After the applause quieted down, An Yi took over the conversation: "Everyone, what Dean Gong just said was truly from the bottom of his heart. According to the predictions of our intelligence department, at the latest it will be by the end of this year, and at the earliest it will be when spring flowers bloom after the new year.*
The Communist Party will launch a sudden attack on our country. Now, the total strength of the Communist Party in China has increased to 350,000. Coupled with the rapid expansion of the Kwantung Army, it is expected that within half a year, the total strength will rapidly expand to 60 to 600,000.
700,000. And starting from the second half of last year, *** domestic divisions were organized from one to two, that is, the original division was divided into two, such as the first division and the fourteenth division.
The 101st Division and the 114th Division were formed on the basis of the regiment. These two divisions were trained completely according to the establishment of the two main divisions. Although their combat effectiveness is slightly inferior, they are more than enough to undertake the task of defense and defense. Compared with these two divisions,
There are a total of seventeen divisions with the same division establishment. In other words, Japan will double the total strength of its entire country’s army within half a year. Japan is an island country, where are so many troops directed?
Where is it? It can only be China! It can only be the increasingly tense North China battlefield!"
"If we do not enter the wartime economic system in advance, then once the Japanese attack, we will not be prepared in time. The frontline soldiers will lack the firepower to suppress the Japanese attack, and there will not be enough steel and cement to build strong defenses. The newly organized troops will not be able to prepare in time."
Without guns, ammunition and transportation, what awaits us will be a disastrous defeat! China's industrial base is now extremely weak. The only ones we have worked hard over the years are the three major industrial bases in western Hunan, southern Sichuan, and southern Yunnan.
, and there are factories and enterprises that will be relocated from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and old Nanchang when the war breaks out in the future, including the Jiangnan Arsenal that we have changed hands with. Regardless of whether these factories end up in Chongqing or Chengdu, they will form the fourth industrial base in the southwest.
In addition, over the years, Kunming, under the administration of Zhu Yi, has gradually formed an industrial center focusing on textiles, silk, and smelting, with a complete range of hardware processing wire factories, wire factories, small electrical appliance workshops, etc., such as our railway construction institute
Most of the road studs we need are produced in Kunming. Of course, compared to our three major industrial bases, Kunming is still far behind and can only be counted as half.
"Relying on such a meager industrial base, we will engage in a national war with Japan, which has developed into an industrial country since the Meiji Restoration. Without the determination of a strong man to cut off his own strength, and the courage to sink the boat, how can we achieve the final victory in the war against Japan? Therefore, today,
This meeting is very necessary. I hope everyone can speak freely. Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you be victorious in every battle!"
The audience gave warm applause. When the applause stopped, Gong Qian spoke one by one.
The first person to report was Hu Jiyang, general manager of Sichuan Steel Group: "Since all our steel companies in southern Sichuan imported American machinery and equipment, and many of them were new equipment directly disassembled from steel companies such as Pittsburgh and Chicago, from the very beginning,
Under the guidance of American engineers, our industrial chain is planned according to the pattern of American steel plants. Therefore, both production efficiency and yield rate are far higher than those of old-fashioned steel plants. As early as March 1st, we started working in Xufu
We have built seven large and medium-sized steel plants in Luzhou and Luzhou. Now, with the commissioning of three large steel plants in Artesian, Zhaotong and Yunnan, our production capacity has grown from an annual output of 1.1 million tons of steel in 33 years to now.
2.5 million tons. If we enter the wartime economic system, the production capacity will be greatly increased again, reaching a scale of 3 million tons to 3.5 million tons, although this number is far less than Japan's 900 tons.
Thousands of tons, but for the impoverished China, this is already a very remarkable achievement!
"Steel is the industrial foundation of a country. Without steel, nothing else can be achieved. Therefore, when we formulate economic plans, we must pay full attention to the production needs of steel companies. I would like to remind you that the primary issues facing our steel companies are currently
The problem is the supply of raw materials. Before this, half of the raw materials required by our steel companies were semi-finished products provided by iron ore rough processing companies in mines in southwest China supported by our mining company, and the other half were from South America, Australia, and French Annan.
The iron ore is roughly processed into pig iron and crude steel. Once the Sino-Japanese war breaks out in the future and sea and railway transportation is interrupted, our steel companies will inevitably face the dilemma of having no rice to cook. I hope the government will formulate relevant policies when
, fully take this into consideration.”
Hu Jiyang is an important veteran figure in the economic system of An Yi Group. During An Yi's trip to Europe, he and An Yi experienced the unforgettable pain of September 18th.
enough attention.
