Chapter 502 TJ-37 Assault Rifle

"7 mm?" Bai Chongxi looked around with this new gun for a long time. While curious, he was a little dissatisfied. At this time, in the eyes of many people, bullets with smaller caliber generally mean that the gun is weak. The Japanese used 6.5 mm. Although the 38th large cap was accurate, its power was not very good.

The Gui system used the Japanese style of the Three Eight, but it only got a small amount when cooperating with the *** people.

The military industry of the Guangxi system was very weak and the weapons used were relatively complicated. Because the influence of the French in Guangxi and Vietnam was mainly based on military equipment at the beginning. Whether it was m1986 or m1916, the caliber was 8 mm larger. Even the French had newly equipped Mas1936 rifles before the war, they used 7.5 mm bullets. Before the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Guangxi system gradually purchased tens of thousands of 7.92 mm German equipment rifles.

But no matter which one it was, he felt that it was more powerful than the Japanese small-caliber bullets. At this time, the 7mm built by the vanguard army made him feel a little contemptuous.

Not only did he think so, but most of the people present in the observation team held this idea. In the 1930s, there was no small caliber, and 7.9 and 7.6 mm were the mainstream. Of course, the small caliber in the eyes of the people was not the one below 6 mm in later generations, but the one below 7 mm. The 6.5 mm of the Japanese was naturally listed as the small caliber series.

"This gun is more suitable for the Chinese system. The recoil of 7 mm is smaller, and the accuracy rate is much higher!" Yang Jie is aware of the Japanese Style 38 and has also done some research on the application and logistics of weapons. The German-Armed rifle is powerful, but the recoil is high, which is not very suitable for the Chinese system. After the renovation, it is slightly better.

"Is this a machine gun?" Qiu Qingquan next to him pointed to the several identical guns placed on the shelf next to him and asked.

Yang Jie glanced at him, but said nothing. The shape and structure of this gun made people realize that it was different from ordinary rifles at a glance. Everyone had a question in their minds, was this a submachine gun?

"This is a rifle! Assault rifle!" Woodson said proudly.

Bai Chongxi flipped the assault rifle in his hand and found its nameplate on one side, with several Latin letters and Arabic numerals on it. The one that started was tj37.

"Is this 37..." Tj he understood that he had long heard that many of the signs of the Pioneer Army used Latin letters. This tj must be the abbreviation of the assault rifle. But what does this 37 mean? Could it be that it was developed in 37 AD? When he thought of this, he asked a question in order to learn more about the Pioneer Army's secrets.

"This year is the year 4637 of Huangdi. The two digits we will commemorate the birth of the new hero." After hearing Bai Chongxi's inquiry, Woodsheng said with a smile on his dull face. Although he is the main designer, this gun contains the hard work of everyone. It includes the prototype of Type 1 and the collective efforts of the group under his leadership.

This new and improved assault rifle has gathered more people's efforts.

Since the beginning of the European War, Meng Xiang has been eyeing the military-industrial talents in Europe early. When Czechoslovakia fell, the vanguard army brought many senior technicians and engineers from Cz who were unwilling to serve the Germans. In 20-40, it was the golden period for the development of light weapons in Czechoslovakia, and the most shining one was the Seska Bohryofoca Arsenal in Bun City. At that time, Cz's reputation became one of the world's strongest people, and it was still a famous name until later generations.

The Czech Republic has always been a developed military industry, and Meng Xiang has also plundered many talents in the Brno state-owned arsenal that produces Czech zb-26 light machine guns.

Similarly, when the German tanks ran over Belgium, the Pioneer Army also brought out a lot of technicians and engineers in the famous Belgian FN company.

This suddenly strengthened the military industry of the vanguard army.

In order to concentrate the scientific research and technical force at hand, Meng Xiang made a major adjustment to the resources of the arsenal in the war zone.

There were four major arsenals in China earlier. At the beginning, it was Shanghai, Jinling, Hanyang and Gong County, such as Shanghai, Hanyang and Jinling, which gradually emerged during the Westernization Movement. Gong County was established by Yuan Shikai in 15 years. After several government operations, the scale became larger and larger.

