Although the mentor did not make it clear, the meaning was clear and he did not support Kuxining to launch a counterattack. Of course, he said it very tactfully and did not clearly disagree with the counterattack. He just said that Kuxining could do it if he wanted to counterattack, but he could only use the Finnish Red Guards to counterattack, and the volunteers were not allowed to mobilize.

However, everyone on earth knows that the Finnish Red Guard has a counterattack ability, with only more than 20,000 people in all attacks, and the weapons and equipment are the worst among light infantry. To be honest, the Finnish Red Guard may be just as good as an armed police to maintain social order. He went to the battlefield, especially when attacking the German Expeditionary Force, and the ending was to be beaten.

Kusining said shamelessly before, asking the volunteers to cooperate with the Red Guards to counterattack. In fact, his Red Guards are the real supporting role, and they can only play soy sauce. Li Xiaofeng naturally would not take the salary of the supporting role to do the protagonist's work, and in fact Lenin would not agree. Only Trotsky, who was improper, would do this.

As the mentor decided to deny the counterattack plan, Kusining's prestige in the Vyborg area and its control over the Social Revolutionary Party gradually declined. To be honest, Li Xiaofeng is now the master of the Vyborg area, and everything there is under his absolute control.

"The first batch of production models of Deshka machine guns have been launched, with a total of 24. After being tried by the troops, mass production can be carried out."

Federov finally brought good news to Li Xiaofeng. After three months of delay, Deshka finally stepped down from the drawing board. However, this anti-aircraft machine gun came a little late. Large-scale air battles over Finland have become a thing of the past. The German Expeditionary Force, which was unintentional to attack, and the Volunteer Air Force, which was unable to attack, shamelessly began to play tacit balls. Both sides did not violate the rivers, so that the bearded Sukhoi's complaints this month became stronger and stronger. This technical mate may be idle.

However, the PTRD-18 anti-equipment rifle has received praise from the army. This long, large and slightly bulky weapon can not only deal with tanks, but also light armored vehicles. It is also very effective in attacking general fortifications.

In the words of the Volunteer Army soldiers: "In the past, the White Army piled up a few sandbags or hid behind a brick wall to rest assured. The 7.62×54R bullets could not do anything to them. But with the PTRD-18, we could easily penetrate several layers of sandbags, or directly make holes in the brick wall, making the white dog hiding behind them frightened all day long."

Of course, the PTRD-18 is not without problems. First of all, the accuracy is slightly poor and it is not suitable for accurate shooting. Secondly, the recoil is relatively large. If the 14.5×114 bullet is replaced with a 23mm warhead, it is a shell. For weapons that are facing shoulders, the recoil is really unpleasant. Then there is the weight issue. This weapon actually weighs 18 kilograms, which is really too heavy for the soldiers. Finally, it is the rate of fire. Unlike the PTRS-41, it is semi-automatic. The PTRD-18 pulling the bolt after rotating is quite slow, especially the bolt is quite difficult to pull. Many soldiers missed the best time to shoot.

Even though there are many unsatisfactory aspects, the Volunteer Army still welcomes PTRD-18, which is better than Andre cocktails! To put it bluntly, the famous Molotov cocktail in history was affectionately called Andre cocktails by the soldiers. Although a certain immortal did not like this nickname at all, the soldiers still enjoyed it.

In terms of light weapons, the Volunteers were generally very satisfied with the praise. But in terms of heavy weapons, the situation was not so optimistic. The artillery soldiers complained, believing that the types of howitzers and cannons at hand were too difficult to serve and had limited performance. Every time they moved the position, it was considered a life of the artillery. The banner-style steel wheels could not push them in the muddy Finland. After a while, everyone would turn into mud monkeys.

Moreover, according to the reaction of the infantry brothers, in addition to the 122 howitzer, the power of other shells is a bit more powerful, and the fact that other shells are not satisfactory to deal with the strong workforce is not satisfactory. Fortunately, the volunteers also have heavy artillery support from the navy in Vyborg. Otherwise, they would really not be able to defeat the opposite German Expeditionary Force.

