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

Liuhe Town,

New Year's Eve,

The fireworks are blooming passionately in the night sky, like a flowing and gorgeous painting. The colorful colors are intertwined, red like fire, pink like clouds, green like emerald, and yellow like gold. They rise and fall one after another, competing with each other for splendor.

Inside the Mulan Arsenal,

In the No. 1 workshop of the tank, dozens of workers are wearing uniform work clothes and safety helmets, with focused and serious expressions. Some of them hold measuring tools and carefully measure various parameters of the cylinder body, with rigor and precision in their eyes; some operate machine tools, cutting the surface of the cylinder body with the roar of the machine, and the flying metal chips seem to be the witness of their hard work.

In another work area, several workers are working together to assemble and debug the finished parts. Their movements are skillful and coordinated, and each movement is full of strength and rhythm, as if they are performing an industrial dance.

The whole workshop was filled with the smell of engine oil and metal. The sweat of the workers flowed down their cheeks, but their hands never stopped working, just to create the perfect gasoline engine cylinder block.

This is the engine production team in the tank workshop of the arsenal. After obtaining the tank drawings, the steel plant smelted aluminum-magnesium alloy. The workshop director Kong Xiangyu simply started the production of the engine, a key component of the tank, in advance!

The workers under Kong Xiangyu were all from other places, and many were still in enemy-occupied areas such as Shenyang and Jinzhou. They did not go back home during the New Year holiday, but continued to stay in the workshop to work overtime!

There were footsteps at the door of the workshop.

Zhao Taihua and Tang Yantian accompanied Yin Xinjun, who had just finished dinner, to the workshop.

Amid the humming of machines, no one heard the footsteps!

Everyone is working hard!

Zhao Taihua introduced,

"Director, this Kong Xiangyu used to be a workaholic. He has only been the workshop director for two days, and he has already started producing related parts. The task you gave him is to produce the first tank in September this year, and he now plans to complete it three months ahead of schedule!"

Before the Chinese New Year, Yin Xinjun and Zhao Taihua discussed and selected and appointed two people, one was the director of the tank workshop of Kong Xiangyu, and the other was the director of the aircraft workshop of Mo Hao!

Aircraft and tanks will be the two key factors for the next step of development, and we must use people who are passionate about their work!

As for the technical deficiencies, they are secondary. Yin Xinjun can just give the final overall review!

Kong Xiangyu has a relatively heavy task this year, which involves the production of two tanks, and the finished products must be produced on June 6 and August 1 respectively!

One of them is an American jeep captured from the Kuomintang troops. This vehicle has many uses, such as carrying people, reconnaissance, towing small artillery, and can also carry heavy Browning machine guns for fire support! Required to be offline by June 6st!

The other one is of course the Panzer IV H, which is positioned to be able to fight the Americans on the Korean battlefield in the future! The production will be very large in the future! It is required to roll off the production line on September 9st!

The arsenal's tasks are linked one by one. The guns have not been produced for a few months, and the cannons have begun formal production. The cannons have not yet been put into production, but the tank project has also started. Now even the person in charge of the aircraft project has been determined!

Time is running out, there are only more than three years left. Others may not be clear about it, but Yin Xinjun himself is very clear about the timeline!

Therefore, Zhao Taihua was so exhausted that he could hardly breathe every day under Yin Xinjun's command!

Fortunately, the headquarters also made great efforts and recruited a group of experienced technical workers to join the arsenal before the New Year!

This ensured that the three major workshops started work at the same time!

Kong Xiangyu finally saw the two people and ran over quickly.

"Happy New Year, both factory managers!"

Yin Xinjun said with relief,

"Happy New Year, Lao Kong! With your enthusiasm, we will definitely be able to produce our tanks this year!"

"It's just right that Director Yin is here. I have an idea about the concept of assembly line you mentioned last time. I plan to convert workshop No. 3 in the tank area into a stamping workshop, which will be responsible for manufacturing car bodies and doors! What do you think?" Kong Xiangyu eagerly expressed his opinion!

"Well, now automobile production in the United States uses assembly lines, and the entire production process is changed into many key steps, which are classified and centrally managed. This greatly improves production efficiency, and stamping is one of the important links!" Yin Xinjun said approvingly.

Kong Xiangyu said,

"This requires moving a number of machine tools and equipment and concentrating the punching machines in Workshop No. 3 for use!"

Yin Xinjun nodded and looked at Zhao Taihua.

"Old Zhao, Director Kong is willing to use his brain to do things, so we must fully support him!"

Zhao Taihua immediately said,

"Don't worry, assembly line transformation is also a major event this year. All production lines are being studied. In short, the goal is to speed up our production and improve our product quality!"

A few people then drove to a workshop at the northernmost part of the arsenal. Four people were sitting around a table in the workshop, drinking and boasting excitedly!

"Director Mo, it looks like the four of us will be the pioneers of the aircraft workshop in the future!"

"Of course not. Our mission this year is to manufacture at least 50% of the parts for the trainer aircraft! We will try to ship the entire aircraft out of the factory in April next year!"

"But there are only four of us, what should we do?"

"Don't worry, the factory manager said that starting from February after the new year, we will be given additional staff every month!"

After 49, Mulan Aviation School, Northeast Aviation School and even aviation schools across the country after liberation would lack a large number of training aircraft. Only by training a large number of pilots first could a strong air force be established!

Yin Xinjun's current timeline for the development of aviation manufacturing is to start mass production of trainer aircraft and jet fighters in 48, bombers and transport aircraft in 49, and when the Korean War broke out, the monthly aircraft production would be no less than 100! One year later, the monthly production would be increased to 200! By then, the training of pilots would be no less than 500 per month!

As for the air force and combat, that was not his concern. He was only responsible for producing aircraft and training pilots!

Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, Mo Hao and his companions turned around and saw the factory director and others coming in. They were very excited for a moment!

Yin Xinjun stretched out his hand and said,

"Happy New Year, Director Mo, Happy New Year to everyone!"

"Happy New Year to both factory managers!"

Several people shook hands one by one.

Yin Xinjun simply sat down, and Mo Hao hurriedly went to get a few sets of wine glasses and bowls.

Yin Xinjun picked up his glass and said,

"Comrades, you are the pioneers of our country's aviation industry. Aircraft manufacturing is the top priority of our arsenal. I wish you all great success!"

After finishing the wine in the glass, Yin Xinjun continued to instruct,

"Lao Mo, if you have any difficulties, just ask, but the plane must be off the production line by June next year!"

"Yes! I will try my best to advance the time!"

In terms of technology and raw materials, there is no difficulty in manufacturing airplanes now. The only problem is the lack of skilled workers. An airplane has tens of thousands of parts. If the Mulan Arsenal wants to form a production line, the current staff must be increased by at least five times!