"This time the Second Artillery Artillery Fire covers very timely. Many Japanese positions were captured by your artillery fire support..." It is rare that the entire island of Yizhou has been roughly settled, and Lu Han and Li Yannian are in the office.

Talked with laughter.

Before the start of this battle, Lu Han didn't know much about Li Yannian. He only knew that he was an old warrior from the government and then joined the National Defense Forces in the Jinan Campaign.

This weapon of the National Defense Force, the direct commander of the Second Artillery Force, was very low-key. No one had heard of his name even before this army was born.

Su Zongzhe, who was the same as him, has served as Chief of Staff of the National Defense Forces. The rest, including Yang Yuting, Chang Yinhuai, etc., all served as senior executives of the coalition government and are well-known.

Only he seemed to have never been famous. It was not until the Second Artillery Force achieved great reputation in previous battles that Li Yannian's name gradually became well-known to everyone.

"In terms of precise artillery shelling, the navy's fleet is better at it than us." Li Yannian smiled and waved his hand, saying, "It's just that Brother Houfu is busy going to North Korea to prepare to deduce the landing war against Japan with the commander-in-chief, and he has no time to pay attention to it.

we."

Li Yannian still has a clear understanding of himself. Artillery fire coverage is the main combat method of the Second Artillery, but precise artillery bombardment still depends on traditional artillery troops.

"Ji Fu, since the commander-in-chief asked you to form an army alone, there must be considerations in this regard." Lu Han smiled and said: "Indeed, the accuracy of the rocket launcher still needs to be improved, and the range is indeed

It's a little closer."

"But I can be sure that our research institute must be studying this issue." Lu Hanshu paused and whispered: "Jifu, you can calculate it yourself. Our rocket launcher has gone from nothing to something, and then to

How much time has it taken to join the army?!"

"In just a few short years, our rocket launcher has been improved several times. The range of each time is farther than that of each time, and more precisely every time. Let me see! For your Second Artillery, the Commander-in-Chief must have more

Consider it. Otherwise, why do you ask you to form an army alone?!"

Li Yannian actually considered what Lu Han said. However, as a soldier, he was not as imaginative as those crazy scientists.

In Li Yannian's view, there is almost no room for improvement in the direction of rockets. Power, range, accuracy, etc., the current rocket launcher has almost reached a limit.

If you want a longer range, you can only use larger rockets. Larger rockets mean more fuel is needed and the accuracy will be worse.

In fact, if you only design this way, the cost of rockets is too high. It is even less economical than that of train cannons. After all, you can build one train cannon. What is left is maintenance and shell costs.

As for rockets, you can destroy one. And if you create a large rocket, although it may be stronger than train cannon shells, its accuracy is definitely not as high as train cannon shells.

After all, it is not worth it no matter how you calculate it.

If Li Yannian had come from later generations, he would have known what precise guidance is. In this way, he would not be confused about the accuracy of the rocket.

Unfortunately, in this era when electrons were just showing their dawn, if you told people that electrons could be used for precise guidance, more than 90% of people would think you were crazy.

So Tu Mengben would not tell the scientists of the National Defense Forces what electronic guidance is. Many times, research on epoch-making things costs a lot of time and will not achieve any results.

For example, the jet fighter me262 developed by Germany during World War II. Although this is an epoch-making fighter, his premature birth caused a lot of problems.

The same v1 rockets were the same. The early v1 rockets were even shot down by empty guns and fighter jets. Later, although the German army developed a more powerful v2 missile that could not be intercepted.

But the war was not left with the Germans at that time, even if they had most of the epoch-making weapons. But these weapons did not bring them victory.

On the contrary, a large amount of investment caused Germany's own economy and resources to be exhausted, which ultimately made Germany lose its despair in the war.

Tu Mengben would not do such stupid things. He was careful every step he took. Only when he understood his own productivity could he be able to make weapons and equipment suitable for him and this era step by step according to the plan.

And those weapons and equipment are what you need. For example, the Tiger Assault Rifle. The biggest problem with this gun derived from the AK-47 is its bullets.

The ammunition consumption of automatic weapons is extremely amazing. If there is no supporting ammunition production equipment, corresponding smelting industrial foundation, and a large amount of resources, then you will make and let the troops fully equip this kind of gun, which is no different from seeking death.

A gun without bullets is no different from a fire stick. It is not even easy to use. Tu Mengben's first purpose of making this kind of gun was to sell it to the United States.

