War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 404: The family fortune has been accumulated!

The copper mine arrived, and at the end of 1935, in order to equip the entire 29th Army with MG30s, Song Zheyuan began to invest all his resources in mining the Laiyuan copper mine, which provided the Dagu Shipyard with the foundation for producing bullets.

At the same time, another thing happened in Dagu Shipyard, that is, a group of new children appeared in Dagu Shipyard.

These children get up at 05:00 in the morning and go to school to learn basic cultural knowledge. They have breakfast and rest at 07:30, and then are taken to school by Yang Jingyu at 08:00 for the most basic ideological education class. At 09:00 in the morning, the whole company trains with the army. If the army runs ten kilometers, they run five kilometers. If the army conducts live-fire shooting, they shoot five out of ten shots, and this continues until lunch at 10:5 in the afternoon.

After lunch break and waking up at 01:30 in the afternoon, we will be arranged to observe in the laboratory, from the extraction of nitroglycerin to the synthesis with diatomaceous earth. We must watch carefully because there will be an exam every seven days. Those who fail the exam will have to add one hour of physical training every day in the next week.

At 03:00 in the afternoon, these children will enter the arsenal to study. They have to learn everything from the production and assembly of firearms to the disassembly, maintenance and troubleshooting of machinery. They will continue to study until 06:00 in the afternoon when the workers get off work. Only then can these children go back to the barracks canteen for dinner.

In the evening, starting from 07:00, Nankai university students taught them mathematics, physics, chemistry and other knowledge.

It's a completely crazy cramming education!
Yes, Xu Chaoyang never intended to train these children to be ordinary soldiers. He wanted them to become jacks of all trades, the kind of people who could be useful anywhere.

Is there really a shortage of warriors in this era?

No shortage!

Not to mention the famous generals on the Heavenly List, how many famous generals have emerged under the National Government alone?

Even without mentioning generals, there are countless heroes emerging from ordinary soldiers.

So, is there a lack of top-level talent in this era?

There is also no shortage of writers of this era who can make future generations ashamed; there are also science experts everywhere, otherwise there would be no Huangya Cave.

So, what kind of people are missing in this era?

What is really lacking is talents for connection. Rich people want to train their children to be elites, even the middle class has this idea, but the literacy rate of the bottom class at that time was too low. When these people were used to connect with the top bosses, sometimes they couldn't speak clearly and didn't understand thoroughly. Even in the era when Xu Chaoyang lived, education became universal, but there were still people who didn't understand and couldn't speak clearly.

This is also the main reason why our party and army began to popularize education in the military after establishing a base area.

This is also the main reason why Xu Chaoyang wants to train these children to be half-full and half-full people.

Just imagine that when the top talent comes up with an idea, he has already clearly told the people below to do it this way. When the blueprints are taken out, the people below are still confused about "how to do this thing". How much time will be wasted when the top talent takes the lead?
With Xu Chaoyang's team, once the top talents take out the drawings, they will know how to install the machines and how to produce the products. How much time will that save?
Xu Chaoyang was not originally at the top level. He doesn't know how to change the country from the top, nor does he think that approach can succeed in this era. However, he knows very well what to do at the bottom level.

Therefore, Dagu Shipyard began to produce bullets in an all-round way while continuously educating and training the officers and soldiers of the entire regiment and cultivating 570 jacks of all trades. With the help of Mr. Xiong and the two Wangs, Oerlikon was imitated just as winter came at the end of the year. Now all Xu Chaoyang needs to do is to spend more money to build an Oerlikon 20mm ammunition production line.

That feeling, when Xu Chaoyang saw the products of the Dagu Shipyard coming out one after another and the entire laboratory began to tackle the "armored vehicles and radio transmitters"...

unimaginable!

In the six months since the end of the Tong County Battle, Xu Chaoyang no longer worried about the training ground, because the entire 217th Regiment had changed!

They became silent, but they completed the training seriously and meticulously, never being lazy;

They became darker and stronger. There was no more lazy chatting on the training ground. They all rushed to the front with guns in hand, conducting the "dispersed charge" and "interval attack" drills for the troops to attack.

People can never persuade others, but things can teach people, and they will learn it once!
The four or five hundred corpses left outside Tong County told the entire 217th Regiment that if they did not train well in peacetime, the result once they went to the battlefield could be described in only one word - death!

At that time, the catchphrase of the 217th Regiment also changed. It no longer said "I have never lied since I was a child", but became "If you don't train well, you won't even know how you died on the battlefield!" Xu Chaoyang felt that at that time, only his regiment could take training so seriously in the whole country.

