"If you weren't inseparable from the rear, I would have captured you and made you a political commissar."
Brigadier Chen looked at Zhu Han with a half-smile.
"I'm not as powerful as you think."
Zhu Han just shrugged, completely ignoring Brigadier Chen's compliment.
Influenced by many film and television works, most people who have never been exposed to the military now subconsciously believe that political commissars and instructors are responsible for thoughts and life.
Just like the great housekeeper in ancient times, he did not interfere with the expansion of territory and was only responsible for accounts and personnel.
But this is actually very one-sided, although when this position was first established, its responsibility was indeed to focus on the military's thinking.
But the reality is that in a place like the military where everyone is competing for the top spot, no one will convince you if you just talk.
Want to do ideological work for soldiers?
First of all, you have to be better, braver, and tougher than them.
Secondly, if you want to do ideological work, you must first understand ideology.
Do you need to read books on various ideological propositions?
You have to be able to find the root cause of the soldiers' ideological problems, right?
Finally, if you want to boost the morale of the soldiers at the most critical moment, lead everyone to face death and turn defeat into victory.
Is it necessary to have a clear understanding of the situation between the enemy and ourselves, strategic thinking, and tactics?
Therefore, being a political commissar instructor is really not that easy. The main job is to be a civil and military person.
"You're here just in time. Zhao Sizhe and I still need your help as the referee."
"What?"
Brigadier Chen was startled.
Good guy, didn’t these two just reconcile two days ago?
Why did the conflict happen again so quickly?
"It's not as exaggerated as you think. This time it's really just a small disagreement at work."
After entering the room, Zhu Han saw Brigadier Chen's thoughts and placed three bullets on the table while explaining.
They are 9*19mm Parabellum pistol ammunition, 7.62*25mm Tokarev ammunition and .45 Colt automatic pistol ammunition.
"What is this for?"
Looking at his actions, Brigadier Chen was confused.
When Zhao Sizhe saw the two of them coming in, he quickly stepped forward to explain:
"Obviously, we had a disagreement over the choice of ammunition."
"If you want to make a gun, you must first determine the ammunition. This is the basic rule of firearm design...well, common sense in most cases."
Zhao Sizhe looked at Zhu Han and paused for a moment before reluctantly changing his words.
"Director Zhu and I agree that making submachine guns should not be as radical as making a 56-and-a-half."
"By the way, I've always wanted to ask." Brigadier Chen interrupted, "Why do you have such a strange name as Wuliuban?"
"It was taken blindly just to confuse the enemy."
Obviously this explanation is not very convincing, but it can somewhat satisfy their curiosity.
There's nothing to dig into, it's all Zhu Han's personal quirks.
You are the boss, you have the final say.
"Okay, don't interrupt. The most critical question now is how to choose these three bullets."
Zhu Han, who felt guilty, quickly changed the subject.
Then Zhao Sizhe explained the differences between these bullets to Brigadier Chen.
Initially, pistol bullets were the same as rifle bullets, and could be divided into pointed bullets and round bullets according to the shape of the bullet.
Let’s talk about rifle ammunition first.
In order to improve the lethality of early rifles, most of them used round-nose bullets.
As the form of war changes, the distance between the two sides of the war is getting farther and farther.
Pointed bullets, which were less powerful but far superior in accuracy and shooting distance, soon replaced the former.
But it's different when it comes to pistol bullets.
The positioning of pistols and submachine guns determines how long their barrels do not need to be.
Especially submachine guns, what they need is a smaller recoil, a higher rate of fire, and ferocious firepower.
So in this era before bulletproof vests have become popular, although pistol bullets are getting longer and thinner, life and death are about sticking to the bottom line of round-nose bullets.
So based on this consensus, there are only two ways to increase the lethality of pistol bullets.
Either use a high-speed flick with a warhead with a large aspect ratio, which will rapidly destabilize after entering the human body, causing it to roll and release energy, forming a large instantaneous cavity.
Either increase the caliber and improve the quality to improve the human body penetration ability and expand the permanent cavity.
The 7.62 Tokarev bullet and the .45 Colt bullet are typical representatives of the two methods.
The main difference between Zhu Han and Zhao Sizhe comes from their understanding of submachine guns.
Zhao Sizhe strongly recommends using 7.62*25mm Tokarev bullets for submachine guns, while Zhu Han prefers 9*19mm Par rounds.
By the way, the Par bullet and the Tokarev bullet are basically cousins of the same race, and they are both grandchildren of the 7.65*25mm Borchard pistol bullet.
