In addition to these essential items, the grenade, one of Liu Lang's most valued individual weapons, has begun to take shape under the research of the research team led by Grunov. I believe it will not take long to have stronger blasting capabilities and a larger carrying capacity.
The melon-style grenade will completely replace the long-handled grenade currently equipped by the independent regiment and become the most powerful individual equipment for soldiers in close combat.
In fact, Liu Lang didn't really want to equip each squad with a grenade at first. It was a small-caliber mortar with a range of only a few hundred meters. Except for Japan, which has poor light artillery support in the world,
Except for people who have a special liking for this, other countries don't use it at all. If they have the time, they might as well learn from American cowboys and Germans to make rifle grenades that are popular in Europe.
However, considering that the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War is imminent, Dr. German, who has been squeezed out of oil, is really busy. Liu Lang temporarily gave up this idea and could only use the armored vehicle that the American cowboys were about to develop.
The rifle grenade was later developed. In order to counter the Japanese grenade that could fire at close range, Liu Lang could only throw the grenade, the best imitation weapon, to Dr. Ge, who was exploited by the capitalists with a high salary.
Grunov, who had been gradually developed by Liu Lang from a metal craftsman to a weapons manufacturing expert, had no regard for the simple and shocking grenade at all. In just two or three days, he used this thing he called useless.
The Type 32 grenade prototype weapon was thrown to Liu Lang.
In two months, more than 200 Type 32 grenades, which can launch special grenades up to a distance of 450 feet, were manufactured frantically. According to Grunov, the process is too simple. Now that the mold has been designed,
Don't waste it.
Liu Lang kept more than fifty grenades and sold the rest to his uncle Liu Wenhui. Although the 150 grenade can increase the firepower of the front line, Liu Lang knew that the way to win or lose had been decided a long time ago, and it was definitely not these 150 grenades.
As far as the rod grenade can decide, these grenade can only be used by Liu Xiang after he unified Sichuan. It can also be regarded as more equipment for the Sichuan army to fight against the Japanese invaders when they leave Sichuan five years later!
There is no MG42 in the warehouse.
The MG42 prototype machine gun had been manufactured by Grunov a month ago. In the past month, the machine gun experimental team secretly established by Liu Lang had fired more than 80,000 rounds with the prototype gun. Although Grunov had already
The steel material has been smelted and improved countless times, but the machine gun steel pipe still cannot reach the ideal state of shooting 400 rounds and then replacing it.
In fact, Liu Lang knew very well that with the MG42's high rate of fire, even the Germans in historical time and space could only fire 300 rounds at normal temperatures before having to replace the barrel, which meant that someone's nose could freeze off in the cold.
In the vast land of polar bears, the MG42 can continuously fire 600 rounds.
Liu Lang just wanted to use this to force Grunov to realize his genius design of changing the barrel of a gun. Although Liu Lang knew that he had done a good enough job in the past time and space, a simple wrench could remove the hot gun.
Once the barrel is removed, a skilled machine gunner can replace a barrel in 4 seconds.
But Liu Lang believes that human creativity is infinite, and under pressure, maybe Grunov can come up with more genius designs.
Liu Lang's gamble was right. Maybe Grunov didn't have much confidence in the quality of the steel at the Independent Regiment Steel Plant from the beginning, and had already racked his brains to think about how to replace the barrel more quickly. The former genius
The design was released again, but Grunov added a small spring to help eject the barrel, which reduced the barrel replacement time by another second.
It only takes three seconds for the torrent of bullets that the MG42 is constantly spewing to continue. Moreover, in March next year, the Great Wall in northern China will have a low temperature that is almost as low as that of Siberia. It can continuously fire more than 500 rounds. The MG42 with three spare barrels can kill the Japanese army.
The Type 90 heavy machine gun fired.
It only takes another month for the MG42 to be mass-produced. The machine gun shooters of the independent regiment still have at least three months to adapt, which is enough.
Liu Lang finally chose the Czech type for the squad-level light machine gun. Not only does the independent group now have more than 30 in stock, but if they all use MG42, the planned light and heavy machine guns will require an exaggerated number of more than 80.
It was a matter of the number of machine guns. Liu Lang was afraid that as soon as the war started, the fragile logistics system would be overwhelmed by the huge amount of bullets.
