Anti-Japanese Jagged General

Chapter 437 There Are Heavy Cannons (Third Update!)
The Eighth Route Army arsenal, Wang Ping was very happy to see the busy figures outside the arsenal.

Such a high-intensity bombing of the arsenal's workshops has withstood it, and the arsenal will no longer be bombed by Danxin devil planes in the future.

At this moment, Zhou Yong, political commissar of the arsenal, rushed over and reported excitedly when he saw Wang Ping.

"Cannon, factory manager, we have produced a heavy mortar! The sample artillery was produced before the devils bombed, because the devils did not report air strikes!"

"It's the 120mm caliber heavy mortar we seized at the Taiyuan Arsenal!" Wang Ping asked with bright eyes.

Now, the arsenal can already produce 82mm password mortars, but for the Eighth Route Army, this kind of artillery can at most be called regiment-level fire support.

At the brigade level, or even the division level, the Eighth Route Army has no artillery that it can take.

Of course, since the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was established, it has won many victories and seized a lot of equipment.Both the brigade and division-level units have established many mountain artillery companies and field artillery companies that are not full.However, these artillery were all captured by the Eighth Route Army. Not only were they small in number, but they were not replenished.

Under such circumstances, the mountain artillery was regarded as a treasure by those brigade commanders and division commanders, and they would never use it unless it was a last resort.

In order to change this situation, after the arsenal was able to produce light infantry weapons on a large scale, Wang Ping asked the arsenal to make as many production lines as possible for 120mm heavy mortars and mountain artillery.

In Wang Ping's opinion, the range of the gun is more than three kilometers, or even four kilometers. The power of the shell is not as small as that of a field gun. Moreover, the whole gun only weighs more than 500 kilograms. If it is disassembled, it is very convenient to transport, and there is no restriction on the road and terrain.As the Eighth Route Army's brigade-level support firepower, it couldn't be better.

As for mountain artillery, since the Japanese army in North China seldom used large-caliber heavy artillery, the Eighth Route Army's various military regions and base areas could completely establish independent artillery battalions and artillery regiments as a stronger support firepower.

It was with this idea in mind that Wang Ping attached great importance to whether the arsenal could produce large-caliber mortars and mountain artillery.

What Wang Ping didn't expect was that the arsenal had produced results so quickly, completely exceeding his expectations.

"Go, go and have a look now!" Wang Ping, who was a little impatient, ordered immediately.

Walking into the workshop specializing in the production of artillery, a mortar with a longer barrel and thicker came directly into Wang Ping's field of vision. It was erected in the open space of the workshop, and a dozen technicians surrounded it and pointed.

As soon as Wang Ping came in, they automatically moved out of the way, and the workshop director in charge of artillery production immediately introduced: "Director of the factory, political commissar, this 120mm password mortar is made by ourselves."

"Because there is no special steel for the production of artillery, and the performance of rail steel is worse than that of special gun steel. In order to ensure the safety and performance of mortars, when producing gun barrels, we specially strengthened the thickness of the gun barrel, especially the mortar. The tail of the mortar is nearly five millimeters thicker than the mortar barrel made of special gun steel!"

"Because of this reason, the weight of the whole mortar gun is more than 80 kilograms heavier than that produced by the Taiyuan Arsenal using gun steel, and the weight of the whole gun reaches 325 kilograms!"

"However, it will not have much impact if it is transported by camels with livestock, or dismantled and transported by manpower!"

"No problem in terms of safety is the most basic guarantee for the mortar to be put into use. Director Zhang, you have done a very good job!" Wang Ping was very satisfied with the factory's changes to the mortar, and said with a look of admiration.

Then he stared at the other party and asked, "What about the range?"

"No test yet!" Director Zhang replied with a look of embarrassment.

But soon, this embarrassment was replaced by self-confidence: "But I am sure that the performance will not be inferior to the original mortar produced by Taiyuan Arsenal. The longest range must exceed 500 meters, or even 4000 meters!"

"Then what are you waiting for, go test the cannon immediately!" Wang Ping couldn't wait a long time ago, and ordered without saying a word.

"Political commissar, you arrange it, hurry up! The sooner the shooting parameters of the artillery are determined, the sooner the arsenal can start production!"

"Bang!" A dull explosion sounded from the mortar barrel in front of my eyes, and the shell weighing twenty kilograms, driven by the raging flames, quickly flew out of the shell, flying towards the target one kilometer away with a scream .

"Boom!" In less than five seconds, a violent explosion reached Wang Ping's ears.

Wang Ping stared at the place where the gunpowder smoke rose with his binoculars, and said very satisfied.

"Yes, the error is more than 30 meters! Inform the gunner, let's shoot again!"

"Bang...boom..." Half a minute later, the sound of the explosion reached Wang Ping's ears again.

This time, the smile on Wang Ping's face became even stronger: "This time, we shot well, with a deviation of no more than ten meters. With the power of the shell, even if we don't directly hit the target, we can still kill the target. Not bad!"

"Notify the gunner, aim at the target two kilometers away, and shoot immediately, a total of three shooting opportunities!"

Three shells, the error of the last shell was directly reduced to five meters.

"Okay, good fight, continue to shoot at the target three kilometers away, shoot immediately, there is still a chance to shoot three shells!" Wang Ping shouted loudly, the smile on his face was replaced by excitement.

"Boom boom boom..." After a series of violent explosions, Wang Ping jumped up out of excitement.

Whether it was good luck or the shooting accuracy of the mortar was really high, the last shell hit the target and exploded loudly, with an error of no more than two meters.

Because Wang Ping kept staring at the battlefield with his binoculars, he could see very clearly.

At this time, even if the test is not continued, the large-caliber mortar in front of me has a very high production value.

However, after three consecutive rounds of test shooting, Wang Ping was full of enthusiasm for this artillery.

Without a word of nonsense, he continued to order: "Continue testing and use up all the shells we brought!"

"The next step is to test the mortar's extreme range and shooting accuracy of [-] kilometers, four kilometers of shooting accuracy, and the shooting accuracy of the extreme range!"

"Don't be afraid of wasting shells. I don't have enough shells. I will personally go to the military region to apply for you!"

"And it won't be long before we can produce this kind of shells ourselves!"

After an hour of intermittent shelling, Director Zhang rushed to Wang Ping both nervously and excitedly.

"Director, it's unexpected! Maybe it's because we thickened and lengthened the barrel. The range of the mortar we built was 500 meters longer than the original product of Taiyuan Arsenal, reaching five kilometers. The only regret is that it can shoot five kilometers away. The error in the target time is too large, and there are many kinds of influences."

"However, within four kilometers, the shooting error of the mortar is within our acceptable range!"

"Factory Manager, I suggest that mass production of this mortar be carried out immediately!"

"With sufficient raw materials and sufficient personnel, how many doors can be produced in a month!" Wang Ping agreed after thinking about it, and asked expectantly.

"One gun every two days, fifteen guns a month. This is the production capacity of overtime. If you don't work overtime, ten guns a month!" Director Zhang replied.

"Produce immediately, and work overtime for production!" Wang Ping ordered without a word of nonsense!

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