"Keep experimenting!" As soon as Meng Xiang heard the problem with the vehicle, he knew it. This march into the northwest is not just a matter of testing people, weapons and vehicles must be tested in practice. In order to advance smoothly in Siberia in the future, Meng Xiang trained whether it was Soviet, German, or American in World War II.

But the results also came out quickly. Soviet-made weapons must have taken into account the use of low temperatures, so none of the problems were very big. But in the low temperature in the blizzard, some German and American vehicle machinery still had problems. Although not all, some models do not seem to be prepared for low temperatures at all and crawl the nest early.

Even the oil purchased abroad has problems, if it were not for the base's own low-temperature resistant oil, I am afraid that the brigade would have been lying in the nest long ago.

There are many problems on one march that need to be solved.

"Anyone who eats and drinks Lazar needs to consider low temperatures. Our uniforms have been tested by low temperatures, and several test teams sent to Siberia have also received experimental data that can withstand the test of low temperatures. In general, we believe that it can adapt to low temperatures above minus 30 degrees. Yu Dawei said unhurriedly.

Although Yang Er is the supervisor of the logistics work of the vanguard army, he mainly does supervision, and most of the specific work is handled by Wang Geng. Busy work made Wang Geng sick. Originally, after Wang Geng suffered Lu Xiaoman's marriage change and espionage case, he drank every day and wasted himself, and his body had long left the root of the disease. The logistical work of the vanguard army was already large, but with the beginning of the expansion and popularization of motorization and the surge of the army, the logistical workload was far greater than that of other aspects. Wang Geng planned to make some achievements again, so he leaned on his post in white and black. led to an attack of sudden illness, but fortunately it was discovered in time, otherwise it would have been heroic directly.

But at all, Huang Tao and others diagnosed, he is not suitable for such a large amount of work. You also need to recuperate for at least half a year. Wang Geng's hard work for more than a year, Meng Xiang had long seen it, so he ignored Wang Geng's opposition and directly gave him a long vacation to recuperate with peace of mind. As for the work, it will be kept for him in the future.

However, the logistics department is short of people, and someone recommended Yu Dawei at this time.

Meng Xiang's later generations had also heard of this genius, and he also wanted to win it over. But he has always held the position of Lao Chiang's director of the Ordnance Industry Administration, and Lao Chiang is also very fond of him.

Originally, the Ordnance Industry Administration led by Yu Dawei provided a large amount of ammunition support for the Anti-Japanese War. However, this time and space has an additional copycat company that provides cheap arms, and another vanguard army that searches for talents, which makes the Ordnance Industry Administration of the Central Army not play its original role.

No matter when, buying is more oil and water to dig than building. Even if the copycat companies ignore their demands for kickbacks, those in the Central Party are foreign companies that can create their own empty shells, and as soon as they sell their hands, the cheap goods bought from the copycat companies enter the ranks of the Central Army at a high price.

Corruption has made the Central Army rotten from the roots, and Lao Jiang has nothing to do about it. A lot of corruption comes from his side. After conquering the world, it is time to fulfill the previous promise, and if the division of the cake is not determined at the beginning, it will naturally gradually collapse in the chaos. Without reasonable distribution rules, whoever is the boss is the same.

Yu Dawei has seen a lot of it, but he is also helpless. I am also very curious about the incorruptibility of the vanguard army that has been circulated. But anyone who opens his eyes to the world wants his country to be strong. In the case of the Centre Party, hope is already very slim. He is just sticking to the loyal monarch of his maternal great-grandfather, Zeng Guofan, and doing his best.

Meng Xiang knew that his mother was the granddaughter of Zeng Guofan, and he also played the family card to win over him. Chen Yinke, Zeng Zhaoquan, Zeng Zhaoluan and others all followed the vanguard army to eat, and naturally they were very impressed by the vanguard army, and they also persuaded one after another. At the same time, his family began to think about taking sides.

In the past, the most important reason for the prosperity and collapse of big families was the problem of standing in line. Standing in line is easy to subvert if you are not careful. This is especially true in chaotic times. In order to ensure the continuation of the family, in the absence of certainty about the future trend, the children of the family generally stand in different teams. If one side falls, the victorious son of the other side can continue to lead the family to prosper, and by the way, he can also pull the opposite child.

The most typical example is the Three Kingdoms period, when Zhuge Liang had three brothers. Each is his own master, but it ensures the prosperity of the family. Even in this era, it is not uncommon for brothers to vote for the Central Party and the Red Party. It's just that no one thought that the later changes would be too great, and even those who were implicated would suffer, let alone pull the brothers.

The subsequent collapse of family power, as well as the population policy, made the gambling of taking sides even greater, and the kind that lasted for hundreds of years was no longer possible. Families with the same surname have also evolved into interest groups of marriage, but the role of blood is weak.

