Chapter 406: Arrow Breaks the Sky
The leaders of the Defense Work Committee understood Mr. Zhang's self-awareness.

"Well, that's fine. You guys are definitely not as good as professional institutions in this regard. Just use it for yourselves. I'll take care of this. Put everything you wrote down here and don't take it back."

Mr. Zhang was very happy. The things recorded back from Gao Zhendong had become a hot potato for him. He had many other materials to be careful of, so it would be best if he didn't take this thing with him.

He hurriedly put the things on the leader's desk and said, "Leader, we are waiting for good news."

The leader put away the things and asked, "What is the current situation of the work of War Drum No. 1?"

Although Mr. Zhang is not in charge of the overall situation, since he is here, it is necessary to ask.

Mr. Zhang knew about this, and the work was going well, and he said it without any pressure: "Our Chief Engineer Jin also asked me to report this to you. Overall, it is going smoothly, and we should be able to conduct a test launch soon. The addition of the DJS series transistor computer has greatly reduced our workload and accelerated the process."

For Chief Engineer Jin, it is not easy for all the people in the entire base to go to Kyoto, and it is impossible for him to report everything in person.

According to the original timeline, the War Drum No. 11 was to be successfully tested in November. Now it is August, which is two months ahead of schedule. The reason why it is not as far ahead of schedule as another "flagship product" of the Desert is mainly because the War Drum No. 8 was developed according to sample bullets and data, and the amount of calculation required is not that much.

"Ahead of schedule? Are you sure? How are the technical and tactical performances?" The leader was somewhat happy about this.

"We are still confident. Generally speaking, the supporting factories have done a very good job, and some products have even achieved performance ahead of schedule. However, the object of imitation of War Drum No. 1 is poor in foundation. We have met the original indicators in terms of technical and tactical performance, but in terms of meeting the needs, we think it is more appropriate to focus on War Drum No. 2 according to your arrangement at the time."

The leader of the Defense Work Committee was not dissatisfied with this: "Well, the War Drum No. 1 was originally used mainly for training. Its range is so short that even the Japanese can't reach it. It's meaningless. How is the pre-research status of the War Drum No. 2?"

Speaking of this, Mr. Zhang is no longer sleepy.

"We are very optimistic. We originally considered lengthening and enlarging the War Drum No. 1, but there was no technical breakthrough. However, with the help of Comrade Gao Zhendong, we have made great progress in fuel, guidance, flight control and other aspects compared with the originally planned War Drum No. 2. In particular, the use of room temperature fuel has reduced costs, improved maintainability and response speed, and greatly improved technical and tactical indicators."

The leader of the Defense Work Committee was very satisfied with this: "Well, that's good. Go back and tell Chief Engineer Jin to complete the test firing of War Drum No. 1 as soon as possible, and then shift the focus of work to the improvement and finalization of War Drum No. 2."
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On the last day of August 1960, as soon as Gao Zhendong got to work, he opened the "Daily News" that he had brought in from the door. After taking the first glance, he jumped up from his chair and shouted loudly.

"it is good!!!"

On the front page headlines was the news about the successful test launch of my country's first ballistic missile.

"The Long Arrow of the Heaven Pierces the Sky"

As soon as Gao Zhendong saw this title, he knew what it was. At that time, there were only a few strategic and tactical models under development, and the only ones that could live up to the style of this title were ballistic missiles.

After calming down and taking a look, I saw the news that the test launch of War Drum No. 1 was successful.

As a veteran military fan, Gao Zhendong knew the original test launch time of this missile. It was suddenly advanced by more than two months. It seemed that it was the influence of his little butterfly.

The specific impact may be faster calculations, more food, more resources, or better technology. All are possible.

I definitely didn't make any direct contribution to War Drum No. 1. Judging from the time I came into contact with Mr. Cai and Senior Brother Zhang, even if they got the new technology, they would not hastily modify the already-formed War Drum No. 1. Instead, it would be more likely that they would apply it to War Drum No. 2 or even later models.

Despite this, Gao Zhendong was still quite proud of the early test launch of the War Drum No. 1.

If we can achieve two months’ progress on this and at least two years’ progress on another matter, then won’t it have more impact on other matters as well?

Gao Zhendong was reading the newspaper happily when someone came to see him.

He is a comrade from the Propaganda Department. Gao Zhendong asked him to inquire about medical books last time.

This comrade was indeed very dedicated and found out almost everything as quickly as possible. He made a few lists and came to find Gao Zhendong.

"Director Gao, I have accomplished your mission. Here are my preliminary statistics of existing public publications in the field of medicine."

