For safety reasons, the workers are only responsible for manufacturing the equipment. Their superiors have other arrangements for the work involving gunpowder filling.
Ma Guoliang once mentioned this to Xu Jianguo in private, saying that the filling work would be carried out in the arsenal in the west, and the equipment produced by the 523rd would be sent directly by express train, and the security work of the train would be the responsibility of the guard force of the Fengzhou Military Region.
Since his superiors have made arrangements, Xu Jianguo no longer has to worry. All he needs to do is lead hundreds of workers to produce as much new equipment as possible while ensuring quality.
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Time flies, the years pass by like a shuttle.
In the blink of an eye, three months passed and it was mid-August. It was not far from the day when the war broke out in the west as Xu Jianguo remembered in his previous life.
During this period, Xu Jianguo went home only a few times. Apart from changing clothes and visiting his wife, children and three little girls, he spent the rest of his time in the research institute.
Due to the tight time schedule and heavy workload, Xu Jianguo made more than a dozen phone calls to the old man during this period, and the purpose of these calls was only one, which was to ask for people.
You know, it is simply a fantasy to rely solely on the few hundred people in the institute to support the war on the front line.
Therefore, there is no other way except to add more manpower, and the method adopted by Xu Jianguo is also simple and crude, that is, people can rest, but the machines cannot stop.
It was also thanks to his unremitting efforts that the old man sent him more than 1,400 workers and masters. Among these workers, some had never worked in the military industry before and were temporarily seconded from major factories.
Those who want to work at the 523 Institute must not only have top-notch technical skills, but also undergo extremely strict political review. Even the slightest flaw will result in ruthless elimination. This is also to ensure the smooth completion of the entire mission.
In three months, Xu Jianguo led nearly two thousand workers and sent six express trains to the west, enough to equip a division with new equipment.
According to his memories of his previous life, in 1959, the Indian and Dublin governments openly proposed to Longxia Kingdom to transfer 90,000 square kilometers of Longxia Kingdom’s territory in the east and 32,000 square kilometers in the west to India and Dublin. After its unreasonable request was rejected by the Chinese government, India and Dublin began to shamelessly implement the "Forward Policy" in an attempt to nibble away at Chinese territory bit by bit.
In August and October 1959, the Indian and Ugandan armies respectively created incidents in the eastern and western sections of the border between the two countries, killing and injuring many officers and soldiers of the Longxia border defense forces, which aroused the anger of the central government.
From 1961 to April 1962, India and Duterte established 43 military outposts in the territory of Longxia in the western section of the border between the two countries, and their provocative behavior further intensified.
Despite this, the Longxia Kingdom still adheres to its consistent position of resolving the Sino-Indian border issue through peaceful negotiations, and has always maintained the greatest restraint and patience towards India and Du's continuous invasion and provocation and encroachment on the motherland's territory, and has taken a series of measures to avoid armed conflict.
However, the Indu government did not appreciate it. Instead, it felt that Longxia was weak and did not dare to confront their turban army head-on.
Therefore, in order to safeguard the security of the motherland's borders and create a fair and just negotiation environment, the central government decided to counterattack the Indian and Du troops that invaded the border of Longxia.
At this point, the western border defense forces of Longxia Kingdom officially entered a state of combat readiness. It was also for this reason that Xu Jianguo was appointed by the old man to be personally responsible for the manufacturing of this new equipment.
At this time, there were still nearly two months before India and Duterte launched a large-scale offensive in October 1962. According to the news brought by Ma Guoliang, the new equipment filled with ammunition from the Western Arsenal had arrived at the war zone, and more than a dozen special operations teams had been fully equipped with the new equipment, and the remaining equipment had been handed over to the fist troops for distribution.
Even though the 523rd Institute was working day and night to manufacture them, it was still a drop in the bucket considering the huge number of soldiers.
Although Xu Jianguo was anxious, he had no better solution and could only continue to work step by step.
Early that morning, Xu Jianguo, who was napping in the workshop lounge, was awakened by a rapid phone ring. He quickly picked up the phone and said, "Hello, this is Xu Jianguo!"
"Jianguo, come to the headquarters!" Ma Guoliang's voice came from the receiver.
"Yes!" Xu Jianguo agreed and hung up the phone. Then he came to the workshop, found Yang Xinyu, said something to him, and left the workshop, driving towards the headquarters.
More than ten minutes later, Xu Jianguo appeared in Ma Guoliang's office.
"Commander, what happened?" Xu Jianguo asked.
"There's a fire in the west!" Ma Guoliang said seriously.
When Xu Jianguo heard this, his pupils shrank slightly and he asked, "When did it happen? What's the situation?"
Ma Guoliang looked at Xu Jianguo's red eyes, feeling a little sorry for him. He threw him a cigarette and said, "The equipment you designed has really made a great contribution this time!"
"Oh, please stop keeping me in suspense. I'm getting so anxious!" Xu Jianguo said.
Seeing Xu Jianguo's anxious expression, Ma Guoliang's serious expression faded, revealing a relieved smile. He said, "Those bastards sent several reconnaissance teams to destroy our frontline equipment and vehicles. As a result, they were discovered by the sentries of the Fist Unit wearing night vision goggles. They directly detonated the remote-controlled bombs that had been ambushed outside the defense zone in advance. A total of 117 people, not a single one escaped!"
Hearing this, Xu Jianguo sat down on the chair, grabbed a match on the table, lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, exhaled forcefully, and then grinned happily.
"Look how happy you are, there's even better news. Do you want to hear it?" Ma Guoliang rolled his eyes at Xu Jianguo and asked.
"Listen, tell me quickly!" Xu Jianguo said quickly.
"After the commander in charge of the front-line command learned the news, he reported it to the central government overnight. After research and decision by the central government, a blitzkrieg was launched overnight against the four Indu military camps closest to our front-line base. Eight special operations teams set out with full equipment and took down the four bases in less than three hours." Ma Guoliang said.
"Then what? What's the casualty ratio?" Xu Jianguo asked anxiously.
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