Chapter 309 This time, no high technology
After seeing off the comrades from the Grassland Tractor Factory, Gao Zhendong made another call, this time to the Communications Institute. For such a unit, there was no need to ask the leaders of the Postal and Communications Commission to be the switchboard operators.

Gao Zhendong has reviewed and sent back the project "Telegraph Digital Communication Machine" in cooperation with the Posts and Communications Commission. The Posts and Communications Commission has approved it and formally sent a letter to the 17th Ministry of Machine Building to clarify the matter in terms of procedure.

Gao Zhendong is still the leader, but Gao Zhendong doesn't want to be the leader. After all, he is not prepared to invest time in this matter, nor does he need to invest any time because everything is ready.

But all the technologies came from Gao Zhendong. If he were not the leader, the Institute of Communications would have felt that the project was a bit unreliable.

But he doesn't need to worry about the specific matters, the Communications Institute will handle it on its own, and Gao Zhendong only needs to sign.

Upon receiving the news, the Communications Institute, led by Chief Engineer Feng, immediately rushed over at lightning speed. This matter could not be delayed. If they missed this opportunity, they would not know how long they would have to wait for the next one.

They all knew about the grand occasion at the DJS-60D briefing. There were more than just one or two units eyeing this thing. Even though they knew that Director Gao was the leader of this project, it was better to secure the deal first. Director Gao was the leader of more than one or two projects, and who knew if there would be any internal interception.

Looking at the two circuit boards that were emitting green light and were clean and seemed to be oozing with oil, Chief Engineer Feng was filled with joy, as people later often said, "This year's KPI was completed ahead of schedule."

In the current environment, the results of absolutely advanced innovation, all technical problems are already on the shelf, just waiting for integration. If this cannot achieve this year's KPI, then the Communications Institute should be closed down as soon as possible.

After seeing off Chief Engineer Feng, who was full of thanks and repeatedly promised progress, Gao Zhendong breathed a sigh of relief. The eight boards, plus the two he kept for himself, had been divided up, and the matter was finally settled.

Relaxed, he picked up the daily newspaper and started reading, but after reading it, he frowned.

A certain edition of the newspaper reported that we lodged solemn representations and protests against Zang San, who had been making small moves on the border of the western plateau, and demanded that the other side stop harassing our border.

After seeing this report, Gao Zhendong thought about it. As a senior military fan in his previous life, he remembered it very clearly. It was still too early for this. The real action would take more than two years.

Looking at the wording of the report, there are no phrases familiar to military fans such as “pull back from the brink”, “this is intolerable” and “don’t say I didn’t warn you”.

It's still early, Zang San can still jump around for a while. It is obvious that the wings of his butterfly have changed some things, but things like this involving wars between countries should not change much.

After putting down the newspaper, Gao Zhendong couldn't calm down.

He began to carefully search his mind for any memory of that self-defense counterattack, two years later.

There is no need to think about things like Zhuge Liang before the event. Let alone whether anyone will believe him or not, the battlefield changes rapidly and it can be said that it is basically useless.

However, what Gao Zhendong knew was that there would be casualties in battle. Apart from those that were unpredictable and unavoidable, the greatest casualties came from the process of capturing strong points and attacking tough targets.

You must know that we took the initiative to attack and eliminated one by one the defensive fortifications that Zang San had built for many years, especially some of them were systematic and solid permanent fortifications, and the other side occupied almost all the advantageous terrain.

The battle line with the heaviest casualties was in the southern part of the plateau. Zang San was well-rested with the defensive positions he had built up over the years, and with the terrain at his disposal, we were able to capture the enemy point by point.

I have to say, under such conditions, the enemy was able to fight such a terrible battle. No wonder we never looked down upon them later.

A typical example is that on November 11, at the No. 14 position in Wanong, an enemy battalion attacked one of our companies from top to bottom using the advantageous terrain. At the same time, another enemy battalion cooperated from bottom to top, attacking our army from both sides. The final result was that not only did they fail to capture the position after 06 hours, but they were counterattacked by our army from bottom to top for more than 1 meters, and only managed to hold on to Hill 6. In the end, their 1000th Brigade was divided and surrounded.

Having said that, the sacrifices of our soldiers are real. As I said, it is never cost-effective to exchange the lives of our soldiers for the lives of the enemy, even if the casualty ratio is high.

There will always be casualties in war, but can the sacrifices be reduced?
Gao Zhendong fell into deep thought.

Since the greatest casualties come from attacking strongholds, can we give our soldiers more suitable weapons so that they can complete their mission more smoothly?

It is impossible to do it without sacrifice, but it should be possible with less sacrifice.

Anti-tank missiles? I don't think so. No matter how cheap they are, they are still expensive at this time. It is a question of how many we can equip.

