These materials represent 45% of almost all material transactions in the partial agreement that Yang Zhen has reached with the United States, except for the transfer of automobile production lines and steel plants. [., However, the U.S. representatives have agreed that they will be
In the remaining months, other materials that have been agreed upon will be given priority as soon as possible.
According to Yang Zhen's request, the Americans agreed to provide a total of 2,000 metal cutting machine tools, stamping equipment, 500 high-horsepower tractors and combine harvesters within five months. Thirty medical X-ray machines, high magnification
Five hundred microscopes, twelve high-horsepower steam locomotives, and five thousand tons of RDX explosives.
And try our best to complete the twenty 4,700-kilowatt coal-fired generator sets, ten 10,000-kilowatt coal-fired generator sets, and two 50,000-kilowatt thermal power generator sets that Yang Zhen urgently needs to expand military production in the shortest possible time.
.And complete the transfer and transportation of the automobile production line.
As for the remaining 3,000 trucks in the initial partial agreement, the supply will also be completed within five months. Compared with the goodwill released by the US representatives, Yang Zhen also agreed that penicillin will be provided to the US within five months.
All production technical data, including 50% of streptomycin production data. Within one year, the remaining data will be handed over to American personnel with the arrival of materials provided by the US.
Worried that the Americans would not be able to raise enough supplies within a month, Yang Zhen reduced the amount of the first batch of supplies. Originally he wanted 6,000 tons of smokeless gunpowder, 2,000 tons of copper shells, and 40,000 tons of tnt.
Explosives and fifty high-power searchlights. However, due to the tight schedule, the material ration was cut in half. Only 5,000 cars were needed, and the remaining parts should be completed within five months.
In fact, Yang Zhen's worries are completely unnecessary. Orders for smokeless gunpowder, copper cartridge cases, high-power searchlights, and strategic metals may not be completed within a month. But for other parts, the Americans have stocks now. Especially cars.
Yang Zhen said, let alone 8,000 cars, 10,000 cars would be available immediately from the Americans.
The impact of the economic crisis on Americans has not yet completely passed. Coupled with the impact of the European war, Americans have lost most of their orders from Western European countries. Cars in various coastal ports and in the warehouses of major automobile companies
As well as tractors, it cannot be said that they are piled up like mountains, but they are definitely not a few.
In terms of equipment, before the defeat of the French and other Western European countries, in order to hurriedly expand military production capacity and make up for their own production shortcomings, they ordered a large number of machinery and equipment. After France surrendered and other countries surrendered, the US government immediately canceled these orders. And
Now that these products have been produced, except for some that have been accepted by the British, the rest are backlogged in warehouses in the United States, causing major companies to suffer and complain.
Except for some of the high-end equipment that Yang Zhen needs, such as generator sets and rare strategic metals, which do not have a lot of inventory, almost all the other materials are in stock.
When they actually started delivering goods again, they might be afraid of Yang Zhen's return, or they might be afraid of the Soviet Union's intervention. In fact, when the Americans actually transported the first batch of supplies, they excepted the supplies that were originally required to be provided within five months.
Except for the generator sets and strategic metals, all other supplies were shipped within the first month.
The Americans even gave away an additional two thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder and some TNT explosives in the first batch of supplies. The Studebaker Company, which relied on this order to come back to life, also sold an additional one thousand five-ton trucks in stock at half price.
To Yang Zhen. In addition, this car company, which was originally heavily in debt, also presented Yang Zhen with two special Studebaker luxury cars to express its gratitude.
Looking at the details in the list of the first batch of supplies promised by the United States to be delivered within a month, Yang Zhen couldn't help but feel sour in his heart. Three thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder and twenty thousand tons of TNT explosives are probably only what the Americans can produce in a week. And
However, these outputs are beyond the control of China at the moment, neither the Nationalist government nor itself.
Yang Zhen remembered that the United States produced more than 1.8 million tons of smokeless gunpowder, more than 2.7 million tons of TNT explosives, and more than 200,000 tons of RDX explosives throughout World War II. This is just for various types of ammunition.
As for the basic raw materials, other yellow explosives are actually no longer up to military explosive standards in the United States, and those that have already been converted to civilian use are not included.
The Americans used these basic raw materials to produce ammunition, not counting the hundreds of thousands of tons provided to the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, and the thousands of tons provided to the Nationalist Government. In just five years after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Americans produced 450 tons of ammunition.
One billion rounds of small arms ammunition and several billion rounds of artillery shells of various calibers. What is the concept of 45 billion rounds of ammunition?
Among this number, only light weapons ammunition is equivalent to more than 450 times the total ammunition produced by the Nationalist Government during the eight-year Anti-Japanese War. The total number of various types of ammunition is equivalent to the sum of all other participating countries. The reason why Americans have become the world's largest
The first army to replace all semi-automatic rifles, in the final analysis, is confident enough to be able to afford the high ammunition consumption of a large number of automatic weapons.
