From to 1935 2020

The night was dark and he had worked hard all day, but now he didn't feel sleepy at all.Japan's full-scale invasion of China is imminent, and the pressure on his shoulders is so great that he dares not relax.

In the past half of the past year, the Red Army, which seemed to have a bright future and won one miraculous victory after another, has actually accumulated many invisible hidden dangers.

In addition to the insufficient number of cadres, the rapid expansion of the base areas, and the poor control of the local grassroots, what gave Li Runshi the most headache and worry was the "slack mind" of the Red Army cadres at the grassroots level.

In the past, when they were in Songpan, they slept in the open air, had nothing to eat, ate grass roots and gnawed bark, and now they have easily won a large number of prosperous big cities. The "bumpkins" live in big mud-tiled houses, have land, fields, clothes, and houses, and the "rich children" who joined the female students have undergone a major transformation.

The problem of ideological laxity within the party and the corruption of cadres in the city have already appeared in the second half of last year.

Taiyuan is a large city with the best conditions occupied by the Red Army.The houses of Yan Xishan and other "Taiyuan celebrities" are also the best buildings in the city.Because Huang Ke used his "money money ability", the Red Army took the whole city almost without damage.

After entering the city, Li Runshi took a look at Yan Xishan's mansion, and then retreated directly.

"This should not be a house where Communist Party members live!"

At his request, all the houses of high-ranking officials in the city are forbidden to party members.Now these houses have either been converted into nursing homes for wounded soldiers, or turned into schools, or become the residences of Soviet experts who aided China.

He took care of the place where he lived, but the clothing and food, after entering the city, with the improvement of conditions, Li Runshi soon discovered that many comrades around him began to "luxury" unknowingly.

What he can do is to convene inner-party meetings, strengthen the construction of ideological work, strictly enforce the "hardship and simplicity" style, and strengthen the construction of a clean and honest government within the party from top to bottom.What Li Runshi was writing was a document titled "Strengthening the Work of Inner Party Rectification". Fortunately, during this period, the threat of Japan's all-out war of aggression against China loomed like a mountain on all Red Army soldiers. After he pointed out some problems, the comrades at the grassroots level It didn't take long to realize that I was slackening, and the loose strings were quickly tightened again.

Li Runshi walked out of the house and looked at the whole city of Taiyuan in the sky. It was almost early morning, and only a few factories in Taiyuan City were still lit, and there was a faint light leaking out.

Li Runshi knew that where there is light, it is the lights of the tank overhaul factory and electronic component factory in the city.It is now working in three shifts 24 hours a day.

Li Runshi looked there with satisfaction, and thought:

"I hope that the next fire will refine more gold!"

During the day, he had just met the special envoy of the Soviet Union, and the other party sent Stalin another inquiry: If it is urgently needed, he can consider doubling the troops attacking the Kwantung Army in the Far East and pinning down more Japanese troops in the Northeast.

This suggestion is very good, but Li Runshi did not immediately agree.

In fact, when he was in Moscow, the actual "aid" proposed by Stalin was even greater: he even thought that as soon as the Soviet Union was mobilized and the weather got warmer, he would directly dispatch the Soviet Red Army to launch a larger-scale offensive against the Japanese army in the northeast to replace the Relying on the advantages of national strength and population, it took two years to exhaust the Japanese army in the Northeast, and then drove the Japanese army out of the Northeast in about the same time.

"You can help us, but you can't walk for us. Although it is cruel, I know that only the red regime that has been burned by fire is indestructible. The tragedy in Eastern Europe is largely due to their lack of forging. burn."

Lee Yun-seok eventually rejected this tempting proposal from Stalin.Some homework, if you are lazy and miss it now, you will definitely have to pay the price in the future.Because of Huang Ke's interference in history, the Red Army made fewer mistakes, greatly preserved its revolutionary strength and developed ahead of schedule, but grew too fast and missed those trials and tribulations. Its body was just a "vain" giant.

