Chapter 502 TJ-37 assault rifle

"7 mm?" Bai Chongxi took the new gun and looked left and right for a long time, curious, but also a little disappreciative in his heart. At this time, in the eyes of many people, smaller-caliber bullets generally represent the power of the gun, and the devil is using 6.5 mm.

The Gui Department had used the devil's 38 style before, but it was only a small amount when he was cooperating with people.

The military industry of the Gui system is very weak, and the weapons used are relatively miscellaneous. Because of the influence of the French in Guangxi and Vietnam, at the beginning, it was mainly based on legal weapons. Both the M1986 and the M1916 have a larger caliber of 8 mm, and even the M1936 rifles, which were newly equipped by the French before the war, use 7.5 mm bullets. Before the Anti-Japanese War, the Gui Department gradually purchased tens of thousands of 7.92mm German rifles.

But either way, he felt that it was more powerful than the devil's small-caliber bullets. At this time, the 7 mm made by the vanguard army made him a little contemptuous.

He was not the only one who thought so, but the vast majority of the people in the mission were in this way. In the thirties, there was not much of a small caliber millimeter that had much of a say in the mainstream. Of course, this small caliber in the eyes of everyone is not less than 6 mm in later generations, but less than 7 mm. The 6.5 mm of the devil is naturally listed as a small-caliber series.

"This gun is more suitable for the Chinese system, the recoil of 7 mm is small, and the accuracy rate is much improved!" Yang Jie has a good understanding of the 38 style of devils, and has also done some research on the application and logistics of weapons. The German rifle is powerful, but the recoil is large, and it is not very suitable for the system of the Chinese.

"Is this a machine gun?" Qiu Qingquan next to him pointed to several of the same guns on the shelf next to him and interjected.

Yang Jie glanced at him, but didn't say anything. The shape and structure of this gun makes it noticeable that it is different from ordinary rifles at a glance. Everyone has long wondered if this is a submachine gun?

"It's a rifle! Assault rifle! Woodson said proudly.

Bai Chongxi flipped over the assault rifle in his hand and found its nameplate on one side, with several Latin letters and Arabic numerals on it. The one that starts with J37 is J37.

"This 37 is ......?" J he understands, he has long heard that the vanguard here is marked with a lot of pinyin abbreviations that use the Latin alphabet, this j must be the assault pinyin abbreviation of the assault rifle, but what does this 37 mean, is it that it was developed in 37 AD? Thinking of this, he opened his mouth to ask questions, in order to learn more secrets from the Vanguard Army.

"This year is the year 4637 of the Yellow Emperor, and we will commemorate the birth of Xinqiang with two digits in the back." Hearing Bai Chongxi's inquiry, a smile appeared on Woodson's face. Although this gun is the main designer, it contains the efforts of everyone. Including the prototype of the A1 type, it is also the collective effort of the group under his leadership.

And this new and improved assault rifle is the result of more people's efforts.

Since the start of the European War, Meng Xiang has had an early eye on the military talents in Europe. When Czechoslovakia fell, the vanguard army brought in a number of high-ranking mechanics and engineers who were unwilling to serve the Germans. In 20-40 years, it was a golden age for the development of light weapons in Czechoslovakia, and the most shining of them was the Sesca in the city of Buon. Borjofoka Arsenal. At that time, Z's daimyo was among the world's strongest people, and he was a famous man until later generations.

The Czech Republic has always had a developed arms industry, and the Brno State Arsenal, which produces Czech ZB-26 light machine guns, has also been scavenged by Meng Xiang for a lot of talents.

Similarly, when the German tanks ran over Belgium, the vanguard army also pulled out a lot of mechanics and engineers in the famous Belgian company FN.

In this way, the military industry of the vanguard army was strengthened all at once.

In order to concentrate the scientific research and technological strength at hand, Meng Xiang made a major adjustment of the resources of the arsenal in the theater.

In the early days, there were four major arsenals in China, and at the beginning, they were Shanghai, Jinling, Hanyang and Gongxian, such as Shanghai, Hanyang and Jinling, which gradually arose during the Westernization Movement. Gongxian County was established in 15 years by Yuan Shikai to unify the whole industry, and after several administrations, the scale has become larger and larger.

Later, after the central government merged Jinling and Shanghai, it formed one, and the Shenyang Arsenal in the northeast also grew rapidly with the intentional support of people, and became one of the four major arsenals. In fact, Yan Xishan's Taiyuan Arsenal should also be counted, but most of Lao Yan's arsenal only served the Jin army and had little influence in the country, so it was not included. However, the strength should not be underestimated, and even the Thompson submachine gun with a complex structure can be manufactured in small batches.

