Zhao Hu is not very good at various chemical and medical knowledge. The small amount of special chemical raw materials he bought back have been seen before. These are needed to make various precision explosives, but he is not familiar with the manufacturing process, so he didn't know much about it.

Instead of taking it out, I kept it in the warehouse until I had the opportunity to find an expert in the future to take it out and give it a try.

I took two old comrades who had worked in the military industry to the warehouse to check one by one. These two people had walked all the way from the snowy mountains and grasslands. There used to be an arsenal in Duanjin, but when they arrived in northern Shaanxi, all the tools were dropped.

Everything was clear. When I saw the arsenal in operation again, I was so excited that I couldn't sleep all night. At this time, the older Lao Hou was introducing them one by one to Zhao Hu.

"Team leader Xiao Zhao, this is a Hanyang-made rifle that we have selected first. The rifling is not too badly worn, but the lead is heavily stained inside. We only need to use a broaching machine to remove the lead inside, and it can be used with a little repair.

."

"Oh, the lead is hanging, is it the warhead?"

"Isn't that true? It doesn't matter what we need along the way. The most important thing is the lack of copper. We have no choice but to melt the lead we found to make a warhead, and then load it into the bullet. As a result, the barrel of the gun was almost flattened by lead.

."

"Oh, this is easy to handle. Lead is soft. Hasn't Lao Lin ever driven a lathe? Just ask him to bring two workers to take these guns and pull them."

When Lao Lin heard this, he shook his hands: "Team leader Zhao, I don't dare. We used to use hand cranks to pull. If I get such a good lathe, if the broach breaks, I will make a mistake.

Already."

"It's okay. The lathe is just for use. Why don't you spend so much money just to put it there as a display? I'll do it a few times later and you can slowly get started. If it breaks, I'll figure out a solution!"

Then Lao Hou pointed at a pile of guns and said: "We have dismantled some of these bad guns and want to use the parts inside to assemble a few good ones, but these guns are not made by one company, even if they are made by one company, the parts inside

It’s not very versatile either, it’s either big or small, and now there’s nothing we can do about it.”

"This is easy to do. I bought a lot of measuring tools this time. You ask the gun disassembly team to dismantle the gun, put all the parts together, and then measure the same size first, and code each size together. Can

Just assemble it, and everything that cannot be assembled will be remade.”

"This, this is such a waste, isn't it? They are all good guns, they are just broken."

"Uncle Hou, these guns are just lying around. We are short of manpower. If we select them one by one, it will take years and months to repair them one by one. It would be better to recycle them all and make them into standard sizes, which would be faster."

Lao Hou continued: "These Czech and Maxim parts are quite unified, but we didn't have that much material before. I'm going to write down these parts first, and make whatever ones are missing."

"Haha, Uncle Hou, since we are going to do something this time, we will make more. We would rather make less of those old guns, and we must make the spare parts for the machine guns first. We will make more of the wearing parts at once. If they break in the future,

It's better to install it as soon as you bring it than to have to take it back and repair it again every time."

Lao Hou suddenly realized: "Yes, this method is good. When we are full-strength, we will organize the machine gunners to train for a period of time, and then distribute these wearing parts. Even on the battlefield, they can repair them at any time without delay.

fighting!"

Zhao Hu suddenly remembered something: "By the way, Uncle Hou, we have to select all the guns that fire round-nose bullets. Except for the good barrels, the others should be recycled."

"What? There are a lot of guns with round-nose bullets. They were all destroyed at once. The troops can't wait."

"There's nothing we can do if we can't wait. We won't make round-nose bullets in the future. It will be more troublesome for these guns to reach the army. In the future, there will be less and less round-nose bullets. It will be better to burn fire sticks. The government arsenal has more people and strength, so they can

But we can't change it, so we have to rebuild it. Not only these, but also all the old sleeves are collected and melted down to make unimportant parts."

The target was set a bit too big, and the gun repair team was so busy that they hit their heels on the back of their heads. Despite this, Commissar Sun and Guo Congjun also strictly controlled safety and did not allow any foul play, because he knew that as long as there was an accident, all the efforts would be in vain.

.

The earthen blast furnace was built, and the diesel engine whirred with the blower, turning the scrap guns into molten steel. The arsenal could not make steel now, but it was not difficult to melt the steel into molten steel and recast it. All that was visible was the barrel of the gun in the crucible.