Thinking about when to start the "rectification" movement in the whole army, Li Runshi ordered the guards to prepare the car and decided to go to the repair shop to have a look.

The war has not yet started, but Taiyuan City has already entered the wartime curfew state ahead of schedule.When driving past, the road was empty, only the Red Army soldiers patrolling at night were moving.

At every intersection, there are soldiers on duty at night, and at every street, there is a small group of people patrolling.This is not to toss people, but to sharpen people.In one and a half years, from the 100 Red Long March troops to the [-] million main Red Army, and even more local militias, no matter which army, the proportion of recruits is very high.

Li Runshi drove all the way in an armored car aided by the Soviet Union. Occasionally, the car stopped at the intersection, and then he got out of the car and said a few words to the soldiers on the side of the road.Li Runshi actually doesn't like Taiyuan City, let alone big cities.

After he entered the city, he felt like Monkey King entered the Daleiyin Temple, and the feeling of being restrained became more and more serious.

Taiyuan is a big city, and it is also a military industrial city. The Japanese planted many spies and spies here.For his safety, he can no longer freely walk among the people like he did in Ruijin and Yan'an, and can no longer touch the people at the bottom lightly like before.

"My strength comes from the people."

Li Runshi hated the feeling of being "in the air" and "out of the crowd", but the situation before him made him fall into such a predicament.

The car sent Li Runshi to the repair shop.

Taiyuan is close to Hebei. Once the Japanese army enters Hebei Province, it will be bombed by Japanese planes immediately.So shortly after taking Taiyuan, the Red Army, under the advice of Soviet experts, began to plan to gradually transfer the arsenal and gunpowder factories in the city to the production workshops of the newly built mountain air-raid shelters in the west of Lishi.

By March of this year, two-thirds of the factory equipment had been transferred.The factory equipment that did not move was moved to the newly dug mountain air-raid shelter in the city.

The so-called tank overhaul factory was actually built next to the machine repair workshop in a certain mountain air-raid shelter factory.There is also an electronic component factory nearby—Using the materials provided by Huang Ke and the newly imported [-] microscopes, the Red Army also established its own transistor production line in Taiyuan.Then hired and trained three batches of female workers to continuously manufacture transistors in a way of people stopping equipment and working continuously in three shifts.

When Li Runshi arrived, the factory was changing shifts. Hundreds of female workers got off work gathered together, chirping and chatting, and went to a nearby public canteen for supper.The positions vacated by them were immediately occupied by the workers who replaced them.

These women workers come from all over China, and they are skilled at women's embroidery.In order to ensure the quality of their work, cod liver and carrots are added to their daily meals to supplement vitamin A to ensure clear eyesight.Although the Soviet Union is also fully producing transistors, and sent more than [-] transistor radios and a large number of in-vehicle communicators to the CCP within three months of production.

But transistor radios are too popular and versatile.High-tech weapons such as airplanes and tanks are all one vehicle, one machine, one piece, and they cannot be separated from him.Those [-] units were divided up in the blink of an eye.And another problem is that with the outbreak of the war, the gap in radio stations will become larger and larger, and it will be too lagging to rely on imports from the Soviet Union.

Fortunately, the process of transistor radio is not complicated, and most of the materials can be imported in large quantities.In addition to transistors, PCB circuit boards, another key raw material, were mass-produced in the Soviet Union with the technology provided by Huang Ke, and arrived in large quantities after Huang Ke returned to China from the Soviet Union in early March this year.

With the help of Soviet experts, the electronic component factory here in Taiyuan began to assemble radio stations and radios by itself through self-produced transistors, and produced the first batch of electronic products in March.

(Note: It is said that the number of transistors used in a radio station is about 16 (16 is the minimum number, and it is generally 32 or even more than 48 for military use. I don’t know the specific situation, please correct me if I am wrong), and the world’s number one The number of transistors in a transistor radio is 4, but it is a multi-band civilian radio with adjustable frequency. The radio used for military convoy contact should use less, or even only one.)

