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Chapter 63 Rifles are made in Hanyang

Living at home in Dongtai, Dong Shuheng no longer has to count sheep at night to sleep.

The considerate Hui'er will accompany him to do exercises at night. When he is exhausted, he will fall asleep. This is the real deep sleep!

When Dong Shuheng woke up early the next morning, he felt refreshed and full of energy.

Early in the morning, he called Li Cunxun from the security company.

"Cun Xun, I have something to ask your opinion on. How about becoming a secretary next to me? Among the people I know well, you are the only one with a higher level of education, and I am relatively familiar with you. I can't trust other people."

Dong Shuheng's decision was obviously sudden, which made Li Cunxun a little overwhelmed. However, the sense of obedience he had developed in the army still allowed him to make a decision quickly.

"Cunxun, absolutely obey the president's arrangements."

In fact, Li Cunxun is a good person. He grew up in the Li family, but he doesn't have the eldest son problem like a direct descendant of the Li family. He is also very diligent in studying. He has gained a lot of experience after following Dong Shuheng, and he is still studying Western learning.

"Okay, then you go back and tell Su Ting that your original position will be handed over to the squad leader Niu Jie."

Li Cunxun took the order to hand over the work to the security company in the front yard. He would follow Dong Shuheng as his confidential secretary, responsible for uploading and issuing Dong Shuheng's schedule.

Dong Shuheng had breakfast with Hui'er and his mother.

Li Cunxun came to report that the guard company was ready and ready to go at any time.

Everyone rode out of the north gate of the county and headed north. The roadside was basically all Huai Haijun's farms. Most of this land was originally the Dong family's farm and did not need to be redeveloped, so it was the first batch to be built and put into operation.

The farm can be said to be the model of Huaihai Company in the entire Jiangbei farm. Dong Shuheng rode on the horse and saw the militiamen who were going to work; he saw the workers who went to work in the factory; he saw the children studying in the school; and the green

of rice fields.

Soon a large number of chimneys appeared in front of them, with black smoke rising from the chimneys. Rows of flat-bottomed sand boats were constantly coming in and out of the canal next to them. There were countless boats.

Passing through the factory area, Dong Shuheng saw a checkpoint with a sign next to it that read "Military restricted area, no one allowed to enter!"

A few kilometers further inside is where the Huaihai Company's military factory is now located.

The coastal tidal flats in northern Jiangsu are very strange. Although they are all plains, there are dense rivers everywhere. The seaside is also full of tidal flats. Ships cannot land in most places. Even if they land, there are no roads and they still have to face the problem.

The test of tidal flats and swamps.

But the strange thing is that there is a section of land between this tidal flat that is suitable for building a port. This is the Dafeng Port in later generations. It is said that the waterway of this port was washed out by a long-standing ocean current. Only local fishermen can

Knowing the existence of this waterway, foreign ships can easily get stuck in the mud and run aground when approaching the shore. Dong Shuheng built a port here and named it Yancheng Port. This port is basically used by Taipei's industrial zone. Imported steel, ore

, most of the machines come to this port and are transferred by small boats.

If a foreign enemy attacks the port, without internal guidance, it is very likely that the entire army will be destroyed before even approaching the port.

Therefore, Dong Shuheng's building the factory area here is very beneficial for defense. As long as he guards a few important waterways and intersections, everything will be fine.

Li Cunxun stepped forward and showed his ID to the sentries, who immediately excitedly saluted Dong Shuheng and let him go.

I rode forward for a few kilometers and passed through three checkpoints in total. Finally I saw a towering wall with a horse path above the wall. There were also prismatic turrets at regular intervals, and I could see the gun holes.

The protruding black muzzle.

Dong Shuheng knew that this was a 75mm breech-loaded gun produced by the arsenal. Although it could not keep up with Krupp's level, Dong Shuheng copied Krupp's steel filling process and asked the craftsmen in the arsenal to use it in artillery manufacturing, and finally created a practical

Breech-loading cannon.

Because the sentry reported in advance, all the main leaders of the arsenal are waiting at the door.

"See the President, welcome the President to inspect the arsenal."

"Thank you for your hard work, it doesn't have to be like this. I just want to take a look at the new equipment today. Everyone can go about their business."

With that said, he entered the arsenal under the guidance of the factory director Geng Jia. Geng Jia is the eldest disciple of the great master craftsman Mr. Wang Chongqian. He used to work as the chief clerk in the Firearms Bureau. Although he was a scholar, he preferred weapon manufacturing. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties,

He basically studied all the weapons manufacturing books in the past. Later, he bought some Western weapons books and magazines from Shanghai and studied them by himself.

Dong Shuheng's arsenal lacked professional talents. On the eve of the establishment of the academy, Mr. Wang introduced this senior disciple to Dong Shuheng. Later, when Geng Jia arrived at the arsenal and saw so many professional equipment, he refused to leave.

The entire arsenal covers an area as large as more than a dozen football fields and is divided into more than a dozen large and small workshops. There is also a weapons testing factory behind it, not counting it.