The base number of ammunition for each MG42 is almost 5,000 rounds, but that is not the final amount used in a battle. You must know that the Norman Butcher used up 10,000 rounds of ammunition in one day. That is a terrifying number.
Just thinking about it is depressing.
Thirty MG42s with 200,000 rounds of ammunition are almost the limit that Liu Lang can bear. With its excellent performance and a magazine capacity of 20 rounds, the Czech type can only be the first choice for squad machine guns.
Even so, the planned number of Czech-style ammunition for the two infantry battalions is as high as 54, which is also as high as 50,000 rounds. If averaged to each squad of infantry, each infantry needs to carry 80 more rounds of ammunition, plus Liu Lang
With the prescribed carrying capacity of 200 rounds, each infantryman must carry up to 280 rounds of ammunition.
Of course, this small burden was directly ignored by the soldiers because other national troops only had two light machine guns per platoon, but now they had a squad light machine gun. A bullet weighed only 10 grams, and 80
It weighs no more than a kilogram. This weight is nothing compared to the happiness of being surrounded by a light machine gun covering a dozen of people!
The short supply of nearly thirty light machine guns will arrive in half a month along with the mortars purchased by Du Yuesheng at the Jinling Military Factory. They will first be transported by rail to Tongguan via the Longhai Line, and then the Gou family in Tongguan will be responsible for transporting them.
To the base of the Independent Regiment. Although it is faster to take the water route, Liu Lang has reason to believe that even if it is a pass issued by the big boss of the Military and Political Department, he will only have one-third of the arms left in his hands to burn incense.
, it is safer and more appropriate to go from Shaanxi to Sichuan. Liu Lang from the division headquarters also specially greeted him. Master Huang, who has paid Liu Lang a lot of filial piety recently, will never do anything to fish in the lake.
At the same time, the sheepskin individual water bag produced by the Gou family at Liu Lang's request will also be shipped with the escort, but the cost exceeds the pre-estimated cost of an ocean, reaching 1.5 yuan.
Liu Lang could feel the deep resentment of the long-legged Guanzhong beauty from every word in the letter written to him by the beautiful head of the Gou family. The soft sheepskin could not be compared with the toughness of the polymer materials made of countless high-tech combinations in later generations. If you want a sheepskin bag
Filling it with water and still being able to bear the weight of an adult without breaking requires extraordinary wisdom.
The beautiful female family owner must have been thinking hard to earn these thousands of dollars during this period! So in the face of the female family owner's careful "blackmail", Liu Lang agreed with great enthusiasm, but only reduced the shipping fee by 20%.
, no more, no less, exactly fifteen hundred oceans.
"Asshole." Gou Saiyu, who was in the Gou family compound in Tongguan, looked at Liu Lang's reply and her nose almost became angry.
In order to study the personal water bag Liu Lang was talking about, she spent a lot of money to hire old sheepskin craftsmen every day to study how to improve the pressure resistance of the sheepskin bag. It took more than two months to find out how to make a sheepskin bag more resistant to pressure.
A grown man stood on a sheepskin bag filled with water without the water spilling. In order to reduce transportation costs, he hired dozens of people to work day and night to complete 3,000 bags before an independent group shipped from Nanjing needed goods.
Production, for this reason, consumes countless human and financial resources.
In order not to suffer too much loss, he boldly increased the selling price by 50%. Unexpectedly, Liu Lang actually slashed the transportation fee and got the money back.
Although the transportation fee of 7,500 oceans seems not low, it is arms, ammunition that can make people lose their heads. A full 400-strong escort has been deployed for nearly a month, is 7,500 oceans a lot?
"It's not much, but we can't let her get used to it, lest she think that our independent group is rich and we are poor, very poor." Liu Lang said to Liang Wenzhong, who was in charge of logistics.
"Then shouldn't the Gou family help exchange the seized silver winter melons for oceans?"
"That is captured, taken from the people, and used for the people."
Liang Wenzhong nodded and was convinced that there was nothing wrong with the reason for Lang Tuan Zuo.
Liang Wenzhong, who was finally led astray by the Lang Tuan Zu, will definitely be the second target of the beautiful female housekeeper in the future.