These three arsenals, although they are only newly built factories, but because there are qualified machines and workers, after a little run-in, they have entered the fast lane, plus the guns from the previous army, they are the simplest, only use back, re-depict rifling, after having a boring machine, such a portrayal is relatively simple, from the material of the barrel, Baotou is more junior high than the others, it is processed by a drilling machine, and the steel is also forged by high pressure, and the barrel of the winch method in other countries is made. There is a clear difference, even if the rifling is redrawn, it will not affect the performance of the barrel, at least it is much better than the ordinary barrel. ｛

The newly produced, plus the re-rifling, is a total of more than 100,000 rifles, the three towns that were promised before are 70,000 rifles, and the weapons of the two towns temporarily ordered by Yuan Shikai, a total of 120,000, began to be packed, according to 12 boxes, all packaged, and then loaded into containers, a total of four or three containers, of which firearms occupy 8 containers, and it is the largest, 60 tons of containers, and bullets occupy the remaining one, all of which are light weapons.

Makqin and 75 guns, if stepped up can also be produced, but this is a little too scary, the northwest in all aspects of production capacity, are extremely amazing, on the one hand, the northwest has China's most comprehensive, the strongest industrial worker team, on the other hand, also because of the machine tool, added the concept of later generations and powder smelting under the cutter head, the speed of the machine tool in the northwest is faster than the world, dozens of times faster, if not for the precise control of CNC machine tools, the northwest can even carry out high precision. Multi-sided cutting operations, this is the first decade of the 20th century. Only the gradual rise of machine tool operations.

Nine fully loaded munitions carriages along the Baozhang Railway. All the way through Zhangjiakou, arrived at the defense area of the third town, this is the first batch of trains to come here after the war between the two armies, the train is in Zhangjiakou, put down the other carriages, and only carry 9 carriages to continue forward.

Because of the communication in advance, a staff officer of the new army found the sentinel in charge in advance, and then the train crossed the battle line. It was not blocked, and stopped directly in the small station.

The third town is set up in a small station, and with the help of the small station barracks, the train drives all the way straight and stops in front of the barracks.

Duan Qirui's side was prepared, and when Yang Du contacted Baotou, Yuan Shikai also notified his confidant and a large number of weapons as soon as possible. There must always be someone to escort and escort them, and by the way, it is necessary to test how well these weapons are performing, even if they are picked up for nothing. You can't take the broken copper and iron.

Of course, not every one of them is real, and it can do 300 to draw 1. It's already good, 120,000. About 400 will be tested, and a random company will be found. Just do the test, it doesn't take much time.

Duan Qirui waited for the arrival of Baotou's arms, although he received the old man's telegram, Duan Qirui was slightly strange, Baotou has a huge armament, and in the defensive battle, it has the ability to confront the Beiyang Army head-on, but with such a big fart of weapon support, aren't you afraid that the Beiyang Army will take the weapon and deal with him in turn? Isn't this an enemy of capital, and he is not afraid to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot?

No matter what Baotou thinks, as long as he gets such a batch of weapons, even if he completes the task, Duan Qirui waited patiently, and finally, after receiving the report from the front line, he didn't stay long, and rushed over directly with the guard battalion.

Under the galloping of horses, it only took ten minutes, where he was, from the sentry post on the front line, almost about 3 kilometers, under the gallop, arrived at the place where the train stopped, 9 carriages should be loaded with this munitions, he walked forward, a young man in the uniform of the Northwest Army walked towards him, and said without humility or arrogance: "Wu Weishen, staff officer of the Third Regiment of the Ninth Division of the First Army of the Northwest Army, has seen General Duan!" ”

Duan Qirui also knew that the Northwest Army in front of him now had changed from the previous first division to the ninth division, and I heard that it was newly established, but when it was carrying out combat missions, it could not be seen at all, and it could also be seen that the training of the Northwest Army was strict, strict training, coupled with weapons more powerful than Beiyang, it was absolutely no problem to defend steadily, and even in field battles, it may not be left behind.

The so-called staff officer in front of him, Duan Qirui also knows that he is a middle-level officer, although he does not directly lead the troops, he has the right to speak on many things in the regiment, and the staff system in the northwest has always been Duan Qirui's stranger, so many officers, are not afraid of ordering the long? But what makes him even more envious is these young officers, the Beiyang Army has a large number of officers, but unfortunately there is no successor, even if it has been trained by the officer corps, there are not many talents, and there is no successor, but in the northwest, a person who has never heard of it and is not good at military affairs, there will be so many outstanding officers.

Duan Qirui glanced at it, all the containers had seals, which seemed to be very tight, and asked in a deep voice, "Can you check it!" ”

"Of course you can, General Duan, please!"

