Bright Sword: I took Li Yunlong to work in military industry

Yu Ye's current job is mainly to train apprentices. Even if he is made of steel, how many nails can he hammer? He began to consciously cultivate a team.

Tell them about the properties of steel, teach them how to make some unscrupulous cannons, teach them some basic chemistry knowledge, and teach them how to fry some fertilizer powder.

I study half a day and work half a day, so my life is quite fulfilling.

After three or five days, Lao Li suddenly came to the door and said, "Lao Yu, I have something to ask, can you help me?"

"you say?"

"I have a comrade named Ding Wei, who is now the leader of the New 1st Regiment."

Yu Ye nodded.

Yeah, I know, Ding’s birthday greetings.

"I made a small mistake before. He gave me a big gift before he took office, but I was too busy to pick it up. Now that I have time, I want to pick it up."

Yu Ye continued to nod. He knew what Li Yunlong meant. He wanted to take the cavalry battalion.

If he takes this thing, isn't he afraid that the brigade commander will snatch it away from him?

"If you want to get it, just go ahead and get it. Why tell me what you are doing? Can I stop you?" Yu Ye said unhappily.

"That's not the case. What I want to take is a cavalry battalion of the puppet army. This cavalry battalion is stationed in a plain area more than 40 miles away from our base and is very mobile.

Apart from two Czech-style rifles, we now have no other light weapons with strong firepower.

It was a bit difficult to capture this puppet cavalry battalion. They made a detour and got behind us. I want to reduce our casualties as much as possible. "Li Yunlong smoked a cigarette and said with some melancholy.

"Old Li, my tactical skills are average. If you ask me to give you advice on how to fight, then I'm blind."

"Who asked you to help me with the battle? I just wanted to ask you if you have any weapons that I can use to reduce our casualties."

"Well, you have to attack these highly mobile cavalry, which requires dense firepower. Single-shot firepower does not necessarily require very high levels, and it must also be easy to carry. Submachine guns and light machine guns are best." Yu Ye was thinking in his mind.

"Yes, yes, yes. You are worthy of being a scholar. You can analyze it so clearly." Li Yunlong applauded. As soon as he stated the requirements, Yu Ye was able to calculate the firepower configuration so clearly.

Yu Ye knew in his heart that the best way to deal with cavalry was to use machine guns and submachine guns with dense firepower. After all, after the invention of machine guns, all nomadic peoples became good at singing and dancing.

However, in order to increase portability, submachine guns basically use pistol bullets. With the number of pistols and bullets that the independent regiment now has, it is totally insufficient. After one magazine, all the stock is gone.

The desired intensive firepower effect cannot be achieved at all.

Then we can only use machine guns, and high-rate machine guns at that.

Just a few days ago, Yu Ye was in charge of a comprehensive survey of the independent regiment's equipment. The more he surveyed, the clearer his mind became. It turned out that Li Yunlong's daily chanting that the average person had less than 5 bullets was not just a sympathy but a fact.

The entire regiment had only two Czech machine guns and a Type 99 light machine gun whose barrel was broken by its own weapons. That was all the rest.

The firing rate of these two Czech guns is only 500 rounds per minute. How can they suppress those cavalrymen?

After a moment of silence, Yu Ye said, "Old Li, let me find a solution. It's not that there is no solution, but you have to help me solve a few things."

"You said, as long as it is something that I, Old Li, can do, I will definitely do it!" The captain patted his chest loudly.

"First, help me pick out six of the best and newest Type 6 rifles you captured. We don't want the refurbished ones from our arsenal.

These six guns will be useless after they are used up this time, so just treat them as one-time use, is there any problem?"

"no!"

"Bring me all the 6.5mm caliber bullets in our regiment. I don't want the reloads or anything like that. I just want the newest and best bullets. Let me choose.

These bullets will all be used up in this battle, probably several thousand rounds, is there any problem?" Yu Ye looked at Li Yunlong and said.

"Hiss..." Li Yunlong had a slight toothache.

He had seen wealthy people, but he had never seen a war fought like this. Wasn't this a bit too extravagant?

With today's level of logistics, thousands of high-quality bullets have to be fired at a time. Even the main force regiments don't have this kind of equipment.

"Captain, you should know that you can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a child, right?" Yu Ye said with a smile.

Li Yunlong gritted his teeth and said, "Let's do it!"

"Finally, I need some tools. You should know Director Zhang from the Brigade Logistics Department. Can you borrow a set of welding tools from him, a set of metal cutting and splitting tools, and finally some rail steel?

This shouldn’t be difficult, right?

"Okay, Lao Li, I'll do it for you. Then..."

Before Li Yunlong could finish his words, Yu Ye said bluntly: "Captain, once you have prepared all the materials for me, I will give you a surprise within three days starting from the day you prepare them!"

"make a deal!"

The six brand new Type 38 rifles were dismantled by Yu Ye as soon as Lao Fang took them from the Quartermaster Department. He also sawed off the iconic dust covers of the Type 38 rifles.

Lao Fang's eyes twitched when he saw it, he felt really heartbroken.

There were only a few brand new Type 38 rifles in the entire regiment. When Yu Ye got his hands on them, he sawed them off without even blinking an eye.

In order to prevent himself from losing his temper, Lao Fang decided to turn a blind eye.

Yu Ye made a main shaft with rail steel. He actually found a few bearings in the quartermaster department. The logo on them showed that they were produced by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. He asked Lao Fang, who said that they were removed from the Japanese motorcycles.

Six barrels, six spring-loaded firing pins.

Plus a rotating spindle.

Anyone with a discerning eye can tell what this is.

The legendary Gatling Bodhisattva.

It can be said to be a classic in the history of machine gun development.

The modern Gatling gun uses a DC motor as its rotational power, and its maximum firing rate can reach 6000 rounds per minute.

The earliest Gatling gun was powered by manual rotation, and the earliest version could reach over 1000 rounds per minute. When it was first invented, there were no automatic weapons, so its firing rate was at the peak of the era.

With the current industrial level of the independent regiment, there is naturally no electric motor. Yu Ye plans to build a pneumatic Gatling gun with a rotating bolt machine gun locking method, pneumatic as the automatic method, and gunpowder as the first start method. Theoretically, the maximum firing rate of this method can reach 4000-5000 rounds per minute.

However, Yu Ye did not plan to achieve such a high rate of fire. Firstly, there was a lack of precision machine tools, and the airtightness of these processed parts could not be achieved. Secondly, the independent regiment was in great shortage of bullets. If he really made them, Li Yunlong would faint from tears on the spot.

Facing the light of the kerosene lamp at night, six gun barrels were placed on the wooden processing table, reflecting a dark luster.

With such a powerful weapon, the puppet army's cavalry battalion should be able to sing and dance well, right?