Chapter 1925 The bottom line of production capacity
With Yang Mingzhi's call for action, the large-scale production movement he longed for was officially launched.
For him, the rest of the time seemed to be a matter of waiting for good news.
All production technical drawings have been sent to various processing workshops in advance, and rough machining work has been carried out in the early morning. The short trial machining time allowed many people to accumulate experience unexpectedly. After several bad rough machining failures, it was not until the formal
After being put into production, the various parts they produced almost all met the drawing requirements.
Could it be that these workers are the real immortal technicians?
of course not.
Because of the assault rifle, Yang Mingzhi determined that there are only two most critical parts of it: the precision barrel and the barrel.
Like most parts of the bolt system, it can tolerate large machining errors.
Another example is the butt and handguard. They are auxiliary and protective parts, and the tolerance requirements can be relaxed quite seriously. Only the accuracy of the barrel can prevent the bullet from exploding, and only the excellence of the barrel can ensure the trajectory of the bullet.
For an excellent wartime small weapon, Yang Mingzhi feels that it should probably ensure these two aspects.
The British Siden is a sinkhole!
That submachine gun was indeed modified from civilian water pipes. Did the key barrel also need to be magically modified with water pipes? The core parts did not meet the requirements. It deserved to be turned into a water spray gun, which ultimately harmed British soldiers.
But Britain has its own urgent need, which is to provide weapons to the rapidly expanding army in a very short time.
Maybe it was bad historical factors that led to a bad result.
Because the British Army once beheaded their King Charles, the Army does not have the title of "Royal". Instead, the Royal Navy enjoys too many national resources.
The Army used Brown Bass muskets for a long time until the development of the times forced them to change weapons.
A musket was used for two hundred years after it was finalized. Because the enemy used new weapons, the army had to change its equipment.
Because the German army used a large number of heavy machine guns to kill all sides in the trenches, the British had to equip their infantry companies with heavy machine guns.
Because the German army began to use submachine guns in large numbers, the British had to produce submachine guns on a sudden basis to make up the number.
Even if they are called stupid, big, black and thick, they always want to be coarse and fine in terms of weapons.
Here, what Yang Mingzhi desires is more refinement.
Fine processing requires more man-hours. Even if the receiver of the new assault rifle is a stamped part, a large number of parts are directly riveted. The time to produce one is shorter than that of the traditional Mosin Nagant. Faced with the forced replacement of old subordinates
Due to demand, Yang Mingzhi is still under great pressure.
Production has begun, from day to night, to the sun rising on a new day.
The towering chimneys of the two factories are like a heavy smoker who never knows to stop and take a breath, and just wants to be immersed in smoke all the time.
It is these equipment that simply burn crude oil that provide amazing power to some large equipment.
A milling machine mills out a large number of small metal parts for firearms.
The punch press directly punches out the receiver frame.
There are also some parts that are mass-produced directly by casting using the traditional lost wax method.
Only in the woodworking processing workshop, not only is there roaring noise, the air is always filled with thick sawdust dust, and a large number of workers wear simple linen masks and glass goggles to work. Some even directly take out the anti-virus that has been in stock during the Tsarist Russia era.
The mask, let's talk about the rough appearance of the Tsarist Russian gas mask, makes the person look like he has a crow's head, which is quite scary at first glance.
Various parts are collected on a large scale into workshops dedicated to parts grinding and polishing.
Of course, when the parts are being processed, they will be chamfered immediately.
When the parts arrived at the polishing workshop, the workers polished them frantically with sandpaper to reveal a beautiful metallic color.
The polishing and polishing workshop only uses manpower. Although Yang Mingzhi doesn't like this backward production method, he has a huge number of workers under his command. The large number of cheap labor can really bring huge productivity.
In fact, the workers are not so much cheap as they are almost free.
Yang Mingzhi firmly believed that the bottom line for workers to work seriously must be to have enough to eat. In many Soviet factories, under the strict material rationing system, workers simply did not have enough to eat. The men went to the battlefield, and the factories were filled with a large number of people.
of female workers.
These people were forcibly recruited by the authorities to enter the factory. Of course they could resist, but the result was that they would not be able to eat rations.
If you don't have food rations, you will definitely starve to death, but if you enter the ordnance factory, at least you will have potatoes to eat.
In order to win the war, the authorities had to use high-pressure policies. Therefore, the life of workers in factories in some areas was once very difficult, just like the miserable serfs of Tsarist Russia in the old era.
As everyone knows, the real hard days have not yet come!
In the autumn harvest of 1942, the Soviet Union only harvested 33 million tons of wheat, which was only 40% of the normal amount. However, the population of the Soviet-controlled areas still exceeded 90 million, accounting for 60% of the peacetime population. After entering summer,
The entire alliance will be destined to enter the hungriest period, and at that time, it will truly be completely starved.
At least for now, the problem is not that serious.
The production results on October 19th were tallied in the early morning of the 20th.
Seeing the firearms densely packed in the warehouse, a large number of spotlights were pointed at them placed on the wooden boxes. Yang Mingzhi almost wiped away all the worries he had had in the early stage.
Yang Mingzhi was wearing a coat and pinching his waist. Next to him stood two smiling factory directors and more excited design bureau personnel.
