"Andrew, it's very bad of you to be like this, you're not a friend enough!"
"Zhao, what I give you is the best price."
"Fuck you! Who are you trying to fool? Do you think I don't know what the market is like now? Besides, why do I need missiles? I just want the basic type."
"Are you scolding me?"
"Where is it?"
"The first sentence you just said was scolding me. I've heard you Chinese say that before!"
"That's because you heard wrong! Let's not go off topic. I ordered twenty of them before. I don't want these ten with the '-2M' system installed. You can take them back."
In the warehouse, Zhao Xin and Andrew were arguing fiercely about the goods this time.
Since the Battle of Nagasaki, Zhao Xin has suffered from a phobia of insufficient firepower. The D30 is powerful, but there are only two doors on the ship; and it's not useful for melee combat!
So after he returned to the North Sea, he ordered twenty "ZU-23" double-barreled anti-aircraft guns from Andrew. This is good! Not only does it occupy a small space, its horizontal attack range is up to 2,500 kilometers, which is enough for attacking ships.
As for anti-aircraft, Zhao Xin doesn't consider it at all.
It is said that Da Mao produced 140,000 ZU-23 units that year, and the price was very cheap. The price quoted by Andrew was 400 grams of basic gold, which was twice as expensive as the price on the international market. This little money doesn't matter, Zhao Xin admitted.
As a result, when this guy came for delivery and acceptance, he actually brought ten ZU-23Ms equipped with the '-2M' system, which made Zhao Xin's nose crooked. Is this asking him to use SAM missiles to kill birds? !
Andrew shrugged nonchalantly and nodded in agreement.
Beihai Town in another time and space, on the east bank of the Xila River.
In addition to Zhao Liang's slightly formed metal processing factory, five miles north of the factory is the shooting training range of the Security Department.
The reason why the shooting range is placed on the east bank is that, firstly, the trees at the foot of the mountain are not so dense and it is relatively easy to clean up; secondly, it is to prevent children from coming over.
Zhao Liang currently spends half of his day leading a few refugees to purify the compensation gold from Nagasaki. Zhao Xin bought him a gold smelting furnace, which can purify more than 20 kilograms of gold in each batch. The extracted gold is cast into 100 grams and 200 grams of gold ingots through molds, which will be used to purchase supplies in the future.
At other times, Zhao Liang would lead people to reload bullets. Ever since the new recruits of the Security Department started shooting training, the consumption of bullets has become very high.
After each shooting training is completed, Liu Sheng will send someone to deliver a sack of bullet casings to Zhao Liang's "reloading workshop." Well, the current reassembly workshop is only a dozen large wooden sheds; Chen Qingsong has agreed to start building the real factory in two months.
Since various equipment for bullet reloading are very popular across the ocean, many are made of plastic and are very cheap. So Zhao Xin bought hundreds of sets at a time. For example, the ammunition dispenser is almost entirely made of plastic parts and is about the size of a cup blender.
Since the bullets provided by Andrew are all cheap and long-term stock, the appearance of the bullet cases is not that good; and the bullet cases will leave some traces of gunpowder on the surface and inside after being fired. In order to avoid the formation of rust, Zhao Liang decided to clean and polish all the cartridge cases that were recovered for the first time.
The cleaning and polishing device has a simple structure. The bottom is a fist-sized motor, and the top is a large plastic bowl with a lid; in fact, this thing is a vibrator.
Zhao Liang placed dozens of them on the table in his work shed, using them at the same time. As for the cleaning medium used in polishing, it is corn meal and polishing compound.
Since Zhao Xin knew that the so-called polishing agent was actually low-quality toothpaste, he simply wholesaled several tons of toothpaste from a domestic factory, which everyone needs to brush their teeth anyway.
The workers first poured corn meal into the vibrator bowl, which is enough to occupy about half of the bowl; then they put dozens of used 7.62×39mm bullet shells into it, and then added dozens of grams of toothpaste. Finally, turn on the power and start the vibrator.
The women who work here all wear ear protection. Because when dozens of vibrators sound together, the buzzing sound can make people’s scalp numb and their whole body uncomfortable.
Two hours later, the worker poured the mixture in the vibrator into a plastic separator and manually shook it for a while to separate the polishing medium from the cartridge case. The separated cleaning medium can also be recycled multiple times, and the processed cartridge case becomes as bright as new.
This step is not complete yet, there are other preparations that need to be made.
First, workers take the primer out of the packaging box and pour it into the primer distribution tray. Because the primer is flat and small and easily falls off, this work is done by female workers. The number of primers in a box is one hundred.
After the female workers carefully poured the primer into the plastic tray, they only needed to gently rock it back and forth a few times, and the primer would automatically adjust its position; then close the plastic lid. The worker responsible for reassembly will then install the primer distribution tray onto the mold turntable of the reassembly machine.
Next up is the ammo dispenser. First, separate the cup containing gunpowder from the base, and install a plastic module on the base. The function of this module is to set the quantity of ammunition delivered each time.
As for how much gunpowder needs to be put in the cup, this requires a special electronic balance. For example, the charge of each 7.62×39mm round is 24.7 greens. Then you can first enter the number of greens on the scale, then enter the number of bullets to load, and then pour the gunpowder for accurate weighing.
After installing the module, pour the gunpowder into the cup, and then install the ammunition dispenser on the reloader mold.
At this time, you can start reloading bullets.
Install the turntable with four reassembly molds on the press bed, put in a polished cartridge case, align it with the primer mold first, remove the used primer, and at the same time restore the expansion of the cartridge case caused by the last launch to its original state. There are dimensions; then do it again to press the new primer in.
At this time, after pushing the pull rod of the press to the bottom, the upper mold turntable will automatically rotate and enter the next step.