The troops strongly demanded a "heavy artillery" with a large enough pellet weight and a light enough weight to replace the guys who were not very powerful at hand. However, in the eyes of the General Equipment Department of the Red Army, this requirement is simply a whim. It requires a high power of the projectile and a light weight, so how can it be achieved? I don't have the technology of the Zenith Star. How can it be satisfied?

What Li Xiaofeng wants to say about this is, how could it not be satisfied? In his opinion, what a simple thing is the warriors want to be rocket launchers!

Is it simple? It's not simple at all. Maybe in the eyes of a certain immortal, the rocket launcher is just a few pieces of seamless steel pipes, and then the "Dragon Monkey" is enlarged and stuffed in. Of course, Russia has had this level of so-called rocket launcher, isn't it the Congrif rocket? In fact, this weapon is indeed used on the Finnish battlefield, but the effect is quite not very good.

Fortunately, a certain immortal soon woke up and quickly returned to the right road. With his support from Jikorov, he created a simple version of "Katyusha", a 76mm caliber, large-head ammunition with a cross-shaped wing, with a maximum range of 3 kilometers and a power of approximately equivalent to a 105mm howitzer.

"Is this our new weapon?"

Ubolevic is very unfavorable to this new weapon spliced ​​with several steel bars, because it is so simple that he, a genuine old artilleryman, has never seen a cannon that looks so unlike artillery.

Li Xiaofeng also felt embarrassed. The semi-finished product in front of him now is more similar to Katyusha. It uses a rail-type director and a rocket with a cross-shaped tail, which is indeed far from the rocket launcher he imagined.

“The performance looks quite unsatisfactory!”

Ubolevic added another sentence, because right in front of him, this crappy weapon fell off the shelf twice, fortunately this was a simulated bomb without explosives, otherwise this new weapon would have killed all his artillery first.

Tykhomirov wiped his sweat. Judging from his performance just now, it was indeed not ideal, but there was a reason for this, because a certain immortal was too impatient, and everything was simple. If he was given enough time, it would be a piece of cake to solve these problems.

Fortunately, Ubolevic did not continue to complain. After a few dozen minutes, the sweaty artillery finally loaded the rocket onto the launcher. Soon, it was time to really test this new weapon!

"Prepare! Let it go!"

With the command of the cannon leader holding the little red flag, the rocket was ignited. The yellow smoke sprayed out from the tail of the bullet. With a long howling, the ammunition with the big head and small butt rushed forward along the guide rail, broke free from the constraints and rushed into the sky!

There is a reason why the word "Zhi" is used, because a certain immortal and Ubolevich saw it in horror. A rocket swayed like a drunken drunk man, swayed into the sky and suddenly turned around, turned his head and dived in the direction of them, plunging into the soil layer less than ten meters away in front of them. If the warhead had a charge, it would probably be their front page headline tomorrow.

Ubolevic and Li Xiaofeng looked at each other. Then they looked at Tykomirov, who was full of waterfalls. The latter was almost frightened. If the weapon he invented killed the deputy commander and political commissar of the Volunteer Army, it would probably be that Chika would soon invite him to have tea and send him to the target.

"This is just an accident!" Tykhomirov stammered.

In fact, he doesn't have to be so nervous, because both Ubolevic and Li Xiaofeng knew that this was indeed just an accident, because the wings of the rocket fell off before leaving the launch frame. It would be strange if the monkey was not changed.

In fact, there was much more than one that failed to launch, and one was directly stuck on the launch rack. The engine sprayed high-temperature flames to roast the entire rack red. Another one fell off the rack during launch. Fortunately, some protective measures were taken before, otherwise this one would be more likely to fly all over the ground.

Of course, many were successfully launched, and more shoddy rockets flew towards the predetermined target and landed on a wasteland three kilometers away.

Putting down the telescope, Ubolevic changed his words: "It seems a bit interesting!"

Li Xiaofeng also said: "At least the firepower density is good. A launcher like this can launch 12 rockets. The cost of the launcher is almost negligible."

