Chapter 41 Preparatory Meeting for Infantry Artillery

Seeing Yan Xing's urgency, Zhang Zhimu hurriedly said, "Second uncle, sit down and talk." We're in no hurry, but we have something big. ”

"What's the matter?" Yan Xing asked.

Zhang Zhimu said: "Remember when we said we wanted to build a party? ”

Yan Xing's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "Of course I remember, tell me quickly, what's the situation now?" ”

"We want to have a preparatory meeting now, so please come over." Zhang Zhimu said.

Yan Xing clapped his hands and said, "Great." This shows that we have taken another step forward in our own business. ”

The participants of this preparatory meeting include Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, Huang Yukun, Li Mao, Yan Boju, Lu Chengxiang, Yan Xing, Lu Bingyi, Li Zhi, and Zhang Bengui.

The meeting was held in Chen Yufeng's command center, and for the sake of strict secrecy, no one from the guards was ordered to approach the conference room. Since everyone knew the content of the meeting beforehand, the participants were very serious. The meeting was recorded by Li Zhi and presided over by Zhang Zhimu himself.

After everyone sat down, Zhang Zhimu said: "Everyone, today is a great day, I will hold a preparatory meeting organized by ourselves. We've talked about forming an organization before, and we've never sat down together to work on it. Now I feel that we have what it takes to form an organization, and the work that we are about to start will also need to form an organization to lead. ”

Seeing that everyone was listening to themselves very seriously, the sense of sacredness in Zhang Zhimu's heart also spontaneously arose.

He continued: "After careful consideration, I will first report some of the contents that I have sorted out, and then we will discuss them together, and things will not be completely satisfactory all at once, and we can slowly revise and supplement.

I will name the organization we are about to set up as the 'China Democratic Party,' and the nature of our party is a vanguard composed of advanced deputies who are not afraid of sacrifice and represent the interests of all strata. The goal of the Party is to lead all the people in building a democratic country in which the people are the masters of the country and everyone is equal. Our party's political program at the present stage is to lead the people to use force and economic means and political tactics to overthrow the old world and unify the territory of China.

The party's organizing principle is democratic centralism. Only by practicing democratic centralism can the party organizations at all levels and all party members form a unified whole and turn the party into a well-organized and combat-effective contingent with consistent action. Only by practicing democratic centralism can we ensure that the party's decision-making is democratic and scientific, and that the party's correct leadership can be practiced.

I would like to stress that our Party will never be and should not be the Party of any one person, and that the Party is collectively led by the Party Central Committee elected by all Party members. The leader and leadership of the Party must be democratically elected by all members of the Party Central Committee. I propose that the term of office of each leader and members of the Party Central Committee be two years, that is, that they should be elected every two years. If the majority of the members of the Party Central Committee believe that the leader or leader is not suitable to continue to serve as a leader, they may propose an early election.

Major issues of the Party shall be discussed and decided collectively by the Party Central Committee.

Our party's requirements for party members are that each party member is personally subordinate to the party organization, the minority is subordinate to the majority, and the lower-level organization is subordinate to the higher-level organization; Strictly keep the party's secrets, never betray the party, and accept the supervision and inspection of the organization.

Calling each other comrades in our party means being like-minded.

At the present stage, our party should build an army under the direct leadership of the party, and when necessary, establish party organizations at all levels in the army. In the future, after the establishment of a democratic state, the armed forces must be nationalized, and no political party is allowed to have its own army. Only in this way can true democracy be practised, although we still have a long way to go.

We have two difficulties at present: one is that we are not yet capable of taking over the cities and villages that we are about to take over according to our ideals, and we need to train not only a large number of military cadres, but also cadres who can do local work. Only when we have trained a large number of our party's own cadres can we realize our ideals.

My suggestion is that we carry out our political experiments in Shanxi after we have fought the battle that is about to begin. We should sum up experience and train a group of cadres. The greater difficulty we face is that the people have been oppressed for a long time and have no sense of democracy. This requires a lot of advocacy work.

I propose that after today's meeting, the Preparatory Committee for the 'China Democratic Party' will be formally established, with me as the chairman of the Preparatory Committee, and Chen Yufeng and Li Mao as the deputy directors.

