The arrival of the new recruits made everyone in the mercenary group even busier. Although the captain of the guard was Zeng Erniu, the chief instructor was Xu Dacheng. He was assigned ten team members as instructors. Although Xu Dacheng still shows off from time to time.
, but they are much more stable and reliable than before. Now that the mercenary group Gao Xiaoshan and Miaohua have stood alone, the next leader Zhou Wen will train is Xu Dacheng. After all, in the future war, Zhou Wen is prepared to use all
The artillery force was given to him to command. In other words, Xu Dacheng was the artilleryman when the mercenary group was fighting in small groups, and he was the artillery commander when the entire mercenary group was involved in the battle.
Zhou Wen’s plan is to spend three months cultivating the basic military qualities and cultural studies of these recruits. After three months, he will start training by branch, and strive to recruit them to the Songhu battlefield for the baptism of war in January next year. Therefore, time is tight and the task is tight.
Heavy, not to mention that what Zhou Wen wants to train must be elite soldiers.
The entire guard team, including captain Zeng Erniu, must participate in the training and must also be assessed. If the person is not suitable, he or she will be replaced. Now Lishi has fully recruited and started training. In half a year, both sides will be invited to compete and compete to see if they are Lishi.
The hunters in the mountains are amazing, but the elite soldiers selected from tens of thousands of people in Taiyuan are also amazing. The machine gun team and the artillery team are divided into two, and they serve as instructors of the two units respectively.
The competition half a year later is not only a test for the soldiers, but also a competition between the two chief instructors, Miaohua and Xu Dacheng. Naturally, both of them will not be far behind, and will come up with various means and methods to improve the quality of training.
Lishi County has also added an engineering team of 50 people, and Zhou Wen will personally go over to provide guidance when the arms are training. Taiyuan has added a communications team of 50 people, and Zhou Yongbin will train it. Of course, Gao Xiaoshan has been trained before.
The two brothers Zhao Yi, Zhao Shun and Zhang Jie, who have practiced extremely well, are now continuing to train with the guard. Zhou Wen wants to cultivate their military style and discipline, and there will naturally be other arrangements for the future.
It was like this for a few days. Gao Xiaoshan was in charge of the party headquarters. Xu Dacheng and Uncle Ma were responsible for the training of new recruits. Uncle Wu started his own business and provided logistics and food. Zhou Wen rushed into the arsenal and worked with him.
Hobert began the development of semi-automatic rifles together...
Time passed quickly and more than half a month passed. This day was January 17, 1931, a memorable day - the prototype of the semi-automatic rifle designed by Zhou Wen left the factory.
In a shooting range next to the arsenal's gun test site, German consultant Hobert, Northeast Army commissioner Huang Yisheng, uncle Wang Wenzhao and foreman Li Bin were all looking at the rifle held in Zhou Wen's hand not far away. They were all excited.
Living, praying, feeling grateful...
Zhou Wen is also looking at the gun in his hand, as if he were looking at a newborn. At this moment, his heart is ups and downs, and he has mixed feelings. It is not easy. Although he has come up with various technical data that will prove to be feasible in later generations, but
Many changes have also been made. This is a gun jointly produced by combining the advanced design concepts of later generations, the rigorous review and technical control of German firearms engineers, the best equipment currently available in Taiyuan Arsenal, and the operation of the most skilled workers.
The total length of the gun is 1.2 meters, which is much longer than the later 56 semi-automatic. This is mainly because the 6.5 mm caliber barrel must be maintained at a certain length to ensure the range and reduce the recoil. With a 10-round magazine, the total weight reaches 4 kg.
It fully meets the design requirements. The barrel is designed with a bayonet bayonet, but Zhou Wen is not ready to equip it with a bayonet yet. The automatic mode uses a barrel gas guide that is very mature and reliable in later generations. There are two loading methods, one is direct
Press the bullet into the chamber, and the other way is to use the spare magazine to load the bullet from the lower slot.
Zhou Wen just tried it. Both loading methods are easy to operate. Of course, using a magazine is definitely faster. The barrel of this gun was made by Li Bin for several days and more than a dozen barrels, and was carefully polished by hand.
.Only produced a four-rifled barrel that met Hobert's requirements. The six riflings proposed by Zhou Wen had been modified by Hobert. You must know that six riflings are not necessarily better than a four-rifling barrel, but on the contrary, because of the rifling
Being thinner will cause more wear on the rifling, and the requirements for bullets are also different. The bullets in the current arsenal are not suitable. Unsuitable bullets will not increase the accuracy, but will more easily wear out the barrel. Therefore, semi-automatic rifles still use four
Rifled barrels only require higher quality.
Of course, you can also use special alloy steel, such as chromium-nickel steel, whose hardness and toughness are far higher than ordinary steel. But the high cost is not suitable for large-scale equipment for the army, and even the United States in later generations cannot afford to equip it.
The gun in Zhou Wen's hand is used to obtain initial test data. Naturally, the wear and tear of the barrel does not need to be considered for the time being. But why does he plan to equip the mercenary group with semi-automatic rifles made in Germany? It requires chromium-nickel steel to fire the barrel.
, coupled with the fact that Germany's rifling technology and equipment are the most advanced and sophisticated, the rifles produced must be high-quality. Moreover, Zhou Wen also plans to install a suppressor on every high-quality rifle, so currently it can only be made in Germany.
As for the price, Zhou Wen doesn't need large-scale equipment. Dozens or hundreds of them are still affordable. What's more, Zhou Wen is still thinking of free of charge.
He designed this gun. Although Hobert also participated in part of the work, he has the patent rights as the project leader and funder. If he sells the patent to the German Mauser Company...hehe!
After all, the final success must be that the gun can meet all the design requirements.
I saw Zhou Wen turn on the safety above the trigger, pull the gun, and hear a crisp "click" sound, and the bullet is loaded. He raised the gun to his shoulder, and then continuously pulled the trigger at the target 100 meters away. "Pa--pa--"
Bang!" With a crisp and sweet sound, ten bullets were fired instantly. The moment the rifle magazine was empty, it automatically released with a soft sound. Zhou Wen immediately removed and inserted the spare magazine, and continued shooting...
After firing fifty rounds of bullets in a row, Zhang Xiaoping, who reported the target, came over with the target. Everyone gathered around to take a look, and saw that a big hole had been punched in the 10-ring part of the target.
Hobert shouted excitedly: "Zhou, the 100-meter scatter is very small. The 50 rounds you fired just now is less than one minute. If you are an ordinary soldier, you should be able to reach 30 rounds per minute. If you are a veteran, then
It can reach a rate of fire of 40 rounds. It’s amazing. With such a high rate of fire and such a small scatter, it’s already half the battle.”
Then Zhou Wen and the others test-fired 200-meter and 300-meter targets. The results were very shocking. The accuracy completely met or exceeded the expected standards and requirements. Everyone went up and fired a few bullets, and they were all amazed. Even Wang Wenzhao
This kind of novice who has rarely touched a gun can hit the target at a distance of 100 meters when shooting straight up. The recoil is very small, the force of pulling the trigger is moderate, and there is Zhou Wen's unique short cylinder prompt design. Everyone thinks this gun is a success.
Huang Yisheng was so excited that he could not stop talking and danced with joy. He would not let go of the gun and kept shooting and praising him.
Zhou Wen was also inexplicably excited. He succeeded. It was considered a success. A famous gun was born...