The huge bathhouse reminded Yang Mingzhi of the old times. It is a purely welfare institution and you can enjoy it by paying one ruble.
Here, he really got the long-lost enjoyment.
The general took off his coat, and the horrific scars on his body immediately became the object of everyone's attention. Especially the huge "centipede" on his arm. The old man in the design bureau still remembered that the scar looked like this, which was when his wife started emergency treatment.
The result. The scars are not good-looking, but at least life is saved.
When they saw the scars, they thought of Dr. Besica's "welding" wounds, and also thought of the wails in military hospitals after those brutal battles.
Bessika is the youngest and most diligent doctor, and she is also a soldier with outstanding military exploits. Now, the girl is pregnant with the general's child. Accompanied by Anne, she cleans herself in the women's hall.
The comfortable hot water soaked Yang Mingzhi's skin. After a while, the bather used burlap to remove the thick layer of dead skin on his body.
Like the barnacles on the bottom of a battleship being cleaned away, his skin felt like it had been polished with sandpaper. After putting on a large white bath towel, he felt relaxed all over, and then got into the hot sauna...
After all, the time for enjoyment was limited. After steaming to the point of dizziness, he still decided to leave this wonderful place.
"General, won't you enjoy it for a while?" Popov asked kindly.
"That's enough, I have important things to do tomorrow. For tomorrow's things, I have to work hard tonight."
"Is it important? Or about guns?"
"Of course! My time is very valuable, we have to act quickly, even at the expense of leisure time."
Finally, Yang Mingzhi stretched his arms and patted his slightly bulging belly, "Oh, today's bath also made me see myself clearly."
"General..."
"Call me Director. That's really bad. Does it mean that having the title of Director means I have a bulging belly? I really need to lose weight."
Yang Mingzhi brought a full set of clothes for this trip, pure white linen shirts and long johns, woolen clothes and trousers, and finally a coat. It was a harsh winter, and with the current technological level of the Soviet Union, they had not yet developed high-tech clothing.
As a cold-resistant textile material, the warmest and relatively cheap one at the moment is wool.
The rest of the people also put on new clothes, but their clothes were not as rich as Yang Mingzhi's. Facing the cold Siberia, the huge consumption of clothes in Moscow finally gained meaning and value.
People are always groggy after taking a bath, but as soon as a group of people left the changing room of the men's hall and stood in the ticket hall of the bathhouse, the cold wind had already penetrated through the crack in the door.
A sudden cold can make even the most groggy person become alert and even sneeze.
Now Yang Mingzhi suddenly feels energetic and relaxed. Isn't his whole body in the best condition? This state is most suitable for burning the midnight oil!
He quickly saw his wife, whose face was red and seemed to be in good spirits.
Star Tao also put on new clothes. Accompanied by Anne, she happily approached her husband.
"elder brother……"
"Don't talk yet!" Yang Mingzhi put his head close to his wife's forehead and sniffed her hair. "That's not right. You brought soap. Why do I smell the fragrance?"
"Ah! I was just about to tell you! Well... well, someone handed me a special piece of soap, claiming that it had some special essential oils added to it. I could use it to bathe with it and it would smell good all over my body! So... so I just
After using it, if you think it smells good, it’s the best.”
Yang Mingzhi nodded: "Not bad. You also brushed your teeth, I'm very satisfied. Let's go, it's time to go back."
"Well, let's go back and rest. I sat in that room full of hot stones for a long time, and I still feel a little dazed now. Let's go to bed early tonight. We have important things to do tomorrow."
"It's really important, let's go. I didn't expect you, a girl, to think about taking a sauna. It really makes me..."
"What do you want me to do?" Yang Tao asked with a smile.
"I have nothing to say. Let's go, let's go back together. Annie! Do you understand if you take care of her and go to bed early?"
"Yes!" Anne said, standing up straight.
"What about you?" Yang Tao was a little suspicious.
"There are still some big things to deal with, so don't ask about your girl's family..."
A pregnant woman actually went to take a sauna. It could be said that she had entered Russia and was completely transformed. Yang Mingzhi was really scared, fearing that his wife would really faint.
However, Lao Maozi's sauna is really their "national uniqueness", and the people's public bathhouse is also a good place to relax. If it is peacetime, you can come to this kind of place often, but time is so precious!
The howling cold wind blew away the warmth on Yang Mingzhi's cheeks. He didn't know what the climate was like in Stalingrad. At least in Siberia, winter had come!
