The train was traveling on the North China Plain at dawn.
Cheng Hui woke up at around 5:30. This is a habit that he has developed for many years in the army. Most people are still sleeping in the sleeper carriage he is riding in. Occasionally, someone walks by the aisle, and the footsteps are particularly clear.
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He leaned sideways out of the lying sleeper, then grabbed the edge of the bed with his hands and jumped gently to the ground.
With the faint light in the aisle, he took out his shoes from the bottom of the bed, groped and put them on, then picked up the bag containing toiletries and went to the bathroom at the end of the car.
In early spring, it was very late and the car window was still dark.
Washing his face with cold water, he raised his head, and the face of a middle-aged man who was nearly forty years and slightly fat appeared in the mirror. He had a neat parting, his chin that had just shaved was slightly blue, and he was very well maintained.
She wore a pair of exquisite enamel glasses on her good face, and she looked gentle and kind.
The newly-wearing military uniform was a little bit tight, and he twisted twice, as if he wanted to adapt his body to this outfit.
This is a passenger train from the ancient city of Xi'an to the capital Beijing. Cheng Hui did not expect that he was re-sumed and ordered to serve nine years after he retired.
Since he was demobilized from Siberia in 1925, he returned to his hometown in Shaanxi. He did not enter the government agency like his ordinary comrades. Instead, with the help of his uncle, he founded a trading company that operated agricultural machinery and automobile businesses. With the help of his former comrades, he relied on his former comrades.
Relationships, coupled with my own hard work, now earns more than 100,000 yuan every year. In this era when the average wage of workers is only three or four hundred yuan per year, it is also a wealthy class with a small achievement.
Life could have been carefree and kept going like this, but as the war broke out, more and more experienced retired officers were re-enlisted. When he received the recruitment of him to the Army Equipment Department in Beijing a few days ago
He knew that such a peaceful and stable life would never return after the notice of the report.
Cheng Hui has been married for eight years and has a happy family. The couple has a son and a daughter. There is a two-story garden villa in Xi'an and a car. This is a life that most Chinese people envy. When their wife receives it, she
After her enlistment notice, she was a little at a loss and she was frightened by not experiencing war.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's not going to the front line. Who would have let someone as old as me fight face to face with the enemy? It's just some logistics work, and there's no danger at all." Cheng Hui comforted and threw himself in his arms and cried.
My wife, however, feels very disappointed. Not being able to go to the front line means lacking the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, but also means lacking the opportunity to be promoted. This is the rule of the game in the army.
I am an outdated officer who is already thirty-nine years old and will definitely not have any bright future.
He patted his forehead with cold water again, but the thought of such a despair could not be removed.
He returned to his bed, and the conductor was already waking up the sleeping passengers one by one, and the train's terminal was about to arrive in Beijing.
"Cheng Hui, welcome you to return to the army!" The Military Commission compound located on Chang'an Street is not far from the Presidential Palace. The fifth headquarters of the Republican Army, together with the Army General Command and the Navy General Command, were blocked by more than a dozen agencies.
There are offices in a large courtyard. Although twelve office buildings have been built here, the offices are still full and crowded.
Major General Song Bonian, Director of the Army Equipment Planning Department of the Republican Army, reached out to his hand. In his early years, he had done things under him when he was an intelligence officer in Tianyiyuan Business. It is said that he was re-summoned to serve in this time, partly because of this former superior.
recommend.
After making some polite decisions, Song Bonian turned his slogan to the point: "Due to the war, we need a large number of experts familiar with machinery and factory production to coordinate the implementation of equipment production plans. This is also the re-enlistment of you by the Army Department this time.
reason."
Cheng Hui nodded, indicating that he had understood.
"Okay, the Equipment Planning Department has recently established a production collaboration department, which requires a lot of manpower. You can go to that department first."
The Army Equipment Planning Department is not under the leadership of the Army General Command, but a department under the General Equipment Department is responsible for preparing the production plan of Army equipment, issuing production tasks to each production factory, and counting the completion status of production tasks. Usually,
This department actually only deals with various military-industrial enterprises and is responsible for reasonably allocating production tasks approved by Congress to major military-industrial enterprises.
Due to the impact of the economic crisis and the military confrontation with the Japanese army in the Northeast, the domestic economic focus gradually shifted to the military industry, and many civilian enterprises began to produce military products in large quantities. Due to the need to coordinate the distribution and transportation of raw materials, the storage and transportation of finished and semi-finished products,
The tasks of the Equipment Planning Department have suddenly increased due to the dispatch of military representatives to various manufacturing enterprises.
The Production Collaboration Department is a newly established department, occupying three rooms, with some newly added desks and cabinets in it, but there is nothing on it, which looks a bit empty. Several young staff officers are doing nothing.
When he was chatting, he saw Song Bonian's staff officer leading an elderly lieutenant colonel in, and quickly got up to salute.
Cheng Hui's position is the chief staff officer, in fact, he is the deputy section chief responsible for coordinating the production of the army's mechanical vehicles. The section chief Colonel Xie Hongshi has not reported yet. Song Bonian's staff officer briefly announced Cheng Hui's appointment to several young staff officers in the office.
He left, and now he has become the supreme leader in the room.
