Pulling up his pants, Yang Mingzhi looked again. The public toilet was still this public toilet. Under the dim light, the north wind was still there. To describe the current situation in one word, it was cold.
For a whole day, the renovation and additions to the design bureau building were still not carried out, as if Lysenko had forgotten about it.
As a grown man, I can still resist the cold. When I think of my wife’s current situation, how can I not be worried?!
After working hard for two hours, it would be best if he could lie down and rest for a while. However, he was still feeling hungry, so Yang Mingzhi went directly to the kitchen to check the situation.
It was still a small kitchen filled with smoke, and under the light, the two women were still busy.
"Oh! Brother, are you done with your work?!" Yang Tao happily put down the basket and said with a smile.
"I'm quite busy tonight. My dear, what's the matter with you? You didn't stay in the room, and you came here to help again." As he said that, Yang Mingzhi turned his head and said, "Annie, is it you who asked me to do this?"
"I...Director...how dare I do that?"
"I made the decision on my own." Yang Tao approached her husband. He had vented his emotions a few hours ago and his current mental condition was pretty good.
Compared to how busy Yang Mingzhi is, Yang Tao is really doing nothing now.
In fact, in Yang Mingzhi's view, since she is a pregnant woman, the burden on her shoulders is very heavy. In his view, pregnant women should avoid labor as a matter of course and should be served like a queen until they are finished.
Until the confinement period. This can avoid many disasters that lead to miscarriage, and it is also a kind of care for women.
This was Yang Mingzhi's idea. As for Yang Tao, she just felt like she was a useless person. It was precisely because she had nothing to do that she felt such a strong sense of guilt in her heart. Temporarily helping Annie with cooking made her feel like she was in Novosibirsk.
Still has a lot of value.
Yang Tao said frankly: "I feel pretty good now, and I will help with the cooking in the future. When I have too much belly and can stagger around when I walk, if you let me lie down at home, I will never go out."
Home, what do you think?"
"You..." stroking his wife's head, Yang Mingzhi said gently, "Okay, you don't want to be depressed, right? You can help in the kitchen here, but you can't do heavy physical work. Annie!"
"arrive!"
"Do you understand? She can help, and you are qualified to take good care of her!"
"As you command!"
Yang Mingzhi nodded. He believed that Annie would resolutely complete the task. "Okay, now tell me what you cooked for dinner?"
"It's almost the same as lunch." Anne looked proud: "Soon, some new wheat bread will be brought from the canteen. We made the soup ourselves. I put more potatoes in the soup tonight. You see,
All the potatoes were basically boiled into paste."
Chinese people like clear soup, while Westerners love miso soup. For example, in Russia, in this country, porridge and soup are generally described by one word. Of course, the same is true in the United Kingdom and the United States.
If we follow the Chinese standard of boiling staple food into a paste, it is porridge. Now, the bubbling potato soup in a large iron pot that Annie has made and filling the house with fragrance is definitely called porridge.
"Not bad. Annie, give me a spoonful and I'll eat some in advance."
"Let me do it." Star Tao approached the iron pot. Considering that the miso soup was very hot, she didn't scoop much, only half a large spoonful was put into the bowl.
"Brother, drink it."
"okay!"
Even if the dinner given by my daughter-in-law is bland, it is full of flavor.
For Yang Mingzhi, drinking a bowl of hot soup on a cold night is simply a pleasure.
After finishing half the bowl of soup, he suddenly asked Anne: "Did you ride into the city again this morning?"
"Yes General."
"Are you still going tomorrow?"
"Generally, I will go to the store to check out new products. If there are new products available, I will queue up to buy them. I will use the funds you give me in key areas. If you have other requests, I will implement them unconditionally."
"Okay, I do have a request. This soup tastes good, but it lacks spiciness. You should pay more attention in the past few days. If there are peppers, chili peppers, garlic, etc., once you can get them, you can spend more money.
Want to buy."
"Yes! Maybe I can buy pepper, and others..."
"You do your best. When the bread is delivered later, I will invite everyone to come over for dinner. It's getting cold, so you can put more salt in the soup. There is one more thing."
"Please speak."
"I remember Lysenko promised to give us some flour, but apparently it hasn't been delivered today."
"Yes." Annie said quickly, "I asked the canteen, and actually new flour will be supplied today. I really need to ask your attitude on this matter."
Now, Yang Mingzhi needed to make a choice. Anne told him what the canteen meant. If the design bureau took away the flour, the canteen would stop sending people to deliver bread, and vice versa.
what should I do?
