The discussion with the comrades in Stalingrad made Lin Jun understand a truth: you can't drink hot porridge if you are in a hurry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Unrealistic ****** kills people!" This is the final conclusion that Lin Jun has reached. The "Report on the Development of Tanks and Fighter Aircraft" that he came up with two years ago as if he was "chasing after victory" was completely well-intentioned, but it ignored some realities, and there were many technical problems that the Soviet Union could not solve in a short period of time, and other countries could not solve them either. For example, the historical BS-3 100-mm and ZIS-S-53 85-mm tank guns were all products of 1943, and in 1937 there were not even a drawing. And now all the tanks owned by potential opponents in the world can be bombarded with the L11 (Model 36) 76.2mm cannon, and there is no need to equip such a large-caliber guy as soon as it is launched.

Fortunately, the Kharkov comrades had a trump card that was almost finalized - the B-2 diesel engine and its modifications were the source of power for almost all medium, heavy and main battle tanks in the Soviet Union for decades to come. Without this "stable and strong heart", the current tank design and development would really have reached a dead end: if the tank gun can be completed, if even the engine is "enough", the consequences will be disastrous.

At the symposium, Lin Jun's attitude gave Kejing and his design team a "reassurance". Kotin already has a basically complete design, what is lacking is the engine and tank gun, and now with Andrei, the "monster superman", it should be able to solve it.

Kotin was definitely a smart man, and he was now in Stalingrad "standing on his last shift", mainly to help the factory to put the "Comintern" tractor production line into production, and the prototype of the new heavy tank was built after Leningrad. And according to his father-in-law, he will be able to take up important positions at the Kirov plant in Leningrad by June at the latest. Leningrad was the most important tank research and production base in the Soviet Union, and Kotin went there to show a prototype of a new tank, which was much better than in Stalingrad in terms of political and his own status development.

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The next day, Lin Jun, accompanied by Kotin and Gerka, visited the tank branch furthest from the main plant, where the latest T-26S1937 light tanks were being produced.

These T-26s are equipped with the same 1934 L46 (46 times caliber) 45 mm tank guns as the BT-7 (1935 improved) being produced by the Kharkov side, which is of great benefit to the logistics and support of the troops. But compared to BT-7, these ten-and-a-half-ton T26 Lin Jun really can't look down on it.

Its armor is only 25 mm at its thickest, which is not much better than the BT series tanks, and it is also unable to resist the attack of the German 37 mm anti-tank guns, and the 91 horsepower power of the GAZT-26 engine makes it only 30 kilometers per hour of maximum road speed, if the off-road speed is slower, it is destined to be eliminated earlier than the BT series tanks, because the T26 is not capable of the rapid reconnaissance tasks left after the new heavy and medium tanks are in service in large quantities, at most it can expand some results. Its only advantage may be that it is relatively fuel-efficient.

But Lin Jun also knows that the above is just his own "wishful thinking", because the reality is like this, the T26 can't stop the attack of the existing tank guns of other countries, and the existing tanks of other countries will also finish playing under the attack of the T26. War is the greatest impetus for the "evolution" of tanks. It is impossible to change the status quo now, because the T-26 is still an effective weapon: it still has some advantages over the light tanks of other countries.

Lin Jun also inquired about the production indicators and the equipment of the radio station.

"According to last year's original target, it is estimated that this year's production will reach 800 units, and a third of the tanks will be equipped with radios." Gerka said.

"It seems that the number of radio stations is still insufficient."

"Because most of the newly produced tank radios are equipped with BT-7s produced in Kharkov and Leningrad, there are relatively few supplies to our plant." Gerka looked a little helpless.

For this, Kotin showed rare generosity: "This is also no way, because the design function of the tank determines the distribution of the radio station." As a tank designer, he is well aware that one of the most important combat missions of the BT-7 is reconnaissance, and it is necessary to prioritize its communication capabilities.

