There was a buzz in the venue.

Since the establishment of the company, the leaders have maintained the operation of the entire traversal force through forums, voice software, and small-scale meetings. And this large conference room, which was converted from a Dutch restaurant, has not been used for a long time.

Today's "gun finalization meeting" is really because there have been too many noisy goods in the past two days, and no one who understands the gun emperor is convinced, and various opinions are sharply opposed, and it is no longer clear on the forum...... Therefore, Ma Zekai, general manager of the freshly baked weapons company, convened such a meeting to prepare for a decisive decision and quickly set the main gun type of the crossing army in the future.

In the hastily cleaned old dining room, fine dust wafted in the air, and groups of people sat on shabby wooden stools, gathering in small groups, heads together, talking to each other, whispering.

Ma Zekai, who was sitting behind a broken table on the rostrum, crossed his legs and was smoking, looked at his watch from time to time, and was ready to announce the meeting as soon as he arrived on the hour.

......

"I really don't understand, shouldn't it be up to the people in the army to decide what weapons to use?" Mu Longcheng, who was wearing a 07-style blue admiral uniform, shiny leather shoes, and meticulous all over his body, was sitting in the corner of the restaurant at this time, whispering to the people next to him with an indignant face.

"Theoretically, that's so." Beside Mu Longcheng, Han Xiaobo, the army commander who was in camouflage training uniform, laughed at this time: "But in fact, the weapons are all decided by the arms dealer and the congressman at the wine table, and the soldier can only take the prescribed appropriation and purchase the specified variety...... This is called shuanggui. ”

"That's it, the arms dealer, cut, put the cart before the horse!"

Han Xiaobo heard Mu Longcheng's complaints, smiled and pouted: "Then, there are no arms dealers in this house, but the councilor is sitting in a bunch of ......."

It's a bit pitiful to say, except for these two representatives of the Navy and Army who are wearing military uniforms and sitting at the base of the wall, there is not a single soldier in this room.

Even the commander of the Marine Corps, Qian Mou, who was supposed to show his face, made an excuse to flash after seeing this funny scene of the gathering of the gun emperors - the Marine Corps has no scale now, it is used by special forces, and all weapons are "imported" high-end goods, and Commander Qian has confidence, so he does not come to troubled waters.

Dozens of emperors from all walks of life who understand guns sat in the restaurant with the posture of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

And Comrade Mu Longcheng in the corner was finally bored enough to start scouting the enemy: "Tao Zheng's gang is a 56 half-party member? ”

"No, it's the AK Gang." Han Xiaobo is clear about these people.

"Huh? Didn't you say that the top 56 and a half people have the most, why are they all in the AK gang? ”

"That's all fooling on the Internet, who doesn't know that AK is using force?"

"Cut, can you make it?" Mu Longcheng looked disdainful.

"The AK Party has already argued on the forum." Han Xiaobo looked playful at this time: "The old men in Afghanistan can make it in the workshop, and we can make it too!" ”

"I'll go there, it's some assembly workshops, and the barrels are all imported." Mu Longcheng rolled his eyes.

"We can also import gun barrels......"

"The barrel can be imported, then ......"

At this moment, the conversation between the two was interrupted by Ma Zekai, who was knocking on the broken table: "Everyone be quiet, it's time for the meeting, let's start here." ”

Ma Zekai's age is relatively high among the general people under the age of 30: 36 years old. Lao Ma had previously worked as a firearms repairman in a private weapons company, and was the only one who had experience in making guns in actual combat.

"Let's still use the old method today: each group takes turns to send people to the stage, each person has 10 minutes to speak, and then there is voting, and the elimination system at the end."

...... Ma Zekai knows very well that his newly baked weapons company is a worker, and he has no right to speak at all, so Lao Ma now has a calm expression on his face: Quarrel, it doesn't matter if you quarrel with the six-pipe Thor Lao Tzu, if you dare to give materials, Lao Tzu will dare to make it.

However, the gun emperors in the audience don't think so, especially the AK with the largest number of people, 56 and a half supporters of the two major gun series. With confident smiles on their faces, the comrades seemed to be confident enough to cut off their opponents, so that the thousands of brave soldiers who would cross the country in the future would go into battle with the guns they had in mind to kill the enemy.

......

Just as Ma Zekai was about to start the draw and line out the order of the contestants, three people walked in outside the restaurant.

The first one is the current CEO of the crossing group, Xia Xianze Xia Zhongtang.

Mr. Xia was followed by Zou Guoqing, one of the princes of the big office, Zou Guoqing, who was in charge of the industry.

The last one who was wearing a suit, a little early and white-headed, and was about 35 years old, was named Lu Sheng.

Lu Sheng, a former captain of the armed police fire brigade, recently began to walk in the big office, overseeing the army's logistics, recruit training, and army material procurement.

Seeing these three people enter the door, the originally warm atmosphere in the restaurant suddenly froze...... The comrades were quickly assessing the impact of the appearance of these goods on their team, so the scene was a little deserted.

However, at this time, Han Xiaobo, who was sitting in the corner, grinned slightly and laughed silently - his rich life experience told him that he should be able to have a good show today!