The actual astronomical time is already midnight at night, the temperature has dropped below zero, and will continue to fall. Fortunately, the heating pipes wrapped in thick linen cover the entire Academy of Sciences campus. Along the way, Yang Mingzhi sees gaps in the pipes.
The sizzling heat casts erratic shadows under the dim street lights.
Finally, Yang Mingzhi returned to his large and tidy office, and standing here at the same time were all the designers in the design bureau.
His loyal guards ignored the cold and continued to take turns to keep vigil.
As for Yang Tao, although she was a little depressed, the warm room was more attractive, and there was nothing better than getting into bed. Her husband continued to work, just like before. But now the husband does not need to think about commanding the war, he
We are developing new weapons again. "Hey, I'm really looking forward to the new guns!"
Regarding this matter, Yang Tao really has the desire to go into battle personally. Unfortunately, for the sake of the child in her belly, she can only continue to be an extremely weak person and face the great cause of men calmly.
Many great things are often carried out in a simple place, take the first step bravely.
This is not a skunk factory, nor is it a glamorous place.
It is just a huge and thick wooden house, heated by steam pipes. Under the illumination of more than a dozen incandescent lamps, more than ten people gathered at some large square tables, using simple rulers and compasses on rough and thick white paper,
Draw lots of lines with pencil and pen.
that's enough.
A desk lamp was placed in front of the table, and Yang Mingzhi opened his notebook. He personally went into battle and "deeply processed" his sketch on a large white paper.
A crowd of people stood around him, just to witness the director's masterpiece with their own eyes!
It definitely deserves the title of "unparalleled masterpiece", because what Yang Mingzhi outlined was basically "Five or Six Chong", but the onlookers only saw the director's rough "AАБ42" mark.
The annotation of "AАB42" is also very simple and crude: Berekov assault rifle type 1942.
Yang Mingzhi wants to create an assault rifle that is capable of being mass-produced under the current Soviet technology and in a state of war. Directly copying the Аk47 gun family is a shortcut.
Comrade Kalashnikov may still be a tank soldier, or he may have been trying to produce light weapons. Today, the Аk47 does not exist, so there is no plagiarism problem.
But Yang Mingzhi is Chinese. When he was a soldier in that plane, the first person he came into contact with was actually the veteran "Wu Liu Chong".
It was initially used as a training tool for new recruits. During the frequent dismantling, snatching and assembly training, Yang Mingzhi completely understood the dimensions of each component of the firearm. Furthermore, he was also quite sensitive to the technical parameters of the parts.
As long as you understand the original model of the "Five-Liu Chong", it will not be a problem to understand its derivatives. The barrel is strengthened to become a squad machine gun, the barrel is shortened to become a short assault rifle, and a grenade launcher can even be mounted. Everything is possible.
Start with the original model.
Yang Mingzhi originally thought about asking Lao Maozi to jump into the "August 1st Bar" era, but when he thought about it more carefully, it was definitely the wrong route.
What the Soviet Union now needs is a weapon that is simple to process, cheap in materials, and takes into account performance. The "Bayi Bar" is generally better than the "Five-Liu Chong", although it is better than the original version of the "Ak47" in that plane. The price of excellence
The problem is its cost. Obviously, the barrel and bolt are cutting parts, and the rest are stamped parts that are easy to produce quickly. The structure is relatively simple, and the "five-six punch" that is extremely resistant to wind, cold, and sand is the best choice.
In just one hour, Yang Mingzhi not only drew the overall structural diagram of the firearm, but also drew its own structural diagram for each part, including the various dimensions of the parts and the allowable processing errors.
Most of the young designers have been working with Yang Mingzhi for a year. They looked at the general's precise drawings and quickly understood the ropes. There are too many words of praise, and the next work should be to copy the drawings.
To save a large number of spare drawings for future production. And this job is also the job of everyone as assistants tonight.
Taking advantage of the great energy gained from taking a bath and blowing cold wind on his face, Yang Mingzhi boasted that he had completed the crucial first step in the development of a new gun.
He urged Popov, who stood next to him and was eager to try it: "Now you can see, our new gun should look like this."
"Yes, Director, I can already picture what it looks like. With all due respect, I think it looks like a neutralized version of a rifle and a submachine gun."
"Your words are very appropriate. In a sense, they are the neutralization of the two. I can be sure that in the future, submachine guns will gradually fade away and eventually become the standard weapon of the public security police, and soldiers will generally use this assault rifle!" Yang
Mingzhi particularly emphasized the term "assault rifle": "Just from the name, you should be able to understand that it will take on the mission of a submachine gun. It can hit long-distance targets, and it can shoot wildly at close range. It is really a wonderful existence.
