Mid-June.

In the mountainous area behind Zhao Jiayu, where Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory is located.

Compared with when it was just established, the machinery factory has changed a lot at this time.

The road to the exit has been widened from being able to accommodate only one horse-drawn carriage to two large jeeps or a ten-wheeled truck at the same time.

A series of caves were excavated along the hidden canyon, and a whole row of fire-brick houses were built, some of which were dormitories, factories, warehouses, canteens, and even improvised laboratories.

The newly arrived reinforced concrete has also been transferred to a batch of widening and reinforcing the main plant in the canyon cave.

Including workers, students, and technicians sent by Kang Da, the total number of people exceeded 2,000. The number of soldiers in charge of guarding has also increased to more than 200 people in a reinforced company, and more than 20 20 or 40 antiaircraft guns have been deployed on the surrounding high ground to guard the sky.

Today.

Zhao Gang, Li Yunlong, Sun Desheng, Zhang Dabiao, Xing Guozhi, etc., a large number of independent regiment and regiment personnel gathered in the machinery factory, Ding Wei and Kong Jie were there, and even Zhang Wanhe also rushed over.

Because today, for Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory, it is a day worth celebrating.

"Commander."

Sun Desheng, the director of the machinery factory with a light inch, led everyone into the factory.

The commander of the cavalry battalion of the independent regiment, after seeing the charm of machinery, stepped down from the post of battalion commander and plunged headlong into the machine factory, determined to produce a tank for the troops.

The wide canyon cave factory is several times wider than before, and is divided into several huge factories, in which nearly 100 machines of all sizes are running, the sound of tinkling metal collision is endless, and there is a light railway track on the ground.

In the distance, you can see two boilers that look like locomotives burning, and the smoke is discharged through long pipes into the distance.

"Until today."

"Our Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory has officially started production."

Sun Desheng's tone was cheerful:

"Today, the machinery factory has three high-power steam engines transformed from trains, and four generators provided by Boss Chen, with a maximum power generation capacity of 4,300 kilowatt hours."

"There is a self-built 1.5-ton old electric arc furnace, and there is a 20-ton electric arc furnace that has reached the world's top level."

"Although the 20-ton electric arc furnace has mastered all the technology under the teaching of the master, our own technicians have mastered all the technology, but we can't produce important components such as electronic equipment, refractory materials, and electrode materials, mainly because the materials made are not up to standard, and most of them can only be provided by Boss Chen, and we only produce unimportant parts such as frames and then assemble them."

"If there is enough scrap steel, our current production capacity is 20 tons of high-quality steel per day."

"It is expected that by the beginning of next year, the expansion of the new plant will be completed, two new 20-ton electric furnaces will be put into operation, and the training of skilled workers will be completed, which can reach a daily production capacity of 60 tons."

"Twenty tons a day."

Hearing this number, Zhang Wanhe's heart flashed with deep amazement.

Twenty tons of steel per day is really a lot, and an 81-type horse rifle can only consume less than eight kilograms of steel, and fifteen tons can produce more than 2,000 pieces, and after having an electric furnace, waste materials can be recycled.

If it reaches 60 tons per day, it is more than 20,000 tons per year, not to mention that the technology here is really the world's top as Director Sun said, and it can produce high-quality steel.

It's a pity that the troops can't get that much scrap.

I'm afraid that twenty tons of raw materials per day will not be enough.

Zhang Wanhe continued:

"The machinery factory has three small rolling mills, four steel pipe extruders, five small forging presses, one medium-sized forging press, three stamping machine tools, and a large number of basic machine tools such as lathes, planers, boring machines, etc., which are provided by Boss Chen."

"Capable of producing steel sheets with a width of no more than two meters, steel sheets with a thickness of no more than ten centimeters, seamless steel pipes with a diameter of between ten and two hundred millimeters, theoretically, all parts of light and heavy machine guns, mortars can be manufactured, but it will take some time to train workers."

"At present, we are in full production of shovels and shovels needed by the construction brigade, and there are stamping machines, which are much faster than before, and can produce 800 per day."

At this time, a furnace of molten steel came out of the 20-ton electric arc furnace and was transported to the next production step through a molten steel transport rail car, including Li Yunlong, everyone looked at the scene in front of them, and a burning force surged out from the bottom of everyone's hearts.

Everyone feels the power of the modern steel industry.

"We finally have a real machine shop."

Zhang Wanhe sighed with emotion.

Although the scale of Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory is not large, with an output of only 15 tons per day, it is a small machinery city at the town level abroad, but although the sparrow is small, it has all kinds of organs.

From scrap raw materials to final finished products, the technology is fully equipped, the steel produced is of high quality, all kinds of basic machine tools are available, and all kinds of metal processing products can be manufactured. There are several top mechanical masters, as well as the technical information provided by Boss Chen, and the background is also very profound, compared with large foreign machinery factories, the difference is only the scale.

