The Iron-Blooded Army of Beacon Fire

Chapter 154 Armory

Fight as he says, do as he says. After returning to the Central Military Academy that day, He Wei announced to his subordinates the good news of his promotion to major and his appointment as the commander of the city defense special agent battalion.

After the brothers under my command learned the news, they were naturally overjoyed. On the one hand, they were sincerely happy for He Wei, and on the other hand, they also considered it for themselves. The current officer personnel system of the national army still retains quite a few officers. Part of the personal attachment color of the feudal era, that is to say, the relationship between subordinates and superiors not only relies on the military system and system, the constraints of principles, but also includes various things outside of principles, such as relatives, nostalgia, etc. .

The promotion of subordinates is affected by the power and status of their superiors. If the superiors are promoted and take control of the army, then the interests of their subordinates will be further protected, and vice versa.

Now, the relationship between the sixty brothers of the Sixth Company and He Wei is a very standard personal dependence relationship. All their interests must be protected by He Wei. If not the soldiers, let’s talk about the officers, Fang Jing , Hu Zhaowu, the two platoon leaders, if He Wei is promoted and takes control of an army, they will definitely be promoted and arranged. If He Wei is left idle, good guys, they will immediately become unemployed officers!

Unknowingly, a small group has formed around He Wei, and because of this, He Wei has to hang out just for the sake of this group of brothers.

After announcing the good news, He Wei took the opportunity to calm down these guys. These guys have been letting themselves go and having fun these days. They stay in the military academy dormitory and eat and drink well every day. They smoke, drink and drink soda. They don’t do anything. , instead of taking them out for training, He Wei didn't bother to care about them the past few days, so he just let them relax.

But starting from today, it’s no longer possible. Everything has returned to the normal military life system, and the mission has come. He Wei’s top priority is to get the weapons and equipment first. His secret service camp is now an empty frame, with nothing. Of course, he There's no rush, just decide on the organization before the new recruits arrive, and get the equipment first.

So, He Wei took his sixty-odd men, borrowed [-] military trucks from the military academy's school affairs department, and drove in a hurry to the first branch of the first munitions general depot outside Nanjing.

The first branch warehouse was a newly built arms warehouse before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War. It was considered as part of the preparation measures before the war. After the convoy arrived at the entrance of the first branch warehouse, the weapons warehouse was notified in advance, so the weapons warehouse sent people in advance. After picking up and getting off the vehicle, He Wei successfully entered the arsenal and began to go through the procedures for receiving the ordnance. The procedures for receiving the weapons were very strict.

He Wei needs to fill out a nine-joint form with the arsenal management staff and submit it to the Ministry of Military Affairs, Ordnance Industry Administration, Ordnance Department, General Warehouse, Arms Receiving Unit and other relevant agencies. However, since Minister He personally issued the ordnance, In addition, He Wei is now a well-known anti-war hero, so everything goes smoothly.

After completing the formalities, He Wei himself entered the armory under the leadership of the armory manager. The manager enthusiastically introduced the situation of the armory to He Wei. In terms of warehouses, there are several types. The first one is Gun depots are further divided into gun depots and artillery depots.

The gun warehouse is a floor room, which stores Hanyang rifles and [-]-section heavy machine guns produced by Hanyang Arsenal, medium-sized rifles produced by Gongxian Arsenal, Browning pistols, Mauser pistols, floral machine guns, Czech light machine guns, Mark Qin heavy machine gun, Hotchkiss heavy machine gun, Type [-] heavy machine gun, Kirali light machine gun, as well as various firearms temporarily purchased from abroad as well as bayonets, accessories, broadswords, etc. for various firearms.

The artillery warehouse has a lime and sandstone structure on the ground. It stores the 37 mortars produced by Jinling Arsenal, the French Brande 11 mortars, the 11mm imitation Japanese Taisho 37-year flat-fire cannon produced by Hanyang Arsenal, and the Fengtian Arsenal. Taisho 150-year-old 75mm flat-fire cannon, [-]mm heavy-duty mortars manufactured by Fengtian Arsenal and Huayin Arsenal, Shanghai-made [-]mm mountain cannons produced by Shanghai Arsenal, and Japanese-made Taisho [-]th-year-style throwers produced by Dagukou Ordnance Shovel cartridge.

There are even the Japanese-made Meiji 31-year-old 75mm mountain cannon and the Grusen 57mm mountain cannon left over from the Beiyang Army in the late Qing Dynasty, as well as the 120mm ship-type rapid-fire cannon produced by the British Armstrong Company at the end of the [-]th century and the German Krupp The [-]mm ship-type rapid-fire gun produced by the company is estimated by He Wei to be an old gun removed from naval warships and forts in the late Qing Dynasty.

