Seeing that the convoy did not go to the original gun repair place, but went in another direction, Zhao Hu was about to ask, Minister Ye smiled and said: "Xiao Zhao, I heard that you have obtained so many supplies, the leader decided to set up a

The armory has also mobilized elite soldiers and generals, come on, let me introduce them to you."

After that, Zhao Hu was introduced to several leaders of the repair shop. The first one was Liu Dingfeng, section chief of the third department, and the other was Liu Pengju, deputy section chief of the repair shop. Minister Ye also joked: "These two

This will be our future Liu, Xiao Zhao, you will have to work hard to follow the two Section Chiefs Liu from now on!"

Zhao Hu could only imitate others and raise his arms horizontally in front of him to salute the two section chiefs. This action was really not very standard and immediately made the two section chiefs Liu laugh.

Then, he introduced him to the political commissar Sun Kaicheng of the repair shop and the team leader Ding Yang who was responsible for the gun and ammunition work. Team leader Ding smiled and said: "I have long heard that Xiao Zhao is a capable person. From now on, we will work together. You can

Don’t hide anything!”

Zhao Hu blushed: "Team Leader Ding, please stop making fun of me. I'm just a gun repairman. I don't understand most things. I want to ask you for advice."

It seems that the leaders are very concerned about the repair shop. Chief Liu's rank has reached the regiment level, and he also asked political commissar Sun to come over and be responsible for the safety and security of the repair shop.

Section Chief Liu Dingding saw the lathes and broaching machines unloaded into the shed one by one. He smiled from ear to ear: "Xiao Zhao has brought back so many machines. I think this repair shop can be renamed Chafang Arsenal."

The things were sorted into different sheds. Section Chief Liu took everyone to count them one by one and make a list. Zhao Hu took the opportunity to stuff some unplaced supplies into the sheds, and then joked with everyone.

Finally, Minister Ye took the list and was about to go back to report. Zhao Hu took off the black cloth backpack he had been carrying and handed it to Minister Ye. Lao Ye didn't catch it for a while, and the cloth bag fell to the ground, and there was a sudden "crash"

, and a large pile of shining gold bars and stacks of banknotes fell out.

"Xiao Zhao, where did you get so much money? Did you go to rob a bank?"

Zhao Hu touched his nose and said a little embarrassedly: "I robbed the Japanese bank, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to buy back so many things, haha!"

"Okay, good job." Minister Ye patted Zhao Hu heavily on the shoulder, knelt down, put away all the gold bars and banknotes, and hurriedly left under the protection of the guards. There was too much money in the bag.

, he had to hand it in quickly.

It was almost dark, but Section Chief Liu was still working and kept giving instructions to the staff: "Xiao Zhang, please inform the logistics department and ask Brigadier Wang to come over tomorrow to take away these sweet potato, corn seeds and farm tools. This will make you crazy."

Already."

"Xiao Zhao, what are you buying these chemical dyes for? We don't have talents in this field yet."

Zhao Hu took a look and said quickly: "I also heard the German fool, saying that these dyes can be used to make sulfonamide tablets, so I bought them at a high price..."

"What? Can you make sulfa drugs? Quick, Xiao Li, go and report to Minister Ye again and ask him to find someone to come and take it away. With so many raw materials, you no longer have to worry about medicines in the future."

Zhao Hu said: "There is a lot of ether over there. Chief Liu, please tell them to be careful. That thing can catch fire."

"Ether? Is it used as an anesthetic? Haha, Xiao Zhao, I don't know how to praise you this time. You thought of everything. With these ethers, the soldiers no longer have to suffer during operations."

"Chief Liu, come quickly, there are bullets here, lots of bullets! There are also artillery shells!"

Section Chief Liu arrived in response and couldn't help but wonder: "Hey, I just saw some ammunition boxes, but not so many. Maybe I was busy. Well, with so many bullets, I guess the entire army will be short of them in a short time."

"

"These bullets are nothing. If the soldiers shoot them all, they can practice their marksmanship well."

"What? You're crazy. Fight them all. What will the soldiers use on the battlefield? Without bullets, this gun will just be a fire stick."

