Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

After hearing what the brigade commander said, Huang He was not surprised.

If someone asks what is most important to the Eighth Route Army at this stage, it is undoubtedly bullets and grenades.

The former is the foundation of the army's combat effectiveness, and the latter is the best choice for dealing with the enemy's sudden attack tactics.

During the Anti-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army was plagued by insufficient ammunition.

The nickname "Three Guns and Eight Routes" comes from the fact that veterans in the army always emphasize that three rounds of bullets are needed to destroy an enemy, and after that, they must launch a charge.

All the old Japanese knew that fighting against the Eighth Route Army was very difficult and dangerous. Because they did not have many bullets, they were forced to use some sharpshooters.

However, no matter how much you save ammunition, the consumption of bullets is inevitable. Without purchasing channels and your own military factory, it will only be water without roots.

In the early days of the war, our troops focused on raids, ambushes and blocking operations.

In the process, destroy the enemy's transportation, cut off the enemy's supply lines, and strive to achieve maximum results with minimum consumption.

But even so, our combat discipline still requires that the troops cannot fight for too long.

There was a surprise attack on the Japanese airport, and the battle ended in just one hour. And it bombed 24 Japanese fighter jets, which became headline news in Chinese and foreign media.

Therefore, at that time, the ammunition of our troops was generally maintainable.

However, with the continuous expansion of base areas and the increase in the frequency and scale of battles, the troops' demand for weapons and ammunition has increased sharply.

Demand is expanding, but supply is becoming increasingly scarce. Faced with this situation, the troops can only put more effort into capturing them.

Combat seizures can be said to be an important source of ammunition for the Eighth Route Army, but two conditions need to be met for this.

Not only does it need to be an organized army to eat the Japanese, but it also needs to be fast.

Today's Japanese soldiers are very stubborn, and they often fight to the end and would rather die than surrender.

This caused the Japanese to consume a lot of ammunition when resisting, and once the defeat was determined, these beasts would directly destroy the supplies, which would lead to a loss of money if they were not careful.

For many units, capture does not replenish consumption, or merely equalizes it.

Especially ammunition, which is often consumed more than captured, is really hard to make ends meet.

Therefore, every shot and bullet is hard-won, and soldiers often have to pay the price with their blood and even their lives.

In addition, due to long-term funding constraints, the amount of money that can be used to purchase weapons and ammunition is very limited.

The base area was blocked and embargoed, and there was no way to buy it.

When fighting the Japanese, the most common thing the troop commanders said was to aim and hit at a close range, and never fire until the enemy was killed.

By various coincidences, the cavalry, which should have withdrawn from the stage of the times long ago, ushered in a second spring in this land.

Because of the above reasons, reloading bullets has become a top priority for various military factories in the rear.

Reloading, in layman's terms, means recycling cartridge casings.

Then clean the cartridge case again, reshape it, install the primer, load the ammunition, and load the warhead.

When it comes to black powder, we are the ancestors. A large number of people in the base area were mobilized to boil saltpeter and make gunpowder. Reloading bullets was not as simple as imagined.

There are many steps involved, starting with the collection of spent shell casings.

We all know that the troops have shooting discipline. Soldiers will recover as many shell casings as possible and take them back to the logistics department arsenal for screening and repair after the battle.

Only those cartridge cases that are not deformed or cracked can be used to avoid explosion or mismatch accidents.

But this is not a long-term solution after all.

After soldiers use reloaded bullets, their already battle-scarred weapons will be more or less prone to bursting and boring.

Zhang Wanhe hears many complaints from frontline commanders every month.

The second step is to recreate the primer.

Comrades usually cut copper sheets from broken brass cartridge cases and stamp them into copper bowls.

After adding the mercury fulminate, it is re-embedded into the bottom of the cartridge case, and then the granulated gunpowder is loaded into the cartridge case according to the specified weight.

Finally add the warhead.

The usual method is to make a mold for the bullet head, stamp a copper plate into the mold to form a jacket, and then pour molten lead into it.

Bullets reloaded through the above methods have many shortcomings, such as poor sealing performance that makes the gunpowder susceptible to moisture, a lot of shooting residue, short range, poor accuracy, low muzzle velocity, and unsatisfactory warhead shape.

And currently the arsenal can only manufacture round-nose warheads.

Sometimes the copper plate is not stamped well, causing a break and exposing the lead core.

But it could also be a blessing in disguise and become a dummy bomb in disguise.

When troops use this kind of bullet, they generally will not shoot at enemies 100 meters away. No one knows where the bullet will fly beyond this distance, and there is a high probability that it will have no lethality.

