Chapter 454
: Take care of both food, drink, defecation and urination
"Continue to test!" Meng Xiang knew when he heard the problem of the vehicle. This time he entered the northwest was not just a problem of testing people. Weapons and vehicles had to undergo a practical inspection. In order to successfully advance in Siberia in the future, Meng Xiang brought training to World War II, whether it was Soviet, German, or American.
But the result was also soon. The Soviet-made weapons must have considered the use of low temperatures, so the problem is not very big. But in the low temperatures in the blizzard, some vehicles and machinery from German and American systems still had problems. Although not all, some models seem to be not prepared for low temperatures at all, and they crawled in the nest very early.
Even the oil purchased abroad has problems. If it weren't for the low-temperature resistant oil produced by the base, the team would have been stuck long ago.
There were many problems that had arisen in a march and all needed to be solved.
"Eating, drinking, defecating and urinating requires everyone to consider the low temperature. Our military uniforms have experienced the test of low temperatures, and several experimental teams sent to Siberia have also received experimental data and can withstand the test of low temperatures. Overall, we believe that we can adapt to low temperatures above minus 30 degrees Celsius." Yu Dawei said slowly.
Although Yang Er is the head of the logistics work of the Pioneer Army, he mainly does supervision, and most of the specific work is handled by Wang Geng. His busy work made Wang Geng fall ill. Originally, after the divorce and spy case of Lu Xiaoman, he wasted drinking every day, and his body had long left the root of illness. The logistics work of the Pioneer Army was already great. With the expansion and popularization of motorcycles and the surge in the army, the logistics workload was so large that it far exceeded other aspects. Wang Geng planned to make some achievements, so he leaned on his post, which led to an acute attack. Fortunately, the discovery was timely, otherwise it would be heroic.
But Huang Tao and others' diagnosis was no longer suitable for such a large amount of workload. He also needed to rest for at least half a year. Meng Xiang had long seen Wang Geng's hard work for more than a year, so he ignored Wang Geng's opposition and gave him a long vacation to recuperate. As for work, he would keep it for him after work.
However, the logistics department is in short supply, so someone recommended Yu Dawei at this time.
Meng Xiang also heard of this genius in later generations and wanted to win over it. But he had always been the position of Chiang Kai-shek as the director of the Arsenal, and Chiang Kai-shek also favored it very much.
Originally, the Arsenal Office led by Yu Dawei provided a large amount of ammunition support for the War of Resistance. However, this time and space had an additional copycat company that provided cheap arms, and a vanguard army that plundered talents, which made the Arsenal Office of the Central Army not play its original role.
No matter when, buying is more oily and water to dig. Even if the counterfeit companies ignore their kickback requirements, the people of the Central Party can build their own empty foreign goods company. With one hand, the cheap goods bought from the counterfeit companies will be included in the Central Army's sect at a high price.
** has already caused the Central Army to rot from its roots, and Chiang Kai-shek has no choice but to do it. Many **s come from his side. After conquering the world, when he fulfilled his previous promises, he did not determine the way to divide the cake at the beginning, and naturally it gradually collapsed in chaos. Without reasonable distribution rules, it would be the same for anyone to be the big shot.
Yu Dawei has seen it a lot and is helpless. He is also very curious about the integrity of the circulating vanguard army. Anyone who opens his eyes to the world wants his country to be strong. The hope in the Central Party is already very slim. He is just adhering to the loyalty of his great-grandfather Zeng Guofan and doing his best.
Meng Xiang knew that his mother was Zeng Guofan's granddaughter, so he played the family card to win over it. Chen Yinke, Zeng Zhaoquan, Zeng Zhaolun and others all followed the Pioneer Army to make a living, so they naturally had a deep impression of the Pioneer Army and persuaded them one after another. At the same time, his family also began to consider the issue of taking sides.
In the past, the most important reason for the prosperity and destruction of a large family was the problem of standing in the team. If you accidentally take the team, it is easy to subvert. This is especially true in the chaotic era. In order to ensure the continuation of the family, when the future trend is not determined, the children of the family usually stand in different teams. If one side falls, the children of the other side can continue to lead the family to prosperity, and by the way, they can also help the children on the opposite side.
The most typical example is that during the Three Kingdoms period, the three brothers of Zhuge Liang were all the masters, but they guaranteed the prosperity of the family. Even this era is common, and it is normal for brothers to join the Central Party and the Red Party. However, no one expected that the subsequent changes would be too great, and even those involved would suffer, let alone bring their brothers a hand.
