The problem of insufficient firearms has been plaguing several family members of the management committee. After considering the intensity of the war, the maintenance of firearms, the quality of the soldiers, and other aspects, the management committee made a decision to equip only indigenous soldiers with bolt-action rifles. According to the original history, the earliest full-loading bullets were used by the Prussian army with paper shells. In 1835, the Drezer of Prussia invented a new rear-loading rifle and fixed-loading cartridges. This type of bullet uses a paper tube as a cartridge case, which combines a projectile, a propellant and a primer. When loading, use the bolt to push the grabbing bullet into the drug choke from behind, and after pulling the trigger, the firing needle on the bolt pierces the paper shell and hits the primer. Ignite the gunpowder and shoot a projectile. This greatly simplifies the entire loading and firing process, increasing the rate of fire by 4~5 times, and the shooter can reload the cartridge in any position or in motion. The Drazer rifle showed great superiority, and the Prussian government immediately bought the invention and produced it in secret. It was not known until 1848 that countries followed suit, and the Drezer rifle soon became dominant. Because the charge of the paper shell bullet was susceptible to moisture, and there were pieces of paper left in the chamber after firing, it was quickly replaced by metal cartridge shells. In 1851, Maurse in the United States successfully tried to produce a metal-shelled gun cartridge, but the American authorities did not adopt it for a long time, and it was not until the Civil War in l86l that Mida began to use it. Metal-shelled bullets successfully solved the problem of reliable sealing of gunpowder, allowed the bullets to be stored for a long time, and significantly increased the rate of fire of the gun. Metal-shelled cartridges led to the advent of the era of automatic weapons.

In 1867, the German Mauser brothers, Wilhelm and Paul Mauser, designed a rear-loading single-shot rifle with a rotating bolt locking bolt, which was adopted as the standard rifle in 1871. And named the Type 1871 rifle, which was the first Mauser rifle in history. Most rotary back-pull bolts are designed according to the principles designed by the Mauser brothers. It was also the earliest bolt-action rifle. Even under the influence of the butterfly effect, the Liberation Army can still be at least ten years ahead in rifle technology, so at this stage, only equipping indigenous soldiers with bolt-action rifles can completely maintain their advantage in firepower.

Secondly, semi-automatic rifles and automatic rifles consume bullets at a rate that is also incomparable to bolt-action rifles. It is conceivable that when a semi-automatic rifle is handed over to these recruits, as soon as they are nervous on the battlefield, they can run out of bullets in the blink of an eye. In order to reduce the consumption of bullets, it was even proposed to equip recruits with such a thing as a "magazine partition".

In addition, the structure of semi-automatic rifles is more complex than bolt-action rifles, which also increases the difficulty of firearm maintenance. With the level of knowledge and receptivity of these nineteenth-century peasants, the management committee was afraid that the semi-automatic rifles would be turned into scrap metal in a few days. In the original time and space, the Soviet Red Army was the first army to be equipped with semi-automatic rifles, and the first to be submitted to the Soviet army for service was the SVT-38 semi-automatic rifle. "38" indicates that the gun was finalized in 1938, and after improving some shortcomings, mass production began in October 1939. Production was discontinued in April 1940 in preparation for the production of an improved version of the SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle for this gun. It was reported that about 150,000 SVT-38s were produced, but the mass production time only lasted 6 months. So the closer to reality is less than 100,000. Later, most SVT-38s were lost, damaged, or sent back to the factory to be reconverted into SVT-40s. Later, the Soviet army found that the SVT-40 required too much maintenance, and the majority of uneducated Red Army soldiers complained that the maintenance was too complicated, resulting in the shortening of the service life of many rifles, so in 1942 it was decided to re-equip the Mosinagan rifle. The management committee has learned from the experience of the Soviet Red Army, and will not follow its old path.

Finally, there is another reason that no one has spoken, and that is that the Governing Council does not fully trust these indigenous soldiers. These people did not join the army because of patriotism, faith or other reasons, some of them had to come because they were sent to work, and some of them had the idea of being soldiers and eating food, and there were many people who wanted to get ahead. Except for the Luo family, who had a mortal enmity with the British, it was impossible for anyone else to follow the path of the Liberation Army to the end. When things go well, it's okay, but once there are twists and turns, the escape is light, and mutiny is not impossible. In this case, relatively advanced weapons cannot be handed over to them. If the worst happens, the training battalions equipped with automatic weapons can quickly put down the chaos.

Therefore, taking into account the versatility of the bullet, the standard rifle equipped with the recruit unit can only be the Type 53 rifle. This leads to another problem – there are not enough guns.

After more than half a year of collection, the Liberation Army has found more than 700 Type 53 rifles. At present, the three infantry battalions and one company of marines at full strength need more than 1,300 rifles, and there is a huge shortfall. In the case of Xiao Duliang's infantry company, an infantry platoon consisted of an infantry squad of four tens, plus staff sergeants and heralds, and a total of forty-two rifles were required. Three infantry platoons plus the company headquarters required a total of one hundred and thirty rifles. In fact, the management committee only issued 80 rifles, which was still more important depending on the defensive position of the fifth company, so that more than half of the guns could be received. The companies guarding some minor areas, such as the Ninth Company guarding Luohu, received only sixty-five rifles. Fortunately, the two Makqin machine guns and two mortars in the machine gun platoon were all matched, otherwise Xiao Duliang really didn't have the confidence to hold the position.

