Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

It's a pity that China is now an agricultural country, and most of the little industry it has is light industry. It can't even catch up with the Qing Dynasty. After all, no matter how bad it was back then, it could still build heavy artillery and warships. This is caused by the currently popular idea of "it's better to buy than to make".

The steel production line built by Kong Hao is the most advanced in the Czech Republic and has been systematically optimized. Although the equipment appears to be old, its internal performance indicators have reached the world's most advanced level, as have the high-performance steel produced.

This was the steel he had specially selected for the Ma Sihuan rifle production line, and the steel produced was of high quality and had high performance parameters, which was extremely important for any firearm.

In the future, we will continue to produce various artillery pieces, which will require good steel.

Several major Chinese arsenals imitated foreign weapons, but their performance was not as good as the original ones. The main reason was the poor quality of the steel.

At the Eighth Route Army Arsenal, since we have the conditions, we must do our best.

When Political Commissar Qin heard that it was about selecting a site for a steel plant, he suddenly realized why they were so cautious.

"Xiao Kong, producing a thousand tons of good steel a month, this is a remarkable achievement."

"You know, the current steel production in all parts of China is only about 50,000 tons. Now our Eighth Route Army has tons of production all of a sudden. This is an epoch-making achievement."

"With these production capacities, whether it is making guns and cannons or producing some other mechanical products, the improvement in the strength of our Eighth Route Army is obvious."

"Political Commissar, the biggest problem we face now is that if we allow the steel plant to produce in secret, the entire steel plant will be too big a target, especially the chimney, which can be easily spotted by enemy reconnaissance aircraft."

Political Commissar Qin also felt that this was a big problem. At present, the Eighth Route Army basically had no air force and had no defense against the Japanese aircraft. Once discovered by the enemy, it would be difficult for us to guard this precious steel plant.

He said with a serious expression: "Xiao Kong, no wonder you chose this place. Concealment is indeed a big problem. We must take all factors into consideration before building the factory."

"Political Commissar, here's my plan. We can build the steel plant in this forest. We need to keep a lot of green vegetation between each plant building, so that it won't be easily noticed from the air."

"The tall chimneys of the steel plant are built next to several huge old trees, and the black smoke coming out of them also needs to be treated."

"Also, we need to build some villages around the steel plant and burn straw next to them every day. This will also confuse the Japanese reconnaissance planes that may accidentally fly into this area."

Kong Hao has put a lot of thought into the camouflage, just to preserve the Eighth Route Army's only heavy industry.

As long as this steel plant exists, it can continuously produce various weapons and provide them to the troops, which is particularly important for an army.

Kong Hao then added: "Political Commissar, I have already communicated with Minister Zhang. During this period, a large amount of iron ore will be continuously shipped in. Our arsenal must prepare in advance and build a large number of ore storage warehouses nearby."

After hearing this, Political Commissar Qin nodded and said that he had taken note of the matter and would follow up on it later.

After finishing all this, Kong Hao took people to survey the area on site, instructed the technicians on how to level the land, and put forward some precautions and recorded them on the planning map.

Time passed quickly and it was noon in the blink of an eye. Kong Hao did not go back. He just took out the dry food he brought with him and filled his stomach with the cold boiled water in the kettle.

As a time traveler from later generations, he was well aware of the benefits of drinking boiled water, so he strongly demanded that everyone must boil the water before drinking it, and he also specifically explained the benefits of drinking boiled water.

After a period of promotion, everyone found that drinking hot water could reduce the risk of illness, and it gradually became popular in the army.

As long as conditions permit at the garrison, the army's cooks will choose to boil water for the soldiers. Even when the team is on a march, they will boil a large amount of water and put it into the soldiers' kettles before departure.

Many things, once developed into habits, can slowly improve the strength of an army.

In the afternoon, Kong Hao took people to confirm the site again. Only after the planning map was completely completed did he feel at ease to hand it over to the subsequent technical personnel for follow-up.

Next, when he returned to the arsenal, he had just sat down to drink a sip of water and was about to take a rest when Director Ren sent someone over to say that a batch of new machinery and equipment had arrived and wanted him to go over to take over.

These sets of equipment were part of the escort plan developed by Kong Hao, and no one understood the various intricacies involved better than him.

The most feared thing during long-distance transportation of equipment is that one or two pieces are lost. If that happens, it will be a big trouble and the entire production line may not be able to operate.

When Kong Hao was making the transportation plan, he specifically numbered and classified the equipment for the entire production line.

After being transported out of the train station, a dedicated person will inspect and confirm the equipment at each reception location, and any non-compliance will be carefully checked.

After the equipment was transported out of the train station, Kong Hao chose to transport the equipment in a dispersed manner to avoid the target being too large to arouse the enemy's vigilance.

After arriving at our base, we will gather them together for transportation, which can speed up the transportation.

The most important thing is to be able to transport the entire production line to the arsenal intact, and then quickly install it and put it online.

The Japanese have suffered such a huge loss that they will definitely find a way to retaliate. The sooner the production line is put into operation, the more confident we will be in dealing with the upcoming war.

The person in charge of transporting the equipment this time was Kong Hao's old acquaintance, Shen Quan, the battalion commander of the second battalion of the independent regiment.

Seeing the people coming from his mother's family, Kong Hao was also very happy and joked:

"Old Shen, how are you doing lately? I see everyone seems to be in a bad mood."

Shen Quan also looked depressed, and said quietly:

"Don't mention it. Our independent regiment got up early and arrived late. We thought there would be a big battle, and everyone was ready to fight, but to our surprise, there was nothing."

"After our second battalion arrived at the railway station, we dug trenches. We thought we would have a head-on battle with the main force of the Japanese, which would also bring fame to the independent regiment."

"But after we dug the trench, it was a long wait. We waited for two days and three nights, but the Japanese in Taigu County didn't make any movement. It was as if they were all asleep."

"On the afternoon of the third day, the independent regiment received the latest order, asking us to fill in all the trenches we had dug and restore them to their original state. This is just a waste of time."

This order made Li Yunlong and Ding Wei very depressed. It turned out that thousands of people from their two regiments came here from far away just to dig mud for fun.

After listening to Shen Quan's complaints, Kong Hao said with a smile:

"This is great. The Japanese didn't notice our actions at the train station. This is our greatest victory."

"As long as we can transport all the supplies from the train station back, it will be much more useful than killing thousands of devils."