When the group walked into the workshop, they saw two technicians assembling a cylindrical object on the workbench.

This cylindrical object is more than a meter long, with a caliber of about 80mm, Liu Yi, Lu Xiufeng and other senior officers were a little dumbfounded when they saw it, and they thought to themselves, this is also called a weapon? The only difference is that there is a vertical handle on one side of the iron pipe, how do you look like a large smoking gun?

However, Yue Weihan was shocked after seeing it, as a traverser, Yue Weihan recognized it at a glance, this thing is simply a portable bazooka!

After the outbreak of World War II, bazookas quickly replaced anti-aircraft guns as the first choice for infantry anti-armor weapons, but now, it seems that this thing is not yet available.

In Yue Weihan's memory, rocket artillery should have appeared a long time ago, and even several field heavy artillery brigades and regiments of the Kwantung Army were equipped with heavy rocket artillery, but the world's first man-portable rocket launcher should have been invented by the Americans in 1942, and it was almost four years before now.

It seems that Yue Weihan's crossing has triggered the butterfly effect.

Pi Xiaocheng didn't know that Yue Weihan knew this thing, and introduced it quite proudly at the moment: "General seat, outside of Xinjingxiao, I have seen Xiao Yueben's heavy rocket artillery, the principle of that thing is actually very simple, but it is very powerful, and later I saw that when the brothers encountered the devil chariot on the battlefield, they could only rely on the battle defense artillery to block the attack. ”

"Once the anti-aircraft artillery did not arrive in time, the brothers could only rush up with the explosives bag, and sometimes, the sacrifice of more than a dozen heroic officers and soldiers in a row could not necessarily blow up a chariot of the little devil, which was not a strange taste, so I thought, why can't we design a portable anti-tank cannon for the brethren?"

"What do you say?" Chi Chengfeng's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief, "His grandmother's, just this iron pipe, I can knead it into a ball if I pinch it, and I am still anti-chariot artillery?" ”

"Brigadier Chi, don't believe it." Pi Xiaocheng said, "I have seen the power of the little devil heavy rocket artillery, the range is seven or eight kilometers, the power is really not covered, a bomb is a large area, the scene is like a volcanic eruption, but the heavy rocket artillery fires grenades, but I think, it should be okay to replace it with armor-piercing shells." ”

"What do you say? Seven or eight kilometers? Chi Chengfeng became more and more unconvinced, "You just blow it." ”

"Seven or eight kilometers is the range of heavy rocket artillery." Pi Xiaocheng said with a wry smile, "My name is a man-portable rocket launcher, the caliber is only 80mm, and the armor-piercing projectile is fired, and the range is definitely much closer than that of a grenade, but I think it should not be a problem to hit a target 100 meters away." ”

"A hundred meters away?" Chi Chengfeng still shook his head and said, "I don't believe it." ”

Liu Yi, Lu Xiufeng, Cao Xinglong and others also shook their heads one after another, expressing disbelief.

Yue Weihan knew that Pi Xiaocheng was definitely not talking nonsense, and the range of the bazooka was almost between 100 meters and 200 meters, so he immediately proposed: "Mr. Pi, since these buns don't believe it, then you can let them see it, right?" ”

"This ......" Pi Xiaocheng was a little embarrassed, he had just designed this thing, and the armor-piercing bullet had only made two test bombs, if the test failed, would it affect the status of the scientific research institute in Yue Weihan's mind? In case the funding of the scientific research institute is cut off by Yue Weihan in the future, it will really be a stone to hit the instep of himself.

"Let's go, Mr. Pi, don't tell me you don't have a shooting range here!" Yue Weihan knew that it was almost impossible for the test launch to fail.

The principle of the bazooka is actually very simple, the launch tube is an iron tube, there is no technical content at all, and it can even be replaced by a bamboo tube or a wooden tube.

To put it bluntly, the core rocket is a two-stage rocket, the first stage of the rocket is a booster, the academic name is quite mysterious, what is the name of the rocket engine, in fact, it is the use of the air flow generated by the combustion of gunpowder to the tail to spray the reverse thrust to push the rocket out, to put it bluntly, it is similar to a firecracker, it's as simple as that.

As for the second-stage rocket, it is actually the warhead of an artillery shell.

Pi Xiaocheng, as a doctor of electromechanical and chemical engineering, designed such a bazooka with no technical content at all, is it not a piece of cake? The only constraint may be original inspiration, some things are simple and simple, but they can't be designed until the designer's inspiration is touched.

But now that the design inspiration has been triggered, nothing else is a problem.

Yue Weihan has already said this, Pi Xiaocheng is not easy to shirk anymore, at the moment let two technicians bring the launcher, he himself solemnly took out two rockets from the safe, and then took Yue Weihan and others straight to the shooting range, the shooting range of the Taihang Arsenal is located in the depths of Cangyan Mountain, there are thousands of cliffs on three sides, and there is only one canyon to enter, which is very secret.

As soon as they entered the shooting range, Chi Chengfeng and others found that a scrapped Type 95 light combat vehicle had been parked on the shooting range.

