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    The plane did not land in Guiyang, but flew directly to Shuicheng at the junction of Yunnan and Guizhou.

    Shuicheng was the coal and iron center established during Yang Qiu¡¯s rule in Southwest China in 1911. After the southwest railway network was completed in 1927, the state-owned Shuicheng Iron and Steel Group emerged from this remote town.  After more than ten years of development, Shuicheng has become the largest steel center in southwest China, with an annual steelmaking capacity of five million tons.  Not only does it effectively support the construction of the Southwest, but also due to its geographical remoteness and strong confidentiality, it has become the special metallurgical materials base of the 3010 plan together with Baotou, Chongqing, and has paired up with a large number of higher education institutions such as Southwest University, Guizhou University, and Kunming University.  The high-strength pressure-resistant steel currently used by the Navy for submarines and the torsion bars of Type 36 tanks and other special steels are all produced here.

    After getting off the plane, Jiang Baili saw Yu Dawei and several other people in charge of the 3010 project. Even Yang Qiu's eldest daughter was in the crowd.  "Sisi, why are you here too?" Yang Qiu also wondered why his daughter came here.

    "Dad, why did you forget that the computer control system was contracted by our Lenovo company?"

    "Computer?" Although Jiang Baili is old, he has learned a lot of new technical terms from Yang Qiu over the years.  Information deciphering, air defense command, "Tianquan" fighter jets, the latest H-12 bomber, etc. all use computer technology, but how can a metallurgical group use expensive and complex computers?

    Yu Dawei quickly explained his doubts: "It is a new type of oxygen top-blown converter. It can shorten the steelmaking time by about four times. It requires the use of computer control technology." Yu Dawei stood in the steelmaking workshop and pointed to a new type of oxygen converter.  The converter is introduced to you.

    After taking over the responsibility of the steward of the 3010 program from Leng Jie, he has become the general person in charge of various national-level research programs in the country.  Although he rarely participates in actual research, he has been traveling to major laboratories for many years to provide everyone with logistical support and scheduling resources.  He has made great contributions.

    "Four times shorter?!" Jiang Baili screamed as soon as he finished speaking.  Domestic steel production has remained at a peak of 45 million tons in the past few years. As for the expansion of the new factory after the war, it will take time. Secondly, because the war has taken away too many resources and manufacturing capacity, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce believes that it will not be completed until 45 years.  There will be a new round of steel expansion.  But what do you hear now?  Time reduced by four times.  Doesn¡¯t it mean that the production capacity can be increased to 180 million tons per year?  !  Oh my God!  The United States just exceeded 70 million tons last year.

    Yu Dawei was sweating profusely and quickly corrected: "Principal, that's not the calculation. The promotion of new technologies, equipment modifications, and worker training all take time. Besides, no matter how high the output of crude steel is, if the processing capacity is not increased, the steel plant will only reduce production.  Or it¡¯s a matter of lowering prices and malicious competition.¡±

    "That's true" Jiang Baili agreed, but his expression remained eager, and even his steps became brisk.  "Baili, why are you here?" After entering the steelmaking workshop, Yue Peng was talking to several technicians who were preparing to start the furnace. When he saw Yang Qiu, he immediately came up to say hello.  "Is this a new steel-making furnace?" An impatient Jiang Baili interrupted him.  Get in among the technicians and ask questions.

    In fact, as early as the early days of the 3010 plan, Yang Qiu proposed the oxygen top blowing steelmaking method and handed over some of what he knew to Leng Jie.  At that time, he thought that the oxygen top-blown converter should be very simple, because Germany had achieved large-scale industrial oxygen production during the European War, and converters appeared after the war. Therefore, when planning the national steel plants, he did not pile up furnaces.  They always think that they can get it done before the war and then produce steel output that is higher than that of the United States. This is also one of the reasons why domestic steel production is insufficient in advance.  Later he realized that this was actually a very difficult technique.  High-temperature-resistant three-hole nozzles, how to control oxygen at twice the speed of sound, how to master the chemical reaction of molten steel in the furnace to achieve the best quality, and new furnace bodies, supporting rings, trunnions and tilting machinery, etc. have led to repeated research failures.  In particular, the parameters that need to be controlled and adjusted are quite complicated and cannot be solved purely by manual labor. Therefore, it was not until last year that Hua Luogeng manufactured the first transistor computer and the volume and life span reached a satisfactory level, then he led the technology team to work together with Lenovo to overcome the problem.  The technology of using computer to realize fuzzy control of nozzle is introduced.

    Simply put, it is based on experimental data.  Based on the mathematical model established by material balance and heat balance, a computer is used to allocate blowing and oxygen blowing volumes.  During operation, the parameters are first set according to the type of smelting, and then the computer controls the mechanical nozzle according to the parameters to realize automated metallurgical operations.  Of course, this system is still very primitive.  The size is even more huge, incomparable to later generations.

