kvmb Chapter 246: The Cause of Tsarist Russia's Abnormality, on the Eve of the Northwest Campaign
Chapter 246: The Cause of Tsarist Russia's Abnormality, on the Eve of the Northwest Campaign
After receiving weapons and equipment one after another, the Southwestern Army began to replace its equipment and reorganize.
Jiang Hua gave them a month to prepare. In July, they would lead their troops into the northern part of Shan State from the border road and launch an offensive against John's colonial army in Shan State.
In recent days, there has also been some good news from the industrial sector.
For example, the first domestically produced four-cylinder gasoline engine successfully rolled off the production line at the Shenzhou No. 1 Engine Manufacturing Plant.
This six-cylinder gasoline engine has a power of 90 horsepower and a speed of 2400 rpm.
This level of technology is actually equivalent to that of the 40s.
For the entire Renaissance Army, the shutdown of this engine did not have much impact.
But this is of extraordinary significance to the ancient country's industry.
Because this means that in the field of engines, the ancient country has started to take off and the industrial chain has begun to improve.
The starting point is still very high.
After all, technically speaking, this gasoline engine with low horsepower has surpassed the engine technology accumulated by the West over the years.
The ancient country's industry is standing on the shoulders of giants. As long as it is given some time to develop, it won't take too long for it to leave the West far behind.
At the same time, the Jinmen Diesel Power Manufacturing Plant in Tianjin City also successfully imitated and produced the V-2 diesel engine.
This engine is a 34-cylinder 12-liter diesel engine used in the T-39 medium tank, with a power of up to 500 horsepower.
Gasoline and diesel engines started to develop one after another, which also meant that the ancient country's automobile industry could begin to set sail.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of the ancient country's current industrial development.
Of course, it is a bit of an exaggeration to describe it as the tip of the iceberg, but it is indeed only a small part.
Special steel mills, ferroalloy plants, etc. in the steel industry
Cable factories, cemented carbide factories, tungsten mines, non-ferrous metal processing factories, etc. in the non-ferrous metal field.
Synthetic rubber plant in the chemical industry.
In the mechanical field, boiler factories, machine tool factories, measuring tool and cutting tool factories, pneumatic tool factories, instrument factories, heavy machinery factories, ball bearing factories, steam turbine engine factories, motor factories, etc.
Electrical equipment factories, instrument manufacturers, and piston engine manufacturers in the aviation field.
A tank engine manufacturing plant in the military industry.
In the electronics field, there are general radio parts factories, automatic telephone exchange factories, complete radar manufacturing factories, electron tube manufacturing factories, transistor equipment manufacturing factories, etc.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Industry of the Reconstruction Government, more than 100 large and small projects in the heavy industry sector have been launched this year alone.
The implementation of these projects will greatly consolidate the ancient country's basic heavy industry and lay a solid foundation.
Once the foundation was laid, the ancient country's industry began to take off.
This stage is also the most difficult and the most expensive.
In just one and a half years, the Dasong Investment Group invested a total of 8 million oceans.
From this figure, we can see how much the Fuxing government has invested in the industrial sector.
The ancient country still has a long way to go before it can become an industrial country, but judging from the current situation, it has at least begun to get on the right track.
However, the ancient country's industry is currently mainly concentrated in the north.
This is also due to the recent conquest of the south.
There is an imbalance in industry between the north and the south.
Therefore, the focus in the future will be on industrial development in the south, especially population-intensive light industries.
The territory has been conquered. In just two months, the Fuxing Government has gained 11 more provinces under its jurisdiction, and the population has skyrocketed several times, exceeding 4 million.
If the Renaissance government had not been well prepared, just dealing with these matters would have been enough to keep them busy.
The Fuxing government has also developed a set of experience on how to quickly stabilize the local area.
In addition, the Renaissance Army has won the hearts of the people across the country, and the vast majority of the people welcome the arrival of the Renaissance Army.
Basically, wherever he went, people lined the streets to welcome him.
This is not a show, but a spontaneous action of the people.
As long as you win the hearts of the people, the rest will be easy.
Establish local government agencies and grassroots organizations, and then the land distribution that the people are most looking forward to will take place.
In this era, dividing land is an unsolvable killer move.
The people of ancient countries had an extremely deep attachment to the land.
As long as they have land, they have hope in life.
The current attitude of the Restoration Government towards the South is to restore production and develop agriculture.
At least don't let the people go hungry.
The situation in the south stabilized, and the Fuxing Army began to move north.
The Tsarist Russia, which had been silent for a long time, began to mobilize its rear frequently.
Through satellite reconnaissance, the Renaissance Army seemed to have discovered why Tsarist Russia did not take any action after the ice and snow melted.
"A new type of tank?"
Jiang Hua looked at the stack of satellite photos on the table and picked one up to look at it curiously.
The photo shows a large tank assembly area, with at least a hundred tanks visible in just one photo.
