11. Weapon selection

This year was very chaotic, first came the news, the army of northern Shaanxi went to Shanxi for a walk, brought back a large number of personnel, and then, Nanniwan in the north has been reclaimed, and the seeds and farm tools brought by Kane were all sold short. In July, there was amazing news, the combat effectiveness of the army in northern Shaanxi suddenly doubled, and directly took Yinchuan, the world was in chaos, many people in Xi'an wanted to escape, fortunately, the Northeast Army was in Xi'an, and General Yang was also quite prestigious, which settled people's hearts, but it did not calm down for long, and two more troops entered Yinchuan, and it was rumored that people received strong support from the Soviet Union.

Kane has never cared about the outside world, he is now facing the problem of selecting weapons in the future, whether it is 79 caliber or 762 caliber is good to give him a headache, the last shot is ruthless, full production, as for the future there will be a new caliber. I have to say that now the guns of the whole country are made in all countries, and there are all kinds of calibers, and the best barge guns alone have three calibers and several models, which is really difficult for the logistics officer.

Throw away the 11.43 big eye box, the 9 mm big red 9 Kane is not ready to produce, then the rest is only a second box, that is, 7.63 caliber, barrel length 132 mm, compared to the previous round grip suffered from dirt, Kane redesigned the grip suitable for the Chinese hand type according to ergonomics, of course, the rear socket continues to be retained. In addition, the muzzle of the gun was made into an oblique mouth, so that when shooting, the gas sprayed upwards just suppressed the bounce, and the 1000-meter gauge that had no practical value was removed, and only the farthest 300-meter was set, and there were two gun types, one standard type, and the other was without a crosshair, which was made for sharpshooters, so the quality was more perfect.

Gongxian has begun to mass-produce Type 24 rifles, and Kane is also in charge, after all, the country is still dominated by 79 calibers. But the bayonet he designed was not split, but stuck directly on the bayonet seat, pulled down if needed, and then quickly ejected. Of course, the bayonet was designed to be an evil triangular stab, and anyway, this thing was going to be compared with the 38 guns, depending on which one was more lethal.

Kane was not ready to continue the production of the Czech version, although this gun was accurate, it was quite complex to manufacture, and most of the milled parts were not conducive to rapid production. So he chose the British Brown machine gun, of course, the caliber is 79, the thirty-round arc magazine, the lower shell is thrown, and a large number of stamping parts are used, and the cost is much lower than that of the Czech type with twenty rounds. China doesn't eat this set, anyway, it has a full set of drawings, and it's a big deal to change the name, so all the products are called Yang Shen guns, anyway, it's just trial production now, and when it starts, no one cares about any patents.

As for the heavy machine gun, Kane thought for a long time, or choose the M1919A4 type, Makqin is really heavy, nearly a hundred pounds of weight one or two people can not wait, although this Browning heavy machine gun has to change the barrel frequently, but the total weight is only twenty kilograms, one person can pick it up, plus the heavy machine gunners of the Chinese army do not know self-protection, it is easy to be hit by artillery fire, and forcing them to transfer themselves after dozens of rounds is equivalent to a kind of disguised protection.

The German-made grenade is too long, Kane directly chose a short wooden handle, 600 grams, 20 cm in length, the lethality is not low, five seconds delay, the killing radius is 7 meters, just suitable for the size of the Chinese, one person hangs four properly.

In view of the scarcity of domestic anti-tank weapons, Kane designed a 12.7 mm semi-automatic rifle, which is actually a rifle with an M2 barrel, of course, the butt is equipped with a cushioning part, with a tungsten core bullet, 300 meters away can penetrate a 20 mm thick steel plate, and those tanks with only a dozen mm can be guilty in the future.

In addition, Kane also imported two or three thousand M2 heavy barrels from the United States, and he will use these barrels to make small anti-aircraft machine guns, of course, the best way to deal with aircraft is airplanes, but limited air defense forces can also make planes in the sky dare not bomb at ultra-low altitudes.