Other local warlords also had smaller arsenals, such as Han Fuyu, who once set up an arsenal after Jinan annexed the Jinan Machinery Bureau. The original Sichuan Machinery Bureau and Tianjin Machinery Bureau also had the production of ordnance. Liuzhou in Guangxi, Zhuzhou in Hunan, Qingyuan in Guangdong and other places also have arsenals.

However, all this has changed a lot after the devil invaded China. In the previous life, most of them were concentrated in Chongqing. And because of the emergence of the vanguard army at this time, most of the domestic military and industrial forces were concentrated in the joint theater.

After Meng Xiang took over Lao Han's power, he assumed the framework of the military industry, and the main force of the Jinan Arsenal moved to the area of Qidu and Zhangqiu. Later, it was adjusted to the vicinity of Boshan Zichuan in Qidu. This is just a small start.

Later, he continued to receive talents from the arsenals in Shanghai and Nanjing, and after the evacuation of the Gongyi Arsenal, some of the talents left behind were also collected by Meng Xiang. There were only more than 4,000 skilled workers left in Gongxian County that year, and the Gongxian area fell late in history, but because this time and space fell earlier, most of them were collected by the vanguard army.

The skilled workers of the Shenyang Arsenal in the northeast were also smuggled back by the Pioneer Army; When Wuhan was evacuated, many of them followed the vanguard army to the joint theater; Some ordnance engineers in Chongqing and other places were also attracted by the preferential treatment and the stable and progressive environment of the vanguard army, and ran to the joint theater. The vanguard army has never put down the hoe that digs the foot of the wall.

More and more technical personnel and workers are concentrated in the vanguard army, and at the beginning of this year, the number of workers from all over the country in the ordnance system counted by Zhou Bai has exceeded 60,000. The arsenal on the territory of the Vanguard Army is not only a workshop near Qidu.

At the beginning of this year, Meng Xiang made some adjustments to his arsenal, which was temporarily divided into five places.

They are the arsenal in the south of Qidu, the re-established Taiyuan and Gongxian arsenals, and the arsenal near Baoji. The Baoji Arsenal was newly built facing the northwest, and in the face of the threat from the north, Meng Xiang also planned an arsenal in Baotou. Taiyuan and Gongxian are recovering, while Baoji and Baotou have only just started construction.

Because of the support of the base, the two areas of Baoji and Baotou initially only provided simple logistics services. In the future, it will eventually become the main production area of the ordnance industry, which is adjacent to the Hanzhong region and the Ordos region. These two places are an excellent third-line resettlement site, and the other is the Ruhr industrial area planned by Mung Xiang in the future, which is suitable for the construction of a strategic-level arsenal.

At this time, there was a shortage of technicians and workers in China, and the munitions of the vanguard army were all base goods. Although they have the brand of an arsenal, at this time they are mainly focusing on research and military-to-civilian projects. The conversion of military to civilian does not mean that the technical content is low, and some civilian machine manufacturing is not low in technology at all, and they are not afraid of not touching the gun for a long time and becoming skilled.

However, Meng Xiang has always wanted to master his own military industrial force. The munitions industry could not be dragged out, and after screening, the streamlined 30,000 people formed the vanguard army of soldiers. Although there are many technicians among them, and there are other mechanical projects to support them, it is not the same thing that so many people are not engaged in military production all the time.

Meng Xiang didn't plan to let them produce guns and ammunition that could be provided cheaply by those bases, so he was in a hurry to develop new products. The assault rifle in Woodson's hand is the top priority, so Meng Xiang organized a lot of talents to optimize it.

Because it is a 7mm caliber, the 7mm stockless assault rifle of the British EM2 after World War II, as well as the 7mm series specially designed for the British in the FL automatic rifle, have become the reference object of the J-37 this time. In the end, the birth of the first assault rifle in China was achieved.

In this regard, Woodson did not dare to take credit, and rejected Meng Xiang's proposed code name with his initials, but chose the assault pinyin abbreviation of the assault rifle to begin, and used 37 as a footnote, in this way to vote in favor of the discussion on restoring the Yellow Emperor era that was being discussed in the war zone.

"The Yellow Emperor?" Dai Anlan recited silently. The glory of the ancestors of China has made every Chinese person today feel sorry.

