The rise of a great power: starting with military industry

Chapter 353 Artillery Support Force
Although the artillery company only has six guns, its firing speed is very fast.

It seems that there are only half of the guns of the artillery battalion, but these are large-caliber guns, and they are automatically loaded and have an incredibly fast shooting speed.

The artillery company's firepower output is very fierce.

Large-scale firepower coverage is not possible, but the firepower suppression and support as key nodes are very effective.

And the most important thing is that the vehicle moves forward while firing.

This means that even if the enemy calculates the artillery position based on the trajectory of the artillery shells, or detects the position through aerial reconnaissance, the enemy's artillery company or artillery regiment will not be able to hit them if they launch a counterattack.

This is the advantage of self-propelled artillery, strong mobility and strong battlefield survivability.

As the tank and infantry companies were about to reach the Huashan defensive position, the artillery company stopped shelling to avoid accidentally injuring its own troops.

The next battle will be handed over to the tank company and the infantry company, and the artillery company only needs to provide fixed-point artillery support.

In the command vehicle, Li Xinghua continued to learn about the situation on the battlefield.

As long as he could capture the Huashan defensive position, he would be able to tear a hole in the enemy's defensive line, and the entire Huangshupi County would be directly within the artillery coverage of the combined battalion.

"Battalion Commander, the enemy's infantry regiment has moved and is heading towards Huashan!" the scout reported the situation.

Li Xinghua picked up the phone and ordered the artillery company to load the shells and provide artillery support to the battlefield at any time.

The Huashan defensive position is very important. Taking the Huashan defensive position will tear a hole in the enemy's defense line in this area. Once Huangshupi County is taken, the other surrounding defense lines will be slowly torn apart.

It's normal to have support.

It would be abnormal if there was no support.

The enemy has deployed more than 100,000 troops along the entire defense line, with another 100,000 troops as reserve forces behind them.

You have to know that the total population of Annan is over 5000 million. Even though the losses were heavy, the number of troops still remained at 120 million.

As for weapons, equipment and ammunition, they will naturally be supported by the big brother, the polar bear.

As soon as daybreak came, the Huashan defensive position was taken.

Many Annan soldiers died in the artillery fire. After all, more than two thousand large-caliber shells were fired, killing many people.

Some people were shocked and injured, while others were still alive, but they wanted to rely on fortifications to resist, but they were simply unable to do so.

Once they enter within 300 meters, they will face attacks from mortars and rocket launchers.

Even hiding in a cat ear cave is useless, a fuel-air bomb can end the battle.

There is no need to enter the cat ear cave while fighting the enemy.

Li Xinghua commanded the troops and built defensive positions.

The enemy's reinforcements are very close.

When they entered the 3-kilometer range, Li Xinghua gave the order to attack.

Tanks and mortars attack the enemy in front, while artillery attacks the enemy in the middle and rear.

Li Xinghua held a telescope and looked down at the enemy troops being bombarded.

This kind of bombardment is very pleasing to the eye.

In modern warfare, if one occupies a favorable terrain and has the advantage in weapons and equipment, the damage to the enemy can be extremely terrifying.

The killing radius of large-caliber artillery shells is extremely terrifying.

Even though we are not using guided shells, the destructive power caused by so many shells falling down is extremely terrifying.

The marching formation of an enemy regiment was disrupted in an instant.

"Launch the attack!" Li Xinghua gave the order. The tanks began to move, and the infantry fighting vehicles with fully armed soldiers also moved.

The battle is going on at the front line.

Liu Tao is also busy, and he is going back to Beijing this time.

In recent times, three major events have occurred in the country.

One thing is that the above issued the "Decision on Severely Cracking Down on Criminal Activities".

One thing is that the State Council made the "Decision on the People's Bank of China to Exclusively Exercise the Functions of a Central Bank", which stipulates that the People's Bank of China to exclusively exercise the functions of a central bank and no longer handle industrial and commercial credit and savings business concurrently.

Another major event is the pilot work on wage reform.

This time he returned to Beijing to attend a pilot work meeting on wage reform. Panshan Group was originally a reform pilot unit and was at the forefront of the country in terms of salary. Liu Tao and others were specially invited to participate in this meeting.

The current wage system implemented nationwide is still that of 1956.

Before 1956, there were generally two wage systems coexisting in my country's government agencies and public institutions, namely the monetary wage system (salary system) and the in-kind wage system (supply system).

The wage system reform in 1956 initially established a job-grade wage system, and also laid the foundation for my country's wage system. This wage system reform abolished the supply system, directly set wage standards in currency, improved the worker wage grade system, established different wage grades (1-8) according to the technical characteristics of workers in different industries, and improved the job-grade wage system for staff of government agencies and institutions, dividing wage standards according to the level of their positions.

In fact, wage adjustments have been ongoing in recent years.

The wage range was adjusted for three consecutive years in 1981, 1982 and 1983.

For example, this year's salary adjustment will generally not exceed an increase of three yuan and fifty cents per person per month for overall control.

Some people received an extra 7 or 10 yuan, some people's wages remained unchanged, but the overall salary was controlled at an average increase of 3.5 yuan per person per month.

When it comes to wage reform, the country appears to be cautious, fearing that too large a wage adjustment would lead to increased costs for businesses, and then greater losses and a wider scope of losses.

There are many state-owned factories across the country that are operating at a loss.

Increasing wages while suffering losses, doesn't this just further increase losses?

So in August, another supplement was added, which was that wage adjustments would only be limited to profitable state-owned factories.

There are three main departments responsible for wage adjustments, namely the Ministry of Labor and Personnel, the National Planning Commission, the Ministry of Finance and the National Bureau of Statistics.

Liu Tao accepted the invitation and naturally expressed relevant opinions.

Because Panshan Group is now also facing the same problem.

That is, for the same position and the same level, the gap between the salary levels in mainland China and Hong Kong is too huge!

According to the exchange rate, 1 RMB is equivalent to about 4 Hong Kong dollars.

The monthly salary of an ordinary worker in Hong Kong is 3000 Hong Kong dollars, and the salary of an average white-collar worker is 5000 Hong Kong dollars. In other words, the monthly salary of an ordinary worker in Hong Kong is equivalent to about 750 RMB, and the salary of an average white-collar worker is equivalent to about 1250 RMB.

With this salary level, even if Panshan Group in mainland China implements the grade salary as the basic salary, the salary level will still be about 4 times that of Hong Kong.

The higher the level, the greater the difference.

For example, Xue Yunpeng is in charge of Southwest Industrial Group Corporation, but his salary level is not as good as that of ordinary workers in the factory of Southwest Industrial Group Corporation's Hong Kong branch.

There can be a difference, but if the gap is too big, it will be detrimental to the work.

In addition to attending this meeting, Liu Tao also wanted to strive for further reform of Panshan Group's salary system when he returned to Beijing.

Panshan Group's salary system is already very complete in the mainland, and its salary level is the highest, which itself faces great resistance. If the overall salary level is further increased, the pressure will only be greater, not less.

In this regard, we need to seek support from the country.

(End of this chapter)