"Andrew, this is very bad and you are not a friend enough!"
"Zhao, what I give you is the best price."
"It's your fault! Who are you trying to fool? Do you think I don't know what the market is like now? Besides, why do I want missiles? I 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 having a heated argument 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 is not useful for close combat!
So after he returned to the North Sea, he ordered twenty "ZU-23" double-barreled anti-aircraft guns from Andrew. This is great! It doesn't take up much space, and the horizontal attack range is up to 25 kilometers, which is enough for attacking ships.
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As for anti-aircraft, Zhao Xin doesn't consider it at all.
It is said that Da Mao produced 140,000 ZU-23s in that year, and the price was very cheap. The quotation given by Andrew was for the basic model with 400 grams of gold, which was twice as expensive as the price on the international market. This amount of money does not matter, Zhao Xin recognized it.
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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 angry. Did he ask him to use SAM missiles to kill birds?
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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 gold from Nagasaki. Zhao Xin bought him a gold smelting furnace, which can purify more than 20 kilograms of gold per batch. The extracted gold passes through
The molds were cast into 100g and 200g gold ingots respectively for future purchase of supplies.
At other times, Zhao Liang also leads people to reload bullets. Since the new recruits of the Security Department started shooting training, the consumption of bullets has become very large.
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 reloading workshop is only a dozen large wooden sheds; Chen Qingsong's place has already
It was agreed that construction of the real factory building would begin in two months.
Since various equipment for bullet reloading are very popular across the ocean, many of them are made of plastic and are very cheap. So Zhao Xin bought hundreds of sets at a time. For example, ammunition dispensers are almost all made of
Made of plastic parts, 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 after shooting, the bullet cases will leave some traces of gunpowder on the surface and inside. In order to avoid the formation of rust, Zhao Liang decided to
The cartridge cases recovered for the first time are cleaned and polished.
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 and used them at the same time. As for the cleaning medium used in polishing, it was corn meal and polishing agent.
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 cornmeal powder into the vibrator bowl, which is enough to occupy about half of the bowl; then put dozens of used 7.62×39mm 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 at the same time, 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 separator made of plastic. After shaking it manually for a while, the polishing medium would separate from the cartridge case. The separated cleaning medium can be recycled multiple times, and after processing
The cartridge case now becomes as bright as new.
This step is not complete yet, there are other preparations that need to be done.
First, the workers took the primer out of the packaging box and poured it into the primer distribution tray. Because the primer is flat and small, it is easy to fall off, so this work is completed by female workers. The number of primers in a box is one hundred.
After the female workers carefully pour the primer into the plastic tray, they only need to shake it back and forth horizontally a few times, and the primer will automatically adjust its position; then cover the plastic lid. Afterwards, the workers responsible for reassembly will distribute the primer to the tray.
Install it on the mold turntable of the reassembly machine.
The next step is the ammunition 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 into 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 balance, then enter the number of bullets, and then
Then you can pour in the gunpowder and weigh it accurately.
After installing the module, pour the gunpowder into the cup, and then install the ammunition dispenser on the mold of the reloader.
At this time, you can start reloading the bullet.
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 next step of installing the warhead.
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 a 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 today's shooting range, the sound of gunfire was continuous and resounded throughout the valley. This was Wu Siyu and Wang Yuanfang leading the soldiers who had received rifles to conduct shooting training.
The total length of the SKS semi-automatic rifle is 102 centimeters, and with the bayonet open it is only 124 centimeters. It is quite suitable for the refugees from the island country who are generally no more than 1.6 meters tall in this era; you must know that the length of the Type 38 rifle in later generations is 127.6 centimeters.
Their general height is only a few meters and sixty.
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 others still retrained these people.
Practice standard shooting movements, correct incorrect gun aiming postures, enhance the soldiers' muscle memory of gun aiming postures, etc. During the process of soldiers practicing gun pointing, Wang Yuanfang and several others would suddenly pull the barrel of the gun from time to time.
, check the tightness of the 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 found out about this, he asked the idle soldiers to take several broken pots and bang 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 the magazines, stood 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 the right toes, stretched out their left arms, and put their palms down. They lay down in the order of hands, knees, and elbows, with the left side of the body and the left elbow
Support the whole body, send the gun in the direction of the target with your right hand, and at the same time hold the lower handguard with your left hand. The face of the gun is slightly to the left, the butt of the gun is on the ground, load the magazine, open the safety, pull the bolt backward to load the bullet. Keep your feet apart and
Shoulder width apart, the gun body and the right side of the body are slightly in line, look ahead and prepare to shoot.
Yaichiro had practiced these movements countless times in the past ten days. Several instructors were not polite to them regarding the operating regulations of firearms. Anyone who made a mistake would be kicked straight up, and his squad leader had to practice with him.
Do it 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 and dust 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 to take a look, and it turned out to be Mishi Lang. It seemed that hundreds of additional training sessions had finally had an effect.
After the shooting, Yachiro's score was 45 rings, which was not bad. He shot low on the first shot, but the next nine shots were about the same.
Knowing his results, Yachiro 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 mistakes again during shooting training, he would be dismissed as platoon leader.
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This frightened Mr. Yachi. You should know that the monthly salary of a platoon leader is five shi of grain, but for an ordinary soldier, it becomes three shi each month.
The lack of salary is secondary, but the key is the shame!
After the shooting training is completed, and after shouting the slogan and returning to the military camp, as usual, the gun is 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, double locked for both people, and they enter and exit 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 person 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 every day to unload the excavator.
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 the newly purchased weapons and ammunition and was having fun with Director Liu Da, Deng Fei suddenly came to him and told him some bad news.
"Thor's radar has spotted a large number of ships heading northwest!"
"Hmm?! What about 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!"