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

The main reason is that the functions of these two weapons are somewhat overlapping. At present, our light weapons have completely surpassed the enemy. It would feel a bit wasteful to equip the troops with a large number of grenade launchers.

A grenade launcher team requires two soldiers. If they are placed in an infantry squad, the organization of other personnel will be greatly compressed, affecting the output of firepower on the battlefield.

In the past, the Japanese liked to use pig-surface attacks at every turn. Our troops used a large number of grenade launchers to cover the battlefield from artillery fire. However, with our current weapons and equipment, if the enemy uses the pig-surface tactics, it is simply seeking death.

Moreover, the grenade launcher's offensive capability is not as good as the mortar, and its armor-piercing capability is not as good as the recoilless gun, so it is normal for it to be gradually eliminated.

But for other Chinese armies, this is a completely different concept, especially when they learned that they could obtain a large number of artillery shells and training shells from our base, they were all overjoyed.

In fact, if you really count it, the local armies have fought with the Japanese for so many years and have seized a lot of enemy weapons and equipment, including a large number of grenade launchers.

It's a pity that with China's industry, apart from being able to produce some grenades with low technical content, it is simply unable to produce special grenades suitable for use with grenade launchers. This has also led to many captured grenade launchers being left in warehouses gathering dust due to the lack of corresponding ammunition, and they are completely useless.

At present, the production of grenade launcher shells at our base is about 100,000 rounds per month, plus we have 600,000 rounds in stock. If all of them are provided to other local armies, it will definitely greatly enhance their strength.

The Sichuan Army has obtained such a large batch of weapons and equipment. As long as they are given some time, they can definitely raise an army of 100,000 people, and they will be an elite force with sufficient ammunition and high morale.

The main reason was that the Sichuan Army also purchased a large amount of canned meat, military uniforms, military backpacks and other military equipment from us, and even a mountain artillery battalion.

In the past, local troops were often bullied by the Nationalist government’s central army because they were not strong enough and had poor weapons and equipment. Now with our support, if the central army wants to bully others again in the future, it will not be so easy.

In addition to selling the large number of Mauser pistols we produced to local armies at low prices, a large number of them were also equipped to our guerrillas and village militias.

In the past, only the team leader of a guerrilla unit was qualified to carry a Mauser pistol. Now, a guerrilla unit of 20 people basically has three or four Mauser pistols, and their firepower is extremely fierce.

There were even many guerrillas behind enemy lines who all used Mauser pistols, and these teams were affectionately called "armed work teams behind enemy lines" by the common people.

You can imagine that in a small village in the enemy-occupied area, there are twenty armed workers hiding there with Mauser pistols. Once the puppet army or a small group of Japanese devils want to enter the village to steal things, they will probably be greeted by a torrential rain of bullets.

Today's China is no longer the China of the past. Our base has also built a complete military-industrial system. From the smelting of metal raw materials to the processing of various firearms and artillery parts, we can now achieve self-sufficiency.

In terms of heavy weapons, tanks and heavy howitzers have also entered the mass production stage, but the output is still relatively low. However, as long as the problem from 0 to 1 is solved, the next one to ten will become very simple.

At the same time, great progress has been made in the aircraft sector. Relevant factories and production lines have been built, starting with the most basic trainer aircraft assembly.

Kong Hao used transport planes to bring back a large number of trainer engines from the Kangaroo Country. Some of them were used to assemble new trainer aircraft, and some were used by R&D personnel to disassemble and imitate them.

In this era, any aircraft engine is extremely precious, and if China wants to get one, it will cost a huge price.

But in the industrial zone, the project team researchers dismantled five engines at once, just to allow our relevant personnel to get started as quickly as possible, and preferably to reverse-engineer the dimensions of all engine parts, and understand the principles of the engine through disassembly and assembly.

The Chinese nation is the smartest nation in the world. In the past, they did not have the opportunity and conditions to access the most cutting-edge technology. Now that they have finally waited for this opportunity, many scientists have simply moved into the research institute and are working intensively day and night.

When I’m tired, I find a place to take a nap, and when I wake up, I continue to work on the things at hand.

Most people basically work sixteen hours a day, and apart from one hour for meals, they only sleep four or five hours at most.

Fortunately, the logistical support in the industrial zone is now relatively sufficient, and all kinds of nutritional products are available, such as sweetened soy milk, which is stored in an insulated bucket. There is one in each office, so anyone who feels sleepy or tired can take it.

Thanks to the tireless work of a large number of scientific researchers, we have now mastered the relevant technology of aircraft engines. Perhaps after Kong Hao completes the task in Shanghai, the aircraft we imitate will be able to fly into the blue sky and protect our sky.

By the way, thanks to the large number of 60mm mortars equipped by our troops, they dealt a heavy blow to the enemy's grenadiers.

Especially in squadron-scale battles, the enemy rarely equipped with Type 92 infantry guns, but our infantry company was equipped with mortars and had no shortage of shells, so we could bombard beyond the range of grenade launchers.

Faced with this situation, the Japanese soldiers could only take the beating and could not fight back. They used their heads to hit our mortar shells. As for the result, you can imagine it.

At the same time, we often instruct our artillery to give priority to killing the enemy's grenade throwers in small-scale battles.

For example, if one of our infantry companies can kill one enemy grenade launcher in a month, so many companies combined can eliminate thousands of grenade launchers of the Japanese.

With our current strength, as long as we operate properly, we can take advantage of the favorable terrain to wipe out an entire enemy battalion, and an enemy battalion is equipped with nine grenade launchers.

It is not an easy task for the enemy to train a qualified grenade launcher. These soldiers must first have a certain level of education, then undergo one to two months of basic infantry training, and then special grenade launcher training.

During the training period, four grenade launcher grenades were fired almost every day, which lasted for about two months. The entire training cycle lasted for four months.

Let's do some calculations. An enemy grenade thrower consumes at least 100 grenades during training, which costs about 200 yen. If converted into US dollars, it is about 100 US dollars.