afterglow

Chapter 78

Seeing that he was being pointed at, Xie Wancheng chuckled, and took out a folded paper from his pocket.

"I'll leave tomorrow. This is a list for leaving the camp due to business, and the ticket has been bought."

Good guy, I've been prepared for a long time.

Zhou Changfeng was a little speechless, "You are well prepared...we won't be able to go, you can go back and get married happily."

With that said, he went back to the house to fiddle around, and when he came out, he handed over a red envelope.

Xie Wancheng, who was smiling, took it and squeezed it, "The battalion commander gave you more money than others."

"Walk around, go and pack your luggage, if there is something urgent, I will call you by telegram."

"Yes."

The First Battalion is not an independent unit. As part of the Third Mixed Brigade, the burial ceremony of the fallen soldiers will naturally have to wait for the main force to return. This aspect cannot be unique.

Counting the missing, more than 180 people lost their first battle, and quite a few of the wounded were permanently disabled. What will happen to their families?

Even if a war is just and reasonable, cruel reality is still inevitable.

The responsibilities and psychological burden on the commander are not small, and many times it is almost equivalent to assigning soldiers to die.

It is not easy to become a qualified commander, and it is even more difficult to be a good one.It is easy to say that kindness does not control soldiers, but it is extremely difficult to be truly ruthless when you put yourself in the situation.

In this regard, Zhou Changfeng only hopes that he can have a clear conscience.

Early the next morning, when he received the morning paper of the day, he found helplessly that the heat of the press conference of the previous two days had not passed, and people were still talking about his sharp refutation on stage.

Just like people, newspapers also have their own positions, whether left, right, or neutral.

With regard to the border war, the press conference that day seemed to push the conflict of opinions to the peak. Several newspapers criticized each other and published editorials supporting their own views.

"Tsk tsk tsk, literati's pen is also cruel enough."

Zhou Changfeng couldn't help being speechless when he saw an editorial in the "Empire Chronicle" criticizing the "Jiangnan Minbao" with extremely tricky and vicious words.

The former leans to the right and the latter to the left. It is not a day or two that they attack each other and fight each other.

It is actually very interesting to watch them spray each other, just like the people who eat melons in later generations watch several groups of people tear each other.

After appreciating the big play, the satisfied Zhou Changfeng took out the file envelope, and after leaving the room, he called Xiao Li to drive.

After repeatedly refining several hollow-charge ammunition he had drawn before, he decided to submit the design directly to the arsenal.

Get the result first, it's clear at a glance.

If it is submitted to the Military Weapons Bureau first, it is equivalent to going through a whole wave of procedures, including collection-review whether it is reasonable-research whether to adopt trial production-issue orders to the arsenal-organize trial production and testing-report the results.

Although this is the most formal, I am afraid that the complete process will not be completed in half a year.

Zhou Changfeng naturally wanted to see the results sooner, so he chose an informal method.

So did Skinner, the designer of the bazooka, historically.He was ordered to participate in a project to "evaluate whether the rocket has value as a new weapon", but lacked financial support. Although there were many difficulties, Skinner and his assistants still completed the design of the early rocket launcher.

Just when he was troubled by the lack of a suitable warhead to penetrate the armor, the hollow charge technology flowed into the United States, which undoubtedly fit perfectly with the rocket.However, no one paid attention to such a new weapon at the time, and Skinner's design faced the possibility of stillborn.

Finally, in an anti-tank grenade test organized by the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Skinner found that many senior officers were invited to visit, so he took his own initiative and took the early trial-produced bazooka, and continuously fired at the tanks used as demonstration targets. The launch immediately attracted the interest of the generals.

The generals also rushed to test fire. As a result, with the support of a group of senior officers, the bazooka was able to avoid bureaucratic procrastination and red tape interference, and was quickly modified and finalized, and then put into large-scale production. Mass production.

Just like a child thinking about his toys, Zhou Changfeng came to the "Jinling" arsenal with the document envelope in order to see the results of his works as soon as possible.

Its official name is Yingtian First Army Arsenal, which belongs to the Ordnance Bureau.

In ancient times, the Weapons Bureau was originally under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, with one official ninth-rank ambassador and two subordinate ninth-rank envoys.Since modern times, when the imperial government was undergoing major changes, the Military Weapons Bureau was transferred to the Ministry of War, which was responsible for the management of military affairs throughout the Ming Dynasty.

In the history of Zhou Changfeng's original location in the world, the Jinling Arsenal was located outside the Zhonghua Gate, that is, outside the Jubao Gate, adjacent to the Dabaoen Temple.

But it is not the case now, the site of Daming Yingtian Arsenal is further south, next to the Fengtai Gate of Waiguo City, the factory area is very large.

After explaining the purpose of coming, a staff member led Zhou Changfeng into the factory area, and drove to the northeast after getting on a motorcycle.

Why ride a motorcycle?Because it's too big.

"How big is the arsenal? When I drove here, I felt that two blocks were the factory area." Zhou Changfeng saw several trucks unloading, and there were even small trains and railroad tracks in the distance.

The employee replied: "The old and new factories add up to more than 8000 acres, and the entire factory employs nearly 5 people."

Eight thousand acres?Qingbei, which is said to be too big, is only 1000 to [-] mu, and Foxconn's [-] mu is too small compared with it.

Generally speaking, it is already very strenuous to walk to a factory area larger than [-] mu, and [-] mu...wouldn't it be exhausting to commute to and from get off work?
So the employee introduced to Zhou Changfeng the employee shuttle bus and the small train in the factory area.

There are supporting transportation facilities between the main workshops in the factory area, and 800mm narrow gauges are specially laid, and small trains are used to transport raw materials and finished products.

From the appearance, the so-called old factory area is easy to distinguish. The traditional Chinese-style architectural structure of the factories here is obvious. The roofs are all suspended hilltops, and the walls are also brick walls, and the area of ​​each factory building is not large.

This is not the case for the new factory area, which has a relatively large area and span. It is a steel structure and the roof is made of aluminum alloy sheets.Except for some Chinese decorations, it is a completely modern industrial building.

Finally, the motorcycle stopped at the administrative office area, and the buildings here returned to the Chinese style. Although the exterior is white walls and black tiles, and angled cornices, the interior is actually a brick-concrete structure.

After passing through the wall, there were several three- and four-story buildings. Zhou Changfeng was brought in just like that. After clarifying his purpose again, he was invited to a nearby room to wait for the time being.

After the herbal tea was delivered, no one came again, as if they had been forgotten by others, and it took more than a quarter of an hour before someone finally pushed the door and entered.

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[In the second paragraph of Chapter 23, I added a sentence, and then found that more than 2 articles in this chapter are missing, can you see it? 】

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