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Text Chapter 490: Not much time left

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    These materials represent 45% of almost all material transactions in the partial agreement that Yang Zhen has reached with the United States, except for the transfer of automobile production lines and steel plants.  [., However, the US representatives have agreed to give priority to transferring other supplies that have been agreed upon as soon as possible in the remaining months.

    According to Yang Zhen¡¯s request, the Americans agreed to provide a total of 2,000 metal cutting machine tools and stamping equipment, 500 high-horsepower tractors and combine harvesters within five months.  There are 30 medical X-ray machines and 500 high-power microscopes.  and the provision of twelve high-horsepower steam locomotives.  and five thousand tons of RDX explosives.

    And try our best to complete the twenty 4,700-kilowatt coal-fired generating units, ten 10,000-kilowatt coal-fired generating units, and two 50,000-kilowatt thermal power generating units that Yang Zhen urgently needs to expand military production in the shortest possible time.  .  And complete the transfer and transportation of the automobile production line.

    As for the remaining 3,000 trucks in the preliminary partial agreement, the supply will also be completed within five months.  In contrast to the goodwill expressed by the U.S. representatives, Yang Zhen also agreed to provide the U.S. with all the production technical data for penicillin and 50% of the production data for streptomycin within five months.  Within a year, all remaining data will be handed over to U.S. personnel as materials provided by the U.S. arrive.

    Because he was worried that Americans would not be able to raise enough supplies within a month, Yang Zhen reduced the amount of the first batch of supplies.  Originally, he wanted 6,000 tons of smokeless gunpowder, 2,000 tons of copper cartridge cases, 40,000 tons of TNT explosives, and 50 high-power searchlights.  However, considering that the time was too hasty, the material ration was cut in half.  Only 5,000 cars are needed, and the remaining parts should be completed within five months.

    In fact, Yang Zhen¡¯s worries are completely unnecessary.  Orders for smokeless gunpowder, copper cartridge cases, high-power searchlights, and strategic metals may not be completed within a month.  But for other parts, Americans have stocks now.  Especially cars. Yang Zhen only has 10,000 cars, let alone 8,000, and the Americans can get them right away.

    The impact of the economic crisis on Americans has not yet completely passed.  Coupled with the impact of the European war, the Americans lost most of their orders from Western European countries.  The cars and tractors in various coastal ports and in the warehouses of major automobile companies cannot be said to be piled up in mountains, but they are definitely not a handful.

    In terms of equipment, before the defeat of the French and Western European countries, in order to hurriedly expand military production capacity and make up for their own production shortcomings, they ordered a large number of machinery and equipment.  After the surrender of France and the capitulation of various countries, the U.S. government immediately canceled these orders.  Now that these have been produced, except for the British who have accepted some, the rest are backlogged in warehouses in the United States. The major companies are suffering and complaining.

    Except for some of the high-end equipment that Yang Zhen needs, such as generator sets and rare strategic metals, which do not have much inventory, almost all the other materials are in stock.

    When they actually started delivering goods again, they might be afraid of Yang Zhen's return, or they might be afraid of the Soviet Union's intervention. In fact, when the Americans actually transported the first batch of supplies, they excepted the supplies that were originally required to be provided within five months.  Except for the generator sets and strategic metals, all the remaining supplies arrived within the first month.

    ¡°The Americans even donated an additional two thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder and some TNT explosives in the first batch of supplies.  Studebaker, which relied on this order to come back to life, also sold an additional 1,000 five-ton trucks in stock to Yang Zhen at half price.  In addition, this car company, which was originally heavily in debt, also presented Yang Zhen with two special Studebaker luxury cars to express its gratitude.

    Looking at the details in the list of the first batch of supplies promised by the US to be delivered within a month, Yang Zhen couldn't help but feel secretly sour.  Three thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder and 20,000 tons of TNT explosives are probably only what Americans can produce in one week.  However, these outputs are beyond the control of China at the moment, neither the Nationalist government nor itself.

    Yang Zhen remembers that the United States produced more than 1.8 million tons of smokeless gunpowder, more than 2.7 million tons of TNT explosives, and more than 200,000 tons of RDX explosives throughout World War II.  These are only the basic raw materials for various ammunition. As for other yellow explosives, they actually do not meet the military explosive standards in the United States, and those that have been converted to civilian use have not been counted.

    Americans use these basic raw materials to produce ammunition, not counting the hundreds of thousands of tons provided to the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, and the thousands of tons provided to the Nationalist Government.  In just five years after the outbreak of the Pacific War, it produced 45 billion rounds of small arms ammunition and billions of artillery shells of various calibers.  What does 45 billion rounds of ammunition mean?

    ¡°The light weapons and ammunition alone in this number are equivalent to more than 450 times the total number of ammunition produced by the Nationalist Government during the eight-year war of resistance.  The total number of various types of ammunition is equivalent to that of all other participating countries.sum.  The reason why the Americans became the first army in the world to replace all semi-automatic rifles is that they are confident enough and can afford the high ammunition consumption of a large number of automatic weapons.

