After returning to Daxu Town as a guest of Hu Zongduo's division of the Seventh Army, An Yi felt that the task of clearing out the remnants of bandits had been successfully completed, and An Yi and Hu Jialin also realized from the meaning of Hu Zongduo's words that their reading division was very likely to fight side by side with Hu Zongduo's division in the next stage of the northward advance, so they held a military meeting above the regiment level overnight to work out the pre-war training plan for each regiment and each battalion under the division.

For seven consecutive days, An Yi and all the commanders of the division headquarters went down to the grassroots level to conduct training with the officers and men of the regiments and battalions, and promptly summed up and analyzed the various problems they encountered.

In just a few days, party representative Liu Shoujiang was able to organize a large-scale militia group in the counties and towns where he was stationed, successfully completed the division of the property of bandits and bullies, and delivered more than 180 ploughing cattle and pack horses to relatively poor peasant households.

As a result of the uninterrupted propaganda and education carried out by the three working groups led by Liu Shoujiang, more than 800 gang members who were released and returned home enthusiastically joined the revolutionary army.

Liu Shoujiang also followed the political offensive of the model battalion to recruit soldiers, dressed every young man who joined the army in red and green, held solemn enlistment ceremonies in various townships and towns, beat gongs and drums, and distributed pennants, which made the hearts of young people in the surrounding towns and villages itch, and every day hundreds of young people ran to the regimental garrisons to ask to be soldiers.

The situation was reported to An Yi, and An Yi did not hesitate to order that as long as they met the recruitment conditions, each regiment could accept it, and there was no need to set up a recruit company, but immediately divided into each company and platoon at the grassroots level, and the experienced squad platoon leader and outstanding veterans carried out training in a belt-by-one manner. An Yi has only one requirement, that is, he must not relax the political and ideological education of the reader's own set.

An Yi's work focused on Chen Kan's teaching brigade, and the outstanding soldiers of a company that had just been transferred from each regiment and the officers and men of the three companies who had returned insisted on overloading military technical training every day, and also participated in various political studies and military theory studies in the evenings; An Yi knew that time was running out, and once the big battle began, most of the officers and men of the teaching brigade would be assigned to the grass-roots level of each regiment, which had almost half of the recruits had been recruited, to serve as squad leaders and company commanders, and these outstanding noncommissioned officers would become the backbone of his reading division.

On the evening of the 16th, Ding Zhicheng, who had protected Shi Lejun's return to Lao Nanchang with huge assets, led a company of brothers back to Daxu Town, along with Yang Bin, the chief of staff who had been recuperating in Nanjing for half a month and settling his wife and children.

An Yi had just returned from dinner in the teaching brigade and was very happy to see Yang Bin, Ding Zhicheng and other brothers, and immediately ordered Changchun Sheng, deputy head of logistics, to set up a table of wine and food, and asked Zhan Huanqi to call Yin Jinan and Hu Jialin, who were still inspecting the training work in each regiment, back.

An hour later, the brothers arrived one after another, laughing and laughing around the simple wine and food, and toasting Yang Bin, Ding Zhicheng and others one by one.

Before drinking, An Yi read Lao Dao's letter and knew that many projects in Lao Nanchang had been completed, and the recruitment and training work was about to begin, so he was waiting for An Yi to send back the machines he bought from Ou Yaoting and German foreign companies for installation.

After three rounds of drinking, An Yi asked Ding Zhicheng to talk about the situation in old Nanchang, Ding Zhicheng put down the wine glass, and told everyone what he had seen and heard, and the brothers were extremely relieved to hear it.

“…… This time is an eye-opener, now only one-third of the old Nanchang factory is open, people come and go on the street, compared to Nanchang City is lively, the silk and linen market, the grain market and the hardware market are getting bigger and bigger, traders from all over the world gather here, the price of land alone has tripled.

Uncle Dao said that if all the factories are completed and started, the old Nanchang will have to increase the population by at least 70,000 or 80,000, our military camp has been put into use, the non-commissioned officer school has also been completed, and the old Nanchang Medical College is a must, the wide road and dozens of western-style buildings have been built, and all the big trees in the 200-acre yard have been retained, which is magnificent!

Also, the 600 sets of new military uniforms and tactical vests brought back this time are thicker and more comfortable than the ones we used before. These are two sets of military canvas belts made by American machines, please look at ......."

Ding Zhicheng untied the belt of his wide and sturdy canvas trousers, satisfactorily fiddled with the delicate brass belt buckle, and pointed to the two crossed rifle patterns on the smooth surface of the copper buckle to introduce to everyone:

"Look, the press is molded at one time, and then the edge is polished and polished, and it is finely carved, how beautiful! This lightweight, thick waistband doesn't need to be eye-catching, and the elasticity is all controlled by this roller on the back, which is very cleverly done! The four fixed copper buckles and fixed canvas bags on our new tactical vest are also of this texture, which is much stronger than the original one.

