In times of war, the work in the Ministry of Defense was not easy at all. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The complexity of the affairs and the urgency of the affairs have exceeded the imagination of outsiders.

Manturov, who was also the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense and the head of the General Political Department of the Red Army, was naturally very busy. Although this deputy People's Commissar for National Defense is nominally a deputy position, equivalent to China's vice minister of national defense today, his workload and power during war time can be compared with that of any other people's commissar.

What's more, he is not as simple as a vice minister of national defense at present, but also concurrently holds the posts of minister of construction and vice premier of the State Council.

Fortunately, there are still two competent deputy ministers in charge of the Ministry of Construction, and his power as vice premier in charge of the development of heavy industry has been completely nullified by the National Defense Committee established during the war, and now he only needs to manage the work of the Ministry of National Defense.

In September, the weather in the Soviet Union has begun to cool, and the temperature in Moscow has dropped to 5 degrees Celsius. This temperature is not a big deal for any Russian, but it is a terrible number for those living in southern China.

However, the cooler weather did not affect Manturov's enthusiasm for his work in the slightest. The air outside was cold, but his heart was hot. At the moment when the life and death of the country was at stake, in the face of this great patriotic war, his patriotic enthusiasm had been fully stimulated, and his whole body was warm.

Of course, from a physiological point of view, no matter how passionate a person is, it is impossible for his body to emit huge heat energy like a heater.

In fact, the main reason why Manturov's whole body was warm was not only because of his patriotic enthusiasm, but also because there was heating in his office, and he himself wore a thick military coat to prevent the loss of heat.

However, while Manturov was sitting in the building of the Ministry of Defense enjoying the heating and being able to warm himself from his wife every night, the Red Army soldiers on the front line were braving the cold air and standing on the trenches of the front line drinking the northwest wind.

Thinking of this, Manturov's heart trembled, and he suddenly felt a chill.

"Comrade Manturov, this is what you want." A tall man in a second lieutenant uniform walked in. He looked to be about twenty-three or fourteen years old, and he was Manturov's new assistant, Maxim Dernov

Denov placed a large stack of papers on Manturov's desk made of Siberian birch and nodded to Manturov.

Manturov also smiled, nodded, and said in a grateful tone: "Comrade Drnov, I have a thank you." ”

Dernov also smiled slightly, clapped his hands gently, trying to get rid of the dust that stuck to his hands. It seems that the stack of documents that Manturov was looking for has been in the archives of the People's Commissariat of Defense for quite some time.

Young Dernov did not know what the use of this pile of dusty documents for many years was. Most of these documents, dated from 1923 to 1937, were written by Leonid Kurchevsky.

Kurchevsky? Who are they? An old driver? Of course not!

This Kurchevsky was one of the greatest weapons and ordnance engineers in the early Soviet Union, and his most well-known and least appreciated invention by the Soviet army was the recoilless gun.

When it comes to recoilless guns, some people know what they are when they hear it, and some people don't know what it is about. The so-called recoilless cannon is a kind of bazooka-like and RPG-like thing.

If this recoilless gun is used as an infantry weapon, used to fight tanks, to fight pillboxes, the effect is first-class. But both the Soviet Union and the United States, which was the first to invent recoilless guns, clicked on the wrong technology tree at the beginning, and installed this excellent infantry weapon on an airplane or a ship.

It wasn't until 1935, when Leonid Kurchevsky of the Soviet Union invented the 76 mm recoilless gun, that the Soviets began to equip trucks with this gadget and participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, but the number of new weapons was too small to play a significant role.

During the Soviet-Finnish war, the Finns captured two recoilless guns from the Soviets, which were later handed over to Germany. On the basis of this Soviet recoilless gun, the Germans developed the "Iron Fist" anti-tank grenade launcher, which was equipped with armor-piercing shells, and the anti-tank effect was first-class!

After the war, the Soviet Union got the "Iron Fist" from the hands of the German fascists, and developed the famous RPG on the basis of the "Iron Fist". Ironically, the Soviets used the German "Iron Fist" recoilless gun, which was based on the Soviet Union, but the project was terminated in 1937 when Kurchevsky was purged.

Looking at Dronov's eyes full of doubts, Manturov smiled lightly and said in the tone of an elder enlightening young man: "Fekrs, these documents are all about an epoch-making weapon, as long as we equip these weapons on a large scale, the combat strength of the Soviet Red Army will be greatly improved." ”

"What's so good about these weapons? The range is not far, the power is not great, there are not many ammunition reserves, and the flight speed of the shells is too slow, in 1938 we already announced the cessation of all related research and development, and now you take out these documents, do you want to continue research and development? ”

Regarding Dernov's outdated thoughts, Manturov could only smile helplessly, "You'll know then." ”

However, Dernov was not one to give up on these issues, and the young man's desire to learn was beyond the imagination of his superiors. He was very anxious to know what his superiors were doing so that he could easily cooperate with Comrade Manturov's work, wasn't it? "I'll want to know now."

"Well," Manturov said to himself, looking at his curious, expectant green eyes: "This weapon, which has been mistakenly used in equipping aircraft before, is a waste of its potential. ”

"What do you think is the potential of this recoilless gun?"

"Potential?" As a time-traveler from the 21st century, Manturov certainly knows the potential of this weapon, and if he does it well and points out related technologies such as armor-piercing bullets, he may be able to get an RPG out in advance!

There is a good saying, "There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved with one RPG, and if there is, then two!" Of course, RPGs can't solve everything, but this sentence does affirm the power and value of RPGs.

"This kind of weapon, put on an airplane, has no potential at all, and if it is used as an infantry weapon, it may be able to be converted into an anti-tank weapon.

If you think about it, although this recoilless gun has a short range, it is easy to carry, and the power of the explosion is no different from that of shelling. If our soldiers can walk around with such a cannon, when they encounter tanks, or when we attack enemy fortifications, we will be able to carry out accurate artillery bombardment on enemy tanks, enemy fortifications. ”