I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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China and Germany jointly developed the atomic bomb. Germany provided people, money, and equipment, while China provided far more people than Germany, and provided far less money, equipment, sites, and resources than Germany.

Among the Chinese and German scientists who developed the atomic bomb, China accounted for more than two-thirds, and its strength was strong. Originally, China’s scientific research strength was definitely not as good as that of Germany, but “thanks” to Hitler’s anti-Semitism, his move led to more than 2000 outstanding scientists. Jewish scientists and cutting-edge technical engineers left Germany (in the original history, these precious Jewish high-tech talents basically went to the United States), and then were promoted by Jiang Weiguo and Chu Cai, and joined the camp of Chinese scientists (Jiang Weiguo also came from the United States, Britain, France, Italy and other countries A large number of cutting-edge scientific and technological talents were recruited, but the Soviet Union and Japan were not recruited, but assassination methods were adopted), which made the Chinese scientist camp full of talents and stars.

In fact, the Datong base was not really developed by China and Germany, but by three parties. The third party was the Jews. Jiang Weiguo promised that the Jews would also obtain atomic bomb technology, so the Jews also participated in this project, and then contributed people, money and effort. The earth lightened Jiang Weiguo's burden.

Hitler turned a blind eye to this.

Jiang Weiguo is really too busy, and countless major events at home and abroad require his painstaking efforts.

At the end of May, according to Jiang Weiguo's proposal and Hitler's organization, the "Allied Powers Headquarters" was officially established in Qingdao. Germany, China, Japan, and Italy all sent high-level officials to participate in the first "Allied Powers Headquarters Meeting" to discuss the alliance. Prior to this, Hitler warmly invited Jiang Weiguo to go to Berlin (at this time Jiang Weiguo was "almost recovering from his injuries"). He participated in the high-level meeting of the German army as a "consultant" and "guided the maze" for the German army to fight the world war next.

Hitler is now extremely optimistic about Jiang Weiguo's strategic vision and military acumen, and has already regarded him as a "military genius" comparable to Alexander the Great.

"I'm exhausted! I have to travel half the world to Berlin again! It's so far away!" Jiang Weiguo sighed, "It's good to go there, so that Lao Xi will not make fatal mistakes like in the original history. If you are happy, you may be able to cheat and get tens of millions of dollars back.

Oh shit!Why is it so difficult to govern the country?There is no money anywhere! "

After dragging his exhausted body, Jiang Weiguo returned to his residence in Beiping at this time. What greeted him was not hot meals and warm greetings, but thunder and lightning storms. Liu Wugou and Shi Liling were like a crying Two troubles and three hangings" and one "one cry, two troubles and three drinks of medicine", of course, the two cherish their side, so one is going to hang Jiang Weiguo and the other is going to kill Jiang Weiguo with medicine.

"Damn! What's the matter?" Jiang Weiguo was furious. He dedicated himself to the country and died, but he was treated like this after returning home, which made him deeply feel the unfairness of fate.

"Jiang Weiguo! You white-eyed wolf! Just after I gave birth, you... attracted bees and butterflies!" Liu Wugou was furious.

"What a white-eyed wolf! It's obviously a pervert!" Shi Liling gritted his teeth, "Hooking up with a vixen again!"

"What!" Jiang Weiguo felt wronged, "When did I attract the bees and attract the butterflies? When did I hook up with the vixen?"

"Stop coming!" Liu Wugou was furious, "Did you hire a secretary?"

Jiang Weiguo was almost speechless: "Yes!" He jumped up, "Please! I'm busy with everything now, and I don't want to die young. Is it wrong to hire a secretary to help with the documents? Isn't this justified?" He finally He understood why Liu Wugou and Shi Liling were furious at him, because he was suffering from extremely busy business affairs, so he hired a secretary a while ago, of course, it was a woman, and she was a beautiful woman, named Lan Muzhu.

Of course Liu Wugou and Shi Liling were furious, Yang Mei didn't care about Jiang Weiguo's mess at all, and Cai Wenna was completely temperless and unjealous.

Jiang Weiguo felt that he was too wronged. He devoted himself so much to the country and the people. If he didn't invest money in the country and the army, then he would have at least [-] million U.S. dollars in deposits at this time. But now, Jiang Weiguo's private deposits are Poor Qianqian Dayang, who is the majestic "North China King" at any rate, will be scolded even if he recruits a secretary.

