Mannerheim soon received news that the railroad bridge had been destroyed and that the supply lines had been cut off. For him who just wanted to throw off his arms and do a big job, this was no less than a bolt from the blue.

The same is true of Finland's domestic military industry, which is completely dependent on the stocks of the Russian garrison in those years for the replenishment of weapons and ammunition. The problem was that the Red Navy in Helsinki had destroyed most of its arsenals before it surrendered, and if it weren't for the German Expeditionary Force handing over a batch of Russian munitions captured on the battlefield to the White Army, there really would be no way to fight.

Rao is so, that little inventory can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for an army of 100,000 people, and now it is the time when the big war is imminent, and the transportation routes in the rear have been cut off again, which is really asking for his own life. So much so that Mannerheim had to immediately revise the attack plan and wait for supplies and supplies from the rear to arrive before launching an attack.

It was imperative to repair the bridge immediately and find out how the Russians had infiltrated it.

"Airlift by plane, and then launch a surprise attack?" After hearing this answer, Mannerheim had a strange look on his face, and he had to admire the person who could come up with this battle plan. It's so invasive that it's hard to guard against.

Mannerheim couldn't help but feel a headache just thinking of his empty rear, the scattered Red Guards stragglers were enough to give the rear garrison a headache, and now they had to beware of harassment by people's planes, and with the maneuverability of the planes, it was simply impossible to prevent them.

After thinking about it, he had only one way: "Finland needs to form its own air force!" He telegraphed to Sven Huvud in an unquestioning tone, "not in the future but now, preferably immediately." We have to defend the Finnish skies with airplanes. Only the planes of the Russians were driven away. Only then can we wholeheartedly crack down on the remnants of the Red Bandits. to recover all of Finland! ”

At first, Sven Huvud didn't care about Mannerheim's request, thinking that this old man was just a blind toss, with the financial capacity of the current provisional government, it would be tight to maintain an army of more than 100,000 people, and now he even had to burn money to play the air force, Nima, you don't know that firewood and rice are expensive, right?

It was the Volunteer Air Force that prompted Sven Huvud to change his mind. When Sukhoi and his boys flew over Helsinki again and again, dropping bombs and strafing the Chancellery more than once, and when Sven Huvud fled into the bomb shelter again and again, and even wiped his ass without even wiping his ass, he began to agree with Mannerheim.

"We need the Air Force! We're going to drop bombs on the Russians' heads and give them a taste of the fact that they can't go to the toilet! ”

It can be seen how devastating Sven Huvud was tossed by Sukhoi, but buying aircraft to develop the Air Force is not a matter that can be achieved with money, whether to train pilots, or to establish a logistics and maintenance system. These are troublesome things. To put it mildly, the Air Force is a luxury for small countries.

For a politician like Sven Huwud. A more acceptable approach would be for the Luftwaffe to come to the aid of the Luftwaffe and for foreign aid to help solve the immediate need. So there is an interesting scene in the Finnish sky, where the foreigners are fighting each other in the planes, and the native Finns can only stand on the dirt and raise their necks to watch the foreign players fight hotly, at most waving their fists or rifles to cheer for their allies.

As the Luftwaffe entered the battlefield, Sukhoi's boys were limited in their activities, at least they could no longer bomb the toilets of the Finnish Chancellery. However, the bombing of Helsinki was more of a strategic consideration, and the Volunteer Air Force aimed more at the Helsinki-Seleznyovo section of the railway line, especially the section from Raipo to Seleznyovo, because it was close to the front line and the fighters had enough fuel to escort the bombers.

Let's put it this way, with the cooperation of the local Red Guards and guerrillas, once a train is in guò, in a few minutes the Sukhoi boys will take to the air, then search along the railway line, find the train and then carry out repeated strafing and bombardment, until the train is reduced to piles of scrap metal emitting smoke and flames.