After saying that, he took out several printed lists. While Gao Zhendong was still wondering why there were so many copies, he saw the other party handing them over and introducing them at the same time.

"This is partial diagnosis and treatment, this is surgery, this is theory, this is traditional Chinese medicine."

Wow, although the other party said he wanted to provide treatment, he was still very diligent in collecting other related books and information.

Look at how they did it, just like Gaojiazhuang in the Jizhong Plain during the Anti-Japanese War, all authentic! Gao Zhendong browsed through it carefully. Although the books at that time were far less abundant than later, there were still thousands of them.

Only children make choices, adults, you have to take them all!
Gao Zhendong looked at the lists and said, "Comrade, can I ask you for a favor? Buy me two copies of each of these books. Calculate the approximate price and I'll give it to you."

As for why I bought two copies of each, it is because they are useful.

Although he downplayed the incident, it scared the comrades in the propaganda department.

The price of books at that time was not as high as tens or hundreds of yuan like in the future, but it was still a few cents to a few yuan.

If I buy two copies of each of these thousands of books, it would cost me several thousand to tens of thousands.

Let’s not talk about whether Chief Engineer Gao has so much money. Even if he does, he wouldn’t dare to accept it. This number is too exaggerated for ordinary people.

"This, this..." The comrades in the Propaganda Department suddenly encountered a system outage.

Gao Zhendong thought the other party was worried that he didn't have enough money, so he quickly added: "Don't worry about the money. I have published many books, so I have enough savings."

Comrade, even if you have so much money, I wouldn't be so bold.

While Gao Zhendong was talking, the comrades in the propaganda department came up with a solution: "Mr. Gao, it's like this. I'm not worried that you don't have the money, but I'm worried that I can't do it myself. There are so many books and the amount is so large."

After hearing this, Gao Zhendong understood that these books probably could not be bought in a bookstore.

"Here's what I think, Mr. Gao. I'll go back and report to our company. They'll contact the Xinhua Bookstore head office directly and let them handle this matter. We'll see how much money it costs then, and you can still pay later."

Well, this method is reliable. The people in their propaganda department have dealt with comrades from Xinhua Bookstore a lot, so it will definitely be more effective than doing it myself.

"That's great. I'll leave this matter to you. I hope it can be done as soon as possible."

The head office could directly order the goods according to the list, which should be much faster. This made Gao Zhendong think more actively and he wanted to do another good thing at the same time.

The other party agreed repeatedly and went back to handle Gao Zhendong's request.
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At about the same time, several comrades from the Beijing Research Institute were invited to the Defense Work Committee. It was said that there was a new project that they wanted to entrust to them for research.

Although the laser gyroscope may seem like an optical problem, it is actually more of an in-depth study of laser applications.

As for laser, it has only been a few months since it was officially launched. Not only in China, but even in the whole world, there are not many people who are familiar with it.

The people who have conducted the most in-depth research on this from a theoretical perspective in China are probably the comrades from the Original Research Institute. Even according to the inventor of the laser, Comrade Gao Zhendong from the Third Rolling Mill of the Seventeenth Ministry of Machine Building, he himself is not as good as the comrades from the Original Research Institute.

The Defense Work Committee had a very accurate judgment on which unit to choose to undertake the overall development of the laser gyroscope, and did not go to find the comrades from the Northeast Institute of Optics.

The people who came from the original research institute were their director, chief engineer, and two comrades who had the most profound knowledge of laser research. This was the profession that the Defense Work Committee specifically requested.

In a small conference room, they saw the principle concept of the laser gyroscope.

The two comrades working on lasers were overjoyed to see a treasure. They were just worrying about not being able to find an applied research direction, and then the topic came up.

After reading the principle concept, they were very sure that this thing could be done.

One of them first affirmed the theoretical feasibility: "The idea of ​​this laser gyroscope is indeed feasible. In principle, it is based on the Sagnac effect proposed in 1913. Originally, this effect was difficult to use in this direction because the wavelength of the light that can be used is very complex and it is difficult to measure the optical path difference."

Another added: "But the emergence of lasers has really changed this situation. Lasers have good monochromaticity and a very narrow wavelength range, which makes it possible to apply this principle. The person who proposed this principle not only has a solid grasp of past knowledge, but also has a good grasp of new technologies. He immediately grasped this point of lasers and combined it with the Sagnac effect to find a new application direction. What a genius!"

These two are indeed professionals, and they immediately thought of the technical principles on which this idea is based.

The discovery of this effect was actually earlier than the proposal of the laser principle. Some people have been studying it in the meantime, but due to the light source, it did not have practical application prospects.

(End of this chapter)