Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

In addition, the versatility of gun bullets in this era was very poor. Even if the bullets of rifles, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns were exactly the same, they were often not universal due to different ammunition supply methods. In order to ensure the firepower of the machine guns, the arsenal had to dedicate manpower to separate rifle bullets.

It is installed into the empty magazine and bullet chain, and the labor required for this is actually more than reloading bullets...

In desperation, Hu Weidong had to ask the machine gunners to save as much as possible, and those who could shoot in short bursts should not use long bursts. In addition, those grassroots commanders who basically did not use the twenty-shot burst function could only look at the pistols greedily.

The team members and commandos (the weapons are a flower machine gun, a single-shot pistol and a broadsword, the flower machine gun magazine can be used with twenty rounds.) They swallowed all the original Mauser pistol ammunition...

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No matter what, it is not a bad thing that bullets can be reloaded. In addition, there is a lot of surplus equipment and materials captured. Moreover, after the main force of the Red Army left, they left behind to fight guerrillas, and more than a dozen of the original Guantian arsenal survived.

Technicians came one after another, which greatly enhanced the technical strength of the arsenal. So in addition to bayonets and reloaded bullets, Hu Weidong quickly developed several new products with relatively simple production processes, namely wooden-handled grenades, blasting tubes, and mortar shells.

and mines...

The structure of the wooden handle grenade is similar to the Gong-made grenade most commonly used during the Anti-Japanese War. Its power is slightly inferior because it uses cheap ammonium nitrate explosive as the main explosive. However, because of Hu Weidong's extreme attention (he even gave a very precious pocket watch to the arsenal for use

Due to testing, and an almost harsh management system, the quality of the grenades produced by the arsenal has always been very reliable, and the detonation time error of the fuse does not exceed 0.2 seconds (2.8 seconds - 3.2 seconds), allowing soldiers to boldly throw them

Wait two or three seconds before throwing it, so that the grenade explodes in the air as much as possible, which greatly enhances the lethality to the enemy. In actual combat, it performs better than Gong Zao and Jin Zao's grenades. In the future, the main ingredient will be changed to TNT and other powerful ingredients.

With larger explosives, the advantage becomes even greater. After the test was successful, Hu Weidong took the Chairman's famous saying "A single spark can start a prairie fire" and named it the "Spark" grenade...

The blasting tube was basically eliminated in later generations, but until the period of resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea, it was a very practical weapon. In terms of design ideas, Hu Weidong drew on the Type 98 blasting tube used by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War. It can not only be used by blasters, but also

And it can be used as a 60mm mortar shell (in order to increase the power, you can even attach external hand grenades or even blasting tubes. The lethality is amazing, but the range and accuracy are a bit cheating, but it can deal with densely charging enemy groups and enemies hiding in fortifications.

The enemy has a miraculous effect.), the charge is 3 kilograms, the outer casing is an all-steel structure, and the explosive power is greater than a 75mm artillery shell. However, due to insufficient steel, mass production is not yet available...

The technical content and material requirements of mortar shells are not high. With the talents and equipment of the arsenal and the guidance of Hu Weidong, it is not difficult to make them, but the production speed is painful. But Hu Weidong's flat shot of a mortar

Liu Hai was still amazed by the transformation. With the flat-firing artillery, the militia company would have much less difficulty in attacking fortified areas in the future, and in addition to conventional mortar shells, the militia company's artillery also had mortar shells that were more powerful than ordinary mortar shells.

Explosive tubes are available. In theory, as long as it is not a reinforced concrete permanent fortification that can withstand heavy artillery, a militia company can easily destroy it...

The manufacture of landmines is even simpler. As long as there are enough materials, even manual workshops can produce them in large quantities. However, Hu Weidong did not ask the arsenal to produce many, because the army now focuses on offense, not to mention grenades, blasting tubes and even rifles.

Various booby traps made of improvised bullets are available. However, in order to start technical reserves as soon as possible, the arsenal produces a wide range of mines, such as trip mines, stepping mines, anti-engineer mines, anti-tank (vehicle) mines, and time-delay mines.

Stone mines (including land mines with porcelain jars and other civilian containers as outer shells, which Hu Weidong himself does not know how to use, but is just an early demonstration for future base area armed forces) are all available...

By late January 1935, the militia company had controlled more than 80% of the villages and nearly 30% of the towns in Xingguo County, with a population of more than 60,000. It had seized a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and obtained them from the controlled villages and towns as well as the rescued miners.

A large number of soldiers. More importantly, dozens of Red Army soldiers and party members who had luckily escaped the enemy's capture and hid in various villages came to surrender one after another. For Hu Weidong, who was in short supply of talents, this was undoubtedly a timely help.

With the addition of these backbones and the massive amounts of weapons and ammunition seized, although Hu Weidong's troops expanded wildly, their combat effectiveness did not decrease but increased. In just one month, they transformed from a company to a regiment.

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Relying on seizures from previous battles, the militia at this time already possessed 1,236 rifles (including 1,184 7.92mm German rifles with a caliber of 88 made in Hanyang), 3 heavy machine guns, 10 light machine guns, and 22 submachine guns.

99 twenty-guns, 104 single-shot pistols. A total of more than 50,000 rounds of rifle ammunition, more than 10,000 rounds of pistol ammunition, more than 100 grenades, 356 bayonets, 2,549 people on staff, and 156 are recovering.

Wounded soldiers and 127 prisoners who still need ideological education. The scale of the arsenal has also continued to expand, with a total of 132 cadres and employees...

Although Hu Weidong has never shown the banner of the Red Army, almost all the land in Xingguo County has been occupied. If the gentlemen in the county haven't noticed, they would be too slow. But even so, Hu Weidong kept a low profile and bided his time.

It still had an effect. The security brigade commander of the national army, who thought that the militia was just an armed banditry with a limited number of people, was worried that the leader of the Rangers would take the opportunity to completely ignore him, so he was only willing to send a regiment to follow him to the countryside to suppress the bandits. Although the leader

He was a little dissatisfied, but he thought that with more than 400 well-trained and well-equipped Rangers and a security group of more than a thousand people, and reinforced with submachine guns, machine guns and mortars, his combat effectiveness was stronger than a regiment of the regular army.

No matter how powerful the bandits are, they should be able to defeat them easily.

However, the expansion of the militia's control area not only means an increase in income and soldiers, but also means that the intelligence network is larger and denser. Especially now that the militia has also seized some horses, it is faster to transmit information between villages and towns.

Conveniently, as soon as the reinforced regiment of the national army entered the control area of ​​the militia regiment, Hu Weidong learned the news and set up an ambush circle...

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