Shi Liling said angrily: "Why didn't you recruit a male secretary? Why did you hire a female secretary? And she looks so coquettish and outrageous!"

Jiang Weiguo was sweating coldly: "Hey! Can you not use this kind of words to describe Secretary Lan? She is very hardworking and dedicated! Besides, she is eight years older than me! How could I do anything to her! What's more. ..." He was very unconvinced and said, "My brother Jiang Jingguo also has a beautiful female secretary, and my sister-in-law didn't say anything..." Jiang Jingguo had a female secretary named Zhang Yaruo at this time.

"Bah!" Liu Wugou and Shi Liling spat Jiang Weiguo contemptuously together in a tacit understanding.

Chapter 409 In full swing (6)

On June 6st, Jiang Weiguo's schedule was as full as before, and even worse, because he was "completely recovered" at this time, so the workload naturally increased.

Jiang Weiguo's time was too tight and precious, he couldn't take the train, car, or ship slowly, so he flew around all day. On this day, he first flew to Guisui to inspect the large pasture that was being built there, with herds of cattle and sheep, Horses and donkeys are running, and everything is thriving.

Among the six provinces and one city in North China, Beiping City is the center of political leadership, Shanxi is the base of heavy industry, Shandong has heavy industry, and the scale of light industry is very large. At the same time, it also focuses on the development of agriculture, fishery, and maritime trade. Hebei has light and heavy industries just like Shandong. Agriculture is also developed. Shandong and Hebei provinces are the two major granaries in North China. Suiyuan, Chahar and Rehe provinces are mainly engaged in animal husbandry, agriculture and forestry, and also develop certain light and heavy industries. Suichare provinces are the meat production centers in North China The base is also the three major pastures that provide war horses for the Nanjing Army. Although the cavalry is somewhat outdated, it is difficult for China with a backward industrial level to quickly complete the mechanization of the Chinese army. War horses still play an irreplaceable role. Can be used for transportation, so raising horses is a top priority.

After inspecting Guisui, Jiang Weiguo flew to Taiyuan again, and rushed to the Taiyuan military industrial base to inspect China's first "charcoal cart".

China is now able to produce cars by itself, of course, with the strong assistance of Germany. Because cars are important materials, and China is poor and weak, it cannot be promoted to the private sector for the time being. China's auto factories are all government and military. The factory is affiliated to the Ministry of Military Industry. Among the six major military industrial bases of the National Army (Chongqing, Wuhan, Fuzhou, Qingdao, Taiyuan, and Jinan), there are automobile factories in Chongqing, Taiyuan, and Jinan. Because of Jiang Weiguo's attention and support, the three major automobile factories joined forces The output is actually not small, a total of more than 500 vehicles can be produced per month (most of them are "Zhongzheng" military trucks, and a small part are "Meiling" civilian cars.

In the same year, the United States produced 40 cars per month, Germany 3 cars, the Soviet Union 2.5 cars, Britain 4 cars, France 2 cars, Italy 5500 cars, and Japan 5000 cars). However, the supply of cars exceeded demand.

Why is this so?Isn't China in urgent need of cars at this time?The reason is: the reason why the supply exceeds demand is because of the lack of oil.

China is too short of oil. Whether it is gasoline, diesel, or kerosene, they all come from oil. China’s domestic oil production is very low. Germany’s own oil relies on a large amount of imports and chemical synthesis. Naturally, it cannot help China. The same is true for Italy and Japan. The major member states are all oil-poor countries. The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union are "so rich", but they cannot really supply them to China. China is short of money and can't buy much.

Because of the lack of oil, even if China produces cars, it is useless.

Jiang Weiguo knew that this matter was because he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he found another way. The German side enthusiastically taught China the "coal-to-oil" technology (Germany also suffers from oil shortage, so Germany, which has a highly developed chemical industry, came up with the "coal-to-oil" technology. "technology), but the cost of this technology is too high and does not conform to China's national conditions. After consulting Zhang Zigao, Chen Yuguang, Zhuang Changgong, Sun Guofeng and other outstanding Chinese chemists, Jiang Weiguo allocated funds to the Taiyuan Military Industry Base to develop "Motor Vehicles Capable of Using Coal as Fuel".

