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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 236: Abandoning the Front Line

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    Wang Caidong started to tremble.

    The name Wang Caidong comes from the joke the villagers made on Wang Guangtian after the new year. After the new year and the beginning of spring, both day laborers had to be busy with things in the fields.  I had no choice but to quit my job as a part-time worker here in Wang Guangtian. Although I earned a lot of food from the job in autumn and winter, it was still a part-time job after all. For the farmers in the village, the harvest from the fields was more secure.

    Seeing that the peanut oil output of more than a hundred kilograms per day has dropped to just a few dozen kilograms a day, Wang Guangtian was lying when he said he was not in a hurry.  This is a money-making machine, but nothing will come out unless you step on it hard.

    Considering the limitations of day labor, Wang Guangtian had no choice but to recruit two long-term laborers from his own village and a neighboring village. Both of them did not have land at home - those who had land could not abandon their family land to work as long-term labor for others.

    "First two short-term workers were hired, and then two long-term workers were hired. Now Wang Guangtian's reputation rose in the village.  Someone also inquired and found out that the year before last, Wang Guangtian only sent a bag of peanuts and a bag of flour to his mother-in-law's house during the New Year (the most popular food gift in the village during the New Year celebrations). On the second day of the Lunar New Year, he sent a basket of eggs and a basket of vermicelli.  .  This is still the standard of ordinary people, but it changed drastically last year. A year ago, I sent a pig head, a pig hind leg, and a bucket of peanut oil (about 15 pounds) to my mother-in-law¡¯s family. I brought it to my mother-in-law¡¯s family for New Year¡¯s greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year.  It was a basket of several dozen kilograms of fried cakes, fried sugar cakes and other items.

    This is not a living standard that ordinary villagers can achieve. The government's exemption of land taxes and tough measures such as low land rents and low interest rates have only given farmers a sigh of relief. The actual output from the land has not increased.  It¡¯s just that there¡¯s much less exploitation.  (Then again, if your family can live a good life with a few acres of land, who would go out to work as a migrant worker?)

    Wang Caidong¡¯s name was called out in the village. When Wang Guangtian heard it, he didn¡¯t dare to respond and just said: ¡°It¡¯s a joke.¡±

    Just talking, the quiet Wang Guangtian added six piglets to his family after the New Year, and they were running around the yard with round bellies all day long.  As soon as everyone got used to it, Wang Guangtian added a rubber cart and a five-year-old horse and mule to his home.  This can be regarded as solidifying Wang Caidong's reputation.

    Similar to other rich men in the countryside, Wang Guangtian wears an indigo blue cotton-padded jacket when he goes out. This cotton-padded jacket has been worn for three years and has been patched several times. However, the owner of the cotton-padded jacket has a rosy complexion, and at least he is a beggar.  The level of a Nine-Pocket Elder.

    Now Wang Guangtian is also a little depressed. People in the village are very particular about not showing their wealth. When Wang Guangtian was poor, he was kidnapped by bandits just to extort some sweet potatoes, dried eggs, homespun cloth, etc. Now that Wang Caidong's reputation has become famous, he said in his heart that he is not afraid of that.  Fake.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????: There are dozens of people in the family, and the long-term workers can also handle guns, and they will be able to take care of the hospital when the time comes.  Where have you been?  Piglets are not expensive, six pigs add up to 18 yuan. It can be said that most household owners can afford to raise them and they don¡¯t eat food. It just depends on whether they have time. Feeding pigs is a matter for women and the elderly at home, and almost every household owner can afford it.  Every family has to build a pigsty when building a house, but they may not have time to raise pigs.

    Horse mules and rubber carts are much more expensive. I bought a horse mule at the market for 45 yuan for a newly grown and capable horse mule. The steel bearings can pull several kilograms of rubber carts.  It's a bit more expensive, adding up to more than a hundred dollars.  But Wang Guangtian thought it was quite worthwhile. Hiring a car a few days ago cost money every time. Anyway, it is a car that is used frequently. Instead of hiring someone else, it is better to buy it yourself.  When farming is busy, it is also useful for planting and pulling grain and fertilizer.  My wife used to go to the well every morning to fetch water, but now she uses a mule cart to haul water, which saves a lot of effort.

    Before and after going out, Wang Guangtian always touches the revolver in his arms to feel at ease.  Every time I go to the market, I have to transport goods worth 100 yuan. There are people who are willing to take risks and fight for this little money.

