Chapter 39: Comrade-in-Arms "T-34"
Ulannorasov suddenly realized that he had added the content of the conversation that the political commissar of the regiment had talked to him to the imagination of Yelena just now, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat and return to reality.
The political commissar of the regiment had specially consulted a medical expert on the collective amnesia of the members of the "521" crew, and although the experts told him that such a situation existed, it was very rare, and out of caution, the regimental political commissar still decided to investigate the identity of the "521" crew; of course, in order not to affect the operation, the investigation needed to be carried out secretly.
And part of the investigation was carried out by Ulano Lasov, who was fluent in Oriental languages.
To be able to have direct contact with his beloved Yelena on the orders of his superiors, Ulannorasov was of course very happy, but he couldn't help but feel a little depressed at the thought that his investigation might cause harm to her.
"Elena ...... My dear...... Everything will be fine......" he muttered to himself, comforting himself as the sky grew white......
Sun Hui woke up in the morning and found that he was the last to get up, the girls all got up early, and made breakfast for him and put it there, except for Wang Linlin, they didn't know where they went.
Sun Hui was very happy to find out that there were fried eggs and milk in today's breakfast, and he asked Wang Linlin where these came from, and Wang Linlin told him that because the fortress was not occupied by the Germans for a long time, the grain warehouse and the food reserves of many residents were preserved, which were given to them by the local people.
"There will be no combat mission for the time being, Brother Sun come out and take a look, how stuffy it is in the tank." Wang Linlin saw that Sun Hui wanted to retract into the tank after breakfast, so she persuaded him to come out and walk around, "This fortress is very large, there are not many destroyed places, and there is an ancient castle next to it, which is said to have been built during the period of Peter the Great." ”
"Oh, then we can go check it out." Sun Hui nodded, but he didn't plan to visit, but just got out of the tank.
Now he is not in the mood to visit the monuments at all.
At this time, the "KV-1" tank and the two "T-34" tanks were parked in the courtyard in front of the church, and although the crew members of the two "T-34" tanks were wounded, they did not rest, but hurried to repair the tanks, and several workers were helping them.
Sun Hui subconsciously glanced back at his "KV-1" tank, as before, the tank was automatically repaired again last night, but the bullet marks on the body and turret were there, and there was one more star as a symbol of the record.
"Damn......" Sun Hui couldn't help but clench his fists when he imagined that those "audiences" were watching himself and the girls fighting for survival.
Seeing Sun Hui standing there looking at the "T-34" tank under repair, a Russian officer with bandages on his head and arms who was supervising and guiding the maintenance work stood up, said something loudly to Sun Hui, and waved to him.
Seeing Sun Hui's dazed look, Wang Linlin smiled slightly, ran to his side, and acted as an interpreter for him.
"He asked Brother Sun how you repaired the tank so quickly, and asked you to come over and give me some pointers." Wang Linlin said with a smile.
"You tell him, Linlin, we worked overtime last night to fix it." Sun Hui hurriedly said.
Wang Linlin shouted a few words at them, and the officer nodded again and again, and continued to wave to them.
"By the way, Linlin, go to the tank and get that pack of cigarettes." Sun Hui wanted to get in touch with the tankers of these "T-34" tanks, and said to Wang Linlin.
"Okay!" Wang Linlin understood what he meant, turned around and ran away like a gust of wind.
Sun Hui came to the "T-34" tank numbered "061", and at this time two tankers and two workers were laboriously tinkering there, and when they saw Sun Hui coming, they all stood up.
Sun Hui looked at the "T-34" tank and found that it was equipped with an "L-11" 76mm tank gun. Before he was "crossed", it was not easy for him, a military fan, to see such an early model of the "T-34" tank, but now, this situation is not a good thing for him.
The cast turret of the "T-34" was put into production in the spring of 41, and since the design team was not satisfied with the "L-34" main gun selected by the General Directorate of Armored Vehicles for the "T-11", in order to choose a replacement, a number of options were listed, including from the old 45-mm tank gun and the 57-mm anti-tank gun (Zis-4). At the same time, the "KV-1" heavy tank is also equipped with the "F-32" 76.2 mm tank gun, newly developed by the Grepin engineers of the Central Artillery Design Bureau, which has better armor-piercing ability than the "L-11". And Grepin, in fact, began to work on the loading of the "F-40" tank gun on the "T-32" turret in the spring of 34. At the end of 40, the Golpin design group developed the "F-34" type of 76.2 mm tank gun with a barrel length of 42 calibers, but unfortunately, the "F-34" was not approved for production, because neither the General Directorate of Artillery (GAU) nor the General Directorate of Armored Vehicles under the jurisdiction of Marshal Kulik approved it. Despite this dilemma, Geleping and the plant manager Yeliyan took the risk of privately producing the "F-34" and "L-11" in parallel. In January '41, the "F-34" was put into mass production, and in February of the same year, it was put on several "T-34" for testing. It is infuriating that the "F-34" was not publicly licensed until the summer of '41, and it was not until the Germans were overwhelmed with old punches that the "F-34" was adopted after the criticism of the "L-11" was surging from the front-line troops and the calls for the "F-34".
Due to Marshal Kulik's criticism of the "T-34" tanks leaving the factory, he made a large number of inexplicable requests for modifications, so that by September 15, 40, only 3 "T-34s" were successfully delivered to the troops! This disruptive behavior was immediately met by the head of the People's Commissariat of Medium Machinery Ujacheslav? Marayshev's opposition, and the managers of the Main Directorate of Armored Vehicles and the Kharkov Railway Locomotive Plant fought back against Kulik, trying to control and maintain the production program of the "T-34". Despite the considerable efforts of Marayshev and others, the "T-34" tank production plan of 600 units in 40 years was still in vain, and only 115 tanks were produced. When the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union produced a total of 1,225 "T-34" tanks, but the Red Army's front-line troops only had 967 "T-34s", and the remaining 258 were still in factories, on their way to the troops, or used as teaching tools in military schools.