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Chapter 358, Successful production of bullets

"What, 300 people? No, absolutely not."

As soon as Ding Wei heard Li Yunlong asking for someone, he immediately became unhappy. His new regiment was dismantled in half by his superiors, and he brought a thousand people.

It takes one-third of the time to go, so you can't act recklessly just because you, Li Yunlong, became the commander.

Li Yunlong didn't expect Ding Wei to react so strongly, and hurriedly said: "Old Ding, listen to my explanation.

I don't want these 300 people, but I plan to transfer them out separately to set up a garrison battalion to be responsible for the safety of the arsenal.This is for our entire sub-military region. "

Ding Wei laughed softly: "Come on, Lao Li, you now have four regiments with more than 1 people. It's not enough to just pull out 300 people, and it's not like playing."

This is not bad, and Li Yunlong knows it, but he has his own reasons for looking for Ding Wei.

"The soldiers we recruited later were too mixed, including prisoners from the Central Army, the Imperial Association Army, and local villagers.

These people are not saying they can't be trusted, but they are not as reliable as our old foundation after all.The arsenal is too important to make any mistakes.

My batch of veterans are the backbone of the various units after the expansion. The soldiers will be the squad leaders, and the squad leaders will be the platoon leaders. The combat effectiveness of the 300-man army will definitely drop drastically. "

Li Yunlong knew that Ding Wei was the master who didn't see the rabbit and didn't throw the eagle, so he offered the price: "In the next two months, I will make up people for the new group. I will borrow one from you and return you seven."

Ding Wei lowered his head to ponder for a while, and counter-offered: "Build another artillery battery with six cannons."

It turned out that the artillery company of the new regiment did not bring it over, and stayed in the Taiyue Military Region.

The new regiment is Ding Wei's old foundation, and it is definitely better to command than the troops established by Li Yunlong. Naturally, he will spare no effort to enrich the new regiment.

"Okay, that's it."

Li Yunlong readily agreed, picked up the wine bowl and touched Ding Wei.

Anyway, I didn't say the time. Two months or half a year. By then, the arsenal might be able to produce artillery.

People always have dreams, otherwise what is the difference with salted fish.

The two people in the tent were drinking and reminiscing about the old days.

Zhao Gang and Chief of Staff Yu waited anxiously at the end of the machine.

"How many steps are left in the production of this batch of bullets?"

"I can't tell, but it looks like it's coming soon.

"These bullets are mm rifle ammunition?"

"Should be rifle rounds."

Yu Dayong was more anxious than Zhao Gang, he asked several questions over and over again, and he seemed to be in a daze.

If it weren't for Zhao Gang's good temper, ordinary people would have been annoyed by his questions.

The yellow bullets were mechanically shaped, fell into the conveyor belt, and finally passed to the workers.

Zhang Jiming grabbed a handful and arranged them neatly in a row, with a smile on his face: "Successful."

Zhao Gang and the others, who didn't dare to disturb the production before, hurriedly surrounded them, picked up the scattered bullets, and looked at them over and over again, their excitement was beyond words.

They are naturally no strangers to the mm rifle ammunition used by the Dagai.

However, some people still took out the previously issued bullets and compared them with the newly produced bullets.

"Exactly the same, really exactly the same."

After confirming, he raised the bullet high and announced loudly to everyone.

Prior to this, the Eighth Route Army did not have the ability to produce bullets. After the soldiers fired bullets, they had to collect the bullet casings and hand them over to the arsenal behind for reloading.

The reloaded bullets are prone to stink bombs, the accuracy is not good, and there are a lot of problems.

But something is better than nothing, and the Eighth Route Army has no choice but to ask for so many troops.

Now the arsenal has produced bullets, which is a historic breakthrough.

It means that there will be more mm rifle ammunition available to the front-line combat troops in the future.

For the fight against the Japanese invaders, it will be a very important booster.

A batch of thousands of bullets came off the assembly line, the workers shut down the machine and cheered with the crowd.

"Where's the bullet?"

Li Yunlong rushed over after getting the news, and asked about the new bullet when they met.Needless to say the age of his gun, the bullets in his hand will know that they are good.

"Very good. It's well done. It's exactly the same as what we got from the little devil. Why don't we produce it anymore?"

Zhang Jiming explained: "Now the machine is still in the debugging stage. The first batch of bullets has to be tested after it comes off the production line. If it proves to be ok, then continue to start the machine production."

Ding Wei listened and nodded: "It makes sense, then go to the shooting range to test it out and see if it works."

