A piercing sound sounded, Bai Yi hurriedly put on heavy heat-insulating gloves, took the barrel that had just been annealed and cooled down in his hand, and looked at the light behind him at the smooth rifling inside.

nodded with satisfaction, and then handed the barrel of the gun in his hand to an officer wearing a volunteer badge beside him: "Director Huang, how about you take a look?" ”

The middle-aged man named Huang Liancheng, who was called Director Huang by Bai Yi, was the director of the Equipment Division of the Quartermaster Bureau of the Logistics Department of the Volunteer Army.

Since the end of the five battles, the Chinese Volunteers and the US military have formed a confrontation near the 38th parallel, and a glimmer of hope for a peaceful settlement of the Korean issue has also flashed proudly because of the military stalemate.

The warring parties keenly grasped this rare opportunity and began to move from the battlefield to the negotiations, and the differences between the opposing parties were too great, and at the same time, the hardliners in the United States were not willing to lose face on the ground in North Korea.

Clamoring to give the volunteers a good look, at this very moment, Van Vliet, commander of the US Eighth Army, who was already known for his belligerence, lost no time in submitting to the Joint Chiefs of Staff a grand plan to attack the fortified area of the volunteers in the Shangganling area, reopen the communication line to the north, and force the volunteers to compromise.

This greatly moved the hardliners in the United States, and spared no effort to support Van Vliet's offensive plan, so from the beginning of September '52, the US army began to use the newly put in place the US 7th Division and the ROK 2nd Division as the main offensive force, and at the same time transferred other US military units and the army of the client country to form the Shangganling Campaign Strike Group.

At the beginning of October, they began to assemble south of the Shangganling area, began artillery preparations at dawn on the 14th, and launched an offensive at 7:15 a.m., thus beginning the Battle of Shangganling, which was crucial to the final fate of Korea.

At first, although the volunteers had made early preparations, they suffered extremely heavy losses in the face of the US army's powerful air-ground firepower network, and the number of troops was needless to say, although it was not as good as the sacrifice of the entire platoon and company at every turn, as in the early days of the war, the losses of personnel were also considerable.

In order to fulfill the central government's strategic policy of promoting peace by winning wars, the Volunteer Army Headquarters sent additional reinforcements to Shangganling on the one hand, and urgently mobilized equipment to replenish the front line at the same time.

At the same time, the damaged weapons on the front line were collected and shipped back to China for repair, in order to make up for the growing losses on the front line as quickly as possible.

It is precisely because of this incident that Huang Liancheng will return to China with several wagons of damaged weapons and equipment to urge relevant manufacturers to use all the methods that can be used to complete the repair of equipment as soon as possible.

Because of this, Huang Liancheng, who returned to China, can be said to have his feet not touching the ground, and several military factories are running back and forth, but even so, he is not satisfied with the results.

It is better to say that the Mosin Nagant bolt-action rifle and the Bobosha submachine gun supplied by the Soviet Union are not much of an obstacle to repairing these two guns, after all, China was able to produce bolt-action rifles on its own in the early years, and at the same time had the conditions for the manufacture of submachine guns.

The difficulty lies in the machine guns, especially the damaged barrels and spare barrels, which cannot meet the schedule requirements at all, so Huang Liancheng ran non-stop to the only three military factories in the country that can manufacture light machine guns.

The technology of these three military factories that copied the Czech ZB-26 light machine gun and the German MG8 heavy machine gun was there, but the production process was too backward.

Of course, Huang Liancheng did not think about importing a batch of machine gun barrels from the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union agreed very happily, but as the saying goes, far water cannot quench the thirst of the near, and the equipment of the Soviet army in the Far East has already been sold to China, and the surplus equipment that the Soviet army eliminated during World War II can only be transported from the Urals.

Whether it is from Central Asia to northwest China, or to take the Trans-Siberian Railway into the Far East and transport to the Korean front, it will take about a week to say the least, and this week's time may seem like no more or less, but the fierce battle on the Shangganling front may determine the direction of the balance of victory and defeat between the two sides of the war.

So the Soviets could afford it, but the volunteers couldn't afford it.

Faced with such a situation, Huang Liancheng was very anxious to get angry, and there was nothing he could do about it, but just when he felt that there was no way out, he learned from a veteran of the military industry that Baiyun Factory might have a way to solve his difficulties.

Huang Liancheng, who got the guidance, naturally did not dare to delay, rushed to the Baiyun factory by car in the starry night, and found the factory director Song Jixue and Bai Yi in charge of technology for the first time, and explained the situation, Song Jixue was a little noncommittal, but Bai Yi was secretly happy, as the so-called drowsiness meets the pillow, he has already transformed the precision forging machine to seventy-seven eighty-eight, and is thinking about something to do the test, Huang Liancheng came to the door, what are you waiting for?

So he directly patted his chest and took the matter down, and then the two of them came to the place where the precision forging machine was, and they didn't talk nonsense, and directly started with the barrel of the DP-27 light machine gun, so they saw the picture of Bai Yi checking the barrel at first.

Huang Liancheng took the freshly baked barrel in his hand, carefully checked it inside and out a few times, and said suspiciously after a long while: "This one looks good, but it's not sure if it can meet the requirements, after all, you know the previous ones, it's really not ideal." ”

Huang Liancheng, who is full of poetry and books, is a Sven person, even if he has been fighting on the battlefield from Rong for many years, he is extremely tactful when he speaks, but at this moment, the pressure of the front line and the bloody sacrifice of the soldiers make his words much more direct for no reason, and his gaze at Bai Yi is a little more questioning.

But even so, when he heard this, Bai Yi's ears still felt that this Director Huang was really too polite, if he changed the temper of the head of armaments, wouldn't it be ideal? If you don't beat him first, you can count it as burning high incense.

Speaking of which, this Director Huang is a kind person, Bai Yi secretly thought in his heart, and his old face couldn't help but blush, that person did the experiment for free, and only carried a hat that was not ideal, even if he was not thin-skinned, he felt a little hot.

But the next moment, as if nothing happened, he continued to wave his hand cheekily as always: "I can understand Director Huang's feelings, but you also know that our factory is also the first contact with the DP-27 light machine gun barrel, and our machine is also brand new, and the cold forging process used is the first in the world, so the running-in of various items is inevitable, I hope you can understand this aspect." ”

If you are a person who is familiar with Bai Yi, after listening to what you just said, you will definitely scold Bai Yi for being so shameless, so shameless, and saying it so high-soundingly, isn't it just to cover up the seven or eight scraps before, if it doesn't work, why do you still say it so nicely.

But Huang Liancheng is a kind person after all, and there is really no way, so he finally found a guarantee to do it, so he just tried it with the attitude of being a dead horse as a live horse doctor, what if it succeeds?

So he nodded: "It's nothing, the key is how long do you need to produce the finished product?" ”

"Isn't this the finished product?" Bai Yi pointed to the forehead barrel in Huang Liancheng's hand, and smiled brightly: "After the cold forging just now, it can already reach the service life of 10,000 rounds, and after a while, I will do a chrome plating treatment for the inner chamber, and it can easily go up to 15,000 ......."

"Easily go up to fifteen thousand? Hehe, I said dear Comrade Bai Yi, can you brag about it first! Before Bai Yi's words fell, before Huang Liancheng was surprised, there was a burst of yin and yang strange words outside the workshop, and then Repin took square steps, and surrounded Bai Yi and others with a large group of old hairs of all colors......