Seeing Zhongtang enter the door, Ma Zekai hurriedly walked out, grabbed the hand of Mr. Xia, who was dressed in casual clothes, and shook it non-stop, and his flattery was overflowing.

And Xia Xianze and the three of them smiled and greeted all the emperors who knew how to use guns with changing faces, and walked onto the rostrum.

...... After coughing twice, Xia Xianze, who was standing on the stage, first knocked on the broken table in front of him with his middle finger, and then said with a smile: "Don't delay everyone's time, I'll leave after a few words." ”

No one doubts Lao Xia's words - there are less than 200 people in the total of the traversal, and the bureaucratic habits are far from being cultivated. A person in a position like Xia Xianze is busy with affairs all day long, and he will leave after a few words, it will definitely not take more than 3 minutes, and he will never be like the head of the unit in the later generations, a "I will add a few words", can be said to get off work......

"I'm here today, first of all, to tell you a good news!" Xia Xianze was full of smiles at this time: "After consultation with Mr. Cao, I now solemnly state to you: no matter what gun type we choose, Mr. Cao will import 200 sample guns of the highest quality as soon as possible to equip our earliest cadet company!" ”

A few applause and scattered applause came from the audience. Xia Xianze, who had long been accustomed to this situation, was about to open his mouth to say the next one, but at this time, his cuffs were suddenly pulled by Lu Sheng, and then the middle-aged white-haired former armed policeman whispered a word in Lao Xia's ear.

"Butt, oh yes, butt forgot." Xia Xianze patted his head: "I'm sorry, I don't know much about guns, that, we have to produce our own butts." ”

......

At this time, no one in the audience spoke, and there was silence.

Even the person who didn't have a very sensitive sense of smell felt that something was wrong at this time, and everyone was now waiting for Lord Nakado to say "but".

"But, well, everyone knows that our force is now extremely lacking in all kinds of industrial raw materials, so ......"

When Xia Xianze said this, he turned his head and nodded to Zou Guoqing, who was standing beside him: "So, after our research, we have decided: in the future, all self-produced guns and cannons are not allowed to use metal shells, especially copper shells." This restriction is in effect until we have a sufficient amount of copper ore! I'm done talking. ”

......

Words must be practiced, and people are truly believers.

Xia Xianze's trio, from entering the door to going out, it didn't take 3 minutes to get together.

Leaving the stunned Emperor to sit there with big eyes and staring at the small eyes.

After the suffocating 5 minutes passed, a person slowly stood up from his seat - Tao Zheng, vice president of Dayuan Telecommunications, and a lover of AK series rifles.

I saw him suck two mouthfuls of the long-mouthed Liqun that was about to burn out between his fingers, and then threw the cigarette butt at his feet, and then crushed it fiercely, and the next moment, Tao Zheng turned around and walked out of the door of the restaurant in full view of everyone, like a dignified dog.

......

"Hahaha," Mu Longcheng, who was already blushing from his face, began to laugh uncontrollably at this time. With Mu Longcheng's laughter, a large wave of AK and 56 half-party people turned around and left one after another with expressionless faces.

You can't use copper bullet shells, which means that you can only take the route of black powder, paper-wrapped bullets, and all semi-automatic and automatic firearms are all silently eliminated at this moment - AK and 56 and a half guns with this accuracy, with black powder flying with debris, a few shots will explode.

"Good." After Mu Longcheng finished laughing, his face turned straight, and he glanced at the rest of the goods in the room, he stood up and said: "Let me make it clear first, the brothers go to the battlefield to fight to the death, and the lives of Lao Tzu and his brothers are not used to play with your feelings." So, those who are clamoring to equip the army with smoothbore guns can get out now, or you will lead the team into battle yourself, and I want to see how many days you can live? ”

...... Looking at Mu Longcheng's contemptuous eyes and Han Xiaobo's stiff face on the side, several brown bass party members also left in disgrace.

"It's good, the ticket players are gone, and I can finally get down to business." Ma Zekai walked over from the stage at this time, pulled a broken bench and sat down, then glanced at the few remnants in the room, and said with a smile.

...... The vigorous firearms convention was dramatically transformed into a small meeting with less than 10 participants.

Now, after going through various strange elimination processes, there are only three candidate rifles left that still stick to the post: Mini gun, Sharps, and Chasepo.

The principle is very simple: since copper-shelled bullets cannot be used, then they can only be pushed forward from back to front according to the history of firearms, and which gun is closest to the age of equipped with copper-shell bullet rifles, which gun must be the most powerful candidate.

So, the Mini gun was also quickly eliminated.

In the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the Austrians, armed with Mini guns, were defeated on the battlefield by the Prussian army, which was armed with breech-loading needle Dreisai rifles...... The famous front-loading Mini gun, from this moment on, officially withdrew from the stage of history.

The transitional breech Dresser rifle was also quickly eliminated by the excellent Chasebo rifle of the French army.

So, the problem now for the Crossing is this: choose one of the two excellent rifles of the same era.

Sharps and Shasepo, choose one or the other.