Chapter Seventy-Six: The Sparrow and the Tank

Five days after the Chinese New Year, Hu Wenkai simply felt that he was in prison, every day at noon banquet and evening banquet, early in the morning of the sixth day of the new year, he stepped on the company's passenger ship with a briefcase and left Shanghai to go to Yongan Town, standing on the bow of the ship and being blown by the river breeze, and was in a strange mood.

Wang Changhui asked him in surprise: "Brother, why are you as happy as drinking sugar water." ”

"Go, little kid, you know what."

"Oh, Hu Wenkai, how many years older than me, why are you old-fashioned?"

Wang Changhui didn't leave No. 3, Lane 181 for five days, no matter where he went to attend the banquet, he couldn't get rid of it.

Hu Wenkai said angrily: "Wang Changhui, after you return to the radio, you will quickly organize news reports and make a comprehensive report on the New Year activities in various places." No political slogans, just talk about the people celebrating the Spring Festival. ”

Wang Changhui took out a small notebook and wrote it down, and after asking a few angles of reporting, he came back and said: "Brother Wen Kai, you are a personal vendetta of the communiqué." ”

Hu Wenkai looked at Wang Changhui, who was returning to the cabin, and said to himself: "You have made me not know the taste of meat for five days, and it is strange if you don't take revenge." ”

But this little girl is very cute, the house has her chirping sound everywhere, and the most useful thing is that the dishes are delicious.

After the ship arrived in Yong'an, Wang Changhui was ready to continue to follow Hu Wenkai, but was rejected by Yang Siliang, who was greeted at the port, and Yang Siliang and Li Congshan were anxious to report their work. The plagiarized Soviet An-2 transport plane was trial-produced in Tianfen and waited for Hu Wenkai to come to the test flight, but Yang Siliang did not understand the specific details, and this work was caught by Lao Pete. Li Congshan reported that more than 20 armored vehicles had been produced and delivered to the 200th Wild Wolf Regiment in Yangzhou, and he was now waiting for Hu Wenkai to make a decision on the caliber and ammunition of the tank artillery. There are also Dai Jitao and Li Wenjun waiting for him in the Dragon King Temple.

The crowd in Yong'an Town began to recover, and people who went home for the New Year returned one after another, and the cars drove slowly with their horns blaring. Hu Wenkai asked Yang Siliang: "Did the installation of equipment in Siliang Textile Factory resume work today?" ”

"The boss Wang Xiuguo came here early this morning to urge the resumption of work, and he was more anxious than us. The old factory runs at 7 o'clock in the morning, the new factory is online for test run today and tomorrow, and the cleaning workshop is put into operation on the ninth day of the first ten days. ”

"This chief businessman is different from you pure technicians, they are all about money. By the way, Siliang, you have to start preparing for the training of new employees. The expansion of steel mills and ironworks requires a large shortage of skilled workers, so prepare in advance. The layout of the factory should carefully learn the lessons of the old factory workers, and Lusigang should be expanded in advance. ”

Yang Siliang handed over the design plan from his bag and said: "The boss doesn't need you to remind the R&D center to ask and squat on the spot in the steel mill and ironmaking plant to ask and take several sets of design plans, and we are convening a meeting of the backbone to vote for a plan." Lvsigang has started construction in November last year, the expansion of the reinforced concrete trestle has been advanced by 500 meters, and the supporting warehouses are under construction. ”

Yang Siliang's work ability is first-class even in later generations, and Hu Wenkai now only needs to explain the task and point out the general direction, and then he will be the shopkeeper. After looking at the design plan, he patted the file bag and said: "Well, let's just do this construction, don't rush the schedule, we want a high-quality project." ”

took out a thick stack of design plans from his briefcase and handed it to Yang Siliang: "Siliang has a heavy task this year, you need to let go of your subordinates to do things, there are aluminum plants, fertilizer plants, caustic soda plants, and large paper mill design plans." Priority caustic soda plant constructionOur refinery will continue to produce caustic soda after its production, and glass factories and printing and dyeing factories are also in urgent need of caustic soda, which cannot be imported all the time. The site is located a little farther away, and it is located in Huiyang Port in the east of Yongan Town. Most of these plants are located in the Yangtze River estuary and are easily diluted. ”

When Yang Siliang heard that there were so many factories to be built, he became excited, and he kept nodding and began to look at the plan.