Now, I would like to discuss my proposal. ”

In fact, in addition to being excited, it is difficult for the people attending the meeting to make any suggestions, basically Zhang Zhimu made a further explanation of the content of his speech.

However, Li Mao raised a question that caused a little controversy among everyone, that is, whether it is possible to start developing party members now.

Most people believe that the party has not yet been established and is not suitable for recruiting new members. Some people think that it is possible to develop some mature party members, otherwise there will be too few people when the party is founded.

In the end, the result of the discussion was that the main task now was to meet the coming arduous armed struggle, and not to carry out propaganda prematurely, lest it divulge secrets and distract us. However, if there are particularly mature targets, they can publicize the party's ideas and prepare for the development of party members when the conditions are ripe.

In the end, the result of the discussion was that if everything went well next year, after Li Zicheng was defeated, the party's inaugural meeting would be held at an appropriate time after the beginning of spring. After returning home, everyone should think more about the building of the party, how the party's work should be carried out, and what supplements and improvements should be made to the party's political program and organizational principles.

Although the preparatory meeting was decided on a matter of principle, it was a great encouragement to everyone. Because they all know that a strong party organization is about to be born, and they are a member of this organization.

After the meeting, Li Mao and Yan Xing both wanted to go back early. Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He touched them together.

Li Mao said: "It's late November, and the Fen River and the Yellow River are about to freeze, so I'd better rush back as soon as possible." I will recruit some people from the south to send them to Wuluo Island, and this time I will bring back two Haicang boats and speedboats, so that it will be more convenient for me to contact Xuzhou, Huai'an, Wuluo Island, and Zhenjiang from Yangzhou in the future. Last time, Mr. Zhang said to bring me back two Haicang boats and a speedboat, I think I want to have one more speedboat, so that our contact with various places will be much more convenient, if there is a speedboat problem, I am not afraid. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, you can bring one more speedboat back." If we fight on our side, you should pay more attention to safety on your side. Maybe we will not have much contact this winter, so take care of yourself! When you go back this time, you'll have to bring back some muskets, hand **. When something happens, you can also resist it. ”

Li Mao said: "There is no big deal over there, we sent a million taels of silver to the emperor, and the emperor will not turn against us for the time being, so we are fine." It's just that there is something, we also have a flying pigeon book contact with Wuluo Island, don't be afraid. ”

Yan Xing said: "I also have to rush back as soon as possible and do a good job in the defense of Niutou Mountain." When I came, I heard that the telegraph line was about to reach Niutou Mountain, and if the telegraph was connected, it would be much easier for us to communicate. I'm going to train the team well when I go back, I'm just worried about the defense of Yaogang's side. If it's really dangerous here, we can send a thousand people from Niutou Mountain. ”

Ouyang He said, "You two don't have to worry about one side of the matter. To tell the truth, Li Zicheng and the official army could not stop us in fighting military strength, and the reason why this battle had to be fought as a defensive counterattack was actually a political battle. If we go to smash those family foundations of the Ming Dynasty, we will completely fall out with the imperial court. This is something we are trying to avoid at this stage. This is to destroy the ruling foundation of the imperial court, let Li Zicheng do it. When the time comes, if we beat Li Zicheng, the emperor will be happy. This is also the strategy formulated by Mr. Zhang to stand tall and see far. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Li Zicheng will do it for us to break the old world, and we will be responsible for building a new world." Let's do a good job of division of labor with Li Zicheng! This is also a tactic to drive away tigers and wolves. We can do this in many other places in the future. ”

Zhang Zhimu's words made everyone laugh.

Chen Yufeng said: "Zhimu, there are many wounded soldiers in Tongguan Ningde who are recuperating in our kiln post, and now they are basically fine. There were quite a few of them who wanted to join our team, about 800 people. What do you think? ”

"Of course it's good to accept it, but let's not misunderstand Ningde about this. I'll look at asking Ningde's opinion, and I don't think he will object. Soon our kiln will be surrounded by the rout of the official army, and we will have a choice. Zhang Zhimu said.

After this preparatory meeting, the kiln gang was as usual on the surface, and no changes could be seen. But only those who attended the meeting knew that everything was different, and in their eyes, everything they were doing in front of them was in the service of that great goal.

