From to 1935 2020

"Those investments are not wasted. Aren't you building a streptomycin plant now? Is your synthetic ammonia more profitable than streptomycin?"

Then Hou Debang could only ask the sky speechlessly, and later learned from the newspaper that Huang Ke, the number one boy in the Republic of China, was visiting his old friend Fan Xudong, so he immediately took the train from Nanjing back to Tianjin to interrogate him.

Hou Debang said heartbrokenly:

"Many machines have already been ordered, such as synthetic towers, compressors, generators, boilers, and a lot of pipelines, which are now piled up in the warehouse. These equipments add up to several million dollars, and the most critical one is missing Mr. Huang, I know that streptomycin is extremely profitable, but China cannot do without its own ammonia plant. Lao Fan mentioned you, and you are also worried that China and Japan will go to war, and you also Knowing about chemistry, the ammonia plant can make explosives with a little improvement.”

"Only $300 million short?"

"Yes!"

"You are right. China cannot do without its own ammonia plant. This is the most important weapon of the country. It cannot always rely on imports and cannot be controlled by others!"

Huang Ke held Hou Debang's hand and kept nodding his head,

"Don't worry, this matter is on me. I will tell Mr. Song Ziwen about this matter. If he is reluctant to part with the money, then I will pay for you."

Hou Debang suddenly became happy.

After persuading Hou Debang, Huang Ke returned to his room, and when he came out again, he already had a large stack of documents in his hand.

"Old Hou, if you don't come to me this time, in fact, I will go to you. This is a gift I want to give you."

Huang Ke handed over the document, while Fan Xudong was smiling all over his face.

This is the complete set of technological process and technical information of "Hou's soda making method" obtained by "plagiarizing" with the help of Xiao Huang Ke's mother and Rhubarb Ke. This thing was originally invented by Hou Debang six or seven years later.

Hou Debang took it and took a look, but after a few glances, he couldn't move his eyes away.And Fan Xudong chimed in.

"This is a brand-new soda-making process. Brother Huang has lived in my house for ten days. He and I are here to test the feasibility of this process. Small-scale soda-making is not a problem. Large-scale production should not be difficult. "

In the following time, the three of them gathered together, Huang Ke, the "copycat", and Hou Debang, the "original creator", to discuss the production technology of the "Hou's soda production method".Knowing that his ammonia plant is expected to be completed, Hou Debang's mood immediately improved, and the gift of the new soda production method from Huang Ke made him even more ecstatic.

But what Hou Debang didn't know was that the "brother Huang" who had a happy chat with him today, "brother Huang" was thinking about how to treat him as a sweetheart and keep all the core equipment in the warehouse " Zero yuan purchase" get away...

If you need equipment, you need people!Even Hou Debang himself, Huang Ke had bad intentions of "hooking him up and abducting him"

Huang Ke lived in Fan Xudong's research institute in Tianjin for 20 days.The people he came into contact with during this period were all the top talents in science and engineering in China in this era, and the purpose was naturally to recruit talents after the full-scale outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War two years later.

All the heroes in the world are in the game!

In addition, his other task is to come to Tianjin Port to prepare to receive the aid materials delivered by the Soviet Union through the Far East port.

Now in northern Shaanxi and southern Gansu, there are a total of six legions, and the main force of the Red Army with more than 9 people is launching a comprehensive offensive from the "three horses" from the south and the north.

The front line of Ningxia is the main direction of attack. The Red Army has assembled more than [-] troops from the Fifth Army here, while the Gannan direction is to contain the attack, but there are also multiple independent divisions outside the main army to coordinate the attack.

Taking into account the "poor" characteristics of the "insufficient ammunition" of the Majia Army in the Northwest, the Ganshan Red Army has realized that the ammunition inventory will drop a lot after this battle.Therefore, in the telegram to Stalin, the main request was for ammunition, especially the aid of artillery shells, thunder mercury, primer, and gun cotton.

And Huang Ke was sent to Tianjin Port to take advantage of his special space ability to receive this batch of important military aid.The support munitions carrier has already set off and will arrive in the near future. ----

-------------------- Chapter 105 Changes in the Northwest ------------------

Before the sea outside was frozen, on November 24, a Soviet cargo ship set off from Vladivostok to Tianjin, and arrived in Tianjin on the afternoon of December [-].The port where the cargo ship calls is the wharf of the British Concession.

When the ship is brought into port and stops at the berth, it will be 05:30 in the afternoon and it will be dark.The customs officer in charge of berth ship registration and cargo inspection is an Englishman named Marco.

"It's really bad luck to enter Hong Kong after get off work."

Ma Keshi was cursing in his heart, and was about to board the ship for inspection, when a familiar voice came from behind him.

"Mr. Ma!"