The whole regiment seemed to be holding back a strong energy, a spirit of "training hard and waiting for the next war".

At this moment, our army has finally completed a great miracle in human history. While Xu Chaoyang was engaged in crazy production at Dagu Shipyard throughout 1936, they experienced more than 380 battles of varying sizes, captured more than 700 county towns, sacrificed 430 cadres at the battalion level and above (the average age was less than 30 years old), crossed 18 mountains, crossed 24 rivers, walked through grasslands, climbed snow-capped mountains, and after traveling miles, they finally met in northern Shaanxi!

And, after Commander Wang asked someone to pass on the message to Dagu Shipyard, Xu Chaoyang looked at the distant sky and said something that even Yang Jingyu could not understand: "This time we really have a home!" "Chaoyang, how do you know that you won't leave this time?" This is what Yang Jingyu asked in Xu Chaoyang's office at the time.

How could Xu Chaoyang answer this? How could he answer? He could only reluctantly say, "Do you still hope that they will leave again?" to answer the question with a question.

Yang Jingyu shook his head.

"By the way, how's the thing I asked you to do going?"

Yang Jingyu said confidently, "Almost." He explained, "Now your prestige in Pingjin is at its peak. I have used your name to build a good relationship with the people in the Railway Bureau. They have promised that as long as our Dagu Shipyard needs wagons, they will ask for them anytime and anywhere."

"Where is the 38th Division?"

Yang Jingyu stretched out his hand and pointed his thumb back: "The deputy commander of the 38th Division in Tianjin is now my best friend, and the two chiefs of staff are my drinking buddies. The money spent on food and drinks alone this year is thousands of silver dollars. Chaoyang..."

"This is not the time to feel bad about money, and this relationship must continue to be maintained."

Yang Jingyu looked at Xu Chaoyang, who was full of expectation, and said, "Chaoyang, why do I feel like you are waiting for something with all your heart? What are you waiting for?"

Xu Chaoyang turned back at this moment, and at the moment when the midday sun shone on him and even the surroundings of his body were surrounded by a glow, he said: "Future!"

The future he was talking about was the "Xi'an Incident" that would finally happen two months later, after Xiao Liuzi stepped down from his drug addiction and returned!
1936, winter.

Xiao Liuzi, who was scolded by the people of the whole country, finally straightened his back. He finally did the right thing. That was to write a diary to the diary-writer Zhenquanwuli, and used it as a threat to demand that they stop the encirclement and suppression of our army and devote all resources to fight against Japan together.

That was also the key moment that changed his historical evaluation from "criminal" to "mixed reputation". The imprisonment of the diary writer at that time shocked the world. No one could have imagined that the person who urged Xiao Liuzi to read "Zeng Guofan" every day was actually locked up by him!

I'm afraid that everyone at that time was full of questions and didn't understand how Xiao Liuzi dared to do such a thing. Even we contacted him and persuaded him not to harm the person who wrote the diary, otherwise the whole country would be plunged into war again.

Xu Chaoyang had really thought about it. If the historical process had developed into a fierce resistance by writing diaries, grabbing guns to protect themselves, and finally being shot to death in the chaos, what would the country be like? In the government, who could control the situation where no one was willing to submit to anyone else?
Xu Chaoyang pondered over it for a whole night, and finally came to a mess. He felt that, given the situation at the time, the most handsome man in the Kuomintang government, who had a high reputation and lived up to his youth, would most likely be in power for a short period of time. Yes, at the end of 1936, this situation was very likely to happen, but once it came true, our country would really face a disaster.

The "Cixi-style" ruler that the great powers hope for will appear again, and the era of constant division and plunder will come again...

But at that time, our party and our army were not strong enough. Without the shield of the National Government, we would have experienced more hardships.

Fortunately, none of that happened.

But the Xi'an Incident still shocked the world on December 1936, 12.

Xiao Liuzi took action.

At that time, Xu Chaoyang was almost always at the Dagu Shipyard, drinking tea and reading newspapers, following the subsequent developments from the reporters' writings.

It was not until the 25th of that month that he heard the message of "Stop the Civil War, Unite with the Red Army to Resist Japan" from the buzzing speakers of the radio station. That day was only six days away from 1937!

April 1936, 12, sunny.

　I finally finished writing this paragraph. The blank period and the depression of these days are finally over.

　　Next chapter!
　　1937!

　　1937, here it comes!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)