Chapter 532: Roaming Westward (3)
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Speaking of this, the chairman suddenly said, "Speaking of weapons, there have been a lot of breakthroughs in the arsenal recently, and Mr. Zhu proposes to make a long-term plan for our weapons again, you will go to Mr. Zhu tomorrow and work out our standard weapon plan with Mr. Zhu." β
At this time, the sources of armed weapons of the Red Party were complicated, including German-style weapons from China and Jiang Cheng, Soviet-style weapons produced and provided by Jiang Cheng, and captured Japanese-style weapons.
Jiang Cheng nodded in agreement, and then said, "Chairman, do we really let those two Americans look at it casually?" β
The chairman smiled and said, "Don't worry, there are some sensitive things that they can't see, and all the secrecy regulations in our party are there." β
Jiang Cheng thought about it, and it was a bit unnecessary for him to worry about it like this.
Jiang Cheng returned to his residence and Yu Yishan did not mention the matter of warmth, and the next day, Jiang Cheng and Li Qian came to the arsenal, and under the leadership of the guards, they came to a large open space, only to see a few tables in the open space, the tables were full of all kinds of small arms, next to the table were all kinds of artillery, and even 107 rocket artillery, all kinds of captured or Jiang Cheng provided tanks, armored vehicles and other things.
Mr. Zhu was discussing something with some veterans, non-commissioned officers and engineers, and when he saw Jiang Cheng coming, Mr. Zhu laughed and said, "This is not Xiao Jiang, the chairman just sent someone to say that you are coming in the morning, this front foot has just left, and your back foot has arrived, it is so fast, you come so fast, you have to let Miss Yu complain about me." β
Jiang Cheng looked at the weapons on the ground and replied, "Mr. Zhu, you are serious here, how dare I delay, besides, I came so soon, but my family Yu Na woke me up early, you have wronged her." β
Mr. Zhu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Okay, okay, I said it wrong, we have discussed it for a long time, in fact, there are only three ways, either German, Soviet, or Japanese, you come and see, we will make a decision together." β
Jiang Cheng stepped forward and asked, "Okay, boss, let's talk about your thoughts and ideas first." β
Mr. Zhu nodded, stepped forward and said, "Let's talk about light weapons first, in fact, there are many things we need to consider in standardizing weapons, one is the status quo of our weapons, one is our strategic thinking, one is our industrial level, and finally the most important thing is the adaptability of our soldiers to these weapons, after all, this is a weapon, the ancients said, soldiers, national affairs." β
Speaking, Mr. Zhu pointed to the rifles lined up and said, "Our troops are still mainly infantry, so the most important thing is this rifle, he is our most widely used weapon, and now there are so many kinds of weapons in our army, from the relatively old Shui Lianzhu, Hanyang to the more advanced Zhongzheng, 38 Dagai, Mauser 98K, the new "Mosin-Nagant" rifle, our self-made Bayi, and SKS. β
This is really not to say that I don't know, but I was shocked when I said it, there are really many types of weapons.
