Episode 120 Submachine guns become universal

On June 22, the difference is that this time the defendant is no longer Xiang Xiaoqiang, but Sawan Susi. Moreover, because the human evidence, physical evidence, and audio evidence are quite sufficient, there is no need for a grand jury hearing this time, but directly handcuffs Sawan Susi and enters the criminal proceedings.

This big case can be said to have attracted worldwide attention, and it is the first time that the trial has been held, so this trial has gathered countless eyeballs. And on this day, Xiang Xiaoqiang escaped from the cusp of public attention. Because today is Qiu Qiu's birthday, he got a seaplane, early in the morning with Qiu Qiu, Xiuxiu, and a few guards, took off from Xuanwu Lake, and flew directly to Putuo Mountain in the East China Sea, where away from the public eye, very comfortable to visit the mountains, play in the sea, worship the Buddha, eat seafood, and enjoy the white and delicate beach there......

Prince Ananta has annoyed him for so many days with a series of things, and today it has finally been settled. It also changed Siam, slaughtered Prince Ananta, and brought Sawan Susi to court. In such a big case, although the trial will have to last for a while, the evidence is so strong that Sawan Susi's neck is clearly unable to escape the noose. The rest will be left to the judicial system of the Ming Dynasty to run automatically.

It happened to be my wife's birthday, so there's no reason not to be chic.

At this time, it is mid to late June, and there are not many tourists in Putuo Mountain, and it will not increase until July. In addition, there are very few Ming people in this era, only less than 100 million people, and it is not as convenient as traveling in later generations, so there are still many beautiful beaches on Putuo Mountain that are empty. Xiang Xiaoqiang picked a place and went into the sea to swim with Qiu Xiuxiu.

It's morning, and the water is still a little cool. Xiang Xiaoqiang swam around, swam back to the shallows, stood up and paddled the waves with his legs onto the beach. He sat cross-legged on the beach, letting the water wash between his legs. Then he watched with great interest as Qiu Yu and Xiuxiu swam in the sea. Alas, the swimsuit at this time was so wordy and conservative that it almost caught up with the nun's suit......

The swimming skills of the two little girls are much better than their own, and they are not a little better. They were visibly excited, apparently they hadn't swum in a long time. Xiang Xiaoqiang remembered that since he "fished them ashore" from the submarine force, they had never swam with him. Now, they are skilfully drilling up and down in the sea, laughing at each other like two mermaids.

Speaking of swimming, Xiang Xiaoqiang is very emotional. The last time he swam was on the first night he came to Daming, and he "swam in the Yangtze River" on a cold day. After swimming again after such a long time, my swimming skills have not regressed at all, but I am no longer the same person I used to be. Now the high-ranking officials are generous, meritorious and famous, and there are two confidants around them, and whether it is a career line or a love line, which line has a bright future waiting for him.

But...... There is only one. That is, the total time is only five years......

What you want to do must be implemented as soon as possible, and seize the day.

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On the same day, he stayed in a Buddhist temple in Putuo Mountain for one night, listened to the sound of the tide all night, and watched the sunrise the next morning, Xiang Xiaoqiang took a group of people back to Nanjing by seaplane in the morning and landed on Xuanwu Lake.

On the 23rd, the schedule was very full, and after getting off the plane at 10 o'clock, I immediately took the car back to the headquarters to deal with yesterday's affairs, and then met with the people of the Lianfeng Company, and then went with them to a barracks of the capital garrison to attend the Ming army's light weapons refitting ceremony.

Lianfeng's latest fist product, the L-36 submachine gun, placed an order for 30,000 units from Xiaoqiang in May, of which 10,000 were for the People's Guard and 20,000 for the army. Delivery today.

10,000 submachine guns will be shipped into the People's Guard today. In this way, the submachine guns of the People's Guard Corps will meet the new requirements for installation today: four divisions, with an average of 2,500 units per division, and the submachine guns will be universalized.

Another 20,000 will also be sent to the army's fist force, the Capital Garrison. According to the requirement of an average of 1,500 divisions per division, 10 divisions of the capital garrison were equipped. The capital garrison in the army, together with the People's Guard, will simultaneously achieve the universalization of submachine guns.

The Capital Garrison is an elite unit in the army, a baby bump, and for the first time, they have achieved such a high density of automatic weapons and achieved the universalization of submachine guns, which has a great influence on the entire army. Many high-ranking officials of the War Department and the Army General Staff had to inspect the capital garrison to see that they were generally equipped with submachine guns, and then they used submachine guns for training.

Because Wang Hexiang is in charge of equipment, he often has to go to the War Department and the General Administration of Military Industry, and has a lot to deal with those high-ranking officials. He told Xiang Xiaoqiang that there is a legend circulating in the offices of the bureaucrats of the War Department that Marshal Tang Yunsheng, chief of the general staff of the army, wants to make all the Ming army universalize submachine guns within a year, but the minister (minister of the army) resolutely opposes, saying that it is whimsical, because then the logistics vehicles will not have to do anything else, and they will have to transport bullets. It is said that the two had a very quarrel.