And even this kind of bullet, which is not even considered a defective product in the eyes of the Japanese, can be regarded as a huge achievement of the Logistics Department's arsenal based on the industrial level of the base area at that time.

The troops relied on reloading bullets, which greatly alleviated the difficulty of ammunition shortage. This can be regarded as the last glory of black powder in the world.

After sorting out his thoughts, Huang He looked at the three of them and said

"As for bullets, although I personally despise reloading bullets, we won't be able to get rid of them in a short time."

"In addition to the lack of materials in the current base area, another problem is that the caliber of bullets is not uniform."

"We have too many types of weapons. The caliber of the bullets used by the Type 38 rifle and the Type 92 heavy machine gun is 7.7×58mm. The bullets used by the Hanyang and Czech light machine guns are 7."

"Plus a variety of international brand weapons. If we have to build a new bullet factory, the pressure on logistics will be too great. Lao Zhang and I will definitely die suddenly."

Huang He looked at the brigade commander's expectant eyes and told him about his recent arrangements.

It is necessary to unify the caliber of bullets, but it can only be done step by step.

This is not only to reduce the pressure on logistics, but also to increase the survival rate on the battlefield.

Many of our soldiers are now using weapons captured from the devils, and the sounds of different guns are also different.

If it is a stalemate in the dark night, most comrades can't see anything and can only rely on the sound to judge whether the devils have come up.

When the gunshots around them are all Hanyang, then the soldiers will feel more secure.

But if they are all the sounds of the Type 38 rifle, normal people will instinctively feel scared and will be confused.

Therefore, in order to increase the survival rate of new recruits and make them more heroic in combat, their own weapons production line will be established sooner or later.

Huang He selected five researchers in ammunition engineering and explosion technology for the quota provided in the first month of the decision to "establish the Academy of Sciences".

Although he himself is good at chemistry, professional matters should be left to professionals.

These researchers are proficient in ammunition system analysis and design, explosion physics, ballistics, terminal effects, dynamic detection technology, impact dynamics, explosion technology, safety engineering, etc.

Moreover, they have strong hands-on ability and can make bullets by hand even under limited conditions.

These people are good at teaching and can teach students in accordance with their aptitude and pass on their skills to comrades in the base.

"I have arranged a lot of things in this month, and I have specially obtained a batch of copper."

"And I can also improve the lethality of bullets, whether they are newly produced or reloaded."

Hearing that the lethality of bullets can be improved, Li Yunlong, who was originally like a good baby, suddenly became energetic and hurriedly asked Huang He what to do.

"You two should know what the biggest difference between our bullets and the devil's bullets is."

Facing this question, the brigade commander and Zhang Wanhe nodded.

"We use black powder due to technical problems, but smokeless powder is indispensable for modern weapons."

"Black powder has limited power. Bullets made with black powder can indeed kill the enemy, but the effect is far worse."

"The first batch of smokeless powder in the world was made by the French. I studied it when I was in school and knew that it would be useful one day."

"For the past month, I have been thinking about how to produce smokeless powder under limited conditions. Recently, I have reached a general conclusion."

"You are not specialized in chemical engineering, so I will not explain the specific steps to you."

Huang He's words made Li Yunlong confused. As a rough man, he has seen black powder, but he doesn't know what smokeless powder is.

But since the brigade commander was right beside him, he couldn't make a fool of himself, so he could only patiently ask:

"Director Huang, when can we use the smokeless gunpowder you mentioned?"

"The method I just mentioned is a traditional method of refining, the finished product delivery rate is not high, and there will be certain risks."

"But this step is a step we must take. In the next few days, I will find a suitable person to pass on the method. If it's fast, by the end of this year, or at the latest at the beginning of next year, our bullets will have obvious changes."

Huang He touched his chin and thought, he didn't know how to phrase the next words.

Seeing that he was obviously worried, the brigade commander took the initiative to ask: "If you have any questions, just tell me, I will try my best to help you deal with it."

"My ability is limited after all. I hope to set up a school in the rear. I want to teach everything I know to talented people."

"And my friends will return to China one after another. They also want to contribute to the anti-Japanese cause. Victory is based on the production of weapons."

When Huang He said this, he was paving the way for the researchers who would continue to come to the base.

It is also for a better tomorrow from the bottom of my heart.

Although the conditions were poor at that time, it was not really hard.

Although the military factory had few equipments, it was not without them.

A small amount of these equipments were purchased, but they were mainly borrowed and seized.

How could there be only screwdrivers, stoves, and a few sledgehammers?

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