Dare to take the road of self-made machines and weapons, the information in Yang Tianfeng's mind is naturally his reliance. At the same time www.biquge.info it is all the more crucial to believe in the wisdom and wisdom of our own scientific and engineering technicians, not to worship foreign countries, not to rely absolutely on foreign aid, and to insist on self-reliance.

"The current working hours are 18 hours a day, divided into day and evening shifts, and the remaining six hours are spent on maintenance and adjustment of machinery and equipment. Work is shut down one day a week for a complete overhaul. Li Jianye, director of the branch, introduced Yang Tianfeng, "The single-mode extension proposed by the chief is changed to multi-mode extension, and we are conducting experiments, and if it can be improved successfully, the production efficiency can be at least doubled." ”

Due to the high requirements for precision and consistency in the production of gun ammunition, the size of the parts is basically guaranteed by the mold, and once there is a deviation, a large number of scrap products will be caused. Therefore, every link must be strictly controlled. At the level of production at the time, checking the molds and adjusting the machine every day was a hassle, but it was necessary.

As for changing single-mode to multi-mode and improving production efficiency, Yang Tianfeng's hope for this is not eager.

"Can they afford to work nine hours a day?" Yang Tianfeng pointed to the female workers who were working, "What about the treatment, are they still satisfied?" ”

"It's nine hours, and after that, excluding chores and meals and breaks, the working time is eight hours." Li Jianye smiled and said: "Each class is in charge of one dry meal, and the monthly salary is forty catties of miscellaneous grains for apprentices, sixty catties for second-level workers, one hundred catties for first-level workers, and one hundred and fifty catties for special-grade workers." ”

Earning a hundred pounds of grain a month, or miscellaneous grains, this is really - exploitation! Yang Tianfeng sighed secretly, but compared with the average salary at that time, it was quite a good treatment.

You must know that in 1930, the textile workers in Shanghai were paid a little more than one load of rice per month, and the female workers only had about six buckets, barely making ends meet, and this was still a 12-hour work system!

Miscellaneous grains are rice, wheat, corn, sorghum, and millet each account for one-fifth. If there is a shortage of food, it will be doubled with potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In this way, if a worker reaches the level of a first-class worker, he will not only barely make ends meet, but can ensure that three or four people do not go hungry.

"They prefer to settle wages in kind, and more people want to work in factories!" Li Jianye continued: "Among them are a lot of men, they don't mind earning as much as women, as long as one person enters the factory, the whole family can almost eat." ”

"The recruitment of female workers is to mobilize and utilize idle labor, and young men have their own jobs." Yang Tianfeng waved his hand and said: "Moreover, we want to set an example, set an example for those private factories that have been built or are under construction, and let them at least not be too different from us in terms of the treatment of workers." ”

"That's what the sir." Although Li Jianye executed it well, he didn't fully understand Yang Tianfeng's thoughts, and as soon as he explained it, he fully understood that this was the road to truly take the all-people war of resistance.

"The war will be fought for a long time, and it may be even harder in the future." Yang Tianfeng sighed softly and said, "Compared with the Japanese devils, manpower is our advantage, but we can't use it too much. Although serving as a soldier, farming, and working are all contributing to the War of Resistance, we still have to try our best to ensure that the supply of soldiers is sufficient. And the source of soldiers is to recruit from young and strong men. ”

"Sir thinks long-term." Li Jianye admired in his heart and stretched out his hand to guide, "Although these female workers are still in the process of proficiency, they are very serious and cherish the opportunity to work." Sir, please walk over here and see the transformation of the guns. ”

"Already have eyebrows?" Yang Tianfeng is not in a hurry about this transformation project, but if it succeeds, it will also lay the foundation for a major counteroffensive in the future.

"There's progress." Li Jianye introduced as he walked: "But it is still far from the large-scale transformation of the assembly line. So, we look forward to the guidance of the Chief. ”

"I still have to rely on your ingenuity and hard work!" Yang Tianfeng humbly followed Li Jianye down a staircase and entered the more heavily guarded underground factory.

How to use existing weapons to improve performance with minor modifications, rather than reinventing them all over again, is not only a time-saving and labor-saving consideration, but also a consideration based on actual production capacity.

The "Extinguishing the Sun" assault rifle can use the barrels or parts made in the current Zhongcheng and Hanyang, and there are many Japanese-style weapons such as the 38 big cover in the army, and the arsenal also has a 6.5 bullet production line for this purpose. None of these are easy to discard.

At first, Yang Tianfeng sawed the barrel of the 38 big lid into two, imitating the manufacture of the Bobosha submachine gun. But on balance, the amount of ammunition consumed by the submachine gun, as well as the reconstruction or reconstruction of the bullet production line, are difficulties and problems.

Therefore, Yang Tianfeng's final decision was not to change the production and manufacturing of bullets, but to study and formulate the process and process of transforming the 38 cover into a semi-automatic rifle.

In this way, the ammunition consumption will be much lower than that of the submachine gun, the barrel and other parts of the 38 large cap can also be effectively used, and the 65 bullet production line does not have to be changed, but the rifle has the performance of being able to shoot continuously.

In fact, judging from the course of the development of weapons, small-caliber guns are in line with the trend. The 65 bullet is light in weight and has little recoil, which not only increases the amount of ammunition carried by the soldier, but also is more suitable for the Asian physique when shooting.

It's just that it is still a problem of industrial production capacity, so that Yang Tianfeng cannot do it in one step, and can only use the existing guns as much as possible to achieve stronger power after transformation.

Automatic weapons based on six-five caliber bullets have long existed in history, dating back to the 6.5MM1913 semi-automatic rifle designed by Federov in 1913, and the ML916 automatic rifle designed and manufactured.

Later, Federov expanded the ML916 into a family of guns, including automatic rifles, light machine guns, tank machine guns, aviation machine guns, etc. The success of the M1916 was due to the fact that it opted for a low-recoil 6.5mm cartridge, and the main reason for its later discontinuation was that in 1924 the Red Army decided to use only 7.62mm cartridges.

From the point of view of gun/cartridge system design, the Soviet rifle would have become a modern assault rifle if it had taken another step along the path of reducing the power of the bullet, but then it returned to the detour of the old manual rifle and did not take this step.

Undoubtedly, Federov was a "foresight" in reducing the caliber of rifles, shortening the combat distance of rifles, and increasing the firepower of rifles, but unfortunately, due to the prevailing long-range rifle thinking at that time, the semi-automatic and automatic rifles he designed could only be short-lived. (To be continued.) )