Seeing that Guo Bingxun finally figured it out, Yang Zhen did not continue to explain this issue. In fact, this was why he was so sincere in front of Li Yanping and Guo Bingxun, his two most capable partners. If it were anyone else,
I'm afraid Yang Zhen is not even willing to say a word of explanation, let alone explain it so thoroughly?
Although the basic tone has been set, there are some things that Yang Zhen did not expect. After many back-and-forth negotiations, the Soviets finally agreed to his exchange plan. But when signing the final agreement
, but something went wrong.
Speaking of the reason, it almost makes people laugh out loud. M30122 howitzer, this Soviet standard division support artillery, the Soviets naturally know what it is. Although they lost thousands on the battlefield in the early stage
Thousands of artillery pieces, but the Soviet army can still fully meet the needs of the Anti-Alliance relying on its existing inventory.
There is no need to even transfer it from the western battlefield. This artillery, which is currently not in large numbers in the Far East, can fully meet the small needs of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. As for epoch-making tanks like the T34 tank, the Soviets naturally know it.
Very, because they are all Soviet military standard equipment.
Although when the war situation was tense, some of the latest tanks were deployed, which made the Soviets also feel pain. But at least they knew where to find these equipment. The most critical issue appeared in the tank that Yang Zhen
It's called the ZLS Type 3 76mm cannon.
At present, the Soviet army is equipped with many types of 76mm artillery, especially field artillery. The medium-caliber artillery it equips is basically 76mm. Its current division-level equipment is mainly F-22 and
The F-10 field gun, and the regiment-level equipment is the 1922-type field gun. There is no ZLS-3 76mm field cannon at all.
The Soviet representatives who came to negotiate, including the Soviet General Staff behind them, were completely confused about this so-called ZLS III 76mm cannon. They had no idea when their own troops had ever been equipped with such a cannon.
An artillery piece. Even the Soviet Ordnance Department, which was in charge of the production of Soviet artillery, did not know when the Soviet Union produced such a 76mm cannon that sounded to have extremely excellent performance.
Until this negotiation, Yang Zhen, who had always been behind the scenes, proposed that this artillery was a product of the famous Soviet Lacobin Design Bureau. The man who was urgently recalled from the front line single-handedly ruined a considerable part of the Soviet army's excellent equipment.
Even the several new weapons provided by Yang Zhen only came to mind after the former Minister of Ordnance, whom he shot to death, recalled the artillery that he had banned from production in July this year.
After finally finding out the origin of this artillery piece, the Soviet Union was unable to provide it in stock because the production of this artillery piece was banned after it passed the verification. This situation undoubtedly embarrassed the Soviets. A foreign product
The artillery that everyone knew was banned from production by our own people. And now we are even unable to produce the numbers required by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and we cannot exchange for the anti-tank weapons we urgently need.
In the end, Major General Lacobin, who served as the chief designer, risked his head and told the General Ordnance Department of the Soviet Army. The artillery that was shot by the Soviet Marshal secretly went to Gorky 91 under the design bureau.
Some of them have been produced in small quantities in the factory.
Although the total number of these secretly produced artillery pieces is less than 1,000, there is absolutely no problem in meeting the needs of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. It was precisely with this major general chief designer who stepped forward at the critical moment that this painting was made possible.
The farce did not last long before it ended.
When this gun was requested by Yang Zhen, the entire Soviet army was found to be an unequipped artillery piece. The Supreme Commander of the Soviet Army, who aroused great interest, ordered it to be taken to Moscow for test firing to satisfy his curiosity.
And when it was tried out in the subsequent Battle of Vyazma, it showed great power when it destroyed dozens of German tanks and armored vehicles within a long range with only a four-gun artillery battery.
The Soviet commander who was shocked by the excellent performance of this artillery would have almost broken the contract on the spot if it were not for the persuasion of the current Soviet Chief of General Staff. This artillery is so powerful that all current German tanks cannot defend it.
The main 45mm anti-tank artillery currently equipped by the Soviet army has an armor-piercing capability that is unmatched, and it makes the Soviet commander reluctant to exchange for an artillery piece.
However, although all the artillery was finally delivered according to the number set in the negotiation, a full set of drawings were provided, and some technical personnel were sent to the Anti-Japanese Alliance to assist in production. However, the Supreme Commander of the Soviet Army, who was actually very cautious, turned his anger
It was all vented on the unfortunate former Ordnance Minister.
In fact, it was not unfair to vent his anger on him. If it were not for his conservativeness and inaction, this artillery with excellent performance and considerable power would not have been buried for so long. According to the strong production capacity of the Soviets
, when the agreement is signed, there will definitely be no problems if thousands of doors are used.
If he hadn't ordered a ban on the production of this artillery, the Soviet army, which is currently seriously lacking new anti-tank weapons, would not be so short of excellent large-caliber anti-tank weapons. It would not be begging them in a low voice, as it had been begging them before.
of Chinese.
Even Yang Zhen had long provided the Soviets with individual anti-tank weapons such as rocket launchers, but in the end he ordered a ban on production and even the drawings were destroyed. Some people accidentally brought it up at this time. This
The marshal's not very good character made him obviously unpopular with the Soviet generals at all levels.
