Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Of course, the grenade project team will also research more advanced egg-shaped grenades. Wooden-handled grenades are easy to use, but in some special occasions or special forces, egg-shaped grenades are more useful.

After finishing the work here, Kong Hao had a quick meal in the factory and then rushed to the next factory. There was no other way, his daily schedule was now full.

The next place we are going to is a smelting and processing plant, which mainly smelts the scrap steel and rails collected on a daily basis into the steel we need.

This kind of machinery and equipment is much simpler than that of a regular steel plant, except that it consumes a bit more energy. However, for the arsenal, any problem that can be solved with coal is not a problem.

At present, more than 100 tons of high-quality steel can be smelted a day, which can be used to produce some less important parts in mechanical equipment, such as machine tool bodies that use the most steel, connecting parts, etc.

By the way, there are also various bicycles and tricycles. Our front-line combat troops are very fond of them. In addition to the logistics department being able to quickly transport supplies, they can also form various rapid support forces.

The reason why the Independent Regiment, the New 1st Regiment and the New 2nd Regiment were able to catch up with the Takahashi Regiment so quickly was thanks to the fact that the three regiments were equipped with a large number of bicycles.

Especially the human-powered tricycle, which allows the mortar, heavy machine gun and light machine gun units of the three regiments to keep up with the rapid march speed of ordinary infantry, which is a great improvement.

As long as a unit can be equipped with a large number of tricycles, heavy grenades, soldiers' rations, and even a lot of miscellaneous items can be easily transported, which can greatly reduce the soldiers' weight. Even if they rush to the battlefield, they will have enough physical strength to engage in battle as soon as possible.

Minister Zhang of the Logistics Department spent a huge amount of money to purchase hundreds of tons of natural rubber from Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, which was enough to produce a large number of bicycles.

Southeast Asia is still the territory of the Niu Niu Country. The Japanese devils cannot reach so far. We use US dollars and British pounds, which are hard currencies in the international arena. The Niu Niu Country is rushing to sell large amounts of rubber to us.

Kong Hao plans to increase the production of bicycles to 8 to 10 per month in the next two months. In addition to meeting the needs of the troops, a small number of bicycles will be rented to the people in the base for transportation.

The most popular vehicle among the people is still the human-powered tricycle, which can carry both goods and people. Some smart people have even rented more than a dozen tricycles for inter-town transportation. As long as you have some strength, you can earn your first pot of gold, and it is not impossible to become a big name in the industry in the future.

Of course, with more bicycles, roads need to be built. The base has now begun to build a large number of dirt roads that can only accommodate human-powered tricycles but not transport trucks, just to prevent the Japanese from attacking.

After confirming the smelter, it was almost evening. Kong Hao returned to his office and met with Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin to exchange various information.

When the two learned that our arsenal was able to mass-produce sulfa drugs, they were so happy that they couldn't control themselves. If it wasn't past dinner time, they would have dragged Kong Hao out for a drink.

The successful development of the new detonator also made the two men very happy, as it solved a major problem in the arsenal.

Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin talked about the actual situation of the factory that has already achieved mass production, and also raised some problems encountered in the production process.

According to the division of labor in the arsenal, Kong Hao was responsible for technology research and development and equipment production, while Director Ren and Political Commissar Qin were in charge of the mass production factory that was already on track.

The main reason is that the two of them don’t understand the research and development of new equipment, and they cannot do the kind of thing where outsiders guide insiders. This is the dawn of industrialization that China has finally welcomed, and everyone must carefully protect it.

Of course, there is other good news for the arsenal. For example, with the addition of the most advanced industrial mother machine, it has copied the equipment for processing the rifling of various firearms.

The bottleneck of the rifle and Mauser pistol production lines actually lies in the rifling process. Now that we can produce it ourselves, the output will definitely increase significantly.

According to the estimation of the technicians at the arsenal, after the introduction of the new equipment, as long as the raw materials can keep up, they can produce more than 6,000 rifles and about 3,000 Mauser pistols a month.

This is already a very great achievement, and it also means that more of our soldiers can be equipped with our own rifles, which are much better than those old-style sleeves and Hanyang rifles.

It can also standardize weapons so that some troops can have unified rifles, instead of having more than a dozen types of rifles in a regiment as before, which would be a nightmare for all logistics personnel.

Not only that, the arsenal has already developed equipment to rifle the barrels of the Czech light machine gun. The output is not high, about thirty guns a day, and it is mainly used to replace old guns that the troops have used for more than ten years.

It is very sad to say that the production history of many Czech-style light machine guns in our troops can be traced back to more than ten years ago. The rifling has been worn out and the bullets fired are flying around.

However, our troops still treat the old Czech light machine guns that can fire continuously as treasures. There is no other way. Our combat troops are extremely lacking in continuous-fire weapons that can suppress the enemy's attack. The Japanese like to use the pig-surfing tactics at every turn, and without automatic firearms, they cannot be stopped at all.

Kong Hao plans to use the light machine gun barrels that are just beginning to be produced to replace the machine gun barrels with very old rifling in the front-line combat units, which will also enhance the combat effectiveness of our troops.

Thirty gun barrels a day can replace almost a regiment of light machine guns, and the replacement can be completed in about three months at most.

By that time, the firepower of our troops at the squad and platoon levels will definitely be raised to a higher level, and we will be able to eliminate more Japanese devils.

As for why they did not directly produce Czech light machine guns, the main reason was the bullets. The output of the arsenal's bullet production line was still too low.

Currently, the entire arsenal can produce four million rounds of various bullets per month. Although it seems like a large number, if it is spread out evenly, it is actually not that much.

Moreover, according to the head of the headquarters, the bullets produced in a short period of time will be provided to rifles first. After all, a rifle may only need a few bullets to kill an enemy, while a light machine gun needs more than 20 to 30 bullets.

Currently, 6,000 rifles can be produced per month. Each rifle is equipped with 200 rounds of bullets, which requires 1.2 million rounds of bullets. The existing amount of bullets is simply not enough to be distributed.

What restricts the production of bullets is the lack of copper in our base. Even if we collect all the scrap copper and melt it, it is not enough. Since we have a bullet production line, the surrounding copper prices have increased several times.