On August 5, 1938, Lin Jun was promoted to the rank of commander in the Kremlin Auditorium, and was appointed as the youngest deputy People's Commissar of Defense in Soviet history (in addition to one People's Commissar for Defense, there are also several deputy positions, equivalent to the deputy minister of defense of an ordinary country). Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo）

For this promotion, Lin Jun himself and the Soviet top brass did not feel much surprise, if it were not for Lin Jun's personal rejection, he would have been in his current position a long time ago (when for Alexander's status as a member of the Central Committee of ****** and NKVD, Stalin had already made his love very low-key. ）。

But no matter how low-key it is, it is unprecedented for the 25-year-old grade to reach its current position, and the world is paying attention to the moment when the Soviet star is rising.

A few more titles have been added, in order to better participate in the transformation of the Red Army, otherwise the name of the Ministry of Armament is a bit unworthy of the name, but Lin Jun's main job is to manage the development and production of new equipment, and the status of Deputy People's Commissar of National Defense allows him to justifiably intervene in the core affairs of the army.

Halfway through this summer, he has been following the situation in the Far East: he beat little Japan to the point of howling wolves last year, and is on the lookout for revenge this year. But the news received so far from Blyukhel has been that there have been petty border skirmishes, and the weather in most of the Far East has entered the rainy season, and the Japanese army has not made any major moves so far, so it is estimated that there will be no major things to be done this year.

On the third day after his promotion, Lin Jun met his old friend Grigory Mikhailovich Stern, who was about to leave for Leningrad to serve as commander of the Eighth Army and who had come to Moscow to report on his work.

Now that the Red Banner Special Army of the Far East has been renamed the Red Banner Far Eastern Front, and the chief of staff of the former Front Army has been appointed commander of the newly formed group army, Stalin has made a capital investment, and Stern's life has also changed slightly from the part that Lin Jun is familiar with -- due to the advance of the formation of the group army, Comrade Chief of Staff has "lost" the opportunity to serve as the commander of the Red Banner Independent First Army, and the Far East has Blyukherr in charge, and this post of commander of the Far Eastern Front has no chance to be held by him.

Lin Jun knew that Stenn was "wronged", but it was not necessarily a good thing, just like he didn't have to worry about whether he could get through the hurdle in October 41 (of course Stenn himself didn't know this.) Beria had already been thrown by Alexander to Siberia to take charge of forestry production at the behest of Lin Jun (Lin Jun's old friends and comrades-in-arms Yakov and Stenn were both executed on October 28, 1941 on Beria's orders. The banner of "suppression" has been firmly controlled by Lin Jun, and this term "suppression" is about to become history: Stalin's attention has been focused on army building, and the pressure on him from the movement in the west is becoming more and more obvious.

Of course, old friends have a lot to say when they meet, but what Shi Tern brings is the greetings of Comrade Marshal, while what Lin Jun says is basically about the construction of the group army.

The Eighth Army, which was also preparing for the upcoming military operation against Finland, moved to Stern what had been told to Debenko. Stern was pleased with the change of position: although it appeared to be a half-rank demo on the surface, the newly formed army group was the core of the Red Army, and it was not a loss to be the commander of such a unit, not to mention that Moscow and Leningrad were the core of the Soviets - it was always refreshing to work in Leningrad.

On 15 August, Lin Jun and a group of military bigwigs in Moscow went to the shooting range of the Moscow garrison: the arsenal has successfully trial-produced an RPG rocket-propelled grenade according to Lin Jun's design, and today it will demonstrate its performance.

The rocket was successfully developed at the end of last month, and experiments have been being carried out during this time, and this time it is a pre-finalized performance. Lin Jun had already gone to the military factory some time ago to see the demonstration, so he knew the bottom of his heart.

"Andrey, this is a little longer than you said last time." Budyonny said with a launch canister in his hand.

"Last time it was expected, Comrade Marshal. The carrying length of 0.91 meters should still meet the requirements, right? ”

"Hehe, it's the same."

This batch of RPGs has a caliber of 40 mm, a mass of 5.6 kg of launcher canisters with a length of 910 mm, a diameter of 85 mm for super-caliber rockets, and a weight of 2.2 kg, and the vertical armor-piercing power of homogeneous steel armor has reached an astonishing 380 mm, even if it hits at an angle of 65 degrees, it can penetrate more than 100 mm of steel plates!

The other performance was also better than Lin Jun expected, and the test score (shooting on the special launch mount) achieved an excellent shooting concentration of 0.45×0.45 meters for 300 meters, which means that its effective direct shooting distance reached an astonishing 300 meters. Although this accuracy is not achieved in actual use, the accuracy of a well-trained shooter on a fixed tank target at a distance of 300 meters is quite high.