"I will introduce myself first. I used to serve in the 36th Division of the First Republic Army. After retiring for 25 years, I opened a trading company myself, mainly engaged in agricultural machinery and automobile business. I am happy to work together this time.
.”The house belongs to Cheng Hui, the highest military rank, and the oldest. The highest military rank of these young staff members is the captain, and the others seem to be second lieutenant and lieutenant officers who have just graduated from military academy.
"Hello, sir!" The captain, who was about twenty-five or six years old and tall in the village, first reached out, "My name is Huo Cunxin, I graduated from Zhangjiakou Military Industry. I turned out to be a military representative at the Taiyuan Arsenal. I just came yesterday
Report, I'm glad to meet you."
Cheng Hui shook hands with this new colleague. Zhangjiakou Military Engineering College is a military engineering college separated from the original Northwest Army Academy. It is known as the three major military engineering schools in China, mainly for
The Army trains military-industrial talents.
"My name is Jing Hao, I just graduated from Beijing Aviation School." A handsome young lieutenant said after saluting. The Army Equipment Department is in charge of the entire army's weapons production, from individual daggers to large transport aircraft equipped by the Army aviation.
Among them, the Firearms and Equipment Bureau, the Artillery Equipment Bureau, the Transport Vehicle Equipment Bureau, the Armored Vehicle Equipment Bureau, the Aviation Equipment Bureau, and the Radio and Communication Equipment Bureau are the main functional departments. The Production Coordination Department mainly contacts these functional agencies, with basically several people
He is in charge of a stall, and it seems that Jing Hao is the staff officer in charge of dealing with the Aviation Administration.
Before everyone could introduce themselves, Song Bonian's staff officer pushed the door and interrupted everyone's conversation, "Major Cheng, Director, please come here immediately."
Cheng Hui had no choice but to shake his head helplessly and follow the staff to Song Bonian's office.
Song Bonian was signing some documents. A staff officer stood by the table and would occasionally briefly explain the main content of the documents to him. When he saw him coming in, the major general signaled him to sit on the sofa next to him and wait for a while.
After signing a few documents, the staff officer closed the folder and left the room. Major General Song lifted his head from the desk, then took out a document and handed it to Cheng Hui, "Major, there is a very good thing here.
An urgent task requires you to make a detailed assessment report as soon as possible."
Cheng Hui opened the folder and then quickly looked at it. Due to his experience as a boss over the years, he quickly finished reading the document and then picked out the key points.
"This matter is indeed a bit troublesome. You know that the engines of the four major tank and armored vehicle manufacturers in China have always been ordered from the four major aviation engine companies. If you order from civil internal combustion engine factories, the quality is afraid that it will not be guaranteed." Cheng Hui closed the document and said that
It said that the General Equipment Department requires the completion of the production of 3,000 new tanks and armored vehicles by the end of July this year. Due to the sharp increase in the number of aircraft orders recently, major domestic military internal combustion engine manufacturers are unable to provide enough engines and can only rely on civilian internal combustion engine factories.
Fill in more than half of the vacancies.
Military engines and civilian cars and internal combustion engines used in tractors are almost two different concepts. Civilian products generally focus on the economy of the product, while military products first focus on durability and large thrust-to-weight ratio. The Republican Army has recently established
The 35-type tank engine is designed to have a power of 390 horsepower, while domestic civilian products have a power of only 135 horsepower even for high-horsepower bulldozers. Under normal circumstances, the engines used by army armored vehicles are generally improved by aircraft engines. If you rely on civilian internal combustion engine factories
In production, the factory needs to update its major technology, process and equipment.
"Although I have to do it, most of these tanks must be assigned to the Northwest Military Region. Moreover, the conversion of civilian factories to military industries is the president's order. If the task is not completed by then, I'm afraid that Commander Chiang will come to the door to curse people!"
Song Bonian said that Commander Jiang is General Jiang Chengyue, the commander of the Northwest Military Region with a strong personality. Song Bonian and Cheng Hui both served under him, and they have also witnessed the skill of this commander scolding people with their own eyes.
"First of all, the production process of the engine body needs to be updated. The housing of civilian internal combustion engines is generally made of cast steel, while military engines will use lightweight aluminum alloy materials as shells in order to reduce weight. As a result, the processing of crankshafts, cylinders, pistons, etc.
I don’t think there will be much difference in accuracy. It is mainly because military products use higher performance alloy steel in order to improve durability, which is a problem with the raw materials.”
The four major domestic military tank armored vehicle manufacturing companies are Baotou Northern Heavy Industry Group, Taiyuan Northwest Heavy Industry Group, Wuhan Central Huazhong Heavy Industry Group and Wuhu Changjiang Heavy Industry Group. The manufacturers that provide engines are Shanghai Hudong Internal Combustion Engine Company and Wuhu Power Group.
Wuhan Internal Combustion Engine Factory and Fuzhou Internal Combustion Engine Company. In Baotou, the north of Taiyuan Military Industry Group, there is no military engine manufacturer. There are historical reasons and human errors that have not been paid attention to in peacetime.
Cheng Hui obtained a list of large domestic civil internal combustion engine factories from Song Bonian, where he needed to select enterprises with strong technical and equipment capabilities to become the first batch of civilian-to-military engine factories.