An Yi explained seriously: "Brother Hu's question is very good. I would like to explain the development ideas of steel companies in the past few years. We have always adopted a combination of overseas purchases and internal mining to solve our problems.
The raw material supply problem. Maybe everyone doesn’t know that the companies that provide us with raw materials are actually American Chinese consortiums that have common interests with us. Our Jiangnan Group and Sichuan Nan Group have considerable shares in the American Chinese consortium. These
Over the past few years, Chinese consortiums have purchased large quantities of mineral resources around the world, including five mines and a large smelting plant in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Our profit sharing from the Chinese consortium has turned into the rough processing of copper, iron, etc. that we urgently need.
Products and other strategic materials are continuously transported by sea to the port of Hanoi in French Annan, and then supplied to our major steel plants by the double-track railway from Hanoi to Kunming. The surplus raw materials are stored by us to cope with the situation.
There may be a shortage of raw materials.
“In addition, we have also stepped up the exploration and mining of mineral deposits in the southwest region. So far, we have discovered more than 500 iron ore deposits, nearly 60 large-scale mineral deposits with mining value, and 10 extra-large mineral deposits.
Most of the remaining areas have been put into production. Due to the previous supply of pig iron and crude steel from overseas, our production capacity has not been fully developed. However, with the stimulation of the wartime economy, it is expected that production can more than double in a short period of time, and mines are located all over the country.
The smelters will all operate at high speed to meet the production increase needs of our steel group.
"Among all the iron mines, the most surprising one is the discovery of the large-scale iron ore in the Huili area of Yanbian. It has been preliminarily proven that the iron ore reserves are as high as more than 6 billion tons. Once fully exploited, it will be completely
It can solve the raw material supply problem of our Sichuan Steel Group. However, there are several difficulties. Although some of them have been overcome by our experts, the prospects are still not optimistic.
"One of the difficulties is that the iron ore here belongs to the vanadium-titanium magnetite symbiotic ore, which is extremely difficult to smelt. As early as four years ago, after our geological expert Professor Zhu Zizhen and the exploration team led by him discovered the mineral deposit, our research department
We worked day and night on technical research and conducted countless simulation tests, and finally formed a complete set of plans for smelting high-titanium vanadium-titanium magnet symbiotic ores using ordinary blast furnaces in June last year. At present, the relevant smelting and extraction equipment has been produced in our machinery factory.
As long as this mine is fully developed and utilized, the supporting smelting plant will also be put into operation. This is the crystallization of the wisdom of our scientific and technological workers, please allow me to express my gratitude to them here."
At this point, An Yi clapped his hands in congratulations, and the business representatives, experts and scholars present at the meeting also gave warm applause. In southern Sichuan, knowledge and science are always respected. Compared with government workers, scientists enjoy
The treatment is obviously higher than that of others, which is also an atmosphere that Sichuan Nan strives to create.
After the applause paused, An Yi continued to talk: "The second difficulty lies in the Huili Yanbian area, which is located in the Panxi Rift Valley. The roads are rugged and there are cliffs and no vegetation everywhere. How to build a mining field in this barren land?"
and smelting plants, how to solve the housing and living problems of miners is a big problem. However, this is expected to be solved within the next year. Since the discovery of a large amount of iron ore in the Panxi area, the Yunnan and Xikang provincial governments have publicly disclosed to the
A nationwide bidding process was held, and it was promised that all the mined iron ore would be purchased by our steel group after rough processing, and the two provincial governments would come forward to pre-lay the railway from Kunming to Huili and build roads surrounding the entire mining area.
Affected by this good news, chaebols from Shanxi, Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have signed letters of intent with the two provincial governments, and large investments are continuously pouring into this area. It can be expected that in the next two to three years, we will be able to
Obtain supplies of raw materials such as pig iron and crude steel from this region.
"The third difficulty is the issue of energy supply. As we all know, if we rely solely on manual mining, the mined iron ore will then be sent to smelting plants along the railway through roads and railways, and then the smelting plants will provide pig iron and crude steel.
For our steel companies, even if Panxi's iron ore reserves are amazing, they still cannot meet the full-speed production requirements of our steel companies. In my opinion, mines and smelters must be matched to turn iron ore into pig iron as soon as possible.
and crude steel, which can greatly reduce the burden on the railways, improve the utilization efficiency of iron ore, and provide high returns to investors, thus driving a greater investment and construction boom. The basis of all this is abundance.
