My client Li Yunlong

Taiyue base area.

A training ground somewhere.

The front of a Taihang heavy truck was opened to reveal the engine inside. The cooling system was also modified and strengthened, and an external coolant inflow pump was installed.

In the back of the truck.

There were also barrels and barrels of diesel, estimated to be hundreds of tons.

"start."

Following Li Shiming's order, the driver started the engine.

boom!
The diesel engine with an improved turbine and increased horsepower to 850 horsepower started to run violently. In the transparent oil pump tube, fuel began to flow rapidly. In the cockpit, the fuel gauge card representing the fuel tank volume began to rotate rapidly.

"Press the gas."

Li Shiming continued.

The driver directly depresses the accelerator to the bottom, even into the fuel tank.

boom!
A violent roar sounded.

The engine revved violently.

"Cooling water adds up."

Li Shiming continued.

After the Taihang heavy truck engine was improved to 850 horsepower, not only the fuel consumption would be greatly increased, but the heat dissipation capacity would also not be able to keep up, so he installed a heat dissipation system.

it's actually really easy.

Just keep adding cold water.

Although the Taihang engine uses coolant, water can be added.

Just clean up the scale in time afterwards.

····
The next day.

One day in late June.

"Captain, the maximum fuel consumption test results of Taihang trucks are out."

A regimental officer walked into the independent regiment headquarters.

"How many?"

Li Yunlong asked impatiently.

Fuel is a good thing, equivalent to the blood of industrialization.

Naturally, the more, the better.

Although the fuel consumed by the aircraft is also directly provided by Lu Laodi, the current contract for aircraft fuel does not have much room for maneuver, so the savings are not much.

But Taihang heavy trucks are different.

The contract stipulates that as many Taihang heavy-duty trucks as there are in the base area, fuel will be provided. The calculation is the same as for food.
Right now.

The maximum amount of fuel consumed by a single truck is determined by multiplying this quantity by the total number of trucks in Taihang, and then multiplying by the time.

There are currently 700 Taihang trucks in the base area.

"Exactly one hundred tons."

The staff officer replied,

"it is good!"

This number made Li Yunlong very happy.

One vehicle consumes 100 tons of fuel every day, which is 3,000 tons per month. Seven hundred vehicles consume a total of 2.1 million tons of fuel.

210 million tons of fuel oil are obtained every month.

You must know that the fuel currently consumed by aircraft in the base, fuel consumed by factory generators, and fuel consumed by tanks are all provided by Brother Lu.

In fact, even if Taihang trucks run continuously every day, are fully loaded back and forth, and run on rugged mountain roads, they consume only about two tons of fuel every day in extreme weather.

On average, each vehicle actually consumes just over 600 liters of fuel per day.

In other words, two million tons of fuel can be saved every month.

and!

With more and more trucks in Taihang, this number will increase.

even!

According to the terms of the contract, considering the lack of fuel storage facilities in the base, Brother Lu also has to help the base build super-large oil storage tanks and other facilities.

Although the fuel provided by Brother Lu comes in barrels.

"Ha ha··"

Li Yunlong laughed with satisfaction.

With fuel, the base area can start producing its own cars.

···
Ends the fourth week of June.

That is the end of June.

"Tsk tsk..."

Brigade Headquarters.

The brigade commander sounded amazed.

According to the first-hand information obtained from Li Yunlong, the battle situation on the Eastern Front not only went as he expected, but the development situation was even more incredible than he expected.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the northern powers began to retreat steadily, losing millions of troops, thousands of aircraft were destroyed, and thousands of tanks were destroyed.

And it is still losing ground.

"They put too many troops on the front lines."

“Although there is great depth, the great depth is not utilized.”

The teacher replied.

"More than that."

The chief of staff of the division also spoke:
"The command was rigid and the level of grassroots officers was seriously insufficient. As a result, a large number of troops that could have been transferred in time missed the opportunity and were surrounded and annihilated."

"You won't fail like this, right?"

There are concerns.

Although the country does not rely on anyone now, if the North is defeated, it will not be good for the base area, and it will be very harmful.

"will not."

The boss said in a determined tone:
"It's still far away."

"They can afford this loss."

"The world war has just begun."

···
Shimen.

North China Front Army Headquarters,

"Sude goes to war."