    Based on this overall figure, Americans rely on their strong industrial base to produce nearly 400,000 tons of smokeless gunpowder per year on average.  Three thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder is probably not enough for the Americans to produce for a week, it only takes a few days.

    And these three thousand tons of smokeless gunpowder are almost equivalent to one and a half years' production according to our current production capacity, which has expanded to the extreme.  This is under the premise that Jiangbei can guarantee the supply of raw materials.  If Jiangbei's raw materials are out of stock, all military production will be completely paralyzed.  Not to mention smokeless gunpowder, even black powder cannot be produced.

    Not to mention the unstable quality of the raw materials produced by the Nationalist Government within the customs, the output of these most crucial raw materials for ammunition production is extremely rare, and most of them can only rely on imports.  And he was deceived. He used his extra decades of experience in Jiangbei to produce raw materials in almost every possible way. He hired more than a dozen senior technical workers from Jiangbei with high salaries to serve as consultants, and he worked for a year.  Liao Jin's output is less than 3,000 tons.

    With the increasing scale of battles, the size of troops is also getting larger, and the consumption in battles is increasing. Military production capacity has become the most fatal factor restricting the development and growth of troops.  The lack of military production capacity has greatly restricted the deployment of firepower on the battlefield. This battle has only been going on for more than two months, and nearly half of the artillery shells produced and stored before the war for nearly half a year have been consumed.  Among them, almost two-thirds of the Japanese artillery shells have been consumed, and all large-caliber Japanese artillery shells have been consumed.  In addition to mortar shells, other artillery shells of various calibers would have been out of stock if Jiangbei had not shipped a batch of French artillery shells before the battle began.

    All the original reserves of rockets and aerial bombs have been consumed, and one-third of the explosives have been consumed.  Although the arsenal is working overtime to produce, the current output can only barely maintain daily consumption.  Although the reserve situation of small arms and ammunition is slightly better, it is subject to limitations in raw materials, and the production situation is also not optimistic.

    Under this situation, in order to solve the problem of raw materials urgently needed for military production, we can only reluctantly spend part of the funds to purchase part of the raw materials during negotiations to alleviate the urgent need before the construction of the synthetic ammonia plant is completed.  Especially under the current situation where military production not only has to bear the burden of the Anti-Japanese Alliance's own use, but also has to support the internal operations of the customs, solving the source of military raw materials has become the most urgent matter.

    Just the day before yesterday, the central government called.  In order to counter some domestic rumors that slandered the Eighteenth Army and reduce the pressure on the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, the Eighteenth Army has decided to launch a large-scale raid throughout North China.  To destroy the Japanese army and plunder North China's rich coal and iron resources for its own use, it achieved its strategy of supporting war with war.

    Due to the serious shortage of ammunition and equipment within the customs, the troops were unable to face the large and small watchtowers and fortifications of the Japanese army all over North China.  The central government called specifically to ask if the Northeast could provide a batch of ammunition for the North China troops, as well as some offensive equipment for infantry artillery and Japanese rapid-fire artillery.

    After receiving a call from the central government, Yang Zhen, after discussing with Li Yanping and Zhang Zhenhua, decided to provide one 79-mm bullet and one 65-mm bullet each from the ammunition reserves and the trophies of the first phase of the battle without affecting the use of the troops themselves.  Fifteen million rounds, five million rounds of bullets for the Japanese 77 heavy machine gun.

    Because the 18th Army, especially the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, picked up a lot of French-made Hotchkiss heavy machine guns that were discarded when the 29th Army retreated.  Yang Zhen also allocated an additional one million rounds of legal eight-millimeter bullets to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region.

    In addition, 10,000 Type-38 rifles and 20,000 Polish-made 79-type rifles were drawn from the first-stage loot.  In the 11th year of Taisho, there were 1,500 machine guns, 700 Type 92 heavy machine guns, and 1,000 Polish-made Browning light machine guns.  One thousand, seven hundred self-produced 7.63 submachine guns.

    At the same time, one hundred and twenty 92 infantry guns, 80 90mm mortars, 36 Japanese 37 rapid-fire guns, and 12 Japanese 41-type 75mm mountain guns are provided.  Fourteen Liao 14-type 37-gun cannons.  Self-produced grenades and 20,000 rounds of various artillery shells, as well as a batch of explosives.  The airlift of these equipments began yesterday.

    Although this is the first time the central government has opened its mouth about these things.  But Yang Zhen knew that until the environment of the troops within the customs was fundamentally changed, the military production capacity would never increase.  Unless you don't want the slightest cooperation from the troops inside the customs, no matter whether the central government opens its mouth or not, you will have to bear the responsibility for the replenishment of a considerable part of the ammunition and equipment of the troops within the customs. In addition, you will also have to bear the responsibility for the use of part of the ammunition of the troops within the customs, and it is already far from next summer.It's getting closer and closer, and there is not much time for our own outsourcing channels to be open.  Yang Zhen had already made up his mind to increase military production capacity within this year no matter what.

    This is why Yang Zhen still has the patience to grind his teeth with the Americans here when the second phase of the operation is already in full swing.  Because he knows that there is not much time left for him now.

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