RPAGF #242 - A great chess game
#242 - A great chess game
With the Japanese devils determined to retreat, the Border Region and Headquarters, after receiving the deciphered intelligence, immediately launched a frantic operation to strike the drowning dog.
The Brigade Commander, to the south, completely encircled the Japanese devils, directly turning the Japanese 34th Army into a thing of the past.
To achieve this goal, Kong Jie's New Second Regiment and its affiliated guerrillas were almost wiped out!
The desperate Japanese devils finally launched a frantic assault. Even the Japanese air force did not hesitate to sacrifice themselves. On the southern front, they engaged in a deadly entanglement with the Divine Eagle Brigade in the air, while also using their numerical advantage in warplanes to launch a frantic attack on Kong Jie's blocking forces!
In addition, the Japanese devils in Jiyuan also desperately came to help, attacking from both sides. The New Second Regiment was almost constantly and tragically fighting on three fronts!
The Japanese devils in Yuncheng also went crazy, almost emptying their nests, engaging in fierce battles with the blocking New First Regiment and its affiliated guerrilla brigade.
Seeing the situation was not good, the Brigade Commander had to abandon the plan to slowly exhaust the Japanese devils by cutting off their logistics. He launched a general offensive ahead of schedule. On the dozens of kilometers of mountain roads, more than ten regiments were dispatched simultaneously. The 771st Regiment, 772nd Regiment, New Third Regiment, and New Fourth Regiment, the four main force regiments, took turns attacking the Japanese rearguard brigade.
Due to the narrowness of the three mountain roads, it was impossible to deploy troops effectively. It took a full three days of fierce fighting to wipe out the Japanese devils!
To achieve a complete victory, the Chen Brigade also suffered very heavy casualties this time.
Kong Jie's New Second Regiment was almost crippled, with less than a quarter of the soldiers left alive!
When Ren Zhong finally received the battle report, he was silent for a long time.
Because, in the list of the fallen, he saw many familiar names.
Revolution is not a dinner party.
Although Ren Zhong was thousands of miles away, seeing these bloody numbers, he knew how difficult it was.
He had nothing to say.
This bloody battle that came ahead of schedule was actually promoted by him single-handedly.
Now it seems that the goal is almost achieved. As soon as the Japanese reinforcements retreat, now is the time to trap and devour the Japanese First Army.
The speed must be fast.
Because there will be a lot of trouble next.
Yan Laoxi, the warlord of Shanxi, was the first to smell the scent of this large piece of fat in Shanxi, and suddenly joined the counterattack at this time!
Due to a tacit understanding with the Japanese devils, coupled with the strength of the 358th Regiment, the Japanese devils in Pingyang quickly fled south to the Hedong front after a symbolic resistance. Yan Laoxi returned to Pingyang.
The troops marched north, preparing to retake Taiyuan, which he had been dreaming of.
Due to the rapid changes in the situation, the Taihang and Jinxi Northwest Base Areas had to speed up their actions. The Taihang main force marched rapidly, occupied Linggu, and started pushing north, holding the key points.
Supported by hundreds of artillery pieces from the Border Region's 105th Artillery Regiment and 107th Artillery Regiment, the Jinxi Northwest main force decisively launched the Taiyuan Campaign.
The rest is the time for all parties to argue.
Ren Zhong doesn't care about these.
Now that the Border Region and Shanxi are connected, in the huge chess game, it is equivalent to the Eighth Route Army having formed a 'living eye'!
North of Lingshi, north of Yuanqu east of Jiangxian, and west of Taihang, all now belong to the new base areas of the Eighth Route Army.
Ren Zhong now has the opportunity to start the heavy industry development plan for Shanxi Province.
This is a grand plan that he has been planning for several years.
Now it finally has a use.
According to Ren Zhong's grand plan, in the current Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Shanxi-Suiyuan-Chahar large base area, the population is close to ten million. There is no shortage of large coal fields and large steel plants. There are absolute conditions to start a ten-million-ton steel production capacity plan.
Compared to the conditions in the Border Region, Shanxi and Jiuyuan are fertile ground for building a real steel capital.
The talent and external conditions are incomparable to the Border Region.
Therefore, while Li Yunlong and the division commander were still cleaning up the battlefield, Ren Zhong had already found Staff Officer Ye to start discussing the grand plan of developing heavy industry in Shanxi Province.
"Taiyuan will be the core of our 5 million-ton new steel production capacity. Here, we will build a huge military-industrial complex," Ren Zhong said, taking out the materials he had prepared over the years.
