Entrepreneurship of Jintao Pit Armory
The Red Army has its own weapons team, and naturally needs weapons. Where do they come from? At that time, the source of the weapons of the revolutionary team was nothing more than raising funds to buy "foreign" bullets, or seizing guns and ammunition from the enemy and self-made guns, cannons, spears, and broadswords. Raising funds to buy "foreign" goods, "far away cannot quench the near thirst"; desperately seizing it is not easy, so making your own guns and ammunition has become a top priority. In this way, the party’s Comrade Xie Yunlong was responsible for preparing for the construction of an arsenal (it was called an iron factory at first) and manufacturing guns, ammunition and other weapons.
Starting in the spring of 1928, they chose Monk Mountain in Taojinkeng, Baiyunshan Village, Donggu Township at a glance. It is located in the southwest of Donggu. It is remotely located. In addition, Baiyun Mountain is steep and tall, with towering ancient trees, rugged roads, few pedestrians, and a good mass foundation.
You can't afford an arsenal without money, so where does the money for building factories and producing munitions come from? One is voluntary donations made by planners and workers; the second is to persuade or compel landlords and gentry to "donate", which is the main source; and the third is to allocate funds from higher-level party groups. Since the production is for military purposes, it is only distributed to the required units, and there are no pricing charges. Therefore, with the exception of some workers who are paid a small amount, the other workers are all duty-bound, without any salary, just taking care of their meals. Sometimes even the rice for cooking is brought by the staff themselves.
The source of the material, except iron and sulfur, must be purchased from other places. Nitrogen and charcoal are all made on-site. Iron is the purchase of broken copper and rotten iron from local farmers; the second is pig iron purchased from other places; sulfur is all purchased from outside; charcoal is made by organizing personnel to the nearby mountains to cut down trees and burning from dense forests; nitrate is organization The personnel went from house to house to clean the alkaline soil under the elderly houses, leached, refined and extracted them. This not only solved the problem of the source of nitrate, but also made part of the edible salt.
In this way, under the rudimentary conditions of Monshang Mountain, the Jintaopit and Shangshan Armory composed of iron factories, nitrate gunpowder factory, Mujin Peng Armory Chuangyeji Charcoal Field, and procurement, transportation, and foreign contact points were established.
At the beginning, the Jintao Pit Armory focused on the manufacture of earthen guns and artillery, as well as spears and broadswords. Spears and broadswords are relatively easy to make, and can be made by blacksmiths everywhere in the base area, but it is more difficult to make earthen guns and guns. They are all forged from pig iron. The soil gun is based on the appearance of a "rifle gun" and consists of three parts: the butt, the barrel and the bolt. The butt is wooden, and the barrel and bolt are made of pig iron. There is a barrel in the gun body, but there is no sight for the rifle. The barrel of the gun is empty, there is no firing pin, and it contains gunpowder and iron sand. This is equivalent to a "bullet." A gun has three to five bolts. The bolts that are empty after the gun are let go, the loader immediately loads gunpowder and iron sand for reuse. Repeatedly, use one after another, put it again and again, It can kill the enemy continuously without interruption.
The production method of the earth gun is basically the same as that of the earth gun, but the former is larger and heavier than the latter. Due to the large amount of gunpowder and iron sand, it has great lethality. The earth artillery is very similar to the current mortar. It consists of two parts: a barrel and a bolt. The bolt is equal to a "cannonball". It is empty and can be loaded with gunpowder. It is used one at a time.
Each gun weighs one to twenty catties and can be carried by one person. The cannon weighs six to seventy catties and needs to be carried by two people or placed in a fixed place to attack and block the enemy in an ambush. The effective range of soil guns is 50 meters to 100 meters, and the range of soil guns is within one or two hundred meters, all of which can ignite. Because they all have three to five bolts of guns, they take turns loading and firing back and forth. The soldiers jokingly refer to them as "pig pocket guns" and "pig pocket guns."
At that time, every earth gun and artillery made of earthen guns had to be tried out one by one, the aiming point was corrected, the effective distance was measured, the quality was checked, and recorded one by one, and then handed over to the Red Army soldiers so that they could master its performance. , Easy to use.
The places where the earthen guns and artillery are made are the Huawu and the ancient houses of Monk Mountain. Each room has a furnace. When the furnace is opened, the fire is blazing, and the sky can be red at night. The place where charcoal is burned is around Baiyun Mountain. In the surrounding jungle, it is extremely difficult to log on the spot, dig kilns, coal, and build haylofts to live in.
The gold pit arsenal provided a strong backing guarantee for the victory of the Baiyun Mountain battle. At that time, the person in charge Xie Yunlong led the comrades of the arsenal to plant dozens of jujube trees around the factory. Four of them are still alive, as well as chicken claw trees. Now they have grown into towering trees with pavilions and pavilions.