"Can you give it a try?" Qiu Qingquan pointed to the assault rifle and looked at the gun target in the distance.

Meng Xiang nodded, and immediately a soldier came over, picked up an assault rifle, loaded the ammunition, and handed it over with both hands.

Qiu Qingquan was not polite, and according to the instructions of Woodson next to him, he opened the insurance, aimed at the target 300 meters away, and pulled the trigger.

"Da!" After a crisp single shot, Qiu Qingquan did not stop, still aimed at the target in the distance, and adjusted to the state of continuous fire according to what Woodson said.

"Da Da Da!" After three consecutive shots, Qiu Qingquan stopped, looked at the gun again, turned around and grinned, and re-aimed at the target in the distance.

......This time, he finished the magazine of 30 rounds in one go, then put down the gun and handed it to the soldier next to him, raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Yes, happy!" ”

"It's a pleasure, it's just a waste of bullets!" Liao Yaohui next to him sighed.

When the other members of the group heard this, they looked at each other and said nothing. Everyone knows the luxury of the vanguard army to fight. Not only are the guns good, but the bullets and shells are smashed like no money. Some joke that the victory of the vanguard army was smashed with ammunition, and everyone was willing to bow to the upper hand, not to mention the ranks of the Central Army and other local warlords. Even the Germans sighed to themselves, knowing that when the Germans were still heavily armed with Mauser rifles, the Sommy Charge Flag had already begun to be popularized in the vanguard army.

There were also many people who criticized the waste of the vanguard army. Some people even instigated behind the scenes, preaching that the vanguard army should be distributed to other armies that lacked weapons and ammunition to fight the Japanese together.

"We have been fighting against Japan, and those ammunition have also fallen on the heads of the devils, not on the backs of our compatriots!" Meng Xiang sealed the instigator back with one sentence of this. Joke, this thing or common property?

Some people have no choice but to look for the overseas Chinese organizations in Meng Xiang's mouth, hoping to attract some donations. And more people just stared at the vanguard army and squandered ammunition and envied, and could only sigh that the vanguard army had a good commander with money. Meng Xiang's views that "I would rather exchange a hundred shells for the life of a pioneer soldier" are already known to everyone.

In this regard, many people still appreciate and agree. But others can't. The point is that it is too expensive, and in the era when the vast majority of ammunition in China relied on imports, it was simply impossible to maintain.

Therefore, when everyone tried this assault rifle, they praised it in unison, but also regretted it.

"It's a light machine gun!" Bai Chongxi sighed. Everyone also saw that this is not like a submachine gun, the shooting distance is long, everyone saw the target just now, the shooting accuracy at 300 meters is still very high, and the power is not as small as imagined. Such a lightweight rifle comparable to a submachine gun can be easily used by individual soldiers, so that the tactical arrangement is more flexible.

"How much is this rifle produced?" He asked seemingly casually, but everyone listened. This kind of weapon, which can be used instead of submachine guns, is a powerful assault force when equipped with elites.

"It's just starting to organize production, and the output is not much!" Xie Chengrui replied with a smile, but he was also full of emotion in his heart. He, who was just a school-level regiment leader three years ago, is facing a group of bigwigs in the past at this time, which naturally makes him, a person who was once listed as killed by the central government, feel a lot of emotion. At the beginning, after being killed, he couldn't find his original position, and at this time he was already in charge.

However, he was right, the J-37 rifle was indeed optimized repeatedly before it began to be produced.

Since many materials are inclined to civilian use to build an industrial base and stabilize the economy of the theater, some materials have relatively few resources when they are not localized. For example, special steel for firearms.

Firearms production is not just ordinary steel can be used. In particular, the barrel is some alloy steel containing chromium molybdenum. Through the raids of the Czech Republic and Belgium, as well as the metallurgical technology exchanged from the Germans, the vanguard was able to produce at this time, but the production was relatively low. It is mainly used for research and improvement. At this time, Meng Xiang still used the base resources to deal with it.

At that time, the 1893 model rifle produced by Mauser for Spain was 7 mm, and the Americans were inspired by this to produce their own Mauser, that is, the Springfield M1903 rifle.

In addition, both the Mauser Type 94 and the Type 95, designed for the Boers, were 7 mm.

The length of the barrel of the Type 93 is 740 mm, which is sufficient for the barrel of the J-37.

