Bismarck

"Almost all the factories and mines were destroyed, especially the coal mines that were set on fire. Although the mine management guaranteed that the fire in the mine could be extinguished by sealing the ventilation holes, it would take at least several years to restore production capacity... Their scorched earth policy plundered about 26.8 tons of grain, 28 cattle, 20.9 horses, 36.3 sheep and 1.8 pigs. In addition, 94.1 tons of grain were burned, 1.3 cattle were killed, 1.8 tractors were blown up, and 50.7 people were massacred. They also took pictures of the massacre in their newspapers and even said that I sent the Ministry of Internal Affairs to kill them... Damn fascists, they are so evil! Shameless and vulgar!"

Unable to hold back his anger, Stalin slammed his fist on the table, even scaring the guards and secretary at the door. However, state governance and war command are of great importance, and problems cannot be solved by just being angry. In the end, Stalin ran to the toilet and flushed his face, then forced himself to calm down and began to think carefully about countermeasures.

"The people have suffered too much loss. Economic reconstruction must be done faster! I have to organize an urgent meeting of government departments to quickly draw up a new list (of economic recovery projects)..."

Stalin, who had managed to balance his anger with the responsibility of economic reconstruction and came up with some immature ideas, immediately turned his attention to the military.

Although the current situation in the Soviet Union cannot be said to be good, it has recovered a lot compared to a year ago!

Although, the difficulties are still very serious - especially, industrial capacity is very explosive, but rare metals are hard to find...

Because a large number of old mines with rich production capacity fell into the hands of the enemy, there was a shortage of mineral resources. Although the first batch of new mines were developed to fill some of the production capacity gaps, even bulk minerals such as coal and iron ore have exceeded the pre-war level. The oil industry has developed the second Baku (Volga-Ural-Tyumen oil field, which began to be developed during World War II and reached its peak after the war), and sufficient fuel supply is only a matter of time. However, there are still more rare metals and rare non-metallic minerals, and the production capacity is still insufficient to cover the expenditure.

However, these rare metals are all the core of certain key materials! Similarly, the Soviet Union is now very short of skilled labor, which has led to the delay in quality control of weapons production - many unnecessary losses on the battlefield are caused by these problems!

Not to mention, the training level of most Soviet officers is quite worrying, and their understanding and grasp of tactics are very rough! Sometimes these people even simply give themselves up! They insist on attacking head-on when they can obviously split the enemy; they insist on attacking on the front when they can obviously outflank the enemy from both wings! Not only did they disperse their forces, but they also caused additional losses and a lack of follow-up to the attack. Even because of the dispersed forces, they could not encircle and annihilate the main German forces, so these sacrificed soldiers can be said to have sacrificed in vain!

On average, two-thirds of the troops were scattered in unimportant areas, instead of concentrating to attack the Germans from behind! This style of play is exactly the same as the routine used by "Far East comrades" to mock a bald man who is cruel at home but incapable of forbearance abroad!

Although he has not been directly engaged in military work for many years, he was once the leader of the "Charizin Horse Bandits Group". After seeing the investigation report on the casualty ratio, how could he still not understand what was going on?

Not to mention, Stalin knew clearly in his heart: Even though they had a common enemy, Britain and the United States were eyeing him covetously!

In order to cope with this situation, and taking into account the need to accumulate as much vitality as possible for the country to prepare for a rainy day, Stalin intensified his orders to rectify industrial production and military order, and repeatedly issued orders to safeguard the country's fundamental foundation.

For example, controlling the quantity of weapons production to prevent it from "overheating" and reducing the demand for rare metals; finding a way out for disabled officers and soldiers by sending them to universities for university education and engineer training; forcibly recalling grassroots personnel who used to work as workers or technicians in factories and have certain production experience, and letting them train newly recruited workers to improve the quality of industrial production; encouraging scientific and technological innovation and integrating it with reality... and the list goes on.

