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Chapter 444 Imitation Weapon
After leaving Wuhan and arriving in Singapore, Li Mu decided to purchase food first, thinking about the large-scale influx of people in Nanyang.

[-] tons of wheat, [-] tons of rice, [-] tons of soybeans, and [-] tons of sugar just filled the space.

I didn't stay long, and soon returned to China. As soon as I got off the plane in Wuhan, I was stunned by the situation in front of me.

The flow of people on the streets of Hankou not only did not decrease, but increased, and there were chaotic crowds with their families and families everywhere.

Li Mu asked someone to inquire and found out the reason.This time, Xiaobenzi's marching route is along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, and Guofu also plans to block along the north and north banks of the Yangtze River.

The north and south banks of the Yangtze River have always been prosperous places, and there are many port cities. When a war breaks out, no one will believe that these cities will not be affected.

Ever since, a larger flow of people, more people, dragging their families and families, began to move westward.

Although most of them went to the southwest, some moved to Nanyang and the northwest.

Li Mu took a motorboat and returned to Nanyang on the Hanshui River. There were more than ten times the number of boats on the Hanshui River than usual. Most of them transported personnel and various materials, and some of them transported various machinery and equipment. relocated factory.

When I returned to Nanyang, the wide and flat road after rest was even darker, and there was an endless stream of people dragging their families with them, all of whom were fleeing westward.

Afterwards, Li Mu found the person in charge of the organization that specially received these streams of people, looked at their statistics, and was also surprised.

A few days ago, it was better, only 8 to [-] people per day. In recent days, the influx of such people every day has reached as high as [-] to [-] people.

This is far from the end, and the influx of people is increasing every day.Nanyang is also under great pressure now.So many people who fled to the west may have brought some belongings with them, but it is impossible to bring much food, and they always have to eat.

In addition, according to Li Mu's previous rules, for those who fled to Nanyang, they need to arrange simple board and lodging until they can find a job that can make a living.

Although, some people with extra money can't adapt to this simple food and accommodation, and will spend money to live in hotels, rent houses, and buy food by themselves.The remaining large number of people are still under great pressure for Nanyang.

This is also because Nanyang is so attractive today. A large number of people who moved to the northwest originally passed through Nanyang and found that the prices here are cheap, the law and order are good, and the government is excellent... The refugees and people who moved west are also treated very well, so they stopped. Down, not going to leave.

Fortunately, Li Mu started enough large-scale projects some time ago, which can absorb a lot of labor in a short period of time. Basically, when these refugees come to Nanyang Depot, they will be arranged to work within a few days, and the whole family can have a meal. eat.

For those who have some spare money, they can easily find a job without worrying about food and clothing in a short period of time.

The influx of so many people has brought another problem, and food prices seem to be starting to rise again.Not only in Nanyang, but also in the southwest and northwest, grain prices have started to rise.

As the saying goes, Huguang is well-cooked in the world. As the capital of Hubei, if Wuhan is lost this time, food prices may rise further.

Reflecting on the specifics, the grain store that Li Mu set up specially to stabilize grain prices, and the dozens of grain stores opened below, the long queues to buy grain every day are getting longer.

Many people, even if they lined up for a whole day, couldn't get their turn and couldn't buy a grain of grain. This further caused panic and caused the price of grain to rise.

Fortunately, Li Mu purchased a large amount of grain this time, and he can still handle it for a while.

However, this is not the solution, and some changes must be made.Firstly, people who are really short of food cannot be deprived of food; secondly, they cannot sell food without restriction, after all, it is not easy to purchase food from abroad.

In the end, Li Mu adopted a compromise method. On the one hand, he increased the number of grain stores, and on the other hand, he reduced the amount of single purchases per person.

In Nanyang City, the number of grain stores has increased to seven, and in the counties below, the number of grain stores has increased to two to three depending on the population.The number of grain stores increased directly from a dozen to more than 30, which greatly diverted the long queues and made it possible for most people in the queue to buy.

However, the amount of grain purchased by a single person at a time has also been reduced from fifty catties to thirty catties.

At the same time, the flour produced by the flour mill has also been reduced from [-] catties per bag to [-] catties per bag, which happens to be limited to one bag at a time.

After arranging the affairs here, Li Mu flew to Singapore again. While the civil aviation in Wuhan was still in operation, he had to make a few more trips.

This time, Li Mu increased the proportion of rice purchased, [-] tons of wheat, [-] tons of rice, [-] tons of sugar, and several thousand tons of raw materials for explosives and steel.