By continuously pouring money into it, this arsenal has reached world-class level in terms of hardware equipment alone.

Dong Shuheng went directly to the gun test site. The first thing he wanted to see was the newly finalized Type 53 rifle. This was made in Hanyang, which China has been using in the Korean battlefield. It is a classic bolt-action rifle.

John Radford and several technicians were waiting for Dong Shuheng's arrival at the experimental site. John loved and hated this boss. He loved him because he knew so much about firearms, but he hated him because he knew so much about firearms.

As for their technical staff, they felt insurmountable despair.

John is now the chief engineer of the arsenal. After signing a confidentiality agreement, he is ready to move his family to China and become Chinese nationals. His family will live a life like a rich man in China. You must know that when he was in the United States

Just a poor craftsman.

There are too many technicians like him in the United States, and the United States does not have many standing infantrymen, so the arsenal is under great competition and cannot support so many technicians. This time he wrote to ask his family to come over, and he even called

Several of my friends came to China together, and they were not doing well in the United States either.

Dong Shuheng walked over happily, and his eyes shone when he saw the streamlined rifle placed on the table and the shiny metallic bolt handle on the side.

This style has appeared repeatedly in countless movies and TV dramas. It has fought against the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, the Japanese, and even the Americans on the Korean battlefield.

After confirming his eyes, this is the gun I want. He walked straight forward, took the rifle from the hand of the gun tester, and habitually pulled the bolt. This was taught by the instructor when taking the gun license test in his previous life. After getting it

Check the gun before pulling the bolt to make sure there are no remaining bullets in the magazine.

John was shocked to see Dong Shuheng's movements so skillfully. This boss not only knew how to use guns, but he also knew how to play with them.

The Type 53 rifle in Dong Shuheng's hand uses an improved five-round fixed magazine made in Hanyang, and its bolt uses a manual rotating rear-pull bolt.

Before shooting, first rotate the bolt and pull open the receiver, insert the bridge magazine containing five rounds of bullets into the loading interface of the magazine, press the bullet with your thumb, so that the bullet detaches from the magazine and enters the magazine, and then

Insert and remove the bridge-type magazine, rotate forward to push the bolt to complete the locking, and at the same time, the bullet feeding chuck on the bolt pushes the first bullet into the chamber and becomes ready to fire.

Dong Shuheng picked up a magazine and put it in skillfully. The bullet was a bullet case made of brass. Since black powder was still used, the warhead was a lead-coated round bullet. The gun's range was 1,000 meters.

The actual combat range is 300 to 500 meters, and the optimal range is within 200 meters.

Dong Shuheng didn't dare to raise his gun, so he aimed at a 200-meter target and hit 7 rings with one shot. "Pah, pah, pah..." Dong Shuheng pulled the bolt of the gun continuously and fired all five bullets. Not bad, a set of moves took more than 10 seconds.

It can be done in a minute.

"John, how's our production of this gun?"

"Oh, Mr. President, our original Dresser production lines have all been converted into Type 53 production lines, which can produce more than a thousand pieces a month. If we want to increase production, we must build a new production line."

"This quantity is too small. I will give you one month to build five more production lines and triple the production capacity. In addition, the original rifle and musket production lines should not be stopped. First, use the old guns to equip the troops for use by the soldiers.

Type 53, we can replace it with as many as we produce. Anyway, we can sell these old guns in the future."

At this time, the artillery test site on the other side is also ready. The Huai Navy will finally have its own infantry support weapons.

What this experiment showed was a 75mm cannon and a 50mm howitzer. It’s not that Dong Shuheng doesn’t want large calibers, but if China’s current road uses large calibers, the movement of artillery will definitely be a nightmare for engineers. Now the arsenal can produce 150mm

naval gun, but no matter how big the gun is, the technology is still not up to standard. We have to wait until the cooperation with Krupp begins to figure out a solution.

After the artillery experiment was completed, two soldiers carried a bunch of parts and quickly assembled them. This is the 60mm mortar that Dong Shuheng has been thinking about. This mortar has a body length of 618mm, a barrel length of 550mm, and a total gun mass of 15.5kg.

The mass of the gun body is 7.5kg, the mass of the gun frame is 4.6kg, and the mass of the seat plate is 3.4kg. The maximum firing range is 950m, the minimum firing range is 70m, the maximum firing rate is 30-35 rounds/min, the high and low firing range is 40°-80°; the direction firing range is on the left and right.

4.2° has a maximum muzzle velocity of 140m/s and a minimum muzzle velocity of 70m/s. It can be carried on one person's back and has a gun crew of 5 people.

Under China's backward road conditions and complex terrain conditions, this mortar is the best support weapon.

"Who overcame the mortar shell problem? It must be well rewarded." Dong Shuheng asked Geng Jia.

"Robert from the ammunition factory solved the problem. The main problem was the detonation system. The previous accuracy was not enough," Geng Jia said.

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