Li Runshi first entered the electronics factory, chatted with the off-duty female workers in the cafeteria, and asked them about the difficulties they encountered in work and life, as well as various trifles about their parents.After chatting, it was already one o'clock, and he didn't want to pester them anymore. After telling everyone to rest well and dispersed, he went to the nearby tank overhaul factory.

As soon as he entered the gate of the overhaul factory, Li Runshi saw the flash of the arc, and at the same time heard the cutting sound of the machine tool and lathe.

The female workers in the electronics factory and the mechanics in the tank overhaul factory were definitely the hardest working people in Taiyuan during this period, and the latter was even harder.

After walking a few steps, Li Runshi was very relieved and heartbroken to see that familiar young man, holding a welding mask, squatting on the rear body of a T[-] tank to weld the armor plate.

New group number: 565235370

Due to the serious death of group friends, the new group has already turned 325945597. In order to facilitate the rebirth of the dirty soil after the death of the group, a roll call group was specially set up. This group is usually forbidden to speak. The group number is: [-]

-------------------- Chapter 210 The problem of people is always the key --------------------

The T26 tank produced in the Soviet Union was designed as a three-man crew, the driver, radio operator (also machine gunner, loader), commander (also gunner), and the team members had a heavy burden.Especially the commander, who has to observe the surroundings and be responsible for aiming and firing, is simply too busy.

The vehicle design of the T[-] tank itself also has many defects: there is no commander's observation tower, and it uses a flammable gasoline engine.After the first batch of T[-] tanks were sent to China, Xiao Huang Ke worked hard to improve them through various means through the suggestions made by later generations of netizens.

The first is to open a round hole directly above the head of its huge turret, and install a liftable commander observation tower.The bigger change is that some ammunition racks have been removed, and a new crew member has been added at the cost of reducing the ammunition load, which separates the tasks of the commander and the gunner.

The T[-] tank has [-] rounds of ammunition, which is actually a bit "too much". The Red Army reduced it to [-] rounds, and easily added a crew member in the space vacated. (Note: In the experience of the Soviet-German war, tanks usually consume about [-] rounds of ammunition in one battle, and [-] rounds in fierce battles. The [-] rounds are completely wasted by local tyrants. There are not many opportunities for tank battles in the Chinese battlefield, and ammunition is actually consumed even less.)

——This is a common problem in the design of Soviet tanks and aircraft. They only pay attention to one-sided "measurements" (attack, defense, and speed) data, and seriously ignore ergonomics and combat efficiency in actual combat.

After the trip to Poland, Huang Ke got inspiration from his cousin 1937TP tank in Poland, stole the engine, gearbox and other transmission equipment on the car, and placed an order in Switzerland, ordering a total of 50 diesel engines of the same model (An additional 26 units were ordered in [-]).As soon as they returned to China, they began to improve the T[-] at hand. At present, in the Soviet Union, in addition to the engine, the Soviet Red Army also began to try to improve the existing T[-] tanks. The first is to install the commander's observation tower and increase the crew to improve combat efficiency.As for diesel engines, Stalin himself ordered the introduction of a similar diesel engine production line.

The Saurel diesel engine produced in Switzerland has more horsepower and higher torque than the original 90-horsepower gasoline engine, but the disadvantage is that it is larger in size. After installation, it is higher than the rear compartment, and the armor plate at the rear of the car must be reinstalled.Not only that, in order to better play the role of the engine, the gearbox and transmission must be readjusted or even remade.Although the Swiss had already completed the order and sent the engines through the Soviet Union, in fact the Red Army dragged on until before the Battle of Huainan before completing the engine refitting of the first batch of ten T26 tanks.

