Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1700 Cost
The Battle of Fengtian ended with the complete victory of the Eighth Route Army.

In this battle, the Eighth Route Army killed more than [-] ghosts with more than [-] casualties.

Most of the more than [-] casualties of the Eighth Route Army were recruits.

The losses suffered by these recruits were often caused by the devils rushing into the trenches they defended, but to Wang Xuexin's satisfaction, most of these recruits did not give up fighting the devils, and they did not collapse and flee in fright from the fierce and superior devils , but chose to fight the devil tenaciously.

This is the main reason why the Eighth Route Army was able to stabilize every line of defense and finally took down Fengtian.

A considerable part of the devil's casualties were in Fengtian.

When Fengtian City was broken, the devils garrisoned the people inside and the puppet army surrendered, and the Eighth Route Army besieged the city outside. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is "internal troubles and foreign troubles".

Sasaki Shizue was also straightforward. After realizing that the situation was out of control, he led the troops to break through without hesitation.

He chose the direction of the breakout very well. The Hundred Battles Brigade was mainly to prevent the devils from breaking out from the east, because this direction was the closest to the devil's army, so most of the main force of the Hundred Battles Brigade was concentrated in the east.

However, Sasaki Jingjiang chose to break out from the south. They took advantage of the night to penetrate the blockade of the Eighth Route Army and divide the division with the devils on the southern line, and then broke through with the devils on the southern line.

Even Wang Xuexin couldn't help but be overwhelmed by this breakout plan:
Breaking out from the south made the Baizhan Brigade unable to let go.

It was night at that time, and the Hundred Battles Brigade had already prepared half-track armored vehicles to chase the devil's breakout troops.

Li Changfu knew that it would be very difficult to stop the devils from breaking through the siege, because the devils concentrated their forces to attack a little bit, and they did it by surprise, which would always make the devils protrude a part.

In order to prevent Sasaki Shizue from escaping, the key point is to be able to catch up with his breakout troops.

The half-track armored vehicle is the best equipment for chasing deserters. It is fast and powerful, and the devil deserters have to shed a layer of skin under his hands.

However, this is for the devils to break out from the east.

The Devils unexpectedly broke out from the south... The half-track armored vehicles were useless.

To the south is the blockade area of ​​the Eighth Route Army. The devils rushed into the blockade area in the dark and fought a chaotic battle with the Eighth Route Army. The devils here are fishing in troubled waters.

Therefore, Li Changfu never dared to do anything, even dared not send reinforcements... In the past, the reinforcements were also unable to identify the enemy and the enemy, and the friendly troops guarding the line of defense would mistakenly think that the rushing troops were all devils breaking out of the encirclement.

All Li Changfu can do is to use as much firepower as possible to block the gap opened by the devils and kill their vital forces.

In the end, Li Changfu got the information that Sasaki Shizue had broken through at dawn.

But the devils also paid a heavy price: more than 1 people in a division, more than 4000 fell on the road to break through, more than 3000 were trapped in the city and wiped out, and 1000 people failed to escape and were beaten until they ran out of ammunition. Captured forever.

On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army's troops in Siping also broke out under the leadership of Xinyituan.

The direction of Ding Wei's breakout was also beyond the devil's surprise. It was to the east along the devil's supply line, which is the railway line... This direction was to the devil's hinterland. The more he fought, the more he would be surrounded by the devil. The devil never expected The Eighth Route Army will fight in this direction.

But Ding Wei did just that, and he also blew up the railways and handed over the trains all the way. Two troop trains were smashed, and seven trains carrying ammunition and supplies were burned down. For a while, there was a problem with the supplies of the main force of the devils.

When the devils hurriedly pursued the Eighth Route Army, Ding Wei made a perfect detour and returned to the Eastern Front to join forces with the Eighth Route Army.

This battle made Meizu Meijiro's scalp numb, and he sighed to the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army: "Eighth Route Army, can a mechanized regiment have such strength?"

The chief of staff answered with difficulty: "Your Excellency, as far as I know, their mechanized troops are the real mechanized troops. Our mechanized troops..."

After talking about the chief of staff, he dared not say anything more.

In the devil's army, many things cannot be said, even though most of them are well aware of it.

Compared with the Eighth Route Army, the Devil's mechanized troops are indeed not enough. Their means of transportation are mainly cars, and the tanks are mainly Type 95 and Type 97. If they collide with the "Sherman" and half-track vehicles of the Eighth Route Army... they will be wiped out in an instant.

This is why Umezu Yoshijiro didn't punish him when he saw Sasaki Shizue later.

Because Umezu Yoshijiro believed that Sasaki Shizue was probably one of the few commanders who really knew the strength of the Eighth Route Army. The Kwantung Army needed to withdraw their arrogant eyes and lower their high heads to face up to this army that they had once looked down upon.

On Wang Xuexin's side, after all the dust settled, he finally had some time to rest.

At this time, good news came from the research institute: the laser proximity fuze was successfully developed.

The laser-based proximity fuze is not difficult in principle. It is actually a rangefinder. The difficulty mainly focuses on miniaturizing it to the size of the fuze and ensuring accuracy.

For this reason, the staff of the research institute have tried many times without success. There are large errors in manual production, and the fuzes are installed on high-speed anti-aircraft missiles and air-to-air missiles. The missile exploded hundreds of meters away from the target.

In the end, it was Su Xin's CNC machine tool that played a role... The precision can be controlled within an acceptable range by using the digital machine tool for production.

This is a very amazing thing. When technology develops to a certain level, they seem to be interdependent and co-developed with each other.

However, Su Xin was not too surprised by this success. She hesitated and said to Wang Xuexin: "Leader, although the research and development is successful, but because our number of CNC machine tools is too small, the production capacity is far behind the demand, so..."

"Then produce CNC machine tools!"

"But if this is the case..." Su Xin said: "The cost of the laser proximity fuze may be very high!"

Wang Xuexin could understand what Su Xin meant.

That is to say, the cost of producing CNC machine tools must be included in the cost of the fuze, and each CNC machine tool must be equipped with a computer, and it is a transistor computer... Electronic tubes are easy to burn and crack, and they vibrate a few times on the machine tool It's over, it definitely doesn't fit.

At this time, transistors are a scarce strategic material. The production cost of a transistor is about eight dollars. If a computer is to be equipped with a CNC machine tool, the cost will naturally rise and even cannot be matched at all: even if Wang Xuexin is willing to pay the money Not that many transistors either.

(Note: Historically, the production cost of the transistor after it was invented was ten dollars a piece. Considering that China’s labor is cheaper, it was calculated at eight dollars)
But Wang Xuexin said with confidence: "You should prepare first, and I will find a solution to these problems!"

(End of this chapter)