Now that the Daheng Unification Army is in a critical period, it is unacceptable for the troops to reduce the output of the arsenal in the rear because of the conversion of production!

Cost, production troubles and many other factors have led to the design of the new 11mm Luoan IV rifle Although the design has been completed as a whole, it can still only be in the stage of continuous research and development and testing, at most it is small-scale production, but it is very difficult to fully switch to production.

Now, after discussions between the Ordnance Department and several large manufacturers under the Nanzhou Arms Company, they are ready to adopt a compromise approach, that is, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Luo'an Arsenal, the two main production factories of the Luo'an Type 3 rifle, are still fully engaged in the production of the Luo'an Type 3 rifle.

The rifle factory under the No. 1 Machinery Bureau of Zisheng Prefecture, which was repaired and rebuilt, directly converted the production line into the production line of the Luo'an IV rifle during the reconstruction and repair process.

At the same time, the Dongdingzhou No. 2 Arsenal and the Quyang Prefecture Qingde Arsenal, which did not have the ability to mass-produce Luo'an Type III rifles before, were upgraded and modified, and the Luo'an Type 4 rifles were directly produced after the transformation.

After these three arsenals, which were unable to produce Luo'an III rifles, completed technological upgrading and began large-scale production of Luo'an IV rifles, the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory and the Luo'an Arsenal were converted to production.

In the end, the production of the Luo'an III rifle was completely discontinued, and the production of the Luo'an IV rifle was fully switched.

How to put it, it is necessary to produce both new rifles and maintain the production capacity of old rifles.

After all, this war will not stop, the army's demand for firearms is increasing day by day, and the arsenals in the rear must maintain supply, and they cannot delay because of the change of production.

Fortunately, Nanhai Prefecture's own defense industry is strong, and its production capacity can reach 18,000 Luo'an Type 3 rifles per month just by relying on the Fuyuan Ordnance Factory alone, and the Luo'an Arsenal can also provide 3,000 rifles per month, with a total output of 21,000.

This is still the case of not working overtime, if you work overtime, at any cost, then this output can be further increased by more than 30,000 pieces.

With such a foundation, it was possible to carry out technical upgrades and transformation of several newly occupied arsenals in preparation for the subsequent mass production of the Roan IV rifle.

Weapons that are subject to many constraints, such as cost and time, are not limited not only by rifles, but also by artillery.

The main artillery used by the Daheng United Army today is the 51-year 75-mm field gun, howitzer, 150-mm short-barreled howitzer, and 52-year 100-mm cannon.

However, in fact, the artillery research and development team led by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has successfully developed more advanced artillery.

For example, the 75-mm field gun, the 75-mm field gun project team of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, has already come up with a 75-mm field gun with 30 times the caliber, and the effective firing range has reached 7,500 meters.

This effective range is almost equal to that of a hundred-millimeter cannon in service!

However, the army directly discarded this so-called new artillery, and only used it as a technical reserve.

Because this thing is whether it is the raw material of the barrel or the processing is a large number of new technologies, if you really want to produce, the production cost will be extremely high, and it is expected that the pure production cost will exceed 20,000 Hengyuan.

This cost is absolutely unacceptable to the army, and the current 75-mm field artillery with a caliber of 20 times the caliber costs only 2,300 Heng Yuan.

This price is not said to have risen by one or two times, but by seven or eight times.

What's more, this thing is not only expensive, but also expected to have a very limited production capacity, because of the low yield rate, it is estimated that the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau can only produce more than ten or twenty doors a month.

What's the use of this little production?

At present, the 51-year-old 75-mm field artillery production line of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau has a monthly output of more than 150 units, and this is actually only a small part of the production capacity of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.

Most of the production capacity of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau is actually used to produce large-caliber army artillery and naval guns.

With the strength of the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, it can only build a dozen or twenty 75-mm field guns a month, which is simply unbearable.

So this so-called new 75-mm field gun was so ruthlessly abandoned.

It can also be seen from this that when the Daheng Unification Army is engaged in new weapons, it does not mean that it simply pursues performance, but also has to take into account cost and production capacity, and even the latter two are more important than performance.

The same is true of today's heavy machine guns!

Otherwise, there would not be a full-fledged production version of a heavy machine gun that is inferior to the prototype......

As the person in charge of the ordnance department finished introducing the mass-produced machine gun, the officers and men of the machine gun unit demonstrated the test firing of the heavy machine gun on the spot.

When he saw the heavy machine gun spewing out dense bullets, directly hitting a big tree in front of him and breaking it off, Lin Ziran nodded slightly and applauded, and Wu Guanlin beside him said: "My lord, now I can't wait to know how much role this machine gun can play in the exercises that will be held." ”

Lin Ziran said: "You will see!" ”

About two hours later, the venue for the exercise was rearranged, and barbed wire was erected in front of the positions of some of the defending troops!

When everything was ready, the drill began!

The exercise was divided into an attacker and a defender, with the 4th Regiment of the Garrison Division as the core, an artillery battalion as a support firepower, and an additional machine gun company reinforced with eight heavy machine guns, and the unit was set to occupy a hilly plateau and hold the main communication artery.

The attacking force was the remaining three regiments of the garrison division, as well as the cavalry regiment and the three artillery battalions, with the strategic task of opening up the main communication routes.

In this exercise, the focus of the exercise was a piece of high ground in front of the left, which was not actually a hill, but a continuous low hill, but to the west of it was a railway line and an accompanying road.

At the same time, the high ground can also overlook a large area in front of the front, and the firing range is good, and artillery can be deployed to block the railway line and the frontal battlefield.

The 3rd Regiment of the Garrison Division, as the defensive force, deployed the defensive line with this Jiayi Heights as the core, put all the artillery battalions on the reverse slope of this hill, and then went to the hill to build a trench defense line, and deployed a machine gun company and an infantry battalion.

As soon as the exercise began, the commander of the attacking unit naturally saw at a glance the strategic position of this No. 1 Height, and took advantage of the superiority in troops, directly divided his troops, and after using part of his forces to contain the rest of the troops of the Third Regiment, he mobilized the strength of an entire regiment and most of the artillery to launch a fierce attack on this high ground.

In the middle and early stages of the exercise, everything was normal, the attacking troops were smoothly divided, the roundabout maneuvers were smooth, and the defending unit No. 1 high ground was successfully cut off from the friendly forces on the north flank.

This was followed by a heavy artillery bombardment of the No. 1 Heights to cover the infantry attack, but the results of the subsequent attack were shocking.

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