The really large-scale engine replacement was carried out after Huang Ke returned from the Soviet Union three months later and brought back 150 sets of ready-made remodeling materials made in the Soviet Union.

Taiyuan Overhaul Factory, what they do every day is to "open the brain" of the T[-] tank and install the commander's observation tower (historically, the Soviet Union realized the importance of this point only through the [-]TP tank after the Polish War in [-]) , replace the engine and new gearbox, and thicken the armor plate at the same time.

Including the newly sent 40 T26 tanks, the total number of these tanks in the hands of the Red Army now exceeds 130. A major modification according to the above standards is not a small project for China, which has weak industrial capabilities.The war was imminent. During this period of time, the maintenance teams sent by the Soviet Union and the mechanics trained by the Red Army were working continuously day and night, constantly undergoing transformation.

When Li Runshi came to the repair shop, there were 26 T[-] tanks parked in the open space of the factory, half of which were disemboweled (engines), "cut off" their heads (turrets), and disassembled into parts.

In addition to the T26 tank, there is also a T27 ultra-light tank with a turret installed in the overhaul factory. The T27 does not have a turret, but the frontline personnel are trying to replace the machine gun turret removed from the M1936 light tank to its body after referring to the modified version of its British home, the Vickers 2 captured during the Huainan Battle. It has been modified and is currently being tested.

Li Runshi stood on the side, put on the sunglasses handed to him by others, and waited quietly for Huang Ke to finish the welding work in his hand.

After completing the welding of the last spot, Huang Ke put down the welding torch and mask, and pressed his left hand on the rear compartment, felt the condition of the weld, nodded with satisfaction, and then pointed out the precautions for the apprentice next to him when welding.

Most of the welding work was done by the apprentices below. What Huang Ke had to do was mainly pointing out errors, correcting errors and making up for leaks.When he was in the Soviet Union, Huang Ke easily obtained the highest twelfth-level mechanic certificate with his past skills.After he returned to China to deliver the materials, during the cooling time of the delivery of the space cross, he either gave technical lessons to the workers, or he personally went to the field to operate, like today's quality inspection and repairing.

After Huang Ke finished talking with the apprentice, he noticed that the chairman was coming.

The chairman said to him: "Comrade Huang Ke, you are now a real revolutionary!"

Huang Ke smiled, and then reported the situation to him: "Now the tanks in Pingjin have all been replaced with diesel engines, and the armor has been thickened as much as possible..."

Huang Ke patted the turret of the T26 tank next to him while talking. The armor on the front of the turret of the current T30 tank has been thickened to 300mm.It is still a little difficult to resist the armor-piercing projectile of the original German 37mm tank gun within 37 meters, but it is not a big problem to resist the inferior [-]mm armor-piercing projectile of the Japanese.

"The Soviets can come up with a very good overall design, but there are too many problems in the details. The sighting system of these tanks has a large error, and it is difficult to hit the target at a distance of 500 meters. Compared with the German products, the Soviet tanks lose. It’s all in the little details.”

Li Runshi said: "Solve what is needed first, and then pursue high-tech. Compared with developed capitalist countries, our comrades in the Soviet Union owe a lot of lessons."

When Li Runshi came to the factory, he just walked around and asked about the difficulties at the grassroots level.As for direct instructions, there is none. Professionals do professional things, and he pays more attention to this than in history.

Through Huang Ke's operation in the past two years, as well as the big supplements on Yan Xishan and Chang Kaishen, and the import of a large number of machines, the current military production capacity of the Red Army is very close to the level of 1949:

The military factory in Shanxi can produce its own bullets and mortar shells.As for Baoji, an important military center in the rear, with the completion of installation and commissioning of related equipment, it has recently been able to produce 75mm mountain artillery shells directly from scratch.The synthetic ammonia plant "stolen" from Chang Kaishen's house is now almost completed, and the first batch of synthetic ammonia can be produced after July without any accidents, and processed into real explosives. ——Except for the large amount of artillery primers that need to be imported from the Soviet Union, a nearly closed-loop military industrial chain has been completed.In the direction of Yumen, wells have recently been successfully drilled to produce oil, and refined products have begun.

