When I first arrived in Novgomel, everything here was new. 23US.
The fastest update is not at all what Salinchkin imagined. The lives of the armed personnel and civilians here are not bad.
The threat of war is just dozens of kilometers away. Even so, in the area controlled by the 84th Division, at least every citizen has food to eat, even if many people can only eat preserved potatoes. Having lived at the end of the Tsarist Russia era, he understands that horizontal comparison
, in fact, everyone’s life is still much better than it was twenty years ago.
If, as the Chinese said, the fertilizer factory was built by him and all kinds of people, there will be a bumper harvest of potatoes and other vegetables in the future. Novgomel, even if it is built on a muddy swamp,
It can be called a granary, and it can easily feed 100,000 people.
Therefore, Salinchkin followed Yang Mingzhi and listened to his boastful introduction with great interest.
Regarding weapons, this arsenal located in the forest can actually produce rocket-propelled grenades, rockets and recoilless guns. These weapons simply defeated all armored vehicles deployed by the German army in the battle. Regarding tnt.
The shortage is long-lasting, so they use black powder and old-fashioned yellow powder instead. This experimental method is shocking, these guys in the arsenal are really flexible.
"We have a chemistry professor here from Minsk who is responsible for making high explosives. Most of the residents in the blacksmith village were early military workers. Even though most of their hair is gray, they are still good at making weapons. From raw materials to manufacturing, we are not
There was a shortage of skilled workers and engineering experts. Later, many college student Communist Youth League members came here through enemy-occupied areas, so we also had no shortage of intellectuals. So I presided over the establishment of the Pripyat Weapons Design Bureau, which specialized in mobile heavy weapons for infantry.
"The research and development..." Yang Mingzhi's introduction to Yelenkina yesterday was very accurate, but the details were just that the woman was not in this field, so she couldn't be very accurate.
From the shock at the beginning to the acceptance of this extremely favorable reality, Salinchkin completely understood the reason why the warehouse he visited yesterday contained more than 6,000 German M5 helmets piled up like mountains.
He had to re-examine the back of this tall Chinese man. If he and the weapons design bureau he created now were sent to the rear to serve as an instructor in all aspects, the entire Workers' and Peasants' Red Army could learn a lot of experience from him.
The two of them laughed, but Yang Mingzhi changed direction when he saw the white smoke coming out of the arsenal's chimney.
"What? Aren't we going directly to the arsenal?" Salinchkin asked.
"No, Comrade Commissioner, I have to go to the Weapons Design Bureau first and bring my guys with me." Looking back, Yang Mingzhi winked, "After all, I am also the director of the Design Bureau, and those college students need me like this.
Experts educate themselves.”
In this way, the policeman and a group of young researchers from the design bureau followed Yang Mingzhi, and the team heading to the arsenal grew.
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For some time, the Weapons Design Bureau has not invented any weird weapons. The staff headed by ** have been constantly improving the performance of the already designed weapon technology, so that the combat effectiveness of the weapons will become more and more effective after they are delivered to the troops.
good.
Therefore, they also optimized some weapons. For example, the warhead of the RPG can fly more stably, and the steel tube of the recoilless gun can withstand stronger pressure.
It is enough to be able to solve these problems. Yang Mingzhi did not complain that they had no rich imagination after leaving him. At least RPGs and recoilless rifles are the top products of the current weapons design bureau, and they are the "fist" of the 84th Division Mobile Force!
The group of people soon arrived at the arsenal. As soon as they entered the wooden gate, the roar of steam machine tools reached their ears.
The arsenal is a series of low wooden factory buildings, with many workers doing their own things.
For example, a dozen middle-aged people in casual clothes and work aprons are sitting, holding clay blocks in one hand and hammering with a wooden hammer in the other.
"Haha, Comrade Commissioner, look, this is our sand casting. The batch-cast grenade embryos have been completed. As long as we knock off all the molding sand, the bomb embryos can be used to make grenades with charges." Yang Mingzhi introduced with a wave of his hands.
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All the raw materials for sand casting are available in Novgomel. The sand is dug from the Dnieper and Pripet rivers, and the clay is separated from the mud ponds. The small amount of coal powder used to make the sand core more stable is wood chips.
There are also ready-made ones.
These tasks seem to be what this arsenal does most often. Not only grenade embryos, but also recoilless rifle and RPG warheads are mass-produced using this method. It has to be that the biggest reason restricting the combat effectiveness of guerrillas everywhere is
It's because the weapons in their hands are too crude.
It turns out that the 84th Division is such a crazy mass-produced weapon and ammunition!
Salinchkin simply walked over, squatted down, and looked at the bearded man about his own age with interest, watching him knock away the molding sand, revealing the finished casting inside.
Make a group of ten bombs.
These bombs are hemispheres with huge dents in them. How did they end up turning into grenades? Salinchkin is not an ignorant person. He knows that as long as the two hemispheres are merged together, through the most common heat welding technology
, a hollow ball is completed. The explosive shells of old-fashioned artillery hundreds of years ago were made using this method, and these grenades will eventually be filled with black powder. The retro feel is self-evident.
However, even though these weapons are essentially the same as the grenades held by the giant two-meter-tall Panzergrenadiers under Peter the Great in the 17th century, it does not mean that these weapons are any less powerful.
One mold eventually produced five hand grenades. In order to make up for the lack of black powder power, we could only make a fuss about fragments. Used cartridge cases must be reused, but third use is basically impossible. These broken cartridge cases therefore become the best fragments.
, Salinchkin can understand the powerful lethality brought about by innovation under such extreme conditions.
"How is it? Comrade Commissioner?" Yang Mingzhi said to Salinchkin who had been squatting for a while: "You may not believe it when you come out. The standard equipment of our soldiers is four grenades per person. Considering that forest combat always occurs at close range
, when we suddenly encounter the German army, we will always throw grenades desperately, so that the flying shrapnel can kill the enemy immediately!"
"Yes! This very special tactic was mentioned by the political commissar yesterday! So people like you are worthy of being called true guerrilla experts! So I will learn as much about your tactics as possible and report them to the leader.
I’m afraid the movement will also undergo adjustments.”
They will definitely adjust! Yang Mingzhi does not doubt that these tactics of his will eventually be learned by the Soviet army. But so what, China's Red Army is the best at various guerrilla warfare methods, and the Soviet Union may only learn it for a while.
No matter what, this is a very large country, and wars are still dominated by positional warfare. Judging from the current situation, all the victories achieved in guerrilla warfare are just the icing on the cake.
If you were to visit the arsenal carefully, even a whole day would not be enough. You would have to chat with this curious baby-like commissioner comrade for a whole day until your throat bursts into flames!
While the two were chatting here, the sensible worker immediately broke into the factory director's office and said to Liguschkov who had just finished breakfast: "Oh no, factory director! The deputy division commander is here, and there is also that...
Commissioner sent by the leader!”
"Чto? That commissioner is here again?! It's so sudden, so sudden!"
After that, Liguschkov quickly put on his clean coat, and immediately picked up his wife's dressing mirror and took a look at his face, for fear that he would look sloppy. After confirming that everything was correct, he hurried out of the office and met the workers.
Under the guidance of the police, we directly found Yang Mingzhi and Salinchkin themselves.