The first thing to do at the beginning of the chapter, and the most, most, most important thing, is to congratulate everyone!

I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!

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Zhang Feng walked over quickly, and when he saw Zhang Feng coming, the people who were originally gathered around got out of the way and greeted Zhang Feng one after another, Zhang Feng nodded, and as everyone got out of the way, Zhang Feng saw several sets of molds, and Zhang Feng knew as soon as he saw these molds that this was a mold produced and manufactured according to his own drawings for the production and manufacture of copper shell bombs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Lord Commander!"

"Hello, Commander-in-Chief!"

Everyone greeted each other, even Zhao Zuolin and Song Yingxing were no exception, the two of them greeted Zhang Feng together, Zhang Feng nodded happily, and said with joy on his face: "Old Song, Lao Zhao, you are so fast, the mold has been made." ”

Song Yingxing said: "Commander-in-chief, Lao Zhao personally led a group of masters to work overtime, and finally the mold has been manufactured, and we are preparing to test the mold." ”

Zhao Zuolin hurriedly said modestly: "If there is no Lao Song, the progress will definitely not be so smooth, everyone works together, plus Lao Song, the mold is finally manufactured, you can give it a try." ”

Zhang Feng saw that everyone should be preparing for the mold test, the mold is manufactured, the copper used for the mold test is also ready, and even the steam-powered punch is ready.

Zhang Feng was interested, if the test was successful, it would be epoch-making, and from then on he would bid farewell to paper shell bullets, and the soldiers would gradually use copper shell bullets.

"Okay, let's start testing the mold and see how we can use the mold to produce the copper shell." Zhang Feng waved his hand, and then, everyone got busy and began to test the mold.

There are several sets of molds, different molds produce different parts of copper shell bullets, copper shell bullets include warheads, shells, primers and other parts, these molds, each set produces different parts.

The steam-powered punch started, and there was a puff and puff, and one of the molds was loaded on the steam power punch, and then the test began, and it was the cartridge case that began to be stamped.

The stamping cartridge case is also divided into several processes, first suppressed a few samples, as soon as the sample came out, seeing the copper cartridge shell, many people were excited, these people, under the leadership of Zhao Zuolin, did not work overtime, did not work all night, sometimes encountered a technical problem to discuss for a long time, after repeated research to solve, we paid a lot of effort.

Now that it's good, the results have been made, a few sample copper shells have been manufactured, everyone is excited, staring at these copper shells with bright eyes, Zhao Zuolin picked up these copper shells and gave them to Zhang Feng first, "Commander-in-chief, you take a look first." ”

Zhang Feng also happily took these copper bullet shells, looked at them carefully, and even compared them carefully, seeing that everyone was looking at the copper shells in their hands, Zhang Feng smiled.

"Come, come, everyone take a look, pass each other to see, this is the fruit of everyone's labor." There were about five or six copper bullet shells, and after Zhang Feng read it, he gave it to the people next to him, and everyone immediately passed it on and looked at it.

Zhao Zuolin and Song Yingxing each took one, and they also looked serious, they looked good at first glance, but the two saw a lot of problems, the two looked at each other, understood, and nodded.

After everyone finished reading, Zhang Feng said: "Everyone can see that there is no famous hall?" ”

Everyone was very happy and said that this copper bullet shell was good, but some people said some of the shortcomings they saw, and Zhao Zuolin and Song Yingxing also said some of the problems they saw.

No matter what new thing it is, it is impossible to manufacture it successfully at one time, it must be improved and tested repeatedly, and finally it can be successful, and the manufacturing of this copper bullet case is the same, there are still a series of problems, and the production process and mold need to be improved and perfected.

Then, the trial production of the primer, the trial production of the warhead, there are some problems, and then Zhang Feng has been staying in the Shanghai Machinery Manufacturing Bureau, seems to have forgotten that he is the commander-in-chief of 100,000 soldiers, but as an engineer and technician, Zhang Feng and everyone, technical research, the processing technology, the mold and so on to improve and improve, and repeated experiments.

Ten days later.

After a series of improvements and perfections, the production and manufacture of copper shell bullets again, the effort paid off, and after so many improvements, it was finally able to produce qualified copper shell bullets that Zhang Feng was more satisfied with.

At this moment, Zhang Feng is holding several rounds of copper shell bullets produced in his hand, compared with modern rifle bullets, these copper shell bullets are obviously much larger and thicker, because the stability problem of smokeless gunpowder has not been solved for the time being, and smokeless gunpowder cannot be put into practical use for the time being, so these copper shell bullets still use black powder.

It's just that these black powders have been improved countless times, and they belong to high-quality black powder, and the copper shell bullet uses black powder, with a bullet caliber of 15 mm, which is consistent with the caliber of the current rear loading gun, and can be directly loaded into the rear loading gun.

The quality of the copper-shelled bullet is good, and the appearance is good, the only thing is that it is thicker, and the warhead is a round-headed cylindrical bullet, which is a little different from the pointed bullet of modern rifle bullets.

"Everyone has worked hard, and finally succeeded in manufacturing a qualified copper-shelled bullet, Lao Zhao, allocate two thousand taels of silver to come out and reward meritorious personnel."