As long as the troops vigorously support it, after more than ten years of development, it will definitely become a world-class machinery factory with a top scale and a large factory capable of producing heavy artillery.

In contrast, although the arsenal of his logistics department is huge, it is essentially just a large workshop, and the technical level is far inferior to here.

Finally, Sun Desheng sighed:

"The only problem is that there is a serious shortage of timely talent."

"There is a serious shortage of skilled workers, technical engineers. Although technical training courses were organized and the four masters also taught them personally, so far there are only more than 300 workers who can operate the machine tools. ”

"Electric furnace steelmaking has high requirements for the processing and selection of raw materials, every steel that is quickly put into the electric furnace must be processed and selected, and there are many technically demanding operations in the production process.

After speaking, Sun Desheng sighed again.

At present, there are nearly 100 young students sent from the border areas in the machinery factory, some of whom are even high-achieving students who have graduated from top universities abroad, and even some people have worked in large foreign machinery factories.

But the time is too short, the master is busy, many technical problems need to be dealt with by them, there is not much time to take the apprentice, plus it is a key core technology, so it is not so easy to master it alone, and it takes at least one year.

The shortage of talents has greatly affected the production efficiency of machinery factories.

"Take your time, don't rush."

Li Yunlong exhaled.

After catching the last three spies, when Brother Chen transported the remaining twenty-three ten-wheeled trucks for him, he also conveniently supported a large number of machinery and equipment to the machinery factory, saying that he had pulled out the devil's lurking personnel near Zhao Jiayu, so he gave him an extra price.

This batch of machinery and equipment made Li Yunlong deeply understand why there is such a heavy word in heavy industry.

Two generators, dozens of large and small machine tools, the main parts of the electric arc furnace, including the maintenance and backup parts, the total weight is more than 2,000 tons. If all the equipment of the entire Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory is added up, the total tonnage will directly exceed 10,000.

And this is only a small foreign county-level machinery factory abroad.

"Yes, things take their time, we have time."

Ding Wei also said the same tone.

"I'll go back and think of a way for you, there should be corresponding talents in the border area who have come back from abroad."

Zhang Wanhe narrowed his eyes.

The master can't leave the independent regiment, I don't know the reason, and the other party doesn't explain, but these four people are comparable to a foreign engineer team, and the theory and hands-on ability are top super talents, not to guard the production of equipment, but to cultivate talents, teach technology, guide young people to grow, and only come out when necessary to solve the technical difficulties, or lead the technical research.

After everyone visited, they were a little reluctant to leave, and only Zhang Wanhe stayed.

He and Sun Desheng had a big plan to cooperate in the production of improved Czech machine guns.

Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory produces four important components with high technical requirements: barrel assembly, gun body main parts, reset spring rod, and gas conduction piston, and Taihangshan Arsenal produces bolts, connecting rods, triggers, butts and other components, and then assembles them by the headquarters arsenal.

"If we go all out to produce these four parts, we will be able to produce 600 sets per month starting next month."

The two then began to discuss the details of production.

According to the master's advice, this kind of production efficiency is the highest, but it needs to meet the standardized production, and the management requirements are extremely high.

······

A few days later.

Three and five hundred regiments were stationed.

"Li Yunlong is collecting scrap metal? And unlimited? ”

Listening to the news from the deputy official meritorious service report, Chu Yunfei's tone was strange.

"Yes."

方立功 says:

"As long as it is a metal material, steel, aluminum, plate and copper, the other party will buy it, pay directly with food stamps, and the bid is quite high, and many businessmen from other places come to do this business."

"Food stamps."

Chu Yunfei's fingers tapped on the table.

The food stamps of the Independent Regiment can be exchanged for high-quality rice, cornmeal, white flour and other fine grains, boxed cigarettes, and even chicken, duck and pork, as well as various cotton clothes.

Because the independent regiment is clearly exchanged, there is never a shortage of catties or two, and the food stamps are well-made, the real and false are easy to distinguish, and they cannot be imitated.

Their three or five hundred regiments have begun to circulate, and the scale is not small, and even other Jin Sui armies have begun to circulate.

"Why are they collecting steel on a large scale?"

Chu Yunfei was a little puzzled at this time.

Fang Ligong guessed:

"It is said that Zhao Jiayu of the Independent Regiment has a small machine factory that can make some shovels and shovel tools, and the steel collected is used to make this, their road repair team."

His tone was a little uncertain, making some shovels and shovels didn't need to be collected with such fanfare.

"Order the troops."

Chu Yunfei thought for a moment and said:

"Fragments of artillery shells, shells, and excess iron tools were collected and handed over to the logistics team to go to the independent regiment to exchange food."

