Therefore, Hu Weidong suspended the production of these useless items on the same day, and let the arsenal concentrate on the production of mortar shells, grenades, and gun shells, with guns and ammunition as the top priority, while the "new factory", which mainly produces chemicals, is fully engaged in the production of necessary military raw materials such as explosives, thunder, mercury, etc. To the surprise of the Arsenal, it was the production line of Mauser pistol ammunition that was required to produce it as quickly as possible. It turned out that, on the one hand, after the elimination of several thousand biedong troops in Dabie Mountain, the number of equipment of the Red Eighth Army had exceeded 7,000, and the demand for bullets naturally increased further; On the other hand, it is because Wu Yunduo finally succeeded in making a "submachine gun" from the original 9mm caliber border area through dozens of days of repeated thinking and hundreds of shiyans Changed to 7.63mm, and can use the more common Mauser pistol cartridge in China, and without increasing the cost and man-hours on the premise, by the way in several details have been improved (such as the position of the magazine has been changed, so that it will not be jammed when firing because of grabbing the magazine), so that it has improved both accuracy and reliability, and the most rare thing is that the new gun model can use the magazine of a 20-shot box gun (Note 1), which is undoubtedly of great help in reducing logistical pressure"The difficulty of producing submachine guns is ridiculously low

As early as ten years ago, when the shell gun did not appear in the burst model, the factory has transformed the submachine gun "flower mechanism" that uses Mauser pistol cartridges, which can also be seen that the quality of Mauser pistol cartridges produced by Gongxian Arsenal is excellent, you must know that although the domestic arsenal is slightly larger, it can produce Mauser pistol cartridges, However, it is difficult to be compatible with guns and ammunition produced by different manufacturers (especially if the model caliber is the same.) But it's easy to get stuck. If it weren't for the Gongxian Arsenal with this jishu foundation, Hu Weidong's transformation would have been a castle in the air

Originally, in order to reduce costs and save copper and lead, Hu Weidong planned to follow the experience of the new China's military industrial system in history, replacing ordinary bullets with steel core bullets and copper shells with copper-clad steel. Because Hu Weidong knew this very well, under his guidance, it only took more than three months for the Gongxian Arsenal to fully complete the technical transformation of all the production lines of rifle machine gun ammunition and non-mortar shells, thus greatly saving costs and greatly increasing output.

In addition, almost all firearms, including famous guns of the Anti-Japanese War such as the Zhongzheng rifle, were also ordered to be discontinued by Hu Weidong, because these firearms were cumbersome and much more expensive than those new guns produced by stamping jishu later in history, but the performance was a little worse (the most haode machine gun in World War II, the MG42, cost only a quarter of the Makqin heavy machine gun, and it was lighter and more powerful). It is better to wait until the development of new firearms with good quality and low prices is successful before restarting the production of firearms

In the following year, the factory produced more than 200 million rounds of various bullets, more than 200,000 grenades, more than 30,000 blasting canisters, more than 20,000 mortar shells, more than 10,000 75mm artillery shells, nearly 30,000 Type 56 semi-automatic rifles named the 24 (24th year of the Republic of China) semi-automatic rifle, more than 50,000 Type 24 submachine guns (changed to 7.63mm caliber "border made" submachine guns), and more than 100,000 mines. There were more than 10,000 grenades and more than 100,000 grenades

Among them, the output of barreled artillery shells has dropped sharply by nearly eighty percent, on the one hand, because the Red Eighth Army does not have such a big demand for the time being, and it is necessary to save manpower and materials to give priority to the production of bullets, and on the other hand, because Hu Weidong has made some improvements to the shells produced by the Gongxian Arsenal, so the production line naturally has to be adjusted, and it took more than half a year before and after, and the output is naturally greatly affected. In addition to the so-called improvement of using copper-clad steel instead of brass as the material of the shell shell to reduce costs, the shape of the shell has also been optimized, in fact, the tail of the shell is made into a concave shape, that is, the "bottom concave" in the terminology of ammunition, this projectile shape can significantly reduce the vortex resistance during the flight of the shell under the premise of basically not affecting the accuracy of the artillery, so as to increase the range of the artillery, especially the enemy will often use the original range to prevent without knowing it, and the Red Army is likely to take advantage of the surprise...,

As the top ammunition expert in later generations, Hu Weidong is also familiar with the range extension jishu with more obvious effects, such as the lower row, rocket boost, jujube nuclear shell design and its full-bore bomb modification, etc., and he may not be able to do it if he really wants to, but considering that those jishu will seriously affect the accuracy and lethality of the shell (the more obvious the range extension effect, the greater the side effects. The Red Army, which now had to tighten its belts to get by, simply couldn't afford it, so Hu Weidong had to give up for the time being

The rebirth of the Gongxian Arsenal made the backbone of the original arsenal represented by Mao Yike happy and convinced, and the upgrading of various basic industries from scratch made those experts and scholars who had previously been resentful of Hu Weidong's domineering practices excited, and their attitude towards Hu Weidong immediately came to a 180-degree turn, and those young college students and students worshiped Hu Weidong to the ground. Hu Weidong immediately lost no time in giving an enthusiastic speech, "I know that everyone has a lot of complaints about my previous practice, but otherwise, there would be no Gongxian Industrial Zone today." I believe that all of you here have the ability to become first-class experts in Shijie, but what about Weishenme China even importing iron nails? Because our Chairman Chiang, as well as the Jiangsu-Zhejiang chaebols behind him, instinctively rely on foreign countries for everything, always thinking that 'it is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy.' As long as China is run by them, heavy industries such as steel, chemicals, automobiles, and aircraft manufacturing will never want to develop! And our Chairman Mao has always adhered to the development path of 'self-reliance', knowing that only when industry, especially heavy industry, is developed, China will not continue to be bullied by foreigners, and China can regain its dominance in the forest of the Shijie nation. ”

The experts in the audience spontaneously applauded, and an expert who returned from studying abroad remembered what Song Ziwen said to him at the beginning, "Foreign goods can't be used up, so why make them yourself?" I suddenly sighed in my heart, and I burst into tears for a while.

Note 1: Most of the shell gun models are magazine fed with ammunition, but the most authentic 20 rounds - the German M1932 Mauser submachine pistol is supplied with magazines, and the 78,000 20 rounds captured by the Red Eighth Army on the biedong team are basically this kind of high-end goods, poor old Chiang was willing to buy 10,000 from Germany in total, but most of them were cheaper than the Red Army