Bright sword, I have a red police base car

Chapter 28 Bullet Cases
After Zhang Shijie and the Red Police soldiers finished the post-war summary meeting, they led the wounded back to the base space, sold the barracks to receive the returned troops, and worked hard to complete their own plan to gather enough to strengthen the platoon...

The next day, the 13th regiment received an order to transfer, and Ding Wei also followed the troops to the brigade headquarters, preparing to serve in the 28th Jizhong Military Region.

"Old Ding, originally you were leaving. Our 13th regiment, as your natal family, should bring you some dowry, but you know the situation of our regiment now. The whole regiment only has more than 320 people including me. The battle was too fierce. Brother Shang can’t help you anymore, I have kept 4 light machine guns from the share of the seized supplies, take them with you when you leave! There are not many things, so don’t blame brother.” Head Song Said to Ding Wei with guilt.

Ding Wei showed reluctance, and after hugging Song Xianggui and Zhu Shenggang, he said, "Old Wang, then I won't go, regiment leader and political commissar, we will meet later!"

"There will be a period later!"

After saluting each other, Ding Wei took Chen Ergou to the Jizhong base.

Song Xianggui and Zhu Shenggang watched Ding Wei go further and further away...

Political Commissar Zhu said to Head Song: "He and Lao Wang have been together the longest and have the best relationship. Unfortunately, Lao Wang was injured. We will bid farewell today. I don't know when we will see you next time."

Song Xianggui heard the words and said: "When our army grows stronger, Wang Chuanjie will have to go out and take care of himself. There is no banquet in the world that lasts. If you beat the little devils away, we can gather together and drink every day!"

After the 13th Regiment merged with the [-]rd Brigade, they reported to the headquarters the process of annihilating the Japanese army.

After the sweep and siege of the Japanese army, most of the troops of the 115th Division advanced into the Lunan base area under the leadership of Commander Lin, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei base area was continued to be led by Political Commissar Nie.

Political Commissar Nie fell into deep thought when he saw the battle report sent by the 13th regiment.

"A unit of 60 people can wipe out half of the Japanese army. Even with the advantages of weapons and equipment, their soldiers' tactical skills and commander's command ability still have a lot to offer." they said.

"That's right, political commissar, their soldiers can quietly sneak under our secret sentry, and the secret sentry is an old soldier of the Red Army who walked through the grass. Most of our scouts can't do this alone!"

Hearing the conversation of the staff officers, Political Commissar Nie took out two bullet casings and said, "Look at these two bullet casings. Have you ever seen this kind of bullet?"

A group of staff officers looked at the two shell casings over and over again, but they couldn't see why, and they all bluntly said that they had never seen it.

This is, a staff officer named Li Gang said: "I worked with Brigadier Chen of the 386 Brigade before. At that time, Brigadier Chen was still the director of the Military Industry Bureau. I happened to be in the ammunition reloading department. I can confirm this bullet. But it is not a standard bullet known by any country. Its shell case is larger than that of a pistol and much smaller than that of a rifle. It is very likely that it is a special ammunition for a newly developed new submachine gun."

Li Gang weighed the cartridge case, feeling something was wrong, "This weight...is not right, political commissar, I'll go out and find a magnet first."

Seeing that Li Gang had made a discovery, Political Commissar Nie hurriedly said: "You continue to study, I will let the guards get it, Xiao Wu! Go get a magnet!"

"Yes! Commissar!"

Political Commissar Nie said to Li Gang: "Continue, what else have you found?"

"Political commissar, look at the inner wall of the shell case, there is basically no gunpowder residue. If the shell case has not been cleaned, it means that their propellant technology is very high, even better than the original German propellant!"

At this time, the guard Xiao Wu ran back with the magnet.

"Political commissar, here are the magnets!"

Political commissar Nie signaled Xiao Wu to give the magnet to Li Gang, and Li Gang married the magnet close to the bullet case.

"Snapped"

The shell case is instantly attached to the magnet!

"It's really steel?! But if it's a steel shell, why is the surface brass? How does the steel shell prevent corrosion?! Is it a new metal or a new process?!"

After learning that the bullets were made of steel, Li Gang was beyond shocked. If you are a modern military fan, you will know at a glance that this is a copper-clad steel shell made by China's military industry (there are also painted steel shells, but the painting process is not on the early 7.62mm bullets. application)
(It has been changed to a copper-clad steel shell, thanks for the correction!)

However, copper plating technology was not applied until [-]!

Political Commissar Nie also became interested when he heard that it was a steel bullet case.In fact, as early as [-], the military industry department of the Red Army demonstrated steel bullets, but the final conclusion was that it would not work at all!So when Political Commissar Nie heard that it was a steel shell, he hurriedly asked Li Gang, "Can we make this steel shell?"

Li Gang said dejectedly when he heard the words: "Political commissar, this brass-colored and anti-corrosion steel should be a special alloy steel. Let's not say whether there is a seller for this steel. Ordinary imported alloy steel is no cheaper than copper." How much, even if someone sells this kind of bullet, it should not be much cheaper than copper! Unless you have a steelmaking plant and mature technology, don’t even think about it! I guess this kind of bullet is currently only old brands like Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Industrial powers can make it! Even the Japanese don’t have this technology!”

If Zhang Shijie heard this statement, he would probably laugh his teeth out. With the material and craftsmanship of this bullet, according to the current world situation, all countries in the world count as one, and no one can make it!

When Political Commissar Nie heard this conclusion, he couldn't help dispelling this idea, and sighed: "Then you can talk about this bullet."

"This kind of bullet uses less material and is lighter in weight, so the cost is relatively lower, but the amount of charge will be reduced, and the range and power will also be reduced. However, if there is a better propellant, it can make up for this shortcoming! If We will have these technologies in the future and design guns and ammunition by ourselves, then this design idea will be a very good development direction!"

The military personnel of the Eighth Route Army during this period would never have thought that the intermediate power bullets could also reduce the weight and recoil of the ammunition. After all, at this time, the bullets carried by an Eighth Route Army soldier usually did not exceed twenty bullets, or even a few bullets. Shooting doesn't matter much either.

"According to the [-]th Regiment's battle report, this is the shared bullet for their light machine gun and portable machine gun. Oh...they call the portable machine gun an automatic rifle!"

The staff members fell into deep thought...

At this time, a staff officer broke the quiet atmosphere and said: "There are only more than 60 of them, why don't we recruit them? In this way, we will have sources of guns and ammunition!"

"The idea of ​​incorporating the 13th regiment has already been tried, and the other party said that they were going to join the big army. At that time, the 13th regiment couldn't keep them even if they wanted to stay!"

"Then what shall we buy from them?"

"That's a good idea!"

Listening to the discussions of the staff officers, Political Commissar Nie also had some thoughts.

(End of this chapter)