He pointed to the 'Target' column and introduced it to Staff Officer Ye.
"Taiyuan Heavy Industry will be a heavy weapons production center, with a tank production capacity of 200 units per month, and various types of artillery with a monthly output of more than 300 pieces, and various types of vehicles with more than 1,000 units."
"Taiyuan Aviation will be a fighter jet production base, with a monthly production capacity of more than 20 aircraft."
"Taiyuan Machine Tool Factory, with a monthly production capacity of more than 1,000 various machine tools."
"Taiyuan Chemical Plant, completing a monthly production capacity of more than 10,000 tons of chemical fertilizers and more than 1,000 tons of explosives."
"Taiyuan..."
Staff Officer Ye took a deep breath after looking at Ren Zhong's plan.
This is too scary.
Ten million tons of steel production capacity, how dare Ren Zhong think about it?
How many tens of thousands of tons are there now? Staff Officer Ye's thoughts were a little wandering.
But he knew that Ren Zhong would not bring it out to joke at this time.
"Wait, Old Brother Ren, frankly speaking, my brain can't keep up," Staff Officer Ye called to stop.
"Don't talk about the goals, just tell me what we need to do to implement the plan."
"To be honest, Old Brother Ren, you've drawn too big of a pie, and I can't digest it," Staff Officer Ye joked.
"If I remember correctly, the total steel production capacity of the Japanese devils should not have reached ten million tons yet."
"Ah, a five-year plan, this is my five-year plan," Ren Zhong reacted, realizing that he was indeed a bit impatient. Rome was not built in a day.
Although the Taiyuan Iron and Steel Group alone in the main world can reach 12 million tons of production capacity, it was built with the huge basic resources of the main world and after years of construction. From the planning stage in 1932 to the 1970s, the first million-ton-level steel complex was built.
It was only after the millennium that the output exceeded 5 million tons.
Indeed, it is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Of course, time is not waiting for anyone now.
Ren Zhong is not completely without a way to break through the shackles of history.
First of all, he is not simply relying on a huge steel complex, but combining the core steel enterprise with distributed steelmaking.
In various iron ore locations, continue to vigorously develop indigenous blast furnaces to produce crude iron, wrought iron, and ferrosilicon, these initial steel raw materials.
Open-hearth furnaces are used to refine carbon steel.
In the Taiyuan Steel Plant, the focus is on developing electric arc furnace steelmaking and refining special steels. In the early stage, a planned annual production capacity of one million tons of special steel can be arranged according to current resource conditions: stainless steel, cold-rolled silicon steel sheets (coils), carbon steel hot-rolled coils, train wheel and axle steel, alloy mold steel, and various military steels.
And the distributed large and small steel plants in various places aim to produce 10,000 tons per year, building four or five hundred of them, which is within the current affordable conditions.
Now that the air force is getting stronger and stronger, Ren Zhong can launch a large-scale steel construction program. Although its energy consumption and environmental protection standards are still not on par with the main world, its production efficiency will definitely increase significantly after scaling up.
With a basic steel production capacity, mechanization can then be discussed.
Now that the population is expanding, the pressure to provide food is also increasing. With a population of ten million and the current labor productivity, it is difficult to ensure that everyone can eat their fill.
In this regard, we can draw on the experience of the Border Region for promotion, and then expand the use of fertilizers. It is estimated that this problem can be completely solved in about two years.
The improved varieties of the Border Region have already made some encouraging progress. If there are no accidents, a million mu of quasi-improved farmland can be achieved this year. Next, we must strive to develop the goal of ten million mu of irrigated land and improved varieties.
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At present, the cultivated land area of the base area has exceeded 30 million mu.
If one-third of it is transformed into irrigated farmland, even if it is not planted with improved varieties, the yield can be increased by at least one time with irrigation and the use of fertilizers.
If the yield per mu can jump from about 100 jin to more than 200 jin, this is also the hope for solving the problem of food self-sufficiency in the new base area.
Ren Zhong is quite confident about this grain growth target, because under the current Border Region model, the yield has already reached more than 500 jin.
Now, we just need to promote this model.
Industry, agriculture, science and technology, and education are Ren Zhong's top four priorities.
Since Staff Officer Ye has already spoken, Ren Zhong simply put forward his requests one by one.
A large-scale plan for promoting literacy and primary technical schools will be launched in Jin Province, with Border Region organizations at all levels establishing county-level technical schools and night schools, township-level literacy classes, and the university program will be restarted in Taiyuan. Specialized and vocational technical education schools will be opened to the public to stimulate the vitality of private capital in technical training.