I heard the technicians in the factory say that these are all designed by our master, right? ”

An Yi took it and took a closer look: "Several masters of the braided belt factory have a level, and they are doing better than what I require, and it is not easy to achieve such a process quality, we can make a lot of money in the future, not bad!" Not bad! Lao Ding, did you only bring back these few things? ”

Ding Zhicheng smiled mysteriously, turned to the adjutant on the side, Major Zong Xingzhen, and whispered a few words, Adjutant Zong put down his chopsticks and strode away, and after a while, he brought in the shooting instructor Li Fuqiang and the sharpshooter Deng Bin, who were covered with strips of cloth.

Yin Jinan suddenly remembered the sniper camouflage suit that An Yi said, and hurriedly stood up and walked to the two of them, looked at the camouflage suits on their bodies, and pointed to the small bushes more than ten meters away for them to stand there. Li Fuqiang's master and apprentice walked into the bushes and pulled on the hoods hanging behind them, and the brothers were suddenly dazzled, and they couldn't see the figures of the master and apprentice clearly for a while.

An Yi laughed with satisfaction, and instructed Li Fuqiang's master and apprentice to take off their camouflage clothes and sit down to drink together.

Yin Jinan sighed and said that if Lao Li and his apprentices were allowed to wear this clothes and ambush in the grass on the side of the road, it was estimated that few people would feel their existence, and when the time came, the two of them would only need to pull the trigger, and the army commander, division commander, and regiment commander would probably have to go to see King Yama.

Hu Jialin knew that An Yi was okay to write and paint, but he didn't expect that the things he had been thinking about all day long were inseparable from the war, at this time he saw the belt and the sniper camouflage suit, and couldn't help but admire it, and when he looked up, he saw Ding Zhicheng's adjutant Zong Xingzhen happily walking in with a brand-new flower machine gun, which suddenly made the sharp-eyed Hu Jialin startled, he quickly stood up and asked Zong Xingzhen to take the gun, and looked at it carefully and couldn't put it down: "The new weapon imported from the old Nanchang?" ”

Zong Xingzhen replied: "It's not imported, but the steel was bought back from the American comptoir in Shanghai, what do you think of this gun, big brother?" ”

"It's very handy, the weight is about the same as the flower machine gun we are equipped with, the barrel seems to be fifteen centimeters longer, the butt is more beautiful than the original, the parts are polished exquisitely, and the material is quite high-end...... Hey? What is this extra protruding mechanism? Why is there no foreign text on it? ”

Hu Jialin played with it for a while, and immediately found that there was a difference between this gun and the flower machine gun he was equipped with.

Zong Xingzhen smiled: "Brother Hu is amazing! The difference can be seen at a glance, the appearance of this gun is basically the same as the flower machine gun, that is, the barrel is lengthened by 16 centimeters, the butt is made of high-quality pear wood from Jiangxi Province, the length and width are slightly reduced, this protruding mechanism is called the safety machine, and pushing it forward to the point on the edge of the gun magazine can solve the problem of misfire under violent vibration. Plus this little thing is amazing, the person who designed this thing said that for this little improvement, he spent more than two years, improving a lot of the design in it, and said a lot of nouns I couldn't understand.

This gun also has a greater advantage, it does not miss the target within 150 meters, and the bullet fired is not accurate if it exceeds 150 meters, but it can still penetrate a two-inch thick pine plank at a distance of 200 meters. ”

An Yi was so excited that he snatched the gun from Hu Zi's hand, looked at the horse lantern that had just been hung up, moved the same ruler as the imported gun, stroked the gun body and trigger guard, and sighed:

"Grandma's, what a fucking god! I didn't expect that there would be such a firearms master in China...... Okay, don't sell it, tell me where it came from? ”

"Our old Nanchang Ordnance Institute made it ourselves!"

Zong Xingzhen finally told the source, sat down next to Ding Zhicheng and said happily: "Let Brother Ding say it, Brother Ding knows this matter better than Little Brother." ”

Ding Zhicheng saw An Yi, Yin Jinan, and Hu Zi looking incredulous, smiled, motioned for everyone to sit down, and explained the matter:

"We have to thank Ying Wu! Two months ago, Ying Wu took the admission notice to the Political School of the Central Party Department in Nanjing to report, and after completing the formalities, he went to the street with Major Chen Haitao, an old acquaintance of the gendarmerie, and happened to see that the gendarmerie had captured four guys who were smuggling guns, and when they were escorted past Chen Haitao, the gendarmes saluted their old boss Chen Haitao. The squad leader said that these guys made it and sold it themselves, and three of them ran away without grabbing them. ”

Ding Zhicheng took a sip of wine and continued: "Ying Wu didn't care at that time, and only came back after the squad of gendarmes escorted people away, Ying Wu truthfully said to Chen Haitao that our reading division is the most lacking in the ordnance center of Lao Nanchang, and if we can get the person who made this gun back, it will be better to waste it in prison."

