After the gyroscope arrived, it was sent directly to Yuanchang Airport for assembly instead of three stores.
The reason is that the three stores are located in the hinterland of the base area and in the Luliang Mountain area, so it is not very convenient to transport large items such as "Gaohuo".
"High fire" is usually transported by car. In order to keep the transportation secret, it is also packaged in wooden boxes. Occasionally, it is transported by horse-drawn carriage when the transportation capacity is insufficient.
However, whether it is a car or a carriage, if it is shaky along the way, there will inevitably be some problems.
So another group of technicians were needed to accompany the "high fire" for transportation and adjustment... At this time, Wang Xuexin truly felt the embarrassment of the shortage of talents. Professor Su and this group of researchers were very busy, doing research and development and working as technicians.
One person is used as two people, even Professor Su is no exception, running here or there every day.
But there is no way, they are the only literate people in the whole army... To be precise, there are some literate people in the Eighth Route Army, but they are the only ones who can reach the level of "high fire".
The original airfield was originally used for test launches, but was then used as a "high-fire" assembly and storage base.
The reason why Wang Xuexin chose Yuanchang Airport was because the stubborn army had built fortifications around the airport before, including bomb-proof caverns, underground warehouses, etc. The entire fortifications surrounded the airport with water.
This also shows how backward the tactics of the stubborn army who are still in the state of warlords are.
The airport is a flat land, and the defense should be mainly on the periphery rather than building fortifications directly around the airport.
What is the point of building a tight ring of fortifications around the airport?
Isn’t the purpose of an airport to safely take off and land aircraft?
If it is for this purpose, no matter how strong the fortifications around the airport are built by the stubborn army, the Japanese can easily paralyze the entire airport as long as they set up a few mortars a few miles away.
Then, the stubborn troops stationed in the airport fortifications were defeated.
Because they cannot get foreign aid, one day they will run out of ammunition and food. The Japanese only need to quietly surround them and wait for the airport defenders to surrender.
The correct defense method should be to deploy according to the enemy's artillery range, and build a defense line at least a few kilometers away. If the defense line is breached, the airport has actually been lost, and there is no need to waste human lives and troops to defend it.
Wang Xuexin thought, "The reason why the stubborn troops in the past built fortifications like this is probably because their combat thinking is still stuck in the era of warlords' melee. They regard the enemy as a warlord with backward weapons and equipment, and have not yet jumped out of the three-dimensional combat thinking."
In the end, the fortifications that cost a lot of money to build did not work at all... Too many things like this happened on the Chinese battlefield.
However, Wang Xuexin made use of such fortifications.
"High fire" requires a large amount of gunpowder.
One "high fire" gun has a charge of 800 kilograms, and ten of them are equal to 8,000 kilograms... Thirty-five "high fire" guns can be produced in a day, which means that normally, 28,000 kilograms of gunpowder are needed every day.
Definitely a big gunpowder user.
Fortunately, this thing does not have high requirements on the quality of gunpowder.
This is not like artillery shells, bullets and the like are for the safety of gunners and shooters. In addition, there are requirements for accuracy and equipment protection, and higher quality requirements for gunpowder... The reloading bullets used by the Eighth Route Army in the past required cleaning the barrel after firing a few rounds.
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"High Fire" is not that arrogant. Its accuracy does not rely on propellant to launch, but relies on the self-regulation of the control system. As for the power... as long as the amount is large enough, any quality of gunpowder can exert sufficient power.
Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army did not lack gunpowder.
Not only is there no shortage, it should be said that there is overcapacity.
To be precise, the overcapacity was caused after Wang Xuexin introduced the Yingjiang bullet production line and acid-making equipment, allowing the Eighth Route Army to produce high-quality gunpowder.
Usually, all members of the Eighth Route Army produce gunpowder. The people in the base area are at home when they have nothing to do. If they have nothing to do, they will make homemade gunpowder, or they will make some mines, grenades or explosive bags. The people will produce reloading bullets or
It is also common to use shotguns... In this era, there is no such thing as a safety issue. The war ahead is so intense, and the entire country is about to be occupied by the Japanese. Who can care about this.
However, when there are more places for production and people use different methods for production, the quality will inevitably vary.
But given the conditions of the Eighth Route Army at that time, it would be great to have this kind of home-made gunpowder. The number of bullets produced from this gunpowder was only ten per person.
However, Wang Xuexin introduced equipment from Yingjiang to mechanize bullet production. After standardization, these home-made gunpowders instantly lost their market, and serious overcapacity emerged.
Call it useful, the Eighth Route Army no longer likes to use this kind of bullets and explosive packets.
Call it useless. Many guerrillas still have trouble wielding spears and swords.
This puts this kind of homemade explosives in an embarrassing situation. They are stored in warehouses in many places and they don't know where to send them.
As soon as "High Fire" came out, this problem was perfectly solved.
But of course, for the sake of combat power and effect, "high fire" should also use good quality and powerful gunpowder.
But that is a matter for the future, when industry develops to the point where the Eighth Route Army can afford it.
Now, it would not be a bad thing to send tons and tons of these "excess" gunpowder to the Japanese.
These gunpowder will definitely not be transported to the arsenal and assembled there.
Just kidding, where is the arsenal?
It is a gathering place for machines, equipment, and talented people, and piles of gunpowder are concentrated there. If anything goes wrong, it will all be set on fire.
Therefore, Wang Xuexin’s approach to “high fire” is as follows:
Gunpowder is packed into bags of explosives and stored and transported separately from "high fire".
Only when the "High Fire" arrives on the battlefield or when preparing for a battle, bags of explosives are temporarily loaded into the "High Fire" to prepare for launch.
Eight hundred kilograms. If one person weighs 50 kilograms, it doesn't take much time to pack the weight of a dozen people.
Wang Xuexin believes that safety must come first in this matter, otherwise a detonation will cause a fatal explosion, which will explode into a large area.
Normally, these gunpowders are stored in a warehouse a few miles away from the original airport.
"High Fire" was transported from the arsenal to the airport, and the gyroscope was also transported to the airport from Xi'an.
After installing the gyroscope, conduct a preliminary test first, such as placing it on a table to see whether the automatic control system is flexible, whether the operation is correct, etc.
During the war, the tested high-fire and gunpowder were transported to the positions, along with rocket engines.
Install it temporarily when preparing, and then launch it towards the target.
These preparations were all managed by Professor Su and were in an orderly manner.
Wang Xuexin is fortunate to have a good assistant.