Back to the Republic of China to be a editor

Lin Taizhen: "It is at the Dalian Ship Canal Factory. Now there is a sufficient length of dock, some equipment needs to be added, and workers and technicians need to be trained."

Tang Hua: "From this point of view, some of the 1800 billion yuan was spent on it, and it was not just the cost of renovating the Chongqing ship, but upgrading the facilities of the shipyard, which can also be used for repairing or building other ships in the future. Let's find out the Pustin Chaf plan tomorrow, and see where we can save the 5000 million ruble equipment we purchased."

……

"The damaged turbine gear linkage must be repaired. The repair plan for the British main gun, Pustin Chaf, is relatively reliable. It is only repaired, and a new turret and artillery are not allowed." Facing Pustin Chaf Several people looked at the husband’s renovation plan carefully from the beginning. Lin Taizhen first expressed his opinion, “However, the cost of electrical equipment, all instruments, optical equipment, and communication equipment is more than 2000 million rubles, which is relatively expensive.”

Tang Hua found that the radar was included in the electrical equipment, "In terms of electrical equipment, all the radars are cut off. Our Ministry of Electronics and Information Industry can save radar by itself. Although some parts imported from the Soviet Union will be used, they already account for the total cost. Less than one-third of the total. The shipboard radars of ships 31 and 32 have passed the test, so there is no problem."

Lin Taizhen: "Well, 470 million rubles will be saved at once."

Tang Hua: "The large optical rangefinder for the main gun is unnecessary. The ranging accuracy of our shipboard radar is sufficient. If you are afraid of unreliable equipment, install two anti-sea radars. Some communication equipment can also be self-made. Torpedoes What the hell? The original two triple-mounted 2mm torpedoes of the Chongqing ship can be dismantled. ... and anti-aircraft guns."

“重庆”号原来有4座102毫米副炮，普斯汀柴夫打算在这个副炮的炮位装双联装57毫米高炮，全舰一共装4座。另外还有4门37毫米高炮。

Commander Xiao: "This is a trick, why don't you save 4 double 57s? Can your Hongqi-1 and Hongqi-2 be put on the warship?"

Tang Hua: "...If the renovation is carried out, how long will it take for the Chongqing ship to be repaired? If the repair is completed in two years, then I can produce a ship-to-air missile here."

Lin Taizhen: "It is definitely longer than 2 years. After two years, it is very likely that the ship will not be out of dock."

Tang Hua: "Then be more aggressive, cut off all the double 37s and double 57s, equip them with ship-to-air missiles, and add some American-made 40mm and 20mm cannons removed from other places."

The four discussed the modification of the "Chongqing" ship for a day. At the end of the meeting, many sketches appeared on the conference table, all of which were the modification plans drawn by Tang Hua and Lin Zhen on the spot.The result of this day was to cut the outsourcing cost of repairing and transforming the "Chongqing" ship from 5000 million rubles to 2800 million rubles, but the domestic expenditure has increased from 1800 billion to 2500 billion.But how to put it, as long as foreign exchange is not involved, it is still negotiable to spend more money domestically.

……

"The Navy's five-year plan budget allocates about 5 million rubles. If you make such a long list, it may be more than 5 million rubles, right?"

In front of the prime minister was a draft of the navy's five-year plan and the visit to the Soviet Union for negotiations, followed by a stack of detailed information on separate projects.

Because the formal negotiations with the Soviet Union have not yet started, many items in the draft do not have detailed prices, so the total price has not been calculated.The Prime Minister skimmed through it and felt that the five-year plan was relatively large.

Tang Hua: "Because we have not formally contacted the Soviet Union, we are not sure which projects can be introduced and which projects the Soviet Union is unwilling to give us, so we need to make more preparations. When our delegation arrives in the Soviet Union, we will work with their various departments and committees. Item by item, there will always be some things we want to buy that cannot be bought, in short, the total budget should be controlled within the limit in the end.”

The prime minister smiled, did not speak, and looked down at the draft of the five-year plan.