Most of the people who fled and moved westward came from the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, and many of them ate rice.

In this way, Li Mu went back and forth to purchase food three times in a row. On the fourth time, just after landing in Singapore, he heard the news that Hankou was hit by a large-scale air raid, including the civil aviation airport. The civil aviation in Wuhan was temporarily suspended.

Li Mu doesn't know if the flight will resume in the future, but it is unlikely. Even if there is, it will only be used for special planes or transport planes, and civil aviation is unlikely.

Fortunately, there is finally some good news here, the batch of weapons he ordered has arrived.Arriving together, there is also the batch he ordered some time ago, the equipment needed to produce penicillin.

这些武器总共有：毛瑟98k步枪十万杆；捷克产LT-38轻型坦八十辆；射程超过九公里的博福斯M1930型75毫米山炮五十门；捷克式轻机枪三千挺的订单；可以打穿坦克和装甲车的M2重机枪五百挺。

After purchasing a large amount of military supplies and arranging domestic personnel to go to Luoyang to pick him up, Li Mu got on the plane.

From Singapore to Bangkok, from Bangkok to Hanoi, from Hanoi to Kunming, Wuhan Civil Aviation Airport was bombed, and the air route to Wuhan was temporarily abolished. Li Mu bought a ticket to Chongqing.

He was not afraid that someone would recognize his identity. Li Mu had already handled dozens of real identities through Muwu Trading Company and Nanyang.Even through the Far East Trading Company, he fabricated several foreign identities that could also be faked.

In addition, he has a little research in makeup, so it is not difficult to change a little appearance.

This is also the reason why he traveled so many times to and from home and abroad without attracting anyone's attention.

Because every time he buys a plane ticket, he will change his identity. For example, from Singapore to Bangkok, he will use one identity to buy the plane ticket; After getting off the plane in Hanoi, he will change to another identity to buy a plane ticket to Kunming; the same is true for flying from Kunming, he will change another identity to buy a plane ticket.

In this way, with so many identities intertwined, no one noticed at all, and no one believed that he would fly so frequently to and from home and abroad.

The plane arrived in Chongqing very quickly. Due to the influx of a large number of people, the place was also chaotic at this time. He was lucky, and there was a civil aviation flight passing through Luoyang the next day.This kind of passenger tributary route usually has at most two flights a week.

Li Mu didn't stay here any longer, and got on the plane to Luoyang the next day.After getting off the plane, the person who picked up the plane here had already been arranged, and they didn't stay long, and went back to Nanyang directly.

The war is imminent, and the air route is also in a state of semi-interruption. Next, let's deal with the domestic situation well.

The first is to strengthen the training of the 98 militia reserves. Except for the busy farming season, the previous one-week training in January has been changed to the current January training for two weeks. The purchase of so many Mauser [-]k this time is for this purpose.

For the extra time, Li Mu will give a certain amount of subsidies to ensure that a certain amount of combat power can be formed as soon as possible.

In addition, of the 30 light tanks purchased this time, Li Mu directly took out more than [-] and allocated them to the forward armored battalion. Some of them made up for the loss of the front line during this period, and some of them strengthened the firepower and combat effectiveness of the armored battalion.

With the remaining more than 40 tanks, Li Mu once again set up an armored battalion as a defensive force in Nanyang.

In addition, apart from the fifty mountain cannons procured this time, apart from a part allocated to the front line, to make up for the war loss and strengthen the firepower of the artillery battalion, the rest Li Mu set up another artillery battalion.

After finishing all this work, Li Mu had a thought that had been in his heart for a long time. With the current talent pool and industrial strength of Nanyang, is it possible to imitate or even independently develop and create some weapons.

Li Mu's first target is the "throwing grenade", which is also called an ultra-light mortar. In the army that is mainly equipped with small books, the caliber is below 50MM, and it is carried by an individual soldier and does not occupy the establishment.

The main features are large firing angle, curved trajectory, and short range.It is mainly used to kill and injure enemy troops hiding behind fortifications and concealed objects, or to kill and injure the enemy's active force at a long distance.

The operation is also convenient, and it can be carried by a single soldier, move with the front-line infantry, and support the front-line infantry.Concealment is also very strong.

Moreover, in addition to launching special grenades, grenades can also launch standard grenades, but grenades are not good at holding air when used as artillery shells, and the range is about 200 meters.

In terms of convenience, it is much better than a mortar.

