Chapter 14: The Price of Conscience (1)
Merchant? Zhao Liming didn't understand why a soldier still called himself like this, his eyes were attracted by the weapons on display on the school field, the brand-new Mauser 98K, twenty rounds of Zilaide (barge gun or box gun), wooden handle grenade, flower mechanism (MP18), Czech-made (ZB26 light machine gun), Min-24 heavy machine gun, 60 force, and one is 82, and then there are battle defense guns (PAK37 battle defense guns) and mountain guns (Bofors M1930, 75mm mountain guns)!
"You ......" No one pays attention to Wen Hui's faux pass now, these things in front of him are not so easy to get, to put it bluntly, they want money. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info firearms are okay, they can be produced and bought by themselves, but the guns are different, and the artillery in the army has not been used enough since the establishment of the Republic of China.
Far from it, in 1931, that is, after the end of the Central Plains War, the Nationalist Government took stock of the existing army weapons and ordnance factories, and the results were extremely terrifying! Not to mention anything else, the number of artillery pieces alone is jaw-dropping. At that time, the total number of artillery pieces in the whole of China, including the warlords, was more than 500. However, the models are extremely large and complex, and there are more than 10 kinds of Japanese, German, and Swedish artillery under Zhang Zuolin's command alone, and there are 40 kinds of artillery models in the country, which belong to seven or eight countries.
And at that time, China's artillery production capacity was extremely limited! In the areas controlled by the Nationalist Government, only the Hanyang and Shanghai Arsenals have the production capacity of medium and large-caliber artillery, but the total annual output is only more than 90 pieces, and they are all very backward artillery.
The Shanghai-made Krupp 75-mm mountain gun produced by the Shanghai Arsenal and the Japanese-made Type 41 75-mm mountain gun produced by the Hanyang Arsenal were both products before the end of World War I. In this era of rapid advances in artillery technology, these artillery pieces have fallen far behind the world.
As early as during World War I, the Germans had eliminated the original model of the old Shanghai-made Krupp 75mm mountain gun, and the Japanese also developed a more advanced Japanese-made Type 94 75mm mountain gun in 1934 to replace the Japanese-made Type 41 75mm mountain gun.
The artillery used by the German armament division that is now being formed is all purchased, and that amount is a drop in the bucket.
As for mortars, in 1923, based on the British Stokes mortar, China imitated a mortar in the modern sense - the "Shanghai-type" 82-mm mortar. In 1931 (the 20th year of the Republic of China) after World War I, Nanjing Jinling Arsenal officially produced a Chinese-made 82-mm mortar, which was called the "Twenty Years" mortar. This is a modification of the "Shanghai-type" 82 mortar in accordance with the performance of the French Brandt 81-mm mortar. In 1932, Nanjing officially established a mortar factory, mainly producing 82 mm mortars, with an output of 180 in 1935 (note that the annual output, 710 in 38 years, and the capacity to produce 2,000 guns per year was not reached until 47 years).
It can be said that now as long as it is related to artillery, it is considered a high-value item, although it wants to purchase to solve the problem of scarcity of heavy firepower, but with such a large army base in China and a poor industrial base, Jiang Gong can't even take care of his own descendants, and the equipment of the remaining troops can be imagined.
"Guys, how about you try it? Don't tell me you don't know how to play. Wen Hui joked with a smile.
But no one moved, and Zhao Liming, who was in the lead, asked with a smile: "You are also self-produced?" "The reason why Wenhui's outflow of arms is cheap is because of the banner of self-production, but these things in front of him don't look like they are self-produced.
"It's all at this price, you just think it's homemade." Wen Hui said that my price is cheap, and you can experience it yourself if the thing is good or not.
"Gun inspection!" At the moment, Zhao Liming has forgotten the purpose of coming, and now the weapon is serious, if he can get the weapon at a low price from this foreign comprador, this trip will be worth it. As for him occupying the mountain as the king here, if he can really provide weapons steadily, then it will be considered invisible.