The subsequent destruction of family forces and population policies made it more gambled, and it was unlikely that the kind of family that lasted for hundreds of years. The same surname also evolved into a marriage alliance interest group, but the role of blood was weakened.
Of course, in this era, the power of the family is still strong. Just look at the family system of the Zeng family and the Yu family, and you will know what it means to cultivate aristocrats in three generations. Yu Dawei is not only responsible for personal future, but also for the rise and fall of the family. At the same time, the family also needs to have a stronger leader to take the family's strength to a higher level.
At present, the strength of the vanguard army has overwhelmed the Central Army, and the people can see the tricks. Can those big families not see it? The problem of Yu Dawei's positioning is not simply his own. Therefore, Yu Dawei was also a little moved by the vanguard army. But he still couldn't let go of Chiang Kai-shek's kindness.
Although it is related to the influence of his relationship between him and his family, Lao Jiang has always trusted him very much.
So Meng Xiang used an invincible weapon to replace talent plans. When one hundred T-28 tanks were placed in front of Lao Chiang, Lao Chiang was also moved. The only 200th Mechanized Division formed by the Central Army had less than 100 tanks in total. The price of the Pioneer Army was enough to form another mechanized division.
But he would never give up a senior talent for this. If he was tempted by this way of buying horse bones, he would probably not have many people to join him in the future. Yu Dawei is different from those pilot soldiers. No matter when, in the mouths of the superiors, talents are always priceless, even if sometimes they are cheap in underground operations.
At this time, someone came out to take the blame and sold Yu Dawei to the Pioneer Army. He was scolded by Jiang Jiang and warned him of dismissal. As for the promotion to another place after a period of time, it was not what others cared about.
The bone-buying effect of this deal has aroused heated discussions among the people, and there are all kinds of people who say it, and there are also many envious and jealous people.
"One hundred tanks are absolutely worth it!" Meng Xiang smiled, and a stone caused a thousand waves. The matter of digging out Chiang Kai-shek's walls was worth it even if it was spent. At this time, strengthening Chiang Kai-shek's strength was equivalent to weakening the strength of the Japanese. The strength of other strengths was weakened, and this deal also suppressed some of the crisis brought about by the vanguard's army's march into the northwest and the Central Army.
Why not do such things in one go? Moreover, in the secret arms warehouse set up by Meng Xiang, these T-28s are already eliminating. Even if they are given to the Central Army without air supremacy, these tanks are just targets of steel.
Compared to trading warlord firearms, Meng Xiang prefers trading them for tanks, artillery, etc. These bulky guys have the greatest profit and have a large target. In the future, the vanguard army can easily deal with them. Even weapons such as Somi submachine guns that consume extra ammunition can be traded. The more ammunition is consumed, the easier it is to stagnate their logistics supplies. On the contrary, those ordinary rifles, when they hide in the mountains and forests in the future, will be a big trouble.
To this end, Meng Xiang kept inspiring the Central Army and other forces to buy more tanks.
The Central Army and others usually want to buy it, but at this time they have nowhere to buy it, they will not miss this opportunity. In addition, the mechanized forces of the Pioneer Army make them want to mechanize it too. But they don’t know how terrifying the consumption of the mechanized forces is on the logistics supply. Not to mention other aspects, just one fuel can make those tanks become fixed turrets.
The money-making effect of these big guys also caused the money collected by the warlords to flow into the pockets of the Pioneer Army. In order to start those big guys, they had to train talents. This laid a foundation for the entire Chinese tank talent reserve and would also become a talent resource library for the Pioneer Army.
With the effect of buying horse bones, why worry about these talents not taking the bait?
At this time, Yu Dawei was extremely grateful to Meng Xiang with the title of a national soldier who had changed to one hundred tanks. One hundred tanks in the Central Army were considered the best tanks, worth tens of millions of yuan. Some people even laughed at Yu Dawei as "Mr. Tens of millions of yuan". For Meng Xiang's big move, he was influenced by traditional education, and naturally planned to repay the country's soldier.
Although he was later called the father of armed forces, he was also good at logistics, and the logistics work of the Pioneer Army was mixed with a lot of military industry. Now Xie Chengrui is responsible for part of the armed forces, and Yang San manages some parts involving the confidentiality of the base. Yu Dawei has no complaints about handling logistics.
However, after he looked at the logistics accounts of the Pioneer Army, he was constantly glad that he had followed the Pioneer Army's choice. He understood the strength of the Central Army, but when he saw the general strength of the Pioneer Army, he understood that the Pioneer Army's statement that the Pioneer Army did not take the initiative to provoke civil war was very real. According to the Pioneer Army's strength at this time, even the Central Army was not enough. When others were still guessing which Central Army or the Pioneer Army was stronger, the actual strength of the Pioneer Army had already thrown the Central Army far away.