    After the name came out, Wang Guangtian's wife was also a little worried. It was not a good thing to show off one's wealth.  Although in this first month of this year, almost everyone comes here to eat dumplings stuffed with cabbage, green onions and pork, and each of the children is wearing a new cotton-padded coat - children grow up quickly, and old cotton-padded coats will soon be outgrown, and it has nothing to do with the number of patches.

    Although they can let the second child wear the second child's old clothes and the third child wear the second child's old clothes, and the first child wears the father's old clothes, the couple feels that the family already has a huge sum of several hundred yuan, and they really don't want to suffer any more for the children.  Now - new cotton is not warm either.

    But this year, the plan to renovate the house this year has been scrapped. The couple discussed it in the evening and it is better not to show their wealth too conspicuously. The house can still be lived in and it is not too late to renovate it when the eldest gets married. It can be bought for the third in the village.  A piece of land to build a house is reserved for marriage.  In this way, others can't say anything.  A well can also be built in the new house, so that the third family will not have to go outside to fetch water in the future.  Buying land, building a house, and digging a well are all big things, but the third child is only ten years old, so there is no rush.

    Wang Guangtian is one of the few in rural areas in this era.??One of the people who sees that farming, especially growing food, has no future, but it cannot change the minds of most farmers who still want to farm. After all, Wang Guangtian cannot say that after getting rich with an oil press, he will use up his five acres of food rations at home.  The fields and more than ten acres of sandy fields suitable only for growing peanuts were sold for business purposes only.

    Now Wang Guangtian is thinking more about how much land to buy for his third son. After all, if there is no land in the village, no one will give you a wife.  There have been seven or eight matchmakers this year, all of them looking for a wife for the fourteen-year-old boss - there was also one who wanted to find a younger wife for Wang Caidong, but Wang Caidong's unreasonable woman beat the matchmaker out alive.  .  In fact, Wang Guangtian still wanted to consider Widow Wang from the neighboring village.

    Although the state has issued repeated orders to strictly prohibit the sale of human beings and the taking of concubines, no one takes it seriously.  This matter requires the people above to set an example, especially those above the concubinage line. They are not clean when it comes to male and female behavior. If you ask others, you will not be able to be tough first.  Let¡¯s look at former Prime Ministers Lu Muzhen, Dayue Xun, Chen Cuifen, and Soong Ching Ling.  The military committee chairmen, also referred to as committee members or principals, include Mao Fumei, Yao Yecheng, Chen Jieru, and Song Meiling.  (There are more women who are 186 than these two, but some are prohibited, so I won¡¯t mention them one by one.)

    Getting married at the age of fourteen is not considered an early marriage in the village. Not to mention getting a child bride at the age of seven or eight, there are also a lot of people who consummate their marriages at the age of fourteen or fifteen.  It's just that who you marry has nothing to do with the children. You just wait to be the groom when the time comes. Everything is a standard blind marriage with the parents of both parties making the decision.

    Wang Guangtian also came here this way, and even his ancestors have come here this way for generations, and he didn't think there was anything wrong.  It's good if the parents are optimistic about it. As for the children, what do children of 14 or 15 years old know?

    Wang Guangtian and his wife have seen the women proposed by several matchmakers successively and they are not from outside. Taking into account the comprehensive factors such as family background, physique, temperament, virtuousness, diligence and other factors, without the knowledge of the eldest son of the family, they arranged for the eldest son to marry one of the women.  Got the horoscope.  In fact, the combination of horoscopes is just a formality. If someone doesn't deliberately make trouble, these horoscopes will all be consistent.  Speaking of which, it's just a matter of spending two small coins to ask for auspicious words.

    Naturally, the woman didn't have any objections. The matchmaker took the woman's parents to see it in person. There were several piglets running around in the courtyard, they also raised large livestock and bought a glue truck. The two long-term workers in the family pressed oil every day -  - This is equivalent to opening a small oil shop at home. Life is prosperous and prosperous. No wonder people outside are called Wang Caidong.  The family will be relieved if the daughter marries the eldest son, who will not suffer hardship, and the eldest son will inherit the family business sooner or later.

    Peking

    In the past year, Jin Ba Tian was studying new tanks.

    The outermost layer of defense line in Rehe was finally abandoned amidst the rumbles of gunfire and explosions. Well, the Peking Military and Political Department ordered the abandonment of the outer defense line at the junction of Rehe and Liaoning after the outer defense line was destroyed to a certain extent.  The eighteen hilltop positions are a bit pity to say the least. If you stick to them, you don't have to give up the position.

