0p0 Chapter 204: What a blessing for the country! What a blessing for the nation!
Chapter 204: What a blessing for the country! What a blessing for the nation!
"Captain Qin, the sites for the arsenal, smelter, and chemical plant you mentioned earlier have all been selected."
Cui Yongjian replied excitedly:
"And all three gun production lines and two bullet production lines have been transported to the vicinity of the arsenal's site."
"Next, as long as the factory building is completed, the arsenal can begin operations."
"But I'm only good at building planning. I can't do anything about the raw materials needed to start the arsenal."
arsenal?!
There are also gun production lines?! Three of them?!
Bullet production lines?! Two?!
Bai Ruxu was stunned!
You know, all of our army’s current arsenals are still handicraft workshops!
Even if he is the commander-in-chief of logistics, things like gun production lines and bullet production lines are not something he can get, right?
It's wartime now, no one will sell things like gun production lines and bullet production lines!
Even if someone really sells it, it would be an outdated production line that was made many years ago.
Not to mention whether it’s useful after buying it, it can’t be transported in at all!
As for Zhang Wanhe, he was stunned on the spot!
As the Minister of Logistics, he certainly knows what a production line is!
The handicraft workshops and production lines in our army’s current arsenals cannot be compared at all!
Whether it is product quality or production capacity, the production line completely crushes the manual workshop!
Although Bai Ruxu holds a high position, no matter how calm he is, he cannot remain calm in front of the gun production line and bullet production line!
Therefore, before Qin Long could pick up Cui Yongjian's words, Bai Ruxu strode up to Qin Long and asked directly:
"Comrade Qin Long! Stone Village is going to build an arsenal? Tell me about it!"
"What specifications of guns and ammunition do those production lines produce? How many are there? Where did they come from?"
"Commander, the production lines are supported by my friends. There are currently five of them."
Seeing Bai Ruxu so excited, Zhang Wanhe also stared at him excitedly, and Qin Long said:
"There are three firearms production lines: one for the Kar98k Mauser rifle, one for the M1911A1 automatic pistol, and one for the Czech ZB26 light machine gun."
"There are two bullet production lines, one for 7.92x57mm rifle bullets and one for 11.43mmACP pistol bullets."
You should know that most of the rifles equipped by our army are still old-style and Hanyang-made, including light machine guns, most of which are imitations of Czech-style light machine guns.
Therefore, our army's demand for 7.92mm caliber bullets is like a bottomless pit, which makes Bai Ruxu worry from the moment he wakes up until midnight every day!
Ever since he heard the news, Bai Ruxu has been hoping that Qin Long’s bullet production line would include a production line for 7.92mm caliber bullets.
Now I hear Qin Long say it really exists!
Bai Ruxu wished that this bullet production line could be put into production in the next second!
"Quick! Tell me! What is the production capacity of your production lines when they are running at full capacity?!"
As the commander-in-chief of logistics, Bai Ruxu has always envied the Americans, the British, the failed art students, and even the production lines in the arsenals of ordinary people!
Because the production capacity of the production line is really high!
Take the Huangyadong Arsenal, the largest arsenal of our army, for example.
In the early days of its establishment, the Huangyadong Arsenal could only produce 50 to 60 rifles and 5000 rounds of bullets per month.
This is the monthly production capacity!
Although after a series of developments, the monthly production capacity of the Huangyadong Arsenal has reached about 400 rifles, 10 machine guns, 1000 grenades, and tens of thousands of bullets.
But Bai Ruxu knew very well that this production capacity data was not enough in front of the production line...
Moreover, he really didn't expect that during this special period of the year, all the major bases were swept crazily by the Japanese and suffered serious damage!
Our army actually has the gun and bullet production line he has always dreamed of!
This is crucial for our army's strategic and tactical arrangements to break the Japanese blockade and even launch a counterattack against them.
It undoubtedly has very important historical significance!
Seeing Bai Ruxu so excited that his eyes were wet, Qin Long once again deeply realized how difficult it was for the martyrs to win this war!
The reason why he built this arsenal was indeed for the benefit of his own team.
But in fact, Qin Long wanted to support his comrades in other units of our army.
So Qin Long said without reservation:
"Commander, if these production lines can run at full capacity."
“Kar98k毛瑟步枪生产线月产能6000支、M1911A1自动手枪月产能6000支、捷克式ZB26轻机枪生产线月产能300挺。”
“7.92x57mm步枪弹生产线月产能150万发、11.43mmACP手枪弹生产线月产能300万发。”
Although he had prepared himself mentally, Bai Ruxu couldn't help laughing after hearing the monthly production capacity data of these production lines:
"Hahaha! That's great! It's really great! The country is lucky! The nation is lucky!"
During the most difficult period for our army, Qin Long actually got a production line for guns and bullets!
For our army, this is an incomparable shot in the arm!
Because Bai Ruxu knows the logistics best!
Last year, that is, in the whole year of 1941, the total production of bullets by the arsenals directly under the Ministry of Military Industry of our army was about 50.
Not to mention the arsenals in various border areas. From the time they were established to February this year, the total production of bullets was 2.
The total output of these two parties added up to only 109 pieces, which was only the production capacity of Qinlong's production line for 4997 days!
With such a huge gap, how could Bai Ruxu not be ecstatic?!
As for the production capacity of the rifle and machine gun production lines, it is even more terrifying.
Monthly production: 6000 pieces! And the Mauser 98K, which has extremely superior performance!
One year is enough!
Even if it is a fully-staffed division of our army, people!
The annual production capacity of a rifle production line can easily equip five fully staffed divisions!
Moreover, this is calculated on a per-person basis.
If you think about it carefully, a fully staffed division does not need to equip each member with a rifle.
You should know that the Central Army's German-equipped division was only equipped with 4000 rifles.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the German-equipped divisions are more fully equipped with heavy weapons.
But even if we change to our army's team configuration that lacks heavy weapons, one rifle is more than enough to arm 8 to 9 full-strength divisions!
Currently, our army has a total of 12 divisions.
Combined with the existing equipment of each unit, as long as Qin Long's production line runs at full capacity, every soldier in the 12 divisions will be equipped with a rifle within a year!
And most of them are the most advanced rifles!
This is absolutely obvious for the improvement of our army's combat effectiveness!
Zhang Wanhe on the side was even more stunned!
Wow! 6000 rifles per month! 150 million rounds of ammunition!
He never dared to think so even in his dreams before!
If the arsenal in Stone Village can really operate at full capacity!
As the logistics minister, he finally no longer had to be stingy and be constantly blamed by his comrades.
"Commander, Captain Qin, I don't think the situation we are facing is that optimistic."
But just when Bai Ruxu and Zhang Wanhe were overjoyed, Cui Yongjian spoke.