"Knock these bullet casings into brass pieces for me. I'll use them later."
Now the brass here at the repair shop has begun to develop how to make bullet cases, and it has already achieved certain results. Especially with the addition of rare elements, the durability of the mold has been greatly improved. If the service life of the old mold is only
If it can be calculated using a pack of cigarettes, the new mold can be calculated as the lifespan of more than a dozen cigarettes.
"okay!"
Hancheng is now using power for personal gain. Although it has gained a firm foothold by attacking the Japanese army, it controls more and more villages and land. However, the things it produces are still too simple and cannot produce high-value things to exchange for food.
Or something else.
"Chief of Staff, what are you doing?"
"What to do? You'll know when it's done!"
What Hancheng wants to do, of course, is nothing else, and it won't be making watches. Clocks are too sophisticated. Of course, what they want to make is lighters. Matches are now strategic materials in the entire base area, so matches need to be smaller.
Dosage. But in daily life, matches cannot be used, although the price of matches is not very high.
The difficulty of lighters is actually not too great. If the surface is not fancy, the difficulty is still relatively small. It is more about using these things to flex the economy of the base. It is also good to have some new gadgets.
Of course, excluding lighters, some things with low technical content, such as kerosene lamps, are actually completely available. Because the technical content in kerosene lighters and kerosene lamps is the same, the only difficulty may be to dial the
You already have wheels and flint, but if you follow the usable indicators, the technical difficulty is quite low.
Make a candlestick that can hold a certain amount of kerosene, and use a wine bottle to burn a glass cover that can ventilate up and down. Inside is a long cotton strip used as a wick. To put it bluntly, the kerosene lamp is just that. If you want to automatically
If you want to light a fire, you can add a flint and a dial inside.
There are so many technical contents. The only difficult thing is that the candlestick below must be made of metal shell. It must be made of iron or brass. However, brass is still relatively expensive because it is a strategic material.
Therefore, if it is made of brass on a large scale, it will be too laborious and not conducive to the production of bullets.
However, lighters can be made of brass, because they need to be covered with a brass shell, and the inside is still made of steel shell. This thing is not very difficult, maybe the steel shell is more difficult to process, but there are new molds
Materials improve performance, and relatively speaking, steel shells are no longer difficult to process.
The processing plant uses lead blocks as gravity, which can basically meet the needs of forging, stamping and other aspects of processing. However, it is still human power to pull these lead blocks. It feels a bit cyberpunk. If there are enough materials, maybe it can be done.
Can create some steam power or other things.
"Ouch, what is my Chief of Staff Han Da doing? I heard that you are going to do something again, can you tell me?"
In fact, a report must be submitted for everything that is done by the mechanic. Otherwise, the logistics department will not issue materials. The regiment leader will know the production situation at the first time. Today's regiment is no longer the size of three battalions.
Yes, the regiment commander has expanded it, but it is still three battalions in name.
"It's nothing. The Class A division in our county has withdrawn. There's no way to get the scopes. Now there are less than twenty scopes left in the warehouse. Don't I have to look for things to make money?
?There are quite a lot of caravans in Outer Mongolia. From Inner Mongolia to Outer Mongolia, you can trade directly with the Soviets. You can only buy this thing from the Soviets."
In fact, these things are not expensive at all, and they are not expensive at all. First of all, the ones purchased from the Soviet Union are all produced by the Soviet Union, not the Americans. There are still some differences in quality, such as lower magnification and so on.
"Then you are making brass sheets and steel, what are you going to do?"
"Lighters and kerosene lamps! The majority of farmers don't have much use for kerosene lamps. These are much better than oil lamps. However, kerosene still needs to be purchased from the Japanese, so it's up to them."
A kerosene lamp has been produced on the table, but it does not have an ignition device, but it can already meet basic use.
"Look, we produced this. Be careful. There is kerosene in it. Don't spill it all."
The group leader took the kerosene lamp that looked like a candlestick, took off the glass shade, then took out a box of matches from his pocket and lit the kerosene lamp.
"Oh, did you really do this?"
"The first batch will be produced soon. You'd better keep none of the first hundred I produced and send them all to the chief. This is our achievement after all. In the future, we will sell these in our base area.
You can exchange for things, food, etc. Not only do we have to cut down on expenditures, but we also have to increase our income. It’s definitely not possible to just rely on the villagers of a few villages to support us.”
The regiment leader understood what Han Cheng said. The size of the army must be expanded. Although under the reminder of the political commissar and Han Cheng, the army did not expand rapidly, but it also grew slowly. If nothing else, the rear area
More than a thousand people have gathered in this repair shop, and they have to pay for food and drink.
"While our troops were training, I also asked them to open up wasteland. As you said, clearing up wasteland is also training. They opened up a lot of land. It is estimated to be enough for our army to provide food for a year."
"Don't underestimate this thing. No matter how much you drive, it's better to have surplus food. When the time comes, alcohol, gauze, and cotton will all need to be exchanged for food. At the same time, the troops must also pay attention to economy, no matter how unpalatable the food is.
You can’t leave rice in the bowl, you can eat as much as you want!”
Han Cheng told the battalion commander his experience in leading the third battalion. He happened to have finished assembling the lighter on hand, and then picked up a small bottle of kerosene next to him and poured it into it.
"Oh, look, this thing is much more laborious than that oil lamp. Is there any smoke?"
Han Cheng said to the leader, stretched out a hand, and kept moving his index and middle fingers.
"Come on, let's see what you're up to!"
The group leader took out a cigarette and handed it to Han Cheng. Han Cheng picked up the cigarette, held it in his mouth, and then tried to see if the switch in the brass case worked. Then he took tweezers and removed the cotton wick from the copper case.
Pulled it out.
"Come! Watch!"
Han Cheng swung it coolly, then turned the dial, and the flames started to rise.
"Hey! Is this a foreign match?"
"Hmph, whatever foreign stuff we make becomes our own! Now it's our own match, do you understand?"
Han Cheng closed the brass lid with a snap, opened it again, and then turned it upside down to see if there was any oil leakage.
"Hey! Can you give this to me?"
The leader wants it now, but how is this possible? Everything is given to him.
"Why don't we give it to you before we report it? I will only make ten of the first batch and hand them over to the chief. This is the result of our repair shop. I will number them later!"
Han Cheng picked up the mold next to him and knocked out a row of numbers 001, the 27th year of the Republic of China, on the brass shell.