Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

Li Qinwu stuffed a red envelope of 10 yuan into each reporter's pocket and asked them to make the advertisement look better. The reporters then left with smiles on their faces.

Then Li Qinwu and Mr. Tang discussed the deployment location of Tang Zhongming Freight Company. Mr. Tang said that he would leave everything to Li Qinwu and became a hands-off boss. His mind is now full of thoughts on improving the efficiency of the gas generator of the charcoal truck.

Li Qinwu didn't expect that he would be treated as a hands-off boss, and could only accept the 15 yuan with tears.

Charcoal trucks are more suitable for centralized management. They have complex flues and are prone to carbon accumulation. To operate them, you need a driver and someone to add water and wood to the stove. Individuals may not be able to afford this, but it would be great if large companies could use them in a centralized manner.

Large companies can set up their own maintenance departments, maintain 20 to 30 vehicles at a time, and perform routine inspections on each vehicle, so the logistical pressure is shared.

Li Qinwu plans to make the Tang Zhongming Freight Company look better to attract more people to cooperate. Perhaps he can share charcoal bikes like he did with shared bicycles. Now that various industries have been rolled out, ordinary people should be allowed to participate in some unimportant management, otherwise there will not be enough people to do it.

While he was daydreaming, Li Qinwu received a message from Li Jin, saying that the cooperation with Deputy Mayor Tao had been negotiated and the requested land had been allocated. At the same time, Chongqing would hire Julong Infrastructure to build a hardened road with a length of more than 100 km for a long time to come. If Julong Infrastructure performed well, the subsequent bridge and part of the railway construction work would also be handed over to Julong Infrastructure.

Li Jin said he was discussing the details with Deputy Mayor Tao, but Captain Wang and Advisor Ji were a little absent-minded, so they asked Li Qinwu if he wanted to take them to see the weapons? Maybe they would be tempted by the weapons and get another deal.

Li Qinwu asked Li Jin to send someone to take the two men to the armory, where he was waiting.

After a while, Captain Wang and Consultant Ji drove over in a car. After they got out of the car, Li Qinwu went up to them and shook their hands, saying, "My two distinguished guests, I am Li Qinwu, the director of the weapons design department of Julong Steel Plant. Next, I will take you to visit the weapons in the factory."

As he spoke, he had someone open the warehouse door behind him, revealing two tanks and two planes inside. When Captain Wang and Advisor Ji saw the four large guys inside, their eyes suddenly lit up. They went up to look at them, touched them, and could not stop exclaiming in amazement.

Captain Wang asked: "Director Li, did you build this tank yourself? I haven't seen this model on the market."

The tanks of the Punishment Army were either stolen or captured on the battlefield. Each tank had undergone extensive modifications, and Captain Wang still couldn't tell the model.

Li Qinwu explained: "The two tanks were modified from the Type 89 tanks captured from the Japanese by the Punishment Army. The gun barrels were lengthened, the armor performance was increased, and two Reaper general-purpose machine guns independently developed and designed by our Julong Steel Plant were installed."

Pkm got the code name "Reaper" from Li Qinwu. The trajectory of this gun was very straight during testing. A string of bullets could knock down all the weeds beside the test field, so Li Qinwu gave it this name.

Captain Wang looked confused. Although he was a soldier and had heard some information about tanks, he had no idea about the details. It was like you only had a vague idea about aircraft carriers when you went to Africa and talked to Niga about them.

Seeing this, Li Qinwu asked several clones to enter the tank and drove the tank to a shooting range not far away to test its power for him.

There were several wooden targets on the shooting range. The tank gun aimed at the middle of the wooden target and fired a shot. The 57mm high-explosive shell created a small cloud of dust, and the shock wave swept down a small area of ​​the wooden target. Then the vehicle-mounted machine gun and the artillery coaxial machine gun fired at the same time.

