Although Androvich didn't quite understand the kind of bullets Wang Xuexin mentioned and didn't have much hope, he still reported it to Major Lemonlokov as soon as possible.
As soon as Major Lemon Lokov received the telegram, he reported to the General Counsel in a hurry, and at the same time added: "This is the suggestion of the Eighth Route Army battalion commander, Comrade General Counsel! It is the battalion commander who designed the rocket launcher for us!"
"I know, Lemon Lokov!" The general counselor looked at the information in his hand without raising his head.
At this time, Mao Xiong could only contact the recalcitrant troops according to the agreement on cooperation in the war of resistance against China's strategy. His support and contact with the Eighth Route Army was almost only with the Chinese battalion commander, so as soon as he mentioned the General Counsel of the Eighth Route Army, he would know who he was.
After reading the information for a while, the general counsel raised his head in confusion and asked Lemon Lokov: "He can actually design such bullets and firearms?"
Lemon Lokov replied: "It is said that he can get the design drawing of the M1 carbine from Yingjiang and then improve it based on it!"
The general counsel nodded.
If the design of bullets and firearms was completed independently, he would never believe it.
But if we improve on the basis of a mature rifle like the M1 carbine... then it is still possible.
But this is already quite remarkable, if this Chinese battalion commander can come up with the design he mentioned.
Then the General Counsel immediately realized the significance of this rifle to the bear, and then handed the information back to Lemon Lokov and ordered: "Quickly, send these to the country immediately. In addition, let Androvich agree to his conditions.
, we are very willing to carry out such cooperation!”
This made Lemon Lokov a little confused, and he asked back: "Don't we need to wait for domestic consensus to be reached?"
"No, Lemon Lokoff!" replied the general counsel: "They won't know how important this is. They may even argue about it for months, and we can't wait any longer!"
It turns out the general counsel was right.
When the information reached Mao Xiong, it did cause controversy within Mao Xiong.
The focus of the controversy is whether the development of such a mid-range rifle was necessary in such difficult times.
This may seem absurd.
From a modern perspective, this is undoubtedly necessary. Not only is it necessary, it will also eliminate most of other individual weapons, such as semi-automatic, carbine, submachine gun...
But people in this era have different ideas.
Most people who hold opposing views hold this idea:
"We have insufficient ammunition, and even old rifles are not enough. Some troops even share a rifle with several people and only have a few rounds of bullets. In this case, it takes manpower, material resources and precious time to develop such a high-rate rifle.
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"We have many people, but no weapons or equipment. So what we need is old-fashioned rifles, which at least allow as many people as possible to own rifles, rather than increasing the rate of fire of the rifle!"
"Increasing the rate of fire of the rifle will only increase the consumption of ammunition. As a result, more of us will be without ammunition, which will put greater pressure on our factories and logistics!"
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These arguments seem to make sense.
At this time, Mao Xiong was in the process of moving its factories to the rear to avoid being used by Hans, so a large number of factories stopped production and their production capacity was seriously reduced.
In addition, the losses on the front line are very large... The losses on the front line are mainly due to the fact that hundreds of thousands of troops are easily surrounded by Hans's pincer offensive. They either die in battle or surrender, and a large amount of equipment only plays a small role before falling into Hans' hands.
Although many soldiers were urgently mobilized by Mao Xiong, the equipment and production capacity in stock could not keep up, so there was a shortage of equipment and even a lack of rifles.
If there are not even enough bolt-action rifles, and the bullets for this kind of rifles that can be fired and cocked once are not supplied, what is the point of producing automatic rifles that can fire continuously?
When the general counsel heard these objections, he banged the table and cursed: "These idiots, they completely don't realize that the purpose of logistics and ammunition is to win the war, they are equipped for the sake of equipment!"
The general counsel hit the nail on the head.
Those who hold the opposing view only want to equip soldiers with guns and ammunition and throw them onto the battlefield, but they have never thought that the reason why they equip these soldiers is for victory and to defeat the enemy.
On the same battlefield and the same mission, if one hundred soldiers carry one hundred bolt-action rifles and consume one thousand rounds of ammunition to complete it, then ten soldiers equipped with ten assault rifles can also complete the mission, which also consumes one thousand rounds of ammunition.
Judging from the total ammunition consumption, it will not be much more, and may even consume less ammunition, because old-fashioned rifles cannot effectively suppress enemy machine guns. A hundred soldiers rushing forward will only die in vain, and many people will not even
There was no chance to shoot, and the bullets remained in the body and could not be fired.
But assault rifles... two or three people shooting alternately are enough to suppress the enemy's machine guns and win.
Therefore, those who think that assault rifles will increase logistical pressure and worsen already overwhelmed production capacity are actually completely wrong...
The pressure on factories and logistics does not come from guns, but from the objective needs of the battlefield.
The purpose of war is to win, not to have guns and bullets in the hands of soldiers.
This principle is very simple, but many people still don't understand it, which makes the general counsel spend a period of time and energy constantly making reports and persuasion.
This is not surprising. For similar reasons, Hans's stg44 has not been taken seriously, so that the developers had to rename it mp43 or mp44 to pass the review and then secretly send this gun to the front line... The result is one
It was very popular when it was sent to the soldiers.
(Note: Hans's "mp" number is a submachine gun. The number mp44 is used to make people mistakenly think it is a submachine gun)
Wang Xuexin didn't have to worry about this. Androvich responded happily immediately after receiving the call back: "Comrade Battalion Commander, the General Counsel has agreed to this deal. He hopes that you can provide a preliminary design as soon as possible.
Because this kind of equipment is needed in the domestic battlefield! At the same time, the general counsel also needs your design to convince domestic experts who do not have a strategic vision!"
"No problem!" Wang Xuexin nodded, and then casually gave the bullet data.
The data given is very simple, that is, length, caliber, bullet weight, powder charge, etc.
But although these data are simple, they are actually quite complex.
The reason is that its charge, caliber, warhead weight, etc. must ensure that the range of the fired warhead is exactly about 500 meters... Just for this point, Mao Xiong scientists have spent several months using various calibers.
After trying various charges, we finally came up with the intermediate-power bullet used by the AK47.
But all this was omitted because of Wang Xuexin's great contributions.
"Let's develop bullets first!" Wang Xuexin handed over the data and said, "We will consider discussing firearms after the bullet test is satisfactory!"