"What kind of gun is this?"
"pistol!"
"Nonsense, I'm asking about the imitation model. Forget it, I see you like to hide your head and hide your tail and pretend to be mysterious. I'm too lazy to ask you. I can figure it out myself!"
The genius girl was completely attracted by the several pictures of firearms sent by Erya. She lowered her head and studied each picture carefully.
Seeing that she was so addicted, Tang Dao didn't rush her and walked out quietly, asking Erya to find the boss for some refreshments and a new pot of tea, while he casually picked up a book of poems from the Republic of China that Erya brought and sat beside him to read.
For more than two months, he has either been fighting or on the road to fight, and his heart has never really relaxed. Today is an extremely rare time to sip tea, eat snacks, and read.
What's more important is that he is accompanied by a young scientist who will shine brightly in the future. It is estimated that not many army colonels can get this kind of treatment.
As for how long such leisure time can last, Tang Dao believes that it will take some time.
In the past half month, he had been drawing every night, and he only drew the design drawings of three weapons. Although the design of the three-sided spur was genius, its structure was the simplest, and it was completed in less than half a night.
The other two weapons took him fourteen whole nights, but they were the two most important standard weapons that he would design for all the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Line Regiment in the future.
Both of these weapons were designed more than ten years later. Even with the genius girl's current ability, it is not possible to understand them all in a short while.
But obviously, Tang Dao still underestimated the wisdom of the genius girl.
Within ten minutes, the genius girl took her eyes off the last drawing and cast her eyes on Tang Dao, who was on the other side of the table, drinking tea and reading a collection of poems.
Sensing that he was being watched, Tang Dao raised his head and looked at the confused genius girl, with a smile on his face: "What, have you found the design flaws of these two firearms?"
"No, although the design style of these two firearms is rough and has the characteristics of our northern neighbors, the design is perfect enough. In terms of light weapon performance, it is definitely more than one generation ahead of the current individual firearms of China and Japan." The genius girl shook her head.
He is indeed a great guy! You can see so much just by looking at the drawings, and Tang Dao can only give him a thumbs up in his heart.
For at least the next thirty years, most of China's weapon designs will not deviate from the style of its northern neighbors. The two firearms painted by Tang Dao are still designs from the mid-1950s, so naturally they have more traces of them.
"But, I'm thinking about a question. Even if all our Chinese officers and soldiers get these advanced firearms, will they definitely be able to win the war? The teacher said that the reason why the Japanese army is rampant and the reason why our army has been defeated repeatedly is basically
The reason is not the difference in firearms, but the fundamentals of the two countries' industries. The Japanese army is equipped with a large number of large-caliber artillery, but our army only has a few small artillery. This is the biggest gap in military strength between the two sides." Pain welled up in the eyes of the genius girl.
What she meant, Tang Dao understood, no matter how excellent the two firearms were, they still belonged to the category of light weapons and could not essentially change the difference in strength between the enemy and ourselves.
The reason why she went to Germany to study in the past time and space was naturally influenced by this thought, hoping to use what she learned to change China's lack of heavy artillery manufacturing.
"Senior, I understand what you mean. Our army had the right time, place and people in the Battle of Songhu, but it still failed. The failure was caused more by the lack of our own strength. For example, in terms of heavy firepower, our army was far inferior to the Japanese invaders.
Our army will face the Japanese invaders on the battlefield in the future. This heavy firepower is still a hurdle that is difficult to overcome. If we want to win, the military industry must develop heavy artillery, but the drawings I gave you are all light weapons.
From the perspective of a soldier, the development of new light weapons can strengthen the front-line firepower at the battalion, company, and platoon levels, which is what any army dreams of. The development of heavy firepower can determine the outcome of division-level, corps-level, and even corps-level wars.
Victory or defeat, the last war that swept half the world has shown that artillery is the god of war and the key to victory. Without artillery, there is no victory." Tang Dao squinted his eyes, tapped his fingers on the table, and replied.
