone else's after all, and they have to absorb and digest their own.

This place is all formed by our own steel industry workers and smelting experts, and the foreign experts of the allied forces are not interested in the patchwork products here, they do not believe that we can independently produce steel and iron products with qualified quality and stable technology, and they do not pay any attention to this place, and they can cooperate with us to set off smoke screens. ”

Kong Jie smiled: "It is precisely this reason, if you don't show a little behind, how can you make Western countries willingly come to help?" ”

Fu Yisheng: ......

"The world says that I am an old fox, Kong Jie, Kong Jie, I think you are more like that cunning fox!"

The crowd laughed.

……

After visiting the industrial production lines in this way, with Kong Jie's introduction, the leaders were happy to close their mouths.

The commander-in-chief who rushed from Yan'an said with emotion: "At the beginning, the production level of our military industry was poor, and even the largest Huangyadong Arsenal could not even produce a gun and produce a cannon.

Nowadays, the conditions are getting better and better, and we are finally able to produce our own guns, and we no longer have to be stuck in our throats, and even a little guns and ammunition can only look at the eyes of others and ask others for help! ”

Who's to say it isn't!

Looking back at the bitter history of the Eighth Route Army fighting behind enemy lines over the years, it was in an environment behind enemy lines, isolated and helpless, and lacked a military industrial base.

"No guns, no cannons, the enemy made us!"

These words shouted excitedly, but more of them were sad and helpless.

But as long as the Eighth Route Army has its own military production capacity and has enough arsenals and military industrial base, why bother to make huge sacrifices to capture equipment and materials from the little devils?

These selfless revolutionary leaders of the older generation.

I never frowned when I fought bloody battles on the battlefield.

At this moment, with the visit all the way, many people secretly red their eyes and secretly wiped their tears.

Those were tears of excitement!

That's the relief and joy of watching my motherland grow from weak to strong step by step!

At this time, Kong Jie, who accompanied the leaders, suddenly asked Xu Guoan beside him mysteriously: "Old Xu, our core production industrial zone has been vigilant, right?" ”

Xu Guoan didn't understand what Kong Jie meant, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, the vigilance is strict, especially the representatives of those countries and representatives of all parties who visited our base this time, they will never easily discover our secrets!" ”

"That's good!"

"Hehe, leaders, please move, I'll show you something special!"

Subsequently, Kong Jie and a group of leaders rushed to a secret core industrial production area.

The first to visit was the penicillin processing plant of a team of pharmaceutical production bases.

Kong Jie on the side introduced: "Compared with the industrial powers such as Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, we are far behind in the production of military industries such as aircraft, artillery, and tanks, as well as in the production of civilian products.

But we are not without leading technology and brands.

For example, what the comrades see now, penicillin, which can almost be mass-produced, is what we often call penicillin. ”

"For a long time, especially after the outbreak of war, penicillin is hard to find on the battlefield, everyone knows that this thing can save people's lives at critical times, but due to low production, it has always been in short supply."

"For the production technology of this penicillin mass production, even the Western powers may not have studied it thoroughly, but we are now able to achieve mass production, and even be able to supply the needs of our three armed forces!"

"This is already far behind the Western countries!"

A leader asked with concern: "Are all our troops dispensed penicillin?" ”

Kong Jie said: "After the mass production technology of penicillin was explored, we have been carrying out continuous production, and the corresponding drugs have been continuously distributed to various troops, especially the front-line combat units, which are most prone to casualties, so a large number of additional equipment is provided." ”

Speaking of which, Kong Jie also gave an example with a smile:

"The amount of penicillin our team has now is even more than the number of bandages our team used to have!"

"Yes, yes!"

Regarding the secret mass production of penicillin, even Doolittle and his party were completely unaware.

Kong Jie even used penicillin to do business with Western countries, and made money back from the West to reduce the trade deficit.

If you don't only buy Western products, but don't have your own products to sell, then sooner or later, you will cheat people out of the real money in China.

Then, Kong Jie took the leaders to continue the visit.

The next factory to enter, just entered, seeing the situation in the factory, many leaders couldn't help but blurt out:

"It's ...... Automobile processing plant ??? ”

The leaders were stunned, China can produce its own cars, this is the dream for many years, during the golden decade of the Republic of China, the production of Chinese brand national cars has always been one of the slogans.

But after all, it was dry and thundering, and it didn't rain.

In the end, not even a decent wheel could be produced.

This is ridiculous at the same time, but more sad and helpless.

Now in the Eighth Route Army, a team of secret factories can actually build and produce their own car brands?

Kong Jie explained with a smile on the side: "In fact, it is not the kind of fuel vehicles with complete performance produced by Western industrial powers in the actual sense.

In fact, we are still a long way from getting there.

At present, what you see is that we are trying to produce some more simplistic military mechanical vehicles, mainly to ensure the performance of its engine, as well as the overall vehicle mobility and load capacity.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it is able to run and pull things, and it can mainly be more suitable for our combat with the Japanese army.

As for other aspects of performance, as well as some precision accessories with higher production process requirements, we do not have this ability to produce for the time being.

But after all, it is also a vehicle independently produced by our Eighth Route Army! ”

The leaders suddenly realized, and then they couldn't help laughing, feeling that they were thinking too far ahead, this meal must be eaten one bite at a time, and they can't become a big fat man with one bite at a time.

If all of a sudden, this detachment had the industrial capacity to produce the most advanced mechanized vehicles.

That's a little unrealistic.

In the end, until the leaders walked out of the core industrial area of the team, the weather was clear and they felt the harmony of the wind, and they were all happy.

This trip to visit the industrial area of the team is really eye-opening for everyone.