The ammunition distributor will input the corresponding amount of gunpowder into the cartridge case according to the size of the internal module, and slightly expand the edge of the cartridge case to facilitate the installation of the warhead in the next step.
Zhao Liang usually randomly checks the charge of the cartridge case during this step to avoid inaccurate charge due to malfunction of the ammunition distributor.
In the next step, workers will place the lead-copper-coated warhead on the mouth of the cartridge case with their hands. After calibrating the position, they press the pull rod and press the warhead in.
The last step is to press the bullet into the forming mold, shrink the edge of the shell mouth, and remove fine metal burrs.
At this point, the reloading of one bullet is completed.
All the technical work in bullet reloading is done by various additional tools. All the workers need to do is to be careful and patient.
The reloaded bullets will be sent to a shooting range five miles away for soldiers to continue using.
In the shooting range today, gunshots were fired continuously, resounding throughout the valley. This is Wu Siyu and Wang Yuanfang leading the soldiers who have received rifles to conduct shooting training.
The SKS semi-automatic rifle has a total length of 102 centimeters, and with the bayonet open it is only 124 centimeters. It was quite suitable for the refugees from the island country who were generally no more than 1.6 meters tall in this era; you must know that the length of the 38-type rifle in later generations was 127.6 centimeters, and the average height of the Japs was only a little over 1.6 meters.
Among the two thousand soldiers currently in the Security Department, the first batch of 500 has received SKS rifles.
Although among these people, several soldiers who had been to Nagasaki, including Yaichiro, had used lever rifles, Wang Yuanfang and the others still retrained these people.
Practice standard shooting movements, correct incorrect gun aiming postures, enhance soldiers' muscle memory of gun aiming postures, etc. While the soldiers were practicing holding the gun, Wang Yuanfang and several others would suddenly pull up the barrel of the gun from time to time to check the tightness of the holding gun.
Liu Sheng would stand directly behind the soldiers and fire a few shots suddenly while the soldiers were holding their guns. After Zhao Xin learned about this, he asked the idle soldiers to take several broken pots and knock them around these people from time to time. The purpose of both of them was to improve the psychological quality of these people in future battles.
Following Ding Guofeng's command, Mishi Lang and others began to receive magazines, stand at attention on the shooting target platform.
"Lying position... load bullets!"
The soldiers immediately moved their right hands to hold the guard, took a step with their left foot in the direction of their right toes, stretched out their left arms, and palms down. Lie down in the order of hands, knees, and elbows. Support the whole body with the left side of the body and left elbow. Send the gun in the direction of the target with the right hand. At the same time, hold the lower handguard with the left hand. The face of the gun is slightly to the left. The butt of the gun is on the ground. Magazine, open the safety, pull the bolt backwards to load the bullet. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, the gun body slightly in line with the right side of your body, look ahead and prepare to shoot.
Yachiro has practiced these actions countless times in the past ten days. Several instructors were not polite to them when it came to the operating regulations of firearms. Anyone who made a mistake would be kicked directly. The squad leader had to practice with them dozens of times before giving up.
Yachiro himself was kicked several times, and he had to practice more in the open space outside the dormitory at night.
"Shoot!" Ding Guofeng blew the whistle.
Bullets began to burst out of the barrel, and smoke rose from the dirt slope behind the target a hundred meters away. Wang Yuanfang, Wu Siyu, and Ding Guofeng held up binoculars to check the shooting situation.
"How about it?"
"It is ok!"
Wu Siyu suddenly said "Hey", and then shouted excitedly: "Another ten rings!"
Wang Yuanfang and Ding Guofeng came over and took a look, and it turned out to be Mi Shilang. It seems that hundreds of additional exercises have finally had an effect.
After the shooting, Yaichiro's score was 45 rings, which is not bad. He shot low on the first shot, and the next nine shots were almost the same.
Knowing his results, Yaichiro let out a sigh of relief, thinking that he had finally kept his position as platoon leader. In the first two days, Instructor Wang once said that if he made another mistake during shooting training, he would remove his platoon leader.
This frightened Mr. Mishi. You must know that the monthly salary of a platoon leader is five shi of food. For an ordinary soldier, it becomes three shi per month.
The lack of salary is secondary, but the key is the shame!
After the shooting training was completed, and after shouting the slogan and returning to the military camp, as usual, the gun was cleaned, inspected, and then put into storage for safekeeping.
According to Liu Sheng's military experience, all firearms and ammunition are the same as the firearms management regulations of the army in another time and space. Guns and ammunition are managed separately, and two people are double-locked, entering and exiting at the same time. However, there are no documents in the current army establishment, so the keys are placed in the hands of the company commander and deputy company commander.
As for the sentries standing guard on the watchtower of the camp, each one is issued a lever rifle loaded with five bullets. The main purpose is to prevent wild beasts from attacking.
Wang Yuanfang and others selected generals from among the soldiers. Sheng Haizhou, Liji, Jiuzang, Huji, Pingtai, and Pan Xiucheng are currently company commanders; while Wan Zao and Maosuke follow Chen Qing to release the excavator every day. I am so happy to forget about Shu; as for Serdan and his son, Lu Shoushan and Hengji, they are still undergoing formation training with the new recruits.
Two days later, when Zhao Xinmeizi came back with newly purchased weapons and ammunition and was having fun with Director Liu Da, Deng Fei suddenly came to him and told him bad news.
"Thor's radar has spotted a large number of ships heading northwest!"
"Huh?! Where's the distance?" Zhao Xin was surprised.
"8.05 nautical miles." If this distance is converted into kilometers, it is about 15 kilometers. The navigation radar on the Thor is installed at a height of 30 meters and can detect up to about 31 kilometers.
"So close! Gather our people and go to the cockpit for a meeting immediately!"
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