My client Li Yunlong

"These are preliminary statistics."

Ze County.

An officer handed a statistical table to the person in charge of economic warfare.

And report the details in the statistical data in detail:
"So far, 107 new factories have been built in southern Hebei, including garment factories, soap factories, match factories, furniture factories, and iron foundries."

"Two hundred and seventy-seven more farms."

"Seventy-three breeding farms, raising chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and other livestock."

"If the current development rate is maintained, it is conservatively expected that the scale will double by the end of this year. By then, the food grown by the people themselves and the livestock raised will not be counted."

"The total value of materials produced in southern Hebei will reach 100 million new Hebei dollars."

After the officer finished his report, everyone in the conference room smiled.

One hundred million new Hebei Nan coins.

Still a conservative estimate.

In terms of grain, it is equivalent to 100 million kilograms of imported white flour and other fine grains, or 300 million kilograms of sorghum and other coarse grains.

Not much.

One hundred million kilograms of fine grain staples is only 50,000 tons, based on the current total population of five million people in southern Hebei.

The average person only weighs one hundred kilograms!

This is equivalent to producing one hundred yuan worth of materials per capita!

However, this data does not include the production of ordinary people in southern Hebei and other individual factories and workshops, but the production capacity of newly built factories, farms, and livestock farms directly managed and funded by the base area.

If the output value of the common people is included, the per capita output value is about 380 yuan!

Almost everyone has one pound of grain every day.

For a region that has recently seen a large influx of refugees and nearly doubled its population, this is pretty good.

You know, the southern Hebei region has only been developing for four months, and even during the Chinese New Year, it has only been eight months.

In the Jinan base area, in just eight months, the economy has almost developed from scratch to the present.

of course,

All this is due to the almost unlimited supply of silver dollars and the surging demand for silver dollars in the international market, so that the southern Hebei base area and other base areas do not need to worry about the issue of excessive currency issuance.

There is also plenty of food.

Only then can this miracle be accomplished.

“The factory equipment.”

After the report, the officer expressed his concerns:

"Many of them were even sold by Japanese merchants."

“The quality is very good.”

“The technology is also relatively advanced”

"Some of them are obsolete from the United States, and some are even the latest equipment from the United States, such as the ten 50-kilowatt coal-fired generators recently imported."

"They are all the latest American products."

"Although it is expensive, it has excellent reliability and is very suitable for the lack of technical engineers in our base area."

"However, once the Japanese army comes to attack, then..."

As soon as the director's words came out, everyone else in the conference room looked at the person in charge of economic warfare.

This issue is not only worrying for the officers, but also for all of them.

Although the strength of the army has greatly increased now, it is still far from being able to compete with the large army in frontal field battles on the Jaap Plain.

Not to mention the troops in the southern Hebei base area, even if they pull out the independent regiment and face the Japs from two or three divisions, they will definitely not be able to defeat them in the plain terrain of southern Hebei.

By then, the Jinan base area, which has taken so long, cost tens of millions of silver dollars, and gathered the efforts of countless people, may be destroyed in one day.

"Advanced American generator?"

The head of economic warfare smiled.

In the Taihang base area, after seeing the generators provided by Li Yunlong's mysterious friend to provide power for two printing presses, I then looked at the ten generators imported from the United States. During the sale and purchase, Japanese merchants even participated in the generators.

The person in charge deeply realized the technical gap between the two parties.

The generator over there at the Independence Regiment,
It is less than one-fifth of the weight of the American generator and less than one-seventh of the volume. It can be directly mounted on a two-horse cart, but its power generation is twice that of the American generator.

It also has low noise, does not produce violent black smoke, and does not require continuous consumption of water.

It can even run continuously for dozens of days without maintenance.

It can also automatically detect faults.

It can be said that the two are not the same thing at all.

"no need to worry."

"Headquarters already has a detailed response plan."

"The person in charge of this plan is the Deputy General Staff."

The person in charge's words reassured everyone and made everyone understand that this involved content that needed to be kept strictly confidential, so no further questions were asked.

"Next, our task is to purchase more machinery and equipment. It doesn't matter if the price is more expensive, the more the better."

"Not only do we need it in the southern Hebei base area, but we also need it in the Taihang and Taiyue base areas."

The person in charge increased his tone.

In fact, he didn't know what the specific plans of the headquarters were.

But this plan has an order signed by the boss, deputy boss, general staff, deputy general staff, Li Yunlong, Zhao Gang and others.

as well as,

Combined with the two incredibly advanced printing machines, the person in charge had a vague suspicion that the boss behind Li Yunlong would reimburse the machines that were damaged by the Japanese. And the reimbursement is very advanced.

The person in charge did not think too much and conscientiously implemented the orders from his superiors - frantically collecting all kinds of machinery and equipment, regardless of whether they were advanced or not, and no matter what kind of machinery and equipment they were, they would accept all who came.

"Yes!"

···
Northern Review.

TRAIN STATION.