Of course, in this era, the power of the family is still strong, as long as you look at the family system of the Zeng family and the Yu family, you will know what it is to cultivate nobles in three generations. Yu Dawei is not only responsible for his personal future, but also needs to consider the rise and fall of his family. At the same time, the family also needs to have a stronger leader to make the family power to a higher level.

At present, the strength of the vanguard army has overwhelmed the central army, and the common people can see the doorway, but can those big families not see it? As for Yu Dawei's standing in line, it is not simply his own problem. So being attracted by the vanguard army, Yu Dawei was also a little tempted. But he still can't let go of Lao Jiang's kindness in his heart.

Although it is said that he is from Zhejiang, as well as the relationship between the family behind him, Lao Jiang has always trusted him.

So Meng Xiang used an invincible weapon to change talents, and when a hundred -28 tanks were placed in front of Lao Jiang, Lao Jiang was also moved. The 200th Division, the only mechanized division formed by the Central Army, had less than 100 tanks in total. The price of the vanguard army is enough to form another mechanized division.

But he will never give up a high-level talent for this, this way of buying horse bones, if he is tempted, I am afraid that not many people will come to join him in the future. Yu Dawei is different from those pilots' soldiers. At all times, in the mouths of those in power, talent is always priceless, even if sometimes in underground operations, they are cheap.

At this time, someone came out to carry the black pot and sold Yu Dawei to the vanguard army, and was scolded by Lao Jiang and warned of dismissal. As for being promoted elsewhere after a while, it's not for others to care.

The bone-buying effect of this transaction has aroused heated discussions among everyone, and there are all kinds of people who say anything, and there are also those who are envious and jealous.

"A hundred tanks are absolutely worth!" Meng Xiang said with a smile, one stone startled a thousand waves, and the matter of digging up the foot of Lao Jiang's wall was worth it even if it cost more money. Strengthening the strength of Lao Chiang at this time was tantamount to weakening the strength of the Japanese. The strength of other forces was weakened, and this deal also suppressed part of the crisis with the Central Army brought about by the advance of the Vanguard Army to the northwest.

Why not do such a thing that counts in one fell swoop? Moreover, in the secret arms warehouse set up by Meng Xiang, these -28s are already goods to be eliminated. Even if it is given to the Central Army, without air supremacy, these tanks are just steel targets.

Rather than trading to those warlords for firearms, Meng Xiang prefers to trade them for tanks, artillery, and the like. These bulky guys are the most profitable, and they also have big goals, and the vanguard can easily get rid of them in the future. Even weapons that consume a lot of ammo, such as the Suomi submachine gun, can be traded, and the more ammo they consume, the easier it is to jam their logistical supplies. On the contrary, those ordinary rifles, when they hide in the mountains and forests in the future, it will be a big trouble.

For this reason, Meng Xiang constantly encouraged the Central Army and other forces to buy more tanks.

The Central Army and others usually have nowhere to buy if they want to, and at this time, they will not let go of this opportunity with the supply of copycat companies. Coupled with the strength of the mechanized troops of the Vanguard Army, they also want to mechanize. But they don't know how terrible the depletion of mechanized troops puts on the logistical supply, and if nothing else, a single fuel can reduce those tanks to fixed turrets.

The gold-absorbing effect of these big guys also caused the money collected by those warlords to flow into the pockets of the vanguard army. And in order for them to start the big guys, they have to train people. This will also lay some more foundation for the tank talent reserve of the entire China, and it will also become a talent pool of the vanguard army.

With the effect of buying horse bones, why worry about these talents not taking the bait?

At this time, Yu Dawei was grateful to Meng Xiang in the name of a national soldier who changed a hundred tanks, and a hundred tanks in the Central Army were the best tanks, worth tens of millions of yuan. Some people also laughingly called Yu Dawei "Mr. 10 million yuan". For Meng Xiang to throw out such a big move, he is naturally influenced by traditional education, and he naturally intends to repay him with a national soldier.

Although he is known as the father of the military industry by later generations, he is also good at logistics, and the logistics work of the vanguard army is also mixed with a lot of military industry. At present, Xie Chengrui is in charge of a part, and Yang San is in charge of some parts that involve the secrets of the base. Yu Dawei has no complaints about handling logistics.

However, when he looked at the logistics accounts of the Vanguard Army, he kept rejoicing in his heart that he had chosen to follow the Vanguard Army. He understood the strength of the Central Army, but as soon as he saw the general strength of the Vanguard Army at this time, he understood that the Vanguard Army's argument that it would not take the initiative to provoke a civil war was very real. According to the strength of the vanguard army at this time, even the central army is not enough. While others were still speculating about who was stronger, the Central Army or the Vanguard Army, the actual strength of the Vanguard Army had already thrown the Central Army far away.