Ubolevich nodded and said, "It's true. It's just that the accuracy is too poor, and the spread is speechless. It's impossible to achieve accurate blows."

Li Xiaofeng smiled and said, "The requirements cannot be too high. After all, this is just a test piece for demonstration. And if there are more than a dozen or more launchers, hundreds of ammunition can be fired in one breath, which is enough to make up for the shortcomings of poor accuracy."

As he said that, he turned his head to ask Tykomirov, who was a little complacent, “Why don’t you need to rotate and stabilize, but use the tail to stabilize? Isn’t the rotation stability better?”

Tyhomirov replied with a bitter face: "Your requirements are too urgent, and the rotation stability requires relatively high technology for the engine nozzle and cannot be made for a while. The tail stability is much simpler and the cost is lower!"

Li Xiaofeng thought about it and it was indeed not easy to get the finished product in such a short time, and the requirements should not be too high. However, he still felt that the rotation was better, and it was best to fold the tail wing. He really didn't like this I-shaped directionalizer.

In this regard, Tykomirov argued: "I-clad directionrs are simpler and can be produced by an ordinary worker. The tubular directionrs you request are much more complex."

Although Ubolevic didn't like that simple air, he understood that Russia's industrial foundation and economic strength would be cheaper if it could be cheaper, and if it could be simpler, don't make it complicated.

"I-shaped crucifixion is good, but the range of the weapon is very unsatisfactory." He pointed to the far-reaching bullet point. "The range is only 3 kilometers at most, which is too short. When your weapon is fired, the fireworks are obvious. The enemy's mortar can react quickly and blow you up."

Tykomirov said: "Is that because the ammunition is now using black gunpowder as propellant, the energy and specific impulse are too low. If I change to a new propellant, I am sure I can increase the range to about 5 kilometers!"

Although the number of five kilometers is still disappointing, Ubolevic nodded in praise. A certain immortal interrupted and asked, "How about changing to liquid propellant? That should be bigger than the pulse, right?"

Tykomirov shook his head repeatedly. He strongly opposed the use of liquid propellants on rockets. Although liquid propellants have advantages in energy and relative impact, the use of liquid propellants will increase the complexity and cost of the engine. Although solid propellants are slightly worse in performance, they are low in cost and are simple to use and maintain, especially their reliability is higher than that of liquid propellants. For Russian soldiers with low quality, the latter is extremely important!

"Okay, you are an expert and you will make the decision!" Li Xiaofeng is still generous in this regard. Moreover, from the trend of the development of rocket launchers in the world, solid propellants are the kingly way, and there is no need to take detours.

After the experiment was successfully "successful", a fairy generously allocated another sum of funds to ask Tykomirov to start improving the rockets, requiring him to take out the rocket launchers and ammunition for publication no later than the first quarter of 1919.

After the rocket problem came to a conclusion, Li Xiaofeng went to the newly established Central Fluid Institute of Moscow. Two months ago, he commissioned the institution to develop a torpedo machine. Now that it has been so long, there is no news at all. It is really unreasonable!

"Comrade Andre, it's not that we don't carry out research, but that the central government has assigned us more urgent tasks. The priority of the torpedo aircraft has been delayed!"

Li Xiaofeng frowned and asked, "What more urgent research task?"

"The central government requires us to give priority to the development of cavalry attack aircraft. The front-line troops urgently need a weapon that can deal with the Cossack cavalry. All research focus will be on dealing with the cavalry!"

This news made Li Xiaofeng laugh and cry. Some painful special features on the civil war battlefield finally emerged. Because the combat area is vast and the front line is quite long. The cavalry, a group of soldiers who are completely out of date and are destined to be eliminated, actually rejuvenated in the battlefield of the Russian civil war.

The Red Army, which did not pay much attention to cavalry at the beginning, suffered a lot after fighting against the Cossack cavalry of the White Army and was beaten quite embarrassed at one point. In order to deal with the cavalry, the central government was already a little obsessed with it.

