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"The United Nations Army, especially the South Korean Army, was beaten so badly this time that they couldn't recover for half a year. The U.S. Army also suffered over 1 casualties." Tang Hua heard Deng Hua talk about the ins and outs of the sixth battle, and said, "Before the U.S. Army They have been extremely tough at the negotiating table for [-] year, and now they are likely to soften their stance."

Deng Hua: "Of course it is good to make a breakthrough on the first item of the armistice negotiation, but don't forget that there are five items on the agenda of the armistice negotiation, and this is only the first item."

Tang Hua: "It is true that there are still four...but the first one has been agreed, and the next four will not be so difficult."

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It is now July 1952.If negotiations are resumed and the talks go well, China and the DPRK and the United Nations may reach an agreement on the armistice line as early as the end of July and early August.One year and one month for the first article of the armistice agreement...

Going from Changchun to Dalian through Shenyang, in the train compartment, Tang Hua can imagine the outside of the train. The factories in the Northeast are either under intense construction, or are digging foundations, or are already in full swing. Production.

After free growth at the beginning of the 20th century and the construction of the devils during the 14-year Japanese occupation period, Northeast China is currently the most industrialized large area in China, and it can be said that semi-industrialization has been completed.

The first step of the new China’s industrial construction is to push the semi-industrialized Northeast forward to achieve full industrialization, and deliberately arrange as many types of industrial enterprises as possible to build a basically complete industrial system in the Northeast.

"Minister Tang, I really didn't expect such a small rifle to be developed so hard." Liu Nai, director of the General Administration of Ordnance Industry, met Tang Hua at Dalian Jianxin Company. The anti-tank missile has been made, and the rifle project that I, the director, personally grasped has just been finalized and started to train snipers."

"Although the rifle has no fancy functions and looks like a piece of iron, the technology inside is really not simple," Tang Hua said with a smile, "One year... no, you spent nine months developing a sniper rifle. It’s slow, if it’s mass-produced and released to the troops and it’s really excellent in performance and no major defects are found, you’ll be credited to the commander-in-chief.”

A convoy of trucks and jeeps departed from Dalian Jianxin Company and headed for the shooting range in the direction of Lushun.Tang Hua couldn't help dragging the Bayi-type sniper rifle over in the car, and looked at it carefully in his hand.

"The gun can be so accurate, we didn't dare to think before." Liu Nai said, "This gun is more accurate than the best-looking Mosin Nagant!"

Tang Hua has just seen the performance parameters of the Bayi-style sniper rifle. At a distance of 100 meters, the shooting spread is 5.8 cm horizontally and 6 cm vertically, while the Soviet Mosin Nagant "Water Lianzhu" has a spread of 8 cm x 8 cm in the same environment. , The spread of the Type 50 semi-automatic rifle is 8 cm X 9 cm.As for other rifles, the official, 1903 big cover and [-]% new second-hand Springfield [-] are not as accurate as Mosin Nagant.

...Yes, this accuracy is the accuracy standard of the SVD sniper rifle (precision marksman rifle) 10 years later.

Tang Hua: "Old Liu, you don't really dare to think about it now. Let me point in another direction. Just this gun, this kind of design structure that improves the accuracy in an all-round way, its accuracy can be further improved! Now this gun can be put into production , to equip the troops, the overall structure does not need major changes. However, there is still room for improvement in the production accuracy, processing accuracy and assembly accuracy of each component. Let’s first set a small goal for development. This is still the design structure, you bring Let the masters in Dalian dig out the details, grasp the details, and strive to increase its 100-meter spread to 4 cm x 4 cm in one year."

There are already people on the shooting range, and the sniper team of the 38th Army Reconnaissance Battalion has been training here for more than a month.In addition to the snipers from the reconnaissance battalion (used by special forces), the 38th Army has also dispatched more than 60 excellent shooting cadres and soldiers, who came to Dalian for sniper training as early as April this year.

The deputy battalion commander who led the team recognized Liu Nai and ran over from the sniper to salute and shake hands.

"This is Minister Tang from the Ministry of Heavy Industry. The Bayi-style sniper rifle you are using was proposed by Minister Tang."

"I just put forward an idea, and it was Lao Liu who realized this idea..." Tang Hua said, "Let's take a look at the target shooting training of the special forces of the 'Long Live Army'. Are they using high-precision bombs?"

Liu Nai: "Yes. Although it is a bit expensive, we still insist on using factory ammunition for regular firearms familiarization training. After entering sniper training, we use high-precision ammunition. This accuracy is good, and the shooter can be sure when he misses Knowing that it was my own mistakes and not bullets floating around."