Gerka listened to Kotin and said: "We are also working hard to get as many radio supply quotas possible. ”

"It's not in a hurry, this radio station is not a crop of geography, it's planted and there's it, hehe."

Lin Jun's words made this more serious topic immediately much easier.

"What is the reserve of the main gun of the model equipped with the radio now?"

"There are 20 rounds less than the original, a total of 145 rounds, and Comrade Kojing has put a lot of thought into retaining such a large amount of ammunition."

"Our comrade Kotin's ability is absolutely excellent, hehe."

After visiting the tank plant, Kotin and Gerka sent Lin Jun to the Stalingrad Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, because the leading comrades of the academy invited this "Hero of the Soviet Union" and hero of the Spanish battlefield to the academy to give a lecture to the instructors and students of the academy.

This invitation was sent to Lin Jun yesterday by Odnev, secretary of the Party Committee of the Stalingrad Mechanized and Motorized Military Academy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, to the tractor factory, and Lin Jun had no way of refusing it at all. To be honest, the game of speech is not what Lin Jun is good at, he would rather have a white-knuckle battle with Moroccan mercenaries than give a speech in front of thousands of people.

"What should I do?" This problem "tortured" Lin Jun for a night last night.

"Grandma's, the big girl got on the sedan chair - fight!" Although he gave several speeches in Moscow three years ago, at that time he had just been awarded the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union", and there were seven other comrades in each speech, and this time he was the "Commander of the Light Pole", which was completely different.

The Stalingrad Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army was one of the best army academies in the Soviet Union, which provided a large number of army commanders to the Soviet Union, especially the mechanized and motorized army construction and combat theory education that it mainly involved in and made great contributions to the military construction of the Soviet Union.

When Lin Jun, who was full of medals, walked onto the podium in the college auditorium, the audience burst into warm applause.

Lin Jun looked at the thousands of faculty members and students of the academy gathered in the audience, and felt even more nervous than when he was summoned by the Central Executive Committee for the first time.

After settling down, he saluted the audience, "Comrades, I am very happy to be standing here today. The Stalingrad Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army has a glorious history and has trained countless military talents for the Soviets. I am an Air Force pilot, and I am a layman in the construction and education of mechanization and motorization of the army, and all the comrades present here are more authoritative than me in this regard. ”

Speaking of this, Lin Jun paused, "After receiving the invitation from Comrade Odenev and the party committee of the academy yesterday, I didn't sleep all night, because I didn't know what to say until dawn. Comrade Odnev told me that as long as it was about army building, he also asked me to tell me something about my experience in Spain. Actually, I don't have much to say about myself, so let's take this meeting today as if we were here to chat, and to talk to my comrades about some of the experiences I have gained in Spain. ”

Everyone in the audience was attracted by Lin Jun's opening, because everyone who came to the academy to give speeches before were "veterans", not only experienced, but also "old". And Lin Jun is about the same age as the following academies, some academies are older than him, and Lin Jun is already a famous hero in the whole Soviet Union, and his military rank is already colonel. In a way, Lin Jun is a role model and a goal of "catching up" in their hearts.

"Some people have called Spain a testing ground for modern warfare, and from my own experience in the months I have been there, this statement is 90 percent true, so let's start with the right place. The new tactics and new weapons of the countries involved in the war have been fully tested and displayed in Spain, but the 10 percent that remains is due to the scale of the war, which may in the future break out countless times larger than the war that took place in Spain, and will be even more brutal. ”

Half of Lin Jun's words are speculation, and the other half is fact.

