It is precisely for these reasons that Yang Zhen has always asked for stability when various arsenals are really put into production. First produce a small amount to solve the problem, really master the relevant production technology, and train the required skilled workers. In particular, the training of a large number of skilled workers who have really mastered the production technology is the ultimate goal he set for 42 years and 43 years.

And when training workers, it is not a factory, but only trains the workers it needs. According to Yang Zhen's requirements, a factory should train at least two, or even more workers of the same type of factory. As for the real mass production, he was not in too much of a hurry.

As for the more demanding metallurgical industry and some industries with long construction periods, such as oil refining and chemical industry, they were pushed into operation by him for four or three years, or even four or four years. And the reason is basically the same, in addition to the long construction period of these factories, the same is the training of a large number of urgently needed skilled workers.

Even after the arrival of a large number of engineers among the German prisoners of war, as well as soldiers from the German army who were recruited from the automobile, artillery, metallurgy, chemical, and aircraft industries, arrived at the base area. Yang Zhen was not too anxious, but still asked to complete the training step by step.

Because he knew that these Germans could never replace his own workers. If the Chinese want to build a real industry of their own, they must have a large number of industrial workers who have mastered modern technology. Especially senior skilled workers and managers, designers.

What's more, there is foreign equipment to use, and there is no rush for its own mass production. The question now is to lay the most critical foundation first. If the foundation is not strong, it is useless to say anything. Yang Zhen didn't want the incident of anti-aircraft guns to be staged again on these more lethal heavy weapons.

Therefore, the T34 tanks that began to be manufactured in the middle of 42 years, together with the models equipped with 85 caliber tank guns, all the tanks produced by themselves together are only more than 1,000 units. Only about 200 new models equipped with 85 caliber models were produced. This amount is almost a fraction of the tank production of the countries of World War II, and even a fraction of the Soviet Union. Guns of a caliber of more than 100 mm were produced in about the same amount.

However, in addition to trucks, combat planes, and especially strategic bombers needed for the bombing of Japan, the amount of ground equipment provided by the United States has always been insufficient. It was not until the end of the fourth and third years that large-scale assistance to the M IV medium tanks began. The M-4 tanks, which were originally scheduled to be transferred to the Anti-Union, were given to the British and Soviets by the Americans.

The tanks obtained by the Anti-United Nations are still the M3 and M5 light tanks eliminated by the US military in the North African battlefield. and the Maltida infantry tanks and Crusader cruiser tanks, which had been withdrawn from the front line by the British army. Including the M3 medium tanks transferred by the British army, the total number of American-made light tanks and medium tanks obtained by the Anti-Japanese Union in the whole of '42 and '43 was less than 1,000.

Among them, more than 200 are M3 medium tanks with extremely poor performance, even the Soviet army, which is desperately short of tanks, does not like it, and is called the coffin of the Seven Brothers. There are less than 600 M-4 medium tanks with the best performance among the American-made tanks, and all of them are original models, and some of them are even second-hand used by the British army.

It was not until the end of '43 that the U.S. forces suffered successive heavy defeats in the Pacific theater and were unable to drive or annihilate the Japanese forces that had invaded Australia and seized a considerable part of the land in the north.

However, the number was never enough to meet the needs, and the number of M3 and M5 light tanks that had been provided together was less than 4,000. Under the idea of wanting to lay a solid industrial foundation, Yang Zhen set his sights on the German goods seized by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union. The arrival of these German goods also greatly alleviated the urgent need for heavy equipment under the lack of anti-union capabilities.

Not only did a large number of German-made equipment be used in weapons and equipment, but at the same time, relying on the German technical maintenance and support personnel exchanged from the Soviet Union, several artillery, tank, and aircraft overhaul factories were established. As well as the formation of a large number of corps-affiliated field repair shops for various columns, armored and artillery units.

It also uses the exquisite skills, rigorous working attitude of these German technical maintenance support personnel, and most importantly, the super-first-class mechanical maintenance and manufacturing capabilities. It has trained a large number of skilled and conscientious personnel who are responsible for equipment and technical support for the Anti-Japanese Federation. Battle-damaged equipment is ensured to be repaired to the maximum extent.

By '44, the emergency repair of the battlefield damaged equipment of the entire Anti-Japanese Union had reached the standard of the German army in 42 years. The rate of emergency repair of war-damaged equipment sent back has also risen from less than 40 percent in a short period of time to 70 percent in 44 years. This standard far exceeds that of the Soviet Union, and even of the US military.

Of course, a considerable part of the reason for surpassing the U.S. military is that the U.S. military in World War II was supported by the strong national strength behind it, and it appeared to be quite wealthy. Most of the battle-damaged equipment that cannot be repaired within a certain period of time on the battlefield is actively blown up and then abandoned, or even directly discarded.

Moreover, in the face of the German army's superior tank artillery fire and anti-tank artillery fire, most of the US tanks equipped with flammable gasoline engines were completely burned and blown up after being hit by a few shots, and there was no need to repair them. Therefore, it exceeds the level of emergency repairs of the US military, but in fact, the moisture is very large. However, it reached the standards of the German army, far exceeding the level of emergency repairs of the Soviet army, but it was real.

Of course, such a high rate of repair of this tank has a considerable relationship with the fact that the firepower of the Japanese army, especially the anti-tank firepower, is far from being comparable to that of the German army. In the whole of World War II, except for the Type 47 mm anti-tank gun, the only effective anti-tank weapon that the Japanese army could rely on was the Type 90 field gun.