"More than 30 large, medium and small landing ships were introduced at one time. In 49 and 50, we bought a lot of US-made landing ships through Hong Kong channels."

Luo Shunchu: "Although the price of buying old ships from Hong Kong is indeed not expensive, it is no longer possible to buy old US ships from Hong Kong. That's why we turned to the Soviet Union for help. The navy's priority now is to liberate Taiwan, such a big island, If the landing is to be successful, the transportation capacity of the landing ship must be at least three times that of the Penghu Battle."

The Prime Minister continued to read.The introduction plan of the artillery torpedo destroyer, the introduction of the Soviet part-assembled artillery frigate, the introduction of large torpedo boat (naked boat) technology, the introduction of two types of submarines...

According to the draft, a total of 140 ships are planned to be imported from the Soviet Union, including 45 finished ships, 95 imported parts assembled or imported semi-finished ships, and a complete set of facilities from naval bases to HNA airports.According to this plan, five years later, the Chinese navy will instantly become a modern offshore navy with the technological level of the 20s, with air-submersible fast-moving and near-sea and near-shore defense as the main combat styles, but some ships also have mid-range and long-distance sea navigation capabilities. .

Prime Minister: "On March 3, the Chairman ordered the establishment of the PLA Military Engineering Academy. Tang Hua, have you read the document?"

Tang Hua nodded.Harbin Military Industry was established under the instruction of the chairman in March 1952, but the first batch of freshmen enrolled in September 3.

Prime Minister: "In the preliminary opinion discussed by the Military Commission, the Academy of Military Engineering will first set up five departments and one preparatory department, the first Department of Air Force Engineering, the second Department of Artillery Engineering, the third Department of Naval Engineering, the fourth Department of Armor Engineering, and the fifth Department of Engineering Engineering Department. The Navy’s five-year plan is so big that it will first face the problem of lack of naval and naval engineering talents. A naval academy in Dalian is definitely not enough. Deputy Commander Luo, you still have to make good use of the military Talents from the three departments of the School of Engineering."

Luo Shunchu: "In terms of junior officers, non-commissioned officers and commanding talents, Commander Xiao has already made plans to adapt to the expansion of naval equipment in the five-year plan."

"I'm afraid this is not enough. On the one hand, the size of the navy is expanding. On the other hand, the new equipment in the five-year plan, I am afraid that many personnel in our navy have to go back to the furnace to master the method of use." The prime minister said, " Regarding the issue of personnel training and institution setting, we will discuss it sometime later.”

The Prime Minister saw the end and picked up a hand-drawn engineering sketch at the end of the draft.

"This is the Chongqing ship. You have salvaged it until now, and it is finally determined to be repaired. It is not easy."

Tang Hua: "In October last year, Soviet experts inspected the Chongqing ship and formulated a repair and renovation plan. The original plan was to need 10 million rubles as funds for the purchase of equipment. In the past few days, I have discussed with Deputy Commander Luo and Minister Lin. This time, the transformation plan was readjusted, and the cost of purchasing equipment was reduced to 5000 million rubles, and the weapons and equipment on the ship have also undergone major changes."

Tang Hua pointed to the outline of the Chongqing ship on the sketch and explained:

"For the purpose of saving money, we simplified the original plan of the Soviet experts. At the same time, because the country has been able to produce some weapons and equipment by itself in the past two years, the plan has also been revised."

"The most important modification is to install a set of Haihongqi-2 ship-to-air missile system. This weapon system is currently being planned by the Electronic Information Industry Bureau and the General Administration of Ordnance Industry. It is expected to be completed by the end of 1953. In fact, it is the Hongqi-2 surface-to-air missile system. A ship-based modification based on the system. Since ship-to-air missiles are installed, there is no need to install the four double-mounted 57mm anti-aircraft guns in the original plan. In addition to anti-aircraft missiles, the entire ship is only equipped with some small-caliber anti-aircraft guns. Replenish."

