Bright Sword: From Northwest Shanxi to Shangganling

Chapter 154 New Second Regiment Standard Rifle

After the troops evacuated Guzhuang, the New Second Regiment and the Brigade Headquarters continued marching for nearly 30 kilometers and stopped at Nanzhaozhuang.

At this time, Luo Ping was already waiting here with the baggage troops of the New Second Regiment.

"Monk, go tell the kitchen staff to stew the meat! Let's have a good meal tonight." Chen Chengxing ordered.

This time, the Japanese were set on fire and the mules and horses fled in all directions. In order to save the supplies carried by the horses, the soldiers shot and killed many crazy horses while chasing them.

Moreover, this time there was more time, so the New Second Regiment dragged back all the dead horses, leaving behind even the internal organs.

Although horse meat is not as fragrant as pork, it is still good meat. And as we all know, the internal organs of animals are the most nutritious and fat-rich parts. A large bowl of horse meat, plus the broth stewed with bones, is enough to fill the soldiers' stomachs.

In order to make the horse offal taste better, the kitchen staff even ate all the spices from the New Second Regiment.

The soldiers all ate heartily, but Chen Chengxing in the temporary command post felt the food was tasteless.

The reason was simple. The brigade commander just 'congratulated' him.

"Look at how greedy you are. Do you want to keep all the supplies of the 403rd Regiment for yourself?" said the brigade commander.

"Brigade Commander, we have to speak with conscience." Chen Chengxing said: "In the battle of Guzhuang, although the 403rd Regiment was wiped out, the supplies seized were not much. The Japanese pursued with light troops and were burned by fire. Even the rifles were only seized more than 400."

Both the Type 38 rifle and the Type 99 light machine gun are made of a lot of wood materials. Once ignited by fire, they will be burned and can no longer be used.

In a large fire scene covering several square kilometers, the temperature inside can reach thousands of degrees, so any weapons and ammunition that fall into the fire scene are basically gone.

Although the New Second Regiment was busy putting out the fire, their main purpose was to prevent the fire from spreading to other places, and not much supplies were actually cleaned out from the fire scene.

That is to say, some supplies were seized from the hundreds of Japanese devils who rushed out of the fire scene.

"Chen Chengxing, do you think I'm blind?" The brigade commander said unhappily, and then knocked the large porcelain bowl on the table with his chopsticks: "What is this?"

"I may have seen it all. The horses escaping from the fire were carrying artillery and heavy machine guns. Do you dare to say there were none?" asked the brigade commander.

Seeing that he could no longer conceal the truth, Chen Chengxing could only say, "Yes, there are, but there are only two mountain cannons, four infantry cannons, and 4 heavy machine guns."

Seeing Chen Chengxing's confirmation, the brigade commander said directly: "It's good that you admit it. I won't waste my words with you. Keep the light weapons for yourself to develop the troops, and send all the heavy weapons seized from Guzhuang and Xiaojia Town to the brigade headquarters."

"No, no, no, brigade commander, I still want to set up a reinforced regiment equipped with all Japanese weapons, and I'm just short of heavy weapons." Chen Chengxing struggled.

"Fully Japanese weapons? And a reinforced regiment? Why don't you go to the sky?"

"You have a fully Japanese-equipped reinforced regiment, but what about me? What should I have?" the brigade commander said unhappily.

"With your title of brigade commander, it should be no problem for you to command several German-equipped divisions." Chen Chengxing said with an awkward smile.

Chen Chengxing is not exaggerating at all. If Chen had followed Chiang Kai-shek at the beginning, the Kuomintang's ace troops would have been able to be chosen at will.

"Don't flatter me. I won't listen." The brigade commander waved his hand and said, "Let me ask you, can you use so many weapons? Do you want to train personnel slowly? The Eighth Route Army has never had to wait for equipment to arrive!"

"You can't just eat your fill and let other units eat only coarse food, right?"

"How many heavy machine guns does the 772nd Regiment have? The entire regiment has 12 in total! As for the New st Regiment and the Independent Regiment, there are even fewer."

"What about the New 20nd Regiment? There were guns when we just joined together, right?" The brigade commander knew the equipment of the New nd Regiment very well.

"Brigade Commander, the New Second Regiment has made such a great effort in central Hebei and fired thousands of artillery shells of all sizes. It can't be that they have gained nothing at all," said Chen Chengxing.

After the 386th Brigade entered central Hebei, it fought several major battles in succession. The New nd Regiment had always been the main combat force, and the consumption was very high.