'Germany was overwhelming, tanks were used in groups, and the blitzkrieg shocked the world. '

After all, they were allies, and Gangcun quickly received news about the Eastern Front.

"Yoshi."

Gangcun was immediately overjoyed.

If the allies can defeat the northern countries, it will be a great thing for the Japanese Empire.

Even if the north is defeated, the vast territory will become the gap between Japan and Germany, and there will be no direct conflict of interest. At that time, they can unite to deal with the United States.

as well as··
Gangcun frowned again when he thought of Tubal Road on the opposite side.

June is coming to an end.

The data for the fourth week has also been released.

The Locust Army destroyed 5,000 men, destroyed 50 enemy tanks, and injured 11,000 people, not including Jade.

Throughout June so far, the Locust Army has destroyed a total of 160 tanks and crushed a 16,000-man Locust Army. And paid the price of 35,000 casualties.

More than 50,000 people were killed or injured.

And this is before there is a large-scale battle, and the scale of the battle is always maintained on a small scale.

If Tubalu imitates the Germans and uses tanks in groups, I am afraid he will not be able to stop them.

"Their infantry can't keep up."

Gangcun quickly breathed a sigh of relief.

But not much looser.

It is true that there is a problem on Tubal Road now. The infantry cannot keep up with the tank attack speed, but...how long will this problem exist?
He could tell that tank crews were being trained on the opposite side.

Use the lives of the locust army and use tanks one by one.

"Just to ask."

After Okamura Neji sighed, he asked the chief of staff:

"How long until the anti-tank artillery arrives."

'According to local news. '

The Chief of Staff replied:
"The 75mm anti-tank artillery developed in conjunction with allies is already undergoing testing and is expected to be installed on a large scale in late September."

Late September··
Gangcun's brows jumped.

There are still three months to go.

Even if the Eighth Route Army did not increase the scale of its attack and attack in depth during these three months, it would still have to pay the price of nearly 20,000 people killed and 40,000 injured every month - the battlefield is not just in the southern Hebei region!
As for those elites who had been on the front line, they were secretly transferred from the base camp and returned to the south to recuperate.

By the time.

Even if the anti-war artillery comes, can he still block Tubal Road?
"understood."

Okamura Neji sighed and signaled the staff to leave. "etc."

Neji Okamura stopped his staff and said:
"Ask the base camp to send some test artillery."

The new 75-type artillery is actually a replica of the German anti-tank artillery. It increases the chamber pressure and enhances the armor-piercing capability. Penetrating the Sherman is not a problem.

He needed some artillery to destroy enemy tanks and boost morale.

Recently, soldiers on the front line have even begun to mutiny, thinking that the locust army is deliberately sending them to death.

He had to do something.

···
"Silver dollar··"

The same is Shimen.

Suzuki Fanji's expression was as sad as a shit.

Today, the trading cooperation has not yet been established, and the daily profit is only more than 10,000 US dollars, while the income from silver dollar trading is so low that he has nightmares while sleeping.

Americans began to sell silver dollars.

The speed and scale shocked everyone.

Thirty thousand tons of silver poured directly into the market.

In the international market, the silver dollar has plummeted and has now fallen to 30 cents an ounce, returning to the level of the economic crisis in the years.

Although.

Five Hebei Nan coins can be exchanged for one silver dollar and then sold to the international market. It is still profitable, but it is much less, and the profit is reduced by about 90%.

In economics class, the profit from silver dollar reselling in June was only 15 million U.S. dollars, one-fifth of last month.

This was after making five million at the beginning of the month.

According to the current price of silver, his profit of 10 million next month would be very good.

No, definitely not $10 million.

Five Hebei Nan coins can be exchanged for one silver dollar, and there is no limit, which will cause more silver dollars to flow into the international market and cause the silver dollar to continue to fall.

If Tubalu is more ruthless and continues to compile silver coins, then...

In the international market, silver dollars will...

···
Negotiate.

Office of the Secretary of the Treasury.

"very good."

"Keep selling."

"Sell 30,000 tons of the remaining 70,000 tons of silver."

The finance minister gritted his teeth.

With the silver purchased through the Silver Act and the two taels stored in the treasury, the silver in their hands now is not the 70,000 to 80,000 tons predicted by the market, but 100,000 tons, costing a total of 1.8 billion U.S. dollars.

