Listening to the strange sound of gunfire, Jochen asked the attendants beside him suspiciously, "Did the crown prince bring automatic weapons such as machine guns to the hunting ground today?" After receiving a negative answer, Jochen had a curious look on his face, just like the princes and nobles around him.

The ladies who followed behind were also a little suspicious, most of them had never touched a weapon, but those who had participated in hunting activities with their husbands and fathers were still a little uneasy about the sound of gunfire that should not have been heard in the hunting grounds.

However, Jochen was not worried about any danger, Reinhardt was accompanied by guards, and those noble young men also brought their own attendants, so even if they encountered any wild beasts, they did not have to worry, in the face of a dozen rifles, the beasts could only be beaten into a sieve as prey.

However, Jochen's curiosity was aroused by the sound of the gun, and he lightly clamped the horse's belly with his feet, urging the Hanoverian horse under his crotch to slowly trot towards the place where the gunfire came, and the princes and nobles behind him immediately followed the emperor's majesty. Perhaps seeing that the men were all at ease, the women's feelings slowly calmed down, and they began to flatter each other and gossip without any nutrition, while flattering the queen and praising the crown prince without a trace, and praising the merits of their daughters in front of the queen, intentionally or unintentionally, hoping to make a good impression on Mary, but these had nothing to do with the men who ran into the woods on horses.

The continuous gunfire was still ringing from time to time, and after a short time of trotting towards the place where the gunshots rang out, Jochen saw the young men gathered together, all dismounted and gathered together, and his sons were surrounded in the middle of the crowd like stars and moons, talking excitedly.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, these young people who were excited around the crown prince looked up and found that the emperor was leading, and their fathers and elders all followed, and immediately dispersed in a hurry. Stand honestly, and then salute the emperor respectfully.

Jochen waved his hand pleasantly, and then asked, "We heard a burst of gunfire just now, and it wasn't the sound of a rifle, so it's a little strange, so we rushed over to take a look." ”

Dismount as he spoke. He walked up to the young people and joked: "You don't have to be too nervous, you don't have to care too much about etiquette, is it possible that your father can still spank your ass in front of me?" ”

His Majesty's words made everyone laugh, and the future regent of Bavaria, King Ludwig III of Bavaria, said with a smile: "These boys are probably worried that we will settle accounts for them when we go back, and their butts will still be in danger." Ludwig's words made everyone laugh again.

Jochen looked at his son and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I promise I won't spank you when I go back, say it, Leo." What just happened? What weird stuff did you bring here? ”

Seeing that his father was not angry, Reinhardt smiled and asked, "How do you know that I brought the gun?" Father. ”

"Because no one but you would come hunting with a machine gun, these good lads wouldn't do such a tasteless thing." Jochen said with a smile.

"I can't do such tasteless things as carrying a machine gun, father." Reinhardt replied with some embarrassment: "Besides, I can't shoot something as heavy as a machine gun." ”

"And what's going on with that gunshot? It was clearly the sound of continuous fire from automatic weapons. Jochen asked curiously, and the princes and nobles next to him also looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince with interest, these people are all Junker military nobles, and they are also interested in His Royal Highness's rhetoric, is it a new weapon?

"We saw a wild boar just now. I didn't kill it after I shot it first, and then it just rushed at me. As soon as I was nervous, I shot all the bullets. Reinhardt said with some embarrassment, apparently that this was not very good as a hunter.

Jochen glanced at the wild boar that the attendants were dealing with not far away, it was not small, it should be an adult wild boar, weighing about 80 kilograms and long fangs, it was indeed scary when it rushed towards you. However, looking at the bullet holes on the boar's body, Jochen could only lament in his heart that the wild boar that was killed like this was too miserable, how could there be such a hunter? It seems that his son's marksmanship really needs to be honed and honed, otherwise it would be a shame to say it.

Shaking his head, Jochen turned his head and said angrily, "What about the gun?" ”

"This is it. Father. Reinhardt handed over a rifle in his hand: "That's what the shot came from." ”

Jochen took the gun and said with some dissatisfaction, "It's not good to lie, Leo, do you think I don't know what it is?" ”

Reinhardt handed over the Gew.98 semi-automatic rifle, not to mention Jochen, everyone present was no stranger to this rifle, the German Marines had fully replaced this weapon, and the army could now have two of these rifles in each infantry squad, and the adults were skeptical of the crown prince.