After hearing what Chen Chengxing said, Brigade Leader Chen thought about it and felt that the New Second Regiment had indeed made great contributions and should not remain unappreciated.

"How about this, you can keep the heavy machine guns in Xiaojia Town, but the infantry artillery must be turned in, and all the heavy weapons in Guzhuang must also be handed over." The brigade commander gave in.

The New Second Regiment has been carrying six infantry guns around during this period, and I am doing this to reduce their burden.

"And I'm not asking for it for nothing. Didn't you seize two high-powered radios in Xiaojia Town? I'll give you one and a radio team."

"This is a regimental-level unit distribution station, which is unique to the Eighth Route Army," said the brigade commander.

When Chen Chengxing heard the brigade commander say that he wanted to equip the new Second Regiment with a radio station, he didn't know what to say.

The radio station of the new Second Regiment is indeed the only one in the entire Eighth Route Army, and it is an honor to talk about it.

However, now that they have the radio, if the New Second Regiment wants to make any bigger moves, they must ask for permission from their superiors. Privately transferring troops would be a serious offense.

But at this point, Chen Chengxing couldn't say anything. He couldn't just say that he didn't want it, right?

"Thank you, Brigade Commander." Chen Chengxing forced a smile.

After eating an expensive meal, Chen Chengxing said that he never wanted to eat with the brigade commander again.

After returning to the headquarters of the New Second Regiment in a dejected mood, Chen Chengxing called over the logistics officer Luo Yongan.

"Lao Luo, please send the mountain cannons, infantry cannons, heavy machine guns seized in Guzhuang and the infantry cannons seized in Xiaojia Town to the brigade commander." Chen Chengxing said helplessly.

"Yes!"

Seeing that the team leader had a bad look on his face, Luo Yongan didn't dare to say anything more and turned around to leave.

"Wait." Chen Chengxing suddenly spoke again.

"Keep half of the captured artillery shells, and equip each heavy machine gun with a box of bullets," Chen Chengxing instructed.

What matters in war is ammunition. No matter how many artillery pieces you have, they are useless. Only when you have a lot of ammunition can you really have a lot.

"Old Chen, this isn't a good idea. The brigade commander..." Luo Ping hesitated to speak, as the brigade commander was not so easily fooled.

"It's decided. The brigade commander has gained so many benefits, I don't think he will say much." Chen Chengxing said.

If all the ammunition had been sent over, Chen Chengxing would have cried his heart out. Now that half of the shells are left, the New Second Regiment can save some money.

When Chen Lu found out that Chen Chengxing had given him a discount, he smiled and said, "I knew this guy would definitely do this."

"Do you want it?" Chen Can asked.

"Forget it, let's just leave it at that. The New Second Regiment has already suffered heavy losses." Brigadier General Chen waved his hand. After all, the New Second Regiment was an independently developed unit, so he shouldn't go too far.

"Pick out 30 core veterans from the Special Service Battalion and give them to the New Second Regiment. I think they can use them," said Brigade Captain Chen.

The New Second Regiment obtained a lot of light weapons in Hebei Province. They will definitely recruit soldiers when they return, and they will need veterans as the backbone at that time.

"Yes!"

In the middle of the night, after finishing the security deployment task of the New Second Regiment, Chen Chengxing finally had time to sit down and open the system.

After completing the mission of the regiment's great victory, the system rewarded a rifle research instant kill coupon. Chen Chengxing looked through the list for a long time but still couldn't make up his mind which gun to choose for this instant kill coupon.

Although the list even includes high-tech weapons such as electromagnetic guns, Chen Chengxing knows that it is just an illusion.

Even if the system can complete the design of the electromagnetic gun, it is impossible to produce it.

No one will believe in a weapon that cannot be produced, no matter how ingeniously designed it is.

The choice of gun must be close to the situation of the New Second Regiment and its future development direction.

The only things the New Second Regiment could produce now were steel and wood, so all rifles related to new materials were eliminated.

The only three suitable ones left are the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, the Type 56 submachine gun, and the Type 81 automatic rifle.

The Type 56 submachine gun is the famous AK47, but Chen Chengxing ruled it out first.

The reason is very simple: the level of Erlangdong Arsenal is not enough.

Although the AK47 has a simple structure, good reliability, and is particularly durable, and plays a vital role in the equality of all living beings, its processing difficulty is not low at all.

The first difficulty is the bolt that has many sides, and each side is different.

This difficult problem can be solved slowly by hand rubbing, but the worst that can happen is that the output will be low.

