Traveler Major League

Chapter 222 Officers and Weapons

There is a military camp [-] kilometers east of New Hefei City. It has a very modern atmosphere. It was officially built three months ago under the guidance of veterans from the Third World. Unlike other garrison strongholds, it is completely used as a training base. Jian is responsible for the training and training of all recruits and officers. Everyone must pass the assessment here before being assigned to the newly formed army.

Almost all veterans from the third world were stationed here after entering this world. Yang Zeming serves as the top leader of the base here, but this position is just a position. He is also a cadet of the base military academy, and All newcomers receive modern education, as well as the integration and improvement of military training subjects.

Because of his busy work, many training arrangements were usually handled by the staff and the instructors of each recruit company. This time, he rarely found time and had to accompany Liu Ze to receive modern visitors.

"Fei Shujie, I have read your personal information. Your experience as a master sergeant is excellent enough, so I am going to let you go to the staff department as deputy chief of staff, responsible for the compilation of the new training syllabus. This task is very important. Heavy, the weapons we have are not the same as what you are familiar with before, Yang Zeming and Yang Cangsheng will take you to familiarize yourself with the situation in the base, and after you become familiar with it in a few days, we will officially start."

Fei Shujie stood tall and straight, which made Liu Ze very fond of him. This is what a soldier should look like.

"Commander, I am completely unfamiliar with the ancient tactics of the Ming army, especially issues such as cavalry combat and military system combat habits."

"Don't worry, you are not doing this work alone. There are others, such as Brigadier Wang Youyuan and Brigadier Chao Zhongchen of the Independent Cavalry Brigade. Both of them are veterans of the Ming Dynasty's border army and are good at this." Yang Zeming's words dispelled Fei Shujie's doubts.

At this time, a burst of gunfire attracted the attention of the newcomers.

Yang Zeming looked at the interested expressions of these modern soldiers and said: "You are all soldiers, standing under the sun is quite boring. If you are interested, you can go to our base shooting range to play."

"The chief invites us to go, of course. Let's go and give it a try. I haven't touched firearms for a long time since I left the army, and I can't wait for a long time. Everyone knows about the domestic environment. There are only a few shooting ranges. Most of them are .22 caliber, and have no recoil at all like air guns." When Li Lin heard that he wanted to go to the shooting range, he naturally wanted to do it. He hadn't touched a standard firearm for a long time, and now that he had such an opportunity, he certainly wouldn't let it go. , just in time to get familiar with the weapons of the People's Army.

"Bang, bang..." From a long distance away, the crowd walking past could hear the fierce gunfire from the shooting range. However, the gunfire was very special. It seemed to lack a crisp feeling. It was obvious that it came from someone with the shooting range. This group of people had completely different experiences with firearms.

"Chief, are these weapons currently used by the army?" Fei Shujie could see the thick smoke emitted by a row of soldiers firing from a distance at the end of the road. The dense sound he originally heard was just at the same time. Caused by too many people shooting.

When they walked to the shooting stand, everyone else had a look of disappointment on their faces, mixed with some curiosity. Li Lin smiled awkwardly and said: "It really has a sense of history. They are all black powder single-shot breech-loading guns."

"We also have some advanced weapons, but we have to know that the estimated future usage of Ming Dynasty is too large. It is very unrealistic to purchase them all from the third world. From the difficulty and difficulty of manufacturing individual weapons, Considering the speed of increasing ammunition production capacity, we will adopt a three-level matching model of high, middle and low levels. The most basic militia troops will still use the first-year rifles, which are this kind of paper-shell flash cap breech guns."

Yang Zeming reached out to pick up the first-year rifle from the shooting stand at the top, and picked up a bullet from the stand. "This black powder bullet using a copper flash cap is similar to the steel-cased bullets and copper-cased bullets in your world. It's almost the same, just a little more primitive. However, this weapon can still be different from all the gunpowder weapons in our first world. It also has the characteristics of simple ammunition manufacturing. As long as the copper sheet flash hood is enough, even if the A sufficient amount of ammunition can be manufactured by hand, and a large number of mechanical equipment is purchased from modern times. The assembly line production of the first-year rifle itself can provide sufficient output to meet our army expansion needs."

Then Yang Zeming picked up another bolt-action rifle from the stage, which was slightly more advanced in the eyes of all modern visitors. However, the most eye-catching thing is that the head of the rifle is not a bayonet lock, but a long triangular bolt fixed with screws. Bayonet. A structure similar to the bayonet of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is fixed under the barrel. Use a longer folding triangular bayonet. Press the muzzle ferrule toward the butt to release the lock. Pull the bayonet upward until the muzzle ferrule is inserted into the gun. The mouth is fixed, the total length including the bayonet extended reaches 1.4 meters, and the bayonet is retracted to 1.1 meters.