Looking into Annie's eyes, Yang Mingzhi asked: "Annie, how are your bread baking skills?"
"I can."
"Okay! We need flour, so we won't eat the bread from the canteen for the time being. You go to the canteen to get flour tomorrow, and we'll bake the bread ourselves."
"But general, look at the small oven in our kitchen. It's not big. I'm a little worried. There are more than 20 people in our design bureau. Even if Besica comes to help me, the two of us will not be able to do this.
There are many people cooking. I can be tired, but I am afraid that the food will not be cooked in time."
"This is not a big problem. The guards are on duty in rotation. I will ask them to help you. As for the problem of not being able to cook, you don't have to worry."
Having said that, Yang Mingzhi looked at his wife with a lively look. He already understood that her wife was actually the kind of person who couldn't sit still. After all, she was a more traditional woman. Even if she got pregnant and returned to the family, she would have to do housework.
It was Ma Liu who had done all the work, and cooking was regarded as her obligation as a wife. So now cooking for the entire design bureau is also a way to support her husband.
"My dear, when the flour arrives, you can show off your skills."
"Yes!" Yang Tao nodded happily. Her husband's words were really inspiring and she knew exactly what to do.
…
Today's dinner is not much different from the past. If there is, everyone thinks the soup is saltier.
They casually found a place to have dinner, and while talking, they criticized the internal canteen that had not yet been settled.
It's not appropriate to talk about work matters over dinner. Popov has a lot to talk about, so it's better to wait until the director has finished eating and orders everyone to work overtime in the evening.
Everyone almost finished their dinner in three or two meals.
A big advantage of a big office is that it is very warm. Besides, this time all the technicians are eager to get back into the office as soon as possible. There is only one reason. After the director leaves, he does not show up until eating. During the interval, everyone can observe carefully.
Take a look at the masterpiece drawn by the director.
In the office, everyone had discussed it and reached a consensus that the new gun is a good gun.
Therefore, when Yang Mingzhi returned to his seat, he immediately found that someone had moved his things.
Without him asking a question, Popov immediately came over.
"I said Popov, have you read my drawings carefully?"
"Of course! It's so wonderful. I read it carefully. Director, you are really a genius."
After saying this, Yang Mingzhi suddenly felt confused: "Don't flatter me. Now that you've seen it, tell me your opinion."
"Opinion? I just have one opinion, we should mass-produce it. It is really a good gun. Judging from the drawings, your improvement is to transform our experimental gun into more like a light machine gun."
"It's a squad machine gun, let me emphasize that again."
Popov nodded deeply: "But looking at its performance, it is indeed a light machine gun."
In fact, Popov is right. The so-called squad machine gun can also be called a squad light machine gun. However, as the times have developed into the 21st century, in that new period, the definition of assault rifles and machine guns has become very blurred. In a certain sense,
Generally speaking, all soldiers carry lightweight general-purpose machine guns, with a suitable balance of firepower and ballistic accuracy.
Between 1942 and 1942, the classification and comparison of the nature of light weapons by various countries was trivial. In this regard, the Soviet Union's classification of light weapons was more simple and crude. It even classified submachine guns as "portable light machine guns" at the beginning. Yang Mingzhi no longer talked about the vocabulary.
nonsense.
"Okay, it is a light machine gun, and it has many advantages. As a professional, you will be able to understand the advantages through this drawing!"
"Of course!" Popov's suppressed chatter finally opened up.
Without Yang Mingzhi introducing it himself, Popov immediately listed its advantages with his fingers.
Here, since the nature of the blueprint gun is also a light machine gun, it should be compared with the Deggarev currently equipped in large quantities by the Soviet army.
There are really many advantages to the blueprint gun:
First, the new gun can be directly installed with a 30-round magazine, and it can also be installed with bullets. The preloading of bullets must be very fast. As for the Deggarev machine gun, the state of bullets is a chore, and the bullets can only be
Equipped with 47 rounds, it does not have much tactical advantage. Perhaps the biggest advantage is that it solves the most basic firepower backbone problem for ordinary Soviet infantry squads.
Second, the fully loaded weight of the new gun is only nine kilograms at most. If only the magazine is installed, the total weight is only eight kilograms or less. The latter is fully loaded at 15 kilograms. The excessive weight puts a lot of pressure on soldiers, and even causes
Non-combat attrition.
Third, because the barrel is longer, the bullet stays in the chamber for a longer time, making the exit speed faster than the basic version of the assault rifle. The stored energy of the bullet when it hits the target is also greater, so it is more powerful. Based on
It uses intermediate-power bullets, and its recoil and muzzle tremor are not very serious, which objectively makes the accuracy of the shorter bullet better. The latter uses full-power rifle bullets, which are really overpowering, and the excessive recoil and tremor also reduce the accuracy.