"Oh, Mr. Lin!"

The person who called him was Pan Hannian, his drinking and meat friend with whom he had a hot fight recently, and behind him was a large group of people dressed as coolies on the dock, all strangers that Marco Shi had never seen before.

"Why are you still here? Didn't you go to the dinner party?"

"Dinner? You mean the dinner hosted by Miss Elena in the British Concession? A little guy like me..."

Pan Hannian smiled and took out an invitation card and handed it to Mar Keshi.

"Mr. Ma, today is the great day for the establishment of our Far East Trading Company. In the future, our cargo ships will pass through your hands. How can we lack people like you?"

Marcos carefully opened the invitation, and there were three white one-hundred pound notes inside. (Sterling has a face value of 100 pounds, is white, was issued in 1725, and was discontinued in 1945.)

Ma Keshi smiled, nodded understandingly, and waved his hand, and the Chinese attendants and inspectors under his command "leave work early" knowingly.Then he walked shoulder to shoulder with Pan Hannian to the car outside the customs, and was driven away by the car.

As soon as the two left, they followed Pan Hannian's wharf coolies to the side of the Soviet cargo ship. The cranes at the wharf began to work under the control of the driver, unloading the bulky cargo from the ship, and then these coolies transferred it from the wharf to a nearby warehouse. inside.

At the same time, there was another person in the corner, handing out money one by one to Marco Shi's subordinates who left work early.

"Today none of us knew what you were smuggling, we didn't see anything."

Everyone has been doing this kind of transaction for almost two months, and they have reached a tacit agreement with each other.

Today is a special day. Pan Hannian's behind-the-scenes big boss, the famous "Golden Princess" Elena, came to the British Concession in Tianjin. Apart from announcing that she would set up a "Far East International Trading Company" in the British Concession, she also held a grand dinner.All the foreign officials at the wharf in the British Concession received her invitation, even the "low-level officials" like Marco Shi received a copy.

In the past two months, Pan Hannian colluded with the Central Committee and imported countless goods from this wharf.A lot of tariffs were evaded in the middle. While fattening the secret agents of the Central Union, it also fattened up the customs officers.The top eats meat, the bottom eats soup, and there are also red envelopes for rewards afterwards. Everyone has gained happiness, felt the happiness of having money in their pockets, and seen a bright future. Only the Nanjing Nationalist Government’s customs revenue was less.

While the cargo was still being unloaded, the Soviet captain who was in charge of escorting the cargo had already been "priority" taken to the office, "priority" to handle his entry matters.

On his cargo ship, the exposed cargo was sacks of flour, but in fact only the circle on the top used to cover up was real.The rest were TNT explosives packed in wooden boxes, which amounted to fifty tons.

One of the long wooden boxes contained Mosin Nagant rifles taken directly from the warehouse of the Soviet Army in the Far East.There are 25 sticks in one box, and there are 120 boxes in total, totaling 7.62 sticks.The matching 400mm bullets exceeded 12.7 million rounds.In addition, there are a full six 12.7 mm caliber Jeggarev machine guns, forty light DP light machine guns, and a large number of supporting shells and [-] mm machine gun ammunition.

These weapons and ammunition are packaged in wooden boxes, and the surface of the wooden box is written with "vodka" mixed in Russian and English. …

The ones registered as steel pipes, boiler pipes, and valves are actually disassembled M1902 field guns with a caliber of 76.2 mm, but they have been dismantled into parts. There are three guns in total, and the related shells add up to 2000 There are so many hairs.Originally, the Red Army also asked Stalin for mortars. Who knew that the Soviet Union did not pay much attention to the development of mortars during this period, and even the terrible 37mm shovel mortar had not been developed yet. (Note: Historically, the Soviet Union did not develop a 1938mm mortar until 50)

From [-] o'clock that night, more than [-] "dock workers" have been working non-stop beside the cargo ship and warehouse.In one night, more than [-] tons of goods were transferred from the ship to the nearby warehouse.

But in fact, the most sensitive of this batch of goods, the [-]-ton munitions, explosives, and the explosive dangerous goods "thunder mercury" and gun cotton in special containers, have been waiting in the warehouse as soon as they entered the warehouse. Huang Ke used the cross space equipment to take it away.

The next day, when Marcos, who was drunk and drunk, brought people over to inspect the goods, all he saw were more than 100 bags of Russian flour piled on the ground, more than 20 boxes of genuine vodka, and a large number of seamless steel pipes And the steel plates are still piled on the Soviet ship and it is too late to unload.In addition to these, another batch of supplies sent by the Soviet Union is a large amount of anti-chilblain ointment.

"Your work efficiency is really slow!"