Meng Xiang also threw out his ambition to recover the lost territory occupied by Outer Mongolia and Soviet Russia in a timely manner for Yu Dawei to know, and it aroused Yu Dawei's more enthusiastic support. Few intellectuals like him had a favorable opinion of Soviet Russia, which occupied large swathes of Chinese territory. As for the main goal of the vanguard army, which is not the Central Army but the outside world, Yu Dawei is absolutely supportive.

However, he neglected the secondary goal, and if Lao Chiang was unwilling to take the initiative to provoke civil strife, the vanguard army would not mind cleaning him up first. But at this time, the opportunity of World War II is rare, and Meng Xiang needs to take advantage of this opportunity to earn the greatest good first, and he must cultivate both inside and outside. For example, this attack, Yu Dawei also understands the meaning. So I'm very concerned about the logistical aspects.

The winter coats of the vanguard army are made of sufficient materials, and the fur and cotton from the north, plus the newly developed duck down jackets, can withstand the severe cold. As for the temperature resistance to temperatures below minus 30 degrees, then the vanguard army needs to be more of a climate problem.

"If you combine climate and weather forecasts, it might work even better." Yu Dawei has learned both Chinese and Western, and he also knows something about it, so he vaguely mentioned it.

"We have established a preliminary network of climate monitoring stations across the country, and the next step is to expand this network to a larger and more rigorous network." Meng Xiang nodded.

How could he ignore the issue of meteorology after the weather forecast was news? This issue needs to be considered not for military reasons, but also from the perspective of people's livelihood. Although there were no meteorological satellites at this time, it was possible to detect some natural disasters in advance based on the exploration of high-altitude balloons and the analysis of data from ground observation stations. In the military, various weather, hydrological and other data can also be used as a reference.

To this end, Meng Xiang planned a weather forecast network early. In addition to three airships surveying at high altitudes, there is also a B-29 modified high-altitude meteorological detection aircraft. There are more meteorological stations around the country.

In addition to the observation stations built in the joint theater, there are also observation points in the occupied areas and the national control areas, and there are also observation points in other places abroad, after all, meteorology is a combination of global to make observations more accurate and timely.

Zhu Kezhen was presiding over this meteorological network at this time, and the 88 observation stations already had a scale of more than 2,000 people. Among them, Nanyang, Alaska, the Middle East and other places have also relied on sub-bases to build observation stations, and observers are stationed. Collect climate information in tropical, boreal and desert regions. There are also observation stations or observation points in Siberia and other places, and even permanent observation stations have been established on the Tibetan plateau.

For the first time, radar was used as an observation method in addition to ordinary observation methods. With the help of radar stations, much more detailed information can be captured.

At this time, the meteorological observations of the vanguard army can already be said to be world-class. Even those who entered the meteorological team this time expected this blizzard, but Meng Xiang just wanted to use this light blizzard to train the team. But what he didn't expect was that this light blizzard still made the vanguard army suffer a lot. The power of nature is beyond comprehension.

"The commander is really far-sighted!" Yu Dawei gave a rare praise. He did not call Meng Xiang the chairman of the informal joint theater like others, but only called the commander, but it did not prevent him from admiring Meng Xiang in his heart, and there were not many people who could spare energy to invest in these at this time.

"This is all the credit of Mr. Zhu and others!" Meng Xiang is still very modest, these are just plans proposed by Zhu Kezhen and others, and he has a little more support.

But this support is something that others can't do, either because of a lack of funds and conditions, or because they don't pay attention to it, otherwise Yu Dawei wouldn't have said something like that.

"Our padded clothes are fine for the time being, but we need to improve our diet. Eating raw and cold food for a long time in cold weather can easily lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness, and this has to be prevented. If you can't make a fire in battle, you need to pay extra attention to this. David Yu continued.

"We are also solving this problem and developing a self-heating can." Zhou Bai next to him said with a smile. This was proposed by Meng Xiang, and there were many such things in later generations, the simplest is the heat of quicklime when it meets hydration, and other chemical heats. This kind of thing is very simple, Meng Xiang instructed the next to produce a large number of people, and he was also preparing to make a lot of money in World War II.

"Self-heating cans?" Yu Dawei was very interested when he heard this, and after understanding the truth explained by Zhou Bai, he suddenly said, "Yes, this method can not only heat food, but also make a warm water bag to warm your hands and feet." When encountering the enemy's situation, the hands and feet are frozen cold, and they are always inflexible, but if there is a similar hand stove to warm the hands, it can improve the combat effectiveness. ”

When Meng Xiang heard this, he suddenly thought of the hand warmer in the later generations, he didn't know the principle of the supersaturated solution of the hand warmer, but this did not prevent him from leaving these things to the experts to do.

