After the new year, Qu Province was undergoing a tremendous change. In particular, countless notices were pasted at the entrances of the villages. The Renaissance Army was recruiting soldiers. As long as one was ambitious, they could join the Renaissance Army.
Because of this, the ammunition production line of Madong Mountain Munitions Factory was at full capacity. The monthly production of ZH16 rifles was close to 200, and Maxim's production had also reached six. The various weapons and ammunition had reached tens of thousands of rounds. The current production of cannons in Madong Mountain Munitions Factory was focused on a 75mm rapid-fire mountain cannon, a 50mm grenade launcher, and a 50mm mortar.
(As for the difference between grenade launchers and mortars, I searched online. Grenade launchers are generally light, weighing less than 3 kilograms, while mortars are no less than 6 kilograms. The caliber of grenade launchers is also concentrated around 50 mm, while mortars have 50, 60, 80, 100, and 120 mm caliber. Mortars occupy the military establishment, but grenade launchers are not needed!)）
In fact, Chu Tianyun wanted the Type 92 infantry cannon that the Japanese Army later equipped. With a weight of 0.212 tons, it would be the best infantry cannon in the mountainous areas of Zhejiang.
The second phase of the construction of the Madong Mountain Munitions Factory was also in full swing. The production scale of the Madong Mountain Munitions Factory continued to increase with the expansion of Chu Tianyun's influence.
For example, the Jinling manufacturing bureau's monthly production of rifles was only so much, but the weapons produced by the Jinling manufacturing bureau were more varied. However, compared to the ZH16 rifle, the Hanyang rifle produced by the Jinling manufacturing bureau was a little behind in terms of shooting performance.
As for the Maxim Heavy Machine Gun, there was currently no arsenal in the country that could produce 50 Maxim Heavy Machine Guns within a month. It should be known that during the Republic of China, the heavy machine gun firepower configuration of the Chinese warlords was extremely rare. Sometimes, a local division did not even have one. However, similar to the current direct line, Feng line, and Wan line A division, the infantry division was equipped with a heavy machine gun battalion.
However, compared to the European and American powers, it was still extremely rare!
For example, in the German army during World War I, each infantry division had 24 heavy machine guns. If it were some elite divisions, Maxim's equipment would be even more exaggerated.
Chu Tianyun's industrial mother machine had already replicated the Maxim machine gun production line that he had obtained from working with the Ford family. At the same time, the industrial mother machine had made some improvements to Maxim's design. However, due to technical reasons and the lack of suitable technical workers, the improvement work on Maxim would be delayed.
Chu Tianyun felt especially proud as he listened to the rumbling sound of the Madong Mountain Munitions Factory. After all, this was his biggest family business. Compared to the clothing factory, phosphorous fertilizer factory, mining factory, smelting factory, and so on, the Madong Mountain Munitions Factory was the most convincing.
Chu Tianyun had arranged for an infantry battalion of about 300 people to be stationed at the periphery of the Madong Mountain Munitions Factory. It was a factory that could produce standard mountain cannons and grenade launchers.
There were less than five of them in the entire Huaxia!
Moreover, the Madong Mountain Munitions Factory not only copied weapons, but also perfected them with the industrial mother machine. Some advanced weapons that transcended the era even appeared on the manufacturing blueprints of the industrial mother machine.
The general manager of the arsenal, Zuo Zhongming, was poached by Chu Tianyun from Ningbo. This young man's concept of rifles was extremely advanced, especially for the next generation of semi-automatic rifles for the Type 16 Rifle, which coincided with Chu Tianyun's ideas.
"Brigadier General, besides Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Munitions Factory, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, the Hanyang Munitions Factory, and the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, our Madong Mountain Munitions Factory has the highest productivity!”
"Like our imitation 75mm rapid-fire mountain cannon, even if it was placed in Europe, it would still be of high quality!”
After saying that, Zuo Zhongming had someone pull a black mountain cannon over. 75mm caliber, in this era of China, it could definitely be called a cannon. Even in Japan, in their artillery sequence, a caliber exceeding 100mm was considered a heavy cannon!
"Our mountain cannon can be fired once every eight minutes. Compared to the original 75mm mountain cannon, its speed is much higher. Moreover, because it's our own production, the cost is much lower!”
"It's just that we don't have enough seamless steel pipes. Brigadier General, you also know that although we have a steel factory in Quzhou, the quality of the seamless steel pipes produced is really not good!”
There was no other way. The steel factory in Quzhou was only a small factory. It might be able to deal with some parts, but it was not able to produce seamless steel pipes.
"There's no hurry. After spring next year, our medium-sized steel plant in Quzhou will officially start production. At that time, the mines in northern Fujian will supply our steel pipe production!”
Another 10 days passed, and it was already March of the 17th year. The weather was getting warmer. Commander Zhang's Feng Army had already mobilized two infantry divisions, preparing to enter the pass and occupy a large area of He Province and Tianjin City!
Fengtian, Grand Marshal's Mansion.
Marshal Zhang, who was the inspector of the three northeastern provinces, was gathering several high-ranking officials of the Feng faction, such as Yang Yuting, who was in charge of Fengtian's economy and politics, Feng Yulin, who was in charge of Rehe, and Zhang Zuoxiang. They were all gathered in Marshal Zhang's mansion.
"Motherf * cker, Duan Qirui's mother wants me to recover the Middle East railway.| Damn it, Duan Qirui is such a dog food thing. This is making it clear that he wants me to go to war with Russia!”
Yang Yuting was very comfortable in Marshal Zhang's hands. Although he had studied in Japan, he had a natural hatred for Japan's recent invasion in the three northeastern provinces.
"The Middle East railway is Mao Xiong's bottom line in the Northeast. If we recover the Middle East railway, the Russian military forces in the Far East will definitely not let it go. General, we must not agree to Duan Qirui's request. We need time to develop Fengtian. The warlords in the pass do not know the danger we are facing, but we know that no one can afford to offend Japan and Mao Xiong!”
Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. This was true. Feng Jun was strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Although his weapons and equipment were top-notch in the country, his combat quality and ability to start a war were not outstanding.
"Listen to Yuting, I, Old Zhang, have been dealing with the Japanese for so many years. Do I still need Duan Qirui?”
Commander Zhang's army had already reached 200,000 men, and under his command was the most powerful Northeast Military Factory. He even had a small number of air force, naval force, and tanks!
It had eight infantry divisions, a local security force, and the most complete army in China!
However, in the northeast, the management of the army was too bandit-like. Other than Guo Songling's Third Corps, the rest of the army was mostly a low-level army. No matter how well equipped they were, they could not have much combat power.
(We won't talk about Feng Jun's combat strength in detail.）
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