"You've all seen this type of gun in the movies. It has a rotating rear-pull bolt action, an integral magazine for ammunition, and a smokeless propellant with a tapered cartridge case at the bottom. The gun weighs 4.3 kilograms and has a magazine capacity of 5 rounds (1 round in the chamber), of course it is very old-fashioned to you, but this is already the most suitable rifle that we can mass-produce under the current conditions, and it will also be the main weapon of our troops for a long time in the future."

At this time, Liu Ze also explained: "This is actually a replica of the Mosin Nagant. The shooting process is rough and crude, which is very suitable for our current conditions. It is simple, reliable and easy to produce. The requirements for the bullet chamber size of the protruding bottom edge cartridge case are relatively loose. Larger production tolerances are allowed during machine processing, saving both man-hours and money.”

"In addition to these two weapons, we have also imported many modern weapons from the third world, including the 95-1 that you are used to using before, but it is the civilian version you exported. There are also M16 series automatic rifles and Soviet-style AK series. At most, because Soviet-style weapons are easier to buy and are available in large quantities! Most of these modern weapons will be equipped to our special forces here and will not be used as standard weapons for the first world forces." In fact, there are also Part of the reason is that for the Ming Dynasty, the generation difference in weapons is enough. Liu Ze's use of these modern weapons that cannot be produced by himself is just to prepare for future confrontation with the Third World.

Fei Shujie thought thoughtfully, "Are there any other weapons on the way to Ming Dynasty?"

"In addition to these two batch-equipped rifles, individual soldiers also have grenades. These are simple to make and are sufficient. In addition, there are a small number of sniper rifles and PKM light machine guns from your world, but the number is smaller."

"Are there any heavy weapons?" Fei Shujie asked.

"There are also our self-produced 82mm mortars, that's all. You have to know that it is unrealistic to smuggle ammunition in large quantities from your world. There are also wars in Ukraine and the Middle East on your side, and almost all the spot goods on the international market have been swept away by them. It’s empty, this is the only thing we can produce and supply ourselves.”

In the human military technology tree, you may be hard-pressed to find a simple weapon with such a simple structure, such easy manufacturing, such low cost, and such a high efficiency-to-waste ratio like a mortar. This is why Liu Ze will be forced to As almost the only heavy weapon, the reason why barrel artillery has been eliminated is as an example.

During the Anti-Japanese War, China's weak industry was able to produce tens of thousands of mortars. If you know that the output of the same mountain artillery, anti-tank and other barrel artillery is almost a fraction of this number, you can understand how easy it is to manufacture mortars. , basically only consists of three parts: a barrel, a gun mount and a base.

Even in modern times, sights and other auxiliary instruments are only added to these three parts. In fact, the core is a barrel. As long as a barrel is plugged with a shell, it can be fired. This method of operation is still used by me today. It is still used in military training, so in an emergency, just find a seamless steel pipe, weld it to one end and add a firing pin, and you can shoot.

It is very suitable for emergency use in low-tech situations after you travel through time. The only difficult part is the manufacturing of mortar shells. In fact, it is basically made of cast iron. The top one is the fuse that can be directly made of a flash cap. Fuze, if that doesn't work, you can even make do with a wire fuze.

The most important thing to pay attention to is that the main body of the artillery shell should be made into a shape that is heavy in the front and light in the back with a tail, which is more suitable for the mortar firing mode.

A little trick here is that you can carve a few grooves in the thickest part of the front of the projectile, which is called a closed air ring. When the gas generated by the propellant passes through the grooves quickly, vortices will be generated, which can effectively form an airtight effect. The basic propellant at the tail of the projectile is almost a large bullet. It can be ignited when it hits the bottom firing pin due to the gravity of the projectile. A silk cloth can be used to wrap the powder package at the tail to increase the range.Such artillery shells are all front-loading smoothbore cannons. The stability of the artillery shell after being ejected mainly relies on the tail fin at the rear of the projectile. This tail fin is like a badminton. The combination of all these will give a result.

Mortar shells are much easier to manufacture than other modern barrel-bore artillery shells.

It can basically be rubbed by hand, and its ejection principle makes the muzzle speed low and the range short, but it also means that the shell itself can be filled with more explosives. The strength requirements for the barrel and shells are ridiculously low. Civilian steel pipes It can be made.

Fei Shujie and Li Lin all nodded to express their understanding. According to their estimation, they would probably go to the Ming Dynasty in the future. With these weapons, they would be invincible in the world.

"It would be nice if there were more machine guns, as well as barreled artillery." Li Lin said: "The Ming Dynasty should have a large number of cavalry. With these weapons alone, victory is certain, but there will be many casualties."

Li Lin noticed a Soviet SG43 heavy machine gun next to the shooting platform. It was placed horizontally and was not loaded.

"The scale of our military industry is too small and we cannot mass-produce these ammunition in a short time." Liu Ze noticed that Li Lin was looking at the heavy machine gun next to the shooting range and said, "There is no time. We must set out with the armed forces as soon as possible. But in the future, as With the expansion of production capacity, I believe these weapons will be rapidly iterated."

What Liu Ze didn't say is that all of this can only be realized slowly after sufficient human resources are obtained from the Ming Dynasty.

