Umov slightly dragged his chin with one hand, holding a cigarette with the other, and said: "Now we are talking about politics. The consequences of failing to complete the task will be very bad. So I must complete the task. I don't know if you have heard anything about it."
Anyway, I issued new orders to some factories in the city."
"Just ask them to suspend the previous order? Change it to a new one?"
"No!" Umov shook his head, "The order was actually issued at the end of September, so the October orders delivered to them have undergone large-scale modifications. Now in October, some factories are tasked with producing assault rifles. I think those
As the director of the factory, you know very well that the factory’s production capacity is guaranteed.”
Umov, who has worked in Siberia for more than 20 years, thought that he would never want to work in the area west of the Ural Mountains in his life. He would end up living in Siberia with frost for the rest of his life.
Now an opportunity to make a meritorious deed finally comes before you.
The core of the Novosibirsk Region is the city of Novosibirsk, and 90% of the population of the reduced region is concentrated in this huge city.
In other words, in a sense, Umov still holds the job of mayor. The difference from before is that his hands can touch all affairs in remote towns in the state.
He is a manager, so he does not need to pay special attention to how each factory produces weapons. He only needs to give the directors of those factories task targets and give them a death order. As for how to produce and achieve the targets, it is their business.
The main products of Novosibirsk are tanks and field artillery. It already has the production capacity of small arms, but its production capacity is not as good as that of the factories in the Ural region.
Things are changing now.
As the first city in the Soviet Union to have mass-produced assault rifles and various firearms in its gun family, Novosibirsk has undoubtedly seized a head start.
So Umov adjusted October orders for multiple factories.
For example, the DP machine gun factory can produce all other parts except for the barrel. Those workers have accumulated sufficient machining capabilities through long-term work.
The production capacity task originally given to them in October was to produce 600 DP machine guns.
In the new plan, the production capacity requirement of DP machine guns has been reduced to 200, and the remaining production capacity will be used to produce RPB42 machine guns. That is, the squad machine gun modified based on AB42 is the Ustinov in Moscow.
During the meeting, the official serial number was assigned to it unexpectedly. As it was, Ustinov did not think there was anything good about adding a "squad machine gun".
As for machine guns, the weight of the loaded drum of the RPB42 is less than half that of the DP machine gun. The DP machine guns are all light machine guns, and the same must be true for the RPB42.
The task given to Umov by his superiors was to ensure a production capacity of at least 400 rpb42 guns per month. Umov gave the order to the DP machine gun factory to produce 500 guns per month.
This is of course a very serious mission goal, but an order is an order. In addition to issuing a death order, Umov also extended an olive branch in a timely manner. As long as the goal is achieved, all employees of the DP machine gun factory will have three meals in November.
It's all bread. As long as you keep completing such targets, you will always have the right to eat bread.
Umov has the authority to manage the logistics dispatch of the entire Novosibirsk state and the use of funds. Now it is the autumn grain harvest. In addition to the army that has confiscated part of the grain, Umov also has the right to mobilize the remaining grain in the granary in the city of Novosibirsk.
In Moff's hands.
He has great power, and because the sky is high and Moscow is far away, he has changed the rationing standards for some factories without authorization, and Moscow is really too lazy to investigate.
Because Moscow is particularly concerned about one thing: as one of the industrial centers in Western Siberia, how many weapons are produced in the city.
The order given by Moscow to Novosibirsk is very ambiguous if you think about it carefully, that is, 1,000 RPB42 light machine guns must be produced before December and then delivered to the troops.
Apart from this order, the one with the highest production capacity required by superiors is the basic version of the AB42 assault rifle.
In two months, the city of Novosibirsk must come up with 6,000 guns!
This production capacity order is really strict, and Umov really needs to explain this matter clearly to Yang Mingzhi.
"I gave an order to the rifle factory and the submachine gun factory. They must complete the production task of 6,000 units within fifty days. Including our secret production, they only need to complete 4,000 units. I think this is no longer difficult to complete.
The mission indicators. If they complete it, they will need to further increase production capacity. After all, no one dislikes having too many firearms."
