readytorunbook Chapter 895: 5 Bombers and 3 Fighter Jets
Chapter 895: 5 Bombers and 3 Fighter Jets
Our soldiers carry a small packet of sulfanilamide powder in their medical kits. Whenever they are wounded on the battlefield, they immediately take it out and sprinkle it on the wound. This can effectively inhibit bacterial growth and reduce the risk of suppuration and sepsis.
In addition, the medical kit also contains a small plastic bottle filled with a specially prepared nutrient solution. Drinking it will allow soldiers to maintain their energy levels for a longer period, buying them enough time for subsequent treatment.
Our base's medical equipment and pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities are already among the top three on Earth, especially the ability to synthesize sulfonamide tablets on a large scale, which is very important for an army.
Even penicillin, which can only be synthesized in small batches in laboratories in other industrialized countries.
Our base was able to produce them in small batches industrially, though in small quantities, about 10,000 per month, which saved the lives of countless seriously wounded soldiers.
Of course, due to the need for confidentiality, we specially gave this medicine a name with a very classical Chinese flavor: Jingjunling.
It is claimed to be extracted from traditional Chinese medicine and has a powerful ability to kill bacteria.
Furthermore, in order to keep the entire production process a secret, we also had our technicians design a set of traditional Chinese medicine extraction techniques, which involve the human body's meridians, Tai Chi, Yin and Yang, the Five Elements, the Eight Trigrams, and so on.
Even if foreigners manage to get them there, it'll probably be like reading gibberish.
Internally, this medicine is kept under extremely high secrecy. Each use can only be done in a field hospital, and it must be supervised by a designated person. After the injection, all the bottles containing the medicine are collected and recorded.
If any oversight occurs, a thorough investigation will be conducted, and all those responsible will be severely punished.
The reason for implementing such strict measures is to preserve this secret for a long time, until penicillin can be mass-produced industrially in the future before it is made public.
This is one of the few technologies in China that can lead all other countries in the world, and it's also a very profitable technology.
It's precisely because it can only be extracted from a laboratory that it's so expensive. On the black market, you need at least a small yellow croaker to buy one, and even then, it's mostly unavailable.
The good news is that sulfonamide powder and tablets can be mass-produced, and their efficacy is very good, even better than that of the Hans country.
The price is also very cheap, and ordinary people can afford it.
This also resulted in our new recruits having excellent physical fitness, which naturally improved the combat effectiveness of the troops.
The number of veterans in our unit was increasing rapidly, while the number of veterans in the enemy's First Army was decreasing rapidly, and the final outcome of the battle naturally reversed.
Of course, Commander Shinotsuka still had an elite force under his command, and a super elite force at that, but the fighting spirit of this force was hard to describe.
The enemy's 4th Division had been in Taiyuan for quite some time. They were well-equipped, had ample ammunition, and had the highest proportion of veterans among all Japanese units.
After all, if someone doesn't participate in combat for a long time, even a pig would become an experienced veteran if it joined this unit.
Most importantly, this unit is so wealthy that it prioritizes acquiring all kinds of new equipment available locally.
Upon learning that our base area had its own aircraft, the 4th Division immediately contacted domestic arsenals and spent a large sum of money to establish an air defense brigade.
This air defense brigade consisted of two anti-aircraft machine gun squadrons and one anti-aircraft artillery squadron. Because air defense was inherently dangerous, the division headquarters also spent a lot of money to recruit air defense soldiers.
In the Fourth Division, anything that can be solved with money is not a big problem.
That is why the Fourth Division stayed in Taiyuan and did not move, and even Commander Shinotsuka could not do anything about them.
After all, this unit has been established for too long and has intricate connections with the top leadership in China, so no one can touch it.
Fortunately, the 4th Division was used to defend Taiyuan, so it's estimated that no one can break in, which is the only advantage.
Fortunately, the headquarters leadership has no immediate plans to retake the entire Shanxi province. Once the fighting begins in Southeast Asia, the Fourth Division will definitely be transferred away.
At that time, facing the remnants, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled of the enemy's First Army, this battle will be much easier to fight.
Meanwhile, due to his inaction during this period, Commander Shinotsuka has been under great pressure and he must produce some results.
On the morning of the third day, five Ki-30 dive bombers took off from Taiyuan Airport. Each bomber carried two heavy bombs weighing 150 kilograms each, making a total of ten bombs. If they were to attack together, they could easily blast a large hole in the hydroelectric power station.
In addition, there were three Ki-43 Type 1 fighters escorting it, which was considered a high-spec configuration by the Japanese.
Zexian County is close to the front line, and the round trip by plane takes less than an hour. They went there quietly, completed their bombing mission, and returned quietly. Everything was so perfect.
According to intelligence provided by enemy spies who infiltrated our base area, there was no Eighth Route Army airfield near Zexian County, so there was no need to worry about being intercepted en route.
However, the Japanese may have forgotten that there is something called radar in this world that can monitor the sky from the ground in real time.
Coincidentally, in a forest 20 kilometers away from the hydroelectric power station, there is a radar station that was built less than a month ago.
This radar station uses technology from the Niuniu Kingdom, after all, Niuniu Kingdom's radar technology is the most advanced in this era.
Although the Russian radar is not bad either, just think about it, the fact that Russia's most advanced military radar is hidden in some unknown remote mountain village in China makes you feel that this world is too crazy.
The whole of Europe is now in chaos, and the channels for transporting supplies from Hans' country have basically been cut off.
However, there were no problems with the countries of the Eagle and the Bull, which could be explained as being transported by sea and land using transport ships.
Of course, many of the weapons of the Hansin state are also very powerful and are very popular among the troops in the country.
After discussions among the leaders, it was decided to open several additional production lines in the industrial zone specifically for producing German-made weapons.
For example, the Mauser 98K rifle and MP40 submachine gun, two classic firearms, were specially supplied to the Nationalist government's Central Army, and their prices were half that of the rifles they produced.
With such a significant discount, those in the mountain city who advocate "buying is worse than making" will naturally know how to choose.
The best course of action is to shut down all the arsenals in the mountain city and send all the technical personnel and engineers to our base. Only in this way can we make the best use of our talent.
With the current industrial capabilities of our base, we can easily build a production line of this caliber.