"In the future, we will also strengthen research in this area, and we can also use it for civilian use, so that ordinary people can also avoid the suffering of cold and freezing." Meng Xiang said with a smile.

"The devil is in the details. Some details are easier to reflect the essence of success. For example, our under-eye ointment this time greatly reduced the occurrence of snow blindness. It's a pity that there are still some shortcomings, if only one person had a pair of sunglasses. Meng Xiang said that in this march, there were also some sunglasses test, and in non-combat situations, the effect of sunglasses covering snow light was better than oil paint. More critically, later it could be sold for money and marketed to the Germans and Soviet Russians.

It's just that the production of sunglasses is also a troublesome thing at this time, and only a small number of people are equipped for this march.

"I have a suggestion for this question!" Yu Dawei said. Seeing Meng Xiang nodded, he continued: "After I looked at the production process of sunglasses, I found that the process of sunglasses is cumbersome. In fact, if you just want to block out the snow, you only need simple sunglasses. ”

"Easy?" Meng Xiang said curiously.

"The lenses are flat, and our glass factory can manufacture them in large quantities, and they can be cut simply." Yu Dawei said.

"What about the frames? It's also very cumbersome. Zhou Bai said. In this era, the industry in China was originally thin, and glasses and the like were mostly handmade, which was labor-intensive and time-consuming. The glasses factory built by Meng Xiang in order to squeeze the market of Ray-Ban sunglasses is not very efficient.

"If it is only for marching, non-prolonged applications and combat applications, there is no need for a frame." Yu Dawei said with a smile, "Sew a cloth edge on the lens and inlay it, and tie a rope to hang it on the ear." ”

"Oh, yes!" Zhou Bai first discussed and said that this kind of work can be done by just a woman. The army's simple sunglasses can be made quickly, and although they are simple, they are enough for snow marching.

Meng Xiang also suddenly realized that if every soldier had a pair of sunglasses, this was not handsome, and there was really no need. I used to be a little bit of a bull, and I always wanted to give the best treatment to the soldiers and build the best army. In fact, sometimes the right fit is the best.

In the past, when the army was small, it could not be reflected, but with the expansion of the army and the increase in the establishment, it is also necessary to consider the issue of suitability in terms of equipment in the future. Although there is a base to take care of at this time, Meng Xiang is in accordance with the model of the base, which is the most cost-effective and time-saving. But if you get it in reality, it is not necessarily the most cost-effective. For example, Suomi, although it is the most cost-effective to use base production, the high cost in reality still limits its popularity.

Since Meng Xiang wants to establish his own military industrial system in the future, such thinking must be paid attention to.

"Another thing that we also need to be aware of is the big problem in the snow. Some of the missing people lost their way when they avoided the march road. David Yu continued. By this time, the vanguard of the marching procession of the vanguard had advanced to the vicinity of Hami, and all but one of yesterday's missing persons had been found, except for one missing and two dead. But today there are more than a dozen people lost.

You can go anywhere on the march, but you have to stay away from the tuba. And in a blizzard, squatting is dangerous, and it is really good to say that it can be frozen.

Before, everyone was concerned about food and clothing, and they really didn't pay special attention to the matter of going to the toilet.

"Makeshift toilets need to be built along the road! In order to facilitate the officers and soldiers to solve such problems. In the future, if there is such a situation, it is also necessary to pay attention to this during the march. Yu Dawei said, raised his eyes and looked at Meng Xiang, who nodded slightly, and said, "This time when marching in the snow, you can use the way of piling up snow walls or tents to build simple toilets." Several permanent toilets have also been built appropriately, even if they are not large in the future, and can be used by pedestrians and drivers on the road. ”

Meng Xiang nodded again. Just as he was about to say something, suddenly Rat Er came over and handed Meng Xiang an urgent report. Meng Xiang once said that no matter what he was doing, he must be notified in time of any emergency report on the battlefield, so as not to delay the military situation.

He didn't blame Rat Er for interrupting the meeting, and gestured slightly to the person next to him before picking up the battle report and reading it. Looking at it, I couldn't help but smile on my face.

"Chairman, but Hami's battle report?" Zhou Bai said with a smile. He knew that the vanguard had already assaulted Hami, and they did not stop, and directly attacked the defenders there. At this point, the results should be available.

"Exactly. The Russian army in Hami was scared back! Hehe! Meng Xiang smiled and raised the battle report in his hand and handed it to Zhou Baidao, who came over, "Soviet Russia is just a paper tiger with internal and external troubles. ”