Yang Mingzhi nodded deeply: "So the adjustment of their production personnel has been completed?"
"Yes. It may be that submachine gun factories and rifle factories can adjust production capacity the fastest. They have already obtained the drawings from your design bureau, and the earliest teams accumulated experience when manufacturing prototype guns. The initial help taught me
More teams, now their capacity is increasing every day.”
"Ah! That's right! The situation is better than I thought."
Originally, according to Yang Mingzhi's own inherent ideas, if a factory suddenly changed its business, the running-in period would be very long.
Listening to Umov's words, the current situation is really good. Why is this happening? Either the workers are working with a high degree of revolutionary consciousness for victory, or their technical level is really high.
"So what do you think the situation is?" Umov asked with a smile.
"This...about fifty pills a day?"
"You underestimate them too much." Umov said seriously, "Your design bureau submitted two drawings for the assault rifle. One is a steel folding butt version, and the other is a wooden butt version.
We have no shortage of beech trees to make gun stocks, and there is no shortage of steel.
But the rifle factory and the submachine gun factory both have many special machine tools for making wooden butts. So for the sake of production capacity, I ordered them to produce wooden butt versions, so that all workers can be mobilized. What do you think? Although not
With your consent."
Yang Mingzhi was completely unaware of this situation, and he felt a little unhappy.
But think about it, the AK47s in that plane have used wooden butts for a long time.
The development of firearms in this plane will also conform to the development of the times. That is, before material science reaches a certain level, special wood is completely acceptable as firearm parts.
In fact, the processing technology of the frame-type foldable metal gun stock is very simple, but this version requires more steel.
According to what Umov said, since the local factory has a large number of machines for manufacturing wooden gun stocks, those machines and workers cannot just watch the show idle, and it is indeed their duty to give full play to their labor ability.
"Now their production capacity is increasing every day, such as the submachine gun factory, whose daily production capacity of assault rifles is about to reach 100."
"Wow!" Yang Mingzhi was really surprised, "They... are their production efficiency even higher than that of submachine guns?"
"Of course. The number of workers in that factory has doubled, and the production capacity has naturally increased. Besides, the assault rifle you developed has relatively few parts. Overall, the total man-hours for processing and equipment are not many.
.”
What Umov said makes sense.
Yang Mingzhi is well versed in the concept of "modular firearms" and he intended to do so at the beginning of the design. Therefore, several of the firearms he developed are composed of several major modules and are connected by some small parts.
Umov talked a lot and finished smoking the cigarettes he carried.
He leaned back on the sofa and seemed to be in good spirits, and continued to talk: "My superiors also asked me to mass-produce rocket launchers. I don't know if you saw it at the train station. The first batch of 200 rounds of the Feiyu rocket launcher you developed has been
Loading is complete.”
"Yes! I have seen it."
"There will be more rocket launchers in the future. I guess the troops will use them to defend Stalingrad? Haha! After all, its range exceeds the range of our Sevastopol coastal fort, and it is more powerful than a coastal defense
The cannon's shells are bigger. I really hope it can blow the enemy's rear camps into ashes."
Yang Mingzhi nodded and said: "Theoretically it is feasible. The enemy's positions are relatively scattered, so we need more flying fish."
"Yes. So I gave your old comrade Liguschkov more orders, and his factory also added 300 workers and technicians. I am satisfied with all the production materials he needs."
"What about the Catfish Rockets?"
"That's a personal weapon!" Umov sat upright suddenly, showing that he was particularly concerned about this matter. "This is very important you mentioned! I don't know why, but my superiors gave me an order about catfish.
The production capacity of rockets is actually as many as 3,000 rounds. Not only that, the relevant technical drawings were also handed over to Omsk, Irkutsk, and even Krasnoyarsk, and local factories also began to produce them.
I know very well that in the entire alliance, you know best how to use this kind of rocket launcher. I guess it may be that the attack power of our country's self-produced RPG warheads against German tanks is not as good as before. The country needs stronger individual anti-tank weapons, so it started special
Are you paying attention to this individual rocket launcher?!"
