Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

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For example, as a world-class ammunition expert, Hu Weidong is very familiar with tungsten, a special metal. He naturally knows how to extract it from tungsten sand, but it needs to be put into industrial production.

But it was not that easy. Hu Weidong was busy with military affairs, and the troops were preparing to go north to fight against Japan. He had to give up work in this area. However, he obtained a group of scientific and technological talents mainly from Zhejiang University and many "advanced" (compared to the original ones in the Soviet area).

After the introduction of machinery and equipment, the original problem was immediately solved. Among them, Li Shouheng, a chemical expert (the scientific professional classification in this period was not as detailed as it was later), took the greatest credit. After Hu Weidong pointed out the key steps in the smelting process,

The scientific research team he led successively produced tungsten concentrate, tungsten concentrate powder and dense tungsten ingot samples in just a dozen days, and established a complete set of industrial production processes, thus ending China's empty status as the world's first

The embarrassing history of having huge tungsten ore reserves but only producing low-grade raw material pure tungsten sand has caught up with and surpassed the world's advanced level in one fell swoop. When the first batch of trial-produced tungsten fine powder came out, Li Shouheng, who was almost 40 years old, excitedly talked to his assistant

They hugged each other and cried, and from then on they admired Hu Weidong even more. Due to his lofty status at Zhejiang University and profound academic attainments, Li Shouheng's change of attitude affected many people, allowing Hu Weidong to gradually lead these easily disobedient people without much effort.

Science experts. But right now, Li Shouheng is determined not to listen to Hu Weidong's persuasion and insists on staying in the Soviet area until the construction of the tungsten smelting plant is completed...

Hu Weidong knew that Li Shouheng's idea was not completely unreasonable. If these experts left, it was hard to say whether the Soviet area, which lacked technical guidance, could successfully complete the tungsten smelting plant and put it into operation as planned. However, the scientific research conditions in the Soviet area were very poor. Hu Weidong

After racking their brains to come up with several less demanding topics, these experts will have nothing to do. Wouldn't it be a waste of resources to stay in the Soviet area? But Li Shouheng and others insisted that they could wait until Hu Weidong found a better scientific research base.

Then pick them up. If that's not possible, you can even take a plane. Although it is a bit dangerous, it is no more dangerous than following Hu Weidong on the road. After all, who knows whether the 15th Red Army can find a new base with better conditions in a short time after it goes north?

Hu Weidong had nothing to say about this. Although he had already had a very suitable target in his mind, he must not leak the secret now. In the end, he had to agree to the request of Li Shouheng and others to let those who had projects in progress, or rather

Experts (pilots as well) who could work in the Soviet area and their necessary assistants and technicians remained. In addition, in order to streamline the team, some poorer workers and trainees were also left in the Soviet area, reducing the number of non-combatants traveling with them.

to less than 50,000 people. After hard work, these people who stayed behind built the first thermal power plant in the Soviet area, the first hydropower station (a micro-hydropower station with an installed capacity of only a few hundred kilowatts), and the first hydropower station in the Soviet area in just six months.

Non-ferrous metallurgical plant (copper, zinc and lead), the first electrolytic refinery, the first machinery plant, the first steel plant, the first sulfuric acid plant, the first nitric acid plant, the first explosives plant and later became the Fujian and Jiangxi

Although most of the tungsten smelting plants, the economic backbone of the Zhejiang-Guangdong-Anhui border area, are small in scale and obviously experimental in nature, they have trained a group of technical talents and greatly improved the economic and financial conditions of the Soviet area, especially the arsenal.

It has benefited a lot. Even if the external blockade remains in the future, at least the production of firearms and ammunition can be barely maintained...

However, in order to protect them and the safety of the factory, Hu Weidong was forced to keep more troops, bringing the total strength of the remaining Red Army troops in the Fujian, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Anhui border areas to more than 50,000, and also left behind most of them who should be able to recover and return to the army.

More than 20,000 wounded soldiers. Moreover, in order to protect the factory, the Red Army's operational flexibility in the Soviet area was greatly reduced. Many times it had to fight head-on with the enemy. Fortunately, there was an arsenal to replenish ammunition. The situation was still better than that of the Central Red Army during the fifth counter-encirclement and suppression campaign.

