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Chapter 74 Self-sufficiency

Wu Siren returned to Luoyi at the end of April. Chen Ziliang and several senior generals from the Tax Police Corps helped him control his jurisdiction. Neither the government nor Japan knew that he had left.

In early May, materials and machinery and equipment secretly transferred from Xiangjiang to Luoyi arrived one after another. In order to transport these things, Wu Siren tried his best to send all the special forces members, but also used two Dawn Operation Inner Guards who had finally penetrated into Japan. Fortunately, Japan's control over the occupied areas is far less stringent than in the future, and the transportation of the items was finally safe.

Wu Siren valued the most military production equipment for the items purchased this time, especially the two Springfield rifle production lines and an M1 Garland rifle production line, which was most valued by Wu Siren.

The US military is no longer preparing to ship the Springfield rifle, so it is not difficult to transport the two production lines, but the M1 Garland rifle production line is different. As the world's first semi-automatic rifle, the original time and space only took more than ten years to develop. With the intervention of Wu Siren, a "gun expert", the time and space were set to be produced more than two years earlier than the original time and space. Because Wu Siren participated in "a large number of" "design" work, and the United States was in the time of singing and dancing and did not feel the threat of war, Wu Siren took advantage of a loophole and transported back a production equipment for the gun.

"Commander, this American rifle is really a good gun. With it, we will no longer have to fear the Japanese Pig-Boo attack!"

After trying the sample gun of the M1 Galand rifle transported back by Wu Siren, Hu Boyu praised it endlessly, and Qiu Yu'an, Fang Zishan and others nodded in recognition.

Of course, Wu Siren had expected this result long ago. The famous gun that even George Patton recognized could naturally be seen by Chen Ziliang and other soldiers.

"Everyone, this step is good, but unfortunately we can't afford it. It's too bullet-consuming!" Wu Siren said with a wry smile.

During World War II, German military industry was the top in the world. They were completely the first to produce semi-automatic or even fully automatic rifles, but why did they still use bolt-action rifles 98k? The reason is very simple - they can't afford it, and with Germany's economic strength, let alone Wu Siren.

"Then you can't just put such a good thing without it!" Qiu Yu'an, a guy who regards firepower as much as life, said regretfully.

Wu Siren explained: "I didn't say no, otherwise why would I have worked so hard to transport the production line back? I can only load it into the Special Operations Brigade and the guard battalion directly under the divisions. Fortunately, it is shared with the bullets of the Springfield rifle, otherwise it also needs to be equipped with another bullet production line."

Chen Ziliang asked in confusion: "Commander, where are you going to place the weapon production line you transported back?"

Wu Siren pointed to the entire Yuzhou defense map in the conference room, pointed to an inconspicuous place, and said: "Here, I plan to build an arsenal here that can supply the entire Tax Police Corps and the weapons and ammunition of the surrounding brothers."

What no one expected was that the arsenal address selected by Wu Siren was not the largest city in western Yuzhou, Luoyi, but Xiaoyi, Gong County.

Xiaoyi, Gongxian, is the original location of Gongxian Arsenal, one of the four major arsenals in the Republic of China. The so-called four major arsenals in the Republic of China refer to Fengtian Arsenal, Jinyang Arsenal, Hanyang Arsenal and Gongxian Arsenal.

In terms of the production capacity of weapons and ammunition, Gongxian Arsenal was the last among the four major arsenals in the Republic of China, but its R&D capabilities were the strongest. The "Modern" rifle of the famous gun in the War of Resistance Against Japan was designed and produced by this arsenal.

The Gongxian Arsenal began to be constructed and put into production as early as 1912. On the eve of the outbreak of the full war of resistance, the Gongxian Arsenal's output reached its peak, with a monthly output of 1,800 7.9 mm rifles (3,200 can be made by processing), 75 mm light grenades, Type 38 field cannon flowering shells, 5,200 150 mm heavy grenades (9,000 can be made by processing), 1,700 82 mm mortar shells (3,000 can be made by processing), 690 150 mm mortar shells (1,200 can be made by processing), and 4,600 wooden handle grenades (8,000 can be made by processing). At that time, the factory covered an area of ​​1,449 acres, with about 4,600 employees, which were divided into four parts: power plant, shell factory, gun manufacturing plant and machinery factory.

