Hu Changyi was very busy because there were more than a thousand rifles waiting for him to repair.

With this quantity, even if he brought more than 20 apprentices to work with him, he still felt a little overwhelmed. With more than a thousand guns, how long would it take just to sort through them?

Take a look at the models of the rifles given: some 6.5 Jin made imitation 38 large cover; Mao Xiong’s Mosin Nagant, which is made of several old and new models; Ying 77 with guns but no ammunition; the old Hanyang made old-fashioned ones

barrels; Chinese formal weapons picked up on the battlefield; Ma Sihuan with a broken bolt; and even two broken Jin-made Thompson submachine guns...

"Yan Laoxi is treating us as a scrap gun recycling center, right?" It took a whole day for Hu Changyi and his apprentices to complete the classification of these guns. The rest was sorted by model.

Repaired.

"Master, this is our list, please take a look!" As Hu Changyi was speaking, an apprentice handed the list of this batch of guns to his hand.

"Well done! Wash your hands quickly and go to eat! You are lucky. Starting tomorrow, we will start repairing the guns. There are so many models. After repairing them, you can go out!" Looking at the rifles of each model.

Quantity, Hu Changyi said to the apprentices.

By the way, under such circumstances, the most suitable thing is to take apprentices! As soon as the apprentices got started, they saw all the existing rifle models in China, and even came into contact with submachine guns... This definitely exercises one's skills.

Starting from the next day, Hu Changyi and his apprentices began to repair guns. The first one they repaired was the most popular and common Hanyang-made rifle. Some of these guns had old rifling, some had broken bolts, and some were simply rusted...

...In short, it is very troublesome and requires a long time of work to repair or cannot be repaired.

The leaders knew that repairing guns was a slow job, and there was no rush. No one rushed here, but Hu Changyi was anxious himself!

He has a lot of things to be busy with now: Zhu Xingyu is leading the bullet reloading side, and Zhang Wanhe also takes a look from time to time, but he has to take a look, right? He has to find time to turn on the auxiliary functions for the newly made fuses.

Check it over, right? Chunsheng Qiusheng built the rifling machine, he has to find time to guide it, right?

And Lao Ma, they got him the first batch of grenade casings the next day, and also got the projectile tubes out. He needs to take a look, right? These things made of sand are very rough, and they are also very rough.

It needs to be processed carefully, he needs to give guidance, right?... In this way, Lao Ma still pulled him to study the size of the three-sided thorn for a long time...

Well, these triangular spurs are for other rifles, not for the Bayi-type horse rifle. This requires determining the bayonet seat structure, barrel outer diameter and distance of those rifles one by one... which is very troublesome.

Do you think this is the end? And what about the black powder that he prepared at home? Hu Changyi has to check the finished product, right? He also has to find time to prepare some mercury fulminate, right? Even if he bought the finished product of lead azide directly from the system, he still has to do it

Just do it...

Oh, by the way, there is also the problem of compound production of soap, wax and glycerin! His apprentice Xin Xiaomao felt sorry for his vice-captain and simply tricked his sister Xin Ge into taking charge of this matter. But... Hu Changyi must teach him step by step.

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In addition to the above, Hu Changyi also communicated with the metallurgical engineer named Luda who studied abroad in Germany to see if a miniaturized crucible steelmaking method could be realized here, even if it could only produce a hundred kilograms at a time, even if it was 50 kilograms.

Molten steel, that’s good too!

There is also the issue of heat treatment to turn white iron into gray iron. At least Lu Da has learned metal smelting. Hu Changyi will tell him about the local methods he knows and see if he can come up with these things a few years in advance. etc.

He really couldn't figure it out, so Hu Changyi still wanted to take a picture of his skills or something...

Therefore, when Comrade Lao Ma found Hu Changyi with the newly prepared projectile cannon, seven or eight days had passed, and it was also the middle of January 1938.

At this time, Hu Changyi had already led his apprentices to repair a total of 310 Hanyang-made rifles in a hurry. He also repaired those that could be used with simple repairs. He also drilled out the rifling of a total of 50 old Hanyang-made rifles, and

I asked Zhu Xingyu to reload some shotguns to use.

In other words, Hu Changyi's first magic-modified weapon was a magic-modified weapon he made successfully without going through the system to purchase skills.

Why use Hanyang for modification? Just because the gun body made by Hanyang is very short, with a total length of only 955mm, and a barrel of only 442mm, which is easier to process. Moreover, Hanyang is old enough, and most of the rifles have been smoothed, so they are modified into bolts.

It doesn't hurt to use a shotgun.

"Old Ma, have you made the finished product?" Hu Changyi saw the dark projectiles that Ma Quanyou brought with him at a glance.

"That's right Changyi, these are ten projectile tubes. The inner diameter of these projectile tubes has been polished, and the ribs have been carefully ground. They have also been tested for running-in with our high-explosive grenades, so that our grenades can be put into them.

Although there is some gap, there is nothing we can do about it." Ma Quanyou said with some pride.

"Thank you for your hard work, Lao Ma. I've been busy repairing my gun these days and haven't visited you yet!" Hu Changyi said a little apologetically.

"It's hard work as hard as yours? It's all for fighting the Japanese! Changyi, first see if this batch is successful? If it is successful, I will go to thread the silk, and then we can test it!" Ma Quanyou looked at it with burning eyes.

Looking at Hu Changyi, everyone can see his eagerness to try.

"Let me take a look..." Hu Changyi picked up the projectiles and looked at them one by one.

I have to say that Ma Quanyou really worked hard for these 10 projectiles, and he did it very carefully, and the system assistance also showed the word success.

"Old Ma, you are the one! You succeeded after three experiments. It's amazing!" Hu Changyi said, counting his thumbs.

"Hey, it'll be great if it works, it'll be great if it works! When do you think we can try it?" Ma Quanyou wanted to see the effect.

"Lao Ma, we have guns but no ammunition now! Have the grenade shells been finished?" Hu Changyi asked.

"Haha, it's done, just waiting to put it on!" Ma Quanyou said.

"Yeah, it should be finished. I've been so busy that I forgot about time. It's time for a new round of assembly tomorrow, right?" Hu Changyi said after thinking about the day.

"That's right, tomorrow our guerrillas will impose total security on the surrounding passages. The Independent Battalion and the Third Battalion of the 772nd Regiment will also come to strengthen the defense, and then they can be assembled!" Ma Quanyou said.

"Well, let's do the experiment tomorrow! I'll give you a batch note. You take 10 modified Hanyang-made shotguns from me, and then wire the barrels and assemble them! Tomorrow morning, let's go experiment together.

!" Hu Changyi said.
Chapter completed!