Jiang Weiguo is currently short of oil, but not short of coal. Anyway, Shanxi Coal Sea is in his hands, and there are many large coal bases such as Liupanshui, so China needs as much coal at this time. Sichuan invited two talents in this field, namely Tang Zhongming, a mechanical engineer from Henan, and Gao Guoshu, an automobile manufacturing engineer from Sichuan. The two patriotic mechanical experts deeply felt that China could not produce oil, and they were both committed to the development of energy without oil. The advancing motor vehicle, after being invited by Jiang Weiguo, the two experts readily agreed and came to the Taiyuan military industrial base.

After struggling for more than half a year, Tang Zhongming and Gao Guoshu finally gave Jiang Weiguo the fruit of his hard work: a charcoal cart.

The mechanical principle of this kind of charcoal cart is to burn coal in a special gas stove to generate gas and drive the engine to run.

On the testing ground of the Taiyuan Military Industrial Base, Jiang Weiguo saw the finished product of the first charcoal car. It was full of smoke when it was driven, and the speed was very slow, not much faster than a person riding a bicycle. Moreover, the charcoal car had a huge disadvantage, which was its own load. It is too heavy, because there is a lot of coal on the car, so the space for loading people and supplies is limited. In addition, there is a lot of coal on the car, which naturally makes the car slow, but anyway, this is a very remarkable achievement. It It is the crystallization of the hard work, sweat and patriotism of Chinese mechanical experts (during the Anti-Japanese War in the original history, China, which was in a difficult situation, relied on the charcoal vehicles developed by patriotic mechanical experts such as Tang Zhongming and Gao Guoshu to slightly alleviate the shortage of automobiles, gasoline, etc. The big problem of scarcity.

This invention is full of bitter tears of China's persistence in the war of resistance, and it is also a manifestation of China's indomitable and unyielding national spirit. During the development process, Gao Guoshu was almost killed by a gas explosion, his face was disfigured, and his hair and eyebrows were burnt.

On the rough and bumpy road between the front line of the Anti-Japanese War and the rear of the Anti-Japanese War, many charcoal vehicles loaded with anti-war supplies, senior government officials, generals, and soldiers moved forward tremblingly, slowly and firmly.

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"It's hard work! It's hard work!" Jiang Weiguo shook hands with Tang Zhongming, Gao Guoshu and other experts with full respect.

The charcoal cart is definitely not a "tall" advanced invention, but it is in line with China's national conditions at this time, and local things are more effective than imported ones.

"We will make persistent efforts!" Tang Zhongming, Gao Guoshu and other experts are full of ambition and enthusiasm.

In the later development process, Tang Zhongming, Gao Guoshu and other experts successively developed tung oil vehicles, alcohol vehicles, and gas (natural gas) vehicles after the charcoal vehicles, which greatly alleviated the big problem of oil shortage in China at this time, and also made it almost deadlocked. China's auto industry has been reborn.

The automobile factories in Chongqing, Taiyuan, and Jinan subsequently remodeled their production lines. Before China got a large amount of oil, they appropriately reduced the production of gasoline vehicles and increased their efforts to produce charcoal vehicles, tung oil vehicles, alcohol vehicles, and gas vehicles.

The German side was very interested in this matter after learning about it, and specially sent a group of auto experts and mechanical experts to "learn from the experience" to introduce these Chinese technologies into Germany to alleviate the same problem of oil shortage in Germany. The German experts also joined hands with Chinese experts. They made technical improvements to charcoal vehicles, tung oil vehicles, alcohol vehicles, and gas vehicles to make them more excellent and successful.

After leaving Taiyuan, Jiang Weiguo went to Chongqing. The plane flew over the mountains and mountains in the central and southern parts of Shanxi. He condescendingly saw that the mountains and basins below were densely packed with people like ants moving house, flying sand and stones, and dust rising into the sky. They were road construction troops.

China's transportation is too backward. It is necessary to build railways and roads on a large scale, not only in Shanxi, but also in Shandong, Hebei, Rehe, Suiyuan, Chahar, Rehe... and almost every province in the southern Kuomintang-controlled areas. Such a majestic and tragic scene.

China's level of industrialization is too low. Although some machines have been imported or manufactured, this road construction project basically relies on manpower. It is conservatively estimated that more than 1000 million migrant workers have been employed in the 2000 provinces in the Kuomintang-controlled areas (more than [-] in winter. million, because farmers basically have nothing to do in winter), this huge and great project was carried out with unprecedented manpower.

