Chapter 197: It All Starts with Recoilless Artillery (2-in-1)
If it were an ordinary person, it would be impossible for Wu Yunzhe to be angry and recur, but it was Yaktoev, who had the planning and specific implementation of the Soviet-aided construction project, and it was no exaggeration to say that he was simply a Taishan overwhelming existence, even the head of the General Logistics Department, and even the leading cadres at a higher level had to tolerate Yaktoev by three points, let alone Wu Yunzhe. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Because of this, it is really very likely that Yaktoev's opinion will become a final judgment, which Wu Yunzhe absolutely cannot accept, but there is no way to do it, after all, the Soviet-aided construction project can enable China to rapidly industrialize in a short period of time, so it is inevitable to open its arms and accept Soviet-style standards and ideas.
In particular, in the field of military industry, China, which can only manufacture certain low-grade products, has no way to compare itself with the Soviet Union, which is one of the two levels in the world, so modestly studying is still the main general direction, and it is not an unacceptable reason to give up some of its own unique views in exchange for the improvement of its overall capability.
At the moment of the heated debate with Yaktoev, Wu Yunzhe figured out this truth, but after thinking about it, he did not make the slightest concession, for no other reason, only because of the indescribable unwillingness in his heart, if he could not even implement the development ideas that were in line with the actual situation on Chinese soil, and could only be at the mercy of the Soviets, then why did they, the revolutionaries who shed their blood for the sake of New China, establish New China? It would be better to stay in the old regime that lost power and humiliated the country.
What's more, since the day he entered the military industrial system, Wu Yunzhe has been inspired to embark on a military development path that conforms to China's reality, for this ideal Wu Yunzhe has been studying, constantly working hard, and implementing the four words of seeking truth from facts, because of this, in different periods, Wu Yunzhe can create jaw-dropping miracles.
The most typical is the "unconscionable artillery" on the Central Plains battlefield, which was still in the early days of the Liberation War, when he was still the director of the Huaye Military Industry Bureau, in view of the actual situation that the enemy was strong and we were weak, and the troops lacked heavy fire support weapons, combined with the increase in the production of explosives packages of the Huaye Military Industry Bureau at that time, he proposed a research and development plan for using gasoline barrels to fill propellants and throw high-power explosive packages.
As soon as the trial production was carried out in a trial production, it was immediately praised by the troops, and thus quickly equipped the troops in batches, and became an important fire support weapon of our army at that time, because of its large projectile yield and strong explosive power, it could often shock the enemy troops within a radius of about 20 meters to death in one fell swoop, and the combat efficiency was very strong, so it was called a "cannon without conscience" by the enemy.
However, Huaye and Zhongye, relying on this simple and practical "soil" equipment, resisted the enemy's all-out attack, interrupted the menacing key offensive, and until the Huaihai Campaign, they were still the rare "heavy firepower" of our army's front-line troops, and made extraordinary contributions to our army's final victory.
There are many weapons and equipment such as the "no conscience" cannon that can bear the actual situation, all of which are the concentrated embodiment of Wu Yunzhe's ideas on the development of weapons and equipment, and this is the case during the arduous war years, and at the moment when the conditions are better, Wu Yunzhe naturally wants to better implement this kind of thinking, but he didn't expect that he had just germinated a prototype and was stopped by Yaktoev before he had time to implement it, how not to make Wu Yunzhe angry?
"If there are contradictions, we can sit down and talk about them, seriously bridge the differences, and reach a consensus, but our Soviet comrade came up and said that we were nihilistic, and if we had to go to the labor camps in the Soviet Union to reflect, they didn't understand what we really wanted to do...... Nihilism, labor camps...... Hmph, that's a big breath! ”
The head of the General Logistics Department is obviously also angry, you must know that in this era to be labeled as nihilistic, it is very serious, and it is not good to make the whole person so wasted in this life, not to mention that it is Yaktoev who said this, a person who can directly meet the Chinese high-level and communicate with the existence of Moscow bigwigs at any time, coupled with some complex entanglements of interests, if it is really suppressed, even the head of the General Logistics Department will not be able to bear it.
