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

With more weapons and ammunition, Hu Weidong immediately expanded the army without hesitation, recruiting all the young men who had previously joined the militia but were dismissed by him, so that the strength of the militia increased to more than 70 people, not to mention the new recruits.

Now, even the so-called "veterans" of the militia generally lack training. Although Hu Weidong has strict requirements, it will take a lot of time to train them...

Relying on the joint efforts of Hu Weidong and the militiamen, the militiamen further expanded the scope of their activities in the next three days, incorporating more than two townships into the joint defense system. The total population under their jurisdiction exceeded 10,000 for the first time.

During the period, the militia team wiped out five reactionary militia groups, killed and captured 266 people, and quickly developed into a militia with 374 people (another 56 wounded soldiers and 82 prisoners who have not yet been transformed), 12 pistols, and 286 rifles.

A powerful (relatively speaking) armed force with 4 light machine guns, and with everyone's support, it was reorganized into a more formal militia company, with three platoons and nine squads, which greatly enhanced its strength. More importantly, in

After the victory of the battle, the cohesion of the entire army was greatly enhanced. Even those soldiers who were converted from prisoners began to be proud of being a member of the militia company, and the villagers began to truly regard them as their support, and

It's not just because they need a spiritual sustenance like at the beginning. This can be seen from the fact that everyone started calling Hu Weidong "Company Commander Hu" instead of the previous "Comrade Special Commissioner"...

After the militia platoon was expanded into a militia company, the equipment and "heavy artillery" buried in the Red Army arsenal that Liu Hai mentioned before suddenly became important. However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. After Hu Weidong saw the pile of high-grade garbage, he couldn't help but feel

Speechless. First of all, the so-called heavy artillery is actually just an old-fashioned 75mm field howitzer, that's all. The most terrible thing is that it has no shells at all...

According to Liu Hai, this "heavy artillery" was captured during the fourth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign. However, when the main force of the Red Army started the Long March, they really couldn't find a way to keep up with the team with this big gun weighing more than 2,000 kilograms. In the end, they had to give up. If not

The cadres and employees of the arsenal are reluctant to destroy this most powerful artillery piece since the establishment of the Red Army artillery force. It is now a pile of scrap metal...

"But a cannon without shells, no matter how powerful it is, is still scrap metal!" Hu Weidong said unceremoniously.

Liu Hai explained that the Red Army's arsenal was actually able to manufacture artillery shells (although the production efficiency and quality were terrible). There were no artillery shells here because the shells of this field gun could be used in common with mountain guns, so naturally all its shells were taken away.

It was used for those mountain artillery that could accompany the army. When Hu Weidong heard this, he was happy at first, but Liu Hai immediately said that it was the former arsenal, but now most of the equipment is gone, or was taken away by the Red Army.

, or it was blown up. With so little equipment preserved here, it is almost impossible to make a 75mm grenade...

"According to this, this is still scrap metal..." Hu Weidong couldn't help but draw a blank line. Sure enough, as his grandfather said back then, the older generation of military workers were stingy. They had always been afraid of poverty, even if

I can’t bear to throw it away even if it’s tattered…

But after all, Hu Weidong is a world-class military industry genius, and he is also very familiar with the development history of our party's military industry. After spending half a day to complete the maintenance and testing of the remaining military equipment, Hu Weidong found that they are not worthless.

At least he can use these equipment to piece together a production line that uses empty bullet casings to reload bullets. The production efficiency can reach more than 1,000 rounds per worker per month. If he can get a more powerful engine and obtain stable energy and

With the supply of raw materials, we can even produce bullets completely independently in the future...

"1,000 rounds per person per month? At least? Xiao Li, don't talk nonsense. We had hundreds of people in the arsenal back then, and we only reloaded more than 400,000 rounds of ammunition in two years..." Liu Hai

Don’t believe it….

"I can issue a military order, as long as you, Old Liu, can get me the materials I need. In addition, this production line is very convenient to disassemble, transport and assemble. Even if the enemy attacks, it can be moved quickly without falling into the enemy's hands.

.", Hu Weidong smiled confidently.

In fact, the solution that Hu Weidong came up with was to copy the bullet reloading production line built by Wu Yunduo, the "Chinese Paul" in the history of the village, at the Second Division Arsenal of the New Fourth Army. Due to his family background and career convenience, Hu Weidong knew all the details of Wu Yunduo's production line very well.

, it is not difficult to build a set with the existing equipment. And just now, in order not to scare Liu Hai, Hu Weidong has actually downsized the number. In fact, the bullet reloading production line designed by Wu Yunduo can allow a production team of eight workers to complete the production every year.

600,000 rounds of ammunition were reloaded, although in reality bullet casings and propellants were often not in full supply, and the arsenal had to be moved frequently due to enemy threats, and was later assigned to manufacture mortar shells, flat-fire cannons, etc. that needed to be tackled.

The project has occupied a lot of manpower, and on average, it can produce hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition a year. However, just by greatly saving labor and making the equipment easy to disassemble and transport, the Central Red Army officer Liu Hai once worked for can be completely destroyed.

Tian Arsenal is here...

"Bullet casings are not difficult to make. If we mobilize the villagers to pick them up on previous battlefields, we can probably pick up tens of thousands of them. But the gunpowder is a little more troublesome. Unless we lower the requirements and use black powder..." Liu Hai said worriedly.

"Black powder is not good, it will cause too much damage to the barrel, and the range is short, the power is low, and the accuracy is poor. The most terrible thing is that you have to clean the barrel after shooting..." Hu Weidong couldn't help but shook his head and changed

The original plan was revealed, "I will find a way to seize the explosives from the enemy. Before that, let's try to get something like this out..."

"Is this... a bayonet? Well, yes, although it looks a bit weird, it is indeed a sharp weapon for killing people..." Liu Hai admired as he looked at the sketch drawn by Hu Weidong.

For militia companies that are short of bullets, close combat is unavoidable. Considering that most of the national army is afraid of hand-to-hand combat, sometimes militia companies even take the initiative to engage in hand-to-hand combat. However, the rifles captured from the returning regiments are basically not equipped with bayonets, so

You can only make it yourself. But this is not necessarily a bad thing. The lethality of the triangular bayonet is much greater than the sword-shaped bayonet popular in this era, and it is not easy to damage. If it can be equipped with a large number of troops, it will definitely be able to play a great role.

Function. It is also worth mentioning that considering that hand-to-hand stabbing is still very common on the Chinese battlefield in this era, and the Type 38 used by the Japanese army, the main opponent of the stabbing in the future, and its sword-shaped bayonet are particularly long, in the stabbing

The advantage was huge. For this reason, Hu Weidong specially lengthened the original triangular spurs a lot, which played a miraculous effect in the subsequent battle against Japan...

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