Wu Weishen is indispensable, Baotou's goods, even if they are old guns refurbished, are also through a strict inspection process, each of which is much higher than China's standards, even compared with the great powers, it is not much better, such guns, even if they are inspected one by one, there is no problem, not to mention random inspections.

"That's 70,000 rifles, and 20 million bullets, 100 Makqin, and as for 75 guns, you need to wait a week." Wu Weishen pointed to the train carriage in front of him and introduced: "The eight in front are firearms, and the back carriage is full of bullets!"

Duan Qirui was a very orthodox soldier, very familiar with all kinds of weapons, casually asked the guard to take down a box, opened it with a crowbar, and took out a firearm that still smelled of gun oil, this is a committee 1888.

Committee 1888 is also used as part of Beiyang's matching guns, and even the guard battalion under him also uses such firearms, Duan Qirui is very familiar with it, and he operated it a few times, pulling the bolt and magazine, he showed a satisfied expression on his face, the committee 1888 in front of him, obviously, are all new guns that have just been produced, and even the rifling of the chamber has just been depicted, such a gun, compared to the run-in gun, is slightly less, insufficient, but it is also a good thing, pick up this gun, It is a little longer than the orthodox one, but the overall weight is relatively light, after Kaka's trigger is moved, from the bolt to the excitation, it is basically intact, it can be said that it is a perfect killing weapon, from the visual inspection, it is an excellent rifle, compared to the domestic one, I don't know where the good way is.

A box, 12, 70,000, a total of 6,000 boxes, and 20 million bullets, densely piled up throughout the carriage, counted the numbers, after the pairing, signed on a receipt of the number, as for the inspection results, it is necessary to conduct spot checks, which can be regarded as a real taste of the power of these firearms.

After seeing the quantity and casualness, Duan Qirui already had confidence in this batch of weapons, especially when he saw Wu Weishen's expression and reaction, he knew that the quality of this batch of weapons would definitely not be adulterated, but as a duty, it was still necessary for him to test it again, and turned back to Wu Weishen and said, "That's offended!" ”

Duan Qirui waved his hand, and the guard battalion immediately rushed to the train, but when it was opened, something went wrong, because no one knew how to open it, it was different from ordinary train carriages, this was a container, Wu Weishen smiled, and asked the conductor next to him to go up and point out, and soon, he unloaded one side, the familiar long wooden box, and the strong smell of gun oil.

Of course, Duan Qirui didn't choose the row in front of him, and moved down about half of it, and only then did he choose 40 boxes among the eight carriages, which is 480 according to 12 in a box.

"Let's go to the shooting range!"

Following Duan Qirui to the shooting range, someone had already arranged the shooting range, and the guard battalion of more than 600 people can be said to be the largest number of people in the first-level establishment of the Beiyang military camp, and there is no empty salary, after all, the guard battalion directly protects the safety of the town commander, and any leader will not care, and he will add personnel to it in a different way.

The crowbar was taken out and the boxes were pried open, the third town, as one of the trump cards of the Beiyang Army, was high in itself, and the guard battalion belonged to the trump card in the third town, and the movements were extremely skillful, and he quickly got the gun and began to test the target.

Before the target, Wu Weishen's expression was relaxed, but when the real guard battalion was shooting, he focused his attention, as a member of the Northwest Army, Beiyang should be his biggest opponent, and the third town is the crown of Beiyang, and seeing the suzune and level of these soldiers up close is also part of the collection of information.

I have to say that as Duan Qirui's guard battalion, their Su zhì is good, but in Wu Weishen's eyes, there are small problems, compared with the strict training in Baotou, and even the training does not set casualty indicators, the training of other Chinese troops is a bit of a trick, even the strongest Beiyang Third Town, it is also in the non-stop fighting, cultivated to be strong, and the actual combat will not be much worse than others, but there is no strict discipline and infantry discipline, and there are some obvious mistakes.

Of course, Wu Weishen will not bring it up, these are all things that Baotou has searched for in many ways and slowly summed up in actual combat, almost all of them have bloody lessons, and of course they will not be brought up for the so-called enemy of Beiyang.

At the end of the acceptance, even Duan Qirui followed with a few shots, very satisfied, accurate settings, good feel, the most important thing is that the rate of fire is not slow, put down the rifle, almost subconsciously, Duan Qirui asked: "The gun is good, it seems to be more comfortable than Committee 1888!" ”

Wu Weishen said proudly: "Of course, if you change to a 7.0 caliber bullet, the recoil will be smaller, which is more suitable for East Asian races!" ”

Duan Qirui's eyes were stunned for a moment, Wu Weishen didn't notice, and the next thing was to sign the receipt, and the first batch of firearms would be directly allocated to the Northwest Bank, which Yuan Shikai did not discount at all, Wu Weishen also completed the task and turned back with the train, while Duan Qirui stayed where he was and didn't leave. (To be continued......) R527