And the air force of the German Expeditionary Force could only talk too late after the boys of Sukhoi patted their butts and left, and they had nothing to do but admire the results of the Russian pilots.

The Germans also tried to counterattack, after all, the Vyborg Volunteers and the Finnish Red Guards also had to rely on military assistance in Petrograd, and they were also prepared to attack the Russian logistics supply lines in the same way. But the tragedy is that whenever their planes take off, the partisans immediately contact the Sukhoi boys, and there are 24-hour air observation posts on the Vyborg front, which will immediately call the police whenever a German plane approaches.

Therefore, the German pilots were generally depressed, and before they could get close to Vyborg, they would be warmly welcomed by the Sukhoi boys, and they could either hurriedly throw away their bombs to meet them, or they could only quickly turn around and run away. The few times they can succeed in a sneak attack, they may not be able to meet a Russian train full of munitions, and it is more than one level less efficient than the volunteer army.

"The air force played an extremely important role in this war," Yegorov later recalled, "and the battle of the air force of the Tongguò Volunteer Army in the war to resist Germany and aid Finland made me clearly understand how passive the battle on the ground would be without fighter planes to drive away the enemy's planes!" ”

Tukhachevsky was more impressed by the air force's fire support capabilities than Yegorov, who wrote in his summary of the battle: "I had the idea that the high maneuverability of the aircraft was too suitable for the role of a flying artilleryman...... Just imagine, after a telegram or a few words shouted into the telephone of the front-line troops, the roaring air hunters will dive straight down, with machine guns and bombs to beat the enemy in front of them, such a combat mode can greatly improve the effectiveness of fire support, compared with the traditional artillery, flying artillery is fast, firepower, timely response...... I can't wait to have one of these aerial artillery! ”

If Li Xiaofeng had known that Tukhachevsky and Yegorov had already planned to turn the future Air Force into a fly swatter and plow shovel for the big brother of the Army, he would probably vomit blood. As a traversal. Someone knows that the Air Force can do more.

However, a certain immortal at that time was more concerned with technical issues. The first is that the planes of this era are too poor. Neither speed, maneuverability, range, nor bomb load were satisfactory. The fighter is a little better, at least it can play dog fighting. The bomber was simply miserable, with a bomb load of hundreds of kilograms and a range of hundreds of kilometers, coupled with the speed at which the eggs were broken, it was simply a flying target.

It is necessary to develop more powerful power, and an engine with tens or hundreds of horsepower really can't do anything. The research and development of new aerial bombs must also be stepped up, what can be done with a bomb of several tens of kilograms and a charge of several kilograms? No way to a slightly stronger fortification! Tukhachevsky's so-called air support. More like harassment.

Of course, these were not the most urgent, although the Luftwaffe's results were limited, but air defense operations were already imminent. What is most needed is the means to detect enemy planes, and it is really unreliable to rely only on visual sight and dirty listening devices to detect enemy planes. Without the cooperation of the Finnish Red Guards and partisans, the volunteers would not be much stronger than the Finnish White Army in the face of harassment and attacks by the Luftwaffe.

A certain immortal thought more than once that it would be great if there was a radar, and how much trouble it could save. However, the great development of radio has only been a matter of more than ten years. It's too early to mention radar, and radio is still used more for communications. As for the detection function? Hey, rudimentary radio direction finding at best.

A certain immortal also thought about exchanging huàn radar from the cornucopia, but the high price discouraged him, even if he was promoted to another level, he could only watch dryly.

"Wait! Anyway, everyone is each other these days. Li Xiaofeng could only comfort himself like this.

However, although the radar is not played, but the anti-aircraft machine gun can still be handled by a certain immortal, in fact, it is OK to change the PK machine gun to a high-level dual-purpose gun mount, but the power of the PK machine gun is too small, and the firepower is too thin, and it can only be said that it is okay for field air defense.