"Yes! So, it is precisely because of this that I am particularly confused. On that day, there was a fierce debate at the Jinling Ordnance Factory over the establishment of the 150 heavy artillery project. When the war broke out, there was still no conclusion." The genius girl rubbed her hair vigorously,
Red eye circles.
"Tang Dao, do you know? When I heard that on the front line, a Japanese artillery shell fell, and the entire infantry platoon position of our soldiers was wiped out, how sad was my heart?
The ancients often said that we should repay the Japanese in return. However, we could not do it. In the Battle of Songhu, we only had two 150-caliber heavy artillery brigades, but
Those are already the only two heavy artillery brigades in our entire army, but the Japanese also have larger-caliber naval guns.
During the Battle of Songhu, I don’t know how many Chinese men were killed by the Japanese invaders’ artillery fire! We, the so-called high-tech talents, could only watch from behind and listen to the casualty figures that kept coming from the front line.”
Looking at this talented girl who was depressed because of self-blame, Tang Dao felt pity in his heart.
Of course, these are not her fault, nor are they even the fault of the entire scientific research community. The fault can only be attributed to the big shots who continue to benefit their families.
It is precisely because of their personal desires that China has never been truly unified in the more than 20 years since the overthrow of the feudal dynasty. It has continued to fight internally and missed an extremely rare period of development.
A strong neighbor invades.
But fortunately, China has never lacked outstanding people who care about the world. They have ideals that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. They are willing to sacrifice everything for this land, just like the sad genius girl in front of them.
All your hard work will pay off in the end!
It was precisely with such a group of people that China finally straightened its back one day and declared to the Western powers with a deafening voice: "For hundreds of years, the Western invaders only needed to set up a few cannons on a coast in the East to conquer the country."
But the era of occupying one China is gone forever.”
"So, no matter how powerful we design our light weapons, the Japanese invaders can still suppress us with heavy artillery, and the soldiers will still suffer heavy losses. Perhaps, we should choose a new direction." The look of sadness on the genius girl's face became even heavier.
"Otherwise!" Tang Dao shook his head.
"First of all, our country's industrial base does not allow our army to prioritize the development of heavy firearms. Secondly, even if our country develops and can manufacture heavy weapons, senior sister, what should we do if our army's heavy artillery is attacked by the enemy from the air?"
"Of course it's plane versus plane." The genius girl answered hesitantly at first, and then shook her head in pain. "This doesn't work either, we don't have an aviation industry at all!"
The sadness in his eyes, which was already somewhat sad, became even more intense.
There was no need for Tang Dao to tell her the answer, she actually already had the answer herself.
As a developer who has turned her research direction to the military industry, the genius girl understands better than anyone that although there are no heavy artillery, if enough financial resources are invested to purchase materials, China can actually imitate it with China's current research and development capabilities, but the aircraft cannot.
It is an extremely systematic mechanical product. It took the West twenty or thirty years to develop it, so it was by no means an overnight success.
Even if China uses all its efforts, the best way at present is to buy.
Perhaps only Tang Dao knows this data best.
At the most critical moment in North China in 1937, China was equipped with 296 fighter jets, reconnaissance aircraft, bombers, etc. After the war broke out, it once again purchased more than 1,200 aircraft from its northern neighbor. This sounds like a lot, but what about Japan? It has the ability to manufacture aircraft.
They are industrial and can produce dozens of fighter planes every day. By the end of the war, they will have up to nearly 40,000 fighter planes, and only need to dispatch one-tenth of them, which is several times that of China.
In the Battle of Songhu, which Tang Dao personally participated in, it was 290 versus 3,000. With a huge disadvantage in numbers, the Chinese Air Force fought bloody battles but was unable to save the day. Unknown how many soldiers suffered from the Japanese bombings and roared into the sky: "Ours
Where is the plane? Where did it go?"
All planes were shot down.
It's not that the pilots weren't brave enough, it's that there was a huge gap in strength.
China's weak air force gained dignity at the expense of sacrifice, but failed to gain victory.
"Does it mean that it is impossible for us to develop artillery? We can only watch our soldiers being bombed?"