On this day, when Lu Chengxiang and Yan Boju entered Zhang Zhimu's office, Zhang Zhimu felt that Lu Chengxiang's waist was extraordinarily straight. However, Zhang Zhimu also felt strange, it was still rare for these two people to come to his office together, especially Lu Chengxiang was no longer like before to report everything, he knew what he should do.

Zhang Zhimu asked Yang Yulin to pour water for them, and asked, "It's rare for you two to come to me together." ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Yes, today's matter is related to Mr. Yan. That's right, this time I told the Killing Tiger Branch to buy another 20,000 sheep and 2,000 cattle. I have to ask Mr. Yan if there is any place and if there will be enough forage. ”

"Hey, Mr. Lu, you are a big spend, and you bought so much at once?" Zhang Zhimu said.

Lu Chengxiang said: "You are thinking about the war, and I have already begun to think about the whole of Shanxi next year. We're going to eat a lot of these sheep in the winter, and I think we'll have a lot left. After we get Shanxi, we can't just feed those people with grain. We have a lot of mountains and little land in Shanxi, and I think some families can give them two breeding sheep per family, let them keep them, and they will be relieved in a few years. As for those cattle, you know, there are not many cattle left in Shanxi after a continuous drought. Next year, we will plant land in all the places we occupy, and we will not be able to do without cattle. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Mr. Lu thinks long-term, but in the year of the great drought, he can't harvest much from the land? ”

"Hey, hey! Let me tell you, our land has not lost any grain this year, and this is still the spring when there are locusts. We can organize them to draw water and dig wells, and try to dig as much as they can, otherwise we will have to buy food for them from outside. We can give them a little fertilizer, and then the grain will be harvested a lot. When they have a harvest of their own, they will be relieved. The people can have food, and they can not support us. "Lu Chengxiang seems to be really using his brain.

Yan Boju said: "Zhimu, don't worry, this year's silage is much more than last year's. There is also a lot more forage than last year. Besides, the cattle and sheep to be eaten this year can be killed and frozen as soon as the day freezes, which can also save a lot of feed. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Great. ”

Yan Boju said: "We bought 15,000 horses this year. I want Liu Yun to pick them, and we can use them ourselves. When this battle is over, we will see how many horses are left, and then we will sell them, in short, we can use them ourselves. Of these horses, I picked out more than a hundred to be stallions? It's a pity that we can't get Hexi horses now, if only we had Hexi horses. ”

Zhang Zhimu knew that Yan Boju had been looking for good horses to be stallions everywhere. Maybe the Hexi horse he said is also a good horse, but he didn't understand it and didn't ask.

Lu Chengxiang said: "Oh, hurry up and finish the battle." The various kinds of cloth we weave ourselves can be sold for several times the price of that kind of homespun cloth. And that kind of towel, which is not sold at all. It would be nice for us to go out and earn more money when we have time. ”

Yan Boju said: "Lu Xiaoluo is thinking about making money all day long. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "I still forgot, have the people of the Datong Dynasty Wang and Jiang Zongbing been arranged?" ”

Lu Chengxiang said: "Don't worry, it's all done." And the man of the Mongolian prince Tori has arrived, and he lives in the inn. How do we arrange them? ”

Zhang Zhimu thought for a while and said, "Let's get them a yard, their living habits are different from ours." Let the students who let them into school be the same as everyone else. I also want to discuss with Mr. Lu Bingyi and the dean of Yaogang College, and let Mr. Mongolian from Mongolia open a special Mongolian course, and we need a group of people who understand Mongolian in the future. ”

The time was in the orderly preparation of the kiln gang people, and it was early December of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen. This year's winter came early, and the Fen River has already begun to freeze. The warships of Yaogang were left behind at Tongguan to cover the retreating personnel from Tongguan, and the other warships returned to Lingshui Wharf before they froze. The warship left in Tongguan would not reach the Lingshui Wharf when it was frozen in Tongguan, so it had to cross Sanmenxia to Huai'an.

Li Wei and Li Yunhe were reporting on the situation of 120 in Zhang Zhimu's office.

