Traveling through 1937, I came to fight against the Kwantung Army

Starting from June, under the mediation of the Americans, Northeast China experienced a brief but rare period of peace.

And this is of vital importance to Mulan City!

Because this period was the sprint stage of Mulan County’s major construction in 1946!

Good news has been coming since autumn.

The first to be completed was the Tonghe County Aviation Base.

The aviation base includes an airport with four 2000-meter runways, plus an aviation school covering an area of ​​400 acres.

One night in late September,

Inside the deserted Tonghe County Airport,

A black car drove directly onto the runway.

Zhang Wenjiu followed Yin Xinjun out of the car.

Under the light of the car lights, he was surprised to see the six planes on the tarmac!

Five of them are two-seat trainer aircraft, three are Japanese Ki-79B models, two are German Ar 96 models, and the other is the famous German Me262 jet fighter!

The trainer aircraft is the "cradle eagle" for training pilots! For Mulan Air Base, if it wants to train a large number of pilots, it must be equipped with a large number of trainer aircraft!

Zhang Wenjiu was already dumbfounded, and asked with his mouth wide open,

"I am not dreaming, Commander. How come we suddenly have so many planes?"

"Haha, Xiao Jiu, there are still more than twenty planes in the hangar! Once the arsenal is built, we will have more and more planes!"

As it was too troublesome to use the planes and a runway was needed, and he already had an oil field, Yin Xinjun placed all the planes in the space in the aviation base at once!

Yin Xinjun pointed at the planes and said,

"I will give you a task now. Starting next year, you must train at least 200 pilots every year!"

Zhang Wenjiu nodded and walked to the plane and stroked it.

In addition to the air base,

In the arsenal.

Although there were many workers supported by the organization, under Yin Xinjun's assessment, there were only a few who could operate machine tools skillfully, less than 100 people! Most of these people were operators of the Fengtian Arsenal during the time of Marshal Zhang. It seemed that the Japanese did not trust the Chinese to pass on the real technology!

This arsenal is completely different from the building materials factory and power plant. Its production basically relies on machine tools!

For example, the gun production line has milling machines, lathes, drilling machines, punching machines, grinders, and boring machines!

Therefore, Yin Xinjun had to open a training class for 300 people to train machine tool operators. Since there were no physical objects, these operators learned and accumulated a lot of theoretical knowledge, but they had no chance to practice.

Until October 10nd,

Mulan Arsenal is finally completed!

Compared with the previous Fengtian Arsenal, this factory covers a larger area and has more buildings! That's why it requires more than 100,000 people to build it!

The Arsenal is currently divided into six major areas, namely guns, ammunition, artillery, tanks, explosives and power plants.

There are 8 factories in the gun area. Due to the lack of skilled workers, only 2 factories are currently in use! One for rifles and one for pistols! And each factory is equipped with hundreds of various machine tools!

Due to the small number of machine tool workers and the lack of operating experience of many people, the arsenal mainly produced Browning automatic pistols, Type 10 rifles and bullets throughout October!

Because the Type 5 rifle has the simplest bolt structure, with only parts! Workers can be trained by producing rifles!

But even so, under Yin Xinjun's hands-on guidance, in the first month, they could only produce an average of 20 rifles and pistols a day! It takes at least three months to train a skilled machine tool operator!

Yin Xinjun was already satisfied with the result. He devoted all his energy to various personnel trainings. During the day, he went to the aviation base to train pilots, and at night he came to train the workers in the arsenal. He firmly believed that with a super craftsman like himself, the Mulan Arsenal would shine sooner or later!

Sure enough, by the end of the first month, the workers had become more and more skilled in their operations, and they started to use artillery shells and grenade workshops one after another. The arsenal's daily output of Type 35 rifles reached 100, with more than 1200 artillery shells of various types, grenades, and bullets!

At this time, there were 200 machine tool operators working in the arsenal!

The deputy director of Mulan Arsenal is Zhao Taihua, who was transferred from the Taihang base and was previously a technical director of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters Arsenal!

Zhao Taihua came here on the orders of the headquarters to support the military construction in the Northeast. He had arrived in Mulan for more than a month. At first, he was a little dissatisfied. Most of their people went to Dalian, where they were said to be planning to build a large arsenal.

After Zhao Taihua arrived in Mulan, he was immediately shocked by the scale and equipment of the arsenal. He keenly felt that the development potential of the Mulan Arsenal was much greater!

Office Building 4,

In the conference room,

Zhao Taihua looked at the pile of drawings on the table and asked curiously,

"Director, will production start tomorrow with this drawing?"

The factory director is Yin Xinjun. He has to take on this position concurrently because there are too many secrets in the arsenal and he has a lot of things to take care of, so it is not appropriate to let an outsider be in charge!

"That's right. We already have 204 Class A workers. Tomorrow you will select 50 Class A workers from the Type rifle assembly line to specialize in producing automatic rifles!"

In order to facilitate management, Yin Xinjun divided the more than 1900 workers of Mulan Arsenal into three categories: Category A is workers who can operate machine tools skillfully! Category B is workers who have just started working but are not skilled enough in operation! Category C is auxiliary workers!

According to the post-war summary of the Siping Campaign,

There was a big gap between the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army and the Kuomintang Army equipped with American weapons, both in terms of light and heavy weapons. For example, the squad weapons of the New First Army and the New Sixth Army included light machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, and submachine guns!

As for artillery, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army was mainly equipped with 75mm mountain artillery, which was not much different from the Kuomintang army, but the number of artillery shells was too small. This was also an important factor in the draw between the two sides in the Siping Battle!

Zhao Taihua said,

"Director, will removing so many Class A workers affect the production of Type 38 rifles?"

Yin Xinjun smiled.

"Now, our army is not short of bolt-action rifles. Our Type 38 rifle assembly line is used to train workers. If we withdraw Class A workers, we will use Class B personnel to replace them. It doesn't matter if the output is reduced.

However, automatic rifles can greatly make up for the gap in firepower between us and the Kuomintang army, so we must start stable production! We will strive to supply the troops in batches after the Spring Festival! "

Zhao Taihua nodded, then sighed.

"This automatic rifle has more than 40 parts, and the process is much more complicated than the Type 50 rifle. I think it would be difficult for 10 people to make rifles a day!"

Yin Xinjun said,

"Our biggest bottleneck now is machine tool workers. We must continue to recruit from the society. For the workers in the arsenal, I think the salary packages should be differentiated. Class A workers can reach more than 200 yuan per month!"

The yuan he mentioned is the shopping voucher issued by Mulan City Economic Development Bank. Compared with the price of meat at that time, which was only 2 yuan per catty, these 200 yuan could buy 100 catties of pork!

The pork production during this period was not like the later generations where there were specialized pig farms. The number was relatively small. Even in Mulan County, due to the bumper harvest of grain and cheap soybeans, the number of pig farmers increased greatly, but the public supply of live pigs was only a few dozen per day! Even a lot of pork was traded privately!