Devil's Army

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Gray Wolf came to the tribe with four people.

Despite being tired from the journey, Gray Wolf excitedly introduced to Leng Feng and the others:

"This is Professor Qian from Shanghai Jiaotong University, an expert in aerodynamics."

Leng Feng was also very happy when he heard this. He didn't expect that Gray Wolf actually invited Professor Qian, who was said by the United States to be equivalent to five of his marines. This would give their research on aircraft and missiles a boost.

Leng Feng wanted Professor Qian to be the director of the weapons research department, but Professor Qian admitted that his current knowledge level was still quite limited and he wanted to go to the United States for further studies. This time, he heard that the air-to-air missile mentioned by Gray Wolf was the same as his research topic, so he came to learn more and do his best to solve the problem for the First Anti-Japanese Army.

The next morning, under the chairmanship of Leng Feng, the weapons research department was established. The backbone of the weapons research department included Engineer Li, Professor Xu, Professor Qian and the students they brought with them.

Wenlang handed over the work of the smelter to Professor Li and Yanjing, and also came to assist in the work.

Next, everyone disassembled the Golden Eagle missile. Wen Lang introduced the disassembled air-to-air missiles one by one:

"This is the photoelectric detector, signal processing chip, microprocessor, high-precision clock, amplifier, filter in the missile's laser guidance system..."

These electronic components and names were all new to Professor Xu and his colleagues. Everyone listened very carefully.

Wen Lang then introduced the working principle of the laser guidance of the Golden Eagle air-to-air missile:

"The laser transmitter on the golden eagle illuminates enemy targets such as aircraft, tanks or warships. The photoelectric detector on the missile receives the laser beam reflected back by the enemy target and analyzes and processes it through the signal processing chip..."

The guidance mode of the Golden Eagle air-to-air missile completely breaks everyone's understanding of the existing weapon guidance mode. Everyone has benefited a lot from it.

Next, Wenlang introduced the infrared guidance mode of the Golden Eagle air-to-air missile, which once again overturned everyone's understanding of the weapon guidance mode.

"Minister Chen, you all understand the guidance modes of the Golden Eagle air-to-air missile. Do you gather us here to copy these spare parts and assemble air-to-air missiles?" Professor Xu asked.

"Constrained by our current industrial level and equipment, it may be quite difficult to copy these spare parts. I wonder if we can first copy some weapons with simple guidance modes? To break the Japanese's weapon advantage?"

"We all understand the working principles of the laser guidance mode and the infrared guidance mode. I heard Deputy Commander Tan say on the way that you currently have 75mm anti-aircraft guns and 35mm twin anti-aircraft guns?" Professor Qian asked.

"Yes, in addition, we also have 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns. These can be produced by Mr. Li's military factory. However, due to the lack of raw materials, the quantity is still limited. However, we received two ships of raw materials some time ago, and we can produce another batch of anti-aircraft weapons."

"I think that for now we can leave high-speed targets like fighter planes to the anti-aircraft artillery. We will imitate a batch of manually aimed air-to-ground missiles to deal with larger and slower-moving targets like the Japanese warships."

"Yes, that's what our Commander Leng meant. With these manually aimed air-to-ground missiles, we can also gain the upper hand in naval battles against the enemy. It would be best if we could imitate a batch of carriers for launching these air-to-ground missiles - drones." Wen Lang said happily.

"The production of air-to-ground missiles requires engines, and the imitation of drones requires aluminum alloys." Professor Xu took over the topic.

"We currently own the Shujigou copper mine and our own smelter, so it is no problem to manufacture copper coils for engines and aluminum alloy materials for drones."

Wen Lang's words were beyond the expectations of Professor Xu and his team. They had not thought that in a country like China with such a weak industrial base, a local armed force like them could have their own mines and smelters.

Professor Qian immediately measured the diameter of the Golden Eagle air-to-air missile engine coil, and asked someone to cut a small piece of aluminum alloy from the fuselage of the Japanese fighter plane, and asked Leng Feng to take them to his own smelter.

Leng Feng immediately arranged two trucks and took Professor Xu and the guards to the Diaobeishan smelter.

When they arrived at the smelting plant, everyone went to the gold smelting furnace first. Gray Wolf pointed at the golden water that was flowing out continuously and said to everyone:

"This is the yellow croaker we made ourselves. It is of high purity and weighs 0.05g more than the yellow croaker currently on the market."

"It seems that your army is very wealthy and has its own gold mine." Professor Xu sighed.

"There is no way to manufacture high-end weapons. High-end weapons are a money-burning industry. Without hard currencies such as gold, it is really impossible to do it."

Everyone went to the copper mine's smelting furnace, where molten copper was flowing out continuously.

Everyone was very excited after seeing it and immediately went to the office to find Professor Li who was in charge of the smelter.

Leng Feng briefly introduced Professor Qian and Professor Xu to Professor Li.

Professor Qian handed his measured data to Professor Li and asked if it was difficult to produce copper coils of this diameter?

After taking a look at the dimensions, Professor Li answered clearly that it was not too difficult.

Professor Qian and Leng Feng were very happy to hear this, as it showed that they had no shortage of coils for producing missile generators.

However, when Professor Qian handed the aluminum alloy of the Japanese aircraft fuselage to Professor Li and asked whether this aluminum alloy could be produced, Professor Li did not respond immediately, saying that he would have to test the proportions of various materials in the aluminum alloy before he could respond.

Professor Qian and his colleagues expressed their understanding of this point. After all, the mixing ratio of various materials in this aluminum alloy cannot be seen at a glance and requires testing.

That night, Leng Feng and his team had dinner at the smelter.