In order not to affect the production of the factory, the visit of the commanders and soldiers ended in a hurry in just one morning.
At the celebration banquet in the evening, everyone was extremely excited.
The look in the eyes of the commanders and soldiers when they looked at Zhu Han changed.
I heard before that Brigadier Chen was a high-level intellectual whom he admired very much, and he had solved many headaches for the Eighth Route Army little by little in the past few years.
I was happy, but I didn't take it too seriously.
After all, there are many people with ideals and abilities here on the Eighth Road, and Zhu Han is one of the more outstanding ones.
I never thought that I had been holding back such a big thing for three years.
I heard that she lost 20 pounds in just these four months, which made everyone present feel heartbroken.
Zhu Han tried his best to put braised pork and fried bacon into his bowl, especially the fat ones. The piles in the bowl were as high as a hill.
"Director Zhu, everyone says that you have made great contributions, but in my opinion, this is not as simple as great contributions. You are simply the great savior of our Eighth Route Army. I give you a bowl!"
A political commissar picked up the wine bowl and said.
Even though he and Zhu Han were similar in age, both in their mid-twenties, in his eyes, Zhu Han was no longer at a level that he could match.
"How boring are you to drink to a brain worker who has a heavy responsibility and is a teetotaler?"
Brigadier Chen quickly helped Zhu Han to block him.
"That's right, I don't drink well. I usually don't drink. If I get drunk tonight, I will miss a lot of work tomorrow."
"Hahaha, I was rude, I will punish myself with this bowl of wine."
"Yes, self-punishment!"
"Then you should eat more. Although our Eighth Route Army is poor now, in a few days we will ensure that you have canned food for every meal!"
"Yes, yes, when you get tired of eating canned Japanese food, we can replace it with meat buns, braised pig's trotters, and so on. I guarantee that you won't bring the same thing three times a day!"
"Hahaha!"
Others followed suit.
And Zhu Han just smiled:
"It's better to leave the delicious food to the workers. Their physical labor is very hard. As a mental worker, I will easily get sleepy and delay my work if I eat too much."
Now not only the commanders and soldiers, but also the two bosses Liu and Deng were anxious and quickly advised Zhu Han.
"The workers eat, and you have to eat too. No matter how poor our Eighth Route Army is, we will still give you the two taels of meat!"
"Taizu said that the war against the Japanese cannot be rushed. If you tire yourself out before victory, it will be more losses than gains."
Zhu Han: "It can't be done unless we are busy. The current output of the factory is too low. In my opinion, we need to expand it at least four times."
"Expand four times more? Do we need such a large output?"
More than 10,000 rifles and more than one million rounds of ammunition a month, how little is this?
If it is expanded four times, it means more than 60,000 pills a month, nearly 7 million shots.
Now there are not that many regular troops in the three divisions of the Eighth Route Army combined, right?
"Although the current Eighth Route Army's three divisions add up to only 36,000 people, what if we add independent regiments, independent columns, local troops and guerrillas?"
"Shandong District, Jinsui, Jijin, Jicha, Jinan, Jizhong, Jireliao, Taihang, Jilu border, northwestern Shandong, Jiaodong, Qinghe, Taixi, Huxi, central Shandong, southern Shandong, Binhai plus Shaanxi How many people are there in the Ganning Military Region?"
"In addition, how many people are there in the Central Jiangsu, Northern Jiangsu, Huaibei, Huainan, Anhuijiang, Hubei-Henan-Anhui and Jiangsu-Zhejiang Military Regions of the New Fourth Army?"
Everyone present was shocked and speechless.
Comrade Zhu Han wants to carry the entire Red Party's armaments with just his head and two shoulders.
How much courage and courage do you have to take the initiative to take on such a heavy burden?
Zhu Han's expression didn't change at all, as if he was saying something trivial:
"Moreover, producing rifles only meets the most basic requirements of infantry."
"I just discussed it with Sizhe in the afternoon. The next step in the development of the factory is very important and critical."
"Can you tell us what the factory will do next so that we can be happy in advance?"
As soon as this was mentioned, the interest of the soldiers in the long command was raised again, and they were all looking forward to it.
"We all agreed that the next step is to build submachine guns."
"Getting a portable machine gun?"
Everyone, look at me, and I'll look at you.
There was no feeling of excitement just now, but a look of confusion.
Including the two bosses.
"Xiao Zhu, Xiao Zhao, you know the current situation of the Eighth Route Army. Although portable machine guns are good, they are not as reliable as machine guns at all."
"Yeah, we don't even have 3 light machine guns per regiment now, and there are only a few heavy machine guns in the entire division."
"Instead of acquiring two portable machine guns with a short range, it is better to acquire a light machine gun to improve combat effectiveness."
No wonder the commanders and fighters despised submachine guns.
From its birth to the early days of World War II, although this thing made a stunning debut, it has always been in the exploratory stage.
