Chapter 5 [Low-profile Arsenal]
The thrilling scene that happened in the morning has been lingering in Zhao Lie's heart, and he doesn't know what they will do if there are more Yuan army patrol ships landing. Escape, a half-old passenger ship can escape the encirclement and interception of the Yuan army? Hide, a small island with few trees, where can you hide?
The strong sense of danger that the day was precarious, and that the robbers would break into the door at any time, made him anxious. It wasn't until the appearance of this batch of munitions that he finally had peace of mind. From this moment, he really had the confidence to grasp his own destiny.
Six people, a batch of modern munitions, as long as they build a simple defensive position, make use of the terrain on the island, and arrange crossfire, it is not impossible to defeat one enemy with one hundred.
To do this, you must first understand how much money you have - well, Zhao Lie is not polite to regard this arsenal that he crossed together as his own.
What can be confirmed is that this is indeed a black gun factory, or a gun manufacturing base, and the imitation weapons are mainly firearms, but also some detonators and knives. There are four types of firearms: imitation 54 pistol, imitation point 38 revolver, three-shot single-barreled shotgun and double-barreled shotgun. The double-barreled shotguns are horizontally arranged, with a mid-fold reload, and also use a 12-gauge shotgun.
Surprisingly, several shotguns were also found, all breech guns, which were ancient but simple, and the projectiles were easy to obtain. There are the least of these guns in the entire arsenal, only three, which are estimated to be privately ordered by some villagers, but they are not powerful enough but have a long range, and they are quite good for hunting birds and rabbits. It seems that this black gun gang is also done in the mid-end market, and the low-end market is not spared.
From Zhao Lie's point of view, the imitation of May Fourth is not bad, and the feel, appearance, bolt and man-machine cooperation are similar to the original gun. However, the imitation revolver is a little worse, not only the size is different, the gun body and bolt accessories are slightly rough, and the board machine is also a little astringent. Tried firing two shots, so-so.
The biggest difference from the original gun is not just the gun, but the bullet. Whether it is a standard 9 mm caliber bullet for a revolver or a 7.62 mm Tokarev pistol bullet for a May Fourth pistol, the propellant of all bullets is granular black powder. This makes the muzzle velocity and penetration of the bullet inferior to the original bullet, and it is also easy to produce smoke, corrode the gun wall, shorten the life of the barrel and so on.
A black gun is a black gun, and there is a gap between it and standard firearms.
There was not only a shotgun in the safe, but also three partitions, and on the top floor was a Smith Point 38 caliber three-inch short-barreled revolver, plus the May Fourth military pistol on his waist, all the pistols in this arsenal were copied on the basis of these two prototype guns. In addition, there is a two-magnification white light sight, and I don't know which gun is accessory. In the middle of the safe, Zhao Lie found a box of 7.62 mm Tokarev pistol bullets with a "mushroom shape", and when you count them, there are six missing.
"It turned out to be a dummmy bullet, no wonder the gun shot in the head." Zhao Lie suddenly realized, and finally understood why the bullet was so powerful.
On the lower level of the safe, there are two thick hardcover books and a small black box.
Zhao Lie opened the small box first, it was actually a Browning M1906 pocket pistol and a magazine, the pistol was only half a palm the size, the workmanship was very exquisite, and the palms were closed and there were almost no traces of holding the gun, which was commonly known as "palm thunder". Although this gun is a little old, it is very well concealed, and it is a sharp weapon for self-defense and assassination. There are really a lot of private collections of this black gun leader, probably because he often walks the 'night road', so he has to prepare a few more things to keep around, which is understandable. Merely...... Haha, it's all cheap now.
When I opened one of the hardcover books, it turned out to be a note on the manufacturing process of firearms and bullets. Zhao Lie flipped through it, although the handwriting was ugly, but the content was detailed and rich, it seemed that the gangsters had made a lot of hard work in terms of "business".
The other book records dense transaction data, as well as import and export records. In the latest page of the shipping list, there are eight single-barreled shotguns, twelve double-barreled shotguns, twenty-four Blackstar (five-four pistols), and fifteen revolvers (standard and extended...... and other records.
According to the records, Zhao Lie pried open all the wooden boxes that had been marked and checked them, and sure enough, they were consistent with the records on the shipping documents. In addition, there are hundreds of rounds of various types of pistol bullets and shotguns, a box of detonators, and more than 20 knives, axes, steel rods, and daggers.
Zhao Lie flipped to the source material, and recorded a series of numbers: more than 50 seamless steel pipes of various types (six meters in length), mainly manufacturing hunting guns. Twenty-two thin steel rods (two meters long) used to make the barrel of pistols (revolvers), one and a half tons of copper skin, copper ingots, copper wire, one ton of aluminum alloy, more than 300 kilograms of lead ingots, 200 kilograms of steel balls, two boxes of various types of firing caps, and 20 boxes of raw materials...... A large number of gun parts can be manufactured, and the bullets alone are enough to make hundreds of thousands of rounds; In addition, there are two tons of steel plates, ten rolls of plastic with 20 kilograms each, 20 rolls of paper, paraffin used in shotgun shells, various types of springs, and so on. The propellant and explosives reached an astonishing 1,600 kilograms, but unfortunately they were all blown up.