Jiang Weiguo was quite short of money, and Chiang Kai-shek was even poorer than him, so he had almost no money to pay migrant workers, so he had to find other ways, such as those who participated in road construction could be exempted from tax for the whole family for three years, or the government would issue IOUs for wages temporarily, and the government would pay them back later. Either the government uses the newly reclaimed land as remuneration, or the government repays with dividends in the form of corporate shares and profits from road construction. The general public basically understands, supports, and actively participates in this. In addition, the government On the one hand, the funds for road construction come from loans or aid from allies, and on the other hand, they come from the issuance of national bonds for private fund-raising (the government’s private fund-raising is divided into two types, one is made by Chiang Kai-shek, issuing national bonds, and borrowing money from wealthy private businessmen in the name of the government , relying on the patriotism of these wealthy businessmen and their trust in the government, borrow a large amount of funds from them. However, this method has some limitations. First, not all wealthy businessmen are patriotic. Second, patriotic wealthy businessmen Wealthy businessmen do not necessarily trust the government, and worry that the government will eventually borrow money and not repay it, so it is good if five out of ten wealthy businessmen are willing to buy government bonds and lend money to the government; the other is Jiang Weiguo, which is more efficient than Chiang Kai-shek Much more, because Jiang Weiguo didn't just issue IOUs, he used many "good things" as collateral.

Jiang Weiguo sent people to contact wealthy businessmen in the country and some wealthy overseas Chinese businessmen, and used the antique treasures he asked Sun Dianying to dig out of the ground to borrow money as collateral. Jiang Weiguo obtained a large sum of money by relying on this method, and at the same time completed the "sale of stolen goods" after the tomb robbery.

For example, Sun Dianying stole the Kangxi Mausoleum according to Jiang Weiguo's order, and dug out countless treasures. The most valuable treasure includes a Nine Dragons Jade Cup. The jade cup is made of delicate and flawless white jade, translucent. Each holds two dragons playing with beads, and the handle is also a dragon. There are nine dragons in total, and the artistic value is extremely high. Jiang Weiguo mortgaged this Nine Dragons jade cup to Zhou Xuexi, who was once known as the "Northern Industrial King" and rich in wealth during the Beiyang government, so as to borrow it. Zhou Xuexi worked hard to accumulate more than 500 million ocean savings for most of his life, and Jiang Weiguo wrote down the IOU in black and white and signed his own name, promising to pay it all back within five years, with 5% interest attached.

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Even so, most of the migrant workers were not paid within a short period of time, and even had to settle for food and lodging by themselves. However, the migrant workers were simple-minded, aware of the country's difficulties, and motivated by their patriotism, they flocked to sign up.

Millions or even tens of millions of migrant workers, digging mountains, digging soil and transporting rocks, all rely on one hand, some use hoes, shovels, some use poles, baskets, sweat like rain, countless hands have worn out blood blisters , thick calluses (Jiang Weiguo couldn't bear it after inspecting the construction site, and ordered a large number of gloves from many glove factories across the country, and provided them to migrant workers free of charge). In order to hurry up, the road construction army worked in two shifts and worked during the day. Construction continued at night, lighting up with torches along the way, braving the wind and rain, overcoming thorns and thorns, eating and sleeping in the open.

Since most of the road construction areas are located in mountainous areas (there is a lack of roads because of the mountainous areas), on the cliffs and cliffs, migrant workers climbed over mountains and ridges, and if they were not careful, they would roll into the valley, leaving their bodies torn to pieces and leaving no corpses.

In this torrent of national struggle, thousands of migrant workers exerted their hard-working spirit, working hard and hard, and the mighty chant resounded in the mountains:

"For the country, build railways, build roads! Build roads, be stronger, work harder, and move forward!..."

"What a wonderful people!" Jiang Weiguo watched on the plane with tears in his eyes, and the five words "I am Chinese" can really be proud of.

This is a real "passion burning years". The government has no money, but the government needs to mobilize a huge amount of manpower to build large-scale projects. Logically, the government has no money to mobilize a huge amount of manpower, because the wages are astronomical. But most of the large-scale projects have been carried out as scheduled, because the general public loves the country, believes in the government, and is willing to accept the IOUs issued by the government at this time, and believes that the government will repay them in full, so they are willing to do free work for the government right now.

