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Text Chapter 502 The Contribution of German Prisoners of War

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    It is for these reasons that when various arsenals were actually put into production, Yang Zhen always demanded stability, first produce a small amount to solve the problem, truly master the relevant production technology, and train the needed skilled workers, especially to train a large number of  Skilled workers who have truly mastered production technology are the ultimate goals he set for 2042 and 2043.

    Moreover, when training workers, it is not a factory that only trains the workers it needs. According to Yang Zhen's requirements, a factory must train at least two, or even more, workers from the same type of factory. As for real mass production, he  No rush.

    As for the more demanding metallurgical industry and some industries with long construction periods such as oil refining and chemicals, he pushed the start-up to four to three years, or even four to four years. The reasons are basically the same, except that these factories have long construction periods.  In addition, it also provides training for a large number of urgently needed skilled workers.

    Even after a large number of engineers from German prisoners of war, as well as soldiers from the German army who were skilled workers recruited from the automobile, artillery, metallurgy, chemistry, and aircraft industries, arrived at the base area, Yang Zhen was not too anxious, but still asked to complete the training step by step.

    Because he knows that these Germans can never replace their own workers. If the Chinese want to build their own industry, they must have a large number of industrial workers who have mastered modern technology, especially senior technical workers and managers,  designer.

    What's more, there are foreign equipment that can be used, and his own mass production is not in a hurry. The problem now is to lay the most critical foundation first. If the foundation is not strong, it will be useless. Yang Zhen doesn't want the anti-aircraft gun incident to happen again.  Performed on these more deadly heavy weapons.

    Therefore, the T 34 tanks manufactured since mid-1942, together with the models equipped with 85-caliber tank guns, all the tanks produced by ourselves add up to only more than 1,000 vehicles. The new models equipped with 85-caliber tanks are even more  Only more than 200 vehicles were produced. This number is only a fraction of the tanks produced by various countries in World War II, and even a fraction of the Soviet Union. The total number of artillery with a caliber of 100 mm or more is similar.

    In addition to trucks, combat aircraft, and especially the strategic bombers needed for the bombing of Japan, the amount of U.S. aid equipment on the ground was always insufficient. It was not until the end of 1943 that large-scale assistance for M-4 medium tanks began.  The M-4 tanks that were originally scheduled to be transferred to the Anti-Japanese War were all given to the British and Soviets by the Americans.

    The tanks obtained by the Anti-Japanese Alliance were mainly the M3 and M5 light tanks eliminated by the US military in the North African battlefield, as well as the Maltida infantry tanks and Crusader cruise tanks that the British army had withdrawn from the front line, together with the M3 transferred by the British army.  Including medium tanks, throughout 1942 and 1943, the combined number of American light tanks and medium tanks obtained by the Anti-Japanese Alliance was less than 1,000.

    Among them, there are more than 200 vehicles with extremely poor performance. Even the Soviet army, which is extremely short of tanks, does not want them. The M3 medium tank, known as the coffin of the Seven Brothers, and the M4 medium tank with the best performance among American tanks.  There are less than 600 vehicles, and all of them are original models, and some of them are even second-hand goods used by the British army.

    It was not until the end of 1943 that the U.S. military suffered successive disastrous defeats in the Pacific Theater and failed to drive away or annihilate the Japanese troops who had invaded Australia and occupied a considerable part of the northern land area.  of tank aid.

    However, the quantity could not meet the needs. Together with the number of M3 and M5 light tanks that had been previously assisted, the total number was less than 4,000. In order to consolidate his own industrial foundation, Yang Zhen set his sights on  Focusing on the German goods seized by the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union, the arrival of these German goods also greatly alleviated the urgent need for heavy equipment due to the Anti-Japanese Alliance's own lack of capabilities.

    Not only did a large number of German-made equipment be used in weapons and equipment, but also several artillery, tank, and aircraft overhaul factories were established relying on German technical maintenance and support personnel exchanged from the Soviet Union, as well as various columns, armored and artillery units.  A large number of team-owned field repair shops.

    They also used the superb skills, rigorous work attitude, and most importantly, super-class mechanical maintenance and manufacturing capabilities of these German technical maintenance and support personnel to cultivate a large number of skilled, conscientious and responsible equipment and technical support personnel for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, ensuring the battlefield  Damaged equipment can be repaired to the maximum extent possible.

    By 1944, the emergency repair of battle-damaged equipment on the battlefields of the entire Anti-Japanese Alliance had reached the German army's 1942 standard. The emergency repair rate of evacuated battle-damaged equipment had also dropped from less than 40% in the previous short period of time.  It rose to 70% in 1944. This standard far exceeded the Soviet Union and even exceeded the standard of the US military.

    Of course, the reason why it surpasses the US military by a large amount is that the US military in World War II was quite powerful with the support of the strong national power behind it.Most of the war-damaged equipment that is rough and cannot be repaired within a certain period of time on the battlefield is actively blown up and then abandoned, or even simply abandoned at all.

    Moreover, in the face of the superior tank fire and anti-tank fire of the German army, most of the US tanks equipped with flammable gasoline engines were completely burned and blown up after being hit by a few shots, and had little repair value. Therefore, they surpassed those of the US military.  The level of emergency repair is actually very high, but it has reached the standards of the German army and far exceeds the level of emergency repair of the Soviet army, but it is real.

    Of course, the high repair rate of this tank has a lot to do with the firepower of the Japanese army, especially the anti-tank firepower, which is far from comparable to that of the German army. During the entire World War II, except for the one-type 47mm anti-tank gun, the Japanese army had the only  The most effective anti-tank weapon we can rely on is the Type 90 field gun.

