This is the day Wang Xuexin is discharged from the hospital.
The so-called discharge means moving from one end of the village to the other end of the village to live in the arsenal.
When Su Xin came to pick up Wang Xuexin, she said: "The room in the arsenal has been renovated for you! The director of the factory explained that it was discussed with the regiment leader. There is no rush to go back. The 'ghost cannon' will be ready in a few days."
You can try assembling it and fire a few rounds to see how it goes!"
Wang Xuexin knew why the gun was so fast. Su Xin kept telling him about the progress, which parts had been copied, which parts had been tested... These things were almost finished before the axle came, so now we are waiting.
The barrel came out.
Parts testing was also done by Su Xin. She put the parts back into the original cannon and tried them, and then she operated them a few times and felt there was no problem before they were considered qualified.
The reason why I say "feeling" is because I haven't been able to fire a few rounds to try...the original artillery shells are like treasures, and even one shot made the troops feel extremely distressed.
Li Changfu, the leader of the Hundred Battle Group, made a special call because he heard that the arsenal had fired a shell: "Director, do you know how important one shell is? It can probably take down a Japanese artillery tower!"
This is indeed true.
This does not mean that one shot can blow up a turret, but it means that it can knock a hole in the turret, and then it will be much easier to deal with. If you are far away, you can throw the grenade hard into the hole, and the Japanese will be killed in a few blows.
It exploded like crazy.
If such a hole had not been blown, only Wang Gensheng, the outstanding pitcher of the Independent Regiment, would have been able to throw the grenade into the gun hole.
So the other two shells that came with the cannon were no longer dared to be touched. They were just looked at and measured to make imitation shells.
However, the imitation artillery shells are still not very similar. Not to mention the different materials, the Eighth Route Army cannot use copper, a scarce material, to make artillery shells. Even in terms of shape... the Eighth Route Army can only make round-headed artillery shells and add a fuse on the front.
This is a problem of the Second Branch Factory. If we make this kind of standard pointed pointed small cone angle cannonball, it will be difficult to cast it and it will be difficult to ensure its balance.
It would be fine if the gun had rifling, but the shell would spin when fired, and it would barely be able to maintain its posture if it was unbalanced.
However, if a gun without rifling is unbalanced, it will roll in the air and will not explode even if it hits the target. As a result, in order to pursue a balanced warhead, it can only be made into a regular cylinder and round head.
As soon as Wang Xuexin returned to the arsenal, Li Yunlong's shout rang out: "Xiao Dongbei...he didn't tell me even after he was discharged from the hospital, making me run to the hospital blindly!"
Wang Xuexin went out and saw Li Yunlong riding a horse with a monk.
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin replied: "If I can tell you when I am discharged from the hospital, then you have to give me a radio station!"
"I wish you all the best!" Li Yunlong laughed "hehe": "But the radio station doesn't have it. I'll bring you one, let's see how it goes?"
With a wave of his hand as he spoke, the monk led a maroon war horse up and handed the reins to Wang Xuexin: "Here, Commander, I'll give you some face! It's said that Xiao Dongbei always travels between places, so it's convenient to give him a horse!"
"Horse?" Wang Xuexin was stunned when he took the reins.
This thing is very valuable in this era, especially after the base area was looted with legal currency.
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin touched the horse's head and asked, "Where did this... come from?"
In fact, this is not what Wang Xuexin wanted to ask. He wanted to say: "Captain, why are you such a tough guy so generous?"
But if I ask this question, I will probably get kicked by Li Yunlong soon, so I'd better take it easy.
Li Yunlong replied triumphantly: "It's nothing, it's a gift from Commander Ding! We just took down a cavalry battalion of the puppet army and captured more than 400 horses! The brigade commander has to leave more than half of it, and I'm here
We have left over a hundred horses and are preparing to form a cavalry company..."
"Cavalry company?" Wang Xuexin was confused when he heard this.
"What's wrong?" Li Yunlong asked suspiciously when he saw Wang Xuexin's expression was wrong.
"Captain, I think we should not form any cavalry company!" Wang Xuexin replied.
Li Yunlong's face darkened, and he immediately cursed: "Xiao Dongbei, are you a traitor or something? I have people and horses, so why can't I form a cavalry company?"
"Captain!" Wang Xuexin looked around and whispered back: "You...don't label yourself as a traitor, you will be shot!"
"If you don't tell me the truth today, I won't be wrong!" Li Yunlong glared angrily: "What a great opportunity! But you said you can't join forces... isn't this talking to the devils?"
Wang Xuexin was a little helpless, this guy only spoke so much "reason".
After thinking about it, Wang Xuexin did not answer and asked instead: "Commander, let me ask you one question, how many rounds of ammunition do our machine guns usually have?"
Li Yunlong tilted his mouth and replied: "Fifty rounds, what's wrong?"
This was the amount of ammunition the Independent Regiment had after seizing a batch of ammunition from the Japanese. If it had only prepared thirty rounds of ammunition before, it would have been called a machine gun but actually a faster-shooting rifle.
"That's the problem." Wang Xuexin said: "Most of our Eighth Route Army use rifles, and they still shoot reloaded bullets with a short range, which are not accurate. The machine guns are also afraid to shoot because of insufficient ammunition, so the Japanese and puppet soldiers dare to
Establish a cavalry unit. But the basic machine gun of the Japanese is only 300 rounds of ammunition. Each of them has a rifle with a range of 500 meters with original bullets, plus grenades and mortars... The cavalry is just a boss.
Target?"
In fact, the cavalry at this time should have been eliminated long ago.
Strictly speaking, it is not elimination, but the conversion of cavalry into armored or motorized units.
Those formations are still some cavalry regiments or brigades. In fact, they are not riding horses but driving cars, armored vehicles or tanks.
The same goes for Japanese soldiers. Even Olympic equestrian champion Nishi Takeichi, who was serving in the military, had to give up his horses and become the commander of armored forces.
When it comes to riding skills, who can compare with the Olympic champion?
If it is to be useful, why don't the Japanese allow Olympic champions to join the cavalry?
The reason why the Japs still have cavalry on the side of the Eighth Route Army.
On the one hand, Wang Xuexin said that the Eighth Route Army was poorly equipped and had poor firepower and could not pose a threat to the cavalry. This was the same as the Japanese who dared to build artillery towers to deal with the Eighth Route Army.
On the other hand, the Eighth Route Army is good at changing places with one shot. In addition, the roads in this area are not developed and it is difficult for cars to maneuver. Therefore, using cavalry to pursue the Eighth Route Army who is engaged in guerrilla warfare is a way.
But on the other hand, if the Eighth Route Army formed cavalry to deal with the Japs who had superior firepower, it would be like building artillery towers to deal with the Japs who had artillery. It would be an act seeking death.
Therefore, when setting up a cavalry unit, especially when it is just a company... the shadows in the TV series are fine, but when used to fight the enemy in reality, there will be a big problem: a target as big as a man riding a horse, with the enemy's marksmanship several hundred meters away
If you can't hit it, you're blind.
Even if the person is not hit, if the horse falls to the ground or is frightened by the shot, the person will still be thrown half to death?
This does not include machine guns, grenade launchers, etc., which are a dozen and a large area.