Wu Yunzhe can be said to know this, so after he signaled that Lin Bo was fine, he sighed deeply: "Chief, it's really not possible, our plan will be slowed down, and we will make every effort to ensure the implementation of Soviet aid first, as for our plan, as long as we are still there, we are not afraid that it will not be able to advance in the future!" ”
"This Yaktoev, it's just ...... Alas......"
As soon as Wu Yunzhe's words fell, the head of the general rear stood up suddenly, and an unspeakable anger almost erupted from a pair of sharp eyes, and the fist on the desk was even more clenched, but with a helpless sigh, it could only be suppressed in the bottom of his heart again, in the case of backward technology, even with his allies, he was not qualified to negotiate conditions, such a shame was more heart-wrenching than fighting a defeat on the battlefield, but there was no way, for the country to quickly achieve the established goal of industrialization, Such heartache must be swallowed into the stomach.
So the head of the general logistics closed his eyes, and between the heavy breathing, the whole person seemed to be ten years old, as for Wu Yunzhe, his expression was even more sad, but he still beat his spirits, looked at Lin Bo who was very concerned gently, and smiled kindly at Bai Yi, and said apologetically: "This time, let you run in vain, and when you go back, you should also hurry up and adapt to the Soviet industrial standards as soon as possible, as for the plan given to you before, just throw it away as waste paper!" ”
"If the weapons and equipment of the Soviet Union can have strong actual combat capabilities, it is just that, if they can't reach it, they will also pressure us not to build, how can this be justified? It doesn't matter if the gun doesn't work, even the recoilless artillery is rotten at home, why can't we make it ourselves? It's just a bit of a swagger! ”
Just when the head of the general rear closed his eyes and was silent, and Director Wu Yunzhe frustrated the eviction order, a little disdainful, and seemed to have a little confidence in the voice in the office, the head of the general logistics suddenly opened his eyes, and the haggard Wu Yunzhe also instantly came to the spirit, the two glanced at each other, and they seemed to find a different kind of brilliance in each other's eyes, and finally the head of the general logistics was quick and took the lead in calling Bai Yi: "Xiaobai, what did you just say about the recoilless artillery, what is the situation?" ”
"There is no situation, that is, the Soviet recoilless artillery is very poor, not to mention compared with similar products in the United States and Europe, even if the 57mm recoilless artillery imitated during the Republic of China can throw off the Soviet Union's similar equipment eight streets, you must know that the Soviets have a strong understanding of recoilless artillery.
In particular, the recoilless artillery for infantry accompanying support fire was not of much interest at all, so that their 47mm recoilless guns were simply a pile of scrap metal and useless at all, so why couldn't we make the recoilless guns first according to the plan? ”
Bai Yi's words can be described as reasonable, and Wu Yunzhe, who was on the side, heard some doorways, and hurriedly asked: "Xiaobai, do you know the situation of recoilless artillery in the Soviet Union?" ”
Bai Yi nodded affirmatively: "When I followed the Soviet counteroffensive back then, I used their 47mm recoilless gun several times, which is a primitive crude steel pipe, which is not only heavy in weight, short in range, but also insufficient in power, whether it is used for anti-armor or fortifications, the effectiveness is not very good, plus there are five or six personnel equipped, which is not much worse than the 85mm anti-tank gun, but the 85mm anti-tank gun is much worse in terms of power."
Therefore, the front-line troops of the Soviet army quickly threw this equipment into the garbage heap and fully replaced it with an 85mm anti-tank gun with better performance. ”
"Are you sure?" Although Wu Yunzhe knew that Bai Yi had participated in the Soviet army, he did not know the specific situation, so when he heard this, he asked suspiciously, but Bai Yi's answer was firm and direct: "When I was in the Soviet army, I was an artillery, except for that kind of super-large caliber cannon, I have never played with other Soviet artillery, so I dare to guarantee." ”
Bai Yi didn't brag about this, aside from the fact that this body did serve in the Soviet artillery unit and operated various types of artillery; But his sense of being ahead of his time gave Bai Yi confidence, and in fact it was, even though the Soviet Union was the world's first developer of a practical recoilless gun.
However, the Soviet Union was not interested in weapons and equipment such as recoilless artillery, for no other reason, because the Soviets felt that this equipment was really a bit of a chicken rib, and it was not as mobile and flexible as RPG in close-range anti-tank combat, and it was not as powerful as a special anti-tank gun at a long distance.