The designers of the arsenal not only designed an armor-piercing bullet for it, but also made an armor-piercing anti-personnel bullet, which can be said to draw inferences from one another, and the effect of the armor-piercing anti-personnel bullet for general civil engineering fortifications is better. If it weren't for Lin Jun's clear instructions, it is estimated that the designers would have given him more ammunition varieties.

If it is a large-angle curved fire, then his effective range can reach 1.5 kilometers, but the accuracy is not as good as that of mortars, and this is generally not recommended, and direct fire is its most important use.

Lin Jun asked the designers how many times it took to successfully make it, and the comrades said that it was the seventh sample that basically met the requirements. Because there are basic detailed drawings for reference, designers do not need to study like blind people and blind horses, and only need to find and design some parts that are suitable for the drawings even if they are completed, and then test a few samples to be basically successful.

The seventh design is called RPG-7 (history), and the seventh sample is simply called RPG-7 - the RPG-7 that may become famous in the world in the future is named by Lin Jun.

The display was a success, and when three 100-millimeter-thick armor plates were easily pierced by rockets, and the dummies and goats placed behind them were torn apart by a stream of hot metal, the commanders at the scene were shocked by the power of the new weapon. The 800 mm thick reinforced concrete fortifications were completely penetrated, and the civil engineering works that were the targets were even more vulnerable.

The T-28 tank used as a test target at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour (the modified T28 was specially used for experiments, not radio-controlled, but the driver flashed after the gear was put on, and the end of the route was a steep-dip dirt slope. It was also accurately hit at a distance of about 200 meters, and the first shot was hit with smoke and fire.

Due to the "unmanned", the tank was still stubbornly advancing, and after being blocked by the dirt slope, it was found that the inside of the cabin was already miserable, and if there were any members, they would be seriously injured.

Stalin was very satisfied with the results of today's demonstration, and at that time ordered mass production, but there was also a question in front of him - how to equip those troops first, and how to keep it secret!

The T34 and KV-1 are also not safe in front of the RPG-7, and other countries must not be allowed to learn about their existence too early, otherwise it will be more disastrous than the leakage of tank performance. In this way, the border guards will lose the opportunity to install RPG-7 in a short time, and its use will be limited to a certain extent, at least until the outbreak of a real war.

Lin Jun was a little helpless but there was no way, just like the Northern War that may break out next year, the troops fighting in the forest area will never be allowed to bring RPG-7 to the battlefield, because the complex environment can easily lead to new weapons falling into the hands of the enemy, and the armored strength of the Finnish army is also pitiful, and the artillery can basically solve the problem, and if it doesn't work, use the "Andrea cocktail"; In the Karelian region, however, it could be used as a backup for the infantry to destroy the fortified pillboxes of the "Manalin Line" - it was impossible for artillery to solve all the fortifications, and it was not appropriate for one's own equipment to fall into the hands of the opponent for such a storm.

Lin Jun, who was returning to the city that day, received a call from Alexander, who told him that there was information that Lin Jun might be interested in.

After the meeting, Lin Juncai learned that the information was sent from London, and that the person who obtained the information was Kirlov, Alexander's protégé and military attache of the Soviet Embassy in Britain.

"Chamberlain is going to sell Czechoslovakia."

After reading the documents in his hand, Lin Jun said lightly: Kirlov learned that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was about to visit Germany, and the main content of this visit was to betray Czechoslovakia and "bring disaster to the east".

In the eyes of Britain and France, allowing Germany to enter Czechoslovakia would open the door for Germany to advance eastward, and the cause of pouring trouble on the Soviet Union would be completed. A farce of power and stupidity -- so that the door to the eastward march was opened for Hitler, but would Hitler obediently obey the arrangements of Britain and France?

The conclusion was, of course, negative, because Hitler clearly knew that the contradictions between Germany and Britain and France were more direct and realistic than the contradictions between him and the Soviet Union: it was not the Soviet Union but Britain and France that forced Germany to remain in a humiliating position for a long time after World War I; It was Britain and France, not the Soviet Union, that dominated Europe and the world, not to mention that the Soviet Union was getting stronger day by day, and Hitler did not want to attack the Soviet Union before he was weak.

"Britain is our main enemy, and the fight against Britain is a life-and-death struggle." "We must make up our minds to fight the West from the very beginning." -- This is Hitler's current strategic policy, and Lin Jun knows it very well.

But here's the thing: Stalin and the leaders of the Soviets didn't know it clearly. As soon as Czechoslovakia was sold to Germany, the threat from the west was obvious, and the climax of another round of "siege" of the Soviets by the capitalist countries was at hand. (To be continued.) )