In a manor on an island in Nanyang.
Li Zhen, who stayed behind to monitor the situation, responded to Gao Jianwu's call signal, excitedly translated the message in his hand, and ran out of the basement happily.
"Lao Wang, Lao Song, there is a message from home."
Wang Shaopu and Song Qingyuan were discussing something in the living room, and they became energetic when they heard Li Zhen's shout.
"What did your family say?" Wang Shaopu asked.
"There has been no specific communication yet. Currently we are only sending calls to the Eagle's Nest." Li Zhen was stunned for a moment, but continued happily, "That's not important. What's important is that we have a high-power radio station at home. I don't know how we got it. You know it’s not easy to do in China.”
"Thanks to the help of President Chen and others, we managed to get one from Dai Ying. The commander and the others don't have such conditions, so they managed to get it done unexpectedly. After all, we, the commander, are the best."
Since they were communicating with ordinary codebooks and frequency bands, this was the first time they communicated. Li Zhen believed that the information received would not be counterfeit.
"Okay, let's briefly report the situation to my family first. If the family needs it, we will use a special password to make a detailed report and request family instructions." Wang Shaopu said, "We have raised 100 tons of rubber, 50 tons of sulfur, and 3 tons of nitric acid. I don’t know if my family has the conditions to receive goods from Tianjin.”
The three of them arrived in Nanyang and worked hard to connect with people from the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce. After some verification, they gained trust. The current funds raised are about 100,000 yuan, and several urgently needed raw materials.
Most of the supplies were collected after the news of the victory in the Battle of Pinangrad. Now the news of Heyuan and the Grand Brigadier's siege has just been spread. After traveling through the country and then to Nanyang, I am afraid it will take some time before it can be widely advertised. Of.
Don't talk about others, Wang Shaopu and the others don't know the latest news yet, otherwise they would have launched a new round of fundraising based on new results.
"Okay, I will briefly report the situation first." After Li Zhen reported the news, he returned to the basement and continued to monitor. He also wrote a brief summary of the situation, translated it into cipher text, and waited for the next call.
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During the teaching and practical training, Chen Xugao and the others did not expect that the people from Dagushan had already begun to go deep into Nanyang to carry out work. They thought it was a simple testing point.
However, the 50 telegraph operators selected by Gao Jianwu for the secret front finally mastered the skills of sending and receiving reports independently after several days of training. They brought the radio station back to the telegraph room in Heyuan and officially became members of the Dagushan Communications Corps. A member of the team began to take on the task of communicating between Dagushan and the outside world.
Soon the radio station changed from one to two, then three, and three different departments were established. Among them, Telecommunications One was responsible for overseas contacts, Telecommunications Two was responsible for direct contact with the Independent Regiment and the 386 Brigade, and Telecommunications Three was responsible for the same. Contact between headquarters and outlying areas.
At the level of the detachment, this is the only treatment Dagushan has. On the one hand, it has this condition, and on the other hand, from the headquarters to the border area, the elders are still concerned about the progress of Dagushan's 101 factory.
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"Commander Gao, the Type 43 assault rifle was successful!" One day, Gao Jianwu was handling things in the office, and Song Tiecheng happily ran in with an AK47 high-imitation version of the rifle.
"I tried it and it was really powerful."
So fast? Gao Jianwu was stunned for a moment, then stood up and took Song Tiecheng's Type 43 rifle. Since it was the first version, Wang Houpu did not modify the process design at all, and it was almost the original version of the AK47.
It has a 30-round magazine, and the aiming device adopts a classic mechanical sight. The sighting scale is divided into 100-800 meters, and one division is 100 meters. The combat sight is set at 300 meters. Everything is familiar to Gao Jianwu.
"Let's go, bring some bullets and try it." Gao Jianwu immediately put aside his work and began to disassemble the parts of the firearm familiarly, and then reassemble it with such skill that Song Tiecheng was a little doubtful of life!
"Gao, Gao, Commander Gao, why are you so familiar with this new gun?" Song Tiecheng stammered.
"Isn't that strange? Wang Houpu and I originally designed this gun." Gao Jianwu said with a smile, "You have forgotten that I studied military affairs in a foreign school."
