Considering that the current army's firefight distance is within 100 meters, the bullets of the Liberation Army as long as they maintain an effective range of 200 meters is enough, and reducing the charge of the bullet can also extend the life of the cartridge case; The second is the explosives such as grenades, mines, blasting canisters, and bomb packs, which have already shown their power and quality in the Hong Kong campaign, and have been well received by the vast number of commanders and fighters, and it is believed that they will also become the fist products of the Southern Industries Group in the future. Blasters and explosives packs were basically not used in the Battle of Hong Kong, but considering the need to attack the city during the Northern Expedition in the future, these two were still very useful; Third, mortar shells and howitzer shells are still being tested, mortar shells are relatively simple, and a batch of them has already been trial-produced, but they still need to be tested in actual combat. The howitzer shell is still in the test stage of explosives and propellants, and several young people majoring in chemical engineering are playing with firecrackers every day; Fourth, it is an imitation of the domestically produced pump-action shotgun, which is also a weapon that has withstood the test in the Battle of Hong Kong, and now a total of 300 units have been produced, and the supply is still in short supply.

After the formal establishment of the group, the expansion of production capacity is certain. The military factory once again recruited foreign troops, but Yu Yunwu only needed female workers, on the grounds that women were careful and not prone to accidents. You don't see that the electronics factory in the original time and space is all female workers. The local natives were a little skeptical that the chiefs would only recruit female workers, but under the propaganda of the indigenous women who had been working in the military factories for some time, and the lure of two and a half oceans a month, the applicants were still very enthusiastic.

Now that an industrial group has been established, the arms trade with foreign countries has become one of the tasks. Originally, the Qing Army and the Taiping Army were two good customers, and the Ministry of Commerce once wanted to sell the captured British weapons to the Taiping Army, but it couldn't find a way to do it for a while.

In order to open up the sales channels of arms as much as possible, on the second day of the establishment of the group, the Southern Industries Group held a joint working meeting on global commerce. Yu Yunwu first listed the products that the military factory can currently produce in large quantities, looking at the killing-using goods listed on the list, Liu Lanji had a strange feeling in his heart, once upon a time he would think of the day when he was a bit of an arms dealer. However, the only explosives that can be sold by the military factories are now, and although shotguns are also on the list of allowed to be sold, it is impossible for them to be exported until they meet the needs of the Liberation Army itself, otherwise the Americans will definitely be interested. "Isn't there too few of them?" Liu Lanji put down the list and asked.

"That's all there is to it at the moment," Yu Yunwu said, "but there are a few export-oriented commodities that are still being tested, and there may be a market, so let's go and see them together!" ”

The group took a boat to the military factory on the island in the middle of the lake, and at this time the military factory had been doubled in size after the second expansion, the wall was also heightened and thickened, and several watchtowers were added. Cigarettes, lighters, and electronic devices were confiscated from everyone when they entered the door, and a strict security system was the guarantee that there had never been an accident at the military factory. In the courtyard where the gate enters, a dozen female workers are loading grenades and mines with explosives. The explosives produced by the military factories uniformly use fire wool as explosives, and it is also the propellant for reloading bullets, and the fire cotton is also the only explosive that can be produced by the former military factory. Absorbent cotton from pharmaceutical stores, nitric acid and sulfuric acid from chemical factories, nitrated, cleaned, and dried in a method known to middle school students, and this white fibrous substance becomes more powerful than black powder gunpowder. times the cotton wool. The appearance of the cotton wool was no different from that of cotton, which made the female workers very strange, and they did not understand why the chief stuffed the cotton into the iron cylinder, until Yu Yunwu set fire to a small piece in front of them. Seeing the small piece of cotton burning quickly and emitting a yellow flame, the women realized that it was a kind of gunpowder. This caused panic among the female workers, and Yu Yunwu ensured the safety of the cotton wool and increased the wages to let the female workers settle down to work. However, this thing is always a dangerous good, and the survivors working in the military factory have always been focusing on the safety of production, correcting the illegal operation of female workers at any time, so that no safety accidents have occurred.

Walking into the factory, two long tables form a cottage assembly line, and several young female workers are assembling home-grown pump-action shotguns. The girls, all fifteen or sixteen years old, wore summer overalls from an electronics factory, and carefully loaded the parts in their hands into the body of the gun before handing it over to the next person. Suddenly, Liu Lanji thought that he had arrived at a township enterprise in the original time and space, but the taste of this assembly line cottage passed by people was too strong.

Yu Yunwu saw the playfulness in Liu Lanji's eyes, and explained: "The raw materials can't keep up, and they can produce more than a dozen in a day, and the skills of these female workers are not very proficient, so they are not required to be fast, and they work slowly and carefully!" ”

On the other side of the workshop, a technician was holding a small file to repair the burr edge of the revolver clamped on the vice, and Yu Yunwu introduced: "This is our imitation of the domestic police revolver?" Caliber, basically can reach the level of the original product. ”

Liu Lanji picked up a trimmed revolver from the workbench, held it in his hand with full texture, touched the body of the gun, all the edges and corners had been rounded, and there was no feeling of diaphragm at all. Turning the magazine, there is also no noticeable tightness. Liu Lanji had never touched a revolver, but he found something wrong, so he asked: "Mr. Yu, is this energy production?" ”

Yu Yunwu shook his head, picked up another one from the workbench, and skillfully opened the magazine. "The material is one aspect, and there are not enough technicians, plus it is produced by hand, and the output is lower than that of shotguns. And then there are bullets, we can already produce our own bullets for shotguns, but not enough for revolvers. No one else will want a gun without bullets. Liu Lanji had to regretfully put the pistol back.

