Chapter 2544

Although Ha Jianyi still had doubts about Dai Chengrong retaining the former Ming officer, it could not affect other inspection tasks during the trip, and Dai Chengrong did not want to make any more explanations about this. So both parties accepted it with a tacit understanding.

Wang Anguo suggested that we skip this topic first and go to the arsenal in the base to check the military supplies and weapons and equipment in stock.

According to the Haihan Army's equipment standards, in addition to the basic musketry infantry, the army regiment-level troops will also be equipped with cavalry, artillery, engineers, communications corps, medical corps, cooking corps and other combat and logistics arms. The required equipment

The equipment and supplies are of various types and in large quantities, and special warehouses must be built at the base for storage and safekeeping. For example, in the base where Dai Chengrong's Second Regiment of the 7th Division is stationed, there are three large warehouses for storing supplies.

"The warehouses originally used by the Ming army were too small and in disrepair. They leaked badly when it rained and could not meet our requirements. The warehouses you two see now are all after we arrived here last year.

It is newly built and has just been put into use." Dai Chengrong led the way while introducing the situation of the warehouse to Ha and Wang.

These warehouses are all made of bluestone walls, with gray brick walls on top, and a gabled roof on top, covered with tiles. The roof is about two feet high, and the bay width is almost more than two feet, and the span

But it is more than ten feet long. Each warehouse has access passages at both ends to facilitate the transportation of materials.

Dai Chengrong ordered the soldiers guarding the warehouse to open the door, prepare relevant inventory records and lighting tools, and let them enter for inspection.

The first thing to be inspected is of course the weapons and ammunition. According to the establishment and combat requirements of the Haihan Army, the weapons stored here include not only guns and artillery, but also special weapons such as mines, grenades, and smoke grenades. Ha Jianyi first carefully checked the registration information

Confirm that it is consistent with the special code on the packaging box before unpacking for inspection.

"Commander Dai, the Second Regiment is currently mainly equipped with Type 48 rifles?" Ha Jianyi asked Dai Chengrong while checking.

Dai Chengrong responded: "In fact, individual weapons include more than Type 48 rifles. Due to various objective reasons, new weapons need to be replaced in batches. Currently, about half of the soldiers are still using Type 33 rifles. When will the update be completed?

This is not something we can decide and we have to follow the unified arrangements of the Ministry of National Defense."

Due to the black technology brought to this time and space by the time travellers, Haihan's weapon research and development work is far ahead of the level of the weapons industry at the same time. However, it is not enough to simply design new weapons. They must be mass-produced and launched on a large scale.

There is still a huge gap between equipping troops and putting them into actual combat use.

The first is the issue of industrial technology level. Although Victory Fort’s large database contains drawings and designs of various advanced weapons, it seems that all it needs to be is copied. However, the current level of industrial development in Haihan is far from keeping up with ordnance manufacturing.

The demand, whether it is materials or processing technology, is still at the primary industrial stage and is not enough to mass-produce advanced weapons with precise structures.

The second is the problem of production capacity. From the mining of metal mines to the manufacturing of specific parts, the entire production chain has been facing the problem of insufficient production capacity. For example, the copper mined from the Fushan Copper Mine in Shandong every year can be distributed to the military industry due to its wide range of uses.

The part of the department used to manufacture weapons and ammunition is extremely limited. Even if more workers are invested in the downstream, it is just a situation where a skilled woman cannot make a meal without rice.

To solve these problems, the industrial sector must start by increasing the scale of mining, which in turn involves investing in more mining machinery, recruiting more miners, increasing mine transportation capacity, improving smelting technology, and a series of other measures.

Each measure has to face a bunch of new problems, and it is difficult to achieve effective improvements in a short period of time.

The third is the most fundamental problem - funding. It will cost a lot of money to solve the first two problems, and then it will be possible to update military equipment, but this is not easy. If Haihan spends the limited capital budget on upgrading weapons

If the level of industry is reduced, the military budget for the Haihan Army can only be compressed.

Although the combat performance of new weapons has been improved, their cost, maintenance, and combat expenses will also increase accordingly. The Haihan Army currently has almost no comparable opponents in East Asia - at least among the Haihan Army

There is no area that can be covered by logistics. Moreover, the two main opponents, the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, have also surrendered one after another. The combat missions of the Haihan Army have been reduced a lot compared to previous years. This has also led to the Executive Committee's continued escalation.

The desire for weapons and equipment is not particularly strong.

On the premise that the weapons and equipment of the Haihan Army still have great technical advantages, the Executive Committee prefers to maintain the existing equipment first and gradually complete the replacement of the troops based on the actual production capacity of new weapons and the combat needs of the troops.

Of course, this process will take a long time. Haihan Ordnance Industry is still manufacturing the weapons developed in the 1930s. Even if the Second Regiment of the 7th Division commanded by Dai Chengrong is considered one of the elite troops in the East China Sea Region, it is inevitable that it is still in use.

Weapons that were finalized and produced more than 20 years ago. You must know that when the Type 33 rifle began to be installed in the Haihan Army, Ha Jianyi was only three years old.

Although the Type 48 rifle has better combat performance, due to the use of metal-cased fixed-loading ammunition, the cost of use alone is much higher than that of the Type 33 rifle. At this stage, only a few units of the Haihan Army have installed this type of 7-type rifle.

Rifles developed years ago. If Shi Diwen had not promoted the capital relocation plan and increased the importance of the Hangzhou area, the progress of Dai Chengrong's department equipping the new rifles might have been much slower than it is now.

Of course, it is actually difficult for Ha Jianyi to understand the difficulties faced by troops stationed overseas in this regard. After all, the garrison troops in Sanya are naturally well-equipped and have always been the first to install new weapons. Now for

It facilitates rapid maneuvering in Sanya city, and is even equipped with several troop transport trucks powered by diesel engines, which are benefits that overseas troops can only hope to achieve.

So when Ha Jianyi heard Dai Chengrong say that half of the troops in the Second Regiment were still using Type 3 and Type 3 rifles, his heart skipped a beat. He secretly thought that the Donghai Region had even built a Guangrong-class battleship. Logically speaking, it shouldn't be short of money.

Yes, why does Dai Chengrong's army still have so many old-fashioned weapons?

Dai Chengrong guessed it by looking at his expression, and he laughed at himself: "Mr. Ha, our Seventh Army Division can't compare with the treatment of the East China Sea Fleet, and we don't have that much military budget to use to update equipment!"

Ha Jianyi said: "It seems that Master Shi is still partial!"

Dai Chengrong shook his head and said: "I can't say that, Master Shi also has his difficulties!"
Chapter completed!