In the arsenal weapons production plant, dozens of workers gathered around the machine gun production line, watching machine gun parts being stamped out by machine tools one after another!
Factory director Zhang Yancheng stood by with a serious look on his face!
Because this is the first time to modify a machine gun, every part coming off the production line must be inspected by him before it can be used!
Behind him, the ammunition supply parts of the two crooked handles have been removed!
The most conspicuous bullet of the crooked light machine gun has disappeared!
As expected, after half an hour, the place where the bucket originally hung will be replaced by the magazine!
"Director, all the accessories needed to modify the crooked handle have been stamped out!" The leader of the machine gun production team, who was also Zhang Yancheng's deputy when he was the leader of the machine gun team, looked at the table of parts in front of him and reported with both anticipation and nervousness.
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"Success or failure depends on this. I will assemble it myself, and you will be my deputy!" Zhang Yancheng decided to take action himself!
These workers and dozens of workers in front of me were all brought out step by step by myself over the past few months. Regardless of their skills or experience, they were all more than one level behind me! And the modification of the crooked handle was the first thing the group leader gave to the weapons factory.
It is a big project, and we have high hopes for it. It can only succeed, not fail!
Zhang Yancheng can rest assured only if he takes action himself!
"Yes, factory director!" the team leader replied immediately!
He also wanted to witness this decisive moment with his own eyes!
In the past few months, he must have repaired more than a dozen machine guns with his hands, and he is very aware of the shortcomings of crooked handles!
If you can correct the shortcomings of this machine gun with your own hands, the performance of the crooked machine gun can be improved by at least 20%!
As the performance of the machine gun improves, the troops will be more comfortable to use it, and their combat effectiveness will also increase accordingly!
"Crack..." the sound kept ringing on the operating table!
The two people cooperated with each other, and in ten minutes, more than a dozen parts of various sizes were installed on the machine gun!
"Click..."
Zhang Yancheng decisively pulled the bolt of the machine gun, and instantly, the crisp and familiar sound of bullets being loaded reached his ears!
Although he hasn't conducted a test firing yet, with his knowledge of machine guns, he can tell whether the machine gun is good or bad by listening to the sound!
A smile appeared on his face on the spot, and he shouted excitedly: "It's 80% done. When the other machine gun is assembled, we will organize people to conduct a test firing immediately!"
"If possible, report it to the group leader immediately, and then modify all the crooked parts of the group's equipment!"
At the first battalion station in Liuji Town, battalion commander He Jun is inspecting the training situation of the entire battalion company by company!
After coming out of the Erlian training ground, he was very satisfied and had a smile on his face!
Those absentees who were rescued from the mines were indeed veterans who had been on the battlefield and fought against the Japanese!
Eat well and drink well for half a month. After your body slowly recovers, you will turn into little tigers!
In less than ten days of running-in training, the troops have already become elites!
Compared with those recruits who were recruited directly from the guerrillas, the gap is very big, it can be said to be a world of difference!
He Jun is confident that in more than half a month, he will definitely be able to train them into an elite soldier!
"Battal Commander, regimental commander's order!" the battalion orderly suddenly came after him and reported!
"What's the matter?" He Jun asked directly without thinking too much!
"The regiment commander asked us to send half of the crooked light machine guns of the entire battalion to the regiment headquarters. The sooner the better!" the orderly replied!
Guns are the lifeblood of a soldier, especially light and heavy machine guns with powerful firepower!
Take away half of them at once. Once the Japanese and puppet troops come over at this time, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be reduced by at least 30%!
He Jun's brows immediately wrinkled!
"Did the regiment leader give a reason why he took away so many machine guns? Did he say when he would return them?"
"No!" the orderly replied, shaking his head!
He Jun's frown deepened, but he quickly made a decision: "Execute the order!"
"Order the first, second and second companies to immediately send all the crooks to the baggage platoon, and have them march to the regiment headquarters in a hurry!"
"At the same time: Order the Third Company to strengthen vigilance to prevent the little devils from taking the opportunity to make a sneak attack!"
Little did He Jun know that a huge surprise was waiting for him!
In the blink of an eye, six crooked handles have been removed for three days!
For He Jun, these three days were like a year, very difficult!
Even when sleeping at night, he had to keep one eye open for fear that the Japanese army would attack him from a few kilometers away!
Just when he was hesitating whether to send a telegram to the regiment headquarters to ask when the machine guns would be returned, a dozen cavalry suddenly appeared outside the station!
The leading cavalryman jumped off his horse and rushed to He Jun and reported: "Report to Battalion Commander He, I am the platoon leader of the cavalry company, and I have been ordered to bring back the machine guns that the regiment headquarters has taken away!"
"There are six machine guns in total. Please send someone to receive them! Then gather all the remaining crooks from the first battalion and we will bring them back to the regiment headquarters!"
"wrong!"
Seeing the machine guns placed on the ground by several cavalrymen, the instructor immediately discovered a problem!
"The machine guns that the regiment headquarters took away were all with crooked handles and were fed from hoppers! These machine guns were fed from magazines. Did the regiment headquarters make a mistake?"
He Jun also frowned!
After picking up a machine gun and looking at it carefully, I suddenly reacted and shouted excitedly!
"I have seen this machine gun in Datong. It is the latest machine gun equipped by the Little Devils. It is modified on the basis of the Waiba Zi. It uses a magazine to feed ammunition. Its performance and firepower are better than the Wai Bao Zi!"
"I understand. The regiment commander said this in Datong. When we returned to the base area, we would use the military equipment we captured in Datong to transform all the crooked military equipment into Type 96 machine guns! Unexpectedly, this was less than half
Yue, the leader has done it!"
"Instructor, why are you still cold? Immediately notify the third company and the troops directly under the battalion to send over all the crooked equipment and have the cavalry platoon take it to the regiment headquarters for modification!"
"You have never used this kind of machine gun. If you have, you will know that the Type 96 is not only easier to use than the crooked handle we use now, but also has more powerful firepower. A machine gunner can operate it casually and hold it in his arms.
It can be used with submachine guns!”
The cavalry platoon leader immediately replied: "You are right, Battalion Commander He, these machine guns are all modified by the arsenal!"
"According to the order of the regiment, each of the modified machine guns is equipped with three magazines, which can fully meet the needs of the battlefield, and the bullets used are still 65 caliber, the same as the 38 caliber!"
When the arsenal is working at full capacity to refit machine guns, ammunition production is not idle either!
Four reloading bullet production lines are producing around the clock, and nearly 10,000 rounds of bullets are delivered to the regiment headquarters every day, a quarter of which are large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets!
The grenade production line has also begun production, and nearly a thousand grenades are delivered to the regiment headquarters every day!
What excites Li Hao the most is the idea of using cannon shells to produce mountain cannon!
In five days, the ammunition factory produced fifty rounds of mountain cannon shells!
As workers become more skilled, output will surely increase further!