GBP Chapter 443 Without air superiority on the battlefield, heavy tanks and armored trains are sitting d
Chapter 443 Without air superiority on the battlefield, heavy tanks and armored trains are sitting d
After dinner, Li Yunlong and Lin Zhenhua asked about the harvest in a hurry. Zhao Gang listed the figures like a treasure, which made the two very excited. This outing disrupted the situation in northwest Shanxi, made the independent regiment famous, and achieved the predetermined combat objectives.
"Old Zhao, I have arranged for someone to call Guo Wencheng over. We can take this opportunity to discuss business with him. In two days, it will be March again, and our war with the devils will soon begin. According to my estimation, the devil's big sweep should be in May, but this time when I went out to fight, I investigated the devil's material reserves. I think the devil should launch an attack on our base in mid-April."
"The entire month of March is very critical for us. This time, the combat mission was a good test of the modified weapons and equipment. The college students have already started to improve them again."
Lin Zhenhua also interjected at the right time: "We previously overestimated the capabilities of the Air Force, and always thought that the Air Force was omnipotent even in mountainous terrain. However, during the attack on Ningyuan Town, we discovered that the Air Force is still not very effective in mountainous areas. We are in urgent need of an air-to-ground support weapon."
"Dive bombers can only be used to bomb fixed positions. In addition, they are very bulky and have a low bomb load, so they cannot provide effective battlefield fire support for infantry. I am determined to develop a ground attack aircraft with armor that can withstand 30mm cannons. Only in this way can it survive on the battlefield."
"I haven't thought about the specific performance indicators yet, so I can only improve them while designing. This ground attack aircraft can also be used to attack the enemy's armored forces, which is particularly important for us who are short of armor-piercing shells."
"In the previous artillery production process, we produced a large number of heavy mortars and mountain artillery. The Japanese Type 60 infantry gun and mm light mortar were only used as a supplement to the artillery firepower, and the output was not high. But in this mountain combat operation, we have come to realize that light mortars and the Japanese Type infantry gun are definitely two powerful weapons for mountain warfare. Not only can we not reduce their production capacity, but we must further expand their production capacity and increase the equipment of these two types of artillery, and directly assign them to the company and platoon level to strengthen the firepower of our infantry."
"The Maxim heavy machine gun will be improved in terms of weight, and the light machine gun's firepower sustainability must also be improved. In short, there are still many areas that need improvement. Even our bayonets must be improved again. In the process of fighting with the devils, our bayonets are not very useful, which seriously affects the combat effectiveness of the troops. In short, for the next month, I will basically stay in the arsenal and find ways to improve the weapons to be more practical, so as to enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops."
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang did not object to this. Many weapons were not suitable for Chinese people. For example, the Mauser rifle had a huge recoil problem. Compared with the Mauser rifle, the Type 900 rifle was smoother to use. There were two rifle production lines in the base area, one was a copy of the Japanese Mauser rifle, and the other was a copy of the Japanese Type rifle. The monthly production capacity could reach rifles, which was barely enough to meet the replacement of the troops.
"College student, we really can't unify the rifle model under our current conditions. Most of our weapons are still purchased or captured. If we hadn't obtained a large amount of weapons and equipment from the Third Reich, with the military production capacity of our base, it would be difficult to fully equip the soldiers even if we produced for a year."
"With the nearly 300 rifles traded with the Third Reich as a base, and the tens of thousands of rifles captured from the Japanese, we have the confidence to expand our army again and again. Our two rifle production lines have only been in operation for half a month, and have only produced a total of rifles, which is far from meeting our needs."
"The rifles we produce on a daily basis can only ensure that the troops can replace damaged rifles. If we want to equip more troops, it is simply impossible to do so in a short period of time. I estimate that it will take a year for us to become proficient in production before we can start the second phase of expansion plan next year."
"The most produced submachine gun in our base area now is the improved MP 40. We have produced 2982 of them so far. We estimate that we will be able to produce 5000 submachine guns before the war starts. They will be used for counterattacks and defense. It will definitely be a powerful weapon against the Japanese."