    But the Peking Military and Political Department had its own considerations. The artillery of the Japanese-Russian coalition was most important in the outer positions. Most of the heavy artillery positions deployed in Rehe were not powerful enough.  Put in some Japanese-Russian allied forces, and they will be able to see the power of the heavy artillery positions.  As for the air force, the Japanese-Russian coalition suffered heavy losses after the decisive air battle involving more than a thousand aircraft from three parties over Jehol at the end of last year.  Although the Peiping Air Force also lost more than 100 aircraft and dozens of pilots, the losses were much smaller than the nearly 300 aircraft and more than 200 pilots suffered by the Japanese-Russian coalition forces.

    Withdrawal is a withdrawal, but the casualties of the troops who were withdrawn from inside were not large. The front-line troops withdrew from the defense line and transferred to the fourth-line position with remaining supplies and weapons.  There are seven lines of defense from Rehe to the outside of Peiping, all of which are hollowed-out mountain fortifications. Jin Batian feels that even the joint forces can't do anything to take a small Shangganling, and there is nothing that the Japanese-Russian coalition can do.

    It¡¯s just that in a report at the end of the year, the gun caliber of the Min-22 tank was a bit small.  There are reports that the tanks equipped by the Japanese-Russian coalition forces have tank guns with a larger caliber than the Min-22 tank.

    Jin Batian thinks this is a typical case of picking up the bowl to eat and then putting down the bowl to scold your mother. Without me, the Civilian Type 22 tank can have such a good situation in the current war of resistance.  Now I think the tank's artillery is weak or something. The Min-24 tank has so much firepower that I don't see you buying more.

    But the land cruiser¡¯s passing ability was really a problem, so Jin Batian had no choice but to research new tanks.  He smoked Victory cigarettes on the table one after another, and used technologies from various countries to build new tanks.

    These Shengli brand cigarettes are produced by the Xianghe County Welfare Cigarette Factory. The cigarettes currently supplied to the army are all produced by this company. There is no other reason. This is the first factory established by disabled ** soldiers. The army also buys cigarettes from here.  Leave a way out for yourself. After all, if the factory closes down, it will be the disabled brothers Paoze who will suffer the losses.

      Song Ziwen specially supplied wires to a factory in Xianghe County.  Cigarettes are rolled out very quickly using automatic cigarette rolling machines. The most common thing workers do is to import and export materials, pack them and ship them.  There is also a welfare cigarette factory in Shunyi that is also separately accounted for, but this one uses the hand-rolling method to make cigars.

    This new tank must take into account both firepower and speed as well as the ability to pass through. In other words, it must not be too heavy, not too slow, and must be strong. It really needs the horse to run fast but also not to eat grass.

    Therefore, the Min-25 tank that has not yet been designed is destined to be a medium or light tank, and there will be no multi-turret design - a single turret is indeed evil, but not as evil as an RPG.

    Heavy armor is even less likely to exist. After retaining some data on the outer armor of the Min-22 tank, Jin Batian designed a new tank.  Its firepower consists of a 7.92mm heavy machine gun and a 75mm tank gun.  The crew is still a group of four, one driver and communications officer, one machine gunner, one gunner, and one loader.  The ammunition capacity is 10,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition and 110 rounds of 75mm artillery shells.

    The angle of the outer armor remains unchanged, but the thickness still needs to be thickened. Each side is thickened by an average of 10 mm. The requirement is that the front can withstand the 57 mm tank gun armor-piercing projectile of the Little Devil at a medium and close range of about 300 meters, and 75 mm at a farther distance.  Millimeter non-armor-piercing bullets can also be blocked.

    With the addition of artillery and armor, the weight has naturally increased.  In order to ensure speed, the diesel engine of this Min-25 tank has 500 horsepower, which is equivalent to that of a Land Cruiser.  The total weight is 15.5 tons, the maximum road speed is 48 kilometers, and the off-road speed is 38 kilometers.  The car is 2.12 meters high, 4.65 meters long and 3.3 meters wide.  With a full tank of gas, it could travel 200 kilometers off-road, which was a pretty good level in 1936.

    The selling price is set at 30,000 yuan per tank based on comprehensive consideration of production and other factors. Medium tanks are probably more expensive than light tanks.  We need to let these people know that good products are not cheap.

    In order to take both public and private considerations into account, while designing a new tank, Jin Batian also designed an ultra-luxury cruise ship for himself - a fully loaded displacement of 100,000 tons may not be considered a super luxury cruise ship, but the thickness of the main armor is 1,000 millimeters and eight  Two 400mm naval guns and forty-eight 105mm anti-aircraft guns are ultra-luxury configurations.

    As a big-ship cannonist, Jin Batian designed the luxury cruise ship for himself to travel around the world after the war. Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn had to be snatched from childhood to train them.  What are you trying to grab? It's not just giant ships and cannons.

