"So much money!"
Tominaga Kyouji's eyes were red.
He had never seen so much money except in the budget.
When he thought that all the money could fall into his own pocket, Tominaga Kyouji felt like his heart was shaking and he couldn't calm down.
"With so much money, we must get it!"
Tominaga Kyouji has been dazzled by the huge amount of money.
He immediately handed over the plan proposed by Wei Wu to Private Tojo.
"Prime Minister Tojo, I found a plan that will be very helpful to the empire. Please take a look."
Tominaga Kyouji handed over Wei Wu's plan to Tojo.
"Um?!"
After Tojo saw the report, he frowned at first.
But when he saw the amount of steel saved, he showed hesitation.
He has been having a headache recently about steel.
At this time, the Communist Army had captured North China, nearly one million North China Expeditionary Forces were destroyed, and the top commander Toru Touuchi committed suicide.
It seemed that someone took the blame, but all the territory gained was lost.
After all, millions of square kilometers of land were lost.
Nearly a million troops were lost.
There will definitely be a lot of publicity on the Allied side.
He couldn't keep the news secret forever.
In order to save the situation, counterattacking the Central Plains became the top priority.
Counterattacking the Central Plains requires a large number of troops and weapons.
The military strength is simple, and Japan's labor cost is extremely low.
All it takes is a postcard to recruit people.
But weapons cannot be conjured out of thin air.
These weapons need to be rebuilt.
However, the United States has strangled the supply of steel and oil.
Southeast Asia has just finished its operations and has not yet had time to resume production in various mines.
There is a huge gap in the steel needed to build weapons.
This made his hair turn gray from worry.
He racked his brains and couldn't find a way to fill this huge gap.
Seeing Wei Wu's plan, Tojo felt like he saw hope.
Although sawing existing weapons shorter and redesigning small-caliber weapons will inevitably lead to a decrease in shooting range, shooting accuracy, lethality and other indicators.
But it can actually fill the gap in steel.
As long as the barrels of all the guns in the army are shortened, a million-strong army can be rearmed immediately.
As for the drop in performance metrics?
I can't control that much now.
We can only suffer a little more for those red deer, so that they can shoot more accurately.
Why two bullets when you can kill an enemy with one bullet?
What a waste.
"Very good, this guy Dongye is simply a genius, I agree with this plan."
Tojo stood up and said.
"Let Higashikata be fully responsible for the research, development and manufacturing of new weapons, first arm the newly formed army, and then gradually replace the existing army's equipment. It's time for the army to carry out a new reform."
"As you command!"
Tominaga Kyouji burst into laughter.
He knew it was done.
Moreover, it was more successful than previously expected.
Not only has the original scale of 1 million been maintained, but it has even been promised that as long as production is completed, other units can also participate in the subsequent replacement of equipment.
This is an extraordinary mission accomplished.
"Is it possible to raise the price appropriately?"
Tominaga Kyouji was thinking about how to get more benefits.
Soon, soldiers in Southeast Asia received an order.
That is, in order to adapt to the local climate, all soldiers must shorten the barrel of their gun by 200 mm.
The severed gun barrels must be collected by the commander-in-chief of the army and sent to the Korean Peninsula without any mistakes.
Along with this command, there is another command.
That is to cancel all submachine guns.
All personnel who use submachine guns will be converted into riflemen on the spot.
Tojo believes that since we want to cut expenses, we must cut them to the end in one step.
Weapons such as submachine guns that waste bullets are too luxurious for Japan.
It's better to abolish it.
As for trench warfare and so on, didn’t the Japanese soldiers still have their rifles and bayonets, it was nothing.
After receiving the order, many soldiers couldn't figure out why they were asked to cut the barrels short.
But in Japan, after the superior gives an order, the following must execute it unconditionally.
Although they were confused, they still obeyed the order, found a hacksaw, and cut the gun barrel short piece by piece.
These sawed-off gun barrels were uniformly sent to the Korean Peninsula.
Then, it was transported to Wei Wu in a special car.
At this time, Wei Wu had changed his station.
He has completely taken over the arsenal of the Korean Peninsula.
This is the base for Japan's attack on the mainland.
Therefore, Japan also built a series of various factories here.
Weapons manufacturing and repair shops are naturally among them.
Wei Wu took over the place and began the research and development of new weapons.
In fact, it cannot be regarded as research and development.
Instead, it will be improved based on existing weapons.
After the Type 38 rifle was finalized, a rifle called the Type 44 carbine was developed to facilitate the use of cavalry.
In order to facilitate use on horseback, this rifle has a very short barrel, only 460 mm.
Less than half of the Type 38 rifle.
Wei Wu was very satisfied with this gun and immediately modified it.
First, the amount of steel used in the firearm is reduced.
Except for the barrel, firing pin and other necessary structures, the remaining parts are replaced with wooden materials as much as possible.
At the same time, the amount of steel used and the craftsmanship were also reduced.
For example, the strength and wear resistance of the barrel have been greatly reduced.
The failure rate has greatly increased.
The caliber was reduced to 6 mm.
The bayonet was also lowered to 20 centimeters by Wei Wu.
The main one is small and very cute.
Of course, with this gun with a total length of less than 700 mm, Wei Wu knew that he would not be able to deliver to the base camp.
At least it's impossible to perform an effective bayonet fight with this rifle.
Wei Wu also had a solution to this.
Wei Wu had someone specially make a foldable gun handle at the butt of the gun.
This gun handle can usually be folded up and is the same length as the gun.
When needed, the gun handle can be unfolded and locked with a buckle.
In this way, the entire gun stretches into a 1.4-meter rifle that can fight with a bayonet.
It can be considered to be almost the same length as the original Sanba Daigai.
As for the main use of inferior steel and wood, resulting in reduced strength.
The gun handle is inconvenient to fold and use.
When the gun handle is folded, it affects shooting.
Small problems such as the easy breakage of the buckle can be ignored.
After all, this is the price of savings.
Overcoming is over.
Wei Wu handed the samples to the base camp.
Along with the samples, 200,000 yuan in cash was delivered.
After some careful consideration, this gun riddled with defects was accepted by the Japanese Army.
Became the new standard weapon.
Used to allocate new troops.
After the new troops are fully distributed, the weapons of the original troops will be gradually replaced.
Finally completed the replacement of the whole army.
After the gun is finalized, the last stage is naming it.
Naturally, Wei Wu would not name according to the traditional naming method.
He knew that this kind of gun would definitely cause big trouble. In order to divert the trouble elsewhere, Wei Wu played a trick and named the new rifle Tojo rifle.