But the next barrel extension, which is used to connect the barrel, receiver and handguard, is a natural barrier for Erlang Cave.

Who would have thought that this inconspicuous joint sleeve is actually a load-bearing part!
The production and processing requirements are extremely high precision and the material requirements are also very special.

This small section can't be produced by Erlangdong Arsenal, let alone all the arsenals in the country.

The only one that could produce it on the mainland was probably the Shenyang Arsenal, which was converted by the Japanese, and it could only produce a thousand or so rounds.

If Erlangdong produced it themselves, the barrel would probably break after firing only two rounds of bullets.

As for the Type 81 rifle, it is extremely perfect for the New Second Regiment. The Type 56 has solved all the shortcomings of the Type 81 rifle. It is almost the pinnacle of steel and wood structure rifles.

But after careful consideration, Chen Chengxing had no choice but to give up on it. The reason was very simple. With the efficiency of the Erlangdong Arsenal, the production speed of the Type 81 rifle was too slow, and the most critical thing was that the ammunition might not be in sufficient supply.

So for Chen Chengxing, although the system provides many options, he can only choose one, which is the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle.

The weapons that the New Second Regiment or the Eighth Route Army needs now are not the more powerful the better, but rather they need to be of moderate power, easy to use, convenient to maintain, and durable.

The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle uses the most common short-stroke gas-operated structure, and the bolt is not a rotary locking mechanism like the Type 56 and Type 81, but an offset locking mechanism.

Its structure and production difficulty are many times simpler than Type 81.

Erlangdong Arsenal already has experience in the production of offset-locking bolts. The bolt of the Czech light machine gun is an offset-locking bolt.

It's just that the gas tube of the Czech light machine gun is at the bottom, so the bolt of the Czech light machine gun is tilted upwards, while the gas tube of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is at the top, so it is tilted downwards, but this does not pose any difficulty for the arsenal.

Moreover, the firing rate of the semi-automatic rifle is enough to deal with the Japanese Type 38 rifle.

When Chen Chengxing made his choice, the instant kill coupon disappeared immediately, and a semi-automatic rifle appeared in the completed column of the institute.

At the same time, the task system also popped up.

[Side quest released: Standard rifle. ]

[Mission Objective: Produce a newly researched standard rifle]

[Task Reward: A set of bullet molds (custom caliber)]

Chen Chengxing was a little surprised when he saw this change. He thought he would need to return to discuss it with Wen Ying, but who would have thought that it was completed directly.

However, Wen Ying is now hundreds of miles away, and Chen Chengxing cannot contact him. He can only put it aside for the time being and deal with it after he returns.

However, just as Chen Chengxing shut down the system and went to bed happily.

Wen Ying, who was hundreds of miles away, had a nightmare and began to struggle in bed.

Wen Ying dreamed that Chen Chengxing suddenly appeared beside him, and Ku Ku stuffed something into his head.

"what!"

I don’t know how long it took, but Wen Ying suddenly sat up.

Wen Ying sat there blankly for a moment, and before he could come to his senses, he suddenly felt an inspiration.

After getting up and lighting the kerosene lamp, Wen Ying casually put on a piece of clothing and sat down at the table.

When Wen Ying came to his senses, it was already dawn.

Looking at the densely packed gun designs on the table, Wen Ying asked in surprise, "Did I draw this?"

"Could it be."

“I’m a genius?”

Wen Ying began to carefully examine the picture he had drawn, but the more he looked at it, the more he seemed to see Chen Chengxing's hateful face.

"Dare to scare me? I'll poke your eyes!" Wen Ying poked the pen in his hand on the drawing.

"Bang bang bang"

Just then, Wen Ying suddenly heard someone knocking on the door.

"Who?" Wen Ying was startled and quickly put away the drawings and asked.

"Director Wen, are you okay? Our comrades saw that you had not shown up and were worried that you might be sick." The voice of the guard came from the door.

This was specially made for her by Chen Chengxing. Xu Tao and Zhang Xu also have one.

However, because Wen Ying was a woman, Chen Chengxing specially found a female warrior who could run a horse on her arms for her.

"I'm fine, I was just working before." Wen Ying replied.

"Are you going to the factory today?"

"No. Go ahead. I'll be there in a moment."

Wen Ying originally wanted to take a break, but when she thought about the fact that she could design a semi-automatic rifle, she became more and more excited, and prepared to go to the arsenal to try to see if she could produce it.

PS: New equipment is out, brothers, why don’t you vote for it?
(End of this chapter)