Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 128 Zhao Liang's Workshop

"Andrew, it's not good for you to be like this, not enough friends!"

"Zhao, I'm giving you the best price."

"Your uncle! Who are you fooling? You think I don't know what the current market is? Besides, what do I want missiles for? I want the basic type."

"Are you scolding me?"

"Where is it?"

"The first sentence you just said was scolding me. I heard you Chinese say it before!"

"That's why you heard it wrong! Let's not digress, I ordered twenty before, I don't want these ten with the 'Strela-2M' system installed, you take them back."

In the warehouse, Zhao Xin and Andrew were arguing fiercely about the goods this time.

Since the First Battle of Nagasaki, Zhao Xin has suffered from a phobia of insufficient firepower. D30 is fierce, but only two doors can be placed on the ship; and it is not used for melee combat!

So after he returned to Beihai, he ordered twenty "ZU-23" double-barreled anti-aircraft guns from Andrew.This is good!Not to mention the small footprint, the flat-fire attack range is up to 25 kilometers, which is enough for a boat.

As for anti-air, Zhao Xin didn't think about it at all.

It is said that ZU-23 produced 14 ZU-[-] in that year, and the price was very cheap.The quotation Andrew gave was [-] grams of basic gold, which was twice as expensive as the price on the international market.This little money doesn't matter, Zhao Xin admits it.

As a result, when this fellow came to deliver and accept the goods, he actually brought ten ZU-2Ms equipped with the 'Strela-23M' system, which made Zhao Xin's nose crooked.Is this for him to shoot birds with Sam missiles? !
Andrew shrugged indifferently, and nodded in agreement.

Beihai Town in another time and space, on the east bank of the Sila River.

In addition to Zhao Liang's slightly formed metal processing factory here, five miles to the 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 the trees at the foot of the mountain here are not so dense, and it is relatively easy to clean up; the second is to prevent children from coming.

Zhao Liang currently spends half of his day taking a few refugees to purify the indemnity gold from Nagasaki.Zhao Xin bought him a gold smelting furnace, which can purify more than 20 kilograms of gold in each batch. The extracted gold is cast into 100-gram and 200-gram gold ingots through molds for later purchase of materials.

At other times, Zhao Liang would also lead people to reload the bullets.Since the recruits of the Ministry of Security started shooting training, the consumption of bullets has become very large.

After each shooting training, Liu Sheng would send someone to deliver a sack of bullet casings to Zhao Liang's "reassembly workshop".Well, the current reassembly workshop is only a dozen large wooden sheds; Chen Qingsong has agreed to start building the real factory building in two months.

Because various equipment in bullet reloading is very popular across the ocean, many of them are made of plastic, and the price is very cheap.So Zhao Xin bought hundreds of sets at a time.The ammunition dispenser, for example, is made almost entirely of plastic and is about the size of a cup blender.

Since the bullets provided by Andrew are cheap long-term stocks, the appearance of the bullet casings is not so good; and the bullet casings will leave some traces of gunpowder on the surface and inside after shooting.In order to avoid the formation of rust, Zhao Liang decided to clean and polish all the shell casings recovered for the first time.

The structure of the cleaning polisher is simple, with a fist-sized motor underneath and a large plastic bowl with a cover on top; in fact, this thing is a vibrator.

Zhao Liang placed dozens of them on the table in the workshop and used them at the same time.As for the cleaning medium used when polishing, it is corn cob powder and polishing compound.

Since Zhao Xin knew that the so-called polishing agent was actually inferior toothpaste, he simply wholesaled several tons of toothpaste from a domestic factory. Anyway, everyone needs to brush their teeth.

Workers first pour corn cob powder into the bowl of the vibrator, about half of the volume of the bowl is enough; then put dozens of used 7.62×39mm bullet casings in, and then add dozens of grams of toothpaste, Finally turn on the power to start the vibrator.

The women who work here wear ear muffs.Because when dozens of vibrators sounded together, the humming sound could make people's scalp numb and feel uncomfortable all over.

After two hours, the worker pours the mixture in the vibrator into a separator made of plastic, and shakes it by hand for a while, so that the polishing medium will separate from the shell casing.The separated cleaning medium can also be recycled many times, and the treated cartridge case becomes bright as new at this time.

At this point, it is not over yet, and other preparations need to be done.

First, workers take the primer out of the box and pour it into the primer distribution tray.Because the primer is flat and small, it is easy to drop, so this work is done 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 a few times horizontally, and the primer can automatically adjust the position; then close the plastic cover.Afterwards, the worker in charge of reassembly will install the primer distribution plate on the mold turntable of the reassembly machine.

Next up is the ammo dispenser.The first step is to separate the cup with gunpowder on it from the base, and install a plastic module on the base.The function of this module is to set the delivery quantity of ammunition each time.

As for how much gunpowder needs to be put in the cup, this requires a special electronic balance.For example, the amount of charge for each round of 7.62×39mm is 24.7 Greens, then you can first input the number of Greens on the balance, and then enter the number of ammunition loaded, and then you can pour gunpowder for accurate weighing.

Once the module is installed, the gunpowder is poured into the cup, and the ammo dispenser can then be fitted to the mold of the reloader.

At this point, you can start reloading the ammo.

Install the turntable with four repacking molds on the press, put a polished shell, align it with the primer mold first, remove the used primer, and restore the expansion of the shell caused by the previous firing. 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 dispenser will input the corresponding amount of gunpowder into the shell according to the size of the internal module, and slightly expand the edge of the shell to facilitate the installation of the warhead in the next step.