"But it doesn't have to wait long, as long as we find the right machine, we can produce, we have a lot of cotton and copper." Yu Yunwu describes the vision. "Although the revolver has been invented for decades now, black powder is still poured from behind the magazine, and as soon as our revolver is on the market, the old-fashioned Colt can only be eliminated."

"The Civil War is about to break out, and with decades of western exploration, this cake cannot be let go." Liu Lanji has long coveted this market, and the various actions of the original space-time emperor, as a former soldier, General Manager Liu is naturally resentful, thinking that the Americans will kill each other with the weapons they provide, and the United States will suffer greater losses, he feels that he has avenged everything.

"The American Civil War is still a year or two away, and it's completely too late." Yu Yunwu is very optimistic, "Speaking of the American Civil War, we also prepared a gift for Americans. With that, he led the guests into the workshop in the back. As soon as he entered the door, Liu Lanji was attracted by the big guy placed in the center of the house. The two-wheeled carriage was loaded with a cannon, and it is not accurate to say that it was a cannon, which was actually six barrels in a circle. Although this weapon was silently placed there, Liu Lanji could feel the murderous aura it exuded. Although he hadn't seen the real thing, he recognized it at a glance, "Gatling gun?!" ”

Yu Yunwu showed a faint smile on his face, which also contained a hint of pride. In addition to the chief and deputy directors, the technicians of the military factories are either engaged in the machinery industry or pure firearms enthusiasts, and their level is very limited. It took us more than two months to find information and conduct multiple tests to complete such a sample. It is much more difficult to imitate a Gatling than to imitate Makqin, the latter at least has a physical object, while the former only has picture information, and everyone can only figure out how it works through three-dimensional dynamic video. Therefore, Director Yu introduced in a proud tone: "In the original history, the American Richard Jordan Gatling? This rotary machine gun was invented and named after him. Gatlin was originally a doctor, but he dedicated his life to engineering? After the outbreak of the American Civil War, Gatlin saw too many dead and wounded officers and soldiers evacuated from the hospital, and in addition to the casualties on the battlefield, many Gatlin himself and his machine gunners died of disease and malnutrition. Gatling believed that if he could reduce the number of soldiers, thousands of lives could be saved. Gatling hoped to invent a gun, relying on ferocious firepower, a gun can top many rifles, so that a soldier has the combat effectiveness of many soldiers, his goal is to increase a soldier on top of a company, so as to reduce the number of soldiers on the battlefield, in order to achieve the purpose of reducing war casualties. All I can say is that this is an idealist's fantasy? The tactical need for a turner-tube machine gun did not exist, because at that time the army did not know how to effectively use a machine gun as a cannon, and the turner-tube machine gun could not be impressive. And the idea of using machine guns as a close-range support weapon in infantry attacks, straight? years before the US Army carried out the demonstration. However, we can send military advisers to the United States and teach them how to use machine guns. Moreover, the Gatling machine gun also showed its face several times in the Japanese Civil War, and then the Maxim machine gun was invented, and the Gatling was eliminated. ”

"Since it will be eliminated, how long will it take?" Although he had been a soldier, Liu Lanji did not know much about the specifics of this old-fashioned weapon. If this time is too short, the business benefits will also be greatly reduced.

"According to the original history, Maxim invented the machine gun? years, more than 20 years from now. History of him? The world's first automatic rifle was successfully developed. Later, based on the experience gained from the rifle, he further developed and perfected the principle of automatic fire with a short recoil of the barrel. Makqin? The world's first machine gun capable of automatic continuous fire with a rate of fire per minute? hair above. There are still about twenty or thirty years to go. Yu Yunwu also guessed what Liu Lanji was worried about, and he said a lot about the development history of machine guns, "I just don't know if the British were beaten by us, will they give birth to various automatic weapons in advance." ”

"Twenty years is enough. There should be a market for us to launch it in the United States in advance, and there is also Japan, and those township and county magistrates should use the leftover materials of the American Civil War, and instead of cheapening the Americans for nothing, it is better for us to make this money. There is also the Qing army and the Taiping army, and we can also sell things to them through a third party. With the guarantee of time, Liu Lanji is very optimistic about the sales prospects of this product. Will the production of bullets keep up? Machine guns can last for decades if they are sold and well maintained, and the demand for one-time consumables such as bullets is even greater, and he has even begun to conceive of selling machine guns at cost price to attract more users, and then make more profits by selling bullets.

Yu Yunwu opened a wooden box placed on the ground, which was full of bullets, and he picked one up and handed it to Liu Lanji. "So far, 3,000 rounds have been produced, but they are made by hand, and if there is electricity, they can be produced in a day with a machine." The electricity in the mouth of Director Yu refers to the power plant to generate electricity, and the military factory itself has diesel generators, but it can only meet the needs of lighting and a few machine tools.

Liu Lanji took the bullet, but found that it was not the legendary paper shell bullet, but a rubber shell bullet like a shotgun bullet. The warhead is a round-headed buckshot with a caliber of more than ten millimeters. "Can this be reloaded?" If it can be reloaded, the sales of bullets will be seriously affected.

"Although we designed the shell throwing device, the shell is still very easy to deform, and there is basically no possibility of reloading. The slightest deformation of the cartridge case will cause the bolt to jam. Yu Yunwu explained, but he didn't think it was a shortcoming.

Liu Lanji circled around the machine gun and asked, "Mr. Yu, can you demonstrate it?" "He needed to see the shot firsthand before he knew how to describe the power of the weapon to his clients.

Yu Yunwu also planned to test the sample again, so he beckoned a few young technicians to push the machine gun and carry the bullet box out of the back door of the factory.