Meng Xiang also promptly expressed his ambition to recover the lost territory occupied by Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union, which made Yu Dawei know, and it aroused Yu Dawei's more enthusiastic support. Among intellectuals like him, few people have a good impression of the Soviet Union, which occupied a large tract of China's territory. The main goal of the Pioneer Army was not the Central Army but the external one, and Yu Dawei absolutely supported it.
However, he ignored the secondary goal. If Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to take the initiative to provoke civil unrest, the vanguard army would not mind cleaning him up first. But at this time, the opportunity for World War II was rare, and Meng Xiang needed to use this opportunity to earn the best, and he had to cultivate both inside and outside. For example, this time, Yu Dawei also understood the meaning of the attack. Therefore, he was particularly concerned about logistics matters.
The Pioneer Army's winter clothes were all made of materials. The northern fur and cotton, as well as the newly developed duck down jackets, could withstand the severe cold. As for the temperatures that were less than minus 30 degrees Celsius, the Pioneer Army needed more climate issues.
"If we combine climate and weather prediction, the effect may be better." Yu Dawei was well-versed in Chinese and Western learning and also had some understanding of this, so he vaguely mentioned it.
"We have established a national preliminary climate monitoring station website. The next step is to expand this website larger and more rigorously." Meng Xiang nodded.
How could he ignore the meteorological issue after the weather forecast as news? It is not for military considerations, but also needs to consider this issue from the perspective of people's livelihood. Although there are no meteorological satellites at this time, based on the exploration of high-altitude balloons and the analysis of data from ground observation stations, some natural disasters can still be discovered in advance. In the military, various weather and hydrology data can also be used as reference.
To this end, Meng Xiang planned a weather forecast network early. In addition to three airships detecting at high altitudes, there is also a B-29 modified high-meteorological detection aircraft. More of them are meteorological observation stations in various places.
In addition to the observation stations built by the joint theater, there are even the occupied areas and the Kuomintang-controlled areas, and there are also observation points in other places abroad. After all, meteorology is a global combination to observe more accurately and in time.
Zhu Kezhen was presided over this meteorological network at this time, and the 88 observation stations had a scale of more than 2,000 people. Among them, Nanyang, Alaska, the Middle East and other places also built observation stations based on sub-bases, with observers stations permanently collected climate data from tropical, cold zone, desert and other places. Siberia and *** also had observation stations or observation points, and even permanent observation stations were built on the ** plateau.
In addition to ordinary observation methods, observation methods also use radar for the first time. With the help of radar stations, more detailed information can be captured.
At this time, the meteorological observation of the Pioneer Army can be said to be world-class. Even those who entered the *** Meteorological Team this time had predicted this blizzard, but Meng Xiang was trying to use this light blizzard to train the team. But what he did not expect was that the light blizzard still caused the Pioneer Army a lot of hardships. The power of nature is unimaginable.
"The commander is really far-sighted!" Yu Dawei praised it very rarely. He did not call Meng Xiang the chairman of the informal United War Zone like others, but only called the commander, but it did not prevent him from admiring Meng Xiang. At this time, not many people were willing to invest in these things.
"This is all the credit of Mr. Zhu and others!" Meng Xiang was still very modest. These were just plans proposed by Zhu Kezhen and others, and he had more support.
But this support is something that others cannot do. Either it is lack of funds and conditions, or it is not taken seriously, otherwise Yu Dawei would not say that.
"Our cotton jackets are fine for the time being, but their diet needs to be improved. Eating raw and cold food for a long time in cold weather can easily lead to a decrease in combat effectiveness, so you have to be careful. If you cannot make fires in battle, you also need to pay special attention to this." Yu Dawei continued.
"We are also solving this problem and developing a can of self-heating." Zhou Bai next to him said with a smile. This was proposed by Meng Xiang. There were many such things in later generations. The simplest one is quicklime that is heat from water to water, and other chemical heat. This kind of thing is very simple. Meng Xiang instructed the following to produce in large quantities, and was also preparing to make a big profit during World War II.
"Can canned food?" Yu Dawei was very interested when he heard this. After understanding Zhou Bai's explanation, he suddenly said, "Yes, this method can not only heat food, but also make a warm water bag to warm hands and feet. When encountering enemy situations, your hands and feet are frozen cold and are always inflexible. If you have a hand stove similar to your hand warmer, it can improve your combat effectiveness."