Then, in order to make up for the impact of the reduction in front-line personnel, they repeatedly requested that, under the premise of ensuring the completion of the combat plan, a more efficient combat method be adopted to reduce unnecessary waste of manpower, strictly control unnecessary casualties, and improve the quality of troop training and tactical literacy - from the general representative of the headquarters at the theater level to the grassroots officers at the company and platoon level, whoever dared to risk the lives of the soldiers and "be stubborn" in front of the German positions, the political commissar would immediately bring the supervision team to "use a pistol to first test whether the commander's head is iron-hearted"!

Relying on such policies and the adjustment of industrial capacity structure, the scale of Soviet military expansion was smaller than before, but the operational efficiency of the whole country was improved. In addition, the casualty rate was controlled, and the loss of troops was greatly reduced - this was equivalent to "liberating" a part of the population in disguise, which could be used as industrial and agricultural labor and military expansion manpower reserve. After nearly a year of this, the Soviet Union's industrial growth indicators and product quality actually improved to a certain extent.

Moreover, in addition to the Soviet Union’s own bloody battles and hard work, there is another “extra” good news…

"The 'comrades' in the Far East have gradually begun to control the war situation over there, so we will be more confident in holding on! As for the Germans? Although they are so brutal now, the country's resource acquisition has almost reached its limit. At most, Spain will sell them a few hundred tons of tungsten sand, and Britain and the United States are watching! Then in terms of weapon advantages... We are almost ready for the VDR3 jet engine, and Britain and the United States are probably ahead of us? We have already found a way to deal with anti-aircraft missiles. British and American technology is much stronger than ours. I guess they are slacking off now, hoping that we and the fascist bandits will suffer losses, so that they can pick up the spoils - but in another two years, the comrades in the Far East should be able to control the situation. By then, it is not certain who will be the one to deal with whom!"

Thinking about the strategic situation, Tienan felt that he was invincible in his prediction of the future. Even his big beard, which was originally tilted downward, was tilted upward in a Turkish way.

However, even if the strategic judgment is correct, it will be a year or two later. However, the current battlefield situation made Stalin's face fall immediately...

Looking at the report submitted by Zhukov in the Southwestern Theater that "the battle on the Dnieper River was hindered by the Yellow River flooding area", and the similar report submitted by Vasilevsky in the Central Line that "the German invaders relied on the terrain of forests and hills, fought and retreated in an organized manner, and the battle was not progressing smoothly", Stalin looked left and right, and always wondered if the Germans were playing a defensive counterattack against him - just like the third Kharkov battle half a year ago.

"The German devils have deployed more than a dozen engineering divisions here, which is enough to ensure the tank troops' assault even though this is the Yellow River flood area! And there is also a defense line, not to mention that there are jet aircraft in the airport behind the defense line... So, how will they fight?"

The Soviet Union now needs to accumulate more industry in order to launch a more fierce counterattack next year or the year after! However, although Tienan is not afraid of the German counterattack, he does not think he has the confidence to ignore the possible losses.

Looking at the muddy east bank of the Dnieper River on the map, Stalin, with his chin twisted, fell into deep thought.

……………………Highlights: A small drama about the adjustment process of Soviet military industry and combat concepts………………

As the Atlantic shipping continued to be attacked by German submarines, Britain and the United States, still worried about shipping safety, simply stopped the Arctic Ocean route that was "suspected of aiding the enemy." In order to solve the logistics and industrial production problems, the Soviet Union, which could not get enough cars and some rare metals, made a major adjustment to wartime production at the end of 42, decided by Stalin himself.

The most important adjustment direction is to reduce the production of tanks, while mass-producing the wind hoods used by tanks - double-layer armor-piercing shells. The saved vehicle production capacity is used for the production of half-track trucks and tractors.

The Soviet Union lacked rubber and could not get any foreign supplies. Half-track vehicles, which only required the rear wheels of trucks to be replaced with tracks, saved rubber resources, adapted to the Soviet Union's bad land, and had a stronger carrying capacity than the original tires, so they were naturally very popular. In addition, the Soviet Union's truck industry was partially restored by dispersing that part of the resources, which had low overall efficiency, and adjusting the factories that manufactured light tanks. Although there was still a gap from the peak period of 18.5 trucks produced annually during the Second Five-Year Plan, vehicles were produced in the first eight months, and the annual production capacity was expected to reach vehicles, which still made the Soviet Union very happy.

