Traveling through the sword to engage in military industry.

Chapter 125 The time is ripe and we are ready to go to Kuncheng
After one day of installation and debugging, Nangou's first boring machine successfully completed operation.

Be it Ren Zhong, the chemical engineering class that participated in this event, or the special observation team brought by Gao Kaiming, everyone was extremely excited.

This is not only the first boring machine in the base, but also the first independently produced boring machine in China in this time and space. Of course, some parts are provided by Ren Zhong through a special channel, so there is no need to worry about these details.

According to Ren Zhong's naming habit, this boring machine was named Red Star T680 - although no one understood why the number started from 680, just like the lathe was also named Red Star C6410 by Ren Zhong, but no one had any objection to this. As the inventor of these products, Ren Zhong had the right to name them.

However, after the boring machine was produced, it was a little embarrassing because no one present had ever operated such a machine. Fortunately, Ren Zhong did not forget this. He made fifty booklets with the operating instructions of the T680 boring machine from the main plane and brought them to Nangou.

Everyone looked at the instruction manual and learned how to operate it little by little. Gao Kaiming, as the main learner and practitioner, was the first to complete a 56 semi-automatic component processing.

Then gradually the second and third ones appeared.
The success of the boring machine has enabled Nangou Ordnance to have preliminary mechanical processing capabilities, and began to manufacture and process parts for weapons such as the 56 semi-automatic rifle and grenade launchers. Now, after being manually forged, the strength of carbon steel is basically enough for these light weapons. Although the service life of these parts may be only half of the life of the parts brought by Ren Zhong from the main world, at this critical juncture, life span is not a big problem.

No matter how bad it is, it is still better than the old sleeve with the rifling worn out.

With a boring machine, it is also possible to perform rifling processing on the grenade launcher.

While Gao Kaiming and his colleagues were working day and night to test the functions of the boring machines, the 4th and 5th Red Star C6410s developed by Ren Zhong were also successfully replicated in Nangou.

As an industrial mother machine, the core components of Red Star C6410 are still produced by Chengxin Machinery Processing Factory in the main world. According to Ren Zhong’s plan, he plans to produce of them first!

Although using a lathe to cut workpieces into special shapes, such as spiral grooves and gear shapes, is relatively more complicated and laborious than using a professional milling machine, the production of this machine tool is now relatively mature. Nangou completed the casting of two sets of lathe castings in just one month.

If these large castings did not require sufficient time to cool naturally, the lathe production cycle would be shorter. However, in this world, there is a lack of qualified cooling oil, and natural cooling must take such a long time to ensure stable quality.

But these are not problems. Now the number of skilled workers in model manufacturing has increased significantly, and both Yangcun and Nangou have the capacity to produce two sets of machine tool castings at the same time.

After the first boring machine in Nangou was produced, Ren Zhong in Yangcun had already delivered two sets of core components of the boring machine through the cross-location shuttle function.

In this way, within about a month, two new T680 boring machines will be born in Yangcun. By August, Yangcun will have 8 C2 lathes, 6410 T2 boring machines and 680 J2 punching machines - these have basically reached the limit supported by the 23-kilowatt hydraulic generator and can no longer be expanded.

At the headquarters arsenal, based on its own power supply situation, it was able to add two C2 lathes and could not add any more. There was no other way because there was a lack of conditions for hydroelectric power generation, and the factory was still using diesel generators seized from the Japanese to generate electricity.

There is no bottleneck in electricity supply in Nangou for the time being. The planned four-level cascade hydropower generation can theoretically output 4 kilowatts, and the power of each machine tool is 200 kilowatts. The entire Nangou production base can theoretically add 7.5 machine tools!
Of course, the area of ​​the cave in Nangou may not be able to accommodate so many machine tools and related workers working at the same time. However, according to Renzhong's plan, the Nangou base will have at least 7 lathes, 3 boring machines and 2 punching machines.

Only a small number are reserved for subsequent milling machines, planers and other new function machine tools. The three types of machine tools currently developed can lay the foundation for the production of ammunition such as bullets and shells, as well as the repair and replacement of accessories for guns such as Hanyang, Type 38, Czech and Type 99, and the production of some parts for mortars, grenade launchers and RPGs.

The few hundred miners who originally seemed wealthy are now not enough. A considerable number of them have been converted into workers and trained to become smelters and blacksmiths. After all, many gun parts need to be forged to obtain qualified forged steel before secondary processing.

Such a heavy task requires a steady supply of human resources to support the development of the entire base. However, even if Gao Kaiming and Xu Jiucheng use all their connections, they are still unable to meet the increasing shortage of workers.

After all, the current machining capabilities are still very limited. Jobs like forging, which were basically replaced by machines in the main world, must now be done manually.

As a result, the arsenals in Yangcun, Nangou and the headquarters soon ran into a dilemma of insufficient forgings. But there was no way out. Not only was it difficult to find workers, even the supply capacity of these three places began to struggle due to the population explosion.

In other words, Zhang Wanhe is now doing a booming penicillin business, and Ren Zhong does not care about the cost, which has given the base's finances a little relief, allowing them to find ways to purchase food from outside to subsidize the new shortage of more than a thousand workers!

But it was all worth it. Thanks to the abundant supply of propellants and explosives, the monthly output of cast iron grenades, mines, etc. reached 10! The monthly production capacity of grenades and mortar shells also exceeded 1! In addition to the specially produced 3000 RPG rockets and 2000 75mm mountain artillery shells, the number of large-scale lethal ammunition was almost an order of magnitude increase!

加上80门82毫米迫击炮，100具RPG火箭筒，400具掷弹筒，500支56半自动步枪。

These weapons can directly increase the firepower of the 15 main regiments around the base headquarters by more than double.

Each regiment has 6 mortars, which together form a complete mortar company. Dispersed mortars can also allow each battalion to have a mortar platoon. The main regiment will no longer be suppressed by the Japanese artillery fire when facing the Japanese regiment. Such a firepower configuration was unthinkable for the main regiment in the past.

You have to know that not long ago, Li Yunlong's New 60st Regiment, which was known for its strong men and horses, felt very impressive because it only had a mm mortar.

If the configuration is still like this now, then it would be nothing, a definite second-tier supplementary group.

In terms of offensive tactics, each infantry company is now equipped with at least three grenade launchers and a laser rangefinder, plus three 3 semi-automatic and three machine guns for automatic firepower. These equipment can be flexibly configured to strengthen the infantry platoon according to battlefield conditions, or they can become a firepower platoon on their own, greatly enhancing the firepower output.

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