"The radar is produced by us, which can save more than 400 rubles. In addition, due to the improvement of radar ranging accuracy, we do not plan to buy large optical range finders from the Soviet Union, which also saves a lot of money."

"After the refit is completed, the Chongqing ship can serve as an independent combat force in the middle and near seas, and can also serve as the command ship of the destroyer squadron. Since the Haihongqi-2 surface-to-air missile installed on it has a range of more than 20 kilometers, it can be used in certain sea areas. It can provide air defense protection for a four-ship destroyer squadron."

"Prime Minister, if everything goes according to plan, the 'Chongqing' will be the first cruiser of the People's Navy, and the first warship in the world equipped with mass-produced surface-to-air missiles."

Chapter 209, The Evidential Problem of Germ Warfare

"The intelligence system of the Korean People's Army has received news that Shiro Ishii, the leader of Unit 731, secretly appeared in North Korea in February. North Korean newspapers had already published an article last month. On our side, the intelligence system of the General Staff of the Military Commission was not aware of this matter. This is Is there a deviation in the work of the North Korean comrades, or is it our work?"

It was still the Korean battlefield, this time it was an intelligence meeting, and the secret level was higher than that of the staff and combat departments.

Li Kenong is still in North Korea, and the meeting is chaired by the prime minister.Liu Zhijian accepted the Prime Minister's inquiry on behalf of the intelligence system. Zhang Bufeng, the Vice Minister of the Volunteer Army's Health Service Department and Minister of Health, and Luo Wen, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Medical Service Department, returned from North Korea to attend the meeting.

Liu Zhijian: "As for the information about Unit 731 and Shiro Ishii, we mainly obtained information from the Soviet Union, that is, what we obtained from interrogating war criminals and inspecting the camps of Unit 731 after the Soviet Army defeated the Kwantung Army. In addition, there is also part of the information that Shino entered into Unit 731. Afterwards, the troops camp surveyed the buildings and places. We have few intelligence channels for Japan and the United States. What we know now is that at the end of the war, some of the members of Unit 731 who had been transferred or rotated back to Japan were under the control of the U.S. military. Ryoichi Naito, Junichi Kaneko, and Tomosada Masuda were interrogated and investigated by Lieutenant Colonel Murray Sanders, a bacteriological expert of the U.S. Army. The trajectory of Shiro Ishii’s activities after the war has always been a mystery. The only news is that in 1946, Arvo Tang Lieutenant-Colonel Purson interrogated him once at the Ishii mansion."

The meeting began with the appearance of Shiro Ishii, the former leader of Unit 731, in North Korea, but the focus of the meeting was to confirm the traces of suspected bacterial weapons dropped on the front line of North Korea and places close to the front line in early 1952, from late winter to spring.

On January 1952, 1, volunteers discovered insects that should not have appeared in this season in Yongsodong near Cheorwon.

At the beginning of February, the Volunteer Army found flies, fleas and other insects carrying germs successively in Cheorwon, Pyeongkang, Jinhua, Yichuan and other places.The abnormality of these insects is firstly that they should not appear here—whether it is a live fly or a dead fly; the second is that the density is extremely high, and on some grounds, thousands of them can be caught per square meter (dead ones) ) fleas, and they are human fleas rather than animal fleas.

In addition, the Volunteer Army’s radar and observation posts found that every time three or two B-29 bombers passed through the theater at high altitude, and then the ground would find large lumps of strange insects and insect corpses within three to five days.

On February 2, a cholera epidemic broke out among residents in central North Korea. In one village, 20 people were infected within a short period of time, and 13 of them died.In another village, 9 North Korean residents fell ill with the plague.The Volunteer Army has paid attention to epidemic prevention work from a long time ago, but 50 members of the Volunteer Army logistics unit near Cheorwon still suffered from the plague.

Now, everyone present here looks serious, but there is confusion in the seriousness.

If the U.S. military is conducting germ warfare, why is the attack in such a strange way?If there is no germ warfare, how can these strange phenomena found on the ground be explained?

