Double-Cut During the War of Resistance: My Wife Came from 1937

Ma Hongwei was wondering if he had enough money.

Should we reduce the number of automatic rifles and pistols?

This automatic rifle is good, but it requires sufficient supplies.

Like the Eighth Route Army in 37, each soldier only had a few bullets and couldn't afford an AK.

Even Commander Liu asked him to get more bolt-action rifles, and he didn't want too many semi-automatic rifles.

But the production of guns here is limited, and Ma Hongwei has no other choice.

If he didn't buy those AKs and Type 56 assault rifles, he wouldn't have many guns to buy at all.

But to Ma Hongwei's surprise, these firearms were surprisingly cheap.

It was so cheap that he couldn't possibly spend all the money he had prepared.

"Oh, and besides firearms, we also need bullets!"

Ma Hongwei then inquired, "What are the prices of the bullets?"

The bearded officer, holding a tablet, began to explain: "We also have two types of bullets: those produced by the original manufacturer and those produced locally."

「像AK、56沖、RPK轻机枪使用的7.62×39毫米子弹，原厂价格3500元/1000发，非原厂批发价格575元/1000发。」

「M249使用的5.56×45毫米子弹，原厂价格7000元/1000发，非原厂批发价1700元/1000发。」

「PKM通用机枪、莫辛-纳甘使用的7.62×54R全威力子弹，原厂价格8000元/1000发，非原厂批发价3000元/1000发。」

「M1919白朗宁重机枪使用的.30-06（7.62×63）子弹，10000元/1000发。」

"The 12.7×108mm bullets used by the DShK anti-aircraft machine gun cost 55000 yuan per 1000 rounds."

"7.92×57mm full-power round, 7450 yuan/1000 rounds."

"6.5×50mm bullets, 6700 yuan/1000 rounds."

「7.62×25毫米手枪通用子弹（30bore弹），1500元/1000发（购买5000发以上）。」

Upon hearing the price quoted, Ma Hongwei couldn't help but exclaim, "This AK truly lives up to its reputation as the most durable and best-selling gun. The bullets are so cheap, less than 6 cents per bullet."

Even if you buy 100 million rounds, it won't cost more than 60 yuan.

On the contrary, machine gun bullets are ridiculously expensive.

Especially the anti-aircraft machine gun, a single bullet costs 55 yuan.

Four shots are enough to buy a pistol, and twelve shots are enough to buy a rifle.

There are many replicas of AKs and Type 56 assault rifles here, and the manufacturing process for these two types of bullets should be the best.

Ma Hongwei thought they could buy 200 million of these bullets.

Anyway, it can be used with AK, RPK, Type 56 assault rifle, and Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

However, in order to ensure the power of the machine guns, Ma Hongwei felt that they should buy another 50 original bullets for 200 RPK light machine guns.

In actual combat, machine guns are used in bursts, not by holding down the trigger, as that would only waste bullets and damage the barrel.

According to the records of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army's sniper battles, they could only fire 660 rounds of light machine gun per day, which was still considered to be in extremely high-intensity combat.

For low to medium intensity use, it would only take 300-500 rounds.

The PKM general-purpose machine gun must use the original factory-produced full-power ammunition to be effective.

Heavy machine guns are used more intensively than light machine guns; a single day of holding a defensive position can consume 2400-4500 rounds.

However, at present, the Eighth Route Army mainly engages in guerrilla warfare, occasionally fighting positional defenses, and the intensity of combat is not that high.

124.2 million rounds is definitely a considerable number.

Ma Hongwei had previously heard Commander Liu say that they had only 28 rounds of machine gun ammunition from before the start of the war until now.

On average, each machine gun only has a few hundred rounds of ammunition.

Over the course of eight years of the War of Resistance against Japan, the Nationalist government and Yan Xishan provided a total of 180 million rounds of machine gun ammunition.

A few patriotic generals of the Kuomintang also secretly gave them nearly 10 rounds of machine gun ammunition.

Most of the bullets were captured by them.

The Eighth Route Army seized more than 1200 million rounds of ammunition of various types from the Japanese and puppet troops, of which more than 750 million were automatic machine gun rounds.

They also produced 100 million bullets by reloading the bullet casings.

The M249 is a light machine gun, and its usage intensity is not as high as that of a heavy machine gun. We will buy 30.6 rounds first.

Browning M1919 heavy machine gun, with 39.15 rounds of ammunition.

Purchase 7.2 rounds of ammunition for the DShK 12.7mm heavy anti-aircraft machine gun.

20 rounds of handgun ammunition.

100 million rounds of 7.92mm full-power ammunition.

One million 6.5mm bullets.

Ma Hongwei asked the bearded officer to help calculate the price.

"These bullets cost a total of 3730.3 million yuan."

The bearded officer said, "You've only bought the guns and ammunition; you haven't bought the artillery shells yet!"

"3730 million?"

Ma Hongwei originally thought that buying weapons wouldn't cost much.

I never imagined that bullets would cost more than guns.

The bullets alone cost more than 3700 million.

If you include the shells, it would probably be close to 5000 million.

"Let's buy a small quantity of shells first!"

Ma Hongwei thought to himself, "The Eighth Route Army already uses artillery sparingly because of a shortage of artillery and shells."

In 37, the Nationalist government, Yan Xishan, Wei Lihuang, and others allocated more than 920 rounds to the Eighth Route Army.

Before the Battle of Pingxingguan, the Eighth Route Army also found 1000 artillery shells abandoned by the defeated Kuomintang troops.

These shells included mortar shells and mountain gun shells.

With the losses from the war, on average, each mortar now has only 10-30 rounds left.

"Bring 1800 rounds of 120mm heavy mortar shells."

Ma Hongwei thought for a moment and said, "I need 13500 rounds of 82mm mortar shells."

"As for 60mm mortar shells, bring 75000 rounds."

Less than 10 shells, that doesn't seem like a very large number.

"Sorry, we can't provide that many shells at the moment!"

The bearded officer shook his head and said, "120mm shells are fine, but we can only provide 7000 rounds of 82mm shells."

"I can give you 30000 60mm shells."

"Alright!"

Ma Hongwei nodded and said, "Then we'll provide these for now. You can calculate it!"

The bearded officer calculated, "Including the shells, the total is 40939000 yuan."

"Adding the previous firearms and artillery, the total is 65268534.5 yuan."

"6526.8 million..."

Ma Hongwei nodded and asked, "Brother, since I've bought so much stuff from you, could you give me a discount?"

"Can!"

The bearded officer smirked and said, "I'll round it down to 6500 million."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "Brother Ma, do you need our help to transport it out?"