usatvline Chapter 402 Rockets are no longer called pride bombs, but are called shame bombs by the soldiers!
Chapter 402 Rockets are no longer called pride bombs, but are called shame bombs by the soldiers!
Li Yunlong was very surprised when he heard the news. His requirements were not high. He just wanted to be able to perform dive bombing at an altitude of hundreds of meters. 50 meters was a bit low. To be honest, Li Yunlong did not expect that he would have a great improvement in his skills after being separated from Lin Zhenhua for only a few days. He was really shocked.
Lin Zhenhua has a lot to say on this point. He has been very lucky these days and has drawn production drawings and instruction documents of several fighter jets. The most important thing is that the drawings and instruction documents are very detailed and rely on the current production technology level of the arsenal.
Otherwise, how could Lin Zhenhua have the courage to make an all-out effort? That would be truly suicidal. Without the help of the system, he could only improve little by little through his own knowledge reserves. Only God knows when he will be able to achieve a breakthrough!
Li Yunlong slammed the table heavily and said excitedly: "College students, since the Japanese have stopped bombing our base, let's send all the transport planes out tomorrow to bring rare metal ores from Chu Yunfei. We can seize this brief window of opportunity to refine more rare metals and store them for use in the production of our arsenal."
"Let's not consider the cost issue now. As long as we can produce the fighter jets, it's worth it no matter how much it costs. In addition to this matter, there are several weapons and equipment that need to be improved when we go out to fight this time. This is the opinion given by Lao Ding and Lao Kong. You can take a look and see if there are any improvements!"
Lin Zhenhua took the improvement list from Li Yunlong and looked through it carefully. Several of the equipment were already being improved, so there was no need to pay attention to them. What really caught Lin Zhenhua's interest was the rockets. He asked curiously, "Old Li, did the rocket artillery battalion really have such a big problem this time?"
When Lin Zhenhua asked about this matter, Li Yunlong's face became solemn, and he said in a gloomy tone: "College student, our rockets have a very high misfire rate. The real situation is shocking. For every nine rockets, two are misfired. This is not nonsense from me, Li Yunlong. This is a fact that has already happened. Lao Kong and Lao Ding can testify for me. I, Li Yunlong, am upright and will never do anything to wrongly accuse others!"
Ding Wei sighed softly and said with a worried look on his face: "Old Li really didn't lie about this matter. I saw it with my own eyes. It even caused casualties to our troops. The battlefield was extremely tragic. More than 30 soldiers were killed and more than 50 were injured. Now the soldiers no longer call rockets "reputation bombs", but "shame bombs" instead!"
"At first I suspected that it was an operational error by the soldiers of the rocket artillery battalion, but after a careful investigation I found that there was no problem with the soldiers' operation, and they were completely following the operation manual formulated by you, a college student. Our rocket artillery battalion has rarely participated in battles, and there are very few test firings on weekdays. After all, this kind of rocket is too expensive, and one less is one less. It is also difficult to produce. I originally wanted to save all of them for use on the battlefield, but I didn't expect that this problem would occur after going to the battlefield. This has seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the rocket artillery battalion!"
Kong Jie also interrupted at this time with a serious tone, "What Lao Ding said is not the most terrible thing. What scares the soldiers the most now is that they don't know when the rocket will explode. In the past few days, during the transfer, there was a rocket explosion. If the rocket launchers were not far apart, it would have been a big accident!"
This was the first time that Zhao Gang and Lin Zhenhua knew about this situation. They had not discovered this problem when they attacked Ping'an County. The production of rockets had always been in the charge of the two of them. Now that a major problem had occurred, the two of them were indeed to blame, but now was not the time to pursue responsibility. The key was to find out where the problem lay.
Zhao Gang carefully questioned Li Yunlong and the other two, not letting go of any details, trying to find the root cause of the problem. However, the situation was completely beyond Zhao Gang's expectations. After asking for a full half an hour, he did not find any problems at all, which made Zhao Gang uneasy. Could it be that there was a problem with the production of the rockets?
"College student, the production process of rockets has not changed. The old hands are still used. There has been no expansion in recent days. The only expansion was carried out half a year ago, but there has been no problem in the past six months. The rockets are stored together in large quantities, and there has been no self-explosion. Could it be affected by the weather?"
At the end of his speech, Zhao Gang's voice became lower. He knew that the influence of weather was absolutely untenable, so what was the problem?
Lin Zhenhua felt that it should be a storage problem. He planned to check it out tomorrow and disassemble a few rockets to see if he could find out the real problem. After all, seeing is believing. Before seeing the real thing, he really didn't dare to make a rash decision.