In the short term, the shortage of skilled workers must be filled.
Millions of tons of heavy industry require millions of skilled technicians to transform steel production capacity into various weapons and urgently needed industrial products.
For Ren Zhong, these basic problems cannot wait for the people below to automatically realize that something is wrong before taking action.
Therefore, from the outset, Ren Zhong proposed a school-running scale of a ten-thousand-student university and a hundred-thousand-student technical school. The university will be led by the government.
The technical school will be opened up, and the private capital, factories, and the government will coordinate to expand the scale of school construction through reasonable economic incentives.
In addition to opening schools in Taiyuan, each regional level must also build at least 2-3 specialized schools for supplementation.
To support such a large-scale construction plan, if it were not for the current extraordinary period, migrant workers could be conscripted on a large scale, and the construction of infrastructure could be launched on a large scale with the consumption of a small amount of food.
Through Ren Zhong's large-scale import of penicillin in recent years, even selling tens of millions of US dollars to the Allied forces, the Border Region has made a fortune.
Ren Zhong reinvested most of his share into the ever-expanding Dawn Research Institute.
The current Dawn Research Institute is not only being built in one place. In the desert, in the borderlands, and now preparing to build a new center of the Dawn Research Institute in Taiyuan, forming a scale of tens of thousands of people.
The technology currently produced has not yet brought any economic returns to the Border Region. Everything revolves around winning against the Japanese devils.
Although it is said that in the new factories opened in the Border Region, the Dawn Research Institute has a clear stipulation of a 20% share of the production technology invested.
It has become the largest single shareholder in the Border Region and the base area.
But it is a pity that none of these factories are profitable, so this shareholder is still just an empty shell.
It's just that Ren Zhong didn't mention it, and no one noticed these things.
In a wartime state, no one is slackening because of this.
Almost everyone is burning themselves according to the 007 work rhythm.
After Staff Officer Ye basically understood Ren Zhong's plan and implementation requirements, he took this heavy plan back for discussion. Of course, no one dared to ignore Ren Zhong's suggestions, so Ren Zhong's new plan was implemented without any surprises.
In each newly occupied base area, the local organizations directly posted notices of recruitment and school openings to every corner, making sure that everyone knew that they had now entered a new era.
Literacy and recruitment have become one of the most important indicators for grassroots assessment.
On top of this, according to the Five-Year Industrial Development Plan, we will strive to develop local industries with available resources.
Kangda, Lianda, and all places that can recruit new technical personnel, the base area is now openly recruiting talents nationwide.
Because the restoration of Jin has raised the reputation of the Border Region to a new peak.
Countless people have placed their hopes here.
Not only to drive away the Japanese devils, but some people have even seen the hope of revival. The sudden outbreak of strong combat power in the Border Region, countless people traced the source, and were horrified to find that there is a mysterious research institute in the Border Region silently supporting the huge leap in the Eighth Route Army's weapons!
The Dawn Research Institute has now truly surfaced, becoming a new hotspot pursued by passionate young people, and also a fortress that intelligence personnel from all parties are desperately trying to break through.
Ren Zhong was amazed after seeing hundreds of people trying to break into the headquarters of the Dawn Research Institute every day, and was also surprised that he suddenly became the focus of attention.
All along, he has never promoted the research institute in any occasion.
Only when the various departments under him went to dig for talents, the name of the Dawn Research Institute would appear in the mouths of scientific and technological talents everywhere. But at that time, it was generally in a semi-secret way to hunt for talents.
It has never been like now, when the Dawn Research Institute has become a hot topic reported by various major and small newspapers in the folk.
It is like a phenomenon-level internet celebrity in the Bright Sword world.
Although it has brought Ren Zhong a lot of new troubles, because his identity in the high-level of the Border Region has always been highly confidential, many people, even the middle and lower levels of the Border Region, do not know what connection there is between the Dawn Research Institute and the name Ren Zhong.
Ren Zhong has always been most closely connected with Staff Officer Ye and Jiang Chongjing, so even though the Dawn Research Institute suddenly became famous all over the world, Ren Zhong's reputation is still lurking under the surface.
Even if some resourceful reporters have some news, it will be wiped out by those who have ulterior motives and will not appear in the report.
Therefore, this wave of hot spots, in addition to attracting flies, also attracted many butterflies and bees, and began to add bricks and tiles to the industrialization of Jin, which has just started!
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