Being watched by everyone, Reinhardt stopped selling it, and immediately explained: "It is indeed this rifle that was shot, father, although it does look the same as Gew.98, but it can shoot continuously, and the others have just seen it." ”

The young people next to him immediately nodded their heads to help His Royal Highness the Crown Prince testify.

Seeing this, Jochen lowered his head in confusion and turned over the rifle in his hand to look at it carefully, but he didn't find any difference from the ordinary Gew.98, so he had to reluctantly throw the gun back to his son: "Go and show me." ”

Reinhardt, knowing that his father had believed it, smiled and caught the rifle, and skillfully pulled out a magazine from the pocket of his vest and loaded it, which was still just an ordinary 20-round rifle magazine.

But this rifle soon showed its difference, Reinhardt immediately released after pulling the trigger, and a three-shot burst shot came out instantly, such a table made the princes and nobles around Jochen immediately cry out in surprise, although the young man on the side was very calm, but his face was full of curiosity and excitement. The reason why a bunch of people surrounded the crown prince just now was because of curiosity about this new thing, although Reinhardt made a demonstration more than once, but for them, they still still did not know the real situation of this gun.

But that wasn't the end of it, after two shots, Reinhardt pulled the trigger tightly, and a dozen or so rounds of bullets poured out. In just a few seconds, a magazine became empty.

After the magazine was finished, Reinhardt unloaded the empty magazine, then loaded it with a new one, and handed it to Jochen again.

The stinky boy was very eye-catching, and Jochen deliberately nodded with a straight face, but the smile in his eyes betrayed him, and Reinhardt smiled at his father.

Take the gun. Jochen didn't immediately try the feel, and once again put the rifle in his hand to play with the semi-automatic rifle that could shoot continuously, and Jochen thought about it and probably understood what the hell Browning was doing on Gew.98.

"This gun is an improvement on the basis of the Gew.98, right? And the changes are very small, are there only a few parts replaced? The main change is the trigger blocker, right? Yochen asked.

"I don't know exactly what has been changed, but Mr. Browning says that it was only a very small change." Reinhardt replied, "Father, do you know what Mr. Browning has done?" ”

"Well, I kind of know how it works." Jochen nodded.

Sure enough, Jochen secretly thought that the technical barrier between bolting and semi-automatics might be huge. But the technical barrier between semi-automatic and fully automatic is often just a thin layer of paper.

The vast majority of semi-automatic rifles can become fully automatic as long as the trigger stopper is modified, and in Jochen's memory of his previous life, it is mentioned in "Band of Brothers" that an American soldier used a file to modify the trigger blocker himself and then changed the semi-automatic Garand rifle to a fully automatic.

Moreover, there are many rifles that have developed from semi-automatic to fully automatic in history, such as the Type 56 automatic rifle developed from China's Type 63 semi-automatic rifle, and the FN49 developed AFN that looks very similar to Gew.98.

And now it is normal for Browning to have the intention to make such improvements, because any technological progress is complementary to each other, and only with foreshadowing can it be further developed.

Historically, even up to World War II, the only countries that were able to mass-use semi-automatic rifles before the start of the war were the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States was the only one that was fully equipped with semi-automatic rifles in the war, and the Nazi German Army, which was holding on to the Kar.98k, was often beaten into dogs on Soviet soil by Soviet shooters who used the Tokarev SVT.

Even if the outbreak of war interrupted the plan to change clothes. Even because the entire Soviet Union had to go all out to produce the simple and inexpensive Mosin Nagant, even if the recruits were generally not well educated and did not have enough time to receive training, they could not play with the complex maintenance of semi-automatic rifles. But the SVT, which was equipped with Soviet troops only in small batches before the outbreak of the war, still made the Germans feel a painful pain.

The reason for this situation is that Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy and other powers questioned the automation of rifles and their obsession with single-shot precision shooting, and Britain and Japan were even more outrageously not very interested in submachine guns.