After everything was melted, several men scooped out the molten steel and carefully poured it into the sand molds one by one. After cooling, the steel parts were tempered, quenched, etc. to obtain various rough blanks.

Zhao Hu became the busiest one. From time to time, people would pull him over for guidance. In the end, he had to go to the lathe himself and turn out the parts one by one.

He had been busy for half a month before he had time to start drilling holes. The seamless steel pipes he bought from the Germans were of good quality, and he planned to use them all to make machine gun barrels.

For fear of ruining it, I first drilled out the gun holes with a gun rod melted from the old barrel, and then used a broach to pull out the rifling one by one. The calibers are easy to say, they are all 79 guns, so there is no need to worry about it.

After pulling out more than a dozen strands, I found two that were scrapped. I couldn't help but smile bitterly. I was so good at this skill and was not used to this old-fashioned tool. But after pulling out more than a dozen strands, I felt confident and just stuck on one.

Start with a seamless pipe.

After the barrel of the gun was pulled, Zhao Hu first trial-produced a Czech-style gun. This thing was durable and was used in the army. He didn't want to be too fussy, so he just milled a long magazine that could hold thirty rounds of bullets.

, because someone in the government has done this before, so it’s not considered unconventional.

As soon as the light machine gun came out, I loaded 30 rounds of bullets and took it to the shooting range to try it out. When a series of rhythmic gunshots "click, click, click" came out, it quickly attracted the attention of many people.

After the gunfire stopped, Lao Hou, who went to check, picked up the target and rushed over: "Report, report to the political commissar, 100 meters, thirty rounds all hit the target, and..."

"And what?" Political Commissar Sun became excited. He hit the target every 100 meters, and he was already an experienced machine gunner.

“And they’re all within the fifth ring road!”

"What? Xiao Zhao, your marksmanship is so accurate?" This time, even Section Chief Liu who came over after hearing the sound was not convinced. You must know that the light machine gun is not a rifle, but a continuous fire. Listening to the sound just now, this guy

Two shots were fired, three were shorter, and one was longer. All of them hit the target. How could this be shot by a human?

"Haha, my hand is raw, my hand is raw."

Section Chief Liu had itchy hands, so he went up and took a shot. The target hit rate was good, 80%. He picked up the machine gun and looked at it again and again. He praised it endlessly: "What a good gun, especially this 30-round magazine.

The rate is low, I believe it will be very popular in the army, and I will try to do more."

"This, Chief Liu, is not possible for the time being. This magazine is milled, which consumes too much material, so we can only do less. We will try to stamp it more. When the stamping is qualified, how much does this magazine cost?

how many."

"Well, fine, let's put this aside for now, but the light machine guns must be produced as soon as possible. The troops are waiting for them."

After teaching Lao Lin for a few more days, until he could operate the lathe alone, Zhao Hu was freed. This time he was ready to conquer the heavy machine gun.

The Maxim is good, but it has three shortcomings, not to mention that it is too heavy. In the future, when the troops go to the north to fight, the weather will be freezing in the winter. If they encounter a place without water, the machine gunner will be killed.

In addition, its canvas bullets are easy to tangle. When the gun is fired, the gunshot vibrates. Once the canvas belt becomes knotted, it can kill the deputy.

Moreover, Zhao Hu was afraid that the machine gunner was new to the battlefield and would not be used to the Japanese grenade. The gun was too heavy. If it was too late to move, it would probably destroy the gun and kill people!

If you want to create something good, then what kind of gun is good? A 92-weight, no, that thing is even heavier. A Hitler chainsaw? Not even good. If others don’t tell you, you’re killing yourself, and even a battery of bullets isn’t enough.

For machine guns.

It seems that it still weighs six or seven. Even the tripod weighs only over fifty kilograms, which is half lighter than the Maxim. One person can lift it with the tripod.

Moreover, the ammunition supply mechanism of this gun is similar to that of the Maxim, except that it uses a bullet chain to load ammunition. The bolt and firing mechanism are similar to the Czech style. It is not difficult to manufacture. Soldiers can operate it with their hands. The tripod cannot keep up. Put down the two
Chapter completed!