On 17 May, at the shooting range west of Yongxing City, several artillery pieces and a 121-millicaliber twelve-barreled portable rocket launcher were neatly lined up at the shooting range.

"This cannon roars like a tornado, and the ground is like a thunderbolt, urging it to be overcome, and destroying it is gone, it's amazing!"

Lu Gao praised endlessly, and Bai Liyan said proudly:

"It only takes a dozen seconds for this cannon to fire a salvo of 12 shots, and it can instantly wipe out an acre of land. Thinking about how powerful the armpit man is, in the face of such powerful firepower, his bones are gone, and no matter how he can't die, it's just a joke. ”

At this time, Zhao Huan said:

"If it's on a warship, it's even more terrifying to think about it."

Bai Liyan shook her head and said:

"Otherwise, it is very inconvenient to install on a wooden ship, but it is better to use it for artillery bombardment on land, but it is not easy to use it against enemy ships."

Before the words fell, Jiang Jie said worriedly:

"However, the maximum firing range of this cannon is only fifteen miles, and the axillary howitzer movement is more than twenty miles, which is still outside its range."

"That's a good point." Bai Liyan affirmed Jiang Jie's statement, and then said: "But have you ever thought about it, how cumbersome the armpit artillery is, and this rocket artillery can be pulled away by a mule and horse, and a few people can enter the mountain by splitting it, just act in concealment, take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, launch a surprise attack, and then pull and run, isn't it inconvenient."

Moreover, this cannon ammunition does not need a launch tube, and it is carried and fixed on the mound of earth to shoot a round, which can be fired by percussion, heating, and electric fire, which is very convenient. If it is loaded in a pickup truck, mobile combat, hit and run, how can people in armpits do anything about me. ”

The 121 milli caliber (about 109 mm) rocket launcher developed by Yongxing City is a pure copy of the rocket artillery concept, which does not require any tools, is disassembled and assembled by bare hands, is lightweight, flexible, and durable, and can be used even by illiterates.

The launch uses a standard hand-cranked generator allocated, or a battery, three to five dry battery boxes, which can also be launched by impact, and ignition can also be, since it is a flap, as far as possible in the pursuit of technology to do a large degree of closer, 107 rocket artillery has a little, 121 milli rockets have, and the shortcomings are the same.

Considering that the current person is taller and stronger, the caliber has increased slightly to increase the power, but the firing range is not much higher than that of the 107 rocket launcher, the reason is that the propellant is still lagging behind.

There is also a simplified version of the rocket, which uses potassium nitrate and white sugar[Note 1] to melt and mix as propellant, but the range is only four or five miles, but the advantage is that it is low cost and can be used to strike at targets that are not very far away.

Jiang Jie worries that the range of rocket artillery is still too short to deal with the threat of armpit howitzers, but the fundamental tactical goal of the 107 rocket artillery design is flexible and mobile combat and guerrilla warfare.

At the same time, it is obviously unlikely that the armpit people will develop the "artillery doctrine" and concentrate tens of thousands of heavy artillery pieces on one front to carry out intensive firepower strikes, so the survival rate of mobile and flexible rocket artillery is extremely high against small groups and single artillery targets, and it is easy to manufacture and inexpensive.

The rocket artillery test firing ended, began to test fire the 80 millimeter mountain gun, the gun was completed in April last year, and four prototype guns were trial-produced in June for testing and evaluation, after four months of intensive testing and evaluation and feedback from the town army, production began in mid-November after making modifications.

The gun is small and convenient, the barrel is short, the total weight is only four and a half stones, after disassembly, an infantry squad can carry it on its back, and there is still room to carry a dozen rounds of ammunition.

The gun uses a wedge-shaped bolt, the barrel is made of fine-forged carbon steel, and the chamber pressure difference is somewhat, so the firing range is only ten miles, and the 80 millimeter mortar and grenade launcher are used for infantry fire support, which is very competent.

Although new artillery pieces were emerging one after another, the production of shells was not sufficient, and most of the 645 guns of the Xian Army had been upgraded, and then it was found that there were not enough shells.

Previously, spherical projectiles were cast and grinded, and the production equipment requirements were very low, and now the shell must be stamped, and then turned on the machine tool, the consumption of man-hours has increased greatly, and the output can not keep up.

Last year, only more than 900,000 rounds of artillery and mortar shells of various types were produced, and nearly 90,000 rounds were destroyed during training alone.

Last year, Bailiyan produced nearly 410,000 guns of various lengths and types, including grenade launchers, more than 1,400 mortars and breech-loading guns of various types, and about 2,600 breech-loading guns of the 645 type.

There are about 110,000 Type 651 semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, and squad machine guns, more than 6,000 grenade launchers, more than 37,000 Type 651 revolver shotguns and pump-action shotguns, and more than 3,600 Type 654 A and B rifles.

The rest are long and short single-barreled shotguns, single-shot rifles, and revolvers of early models.

But in general, the more advanced 651 series of automatic gun family, the output is still far from meeting the equipment, the year for the transfer of production capacity to produce machine tools and equipment, the 651 series gun family in two years only produced more than 36,000 pieces, 653 years only produced more than 14,000 pieces, plus the 654 production of 651 series semi-automatic, automatic gun family, barely equipped with 140,000 people, the shortage of part by the revolver, pump-driven shotgun, revolver shotgun to make up.