He also equipped his own commando team with a small amount, which had miraculous effects when raiding or sneak attacks on the battlefield. In time, the National Defense Forces had a certain industrial foundation, and he did not dare to equip the Tiger assault rifle at will in the entire army.

The industrial foundation is a flaw! At this time, the National Wehrmacht needs to produce a large number of weapons and equipment such as fighter jets, artillery, tanks, machine guns, etc., and also needs to produce replacement accessories, ammunition, maintenance tools, etc. needed for these weapons and equipment.

Under such circumstances, Tu Mengben estimated the possible ammunition consumption caused by the entire army's full equipment of Tiger Assault Rifles. After the General Staff gave a conclusion, Tu Mengben could only give up this idea helplessly.

The Defense Forces will first not be able to bear it. Now the arsenals of various departments of the Defense Forces are still expanding, but the DNA production capacity has not kept up with the consumption progress.

Wars lead to a large amount of resource consumption, and each battle is a lot of money and life. Here, we can list some data and you can know how these wars were fought.

During the Battle of Iwo Jima, the US military fired 450,000 howitzers from 750,000 to 155, 14,190 tons of naval guns, and more than 10,000 tons of aviation bombs. A rough calculation was made. The US military poured 50,000 tons of ammunition in Iwo Jima.

In the Battle of Okinawa, US naval guns, heavy artillery, mountain guns... etc. 2.11 million howitzers were launched in 750,000 to 155, while the total ammunition consumption of the US military was also 200,000 tons.

During the Battle of Kursk, the Soviet ammunition and oil consumption were 200,000 tons each. Zhukov's digital castle stage in the "East Front" consumed more than 40,000 tons of ammunition and 23,000 tons of oil consumption.

The total amount of ammunition consumed by the German army was not clearly recorded, but large-caliber artillery invested more than the Soviet army, and the ammunition consumption may exceed that of the Soviet army.

On the Western Front, Ardennes counterattacked, the German army consumed an average of 1,200 tons of ammunition per day, and the total ammunition consumption was 50,000 tons. The US military's consumption of various field artillery shells was 1.255 million rounds.

In the later Battle of Berlin, the Soviet army fired 1.286 million shells on the first day! The total number of these fired can reach 98,000 tons of ammunition!

But! Please remember that these are just shells. I did not count machine guns, rifles, aviation bombs, etc., if I included those, these numbers would be even more terrifying.

By looking at these data, you will know how the war was fired. The consumption of ammunition will be an extremely huge consumption. At this time, even if the National Defense Forces have a certain industrial foundation.

But what the National Defense Forces need to deal with at the same time is the consumption of the entire Chinese battlefield, Southeast Asian theater, and even the Korean theater. At the same time, the National Defense Forces also need to build a large number of naval warships.

Fighter jets also need to be developed and mass-produced, and tanks also need to be supplemented. The consumption caused by all this manufacturing is terrifying and amazing!

The so-called war means burning money all the time.

In World War II in history, many times, even the Central Army had problems with ammunition supply. Not to mention those local troops, many times, they could only fill in the battlefield with their lives.

The Big Sword Team of the 29th Army is a kind of honor to fight to the death. But it more shows the embarrassment of equipment, and the troops cannot even have rifles in the entire army.

Even if they are equipped with rifles, they cannot have sufficient ammunition. When they fight against the Japanese army on the battlefield, many times the soldiers of the Chinese team only have more than ten bullets in their hands.

What about Japan at that time?! According to the report from Hideki Tojo to Hirohito in September 1941, Japan's total ammunition reserve was about 90 divisions and the average was 51 field divisions, which was about 51 divisions, and each division could be divided by about 30 divisions.

Ammunition to the 1.8th Division.

The huge gap has given Japan the confidence to sweep China. At the same time, it also gives them the confidence to challenge Britain and the United States. But Japan also paid a huge price for these ammunition reserves.

According to data, in 1937, 56% of the army's national defense expenses were invested in ammunition production. In 1938, 76% of the army's national defense expenses were invested in ammunition production. At the same time, the increase in technical weapons was very slow. Therefore, Japan was poor at that time.

industrialized countries.

In order to maintain a large amount of ammunition consumption, Japan could only continue to try to invade new resource areas. It would transport those resources domestically, and then manufacture weapons and ammunition for war.

Plunder, consume, plunder, and consume again, and continuously form a vicious cycle. In the end, Japan, which is already poor in its own country, was exhausted and killed in this long-term tug-of-war.

