Reborn in 1976, teach him how to be an official

This is Liu Hongyi’s apprenticeship ceremony.

Liu Chuan led Mr. Tan to the treatment room inside the clinic.

"Chief Engineer Tan, I asked you to come here today because I have a favor to ask of you. This is my son Liu Hongyi, and this is Ai Gaofeng's daughter Ai Xiaoyu. They are both sophomores at Chuzhou No. 1 Middle School. The school isn't teaching very seriously, and they're not learning much. You're a great intellectual, and I'd like you to help teach them."

Liu Chuan spoke straight to the point.

Although it was his son and Ai Xiaoyu who became his disciples, he, as the elder, had to come forward.

Tan Dexi is in his fifties, with a gaunt face and a thin figure. He wears a washed-out blue military-style shirt and has deep wrinkles on his forehead. If he is not introduced specifically, no one would associate him with the most awesome weapons design master in Chuzhou.

He glanced at Liu Hongyi and Ai Xiaoyu, shook his head, and said calmly, "I can't teach them. I'm not a middle school teacher. I'm a weapons designer. They won't understand what I teach them."

Liu Chuan glanced at Liu Hongyi, as if to say: See, I told you this old man is a weirdo.

Liu Hongyi smiled and suddenly said, "Teacher Tan, I know you're a weapons expert. I'd like to ask you a question. Can mortars and howitzers be combined? Can we produce a composite support artillery piece that can fire both indirect and direct fire, with a long range?"

"What did you say?"

Tan Dexi, who was about to turn around and leave, suddenly stopped and looked at Liu Hongyi in surprise, his sparse eyebrows raised.

He never expected that Liu Hongyi would ask him such a question.

"Teacher Tan, can you do this?"

Liu Hongyi asked again.

For an artillery design expert, Liu Hongyi's question is very "fatal" and a "fatal temptation."

"I have no idea!"

Unexpectedly, Tan Dexi gave Liu Hongyi such an answer.

Liu Hongyi was well aware that the first generation of mortar-howitzers, combining mortars and howitzers, was not deployed by the Soviet Army until the early 1980s. This revolutionary new artillery piece would later become the primary close-range support artillery for our combined-arms brigades.

High mobility, fast rate of fire, wide range of uses, one shot with multiple functions!

Mortars within 9 kilometers, howitzers within 23 kilometers, and rocket launchers within 40 kilometers.

The brigade-level firepower is so strong that it can be described as "inhumane".

No country in the world has an army brigade-level unit whose firepower can match that of our combined arms brigade.

Now, Liu Hongyi is not sure whether the domestic weapons design community has explored this aspect.

But there is no doubt that it has not yet taken shape.

So Tan Dexi replied directly with four words: "I don't know."

This is an extremely rigorous scientific attitude.

Liu Hongyi thought for a moment and said, "Teacher Tan, what's the biggest problem with combining a smoothbore cannon that fires indirect fire with a rifled cannon that fires straight?"

"It's a matter of shooting accuracy and airtightness."

Tan Dexi still answered concisely.

Liu Hongyi thought for a moment and said, "Teacher Tan, I have an immature idea. Can we add rifling to the mortar shells... Of course, it can be shallow rifling. In this way, can we meet the needs of both mortars and howitzers?"

Tan Dexi was stunned, staring at him blankly, unable to speak for a long time.

This is the "prophet" advantage.

A high school sophomore can leave top experts stunned in the field of weapons design.

Ai Xiaoyu and Chen Aiping, who was watching the fun from the side, were dumbfounded and had no idea what they were talking about.

Liu Chuan, who was a soldier, could barely understand a little, but only a little.

"How did you come up with that?"

A moment later, Tan Dexi suddenly started yelling. His originally calm expression suddenly became extremely excited. He rushed to Liu Hongyi in two steps and grabbed his arm.