The shooting range was built outside the cave, on a secluded and relatively flat land.

Currently there are only 50-meter targets and 100-meter targets.

"Let me try first."

Zhao Gang took the initiative to invite Ying, and everyone had no objection. Li Yunlong was ashamed of himself when it came to marksmanship.

Taking the caps handed over by the soldier, Zhao Gang skillfully put the five bullets into the magazine, pulled the bolt to load it, and raised the gun to aim in one go.

Everyone watched intently, Zhao Gang pulled the trigger, and there was a crisp gunshot, leaving a bullet hole in the center of the circular target at a distance of meters.

"it is good!"

Li Yunlong took the lead in applauding. On the one hand, he praised Zhao Gang for his good marksmanship, and more importantly, the bullet succeeded.

Zhao Gang smiled unmoved, pulled the bolt to eject the bullet case, loaded another bullet in the magazine, and pulled the trigger to repeat the cycle.

He fired all five bullets in one breath, and the gun hit the bullseye.

"Okay, well done, I'll try it too."

It just doesn't look like Li Yunlong's character, he also took the gun from the soldier and experimented with the newly manufactured bullets.

He fired five rounds in one breath. Although he was not as good as Zhao Gang, he concentrated all the bullets on one point, but they all hit the target, which was very accurate.

Next came Ding Wei and Yu Dayong. They also had a hands-on experience and were full of praise for the newly made bullets.

The four main chiefs finished fighting, and for a while no one came up to ask for a try.

On the one hand, no one has the same status as these four, and on the other hand, they still cherish bullets from the bottom of their hearts.

I used to be thrifty in the past, but now I dare not let go of the use, and I plan to save it to beat the little devils.

Zhang Jiming had no choice but to persuade: "Everyone can try it all and shoot more bullets, so as to verify the quality of this batch of bullets.

If the problem of the bullet is not discovered now, and if it is discovered later, the loss will be immeasurable. "

Save the current bullets, and there may be greater losses in the future. It is very obvious which is more important.

Li Yunlong said to the people around him: "Do you understand? Then call me and use up all the thousand shots. We must find out the possible problems."

Use the bullets with your hands and feet open. I have never heard this kind of order before. Both the soldiers and the cadres looked at each other, and then they all came up to receive the bullets with excitement.

For a while, the crude shooting range was filled with bang bang gunshots, and people who didn't know thought there was a war here.

After watching it for a while, Li Yunlong felt that there was no problem, so he took Zhang Jiming to the side and chatted.

"Expert, the bullets seem to be all right, and the production is open, how many bullets can be produced by one line a day?"

"It's really hard to say at the moment. Theoretically, the production line can reach the daily output of . However, whether the raw materials are sufficient and the proficiency of the workers are all constraints on production efficiency." Zhang Jiming explained.

The machine is fixed, but the variables outside the machine are very difficult to control and hard to say.

As far as Zhang Jiming knows, the same machine is pulled to different countries to build factories, and the final monthly production is very different.

Li Yunlong couldn't understand such profound things. Like many factory owners, he only cared about the result.

"I just want to know, can a production line make rounds a day?"

Meeting such a ignorant person, Zhang Jiming was helpless, and could only explain: "In theory, it is possible, but it has just been born now, so I can't guarantee it for you."

Li Yunlong's heart also collapsed, he just wanted to hear an honest word, why is it so difficult!
But he is not easy to lose his temper in the face of experts.

"Okay, okay, when you can confirm this, you must let me know when the time comes, okay."

After talking about the bullet production line, Li Yunlong became concerned about the explosives factory.

Compared with the bullet production line, the factory with an annual output of tons of explosives has more machines, filling another cave.

Everyone knows that the explosives factory is more important than the bullet production line.

Zhang Jiming also said: "It will take some time for the explosives factory to go into production. There are too many machines in this factory, which has exceeded my original expectations.

Originally, I thought that only one or two types of explosives could be produced, but I didn't expect that there are quite a variety of types, at least six types can be produced.Everything from ammonium nitrate to TNT. "

"Six kinds of gunpowder?"

Li Yunlong hadn't heard of it, but he knew several kinds, such as the black powder used to make explosive kits in border factories.

Another example is the TNT explosive that Yuan Lang once provided. The explosive is very stable and requires a detonator to detonate, which is very powerful.

For another example, there is a kind of explosive made of chemical fertilizer, which is also commonly used in the production of grenade explosive packs.

Haven't heard of the others.

"Commander Li knows three kinds is already very good." Zhang Jiming said.