For the air defense of pharmaceutical factories and machinery factories, Kane customized a lot of 37-mm gun barrels from Germany, once the mass killing weapon is built, you don't know which kind of advanced aircraft you have, within a range of 3,000 meters, it will be sent to death.

If you don't have the ability to produce gun barrels, you don't have to work hard, Kane only plans to make some 82mm guns, for the Min 20 type 2800 meters range and more than 60 kilograms of weight, Kane didn't like it, he redesigned an 82 mortar, three parts of each dozen kilograms, adding up to only 35 kilograms, the range of more than 3000 meters, farther than the current Japanese 92 guns, and also designed a hinge device at the tail of the gun, which is usually fired like a mortar, and when it is necessary to shoot flat, turn the hinge, put in the shell, pull it from the rear, The firing pin will shoot the cannonball like a gun, of course, you have to be careful with the setting of this board, it is best to find a mound or slope to fire, if the direction is too flat, the recoil will push the cannon backwards.

There is no idea of engaging in 60-mm mortars, domestic artillery is scarce in the first place, and with 60 guns, it is estimated that no one can afford to play it. So the Type 89 grenadier of a kind of devil fell into the eye of the law. In a large number of domestic armies that lack artillery, this small cannon can hit 5, 600 meters, which just fills the gap in the fire of mortars and grenades. At this time, most of the devils used the Taisho eleventh year, and the firing range of 175 meters met a long-range small cannon, I don't know how to feel?

The weather is gradually getting colder, and the pharmaceutical factory materials that have been continuously transported from the Longhai line have also entered the Yangshen factory in Xi'an. The well-guarded valley mouth is like a gold-swallowing beast, sucking in a large amount of cowhide, cotton, salt, coal, sulfur, iron ore, copper, lead, molybdenum, tungsten, zinc ore and so on from the northwest. There were also quite a few students who went in. As for production, the transporters only know that a lot of them have been sent into Yangshen Pharmaceutical Factory.

This year, the world had a bumper grain harvest, and Kane imported a lot of flour, frozen meat, and marine fish from the United States, and set up a food processing factory next to Gukou to start producing canned food and compressed biscuits. In recent years, foreign things are good, and the people in the factory are about to vomit when they try the taste, but Xi'an Yangshen food has been warmly welcomed by the outside world as soon as it leaves the factory. Don't worry about sales at all, Li Meide's eyes are all laughing, now he can be described as exquisite, although the sales of the pharmaceutical factory don't have to worry about him, but he has the goods in his hand, the first batch of YS1936 type 20 rings to test the water has just come on the market, and he sold it to 80 oceans, still without bullets. But in a blink of an eye, the Xi'an black market was fried to 100 yuan and was not available. The limited edition of 20 without a crosshair has risen to 150 yuan, and no one wants to make a move!

Towards the end of the year, the struggle between the two sides also began to be fierce, Kane ordered all personnel not to take a holiday these days, even the food was prepared for several more days, Yang Shen Pharmaceutical, who saw that the wind was wrong, also closed the door, and the manager of the pharmaceutical factory, Bert, asked Kane if he heard any rumors, Kane said, I recently learned stargazing, there may be a storm, so that everyone can be stable for a few days.

As expected, on the third day, things were big, there was an incident at the top, and there was chaos below, several groups of people went to the gate of Xi'an Yangshen Pharmaceutical Factory to explore, and Bert sent a telegram to ask Kane how to deal with it, and Kane said, "Order the personnel of the escort regiment to shoot hundreds of shells into the ditch outside the factory gate, and it will be useful." The panicked Bert ordered the cannon to be fired, but after only five rounds, a group of chaotic soldiers who came in a chaotic manner stopped in fright, and then all fled.

The crisis of the pharmaceutical factory was lifted, and the machinery factory was far away, so there was no chaos. Soon, the Northwest Army formed a patrol and arrested some of the thorns in the city. After several days, I finally got the news that the two parties cooperated. Kane breathed a sigh of relief and said loudly, "The golden time for us has come, and we have ordered to start work in full force and prepare to sell weapons." ”