Chapter 12 The Beginning of the Military Industry (I)
After thinking about it, Hu Weidong decided to designate those pistol team members who had potential, but could not meet his requirements for the time being, as "reserve members", and only after passing the examination and getting the recognition of himself and everyone in actual combat could they become official "pistol (special operations) team members", so the original pistol team members were all downgraded at once
Since then, the enthusiasm for study and training of the militia company has been unprecedentedly high, and their attitude has been even more unusually serious; in addition to the addition of Long Feibao, an outstanding combat and shooting instructor, including the reserve members, the military quality of the more than 400 commanders and fighters of the militia company has improved by leaps and bounds. However, Hu Weidong also did not allow everyone to practice too tired, after all, the enemy may attack at any time, if everyone happens to be exhausted from training, then it will be dizzy, and the practice of letting soldiers practice until they lose their strength and even be injured and fractured in literary and artistic works such as TV movies and novels is only feasible in rear bases that are not easy to be attacked by the enemy, and it would be too stupid for the current militia company to do the same
However, Hu Weidong put forward almost strict requirements for tactical training that used more brains, which enabled many advanced tactics he knew to be applied to actual combat earlier, and he soon did not have to personally lead the team every time. The advanced, scientific, and flexible tactics have to a large extent made up for the lack of individual combat effectiveness of the militia company, and have gradually become one of its deep-rooted traditions. And Hu Weidong has not let go of culture and education, especially those teenagers who he thinks have potential, and they were singled out to open a small stove in person, which paved the way for the establishment of the three major mobile schools soon after
Although he is very concerned about the training work, Hu Weidong does not agree that "it is irresponsible to bring untrained soldiers to the battlefield." This is not the case now that the enemy will not come if he does not fight. If we have been focusing only on training, we will not be able to expand our ranks rapidly, and when the enemy's superior forces are coming, the militia company will still have only so many people, and then we will not wait for death?
Hu Weidong believed that as long as there is a greater certainty of victory and the gains outweigh the losses, then it is necessary to start fighting without hesitation, and through "training by fighting," we can not only temper our troops, but also capture weapons and ammunition to arm more troops, so that we can build a powerful army as quickly as possible, and this is also the only way for a weak militia company to survive under the watchful eye of a strong enemy. As for how to ensure victory when the strength is not strong, it is up to him, and even the militia company to use more brains while training and studying hard
As a result of the seizure of the last war, the firepower of the militia company has increased greatly, especially the pistol team has been greatly expanded, and it can be disguised as a plainclothes team of district team size, equipped with more than 20 rings and 80 pieces, under the command of Hu Weidong, as long as it can get the first hand at a relatively close range, it is easy to deal with hundreds of regular troops, and the difficulty of attacking the mine site has suddenly decreased sharply, and in the following 20 days, except for the two mines close to Xingguo County, they did not dare to touch it, and the large mines with more than 50 miners in the county were all looted by the militia company. More than 800 people from the Biedong team and even the regular army, rescued more than 5,000 miners, and seized a large number of weapons and equipment, mainly including:
More than 600 rifles,
73 pistols (12 of which were 20 shots),
18 Flower Traps,
4 Czech light machine guns,
2 water-cooled Makqin heavy machine guns,
2 60mm mortars and 60 shells,
More than 80 hand-made wooden handle grenades,
103 bayonets
In addition, the militia company also seized a large amount of materials, including: more than 300 taels of gold, more than 5,000 pieces of ocean, more than 200,000 catties of grain, more than 5 tons of salt, hundreds of mules and horses, hundreds of carts, more than 300 catties of brass, more than 500 catties of crude lead, more than 20,000 catties of net tungsten sand, more than 30 tons of coal, more than 10 tons of ammonium nitrate explosives (the most cost-effective explosives before and after the Anti-Japanese War, at least much stronger than black powder), high explosives (TNT, nitroglycerin, etc., including mixed explosives based on it). More than 400 catties, more than 30,000 detonators, and valuable industrial and mining equipment and even spare parts were dismantled and taken away by Hu Weidong, and even tens of thousands of catties of "scrap" steel and "scrap" iron...,
For the militia company, which mainly implements the internal rationing system and has no external trading channels, the money and certain materials (such as tungsten sand) that are only used for cash at present can only be kept for future use, but the value of strategic materials such as explosives, detonators, machinery and equipment, copper, lead, and steel is completely different, especially the tens of thousands of detonators
With these materials, several materials needed to reload the bullet are available, the main drug of the detonator, mercury can be made into a large amount of bullet primer, and copper and lead are the main materials for making the warhead. Although there is still a serious shortage of skilled workers in the arsenal, with the experience and experience of Wu Yunduo as a reference, Hu Weidong did not spend much effort to successfully build a bullet reassembly production line with high production efficiency and easy disassembly and assembly. In mid-January 1935, the first reloading bullet production line began to put into production, and more than 10,000 reloaded bullets were reloaded that month, and according to the reported soldiers who had used it, after loading the reloading bullets, the shooting accuracy of the rifle was not greatly affected, and the difference was almost not felt within 100 meters, as for the longer distance, the militia generally waited until the enemy approached within 200 meters before shooting (in an assessment at the end of January, the average hit rate of shooting a humanoid fixed target at a distance of 100 meters was about sixty percent, The results of the 200 meters and the moving target are even more unwatchable, although considering the current speed of the militia company's terrifying expansion, a large number of recruits have dragged their feet, and it is not easy to be able to train to the current level), so the impact is not very great.
This proves that Hu Weidong's regulations for the management of the arsenal are indeed of great help in improving product quality, and whether it is output or quality, his arsenal has obviously surpassed the production line that Wu Yunduo built in the New Fourth Army in history, and as the workers become more and more proficient, the output and quality of reloading bullets can be further improved. It's just a pity that although the quality of these reloading bullets is quite good, after all, it is still a semi-manual product, and it cannot be completely standardized, and if it is installed in the magazine or chain for automatic weapons, it is easy to jam, so it can only be used for rifles under normal circumstances, and can only be loaded one round at a time.