Chapter 134 A Big Deal with Dozens of Small Targets (Third update, please subscribe)
“Cut off one head, and two more will grow.”
Although Hydra is good, it must wait until the collapse of the Third Reich before it is possible to promote the establishment of this organization.
What is more important now is to prepare for the future. Although he was in New York, Li Nian always maintained close contact with the task force in France through telegrams and directed the operations of the task force. As the first winter snow slowly fell in New York, he received a telegram from Marseille, France. The content of the telegram was concise and straightforward.
In one month, the task force searched, recovered and assembled more than 200,000 light weapons and a large number of heavy weapons across France, including more than 20,000 tons of ammunition alone. It is enough to improve the domestic military equipment level by several levels. Moreover, among the Allied trophies, there are still a large number of arms captured from the German army waiting to be handed over.
These were all expected by Li Yi'an. After all, the German army did abandon a large amount of arms in France. There was no way, the Allied offensive was too fierce and too fast, and the entire France was liberated in just ten or twenty days.
In addition to the telegram from Marseille, there are also telegrams sent from China. The telegram was sent by Zhu Yihai. The recruitment work is progressing very smoothly. Nearly 30,000 people have signed contracts with the company, including 30% are college students or college students. After receiving basic military training for a month, the first batch of personnel has entered India via the Hump Route. They will undergo further military training in India and will sail to France next month.
Why military training is needed? Because they have to go deep into the war zone and always need a certain ability to protect themselves.
"We must protect these people well. They will be the capital of controlling Borneo in the future..."
Because the search team needs to go deep into the war zone to collect weapons, it is inevitable that they will have conflicts with the Germans. The exchange of fire has so far resulted in dozens of casualties.
Thinking of this, Li Yian said to himself.
Is there anything that can be done?
On the battlefield, we must first ensure their safety in the hail of bullets. With this thought in his mind, Li Yian naturally thought of the most common thing in later generations-body armor.
In fact, steel body armor appeared as early as World War I, and in World War II, U.S. bomber crew members generally wore body armor to withstand shrapnel damage. As for Russia, it has also developed a bulletproof breastplate that can withstand submachine gun bullets and equipped it to commandos.
However, limited by the metallurgical level of this era, these steel body armors are, without exception, heavy and heavy.
"Steel..."
Li Yian dismissed it directly. The steel body armor was too bulky and had poor protective performance.
With this thought in his mind, Li Yian leaned forward and pressed the switch of the intercom.
“Secretary Xu, please come here.”
Xu Wenzhi is Li Yian’s personal secretary. Before that, he had been studying law at New York University. Although he had a New York lawyer’s license, However, due to various reasons, he did not practice law. Now, as the company's secretary, his work is undoubtedly extremely competent. Now he walked through the door, which was built into the wood paneled wall and looked like part of the wall when it was closed.
"Secretary Xu, ask the purchasing department to ask which factories produce alumina ceramics. Do we need to purchase a batch of high-purity alumina ceramics?"
Thanks to the developed information in another world Although Li Yian is a liberal arts student, he also knows that alumina ceramic is a widely used bulletproof material. As a bulletproof insert, it has good protective performance, light weight and low cost, so it is highly sought after by the military of various countries.
At present, alumina ceramics have not only been invented long ago, but also have begun large-scale production. However, its application range is not wide. It is only used to make spark plugs, and some power facilities require it as a Insulating materials.
In fact, when many materials were first invented, their biggest problem was their narrow application range. Just like the famous Kevlar fiber, although it was invented as early as the 1960s, it was not until the early 1970s that this high-strength material found its use - used to replace part of the steel in racing tires. A few years ago, it was discovered that it could be used to make body armor.
As for Li Yi'an, who comes from a later generation, he knows exactly where to take advantage of the new materials.
Just like alumina ceramics, they are now used as insulators in spark plugs and high-voltage electrical equipment, but have no use beyond that. Even for factories that produce alumina ceramics, this product is not their flagship product.
But in a mature industrial country, as long as you have money, you can basically buy all the industrial products you need.
One hundred kilograms of alumina ceramic sheets of different thicknesses were delivered in just a few days. With the alumina ceramic sheet, the rest couldn't be simpler. Use a one-millimeter-thick steel plate as the backing plate, paste the alumina ceramic sheet on the front, and a bulletproof insert plate is formed. In the next test, from five mm thick alumina ceramic sheets were tested.
A few days later, at the shooting range, I looked at the holes in the bulletproof inserts that were filled with white debris.
Li Yian couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
“Boss, it can really stop bullets. Even 98k cannot penetrate the 20mm thick insert plate!”
Compared with the excitement and joy of the testers, everything is nothing. As expected, Li Yian seemed very calm.
The issue he is considering now is not just handing over the bulletproof vest to the task force, he is also considering another issue, that is, whether such a good thing should be kept for himself or shared.
The so-called sharing is doing business with the Pentagon.
The Pentagon would certainly not reject a bulletproof material with such excellent performance. If we can become the exclusive supplier, just an order of 20 million US troops will be enough to make a lot of money.
Its profit may even be as high as a dozen small goals!
Thinking of this, Li Yian suddenly became a little uneasy.
How can you miss such a big deal?
“Secretary Xu, we need to acquire several companies!”
A few days later, with only a few hundred thousand dollars, the only three factories producing alumina ceramics in the United States were acquired by Li Yian.
After achieving a monopoly on raw materials, in order to install bulletproof inserts, Li Yian specifically drew on later tactical vests and designed a tactical vest that integrated ammunition carrying equipment. Two bulletproof pieces can be inserted into the chest and back. plugboard.
Although the production and supply of wartime clothing was very tight, through the coordination of the military, the first batch of 25,000 sets of tactical vests was soon manufactured.
And the most important thing?
The only way to get Pentagon bureaucrats to approve large-scale purchase orders in the shortest possible time is to use the urgent needs of the front line to force the rear.
But it is not that easy to send supplies purchased by non-military people to the front line. It can even be said that no one will pay attention to you at all.
So, Li Yian went to the Pentagon again, and with the help of Thomas Holcomb, the former commander-in-chief of the Marine Corps, he had to provide 1,000 sets to the Marine Corps for testing. As for what When the time comes, it can be sent to the Pacific front for experiments. I'm afraid only God knows.
Everything in the world is nothing more than human kindness. Without the previous human kindness, it would be impossible to knock on the door of the Pentagon.
In order to pass the battlefield experiment as soon as possible, and of course to protect his own people, Li Yian once again became a human carrier. He personally flew to the front line in France.
According to the plan, in addition to the task force equipping itself with 20,000 pieces and leaving another 2,000 as spare, the remaining 2,000 pieces will be provided to those task forces on the French front line. The team has good cooperation with the troops. The number is not large, but it is also a favor. It is nothing more than telling them-as long as you give the captured weapons to the task force in an emergency and cooperate more with the task force, we can provide bulletproof combat vests. And after those people survive the hail of bullets, the calls from the front line can overwhelm the Pentagon. By then, it will be a big order worth billions of dollars.
But as soon as he got off the plane and arrived at the task force's headquarters in Metz, Li Yian was caught off guard by the sudden news and said in shock.
“What? How did our people go to Bastogne? And there are three brigades!”
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