Chapter 115 [Good Gun]
It was secretly related. After Zhao Lie went down to the city, he only took him away and followed the craftsmen.
Wan'an Army City is not big, the north area is a public party, and the public party is lined with an alley of more than meter wide in the middle. Opposite is the southern area, and there are only two buildings in the south area: the military camp and the old and small camps. There are schoolyards, households, and some scattered Shuli villages outside the city. The structure of the entire military city is very simple. The Wan'an Army has never garrisoned more than 200 troops before, and this area is actually enough. Now it has soared to 1,500 and 600 people. After a while, the families of Japanese soldiers and craftsmen will also arrive one after another. The population may exceed 2,000, and this small place is probably difficult to accommodate.
Of course, at this time, no state (county) city in the world can fully accommodate all residents. Most of them are still scattered outside the city and retreat into the city only when the enemy invades. Therefore, Zhao Lie just needs to repair the military city and deal with the upcoming difficulties. The rest of the chores are not considered for the time being.
Next to the old camp, there are seven or eight earthen sheds, which is the hottest place in the city. The reason is that it is a craftsman's workshop, where the iron stove is not extinguished day and night. Even if you sprinkle water on the roof at all times, the temperature is unbearable.
However, the craftsman did not take Zhao Lie to the craftsman workshop in the southeast of the city, but turned to the northeast. Zhao Lie's face was as usual, Jue Yuan's expression changed slightly, and his steps tightened. He was about to ask, but Zhao Lie raised his hand to stop him.
Although Jueyuan was puzzled, he did not act any more and just followed silently. Although he had doubts, he never asked much. He only wanted to be the head of the horse. This is why Zhao Lie admired and used it as a guard.
To the northeast of the city is a rolling mountain, like natural barriers, guarding the north side of the military city. At the foot of the mountain, there are several caves of varying sizes. The largest one can accommodate thousands of people, while the smaller ones can barely accommodate them, and the largest cave is the iron house.
Zhao Lie arranged a whole team of soldiers to take turns to guard the situation here. During the day, the Zhongshun team was a fire (ten people) and at night, the Thunder team members were members. The safety level was not low.
Jueyuan followed Zhao Lie and walked towards the mountain path. From time to time, he felt someone peeking. He raised his eyes and saw nothing. He only felt that the deep path was full of murderous intent, which made people feel cold on his back.
On the other hand, Zhao Lie and the craftsman were calm and calm. Zhao Lie had a clear mind, while craftsmen were confused and ignorant, and only those with good skills could understand the mysterious feeling like murderous intent.
It was not until the entrance of the cave that several whistles with live ammunition appeared. Seeing the heavy muskets in these people's hands, the craftsmen were a little nervous, and they felt calm.
When the sentry saw Zhao Lie, they saluted each other. Zhao Lie showed a gold medal representing his identity and was allowed to enter - this is Zhao Lie's rule. Anyone, including himself, needs to show a nameplate to enter the iron house. In addition to himself, the rest of the people also need to hold a handwritten handwritten handwritten to explain the reason, otherwise they cannot enter. In addition, craftsmen, they must search their bodies when entering and leaving, and they must not even take out a screw or a piece of paper. The strict defense can be seen.
Zhao Lie signaled that he could wait far away at the entrance of the cave and followed the craftsmen in.
As soon as he entered the cave, a strong smell of mixing steel and engine oil came to his nose. At a corner of the cave, there was a long platform made of wooden boards, and the table covered with a high stack of objects. Zhao Lie did not need to lift the tart cloth, but he knew what it was. All the materials and machines were arranged here by himself. The things under the tart cloth were the unique seamless steel pipes of this era - to be precise, pure steel macaroni rods (there are small round holes in the middle to facilitate boring wires). There are three models, which can be used to make pistols, revolvers and hunting rifles. As long as the boring wire is pulled out, it is a ready-made barrel. If you are making a hunting rifle, you don’t even need to pull boring wires. Just cut the steel rod of the appropriate length according to the size, and it is a complete barrel.