Mr. Zhu smiled and took Shui Lianzhu and Hanyang Zao away and said, "These two are outdated, so we won't consider them, in fact, there are many other infantry, what French, American, British, Belgian, but there are not many of them, so we won't consider them." β
Jiang Cheng asked, "Mr. Zhu, how many troops do we have now?" β
Mr. Zhu suddenly said with difficulty: "Xiao Jiang, you really asked me." Our troops are constantly growing, there are comrades dying all the time, and there are new comrades joining in, if you want to say that I am afraid I will not be able to come up with the exact number, but we will ask all units to report personnel changes every quarter, the latest figure for June is that there are 70,000 armed forces in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo border region, a total of 270,000 in Shanxi and Suiyuan, 120,000 in the Taihang Mountain base area, 80,000 in the 115th Division in northern Jiangsu, 130,000 in all units of the New Fourth Army, and about 450,000 in other large and small base areas. The South China guerrillas numbered about 10,000, and the regular army added up to 74,400,000, and if you count the militia organizations, it should be more than 1.8 million. β
Jiang Cheng took a breath, unconsciously, the Red Party armed forces have developed to this point, in fact, this number is not much, you must know that the national army at this time is known as five million, and the Japanese invasion of China, excluding the Kwantung Army, also has seven or eight hundred thousand, and the puppet army has exceeded the number of Japanese troops in the Guannai in the recent continuous expansion, close to one million. Of course, how many of the 5 million troops of the National Army can be recruited and fought well, Chen Cheng, who is old in history, said something like this: "The budget of the National Army is 5 million personnel, but in fact there are 7.2 million people who eat military rations." According to the authorities' calculations, it would be good to have 3 million combatable troops if the reorganization was verified. In this sense, more than half of military spending is untrue. β
Jiang Cheng said to Mr. Zhu, "If the weapons are advanced, then the SKS is definitely the most advanced, and he is also the only semi-automatic rifle among these weapons, and the semi-automatic rifle is the development trend of the rifle in the future, but unfortunately, for us now, it seems unrealistic to directly use semi-automatic." β
Liu Guifu, an old man in the military industry next to Mr. Zhu, said, "Yes, we can also imitate SKS rifles now, but this time the output will not be too large, and the second is that the bullets are eaten too much, we have analyzed, the current SKS rifle barrel is a kind of steel containing chromium and nickel, and we have not found any big mines in this mineral so far, and we have developed a new steel that is boron-containing 50BA steel can also be qualified for this task, but it is also lacking in raw materials." β
Mr. Zhu looked at Jiang Cheng and asked, "Little Jiang, do you know where these mines are?" β
Jiang Cheng can see that Mr. Zhu's favorite is actually SKS, after all, the firepower is fierce, and it also represents the future trend, Jiang Cheng pointed to the northwest and said, "It's all in the northwest and northeast, as far as I know, these minerals you said are mainly concentrated in the three eastern provinces and Tibet, and we have very few in the Central Plains." β
"It's a pity..."Mr. Zhu knew that there was no drama after listening to it, and regretfully put SKS aside.
Jiang Cheng said, "Boss, I think the 38 big cover can also be put aside, although we have captured a lot of this gun, but the Japanese weapon really does not have much development prospects, and his bullet is too mismatched with us." β
Mr. Zhu nodded and threw the 38 big cover aside, and the rest were the Soviet style and the German style, which were also the two most difficult to choose.
Mr. Zhu asked a few non-commissioned officers next to him, "How do you feel about using these weapons?" Which one is most comfortable? β
A non-commissioned officer said, "Report chief, I think German-style weapons are more suitable for us, first, because Mauser rifles are produced in various parts of our country, which is good for production, and second, because Mauser rifles are shorter than Mosin-Nagant, and the height of our Chinese army is not as good as that of Europeans, and the short gun body and long bayonet are more suitable for our Chinese army." β
Another non-commissioned officer immediately retorted and said, "Report chief, I don't think so, I think we have to think about our future, we now have the SKS rifle as our future rifle development direction, so we can't waste such an advantage, and the Chinese official is not to change the Mauser, isn't our Bayi style changed, I think we should continue to improve the Bayi style to make it more suitable for our Eighth Route Army." β
"But what about machine guns? We are not unifying rifles this time, but unifying all weapons, most of our machine guns are ZB series or MG series that use German-style bullets, very few can use RPD machine guns, when fighting, one machine gun is more important than ten rifles, if you take into account machine guns, I think the rifle is still better than the German one. The non-commissioned officer who was the first to speak immediately retorted.
All of a sudden, a few non-commissioned officers said this is good, I said that is good, and the quarrel is inexorable.
"Shut up! What do you guys think of this as a place? This is in front of the chief! What does it look like!! Liu Ding roared angrily, waking up the non-commissioned officers at once, and hurriedly lowered his head and didn't dare to speak again.
Jiang Cheng said to Mr. Zhu, "Everyone is right, most of our machine guns are German-style, especially the light machine gun, which is a water ZB-26." β
Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "If only the light machine gun could be changed to caliber." This can be solved, Liu Gong, if we change the caliber of the machine gun, do you think it's okay? β
Liu Guifu nodded and said, "It's not a big problem, we can do it, but this change in caliber, many things have to be changed, after all, whether it is recoil or others, it will be different, give us a month, we will strive for success." β
Mr. Zhu nodded and said, "Okay, then settle down, our weapons are not completely copied from other people's, the rifle continues to be transformed from the Bayi gun, and the characteristics of the Mosin-Nagant rifle should be absorbed more, the light machine gun will use ZB-26, and the heavy machine gun you should absorb the MG gun, the ZB-37 gun, the excellent place of RPD, or take the ZB-37 as the prototype." After speaking, Mr. Zhu glanced at Jiang Cheng.