Tang Hua: "How much is the spread of high-precision bullets better than factory bullets?"

Liu Nai: "At the best time, the spread can be doubled, 3 cm x 3 cm."

Tang Hua: "Well, this can also be improved. If the manual assembly bullet workshop improves its skills, it can be even better."

The deputy battalion commander watched the two finish their conversation, and also interjected: "We are already conducting sniper training at 600 to 800 meters with the Bayi-style sniper rifle, and as long as the wind direction estimation is correct, there is basically no problem in hitting human targets. ...Yesterday, there was a team member who tried sniping at 1000 meters, and it was okay, 5 out of 2 rounds."

The bipod of the Bayi-type sniper rifle in front of Tang Hua has been opened. The barrel is very thick, and it looks like the barrel of a heavy machine gun.The bipod is mounted on the handguard, and there is no rigid connection between the not too long handguard and the barrel.

Because the 8x East German Zeiss scope is installed directly above the receiver of the gun, it is inconvenient to use the bridge clip to press bullets into the magazine. Therefore, although the Bayi-style sniper rifle is a bolt-action rifle, it uses a 10-round short Magazine - modified from the magazine on the Soviet VT40 semi-automatic rifle.

After receiving the magazine containing 5 rounds of high-precision bullets from Liu Nai, Tang Hua slapped the magazine from under the gun and loaded it.

"Is this a 400-meter target in front of me?" Tang Hua asked.

Liu Nai: "It should be."

Tang Hua turned his head and whispered to Liu Nai, "Give me a 200-meter target."

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Liu Nai waved to the soldiers in the shooting range next to him, and the soldiers waved a small flag to indicate that a 200-meter target was raised ahead.

"Minister Tang, this gun is actually very easy to shoot. I will come to inspect it every few days. I will shoot a few rounds at 400-meter targets every few days. It's very easy."

Tang Hua thought while adjusting the vertical knob of the sniper scope. Although you are a bureau-level cadre, you were the gun king in the Tuba Road base area 10 years ago. How can I compare with you.

No matter how good this Bayi-style sniper rifle is, it can't stand Tang Hua's inability to control his pulse and breath. The center of the scope at a distance of 400 meters must be vibrating up and down in the area of ​​​​9~10 rings, and he can't shoot.

200米靶果然就好打多了，4个10环1个9环，不算太难看。

"Now that it is officially put into production, should we still maintain the monthly production scale of 100 pieces?" Tang Hua asked.

Liu Nai: "Yes. Monthly production is 100 sets, equipped with one army.... Actually, we have the ability to expand monthly production to 200 sets, but the delivery speed of scopes is 100 sets a month this year, so the output cannot be increased."

Tang Hua: "There is no need to worry about the expansion of production capacity. The manufacturing process requirements of sniper rifles are higher than other guns. Its performance is piled up with details... Any sloppy parts will be detrimental to the whole gun. Impact. It just so happens that the monthly production of 100 will remain unchanged this year. You can set the production target for sniper rifles: the batches produced at the end of the year will have a visible improvement in shooting spread compared to the current batch.”

Chapter 221, Goodbye, Otto Weiland

"General Kotov, China has begun to develop the carrier-based anti-aircraft missile, but it has not been finalized and produced so quickly."

In Dalian, Tang Hua met not only Beloborodov, the commander of the Soviet army in the Luda region, but also Kotov, the Soviet ambassador to China and the general adviser of the Soviet military advisory group.The first substantive question Kotov asked was whether China was developing ship-to-air missiles.

"Since June 6, the Pacific Fleet at Luda Base has regularly rotated patrols in the middle of the Yellow Sea," Beloborodov said. The air attack on Pyongyang that circled the Yellow Sea has lost its suddenness. The early warning allowed the Chinese Air Force’s fighter jets to take off calmly to intercept the U.S. aircraft fleet. But objectively speaking, our radar ships are not equipped to resist the attack of the entire formation of U.S. Navy or Air Force aircraft. capability. So our forced forward patrols are very reluctant and very risky."

The main bombing method of the Far Eastern Air Force is to use the reduced "chrysanthemum bat" for long-distance gliding attacks. Although the accuracy is not very high, it is indeed a safe weapon for launching outside the defense zone, and the simple inertial gyro guidance will definitely not be used. Chinese military interference.

U.S. aircraft cannot fly from south to north over the Korean peninsula to strike Pyongyang or other cities in northern North Korea.The border radar of the Korean People's Army will detect the fleet, and then make preparations in advance.Now it is impossible to get through it at all. The Hongqi-2 air defense missile can poke down bombers and attack aircraft such as B-29, B-25, and A-26.Over North Korea, apart from some lightly loaded F-86 high-flying photo reconnaissance, there is no other safe way to fly.Clark has now discovered that the Far East Air Force is increasingly reduced to a soy sauce role.