A little girl in charge of the product statistics department could not hide her excitement and happily reported the results of the day's work in the two factories to her best boss.
"Report... report to Comrade General. As of two o'clock in the morning today, we have produced a total of 201 assault rifles with wooden stocks and 15 squad machine guns with wooden stocks. There are also 300 pairs of standard steel magazines.
There are a total of 100 pairs of bullets of various types.”
Yang Mingzhi's narrowed eyes suddenly opened. He was already happy, but now he suddenly heard the news: "Are these true?"
"It's absolutely true. You see, all the results are in front of you. And..."
"And what?!" Yang Mingzhi asked.
"And this is only until two o'clock in the morning today. According to...according to the rules you set, comrades who work the night shift will get off work at six o'clock in the morning, and maybe many teams will continue to work until eight o'clock in the morning. In our department, the output
When the various products are counted, they will continue to produce for six hours, so..."
"So, what you showed me was not one day's production capacity, but eighteen hours' production capacity?"
"Probably...that's probably it."
This young girl is obviously a little shy. After all, she looks just a little older than her wife. She is also a technical school student who just graduated this year. You can't expect her to be very generous.
In fact, Yang Mingzhi understands that the majority of workers are indeed shy, especially those who have a natural awe for himself who wears too many medals.
In fact, Yang Mingzhi did not deliberately go to the grassroots workshops to show off his power with a sense of honor. He just wanted to see everyone's work progress.
What is very gratifying is that everyone is very enthusiastic about work. Many people are so busy working that they don't even know they are walking by.
Fishing? It doesn’t exist. It doesn’t exist.
In other words, it is a powerful force supporting the workers' struggle, especially those female workers.
It's food! They were spontaneously using their actions to verify whether the boss's promise was true. As a result, the first shift completed their overtime work, and they left the production line at 8pm when the second shift started.
They were duly paid, and each received some extra uncooked potatoes in addition to their dinner.
Those women are worthy of being Russians. It is as if Chief Rurik first injected wild and warlike genes into this nation more than a thousand years ago. They realized that they were doing the same work as the German military industry in the workshop.
of war.
Chief Rurik integrated various Slavic tribes under Novgorod, and the first Slavic state emerged as a result, and it was outsiders who contributed to the rise.
As for traditional Russia, the Soviet Union was a comprehensive transformation of this ancient ethnic group by foreign ideas. Unlike the first generation of Rurik chiefs who obtained Slavic tribal leaders to integrate a big country, the Soviet Union simply integrated every citizen under the alliance.
But every Russian woman has in her blood not only her own Slavic blood, but also the warlike Rurikvarang blood, and even the wilder steppe blood.
The productivity of the women was gone. Yang Mingzhi deliberately and secretly observed the young girls working hard. Their serious expressions were like veterans on the battlefield, and the movements of their hands became more and more skillful, as if they were humanoid.
machine.
What Yang Mingzhi was most concerned about was actually the technical problems encountered in processing and production. The experts he brought from the design bureau solved all kinds of minor troubles very well.
The whole day, he was either wandering around in various workshops, or staying in the director's office of Factory 834, lying on his side on the bed, warming up the heater and waiting for his subordinates to run in shouting "something bad is going to happen!"
Of course the result was uneventful.
In the first few days, he decided to stay in the factory and fight on the front line with many of his subordinates. Even if he loved his wife deeply, at this critical moment, as a key person, he could not get out of the firing line!
Yang Mingzhi got a surprising result, and things obviously developed very smoothly.
Listening to the little girl's report, he was able to estimate the final output on the first day of production in just a few seconds.
"Ah! In this case, theoretically we can assemble more than 260 wooden stock assault rifles in 24 hours? It's really beyond my expectation."
"Are you worried that our production capacity will not expand rapidly?" Factory Director Andreev asked confidently.
"Of course I believe it." Yang Mingzhi turned his head and looked at the people behind him with satisfaction, "The production capacity on the first day is close to 300 pieces. If the workers become more skilled and the technicians further refine the processing procedures, what can we gain?
With more worker indicators, production capacity will of course continue to increase. The current one-month production capacity can fully equip an integrated infantry division with light weapons!"
Everyone was very happy to hear Yang Mingzhi's bold words.
"But this is not enough!" Yang Mingzhi suddenly cried out again: "We cannot expect the production capacity of our brothers' factories. We need to arm three reorganized divisions, or even more. The assembly of three divisions of light weapons is the bottom line given to Novosibirsk by our superiors. We
We must try to complete this task by surprise with only Factory 834 and Factory 835. From the current point of view, our production capacity today is the bottom line of future production, which is the amount of light weapons produced in one month that is enough to equip five integrated infantry regiments.
The core of an infantry division is three infantry regiments. The rest of the troops do not have to be equipped with our new weapons. According to this statistics, our bottom line has already met half of the requirements of our superiors. We obviously still have huge room for improvement.
Comrades, we should challenge ourselves to create a miracle. In this way, the superiors will not be stingy with rewards. Think of a better tomorrow. There will always be chunks of beef floating in the soup pot in our cafeteria, and there will be enough to stuff the greediest guy.
Stomach."
As he said this, everyone understood what Yang Mingzhi meant and laughed out loud...