A group of Japanese soldiers, transporting a batch of wooden cargo boxes, arrived at the train station and boarded a military column.

"Five Eighth Route Army Czech-style light machine guns, 98-type machine guns, 60-type rifles, Mauser 82k rifles, two Type mortars, and one Type mortar."

"And corresponding bullets and parts."

"There are also three broken walkie-talkies and two broken radio stations."

Chief of Staff Watanabe of the North China Front, who was in charge of the escort, glanced at the list with distress.

The first few weapons are fine.

The Empire captured not much, but not much.

But the empire has only captured one 82-caliber long-range mortar so far.

After all, those who have this kind of artillery are the main regiments of the Eighth Route Army. It is almost impossible for the Locust Army to annihilate this kind of troops. In addition, this kind of artillery is so light that two people can maneuver over long distances.

Extremely difficult to capture.

As for walkie-talkies and radios.

Tubal Road protects this kind of machine extremely strictly, and will blow it up even if it has to be used as a last resort. Therefore, no complete ones have been captured so far, but a lot of damaged ones have been captured.

The ones given to America are the best of them all.

"Pay attention to the safety of materials!"

After giving the order, Chief of Staff Watanabe was thinking about one thing.

The technologies, materials, manufacturing processes, design levels, etc. contained in these weapons are all so advanced that the empire's military personnel despair. The gap between them and the empire's current industrial technology is

To use a metaphor, it is equivalent to the gap between the civilian industrial level of the empire in the last century and the most advanced military level of the United States today.

A gap of more than forty years.

In particular, the communication equipment seized was named second-generation walkie-talkies and radio stations by the Eighth Route Army.

Although the empire cannot manufacture other weapons, and the materials and processing techniques are too different, military industry personnel can at least understand why this kind of weapon is so advanced.

But this second generation communication equipment,

To this day, imperial technicians still don’t understand how they managed to reduce the large number of electronic tubes, capacitors, wires, etc., which weigh a total of hundreds of kilograms, required by the United States, to the size of a palm, less than half a kilogram?

And the performance is more advanced!

What will happen when these incredibly advanced weapons appear in the sights of the American military?

Chief of Staff Watanabe suddenly felt hopeful.

···
Click!
the other side,
After drafting a press release published in Xinhua Newspaper about the public killing of the North China Front Army Chief of Staff, Zhao Gang stretched and walked out of the office.

With the stability of the base area, Yangcun also began major construction.

All the buildings in the regiment headquarters have been rebuilt. Although Zhao Gang's office did not use cement, after all, boss Lu has now begun to provide reinforced concrete, but the quantity is relatively small.

Only a few thousand tons per month.

Mostly used to build ammunition depots and warehouses.

In addition to considering safety, Political Commissar Zhao's office is still a cave structure, but the amount of wooden beams and lumber has been increased, and the interior is purely spliced ​​with wooden boards. It is not a little bit better than before.

Outside the regiment headquarters,
Xinhua News Agency photographer Lao Xia was holding up his camera to take pictures of Yangcun, as well as the independent regiment headquarters, military camps, positions, guards, air defense positions and other buildings.

a picture,

In a company, more than 120 soldiers dressed in uniform and neat new Eighth Route Army uniforms and military caps, carrying 98 K, Czech style, and grenades hanging on their waists, lined up and walked past.

From far to near and then to far away.

The background is the greatly changed Yangcun,
It has only been two months since the 27th Division was swept away.

It is easy to destroy but difficult to build. Coupled with abundant wood and large-scale brick kilns, a large number of new houses have begun to be built in Yangcun, and many people can be seen building new houses.

Old broken houses and newly built houses are intertwined, giving people a feeling of being reborn from the ashes.

And there are water channels everywhere.

In order to improve the situation in the dry land, the militia and engineering troops organized a new diversion canal to divert water from distant rivers, and built a reservoir to turn the dry land into irrigated land. From then on, the area around Yangcun did not need to rely entirely on the weather.

In the thick reinforced concrete position, the twin 12.7mm machine guns pointed at the sky, and a thumb-sized, palm-sized ammunition chain extended from the bullet hole in the receiver.

From an elevated angle shooting perspective, the barrel with a water-cooled sleeve gives people a sense of oppression that is no less than that of a large artillery.

Next one,
It was a soldier holding a huge bullet. His palm occupied most of the film, making the bullet look particularly huge.

"Political Commissar Zhao, can the plane be used for filming?"

After the shooting, Lao Xia walked to Zhao Gang and asked.

There’s no better publicity than airplanes!
In the hearts of ordinary people, aircraft and artillery are the pinnacle of weapons and represent the victory of war.

The Japs occupied so much territory along the way, all because they had aircraft and artillery.

The new anti-war artillery has been filmed, but the only thing left is the aircraft.

"of course can."

Zhao Gang immediately agreed with a smile.

The new transport aircraft is already in place. Although it is not open for redemption yet, I think you won’t have to wait long.

and,

In the list, fighter jets also appear. (End of chapter)