It is also not difficult to see from the outline of the tank in the photo that it is no longer the small tank of the previous Tsarist Russia.
For example, MS-1 and BT are obviously larger in size.
Later, Jiang Hua also saw clearer photos of this tank.
When he saw this tank, he was a little surprised and asked, "Black Panther tank?"
It’s no wonder that Jiang Hua was so surprised when he saw it, because it does look somewhat like a Black Panther tank.
However, judging from the gun barrel, it is not as long as the Panther's 70-caliber tank gun, but much shorter.
"Yes, it should be a tank that Tsarist Russia hastily designed and produced by imitating the appearance of our Black Panther tank.
Recently, these tanks have been continuously transported to the Kansk area in the rear.
We speculate that this was the main reason why Tsarist Russia did not launch an offensive.”
Jiang Hua suddenly realized.
Only this speculation can explain the recent anomalies in Tsarist Russia.
And the facts are indeed as the intelligence department speculated.
The original plan was for the Tsarist Russia's New Far Eastern Front to launch an offensive in May after the ice and snow melted.
But at this time a new type of tank was put into mass production.
Through previous experiments, this tank was far superior to all their tanks.
This tank was also named T-30 medium tank by them.
It was developed by Tsarist Russia from the wreckage of a captured Panther tank.
Under emergency conditions, the tank quickly entered the prototype trial production stage.
At the beginning of 33, the prototype vehicle was completed and tested.
Small batch production began in February 33.
After being equipped by the troops, the feedback on this tank is quite good, but it has a lot of minor problems.
But its performance is far superior to all tanks currently known in the West. Even if it faces the Black Panther tank of the Renaissance Army, it will not be directly crushed.
Its 76mm 32-caliber tank gun can penetrate 500mm homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 70 meters.
According to tests, they can easily penetrate the armor of the Panther tank within a range of 1000 meters.
If it's head-on, I'm afraid we'll need to get within 200 meters.
But at least they now have the ability to fight back.
Therefore, Tsarist Russia quickly entered into large-scale production.
Its three domestic tank production bases are in production simultaneously, with at least 30 tanks rolling off the production line every day, and sometimes up to 50 tanks per day.
Tsarist Russia itself was not very confident about regaining the Irkutsk region and the Far East.
But when the T-30 tank appeared, they became more confident.
So they suspended the attack and began a large-scale replacement of the armored forces on the front line, while also conducting a short period of training.
This is the main reason why Tsarist Russia did not launch an attack for a long time.
Just at this time, one of the four horses in the northwest came to Tsarist Russia, hoping to get its support.
The Russian Empire was also very interested in this.
If we can plant a nail in the ancient country to deal with the Renaissance Army and attack it at a critical moment, we can still cause some trouble to the Renaissance Army.
So the two sides colluded with each other.
Through the channels of the border provinces, a large number of weapons, equipment and instructors poured into the Northwest Sima Army.
This information has also been discovered by the General Intelligence Bureau.
"Without a declaration of war between the two sides, and the Russians not taking the initiative, it would be difficult for us to take action first. After all, we don't have the right to do so."
Irkutsk and the Far East were indeed considered one of the ancient country's inherent territories, so occupying these places could be considered legally justifiable.
But if we take the initiative to launch an attack without Tsarist Russia firing the first shot.
That would be equivalent to the Renaissance Army invading Tsarist Russia.
But if it was Tsarist Russia that fired the first shot and the Renaissance Army counterattacked, then it would be a defensive counterattack and a legitimate defensive act.
This is why the Restoration Army did not bomb the country even though they knew that Tsarist Russia was gathering on the border.
"Since Tsarist Russia won't move, we can move first.
Start with the four horses from the northwest."
If Tsarist Russia does not take action, then Jiang Hua will force them to take action and clear out the last obstacle, the Four Horses of the Northwest.
An order was passed from Shangjing to Jinyuan City, which is also the headquarters of the Northwest Column.
The mission of the Northwest Column was to recover the Northwest and establish the Northwest Military Region based on the Northwest Column.
The commander of the Northwest Column is the big star of the Fusion Army: Liao Jie!
"Commander, the Military and Political Committee called and asked us to launch the Northwest Campaign within three days to recapture the Northwest."
When Liao Jie heard this order, he immediately showed his joy.
"Finally, we've received this order. If we don't fight now, our guns and cannons will rust!"
Liao Jie had been waiting for this day for a month.
Liao Jie then shouted, "Operation Staff, record the order.
Send a telegram to the Seventh Army in Jingbei, the Third Army in Zhongyuan, and the Fourth Army in Guiyuan, instructing them to launch the attack on time at 8: a.m. tomorrow.
Send a telegram to the Air Force to coordinate operations and launch air strikes on all fronts at 7: tomorrow."
With the issuance of a series of orders, the Northwest Column's more than 200,000 troops began to make intensive final preparations for the war.
A battle to recover the Northwest is about to begin, which is also the last major battle for the unification of the ancient country.