The support of the general public has enabled the national government (including Jiang Weiguo) to save at least [-] million US dollars in funds at the moment.

中国此时拥有约4.5亿人口，生活在国统区18省3市境内的人口约3.8亿，三亿8000万人齐动手的能量无疑是惊天动地。

At the request of Jiang Weiguo, Chiang Kai-shek made several public speeches through radio and newspapers, confessing to the general public the difficulties of the government and the necessity of starting those large-scale projects. Due to the serious shortage of funds, the government can only "owe the people money" At the same time, with his identity and personality as a "leader of the party and country", he assured the general public that the government will never go back on its word and refuse to pay back the money owed. Whoever dares to do such a thing, he will personally bring it to justice and so on.

Under Chiang Kai-shek's guarantee and Jiang Weiguo's call, an unprecedented number of people in the Kuomintang-controlled area began to contribute their strength to the country with great momentum, thus ensuring that the road construction project can be carried out as scheduled.

Chiang Kai-shek, Song Meiling, and a large number of high-level national officials went to the road construction site many times to visit and condolence to the migrant workers (they had no money in their pockets, so they could only express their condolences in words).

General Alexander von Falkenhausen, head of the German Military Advisory Group in China, sent Hitler a telegram of several hundred words with great excitement after accompanying Chiang Kai-shek on an inspection: "...China is now It is very backward, and Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and other places are also very backward, but the backwardness of the two sides is fundamentally different. China's backwardness is caused by various objective reasons. China's glorious history itself can prove the advantages of the Chinese people. As for Africa, Southeast Asia, South America and other places, the root cause of the backwardness there is caused by the local people's stupidity, laziness, leisure, hard work, and lack of enterprising spirit. The races there are all inferior, but the Chinese are definitely not. Seeing these great pictures with my own eyes, the perseverance and unyielding spirit of the Chinese people undoubtedly rank first among all nations in the world. There is hardly any country whose people are more simple, diligent and hard-working than the Chinese people. The energy and cohesion with which they were organized and mobilized was incredible.

I can't believe that the astonishing number of Chinese civilians in front of me don't ask for a penny from the government, but they participate in this kind of high-intensity labor for the country without complaint or regret. Their loyalty to the country comes from instinct.

Dear Head of State, if you give Africans 1000 years, they will not build a strong country, but if you give Chinese only ten years, they will be able to rebuild their backward and chaotic country.

I now firmly believe that the Chinese are a superior nation, and our alliance with them is an incomparably correct choice.

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After Jiang Weiguo arrived in Chongqing, he inspected the Chongqing military industrial base, because on this day, the Chongqing military industrial base had "double happiness", and the first domestically-made military aircraft and the first domestically-made tank left the factory.

Airplanes, tanks, and artillery are the main weapons of modern warfare, and of course there are warships, but China is now unable to manufacture large warships (only gunboats, gunboats, torpedo boats, and submarines).

In terms of artillery, Germany has helped Jiang Weiguo establish a large-scale artillery factory (integrating the foundation of the original national army's own artillery industry), which can produce grenades, mortars, and 37mm caliber anti-tank guns (anti-tank guns) ), infantry guns with a caliber of 75 mm, anti-aircraft guns with a caliber of 88 mm (that is, the German 105 guns, which can shoot both planes and tanks), and can also produce 120 mm and [-] mm howitzers. The higher the technical difficulty, the lower the output. According to the current situation of the Chinese army, this artillery factory located in the Chongqing military industrial base mainly produces grenades, mortars, anti-war artillery, [-]th infantry artillery, and [-]th artillery , do not produce much larger caliber howitzers or cannons, so as to concentrate resources and increase the production of small and medium caliber artillery, so that the Chinese army has very few heavy artillery, but the penetration rate of small and medium caliber artillery can be greatly improved.

As for aircraft and tanks, they are now officially localized.

These two major events are very meaningful, but at the same time, they are also "very watery", because the first military aircraft and the first tank were not developed and produced by the Chinese themselves, but with the production lines, design drawings, It is produced only with the help of machinery and equipment and the guidance of German experts.

In any case, it is still a good thing, which means that China can produce its own planes and tanks in the future, even if the passage to go abroad is blocked, as long as it has equipment, raw materials, and technical personnel, China can produce planes and tanks by itself.

