Chapter 220: Joyful Equipment (2)
In addition to these must-haves, in addition, one of Liu Lang's most important individual weapons, the grenade has begun to take shape under the research of the research team led by Grunov, and it is believed that it will not be long before the melon-style grenade with stronger blasting ability and more carrying capacity will completely replace the long-handled grenade that the independent regiment is now equipped with and become the most powerful individual equipment for soldiers in close combat.
The grenadier that each squad has has actually just started Liu Lang doesn't really want to equip, that thing is a small-caliber small mortar, and the firing range is only a few hundred meters, except for the Japanese who have a soft spot for light artillery support, other countries don't need it at all, and it is better to learn from the American cowboys and Germans to engage in the guns and grenades that are popular in Europe.
However, considering that the Great Wall War of Resistance is imminent, Dr. Germain, who has been squeezed and is about to boil out, is really busy, so Liu Lang has temporarily stopped this thought, and can only develop the gun grenade that the American cowboys are about to develop that can fight armored vehicles. In order to fight against the grenadiers that the Japanese army could fire at close range, Liu Lang could only throw the grenadiers, the best imitation weapon, to Dr. Ge, who was oppressed by the capitalists with a high salary.
Grunov, who had gradually developed from a metal craft expert to a weapons manufacturing expert by Liu Lang, didn't look down on the simple and amazing grenadier at all, but in two or three days, he threw this prototype weapon of the Type 32 grenadier that he called chicken ribs to Liu Lang.
In two months, the Type 32 grenadier capable of firing a special grenade at a distance of 450 feet was frantically manufactured with more than 200 shots, and in Grunov's words, the process is too simple, and since the mold has been designed, it should not be wasted.
Liu Lang left more than 50 shots, and sold the rest to his uncle Liu Wenhui, although 150 grenadiers can increase some front-line firepower, but Liu Lang knows that the way to win or lose has been decided a long time ago, and it is by no means something that can be decided by these 150 grenadiers, and these grenadiers can only be used by Liu Xiang after the unification of Sichuan, and it can be regarded as more equipment for the Sichuan army who went out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese five years later!
There is no MG42 in the warehouse.
The MG42 prototype machine gun was manufactured by Grunov as early as a month ago, and the machine gun experimental team secretly established by Liu Lang in the past month has fired more than 80,000 rounds of ammunition with the prototype gun.
In fact, Liu Lang knows very well that with such a high rate of fire as MG42, even the Germans in historical time and space could only shoot 300 rounds at ordinary temperatures and had to replace the barrel, that is, in the vast land of the cold polar bear that can freeze off people's noses, MG42 can continue to shoot 600 rounds.
Liu Lang just wanted to use this to force Grunov to realize his genius design in replacing the barrel, although Liu Lang knew that he had done a good enough job in the past time and space, a simple wrench could remove the hot barrel, and a skilled machine gunner could change a barrel in 4 seconds.
But Liu Lang believes that human creativity is endless, and under pressure, Grunov may not be able to make more genius designs.
Liu Lang's gamble was right, perhaps at the beginning, Grunov did not have much confidence in the quality of the steel of the independent regimental steel plant, and had already racked his brains to consider how to replace the barrel more quickly. The genius design of the past is once again, but the addition of a small spring to help eject the barrel design reduces the barrel replacement time by another second.
It only takes three seconds for the MG42 to continue the torrent of bullets that it constantly spews, and in March next year, the Great Wall of northern China has a low temperature almost no less than that of Siberia, and the MG42, which can continue to fire more than 500 rounds with three spare barrels, can knock the Japanese Type 90 heavy machine gun out of the air.
In just another month, the MG42 will be ready for mass production, and the machine-gun shooters of the separate regiment will have at least three months to adapt, which is enough.
Liu Lang finally chose the Czech type of light machine gun at the class level, not only now that the independent regiment has more than 30 units in stock, but all of them use MG42, and the exaggerated figure of more than 80 light and heavy machine guns in the plan is not only a matter of the number of machine guns, Liu Lang is afraid that as soon as the war begins, the fragile logistics system will be collapsed by the sky-high number of bullets.