    After Yang Sisi introduced the principles of computer control to Jiang Baili and others, the technical workers began to operate the converter.  In just twenty minutes, a furnace of molten steel was poured into the crucible and sent to the hot rolling mill.  In order to demonstrate to the president, more than a dozen excited materials and metallurgical experts moved the detector into the workshop and used a lot of technical means to prove that the crude steel produced through the oxygen top-blown furnace is superior to that in terms of impurities and strength.  Steel is currently refined.

    "Promote, we must promote it as soon as possible""Jiang Baili was very excited, and even Yang Qiu nodded frequently. After twenty years of hard work, he finally achieved another milestone in metallurgical technology.

    Yu Dawei and the technical staff are even more happy. After all, the new steel-making furnace is like their child.  But when it comes to promotion, he still maintains a calm and cautious attitude: "Shuicheng has been renovated. We have roughly calculated that if we use local ore, the output can triple from last year to 15 million tons (low-grade ore needs to be screened first).  If India's high-grade ore is used to directly make steel, 20 million tons can be given a try. In terms of promotion, state-owned plants such as Anshan, Baotou, and Urumqi have little problem, but private plants such as Changchun, Zhanjiang, Hanyang, and Chongqing involve  Issues such as technology transfer require coordination. Moreover, this is a war period, and equipment modification will delay the start of construction, so we can only do it one by one, otherwise there will be trouble."

    "Dawei has considered it very comprehensively, and the promotion of new technologies must also consider practicality." Yue Peng praised.  He is different from Jiang Baili. The latter is no longer in the military, so he must consider the problem more comprehensively if he wants to say anything.  But when it comes to high-grade ore, he made a guarantee: "You can rest assured about high-grade iron ore. As long as I am still the marshal, the Indian theater can ensure that at least 30 million tons of concentrate can be transported back a year!"

    With the Marshal¡¯s assurance, the technical staff, factory director and others all pledged to achieve the 20 million tons target.  This means that crude steel production in the economic forecast at the beginning of the year will surge by 15 million tons.  Reaching a scale of 60 million tons!  Finally, in order to encourage everyone, Yang Qiu also specifically asked Yu Dawei and the factory director to sort out the merit list as soon as possible, and he would submit it to Congress to reward scientific research and technical workers and even confer medals.

    The adjustment of the navy and Yang Qiu's visit to new steel-making technology all herald the end of the East Asian War.  Work such as restarting national construction and restoring normal people's livelihood and economic order have been put on the agenda.

    Of course, war is still the main theme at present.

    So after the group left the steel factory, Yang Qiu immediately pulled Jiang Baili into the car, who was about to return to Ryukyu early: "Don't leave yet, we have to go see the new bomb experiment later."

    "New bomb?" Jiang Baili, who had just opened his eyes, was secretly surprised. What kind of bomb is worthy of Yang Qiu's personal inspection?  How about putting it in the hundreds of thousands of mountains in Guizhou?  "The new bomb is aimed at mountainous areas and some special terrains, and has a high degree of confidentiality. The terrain and confidentiality conditions here in Guizhou are better." Yue Peng sat next to him and explained the reason for placing it in Guizhou.

    When the three of them were talking, the convoy had already returned to the airport. After getting off the car, they saw Air Force Commander Yu Lei and many officers, looking at a giant bomb that was loaded into the H-7's improved magazine.  The bomb is larger than the 5-ton "Rage" and has a round head.  It is obviously not an earth-penetrating bomb. There is a parachute bag at the tail, and the wings of the bomb are also painted in eye-catching red.

    The bright colors and the skull logo on the surface of the bomb made Jiang Baili puzzled, because it looked very much like a poison gas bomb.  You know, China, like all warring countries, is equipped with a large number of poison gas bombs.  Only because of the terrible impact of the last war, the warring countries are more restrained.  So he looked at Yue Peng and Yu Lei, with some dissatisfaction in his words: "Zian, how do you use this?"

    Yue Peng chuckled: "Brother Baili, if this is a poison gas bomb, the soldiers should wear chemical protective suits."

    "It's not a gas bomb, it's a daisy cutter!" Yang Qiu said loudly, with eager eyes.

    "Daisy cutter?"

    This name, not to mention that Jiang Baili is baffled, even many people in later generations do not understand it.  But with the name Cloud Explosion Bomb, everyone can clearly understand what kind of monster this is.

    The cloud bomb is a powerful bomb that appeared in the Vietnam War.  It is known as the "civilian atomic bomb", but in fact, the cloud bomb is not civilian at all.  Everyone knows that cloud explosive bombs are filled with GSX slurry explosives (also known as cloud explosives), whose main ingredients are ammonium nitrate, aluminum powder and polystyrene.  After the bomb explodes, the cloud explosive agent will quickly form an aerosol-like fuel and penetrate into various fortifications.  The ability to hit sealed fortifications is much higher than that of ordinary bombs.  And because fuel consumes oxygen, it will also bring another new killing effect, suffocation!  If the meteorological conditions are suitable, its explosion can severely deprive the explosion area of ??oxygen for more than ten minutes.  In this way, even if the enemy survives the explosion, he will suffocate due to lack of oxygen.