Jiang Cheng immediately understood that this was for his Ε koda Arsenal to complement here, Jiang Cheng said with a smile, "In addition, I can get some shotguns from abroad, and it is very useful to use things to fight trench warfare, pistols?" β
Mr. Zhu took out the shell guns of the soldiers next to him and said, "Let's continue to use the shell guns first, the Ministry of Military Industry must speed up the design and not slack off." β
"Yes!" Liu Ding immediately replied.
"In fact, in trench warfare or street fighting, submachine guns are also excellent weapons." A non-commissioned officer spoke.
Jiang Cheng nodded and asked, "Liu Gong, what do we use for submachine guns?" β
Liu Fugui said, "Speaking of this, I have to say John, John!" John! Come here.... Boss, Comrade 203, this John proposed to us to transform the MP38, saying that it was the best submachine gun to use now, and we handed over the R&D team to him, you see, this is the result of his R&D, and it has not yet been named. β
I saw a submachine gun like a pump placed in front of Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Cheng immediately blurted out and said, "Stern submachine gun? β
"Stern submachine gun? This gentleman, has someone already designed this submachine gun? The white man, known as John, asked in accented Chinese.
Jiang Cheng immediately knew that he was out of shape, he smiled, picked up the submachine gun and looked at it carefully, and found that it was not the same as the Stern submachine gun in his memory, and calculated, the current Stern submachine gun should not have come out, in history, the Stern submachine gun was produced a year after the French campaign, and the calculation time is probably not until May and June 42, and the back half of this submachine gun is very similar to the Stern submachine gun, all of them are cylinders, but there is still a shadow of MP38 in the front section, and the butt in the back is also a little different.
Mr. Zhu knew the extraordinaryness of this gun from Jiang Cheng's gaffe, his eyes lit up, he looked at John and said, "John, how about you introduce this gun?" What are the characteristics? β
John looked at Liu Fugui with some embarrassment, and even Jiang Cheng could see that he still blamed Liu Fugui a little.
Liu Fugui said, "Mr. Zhu, this person's name is John. Daniel. Wesker, from Germany, he is very talented and creative, this gun is designed by him, he is usually relatively low-key, he just likes to listen to music and engage in military industry, so he may have some stage fright to speak to the chief, John! This is an opportunity, don't be afraid, you're still an engineer! Why is it not as good as me as a peasant? β
John glanced at Liu Fugui and said, "Liu, I'm afraid you are the best farmer in the world to make guns, I haven't named this gun yet, but Jiang seems to have called him a stone bench just now?" β
"It's Stern! It means plural in English. Jiang Cheng corrected and said, "I once saw a gun like this in Europe, but if I look closely, I know that something is different, I see a British gun, and your gun is still very Germanic." β
John shook his head and said, "No, I'm very dissatisfied with this gun, but at that time Liu said that our conditions here are difficult, so with low production cost as the highest principle, I designed this gun, I think industrial products should be the most beautiful thing in the world like music, this gun is too ugly." β
Hahaha, suddenly everyone laughed, indeed, the appearance of this gun cannot be said to be too beautiful, this John is extremely tall, looks like a soldier is better than an engineer, but he didn't expect to be a person who loves beauty.
"So how low is the cost of this gun?" Jiang Cheng asked.
"We have calculated, if it is mass-produced, a submachine gun like this will probably be 35 Guanghua coupons." Liu Fugui said.
Jiang Cheng calculated in his heart, this is about thirteen or fourteen dollars, and the cost of the historical Stern submachine gun is 9 dollars, which means that there is still room for improvement, of course, the extremely cheap labor cost in the border area is also one of the reasons.
"What? So cheap? Mr. Zhu's eyes immediately turned red, and he snatched the gun and studied it, "I said Liu Gong, it's wrong for you to do this, why don't you report such a good thing?" You're making a mistake, I'm telling you! β
It's really cheap, and the price of a three-eight cover is about $15.