"When we were defending Xiaoyunling and Baojiazhuang last time, I found that submachine guns were very useful in close combat, and even more useful in counterattacks. It was because we had a large number of submachine guns at that time, coupled with plenty of bullets, that we were able to hold our positions in the end. This is the experience we gained from the battlefield. We must not give up this close combat weapon just because submachine guns consume too many bullets!"
"College student, the shotgun you made before is not very useful on the battlefield. It often causes accidental injuries. Compared with the shotgun, the submachine gun is more useful."
Shotguns were once equipped in small batches of fifty or sixty, but their performance on the battlefield was not satisfactory and accidental injuries often occurred. As a last resort, this type of gun was withdrawn from active service and was not produced in large quantities. Lin Zhenhua no longer had the intention to improve it. In fact, he did not like this type of gun. Its loading speed was too slow and could not guarantee the continuity of firepower. In addition, he was not used to using it, so he had to abandon this type of gun.
"As for our Bull tanks and Rabbit armored vehicles, they do need to be improved again. We need to replace them with engines with more powerful horsepower. The horsepower of our newly produced tank engines has reached 750, which is more powerful than before. The failure rate has been reduced by half, and the stability has also been greatly improved. It is also innovative to use an electric turret. Although this will increase fuel consumption, it can improve the combat capability of the armored forces."
Lin Zhenhua disagreed with this and said with some melancholy, "Old Zhao, I am not optimistic about this improvement, even though I always advocate it. The accuracy of electric shells is too low, and it is not as accurate as human aiming. Even though we haven't started shooting with the prototype vehicle yet, I already know the result in my heart."
"But I have to do this. If we continue to use the previous manual turret, it will be too unfriendly to the tank soldiers' observers and gunners. The huge physical consumption will seriously affect their combat effectiveness. After adopting the electric turret, you only need to press the button lightly to complete the rotation of the turret. Although it may rotate too much or not enough when aiming, it can effectively reduce manpower consumption. For this reason, I even added a manual auxiliary system for the calibration of the electric turret. Which method is better? We can only know it after the prototype vehicle is tested in the simulation training ground."
"Thinking about it is one thing, designing it is another. It is impossible to predict in advance whether it can be used well after production. Only practice can bring true knowledge!"
Li Yunlong replied carefully, "College student, sometimes the opinions we put forward may not be correct. Many things cannot be decided on a whim. We really need to judge based on the actual situation and not on random assumptions. Before, I wanted you to find an oversized tank equipped with a 105mm heavy gun, six twin 20mm anti-aircraft machine guns, and 12 twin 12.7mm caliber anti-aircraft machine guns. Its total weight is over 100 tons. Even if our arsenal can build it, such a big guy can't run faster than a human. If it encounters a Japanese bomber, a bomb can destroy it."
"In addition to this large tank, I also gave you a college student a difficult task to build an armored train to defend the base. But later it was confirmed that this weapon had long been outdated. The devils only needed to destroy the railway line, and our armored train became a real live target. At that time, I thought it was very good. The armored train has both speed and defense, which is definitely very useful. But I forgot one thing, that is, we did not gain absolute air superiority on the battlefield. If we had absolute air superiority on the battlefield, let alone large heavy tanks, even larger armored trains could be built and used. But in fact, these two weapons have very low survivability on the battlefield. In the end, it took a lot of manpower, material resources and time to build them. The devils only needed to spend a maximum of half an hour to destroy them, which was equivalent to our doing useless work."
Li Yunlong proposed many unreasonable designs in the research and development of weapons, but they were all rejected by Lin Zhenhua one by one. This time Li Yunlong did not hide anything and directly told all his negative information on the spot, which made Zhao Gang and Lin Zhenhua smile involuntarily.
"Old Li, you must not sit idle in the base these days. You must find ways to go out and collect food. Old Zhao, you must increase the efforts to build water conservancy projects. We must stockpile all the combat supplies before April."
"The transaction volume with the 358th Regiment still cannot meet our needs. Starting tomorrow, we will send our bombers out to perform transportation tasks. We must find ways to increase the transportation volume of materials again and invest more ground transportation forces. We will strive to double our transaction volume within ten days."
"Finally, let me talk about Guo Wencheng. I will no longer participate in the negotiations. You two will be in charge. I have to rush to the arsenal now to check on its production work and adjust some production equipment. There are too many things to do. I am too busy to handle other things, so I am too lazy to participate in them!"