Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Li Qinwu didn't know that Li Hanchao was using the Japanese to lay the foundation. He lay alone in bed for a long time and felt that it was a good place to slack off in the gun design department. His boss had disappeared and his subordinates were so well-behaved that they didn't even come to him to ask about work.

After touching the fish for a while, he felt that he was almost full of energy and planned to get up and go to work.

He sat down at the drawing table and picked up a pen to draw new weapon blueprints. Just now, he was slacking off in planning for the future, and this gave him an idea.

After the Japanese invaded Fengtian City, most of the technical staff in the Fengtian Arsenal fled to the Gongyi Arsenal and participated in the development of the Zhongzheng rifle.

His idea was that although he had clones, there were only more than a hundred of them at most, and even if they were equipped with the best weapons, they could not defeat the Japanese and could not change the outcome of the three northeastern provinces being occupied by the Japanese. So why didn't he follow the technical staff and retreat to Gongyi Arsenal for development?

He was valued so much for making a submachine gun at the Fengtian Arsenal, and was promoted to a higher position with a lot of money. If he went to the Gongyi Arsenal to continue producing products, wouldn't he be able to make more money and be promoted to a higher position?

By then, his real body will go south with the technical staff, and he will leave a team of clones in the north to create troubles for the Japanese. When the day comes when he is fully grown, he will lead a large army to deal with the Japanese!

Thinking of this, he drew even faster.

He wanted to design a special weapon, a little-known individual anti-tank weapon in this era! Of course, he definitely didn't want a big thing like an RPG, he wanted an anti-tank gun!

Li Qinwu had watched a documentary about the fall of Fengtian before. One part of the documentary mentioned Huang Xiansheng, the director of the Liaoning Provincial Police Department and the director of the Fengtian Municipal Public Security Bureau. Huang Xiansheng knew about the Japanese offensive intentions long before the war, but he reported the matter to the Young Marshal many times but his report was never taken seriously.

So he secretly distributed a large number of weapons and equipment to the Fengtian police and quickly expanded the team. Once the situation changed, he would use these troops to resist the Japanese attacks. As a result, he actually fought with the Japanese in the Fengtian city.

In the early stages of the battle, the police force, familiar with the terrain, repelled the attacks of the Japanese infantry many times. But later the Japanese sent out tanks and armored vehicles. Huang Xiansheng was defeated after fierce resistance and had to order a retreat.

As a technician, Li Qinwu was not concerned about other aspects of the battle, but he attached great importance to the fact that he was no match for the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles. Since he could not defeat the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, he had to find a way to defeat them.

The tanks and armored vehicles at that time were not that powerful. The thickest frontal armor was less than 20 mm. With such a small armor thickness, if you raise your thumb and see, you will find that your thumb is thicker than the tank armor.

But this armor, which is not much thicker than a finger, is untouchable by the police force equipped only with light weapons.

Li Qinwu thought quickly, holding a pen in one hand and a ruler in the other. Soon, a gun took shape on the paper.

他抄的枪是苏联的PTRD-41反坦克步枪，发射14.5x114mm枪弹，能在500米内穿透30到40毫米装甲。

This gun performed very averagely during World War II. At that time, the armor of German tanks was generally stacked very high, exceeding 50 mm, and anti-tank guns could not penetrate it at all. However, this gun was just right for shooting the Japanese thin-skinned small and medium-sized beans.

He remembered that the most advanced tank equipped by the Japanese at that time seemed to be the Type 89. The thickest front armor of this thing was only 17 mm. It could kill one kid with one shot from an anti-tank gun.

What Li Qinwu values ​​most about the PTRD-41 anti-tank rifle is that it has a very simple structure and is very easy to produce, similar to the PPSh.

In order to equip this weapon in large quantities, the Soviet Union designed it as simply as possible. This thing looks like a welded water pipe, very crude.

But it is this unique production attribute that makes it perfect in China!

The Japanese are a poor island nation. Even in the middle and late stages of the war, the armor of the tanks they produced was very weak. The anti-tank guns that had long been eliminated in Europe and the United States would probably be able to sustain the war from the beginning to the end if they were placed on Chinese soil.

Li Qinwu began to fantasize about how many fewer Chinese anti-Japanese fighters would die if the Japanese armored forces were beaten by the anti-tank gun he copied? And how much fame and fortune could he gain from it?

Thinking of this, a smile appeared on his lips unconsciously, and his drawing movements became much faster. However, when he started to mark the parameters of the gun, his pen paused.

The PTRD-41 anti-tank rifle fires 14.5x114mm bullets. Does the Fengtian Arsenal have this type of bullet?

Contrary to popular belief, guns serve the ammunition. In many cases, the ammunition comes first, and then the designers have to consider designing a suitable launcher for the ammunition, and only then can the gun be created.

Now Li Qinwu put the cart before the horse and rushed for the gun, but forgot what to do if the Fengtian Arsenal did not have this type of bullet.

He put down his pen and frowned deeply. He had never heard of 14.5x114mm ammunition in the Fengtian Arsenal. Did he need to change the ammunition?

The PPSh can be modified, as infantrymen who are hit will die anyway. But if the anti-tank gun is modified to fire ammunition, its anti-armor capability will probably be greatly reduced!

Li Qinwu stood up and walked around the office. Feeling irritated, he couldn't help but light a cigarette for himself.

He went to the window and looked out. The view from the third floor was relatively good. He could see factories in the distance and chimneys emitting black smoke. These things made him feel the power of industry.

After finishing a cigarette, Li Qinwu said to himself: "Don't rush to draw the blueprint. I should go to the factory to see if there is any suitable ammunition and design an anti-tank gun based on the ammunition!"

Having made up his mind, he flicked off his cigarette and wanted to go downstairs to check out the factory below. However, just as he opened the door, he bumped into a bespectacled young man who was about to knock on the door.

The bespectacled young man was frightened when he saw Li Qinwu suddenly open the door. He huddled against the wall of the corridor, his body trembling with fear.

Li Qinwu was speechless. Was he so scary? Was it necessary to be so afraid of him? He had completely forgotten the terrifying look of him pulling out a gun and shooting randomly just now.

Seeing the bespectacled young man holding a pile of documents, Li Qinwu asked, "Documents for me?"

"Ah! Yes! No! That, this..."

The bespectacled young man was asked by Li Qinwu so many questions that he could not speak clearly and his face turned red. He looked like he had social phobia and he could not say anything. He lowered his head, held the documents in both hands and handed them to Li Qinwu without saying anything.

Li Qinwu felt a little funny. In the eyes of this young man, he was probably a villain.

"Don't be afraid, I won't eat you. Just work hard and don't cause me any trouble. I'm still very kind!"

Li Qinwu said something casually, took the document from the other party and looked at it carefully, then he raised his eyebrows and quickened the flipping speed. The two of them stood there for more than three minutes, and the only sound in the corridor was the flipping of documents.

Finally, Li Qinwu closed the file, looked at the shy bespectacled young man in front of him seriously and asked, "Did you design this gun?"