Fourth, since the parts of the gas rod are not universal except for the barrel and gas tube, the other key parts are exactly the same as the basic version of the assault rifle, which is very easy to maintain. The latter is delicate in comparison.
Fifth, the bolt and magazine of the new gun are positioned further back, making the center of gravity farther back, which is more suitable for the shooter's control. The latter has a heavy and wide bullet disc, which puts the center of gravity forward and the firearm is prone to tilting left and right. Objectively
The new gun is destined to make soldiers feel comfortable.
Sixth, after testing the basic version of the assault rifle, it can be concluded that its ultimate continuous shooting is about 600 rounds. However, the Deggarev machine gun has never done such a crazy experiment, and its bullet disc is large.
And heavy. Each soldier in an infantry squad can carry ten 30-round magazines of intermediate-power ammunition, and ten people can carry 3,000 rounds of ammunition! Or even more! But the large magazine belt of the Deggarev machine gun
Not to mention a few, heavy full-power rifle ammunition, a class of ten people only has two bases per person, and only more than a thousand rounds. The amount of ammunition prepared by each other can be doubled.
Seventh, the basic version of the assault rifle was frequently soaked in water during the experiment. Even if a large amount of gunpowder residue was left behind, the shooting of the firearm was not affected. The new gun is an improvement on the basic version. Even if there is a lot of gunpowder residue, there is still no problem in shooting. In the latter case
What's worse is that the ammunition supply system is relatively sophisticated and has very limited capacity for miscellaneous objects, so jamming occurs relatively frequently. However, even in the experiment of three thousand rounds of the former, there was never a jam!
Popov summed up this for the time being. Yang Mingzhi was sweating when he heard this, and even stood up and stood in awe of Popov.
"You are really a talent! These seven advantages you summarized have fully proved that our new squad machine gun will naturally eliminate the Deggarev machine gun!"
"Yes, Director! I have come to this conclusion after seeing your design. I even hope that the entire alliance can quickly produce this new machine gun and replace the old gun as soon as possible. In this way, the firepower of our infantry squad will be at least doubled."
"Alas! This kind of thing can't be done overnight, it has to be a long process!" Yang Mingzhi shook his head with a wry smile.
Popov's summary made Yang Mingzhi extremely pleased. Based on these seven points, the squad machine gun he built was definitely far stronger than Deggarev's.
Today, the Soviet Union is desperately trying to produce this kind of large turntable machine gun. The reason for this is probably not how good it is. The turntable machine gun is indeed the main firepower of the Soviet army's grassroots troops, and its shortcomings are also very obvious.
So when they were in the swamp, the second- and third-rate troops sent by the German army were equipped with a lot of Czech-made ZB26s.
In Yang Mingzhi's opinion, the overall performance of the zb26 is better than that of the Jeggarev. Although the magazine only has twenty rounds, at least it is loaded very quickly, and changing the barrel or the magazine during combat is very fast. As for the Jeggarev
Liao Fu, loading the big turntable is really troublesome. And in battle, serving troublesome firearms is disastrous for soldiers.
For a time, the Soviet Union had no better choice. The large 47-round ammunition capacity of the rotary machine gun also brought good firepower to a large number of Soviet grassroots units equipped with Mosin Nagants.
If a better light machine gun could be used, Deggarev's masterpiece would probably be taken back to the warehouse and sold to other countries to earn foreign exchange for the Soviet Union...
Yang Mingzhi took out his notebook, wrote down the seven points listed by Popov, and then continued: "Your summary is very useful. Now I will give you a new task."
"Please speak."
"Give me an in-depth summary. It's best to write me a valuable article. Just use our basic assault rifle and the Deggarev machine gun for comparison. Listen, I will bring it to you after you finish writing the article.
After revising it, I will eventually give it to the commander of the military region to see it, and I will personally explain it!"
"Okay!" Popov looked happy.
"Don't be happy yet, we all have a heavy task. I will work hard tonight, and next I will personally draw the bullet system, which is a 75-round and a 50-round bullet. As for the others
people……"
Yang Mingzhi thought for a while and stood up. He clapped his hands and called everyone to look over.
"Comrades, you continue to work hard and complete the tasks assigned by me. After handing the drawings to me, you can go back to sleep. Listen up, the queue run will continue tomorrow morning. Free activities will be completed after the drill. Return to the office after lunch.