Rebirth of The Deer and the Cauldron, Wei Xiaobao Becomes a God

The original diesel tractor engine has been replaced by a more advanced gasoline engine. This change has greatly reduced the noise generated when the vehicle is driving and significantly improved the riding experience.

Wei Xiaobao sat in the passenger seat with great joy, while Qiu Daoji sat in the driver's seat steadily and started the car skillfully. With the engine emitting a low and steady roar, the car slowly moved forward.

"Brother Qiu, you are so talented! You can even tinker with something as complicated as a car!" Wei Xiaobao couldn't help but admire.

Qiu Daoji smiled as he drove the car with great concentration, "General, please don't flatter me! All the credit should be attributed to you! If you hadn't had the foresight to build the internal combustion engine factory and provided detailed drawings, how could we have built these cars? This is just producing parts according to the drawings and then assembling them."

"How many of these jeeps have you built?" Wei Xiaobao asked curiously.

"These jeeps are all handmade, so the production is very low. So far, there are less than ten of them. But the good news is that we now have machine tools that can produce models and molds for various parts. Next, we just need to work hard to build a complete production line." Qiu Daoji explained patiently.

Hearing this, Wei Xiaobao's eyes lit up and he asked excitedly, "So, can we achieve large-scale mass production soon?"

However, Qiu Daoji sighed helplessly and said slowly: "Alas! Things are not that simple. Although other aspects are gradually improving, the key problem is that rubber is too scarce.

You know, there are very few rubber trees on Dongzhou Island, and there are almost no rubber trees in the entire Chinese land.

The little rubber we have is all used to make a small number of tractor and artillery tires, and even the residue left after refining is fully utilized to make rubber shoes worn by soldiers. "

When Wei Xiaobao heard this, he immediately slapped his head and said as if he had suddenly realized something: "Oh! How could I have forgotten about this. Rubber trees are indeed not produced in China, but there are plenty in Southeast Asia. You can purchase them through Southeast Asian merchants or Western merchants!"

Qiu Daoji shook his head, frowned and said, "Commander-in-Chief, you don't know. When I was in Ryukyu before, merchants from Southeast Asia or the West would often come to us to conduct trade activities.

But the strange thing is that since the Spring Festival this year, no merchant ship from the South China Sea or the West Sea can be seen in Ryukyu or Dongzhou Island where we are. There must be something strange here. "

After hearing this, Wei Xiaobao's expression became serious. Could it be that during the Spring Festival, they fought with the Western devils and destroyed all their ships? But even if the Westerners didn't come, why didn't the merchant ships of the Southeast Asian Chinese come?

"This matter should be thoroughly investigated by the intelligence department," said Wei Xiaobao.

Before we knew it, the car arrived at a valley. Beside the newly built road, the Tiandi Army, armed with live ammunition, set up a checkpoint. They were still holding Mauser rifles and had not replaced them with Type 56 firearms.

After entering the factory, Qiu Daoji took Wei Xiaobao to visit the gun factory first.

The five rifle production lines that were relocated from Ryukyu are being converted from producing Mauser rifles to Type 56 semi-automatic rifles.

The Type 1956 semi-automatic rifle was a weapon manufactured by China in 3.85 in imitation of the Russian SKS semi-automatic rifle. The gun weighs 1.025 kilograms, is 1.26 meters long, has a bayonet length of 10 meters, a magazine capacity of 400 rounds, an effective range of 1000 meters, a concentrated fire range of 1500 meters, and a maximum range of meters.

One of the five production lines has been successfully converted, producing 50 Type 56 semi-automatic rifles a day, and currently has produced about 1,000 Type 56 semi-automatic rifles.

Then Wei Xiaobao visited the production workshop of the Type 56 semi-automatic submachine gun.

There were ten Type 56 semi-automatic submachine guns on the display stand in the workshop, and their shapes were exactly the same as those Wei Xiaobao saw later.

The Type 1956 semi-automatic submachine gun is a 47mm Russian AK-7.62 assault rifle imitated by China in 30. It has a capacity of 40 rounds, a single-fire rate of 90 rounds per minute, a burst rate of 100-400 rounds per minute, an effective range of 800 meters, and a concentrated fire range of meters.

After Qiu Daoji’s detailed introduction, we learned that the production line of this new weapon is still in the intensive development stage.

The few sample guns currently available are all carefully handcrafted by skilled craftsmen with superb skills.

It is estimated that the successful implementation of this new production line, large-scale mass production and its final deployment to the troops will not be completed until the second half of this year.

Not only that, the situation of the Type 5 and Type 6 squad machine guns is exactly the same.

Since the original Maxim machine gun production line was completely incompatible with the new Type 56 squad machine gun and could not be used directly in production, a large amount of manpower and material resources had to be spent on re-developing a dedicated production line from scratch.

It is expected that this type of machine gun will not be officially equipped to the troops until the second half of the year.

After carefully checking all kinds of firearms, Wei Xiabao moved to the artillery workshop with great interest.

Here, the production method of artillery is significantly different from that of firearms.

Those thick gun barrels and numerous complex parts are basically formed in one go by cast-in-place using boiling molten steel in the steel plant using pre-made molds.

After these prototype parts are transported to the workshop, workers will carry out a series of fine processing operations on them, including meticulous grinding, smooth polishing, precise rifling and final rigorous assembly.

The entire workshop is bustling with activity, and every day all kinds of powerful cannons of different models are successfully shipped out of the factory.

To date, more than 300 Type 56 rocket launchers have been produced;

The production of Type 85 mm cannons also reached a total of thirty units;

Twenty-one Type 160 mm howitzers have rolled off the production line;

In addition, twenty-four 122mm howitzers were successfully delivered.

Such a large number and complete variety of artillery are enough to arm a full-scale artillery regiment.

After visiting the artillery workshop, Wei Xiaobao felt relieved. How could he dominate the world without sharp weapons? Thinking about his pitiful territory value, he became restless.

Qiu Daoji took Wei Xiaobao to the armored vehicle workshop, where a medium tank was being assembled.

Wei Xiaobao felt strange when looking at this big guy. There was no Type 56 tank in later generations. This tank was a copy of the one made by Qiu Daoji.