Chapter 200 Yan Xu's Arsenal

After putting the trident back, Master Huo took out three samurai swords.

The longer one is a Nodachi, with a distinct curvature, four feet and two inches long, a white handle, and a silver-scale scabbard, and is called Baijiao.

The other two form a set, one is thirty-three inches long and is called a blade, and the other is two feet and seven inches long and is called a tooth. Together they are called a blade and a tooth.

This is what Yan Xu prepared for Fukushimahime and Teruyamaru. As for Hibiki and Morisame, they are not suitable for these.

Asking Huo Changshun to deliver the things to him in the car, Yan Xu asked Master Huo to take him to continue looking.

Although hand forging is good, it cannot meet the needs of war, so mass production of swords and guns is also needed, which is not what Master Huo and his son are good at.

Fortunately, this is not a problem for modern industry. It only requires a few simple devices, and the stamped gun heads fall into wooden boxes along the conveyor belt, waiting for further sharpening and grinding.

The most troublesome thing was the armor. Because it required more manpower, it was outsourced to a small factory that made custom armor and mats for Yan Xu.

Yan Xu's transformation from a family workshop to a small factory was largely due to the constant flow of orders. Therefore, whenever he made a request, it was never rejected.

At present, simple bamboo armor can no longer meet Yan Xu's needs. Armor made of bamboo, rattan, leather, iron, etc. that is both tough and light has become the main purchase.

Although this kind of armor is complicated, it is also more expensive, and the components are all processed by machines. As long as you find a few women with big hands and feet to form a simple assembly line, the output will be acceptable. The most important thing is that everyone can make a profit.

Yan Xu was quite satisfied with these, so he went to the second factory to see if there were any surprises.

This is the factory with the most young people because it produces all kinds of imitation guns and cannons, and apart from cold weapons, few men don't like guns.

Everything from matchlock bronze cannons to Type 38 infantry cannons were objects of imitation, but the production of firing devices was strictly prohibited. Once violated, not only would the person be fired, but the police would also be called, because all these things had been reported to the police station.

However, many people think that the factory director is making a fuss over nothing. For example, the Type 38 rifles currently produced have all the necessary features, including the barrel, buttstock, bolt, and chamber. Once the bolt is pulled, the cartridge case can be ejected, but the chamber is not connected to the barrel, and there is no spring or firing pin. Even the trigger is just a decoration and is purely a prop.

If you want to transform this thing into a real gun, it is as difficult as making it yourself from start to finish.

It can be said that except for the matchlock rifle, the rest are almost the same and have no possibility of being used to commit crimes, so the police station only comes to register them regularly, but they don’t know that all Yan Xu needs are a few parts.

Yan Xu pulled the bolt and the one-piece bullet model popped out automatically. It was very smooth and realistic. No wonder the number of orders suddenly increased.

Anti-Japanese war films are still quite popular nowadays, and the demand for props such as guns and artillery is not low, so it is very troublesome to rent them. If they are cheap, the crew is willing to buy a batch since they can be reused anyway.

These orders effectively concealed Yan Xu's true intentions, because he planned to form an army in the late Qing Dynasty, for which guns and ammunition were necessary. However, if he purchased them from foreigners, he would obviously be controlled by others.

According to Yan Xu's plan, these props will be transported to the wasteland world for further transformation, and then transported to the armed forces in the late Qing world.

Unfortunately, the situation in the wasteland world is not clear now, and the problem of bullets is still difficult to solve, so it can only be put on hold temporarily.

Coming to the third factory, we see big items being manufactured here, such as the old steam engine bought at the price of scrap iron. No one knows where it came from, but it's been many years, but it still works well after some repairs. Right now, a young man is shoveling coal and pressurizing the fire, another is looking down to check the pressurized pipes and the pressure gauge, and the last one is excitedly fiddling with a steam-powered crossbow. Obviously, this is their work.