In the face of Xiao Duliang's request for "non-share", the two chiefs are also clever women who are difficult to cook without rice. Wei Bozhi said with a smile: "All the Type 53 rifles are issued, where do you ask me to give you more from again?" There are still some formal ones in the warehouse, or will they all be given to you? ”

"It's better to burn a stick without bullets." Xiao Duliang would not be easily fooled. There are all kinds of weapons in the warehouses of the People's Armed Forces Department everywhere, not only the big road goods like Lee Enfeld and M1 Garand, but even a MG42 general-purpose machine gun was found, but unfortunately most of them did not have matching bullets, so they could only be put in the warehouse to rust. Because of the relatively complicated use of the captured firing guns, they also became "disposal items" that no one wanted, and the management committee had to find a way to "dispose of" them to the Taiping Army in the future.

"Now an infantry platoon has only one submachine gun for the platoon commander, and the firepower is too weak! Is it to equip the staff sergeant with another one? Also, isn't it said that each platoon is armed with a light machine gun? Why is there no follow-up? Xiao Duliang also understood that the rifle could not be counted on, so he could only fight other ideas.

In addition to more than 800 Type 53 rifles, the material collection team also found more than 300 submachine guns with 7.62x25mm bullets, Type 51, Type 54 and the famous Bobosha submachine guns. In the battle against the mutants, the survivors preferred automatic rifles that stopped better, so much so that the submachine guns were useless. After the establishment of several infantry battalions, considering the problem of matching weapons and bullets, the management committee decided that the infantry units should uniformly use Soviet-style weapons during World War II, and these submachine guns were issued to company and platoon officers at all levels as standard weapons for officers. However, there were only sixty or seventy officers in the platoon, and more than 200 submachine guns were still stored in the warehouse.

"I'll make your suggestion to the management committee, but it's unlikely to be approved. As for the reason...... Wei Bozhi gave him a "you know" look.

"After recruiting so many soldiers, and not so many guys, do you want us to learn the 'gray cattle', two people with one gun?" Xiao Duliang saw that he couldn't get any "benefits", and he couldn't help but feel a little resentful. "Since you recruit people to be soldiers and don't give them trust, why don't you just send some big swords and spears?"

"Comrade Xiao Duliang, you don't want this idea! At that time, the Red Army was still able to fight with a shuttle dart, and even won the battle, and our conditions were much better than theirs. "Wei Bozhi also disagrees with the restrictions on the use of automatic weapons, but after half a year of apocalyptic survival, many survivors are wary of strangers, and Comrade Political Commissar does not intend to challenge the mainstream consciousness, so he can only use words to appease his old subordinates." It's good to have fought this battle. With the experience of living and dying together, trust is built. It turns out that in the safe zone, that's not how everyone becomes a family. ”

The words of the old superior made Xiao Duliang no longer complain, and the instructor next to him made another suggestion. "Automatic weapons need to be restricted, shotguns shouldn't be restricted, right? It should be okay for the management committee to give us a few shotguns, right? After listening to the instructor's words, Xiao Duliang's eyes lit up, and he immediately looked at Wei Bozhi, but the latter's face showed a look of embarrassment.

At this time, Ma Angelica, who had not spoken much, opened his mouth to resolve the embarrassment of Political Commissar Wei. "You can't count on shotguns. There are more than 30 in total, all of which have been allocated to the newly established security brigade. ”

The security brigade was established on the basis of the Xin'an security team, that is, the original Zhuang class in the county, similar to the internal security force of the armed police. The internal structure of a brigade, that is, a battalion, is a three-three system, rather than a four-four system for field troops. There were also no heavily armed units, so there were much fewer of them than infantry battalions. The soldiers were mainly recruits who had been eliminated from the field troops, and their role was mainly to suppress the localities after the field troops had left the army, and at the same time to undertake the work of transporting materials, the wounded, and escorting prisoners after the start of the war. When the main force did not have enough guns, their auxiliary units could only be equipped with broadswords and spears, and in the end, at the strong request of the brigade commander, more than 30 police shotguns were issued to them as weapons for sergeants.

Another hope was disappointed, which made Xiao Duliang and the instructor very discouraged. Ma Angelica had no choice but to draw a "big pie" for them first, "Your proposal to equip the troops with shotguns is very constructive, and the 'trench sweeper' is not called in vain, it can play the effect of a submachine gun in close combat, and it is easier to master than a submachine gun." ”

"No matter how good things are, it's useless if they are not in stock." Xiao Duliang muttered in a low voice.

"We can build a gun without a gun!" Ma Angelica continued to draw cakes, "The military industry department has been established, and the rifle cannot be made for the time being, and there is no problem at all in making shotguns." There must have been goods before the British called! ”

"It's not going to be five in a row, is it?" After Xiao Duliang received a series of blows, he didn't dare to hold out much hope, for fear that he would be more disappointed later.

"How is that possible? Several military technicians are from the ordnance repair institute of the former military subdivision, and it is not trivial to build a shotgun. Ma Angelica slapped his chest.

In the end, after promising a series of unequal terms such as "priority will be given to equipping the fifth company when the shotgun is available" and "ten boxes of grenades will be issued to the fifth company", the two top military chiefs were able to get out under Xiao Duliang's "blackmail".