A professor's rebirth: I entered Tsinghua University in 1977.

Chapter 73 Full of Praise

Soon, the shooting range was set up.

The staff drew a target on a slope four hundred meters away.

A sturdy man in his thirties walked up to the gun position and lay down behind the grenade launcher.

The first test firing was conducted using a bipod in a light state.

To ensure safety, the leaders were asked to go into the breastwork shelter more than ten meters away and raise their binoculars.

"Get ready, let go!"

As the on-site commander waved the red triangular flag, the cannon rang out with a "bang," the sturdy gun tester jerked violently, and a cloud of smoke belched from the muzzle. About two or three seconds later, a "boom" exploded at the target 400 meters away, sending smoke and flames flying everywhere.

Immediately afterwards, there were a few more "bang bang bang" sounds, and after a moment, the six grenades in the drum magazine were used up, and most of them hit the target.

Of course, the impact spread is still a bit large.

"Young man, what did you say was the initial velocity of this gun?"

Commander Yu asked with interest.

"170 meters per second."

"Yeah, it's a little slow. But it's acceptable to reduce the recoil."

"continue!"

"Yes!"

The second round of testing was to attack temporary field fortifications built with sacks filled with sand and soil.

Behind the fortifications, some dummies were placed to test the lethality of the shells.

It is still a drum magazine with 6 grenades.

The first three shots were direct fire.

A hole was torn in the piled sandbags, but because the sandbags absorbed a lot of kinetic energy and blast fragments, the damage to the dummies behind the fortifications was not ideal.

Tan Dexi immediately said, "Adjust the launch angle, curved fire mode, parabolic attack."

The gun tester agreed loudly and then adjusted the firing angle.

With three "bang bang bang" sounds, three grenades flew over the field fortifications in a parabolic form and fell accurately into the trench.

After the loud noise, the test results showed that the killing effect was greatly increased. The dummies hiding behind the field fortifications were injured to varying degrees, and the impact was very ideal.

"Alright, this is almost as powerful as a grenade launcher, and it can fire continuously. The firepower density is much higher than that of a grenade launcher."

Commander Yu praised it highly.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Commander Yu and his comrades suffered a lot from the Japanese grenade launchers. Many machine gun positions were destroyed by the Japanese grenade launchers.

Commander Dong also nodded frequently, expressing his approval of this new weapon.

In the third round of testing, armor-piercing and high-explosive projectiles were used.

Three hundred meters away, a thick homogeneous steel armor plate was erected.

The thickness is 35 mm.

Although the armor-piercing thickness could reach 50 mm during the first test, it was reasonable to slightly reduce the thickness of the armor plate in order to ensure the success rate when testing in front of the leader.

Using 50mm armor plates, it would be embarrassing if it failed to penetrate.

Liu Hongyi's original intention in designing this weapon was mainly for the war on the southern front more than two years later. The main battlefields were jungle warfare and urban fighting, and there were few opportunities to fight against Monkey Kingdom armored vehicles.

Can steel doors be installed in those shabby houses in the cities of Anlang Country?

The grenade hits the target with one shot!

In case you encounter a monkey tank, you still have 40 rounds.

Besides, the 35mm howitzer cannot penetrate the front armor of the Monkey Tank, but it is very effective to hit its tracks from the side.

Once a tank loses its mobility, it becomes a sitting duck.

"Dong dong dong"!

Three loud bangs.

Three large holes were penetrated in the 35mm steel armor plate.

Translucent front and back.

perfect!

"Well done!"

Commander Yu clenched his fists and waved his arms excitedly.

There was no need to mark the target this time; he could clearly see the three large, transparent holes on the armor plate through the telescope.

In the fourth test, we used the heavy mode of the tripod and fired a full 15 grenades from a heavy drum. The test results were also excellent, and the two old generals praised it highly.

Due to time constraints, we have only produced samples of the drum mode so far, and the samples of the belt mode have not yet been produced.

"Okay, okay, Lao Tan, Xiao Liu, very good, very good... When can this 35mm automatic howitzer be mass-produced?"

Commander Yu began to care about the issue of equipment deployment.

Tan Dexi replied, "Commander, at this point, we don't see any insurmountable problems. Once we optimize the process and receive the order from above, we can begin mass production in four or five months at most."

"With the production capacity of our 576 factory, running at full capacity in three shifts, we can produce 500 doors a month without any problem."

“500 courses a month?”

Commander Yu calculated in his mind and then nodded.

"That's okay."

This output is enough to equip every infantry squad in the army in two months.

This is just the production capacity of Factory 576 alone. Jingjiang has several other military factories with the same technical and production capabilities. If the need were truly realized and all were put into operation, the entire army could be equipped with these weapons within a year.

"but……"

"But what?"

"If you have any difficulties, just tell us directly, don't hide them."

Tan Dexi chuckled and said, "To be honest with you two, the 35mm howitzer hasn't received official approval from our superiors yet. We just discussed it with Old Duan and decided to develop it first. We can say we're acting first and asking for approval later. We don't know if the higher-ups will agree in the end..."

"Well, what do I do?"

Commander Yu waved his hand and said nonchalantly.

"What are you worried about?"

"Before, we couldn't make it, so we had no choice but to stare and drool at other people's good stuff. Now that you have made it, is this still a problem?"

"No problem at all. I will report to the military district and the military. This is such a great product that we must immediately mass-produce it. The sooner the better. We need to equip the entire army with it in the shortest possible time."

Commander Dong also said: "Old Yu is right, you don't have to worry about this problem at all. We old guys are still here, and we are not ignorant of the value of things!"

Tan Dexi couldn't help but complain again: "Two leaders, you just saw it. We are working hard, but someone is disrupting us and holding us back. They even said that Liu Hongyi and I are enemy spies."

"If it weren't for the coincidence that you two leaders happened to be here for an inspection today, Liu Hongyi and I might have been arrested by the regional political and legal team!"

Is Lao Tan the kind of person who likes to tell tales behind others’ backs?

of course not.

Wang Zhigao and his men from Liangpingshan should never have tried to capture Liu Hongyi.

This is the old man's Achilles' heel.

No one can touch him, the old man is determined to fight him to the death.

What's wrong with complaining behind someone's back?

It would be a waste not to confess if you have such a good opportunity.

Commander Dong's face darkened and he said, "We already know about this matter. Don't worry, I'll handle it."

"How can we let them catch a good talent like Xiao Liu?"

"Old Dong is right!"

Commander Yu said.

"If it really doesn't work, Xiao Liu, come to the army and I'll give you a uniform. I'll see who dares to touch my soldiers!"