Later, after the central government merged Jinling and Shanghai, it formed a Chenyang Arsenal in the northeast, with the intentional support of the people, and quickly grew stronger and became one of the four major arsenals. In fact, it should also be included in the Taiyuan Arsenal in Yan Xishan. However, most of the arsenals in Lao Yan only serve the Jin army and have a small influence in China, so they were not included. However, their strength cannot be underestimated, and even the Thompson submachine gun with complex structures can be manufactured in small batches.

Other local warlords also had some smaller arsenals. For example, Han Fuju once established an arsenal after annexed the Jinan Machinery Bureau in Jinan. The original Sichuan Machinery Bureau and Tianjin Machinery Bureau also had an ordnance production. There were also Arsenals in Liuzhou, Guangxi, Zhuzhou, Hunan, Qingyuan, Guangdong and other places.

However, all of this changed greatly after the Japanese invaded China. Most of the previous lives were concentrated in Chongqing. Because of the emergence of the vanguard army, most of the domestic military forces were concentrated in the United War Zone.

After Meng Xiang took over Lao Han's power, he assumed the military industry framework. The main force of Jinan Arsenal moved to Qidu and Zhangqiu areas. Later, he adjusted to the vicinity of Boshan and Zichuan in Qidu. At this time, it was just a small start.

Later, the arsenal talents from Shanghai and Nanjing were continuously accepted. After the Gongyi arsenal was evacuated, some of the talents left were also collected by Meng Xiang. Gongxian only left more than 4,000 skilled workers. In history, Gongxian area fell late, but because this time and space fell earlier, most of them were gathered away by the vanguard army.

A large number of technical workers at the Chenyang Arsenal in Northeast China were also smuggled back by the Pioneer Army; when Wuhan evacuated, many followed the Pioneer Army to the United War Zone; some armed forces in Chongqing and other places were also attracted by the preferential treatment and stability and progressive environment of the Pioneer Army, and ran into the United War Zone. The Pioneer Army never put down the hoe that poached the wall.

More and more technical talents and workers are concentrated in the Pioneer Army. At the beginning of this year, Zhou Bai's statistics on the Arsenal System had exceeded 60,000. The arsenal on the Pioneer Army's territory was not just the workshops near Qidu.

At the beginning of this year, Meng Xiang made some adjustments to his subordinate arsenal and temporarily divided them into five parts.

The arsenal in the south of Qidu, the Taiyuan and Gongxian Arsenals were rebuilt, and the other one was the arsenal near Baoji. The Baoji Arsenal was to be newly built facing the northwest, and in the face of the threat from the north, Meng Xiang also planned an arsenal in Baotou. Taiyuan and Gongxian are being restored, and construction has only started for Baoji and Baotou.

With the support of the base, Baoji and Baotou initially only provide simple logistics services. In the future, the main production areas of the armed forces are the Hanzhong region and the Ordos region they are close to. One of these two places is an excellent third-line resettlement site, and the other is the Ruhr Industrial Zone planned by Mengxiang in the future, which is suitable for the construction of strategic arsenals.

At this time, the Chinese technicians and a large number of workers were short of the vanguard army, and the arms of the vanguard army were all base goods. Although they were under the arsenal brand, they mainly focused on research and military-to-civilian projects. Military-to-civilian projects did not mean that the technical content was low. Some civilian machines were not low at all, and they were not afraid of being skilled in hand without touching guns for a long time.

However, Meng Xiang has always hoped to control his own military industry. The ordnance industry cannot be delayed. After screening, the 30,000 people after streamlining formed the vanguard army's armed forces. Although there are many technical personnel and other mechanical projects to support it, it is not that many people are not engaged in ordnance production.

Meng Xiang did not intend to let them produce guns and ammunition that could be provided cheaply by the bases, so they were eager to develop new products. The assault rifle in Woodsheng's hand was the top priority, and Meng Xiang organized many talents to optimize it together.

Because it has a 7mm caliber, the 7mm unsupported assault rifle of the British after World War II, as well as the 7mm series specially designed for the British in the FAL automatic rifle, all became the reference objects for the TJ-37 this time. It was ultimately the birth of the first assault rifle in China.

In response to this, Woodsheng did not dare to take credit, so he refused Meng Xiang's code to put his abbreviation on his name, but chose the assault pinyin abbreviation of the assault rifle, and used 37 as a footnote to vote for the hotly discussed discussions on the restoration of the Huangdi calendar in the war zone.

"Yellow Emperor's Anniversary?" Dai Anlan recited silently. The former glory of the ancestors of China made every Chinese person feel confused today.

