War of Resistance: I Am an Industrialist

I've been wanting to say something unrelated to the main topic. I'm almost fifty this year. I grew up watching all sorts of black-and-white war movies. When I was a child, I just watched for the excitement. As I get older, I've developed some certain feelings. There are many things I couldn't write about because of the rules. There's nothing we can do about it.

Do you all think industrialization is really that simple? Search online to see how the Soviet Union completed its industrialization, and how my country's industrialization developed. Even the most brilliant person, without some kind of magic touch, couldn't have achieved anything significant in China during World War II.

Dear author, military production is generally based in the rear, so please don't go fighting the Japanese. You can go to the battlefield to test weapons, but don't get addicted to it; it's very dangerous.

Yan'an did not have the capacity to build the large-scale industry depicted in the book. It lacked minerals, oil, and, most importantly, water. Industry consumes enormous amounts of water, and the Yan River alone could not support such a small-scale industry.

Seeing the "building airplanes" part makes me want to stop reading—it's definitely garbage. Modern wartime novels are constantly talking about building airplanes and tanks, completely detached from real needs, as if building a few high-performance aircraft and tanks is enough to win the war.

If China had sufficient weapons and ammunition, the War of Resistance wouldn't have lasted long. The Japanese strength was truly absurd. Many people haven't deeply and rationally considered the waste caused by the KMT's absurd and chaotic strategies, tactics, and organizational execution during the War of Resistance.

You can't write about the War of Resistance against Japan... Even if you wiped out a hundred million Japanese soldiers in a book, they still had to surrender in 1945...

The first twenty-odd chapters are the most realistic and substantial industrial fiction I've read so far. It doesn't overly glorify the protagonist; the various technologies are arranged reasonably, highlighting the necessity of collective progress without weakening the protagonist's presence.

The author is a bit too hasty. They've just solved the steel problem, production is still an issue, and they immediately want to develop diesel engines and tractors. It's not that they can't do it, but they need to increase steel production first, then improve their machine tools. Otherwise, what use are one or two tractors to the vast base areas?

I completely don't understand the author's thinking. They're worried that Japan will abandon Southeast Asia and refocus on the domestic situation, so they've been stuck in northern Shaanxi for three years. How come they could fight without these weapons during the War of Resistance, but now that they have them, they can't? And what about the logistical problems?