(The Soviet Union's annual truck production from 1937 to 1939 was over 18 - source: Palgrave's World Historical Statistics)

The reduction in tank production capacity was definitely not acceptable to the Soviet military, which was used to the "bringing steel helmets and sending them out" model. Even I, Znesensky, the head of the State Planning Commission, who was born in the Soviet Union, found this approach unacceptable. However, there was a considerable gap in the supply of rare metals. The mines were either occupied by Germany, or had just recovered the land and had not yet restored production capacity, or the Soviet Union itself lacked them and could not import them for the time being... In the end, the military and industry, which did not come up with a solution, could only accept it with a pinch of their noses.

Although behind their admission of defeat, they also kept in mind Marshal Grigory Kulik, the Minister of General Logistics and People's Commissar of Ammunition Production, "that Stalin crony who interfered everywhere in industry, a vulgar and uneducated soldier and cannon", and they even recorded the deep hatred in a small notebook - their German counterparts across from them also now hated Lütjens and Dr. Strange Cat's research team, and it was a coincidence that the positions of the Soviet and German officer corps on this point were basically completely consistent.

God knows if both sides have some kind of stance that determines IQ, or to put it bluntly, the butt determines the brain…

But Kulik has no time to care about the moral integrity of these guys. He is now immersed in military production. He is so busy improving the quality and attack power of weapons and equipment that he has no time to "meddle in other people's business"!

“100mm低阻风帽加双层硬被帽的次口径穿甲弹库宾卡最终测评报告？千米垂直穿深230-240毫米，60度110毫米左右？以现在我国的技术和生产环境只能做到这个地步么？”

Looking at the ammunition test report in his hand, smacking his lips and wiping his mustache, Marshal Kulik scratched his shiny bald head and thought for a long time with a grin, but he still felt that he was not satisfied.

德国E50“重型坦克”的正面装甲是120毫米/60度，新型炮弹的穿深还是有些不保险——虽然相比原先那个千米垂直穿深只有185毫米的破烂好上不少，可是也要到八百米才能击穿E-50。而E-50的105主炮使用钨心脱壳穿甲弹的话，却是可以在一千七百米以上直接炮毙掉自己这边的T-54坦克的！

However, the Soviet Union now lacked tungsten and could not mass-produce better artillery shells than this.

Although the Soviet Union's tungsten production increased significantly from 40 tons in 550 by developing mines in Siberia and the Ural Mountains, and more than 1943 tons were produced in the first eight months (historically, the Soviet Union refined tungsten 1030 tons in ), the fascists on the other side could import from Spain, and even discovered an open-pit tungsten mine on the German-Austrian border, which means that the annual refined tungsten that can be controlled has reached more than tons - if Spain increases its exports to Germany, it will be tons! There is no comparison at all!

Moreover, since Germany has no shortage of tungsten, powerful jet fighters have already been put into service in large quantities! In order to counter the German devils' jets, most of these precious refined tungsten will be supplied to the Lyulka Design Bureau for the development and production of jet engines. Otherwise, no matter how many tanks there are, they will just be a pile of scrap metal under the wings of the aircraft!

If it weren't for this reason, this new type of armor-piercing bullet would not have to use only a small amount of tungsten as the second layer of the cap, forcing the "steel rod" of the bullet core to push inward against this thing that is more like a chisel point than a cap.

As a veteran artilleryman who was famous during the Battle of Charitsyn and an expert in artillery shells, Kulik could certainly estimate that if enough tungsten could be used, the penetration of the main gun of the T-54 tank could completely match the E-50 on the opposite side! However, after the war, a large number of well-built and productive mines were occupied by the German fascists. Although many of those smelters were evacuated, they could only wait for the new mines in Siberia to deliver goods on schedule.

Tungsten sand mines are good - at least in 1932, when the Soviet Union organized a large-scale geological survey here, it discovered more than 80 tons of new resource reserves. But other scarce metals, such as copper and bauxite, are still not enough compared to the resources in the lost territory. Take copper for example. The outbreak of the war caused % of the copper mines to fall into the hands of the enemy. Even if a batch of new mines are excavated now, according to the original production model, the gap in copper mines exceeds one-third!