Huang Ke cooperated with DuPont to harvest all kinds of gold pharmaceutical stocks, and most of the money he earned in the end was invested in these places.Equipment and materials are not a problem, but the biggest gap is still people.There is a serious shortage of qualified skilled workers and engineers. To be able to support all this at present, I really have to thank Stalin for sending a large number of experts to help.

"The key thing that is missing is people! Technicians are needed everywhere, and it is too difficult to train skilled workers. Fortunately, there are Soviet experts to help, otherwise this overhaul factory would not be built at all."

Considering that a war is about to happen, the Taiyuan Tank Overhaul Factory on the front line, its workshop is just a "simple shed" built with multiple wooden frames and a rainproof canvas roof. The workers and maintenance personnel are almost in a semi-open environment. down to work.Important machinery and equipment are all placed in the nearby air-raid shelter factory, even the turret crane is no exception. When the T[-] tank was dismantled, the tank was first driven to the air-raid shelter factory, where the turret was lifted by a crane, and then it was driven out for modification.

After a year of relocation, Yan Laoxi stayed in the arsenal in Taiyuan. Most of the equipment has been relocated to the Lishi area to the west of Luliang Mountain, and a large number of workers and their families have also been transferred.Those left in Taiyuan City are basically maintenance and repair equipment for tanks, artillery, and firearms, as well as reloading lines for bullets and shells.

The reason why they didn't all move to Baoji, which is farther and safer, is because of transportation and strategic reasons.The fastest way to connect the east and west of the Yellow River is the railway, and the biggest weakness of the Yellow River Iron Bridge in Kaifeng.As long as the war started, it was almost inevitable that the Yellow River Iron Bridge would be heavily bombed by the Japanese army.Taiyuan's military equipment can only be transferred to Shanxi.Separated by Luliang Mountain, Taiyuan was in front as an important military town, and the Japanese could not hit Lishi.

Due to the large reduction of industrial workers in the city, Taiyuan City is now much more depressed than it was a year ago. As the most important military/political center of the Red Army in the north, it will inevitably become the primary military strike and large-scale bombing target of the Japanese army in the future. .

The migration of the population and the construction of civil air defense projects inside and outside the city began from the first day of occupation of Taiyuan.It's just that the homeland is difficult to leave, and the population in the city has only decreased by less than five percent so far.As for civil air defense projects, the "digging and digging" project in Taiyuan City only stopped for three days during the Spring Festival.

In and outside the city, all the places with mountains are digging and repairing air-raid shelters.Ordinary dwellings are also trying to dig a half-meter-wide and one-meter-deep drainage ditch near the residence to discharge sewage at ordinary times, which is a good life-saving bunker in case of bombing.In winter, the people of the whole city were organized to carry out related air defense training and fire drills.Recently, a group of personnel from the International Column who participated in the Spanish Civil War and the city defense battle also entered China under the arrangement of the Soviet Union to teach the Red Army the experience of urban street warfare.

When Huang Ke was resting here that night, Li Runshi chatted with the workers of the overhaul factory as usual.Today, in the Red Army-controlled area, the workers in various factories are "overstaffed", and the general situation in each department is a master with a bunch of apprentices.

These apprentices come from all corners of the country, and Li Runshi likes to chat with these young apprentices who are about [-] or [-] years old.

During the chat, he found that many people came from Henan, which was newly liberated last year.

1936 was the year of the great famine in the Republic of China.In July last year, after the Red Army captured Henan, the Red Army received an order to make detailed statistics on the harvest of food crops in various places. When the final figures were compared with the local population, the foreheads of the high-ranking officials in Taiyuan twitched.