"Yes, once air superiority is lost, all the heavy artillery on the ground will become medals on the chests of Japanese bomber pilots.
Of course, in addition to this, there is also the pressure of logistics. Our army's logistics is still in the initial stage of manpower and horse-drawn mule backs. Even with a small number of cars, do you think a heavy artillery shell weighing dozens of kilograms will not be used in battle?
At that time, how many can be sent to the artillery? Will a heavy artillery without shells be more useful than a rifle that can shoot bullets?" The Tang Dao decisively shattered the genius girl's last fantasy.
Gu Nao
"As Professor Sun said, our army has suffered consecutive defeats. The defeat is not just about artillery equipment, but also the overall industrial capabilities. This cannot be changed by increasing efforts to develop heavy firearms."
"But, without airplanes or heavy artillery, how can we win this war? Just bravery and sacrifice?" The despair in the genius girl's eyes is swallowing up the previous sadness.
The reason why she asked about Tang Dao was that she hoped that Tang Dao, a soldier who had fought hard battles, would give her guidance when she was confused about the direction of scientific research. Soldiers undoubtedly had the most say in weapons, but she did not expect that Tang Dao would develop heavy firearms as soon as he came up.
The road is blocked.
"That's not the case. Without planes and artillery, we may fail in the early stage, but that is temporary.
In a national war between two countries, what is the competition about? Is it national power? Yes, and no. I think what is more about the war potential is the competition between the two nations. In addition to national strength, there is also a competition between the willpower of the two nations.
Throughout the thousands of years of history of our Chinese nation, even if we were ruled by foreigners in a special period, we were the ones who assimilated and overthrew them.
This time, no matter how many years we fight, I, and I ask you and your students, must believe that it will be us, China, who will win in the end." Tang Dao said loudly with a clear look in his eyes.
"The will of the nation! The will of the Chinese nation!" the genius girl muttered silently, her desperate eyes gradually gaining brilliance.
"This is also my original intention to vigorously develop light weapons. No matter whether one or more battles are won or lost, even if all the country is occupied, as long as there are still people alive in China, the war will not end and there will be battlefields everywhere.
Unless they never leave a house where they can hide from bullets, or they are surrounded by hordes of loaded guns and ammunition wherever they go, otherwise, there will be guns pointed at them and bullets flying towards them.
All the people in China are soldiers. We don’t need any cannons or planes. Just using them like this will kill people." Tang Dao’s eyes showed a cold light.
This is also what history has performed before.
During the war, China may not be like this all over the country. It was only done in the guerrilla zones. The result was that the Japanese army did not have enough scale to dare to go out and occupy the county town, and the Japanese in the gun towers did not even dare to squat too much to defecate.
It won't last long, otherwise you will most likely get shot. Eat it while it's hot.
Perhaps, in addition to China's performance of this kind of war, the best proof of this kind of people's maritime war is the battle between elephants and mice fifty years later. The second most powerful country in the world faced off against a people with only light weapons. The war dragged on.
It lasted for ten years, but eventually it completely brought the economy of the world's second most powerful country to its knees.
The will to resist that never stops is a stronger weapon than airplanes and cannons.
Listening to Tang Dao's remarks, especially the last damning sentence, the genius girl's almond-shaped eyes once again curved into two crescent moons.
"Okay! I understand and agree with all the points you made, but we can't be too ambitious for the time being!" The genius girl, whose expression became a little more relaxed, picked up the picture from the table that showed the overall structure of a pistol and various
Decompose the component design drawing and read the theoretical parameters written on it by Tang Dao:
"Look, the effective range is 100 meters, and the muzzle velocity of the bullet is 440 meters per second. This is data that even the famous Browning 1911 pistol cannot reach. How dare you give it such high expectations?"
Tang Dao smiled slightly, "As long as you can do it, believe me, it will definitely work."
The black pistol drawn on the paper looks somewhat "honest". If any gun enthusiast from the future looks at it, he will know the famous name that belongs to it.
May 4th type pistol!
Tang Dao, who is proficient in all kinds of Chinese and foreign firearms, really knows it very well.