"Can you give it a try?" Qiu Qingquan pointed to the assault rifle and looked at the gun target in the distance.

Meng Xiang nodded, and immediately a soldier came over, picked up an assault rifle, loaded the ammunition, and handed it over with both hands.

Qiu Qingquan was not polite either. Following the instructions of Woodson next to him, he turned on the insurance, aimed at the target 300 meters away, and pulled the trigger.

"Da!" After a crisp single shot, Qiu Qingquan did not stop, but still aimed at the target in the distance, and adjusted to a continuous shot as Woodson said.

"Dadada!" After three consecutive shots, Qiu Qingquan stopped, looked at the gun again, turned around and grinned, and then aimed at the gun target in the distance.

"Dadada..." This time, he finished shooting the 30 rounds of magazines in one breath, then put down the gun and handed it to the soldier next to him. He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "No, good, happy!"

"It's so satisfying, it's just a waste of bullets!" Liao Yaohui next to him sighed.

When everyone in other observation groups heard this, they looked at each other without saying anything. Everyone knew the luxury of the vanguard army fighting. Not only was the gun good, but bullets and artillery shells were smashed like money. Some people joked that the victory of the vanguard army was smashed with ammunition, and the *** people were willing to take the lead, let alone the Central Army and other local warlords. Even the Germans sighed that they were inferior. You must know that when the German team was equipped with a large number of Mauser rifles, the vanguard army had already begun to popularize the Somi Charge Flag.

Many people also criticized the waste of the vanguard army. Some even incited behind the scenes, proclaiming that the vanguard army should be allocated to other troops lacking weapons and ammunition to fight against Japan.

"We have been fighting against Japan, and the ammunition has also fallen on the heads of the Japanese, not behind our compatriots!" Meng Xiang blocked the agitator back with one sentence. Joke, is this thing still common property?

Some people had no choice but to look for the overseas Chinese organization that Meng Xiang mentioned, hoping to attract some donations. More people just stared at the vanguard army and were envious of the vanguard army's squandering ammunition, and could only sigh that the vanguard army had a rich and good commander. Meng Xiang's view that "will rather exchange one hundred shells for the life of a vanguard army soldier" is already well known to everyone.

Many people still appreciate and agree with this. However, others cannot do it. The key is that it is too expensive. In China, when most ammunition is imported, it cannot be maintained at all.

Therefore, when everyone tried this assault rifle, they also felt regretful while praising each other.

"This is simply a light machine gun!" Bai Chongxi sighed. Everyone also saw that this is not like a submachine gun, with a long shooting distance. Everyone saw the target just now. The shooting accuracy of 300 meters is still very high, and the power is not as small as imagined. Such a light rifle comparable to a submachine gun can be used very easily by individual soldiers, so the tactical arrangement is more flexible.

"How is this kind of rifle production?" he asked casually, but everyone listened. This weapon that could replace the submachine gun, and when equipped with elites, was a powerful assault force.

"I just started to organize production, and the output is not much!" Xie Chengrui replied with a smile, but he was also filled with emotion. He was just a school-level leader three years ago, but now he was facing a group of big bosses in the past, which naturally made him, a person who was once listed as a dead by the central government. He was unable to find his original position after being killed, and he was already in charge of the party at this time.

However, he was right. The tj-37 rifle has indeed been repeatedly optimized and has just begun to organize production.

Since many materials are tilted towards civilian use by building an industrial foundation and stabilizing the theater economy, some materials have relatively few resources when they are not localized, such as special steel for firearms.

The production of guns is not just ordinary steel. Especially the barrels are all alloy steels containing chromium and molybdenum. By plundering countries such as the Czech Republic and Belgium, and with the metallurgical technology exchanged from the Germans, the Pioneer Army could also produce them at this time, but the output was relatively low. It was mainly used for research and improvement. At this time, Meng Xiang still used the base property resources to handle it.

Back then, the 1893 rifle produced by Mauser for Spain was 7mm. It was inspired by this that the Americans produced their own Mauser, the Shunta M1903 rifle.

In addition, Mauser's 94 style and the 95 style designed for the Boers are also 7mm.

The barrel length of the Type 93 is 740 mm, which is enough to cut the barrel of the TJ-37.