, uninterruptible power supply. I plan to solve this problem by using the abundant local coal resources to build a sufficient number of thermal power plants in this area. However, the upfront investment will be very large, and it may even crowd out our manufacturing
A special fund for weapons and ammunition must be fully demonstrated before it can be implemented.
"Last point, once the Sino-Japanese war breaks out in an all-round way, our capital is likely to fall during the strategic defense stage. After the central government retreats to Sichuan, since all the prosperous coastal areas fall into the hands of the Japanese invaders, the Chairman of the Generalissimo may take this hot area
If the mining areas are nationalized to enrich the national treasury, or to exploit them with heavy taxes, then the benefits we promised cannot be realized to investors, it will seriously affect our reputation, dampen the patriotic enthusiasm of national capital, and may even lead to the central government and
The local rivalry gives the *** an opportunity to take advantage of."
An Yi's words caused deep thought in the audience. Hu Jiyang thought for a while and said: "No matter what, since the Panxi area has the iron ore resources we urgently need, and now that the relevant technical problems have been overcome and the development has started smoothly, then we can start
A bow has no arrow to turn back, we must carry on in depth and continuously. Our steel plant is a behemoth devouring resources, and satisfaction must be given priority. Otherwise, how will the soldiers come with the guns, artillery and ammunition to resist the Japanese invasion? As for the many difficulties we face
, we can solve them one by one in the future."
An Yi nodded, thinking that when Chiang Kai-shek retreated to the southwest, he must care about his own reputation with the military leaders of Yunnan, Xikang, etc., and it was unlikely that they would directly quarrel with each other, so he motioned to Gong Qian to continue the meeting.
The next person named to speak was Shi Lejun, the general manager of Sichuan South Military Industry Group. After he stood up, he nodded to his old boss An Yi and said:
"Our military industrial group is the backbone of logistical supplies such as firearms and ammunition in the future Sino-Japanese war, and it is also the source of the soldiers' confidence in resisting Japanese aggression. Now let me briefly introduce the types of weapons that our group can produce, its production capacity and potential, so as to
Let everyone have an idea.
"Our military industry group has six arsenals under its jurisdiction: Luzhou, Xufu, Xiangxi, Ziliujing, Zhaotong, and Ning'er. Among them, Xufu, Zhaotong, and Ziliujing factories mainly produce Zhongzheng Type II and Type III pistols, rifles, submachine guns, and general-purpose machine guns, as well as
12.7 caliber sniper rifle. Luzhou Arsenal mainly produces cannons, howitzers, cannon howitzers, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns and mortars. The an-36 rocket launcher we just successfully researched last year is also produced by the Luzhou factory. Ning'er, South Yunnan
The factory mainly produces experimental weapons, such as the an-36 and an-37 automatic rifles that we have not yet officially installed, such as the armed helicopters being tested, which are also developed by the Simao factory. The Xiangxi factory is the strongest among all our military factories.
The arsenal with the strongest integration capability can not only manufacture all types of rifles, automatic rifles and light and heavy machine guns, but most of the ammunition, grenades, grenades, mines, etc. required by our various departments are also provided by the Xiangxi Factory. Of course, once China and Japan
When the war breaks out, our various military factories can produce ammunition to ensure the needs of the front line.
"Everyone knows that before this, steel companies mainly focused on the commercial and civilian fields. Our railways, automobiles, real estate, construction machinery, electrical appliances and other related industries have swallowed up a large amount of steel. The steel that military industrial enterprises can use is less than steel.
One-third of the total, corresponding to this, is our extremely limited weapons production, with a monthly output of 44,000 rifles, two-thirds of which are ordered by the central government, and the rest are equipped with our own troops, also
That is to say, we can arm one division of the Anjia Army every month. In addition, we can produce more than 6,000 general-purpose machine guns and more than 2,000 heavy machine guns every month. In short, once China and Japan start a war in the future, we are currently
Without entering a wartime economy, it can guarantee the production of equipment for two Class A divisions every month. But this is obviously not enough. There are hundreds of divisions in China, and the equipment of two divisions every month can obviously not keep up with the consumption rate.
, so it is necessary to enter a wartime economic system to stimulate production.
"I made a rough estimate. As long as the supply of raw materials such as steel can be fully guaranteed, the production capacity of our military industrial group can be tripled. In other words, six Class A divisions can be armed within a month. Although this speed
It is far less than the supply speed of the ***, but it is already a great improvement for our Chinese *** team."
Shi Lejun's words aroused everyone's interest. Afterwards, representatives from Sichuan South Machinery Group, aircraft companies, automobile groups, electronic and electrical appliance groups and other companies rushed to introduce the situation of their companies.
