Military Industry: from Border Areas to Powerful Weapons

September 1937, Shanxi. When Chen Feng woke up, a bayonet was pressed against the tip of his nose. He became a newly recruited soldier from the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army. He was holding a Hanyang-made rifle with smooth rifling in his hand and three bullets in his pocket - one of which was damp. A translucent panel floated in front of me: [Military manufacturing system binding completed] [Military merit value: 3] [Currently unlockable: Hanyang-made improvement drawings (consuming military merit value 1)] Chen Feng stared at the words, his Adam's apple moved, and he raised his head. "Company Commander, I can repair this gun." No one believed him. —— What this book talks about is very simple: what the Eighth Route Army lacked most in 1937 was not men, but guns, artillery, and ammunition. Chen Feng has a system. The system provides drawings, craftsmanship, and weapon plans that are unimaginable in this era. But the system doesn't give it away for free. Military merit must be obtained by defeating Japanese soldiers, and the blueprints must be polished bit by bit with iron, people, and time. If you force it, black blood will ooze from the gaps between your nails. From a jammed shot made in Hanyang, to a furnace for home-made ironmaking; from a sight sharpened with a file, to a rocket launcher that deterred the Japanese army from charging; from a technical class squatting in an iron mine to stock up on guns, to the military-industrial system that supports the entire war zone. Japanese staff officer Yamada Kenichi held a piece of shrapnel and pondered for three days, and wrote in his notebook: They have an arsenal. Intelligence Section Chief Matsumoto looked through the files and could not find this person. —— He squatted under the tung oil lamp, holding a file, and just wanted to make one more gun and one more cannon. One more bullet means one less person will die on the front line.