As the first standard weapon to be officially equipped with the army after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the future, the May 4th-style pistol draws on the advantages of the Tokarev pistol of the fighting nation and fully considers the characteristics of Chinese soldiers and is more suitable for the hands of Chinese soldiers. It is definitely a
One of the most outstanding designs of Chinese military industry of that era.
The simple structure and non-damage characteristics make the Type 54 pistol applicable to most harsh environments. Its long range, strong penetration and high power are another reason why it is loved by Chinese soldiers.
Because of its muzzle velocity of 440 meters/second, it can shoot through 3 mm thick steel plates, 10 cm thick wooden boards, 6 cm thick brick walls, and 35 cm thick soil layers at a distance of 25 meters.
Compared with the Japanese bastard-box Nanbu Type 14 pistol that may not kill a person even after firing a magazine of bullets, the May 4th pistol can kill them to the sky in an instant.
Such a gun will of course achieve stronger parameters than the Browning 1911.
Moreover, the biggest reason why Tang Dao thought about it and finally decided to produce a large number of May 4th-type pistols for use by the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Regiment was that the structure of this pistol was simple and easy to manufacture.
If Tang Dao remembers correctly, the 18th Army has enough TT1931 pistols, the senior brother of the May Fourth Pistol, in use. It shouldn't be too difficult to get a few sample guns back.
With the prototype gun, his own drawings, and the machine tools he would definitely have, Tang Dao believed that the elites headed by the genius girl would definitely come up with it.
Of course, Tang Dao did not copy the design of this classic pistol exactly. The current environment is even worse than that period. In order to increase the lethality of the May 4th pistol, Tang Dao Mo changed its magazine design and added ammunition to it.
The quantity has been increased from the standard 8 to 13. This is the ultimate that Tang Dao can achieve in balancing the performance of the gun. Naturally, the appearance is not as coordinated as the original version.
Just thinking about the Type 54 with a thirteen-round magazine, if it were equipped on the soldiers under his command, before fighting the Japanese aggressors with bayonets, each of them would first draw out the pistol and empty the bullets and then fight hard with the bayonet, Tang Dao's blood would be a bit
The child is excited, and fighting ten against one is no longer his exclusive privilege.
The Japanese are afraid of the Chinese who are so ungrateful in martial arts! They are always thinking of plotting against us!
"I feel like it! It was a mistake for the teacher not to accept you. He will definitely appreciate your inexplicable confidence." The genius girl rolled her eyes.
"There, I am confident in you, senior!" Tang Dao also smiled.
"Is this a compliment?"
"absolute!"
"Then I'll accept it!"
"Because I must turn the designs drawn on the drawings into reality, including the semi-automatic rifle you copied from who knows where. The drawings belong to me! Don't worry, I will keep it secret."
After saying that, he rolled up the pictures on the table and put them into his cloth bag, got up and went out: "In two days, I will give you a list of the materials I need and the machine tools and equipment I need. I hope you can be here."
The purchase can be completed as soon as possible after arriving at the destination.”
"Okay!" Tang Dao's scalp was slightly numb.
This person is more vigorous and resolute than he imagined. That is, he is still in the stage of trying to make a big pie. Not to mention that he has no money now. Even if he has money, where can he get a machine tool? There is such a thing in the backcountry in the north.
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"Also, as an upfront investment in hiring me, an engineer who is destined to be great, I would like you to settle the account, junior!" Before leaving the house, the round-faced girl smiled brightly.
Tang Dao cheated her, and she cheated Tang Dao in return. No one suffered any loss, even if it was a small tea price! This was a small revenge from a woman who was no more than 21 years old.
However, the girl who boasted in order to stimulate Tang Dao did not know that in the future she would do great things that she had never thought of.
Not to mention letting Tang Dao invite her to tea and snacks, when all Chinese people in the world saw her, they would willingly call her: "Hello, Professor He!"
Those who care about the world are destined to be great!...
ps: Two chapters in one, 5,000 words!
This chapter has been completed!