northernbook Chapter 970 Massive Amounts of Weapons and Ammunition
Chapter 970 Massive Amounts of Weapons and Ammunition
Zhang Yunhe walked to the nearest pile of ammunition boxes. These ammunition boxes were all made of sheet metal and sealed. Opening the ammunition boxes was like opening a military-grade beef can; you just pulled the tab and the lid was open.
The box was printed with the words "0.303 inch R Musket Ball" in inkjet printing.
0.303 inches is 7.7 millimeters, which should be the caliber of the Lee-Enfield series of rifles, hence the Lee-Enfield rifle is also known as the British 7.7.
Looking around, the warehouse was filled with these metal ammunition boxes, all containing 7.7mm rifle bullets.
Countries with their own complete military industries use completely different calibers for standard firearms. This is mainly to prevent their own weapons, equipment, and ammunition from being captured by the enemy and used directly after war breaks out.
Because the calibers of guns and ammunition are different, even if they are captured by the enemy, they cannot be used interchangeably.
Without further hesitation, Zhang Yunhe immediately began to move the ammunition into his backpack space. In just 3 minutes, all the 7.7mm bullets and ammunition boxes in the 1000-square-meter warehouse were stored in his backpack space.
存放着这种7.7毫米步枪弹的仓库就有10个，张云鹤把这10个仓库的步枪弹全部收入背包空间内，空间背包内显示这种7.7毫米步枪弹一共有5亿发。
Next, he found several types of pistol ammunition in a warehouse, namely .0.38 caliber, .0.445 caliber, and .0.45 caliber.
These three types of pistol cartridges are comparable to the Enfield MK2 revolver, the Webley Scott pistol, and the M1911 pistol, respectively.
In the next weapons storage warehouse, Zhang Yunhe also found a large number of pistols that corresponded to these three types of pistol ammunition, all of which were brand new and unused, packed in wooden crates.
In the ammunition depot area, Zhang Yunhe found another type of 9mm submachine gun bullet in a warehouse. He felt that this bullet should be the special bullet for the Sten submachine gun, and there was quite a lot of this type of submachine gun bullet here, a total of 2000 million rounds.
In addition to the 9mm submachine gun bullets, he also found 7.92x57mm rifle bullets in another warehouse. Both 7.7mm and 7.92mm rifle bullets are compatible with the British Bren light machine gun.
"Creak, creak..." Zhang Yunhe gently pushed open the door of another warehouse, which was filled with boxes, but these boxes were no longer made of tin, but of wood.
Zhang Yunhe walked to a pile of wooden crates, moved one of them down to the ground, and pried open the lid with a crowbar. Inside, the bottom of the crate was lined with wood shavings for shock absorption, and on top of the shavings was a crate full of hand grenades.
The inkjet markings on the wooden lid of the crate indicate that it contained Mills grenades.
The British Army was equipped with several models of Mills grenades, but this batch of grenades were all Mills No. 36, which was the standard grenade used by the British Army during World War II. In addition to No. 36, Mills grenades also included No. 5, No. 23, No. 69 offensive grenades, and No. 74 anti-tank grenades, all of which were carried using P37 and P44 carrying gear.
There is also a No. 82 grenade, which has a special design that can be used to brew coffee, and its shape is similar to that of the No. 69 grenade.
Zhang Yunhe collected all types of Mills grenades, filling four warehouses with a total quantity of 2 million.
Next, Zhang Yunhe found three types of landmines with different functions in five large warehouses: anti-tank mines, flame-guided mines, anti-personnel mines, and magnetic mines.
There are two types of anti-tank mines: the L9A2 anti-tank mine and the Hawkins anti-tank mine. The flame-guided mine mainly uses 50-gallon oil drums to carry fuel. It is launched by explosion and ignites the fuel to create a directional flame to attack enemy tanks. There are a total of 100 here. The production date printed on the outer shell is still 5 months ago, so it seems that production has stopped.
The total number of these landmines is a staggering 28.
"Damn it, they produced so many landmines and didn't even deploy them on the battlefield to stop the German advance. Now they're just sitting here suffering. What good will these landmines be when they launch a counterattack on the European continent?"
Zhang Yunhe thought to himself that he was secretly pleased with himself. After all, he was making a fortune right now, and it was a business with no initial investment. How could he not be happy?
After avoiding two more patrols, Zhang Yunhe arrived at the last warehouse in the ammunition depot area.
在这片18个库房内，张云鹤看到了各种型号的炮弹，分别有迫击炮炮弹（2英寸和3英寸、6磅和17磅反坦克炮弹、94毫米及40毫米高射炮弹、87.63和140毫米野战加榴炮弹、75毫米和94毫米山炮炮弹。
The total number of these shells of various types and calibers reached a staggering 180 million.
After looting all the ammunition in the ammunition depot, Zhang Yunhe quietly moved on to the weapons depot.
The first warehouse contains Lee-Enfield rifles. There are several models of this rifle, but the most numerous stored here are the 1940 Lee-Enfield N04, which is one of the improved versions and was the most widely used standard rifle in the British Army throughout World War II.
It also had the fastest rate of fire of all bolt-action rifles in the world during World War II, with a magazine capacity of 10 rounds. A well-trained veteran could fire 30 rounds per minute, a feat that other bolt-action rifles could hardly match.
The 7.7mm rifle cartridge it used was also compatible with the Bren light machine gun and the Vickers water-cooled heavy machine gun; only some anti-aircraft cartridges were replaced due to insufficient propellant charge, resulting in insufficient power.
This design greatly reduces the pressure on logistics.
In addition to the Lee-Enfield N04, Zhang Yunhe also discovered the sniper version of the Lee-Enfield N04 MK1. The wooden crate contained not only the rifle but also a NO.32 3.5x scope and related spare parts.
With a "clang," Zhang Yunhe pried open the lid of a wooden crate in a warehouse, revealing five carbines inside.
"A Delir carbine?" Zhang Yunhe reached into the wooden box and took out a carbine, his eyes lighting up immediately.
This is a manually operated silenced rifle used for assassinations. It is a silenced carbine with a .0.45 caliber and was often used for secret assassination missions. Its silent design was considered the best in World War II.
"What a wonderful thing!" Zhang Yunhe examined it with great interest.
After playing with them for a while, I put them back in the box and closed the lid. Then I put all the guns in the warehouse into my backpack.
He then found a warehouse filled with pistols, mostly MK2 and Scott revolvers, with a few M1911 pistols.
The next two warehouses were filled with Bren light machine guns, the most widely used light machine gun by the British Army in World War II. They could use both 7.7mm and 7.92mm rifle cartridges, and more than half of them were produced in Canada. They were fed by 30-round curved magazines and had a theoretical rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute.
The two warehouses contained as many as 20 Bren light machine guns, enough to equip 20 British infantry divisions.
When Zhang Yunhe stood at the entrance of the next warehouse and saw a Vickers water-cooled heavy machine gun lying in a wooden crate, there were 1000 such large wooden crates in this warehouse, enough to equip 20 British infantry divisions.
In addition to these ground-based heavy machine guns, Zhang Yunhe also found 500 Vickers .0.5 caliber heavy machine guns and Lewis .0.303 caliber machine guns for air defense in another warehouse.