"So now we can only save resources as much as possible, and we have to take the battle slowly..." Thinking of Ustinov and Vannikov who were shot by Stalin because of the quality of their artillery shells, and looking at the artillery shells that can only have this little penetration even if they are improved to the limit due to resource limitations, he could only helplessly pick up the phone and call Stalin to report.

"...So, Gregory, the main problem now is that there is not enough raw materials, so there is nothing you can do?"

"Yes, Comrade Stalin, I am ashamed to say that this is all we can do at the moment, even if the soldiers scold me..."

"Forget it, it's not your fault. At least it's improved by 50%, and can penetrate the E-7 within meters..." The man on the other side of the microphone smiled bitterly and shook his head: "So you should use this shell. Anyway, the main thing now is to accumulate strength. When Kotin's heavy tank (IS-) and Lyulka's jet are released next year, we can go for a decisive battle with the fascists."

"I understand. I will continue to urge the military industry to use their resources more plannedly."

"Okay, that's it, I'll hang up if nothing else."

After hanging up the phone, Stalin's face, which had been smiling bitterly, suddenly turned cold: "Kurik did his best, but some guys went a little too far. Do you really think I don't know that there are always some guys who say weird things in those universities that have been transferred out. They say that in order to get the United States to resume aid to our country, we must agree to the United States' demands to completely control our economy? They also say that the United States has a developed economy and a strong industry, and we would rather go into debt than connect with them, which is beneficial to economic development... Humph! These guys are praising these little gifts, aren't they just betraying their own country and selling out their country for personal gain!"

With an angry snort, Stalin stood up, grabbed his pipe and walked to the window. With a cold look across the Kremlin wall, he glanced at the direction of the Soviet State Planning Commission building across the street. Then he stood there, absorbed in thinking about something, until the tobacco in the pipe burned out and he could no longer smell the smoke, and then he came back to his senses. He looked at the burned tobacco in the pipe in his hand, pondered for a while, and began to mutter to himself in a voice that only he could hear:

"Hitler is indeed a mad dog, and he has caused us great losses, but we must never release a tiger into our home just to deal with this mad dog!"

After glancing at the Planning Commission building, Stalin put down his pipe and sat back at his desk. However, in his heart, he had already made his own judgments and decisions about some things and the people who were behind these things.

Chapter 896: News from Hometown

The vast plain on the east bank of the Dnieper River, which was once a vast fertile land with beautiful scenery, is now a mess of mud and water and a dilapidated yellow flood area.

The cool breeze of early autumn gently blew across the devastated land. After the magnificent clouds blocked the heat of late summer, even the most annoying and disease-spreading mosquitoes on the prairie were now less active than before.

Although there is still an obvious pungent smell of disinfectant and bleach in the air, everyone has long been accustomed to it.

As the saying goes, after a great disaster comes a great plague. The fascist bandits killed and burned people here, causing rivers of blood to flow, and they also broke dikes everywhere to release water. It is not even known whether the wells were poisoned or even insects carried plague. After all, in the Soviet people's impression, the German devils were evil and did all kinds of evil.

Sending out chemical defense troops, medical teams, well-drilling crews, etc. as soon as possible is not only a precaution, but also a way to resolve health risks when the troops set up camp and residents rebuild their homes - although it sounds sensational, it is better to be safe than sorry.

The ruins of the town had been turned into barracks, garages and temporary repair workshops by burglar-proof nets and rainproof cloths. The intermittent rumbles of artillery and gunshots in the distance provided a harsh accompaniment to the bleak scenery and sad clouds. The smoke columns that blackened the clouds, the new graves among the weeds, the depressing atmosphere before the war, and the Germans who were committing all kinds of evil on the other side of the river all made people feel an irrepressible restlessness called revenge, and even an irresistible urge to report to the newspaper.

The hatred for the common enemy has reached such a level that it will not be over until one of them is completely defeated.

