That night, the door of the ammunition branch of the arsenal was opened...
Zhou Wen did not dare to call the people from the garrison headquarters to carry the weapons and ammunition from the arsenal. They were all brothers from the support regiment. Under the guidance of his uncle Wang Wenzhao, who was familiar with the road, the regiment leaders and members went into battle. Three trucks were going back and forth. Old Uncle Wu and Zhou Yongbin were in charge.
Register and store.
Fortunately, the military camp is big enough and has enough warehouses. You can't move during the day and can only work quietly at night. For three nights in a row, not only the weapons and ammunition from the gun and ammunition factory were emptied, but also the finished products from the artillery factory and gun factory.
They were all pulled away. When Zhou Wen reattached the seal with the big seal of the Party Headquarters Security Office to the door, these branches were like plates that had been licked by a greedy kitten, as clean as a bullet casing.
Didn't stay.
On the morning of the fourth day, Zhou Wen and Gao Xiaoshan had been busy all night again, but Uncle Wu and the others did not go to catch up on their sleep. They couldn't sleep! Looking at the lists of statistics, various rifles, machine guns,*
The gun and shell guns and their bullets are just returned. The quantity is not much different from what my uncle said at the time. Anyway, it is enough for the security team and the guard team to equip and train a thousand people. Each person can fire thousands of rounds of live ammunition and it will not be used up.
There are tens of thousands of hand grenades made in Jin Dynasty.
The key is that the artillery and artillery shells produced by the artillery factory are what makes Zhou Wen and others smack their tongues. This is how they have made a fortune. Jin has built 100 81mm caliber mortars, 16 75mm caliber mountain cannons, and several kinds of artillery shells.
Thousands of rounds were fired. There were also tons of smokeless guns and **. Other large-caliber artillery was not found. It was probably because the caliber was too large and too expensive, so it was towed away as soon as it was produced.
Although the manufacturing process and quality of Jin-made artillery cannot be compared with the artillery imported from foreign countries, it is considered superior in China, and it is enough to be used for training of affiliated troops. This harvest made Zhou Wen want to form
The mountain artillery company, mortar company and heavy machine gun company all have training equipment and a large amount of live ammunition.
But what Zhou Wen really values is the twelve unopened long boxes that came out of the gun test room. This is what Hobert mentioned before. The arsenal has just purchased the German MG13 for technical reference.
machine gun.
After the end of World War I, in view of the powerful lethality of water-cooled heavy machine guns represented by the Maxim machine gun, the Treaty of Versailles clearly stipulated that defeated Germany was not allowed to manufacture or equip water-cooled heavy machine guns.
Failure is undoubtedly a shackles for the Germans who always want revenge. Therefore, the Germans who are trying to survive in the cracks can only find another way in this struggle of "restrictions and counter-restrictions".
It was against this background that the MG13 machine gun came into being.
The MG13 machine gun is relatively lightweight due to its air-cooled barrel. The barrel is hidden in an air-cooled barrel sleeve full of small holes. This sleeve is equipped with a handle, which is not only convenient for quickly changing the barrel but also for holding the gun. It can be used by
Infantrymen can shoot hand-held or mounted on armored vehicles as vehicle-mounted machine guns (for example, the No. 1 tank is armed with two MG13 machine guns). It can also be mounted on a tripod as an anti-aircraft machine gun or heavy machine gun. Therefore, the MG13 is the world's first
A truly universal machine gun.
The gun fires 7.92mm pointed bullets, which are common with Czech light machine guns and Mauser G98 standard rifle bullets. The ammunition supply originally designed was a 25-round **, but this was too little for the machine gun, so
A Doppeltromel double-drum gun with a capacity of 75 rounds was also developed, which greatly improved the sustainability of its firepower.
The MG13 machine gun with a 75mm drum magazine weighs less than 15 kilograms. For the machine gunners of the mercenary group, even Uncle Ma can easily carry and control it.
The MG13's firing rate of up to 750 rounds per minute and the 75-round Doppeltromel double drum** show the advantages of German precision manufacturing, but what is more commendable is its original design. First of all, the machine gun trigger is divided into upper and lower parts.
There is an arc. Pulling the upper trigger can only fire a single shot, and pulling the lower trigger can fire a burst. Switching between single shots and bursts is quick and easy, without leaving your finger on the trigger. This ensures the stability and continuity of shooting. The second is a folding gun.
-Hold and quick-change barrel handle. The most important thing is that its shooting accuracy is very high. The scatter of continuous shooting is the smallest among light machine guns, and the accuracy of single shooting is comparable to that of a Mauser rifle.
With the 12 MG13 machine guns in hand, the Czech and DP28 machine gun groups of the mercenary group can be eliminated and given to the affiliated troops. This is the first time that the machine gun group of the mercenary group has truly unified the standard and bullet caliber. Otherwise, it used to be 7.92
The machine guns and bullets of two calibers, mm and 7.62 mm, are not compatible with each other, making it inconvenient for training, combat and replenishment.
In the next few days, the entire mercenary group was mobilized. Those responsible for recruitment and assessment, those responsible for transporting ammunition and artillery to Lishi, those responsible for guarding the warehouse, etc. all performed their own duties. Uncle Wang Wenzhao was responsible for summoning the arsenal workers.
, which category Zhou Wen only needs to have outstanding experience and skills. After all, it is not a large-scale operation. Zhou Wen estimates that dozens of workers will be enough, but the wages will be more generous than before. In this regard, Zhou Wen has never been stingy with money, and he will wait until the prototype gun is produced
If it succeeds, Zhou Wen will also pay bonuses to the workers who have made meritorious service.
After the gun test house opened, firearms engineer Hobert moved in immediately. Anyway, he used to have a special lounge in the gun test house. After Hobert redrawn all Zhou Wen's design drawings with precision tools
, and personally went to the raw material warehouse to select gun barrels and other materials.
You must know that at that time, the arsenal issued various production materials according to the monthly production quantity. Production was only completed for more than half a month in September, and the remaining raw materials were not a small number. Just the high-quality steel pipes used in the production of gun barrels were still
There are thousands of them. As a senior German engineer, Hobert naturally has a keen eye for steel and selected a few hundred of the best ones.
At this time, the workers Wang Wenzhao was responsible for recruiting also arrived. The leader was Li Bin, the technical backbone of the gun and bullet factory who had helped him a lot before. Li Bin was originally a skilled worker in the rifle barrel production workshop, and his drilling and rifling control skills
He is one of the best in the arsenal, otherwise how could Wang Wenzhao, the manager, remember his name among thousands of workers.
When he heard that his great benefactor Wang Guanshi needed workers, he answered the call without hesitation without even asking for compensation. At the same time, he also introduced several workers who were outstanding in other processes to Wang Wenzhao. Listening
When it was announced that the wages being paid were much higher than before, the enthusiasm of Li Bin and more than 40 other workers increased instantly. Everyone's family had been without income for several months, and life was at a difficult time.
Now that they have a source of income, they are all gearing up and preparing to use all their martial arts skills to repay Manager Wang's great kindness.