"Old Zhao, let me investigate this matter. If the rocket is really big and there is a problem with the scale, I will find a way to solve it. Rockets are cheap and easy to use. They can cause huge casualties to the enemy through area damage. They have a relatively long range and are easy to move on the battlefield. We must not give up this weapon."
"Regardless of whether there is a problem with the rocket or not, the research and development of rockets cannot be stopped. The rockets we are currently equipped with are too messy. Next, I will unify the standards again. On the one hand, it is to facilitate mass production, and on the other hand, it is to enhance its effectiveness. After all, rockets of different calibers have many intersections in shooting distance. We must match high and low to maximize the effectiveness of the weapons."
"As for the other weapons, I am already in the process of improving them and they are expected to be put into production after the new year. Please rest assured."
The few people didn't say anything more about this matter. They were very confident in Lin Zhenhua. After finishing the main business, they began to talk about the New Year. After all, this was a big event. Having a good New Year could greatly boost the morale of the army.
Zhao Gang took the lead and said, "From the beginning of the year to the end of the year, we have fought the Japanese for another year. We really need to relax during the New Year. I plan to arrange for the soldiers to go home to visit their families before the New Year. Each soldier will be given one day of home leave so that they can go home and reunite with their families. Of course, there will definitely be a limit on the number of people. It is estimated that only a small number of people can enjoy it."
"I have arranged for people to prepare New Year's goods, and also distribute New Year's benefits to the people in the base. It's true that there aren't many things, but it can be considered as our share. Each family will be given a can of beef, a can of fish, and two kilograms of white flour, so that the people in the base can have a hot meal of dumplings, and they will have more hope for the coming year!"
Li Yunlong did not object, nor did he think that this amount was too little. You have to know that there are more than 100,000 households in the base area, and this is not a small expense for the independent regiment. Many ordinary people can only eat meat and steam a pot of white flour buns during the Chinese New Year. On weekdays, they eat sweet potato flour steamed buns with pickles. Even soybeans are a luxury. After all, beans are more precious these days, and the yield is very low. On weekdays, ordinary people have to think about eating a piece of tofu for a few days. How can they spend so much money on soybeans?
Before Lin Zhenhua came to this era, he had the same idea as many people, thinking that even if there were no vegetables to eat, it was impossible that he could not even eat soybeans. After coming to this era, he realized that only wealthy families could eat soybeans, and ordinary people could only eat peppers and pickled radishes. The most common vegetables they ate were cabbage and radishes. Even if they wanted to eat other vegetables, they could not afford them.
"Old Zhao, in addition to these, give us six sugar cubes and a piece of chocolate so that the people in the base can have a taste. If we didn't have much cottonseed oil left, I would really like to give each family another two taels of cottonseed oil so that the people can have a prosperous New Year!"
When Zhao Gang heard Lin Zhenhua mention cottonseed oil, he smiled and replied happily, "College student, many people in our base area grow cotton at home. After all, children at home need to wear cotton-padded clothes in winter. If we don't grow some cotton and buy it from outside, the price is too high."
"Every household has some cotton seeds, so I arranged for people to set up exchange offices, where people can exchange cotton seeds for oil. This means that people's families are more well-off this winter than in previous years. The only ones who didn't benefit were the hundreds of thousands of disaster victims who came later. After all, they came all the way to the base, and they only brought some food rations with them. Fortunately, they have been given land, so when the spring comes next year, their lives will be much better."
Li Yunlong interrupted Zhao Gang before he finished speaking, "Old Zhao, find a way to squeeze out some oil. We can give one or two ounces of oil to each of the victims who join us later. If there is more, we can't do anything. This is all we can give. No matter what, we have to let everyone have oily vegetables for the New Year."
Lin Zhenhua also interrupted at the right time and said, "I agree with Lao Li's proposal. At most, we can eat less. The oil saved by tens of thousands of soldiers is enough for them to have a meal of rapeseed."
The newly added disaster victims were subjected to a rationing system. The daily food supply could only guarantee their survival, and the allocated farmland had to wait until the following year before it could be cultivated. In addition, in that era, people had big appetites, and the rationed food was not enough to fill them up. They could only get food by working in military factories to make up for the lack of rations.
Lin Zhenhua once wanted to solve this problem, but thinking of the drought that was about to break out next year, he had to harden his heart. In order to save more people, he could only strictly control the supply of food.
"If there is a good harvest next year, the people will have surplus food and their lives will be better. We must also make disaster prevention preparations in advance!"