Moreover, the Soviet Union seemed to have more reason to hate Germany - you live your wealthy life, we live our poor life, isn't it good if we don't interfere with each other?

Why do you, who are so advanced, come to us, and commit so many evil deeds and are so vicious? Is it because of your little mustache's "great empire cause two years ago" that you have to come and step on us, to show that you Aryans are born to be a superior race and can be superior to others everywhere? !

For Yang Yongfu, his hatred was even heavier, because for him, it was a double hatred of the country and family!

"I don't know how things are going at home now... Hehe, the German devils are like this, and I'm afraid the Japanese devils, who are the same, won't be much better, right?"

He gently put down the "Soldier's Tabloid" in his hand, carefully flattened the newspaper that was about to be torn, then folded it neatly, and finally carefully put this rough mimeographed paper with worn edges in the innermost part of his officer's bag - this small old newspaper was the last time he saw news about his motherland in the newspaper in two months.

After putting away his treasured tabloids and hanging the shoulder strap of his satchel, Yongfu stood up and looked at the devastation and sadness outside.

Although the breeze was cool, the faint smell of gunpowder and the fishy odor of mud and water, the slightly low clouds and the sunlight leaking through the gaps seemed a bit strange among the ruins, giving people a very depressing feeling.

After scratching the bitten spots on his body and slapping a large poisonous mosquito to death, Yang Yongfu put on his military cap with some annoyance, picked up the submachine guns that the tank soldiers kept at all times "just in case", tightened his belt and walked out of the company headquarters with a stern face, intending to walk around the garrison to relax.

The town was not small, just enough to accommodate Yang Yongfu's troops - 64 tanks of the 3st Guards Tank Brigade, four BA- armored reconnaissance vehicles, and seven ZIS- cannons that could be used both as anti-tank and field artillery - this number was only about % of the establishment, but there was no way, with the quagmire and mines everywhere, it was already good enough that so many tanks survived.

Even though the Guards Tank Brigade is an elite force, the engineers in its organization only consist of a reinforced platoon of less than 50 people.

Although, this is much better than the 49th Tank Brigade, which is under the command of the th Guards Mechanized Army, a superior unit, and is located next to their village - their engineering platoon now has only soldiers left, and they can't even complete the establishment, let alone strengthen it.

Pioneer Yang Yongfu walked out of the room and began to wander around the designated defense area. He looked at the eight tanks in the garage and sighed.

However, his gloomy mood was soon stopped by his old comrade and best friend Shura.

"Sergei, Sergei! The postman just came. I bought you the new issue of Warrior's Tabloid! There's a special issue on the Far East!"

Shura, who had been gloomy since his sister's death, ran rather wildly in this gloomy weather. Holding a newspaper in one hand and a gun in the other, he ran towards him while shouting. The officer's bag was jumping up and down, and it was not possible to tell that he was a tank platoon leader with 18 tanks, who was smart, brave, and had a promising attack valley on the battlefield.

But, he just said that the new issue of Warrior's Tabloid has a special edition on the Far East? Well - I can't let it go!

"Sergey... Huhu, I know you care about your hometown, so I bought you an extra book..." Seeing Shura running over, before he could stand firm and take a breath, Yang Yongfu snatched the greasy booklet from Shura's hand with the posture of a bandit.

"Thanks, comrade. Let me see what's good first!"

"Hey, hey, hey? Sergey, you are robbing me!"

Ignoring his best friend's protest, Yang Yongfu took the booklet he had just grabbed and took a quick look at it - Hmm? A special edition on Far Eastern issues? The third reliable friend of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics besides the army and navy? !

(PS: Russian proverb: Russia has only two friends: the army and the navy)

Looking at the "Friends in the Far East" printed on the freshly printed warrior tabloid, Yang Yongfu was so excited that he didn't care about the dirty and greasy oil paper. He simply pulled Shura to squat in a corner of the wall that could hide their bodies, and began to read it attentively.

Well, the tabloids are good this time! They only report good news!

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On the horizon in the far east, the bright sun has already revealed its vivid dawn light.

The back-and-forth tug-of-war in the Pacific Ocean is, as usual, unfolding around several major shipping routes in the Melanesian island chain.