It is precisely because of ready-made materials and complete tools that the double-bar hunting rifle can be mass-produced so quickly, making it possible for Zhao Lie to expand the team, including exercises.
The oil cloth on the left side of the cave is covered with more than fifty pure steel macaroni sticks (6 meters in length) used to make shotguns, and twenty fine steel sticks (2 meters in length) used to make pistols. The oil cloth on the right is covered with aluminum alloy and steel sheets used to make gun mechanism parts, and the weight is more than one ton.
Zhao Lie calculated that if all these materials were used to make guns, single-tube and double-tube hunting rifles, and 200 pistols. Plus the original stock that had been equipped in the two teams, a total of 548 were installed. In addition, there were 200 long and short barrels for replacement.
In other words, the maximum capacity of his two teams is no more than 500 people.
Are five hundred guns enough to fight with the Mongols?
Zhao Lie felt that it was enough.
"Sir, I'm here. Guo Shaojian is waiting in the stone room." After saying that, the craftsman bowed and retreated.
Zhao Lie pushed open the stone chamber door, and the smell of motor oil was stronger. The most precious secret that he had in mind was his most precious secret - machine tools.
Manual and foot-pedal punching machines for making bullets; multi-functional disc-type manual punching machines such as cutting and cutting barrels, stamping bolts, drilling sights; and the electric, manual milling, drilling (deep hole drilling machine) dual-purpose punching machines. The precision work of pulling boring lines and making springs is expected to be the machine. However, so far, although there are two large buckets of diesel, no one can operate it electricly. They are all manual. Although it takes time and effort, the speed of drilling a qualified barrel in one hour is enough to make famous craftsmen such as Guo Dajiang dumbfounded and exclaimed that "the magical skills are not done by human power."
Bypassing several tall machines and equipment, Zhao Lie saw the tool table with oil and full of various tools. Guo Chenggui was hunched over with his not tall body, his wrinkled old face was like a blooming black chrysanthemum, and his rough hand covered with calluses was holding a shiny pistol. The five-pointed star on the pistol grip was particularly eye-catching.
Black Star? Is the imitation of May 4 successful?!
Zhao Lie took two steps at once, almost knocking down a tool box filled with a large number of broaches such as rifled broaches, spiral broaches, keyway broaches, etc.
Guo Chenggui was holding some treasure and carefully presented it with him. His eyes were full of pride and excitement, and his lips trembled slightly: "The Lord, it's done! It's done!"
Zhao Lie originally stretched out one hand, but then used both hands to take it over. As soon as he started the gun, the heavy feeling made people feel reliable and safe. Zhao Lie was skilled in the floor hammer, pulling the sleeve, and pulling the firing machine. After firing the empty gun several times, he then decomposed the pistol one by one. His skillful technique and quick movement made Guo Chenggui shocked.
In fact, the structure of the May Fourth pistol is relatively simple, otherwise it would not have become the weapon that has been copied by black gun workshops in later generations. However, in the eyes of craftsmen of this era, its structure is the most complex. Even the top craftsmen in the inner court like Guo Chenggui have been developed for many days and have exhausted their efforts to achieve something.
Seeing that Zhao Lie assembled the pistol like a magic trick, Guo Chenggui carefully handed three yellow bullets.
Zhao Lie pressed the bullet into the magazine, opened the hammer on the board, and came to the test room of the stone chamber. He put on soft cloth earmuffs and crystal windshields, held the gun in one hand and held the palm of the other hand, aimed at the thick wooden target twenty steps away and fired three shots in a row, all of which were hit by the red heart.
Outside the door, Guo Chenggui was amazed: "The commander is good at shooting skills! I am ashamed. I have tried to shoot many times and missed one in ten. If I were in the army, I would probably not even be qualified for the auxiliary service."
"There is a good gun first, then there is a good gun technique." Zhao Lie took off his earmuffs, glasses, turned around and bowed to Guo Chenggui solemnly, "I would like to use a destroyer camp to exchange for the master craftsman."
Chapter completed!