"The front-line troops urgently need an anti-aircraft machine gun of a large caliber that can pose a sufficient threat to low-altitude aircraft!" Li Xiaofeng spoke very sternly to Federov and Degegalev.

In the eyes of a certain immortal, it was pointless to ask the Mentor for help on this issue, and it was not easy for Russia to produce the weapons of the Tsarist era in a proper manner. There is no possibility of innovation at all, and only NORINCO can meet this demand for the time being. With the experience of producing PK machine guns, it will be easier for them to create new large-caliber machine guns.

"It's unlikely!" Federov shattered someone's dream as the first one, and he said unceremoniously: "Our design team is making the final push on an automatic rifle, and there is no extra ability to focus on another new weapon, and even if this new large-caliber machine gun can be designed, NORINCO will not have the ability to produce it, and it will be enough headache to solve the production problem of PK machine guns!" ”

Deggalev and Simonov also said: "Yes, with our current capabilities, it is completely insufficient to design sexual weapons, and even if they are designed, they will not be able to put them into production." The anti-materiel rifle you requested has reached its most critical stage, and we can't do anything else. ”

Li Xiaofeng was speechless, he didn't know if he didn't fight, and he really lacked anything when he started a war. To fight planes, tanks, and pillboxes, for the volunteer army that lacks artillery, it really lacks everything.

For example, this anti-materiel rifle, Li Xiaofeng felt that the firepower of the Red Eagle Regiment was already very fierce before, but when he went to the battlefield, he realized that there were still shortcomings. Against soft targets, the Red Eagle Regiment's existing firepower is indeed very strong. But for hard targets, especially those with armor protection, the existing firepower of the Red Eagle Regiment is somewhat unsustainable.

This flaw was fully exposed when dealing with the patrol gunboats of the Finnish White Army, and the lack of anti-armor capability was the biggest shortcoming of the Red Eagle Regiment at present. And soon, as the White Army began to equip tanks and armored vehicles on a large scale, it was afraid that if it did not make up for this shortcoming, it would probably pay a heavy price for casualties.

Upon his return, a certain immortal immediately approached Deggalev and asked the future master to quickly design an anti-armor weapon, an anti-tank gun that was quite good, and the specific requirement was to penetrate at least 25 mm thick armor steel within 100 meters. The specific shape is similar to the Dzhegalev anti-tank rifle more than twenty years later.

Originally, this guy thought that there was a master, and it was just a piece of cake to build a simple anti-tank gun, but later he realized that he thought too simply. It's never so easy to design a weapon. Deg Galev tossed back and forth for more than half a month. Drawings were drawn in piles and piles. But none of them are satisfied. Later, he couldn't help it, and helped copy the structure of PTRD-41 before advancing the pace of development.

The PTRD-18, which now appears on the drawing board, is quite different from the PTRD-41, although it is still a single shot, but with a detachable magazine with a capacity of five rounds. The reloading mechanism is similar to that of the Mosinagan in that after a shot, the bolt is rotated and pulled, and then loaded and fired again.

Although the rate of fire was much slower compared to the semi-automatic Simonov anti-tank rifle. But it's enough for years. The only thing that needs to be solved now is the strength of the bolt, after all, the structure of the Mosinagan is suitable for firing 7.62×54 rounds, which is a bit unsuitable for the 14.5×114mm bullets with a power close to the 20mm "cannon".

However, Li Xiaofeng believes that with the ability of Jetgalev, this problem should be solved. Now he just wanted to convince several masters to hurry up and design a large-caliber anti-aircraft machine gun. But this time, let him talk wildly, and the masters will not be fooled, whoever lets them have the work at hand is enough to make a big leap forward, and then they have to have brain congestion if they embark on a new task.

In the end, this product had to reluctantly give up the idea of having several masters redesign new weapons, although he felt that copycats and piracy were too unscrupulous, but this was a critical issue. If you drop it, you can drop it!