As for the medium and long distance, it is not as simple and direct as the tank guns carried by the tanks supporting the infantry, so after the successful development of the first 47mm recoilless artillery, the Soviet Union gradually stagnated the development of this type of weapon, on the other hand, the United States and other Western countries have always regarded recoilless artillery as a powerful supplement to anti-tank weapons, and distributed them in battalions and infantry detachments for anti-tank and pillbox sabotage operations.
Therefore, Europe and the United States have invested much more strongly than the Soviet Union in this regard, especially the United States, which has completely led the Soviet Union in recoilless artillery since the beginning of 40 years, especially its systematic and serialized recoilless artillery equipment, which is incomparable to the Soviet Union.
The head of the General Logistics Department and Wu Yunzhe naturally didn't know the inside story, but even if they knew, they probably wouldn't care too much at this moment, because they had already been stunned by the sentence "The performance of the Soviet recoilless artillery lagged behind the American-made recoilless artillery", you must know that the weapons and equipment provided by the Soviet Union in the form of paid loans this time included the Soviet 47mm recoilless artillery.
After all, after using the American-made M18 57mm recoilless gun imitated by the Republic of China, our army favored this simple, practical, mobile and flexible infantry accompanying support weapon, and after learning that the Soviet Union also had the same type of equipment, it put forward relevant requests for assistance.
The Soviet Union not only agreed, but also slapped its chest loudly, bluntly saying that their 47mm recoilless artillery was absolutely stronger than the imperialist equipment of the same type, and also provided China with a large number of tests and actual combat data, relevant battle photos, and even a full set of technical materials to China so that China could copy and produce.
The newly founded New China was as pure as a junior brother in all aspects, especially in the arms trade, and it had no experience at all, but as a result, it was dazzled by the Soviet Union's dazzling pictures, data, and technical data, so it vaguely agreed to introduce a batch of them first.
And the Soviet equipment has not yet been fully in place, because the Chinese side still does not know what the performance of the Soviet 47mm recoilless gun is, because of this, when the head of the General Logistics Department and Wu Yunzhe listened to Bai Yi's words, they were immediately dumbfounded, because they never expected that the Soviet Union would actually provide China with an equipment that was extremely backward in performance.
This made the two of them shocked but also angry, only feeling the Soviet Union
Although the weapons and equipment developed in this way are simple, the logistical pressure is greatly reduced, the requirements for the quality of the army are not high, the combat effectiveness is rapidly generated, and the cost performance can be described as ridiculously high. But when it is used in depth, it is found that this kind of cost performance is only a superficial phenomenon, and in fact, its consumption is not much worse than that of sophisticated Western equipment, and even much higher in some aspects.
Taking the Soviet Union's most classic BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle as an example, this armored combat vehicle, which is characterized as "cannon fodder", is very simple to design and manufacture, and the price is even lower, but behind these benefits, the engine overhaul interval is extremely short, the driving fuel consumption remains high, the man-machine efficiency is ridiculously poor, and the battlefield repair is better than nothing. It's a pity to abandon the chicken ribs.
Because of this, Wu Yunzhe can put forward such a weapon and equipment development idea in this era can be said to be extremely far-sighted, of course, the risk is inevitable, the first is that there is a great conflict with the Soviet Union's existing equipment research and development ideas, if you guess correctly, the reason why Yaktoev was thunderous before, most likely because of serious differences in weapons and equipment research and development ideas.
Bai Yi's guess is right, Yaktoev can still critically accept the single weapon independently developed by China, but he is absolutely intolerant of the weapons and equipment development system in the Soviet category, because this is not only a challenge to the authoritative position, but also a shake to the mature Soviet equipment development system.
As a well-known Soviet military expert and the founder of the Soviet equipment ideological system, Yaktoev would never allow such a thing to happen, but the head of the General Logistics Department and Wu Yunzhe were extremely pragmatic people, who would use them if they were suitable, change them if they were not suitable, and would never say a word of nonsense if they did......
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Bai Yi's guess is right, Yaktoev can still critically accept the single weapon independently developed by China, but he is absolutely intolerant of the weapons and equipment development system in the Soviet category, because this is not only a challenge to the authoritative position, but also a shake to the mature Soviet equipment development system.