Not to mention anti-tank missiles, as far as Gao Zhendong knew, in this battle, the use of relatively primitive siege weapons such as explosive packs and blasting tubes was not uncommon.

It's not that there aren't 75mm recoilless guns, but their quantity, weight and terrain severely limit their use. In order to give full play to the firepower and support infantry operations, our 75mm recoilless gunners even resorted to the trick of "climbing trees with recoilless guns". However, this method is not applicable everywhere.

The Zang San can use pre-aimed firepower to resist stubbornly in the fortifications that have been built long ago, but we have to charge the enemy's strong fortresses in unfamiliar areas. In this case, the 75mm guns in the organization are either insufficient or difficult to keep up. Mortars and other weapons are difficult to provide infantry with direct firepower. To put it simply, when dealing with various hard targets that suddenly open fire in battle, they are neither accurate nor timely.

Flamethrower is a good thing, but its range is short and the fuel is at risk of freezing in high-altitude and cold areas.

As for bigger guns, forget it. With the terrain and the logistics and transportation capabilities at that time, we couldn't get a few. At that time, we withdrew after fighting. It was not that we didn't want to occupy the area, but that we simply didn't have the conditions.

What else is there besides anti-tank missiles?
The key issue is that this thing cannot attempt to change the existing firepower organization, because that action is too big and difficult to achieve in the short term, and it already involves the scope of the military system.

Gao Zhendong thought for a while, his eyes lit up, and he got it.

It's all my fault. I have been focusing on high-tech equipment and main battle equipment, but forgot that there is a small thing that is actually more suitable than anything else.

Actually, this thing doesn't have anything particularly high-tech to it, but it is really suitable for this situation. And most importantly, this thing can actually be used as a by-product of the anti-tank missiles that he is currently developing with the Changjian Machinery Factory, because everything it needs is already on the anti-tank missiles.

Another advantage is that if this thing is really developed, it will be cheap, but when it comes to the effect, it is really not bad.

Moreover, once it is finalized, the production volume can be exploded immediately, and there is no time limit in terms of time and cost, because it is not a high-tech equipment and the training is simple. Even if a cook comes, he can learn how to use it.

No, this statement underestimates the cooks, especially the cooks in our army.

Even if a medical officer came, it would not be right. Our medical officers were equally awesome in this battle, the kind that could lead the soldiers in blocking attacks.

Forget it. Anyway, anyone can come and practice and it will work.

What Gao Zhendong thought of was the "tube" that was very familiar to everyone in his previous life, and even everyone had one - the PF89 disposable rocket launcher.

Of course, it won’t be a complete copy, but overall it won’t be too far off.

The origin of PF89 can be traced back to the mid-60s when the Jiaozhi people seized the American M72 disposable rocket launcher on the battlefield. We referred to its concept (and it was only limited to the concept) and made the Type 70 62mm rocket launcher, but this thing was not truly disposable, and it had a small caliber and low power, so it was not equipped in large numbers, and then the PF-89 was slowly developed.

It has a range of several hundred meters, sufficient power, pretty good accuracy, weighs less than 4 kilograms, is less than one meter long, is cheap, does not take up space in the organization, and can be used as soon as it is distributed. Not to mention one per person, if two people carry one, a squad will have five!
It is really perfect to use it in this counterattack. It does not occupy the establishment, which means that as long as it is produced, it can be sent to the troops in the name of trial, and it can be used directly without the troops changing their firepower organization.

Don’t underestimate this, it can save you a lot of process problems.

Although this thing was originally an armor-piercing warhead, it is not difficult to modify it into an explosive-killing warhead or an assault warhead. Moreover, its developed type already has an armor-piercing, killing and incendiary warhead. In short, this thing works well.

To be honest, with its 180mm/65-degree armor-piercing power, it would not be impossible to defeat the Russian tanks in Northeast China even nine years later.

However, judging from Gao Zhendong's current achievements and plans, it is estimated that it will not be the main force to fight tanks by then.

Gao Zhendong was excited and did what he said. He picked up the phone and made the call.

There is no rush for the warhead, rocket engine and so on, just follow the anti-tank missile. Although the caliber of the anti-tank missile is larger than it, it is reasonable to develop a small caliber during the development process of the large caliber.

The issue that Gao Zhendong wanted to solve when he made this call was the issue of cheapness.

For something like a rocket launcher, the first thing to consider is that it has to be cheap, because its production will be very large.

How much do we produce? We have a type of rocket that has a defect in the charge, which easily corrodes the body and causes misfires. After discovering the problem, we checked it one by one and proactively scrapped a batch of rockets.

How many are in this batch?

——10 rounds!
Therefore, when a small country fights a modern war against a big country, especially against an industrial power, leaving aside diplomatic factors, there is basically no hope of winning. You will be defeated by the overwhelming forces.

(End of this chapter)