An immortal asked, "Then with a perfect design, can you find a way to put it into production?" ”

Federov sighed. He also saw that someone would not give up if he did not achieve his goal today, and after looking through the workbook in his hand and thinking for a long time, he finally replied: "If there is indeed a perfect design, I can find a way to squeeze out a little production capacity......

Before he could finish speaking, a certain immortal became excited, turned around and ran out of the conference room, and not long after, the goods returned with a stack of drawings.

"This is a new anti-aircraft machine gun that I designed in my spare time, you can see if it works!" A certain immortal said unashamedly.

In fact, his so-called new design is simply a copycat DShK, and it is pirated in front of designer Deg Galev, which is really shameless enough.

As the first large-caliber heavy machine gun in the USSR, the DShK was an enlarged version of the Deg Galev on the basis of the DP machine gun. It was adopted by the Red Army in 1931 and was originally named DK machine gun, which means Deg Galev large-caliber machine gun. However, the original DK machine gun was fed with drum-shaped magazines, each drum could only hold thirty rounds of ammunition, and the drums were large and heavy, and the combat rate of fire was quite tragic.

This egg-sore situation continued until 1938, when Sparkin, another famous Soviet light weapons designer, devised a drum-shaped chain feeding mechanism that could be easily mounted on the DK machine gun in place of the original magazine feeding mechanism. This made it possible to increase the actual rate of fire of the machine gun.

In February 1939, the Degalev large-caliber machine gun with this modification was officially adopted by the Soviet Red Army and renamed DShK-38, or simply DShK, which is the abbreviation of "Degalev-Sparkin large-caliber machine gun". Domestic is sometimes transliterated as "Deshka" machine gun.

To be honest, Deegarev is indeed a master of firearms, but the choice of ammunition for this designed machine gun is really painful, the large plate of the DP machine gun, the small single shot of the PTRD-41, and the drum magazine of the DShK, none of them are easy to use. Every time the weapon designed by his old man was always intervened by later generations, and after changing the way of supplying bombs, he shared the naming right with the master.

Of course, with the shameless piracy of a certain immortal, the master who resupplied ammunition for Deggalev is still worthy of recognition and admiration, at least he is inventing and creating zào, and it also solves the problem in actual use. And a certain immortal not only pirated Master D's gun but also pirated Master S's ammunition supply, and even more angrily said that he invented it with a shy face, let's despise him together!

"This gun looks okay!"

After a detailed examination and examination of the drawings, Federov came to such a conclusion, but he also told the truth: "But how it will be, it depends on the actual situation after the sample gun comes out." ”

Li Xiaofeng asked expectantly: "When will the gun be produced?" ”

Federov snorted, he wanted to say that it would be at least ten days and half a month later, but looking at the look of a certain immortal, he could only smile bitterly and replied: "I can only say that I can do my best, and strive for it within ten days!" ”

Li Xiaofeng was not satisfied for such a long time, but he also knew that it was not easy for masters, and he was busy reviewing drawings and guiding the process every day, and sometimes he was too busy to sleep. It's not easy for people to find time to get him to jump in line temporarily.

After bidding farewell to the two masters, Li Xiaofeng returned to the Volunteer Army headquarters with relative satisfaction, and with supply difficulties, Mannerheim had to suspend the offensive again, which made Yegorov and Tukhachevsky a lot easier, and many times they could be heard joking in the office.

But today, when Li Xiaofeng walked into the office, the faces of these two were not very good-looking, "What happened?" A certain immortal asked suspiciously.

The two sighed at the same time and handed him a telegram, and after a certain immortal glanced at it hurriedly, he showed a shocked expression and asked incredulously, "Wouldn't it?" ”

Yegorov and Tukhachevsky suddenly shook their heads together, and said with a crying and laughing expression: "We also think it's strange, do you think they have water in their brains?" (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you for the long journey into the night, holding the Breaker, Juventus and the second kill Comrade Potato!