In fact, it is also a new term for people of this era who do not understand the history of weapons.
But for Zhang Sixing, who was accustomed to making weapons from anything he could find on the battlefield, this was nothing new.
"Yes, it's a clay grenade. I heard from the commander that firing clay grenades is very easy. Then mix some melted bullet casings, warheads or any other metal in those pots... The most important thing is to mobilize the people."
Listening to Hansen's explanation, Zhang Boting looked at the sketch attached and thought about the feasibility of this matter.
To put it simply, this thing is an earthen porcelain shell with an oval outside and a cylindrical inside. It's simple.
With a charge with an ordinary grenade firing tube inside, it becomes the simplest grenade. Moreover, the size can be modified proportionally, and it can even be loaded with black powder if necessary.
At first glance, this thing looks like a joke, it is a weapon that only those bullies would like.
But if you think about it for a moment, if this thing is combined with a gasoline barrel cannon or a helmet mine, it will be an extremely powerful weapon against infantry.
The coarse porcelain shell looks funny, but clay can be found anywhere. As for adding iron beans when making clay, it counts as prefabricated shrapnel.
Thousands of shells like this can be burned in any nearby village every day.
The range of the gasoline barrel cannon is 300 meters, and the warhead can reach 5 kilograms. There are not even three or two clay grenades like this. In other words, when the gasoline barrel cannon is fired, it is equivalent to throwing more than ten or twenty grenades over the enemy's head.
Anyway, this thing has a much wider impact area than a grenade.
Zhang Boting, who was familiar with the battlefield, no longer had any taboo against Zhang Sixing's disobedience to orders. On the contrary, he believed that it was a waste to put this man who could greatly reduce the pressure of fighting Japan into a concentration camp.
What is most important in China - people.
What is the biggest advantage in China - cheap labor.
Just like this kind of grenade with a rough porcelain shell, if you use worthless gunpowder, the villagers in the countryside can make hundreds of millions of them at any time while taking advantage of the slack.
Then use a gasoline barrel cannon to "pour" one basin after another on the heads of the Japanese.
To put it bluntly, this kind of grenade is not much more expensive than bullets. After all, bullets cannot be made by hand.
But clay porcelain is not the case. Any place where clay porcelain bowls can be made can be made.
As for gunpowder, haha... I just make some firecrackers.
This is simply unimaginable. If weapons are made in this way, why should the government bother with low-end arms anymore.
"It's really... it's really..."
Sun Yuanliang looked at the person in front of him in surprise. He usually didn't talk to many people, but he could be said to be almost knowledgeable about the world. He didn't know what he had seen so rude.
As a lieutenant general, especially because of some changes in weapons, you can't show too much concern, that would be too out of place.
"Chief of Staff Zhang..."
After being patted on the shoulder by Sun Yuanliang, Zhang Baiting blinked as if waking up from a dream.
Surprisingly, he did not respond to Sun Yuanliang's greeting first, but turned to Zhang Sixing.
"Principal Zhang, you are truly worthy of being Principal Zhang. These weapons...these weapons are enough to restrain the Japanese attacks."
In fact, according to later statistics, regardless of the range of rifles on the battlefield in World War II, battles between large groups of infantry occurred in the range of 200 to 400 meters. It was for this reason that a wave of small-caliber rifles was launched after the war.
The gasoline barrel cannon and clay grenades can officially declare that enemies within 300 meters are not qualified for gunfights.
After all, twenty gasoline barrels can throw four hundred clay grenades at once. Even if the gunpowder is loaded, it is enough to cover a large front. At this time, holding a rifle is of no use.
At this moment, just thinking about it, I knew that Zhang Sixing's so-called "bloody battle" at the Sixing Warehouse was basically a massacre of Japanese troops by him, or he did it in different ways.
"I represent……"
While sighing in his heart, Zhang Boting's many years of experience in officialdom told him that he was facing an unknown death.
He quickly stopped talking and turned to Sun Yuanliang,
"Military seat, Principal Zhang has provided us with some weapons that can be urgently made by the common people on the battlefield. They are extremely useful for the defense of our homeland and can carry out intensive killing of the attacking Japanese."
"Oh, there is such a weapon, let's talk about it."
Apparently Sun Yuanliang was also interested, Zhang Baiting explained,
"It's just a fired clay porcelain shell, into which metal projectiles can be added when mixing with clay, and then..."
The insufficient training of Chinese army soldiers is something that almost every officer knows. Because of the special environment of the officialdom, not many officers usually pay attention to this.
Now Sun Yuanliang didn't understand. Could it be that the chief of staff in front of him was obsessed with making grenades out of clay porcelain? Could that thing be better than the standard Gong grenade?
Hearing Sun Yuanliang's questioning, Zhang Sixing knew that he had not thought of the idea at all.
"By mobilizing the people, you can make this kind of earthen porcelain shell very cheaply. As for filling the powder inside, you don't need a technician. Ordinary people can do it with a little training. The most important thing is that such a grenade is made of steel than the Gong grenade.
Much less, and extremely cheap. According to our calculations, it is less valuable than a machine gun bullet."
In the original industrial era, products produced by machines were of course cheaper than products produced by hand.
However, in China, a country with a large population and an agricultural country with extremely low electricity and transportation capabilities, it can be said to be a hugely profitable thing for farmers to use their leisure time to manufacture arms.
At this point, Sun Yuanliang finally understood, but if he thought more deeply, he would find that the changes brought about by this small change would be so big that it would surprise everyone.
After all, Gong grenade manufacturers can only produce fuzes and explosives, and so many skilled workers can be invested in the production of other weapons.
This design is a fundamental solution to the problem, especially for China, which is extremely short of metals, skilled workers and production equipment.
"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. Principal Zhang knows how to lead troops to fight, and he also knows how to make weapons, and he is still so young. It's incredible, it's incredible..."
Compared with exaggerating in business, Sun Yuanliang's words of praise come from the heart.
This made Zhang Sixing feel a little embarrassed. He was just being generous to others. The clay grenades were used by the Austrians during World War I. The gasoline barrel cannons were also copied from the People's Army.
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Therefore, he still said a few words of humility,
"No, you've done me a favor, Military Commander. Those are all summaries of previous experience. I just stood on the shoulders of giants and saw the scenery farther away."
Chinese people like modest people. As soon as Zhang Sixing said these words, Sun Yuanliang's view of him was completely changed.