According to this overall figure, Americans rely on their strong industrial base to produce an average of nearly 400,000 tons of smokeless gunpowder per year. Three thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder, for Americans, may not even produce as much as a week.
It doesn't take much, it only takes a few days.
And these three thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder, based on its current production capacity, which has been expanded to the extreme, is almost equivalent to one and a half years of production. This is under the premise that Jiangbei can guarantee the supply of raw materials. If Jiangbei's raw materials appear,
Out of stock, all military production will be completely paralyzed. Not to mention smokeless gunpowder, even black powder will not be produced.
These raw materials, which are most crucial for the production of ammunition, are not only of unstable quality but produced by the National Government in Guanzhong. The output is extremely rare and most of them can only rely on imports. And he was deceived and used his extra supplies in Jiangbei.
With decades of experience, he has used almost every possible means to produce raw materials. He has hired more than a dozen senior technical workers from Jiangbei to serve as consultants with high salaries, and the output is less than 3,000 tons a year despite all efforts.
As the scale of battles becomes larger and larger, the size of the troops is also getting larger and larger, and the consumption in battles is getting larger and larger. Military production capacity has become the most fatal factor restricting the development and growth of the army. The shortage of military production capacity has become extremely serious.
This has greatly restricted the deployment of firepower on the battlefield. This battle has only been going on for more than two months. Nearly half of the artillery shells produced before the war and stored for nearly half a year have been consumed. Among them, almost two-thirds of the Japanese artillery shells have been consumed, and most of them have been consumed.
All Japanese-made artillery shells of various calibers have been consumed. Except for mortar shells, other artillery shells of various calibers would have been in short supply if Jiangbei had not shipped a batch of French artillery shells before the start of the battle.
All the rockets and aerial bombs originally stored in the reserve have been used up, and one-third of the explosives have been consumed. Although the arsenal is working overtime to produce, the current output can only barely maintain daily consumption. Although the reserve situation of light weapons and ammunition is slightly better
, but due to limitations in raw materials, the production situation is also not optimistic.
Under this situation, in order to solve the problem of raw materials urgently needed for military production, we can only reluctantly spend part of the funds to purchase some during negotiations to alleviate the urgent need before the construction of the synthetic ammonia plant is completed. Especially now, military production not only has to bear the burden
Under the circumstances that the Anti-Japanese Alliance itself uses a large part of it to support operations within the Pass, solving the source of military raw materials has become the most urgent matter.
Just the day before yesterday, the central government called. In order to counter some domestic rumors that the Eighteenth Army was loitering but not attacking, and to reduce the pressure on the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, the Eighteenth Army had decided to launch a large-scale raid throughout North China to destroy the enemy.
The Japanese army plundered North China's rich coal and iron resources for its own use, achieving its strategy of supporting war with war.
Due to the serious shortage of ammunition and equipment for the troops within the customs, they were unable to face the large and small watchtowers and fortifications of the Japanese army all over North China. The central government specially called to ask if the Northeast could provide a batch of ammunition for the North China troops, as well as some infantry guns and Japanese rapid-fire guns.
Attack equipment.
After receiving a call from the central government, Yang Zhen, after discussing with Li Yanping and Zhang Zhenhua, decided to provide one each of seventy-nine bullets and one sixty-five bullet from the ammunition reserves and the spoils of the first phase of the battle without affecting the use of the troops themselves.
Fifteen million rounds, five million rounds of bullets for the Japanese 77 heavy machine gun.
Since the 18th Army, especially the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, picked up a lot of French-made Hotchkiss heavy machine guns that were discarded by the 29th Army when they retreated. Yang Zhen also allocated an additional one million rounds to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.
Eight millimeter bullets.
In addition, 10,000 Type 38 rifles were drawn from the spoils of the first phase, and 20,000 Polish-made 79 rifles were in stock. In the 11th year of Taisho, 1,500 machine guns and 700 Type 92 heavy machine guns were drawn from Poland.
At the same time, one hundred and twenty 92 infantry guns, 80 90mm mortars, 36 Japanese 37 rapid-fire guns and 12 Japanese 41-type 75mm mountain guns are provided. All the 2
Fourteen Liao 14-type 37-type cannons, self-produced grenades and 20,000 rounds of various artillery shells, and a batch of explosives. These equipments began to be transported by air yesterday.
Although this is the first time the central government has spoken about these things, Yang Zhen knows that until the environment of the customs troops has not been fundamentally changed, the military production capacity will never increase. Unless he does not want the slightest cooperation from the customs troops, no matter what
Whether the central government opens its mouth or not, it has to bear the replenishment of a considerable part of the ammunition and equipment of the internal troops. It also has to bear the responsibility of part of the ammunition use of the internal troops. In addition, the time for next summer is getting closer and closer, and there is not much time for the outsourcing channels to be unblocked.
Under the circumstances, Yang Zhen had already made up his mind to increase military production capacity within this year no matter what.
This is why Yang Zhen is still patiently grinding his teeth with the Americans here when the second phase of the operation is already in full swing. Because he knows that he does not have much time left for him now.
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