Sichuan South Machinery Group is the most important guarantee for the rise of South Sichuan. Since the machine tools and production lines introduced by the initial mechanical processing factory are all new generation equipment that are being used by bankrupt companies after the outbreak of the economic crisis or have not yet been unpacked, their processing speed and precision are second to none.
The degree of mechanization and automation of product forming, cutting and assembly is comparable to that of developed countries in Europe and the United States. Therefore, as long as there are original design drawings and the steel and other raw materials used meet the standards, almost all production lines and equipment can be used
It is continuously produced from the production workshop of the Machinery Group to achieve perfect self-cloning. The so-called industrial mother machine refers to this. At present, the production lines and processing machine tools of all factories and enterprises in southern Sichuan can be ordered from Sichuan Machinery Group.
This effectively ensured the explosive development of the military industrial system in southern Sichuan when the wartime economy started.
As for fighter jets and bombers, Sichuan Southern Aircraft Company currently has the ability to independently develop and produce aircraft. Thanks to the technical support of the American Fox Aircraft Manufacturing Company, the German Junkers Aircraft Company and the Heinkel Aircraft Company, Sichuan Southern Aircraft Company actually now has
It is completely possible to produce aircraft engines on its own. The reason why it is now vigorously introducing engines from the American Fox Aircraft Company is that these engines are paid for by share dividends and do not require additional funds. At the same time, the huge trade volume can also allow Fox to
The aircraft company's books are better, which stimulates the company's rapid development. Another reason is that the metallurgical technology of Sichuan South Iron and Steel Group is not up to standard. The engines produced are not up to standard because of the high-temperature alloy materials, and there are many faults. However, with the cooperation with Germany
With the conclusion of the technology deal, this problem will soon be solved, and I believe that the localization of all aircraft will soon be achieved. During wartime, it will not be a problem for the Sichuan Southern Aircraft Manufacturing Factory to produce 100 fighter aircraft per month while ensuring the supply of engines.
The production lines used by the automobile, motorcycle, and tractor factories under Sichuan Automobile Group were basically dismantled from major professional factories in Detroit, Chicago and other cities in the United States during the economic crisis. Like mechanical machine tools and steel smelting production lines, these automobile production lines
They were all good products that had just been installed and ready for production during the good economic times in the United States. Unexpectedly, the economic crisis hit suddenly, and business owners went bankrupt. Later, these companies were acquired by Zhang Xi at cabbage prices. The production lines were disassembled, shipped, and shipped to southern Sichuan to settle down. Because of southern Sichuan,
With the strong research and development capabilities of the Machinery Group, auto parts factories established by Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortiums have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. The current Sichuan Automobile Factory can already achieve a monthly production of 100 cars. If the wartime economy starts, it can reach five in a short time.
A scale of more than a hundred vehicles. In addition, under the wartime economy, the motorcycle factory could produce a thousand two-wheeled and three-wheeled motorcycles per month, and the tractor factory could produce a hundred combat vehicles and fifty tanks. Of course.
, for today's southern Sichuan, every resource must be used on the cutting edge. Due to their huge consumption, combat vehicles and tanks can only temporarily play supporting roles, and there is no need for such a large production capacity.
Sichuan Nan Electronics Group is Sichuan Nan's outstanding achievement ahead of its time. Not only does it produce electrical products that sell well all over the world, but its various newly developed radio equipment has significantly improved the military's combat effectiveness. Due to the joining of Nikola Tesla, Sichuan Nan
The research on electron tubes and transistors is at the forefront of the world, especially in the continuous research and in-depth study of radar applications. Radio technology is becoming more mature, and electronic tube walkie-talkies, walkie-talkies, ultra-shortwave radios, shortwave radios, unilateral radios, relays and
Other communication equipment has been put into actual combat, especially the information display of friend and foe fed back to fighter planes by ground radars, which can greatly improve the survivability of fighter planes in air combat. For the Southwest Air Force, it is no less than a trump card for the weak to defeat the strong with an outnumbered enemy. At present,
Sichuan South Electronics Group can produce a thousand walkie-talkies and walkie-talkies per month, as well as about a thousand radio stations of various types, which can fully meet the communication needs of military companies and platoons.
Combining all the information, An Yi finally felt confident about the future war of resistance. In a war between countries, the competition is war potential and endurance. Now in southern Sichuan, all the industrial systems needed during the war remain intact.
In some aspects, it even has advantages over the Japanese. As long as the war does not suffer too much at the beginning, An Yi is confident to give the Japanese a heavy blow and bring the war to a stalemate in advance.