Each MG42 has almost always had a reserve base of 5,000 rounds, but that's not the final amount of a campaign, considering that the former Normandy butcher used up 10,000 rounds of ammunition in a single day, that horrific number is devastating just to think about.
Thirty MG42s with 200,000 rounds of ammunition are almost the limit that Liu Lang can bear. The Czech, with excellent performance and a magazine capacity of 20 rounds, can only be the first choice for squad machine guns.
Rao is like this, the number of Czech-style ammunition in the two infantry battalions is as high as 54 rounds in the plan, and the average infantry in each squad needs to carry an extra 80 rounds of ammunition, plus the 200 rounds of his own carrying capacity stipulated by Liu Lang, each infantry must carry up to 280 rounds of ammunition.
Of course, this small burden was directly ignored by the soldiers in the happiness that a platoon of other national armies only had two light machine guns, and now they can have a class of light machine guns in one squad. A bullet weighs only 10 grams, and 80 rounds are just over a pound, which is a bit of weight for the happiness of having a light machine gun covered by a dozen or so people, it's a fart!
The shortfall of nearly 30 light machine guns will arrive in half a month, along with the mortars purchased by Du Yuesheng at the Jinling Military Factory, and will first be transported by rail from the Longhai Line to Tongguan, and then by the Gou family in Tongguan to the base of the Independent Regiment. Although it can be faster to take the waterway, Liu Lang has reason to believe that even if it is a pass issued by the bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs, there is still a third of this batch of arms left in his hands to burn high incense, or it is safer and more appropriate to go to Shaanxi and Sichuan.
At the same time, the sheepskin individual water bag that the Gou family made at Liu Lang's request would also arrive with the escort, but the cost exceeded the pre-estimated piece of ocean, reaching 1 yuan and 5.
Liu Lang can feel the strong resentment of the long-legged beauty in the letter written to him by the beautiful head of the Gou family, the soft sheepskin can not be compared with the tenacity of the polymer material composed of countless high-tech combinations in later generations, and it is absolutely necessary to have extraordinary wisdom if you want the sheepskin bag to be filled with water and withstand the weight of an adult without breaking.
Presumably, the beautiful female head of the family has been doing her best to earn these thousands of oceans during this time! Therefore, in the face of the female homeowner's cautious "blackmail", Liu Lang agreed very angrily, but cut the freight by 20 percent, no more, no less, and it happened to be 1,500 oceans.
"Bastard." In the courtyard of the Gou family in Tongguan, Gou Saiyu looked at Liu Lang's reply, and his nose was almost crooked.
In order to study what Liu Lang said, she spent a lot of money every day with the old sheepskin craftsmen who spent a lot of money to study how to improve the pressure resistance of the sheepskin bag, and it took more than two months to find a way to let an adult man stand on the sheepskin bag filled with water without the water overflowing, and in order to reduce the transportation cost, she hired dozens of people to work day and night to complete the production of 3,000 bags before the independent regiment shipped from Nanjing needed the goods, for which countless human and financial resources were lost.
In order not to lose too much, he had the courage to raise the selling price by 50 percent, but he didn't expect Liu Lang to slash at the transportation fee and get the money back.
Although the transportation cost of 7,500 oceans does not seem low, but it is an ammunition, an arms that can make people lose their heads, and a full 400-person escort team has been fully armed for nearly a month, is 7,500 oceans a lot?
"Not much, but you can't get used to it, lest she think that our independent group is rich, we are poor, very poor." Liu Lang said this to Liang Wenzhong, who is in charge of logistics.
"Shouldn't the seized silver winter melon be exchanged for the Gou family?"
"It was seized, taken from the people, used for the people."
Liang Wenzhong nodded and thought it was true, there was nothing wrong with this reason of Langtuanza.
Liang Wenzhong, who was finally damaged by the waves, is definitely the second object of the beautiful female head of the family to draw circles and circle the villain in the future.