Naturally, during the Anti-Japanese War, this weapon also caused the domestic army to suffer a lot.Want to purchase similar weapons from abroad, but there are very few foreign countries.The main reason is that this kind of weapon is useless in the European battlefield. People are bombarded with cannons a few kilometers away, and the grenades can't touch the edge at all.

In the domestic battlefield, this weapon is like a fish in water, making the army miserable.

Of course, at that time, the domestic army also seized many grenades, and then imitated them.However, due to the shortage of various materials, the output was not as much as imagined.

These are not problems for Li Mu.

He valued two features of this weapon the most: First, it is light in weight, easy to carry, and can provide timely fire support.

Just like Xiaobenzi's well-known [-]-type grenade launcher, it weighs less than three kilograms, much lighter than a rifle, and is very suitable for individual soldiers to carry.

The Type 0.45 grenade weighs only 3.6 kilograms, and an ammunition bag containing eight rounds weighs only 7 kilograms. With grenades added, the entire combat system weighs less than [-] kilograms, which is lighter than a Czech light machine gun.

Moreover, due to its light weight, the grenadier team will not be able to fight with the front-line infantry in time due to the heavy load like the mortar team or the heavy machine gun team.In actual combat, the grenadier team can even charge with the infantry.

The second advantage is also the reason why Li Mu is determined to imitate, the power is good, the cost is low, and the craftsmanship used is not high.

As long as there are materials, prototypes, and a certain level of technology, they can be imitated quickly.

It just so happened that in the battle of Lanfeng, a large number of grenades were seized, and there were enough prototypes for reference.

Soon, a weapons and equipment research and development institute was established consisting of engineering professors and students from several universities who had relocated to Nanyang, as well as relevant technical personnel recruited during this period.

Part of the manpower is to imitate and optimize the grenade, and strive for mass production as soon as possible.

The other part of the staff is developing another weapon proposed by Li Mu, the Sten submachine gun.

The production technology of this weapon is equally simple and crude.But at the same time, it was also a famous World War II gun, which made great contributions to the Allied Forces. During World War II, more than 300 million guns were produced.

In the early days of World War II, the British army was not equipped with standard submachine guns. Facing the German troops with a large number of automatic light weapons, they were clearly at a disadvantage in terms of individual firepower. In 1940, the British expeditionary force in France retreated from Dunkirk. Although the retreat was successful, a large number of weapons were thrown on the beach by the troops.

At that time, the United Kingdom was expanding its land, sea, and air forces, and there was a shortage of all kinds of weapons, not only weapons, but also money.

So the Sten submachine gun.

It has simple structure, low cost and rough production process.The vast majority of components are stamped, with only the bolt and barrel requiring machine work.

The butt is welded by a steel bar and a steel plate, and the gun body is a steel pipe, and the spring inside can be seen through the bolt slot.

However, although the crude looks nondescript, the firepower and stability are good.

However, there are advantages and disadvantages.Although this submachine gun has the advantages of cheap price and fast production, but because of its structure and technology, it is too simple and rough, and it also has the disadvantage of unstable performance.The entire Sten submachine gun has only 47 parts, 45 of which are directly stamped and formed, have a short service life and are very easy to damage.

In addition, in order to reduce the processing steps, there are only two rifling lines in the barrel of this gun, which makes the accuracy of this gun very low, and the bullets will float around when fired.

And because of its too simple design, this gun is also very easy to jam and misfire.Plus a rough look.In World War II, although the Allied forces were equipped with more than 300 million guns, everyone hated it and gave him an alias "stinky gun".

When some soldiers passed by the field where Sten submachine guns were being packed out, they would pretend to cover their noses and snort, "It stinks."

However, despite so many shortcomings.However, due to its low production cost, simple production process, and low technical requirements, this weapon has been mass-produced in a short period of time.

It has become one of the main melee weapons of the Allies, especially the British.

Such a weapon, in the hands of the Allies, would be considered disgusting.If it is put in the country, it will definitely be very popular.

Before coming to this world, he simply memorized some information, including the general structure and craftsmanship of the Sten submachine gun.The main thing is to consider before coming here that with the domestic industrial level during the Anti-Japanese War, only submachine guns of this level can be produced.Give a complete drawing of a Thompson submachine gun, and you can't produce it.

Fortunately, the power and stability of this gun are really good.

Afterwards, Li Mu drew the general craftsmanship and structure of the firearm, and asked these professors and technicians to develop the prototype as soon as possible.

Now some arsenals in China can imitate Czech light machine guns. It should not be too difficult to produce such a rough submachine gun.

(End of this chapter)