Meng Xiangwen suddenly thought of the hand warmer treasure in later generations. He didn't know the principle of the hand warmer treasure supersaturated solution, but this did not prevent him from handing over these things to experts.
"Then we will strengthen research in this area in the future, and we can also use it for civil use, so that ordinary people can also avoid the pain of cold weather and freezing in the cold weather." Meng Xiang said with a smile.
"Details determine success or failure. Some details are easier to reflect the essence of success. For example, our eye ointment this time greatly reduces the occurrence of snow blindness. Unfortunately, it is still a bit insufficient. If one person has a pair of sunglasses, it would be better." Meng Xiang said with emotion. During this march, there were also some sunglasses tests. In non-combat conditions, the effect of sunglasses covering the snow light is better than oil paint. What's more important is that it can be sold for money in the future and sold to the Germans and Soviets.
But sunglasses production is also a troublesome at this time. Only a small number of people are equipped for this marching.
"I have a suggestion for this question!" Yu Dawei said. Seeing Meng Xiang nodded, he continued: "After I saw the production process of sunglasses, I found that the process of sunglasses was cumbersome. In fact, if it was just to block the snow, it only needed simple sunglasses."
"Simple?" Meng Xiang said curiously.
"The lenses are made of flat panels. Our glass factory can be manufactured in large quantities and can be cut simply." Yu Dawei said.
"What about the frame? That is also very cumbersome." Zhou Bai said. In this era, China's industry was originally thin, and glasses were mostly handmade, which was labor-consuming and time-consuming. Meng Xiang built a glasses factory to occupy the market for Ray-Ban's sunglasses, and the efficiency was not very high.
"If it is only used for marching, not for long-term applications or combat applications, it is not necessary to have a frame." Yu Dawei smiled, "A cloth edge is sewn on the lens and inlay it, and a rope is tied to hang it on the ear."
"Oh, it's not bad!" Zhou Bai first discussed peace. He could do this kind of work by just finding a woman. The army's simple sunglasses could be done soon. Although it was simple, it was enough for marching in the snow.
Meng Xiang also suddenly realized that if every soldier had a pair of sunglasses, it wouldn't be a handsome man, and there was no need to. He used to be a bit stubborn, and always wanted to give the soldiers the best treatment and build the best army. In fact, sometimes the best one is suitable.
In the past, the army was not reflected in small scale, but with the expansion of the army and the increase in organization, suitable issues need to be considered in the future. Although there is a base at this time, Meng Xiang followed the base model, the most cost-effective and time-saving. But if it is taken into reality, it may not be the most cost-effective. For example, although Somi uses the base to produce the most cost-effective, the high cost in reality still limits its popularity.
Since Meng Xiang wants to establish his own military-industrial system in the future, such ideas must be paid attention to.
"There is another thing we need to pay attention to, which is the problem of the big *** in the snow. Some missing people lost their way when they avoided the marching roads and went to the big ***." Yu Dawei continued. At this time, the vanguard's marching team had advanced to the vicinity of Hami. Except for one missing person and two deaths yesterday, all the others had been found. But today, more than a dozen people were lost.
You can just sit anywhere during the marching, but you have to stay away from the big size. Moreover, in the blizzard, it is very dangerous to squat on the big size. It is said that freezing can really freeze.
Before, everyone was concerned about food and clothing issues, and they really didn't pay much attention to the toilet.
"Temporary toilets need to be built along the highway to facilitate officers and soldiers to solve this problem. If there is such a situation in the future, you also need to pay attention to this during the march." Yu Dawei said, looking up at Meng Xiang, who nodded slightly, and said, "This time during the snow march, you can use the method of stacking snow walls or tents to build simple toilets. You can also build several permanent toilets appropriately. Even if you are not a large army in the future, it can be used for pedestrians and drivers on the road."
Meng Xiang nodded again. Just as he was about to say something, Shit 2 suddenly came over and handed Meng Xiang an urgent report. Meng Xiang once said that for any urgent report on the battlefield, no matter what he was doing, he must notify him in time to avoid delaying military information.
He didn't blame Shi Er for interrupting the meeting. He gestured to the people next to him for a moment before picking up the battle report and reading it. As he looked, a smile appeared on his face.
"Chairman, is it Hami's battle report?" Zhou Bai smiled. He knew that the vanguard's vanguard army had already attacked Hami, and they did not stop and directly launched an attack on the defenders there. At this time, there should be a result.
Chapter completed!