This heavy machine gun was put here for testing as a replica sample. It was also a weapons and equipment plan that Liu Ze had prepared before but failed to realize. In the final analysis, time was too tight. It was completely impossible to train enough workers and technicians in a short time. Unable to produce sufficient quantities of qualified products on its own.

This dilemma is just like the result of the de-industrialization of the United States. The technical processes are very detailed, and there are also professional technicians and experts. However, there is a lack of a sufficient number of qualified workers, and the vast majority of adult male Ming Dynasty people were armed and worked for the return of the Ming Dynasty. Prepare.

In order to prepare for this, Liu Zeyi ordered a large number of clothing, quilts, food cans and other materials in modern times through disguised exports and other means. In the Spring and Autumn Period, as Liu Ze's plan changed, the entire society showed a general mobilization trend.

Nowadays, everything that can be done is done, there is nothing that can be done.

In order to reduce labor, various factories have imported a lot of automated equipment from modern times. For example, in order to draw rifling, they specially ordered multiple sets of internal keyway electric broaching machines with threaded internal splines. Even the technicians in this factory are highly paid by Liu Zeyi After poaching them and bringing them here, they officially had an industrial broaching machine common in arsenals, and the problem of slow manufacturing of rifle barrels was solved.

Similarly, a plating room is specially set up for the barrel manufacturing workshop to chromium plate the inner tube. This plating method not only extends the use time of the barrel, but also makes maintenance much easier.In fact, even in the production of such backward weapons, standard systems and processes similar to modern ones are also changing the original workshop industry. The introduction of standards similar to ISO9000 has greatly helped organizations of all types and sizes implement and operate quality standards. management system.

In Liu Ze's words: Even if we produce cold weapons, we must use modern manufacturing concepts and integrate them into our own products. For example, from bayonets to gun barrels, there is a standard number to avoid confusion and facilitate records. Retrace.

With a "crack" sound, Fei Shujie took the bolt-action rifle from Yang Zeming's hand, fumbled for a while, then pulled out the bolt, looked around carefully, and thought to himself. "The cutting process of the gun bolt is indeed a bit rough, but due to the original design problems, all parts run very smoothly, a bit like the roughness of Soviet-style weapons."

Fei Shujie loaded the bolt of the gun again, and after loading it, he said to Yang Zeming, "How many shots should I try?"

Seeing Yang Zeming nodding, Fei Shujie inserted the magazine into the magazine bayonet from the stage, pressed hard, the bolt returned to its position, and a bullet entered the chamber.

There were five crisp sounds in a row. Except for the first shot, which hit three rings, all the others hit 100 rings on the 10-meter target. The outstanding accuracy caused a round of applause.

This kind of marksmanship also made Yang Zeming's eyes shine. He was absolutely impressed by people with real abilities.

Fei Shujie tried the weight of the rifle with both hands again before saying: "The gun is a good gun. With this thing, it would be enough to fight in World War II, let alone the Ming Dynasty. If there is anything wrong with this gun, it can only be I have found some points from the workmanship and wood. Not to mention the machining, it is very rough, but it can be used. The wood of this gun stock should be spliced ​​and laminated. It is not even as good as the old AK series gun stock. It will be durable in the future. There should be a problem with the degree,
"There is nothing we can do about it. We not only have to consider the problem of saving wood here, but also consider the Ming Dynasty side. The trees in Shaanxi are not very good."

In fact, in Liu Ze's mind, he only has one thought for these outdated weapons, which is to save consumption as much as possible. He just wants to reduce felling of trees. Anyway, they are outdated weapons and will always be eliminated. Even if they are manufactured in the future and are equivalent to modern ones, The weapons of this level are mainly practical as consumables. This is also a design concept he inherited from his motherland.

"The guns are good guns, but training is just training. Although these weapons are enough to dominate the Ming Dynasty, the current infantry training code still almost rigidly follows the training syllabus from the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the training of officers is also very lacking. When marching and fighting, we don't know how to just fire guns. When we were fighting in Shaanxi before, we encountered this dilemma. The Ming army with backward equipment could always cause various attrition to our army, especially in small-scale encounters, they were often defeated by them. A short burst."

"Don't worry, Commander, we will put into training as soon as possible, but I would like to ask, if I go to Daming in the future, can I go with the troops? Daming, I am also very curious." Fei Shujie looked at Liu Ze and asked, Trying to maintain a curious and excited expression, only he knew that just as a training instructor he could not complete the tasks assigned to him by Li Liphang. He had to lead troops and have military merits in order to stand out and gain status in this people's army that lacked talents.

After hearing this, Liu Ze and Yang Zeming looked at each other and smiled: "We are setting off this time with the whole army, including all of you. After all, the time on the Ming side is almost as slow as ours here. On pause."

Upon hearing this, Fei Shujie understood that Liu Ze had agreed. If he guessed correctly, none of these people would be able to escape, and his chances of making meritorious deeds would definitely not be small.

(End of this chapter)