Li Wei said: "Mr. Zhang, the firing table of our 120 heavy mortars has been completed. Let Li Yunhe hurry up and produce more. And when did you say that the new cannon was going to be done? ”

"Yunhe, have we produced enough mortars?" Zhang Zhimu asked.

Li Yunhe replied: "Almost, the main thing is that we have to produce some spare, don't you want to expand the army to nine divisions and a hundred cavalry companies?" With this standard configuration of artillery it would not be enough, and by the end of the month it would be about the same. Now the troops have long been enough. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "In that case, you can stop the production of 60 mortars first and produce a batch of 120 heavy mortars for Li Wei and them." Let Li Wei form a heavy mortar artillery unit. When the time comes, wherever something happens, as soon as they appear, it will work. ”

Li Yunhe said, "Okay. But their shells are too expensive. In fact, although the range of our new 60-gun heavy shell is nearly half, the power has more than doubled. When the time comes, it will be enough to deal with soldiers with knives and guns in their hands. ”

Li Wei also said: "Yes, the power of heavy artillery shells is much higher, but compared with 120 heavy mortar shells, it is too bad." ”

Li Yunhe said: "Mr. Zhang, there are still two things that have been completed, let me tell you." It's the kind of thunder jumping and orientation you are talking about. I detonated both of these ** by electric ignition. I loaded ten kilograms of smokeless ** in the anti-infantry jumping mine, plus prefabricated fragments made of iron beads and iron horns, and when it was detonated, it exploded three meters upwards and then exploded, and a large area could be killed at once. The directional ** is also about the same, but it is not fried but blown into a fan in one direction. They are all deadly weapons. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "These two kinds of **, you have to quickly tell Uncle Chen and Mr. Ouyang, they know where to put this thing." ”

Li Yunhe said: "It's a pity that this thing needs to carry a battery, which is inconvenient to use. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Without using a battery, you can ask Li Di to get a hand-cranked generator, bring a large capacitor in the hand-cranked generator, and charge the capacitor when the hand-cranked power is generated, and when you need to ignite, the electricity in the capacitor is enough." In addition, we can also produce dry batteries, which can also be ignited and detonated. We now have zinc, ammonium chloride, and manganese dioxide, which is easy to produce dry batteries. With dry batteries, it can not only detonate**, but also can be used as a flashlight. ”

Li Yunhe said: "Okay, what dry battery flashlight, you can talk to Li Di and Yangchang tomorrow." ”

Zhang Zhimu asked, "How are your pistols and machine guns?" ”

"The effect is remarkable after the hand ** is in, and we have to change it again. When the change is finished, if it is good, please go and test the gun. We've improved a lot of heavy machine guns, and now we think it's possible that there are some problems with our canvas chain, and we're improving it. Li Yunhe said.

Li Wei was a little anxious next to him, and said, "Li Yunhe, you are rambling endlessly, can't you talk about the new artillery?" ”

Li Yunhe had a good temper and said: "When it comes to the new cannon, Mr. Zhang has to say it." ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "Okay, let's talk about the direct aim of the artillery." ”

In fact, Zhang Zhimu didn't know much about artillery, and in his previous life, he was just a military fan, and he knew a little about the Maxine heavy machine gun and the Japanese devil 92 infantry gun that was very impressive. In my previous life, I knew that the 92 infantry gun of the Japanese devils was specially used against our machine guns, and this kind of gun had the reputation of being one inch short and one inch dangerous, and it could shoot both at a direct point and at a curved fire like a mortar. It is estimated that all military fans will be impressed by this weapon.

Zhang Zhimu finished drawing a schematic diagram of an infantry cannon with a pencil, and said, "We want to make an infantry cannon this time, just like a big rifle, with rifling in the barrel, and the shell is the same as the bullet, but it is larger, and the bullet can be loaded with ammunition." You see, this kind of gun is composed of a gun body, a gun bolt, a cradle, a station-and-retreat machine, a high and low machine, a steering machine, a large frame, wheels, an anti-shield, and an aiming device, which is completely different from a mortar.

