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

It is for this reason that Kong Hao decided to open branch bases, starting with the Zhao Jiayu base and then spreading to other provinces.

Only when the industrial scale is increased can we produce more weapons and equipment to arm our troops. In addition to the main forces, our vast militia and guerrillas need weapons and ammunition even more.

Now most of our guerrillas are using old sleeve rifles. Those who have a few Hanyang rifles are considered the main guerrillas. Generally, the Type 38 rifles captured from the enemy are given priority for use by the main force.

The equipment of the militia in the village was even worse. They were basically equipped with swords, spears, javelins, hoes, sickles, and a few muskets. Even single-shot pistols were rare items. You can imagine their combat effectiveness.

If, I mean if, in our vast rural areas, every village militia had three to five Mauser pistols, more than twenty Mauser rifles, and two hundred defensive grenades, then the Japanese and puppet troops probably wouldn't even have the courage to enter the village.

Of course, this kind of thing will not happen in the short term, we can only imagine it in our minds.

After all, we still have to have dreams. What if?

After explaining all this, Kong Hao had the team members train for three days, and then sent them to the brigade commander to cooperate with the main force in combat.

In fact, the brigade commander is also very experienced in special operations, and can also earn some merit points for Kong Hao.

As the scale of the industrial zone grows in the future, more and more things will need to be purchased with merits, and no matter how much merits are available, they can be consumed.

In addition, Kong Hao was still thinking about the new functions after the system upgrade, and he couldn't go out to do things in a short period of time, so he could only send the special forces to take action.

With the current strength of the special forces after the re-equipment, they can easily wipe out a Japanese squadron in the wild, which is at least more than a thousand points of merit. A Japanese major general is not easy to snipe, but the enemy's colonels, lieutenant colonels and majors are just a dish in Wang Xikui's eyes, and he can eat them however he wants.

Kong Hao has applied to his superiors to expand the size of the special operations team and merge all previous special operations teams to form a special operations regiment.

Usually they are under the command of the heads of each base, but Kong Hao only needs a title, and the reason given is very reasonable, in order to allow the special forces to adapt to the new special operations equipment as soon as possible.

The main reason is that special operations equipment will be updated every once in a while and needs to be managed in a unified manner.

After careful consideration, the leaders have agreed to Kong Hao's request. After all, everyone is new to special operations, so it is always right to listen to Kong Hao.

As a result, two deputy political commissars were specially sent to the Xingtian Special Forces to assist Kong Hao and Song Qingfeng in handling miscellaneous matters such as coordinating troops and logistical support.

After finishing the special forces' business, Kong Hao went to the secret base to check the progress of some key scientific research projects.

The place we visited this time was the No. 3 key project, the coal-to-oil project. This project has been in the works for some time, and now it’s time to produce results.

Kong Hao also focused on following up on Project No. 3. The entire production line was exchanged by Kong Hao from the system. He also gave samples and drawings to our technicians for research.

Our troops will eventually move towards mechanization, and will certainly be equipped with a large number of transport vehicles, as well as armored forces, aircraft, warships and other oil-burning equipment.

All of these things require the consumption of oil, a large amount of oil. It is obviously unrealistic to import them from abroad, so we can only find a way domestically.

China has been labeled an "oil-poor country" by foreign geological experts, but that is just the ignorance of some people who claim to be experts. China has oil, and it is a world-class oil field.

Even in Kong Hao's mind, there are the specific locations of the major oil fields and the drilling depths, but he didn't dare to say it out loud, and he didn't even dare to mention it to anyone.

Once the Japanese get to know the specific information, with our current strength, we will not be able to defend it. I estimate that even if the Japanese lose 200,000 lives, they will find a way to occupy the oil-producing areas.

This is also the reason why Kong Hao insisted on developing coal-to-oil. The main reason is that this thing can be hidden and developed secretly. Moreover, in the early stage, we have relatively few vehicles using gasoline, so we can cope with it in a short period of time.

When he arrived at the secret base, Engineer Wang, who was in charge of the project, received him and gave a detailed explanation:

"Chief Consultant, our coal-to-oil project has been running for a while now, and the overall effect is quite impressive, but it will take some time to reach the theoretical production capacity."

"At present, if our entire workshop works overtime, we can liquefy about 60 tons of gasoline and 5 tons of diesel per month. I saw in the manual that we can also produce aviation gasoline, but we have never tried it. We can only simply divide the liquefied oil into gasoline, diesel and by-products."

Kong Hao smiled and said, "To separate out that kind of high-end stuff, we need some catalysts, and our army doesn't have any aircraft, so it's useless to separate it out, so let's not waste the effort for now."

"In fact, many of the byproducts left after coal refining are very good things, and they are also of great help to our base."

"For example, naphtha is a relatively light fraction produced during the direct liquefaction of coal. We can hand it over to the chemical industry group. After a series of chemical synthesis, we can obtain ethylene and aromatics, which are very valuable chemical raw materials. "

"There are also those sulfur-containing compounds that are liquefied. They can be used to synthesize sulfur through chemical reactions. This is also a raw material that our arsenal urgently needs. "

"In addition, there are asphaltene, nitrogen-containing compounds and various alcohol compounds. These are all treasures. We must try every possible way to utilize them, even if it costs a little more."

"Comrades from the chemical engineering team will be stationed here later to analyze and study all the by-products. You guys need to pay more attention to cooperation."

"General Counsel, there is no problem on our side. To be honest, we should have done this a long time ago."

"As the saying goes: Every profession has its own specialization. Many of our technicians are newcomers and don't know a lot of things. We just need some chemical experts to guide our work."

After visiting the coal-to-oil factory, Kong Hao went to the research and imitation group nearby to inquire about the relevant imitation situation.

To be honest, even if the production capacity of this factory is increased to its maximum, it is only 100 tons per month, and about 1,200 tons per year, which is not too much, but not too little either.

According to the current number of motor vehicles in our army, we cannot use up 50 tons a month. However, if we look to the future, this output is far from enough and cannot even support the daily needs of a mechanized force.