The brothers opened the boxes and counted all of Biao's belongings. Not to mention Lao Jintou and others were shocked by this count, even Song Biao did not expect it to be so powerful.
The Russians really suffered a loss this time. They hired the Hunjiang horse gang to transport a total of four Maxim machine guns to Shenyang, six boxes of ammunition with canvas chains, each box containing 4,000 rounds, and 400 Winchester M1897 shotguns. , 40,000 rounds of 16-gauge ammunition, and 300 German wooden handle grenades.
The silver coins that Lao Jintou mentioned are indeed there. They are packed in four small sacks in a very messy manner. The number is exactly as Lao Jintou had estimated before, about 40,000. There are Mexican silver coins, Russian silver coins, and even Japanese silver coins. A large new one-yuan silver coin issued 20 years before the Meiji era. There was also a sack containing banknote rubles and gold coin rubles, about 200,000 rubles. The amount of the notes was in a mess, and it was obviously an emergency collection.
This batch of supplies includes bandages, styptic powder and other military medical supplies, as well as injection morphine, all of which are imported from the United States.
Song Biao was quite surprised. He had known for a long time that there were Maxim machine guns in this batch of goods. They were basically the main materials shipped by Tsarist Russia to Shenyang this time. The rest were just temporary supplements. Compared with The 300,000 Russian troops stationed around Shenyang, 200,000 rubles and more than 40,000 silver dollars are of almost no use, and their monthly salary expenses are at least several million rubles.
This money should be temporary supplementary emergency funds for certain units, such as buying off surrounding bandits. The medical supplies from the United States illustrate another thing, that is, the transportation capacity of the Far East Railway is indeed very problematic, so that Tsarist Russia must rely on foreign merchant ships in the Vladivostok area to provide part of its supplies.
What really surprised Song Biao was that Tsarist Russia actually purchased the Winchester M1897 shotgun. He really didn't expect it, because Russian officers and soldiers can purchase additional non-standard weapons on their own. It is indeed possible that some non-commissioned officers want to buy Winchester shotguns. Chester, the role of this shotgun in trenches is very obvious, especially against enemy bayonet charges. It is very effective and extremely cheap.
Except for the four Maxim machine guns, which were a bit of a loss to Tsarist Russia, the rest were simply a drop in the bucket in the face of the huge military supplies of the Tsarist Russian Empire. It is really not worth mentioning. You must know that during the entire Russo-Japanese War, the military expenditures of both countries were based on Calculated in billions of U.S. dollars, Japan fought a disastrous victory and spent twenty years repaying its debts. Russia mainly solved the problem through domestic taxation, which has since led to rapid instability in the country. .
After counting his family assets, Song Biao told Zhao Tingzhu and Lao Jintou to take out 4,000 silver yuan and distribute them first. Each person would use this money to pay for their settlement, with an average of 100 silver yuan per person. Such a windfall. It’s more than everyone’s annual income, which naturally makes every brother extremely excited.
While everyone was happily sharing the money, Song Biao had to think about more problems.
In the end, the Russians were not able to equip shotguns on a large scale, at least not in some key areas. Otherwise, there would not have been the Japanese army's so-called largest bayonet offensive in the world, the close range of the Winchester M1897 pump-action shotgun. The ranged firepower was more powerful than the submachine guns during World War I. As long as two thousand of them were deployed on a three-kilometer-long position, the Japanese bayonet offensive was tantamount to a suicide offensive.
It is a pity that the comrades in Tsarist Russia did not implement this idea to the end.
Song Biao asked everyone to elect three captains: Zhao Tingzhu, Yang Tiesheng, and Zhang Yahu. He then personally led the team, equipped everyone with a new Japanese Thirty Rifle, and retaught everyone the basic techniques and specifications for using the rifle. After comparing the two
After learning about the differences in firearms, we arranged for everyone to use the Type 30 rifle for shooting training to save ammunition for the Mosin Nagant rifle.
Song Biao must have never operated a Thirty Rifle before, and he was a little curious. He took the lead and took a Thirty Rifle. After adjusting the sight, he kneeled down and shot a wooden pier and a steel object at a distance of fifty meters.
lunch box.
The Thirty Rifle, known as the Golden Hook Rifle, is the predecessor of the 38 Rifle. As a rotating pull-back front-end locking rifle, its design is the latest, the bolt design is also the simplest, and it is the most convenient to operate.
After the modification to the 38 large cover rifle, in addition to adding a dust cover, the bolt design was further optimized on the original basis, that is, the hook design was abandoned.
Purely from the perspective of bolt design, the Thirty Rifle and the subsequent 38 Rifle are very good. Because of the reduced bullet caliber, its recoil is smaller than that of the Mosin-Nagant Rifle.
This can be clearly felt with just one shot.