Telling the driver to go directly to Longwangmiao Airport, Hu Wenkai thought to himself how the old Pete could overcome the AIII.-62NP air-cooled single-row star-shaped 9-cylinder piston engine and the supporting II.9A 4-blade hydraulic variable pitch propeller, which he only provided a simple sketch in the late thirties.

There is a Hou Shi'an 2 docked at Longwangmiao Airport, with a length of 12.7 meters, a height of 5.3 meters, and an upper wingspan of 18.176 meters. Jenny next to her was like a little guy, and old Pete was standing next to the plane with dozens of people waiting for Hu Wenkai.

Old Pete's beard was clean-shaven and hugged Hu Wenkai: "Boss, you are so powerful, this kind of plane can be designed, it's amazing, it's world-class." ”

"I designed it, and I bought it from Europe. Is it difficult to manufacture? Hu Wenkai casually began to talk nonsense.

Old Pete did not dwell on who designed it: "It is not very difficult, it can be produced on a large scale, the only difficulty is the hydraulic variable pitch propeller, but the company is the best at hydraulics, that is, a small difficulty." ”

In fact, Hu Wenkai got this An-2 type, which has been optimized. The aircraft has a 1,000 hp nine-cylinder star-cooled piston engine that can be started electrically or by man, and it is also capable of flying at ultra-low altitudes (1 meter, half a meter...... ), ultra-short take-off, a take-off distance of 170 meters is enough. The load is 2 tons or can take 12 people to squeeze 16 people, the maximum flight speed: 258 km / h, the practical ceiling is 4500 meters, and the range is 845 kilometers.

Hu Wenkai boarded the plane, the cockpit instruments of the plane were obviously much less than those of later generations, but the main instruments were still there, and the entire layout was a copy of the previous An-2, but this was not simple, worthy of his drawings for several weeks.

U-turn and ask old Pete if he passed the static test, old Pete became excited: "Boss, let me tell you, we have adopted an innovative method to conduct the static test, which was conceived by our young lads, who used to use lead or sand particles in bags to simulate the distributed load of the wing, and used iron to hang on the rope to simulate the concentrated load, the method is simple. This young man invented a hydraulic actuator and jack loading method, which is easy to apply and we are preparing to publish a paper. ”

Hu Wenkai was happy, this was a sign of innovation: "Old Pite, factory director, you give this young man's salary and position a first-class and second-class merit." ”

After getting off the plane, the test pilot and two technicians got on the plane and started the test flight, and the old Pete next to the loud roar couldn't hear anything clearly. The plane taxied about 200 meters and began to take off, Hu Wenkai pretended to force the old Pete and the technician to take a group photo together, not worrying about whether the plane was successful in the test flight.

Half an hour later, the plane landed steadily at Longwangmiao Airport, and firecrackers rang out at the airport. Hu Wenkai said to Lao Pete that if he built another one, the two planes could be mass-produced without problems after the test flight of 10,000 kilometers. He told Li Congshan to build airstrips in Yangzhou and Fenshui Town, Shandong, and to fly Fenshui to deliver supplies next week. Hugged the old Pete and said that the credit will be cashed out together when mass production comes, and the nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled piston engine can be mass-produced 500 units ahead of schedule.

Now he is smiling at what old Pete says, and his mouth is grinning like a scoop. Hu Wenkai asked Yang Siliang to arrange for the aircraft R&D team to celebrate the success at noon, and then get in the car with Li Congshan to go to the Longwangmiao spy training base.