Although the 358th Regiment is a pro-son level treatment with priority for supply, the food and drink of nearly 5,000 people every day is not a small amount, and the ordinary soldiers eat very poorly, and if there is this opportunity to improve the food of the soldiers, Chu Yunfei will naturally not let it go.

Meantime.

Taiyuan, the airfield of the First Army.

Kotaro Ito also heard the news of the large collection of steel by the independent group from the black market merchants, which made his heart dedicated to the god of commerce boil instantly.

·····

In the middle of June, early one morning.

Li Yunlong held a meeting with a group of battalion commanders at the regiment headquarters.

"The little devils have recently transferred about 4,000 troops to reinforce Ping'an County, and more than 2,000 devils have reinforces Pan County, and now there are about 8,000 devils in Pan County and Ping'an County combined."

Li Yunlong personally briefed him on the recent situation.

Hearing this, hearing the total strength of the eight thousand devils, the faces of all the battalion commanders of the independent regiment did not change at all, and some even licked their lips, looking a little excited.

It's just 8,000 devils.

Now a new round of expansion of the independent regiment has begun, and the three main battalions together have a total of 6,000 troops, plus artillery units, air defense companies, recruit training camps, and transport units, which has exceeded 10,000.

plus the new first regiment, the new second regiment, and went to 20,000.

Grand Master Li continued:

"It seems that this group of devils does not plan to attack, but to build a large number of fortifications with the county as the center, and build permanent strong civil bunkers on the high ground near important passages, preparing to block the passage of our base area in the tens of millions of plains."

"Hey, hey, hey..."

Speaking of this, Grand Master Li smiled:

"The little devil is scared of us."

After a pause, Li Yunlong continued:

"However, just blocking the passage doesn't require so many troops, but the little ghost is not stupid, and he must know that this amount of troops to attack our base is to send him to death."

"Therefore, the little devil put on such a big formation, he must have planned to carry out small-scale infiltration and send a large number of small forces to destroy our base area, as I expected before."

"According to the predetermined plan, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd battalions went to the edge of the base area to deploy defenses and eliminate the infiltrated devil troops.

The 1st and 3rd artillery companies were equipped with Bofors mountain guns, while the 2nd artillery company, after the 120 mortars were released to the battalion, were equipped with four 160 heavy mortars. Since he is going to train with the devil in turn, Li Yunlong will naturally not take out all his family funds.

"Yes."

The battalion commanders replied.

"When the time comes, the troop meeting companies of the new 1st regiment and the new 2nd regiment will be temporarily incorporated into the independent regiment as units, and you will have your command."

The reinforced concrete business only counted the independent regiments, which was difficult for Grand Commander Li, who found a way from the experience of the air defense company.

Finally, Li Yunlong added:

"Our troops now have more recruits, so let the new soldiers get in touch with actual combat, but we must also pay attention to casualties."

"This time, in terms of ammunition, there is no need to deliberately economize."

After discussing the specific deployment of troops, it was already noon, and several battalion commanders left the regiment headquarters, and not long after, Zhao Gang also walked in, and at the same time, the iron communicator on Li Yunlong's waist rang again.

"Tank..."

The two glanced at each other and said in unison.

Counting the time, this time, is the time for the tank business.

······

Intended point of contact.

Li Yunlong took the stack of materials handed over by Chen Fan, and at the same time, he and Zhao Gang pricked up their ears and listened to the requirements of the tank business.

"This business will end from July 1st of this year to next year, that is, July 1st of '44."

Chen Fan narrated:

"During these six months, for every devil killed by the independent regiment, you can get a ton of tanks, and I will give you as many tons of tanks as you kill, only for the troops under the command of the independent regiment, and the cooperative troops can only have the new first regiment and the new second regiment."

"Also..."

Chen Fan's tone was quiet:

"The total number of kills is more than two thousand, and during the business, each devil killed is given an extra fifty tons of grain."

"More than five thousand, plus ten tons of fuel for each devil."

"More than 10,000, plus ten tons of reinforced concrete, two medical kits."

"More than fifteen thousand, I will be reimbursed twice as much as the ammunition consumed during the battle."

"More than 20,000, food, fuel, cement materials doubled."

“·····”

"More than 30,000, providing all the facilities of a large hospital, as well as 10,000 tons of various medicines."

“·····”

“····”

Finally, in Li Yunlong's stunned expression, Chen Fan took out a list:

"By the way, this is the list of weapons and equipment that will be unlocked after reaching the corresponding number of kills."

"This business is settled instantly, you can find me to receive materials at any time, don't worry about losses, after reaching the limit, the corresponding materials will be reissued."

After the entourage took Chen Fan and left, it took a long time for Zhao Gang and Li Yunlong to react.

"What a big business!"

The corners of Grand Master Li's mouth were hooked, with that thick mixed breath.