After all, both Chu Yunfei and Li Yunlong are not stupid. They each focus on the other's project without letting up at all. If your progress is slower, I will stop working. If my progress is slower, you will stop working.
Finally, almost when the Eighth Route Army produced the first solid gunpowder column, the bullet production line also produced the first batch of ammunition.
Both parties are quite satisfied with the result.
The production line can produce an average of five to six hundred rounds of ammunition per hour. If the production time is 20 hours a day except for maintenance, it will not be a big problem to produce more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition.
As for the solid gunpowder column, it can indeed be launched after being installed in a rocket. However, the difficulty and danger of the production process exceeded Chu Yunfei's expectations.
At this time, Li Yunlong was proud. He tilted his head and said to Chu Yunfei: "Brother Chu, do you know now that I sell these rockets at a reasonable price? I am risking my life by doing this. We are not doing anything to fight tanks."
The solution is, shouldn’t it be sold more expensively?”
Chu Yunfei just "hummed" and said nothing. He vaguely felt something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.
Maybe it's because everything is too reasonable and smooth.
Didn't the Eighth Route Army ever think of planting a hole in this?
Chu Yunfei also made some moves on the production line. He replaced some key components with older ones. The replacement parts provided were more useless and less useful. There were even no replaceable parts for key components.
Anyway, the Eighth Route Army couldn't understand it, so if you don't take advantage of it, it won't be in vain.
Therefore, Chu Yunfei estimated that the production line could barely operate for half a year... Based on 300,000 rounds of ammunition per month, half a year would only be more than 1 million rounds of ammunition. For the 400,000 people in the Eighth Route Army, one point would be four or five more rounds per person.
Bullets, what can they be used for?
As for the solid gunpowder column, the Eighth Route Army had indeed made it, so Chu Yunfei had nothing to say.
Chu Yunfei made this comparison in his mind and felt that this deal was a good one!
In fact, Wang Xuexin knew what Chu Yunfei had secretly done.
Just kidding, he is a man with a military-industrial system, but he just found it annoying and shut it down during this period.
At this time, we got a bullet production line, so of course we had to open it and take a look.
Wang Xuexin shocked himself as soon as he opened the system: What's going on? There are already more than eight million military coins, and the number is still changing, jumping up by a few digits or tens from time to time.
The system gave a "ding" prompt: "The equipment developed by the host that causes enemy losses will be credited to the host in the form of one-half military merit coin!"
Wang Xuexin became excited as soon as he heard it.
This is a bit like collecting royalties or patent shares. The things they create are used by soldiers. Whenever they work, Wang Xuexin will receive a share of the credit and be included in the military merit coins.
Bullet mines, hand grenades, bazookas... now I'm getting rich, isn't this just lying around and making money?
Then the system "dinged" again and prompted: "It has been detected that the host needs the blueprint for the 'Jin-made 35-type Yucai Bullet Machine'. Do you want to buy it?"
The price shown is five million...
Go ahead, what a fucking trap. It’s easier for me to make money, and your prices are also going up. So what’s the difference from before?
But think about it, if this bullet machine can be produced normally or even play a greater role, and it can produce tens of thousands of bullets every day and put them into the army... Does that mean that the "royalty fees" you collect will also increase?
So Wang Xuexin didn't hesitate and spent five million military coins on a single thought.
The next second Wang Xuexin realized that the five million military coins were well spent.
The system not only provides information, but also has its own detection function.
Whenever Wang Xuexin looks at a certain part of the production line, the system will give the name, function, and even service life of the part, the number of spare parts, whether it can be copied, etc.
The latter pieces of data are particularly useful.
Because based on these data, Wang Xuexin could immediately determine that the stamping system only had a life span of more than three months and had no spare parts. In addition, the key components of the cartridge extension and primer assembly had a similar situation.
Wang Xuexin suddenly realized that this was the hole Chu Yunfei had dug.
But these pitfalls cannot fool Wang Xuexin, because the system shows that it can be copied. When the time comes, Wang Xuexin only needs to hand over the drawings of these parts to the hardware.
even……
Wang Xuexin also discovered that just by replacing a few aging parts, the production line could return to a state of producing 20,000 rounds of ammunition per day.
If the stamping system can be changed from a single punch to a multi-punch... this will solve the bottleneck problem of slow cartridge case production and the output will have to be doubled.
Things went smoothly here, but something went wrong at the headquarters on the other side.
On this day, when Wang Xuexin and others were busy working on the bullet production line in Longfengping, a correspondent rushed to Wang Xuexin on horseback. After dismounting, he handed the reins to Wang Xuexin and said: "Captain Wang, the regimental commander ordered you to immediately
Go to the headquarters, it’s urgent!”
Wang Xuexin responded, got on his horse and rushed towards the headquarters.
Wang Xuexin thought that the headquarters was eager to know the status of the bullet production line, and Zhang Wanhe was especially eager to know.
Zhang Wanhe couldn't come not only because the arsenal was busy.
No matter how busy the arsenal is, Zhang Wanhe should take time to take a look at something as big as the bullet production line.
The problem is that Zhang Wanhe worked in the Taiyuan Arsenal before, and Liu Shucai and Zhang Wanhe were acquaintances in the same workshop.
If Zhang Wanhe went to Longfengping and was recognized, then Li Yunlong's plan of underestimating the enemy and stealing the army would not work.
Therefore, Zhang Wanhe was very anxious at the headquarters and called almost every day to inquire about the progress.
However, when Wang Xuexin arrived at the headquarters, he discovered that this was not the case.
"Comrade Wang Xuexin!" the leader ordered as soon as he saw Wang Xuexin: "Immediately organize a group of workers to learn the old method of gunpowder column technology!"
Although these words were meaningless, Wang Xuexin understood them clearly. He asked excitedly: "Is the stubborn army also going to buy technology?"
There is only one possibility to learn the old gunpowder column technique, and that is to use it to deceive stubborn troops.
The chief smiled and nodded and said: "They made a request to the chief of staff, saying that they want to exchange technology, and they can exchange it for equipment! But now there is a difficult question, what technology or equipment do we need?"
This is indeed an embarrassing question.
The reason is that the Eighth Route Army's industrial foundation is weak, and many technologies and even equipment are useless. The bullet production line is an exception, which has always been the bottleneck of the Eighth Route Army.
Other things, such as the technology to produce artillery?
How to solve the problem of steel for gun barrel?
How to ensure output?
Whether the production of artillery shells can be solved, etc.
If one thing affects the whole body, one technology will lead to a lot of technical problems.
Therefore, it makes no difference whether these advanced technologies exist or not. It is better to use train axles to produce ghost cannons.