Rewards and punishments are clear, this is Zhang Feng's consistent principle, this time everyone worked together to successfully create a qualified copper shell bomb, Zhang Feng decided to reward everyone.

Zhao Zuolin said happily: "Commander-in-chief, then I thank you on behalf of everyone, I guarantee here that the production of copper-shelled bullets will gradually enter mass production, and a large number of qualified copper-shelled bullets will be produced for the front-line troops." ”

Compared with modern or modern automated bullet production lines, the use of steam-powered machine tools and molds is basically semi-manual production, which is much more backward than automated bullet production, but even so, it is completely enough, and the energy source continues to produce qualified copper shell bullets, which is enough.

In addition to the copper shells used in rear-loading guns, it is expected that in the near future, molds will be made for the production of copper shells for revolvers, and mass production of copper shells for revolvers will also be realized.

A few days later.

At the shooting range of the Xiaoqingshan military camp, Zhang Feng came here with several guards with great interest, one of the guards was still carrying an ammunition box, and Wang Chaoyong seemed to be happier than Zhang Feng.

The ammunition box was opened, and it was wrapped in oiled paper, a pack of copper shell bullets, and everyone came here to try these copper shell bullets that had just been produced.

Wang Chaoyong leaned over, personally picked up a pack of copper-shelled bullets, opened the oiled paper, and saw the neat, yellow-orange-orange copper-shelled bullets inside, and immediately said excitedly: "Commander-in-chief, this copper-shelled bullet is so beautiful, I can't help but don't want to shoot a few shots." ”

Zhang Feng said with a smile: "No problem, if you want to give it a try, you can try a few shots, anyway, we have enough copper-shelled bullets, such a box, there are five hundred, enough for everyone to fight." ”

Not only Wang Chaoyong, but also the officers next to him, everyone's eyes lit up, looking at this gratifying copper shell bullet, these officers couldn't help but want to try a few shots.

Of course, the first to test the gun was a few fighters who had been arranged long ago, and these fighters, each with a rear-loading gun, pulled the bolt, loaded the copper shell bullet, and then pushed the bolt, aimed at the target in front of them, and began to test the gun.

"Bang, bang, bang......"

Everyone opened fire, one by one gunshots rang out, each soldier tried more than a dozen shots, through the test of the gun, it can be seen that these copper shell bullets are good, much better than paper shell bullets, air tightness, farther hit, more penetrating, more stable ballistics.

It is gratifying that dozens of copper-shelled bullets were fired, and not a single dumb fire or jamming was found, indicating that the quality of these copper-shelled shells was good.

Wang Chaoyong finally couldn't help it, personally picked up a rear-loading gun, loaded it with copper shells, aimed at the target in front of him, tried the gun himself, and hit the target with a "bang".

After firing several shots, Wang Chaoyong said happily: "Commander-in-chief, this copper shell bullet is different, it feels much better than the previous paper shell bullet." ”

Zhang Feng smiled and said happily: "Let's give it a try, there are 500 rounds of copper-shelled bullets in this box, everyone will finish these copper-shelled bullets, and don't leave one." ”

Since these copper-shelled bullets have been brought, it is natural to finish the shot, and through shooting, the quality of these copper-shelled bullets will be tested, such as whether they are good or not, whether there are dumb fire, whether there are any jammed shells, whether any defects can be found, and so on.

In the end, Zhang Feng also tried a few shots, and it felt good, several grades better than the paper shell bullet, not only was it convenient and fast to load, but also the shooting was very stable.

Seeing that Zhang Feng was in a good mood, Kong Qingjie invited: "Commander-in-chief, all the recruits have been assigned to various companies and platoons, and many companies and platoons are training on the training ground, let's take a look." ”

When the five major infantry divisions were just expanded, each division was not full, and the full strength was more than 18,000 people, but in fact each division was only about 12,000 people, and now more than 30,000 recruits have been added to the divisions, and each division has reached full strength.

Kong Qingjie took everyone to a large training ground not far from the shooting range, which is larger than a football field, and there are many soldiers who are training, training in companies or platoon units, and some soldiers seem to have just finished training, sitting cross-legged on the ground neatly, watching the performance of the female soldiers of the propaganda team.

Each division has a literary and artistic propaganda team, which adds a bit of brightness to the monotonous barracks, and it is common to watch the performances of the female soldiers of the propaganda team after training.

Zhang Feng also came to be interested, walked towards the place where the propaganda was performing, and motioned to everyone not to move, everyone also sat down one by one, and sat cross-legged on the ground, originally, Sun Qingjie was also going to ask someone to move a few stools over, but saw Zhang Feng take the lead and sit down first, just sitting on the yellow earth of the training ground, Sun Qingjie swallowed back the words in his mouth, and sat cross-legged on the ground like Zhang Feng.

Several female soldiers of the propaganda team were heroic, wearing green military uniforms, and were performing singing and dancing, Zhang Feng didn't pay attention to it at first, but was immediately stunned, because Zhang Feng saw a familiar figure.

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Today's two watches, the first one is sent, I wish you all a happy Mid-Autumn Festival! (To be continued.) )