Chen Haitao is very interesting, he came out of the third phase of Huangpu, and he is a brother with Shizuo, and he thinks that there is nothing to do anyway, so he accompanied Yingwu to the gendarmerie to have a look, and after interrogation, he learned that the other three are gangsters who sell guns, and only the little one of them can make guns.

Chen Haitao and Ying Wu immediately went to see this young man who could make a gun, one of them sang with a red face, and the other with a white face, and after a while, the young man was scared to cry, and 1510 confessed that he had followed his uncle to leave his hometown in Fujian since he was 12 years old, repairing guns for the rich people in various counties and townships, and slowly began to imitate short guns, this kid got the true biography of his uncle, and his uncle basically didn't have to do it in the past two years, all of them were quietly imitated by this kid in the rented house on the edge of the Jiujiang Shipyard, He didn't work until his uncle died of illness at the beginning of this year, and then he followed a few gangsters in Jiujiang to quietly sell guns, and he didn't dare to stay when he sold a batch in Nanchang and Jiujiang.

I also saw this kid in Lao Nanchang this time, his name is Hu Zhijie, nicknamed Mustache, he has not yet turned 21 years old this year, he is very thin, with a high forehead and a thin face, but his eyes are clear and bright, and he is extremely smart.

At that time, Ying Wu and Chen Haitao quietly went out to buy three Hardman cigarettes and gave them to the brothers of the gendarmerie, and led this kid out, and then Ying Wu returned to the old Nanchang to wait for the start of school, and brought the kid back to the old Nanchang Ordnance Institute for him to try, this guy was stupid when he saw our eight sets of imported machines, and the old brothers in the institute just looked down on him, and because of Ying Wu's face, he ordered this kid to polish the bolt and do some chores, but he didn't expect to be frightened by this kid in less than three days, and he actually used his off-duty time to quietly repair eleven flower machine gunsAfter testing the gun, the brothers were impressed by him, and the ordnance chief Lao Kong talked with this kid for more than two hours and immediately went to find Uncle Dao, who listened to Lao Kong's report and decided to let him try, so there was this improved flower machine gun.

It's a pity, due to the short time, only two have been made so far, and Uncle Dao asked me to take one back and use it before leaving the old Nanchang to see how it goes.

Now this kid is very precious in the armory, the brothers admire him, this kid is also very nourishing, Uncle Dao also asked Ermao to call this kid home for a meal in three days, it seems that we can keep this kid. ”

"Smack-"

An Yi slapped the table excitedly: "Good job!" Genius! Who said we don't have geniuses in China? Didn't Gongxian mass-produce flower machine guns with a few old-fashioned machines? Didn't Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Craft Factory also rely on three self-taught blacksmiths to successfully imitate the shell gun and the American light machine gun in two years? How many geniuses are buried just because they don't have the opportunity to show their talents!

Like this Fujian boy, if there was no accidental discovery by Ying Wu, he might never dare to make a gun again after being released in prison for a year and a half, and if he changed his career to do something else to make a living, wouldn't such a firearms genius be buried alive? Didn't the brothers we sent to Germany at great expense learn how to make guns from foreigners? Huanqi ......"

"Here!"

Zhan Huanqi didn't expect An Yi, who sighed loudly, to suddenly shout to himself, and subconsciously stood up and almost knocked over the table, Hu Zi and Ding Zhicheng quickly held on to the table, but still let the wine in the glass on the table overflow a lot.

An Yi stood up excitedly, took two steps and turned back suddenly: "Send a telegram to Lao Dao: appoint Hu ...... Lao Ding, what's that kid's name? ”

"Hu Zhijie." Ding Zhicheng said with a smile.

"Appoint Hu Zhijie as the deputy director of the Ordnance Institute of the Reading Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, give Major Hu Zhijie the right to decide his own working methods and working hours, allow Major Hu Zhijie to receive no more than 5,000 yuan per month for research and design, and allow Major Hu Zhijie to recruit assistants and organize his own research and manufacturing team! Complete. An Yi offered generous conditions in one go.

"Yes!"

Zhan Huanqi finished recording, handed over the notebook to An Yi to sign, and then took the notebook and rushed to the confidential room to find the translator.

The enlightened Yin Jinan said with a smile: "It's not too much to give such conditions, even I was moved to see this new gun, if we can mass produce it ourselves, it will not just save 180,000 yuan, I agree!" ”

Yang Bin nodded in agreement, turned to the smiling beard and joked: "Beard, it seems that people nicknamed 'beard' have a few brushes, it's not simple!" ”

The brothers laughed, and the beard raised his glass happily: "I'll go back one day to see what this mustache looks like, haha!" Brethren, please! ”

"Please ......"

(To be continued)