The ammunition depot stores bullets and artillery shells for various guns and artillery. In addition, there is also an equipment depot for storing fire-fighting facilities and a waste ammunition depot for storing various expired and scrapped munitions. The entire arsenal is about It can store about one thousand tons of various weapons and ammunition. All the weapons and ammunition in the warehouse, from packing, loading, sealing, layout, etc., are neat, clean, orderly, regular and hygienic. It looks truly spectacular.

Then, He Wei saw the rifles and light machine guns that were going to be distributed to them. He Wei only knew that they were arms bought from Europe, but he knew nothing about their models. But when he saw the true appearance of these equipment in Lushan, He Wei A bright smile appeared on his face. The rifle he added was a vz24 rifle made in the Czech Republic, and the light machine gun was an FND light machine gun produced by the Belgian Browning Company. They are both the top choices among today's rifles and light machine guns.

The vz24 rifle itself is an imitation of the German Mauser standard short rifle. This short rifle derived from the Mauser standard short rifle is actually very different from other types of Mauser short rifle derivatives. However, some people It is believed that the Vz.24 is one of the best quality among all Mauser short rifles. It has small production tolerances and meticulous workmanship, and the steel used in it comes from the Skoda steelmaking plant in the Czech Republic. The steel quality of the plant was listed at the time. No. [-] in the world.

Therefore, among various imitation Mauser rifles, Czech-made rifles have almost the best reputation. The Chinese army is also equipped with a considerable number of Czech-made rifles. For example, the elite troops of the Northeast Army are all Czech rifles. The evaluation of this rifle is that the steel muzzle is excellent and the shooting is smooth. It was also given the nickname of Ma Sihuan. In short, it is a hero among rifles.

The FND light machine gun issued to He Wei is not an ordinary person. The predecessor of this thing is the Browning [-] automatic rifle during World War I. This thing was invented by the Americans, although it is called an automatic rifle. , but its excessive weight and the full-power bullets fired are simply not enough to support the name of an automatic rifle.

After World War I, the Belgian fn company improved this extremely incompetent automatic rifle and directly improved the gun into a light machine gun, equipped with a heavy-duty quick-detachable barrel, fnd barrel at the end of the barrel At the position of the barrel sleeve, there is a barrel release latch that is vertical to the barrel. After pressing the latch, the barrel can be unlocked, and then the handle can be turned to pull the barrel out of the barrel sleeve.It has completed the evolution from a crappy automatic rifle to a light machine gun. In comparison, the Americans were much clumsy in its development and simply went all the way to the dark side, so the bar was born.

The Chinese army is also equipped with a lot of this FND light machine gun. For example, the Yunnan Army troops in Yunnan use FND light machine guns as their standard light machine guns. However, some adjustment divisions of the Central Army do not have enough Czech light machine guns to replace them. During the army, many FND light machine guns produced in Belgium were also introduced as substitutes. The troops equipped with this type of light machine gun also received rave reviews for this type of light machine gun.

"He Yingxiong, this batch of arms was recently purchased urgently from Europe to replenish war damage. Now the frontline troops have suffered serious war damage. The lost weapons and equipment gap cannot be replenished by relying on domestic production and pre-war stocks. They can only be purchased from abroad. Apart from these, The flower machine guns and fast-slow machine pistols supplied to your department are also imported. They are just inventory equipment from two years ago, but they are well maintained. However, the heavy machine guns and mortars supplied to you are not the same as the message sent above. There is no model specified in the text, so you can choose the model yourself?" "The mortar must be made in France, let's take a look at the heavy machine gun."

Without thinking, He Wei directly ordered the French mortar. The French Brande 81mm mortar was stronger than the [-] mortar made in Jinling in terms of range, quality, ammunition type and power. Wei naturally didn't need to think too much, he definitely wanted the original Bayi mortar imported from France.

As the manager of the armory spoke, he took He Wei to the area where heavy machine guns were stored in the gun warehouse. Seeing He Wei coming, ordnance personnel immediately opened several boxes, and each box contained a kind of weapon. Heavy machine guns include the Min-[-] heavy machine gun made in Jinling, the [-]-section heavy machine gun made in Hanyang Arsenal, and the Hotchkiss light machine gun made in France.

However, He Wei is not too fond of these heavy machine guns. These heavy machine guns have a common problem, that is, they are too heavy. If He Wei's unit is a large-scale field force at the division level, then these machine guns are very good. Choice, but He Wei only had one infantry battalion. What he pursued was lightness and flexibility. Faced with the need for lightness and flexibility, these heavy machine guns were not enough. When He Wei walked to the end, he saw a dusty and slightly worn-out When He Wei saw the machine gun in the dark green box, he almost thought he had seen it wrong.