Much more……….

In late July 1935, the main force of the 15th Red Army and non-combatants totaling 150,000 people left Guixi County, Jiangxi Province and marched westward. After deciphering telegrams, they learned that Chen Cheng's main force was undergoing repairs in Ganzhou, the largest city in southern Jiangxi.

However, only Zhu Huaibing's 94th Division was stationed in Nanchang, the provincial capital in the north. Hu Weidong decided to attack Nanchang first and then cross the Gan River. Firstly, for the safety of crossing the river, and secondly, by the way, Zhu Huaibing, who had failed to resist the Japanese but was a crazily anti-Red Army, was eliminated in advance.

, even scumbags like Kang Ze, who used the Baojia Law to massacre innocent people, continue to "clean up the door" for the Kuomintang...

Since Hu Weidong had this idea for a long time, before the troops left Guixi, hundreds of special forces led by Long Feibao had sneaked into Nanchang City and lurked. Some of the special forces once again took up the job of artillery observers, making the Red Army

The large number of field artillery of the 15th Army could accurately hit some important military targets in the city. However, the Chinese troops in the city were unable to effectively fight back because they had never received such training in indirectly guiding artillery attacks. Their morale suddenly dropped sharply. When the Red Army took advantage of

After the relatively long-range field artillery destroyed the defenders' artillery positions, the shorter-range super-caliber mortars and "heartless cannons" boldly approached and opened fire. Their power was comparable to that of large-caliber heavy artillery, and they were instantly defeated.

In order to gain the confidence of the defenders, amidst the rumbling cannons, the commanders and soldiers of the 15th Red Army sang military songs and rushed in through the gap in the city wall like a tide. They quickly eliminated the remaining enemies on the east bank of the Gan River, including the scum Zhu Huaibing.

He was also shot dead on the spot, and there were not many enemies on the west bank. They were frightened by such a terrifying momentum, and learned that the division commander was dead. In addition, the special forces members who had mixed in took the opportunity to spread rumors and confuse them. They all ran away with a roar. Red Ten

The Fifth Army took the city of Nanchang, the provincial capital of Jiangxi, with almost no casualties...

In order to avoid long nights and long dreams, the 15th Red Army and its entourage hardly stayed on the east bank of the Gan River and crossed the Gan River as quickly as possible. However, even so, the 15th Red Army once again captured a big city and gained a lot.

Not to mention the money and food obtained by the wealthy gentry and celebrities in the city who "actively" labored for the army out of fear, the proceeds from the direct inspection of various government-owned properties were worth millions. Although it cannot be compared with Hangzhou, who would think it was a lot of money? Especially

Hu Weidong is also planning to purchase equipment and introduce talents from abroad in the future. Even if it costs hundreds of millions, it may not be enough. With China's current weak industrial base, according to Hu Weidong's estimation, if it is an exchange of equal value, it will be impossible to build a complete system that can support the national war.

In the industrial system, the purchase of machinery and equipment alone requires at least 1 billion U.S. dollars (Note 1), which is more than 3 billion oceans based on the exchange rate one year later, and you have to be willing to sell it to you. That’s why Hu Weidong ignores his own image.

Money was being rushed everywhere. In addition, the harvest of weapons and ammunition was not small. Most of the equipment of a division plus the inventory of a provincial capital city basically made up for the moderate consumption of the 15th Red Army in this battle...

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Note 1: The total value of the machinery and equipment aided by the Soviet Union in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China was around US$4 billion (because the gold standard system was still there, it was basically equivalent to US$4 billion in 1935.), but considering that Lao Maozi's asking price was on the high side, the industrialized equipment in the 1930s

The cost is relatively low, and the industry in the mainland has not been seriously damaged by the war. In addition, the relatively good industrial base in the Northeast is still there. Therefore, as long as the war can be ended as soon as possible in the future and the Northeast industrial base is relatively intact, the purchase of 1 billion US dollars

The machinery and equipment should be enough for China to establish a basic industrial system with a production capacity equivalent to the completion of the first five-year plan of New China. If you can buy cheap goods, the cost will be lower. Of course, because of the generational difference in technological level

, there will be a certain gap in construction speed and output, and the cost of hiring foreign technical experts is also not a small amount...

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