"It should be like this." Yang Mingzhi said seriously, "I already discovered this problem when we were fighting in the swamp, so I ordered the rockets to attack the tanks with horizontal fire. It was purely through excessive loading of explosives that I achieved the purpose of destroying the German tanks.
.Believe me, if our Katyusha rocket launcher fires straight, no German tank can withstand its destructive power."
"Ah, I understand when you put it like that." Umov sighed meaningfully, "So the rockets I know about have armor-piercing and explosive types, and the superiors need to come up with three thousand rounds or more within two months.
More, they should be loaded and shipped as soon as possible after production. I can feel the urgency of my superiors. Of course, production is Comrade Liguschkov’s task.”
In the design bureau, what Popov dictated to Yang Mingzhi was ultimately superficial.
Today, Yang Mingzhi was able to have a long talk with Umov in the office, and finally understood the production capacity of small arms and rockets in Novosibirsk.
Between the lines, Yang Mingzhi could hear Umov's doubts about the urgent demand for new weapons. He knew all the details. Since Umov didn't ask, he couldn't reveal it. Even if he asked, he still wouldn't be able to disclose it.
Yang Mingzhi lowered his legs and asked about other things.
"Comrade Umov, there is one more thing, my two factories..."
"Ah! What are you talking about?! I think this is the reason why you came in a hurry. I am very honored to tell you that the factory buildings and personnel are in place, and most of the equipment is in place. Your workers are currently
All machinery is being debugged and a large-scale cleanup of the factory area is being carried out."
"Oh? Didn't they start ordnance production?" Yang Mingzhi asked knowingly.
"Haha, if you won't come, how can they start production?"
"So they just have a lot of comfortable days hanging out? I think that's wrong."
"No! In fact, the workers only arrived a few days ago. According to the equipment they currently have, they should be producing light weapons. But you have the right to decide what kind of ordnance they produce. Another point is, according to the orders from superiors
, the production capacity of your factory will be included in the production capacity of Novosibirsk City, nothing more. That is, I will not issue production quotas to you."
"Oh? There is such a good thing?!" Yang Mingzhi felt incredible for a moment.
"Yes. I don't think you can be lazy. Once your factory starts operating, you will definitely ask the workers to release their maximum production capacity."
Yang Mingzhi nodded: "That's true. I will personally supervise it at that time. If any guy slacks off, he will be kicked out. Oh no, it will be brought from the production line to the canteen and let the slacker peel the potatoes. But you
This doesn’t give me a mission indicator, but I still feel empty inside.
Let me tell you the truth, I decided to make the 834 factory under my command full production of assault rifles. In the days to come, this factory will also be the main force in the production of assault rifles. You just explained the production indicators given to the rifle factory. Just like this, my
Factory 834 also follows this indicator, what do you think?"
"This..." Umov was stunned for a moment, then pinched his chin as if thinking. "Well, since you insist, maybe there will be a spur, and you will feel at ease. So what about your 835 factory? It's the same thing.
?”
"As for Factory 835, it will not produce assault rifles." Yang Mingzhi said simply.
"Huh? What will it produce?!"
"Probably the catfish rocket launcher. But, I still have some new ideas." Yang Mingzhi simply stood up and approached Umov with a very confident attitude: "Comrade, I have conceived some new weapons. So I have
I came up with an idea. The job of my 835 factory will not be to mass-produce current weapons, but to try to produce new weapons that I have recently developed. Its purpose of existence is an experimental factory, so there will not be many workers in the factory.
It's more like a large laboratory that retains its designation."
Speaking of this, Yang Mingzhi pointed to his head deliberately: "You know, I have a lot of fantastic ideas here, and I will try to turn them into reality as soon as possible. Instead of asking the brother factories, please ask their factories to stop operations.
, to implement my new invention. Due to friendship, it is feasible to do the work a few times, but they will be very bored after too many times. I will also feel guilty if it interferes with their production capacity. So I need a special factory dedicated to experiments