The targets are all ready-made, and the guards brought over this time are also veterans, Mauser, shell guns, flower mechanisms, and the Czech Republic has a number in the palm of your hand, especially the one that tests the MP18, and you don't want to put it down, and the look of love makes the companions who didn't grab the opportunity next to them very envious, especially after learning that there is no limit to target bullets, this emotion is even more obvious.
After 1920, China was in the midst of a 10-year international arms embargo, and due to the impact of the arms embargo and the withering of the domestic arms industry, the few arsenals in the country had difficulty even guaranteeing conventional rifles, let alone freeing up a production line to manufacture submachine guns. A small number of domestic flower organs were copied by themselves (by the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the total output of several arsenals was less than 10,000), and the rest of the flower organs were smuggled into the country by various foreigners (demand created high prices).
Why are MP18 so pursued? Without him, the firepower at close range is extremely weak, and the combat weapons at medium and long distances are light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and rifles as a supplement to firepower, so the firepower of the well-equipped troops will be strong, and in this kind of distance operation, the army with superior equipment will have a great upper hand. At close range, the weapons and equipment of the most elite German armourers of the Central Army were similar to those of the Red Army, because they could not buy reliable melee weapons, so that the Mauser military pistol (that is, the shell gun) with 10 or 20 rounds of ammunition and continuous semi-automatic fire became a sharp weapon. Armed with a large number of Mauser military pistols and Browning semi-automatic pistols, the Broadsword team was prepared for close combat.
Therefore, the MP18/28 submachine gun (flower machine), which can fire 20 rounds in a fully automatic burst and shoot at a distance of 50 meters to 150 meters, is definitely the first melee weapon in the early and middle stages of the Anti-Japanese War. Because at that time, both the national army and the Japanese army only had this submachine gun, and there was nothing else. Therefore, it is understandable that gun inspectors have such emotions.
Different from the arrogant foreign market, the domestic is a poor jingle place. Even if the weapon is unlocked, Wen Hui will only strengthen on this basis, and will not come up with anything better. Because this set of equipment in front of you is most suitable for the current large-scale equipment of the army, there is no need to consider upgrading in one or even two years, and in the future, it will not take two years, and a war will break out in July next year (37 years), and the financial situation of the national government will definitely not improve instantly, and it will not be able to purchase the advanced equipment here in Wenhui. If they could replace their current weapons with these, the war might not be so hard. Coupled with the group of butterflies under Wen Hui's "-stirring stick", he may be able to make a difference.
Light and heavy machine guns, including grenades, have been tested with live ammunition, and when it comes to artillery, it's a bit of a scratching head, and the people who bring it can play robbery but can't operate the artillery. Mortars can also be fired with their eyes closed, and the operation of 37 anti-aircraft guns and mountain artillery is not so simple.
"Cheng Jun led people to shoot two cannons!" The appearance of the cannon is very good, and you can see that it has just left the factory by looking at the paint on the outside. After taking them to see the cannon chamber, Wen Hui beckoned his subordinates to come and fire.
Mortars and mountain guns had targets at a distance, and the target of the 37 anti-aircraft gun was a 40 mm steel plate (the tungsten core armor-piercing shell of this type of gun could only penetrate 48 mm of vertical armor when fired at 500 meters), and this small gun was outdated in the European theater at the beginning of World War II. But on the battlefield in China, it can definitely sing the whole audience, and the bean chariot of the book can only bully an opponent who lacks heavy firepower. This thing is more than enough to beat the Bean Chariot, and if the number of equipment is large enough, it will not make those crispy tanks so arrogant.
How can we get as many of them into the hands of soldiers as possible? "Cheap" and "quality" are the bargaining chips for Wen Hui to grab orders from foreign agents, and this time he will make a cost, and he doesn't believe that there is anything cheaper than him under the same quality!