Ordinary military commanders only care about the power of weapons and ammunition, but not how they are produced.

Zhang Jiming mainly introduced the two types of gunpowder that this arsenal will mainly produce.

One of them is the smokeless gunpowder used to produce bullets.

The smokeless gunpowder used as propellant for firearms is based on nitrocellulose. It is almost like stuffing cotton or the like into nitric acid and using sulfuric acid as a catalyst to produce nitrocellulose.

In the past, the bullets were filled with black powder, and there were more residues after firing, and the power was not enough.

Smokeless gunpowder solves this problem.

The other is ammonium nitrate explosives, which are also chemical fertilizers.

Ammonium nitrate, which belongs to nitrogen fertilizer, contains nitrogen in good form, namely ammonium nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen.

Pure ammonium nitrate is stable at room temperature and is insensitive to shock, impact or friction.

But in the presence of high temperature, high pressure and substances that can be oxidized, an explosion will occur.

The salt formed by the reaction of nitric acid and ammonia is an important nitrogen fertilizer.Applied to dry field crops in low temperature areas, it can increase production.

It can be said that this is not only a kind of fertilizer, but also a kind of explosive, which can be used in one body.

After listening to this, Li Yunlong suddenly remembered something: "I remember that the arsenal in the border area lacked explosives, so they bought a lot of chemical fertilizers from the Japanese-occupied area. Is it this kind of thing?"

"That's right, the Japanese promote this kind of fertilizer to increase production and better plunder the grain produced by our farmers.

But it can indeed turn into a murderous explosive, as long as a knowledgeable person purifies it. "

Although Zhang Jiming did not do that, he had heard about it.

Refining pure fertilizer and turning it into explosives can be learned in a short time by finding a farmer.The point is whether someone has pierced that layer of window paper and pointed out the situation.

In this respect, knowledge is really priceless.

Li Yunlong couldn't help but sigh with emotion, and also thought that this kind of thing that is both explosives and fertilizer will play a very important role in next year's grain production.

The land here in Zhongtiao Mountain is too barren, mostly dry land. Originally, there was little food production, but a lot was destroyed by the Japanese in the middle. This winter, food is a problem.

Right now, we have to think of various ways to tide over the difficulties.

Next year's food production must be the top priority. Soldiers must not fight hungry.

At that time, chemical fertilizers will be of great use.

There are many people and strength is great. One person receives thirty rounds of ammunition, and more than 30 people can shoot all the thousand rounds in a short time.

There were no stink bombs. Zhao Gang and Zhao Gang fired dozens of rounds. He thought the accuracy was not bad, and it was no different from the ones produced by the Japanese.

Chief of Staff Yu said: "Then let the workers start the machines to continue production, so that our soldiers can use the bullets produced by our own arsenal earlier."

Thinking about the continuous production of energy behind the machine, it doesn't feel bad to run out of a thousand rounds of ammunition.

A warrior with a three-eighth cap is equipped with fifty rounds of ammunition, ten is five hundred, and one hundred is five thousand.

With a daily output of rounds, enough ammunition can be prepared for two hundred soldiers.

Now it has been verified that the sooner the bullet is produced, the better, and the sooner it is produced, the sooner it can be obtained.

Ding Wei said: "We have successfully produced the first batch of bullets, should we report the good news to our superiors.

When I came, I met the brigade commander. He was very concerned about the establishment of the arsenal. If he hadn't been too busy to leave, he probably would have come to see the production of the first batch of bullets in person. "

Zhao Gang almost forgot, but was reminded by Ding Weiyi, and quickly filled in the loophole: "You are right, now that it has been verified, it is time to report the good news to your superiors."

The good news was not announced just now, mainly because the bullet has not been verified, so it cannot be said to be a success.

The three reached an agreement, leaving a staff officer to inform the editorial factory to continue production, found Li Yunlong, and dragged him back to draft the telegram.

...... PS:

There are farmers in our country who purify ammonium nitrate fertilizer as explosives and sell it to miners for profit.

But this kind of explosive is very dangerous, and there have been many large explosions all over the world.

In 1947, a cargo ship in Texas City, USA caught fire. The fire detonated 2300 tons of ammonium nitrate on board. The explosion also produced a series of chain reactions, which led to the explosion of a nearby chemical plant.

It also triggered a tsunami with a height of 4.5 meters. The explosion killed about 600 people and injured more than 3500 people.

At present, ammonium nitrate fertilizer has been included in the scope of control, and even if it is sold, it has been specially treated, and simple purification is not feasible.

(End of this chapter)