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled secretly, before the popularization of automatic weapons, almost every country's military upper echelons had quarreled like this. The main reason is that I am afraid of automatic weapons, the consumption of bullets is too great, and the logistical pressure cannot be withstanding. However, the later facts have proved one by one that the weapons have been automated, and the logistics have not been very good, but on the contrary, the army's firepower has been greatly enhanced, and the casualties and various losses have been greatly reduced, and the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages. And those countries that stubbornly refused the automation of weapons soon suffered on the infantry battlefields of the world war.

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In one month, the Lianfeng produced 30,000 submachine guns. Although this figure is currently confidential, it still makes many people in the know fall through their eyes, including Lian Feng's own can't believe it: Ah! It turns out that we can produce tens of thousands of submachine guns a month ?!

Although Xiang Xiaoqiang had long expected that the production speed of the L-36 would be fast, he was still unexpectedly unable to do so. Because he remembers that until 1942, the Thomson submachine gun was produced only 90,000 units per month. And that was during World War II, and after the United States entered the war. According to common sense, the output of a weapon before and during World War II cannot be compared together, it is a day and a place.

In 1936, the monthly output of a submachine gun of Daming reached 30,000 pieces, and it was put into mass production in the first month as a new product. That means that in a few months, a year and a half, it is not impossible to produce 50,000 or 60,000 pieces per month.

This submachine gun was subverted in the minds of the army bosses. At this time, the real submachine gun was not born for a long time, and the submachine gun was still a novelty, a small and expensive thing, which was basically not seen in ordinary armies. In the minds of ordinary people, the submachine gun is a kind of "old gun" with complex technology, many parts, huge cost, high processing difficulty and many man-hours.

But now the L-36, which is proposed to Xiaoqiang, is almost the opposite, completely subverting these concepts.

These army bigwigs immediately realized: such a month can produce tens of thousands of pieces, then in the next few years, the Ming Army will be able to have one. Of course, it is impossible for everyone to use submachine guns, but this production speed is completely possible.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang watched the trucks drive into the barracks, then opened the tailgate, moved boxes one by one from it, and then opened them, took out the brand-new black and shiny submachine guns, and issued them to the neatly arranged soldiers...... He was very relieved, because he knew that the reason why he could have such a fast production speed today was entirely because of the design requirements he insisted on at the beginning: simple structure, few parts, and all stamping. Such a submachine gun, although in terms of a single unit, except for light weight, is not as good as Thomson, but because of its simple structure and low cost, its production speed is several times that of Thomson's high-quality product, and the number of soldiers who can use it is also several times that of Thomson.

Now the newly formulated standard for the platoon of submachine guns of the Ming Army is: People's Guard armored infantry platoon - 26; People's Guard motorized rifle platoon - 18; Army motorized infantry platoon - 11; Army standard infantry platoon - 11 units.

Such a high-density automatic weapon is unprecedented in the world's leading teams in the current era. If it continues to be installed in this way, it will at least ensure that in the next few years, the Ming army's infantry light weapons firepower will be the strongest in the world.

Now Xiang Xiaoqiang regrets a little bit that he placed less orders. In the first month, the Lianfeng can produce 30,000 pieces quietly, and it doesn't seem to be much. If the original order of 50,000 pieces was placed, it is estimated that it will be about the same in a month. There's a lot of potential.

Alas, if only there could be such a large production of airplanes, tanks and automobiles.

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After completing the universal installation of submachine guns of the People's Guard and the Capital Garrison on the 23rd, Xiang Xiaoqiang was still unsatisfied, and asked Wang Hexiang to contact the Taiping Ji Military Industrial Company in Chongqing in the afternoon of the same day to ask how the Lightning-4 and half-track vehicles they had designed at the beginning of the year were being explained.

Wang Hexiang was busy for half an afternoon, calling and telegraphing, communicating with that side for a long time, and then reporting what he learned to Xiaoqiang.

The drawings of the Lightning-4 tank have already been designed, and now the prototype is being made, and it will not be long before the first prototype is produced. The first prototype of the Tempest-36 multi-purpose half-track armored transport vehicle has now been produced and is now being debugged and tested.

Xiang Xiaoqiang did not hesitate at all, and immediately ordered the plane to be arranged, and he would personally fly to Sichuan the next day to inspect the progress of the Lightning-4 tank and the Hurricane-36 half-track.

He now had a feeling that time was running out. Now it's finally okay to do other troubles, and at the same time, it has ushered in the time when you have the most power and the least resistance around. Now we must devote ourselves wholeheartedly to the war of armament, and mobilize the huge war machine of the Ming army to make it run as fast as possible.