It was a small show off. Although it was in front of Song Tiecheng, the pleasure was much reduced, but it was still a small show off.
Take it to the wild and shoot a wave of fire first. The recoil is indeed a bit exciting, but it is smooth and smooth. It is much easier to control than a machine gun. Compared with a submachine gun, its lethality and range are much stronger.
It can be said that in frontier battles, the Type 43 is more suitable for the current eight-way close-quarters charge combat method than machine guns and submachine guns.
The only drawback may be that the bullets are a bit useless!
For most of the current Eighth Route Army regiments, their ammunition supply basically relies on seizures, and they don't have Gao Jianwu's influence, so let alone submachine guns and assault rifles, even machine gun bullets cannot be supplied.
As the Eighth Route Army occupies a small territory, especially without the support of heavy industrial cities, Gao Jianwu's assault rifle obviously cannot be popularized yet.
But Dagushan, the Independent Regiment, and even the 386th Brigade, whose base areas are basically connected together, have this condition.
Gao Jianwu thought as he beat the 100-meter target to a pulp, and then asked Song Tiecheng and the others to set the target at 300 meters away, and use long and short bursts to empty the magazine in one go. Song Tiecheng and the others took the target and all 30 rounds hit the target!
"You commandos should train according to this standard first. You must hit more than 45 rings in 100 meters, and hit the target in all 300 meters!"
"In three months at most, all the commandos will be equipped with Type 43 assault rifles and become the first assault rifle company in the army!"
Gao Jianwu said a word and asked Song Tiecheng to stay where he was before walking away.
There hasn't been much fighting recently. Song Tiecheng's commando team can't find their target and feels a little drifting. Gao Jianwu's request can at least keep them honest for a while.
But Song Tiecheng couldn't take it any longer. He took aim with a single shot from the 38-gauge cover. The team members were only able to hit the target at 300 meters, but the recoil of this Type 43 was obviously much greater than that of the 38-gauge cover. Gao Jianwu just hit the target with long and short bursts. , Song Tiecheng considered himself a good shooter, but if he wanted to reach Gao Jianwu's level, he was not sure he could do it in a short time.
But how did Gao Jianwu do it? It was obviously his first time touching this gun!
Song Tiecheng, who didn't understand that cheating couldn't be explained at all, was a little confused.
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The Type 43 was quickly designated for mass production by Gao Jianwu. Before Wang Houpu could take a breath, the flak38 machine gun was thrust into him again. He also wanted to take a breath before talking about it, but after reading the flak38 design and crafts drawings, Wang Houpu finished chewing a few more steamed buns with Wu Chao. Squatting in the workshop and unable to get out.
This is because the donkeys in the production team were not used in this way, but Gao Jianwu just threw out a bunch of information without saying a word, and Wang Houpu lived a life without distinction between day and night.
Since the first batch of 100 Type 43s used captured high-quality steel, the test life of the barrels exceeded the 10,000-round level.
However, in order to save materials for machine guns and mortars, the second batch of Type 43 began to use steel re-melted from captured rails. The life of the barrel dropped sharply, to about 5,000 rounds. If compared with the original version, this is obviously a bit long. Across.
But at this point in this era, Gao Jianwu could only give in and accept it. According to 200 rounds per battle, it seems that it is not unacceptable to fight 25 times to replace a batch of guns and rebuild them.
Electroslag remelting is still under intense construction, and new gun steel has not yet been obtained. The materials seized from the Japs will be used less. Guns and cannons are urgently needed in this era, especially 60mm mortars and 82mm For mortars, the headquarters directly issued an order for 300 mortars.
This kind of big killer can be picked up and run away. For other brother troops who are still dealing with the little devils, whether a regiment has a few 82mm mortars or not is a different matter in terms of combat effectiveness.
When the independent regiment returned to attack the Yamazaki Brigade, if the several regiments surrounding the Yamazaki Brigade had a combined total of about twenty 82mm mortars to bombard them at any cost, Li Yunlong would still have to waste time, effort and manpower to dig tunnels and use 3,000 rounds of grenades to blast them. Land?
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