Tang Hua learned the news and prepared meeting materials three days ago.But in this era, it is really hard to find public or semi-public information about the germ warfare of the US military.

"Prime Minister, Vice Minister Liu, I don't think we should focus too much on Shiro Ishii," Tang Hua said, "Although Ishii is the leader of Unit 731 and was controlled by the United States after the war, if the United States wants to launch bacteria It does not necessarily require the participation of Shiro Ishii. The U.S. military has developed and produced biological weapons by itself, and they can complete bacterial warfare independently.”

"Shiro Ishii, Lieutenant Colonel Murray Saunders interrogated the backbone of Unit 731 and published a report called "Sanders Report". Report". Now we don't know the specific content of these two reports. But in 1947, the American biologist and bacteriologist Edwin Hill should have read the "Thompson Report". For the report content Ed Win Hill did not disclose it, but he once said in public that Shiro Ishii's Unit 731 has "priceless research results". This can easily be understood as the bacterial weapon researched by Unit 731 is so advanced that even the US military admires it But it’s not like that. Unit 731’s research is invaluable because they dare to conduct all kinds of in vivo experiments, which cannot be done in the United States.”

The biological weapons warfare agents developed by Unit 731 during the war did not exceed the research of American counterparts.But the test report of Unit 731 is very valuable.Although the FBI and CIA in the United States can do a lot of dirty work secretly, but like Unit 731, groups of prisoners of war and laborers are used to test the infection rate and fatality rate of bacterial weapons. The Americans really have no way to arrange it, and the political risk is too great. up.So the Japanese test data is invaluable: these tests cannot be done in the United States. Unit 731 even used in vivo experiments to test the limits of human frostbite, trying to see how long it would take for limbs to completely die at minus tens of degrees, and how long it would take for hands to freeze to brittle hands.

After talking about Ishii Shiro, Tang Hua picked up another stack of papers on the table.

"The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff formulated a "Standardized Biological Weapons System Operational Roadmap" in 1950. The full text was more than 70 pages long. When speaking in Congress, it took up to two pages. However, Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Congress that This: 'The Joint Chiefs of Staff believe that biological weapons may play several roles: weaken the morale of the enemy, shake the enemy's position before attacking, isolate the battlefield, blockade, etc., especially in areas where the enemy is concentrating or where it is going It would be much more effective if used within an effective transportation network moving in from the front lines. The view of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is that the United States must rapidly acquire a robust biological weapons offensive capability.'”

"In 1950, there was such a thing: the Special Operations Department of Fort Detrick was honored in 1950. The work of this department, the public information is 'Insect cold tolerance and selection mechanism have shown ingenuity, imagination and initiative'."

Liu Zhijian flipped through the excerpts of Tang Hua's materials, and said after reading: "The American road map says that biological weapons are more effective when used in areas where the enemy is concentrating or in an effective transportation network that is advancing to the front line. The areas where the most were released are Cheorwon, Pyeongkang, and Kimhwa Triangle, which is consistent with the description in the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. The cold resistance of insects, so to speak, the Americans are using North Korea’s winter to test their cold-resistant bacterial weapons ?”

Tang Hua: "If we assume that we are at the top of the US military, they use dozens of sorties of heavy bombers to scatter so many biological warfare weapons, and the final result is that hundreds of people are infected and less than a hundred people die, then this should be a one-off Failed biological warfare. If it is a mature biological warfare agent, it will not be the result of this battle. On the contrary, if this is an experiment of a cold-resistant insect, then it may be logical."

Prime Minister: "At present, the Volunteer Army has discovered a large number of abnormal insects carrying germs on the front line, and discovered bombs that were suspected of being converted from propaganda bombs to drop germ weapons. Is there any other evidence?"

Liu Zhijian: "At the end of February, we shot down two A-2s, and the American pilot who parachuted was captured by us. According to ground observations, these two A-26s probably carried out the delivery of bacterial weapons."