On the one hand, a considerable number of cavalry brigades, cavalry divisions and even cavalry troops were formed. On the other hand, they also issued death orders to the scientific research department, and they had to come up with practical weapons to deal with cavalry! For example, the army pirated Makhno's machine gun carriage. Naturally, the Air Force could only find ways on the plane and specially developed attack aircraft for dealing with cavalry.

Li Xiaofeng felt that this was a brain-dead. Is it necessary to specialize in developing aircraft to deal with cavalry? Whether it is a fighter or a bomber, it can deal with cavalry. Even if the aircraft dives, it can scare the cavalry's queues to disintegrate.

He believed that this was bureaucratic command, and the demand for his naval aviation was the most urgent. In 1919, in the face of the Royal Navy's interference, it was unrealistic to expect the Baltic Fleet to overthrow the powerful Royal Navy, and there was no air force deterrence. He would only be blocked by the British in Kronstadt!

Unfortunately, a certain immortal is not the chairman of the Military Commission and has no right to decide what weapons the Red Army needs most. Moreover, Trotsky does not think that what torpedo aircraft is most needed at the moment. Can torpedoes attack cavalry? Obviously, it cannot! So, the Red Army does not need torpedo aircraft for the time being!

Li Xiaofeng was so angry that he wanted to overturn the table, but he was still vomiting blood. When he angrily asked why he didn't inform him earlier that the torpedo plane was shelved for research and development, the General Equipment Department, which was prevalent in bureaucracy, replied very awesomely: "Equipment R&D is the highest secret of the Red Army and has no right to disclose it to the outside world!"

Of course, this is not too annoying for the relevant Russian departments with a strong bureaucratic atmosphere. What really made Li Xiaofeng angry was that these grandsons actually misappropriated the research funds he had advanced for administrative expenses.

Now Li Xiaofeng turned over the table. It doesn’t matter if he didn’t develop the plane he wanted, and if he didn’t notify him of canceling the project. And you grandsons actually dared to embezzle his money, which was simply unbearable!

"Comrade Trotsky, what's going on? You must give me a reasonable explanation!"

Trotsky was actually a little speechless. The grandsons below were really too out of line. Even he was unwilling to provoke someone. But these stupid guys were teasing each other again and again. You are trying to die!

But Lao Tuan cannot turn his elbows out. After all, he is the chairman of the Military Commission and the boss of the Red Army. He always has to maintain his authority.

"That's right, the funds are really tight recently. When the funds are sufficient, they will naturally be returned."

Li Xiaofeng refused to give in: "There is no such statement, it is understandable that the funds are short, and it is not impossible to misappropriate funds. But the premise is that the funds belong to the General Equipment Department! Now, these funds do not belong to the General Equipment Department, and after the funds are misappropriated, no one informed me! What is this behavior? This is a pure theft, it is a robbery!"

Trotsky said in his heart, really unhappy. In his opinion, the Chairman of the Military Commission had already given an explanation and promised to return the funds. This matter would be over. Even if you, Li Xiaofeng, don’t give me the face of the General Presiding, you have to give me the Chairman of the Military Commission a little bit of face, right? What does it mean to be so unyielding?

"I mean very simple! The funds must be returned immediately!"

Trotsky was also a little angry and said coldly: "What if the assembly does not return the funds?"

Li Xiaofeng glanced at him and said decisively: "It is natural to pay back the debt!"

Trotsky emphasized again: "There is no money in the final act now!"

Li Xiaofeng took a deep breath and asked coldly: "That is to say, the chief pretending to be on the debt, right?"

Of course, Trotsky would not give anyone a message and emphasized: "We admit the account and promise to pay back the money. But we can't take it out for the time being, it's that simple!"

Li Xiaofeng nodded, as if he was softening his tone: "Okay, I understand your difficulties. Can you pay back the money next month?"

Trotsky immediately shook his head: "No!"

Li Xiaofeng asked again: "What about the end of the year?"

Trotsky said directly: "Let's wait next year, we will hold a meeting to study and try to repay part of it first!"
Chapter completed!