In fact, before the Anti-Japanese War (including when Jiang Weiguo had not interfered in history), Chinese aviation experts were struggling to find their own aircraft. Later, with the support of Jiang Weiguo, they achieved considerable results and produced two or three Ten aircraft with relatively primitive technology, relatively simple structure, and relatively primitive technology could not be used by the Air Force. The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War delayed this matter for a long time, but at the moment, the previously accumulated foundation plus Germany's new With this round of assistance, China finally realized its own domestically produced aircraft (in fact, it was just that the Germans moved an aircraft factory in Germany to China and handed it over to Jiang Weiguo to produce aircraft himself, and he could only produce and maintain aircraft, and did not have the qualifications to develop aircraft. ability, because China is really far behind in this respect. Except for the raw materials and some skilled workers of the first domestically-made military aircraft, the rest are all German, including production lines, drawings, and equipment.

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"Bf-109?" Jiang Weiguo looked at the first domestically-made military aircraft in surprise.

Yu Dawei explained to Jiang Weiguo next to him: "Yes, our productivity is too low to produce all types of aircraft at the same time, because our air force needs fighter jets most, so we focus on bf-109 to increase production.

Our aircraft factory can only produce bf-109, but it can repair most types of aircraft, including bombers and transport aircraft!"

"How about the output?" Jiang Weiguo asked.

Yu Dawei replied: "The current output is 30 planes a month. We plan to achieve 100 planes a month in the first half of next year, 150 planes a month in the second half of the year, and 300 planes a month in the year after next!"

"It's hard work! It's hard work!" Jiang Weiguo said again and again, and he sighed in his heart again, "It's really not easy! I remember that in the original history, during World War II, the Yankees produced almost 10 aircraft a year at their peak! Ten Ten thousand! Fuck! It’s too fucking scary! Germany seems to have produced 4 planes a year at its peak, and Japan produced nearly 2 planes a year at its peak.

Oh shit!The gap between China and them is too great!well!No wonder China was looked down upon during World War II in the original history, and even exploited by those so-called allies!A weak country has no diplomacy! "He sighed endlessly.

Yu Dawei seemed to see Jiang Weiguo's look of "joy with worry", so he comforted: "Jianhao, don't feel less, don't worry, this process is snowballing. In our initial production, although the scale is small, we can Continuously train relevant technical personnel. The industrial sector required for the production of aircraft first acquires experience and technology, and then slowly expands to form a complete production system and a virtuous circle. This process is not one to two, two to three, Three becomes four, but one becomes two, two becomes four, four becomes eight!" He patted Jiang Weiguo on the shoulder, "By the way, the helicopter we jointly developed with the Germans has also made great progress!"

"Oh? Really?" Jiang Weiguo was overjoyed, "What kind of progress?"

Yu Dawei said with a smile: "The first finished product will definitely be manufactured within this year, the initial production will be next year, and mass production will be achieved in the year after!"

"What type?" Jiang Weiguo asked overjoyed.

Yu Dawei replied: "Transportation type.

We have researched, although the helicopter has many advantages, but it is too weak to make the 'combat helicopter (armed helicopter)' as you imagined, so we can only focus on the transport helicopter, but it can be equipped with certain self-defense weapons !"

Jiang Weiguo nodded. He also knew that the picture in his fantasy of "the Chinese army using armed helicopters to attack the enemy's ground troops and even the enemy's tanks" would not appear for a long time. It is weak, and there are not many weapons that can be carried. It is impossible to install anti-tank guns or rocket launchers. It is very good to install a machine gun at most.

Yu Dawei said with emotion: "my country's aviation industry is very weak, and the Germans have indeed provided great assistance to us, but there is another very important reason that restricts our aircraft production, which is aluminum.

Aluminum is the most important raw material for manufacturing aircraft. It is very difficult to produce refined aluminum that meets aviation standards!If there is more aluminum, our aircraft production will definitely go to the next level! "

Jiang Weiguo nodded empathetically, he knew this was a big problem.

In the original history, among the US aid materials received by the Soviet Union, a very important item was tens of thousands of tons of refined aluminum, which was requested by Stalin from Roosevelt in every possible way, and could be used in the Soviet aviation industry to produce tens of thousands of aircraft ( During World War II, the Soviet Union produced more than 4 aircraft a year at its peak, a little higher than Germany). Without the tens of thousands of tons of refined aluminum provided by the United States, the Soviet Union would not have been able to produce so many aircraft.