The country is broken

The mechanic who accompanied Director Liu stuttered a little. Under the questioning of Director Liu, he had to explain the reason with a face of embarrassment. I transferred a mortar, but it almost blew me up. I was complained by the artillery company for wasting the precious artillery for a while, but I never dared to use it afterwards.

To be honest, Li Wei said that two guns, the whole grenade and mines are okay, but weapons like cannons that require heavy industry, there is less information about this kind of information. Some people have heard of gun fans, but there are very few fans of guns. Yes, no matter how rich you are, it’s impossible to hide such a big cannon at home. The arsenal wants Li Wei to design a cannon. Very good, at most it can be combined with the special hollow flower to increase the lethality, but the amount of gunpowder is really powerful.

Listening to the mechanic's explanation, Director Liu's heart was churning, and he had a rough plan in his mind for how the Huangyadong No. [-] Armory Factory would overcome the current bottleneck.

The wound that Li Wei had healed for a few days came back to life, and he had a quarrel with the technicians in the arsenal. The doctors were amazed at his resilience, which can only be described as a monster, but after all, it is Li Wei's recovery in the modern good nutrition environment. Provides energy.

In order to make effective use of the insufficient resources at hand, Minister Liu specially worked out a workflow with Li Wei and other main backbones of the arsenal. [

The Taihang Mountains are rich in mineral deposits, and there are many copper and iron mines. Although the arsenal has small steelmaking equipment and high-temperature alloy furnaces, due to the lack of large-scale smelting industrial equipment, the self-production of steel and other materials for military industry is still in short supply. Therefore, Many of the metals in the arsenal come directly from the train tracks, telephone wires, fried skins, damaged weapons and rural iron products such as stoves and broken iron pots of the Japanese devils. These metal raw materials are unified by blacksmiths who mainly smelt soil Smelting is required for sharing with coppersmiths.

There is no shortage of wood for gun stocks and grenade handles in the mountains. A dozen or so skilled carpenters are enough to do the job. Sometimes the mahogany furniture of landlords and rich families are used as raw materials. , As long as it can be used, it is enough, so some soldiers' gun stocks are still made of luxurious mahogany. In battle, users do not have any awareness of pity for valuables, and they still smash the enemy hard.

However, a large amount of non-renewable gunpowder is consumed. At present, the collected natural minerals are used for synthesis. Minister Liu and several technicians use soil methods, except for the coke that can be produced and the natural and available hemp ash and willow ash that can be found. In addition to synthesizing sulfur, the building materials used to dig old houses were used to extract fire nitrate, which was called "digging corners" by Li Wei for a while.

In order to uniformly use limited resources, it is still unrealistic to standardize equipment through purchase. The development of standard weapons belonging to the Eighth Route Army has become a current need. Minister Liu led Li Wei and a dozen old technicians to form an expert research and development team again to develop standard rifles. After the last production experience of sg-552, 97 sniper modification, m-10 and desert eagle modern guns, they are familiar with the structure of guns a lot

Combined with the needs of the current anti-Japanese battlefield, after they disassembled the Japanese 56-style rifle, the Chinese-style rifle, and the Czech-style rifle, they quickly trial-produced a prototype of a rifle rifle. Minister Liu was inspired by Li Wei's fighting army stab, and his Just came back from the Soviet Union. The Soviet-made Mosin-Nagant rifle is also equipped with a military stab design. After improving Li Wei’s military stab, it matches this prototype gun. At the same time, there are short knife-shaped and sword-shaped bayonets as candidates, although it is a new design. The guns that came out, but still not fully finalized, because of the influence of Li Wei's modern guns, the prototype gun of this rifle has a relatively short body with an ergonomic design, and because it is made of high-quality steel, it is also relatively light. , The caliber is divided into 65mm, 792mm and [-]mm.

Although the development speed is relatively fast, the prototype gun has been converted from the blueprint to the finished product with the hard work of many skilled craftsmen. Because of the uniform caliber, there are still many places that need to be modified for the convenience of production and maintenance. This prototype gun In the end, it still has not been finalized. The technicians in the arsenal have been finalizing the shape of this gun. There will often be quarrels and red faces. Because they have never designed a gun for large-scale equipment before, no one dares to take it lightly. In case If something goes wrong, no one can bear the responsibility.

Li Wei and Minister Liu did not expect that they spent a lot of energy, which could even be considered as cheating. After the gun was formally finalized, this gun built with modern design concepts became the famous "August [-]" rifle in the history of China's anti-Japanese war. , the military bayonet with the highest lethality and fast and effective discharge design, short gun body and weight, it is the most convenient for assault.

When everyone was having a headache about finalizing the prototype gun, a mechanic found Li Wei and said that Director Liu was looking for him, and he and Director Li's office.

When Li Wei approached the office, Minister Liu and Director Li were sitting at a large table waiting for a long time.

"Wei Zi, I just came, I've been waiting for you for a long time, sit down!" Director Liu took the initiative to stand up and get a chair for Li Wei.

He is a dignified minister, how can this be embarrassing, Li Wei, who was flattered, quickly pulled the chair and sat down.

"Is Director Liu looking for something for me?" Li Wei could see that the atmosphere was different today. The two adults, Factory Manager Li and Director Liu, seemed to be very polite to him. Could it be that today he found out that he wanted to raise wages and give out red envelopes? ! But until now he has not seen a penny handed out. Because of the tight economy during the War of Resistance Against Japan, the funds were all used for the Anti-Japanese War, and salaries are generally not paid in cash. Unless there are special reasons, you can write an application to receive cash, and the money will be paid. I keep it with my superiors, but fortunately food and drink are rationed, and I have nowhere to spend my money. There is nowhere to buy snacks in this damn place, and the occasional bag of peanuts and melon seeds brought back almost triggers an arms tour race. No wonder people outside call this place "water kiln" (except for the cave, the water in the cave is left).

"Now the superior has a very important task for you, I hope you can go all out to complete it." Minister Liu said while pouring a cup of herbal tea for Li Wei.

"Oh!~" Li Wei's thoughts were shattered, he didn't get a salary increase, and he had to work overtime!~ This arsenal still signed a labor contract with him.

"Xiao Lizi, this is a business trip. It may be a bit dangerous to travel far away, but you have to do a good job for me, don't lose face to our arsenal!~" Director Li still looks like an elder teaching a junior, holding a bong road.

"Oh!~" Li Wei still responded indifferently. He returned to the Anti-Japanese War from modern times. With the gap of decades and such a long distance, it is nothing to travel far, not to mention that the Anti-Japanese War is dangerous no matter where it is. , not so bad.