The absence of gunpowder is equivalent to the absence of bullets, and the absence of bullets makes the firearm useless.
However, Zhao Lie was not in a hurry about this, he knew that gunpowder was available in the Southern Song Dynasty, and it had been used in the military, so I believe it would not be difficult to get it. However, there may be a gap between the proportion and purification of gunpowder in the Southern Song Dynasty and later generations, and whether it can be directly used as propellant is a question, and it can only be said when it is tested until gunpowder is obtained.
Soon, a new discovery made up for Zhao Lie's regret - a whole barrel of hundreds of kilograms of single-base propellant. This black gun gang is really willing to pay for it, and I don't know where it came from. Due to the stability of the single base drug, the gangsters did not put it in the underground powder magazine. Judging from the records, this is an order from a gangster to make a batch of powerful bullets. And the five dummmy bombs he used for his headshot are also the "masterpieces" of this group of people using this batch of single-base propellants.
Zhao Lie also saw an interesting situation in the records: the gang leader asked a new recruit to go to Vietnam to buy spare parts and raw materials, one of which was 20 bottles of raw materials (thunder mercury, combustible agents and oxidizers). As a result, the boy misheard, and one guy went back and forth in twenty boxes, and each box was twenty bottles, and twenty boxes were full of four hundred bottles, enough to fit hundreds of thousands of fire caps...... The record does not say what kind of punishment Ma Tsai suffered, but it can be imagined.
As a den of black guns, hoarding so many raw materials is naturally indispensable for manufacturing tools and machinery. It may be that the factory is far away from people, the voltage is unstable, or it may be for concealment needs, these tools and machinery do not use lighting or industrial power sources, but use generators to generate electricity.
Zhao Lie found a high-power diesel generator with 500 kilograms of diesel fuel by the side of the big stone pit. Next to it is a medium-sized electric, manual milling and drilling machine (deep hole drilling machine). There are a large number of rifling broaches, spiral broaches, keyway broaches and other tools in the toolbox on the side. When the barrel is formed, the boring line is drilled with a suitable tool, the butt is turned out, the bolt is assembled, and a pistol (revolver, shotgun) is shining.
Is it simple? With all the tools in place, it's really that simple. There are more "masters" among the people, who can make a gun by hand without mechanical machine tools, a water pipe, a bunch of hardware parts, and simple tools.
Bullets are simpler to make, no electricity is used, and they are directly ...... manually Well, it's foot-moving – a foot-operated punch with a total of seven punching holes, three of which are used to punch different types of cartridge cases, which are shaped and reloaded. The other three punching holes are used to punch warheads of various shapes, and one is to punch breech gun (shotgun) projectiles.
There is also a disc (steering wheel) type manual punch, which has the function of stamping, bending, punching, riveting, shearing, bending, breaking, shrinking, stretching, leveling, drilling and boring line, etc. In addition, it is equipped with a variety of bolt molds, which can be stamped and formed manually. This is used as a backup machine in the event of a power run out or malfunction of an electric punch.
After reading the list, Zhao Lie only had four words in his mind: complete and powerful.
This is a low-profile version of the military factory!
Best of all, the factory doesn't rely on electricity and can function anywhere, even in ancient times, more than 700 years ago.
Of course, there are limitations. For example, some materials, such as seamless steel pipes, single-base propellants, aluminum alloys, plastics and some raw materials, are gone. It is impossible to replenish, let alone expect to engage in any industrial production.
But, enough is enough!
With these materials, it is not a problem to build hundreds of guns and hundreds of thousands of bullets. If necessary, it is also possible to use existing resources to create more bullets.
Taizu said, "If you have food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart." Zhao Lie now has a gun in his hand, and he is not panicked.
The May Fourth military pistol and the dot 38 revolver were inserted into the waists on both sides - the black star in the left hand, the revolver in the right hand, the Remington on the shoulder, and the ammunition box on the foot. At this moment, Zhao Lie has a sense of domineering side leakage of who will destroy whom.
Who wouldn't want to play with guns? At the beginning of the police academy, Zhao Lie did not touch the gun, but he just practiced and played, and he had to return it to the warehouse after training. After being assigned to the town police station, he was only a junior security police officer and did not have the right to a gun. Even if there is a gun in the future, will there be a chance to shoot in this life?
The police are not soldiers but they are like soldiers, and if they are soldiers, they want to hold on to their weapons and go to the battlefield. There was no chance in the era of peace, and in ancient times, at the turn of the Song and Yuan dynasties, every inch of land, including the boundless sea frontier, was a battlefield. The weapon is there, the battlefield is also there, do you want to pull the trigger?
Zhao Lie climbed to the top of the mountain, looked at the vast sea, from sunset to moonrise, and did not move for a long time......
Ding Xiaoqi held a single-barreled shotgun, and folded, loaded, and aimed according to Zhao Liejiao's procedures. Then take out the bullet, reload and aim, and repeat the cycle, without the slightest impatience, but the more and more excited you are. At a certain moment, he stopped the movement in his hand, quietly held the shotgun, and looked at Zhao Lie's back, his eyes full of little stars.