As for the .45 Colt bullet, it is purely used to make up the numbers.
It is true that the stopping effect of this thing is really good. Even if it hits the leg without touching the bone, the leg bone can still be shattered.
But the recoil of the .45-caliber Colt round is too great.
In comparison, the ballistic drop caused by its heavy warhead can only be regarded as a minor problem. (Don’t get me wrong, this refers to the issue of warhead mass and charge, not mass and gravity acceleration.)
The only reason to put it up is that Yan Laoxi's Taiyuan Arsenal can directly produce it.
The Jin-made box guns and Jin-made Thomsons used by many soldiers in the Eighth Route Army use this kind of bullet.
Regardless of whether it would be more convenient to seize the factory directly to produce it, or distribute it to soldiers who use Jin-made box cannons.
"Wait a minute, what is cessation?" Brigadier Chen tilted his head, looking like a good student.
His current decision is directly related to the performance of weapons used by hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the future, so he must not be careless.
"It's very simple." Zhu Han has always found the most suitable way to communicate with people, "Recall the scene on the battlefield."
"Have you ever seen some soldiers who were shot and didn't feel it at all, but they still fought vigorously against the enemy?"
"I've seen it before."
"Then have you ever seen that on the way to charge, some soldiers staggered backwards when they were shot, as if someone had punched them hard?"
"I've seen it too."
"Then think about it from the other side, if you were the one who fired the gun, how would you want the enemy to react after being shot?"
"So the stop function means that the moment the enemy is hit, he will interrupt any action he makes?" Brigadier Chen suddenly realized, "That's it!"
As expected of these two experts, they are very considerate.
With the help of these two people, why worry that I can't defeat the Japanese all the way?
So Zhao Sizhe first gave his reason:
The 7.62 Tokarev bullet has a large warhead aspect ratio, light weight, high muzzle velocity, more stable ballistic performance, and higher penetrating power.
Whether it is the 7.63mm caliber European shell gun in the hands of soldiers or the 7.62mm shell gun produced by Mao Xiong, this bullet can be used directly. (This is what the early furbears did. It only costs money to use the barrel.)
Moreover, this kind of bullet itself has a steel shell model, and can be produced directly with the parameters, which will not cause a big blow to the current weak copper reserves.
The most important thing is that this kind of bullet only needs to use a single-base propellant, and the propellant currently produced by the factory can be used directly.
You heard it right, the 7.62 Tokarev ammunition uses a single-base propellant.
Even more than that, even the 7.62*54R rifle ammunition used by Mosin Nagant uses a single-base propellant.
Pistol cartridges, AK47 M43 cartridges, sniper rifles and general machine gun 54R cartridges, the entire individual ammunition system is all based on single-base propellants.
How about we say that when our country was first founded, we must adopt the furry bear model?
This is evident.
It's so easy to do!
What we have developed is still world-leading, and it stands out as a way to do big things with a small amount of money.
"What are the single chickens and double chickens you have been emphasizing?"
Brigadier Chen asked again.
"Modern firearms generally use nitrocellulose as the propellant for ammunition."
"But sometimes nitrocellulose alone is not satisfactory, so a more powerful gunpowder - nitroglycerine is added to it."
"Nitroglycerine? Isn't that dynamite?"
"Yes, it's liquid. Mix cotton-like nitrocellulose with a certain amount of nitroglycerin. The propellant produced is called a double-base propellant. The one with only nitrocellulose is called a single-base propellant."
Zhao Sizhe sighed and threw out the trump card in his opinion:
"Where do we have so much nitroglycerine at the moment? The only source is cracked coal tar."
"But how much coal tar is there? Wouldn't it be better to use more aromatic compounds to make TNT?"
"Wouldn't it be better to use the saved nitroglycerin into flaky double-base propellants to make propellants for artillery shells?"
"Why waste it on pistol bullets?"
When Brigadier Chen heard this, he couldn't sit still. He jumped up and said anxiously:
"Xiao Zhu, artillery shells are too important to us. Just for this reason, I can't agree with you being so afraid of bombs. You can't delay the production of artillery shells under any circumstances!"
Zhu Han looked at Brigadier Chen's reaction and couldn't laugh or cry.
Even for a criminal suspect with solid evidence, the court must give him a chance to defend himself, right?
Why was I sentenced to death when I didn't say anything?
A faint official, absolutely a faint official!
He had to explain quickly to prevent the future general from falling ill again.
"Can I not know that the Eighth Route Army is short of artillery? We have to let me explain my reasons, right?"