"
"I agree. As far as I know, many arsenals are ordered to manufacture old-fashioned rifles that were standardized during the Tsarist Russia. It is so old! There is a considerable number of infantry, and the equipment level has not improved compared to the First World War." Popov said.
"So, the change will start tonight. You will lead the team and distribute my parts drawings, and you will write down the manufacturing process. I will select the best tools among them as the trial processing process!"
"As you command!"
In fact, excellent lathe workers have already programmed the process in their minds just by looking at the parts to be processed. However, in the current Soviet Union, the vast majority of people working in factories are women, and many workers start to work after only a short period of training.
Operated the lathe.
Only then did Turing come up with the first prototype of a computer in the modern sense. In today's world, even the microcontroller has not been invented, so there is no CNC lathe in the world.
The operation of lathes relies entirely on skilled workers who are experienced, calm and agile. Perhaps women's cautious nature gives them the advantage of safe processing, but their biggest disadvantage in operating common lathes is still their lack of work experience.
What Yang Mingzhi handed over to his subordinates were drawings of cutting parts, and small matters such as compiling relevant processes were not his responsibility at all.
He must have programmed the craftsmanship himself, it was those stamped parts.
Young designers have almost never come into contact with a punch press. Because they have never seen it before, it is difficult for them to do it behind closed doors!
What's more, there is another big problem. Special molds are required to perform stamping processing. The molds need to be cast with special alloys and milled into special shapes. In the entire design bureau, Yang Mingzhi is really the only one who understands this type of processing.
In fact, guns like the Аk47 can also be produced by small workshops. Even in some special battlefields, extreme small workshops can even produce bizarre bolt-action Аk guns.
But mass-producing it on a large scale is no easy task.
Yang Mingzhi's inherent knowledge can bypass the most difficult research and development. He has completed the difficult step from zero to one, which does not mean that going from one to ten is easy.
The technical drawings were completed late tonight after working overtime. The big question next is who will manufacture it. Tomorrow's meeting is by no means a simple gathering of several arsenal directors to have a social and cooperation meeting. The meeting has a strong atmosphere
The purpose is to develop new guns.
Yang Mingzhi spent another two hours to complete the mold drawings and processing technology of the stamping parts very quickly and efficiently in the eyes of others, and the time had quietly passed zero.
It’s a new day! It’s already September 14th.
He stopped the pen and finished writing the last craft card. Yang Mingzhi looked at the clock hanging on the wall and saw that it was already one o'clock in the morning.
"September 14th, the past two days have been as long as two weeks! It was such a fulfilling and tiring time! When daybreak comes, there are more important things to do. I am a workaholic again, I am really working hard! Alas,
It would be nice to have a cup of coffee at this time! Yes, after the meeting is over, ask those two people and try to get some coffee powder..."
Yang Mingzhi yawned deeply, a yawn that caused all the designers to yawn continuously. He asked again in a lazy tone: "Comrades! Your work has been completed!"
Almost everyone raised their hands, and then handed over the craft cards they wrote.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi is like a teacher reviewing the masterpieces of his students. It has to be said that these outstanding college students trained by the Soviet Union are indeed the national elite. Each card records the logical and meticulous craftsmanship of parts processing.
He chose what he thought was the best, among which was the masterpiece of the young novel designer Dobrov.
Yang Mingzhi stapled the selected craft cards and corresponding drawings together, and couldn't help but praise excitedly: "Very good! Great! You are all excellent people, and it is really an honor for me to have you as my assistant."
Being praised by knowledgeable people is the happiest thing!
Popov said with a smile: "Director, it's getting late, why don't you go and have a rest first."
"Okay, it will be dawn in three hours! In fact, our work is far from over. It is just the drawing work. I also have other firearms recorded in my notebook. Comrades!" As he said this, Yang Mingzhi stood up and stretched out his arms.
Liao Lanyao: "You must understand the concept of a firearm family. What we have just completed is the most basic model, and the drawings of derivative models will be postponed for a while. That's fine, after dawn, I will bring the fruits of tonight's labor
, go and convince those arsenal directors. Comrades! Be mentally prepared! Perhaps, ideally, the prototype gun will be able to roll off the production line in three or four days! Now! I announce! Take a break! All of you sleep until noon to recuperate.
Recharge your batteries and wait for me to announce the good news when I return from the meeting."