The gun body consists of a barrel and a bolt. The body tube is monotube, thin in the front and thick in the back. Caliber 70 mm, 24 right-handed rifling inside. With a barrel length of 770 mm and a double diameter of only 11, it is a short-barreled gun. There is a skateboard groove in the lower part of the body tube, which is matched with the skateboard on the cradle for the body tube to move back and forth along the skateboard during the recoil retraction. The rear part of the body tube is the gun latch chamber, and the left and right arcs are engraved with internal threads corresponding to the latch body, and the lower part is a smooth arc surface.

The bolt is a spacer screw type, and it is opened vertically. When the bolt is opened, hold the handle grip of the bolt, so that the pins on it and the side wall of the tail are freed, and when the front end face of the bolt is separated from the end face of the bolt, the locking button of the bolt body is lifted, and the bolt body stops rotating under its action. The inertia created by the heavy bolt causes the root of the latch handle to violently hit the shell lever, and if there is an empty shell in the chamber, it will be thrown out of the chamber under the action of the shell bolt. At this time, the bolt is fully opened, which can be loaded with the next shell, and then push the bolt handle forward and upward to the initial position, so that the chamber can be locked, and the gun is in a state of waiting for fire. Pull the fire rope tied to the lead iron backwards, trigger the firing pin located in the latch, the firing pin hits the primer of the shell and ignites the shell, and under the impetus of high temperature and high pressure gas, the projectile flies out of the barrel and shoots towards the target.

Return-to-Retreat Mechanism When the gun is fired, it produces a large recoil force, which has a great impact on the stability of the artillery, and the station-retreat and retreat mechanism can solve this problem well. The Type 92 infantry gun uses a liquid spring type stationary retreat and retraction machine, which is installed in the cradle as a whole. The principle of action is as follows: when the gun recoils, one end of the piston rod is fixed at the head of the cradle, so the piston rod does not move, and the tail of the gun drives the retracting tube to move backwards. The standing fluid in the pipe flows into the left side of the piston through the gap between the piston and the standing and retreating pipe, and with the increase of the recoil stroke, the gap between the piston and the standing and retreating pipe also changes from large to small, and the flow rate of the standing fluid through it also gradually decreases, so that the standing and retreating effect is produced. When there is no gap, the retreat fluid cannot flow through, and the gun body stops recoiling. At the beginning of the recoil, the recoiling tube compresses the reentry spring that is sleeved outside the recoiling tube, so the compressed spring at the end of the recoil is extended, which pushes the retraction of the recoiling pipe, and correspondingly drives the gun body to return to the initial position, and completes the re-entry of the gun body.

We can use peanut oil to replace the retreat solution temporarily, and then replace the hydraulic oil when we extract it from coal tar, peanut oil is easy to oxidize, so it should be replaced frequently.

The large infantry gun is an open-leg large frame.

The method of adjusting the high and low firing angles is that the gun body is placed on the cradle, and the pitch of the cradle controlled by the high and low sight machine also gives the high and low angles of the gun body. The transmission process of high and low machines is as follows: high and low machine handwheel, transmission rod, worm gear, worm box, helical gear, and rockage.

The firing direction adjustment method is that the cradle is placed on the upper frame through the trunnion, and the upper frame is connected by the vertical shaft and the lower frame. The change in the firing direction of the gun was achieved by the rotation of the sight control frame around the vertical axis located on the left side of the gun hull. The transmission process is as follows: the direction of the handwheel, a bevel gearbox, a transmission rod, a worm gear and worm box, a large frame, a worm gear and worm mechanism at the front end of the frame.

The worm gear mechanism is used in the transmission mechanism of the steering machine and the high and low machine, which is stable and noiseless, and can be self-locking.

You see, this kind of artillery can be broken down into shields, gun bodies, cradles, large frames, 2 gun wheels, a total of 6 large parts.

This gun uses a fixed shell, with a total length of 362.8 mm, a weight of 4.5 kg, and a body diameter of 69.8 mm. The shell casings are made of copper. The warhead is made of steel or cast iron, but the middle of the shell must have a belt made of copper rings, which is used to make the shell rotate in contact with the rifling. Otherwise, the steel shell shell is in direct contact with the rifling, and the rifling will be destroyed at once. ”

Li Wei asked: "Is the caliber of such a shell a little smaller?" ”

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