When the air pressure is reached, the valve is opened, and the guy standing behind the steam engine crossbow holds the handle tightly and steps on the pedal hard. Under the power of steam, the chain gear pulls the bowstring, and crossbow arrows are shot out rapidly, spanning dozens of meters and still penetrating wooden boards several inches thick. It is obviously quite powerful.

If this thing is installed on the city wall, no one can climb up until the fire is extinguished, the water is dried up, and the arrows are exhausted. Yan Xu couldn't help but nodded after seeing the effect, and decided to give the three guys a bonus and then a fine.

He has told you many times to be careful, be careful, yet you still dare to test such a dangerous thing in the factory.

Shaking his head, Yan Xu continued to look at other works.

On the other side is a double-wing propeller plane. Because there is no pilot, it can only stop here for daily maintenance. Anyway, the engine of a propeller plane is not complicated, and it is similar to repairing a car. However, judging from the machine gun mount welded on the back seat, this thing is probably not used to spread pesticides, but to spray bullets.

Unfortunately, Yan Xu thought this plane was a bit useless. It was too slow, had an average flying altitude, and could not be equipped with overly heavy weapons, at least not water-cooled machine guns.

However, it was difficult to find an aircraft that met his requirements, and even if he found one, it could not be produced, so he changed his mind.

Since the Vanguard Squad likes to sacrifice themselves, why not make a bigger sacrifice, such as the Kamikaze Special Attack Force, which would be more cost-effective than the Taijun Happy Stick.

All you need to do is convert a two-seater plane into a single one, stuff it with a hundred pounds of explosives and a Taijun, and two or three planes will be enough to raze a wasteland tribe to the ground. How useful.

If he could find the headquarters of Bai Jie Church, Yan Xu planned to send ten planes to the other party in one go, otherwise he would not be able to get rid of the hatred in his heart.

Now Yan Xu feels more and more that the first system is considerate. If the people recruited were not Japanese, he might not have the heart to use it in this way.

The situation in the wasteland world is now serious, and such weapons are needed to break the situation, so Yan Xu has decided to increase investment in this area.

Yan Xu had been standing there for a while. One of Master Jiang's apprentices saw him and quickly called the master over.

"Director." Master Jiang walked over while wiping the oil off his hands.

"Well, I came to see how the tank is doing and whether we can start mass production?" He asked as he couldn't use the guns for the time being but he needed the tanks urgently.

"It's almost finalized, and it has this performance," said Master Jiang with some hesitation.

"Let's take a look first." Yan Xu said, because he was also curious about what a steam-powered tank could do.

Steam tanks are not intended to be used in the wasteland world, but are prepared for the Japanese world, otherwise steam engines would not be used.

After seeing the prototype, Yan Xu finally understood why Master Jiang had that expression, because even if it was a prop, this thing was too hard to describe.

Because there were no decent roads in the Japanese world, the complex and rugged terrain made it impossible to deploy tank corps, and because of the limitations of steam power, it had to be cut back in many places.

For example, the size cannot be too large. It is smaller than the Wuling van. In addition to the chassis and frame made of metal, everything including the outer shell is made of wood. Only in this way can it ensure a speed of about 20 kilometers per hour on flat ground and have certain uphill and off-road capabilities.

That would be fine, as at least half of the narrow interior space had to be used to hold the steam engine, water, coal and transmission equipment, and even so, it could only run for two hours at a time.

As for the weapon, it is a short-barreled submachine gun, which can replace sub-guns inside the tank for continuous firing. However, its range and power are average, and because it uses a wooden shell, its defense is not as high as imagined, and it is afraid of fire.

In order to make up for these shortcomings, Yan Xu specially asked Master Jiang to change the appearance of the steam tank into that of a wild boar. Although the internal space was smaller, a monster wild boar with black smoke coming out of its butt and able to spit iron sand from its mouth to kill people appeared.

(End of this chapter)