Mar Keshi stared at his hangover eyes, half sober and half confused.Marco inspected the goods in the warehouse and on the ship casually, and signed the inspection form according to flour, vodka, and steel pipes.

It took another whole day for another group of dock workers to unload the other materials on board and put them into the warehouse.After the Russian captain finished handling the handover matters, he loaded the goods that Pan Hannian had prepared for them in Tianjin Port—these goods were arranged by Huang Ke as a "Christmas gift" for the Soviet Red Army in the Far East, as a reward for the holidays.

On the evening of the fourth day after arriving at Tianjin Port, the Soviet ship quietly sailed out of Tianjin Port with more than [-] "dock workers" and rushed back to Vladivostok. The sea outside will gradually freeze at the end of December, and they must rush back before the sea freezes.

These dock workers in Tianjin Port are certainly not ordinary workers.They are all elites selected from the Red Army in northern Shaanxi and southern Gansu. After completing the handling of sensitive materials, they will enter the Soviet Union with the ship, where they will receive professional training in a series of technical arms such as automobiles, aircraft, and ships.Apart from this person, the most precious item brought back by the Soviet ship was a culture medium sealed in a thumb-sized glass bottle—streptomycin medium.

When the Soviet cargo ship returned, Huang Ke was flying to Xi'an on the grounds that he was going to visit the Northeast Military Academy

And when Huang Ke was flying in the sky, the pile of seamless steel pipes and steel plates imported from Russia also ran along with the train from Peking to Xi'an.

The steel plate is actually a 75mm thick armor steel plate, the number is not large, and it is mainly used to thicken the armor of the tanks in the hands of the Red Army according to the actual combat modification needs.As for the batch of 100 and [-] mm seamless steel pipes, they are more useful.

From the beginning of September to the present, after more than two months of non-stop imports of grain to northern Shaanxi and southern Gansu, the Red Army in these two places has now completed the strategic reserve of grain, and is confident in coping with the severe famine next year.Now there are special freight trains from Beiping to Xi'an, among the materials loaded on the trains, the number of machines under the name of "construction machinery" is gradually increasing.

When Huang Ke came out of Xi'an Airport, he didn't transfer to Yan'an immediately, but followed Zhang Xuesi who came to receive him by car to Northwest University.Along the way, many of the winter clothes on the Northeast Army he saw were brand new. After receiving support from Huang Ke, the Northeast Army that hadn't changed their clothes for "four years" finally put on new cotton clothes recently.

When the car was walking on the road, it overtook a horse-drawn cart carrying goods.Huang Ke noticed a detail: Different from what he saw when he first arrived in Xi'an, the wheels of the pack trucks on the road have changed.

In the past, the wheels of the pack carts were almost all old-fashioned, with wooden wheels that had been used for thousands of years, but now he saw a lot of pack cart wheels replaced with rubber solid tires. The tires were ordered by Huang Ke in large quantities from the United States and shipped to the Northwest by following the advice of later generations of netizens.The effect is that it can greatly reduce the ground resistance when drawing a horse-drawn cart, and theoretically can more than double the horse's transport capacity.

The first batch of nearly a thousand pairs of rubber solid tires, together with the supporting bearings, arrived last month. When I came this time, many pack carts around Xi'an had already been replaced.He specifically asked Zhang Xuesi to stop and asked the driver, who gave him a very good evaluation.

The car continued to drive.

"How's the mood of the Northeast Army now? You are getting closer and closer to the Red Army now. Chang Bald is not a fool. He will not be able to resist sooner or later."

The red transport line of this railway is actually very unstable.Although Huang Ke used his interests to tie together all the online related insiders, he knew that he couldn't buy everyone off.Especially now that this transportation line is being used more and more frequently.As Chang Kaishen found that he was becoming less and less able to command the Northeast Army, and couldn't stand the secret alliance of the three families in the Northwest, he would take action sooner or later.

"Actually, that guy has already made a move."

Zhang Xuesi whispered.

In history, Chang Kaishen first bought Wang Shuchang, the veteran of the Northeast Army.The reorganization of the Northeast Army after the Xi'an Incident was completed with the assistance of Wang Shuchang.He also helped Chiang Kai-shek persuade, divide and win over the generals of the Northeast Army. For example, he invited Miao Chengliu, commander of the 57th Army, and Wu Keren, commander of the 67th Army, to meet with Jiang at Lushan Mountain. Jiang gave 50000 silver dollars to each of them. high price to buy.

And this time and space, as Yan'an was gained and lost again, after realizing that the "two thieves" Zhang and Yang had secretly colluded with the "communist bandits", Chang Kaishen gritted his teeth and threw out the silver coin bullet again. Wang Shuchang, the "old man" of the Northeast Army, and Miao Chengliu and Wu Keren, two powerful military leaders.Huang Ke knew from the "history" that these two boys were not firm. After reporting the information, Zhang Xuesi paid special attention to the three of them and noticed something unusual. .

