This evening, the independent regiment was training under the afterglow of the setting sun.
During this period, the independent group was digging holes and building factories on Qiling Mountain during the day, and only found time to train during their free time and when they returned to the village after work.
However, the training does not actually involve much content, it is just to become familiar with the operation of the Springfield rifle.
Normally, if you are familiar with the operation of a rifle, you need to fire hundreds of bullets to get some feel for it.
The Eighth Route Army was not so generous.
Their training is to simulate loading bullets over and over again, then aim at the target with your shoulder, make a "bang" sound, and then make tactical moves before firing the next round.
There's nothing you can do about it, bullets are expensive, and the average person only has 25 rounds, so there's no way anyone can afford it with training.
According to Huzi, the habit of the Eighth Route Army is that they are only allowed to fire a few rounds of live ammunition before going to the battlefield, and then they have to practice while fighting the Japanese.
It’s no wonder that the overall quality of the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield is not as good as that of the Japanese. Every one of the Japanese is fed with bullets.
However, this does not seem to be a big problem for the independent regiment, because the bolt-action rifles are all similar, not to mention that the "Zhongformal", "38 Dagai", and "Citiform" are all imitation Mauser rifles, and the soldiers have already
Familiar.
Wang Xuexin tried firing a few bullets.
The gun is in very good condition, the sound is crisp and the offset is small, and it can accurately hit without a scope from more than 300 meters away.
The advantage of a semi-automatic rifle like the m1 is that it can be used as a rifle and can fire multiple rounds of bullets in a short time when firepower is required in critical situations.
The only difference is the speed of pulling the trigger slowly or quickly, which can be controlled by yourself depending on the situation.
When Wang Xuexin tried the gun, he shocked all his subordinates. They all gathered around and shouted with envy:
"Company commander, what kind of gun is this? It's different from ours!"
"Yeah, you don't even need to pull the bolt, this gun is great!"
"Let's get one for us sometime!"
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At this time, Xie Baoqing, who knew the inside story, came up: "Go, go, everyone is eating from the bowl and looking at the pot. This gun was given to our company commander by the foreign devils. You are the only company commander in the entire army."
Dare you argue with the company commander?"
After saying this, all the soldiers fell silent.
It is true that the Eighth Route Army does not engage in specialization, but this does not mean that everyone must be the same.
This batch of arms was obtained by Wang Xuexin from the foreign devils. Moreover, this gun could be said to be a gift from Sun Erwei based on his personal feelings. Of course, others had no reason to be jealous.
In the words of Li Yunlong, it is: "If anyone is jealous, you can also build a few production lines to produce tens of thousands of guns, let alone tens of thousands of guns, if you can produce hundreds of guns, I, Li Yunlong, beg my grandfather to sue my grandmother for all this."
Send him the gun!"
Li Yunlong made a good calculation.
Although the M1 rifle is the most advanced semi-automatic at present, it is still a standard rifle after all. The current cost is more than 100 US dollars (the sniper type is more expensive), which is about the price of four in Springfield, but Li Yunlong wants to exchange it for several hundred.
Su Xin was also running in the mountains all day long during this period... This little girl was so serious about her work that she didn't even return to the village at noon.
In fact, the soldiers did not return to the village at noon.
This is because it takes more than an hour to get to Qiling Mountain from the village. If you go back to the village for lunch at noon, you will be delayed for three hours on the way back and forth, and you won't be able to do much work at the end of the day.
So the cooking team would prepare meals in the morning for each soldier to take with him in a lunch box, and then have a makeshift meal in the cave at noon. After a short rest, he would continue working until he returned to the village before dark in the afternoon.
Therefore, although Wang Xuexin and Su Xin were in three stores, they did not have much contact time... Wang Xuexin had always been in the village, monitoring the radio station and responsible for contacting Sun Erwei.
Because Li Yunlong was worried about missing something, he assigned Wang Xuexin four radio soldiers and one correspondent, who took turns guarding the radio station and never relaxed for a moment.
Even Wang Xuexin was "tied" by the radio station... He had to report before leaving and was not allowed to leave the village so that the correspondent could find Wang Xuexin at any time.
But Su Xin can always find some opportunities to come to Wang Xuexin.
for example……
"Classmate Xiao Wang, I don't understand these words in the production manual. Can you help me ask?"
"Classmate Xiao Wang, I have never seen the parts written here before. What is the specific model?"
"Classmate Xiao Wang..."
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The answers to some questions are actually very simple. Wang Xuexin doesn't believe that Su Xin doesn't know them.
But to be honest, apart from these excuses, Su Xin really had no reason to go to Wang Xuexin's dormitory.
Su Xin's excuse today was to train with Wang Xuexin.
This "excuse" is very reasonable, because in this era everyone is likely to go to the battlefield, and basic military training is necessary.
The problem is that the rifle weighs eight kilograms and needs to be held with one hand when pulling the bolt. This is difficult for ordinary gay men, let alone Su Xin, who has no hands to pull a chicken.
"Classmate Xiao Su!" Wang Xuexin said to Su Xin, who was lying on the ground with a gun and making tactical moves with great difficulty: "Girls, don't even think about shooting long guns. You can do it with box cannon!"
"That won't work!" Su Xin raised her head and replied, "I am the director of the Sixth Branch Factory. If I don't know how to use the guns I produce, how do I know which ones are qualified and which ones are unqualified?"
These words left Wang Xuexin speechless. Su Xin really needed to know more about this rifle.
Then Su Xin seemed to remember something, and she sat up and put the gun on the ground, saying, "Classmate Xiao Wang, I thought of a shortcoming in our factory."
"What?" Wang Xuexin asked doubtfully.
Su Xin took out a bullet from the bullet bag on her waist and waved it in front of Wang Xuexin, saying: "We will be able to produce rifles and bullets by then... Do we still use black powder as propellant?"
Wang Xuexin was stunned for a moment.
What Su Xin said is that using black powder as propellant has many disadvantages, such as the need to clean the barrel after firing a few bullets, severely affecting the range and a lot of smoke, etc.
If this had happened before, it wouldn't have mattered.
Anyway, the quality of reloaded bullets is poor, and if black powder is used, it won't be a big deal.
but now……
Everything else is sophisticated equipment produced on Citi's production line. Can it also be loaded with black powder?
Wang Xuexin didn't pay attention to it before because the Eighth Route Army could also produce smokeless gunpowder, so it was not a technical problem.
The technology to produce smokeless gunpowder is not difficult. It is to ignite sulfur and saltpeter, and the sulfur oxide gas produced is combined with water to make sulfuric acid, nitric acid, etc., and then nitrocellulose, which is smokeless gunpowder, can be made.
The problem was that the Eighth Route Army did not have the equipment and instead used water tanks instead of lead chambers, so the output was very low and could not meet demand.
Wang Xuexin thought it was right.
If you just buy equipment without technology, it shouldn't cost much. Why not buy a few sets of equipment from Sun Erwei to make up for this shortcoming?
Anyway, there is already some balance in the account!