Whether it was the evenly matched F6F Hellcat and A7M Gale carrier battle, or the well-matched US aircraft carrier task force and the Combined Fleet aircraft carrier mobile force, the battle was fierce on this island chain shipping line.

It is not even known why, but even the extremely powerful strike force directly under the US aircraft carrier task force - the aircraft carrier assault formation composed of CV-3 Saratoga, CV-6 Enterprise, and CV-9 Essex - finds it difficult to gain any advantage when encountering "certain opponents."

However, as the motherland of Major General Mahan, the author of "The Influence of Sea Power", Americans are not in a hurry at all. After all, the ultimate meaning of the theory of sea power is not to pursue the strength of the main fleet alone, but to first seize sea control (by relying on the main fleet), then defend our sea control (by the light fleet), and at the same time (by relying on submarines) curb the enemy's sea control, and finally gain an advantageous position in maritime shipping. Ultimately, from the perspective of economic development and economic warfare, strangle the opponent who cannot guarantee shipping and resources.

The Japanese Combined Fleet is indeed very powerful. The Japanese aircraft carrier brigade, which has spent all its resources to build aircraft carriers, will not be at a disadvantage even if it confronts the main force of the US Navy under the cover of island airports.

But apart from this, Japan's once notorious destroyers are now beginning to fall into the predicament of decline.

Since a large amount of high-quality steel was used to build aircraft carriers, the construction of destroyers has been seriously affected. Fleet destroyers now use a large amount of low-strength civilian steel for their steel plates. In order to make up for the problem of substandard civilian steel strength, the Japanese shipbuilding industry can only cover up the problem by increasing the thickness of the steel plates.

However, increasing the thickness of the steel plate will definitely increase the tonnage of the ship, and being overweight will also lead to a decrease in speed - now the maximum speed of the Japanese mine warfare team has dropped from thirty-six knots to thirty-four knots!

The only consolation was that although this speed was far from enough for the destroyer to seize the torpedo launch position as quickly as before, it was still not a big problem when sailing in formation and in air defense formation. The information on acoustic homing torpedoes obtained from Germany and the physical samples sent by Dönitz's submarines also made up for the disadvantage of the position with the advantage of hit rate.

After all, the attack efficiency of the oxygen torpedo-sound-guided torpedo combo is really a bit cheating.

Especially for the enemy fleet that must maintain high speed in battlefield maneuvers, even towing a jammer is not very useful - especially in order to ensure safety, the towing body of the hydroacoustic jammer must be 400 to 1,000 meters away from the hull. However, this safety distance requirement directly put the friendly forces following behind in an awkward situation where they could not maintain a tight formation - the reason is that at a speed of 30 knots, the next minute is more than 900 meters. Therefore, the consequence of "keeping distance between vehicles" is that the formation cannot be maintained at all!

However, without formation, tactical coordination would be basically impossible.

If you want to ensure the tactics, you must form a tactical formation, but when forming a formation, the water sound bait is basically just a decoration...

This question is no longer shameless, it is simply unsolvable!

Especially in several naval battles, the Japanese were even more shameless. They had the best torpedo training and torpedo equipment in the world, but they actually let the Kongo-class battlecruiser, which was suspected to have evil spirits, lead a bunch of cruisers to mingle with the group of elementary school students and act cute maliciously!

It is said that several night battles between US destroyers and Japanese were like this - they encountered King Kong and were abused unilaterally.

However, a tactical victory on the battlefield alone could not cover up or improve Japan's gradual decline in resources!

The first is the sequelae of high-quality steel being diverted to build aircraft carriers - if even destroyers can only be built with low-quality steel, then what about other ships?

Apart from other things, those "Class C/D destroyers" used for anti-submarine warfare have already been reduced to the point of using wood! Speaking of which, this is exactly the same as the practice of converting trawlers into "escort destroyers" when the UK was in the most difficult time two years ago!

However, even if the escort ships could be made up of wooden ships, the destroyer battle, which should have been extremely brutal, had a relatively good loss rate due to the support of King Kong. But no matter what, Japan's biggest problem - the absolute disadvantage of manpower, industry and resources - could not be solved!