"Judging from the experience of Spain, the army tactics of the First World War, which mainly focused on trench warfare, have become obsolete, and large-scale mechanized corps operations with the concentrated use of tanks as the main assault method will become the mainstream. As a pilot of the Air Force, I would like to remind you that if you really go to the battlefield in the future, you must do a good job of connecting the ground mechanized troops with the air support forces. A large-scale mechanized corps supported by air assault forces will be invincible in plain terrain operations, but here it also tells us another problem: Mechanized troops that have no air force cover or insufficient air defense firepower will become the mouths of the enemy's air assault forces, because future wars will definitely be three-dimensional battlefields that integrate air and ground. Some comrades may have some thoughts or opinions about my words, but I can tell you that I and another comrade pilot named Andlupf repelled the attack of two enemy infantry battalions supported by tanks and armored vehicles on the defensive positions of only two infantry companies in a single sortie, destroying 13 enemy tanks and 3 armored vehicles, and killing more than 150 infantrymen. Why would two fighters have such huge losses against the opponent? First of all, it was on the plain terrain, and both sides were exchanging fire, there was no time and terrain for concealment, and of course there was the opponent's poor will to fight, but these were relatively secondary, because the opponent did not have the cover of air power and anti-aircraft fire! This is the most important point. Therefore, we must avoid this situation in the future, because my unit also carried out many surprise attacks on the enemy's units without anti-aircraft fire, and all of them caused huge losses to the enemy. ”

After saying a lot in one breath, Lin Jun paused slightly: "As we all know, the anti-aircraft firepower of our Red Army's existing army equipment is insufficient, especially the number of anti-aircraft machine guns and mobile anti-aircraft guns that can accompany tank operations in tank units is insufficient, which will have a certain impact on the work of comrades. However, the National Defence Commission and the Ministry of Ordnance are already taking steps to change this situation, and it is expected that the situation will improve in the near future. ”

Lin Junyou paused: "There is another point that comrades must keep in mind: when the tank unit participates in the urban attack, it must pay attention to it, and it must do a good job of infantry and tan coordination, otherwise it will inevitably suffer unimaginable losses." In the complex environment of the city, enemy infantry can destroy tanks with coagulant incendiary bombs, and attacks on armored vehicles can come not only from the front of the street, but also from rooftops and even under wheels. Speaking of which, I have to talk about a heroic unit that I have encountered, whose name you may have heard, that is, the "International Column"! During the Battle of Madrid in December last year, I held out in a trench for seven days with the comrades of the International Column in the university town of Madrid, where the fighting was fiercest, and two battalions of infantry, plus more than 280 comrades from the artillery side and the air force who were infantry support, totaled more than 1,000 people, blocking dozens of group attacks by the enemy equipped with tanks. After all our machine guns were destroyed by the enemy's heavy artillery, the comrades of the international column took advantage of the terrain and destroyed nearly 20 enemy tanks with cluster grenades and at the cost of their own flesh and blood. After both sides had exhausted all their ammunition, more than 300 comrades who were still able to stand up engaged in a final white-knuckle battle with the enemy, and when the support troops arrived to win the final victory, less than 100 people survived! ”

"Comrades, this is the will! The troops with a strong will will surely win the final victory! This also tells us that in the future, when we attack the city or use the city as a defensive support, we must do a good job of infantry and tank coordination, so as to win at the minimum cost, and this is also applicable to other operations in complex terrain, including forests and mountains. Of course, I would like to add one more point about the white-knuckle warfare I just mentioned: under the conditions of modern warfare, I do not approve of the white-knuckle assault combat mode, because in the face of machine guns and artillery, this primitive combat mode is basically ineffective, but an army that dares to engage in white-knuckle combat with the enemy ideologically and at the last moment of the battle will be invincible! ”

"Okay comrades, I will talk about this today, and finally hope that all the cadet comrades will apply the techniques and theories learned in the academy to practical work and contribute their own strength to the defense of the Soviets."

There was thunderous applause from the audience, which did not subside for a long time.

The rest of the day had been spent in the academy, and the young students all wanted to get more about the battlefield from Lin Jun, and Lin Jun also took the trouble to answer the students' questions. Even some instructors came to ask Lin Jun for advice, which made Lin Jun a little "fluttering". This reminded Lin Jun of what his father had told him: In the army, only those who have really been on the battlefield of blood and fire are the most authoritative soldiers! The qualifications of the soldiers, which were taken from the pile of the dead!