Now, if they want to bomb Pyongyang, Anju and other cities close to the west coast of the Korean peninsula, US military aircraft have to bypass the Yellow Sea; if they attack the east coast such as Yuanshan, Xingnan and other port cities, they have to bypass the Sea of ​​Japan.The Soviet Navy sent a warship with radar to the sea between Yantai and North Korea’s Changzhou County to watch out from Dalian Port. The U.S. aircraft sent a telegram when it passed by. Stop the bombers who are going to drop bombs head-on-although the US military fleet escorted by F-15 is still not easy to fight, it can always interfere with the US bombers.

Tang Hua: "The Soviet Union and the United States are currently at peace....Of course, the Soviet Army is now providing assistance to North Korea with unprecedented strength. We should really thank you. The deployment of radar sentinels did cause military friction to a certain extent. risk. But there is no war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the radar posts where your warships are staying are also located on the high seas. So, it should be fine.”

Kotov: "Strategically, the United States does not dare to go to war with the Soviet Union. We still hope that tactically, the US Air Force or Navy carrier-based aircraft cannot easily hit our warships. This is the real risk avoidance. I don't know if my guess is correct: you are indeed developing SAMs, but you probably aligned the completion of the project with the arrival of destroyers and frigates from the Soviet Union, and it was not until 1953 or even early 1954 that you planned to use It goes into production. If so, I, on behalf of Commander Kuznetsov, request that you expedite the development process, as soon as possible, and give us a few sets after it goes into production, to be installed on destroyers or frigates of the Pacific Fleet. "

"Our development of ship-to-air missiles is progressing very quickly, and it is unlikely that they will be put into production until early 1954. In fact, we will experimentally install ship-to-air missiles on the navy's coastal defense gunboats or old frigates in a few months. As for the air defense missile system after it is put into production," Tang Hua had exchanged views with the Premier and Nie Shuai earlier, so he gave Kotov a clear answer: "Indeed, several sets can be installed on the radar ships of the Pacific Fleet first. Both the Premier and Chief of Staff Nie agree very much with Sino-Soviet military exchanges and equipment exchanges, and believe that such exchanges should be promoted."

"When is the ship-to-air missile expected to go into production?" Beloborodov asked.

"In December of this year, the ship will be launched for sea trials. There are three stages of the trials. If no major defects are found in each stage, it will continue to advance smoothly. The ship-to-air missile system was finalized in May 12. From June to July 1953 A mass-produced missile system can be refitted on board the ship next month."

"We won't see it until a year later," Beloborodov said. "Is there a way to speed up the development process?"

Tang Hua thought for a while and replied: "There are indeed a few places that are difficult to develop. First of all, we need several radar experts. Second, if the missile test site in Bohai Bay can be built with the assistance of the Soviet army, the progress will be accelerated. The last one is the test ship. We only have about 2000 tons of coastal defense gunships in our hands. Refitting them to the extent that they can carry surface-to-air missiles requires a thorough operation on the warship. If you can provide a [-]-ton or larger warship as a test ship, then the modification The amount of work will be much smaller."

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The meeting was unexpectedly refreshing. Beloborodov said on the spot that the Soviet engineering troops could start to build radar stations and radio direction finding stations around the Bohai Bay right now—that is, the hardware facilities of the missile test site.At the same time, Beloborodov also said that he could transfer a Type 07 destroyer from Vladivostok to Dalian for modification, and only need to report to Moscow and get Kuznetsov's consent.

China intends to customize and transform the Type 07 destroyer by itself, and has to make technical transformations to the modified docks in its own hands, and the Soviet Army base at Luda has a permanent modified dock.

The issue of the radar experts was also reported to Moscow by General Counselor Kotov of the Military Advisory Group, but there is no confirmation yet.

Tang Hua spent the last day touring the main factories of Dalian Jianxin Company. The fighting on the Korean peninsula was something that both sides wanted to stop but couldn't stop completely.

Inside and outside of Seoul, the U.S. Army and the Volunteer Army are in a state of spraying across the air. The U.S. artillery group prevents the Volunteer Army’s tanks and infantry from launching an attack on Seoul, because once they attack, [-] or [-] artillery battalions of the U.S. Army will be on the offensive route of the Volunteer Army. Play the blocking fire net.

The Volunteer Army's artillery group and self-propelled anti-tank guns also prevented the US military from marching north to recover the Yi government.