Some Japanese people in later generations beat their chests and stamped their feet when they learned about the existence of the Daqing Oilfield. They even believed that if they had discovered the Daqing Oilfield as early as the Japanese occupation in the Northeast, then Japan would not have failed in the war.

Unfortunately, they ignored the reality. War is not a war of resources, but a competition of comprehensive national strength. Steel, rare metals, petroleum, chemicals, etc.

You also need to have a large number of skilled technical engineers, a large number of scientific researchers, and a large amount of funds and food for consumption. None of these are available in Japan.

The United States, as their opponent, had a large surplus. At that time, the United States produced weapons and ammunition not only provided its own consumption, but also supported the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and China in large quantities.

At that time, it was just a hump route, and the materials transported to China were as high as 650,000 tons. Later, the Redo Highway opened transported up to 147,000 tons of materials into China.

What I calculated was that just before the end of the war. In other words, the United States supplied China's materials at that time, as high as 797,000 tons.

The amount of supplies the United States supplied to Britain and the Soviet Union at that time was even more terrifying. Even so, the United States still had the strength to support its troops in combat.

According to existing data, the US steel production reached 28 million tons in 1940, ranking first in the world at that time. By the end of the war in 1945, the total U.S. military force reached 10.5 million, and the US industry could produce 40,000 aircraft annually

There were more than 20,000 tanks, while the United States produced more than 80,000 tanks throughout World War II.

Nearly half of them are the m4 Sherman tanks produced by the Crest plant in Detroit. The annual production capacity of military vehicles reaches one million vehicles.

Their production volume in terms of naval equipment was even more terrifying. From 1941 to 1945, the United States built a total of 131 aircraft carriers and their escort aircraft carriers, 10 battleships, 48 ​​cruisers, 355 destroyers, 498 frigates, and 203 submarines.

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Moreover, the United States has never had a shortage of ammunition for these warships, tanks, artillery and soldiers' guns.

Even with such a huge investment, the United States still has the strength to secretly start the atomic bomb research project in 1939 - the Manhattan Project!

This plan lasted more than six years and cost nearly 2 billion US dollars. This is equivalent to more than 20 billion US dollars now. At the same time, the project employs more than 130,000 scientific researchers and peripheral personnel!

With such huge consumption, they can still make such huge investments to complete these research and development. Can Japan do it?! Obviously, Japan cannot do it.

This is a limitation of national strength. Therefore, even when the Japanese found the Daqing oil field at that time, they could only make them die slower. It was of no help to the end of the defeat.

The national strength is there, no matter how you struggle, the foundation is like that. You can't change it. Tu Mengben is better than the Japanese because he knows what he can do and what he can afford.

Therefore, he used all kinds of ways to continuously introduce all advanced means of production and technicians from all countries. He did not hesitate to use the method of sharing shares and sharing resources to introduce the British and American technology at that time.

There is no way. All so-called progress without an industrial foundation is just empty talk. Without an industrial foundation, even if you have a missile design drawing, you still cannot create a missile.

The Ganges power in later generations is the best example. They did not think about building their own industrial foundation and spent all day purchasing advanced weapons and equipment from abroad.

This has led to the fact that even if they cannot produce qualified ammunition now, the ammunition they produce on their own cannot match the gun. This is really ridiculous.

Their so-called fighter jets cannot be produced by themselves. They can only rely on imports. They said they would develop tanks themselves, and they started to develop them in 1984 until they entered service in 2004.

And the manufacturing cost of this tank is more than four times the price of the Russian T90s tank they purchased since then. What's even more terrifying is that this tank soon exposed huge problems after it was put into service.

I won’t talk about the minor problems, and the most problem is that the tank engine failure cannot be eliminated. After hesitating for a long time, the Indian Ministry of Defense could only hand over the problem to the original German manufacturer of the engine manufacturer for solution.

It is almost impossible for a country without an industrial foundation to become an industrial power overnight. The only thing that can be done is to continuously introduce a large number of technical talents and technical materials.

Then, we continue to invest a large amount of funds in technological research and development and improvement, and slowly form our own productivity and management capabilities.

Many people in later generations talked about the issue of copycats, but in fact, the real name of the copycat is not a copycat. Its name is "reverse engineering". Reverse engineering is not a simple project that can be completed.

Even if you can understand the structure and deduce the problems of the product based on these structures. But materials are obstacles that you cannot overcome.

Reverse engineering is the only way for the rise of any industrialized country. Germany once reverse engineering the United Kingdom at that time. They won the market by reverse engineering and producing cheap products. In the end, they accumulated a large number of production experience and mature technical workers.
To be continued...