"During the transfer of the Northeast Army to the west, the 57th Army and the 67th Army have been making excuses and staying in the station. In the past month, their troops have not listened to my brother's command too much. Your intelligence is not wrong, the two of them It should have been bought by Chang Kaishen."

Zhang Xuesi paused, and then said: "I have already reported this situation to the Central Committee. In addition, Zhu Peide's Third Army is about to reach Tongguan, and in the recent period, the reorganized First Division has now been renamed the No. The First Army is also going south to join him. They are putting pressure on the Northwest Army outside the pass."

The two knew that at this point in time, the two fronts of Ningxia and Northwest Gansu were fighting fiercely.The regular army of the Northwest Three Horses combined less than 5 people could not withstand the full-scale attack of more than 9 Red Army with sufficient ammunition.

In the south of Gansu, Yanchuan and Huining had already been conquered by the Red Army, and Ma Bufang's troops in Qinghai on the south line almost fled, and the whole army retreated to their old nest in Xining, Qinghai.After the fall of Yanchuan and Huining, Ma Hongkui's troops in the direction of Lanzhou directly felt the huge pressure on the southern front, and were forced to shrink their troops, unable to support the Ma's army in Ningxia.

And the Ningxia front, which is the focus of this battle.A total of five legions, more than [-]% of the main force of the Red Army gathered here, pushing towards Yinchuan from the east and the south.There is no trick, just relying on the large number of soldiers, and pushing to Yinchuan with overwhelming momentum.

When Huang Ke came to Xi'an, the main force of the Red Army had reached a distance of less than [-] kilometers from Yinchuan.Various strategic points around Yinchuan have been pulled out by the Red Army in the previous battles.

In today's Yinchuan City, there are only 35 regular defenders in the city, plus a cavalry brigade, with a total strength of no more than 4000.In addition, there are as many as [-] "civilians" mobilized urgently.Because of its special organizational structure, the Majia Army in the Northwest has very strong emergency mobilization capabilities in times of war. It is "very common" to draw one out of three and two out of five. In the most extreme cases, it even reached three out of five. Horror proportions.

Since the other two horses were held back by the Red Army on the Gannan front, Ma Hongbin is now doing his best to survive.Sanma, who was in a hurry, also frantically asked Chang Kaishen for help recently.Although Chang Kaishen at this time really wanted to help the three horses, but because he had almost no soldiers in the northwest, he was unwilling to send the main force into Tongguan to fight in person at this time, and he only wanted to eat meat and not gnaw bones. For him, he can only play tricks and tricks.

Zhang Xuesi scoffed:

"Do you know? Just a few days ago, that bald man actually conveyed to my brother his intention to negotiate with the Red Army and stop the civil war. He asked my brother to act as an intermediary to convey to Chairman Li."

"Hanqing won't believe it again, will he?"

"Humph......."

Zhang Xuesi snorted forcefully through his nostrils.

"He wants to negotiate a truce, give Sanma time to breathe, and give himself time to digest Hunan."

Huang Ke asked:

"How did the chairman reply?"

"He asked him to first publicly announce an active truce, and then release the Communist Party members and Red Army prisoners of war throughout the country to show his sincerity."

"Hahaha......"

Zhang Xuesi said disdainfully: "Doing great things but sacrificing his life, he still can't get rid of his true nature of Shanghai Bund's green-skinned hooligans."

"We have too many factions in the Northeast Army. Except for the three armies of Uncle Yu (Yu Xuezhong), Wang Yizhe, and He Zhuguo who are most loyal to my brother, the remaining two armies..."

Zhang Xuesi frowned and shook his head vigorously.

Huang Ke said: "No wonder he has done nothing in Hunan recently. It turned out that all the money was used to bribe the Northeast Army. He is still dreaming about driving the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army to fight the Red Army as the king's predecessor!"

Huang Ke could change his ways and use cooperation to provide mutually beneficial blood transfusions to the Northeast Army, but it was not allowed by the organizational relationship to directly spend money to buy the enemy generals like Chang Kaishen did.

"Chang Kaishen's money is not that easy to get. To make a deal with him, it's a tiger's skin."

The two talked about the current situation in the car, and Huang Ke clearly felt that Zhang Xuesi was very desperate for the current situation of the Northeast Army.

In fact, Zhang Xueliang is also very clear about the current situation of the Northeast Army.Over the years, he has read a lot of Marxist-Leninist works, and has dealt with many communist parties. Coupled with the subtle influence of the two communist parties around him (referring to Jie Fang and Zhang Xuesi), Zhang Xueliang is actually clearly aware of his own army. root of the problem.