"We have to shoot at least half of them, right? Many soldiers never missed a single shot. Going to the battlefield is no different than dying. We can reload the collected bullets and use them to practice for the soldiers. Even if the results are improved by 10%, it is still a good thing.

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"Well, this is also a way, but our production tasks are very tight. I think you bought these diesel generators just to reinstall them, right? But the diesel will be gone in a short time."

"Isn't there some small oil refining equipment? I heard that there is an oil field over there in Yanchang, so I bought it. As long as it can refine diesel, these machines can keep running."

"Well, yes, yes, I heard that a set of equipment over there in Yanchang was sent to Yumen by the government. They are using ladles to scoop out oil at the moment. With this set of equipment, I believe the oil will be produced soon.

,What a great idea, what a great idea!”

With the materials in hand, early the next morning, the repair shop, no, it had been renamed the Chafang Armory, started work. The first thing Zhao Hu had to do was open the mold.

I only bought a little bit of various fine steel raw materials. This stuff is too expensive, and the Germans don't have much stock, but it's enough for making molds. Even if it's not all available, there are still some in the warehouse.

The first thing to do is the primer mold, which is about the size of a match head and is pressed against the bottom of the cartridge case. This thing is very troublesome to make. It is divided into a primer cup, a primer anvil, a sealing port, a ignition hole, and a primer inside.

If you use manual hammering, not only will the size vary, but it will also be easy to produce substandard products. Once the firing pin fails to fire, it will be a bad thing, which can kill people on the battlefield.

The mold is delicate, and the expansion coefficient of heat generated after long-term stamping must also be considered. Zhao Hu is also very serious when doing it. I saw him starting the lathe and measuring it again and again after it was completed. He did not stop the lathe until it was completely qualified, and he followed behind to learn.

Li Xiaopang was dumbfounded and almost called the master on the spot. Zhao Hu was not even old yet, and he was so good at playing with the lathe, just like an old worker who had been working for many years. He was still a gunsmith.

?

After Zhao Hu removed the mold, he smiled and said: "I have only been an apprentice for two years, so my hands are a bit raw."

There are still a lot of molds to be made, such as the trigger, trigger frame, spring support plate, safety mechanism, safety protrusion, aiming base and other less important parts. They are too small and not suitable for lathes, but

Manual knocking is even slower.

After it was completed, Zhao Hu also installed the mold on the punch machine, punched out several test pieces, and measured them one by one with calipers. If there were any areas that were not covered, he also used a small file knife and sandpaper to carefully polish them. These were all installed.

If one of the parts on the gun fails, the entire gun will be scrapped.

After the mold was made, a set of manual presses were made, which means pressing the primer into the cartridge case, pouring in gunpowder and then pressing the warhead. Since the primer cannot be hammered, so we can only use pressure one by one.

Press the warhead in. As for the place where the gunpowder is filled, iron objects are strictly prohibited to prevent collision and fire.

After completing these things, Zhao Hu began to study the most critical part, which was the manual production of bullets.

A small bullet needs to be divided into many steps, and there can be no error in size, making it even more troublesome to make.

Zhao Hu first made the warhead jacket mold, that is, he put a small piece of copper sheet on the punch machine, punched the tip to create the warhead shell, then poured lead into it or squeezed lead strips, and finally the pressure roller closed and polished. As for the boat-tail shaped warhead, haha

, think about it, forget it, I don’t have that ability. Even so, it’s much better than the soldiers in the past who used lead wire to knead it into a ball and press it directly into the bullet case. When the thing is fired, you don’t even know what you will hit.

place.

However, when making the shell, Zhao Hu got stuck. This thing is too difficult. After the bottom edge is pulled out, it must be ensured that the shell can be pulled out without bending, and the upper part must be closed. After finishing, the surrounding thickness must be ensured.

Quite, if any part is too thin, the chamber may explode. After working on it for a long time, either there were cracks when closing the mouth, or the thickness of the bottom edge was different, so I simply put it down first. It seems that I am not omnipotent, so I can only pick out the intact ones first.

Use the cartridge casings to reload, and we will figure out a way to do this later.
Chapter completed!