Of course, the durability of these treated barrels is a bit worse than that of more advanced barrels such as em2, but the quality of the base is still consistently fine, with a fewer shootings at most. However, in order not to let a large group of troops waiting to work get stuck on the bottleneck of the special alloy steel barrel, this batch of TJ-37a equipped with relatively cheap 7mm barrels can only be considered a temporary response method, and only a few.

The production of new barrel special alloy steel is slowly expanding, and such tj-37b type production is becoming the mainstream.

Other accessories, relatively low requirements, can be replaced if there is a replacement, and make it yourself if there is no one.

In addition to gun accidents, two 7mm bullet production lines purchased from the Germans were just placed in Qidu and Gong County respectively. At this time, the vanguard army's armed forces dismantled and studied the one in Qidu and were preparing to manufacture their own bullet production lines.

It seems like a small bullet, but bullet production is more complicated and troublesome than gun production, involving several aspects such as mechanical manufacturing and chemical engineering. Fortunately, the industrial foundation of the Pioneer Army has begun to be improved, and the raw materials required to produce bullets are also ready.

However, all this is really the beginning. Mengxiang base is in hand and there are many substitutes, so he is not in a hurry. He just wants to slowly get the entire TJ-37 rifle production system running-in and coordinate.

"tj! Assault rifle. Not bad! You can take it, charge forward, and assault the enemy's positions!" Bai Chongxi did not get the answer he wanted to hear, so he had to change the topic and praised it with this light weapon.

Meng Xiang heard what he said, "tj", and couldn't help but feel a little amused.

When Woodson did not agree to name it by the abbreviation of the letters of his name, and insisted on using the abbreviation of the letter "tj", Meng Xiang felt a little tooth pain. Tang Pharmacist next to him kept doing better:

"Super attack, good, very loud name.tj, this can also be homophonic to Tianji, which can be said to be a clever trick of nature! Haha!" Tang Yaoshi only considered it from the jealousy of insiders, which easily caused fame and reputation. He was worried that it would be unfavorable to Meng Xiang, who proposed to name the gun with Woodson, and also supported the abbreviation of the pinyin letter of tj, and even specially added a explanation of Tianji.

But I didn't notice that Meng Xiang's cheeks were about to swollen.

The two letters "tj" are very powerful in the Internet era in later generations. Whether it is the homonym of "training" or the expression of "eunuch", they all make Meng Xiang laugh and cry. Could it be that the famous guns he organized will be the training gun? A golden gun flashed through Meng Xiang's mind, and he couldn't help but feel a cold sweat.

"Fortunately, this is much better than the eunuch's gun that is famous for its name." Meng Xiang secretly wiped his cold sweat. Seeing that Woodson insisted repeatedly and was willing to mark a name with the abbreviation of the surname w on the inconspicuous corner, Meng Xiang couldn't remember a more powerful name than "Strike", so he had to use the "tj" logo, which created the "tj" series of firearms that were famous in the world later.

Bai Chongxi next to him did not notice that Meng Xiang's expression was unnatural at this time. He was only thinking about this assault rifle in his heart. He would never think that the assault rifle produced by the Pioneer Army was only equipped with elite troops. It is very likely that the wealthy Pioneer Army would gradually popularize this rifle.

"If the vanguard army replaced all the submachine guns with such weapons, how can we resist them in the future?" Although Bai Chongxi had a smile of interest on his face, his heart was stormy at this time. The fire gap between the submachine gun and machine gun he had discovered in the past was also filled with assault rifles. Who can stop the vanguard army in the future?

His heart was churning, but there seemed to be a piece of iron pressing on it, which made him feel uncomfortable.

"Is this a Browning pistol?" At this time, Qiu Qingquan's inquiry interrupted his thoughts.

Finally, he smiled bitterly in his heart and said self-deprecatingly: "Even without such weapons, we can't stop the vanguard army. What's the difference if there is too much of this? I hope their guns are external but not internal!"

Then, Bai Chongxi looked at the pistol in Qiu Qingquan's hand.

The black pistol looked like a 9mm powerful pistol of m1935 Browning, but Bai Chongxi felt something strange.

"The m1935 Browning you made yourself?" Liao Yaohui next to him asked in surprise.

"This is not m1935, this is our modified 9mm pistol!" Xie Chengrui said proudly. In fact, he didn't know that this is still Browning, but it is not the current version, but the version has been modified since World War II.
Chapter completed!