No matter how much Japan wins on the island chain, as long as Fletcher is not stupid enough to send the US task force directly to the ports of Rabaul and Truk, it will be the most brutal war of attrition for Japan - and it will be an unsolvable one!

Although the equipment performance and combat effectiveness of the US submarine force were far inferior to those of its German counterparts in the Atlantic, it was still no problem for them to deal with Japan's crudely built escort destroyers and the newly recruited soldiers with questionable training. The poor escort fleet, along with the transport ships they were supposed to protect, were devoured one after another by the sharp teeth of the little sharks, leaving nothing behind.

Although the Japanese military racked their brains to come up with every possible solution, the shipbuilding industry, as a labor-intensive industry, was now relying on child laborers as young as fourteen or even twelve years old and women who traditionally could only stay at home to work in the factories, when skilled workers and young and middle-aged men had already been conscripted via conscription postcards - not to mention whether the children and women's physical fitness could keep up, just the lack of education and cultural level of the lower classes in Japan, to put it bluntly, they could barely understand even the engineering drawings!

Even if there were a few smart teenagers who could understand the general idea of ​​the blueprints after working for a while, they would soon be noticed by the cash-strapped military due to their physical development, and would be taken directly from the workshop to the training camp and sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

Then Japan's manpower shortage has really become tighter and tighter since then...

Japan's other "lifeline", the "Continental Transportation Railway Line", which took Japan three or four months to open up after the United States first declared war on Germany in 41, and then relied on a large number of conscripted civilians and prisoners of war to build it, was also flying one after another amid the sound of firecrackers everywhere.

When the mainland transportation line was just opened, the rabbits, who were originally restricted to the North China Plain due to political factors and were swept by the Japanese devils, saw a great opportunity. Under the brainwave of Yang Xfu's father, one unit after another quickly broke through the encirclement and went south to liberate the people who fell under the iron hoof of the Japanese army.

The Japanese high-ranking officers, who knew that the Rabbit was the biggest enemy of the mainland policy, did not dare to be negligent at all. They immediately sent a large number of main forces to chase and kill the Rabbit troops that were breaking through and heading south.

However, Japan is a greedy snake that wants to swallow an elephant. Under the premise that human resources are already extremely tight, it was already quite difficult to suppress the rabbits in the North China Plain. Now that a large number of pursuit troops have been withdrawn, the situation in North China can no longer be suppressed! Even if some more troops are urgently drawn from the already quite empty Northeast region and the mainland, it is completely insufficient to fill the big black hole of "the situation is completely out of control"!

Taking advantage of the favorable opportunity that Japan was tightening its belt and frantically spending money to build a navy, which resulted in the depletion of both human resources and the rabbits heading south, they quickly opened up a new situation. In addition, the bald man who had originally "confronted head-on" had been defeated repeatedly and was corrupt and incompetent, and had already lost the support of the people. In just two years, the rabbits not only revived their original "hometown", but also won widespread support.

Moreover, through their own efforts, they also developed a simple ammunition production line, which completely solved the problem of weapons and ammunition that had plagued them for many years - it is even said that someone even developed a homemade mountain cannon!

Although from the perspective of some "orthodox industrial experts", this door, which is said to be made from the iron pillars in the temple, is not formal at all, and can even be said to be shoddy - but the problem is that this thing is quite useful! It can't bully the Japanese artillery, but if it bullies the stronghold artillery tower, it's like opening an eye in your head, it can open an eye for you!

On the tabloid in Yang Yongfu's hand, there was a blurry but still recognizable outline of a homemade cannon, and a few rabbits wearing homespun clothes with innocent smiles on their faces, taking a group photo in front of the ruins of a Japanese bunker that was still emitting smoke.

Looking at the blurry photo, whose features could not be clearly seen but whose simple and happy smile was obvious, Yang Yongfu could not help but wipe away his moist eyes. Although he was only 21 years old, he had experienced many disasters and seen many mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Through the dirty and greasy mimeographed newspaper, he saw the true future and hope of the flower-growing family.