The two Reaper machine guns erupted with terrifying firepower with the support of 250-round ammunition belts. They fired continuously for nearly 20 seconds, emptied 500 rounds of bullets, and broke all the wooden targets and wooden poles on the shooting range. The continuous firepower gave Captain Wang and Consultant Ji a great shock.

Captain Wang asked.

"Did you install two Maxim machine guns in the tank? How can the firepower be so fierce?"

The more mature machine guns of this era were either squad light machine guns that used magazines, or heavy machine guns that used belts. It was the first time that a weapon like the Reaper, which had such powerful firepower and was small enough, appeared.

Li Qinwu explained the Reaper machine gun to Captain Wang, and asked his clones to bring the real thing, attach a 100-round ammunition belt used by the infantry squad, and let Captain Wang try it himself.

Captain Wang lay prone on the ground and fired bursts of fire with the Reaper machine gun at targets 50 meters, 100 meters and 300 meters away, hitting almost all of them. Then, under the guidance of Li Qinwu, he turned on the full-automatic mode and used up all the remaining ammunition, demonstrating the gun's excellent continuous firing function.

Captain Wang held the gun tightly in his hand and his eyes were almost blurred.

"Director Li, has your army fully replaced its equipment with this new type of machine gun?"

Li Qinwu nodded.

"Yes, the Punishment Army has been fully equipped with this type of machine gun. Except for large-caliber machine guns, it has taken away the living space of other light machine guns."

Captain Wang deeply agrees with this.

"Once I have a gun like this, I won't even notice any other guns anymore!"

Upon hearing this, Li Qinwu smiled like a profiteer. Isn't business here?

"Captain Wang, this gun in your hand is for you. You can take it back and test it carefully. If you feel that its performance is good, you can come to the Julong Steel Factory to purchase it. Our factory sells such a gun for one thousand dollars, and it also comes with a repair kit, four spare barrels, and 3000 rounds of ammunition."

Captain Wang was very tempted. If he could replace all the machine guns in the army with this one, the combat effectiveness of his troops would be directly increased by dozens of percentage points! However, purchasing military equipment was not something that a small captain like him could decide. He had to report to his superiors and persuade them to purchase this kind of machine gun from Julong Steel Plant!

However, he immediately withdrew his thoughts and turned his attention back to the tank, which was the ultimate weapon of this era.

"Director Li, are you sure you want to give us these two tanks?"

He brought up the old matter again, fearing that Julong Company would go back on its word.

Li Qinwu nodded firmly.

"That's right. These two tanks and the two planes in the warehouse are all for your army. In addition, we have a lot of such tanks and planes. If your army wants more tanks and planes, you can buy them from our factory. The tanks are 10 yuan each and the planes are 35 yuan each. The Punishment Army provides one year of after-sales service. In addition, you can also buy parts from the Julong Steel Plant if they are worn out, so you don't have to suffer from the foreigners."

As soon as these words were spoken, Li Qinwu heard the two men's breathing become heavier. At this time, the main buyers of tanks were Britain, France and Germany. Not only did these bastards raise the prices arbitrarily, they also liked to sell World War I garbage. They had no intention of keeping a steady flow and had the word "passenger carrier" written on their faces.

As for the old British Mark 1 tank, the British dared to ask for 35 yuan for one. When Marshal Zhang was in power, I sold one with great reluctance, but ended up receiving a rusted one with many parts rusted away. I had to spend more money to buy parts and hire British engineers.

After a lot of trouble, it broke down again not long after it started. The two 57mm Hotchkiss 6-pound rapid-fire guns on the vehicle had to buy shells from the British. Marshal Zhang did not have such a production line, so the British sold the shells to you at 10 times the price, saying that they did not have this type of shells anymore and had stopped production. They had to have an old technician from Ansa to rub them by hand for you, so it was a little more expensive.

Several other countries are doing the same thing, making things difficult for themselves. Even the Germans, who have a good reputation, are working so hard to buy tanks? Isn't this asking for trouble?

But now the turning point seems to have come. The Julong Steel Plant takes care of the logistics, which is so refreshing among a group of slutty bitches.