Zhao Liang usually randomly checks the charge amount of the cartridge case during this step to avoid inaccurate charge amount due to the failure of the ammunition dispenser.

In the next step, the workers will place the lead copper-coated warhead on the mouth of the shell with their hands. After the position is calibrated, they will press the pull rod to press the bullet in.

The final step is to press the bullet into the forming mold, shrink the edge of the mouth of the bullet, and remove the fine metal burrs.

At this point, the reloading of a bullet is complete.The work with technical content in bullet reloading is all done by various additional tools, and all the workers need to do is to be careful and patient.

The reloaded bullets will be sent to the shooting range five miles away for soldiers to continue to use.

In today's shooting range, the sound of gunfire is endless, resounding through the valley.This is Wu Siyu and Wang Yuanfang leading the soldiers who have received rifles to conduct shooting training.

SKS半自动步枪全长102厘米，刺刀打开后也不过124厘米。对于这个时代普遍身高不超过1.6米的岛国流民来说还算合适；要知道后世的三八式步枪的长度是127.6厘米，鬼子们的普遍身高也才1.6米几。

Of the 500 soldiers currently in the Ministry of Security, the first batch of [-] has received SKS rifles.

Although among these people, several soldiers who had been to Nagasaki, including Yashiro, had used lever rifles, but Wang Yuanfang and the others still retrained these people.

Practice standard shooting actions, correct wrong gun aiming postures, enhance soldiers' muscle memory of gun aiming postures, etc.While the soldiers were practicing the pistol, Wang Yuanfang and the others would suddenly pull the barrel of the pistol from time to time to check the tightness of the pistol.

Liu Sheng would stand directly behind the soldiers and fire a few shots abruptly while they were holding their guns.After Zhao Xin found out about this, he asked the idle soldiers to knock around these people from time to time with a few broken pots.The purpose of both of them doing this is to improve the psychological quality of these people in future battles.

Following Ding Guofeng's command, Miichiro and the others began to collect the magazines, stand on the target platform and stand at attention.

"Prone position...load bullets!"

The soldiers immediately moved their right hands to hold the handguard, took a step with their left feet in the direction of the right toes, stretched out their left arms, palms down.Lie down in the order of hands, knees and elbows, support the whole body with the left side of the body and the left elbow, send the gun to the target direction with the right hand, and at the same time hold the handguard with the left hand. Open the magazine, open the safety, pull the trigger and send the bullets backwards to load.Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, the body of the gun slightly in line with the right side of your body, and prepare to shoot while looking ahead.

Miichirou has practiced these movements countless times in the past ten days.Several instructors are not polite to them in terms of gun operation specifications. Whoever makes a mistake will just go up and kick them. The squad leader has to accompany them to practice dozens of times before giving up.

Yaichiro himself has been kicked several times, and he has to practice in the open space outside the dormitory at night.

"Shoot!" Ding Guofeng blew his whistle.

A round of bullets began to burst out, and smoke and dust rose on the dirt slope behind the target 100 meters away.Wang Yuanfang, Wu Siyu, and Ding Guofeng held up binoculars to check the shooting situation.

"How about it?"

"just OK!"

Wu Siyu suddenly let out a "huh", and then excitedly shouted: "Another ten rings!"

Wang Yuanfang and Ding Guofeng went over to have a look, and it turned out to be Mishiro.It seems that hundreds of times of additional training finally had an effect.

After the shooting, Yaichiro's score was 45, which is not bad.He just shot low in the first shot, and the next nine shots were almost inseparable.

Knowing his achievements, Yaichiro let out a sigh of relief, thinking that he had finally secured his position as platoon leader.In the first two days, Instructor Wang once said that if he made another mistake in shooting training, he would remove his platoon leader.

This frightened Miichiro. You must know that the monthly salary of the platoon leader is five shi of food, and if he becomes an ordinary soldier, it will become three shi per month.

Less salary is the next best thing, the key is embarrassment!
After the shooting training is completed, after returning to the barracks with a chant, the guns are cleaned, inspected, and then stored in the warehouse as usual.

According to Liu Sheng's experience in the army, all firearms and ammunition are the same as the firearm management regulations of another space-time army. The ammunition is managed separately, with two people and two locks, and they enter and exit at the same time.However, there are no documents in the current troop establishment, so the keys are placed in the hands of the company commander and deputy company commander.

As for the sentinels standing guard on the watchtower of the camp, each of them was issued a lever rifle with five bullets, the main purpose of which was to prevent wild beasts from attacking.

Wang Yuanfang and others pulled out generals from among the soldiers. Sheng Haizhou, Liji, Jiuzang, Huji, Pingtai, and Pan Xiucheng are currently company commanders; I don't want to miss Shu; as for Seldan and his son, Lu Shoushan and Hengji, they are still training in formation with the recruits.

Two days later, when Zhao Xinmeizi came back with newly purchased weapons and ammunition, and was making trouble with Director Liu, Deng Fei suddenly came to him and told him the bad news.

"Thor's radar has spotted a large number of ships to the northwest!"

"Huh?! How about the distance?" Zhao Xin was taken aback.

"8.05 nautical miles." If this distance is converted into kilometers, it is about 15 kilometers.The nautical radar on the Raytheon is erected at a height of 30 meters, and can detect as far as about 31 kilometers.

"So close! Call our people, go to the cockpit for a meeting immediately!"

(End of this chapter)