"The grain output in various places in Henan is estimated to be only one-third to one-fourth of previous years, and even only one-fifth in severe areas."

In the three provinces of "Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia", the grain output is only two-thirds of that of previous years!This is the result of the Red Army's preparations for disaster prevention and famine in advance.

After taking Henan, the Red Army began conscription in the local area, and soon the various conscription points were overwhelmed by farmers who flocked to vote for the Red Army.The reason is that the land was divided to protect the fruits of the land reform, but another factor, everyone found that even if the land was divided, and because they knew that Henan did not have a harvest this year, the Red Army was completely exempted from the grain collection and tax of that year, but they It is still extremely difficult to get through this famine year and get a bumper harvest next year.

At that time, the original Chairman Li Runshi planned to recruit [-] soldiers in Henan in one month, but this figure was completed in only half a month, and a large number of poor people were still rushing to sign up.

Zeng Zhongsheng was in charge of Henan Province. At that time, he reported to his superiors: "Joining the army can at least save one mouth for the family. This is the most realistic!"

According to the hydro-climate data of later generations provided by Huang Ke, by 1937, there would still be catastrophes in Henan, and what was even more deadly was that Japan's full-scale war of aggression against China was about to start.

Since last year, after taking Henan, what the Red Army can do is to organize the masses to prepare for the disaster in advance, and another way is to relocate some of the population in areas where famines will occur in the future.

At the dinner table, an apprentice told Chairman Li that after the land reform in Henan, the Red Army was also recruiting people everywhere to immigrate to Baotou in the north.

Li Yunshi expressed his understanding:

"This is the resolution I made. Last year, the harvests in various parts of Henan were extremely poor. There will definitely be a big famine after the spring of this year. Baotou has a bumper harvest. There are a lot of fields there, and some people are allocated there to avoid the famine. The Japanese devils will come over soon, and there are still trains to take if you leave early, and if there is a war, all civilian use will be converted to military use, then you will not be able to leave.”

Then he asked carefully where his hometown was, how the local Red Army cadres "persuaded" the masses to agree to "immigrate", what methods they adopted, and how the people in his village viewed this matter.

The apprentice replied: "The Red Army said that each family in Baotou would be given ten acres of land and provide farm tools. Many families went there, and everyone was very happy. As for me, because my family was born as a blacksmith, I was a comrade of the Red Army. Recruited here."

Then Li Runshi asked other people and got similar answers, but Huang Ke could tell at a glance that he was actually very dissatisfied with these answers.

After dinner, Huang Ke and Li Runshi walked in the factory area together, and several guards scattered around to protect them.

On the way, Li Runshi said to Huang Ke: "Did they all lie to me at the dinner table just now? The reason is that I have too much authority and I have been separated from the masses for too long. They dare not tell me the truth."

Huang Ke nodded and said:

"The matter in Henan was handled by the comrades of the Red Fourth. In order to complete the task of emigrating 50 people in Bayannaoer, their methods were very rough. In fact, they were forced to recruit people, recruiting people according to the number of heads per household and the status of family members. The specific process is that there are three or four adult men in a family, and they directly order people to be confiscated. Some are in the name of conscription, half-coaxed Latin to take them over. Some have done enough ideological work for the masses. In the past, but not many, more often they used the method of forced requisition. After all, the homeland is hard to leave, and if people are not hungry until the last moment, not many people want to leave their hometown to go outside the Great Wall."

The Anti-Japanese War will be a protracted war, and Suiyuan's population is too small, which has always been the biggest headache for the Red Army.After the Battle of Shanxi, the Red Army has been working hard to emigrate from various places and move to Suiyuan.This plan started after Fu Zuoyi and the Red Army changed Baotou to Zhangjiakou.Henan, where the catastrophe occurred, was the province with the largest population export last year. So far, most of the Henan immigrants sent to Suiyuan are young and strong.

Li Runshi looked at Huang Ke and said, "They told you all this?"