“Commander, Political Commissar, Deputy Commander Liu, look, this is our bullet production line. Currently, it can produce 15,000 bullets per day.
Once the workers get into the groove and the machines are well-run, we expect the output to reach 20,000 bullets per day!
Currently, we mainly produce 6.5mm and 7.92mm rifle bullets, as well as other caliber pistol bullets, machine gun bullets, etc.”
“This is our artillery shell production line. Currently, it can produce 300 artillery shells per day. In the future, we expect to gradually increase it to 500 artillery shells per day.
We mainly produce 75mm mountain gun shells, 70mm infantry gun shells, and 80mm and 60mm mortar shells!”
“This is our simple rifle production line. Since it uses manual machine tools, and the machine tools are quite old, we only expect to produce 20 rifles daily. It requires quite a lot of manpower, so we haven't started production yet!”
“This is our raw material storage workshop. All the materials needed to produce weapons and ammunition are stored here and properly placed to minimize the occurrence of accidents!”
After arriving at the munitions factory, Zheng Yi, the deputy factory director who was mainly responsible for production management, spoke enthusiastically to everyone.
Xiao Yun listened and nodded in satisfaction. Currently, most of the rifles equipped by the 399th Brigade are Type 38 rifles, a small number of Zhong Zheng Shi rifles, and a very small number of Hanyang rifles that haven't been retired yet.
In terms of machine guns, they are mainly equipped with Czech-made light machine guns, Type 11 light machine guns, Type 24 Maxim heavy machine guns, and Type 92 heavy machine guns.
It's worth mentioning that the Type 11 light machine gun uses the same ammunition caliber as the Type 38 rifle, both being 6.5mm.
The Czech-made light machine gun and Type 24 heavy machine gun use the same ammunition caliber as the Zhong Zheng Shi rifle, both being 7.92mm.
Therefore, the munitions factory mainly produces 6.5mm and 7.92mm rifle bullets.
The Type 92 heavy machine gun is an exception, using a unique 7.7mm machine gun bullet. However, the 399th Brigade currently has a considerable number of Type 92 heavy machine guns, and they are the main supporting firepower of most companies.
To prevent these Type 92s from becoming fire sticks, the munitions factory bullet production line has also allocated some of its capacity to 7.7mm bullets.
As for the over 100 Thompson submachine guns equipped by the guard battalion, and the Mauser pistols widely used by officers and soldiers as sidearms, they received only a small portion of production capacity due to their limited quantities.
In terms of artillery shells, the current daily production of 300 shells, and the future capacity of 500 shells, is already sufficient to meet the current needs of the 399th Brigade's artillery units.
The 399th Brigade captured a large amount of Japanese grenade launchers and used them as supporting firepower at the platoon level.
However, the captured quantity of specialized grenades for the Japanese grenade launchers wasn't very large, and it was far from enough to meet the needs of the 399th Brigade.
Therefore, Xiao Yun proposed to allocate part of the munitions factory's artillery shell production capacity to producing grenade launcher grenades.
Since the specialized grenades for grenade launchers are small in size and have simple manufacturing processes.
Based on the calculations of Lin Sen and other experts, the production capacity for one regular artillery shell can be used to produce three grenades.
Therefore, Xiao Yun waved his hand and ordered the artillery shell production line to allocate 1/3 of its capacity to producing grenades to meet the needs of the troops.
The remaining 2/3 of the capacity was also sufficient to meet the consumption of the 399th Brigade's current artillery units.
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“Commander, Political Commissar, Deputy Commander Liu, look, this is the ammunition and artillery shells we have produced.
Once they are stacked to a certain quantity, the soldiers will be responsible for transporting them to the storage warehouses at the brigade headquarters.”
After introducing the raw materials and production lines, Zheng Yi led everyone to the finished product workshop, which was specifically separated.
Here, boxes of bullets and artillery shells were placed.
Zheng Yi went forward and used a tool to pry open the two wooden boxes at the top.
The bright yellow bullets and heavy artillery shells immediately appeared in front of them, looking particularly pleasing.
“Good, Comrade Zheng Yi, you and the other comrades in the munitions factory have all worked hard!
Just, we still need to quickly fully utilize the production capacity of the production lines.
Soon, the Japanese may make a major move against our base area. We must stock up on enough ammunition to fight a tough, protracted war in advance!”
Xiao Yun expressed his affirmation of the current work of the munitions factory, and at the same time, he put forward his expectations for the future work.
Lin Sen and Zheng Yi, the two factory directors, nodded repeatedly.
“Let's go, take a few boxes. Let's test the quality of these bullets and artillery shells produced by the munitions factory.”