At first glance, he almost thought the machine gun inside was MG34 or MG42. He was shocked. Did China get the MG general-purpose machine gun so early?
The ordnance officer on the side saw He Wei's surprise and explained: "Sir, this gun is a Swiss-made Suroton MG30 dual-purpose machine gun. The Suroton machine gun is a dual-purpose machine gun. The cover can be used as a dual-purpose machine gun." The use of two types of machine guns, light and heavy, is because when mounted on a stand, it is a heavy machine gun, and its effectiveness is no different from that of ordinary heavy machine guns."

"If the gun is used alone without its stand, it is the same as an ordinary light machine gun. The caliber is 7.92 mm, the gun length is 1250 mm, the barrel length is 600 mm, and the theoretical firing speed is 4200 rounds per minute. The maximum range is 9.0 meters, the weight is 20 kilograms when loaded with a light machine gun, and [-] kilograms when loaded with a heavy machine gun."

At this time, He Wei took out the light machine gun from the box, and saw that it was indeed not the mg34 general-purpose machine gun. However, it is understandable that He Wei was dazzled, because this machine gun is the ancestor of the mg34. Listening to the armorer's explanation, He Wei also had a better understanding of the technical and tactical characteristics and origins of this gun.

This type of machine gun is nominally a product of the Swiss Soloton Company, but was actually developed by Germany's Rheinmetall. As for why Rheinmetall uses the Swiss Soroton Company's brand to launch this machine gun, the reason is very simple. After Germany was defeated in World War I, According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Germans were extremely severely restricted in terms of weapons development and the number of troops. This kind of machine gun was also prohibited, so the Germans simply developed the machine gun under the brand of Sulotton in Switzerland to circumvent the restrictions of the contract. .

The reason why this machine gun is called a universal machine gun is that under normal conditions, the gun is fired on a bipod on the front of the machine gun, but the gun is also equipped with an improved buffer tripod imported from Denmark. After being mounted on a tripod, the gun can be immediately converted into heavy machine gun mode or anti-aircraft machine gun mode. It can be called a general-purpose machine gun. The simple and slender shape and barrel of the gun are also the reasons why He Wei almost admitted the mistake.

In short, this is a very good machine gun, but its shortcoming is that the gun's ammunition supply method is a thirty-round magazine or a 75-round drum. When used as a heavy machine gun, the firepower sustainability is far less than that of its descendants. The mg34 and mg42 general machine guns do not have high requirements for bullets. If you encounter bullets with poor quality during shooting, they may jam.
In 30, the Chinese army held a national army standard weapons selection meeting. The Swiss Soloton Company was not to be outdone. After learning that the Chinese army wanted to standardize weapons, it immediately sent the mg[-] machine gun to China to participate in the competition. , and tested at the Army Infantry School in Nanjing.

It's a pity that the gun's shortcomings in picking bullets are enough for the Chinese army to kill it and eliminate it. You know, the Chinese army is an army that still uses a large number of round-nose bullets and even reloaded bullets. It cannot satisfy the mg30 machine gun at all. requirements, the mg30 machine gun naturally lost in this competition. In the end, these sophisticated machine guns that traveled across the ocean but failed in the competition could only lie quietly in the dark arsenal and wait. The final outcome.

However, He Wei has taken a fancy to these general-purpose machine guns. This lightweight general-purpose machine gun is what He Wei likes. He hopes to equip his special agent battalion with mobile and flexible firepower. This gun is the best choice. When it comes to choosing bullets, He Wei is not afraid. He needs to replenish ammunition anyway. When the time comes, he will need some good quality bullets, even bullets imported from abroad.

"Okay, I need these machine guns. How many are there?"

"No more, no less, exactly ten."

The arsenal manager said to He Wei with a smile.

He Wei also smiled and said: "That's great. I need these machine guns. I'll pick the bullets for this gun. In a few days, our department may come to pick up the ammunition. At that time, please give me more good quality bullets." Make up some more.”

"He Yingxiong, don't worry, we have just received a batch of imported European bullets. The imported bullets will be sent to you first."

"Then thank you all."

He Wei raised his hand and expressed his gratitude to several ordnance managers. They all say that people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. But today, He Wei felt that being famous is good, and many things will be done much more smoothly.
After selecting the model to receive the equipment, He Wei immediately led his brothers to move the items without saying a word. The group of people under He Wei also knew that the items they were moving were the things they would use to fight the enemy in the future, and they were all red. You can move it with your eyes open.

Soon, the truck that arrived was loaded with 150 Czech-made rifles, 81 Belgian FND light machine guns, 30 German machine-made submachine guns, [-] German-made speed machines, and four French-made Brand [-]mm mortars. , ten Swiss mg[-] general-purpose machine guns returned to the Central Military Academy with satisfied officers and soldiers.

(End of this chapter)