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Chapter 174 Chapter 173, shooting results are very stable
The Eighth Route Army was poor, very poor, extremely poor! Therefore, in other units, even the main regiments, if they wanted to approve 200 rounds of ammunition for training, they had to report to the higher authorities.

Therefore, being able to easily take out 200 rounds of bullets for special shooting training like the guerrillas did, they were definitely "rich" in the Eighth Route Army. Company Commander Guo Zhongmin was helping to dig a tunnel here with his men, so he also witnessed Li Yuexuan and his men easily getting 200 rounds of bullets for target practice. This made the comrades in the 1st Company very envious!

"Captain, when can we just shoot targets whenever we want? 20 people and 200 rounds of bullets are enough for us to launch an ambush!" Comrade Xiao Niu said as he approached Captain Guo.

"Ha, stop being envious, you little idiot. We will be able to do the same sooner or later! Look, our detachment commander has sent people to learn from us. Once this group of comrades learns how to reload bullets, our training ammunition won't be so tight!" As Captain Guo spoke, he smiled and patted the dust off the idiot's head, like a brother who loves his younger brother.

"Then... Captain, how about I go and learn too?" Xiao Niu's eyes were full of expectation.

"You'd better help dig the holes! Boy, remember how the guerrillas dig holes. When we return to the base, dig some tunnels as well. If these tunnels are used well, they can be equivalent to the combat effectiveness of an entire company!" Captain Guo still spoke with a smile, but his eyes were filled with expectation.

Now, he also understood one thing, that the guerrillas, the "giveaway boy", had real skills. Instead of taking advantage of the guerrillas every time, it would be better to learn the guerrillas' skills, so that he could also be a "giveaway boy". Well, for example, if their detachment also learned how to reload bullets, then their detachment would not be short of ammunition and could also support brother units.

Pah… Pah… Clank Clank… Boom, Boom… From the eastern shooting range, the sound of Type 38 rifles came one after another, and there was also the faint sound of gongs and drums. This movement made the comrades working harder, and also made the new recruits work harder.

The new recruits are all looking forward to the day when they will hold a gun, so they are training their skills with all their strength. For example, the instructor said that if you do push-ups well, your arms will be strong, you can hold the gun steadily, and shoot accurately.

Li Yuexuan naturally had no idea that someone was envious of them. He was holding his beloved Zeiss telescope and looking at the target 300 meters ahead.

With the help of the auxiliary panel for quality inspection, the bullets he brought were all high-quality reloaded bullets that could ensure the stability of the trajectory at 300 meters. So now he was checking the hit rate of these 20 sharpshooters at the 300-meter chest target.

Not far from Li Yuexuan, beside the shooter, Jiang Daquan was holding a drumstick and beating the drum irregularly, especially when the shooters were aiming, he was beating even harder. Beside him, Cai Xiaotian was also holding a gong and a gong hammer, beating it sporadically, and the little girl Xu Hongying also took a pair of cymbals and followed suit.

In short, when others were shooting, the three of them would desperately make noise to interfere with their comrades' shooting and aiming. This is very important, as it is a psychological training for the shooters.

As the drums and music played, the soldiers fired bullets one by one, which gave Li Yuexuan an understanding of his comrades' shooting skills. It was OK, the best score was 300% on the 9-meter fixed chest target, and the worst was 7%. This result was already excellent! If the moving target could also achieve this result, the guerrillas' combat effectiveness would be stable! After all, at a distance of 300 meters, the Japanese were not so accurate.

As for how many rings, how many rings? First of all, there was no target paper, the conditions did not allow it. Secondly, at this distance, as long as the bullet hit the body, the person would basically be useless. "The last one, comrade Xu Hongying! All of you gather around and watch, three people take over their instruments? Shoot hard!" Finally, it was the turn of the little girl Xu Hongying. Li Yuexuan deliberately kept her until the end, and asked the comrades who had been disturbed for a long time to take over the instruments.

Dongdongclang, Dongdongclang... The soldiers were beating the instruments vigorously, which made the place feel like the New Year. While the comrades were playing hard, the little girl Xu Hongying lay down behind the sandbags, picked up her 44-type rifle, and aimed at the target that had been beaten to pieces.

Snap... Snap... Perhaps because she had experienced several battles, the little girl was not affected by the interference of musical instruments at all, and she hit the target steadily.

It's not surprising that this girl is talented. She hit 300 of the 7-meter target, which is a very good rate. Li Yuexuan specifically observed that the first two shots were off target. The little girl was familiar with the trajectory. When she fired the third shot, the bullet brushed the edge of the target. In other words, if she is given another chance to shoot, her score will be even better!
But... having 10 bullets is enough to make people envious, don’t think about anything else.

"Okay, you all performed very well. Among them, Comrade Tianchuan hit 9 shots... everyone take it back!" After Li Yuexuan gave his comments, he asked the entire team to take it back.

After this live-fire shooting training, these 20 sharpshooters are now somewhat worthy of the name. Li Yuexuan believes that after giving them another training with moving targets, their performance will be stabilized. To improve further, they need to use more bullets, but this is difficult.

Li Yuexuan and his group left quickly and came back quickly. When he returned to the Liang family compound, Zhao Danian waved his hand and called him to the east wing.

"Can we build this machine ourselves?" Zhao Danian asked, pointing at the Edward rifling machine.

"Why not? We have senior fitters. With them here, and a few carpenters, there will be no problem at all! If you are worried, when we can make gun barrels, we can leave enough redundancy on the outer circle to avoid waste!" After Li Yuexuan finished speaking, he stretched out his thumbs and index fingers of both hands to form a circle.

"Look, the outer diameter of the barrel, leave enough processing space for the outer diameter, leave a margin at the mouth of the barrel, then drill holes and process the rifling. If the 6.5mm rifling has scrap, expand it to 7.92mm caliber and continue cutting the rifling. If this still doesn't work, then expand the inner hole decisively. We can use this barrel to make a double-barreled hunting rifle or a shotgun! As long as the outer diameter is sufficient and the wall thickness is guaranteed, the scrap rate will be very low!"

"Yeah... that's the point! You can make a hunting rifle and a shotgun... Hey, you can make a rifle, so why can't you make a hunting rifle? A shotgun is easy to make, too! And then..." Zhao Danian flipped through the blueprints and pointed at the wood column and said, "Rifles require catalpa wood, right? We have to go look for that!"

"Yes, it's dry catalpa wood. The tree was just cut down, so the wood is very wet... You can ask Yang Gongxun if the carpenter has any way to solve the problem of dryness and humidity!"

(End of this chapter)