    The armor with a thickness of 1,000 millimeters is installed because Jin Batian cherishes his life very much - we are rich people, and sailing is not safe these days. If it hits an iceberg, the ultimate effect is that the ship will be fine after hitting the iceberg and the iceberg will break.  But it is obvious that the current special steel and shipbuilding technologies are not up to standard, but Jin Batian is not in a hurry. As the times develop, these technologies will be improved one by one.  Designing it first is just a small preparation for the future.

    But having said that, all the people in the military command in the United States are living in vain. I have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars and have been struggling for more than half a year, but I still haven't found a girl named Marilyn Monroe. Could it be that I really have to wait for him to come and snatch her away?  ¡ªDear, that¡¯s a stage name that I haven¡¯t debuted yet.  (Jin Batian said that I also know, but it will be too late when he makes his debut. Hepburn is better off from a noble family, but Monroe got married before she debuted. Who among us in time has ever married a second-hand woman.)

    But to the military commanders, this is simply a bastard order. Find a ten-year-old white girl among the population of more than 100 million people in the nearly 10 million square kilometers of the United States. She must be an orphan, beautiful, and named Marilyn Monroe.  ¡ª¡ªNeither photo nor address.  Where can I find it?

    After urging for more than half a year, a lot of funds were allocated.  Later, the military commanders here thought that there were policies and countermeasures from above, so they could just find a beautiful ten-year-old female orphan for him.  So an orphan girl named Norma Jane in California was adopted by military commanders, renamed Marilyn Monroe, and then put on a cruise ship bound for Tianjin.

    For little Norma, it doesn't matter who she is with. Since she was a child, little Norma has changed her family life several times. But why does the person in front of her who asked her to call him big brother look at her strangely?  Just like the last adoptive father looked at his sister.

    For Jin Batian, there are always more happy events.  Not long after the Min-25 tank was designed, there was news about Little Monroe.  It¡¯s just that I can¡¯t eat right now. It would be nice to meet the pretty little girl. But although there are some signs of the second growth, after all, I am only ten years old and I still don¡¯t understand Chinese. Jin Batian¡¯s English is almost the same.  Teacher.  What little Monroe has to do now is go to school and let's raise her up a little later.

    After capturing the first peripheral defense line of Jehol, the Japanese-Russian coalition forces fell into a dilemma.  The losses in capturing this peripheral position were too great. Not only did the air force use up half of its force, but the Tsarist Russian artillery also suffered heavy casualties. When the attack became more urgent in the later period, the defenders called frequently.Air support, even incendiary bombs were thrown twice.  Small-scale carpet bombing cannot be avoided by Tsarist Russian artillery, but these casualties are still much less than those of the little devils attacking the main force.

    Because the entire perimeter has been connected into a defense system, and the neighboring hills are dependent on each other. If the little devil wants to attack, they must attack them all, otherwise the losses will be greater and there will be no effect.  However, the total number of troops dispatched for the attack cannot be too small, and Lao Maozi's artillery fire from behind is not very accurate. The destruction of the machine gun bunker in the battle was all achieved by the kid's large amount of drug abuse and his loyalty to the emperor and the jihad.

    There were a total of six divisions in the main attack, which could be attacked and replenished as needed. However, after the peripheral battle positions, which lasted for several months, were over, the Japanese felt a little overwhelmed after taking inventory.  More than 200,000 people were killed or seriously injured. If the attack continues like this, wouldn't it mean that over a million casualties will be reached if Rehe is captured? The little devil thinks that including the Chengde City front line in Rehe, there will be a total of 5-6 such lines of defense. Here,  Song Ziwen said that including the Chengde City defense line, there are eight lines of defense in total.

    The little devils on the defense line on the front line didn't find anything fishy. The troops on the defense line took the initiative to retreat and put down the dragon-breaking stones weighing hundreds of thousands of kilograms in various compartments inside. Since Lin Chaoying alone had  If the project can be done, it should be easier to do in the mechanized era.  The original book did not say that Lin Chaoying invited a construction team to build the Tomb of the Living Dead in Zhongnan Mountain.

    At this time, Song Ziwen was looking forward to the little devils entering the second or even third-line positions of the national defense line, where the structure was different.  At that time, it will not matter even if the front slope is taken down. After putting down the dragon-breaking stone on the front slope, the third line of positions will be defended together with the reverse slope of the second line of positions.  At that time, in addition to the heavy artillery, it will be more powerful and let the little devils have a taste of the power of firing from all directions.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to become a registered member of Piaotian Literature to recommend this work. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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