Burning Moscow

　　 While I was holding the AK47 in a daze, Vlasov on the side asked Bezikov curiously: "Comrade Colonel, why does this comrade engineer say that Lida is his lifesaver?"

　　 I was in a daze when I heard Vlasov's question, I couldn't help but hit a violent spirit all over my body, staring at Bezikov nervously, wanting to hear how he answered. But I soon found out that I was unfounded and worried. Fronin’s identity seemed to be a top secret. Bezikov glanced at me and said lightly: "Last time Lida went to the city to treat her injuries, she met him on the road. The air attack, by chance, saved the engineer's life."

Regarding Bezikov’s perfunctory explanation, Vlasov also seemed to see something wrong. He just sighed and didn’t continue to question. Instead, he took the assault rifle from my hand and looked at it carefully. After a long time, I asked Froning: "Comrade Senior Engineer, what are the characteristics of this assault rifle?"

Fronin stepped forward, took the rifle from Vlasov’s hand, placed it on the table, and began to give us a detailed introduction: "This rifle is a newly developed assault rifle, with a body length of 870 mm. , Weighs 4.3 kg, and uses 7.62 mm bullets, that is, the Mosin Nagan rifle bullets currently used by our army, which are supplied by an arc-shaped magazine with a capacity of 30 bullets. The safety/speed handle is on the right side of the receiver. , You can choose a semi-automatic or fully automatic firing method. The handle is located on the right side of the receiver. Compared with the rifles equipped in various countries, this rifle has a short body and a shorter range, which is suitable for closer combat."

　　 Mr. Lin picked up his rifle and looked at it. Without speaking, he put it back on the table. Vlasov said disapprovingly: "This rifle is equivalent to a new type of submachine gun."

　　 Hearing his comment, Fronin was a little unhappy and said: "Compared with submachine guns at the same distance, assault rifles not only have higher shooting accuracy, but also have greater lethality."

　　 Vlasov screamed, turned his head and asked Mr. Lin: "Deputy Commander Lin, what do you think?"

President Lin smiled slightly and said faintly: "If you don't have an investigation, you have no right to speak. It's useless to talk about soldiers here. You must know that practice is the only criterion for testing truth. We only know about this kind of gun after we personally practice it. What is the performance?"

"Well, let's find a place outside to try the power of this weapon." Vlasov said, picked up the rifle on the table again, and asked Bezikov's opinion: "Comrade Colonel, Come with us?"

　　 Bezikov nodded in agreement, and asked Fronin: "Comrade Senior Engineer, are you with us too?"

The old man waved his hand and sat down straight to find a place and said, "I'm not going. I'm a little tired, and I want to rest here." After that, he looked up at me and said, "Comrade Female Commander, I don't know. Do I have the honor to let you stay and chat with me?"

I smiled awkwardly, and suddenly felt that staying is neither going nor leaving. Fortunately, Vlasov helped me out: "Lida, since the senior engineer feels tired, I want to sit down and rest in the command post. , Then you stay with him."

　　 "Yes!" Since the commander said so, I stayed there.

After everyone left, I poured a cup of black coffee for the old man, pushed a plate of biscuits in front of him, and greeted him warmly: "Comrade senior engineer, please taste the biscuits baked by the chef in our army. "

　　Fronin did not speak, but looked around, and then asked in a low voice, "Lida, how is Vaskov? Or should I say that there is a warrant officer?"

When I first heard Vaskov’s name, I hadn’t recovered. I didn’t remember who Fronin was talking about. But when I heard the warrant officer he was talking about, I immediately understood who he was talking about, and I was shocked. All in a cold sweat. Ignoring what he said, I rushed to the door a few steps, opened the door and looked out with some guilty conscience.

　　 Sitting outside on duty was a lieutenant officer who saw me standing at the door and quickly stood up to salute me and asked, "Comrade Chief of Staff, do you have any instructions?"

　　 I looked at the empty corridor, I was relieved, and then asked him cautiously, "Are all of them, Commander, have gone out?"

The lieutenant on duty looked at me in surprise, and replied: "Yes, Commander Vlasov, Deputy Commander Lin, Translator, Captain Yushchenko, and the colonel who just arrived have left." There was a pause. , Asked me cautiously: "Comrade Chief of Staff, do you have anything to do? Do you need me to call them."

　　 I waved my hand again and again, and said, "No, no, I just ask casually. You can continue on duty." After finishing speaking, regardless of the dazed lieutenant, he closed the door with a slam.

　　 After closing the door, I looked back and found that Florin was enjoying coffee there leisurely. I walked over to him and sat down, looked at the old man in front of him, and asked in a low voice, "Comrade Engineer, are you not having memory loss? Why did you suddenly ask Warrant Lieutenant Vaskov?"

With a triumphant smile on his face, the old man replied in a low voice: "When you were at the subway station, you warned me that now is the Stalin era. If you want to live safely, you must change your thinking. In this way, think of yourself as someone who has been living in this era. You must learn to pretend to be confused in order to live long."

　　 I approached him and asked, "Comrade Engineer, what the **** is going on? You have confused me."

"It's very simple!" Fronin explained to me: "After listening to you, I have been thinking about how to pretend to be confused without arousing the suspicion of the authorities. I was injured in the airstrike on the road, and I moved in. The hospital, so I had the idea to pretend to have amnesia. I didn't expect that I would fool everyone in this way."

　　 Seeing the proud expression of the old engineer, the rock hanging in my heart fell to the ground, and then I turned my words to the topic. I asked him curiously: "I didn't expect that you would produce assault rifles for later generations so soon. But I have a question. If you can produce so many rifles in such a short period of time, is it because you built another gun? Is it a production line?” As soon as I asked this question, I immediately rejected my guess, “No, right? Even if it’s going to be on the production line, one month is far from enough. What is going on here?”

The old engineer looked at me like an alien monster~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and said, "Lida, you seem to be a layman. Don’t you know that this assault rifle is from the Izhevsk Machine Manufacturing Plant Did the workers make it by hand?"

　　 "But can the workers produce qualified products just by putting together the drawings you provide?"

Fronin sighed, with an expression that I was defeated, and explained: "Do you remember those skilled workers in the subway station? You know, many of them were originally workers in the arsenal. Don't It is said that the construction is based on drawings, even if there are no drawings, these skilled technical workers can still assemble the assault rifle with suitable parts."

　　 "But didn't those workers who left the subway station were all killed in the German airstrike?"

The old engineer waved his hand and said, "This is impossible. Except for the engineer Sherekin who was in the same vehicle who was killed in the airstrike, the rest of the skilled workers are alive and well. They are currently in the Izhevsk Machine Manufacturing Plant. Working in the workshop provided, these AK47 assault rifles were produced by them overtime."

"AK47, it turns out that the name of this assault rifle is AK47." I pretended to be amazed, and then I deliberately said lightly: "The number 47 should be the year when the army was installed. If this assault rifle If our army has been equipped since 1942, should it be renamed AK42?"

When Froning heard me say this, he couldn't help but froze for a while, and then said thoughtfully: "You are right. Although this gun is a later AK47, but it was released so many years in advance, it may really only be called AK42. "