"His grandma, I didn't expect you to be prepared." Chi Chengfeng pursed his lips, his expression still unbelieving.

Pi Xiaocheng was not angry, and asked two technicians to put steel plates on the frontal armor of the 95-type light combat vehicle, the steel plates were 5mm thick, and twenty steel plates were placed, and Pi Xiaocheng asked the two technicians to stop, Liu Yi said puzzledly: "Mr. Pi, what are you doing here?" ”

Pi Xiaocheng said: "The armor of the devil chariot is too thin, so strengthen it first." ”

"The donkey said, still reinforced?" Now even Niu Dagen doesn't believe it, "You just pretend." ”

Pi Xiaocheng didn't explain much, and after asking the technicians to fix the steel plate, he carried the bazooka and retreated to a hundred meters away.

Seeing that Pi Xiaocheng was in trouble, Chi Chengfeng, Niu Dagen and others also hurriedly retreated to a hundred meters away, although they didn't believe that this thing on Pi Xiaocheng's shoulder could really penetrate the devil's chariot, but if it was used to penetrate their body, there should be no problem, so it was better to retreat to a safe distance.

Pi Xiaocheng loaded the rocket, then got down on one knee and began to aim.

Chi Chengfeng, Niu Dagen and others suddenly held their breath, and the next moment, Pi Xiaocheng deducted the plate machine extremely calmly, and suddenly a fierce smoke erupted from the tail of the bazooka, and then the two or three kilograms of the projectile body had already dragged a long tail into the air and drew a gentle arc, whistling towards the army chariot a hundred meters away.

Chi Chengfeng and the others were taken aback when they saw this, but soon, they laughed again.

Pi Xiaocheng's cannon failed to hit the target, because the armor-piercing bullet weighed two kilograms, the flight trajectory was an obvious arc, and Pi Xiaocheng aimed directly again, leaving no margin, so the rocket only flew forward less than 50 meters before falling to the ground, only digging a big pit in the ground, which was quite scary to look at.

However, Pi Xiaocheng was not discouraged and loaded a second rocket.

This time, Pi Xiaocheng consciously corrected the aiming angle of the bazooka, and another rocket roared out with a long tail flame, and in the blink of an eye, it had already flown a hundred meters away, and hit the devil chariot head-on.

After a while, the smoke cleared, and Chi Chengfeng and the others rushed up at the fastest speed.

After seeing the terrifying scene in front of them, Chi Chengfeng, Niu Dagen and the others were all dumbfounded, and they opened their mouths wide one by one, the caliber was enough to stuff an ostrich egg!

Pi Xiaocheng and the two technicians were also a little surprised, they didn't expect such a terrible effect.

After the steel plate was pierced, the armor-piercing bullet tore through the frontal armor of the devil tank, forming a huge hole with a diameter of more than 500mm in the wall, and the cab, commander's room and ammunition compartment inside the hull had been completely destroyed.

Yue Weihan was also inevitably shocked, and immediately began to feel uneasy again.

In fact, as early as when the 39th Group Army had just settled in Jingcheng Pass, that is, before the recovery of Shanxi, he had already considered putting the arsenal on a simple bazooka production line, but after careful consideration, Yue Weihan finally gave up, because the risk of doing so was too great!

The scale of the Taihang Arsenal is limited, and it can't get on a few production lines at full capacity.

However, the industrial base of the little devil is by no means comparable to the national political axe, and the Taihang Arsenal is even more difficult to reach, once the army is allowed to obtain the "individual portable bazooka" four years in advance, then the American ghost animals in the Pacific theater in the future will have to suffer, and the results of the Battle of Nomenkan will have to be rewritten.

Someone is going to say, strengthen confidentiality measures and not let the little devils master the manufacturing process?

Of course not, this is a child's dream! As mentioned earlier, the bazooka actually has no technical content at all, once [***] is put into actual combat, the military technicians of the little devils can know what is going on at a glance, and they do not need to capture samples at all to design a more excellent individual portable bazooka.

For [***], it doesn't matter, because [***] simply don't have too many armored targets for the army to shoot, if used to suppress infantry fire, bazookas may not be better than small-caliber mortars, and the pillbox fortifications of Tumen Fortress may face a serious threat, but this threat is not insurmountable.

However, for the American ghost animals, especially the armored forces of Lao Maozi, it will be a disaster!

You can imagine that when hundreds of devil infantry carrying bazookas are ambushed in the jungle or in pre-dug trench bunkers, the tank cluster of American ghost animals or old Maozi is crushed by them without knowing it, and then hundreds of rockets are fired together, and the tank cluster of American ghost animals or old Maozi is afraid that it will be wiped out.

It is simply impossible for the tank clusters of the American ghost beasts or old Maozi to withstand the saturation blow of individual rocket launchers.

Even the smallest caliber rockets have an armor-piercing thickness of more than 100mm, but the armor thickness of the most advanced T-34 main battle tank, which the Soviet Army has only officially equipped its troops with for 40 years, is only 18-60mm.

(To be continued)