Before Hans's MP38 shined, submachine guns without a clear positioning were always disliked by the grandma and uncle in the armies of various countries.
The reason is very simple, that is, as individual soldier equipment, this thing is too expensive.
For example, the weapon that soldiers on the Eighth Route Army have the most contact with is the MP18 submachine gun and its related models.
The domestic flower mechanism from Jinling Manufacturing Bureau is priced at NT$400, about US$160.
At the same time, a Czech model only cost $290.
Like many warlords before, they organized a charge company with one manpower and one machine.
They look quite elite, but in reality their combat effectiveness is just that.
But if they were all replaced with machine guns, that would be more than 50 Czech guns.
It can improve a group's combat effectiveness by a whole level.
So this thing always gives people the feeling of a flashy big toy.
Naturally, the flashy here refers to low cost performance, not bad quality.
When they were flying to seize the Luding Bridge, the warriors each had a flower trap in their hands and made great contributions.
It is impossible for the two gunmen not to know about this kind of thing. Naturally, they have their own reasons.
So Zhao Sizhe opened his mouth and explained:
"A week ago, in Europe, Santoku defeated Gaul and John until they lost their armor, and even staged a great escape at Dunkirk."
"I know this, what next?"
"They lost a lot of weapons when they retreated, so they had to urgently buy a submachine gun."
"The characteristics of this submachine gun are that it is cheap and easy to make."
"As long as we follow its ideas, it will be easy to make a submachine gun of our own."
The commanders and soldiers present sighed.
Xiao Zhao, didn’t you always think Zhu Han was radical before?
Why has it become like this now?
Does this count as being close to the vermillion and red?
One of the group leaders couldn't help but say:
"That's a portable machine gun. How much cheaper can it be?"
"What? 11 dollars? You see one bottle costs 11 dollars..."
"Oh, one 38-meter cap can be exchanged for 5 pieces. Do you think it can be exchanged for...how many????!"
Enlightenment, Master, I have enlightenment again.
What Pythagoras, Leibniz, Fibonacci.
Descartes, Euclid, Euler, Gauss.
This is Zhu Han's domain.
If it's a dragon, you have to wrap it up for me; if it's a tiger, you have to lie down for me.
It's not your business here.
Our Zhu's magical arithmetic can extract wool from subspace!
It seems weird, but it's true.
During the Anti-Japanese War, the cost of a Type 38 was 90 yen, which was indeed 50 US dollars according to the exchange rate.
The Sten submachine gun can even be reduced to 9 dollars in the later period.
It can only be said that the Sten submachine gun has done an amazing job in this regard.
Zhu Han followed Zhao Sizhe and continued:
"The light machine gun with the simplest structure that we currently know is the Mao Xiong's rotary machine gun (DP-28, also known as the Big Pan Chicken)."
"But even so, it still requires 65 parts, and there are a lot of cutting parts."
"According to the drawings we obtained, the Sten submachine gun has a total of 47 parts including pins. If the pins are removed, there will be less than 30 parts left."
"It still looks like a lot, but don't forget, it is based on the free-action bolt principle. This means that except for the barrel, bolt, and spring, most other parts can be directly stamped out."
Zhu Han paused and continued.
"To explain briefly, our current medium-sized punching machine efficiency is 20 times per minute."
"A stamping machine can process 13,200 parts in 12 hours of operation."
"At the very least, one stamping machine can process 300 submachine gun parts a day."
"For us, one cold forging machine is not enough. We need to build more. You also know its efficiency."
"We only need a cold forging machine and a matching precision casting production line, and we can produce submachine guns without affecting the production of rifles at all."
Zhao Sihan continued to explain their thoughts.
"Furthermore, the barrel of a submachine gun is very short. It would be too wasteful to use a cold forging machine to produce it at full capacity. We can also use the excess production capacity to produce Czech-style, Chinese-style and even old-style barrels."
"Cooperating with the spring production line that is not yet in full production, these two parts that cannot be produced by other repair companies will be provided to the troops."
"As long as the Czech machine gun is in good condition, it can be repaired into a brand new machine gun at other repair shops."
"Replacing the troops with 50% to 60% equipment can also save a lot of Mauser ammunition, which is equivalent to increasing the number of machine guns and rifles in the army in disguise. It can be said that you get more for one job."
Hearing Zhao Sizhe's words, the eyes of the commanders and soldiers became brighter and brighter.
If the damaged Czech rifles in their hands can be repaired and coupled with a semi-automatic rifle that can fire 10 rounds of bullets, the lack of suppressive firepower can definitely be greatly alleviated.
In contrast, weapons such as submachine guns that can splash water at close range can indeed supplement the firepower gap to a large extent.
When the time comes, the Japanese will dare to use the method of charging with meat bombs again...
"And that's just talking about the firearm itself."
Before everyone could finish thinking, Zhu Han said something unexpectedly.