But the silver also gave the finance minister a hope.

A good way to defeat those people in North China and gain economic initiative.

No need to pump silver higher.

But to defeat silver.

All they need to do is sell, sell.

Making silver on the market less and less valuable,

As a result, the Jinan currency anchored by silver will become less and less valuable, and then... they will have to use US dollars to anchor the Jinan currency.

Since then, those expensive drugs have been a benefit to the United States.

They can even take the initiative to unlock the market, relax review, and allow drugs to enter.

After all, these drugs are not patented in the United States. American companies can even copy them and register their own patents to sell foreign products.

They also have no chance to register a patent in the United States.

However... we have encountered some problems. These drugs are difficult to copy.

Extremely difficult!

Of course, this is not a problem for the finance minister to worry about.

The reason why he gritted his teeth was because if he continued to sell silver, it would mean that the United States would lose US$200 million for every 10,000 tons of silver.

Two hundred million dollars.

Even for the United States, it is a huge amount.

The Iowa class only cost 120 million US dollars to build.

If all 100,000 tons of silver were sold, it would be a loss of two billion U.S. dollars, enough to build the Pacific Fleet.

The pressure from Congress is too much.

Two billion!

The fiscal revenue of the United States last year was only 20 billion.

However, I continued to do business with the Japanese this year and made a lot of money. The government got most of it, which made up for the shortfall. Otherwise, he, the minister, would have been sacked.

"Yes."

The men immediately went to execute it.

"I hope that group..."

the finance minister muttered.

He now only hopes that the group of people in North China can surrender quickly so that he can sell less silver and reduce some losses - because the more he sells, the higher the market silver price will be at the end of the month, the greater the loss will be.

As for whether those people will surrender, the Finance Minister has no doubts.

Unless that group of people has a large amount of gold and does not do international business, they must obey.

As long as it is anchored to the U.S. dollar, he can harvest it through financial means.

If they want to get away from the anchor dollar, they must be willing to give up the pharmaceutical business with an annual transaction volume of nearly three billion US dollars and be prepared to pay a price of billions of dollars.

···
July is here as expected.

"How many tanks?"

Immediately, the phone from the brigade headquarters rang.

It was the brigade commander who came to ask how many tanks had been obtained.

Moreover, the staff officer who answered the phone heard the voices of the boss, division commander and others from the side.

Also normal.

Nowadays, on the front line, the troops beat the Japanese until they cry for their fathers and mothers. They can kill tens of thousands of Japanese almost every month, but only less than a few thousand of our own people are killed. The core reason is tanks.

Tanks are really useful.

After three months, there were more tank crews in the army, and the number of tank crews that could be assembled was 150.

The logistics personnel are enough to maintain two hundred tanks.

So, the more tanks, the better.

According to the headquarters' idea, it is best to obtain three hundred tanks every month. While continuing to put pressure on the Japanese and temper tank crews, they can also train cluster tank tactics and form tank regiments or even larger units.

"Five hundred Shermans."

The staff officer revealed the numbers that he had just learned.

'How many? ’

The brigadier was obviously shocked and in disbelief.

"Five hundred vehicles."

The staff officer understood the brigade commander's disbelief.

Five hundred tanks.

When he heard this number, he couldn't believe it.

What is the total strength of the mobile battalion?

Two thousand people.

Last month, two thousand people gave two hundred tanks, which is incredible.

Ten men per tank.

As a result, 500 vehicles were actually given out this month.

Four people per tank.

"Okay, okay..."

On the other side of the phone, a series of good voices sounded, including the deputy boss, the division commander, the brigade commander, and even the boss.

"And ten heavy tanks."

The staff officer continued.

"Heavy tank?"

On the other side of the phone, everyone was stunned:
"What heavy tank?"

How heavy should it be that can be called a heavy tank in front of the 30-ton Sherman?
As for a tank, the heavier it is, although it may not necessarily have a stronger combat effectiveness, but it certainly has stronger firepower and thicker armor.

"The information says it is. Tiger tank."

"Tiger tank?"

Everyone has searched their hearts and minds, but they have never heard of this kind of tank;
"How's the data?"

the brigade commander asked.

"It weighs fifty-seven tons, has a front armor of 88 mm alloy steel, and is equipped with an mm main gun."

The staff officer replied. (End of chapter)