"By the way, did the MP-34 general-purpose machine gun that I proposed to use stamping technology develop last time?" Zhang Cheng asked again. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Division commander, it has been developed, we have adopted a large number of stamping technology in accordance with the division commander's suggestion, saving a lot of materials, and can also be manufactured through a simple assembly line, but the cost is only 70% of MG34, and the man-hours and materials spent are only 50% of MG34.

Moreover, whether this machine gun is at a low temperature of minus 40 degrees Celsius or a high temperature environment of 50 or 60 degrees, this machine gun has very good adaptability. If the machine gun uses a bipod, it can be used as a light machine gun with a 75-round drum to fight with the platoon. If a tripod with a heavy machine gun is equipped with a 300-round magazine, it can be used as a heavy machine gun and can be used as a support weapon for battalions and companies. If equipped with an armored vehicle, it is also a vehicle-mounted machine gun, which can be called a model of all-round machine guns. Li Yulin exclaimed.

Then a group of people came to the target test site with a general-purpose machine gun, and after the on-the-spot test of the test gunner, Zhang Cheng found that this machine gun was really extremely durable, and it was worthy of being a big killer in World War II.

Zhang Cheng designed this general-purpose machine gun, in later generations has a well-known name, that is--"ripping machine" MG42, this general-purpose machine gun is improved on the basis of the general-purpose machine gun MG-34, MG42 was just born and equipped with German troops, in the West hidden in Europe spy personnel, this is really a shoddy weapon, is a patchwork of several pieces of iron and an iron pipe.

Snowflake reports were sent to Washington and London, and the content was the same: Germany was no longer good, they were desperately short of raw materials, and even the machine guns at the heart of their tactics were made with such rudimentary and crude manufacturing techniques.

However, when the gunsmiths in Britain and Miri learned of the situation, they were shocked. They were well aware that the Germans with stamping technology were far ahead of them in machine gun technology.

In the actual combat later, this was also well proved. Whether it is in the freezing and snowy weather of minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Soviet Union, or in the low bush jungles of Normandy, in the hot desert of North Africa, or in the rubble and rubble piles of Berlin, the MG42 is the absolute firepower of the German army and the nightmare of the Allied soldiers!

A German-made machine gun that was hailed as the best machine gun of the Second World War, the Germans proudly called it "the sharp blade of the soul of the German army", but the Allied soldiers, especially those who were invincible and domineering, were depressed, unwilling to fight, and demoralized, and regarded it as a "nightmare for the infantry".

Its sound of tearing linen (1200 rounds per minute due to its high rate of fire) also made a terrifying impression on the Allies......

Soon, the MG-42 received the nickname "Ripper"! After World War II, the machine guns used by many countries have the shadow of MG42, such as the M60 of the United States, the MG3 of Germany, the M42/59 of Italy, and the SARAC of Yugoslavia.

What is even more valuable is that the successful development of this kind of weapons that have been stamped, riveted, spot welded, and mass-produced by automated production lines and can be supplied to the front line has far exceeded the scope of firearm design and production, because most of the newly developed and produced machine guns after World War II are general-purpose machine guns, and the later development of military guns was influenced by it and formed a gun family.

After many test firings, this general-purpose machine gun quickly won the favor of everyone, whether it is compared with the Czech light machine gun or the Maxim heavy machine gun, it has a very obvious advantage.

Zhang Cheng was not surprised by this, because he knew that in history, the MG-42 represented the direction of the future development of machine guns, and the degree of classicism in machine guns can be said to be incomparable, and it is an epoch-making great creation.

"Is this machine gun ready for mass production now?" Now that it has been developed, Zhang Cheng naturally hopes to be able to produce it in large quantities and equip front-line combat units as soon as possible.

"There is no problem with the technical link, mainly because the machinery and equipment are still insufficient, if the production is started now, it can only produce about 20 per month." Li Yulin said after pondering for a while.

"Let's go to production first, now we are fighting with the Japanese army almost every day, and we can better kill devils by producing them as soon as possible." Zhang Cheng immediately clapped his head.

"Okay, division commander, I will immediately arrange the production task of the general-purpose machine gun, by the way, this machine gun will be produced soon, but it has no name yet, this machine gun is developed on the basis of MG-34, it is better to call it MG-37, right?" Li Yulin suggested.

"There is no need for this, this machine gun will be much more awesome than the MG-34 in the future, there is no need to give honor to the Germans, I think it is called the Zhonghua Type 1937 general-purpose machine gun." After countless plagiarisms, Zhang Cheng's cheeks have long been tempered, and his style has always been to go other people's ways, so that others have no way out.

"Okay, let's listen to the division commander, it's called the Zhonghua Type 1937 general-purpose machine gun." Li Yulin said happily.

"By the way, division commander, since there is a general-purpose machine gun, do you still have to copy and produce the Czech type?" Takahara asked.

"The Czech style is still very practical, especially when charging into battle, the lethality is very amazing, and the cost is not high, the arsenal should continue to produce." Zhang Cheng instructed clearly.

After learning about the specific production situation of the Yulin Arsenal, Zhang Cheng and the political commissar went to Yan'an to attend the opening ceremony of the National Northwest Associated University at the invitation of the commander.

Under the instigation of Zhang Cheng's butterfly wings, the influence of the Eighth Route Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Party was more than ten times greater than that of the same period in history. In addition, the outstanding achievements of the Eighth Route Army led by the instructor in the anti-Japanese battlefield made the influence of the Eighth Route Army in the Beijing-gi region of China almost equal to that of the Kuomintang government, and a number of teachers and students from Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Beiping Normal University moved to Yan'an in mid-December.

Seeing that a large number of teachers and students who were inclined to the policies and propositions of the Workers' and Peasants' Party had come to Yan'an with the ideal of saving the country, Zhang Cheng proposed to the commander-in-chief that these teachers and students be gathered together and jointly establish the Northwest Associated University in Yan'an.

The commander-in-chief, who was well aware of the importance of higher education, immediately agreed to Zhang Cheng's suggestion, and for the establishment of this institution of higher learning, the government of the Northwest Border Region opened the door to convenience, provided land for free and allocated a part of the education funds to support the establishment.

Although the campus of Northwest Associated University is very simple, the school gate is only more than two people high, only a few meters wide, and two ordinary iron gates for pedestrians to enter and exit, but the teachers and students use the famous words of the old president of Harvard University, Conant, to motivate themselves: "The honor of the university lies not in its buildings and numbers, but in the quality of its generations." ”