In the car, Li Congshan asked him what name he gave the plane, and he casually replied that it would be called Sparrow. Seeing Li Congshan's surprised face, he explained that this is a junior plane, and it will be much better in the future, and what if the good name is used up now.

Following this boss was no longer surprised, he remembered his own affairs and asked: "Boss, is the artillery 100 caliber of the tank too big, I think the good ammunition of 75 is well rationed." ”

The tank was designed by Hu Wenkai in combination with the T34 and the later 59 type, using a V-shaped 12-cylinder water-cooled diesel engine with sufficient horsepower and 150 mm armor to protect against all today's shells at close range. I began to think about using a 100 smoothbore gun, but the aiming technology could not keep up, or a 100-mm rifled gun was used. The secondary armament was a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun mounted on the top of the turret, a 7.62mm parallel machine gun mounted coaxially on the right side of the gun, and a 7.92mm front machine gun mounted on the driver's right front.

"No! It must be a 100mm rifled gun, Li Congshan, you won't tell me that you modified my tank without permission, right? ”

"No, no, boss, I dare, I just put forward my opinion, the 100mm rifled gun has been installed. But what kind of war does China need such artillery? ”

"Li Congshan, you don't understand, the 75 guns can't open the city gate at all, you expect us to use the lives of the soldiers to fill the moat?"

"Boss, I'm not groping, this tank thing has no reference at all, but the army said during the test drive that this thing can kill the French Renault with one shot, and Renault is a toy compared to our tank."

"Li Congshan, let me tell you, I am going to reorganize the brigade in Yangzhou into a heavy armored brigade to pacify North China and Northeast China.

Li Congshan breathed a sigh of relief and almost smashed the matter: "Don't worry, boss, it will be completed next week, except for the periscope, which needs to be imported from France, we will produce all the accessories ourselves." According to your requirements, all our parts are numbered, the unified use of T0000 mode, the aircraft adopts J0000 mode, all accessories are universal. ”

"Well, in the future, all our mechanical products will implement a standard numbering system to facilitate repair and production of spare parts."

"Okay boss, then I don't have a problem, I'll get out of the car in front and go back to the factory."

"Li Congshan, can you leave? You've been included in the company's military leadership group, and it's hard to go back. Hu Wenkai laughed.

Li Congshan secretly rejoiced in his heart and said: "The boss is unscrupulous, no wonder Wu Hongxia complains every day." ”

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the members of the special forces in Weihai used automobiles to carry bombs and barrels of gasoline and sugar to blow up the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters in Weihai.

"How are they?" Hu Wenkai cares about his own special service members.

Li Wenjun replied: "The people have retreated safely and are heading towards the Mudanjiang River to join Song Zhipeng. ”

Hu Wenkai rubbed his hands excitedly: "Brother Ji Tao recorded that 12 of our Korean soldiers sacrificed their lives for the country in Lushun, China, and worked hard to eradicate the Kwantung Army Headquarters of the Japanese invaders in Lushun, China, and my heroic soldiers are immortal, and we will launch indiscriminate strikes against Japan's personnel and facilities around the world until Japan withdraws from the Republic of Korea." After being copied by Kim Koo, it was published in the newspaper by Shin Gyu-sik. Let them fill in the list of twelve personnel and publish them together. ”

"Boss, this is the end?" Dai Jitao was dumbfounded.

Hu Wenkai sat down and said calmly: "It was done by the Republic of Korea Jin Jiu, and you are still going to ask for credit?" ”

Dai Jitao leaned on the desk and said relievedly: "Boss, you took Jin Jiu and them, and you have already prepared hats for them to wear?" ”

"Accepting our help is not unconditional, this hat must be worn, wearing a hat they can't stammer, first, it can improve morale, second, it can increase the prestige of Shin Kyu-sik and their gang, and third, let the French pay attention to them."