On November 15 last year, under the order of the Arsenal of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the State Government, Gongxian Arsenal began to relocate to Jiangcheng. The next day, the target of the relocation was changed to Zhuzhou. However, during the relocation process, due to being discovered by Japanese devils, the relocation work was successively bombed by Japanese aircraft at the beginning, and the personnel and equipment and facilities of the arsenal were suffered huge losses.

As the situation of the War of Resistance continues to deteriorate, the arsenal began a displaced career. The arsenal first arrived in Tanzhou and then built a factory in Yanxi. At the beginning of this year, when Wu Siren was still commanding the battle in Jinling, the Gongxian arsenal was renamed the 11th Plant of the Arsenal.

Wu Siren chose the original site of Gongxian Arsenal to build the factory, not for convenience, but for the outstanding concealment and defense capabilities of the original factory.

In history, Yuzhou was almost completely destroyed during the War of Resistance Against Japan, including Gong County, but this arsenal miraculously did not fall into the hands of the Japanese. The main reason was that the path here was strange. If you walked from the ground, you would easily be confused if you didn't know the road. In addition, the Japanese thought that the arsenal had been blown up by their planes at that time, so they did not spend much effort to find it.

But what the Japanese did not expect was that the large amount of weapons and ammunition in the Gongxian Arsenal and the cadres and staff who remained were all safe under the Japanese air raid. It turned out that there was a large fortification group built underground in the Gongxian Arsenal, which was ten kilometers long. In addition to the warehouse where countless weapons and ammunition were piled up, there were also important facilities such as production workshops, offices, live ammunition ranges for testing and correcting guns. The internal space can be imagined.

This huge network of underground fortifications was ordered by Yuan Datou to be built at that time, with the purpose of keeping technology confidentiality.

After Wu Siren took over the defense of Yuzhou, he blocked the place immediately and protected the remaining arsenal staff. Not only that, he also sent personnel to recall many technical workers from the former Gongxian Arsenal.

"Zishan, I will leave the defense work of the arsenal to you. Colonel Su will cooperate with you to build an internal security system. Brother Ziliang, after the meeting, the arsenal will be listed as the highest secret of our tax police regiment. There is no need to report it to the Military Commission, Yu'an, Boyu, you should also pay attention to confidentiality. In the future, our ammunition supply will basically rely on this arsenal."

Wu Siren is not worried about anything. No Soviet-style arms that the State Government negotiated with the Red Polar Bear not long ago were allocated to the Yuzhou Defense Zone. This is the fundamental reason why Wu Siren took the risk of developing his own military production.

In the afternoon of the same day, Wu Siren met Wu Qinlie and Mao Yike who had just returned to Luoyi in the office.

"Brother Mao, I'll ask you to operate the arsenal. As for Brother Wu, the technical research and development department will ask you how hard it is. After some time, the Jewish technicians I recruited from Europe will arrive one after another, and these people will be left to you to manage."

At present, the German Mustache is carrying out a large-scale anti-Semitic movement, and the Jews' life in Europe is becoming increasingly difficult. Wu Siren has contacted Lan Yanzhi and asked her to fully accept Jewish scientists and technical workers. In addition to arranging these people to enter the Wu family's major factories and laboratories in North America, some of the military technicians were diverted to Wu Siren's Yuzhou area.

However, Wu Siren also specifically emphasized to Lan Yanzhi that even if he accepts and rescues some art workers, financial personnel will never accept them.

"Don't worry! We will definitely run the arsenal." Mao Yike said excitedly.

Wu Qinlie and Mao Yi belong to the angry youth and technical mates of this era. They admire and admire Wu Siren very much. First, Wu Siren's heavy blow to the Japanese in previous battles was recognized by the two. On the other hand, Wu Siren's achievements in the military industry. Until now, Wu Siren still has the title of chief designer of Springfield Arsenal.

"I have a design drawing of a gun and two formulas of smokeless gunpowder. I'll give you these." Wu Siren took out two documents and handed them to Mao Yike and Wu Qinlie respectively, emphasizing: "You must use our own people when you study. Those Jewish technicians must not let them contact you when they come here. You must have a clear understanding of many things. My ancestors said it well. If you are not my race, you will have different hearts. You must do a good job of confidentiality."

What Wu Sairen gave them was the design drawings of ak47 and the composition of two highly efficient smokeless powders in later generations.
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