However, both the Thirty Rifle and the 38 Rifle adopt a straight-pull bolt design, which is considered a failure. The overall operation is a bit clumsy, and the large rear pull is a common problem of front-end locking rifles.
These two problems are also the same on the Mosin-Nagant rifle at this time.
Song Biao fired two shots and hit the target very accurately. The difference from the Mosin-Nagant rifle was that the warhead was more permeable and directly penetrated the lunch box, causing significantly less destructive stress on the lunch box.
After getting addicted, Song Biao stood up and handed over the external camera to others. Just like yesterday, everyone aimed and shot in front of him. He also adjusted everyone's shooting movements one by one and taught them how to use the sight and ruler.
More precise aiming.
After everyone finished shooting five rounds, this morning's training was temporarily over. Everyone went out in teams to do something. First, they had to find a way to block most of the hole. The cold wind last night made everyone shiver.
Zhang Yahu and Yang Tiesheng both led the team to shovel the snow and collect trees and stones to build the snow gate. Others followed Lao Jintou and continued to repack the inventoried goods.
Taking this opportunity, Zhao Tingzhu and Li Ergou asked Song Biao for advice with thirty rifles. After the brothers chatted for a while, Zhao Tingzhu asked Song Biao: "Master Biao, do you think it's better to be quick or easy?"
Is the little Japanese golden hook good?"
This question is quite interesting.
Song Biao did not answer immediately, but asked Zhao Tingzhu: "What do you think?"
Zhao Tingzhu had been exposed to rifles before, but had not practiced them often. He immediately said: "I think the Japanese Golden Hook is better. The sound of the shot is smaller and the recoil is smaller. It's pretty good."
Song Biao noticed that Zhao Tingzhu had the idea of proposing a suggestion and said: "Small caliber, high accuracy, this is a good design logic in itself. The problem is that the power of the Golden Hook Rifle is probably a bit low, with too high penetration and insufficient destructive power.
This is still very fatal. If we only discuss the level of bolt machine design, the Golden Hook rifle is the latest to appear after all. It has fully summarized and improved the flaws of the former, and is relatively more advanced."
Zhao Tingzhu said: "Master, we have a lot of golden hook rifles and enough bullets. Why don't we just let the brothers use these rifles?"
Song Biao did not answer this suggestion, but patted Zhao Tingzhu, a new recruit, on the shoulder and said, "You will understand later!"
Zhao Tingzhu also hurriedly smiled and said: "The boss knows better. You must have your own reasons. We are just talking nonsense. Don't take it to heart!"
Song Biao responded indifferently: "If you prefer to use the golden hook rifle, you can use it first."
Zhao Tingzhu didn't know what to do.
Song Biao continued: "I'm serious. Little Japan's rifles have their own unique advantages. Real knowledge comes from practice. If you use them for a while, you will understand the real advantages and disadvantages of the two rifles."
Zhao Tingzhu hurriedly agreed: "Then we will listen to the boss's instructions and wait for a while to see the effect."
Song Biao hummed, and there was an inexplicable coldness in his expression. He stared at the wind and snow outside Erlang Cave with a slightly frown, thoughtful in his heart, as if he was proud of this small army, more like
This small unit has a certain mysterious belief and a special religious pillar. The new comrades are especially enthusiastic and confident because of his existence.
The manpower was limited, so everyone was busy trying to transform Erlang Cave into a small village. The wounded must have someone to take care of them. Song Biao heard that Yang Sangui had been an apprentice in a medicine shop in Tonghua County for several years, so he singled him out.
As a military doctor, he was taught some simple basic first aid knowledge alone so that he could concentrate on taking care of the wounded and Lao Guotou.
The heavy snow and cold wind outside became more and more fierce, and a draft horse that was injured by the explosion did not make it through. Although the brothers of the horse gang were very sad, they still slaughtered the horse, chopped the meat, cooked soup, and gave it to Lao Guotou.
Give it a try and see if it can help Lao Guotou get over this hurdle.
The body of Guo Erdong, the second son of Lao Guo Tou, had long been frozen hard. It was impossible to transport the body back to his hometown for burial. After asking Lao Guo Tou for his opinion, everyone found a place outside the cave to bury Guo Erdong.
Song Biao and Li Dahan were cooking horse meat soup next to the fire, with Li Dahan mostly doing the work alone. I don't know if he was a pig butcher, but he was very good at this art of slaughtering animals.
Song Biao sat beside the fire and removed the ammunition from a Thirty Rifle and a Mosin-Nagant rifle, dismantled all the parts and studied the structure of the bolt mechanism. In fact, he was still very curious about these two rifles. Before that
I have never been in contact with either.
Which of the Mosin-Nagant rifles, Mauser rifles, and 38-gauge rifles is more suitable for use by the Chinese troops is a very tangled topic. If factors such as production and supply are to be considered, there are even more entanglements.
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