Of course, the durability of these treated barrels is a little worse than that of more advanced barrels such as the EM2, but the quality of the base build is still consistent, and the maximum number of shots is a little less. But in order not to let a large group of ordnance workers waiting for work get stuck in the bottleneck of special alloy steel barrels, this batch of J-37 models equipped with relatively cheap 7mm barrels can only be regarded as a temporary countermeasure, and there are only a few.

And the production of special alloy steels for new barrels is slowly expanding, and the production of such a J-37B type is becoming mainstream.

Other accessories or something, the requirements are relatively low, there are alternatives can be replaced, and those that are not made by themselves.

In addition to the gun accident, two lines of 7mm ammunition purchased from the Germans have just been placed in Qidu and Gong counties. At this time, the ordnance engineers of the vanguard army dismantled and studied the one in Qidu and were preparing to make their own bullet production line.

It seems to be a small bullet, but the production of bullets is more complex and troublesome than the production of guns, involving several aspects such as machinery manufacturing and chemical industry. Fortunately, the industrial base of the vanguard army has begun to be perfected, and the raw materials needed for the production of bullets have been prepared.

However, it did just start. Meng Xiang has the base in hand, and there are many substitutes, and he is not in a hurry, but he just wants to slowly let the entire production system of J-37 rifles run in and coordinate.

“j！ Assault rifle. Not bad! You can take it, charge ahead, and assault the enemy's position! Bai Chongxi didn't get the answer he wanted to hear, so he had to divert the topic and take this lightweight weapon and praised.

Meng Xiang couldn't help but feel the corners of his mouth when he heard what he said, and he couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.

When Woodson did not agree to name his name with the letter abbreviation, and insisted on using the abbreviation of the letter "J" for assault, Meng Xiang felt a toothache. The pharmacist Tang next to him was still a good one:

"Assault, nice, very loud name. j, this can also be homophonic for the heavenly machine, which can be described as a heavenly ingenuity! Hehe! Tang Yaoshi only considered it from the jealousy of insiders and the fact that it was easy to cause fame and fame, and was worried that it would be unfavorable to Meng Xiang, who proposed to name the gun after Woodson, and also supported the abbreviation of using the pinyin letter of J, and specially pulled a heavenly explanation.

But he didn't find that Meng Xiang's cheeks next to him were about to suffocate.

The two letters "j" are very powerful in the Internet era of later generations, whether it is the homonym of "training" or the expression of "eunuch", it makes Meng Xiang cry and laugh. Could it be that this generation of famous guns organized by himself will be the guns of training, Meng Xiang flashed the image of a golden gun in his mind, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

"Thankfully, it's much better than the eunuch's spear." Meng Xiang secretly wiped his cold sweat. Seeing that Woodson insisted again and again, and was only willing to mark an abbreviated letter with his surname on an inconspicuous corner, Meng Xiang couldn't think of a more powerful name than "Assault" for a while, so he had to use the "J" logo. Thus the world's most famous "J" firearms series was achieved.

Bai Chongxi next to him didn't notice the unnaturalness of Meng Xiang's expression at this time, he only thought about this assault rifle in his heart at this time. He would never have thought that the assault rifles produced by the Vanguard Army were only equipped with elite troops. Most likely, the deep-pocketed vanguard army will slowly popularize this rifle.

"If the vanguard army reloads all the submachine guns with this kind of weapon, how can they resist them in the future?" Although Bai Chongxi had a smile of interest on his face, his heart was churning at this time. The gap in fire between the submachine guns and machine guns of the Vanguard that he had previously found was also filled with assault rifles, who would be able to stop the Vanguard in the future?

His heart was churning, but there seemed to be a piece of iron pressing on it, and the weight made him feel uncomfortable.

"This is a Browning pistol?" At this time, Qiu Qingquan's inquiry interrupted his thoughts.

In the end, he smiled bitterly in his heart and laughed at himself: "Even without this weapon, we can't stop the vanguard army." What's the difference if you have more of this? I hope their guns are outward, not inward! ”

Then, Bai Chongxi looked at the pistol in Qiu Qingquan's hand.

The black pistol looked like an M1935 Bai Langning's 9mm high-power pistol, but Bai Chongxi felt a little strange.

"Your own M1935 Browning?" Liao Yaohui next to him had already asked in surprise.

"This is not the M1935, this is our modified 9mm pistol!" Xie Chengrui said with a little pride. In fact, he doesn't know that this is still Browning, but it is not the current version, but a modified version that has been imitated since World War II.