For every soldier who goes to the battlefield, having a good gun is undoubtedly the biggest dream. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China's industrial base was very weak, and it was unable to independently develop heavy **, so it could only imitate some rifles and other light **. Among them, the highly anticipated is the "Zhongzheng" cavalry rifle, whose power even exceeds the Japanese army's "38 big cover". This also makes some people think that ** does not lose or even surpasses the Japanese army in terms of light**. In fact, the production process of the "medium formal" infantry rifle is very tortuous, and the output has not been able to keep up, and it has never been able to become the main equipment in the Anti-Japanese War. 
Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, China had experienced a long period of warlord fighting. The warlords recruited their own troops and bought them separately from the Great Powers. In this way, the equipment of the squadron has appeared in the United States, the Soviet Union, Japan, France, Germany and other countries, and it has become a veritable "made in all countries". In times of war, the consumption is very large, and the variety of products is tantamount to a nightmare for logistics supplies. As a result, the national ** considered producing rifles on their own and unifying the ** standard. After investigation, the national ** decided to use the German M1924 as a model and produce rifles on their own. After Germany's defeat in World War I, its military industry was restricted, but it still circumvented it by various means. This M1924 was developed and formulated by the German Mauser Arsenal in 1924 in the name of foreign trade and civilian use. Mauser-like is famous and has long been synonymous with rifles. The 98K, as it is now known to many young game enthusiasts, was also designed and manufactured on the basis of the M1924, and the "Medium Official" rifle can be said to be the same as it. 
98K In 1934, the then Minister of Finance Kong Xiangxi ordered 10,000 M1924 rifles from Germany in order to equip the tax police corps directly under him, and took the opportunity to ask the Mauser Arsenal for a set of production materials, but the Mauser Arsenal played a trick and the data given was wrong. The state government could only send Mao Yike, director of the Gongxian Arsenal in Henan Province, who graduated from the Technical University of Berlin in Germany, to purchase materials from the relevant German departments. Finally, in 1935, the drawings, material list and inspection samples of the gun were obtained, and the development work began. The early development was quite smooth, and the Gongxian Arsenal began trial production in July of that year. Chiang Kai-shek also attached great importance to the first standard rifle and visited the factory many times. The chairman of the committee was personally involved in everything, and also put forward suggestions for improving the gun. He believed that the M1924 rifle was too long and did not correspond to the height of the Chinese, and the barrel should be shortened. At the same time, the length of the bayonet was lengthened, so that the overall length of the gun did not change much, so as not to have a disadvantage when fighting with the Japanese bayonet. 
So the Gongxian Arsenal improved in this direction, and in August of that year, the gun was named "Zhongzheng" cavalry rifle, and on October 10, "**** began formal mass production. The early output is not large, about 800 pieces per month, except for the wooden tray made by itself, other parts need to be imported. By December 1936, the serial number of the rifle was 58,000, which presumably produced more than 40,000 units a year. Due to the small production, at that time only the ** ace army could be equipped with this rifle, and the troops equipped with this gun were the envy of other units. On August 13, 1937, the Battle of Songhu broke out, and the "Zhongzheng" rifle officially debuted. After actual combat testing, the performance of the gun is still relatively superior. The shortening of the barrel sacrifices a certain range, but it is completely sufficient and more convenient to carry. 7The 92*57mm bullet is also more powerful. The quality of the Japanese army's "38 type" is better than that of the "Zhongzheng", and its service life is longer. Its range is long and accurate, but the lethality is low, especially within 400 meters, it is basically a penetrating injury, and the injured person can recover after a short period of time without hurting the vital situation. 
During the Battle of Songhu, experienced veterans would grind the bullets in advance, and when they hit the target, the bullets would roll in their bodies, and the Japanese army once thought that the squadron used bullets prohibited by international conventions. But soldiers who have used both generally have a higher evaluation of the "38 style". It is said that before the Volunteers to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea entered North Korea, in order to unify the first standard, they demanded that the Type 38 rifles be handed over, and the soldiers generally resisted. Although there are also dissatisfaction with the surrender of other models of rifles, it is only an isolated phenomenon. However, the good times did not last long, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, for safety reasons, the Gongxian Arsenal began to move south, and began its bumpy journey. On November 15, the plant dismantled all the machines and shipped them to Hanyang, and nine days later the Japanese bombed the original factory. In June 1938, the Japanese army was pressing on Wuhan step by step, and the Gongxian Arsenal was renamed the No. 11 Factory of the Engineer Administration of the Ministry of Military Affairs and moved to Anhua, Hunan. At the end of the year, shortly after the resumption of production of Factory 11, it was bombed by Japanese aircraft. The fifth branch of the plant, which was responsible for the production of "medium-formal" rifles, was blown up, and the production of the remaining machines could not continue after the relocation. 
In November 1939, Factory 11 was successively moved to Sichuan, but it was bombed in the middle, and some of it was transported to Ba County, Sichuan, and some of it could only be returned to Hunan. The part of Ba County was merged into the No. 1 Arsenal (formerly the Hanyang Arsenal), and the part in Hunan could no longer be produced. Later, the task of producing the "Medium Formal" rifle was assigned to the 21st Factory (formerly the Jinling Arsenal), and from 1940, the 21st Factory began to improve the "Medium Formal" rifle, mainly referring to the now more famous Kar98K rifle. The improved "Zhongzheng" was more sophisticated than the old model, and mass production officially began in October 1943, with a monthly output of 7,000 pieces in 1944. According to relevant statistics, before the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, due to relocation and blockade and lack of raw materials, the total output of Chinese formal rifles was about 400,000 pieces. By the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the total number of ** was more than 3 million, and although the "Zhongzheng" rifle played a huge role, it never became the main force of the Anti-Japanese War. On the other hand, it was made by Hanyang, which was much older than it, because it had been produced for a long time, had a large amount of stock, and was less affected, and its total production reached 1.08 million pieces when it was discontinued in 1944. In addition, the squadron used a large number of imported rifles. For example, the New First Army and the New Sixth Army in the Expeditionary Force use the all-American style**. 
However, the use of "Zhongzheng" rifles continued in China for a long time. As early as May 1938, the Eighth Route Army began to copy the gun and named it the Type 27 rifle. During the War of Liberation, although China had a large number of American-made and Japanese-made rifles, due to the large number of troops, the "Zhongguan" rifles became the main force, but most of them were captured by the People's Liberation Army. In the early days of the Liberation War, although our army received some ** in the northeast, it was still very lacking in general. At that time, the arsenal mainly produced consumables such as bullets, and rifles were mainly captured. ** once put forward an opinion on ** production work: "We think ** is still relying on seizures. It is better to concentrate on repairing the returned guns and cannons in order to save money and productivity in this area and concentrate on the manufacture of most urgently needed munitions. Taking the Jinan Campaign of the East China Field Army as an example, the captured ammunition and the consumed ammunition can be offset, realizing the "war with war". Especially during the three major battles, large-scale annihilation and capture, as well as some ** uprisings and surrenders, have allowed many "medium official" rifles to flow into the hands of the People's Liberation Army and become a sharp weapon of the People's Liberation Army. 
In the early days of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Volunteers also used "Zhongcheng" rifles on the Korean battlefield, and later our army began to replace them with Soviet-style firearms. It was not until 1955 that it was finally replaced by the Type 53 rifle, and the "Medium Formal" rifle became the militia's equipment. The production of "Zhongcheng" rifles has gone through a bumpy process, but it has witnessed the growth and expansion of the Chinese nation step by step in the ups and downs.