    Of course, Yang Qiu would not let go of such a powerful bomb, but few people knew that if these three main components were mixed, what would be obtained would not be a cloud explosive agent, but a suicide explosion!  Therefore, the real secret of the cloud explosive agent is a special thickening agent (for the sake of harmony, I will not mention it clearly).  The role of the thickener is not only to thicken the three main materials, but also to inhibit their chemical reactions, turning the cloud explosive agent into a chemical synthesis agent that can be safely processed, stored and transported.

    Cloud blasting agent is not simple and requires a strong foundation in the chemical industry.  In later generations, cloud explosive agents were able to be mass-produced with high quality and low price because of the rapid development of technology and chemical industry.  But even if technologyAt this time, there are only a handful of countries that can independently develop cloud explosive agents, so cloud explosive bombs are by no means civilian atomic bombs.

    In this world, in order to improve the national chemical industry, Yang Qiu took advantage of the European war and the economic crisis to introduce the chemical manufacturing industry. He also used high-priced recruitment, overseas study and other means. Before the war, he even cooperated with German Farben and other companies. In the end, it took three  It took ten years to establish a chemical industry system second only to the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United Kingdom, and then it was able to produce cloud explosives in batches.  Of course, Europe and the United States also have the capabilities, but in order to synthesize cloud explosive agents, in addition to thinking, they also need to conduct a large number of time-consuming synthesis experiments like China.

    This complicated technical terminology made everyone confused. Fortunately, all Yue Peng and Jiang Baili needed were power and output data.

    Half an hour later, the special plane, protected by fighter jets, took the lead in arriving over a specially selected valley. In order to achieve experimental results, the Air Force transformed the valley. Culverts and tunnels were excavated in the mountains on both sides. The center of the valley followed the wall standards of the cold regions of the Soviet Union.  , built a simulated small village, and everyone was tacitly aware of whether there were "living experimental specimens" in it to verify the suffocation effect.

    "coming!"

    While everyone was talking, bombers and an observation plane slowly flew in from the south. Yang Qiu immediately picked up the telescope.  It can be seen through the telescope that the bomber's magazine door has been opened, but the bomb cannot be seen due to the angle.

    A minute later the bomber began to descend and dropped the bomb at an altitude of 1,000 meters.  The red tail fin makes people see it very clearly. When the bomb falls to a height of about 200 meters, the tail parachute opens, and the bomb slows down and slowly falls towards the center of the small village.  About twenty or thirty meters away from the ground, this cloud bomb, which completely imitated the "Daisy Cutter" design, suddenly exploded.  What is eye-opening is that after the bomb exploded, it did not immediately explode into a fireball, but spewed out a large stream of gas-like material. To the naked eye, the entire village was enveloped in the gas.

    "This is aerosol Boom!" Before Yue Peng could finish asking, a fire suddenly flashed in the white mist, and then the entire aerosol exploded violently!  Even though it was still several kilometers away from the small village, the air waves still affected the 40-ton special plane, scaring the two pilots' vests.  The huge mushroom cloud rolled and rolled at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the entire village was wrapped in a sea of ??fire. The super pressure generated by the explosion also pushed the surrounding trees down in pieces.

    It took more than ten minutes for the sea of ????fire to gradually dissipate. Only then did everyone see clearly that all buildings and trees within a 300-meter radius of the explosion point were razed to the ground, and large trees, shrubs and even weeds within 100 meters were burned to ashes. It looked like this  It was as if the small village had never appeared before, and the ground was as flat and empty as if it had been run over by a steamroller.

    The caves on both sides of the cliffs are still burning, which further proves that it is true that oxygen is consumed by infiltration into underground caves.  "The power is about 40 tons of yellow explosive." Yu Lei, who deals with bombing every day, quickly determined the approximate explosion yield.  The 6,800 kilogram bomb could actually produce an explosion with the equivalent of 40 tons, which really shocked Yue Peng and Jiang Baili, who had seen atomic bomb explosions.  Because the latter is a strategic weapon and does not have the ability to produce in large quantities, it cannot be used at will. However, the one in front of you can be put into actual combat anytime and anywhere.

    "The price of cloud explosives is still relatively expensive. We have begun to expand production to see if we can reduce the cost. It is estimated that we will be able to produce 3,000 tons per month by the end of the year. The extra large size just now is mainly used for critical tasks and special purposes. Carrying it  The bombers need to be specially modified, so the output will not be very large. The 800-kg front-line tactical type and the 1,500-kg strategic bombing type used by attack aircraft are the main models." Yu Lei said: "I am going to put the next stage of actual combat into practice.  The experiment was placed in the Urals, and the blow"

    "Wait a minute, I want to put it in Japan first."

    Before Yu Lei finished speaking, Yang Qiu suddenly interjected quietly and took out the translated telegram brought back by Jiang Baili and handed it to Yue Peng and Yu Lei: "The news of the Soviet-German alliance made Hirohito change his mind. So I'm thinking,  Is it possible to take advantage of the cloud blast bomb's high destructive power and suffocation effect to start clearing operations early and help Tokuda Qiu clear the obstacles?"
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