After the meeting, when only Wang Xuexin and Su Xin were left in the office, Su Xin poured a cup of hot water for Wang Xuexin and complained unhurriedly: "Tell me, what is it about today?"
Just came?"
Wang Xuexin heard the meaning of Su Xin's words and hurriedly explained: "Aren't I busy? These little devils come one after another, and I..."
"Okay, okay, I know you're busy!" Su Xin rolled her eyes at Wang Xuexin.
In fact, although Su Xin blamed Wang Xuexin in her mouth, that was not the case in her heart... Although Su Xin did not meet Wang Xuexin during this period, she had been paying attention to Wang Xuexin's news and knew that Wang Xuexin was busy fighting the Japanese and had achieved great results.
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What could be more proud and exciting than this during this period?
Therefore, when Su Xin sat back at the desk, she had calmed down and returned to her capable appearance again and joked: "Tell me, my great hero, what makes you have time to come to our arsenal despite your busy schedule?"
review!"
Wang Xuexin smiled helplessly and replied: "That's right. I want to know if our arsenal can produce artillery?"
"Artillery?" Su Xin asked doubtfully: "Aren't we already producing artillery? You forgot...it was you who came up with the idea in the first place!"
Wang Xuexin was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Su Xin was referring to the ghost cannon.
This thing was really proposed by Wang Xuexin. He used the train axles stolen from the Japanese to make the barrel, produced other parts himself, and then a ghost cannon came out.
Wang Xuexin shook his head and said: "I'm not talking about this kind of cannon. What I want is a cannon that can shoot for more than ten kilometers, the kind that can fight Japanese artillery face to face!"
Su Xin shook her head with embarrassment and said, "I'm afraid it's going to be difficult. What? Are you encountering difficulties on the front line?"
Wang Xuexin originally did not want to discuss this issue with Su Xin, fearing that she would worry.
But then I thought about it, if you want the arsenal to produce artillery, you have to make your needs clear no matter what!
So he could only explain: "In the last battle, we suffered a loss because our artillery was almost blank... The Japanese attacked our army at night, and our army's air superiority could not be exerted at night. The Japanese openly placed artillery on our army.
Bombing in front of the defense line covers the rapid breakthrough of its mechanized troops! This is a shortcoming of our army and can easily be exploited by the Japanese."
Su Xin frowned and thought for a while, then asked: "Can't the rocket launcher be suppressed?"
After all, Su Xin is the director of the arsenal. As a director, it is necessary for her to know some basic knowledge about equipment and military affairs.
Wang Xuexin replied: "Bazookas are more suitable for hitting fixed targets or calibrating coordinates to focus fire. The Japanese artillery can retreat as they attack, so it is difficult for rocket launchers to pose a threat! What's more, the accuracy of rocket launchers is too poor. To suppress enemy artillery, a certain amount of force is needed.
quantity!"
Su Xin nodded to express her understanding.
She actually knows the weakness of rocket launchers and knows that rocket launchers are more suitable for guerrilla warfare, that is, they can suddenly appear and fire rockets at the enemy and then retreat immediately.
Or you can shoot a rocket at the enemy's position before attacking and then charge.
These are all feasible, but if you want to accurately suppress the enemy's artillery that fires a few shots and then immediately moves its position, it is not suitable.
"So!" Su Xin said thoughtfully: "You still have to use artillery to suppress enemy artillery!"
"Of course!" Wang Xuexin replied affirmatively: "In the past, our army was on the defensive, and the rocket launchers were barely enough, because we could calibrate the coordinates in front of the position before the war and even complete the test firing. When the enemy attacked, we would follow the coordinates
Fight! But now we are attacking, and we are still fighting regular battles with the enemy on the plains. It is difficult for low-precision rocket launchers to replace high-precision artillery!"
This is actually very easy to understand. Regular warfare on the plains is more about mobile warfare... Trench warfare in World War I was when the enemy and we each dug a trench for a stalemate. Rocket launchers were useful, but in World War II no one did this
If it's a trick, the mechanized troops are advancing and firing at the same time, and the rocket launchers are incapable of suppressing the enemy's artillery.
Su Xin thought for a while, flipped through a pile of documents, then pulled out a few forms and handed them to Wang Xuexin, saying: "Let's take a look. This is our army's steel output and production situation. Although the steel output in the Yuncheng direction is
There are many, but most of them are of poor quality steel, and a few of good quality are used for
The barrels of Springfield rifles are produced. The Daqingshan Iron and Steel Plant produces high-quality steel, but it is mainly used to supply automobile engine production lines. If our army wants to produce artillery... Leaving aside technical issues, the barrels must be made of high-quality steel.
Steel, right? Do we take off the barrel or the engine?"
Wang Xuexin couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. He didn't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt were. He had never thought before that just the steel for the gun barrel was not enough.
Reduce barrel?
Absolutely not. Without the barrel, there would be no Springfield rifles. Without the Springfield rifles, the combat effectiveness of the troops cannot be improved...and rifles are obviously more important than artillery. The barrel of one artillery can produce hundreds of guns at least.
No matter what, an artillery piece thrown into the battlefield won't even make a splash.
Reduce engine?
That's even worse. You must know that the Eighth Route Army relied on this to produce half-track vehicles to complete the mechanization of the army. This also had a great impact on combat effectiveness, and it was also a painful experience.
"There are also artillery shells!" Su Xin said: "Until now, we can only produce round-nose bullets. If we want to hit more than ten kilometers, we must produce sharp-nose bullets. What's more important is...how do we rifling the barrel?
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Wang Xuexin had thought about this. His original plan was to use the US dollars in his account to import production equipment from Eagle Sauce.
But now it seems that even steel is in short supply, so it doesn’t make much sense to import these production equipment.
Su Xin reluctantly came to the conclusion: "Other equipment may be okay, but artillery... with the current level and conditions of our military arsenal, it is almost impossible to do it!"
Then Su Xin suggested: "Why don't we import artillery from Mao Xiong or Yingjiang to meet our urgent needs?"
Wang Xuexin sighed, he had thought about this a long time ago.
Although Wang Xuexin has always been unwilling to import and advocated self-production, on the one hand, he would not be stuck, and on the other hand, he could strengthen the industry of the Eighth Route Army and cultivate talents. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.
But if it is needed urgently on the battlefield, importing it is not a bad idea.
However……
Wang Xuexin said: "Cannons can be imported, but what about the cannonballs? How many cannons and how many shells are needed to import? Can they be transported thousands of miles away by plane and shot in a few minutes?"
So Su Xin understood that artillery can only be used in batches to be effective on the battlefield. The speed at which artillery consumes shells is quite astonishing.
Given the current traffic situation between the Eighth Route Army and Yingjiang and Mao Xiong, it would indeed be inappropriate if even artillery shells had to be imported.
Now we are in trouble: importing is not suitable, and there are no conditions for self-production...