UGB #122 - Intensify the counterattack
#122 - Intensify the counterattack
The establishment of the Military Industry Special Branch wasn't marked by the sound of lively reading in a classroom. On the first day, they were pulled into the field to begin a process of learning through doing.
In this era, there was no such thing as following a set routine. After receiving a manual, everything was learned on-site.
Ren Zhong, on the other hand, led the students of the Chemical Engineering Class back to Heyuan.
These were all veterans who had fought battles in the base area. What surprised Ren Zhong was that most of them came from the Dare-to-Die First Column and were at least junior high school graduates, with some having even completed high school.
In this era, that was already considered rare.
The Chemical Engineering Class wasn't afraid of having to cross several lines of Japanese blockade to reach Heyuan. Ren Zhong requested from the Independent Regiment a batch of newly produced Type 56 semi-automatic rifles for these 29 students, followed by 28 Hanyang rifles and a grenade launcher, giving them combat power not much weaker than a platoon of the main force.
Moreover, Ren Zhong wasn't one to stir up trouble, and he detoured around Japanese strongholds, so they returned to Heyuan without any major incidents along the way.
Along the way, Ren Zhong provided them with complete small-scale documentation on sulfuric acid production, propellant, and explosives manufacturing, answering questions as they went. By the time they reached Heyuan three days later, those with good comprehension had basically grasped the basics. If given the opportunity, they could all reproduce Ren Zhong's provided tank tower method sulfuric acid production line by following the example.
In this way, Ren Zhong had a group of new 'tools' at his disposal. It was rare to get a group of literate intellectuals with no problems with literacy. Ren Zhong didn't limit this Chemical Engineering Class to the field of chemical engineering but divided them into three groups, preparing to have them rotate through chemical engineering, metallurgy, and mechanical processing.
Now that Li Yunlong, a workaholic who supervised day and night, wasn't on-site in Heyuan, the progress of the project was somewhat unsatisfactory to Ren Zhong, who was used to a fast pace.
Zhang Dabiao now had two major tasks: integrating forces to form and build the combat power of the First Guerrilla Brigade, and reclaiming land for growing grain. Ren Zhong couldn't let him be distracted, so Ren Zhong was in charge of the engineering aspect. Of course, Ren Zhong didn't stay on-site day and night himself, but found two local scholars in Heyuan who were somewhat literate to act as assistants, and the two took turns supervising the construction according to Ren Zhong's booklet.
However, they weren't familiar with Ren Zhong's things, and Ren Zhong needed to confirm whether many tasks had reached the target after completion.
In the few days that Ren Zhong was away, although the project didn't stop, the progress was even more unsatisfactory than when Ren Zhong was there.
Ren Zhong didn't say anything. After bringing the new 'tools', he quickly confirmed the division of labor for each person, letting them each be responsible for a specific construction project. These students had Ren Zhong's initial guidance, and their understanding of the booklet was more thorough than the two scholars, so the progress suddenly began to advance by leaps and bounds.
Two earthen blast furnaces, an open-hearth furnace, and a reverberatory furnace were all being completed at a visible pace.
The two earthen kilns were completed first, firing refractory bricks and crucibles needed for steelmaking. After using a large number of steel components this time, the shape and size of the crucibles had undergone major changes. Hu Rentao's side, according to the new requirements and conditions put forward by Ren Zhong, had steel frames supporting the earthen blast furnace, and the capacity inside the furnace was doubled, so the daily output would theoretically increase by nearly 80% compared to Blast Furnace No. 1 and Blast Furnace No. 2.
On the other side, the mining team, following Ren Zhong's instructions, had found coal mines, iron mines, and copper mines, and also found a small limestone mine.
Basically, the supporting upstream for smelting was also settled in Heyuan.
However, this time Ren Zhong was preparing for long-term development. For the development of these mines, Ren Zhong adopted a distributed approach, separating the miners from the transporters, and setting up ore transfer and rough processing workshops 2 miles away from the mines. The miners were all core activists developed from the fortress villages.
However, the rough processing workshops all hired local ordinary people, paying one to two catties of grain as wages according to the results of their daily work. Although this wage was relatively low compared to the county towns outside, it was already an attractive good job in the mountain villages.
Therefore, although Ren Zhong had many construction sites, there were also many people who could be mobilized, but it was a bit expensive. The price of grain in Heyuan this year was still relatively stable, lower than that of the base area headquarters. One silver dollar could buy 20 catties, and Ren Zhong had hired thousands of workers, so more than one hundred silver dollars of wages had to be paid out every day.
After Ren Zhong achieved financial freedom in the main world, he didn't care about this muddled account at all. He received more than 200 works by masters of this era, both old and new, and there was no need to sell them for the time being.
It was that Ms. Ma Shuya who had tasted the sweetness from the last transaction and made tens of millions by reselling it. She had called Ren Zhong several times to ask if there were any new paintings to be sold.
She seemed to be convinced that Ren Zhong had a channel to obtain famous paintings, and had been watching Ren Zhong's movements, hoping to eat up the first-hand source.
After all, there are more people playing with art now, and there are even more people who want to use art to achieve certain goals. What they like most are products that have not appeared on the auction market. In this case, they have fewer obstacles in the process of accepting realization.
Ma Shuya should have mastered such a channel, and there is a great demand for high-end works of art by famous artists, especially the top ten famous artists.
Ren Zhong didn't know these situations. He was too lazy to pay attention only because he didn't lack money recently. At the same time, he had worked too hard in the Bright Sword world. After returning to the main world, Ren Zhong mainly focused on recuperation. He was too lazy to look at the companies developed by several brothers, just letting them send things to the designated warehouse, and Ren Zhong would take the things away on schedule.
Now Ren Zhong has opened up several bases in the main world. In Rong City, there are lead-acid batteries, machining production machine tools and generator key components, traditional electron tube radio cloning, and a simulation Type 56 semi-automatic and MG3 model processing factory set up in Hong Kong.
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Plus seamless steel pipe procurement and copper plate procurement transfer small courtyard warehouse.
Ren Zhong has more than three burrows.
But these are not enough. After Ren Zhong personally experienced the Dabeigou massacre in the Bright Sword world, the importance of RPGs has been raised again. He began to plan for the base area to add more RPGs faster. For some new parts involved in RPGs, it is impossible to solve them in the Bright Sword world in the short term, and it is also impossible to solve them in the mainland. Ren Zhong decided to buy, buy, buy!
These things are common goods in Dala Town. As long as the price is right, there is nothing you can't buy. So Ren Zhong quickly flew to Pakistan alone and found Sayyid again. This time, he bought 100 sets of RPG's pile of non-replicable parts separately at a price of 200 US dollars. He didn't want pipes or shells. This business stunned Sayyid, because these things cost less. He once again praised his long-term fishing method and provided Ren Zhong with a batch of original parts purchased from the big beard next door.
Since these things are not heavy, Ren Zhong packed them overnight and brought them back to Yangcun. He stayed in a small hotel in Dala Town for a day and left quietly. Now it takes less than 5 hours to fly directly from Jincheng to Islamabad. It is all expressway from Islamabad to Peshawar, less than 200 kilometers, 2 hours away. If you are tight, Ren Zhong can make a round trip in three days!
In this way, when the counterattack begins at the end of August, the main regiment will have another more flexible weapon for attacking fortifications. Coupled with the cheap Flying Thunder Cannon, presumably more Japanese strongholds will suffer a devastating disaster.
Only in this way can Ren Zhong's regret be slightly eliminated!
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