There were almost no people who interceded for him when dealing with his problems, but there were quite a few who made trouble for him. Even when the Soviet counter-revolutionaries were at their most intense, they did not hesitate to take the risk of being arrested themselves to save the Soviet army.
Neither the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, who was a talented young general, nor the current Chief of General Staff said a word for him.
In addition to his previous experience of failure as a representative of the base camp to supervise operations on the front line, the furious Soviet commander directly demoted the unlucky former Minister of Ordnance from marshal to lieutenant general, and sent him to the Central Asian Military Region to do a job.
A patchwork of artillery can only serve as the artillery commander of two regiments.
If it weren't for the sake of the old comrades who fought side by side in Tsaritsyn, I'm afraid that his one big star would be directly replaced by the two small stars of the Soviet major general's logo. He might even be found to be an excuse.
With no excuse, just like those unlucky ones at the beginning of the Soviet-German war, they were sent to military courts and shot or sent to Siberia to move rocks.
This Soviet marshal, who was too conservative and had many of the Soviet army's excellent new weapons aborted, suffered a big setback this time. Although he was not directly demoted to major general as Yang Zhen knew in history, he has since left the military.
The top brass of the Soviet army never went to the battlefield again until the end of the war. First, they had a nominal sinecure in the Central Asia Military District, and then were transferred to the Siberian Military District as a deputy commander.
In addition to the unlucky former marshal, another consequence of Yang Zhen's move was the Soviets' strict review of the Lacobin Design Bureau and the Soviet Army's General Ordnance Department. Just kidding, the Soviets themselves didn't know there was such a thing
A new cannon, how did the damn Chinese in the Far East know about it?
When this kind of problem occurs, there must be traitors, Chinese spies and hostile elements within the General Ordnance Department and the Design Bureau. Not only must they be investigated, but they must be thoroughly investigated. Those enemy agents hidden within the great Soviet Red Army must be
It must be removed completely.
As a result, Yang Zhen obtained the drawings of this excellent artillery and a batch of existing equipment. The chief designer of this excellent artillery and the design team led by him, except for two people, were sent to the Far East to assist the Anti-Alliance production after strict review.
In addition, the rest were all imprisoned in the Ministry of Internal Affairs prisons.
When Yang Zhen made this plan, he did not expect that his own hand would lead to the mass production of this excellent artillery a few months earlier than he originally knew. Because he made a subjective mistake in this matter
He always thought that this artillery had already been mass-produced at the beginning of the Soviet-German war.
He never imagined that the artillery would actually only start production at the end of this year, and that large-scale equipment for the Soviet army would only be next year. He never imagined that the fate of a Soviet marshal would fundamentally change in his own hands.
There were also a group of outstanding Soviet artillery designers who were imprisoned because of themselves, and many were even shot.
The subsequent impact of this incident was not just that, it even extended to the introduction of other Soviet-made weapons by the Anti-Japanese Alliance a few years later. Especially the introduction of Soviet-made D-152 howitzers and D-44 85mm howitzers by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
When it comes to cannon production technology.
Yang Zhen made the Soviet Union a little nervous and suspicious. Almost every time Yang Zhen proposed to introduce that weapon, it was always followed by a thorough purge of the weapons design bureau or production factory.
.From the chief designer to ordinary technicians and even workers are the objects of suspicion.
After killing and killing, none of the spies was caught, and the Soviet Union lost many excellent weapons designers. This time, General Lacobin was lucky enough to save his life under the protection of the Soviet Chief of General Staff.
However, there were only a few people left in his design team, and the rest were arrested by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and shot on random charges.
In addition to the artillery design bureau, even the Far Eastern Military Region followed suit. The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Military Region, who was responsible for suppressing counter-revolutionaries and anti-special forces, was recalled to Moscow and never returned. After the military region’s Intelligence Minister was arrested, he was not given any trial.
Moscow ordered the direct execution. Even Kovalev was almost not implicated. After completing the negotiations, he was recalled to Moscow, and it took a long time before he could return.
If Yang Zhen had not repeatedly requested that the Anti-Japanese Alliance only recognize him and the Far East King General Abana Shenk in its negotiations with the Soviet Union, I am afraid that these two people would not be able to save their heads. As for the Chief of Staff of the Far East Military Region who was directly responsible for this negotiation, he was
He was demoted to a division commander and sent to the front line, and was eventually killed in the Battle of Kharkov the following year.
Yang Zhen's foresight and coveting of the excellent Soviet-made artillery led to the always suspicious Supreme Commander of the Soviet Army to go on a killing spree every time Yang Zhen opened his mouth. Until the end of the war, because of the weapons
The designer was thrown into jail and had his head lost too many times, which had greatly affected the upgrade and update of Soviet weapons and equipment before he stopped.
It's just that the subsequent impact of this incident was not what Yang Zhen could have expected. Yang Zhen, who lacked high-performance artillery in his hands, asked for the artillery he needed by name, but he did not even think about the harm he would do to the Soviets.
What consequences will it bring? In other words, he has already thought about it, but he is just talking about making a fortune and consciously does not say anything about it.