If all industrial capacity is diverted to produce the 651 series of guns, with the current industrial time, there will be only more than 230,000 guns a year, which is far from enough to meet the needs of army expansion.

Due to the large amount of equipment used in the production of guns, there are naturally far fewer lathes that can be used to produce artillery shells, and this is not counting the machine tools used in other industrial products and military production.

The only thing that makes Bailiyan happy is that the production of bullets has increased to 180 million rounds per year, plus the ammunition hoarded in the past three years, and now has a reserve of nearly 300 million rounds in hand, consuming nearly 70 million rounds of ammunition.

Of these, more than 50 million rounds were lost during training, more than 10 million rounds were sold, a small amount was consumed when guarding prisoners of war, and about 6 million rounds were sold to Yuke.

After watching the end of the artillery shooting, it was already noon, and everyone went to the shooting range canteen to eat small stoves.

In the past nearly eighteen months, Bai Liyan has been busy in the dark, his hair has turned white, and his weight has dropped by twelve pounds.

In the past two years, despite the continuous war, the economy of Xianguo has continued to grow, although Guangxin has been destroyed, but since the start of the war, half of the economy of the Central Plains has formed the economic hub of Xianguo as the core.

The strength of the country and the security provided by the victory in the war once again attracted a large amount of capital to the country to avoid danger, and at the same time, the arms business also gave birth to a war economy and an industrial economy.

Bailiyan thinks that she is not greedy, it doesn't matter if she doesn't make money, she mortgages all the spot raw materials I need, and she really doesn't have anything to borrow first and then pay it back, anyway, your land can't be moved, and you have to pay it back sooner or later.

Therefore, whether it is social development or economic growth, people are the most fundamental resource.

The food at the shooting range is very ordinary, according to the standard is the lowest five types of stoves, because it is not a permanent training range, the supply standard and quality of the local canteen are also low, but the five types of standards are left in the princes' army, which is basically the meal standard of the intermediate military attaché.

The first class of the Xian Army is the standard for the navy for attendance and combat, the second and third types are the standards for the naval station, and the third and fourth types are the standards for the army's stationing, attendance, and training.

In wartime, the army implements four types of stoves in front-line operations, but three types of stoves can be supplied whenever conditions permit.

The five types of stoves belong to the temporary ration, and the smaller the number, the higher the standard, and the Xianjun can now ensure that they are well fed and well-fed.

However, the army's wartime food supply is more troublesome, no matter how sufficient the storage is, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and what kind of stove may not be able to keep up in wartime, so the emergence of canned food greatly solves the problem of field rations.

Paddled with the rice in the bowl, Zhao Huan thought to his heart, and he said:

"Si Nong, can you cook the rice and put it in a can, and eat it right away?"

Bai Liyan did not reply in a hurry, but thought for a moment before saying:

"Rice alone is not good, it is not easy to preserve. And it is better to use sticky rice and porridge with glutinous rice and sugar. ”

Zhao Huan was puzzled when he listened, and he asked:

Why is that? Pork, lamb, and beef can all be used, but why is rice, the most common one? ”

"Rice is more perishable, and japonica rice is not as hungry as glutinous rice, so it is very uneconomical to make canned cooked japonica rice. The high sugar can isolate bacteria and can be stored for a certain period of time after being sealed with canned food. However, at present, the yield per mu of glutinous rice is very low, and the cost will not be cheaper than meat, so it is not suitable for canning. ”

Zhao Huan's idea is very simple, use boiled rice to make canned food, if it is peacetime, the industrial production capacity is huge, and there is no problem for private enterprises to make some flavored canned rice and instant rice, anyway, as long as there is a market and consumption, there must be production.

But now it is wartime, with limited industrial capacity, the limited supply of military supplies is considered to meet the requirements of the army, and the energy indicators and basic nutrition and efficiency determine that rice cannot be canned.

In addition, the focus of seed cultivation is still japonica rice, wheat, soybeans, rape, cotton five categories, to solve the basic food and clothing problems, glutinous rice is not among them, because the original yield of glutinous rice per mu is only half of japonica rice or even less, and the seed potential is not as good as japonica rice.

At present, the yield per mu of glutinous rice has only increased by 30 percent compared with 30 years ago, and this 30 percent is still the increase in yield brought about by the use of human and animal manure fertilizer, while japonica rice and wheat have generally more than doubled, which is very revealing.

At present, canned food is a product to solve military needs, so naturally what is cheap and efficient and convenient to do, not to mention that he Bailiyan is the number one profiteer in the world, and this kind of loss-making business is naturally not possible.

At present, the annual output of canned food in Wanchuan and Ruitian is about 110 million listens, the variety has increased from 10 in 649 to 15, the production capacity of luncheon meat accounts for one-third, and the reserve in the past six years has reached more than 256 million, which can basically meet the emergency field rations of 1 million fighters of the Xian Army under special conditions.

However, in two years, the total amount of princes and royal guests sold one after another reached more than 80 million listens, and the supply was still in short supply.

The biggest advantage of canned food over cured meat, bacon, bacon and bacon is that it is ready to eat, and it is easy for individuals to carry and reduce the logistical pressure in a short time.

In the next step, Bailiyan will consider continuing to expand the production lines of Wanchuan and Ruitian, and at the same time build a canning factory in Qianyue Mountain, supporting wind power generation, and producing canned cattle and sheep products on site.

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