    Although the Japanese army introduced and imitated the German 50mm anti-tank gun during the war in order to deal with the Anti-Japanese Alliance and US military tanks, the stingy Japanese army was only willing to use old-fashioned steel-core armor-piercing bullets and refused to produce expensive tungsten-core armor-piercing bullets, making this  The anti-tank artillery, which played a considerable role in the European battlefield, performed much better on the Chinese battlefield than the Japanese Type 1 anti-tank artillery.

    During the entire war, the biggest threat the Japanese army posed to the anti-allied tank forces was the Type 90 field gun. As for other anti-tank weapons, they had almost no effect. As long as the Japanese army's most powerful Type 90 field gun was not used, it  With direct hits within range, basically all battle-damaged tanks can be repaired.

    However, despite these and other reasons, in any case, these technical personnel among the German prisoners of war laid a good and very strong foundation for the battlefield support and maintenance capabilities of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and even the entire People's Liberation Army a few years later.  , it can even be said that the entire foundation was laid by these Germans, and this influence has lasted for decades.

    The arrival of these prisoners of war brought the high-standard craftsmanship and technology most needed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which not only improved the weak battle-damaged equipment repair and maintenance capabilities before the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but also imitated American and Soviet-made gasoline and diesel engines for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, as well as  Aircraft engines have made considerable contributions.

    Moreover, the Anti-Japanese Alliance also used these engineer-level figures among the German technical maintenance and support personnel to install single-barreled 23mm anti-aircraft guns on the basis of the German-made six-wheeled and eight-wheeled armored reconnaissance vehicles transferred by the Soviet Union and the United States and the United Kingdom.  Or the 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun aided by the Americans, coupled with the steel used for armored vehicles aided by the United States, developed the world's first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, which, together with the half-track armored vehicles manufactured by the United States, equipped armored divisions in large numbers.  Belongs to the mechanized infantry regiment.

    It's just that the M-3 light tank is equipped with two engines with a total power of 250 horsepower, which is obviously too large for an armored personnel carrier. Therefore, on this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, each engine only has  It is equipped with a single engine with a power of 120 horsepower.

    However, although due to the rear engine, the infantry can only get on and off the vehicle through the small doors on both sides, and because it is a wheeled vehicle, it can only withstand shooting from small-caliber weapons and has slightly poor off-road capabilities, but it has been solved  The question of whether or not it can significantly reduce infantry casualties along with tank combat.

    Although the performance of the world's first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle is only average, due to the use of the gasoline engine used in the American M-3 light tank imitated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and the excellent installed steel, the general performance is close to that of what it will be decades later.  The standard of the Soviet-made BTR Type 70 armored personnel carrier.

    The firepower and protective performance are much stronger than the BTR 70 armored vehicle equipped with only a 14mm machine gun. The performance is far better than the half-track armored vehicle that is the main force in various countries today. Not only the firepower and protective performance are better.  Strong, and the maneuverability is almost the same.

    In addition to the world's first wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, the Anti-Japanese Alliance also took advantage of the Germans' natural sensitivity and talent for machinery, and used the German Panzer III and IV tank chassis that had been damaged beyond repair to develop and  Created some of the world's first tracked infantry fighting vehicles.

    It's just that because of the small number of tank chassis that can be selected and the relatively complicated process, there is only a production of more than a hundred vehicles, and only one independent mechanized brigade is equipped. Compared with the wheeled infantry fighting vehicles with a production volume of more than 2,000 vehicles.  Than, there are so few that you can simply ignore them.

    There is no way. In addition to the high chassis requirements, this improvement is almost equivalent to a complete redesign. Moving the rear engine and transmission system of the tank to a different position and converting it into an infantry fighting vehicle front-engine project seems very simple.  But doing it is nothing like that, it's almost equivalent to redesigning it all over again.

    When the chassis of light tanks could not meet the needs, and self-propelled artillery had to be modified, Yang Zhen was asked to take the German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks, T III and IV tanks and M IV tanks, which were the main anti-Japanese tanks, in  Already equippedWith a large number of German and German half-track armored personnel carriers, it would be impossible to transform an infantry fighting vehicle without killing it. It would be easy to use a German-made armored reconnaissance vehicle with a relatively large internal space to transform a wheeled armored personnel carrier.  Be his first choice.

    These prisoners of war not only made considerable contributions to the development of their own armored vehicles by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but also a large number of graduates of science and engineering universities among the prisoners of war, as well as a considerable number of engineers, also worked in the Anti-Japanese Polytechnic University and the newly established Northeast Bureau.  Northeastern University, as well as the dozens of junior colleges that were subsequently established, as well as a large number of technical schools that were built, served as teachers in multiple subjects, alleviating the situation that the number of these teachers was always insufficient.

    The Department of Armored Vehicle Engineering and the Department of Artillery Engineering of the Anti-Japanese Alliance Polytechnic University were founded on the tank and artillery engineers among these German prisoners of war. Moreover, the engineers trained by these Germans also greatly accelerated the development of automobile and tank engines.  Imitation and other high-end professional construction.

    And participated in the design and improvement of a considerable amount of equipment developed by the Anti-Japanese League. At the same time, prisoners of war who were skilled workers also made outstanding contributions in various factories established by the Anti-Japanese League. They imitated the Japanese-style 92  cannons, American-made automobile engines, and American-made high-power diesel engines, which played a key role.
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