Although the Japanese army introduced and copied German-made 50mm anti-tank guns in order to deal with the anti-United Nations and American tanks during the war, the stingy Japanese army was only willing to use old-fashioned steel-core armor-piercing shells and refused to produce expensive tungsten core armor-piercing shells. This anti-tank gun, which played a considerable role in the European theater, was better than the Japanese anti-tank artillery in the Chinese theater.

During the entire war, the biggest threat posed by the Japanese army to the anti-coalition tank forces was the Type 90 field artillery. As for other anti-tank weapons, they hardly worked. As long as the Japanese Army's most powerful Type 90 field gun is not directly hit at close range, the battle-damaged tanks can basically be repaired.

However, despite this and that reason, in any case, the technicians among these German prisoners of war have laid a good and quite solid foundation for the battlefield support and maintenance capabilities of the Anti-Japanese Federation and even the entire PLA a few years later, and it can even be said that the entire foundation was laid by these Germans. And this effect has lasted for decades.

These prisoners of war brought the high-standard craftsmanship and technology that the Anti-United Nations most needed, which not only improved the repair and maintenance capabilities of the war-damaged equipment that was weak before the Anti-United Nations, but also made considerable contributions to the imitation of American and Soviet-made gasoline and diesel engines, as well as aircraft engines by the Anti-United Nations.

In addition, the Anti-Japanese Federation also used these engineer-level figures among the German technical maintenance and support personnel to develop the world's first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle on the basis of the German-made six-wheeled and eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles handed over by the Soviets and the United States and Britain, and to install single-barreled 23-mm anti-aircraft guns or 20-mm Erly anti-aircraft guns aided by the Americans, plus steel for armored vehicles aided by the United States. Together with the half-track armored vehicles manufactured by the United States, a large number of armored divisions were equipped with mechanized infantry regiments.

It's just that the M3 light tank is equipped with two engines with a total power of 250 horsepower, which is obviously too big for an armored personnel carrier. So on this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, each of them was equipped with only a single engine with a power of one hundred and twenty horsepower.

However, because of the rear engine, the infantry can only get on and off the vehicle from the small doors on both sides. And because it is a wheeled vehicle, it can withstand fire from small-caliber weapons, as well as slightly inferior cross-country ability. However, it solved the problem of whether there was or not, and greatly reduced the problem of infantry casualties along with tank combat.

Although the performance of the world's first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle is only average, because of the use of the gasoline engine used in the American-made M-3 light tank copied by the United Nations, as well as the excellent installed steel, the general performance is also close to the standard of the Soviet-made BTR Type 70 armored personnel carrier decades later.

And the firepower and protection performance are much stronger than the BTR 70 armored car, which is armed with only a 14-mm machine gun. The performance is far better than the current half-track armored vehicles that are the main force of various countries. Not only is the firepower and protection stronger, but also the maneuverability is almost the same.

In addition to the world's first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, the Resistance League also exploited the Germans' innate sensitivity and talent for machinery. Using the chassis of the German No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, which had reached the point of irreparability in battle, a number of the world's first tracked infantry fighting vehicles were developed and manufactured.

It's just that because of the small number of tank chassis that can be selected and the relatively complex process, there is only an output of more than 100 vehicles, and only one independent mechanized brigade is equipped. Compared with the production of wheeled infantry fighting vehicles, which reached more than two thousand units, it is simply too small to be ignored.

There is no way to do it in addition to the high requirements of the chassis, but also because of this improvement, which is almost equivalent to a whole redesign. Moving the rear engine and transmission system of the tank into a front engine for infantry fighting vehicles seems simple, but it is not the same thing as doing it, it is almost equivalent to redesigning.

In the case of light tanks that do not meet the needs of the chassis, as well as the need to modify self-propelled guns. Let Yang Zhen take the German-made No. 3 and No. 4 tanks, the T No. 34 tank and the M No. 4 tank, the main tanks of the Anti-United Nations, and when he is already equipped with a large number of American and German half-track armored personnel carriers, he will not be able to do it. Using a German-made armored reconnaissance vehicle with a relatively large internal space, it became his first choice to transform a wheeled armored personnel carrier.

These prisoners of war not only made considerable contributions to the development of their own armored vehicles by the Anti-Japanese Union, but also a large number of graduates of science and engineering universities among the prisoners of war, as well as a considerable number of engineers, also served as teachers in various disciplines in the Polytechnic University of the Anti-Japanese Union, the newly established Northeastern University of the Northeast Bureau, and the dozens of junior colleges established subsequently, as well as a large number of technical schools built. It alleviates the situation that the number of teachers in this part is still insufficient.

The Department of Armored Vehicle Engineering and the Department of Artillery Engineering of the Anti-Union Polytechnic University were created on the basis of tank and artillery engineers among these German prisoners of war. Moreover, the engineers trained by these Germans have also greatly accelerated the construction of some high-end specialties such as automobile and tank engine imitation.

He also participated in the design and improvement of a considerable number of anti-Japanese federation's own research and development equipment. At the same time, prisoners of war who were born as skilled workers also made outstanding contributions to the various factories established by the Anti-Japanese Federation. It played a key role in the imitation of Japanese-style 92-type cannons, American-made automobile engines and American-made high-power diesel engines.