There is no research without demand, and it is not surprising that the development of infantry weapons in this situation has encountered obstacles. The war broke this barrier, and the Germans, who were beaten by SVT, quickly accelerated the development of their semi-automatic rifles, and the Gew.43, although it had some problems, was still a well-designed infantry weapon in World War II, and pursued more sustained firepower. The STG44, the world's first mass-produced assault rifle, was born.

But now the situation is different, the level of light weapons in Germany is now far ahead of the times, and under the favor of the emperor, the development and equipment of the Gew.98 is extremely smooth. In this case, it is logical that the designers want to continue to increase the fire persistence of individual weapons.

And the technical difference between a semi-automatic rifle and a fully automatic rifle is really the same in front of a god like Browning.

But if it is only a semi-automatic rifle fully automated, then the result of this simple and crude improvement is still a tragedy, the attempt of a fully automatic rifle is actually very early, but the real success of the fully automatic rifle is not a single one in the strict sense. Historically, it was also written by Browning, and the famous BAR was originally designed as a fully automatic rifle, but this guy could only make a light machine gun in the end, in addition to being too big and heavy as a rifle that was not qualified at all, and a big reason was because of the bullet.

The result of a fully automatic rifle using full-power ammunition is that the shooter is unable to control the shooter when firing continuously, and the violent muzzle jump allows the automatic rifle to hit the earth with precision. Although the .308 Winchester ammunition made by the Americans who were reluctant to use full-power rifle cartridges after the war is indeed less powerful than their own original .300 Springfield, the .308 Winchester ammunition, which is a NATO standard bullet, may not be called an intermediate power bullet.

The M14 with this ammunition was initially used as a fully automatic rifle in the Vietnam War, but it was another story to switch to battle rifles, sniper rifles, and precision marksman rifles.

But now even Reinhardt can shoot continuously with a fully automatic rifle based on a semi-automatic rifle, and the bullets don't fly everywhere, so it's clear that there are more than a few differences in this gun.

Jochen asked while unloading the magazine and taking a closer look: "I saw that when you shot just now, although the muzzle of the gun jumped, you can still barely control it, these bullets are not standard rifle bullets, right?" ”

"Yes, father." Reinhardt replied, "These bullets are specially made to match this gun, they are ......."

"The charge was reduced. Right? Jochen interrupted his son: "Reducing the cartridge charge reduces the power of a single shot, but it also reduces the recoil and improves the controllability of continuous fire." ”

"Yes, father, you are right." Reinhardt nodded, and then slapped his father on the back, and Mr. Browning told me at the time that you were a great gunsmith, and it seemed that you were not wrong at all, and you could see the secret of bullets at a glance. ”

Hearing His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say this, the nobles next to him immediately became sycophants, and the fact that Gew.86 had completely defeated the tattered design of the committee back then was turned out and once again praised the excellent ability of the Emperor Xià in the field of weapon design, as if Gew.86 was completely designed by Jochen, and there was nothing to do with Mauser at all, and His Majesty the Emperor had already crushed the gunsmiths of all Germany at a young age.

However, it is not surprising that other people will not be able to think of the charge reduction aspect for a while, in this era when full-power rifle bullets are rampant, and countries are eager to have their own guns and bullets with greater power, longer range, and flatter ballistics, it is true that no one will take the initiative to reduce the charge and reduce the performance of the gun bullets, and they will generally consider the problem from the performance of the gun first.

However, Jochen knew that the easiest way to make a fully automatic rifle as an assault rifle be as controllable as an assault rifle was to use reload rounds, and Jochen knew that this method was indeed very effective, the most typical example being the Type 64 automatic small gun used in Japan after World War II.

This fully automatic rifle could not withstand the small size of the Japanese if it used standard .308 ammunition, but after the Japanese reduced the charge by 10% and installed the muzzle brake for the Type 64, although the muzzle kinetic energy was reduced, the muzzle velocity was 95M/s lower than the NATO standard 7.62NATO bullet, but the controllability during continuous fire was far better than that of the M14.

The simplest improvement, the easiest modification, the combination of the two is very simple to give birth to a relatively reliable fully automatic individual weapon, and this small change allows both guns and ammunition to not need to change the production process, nor to make major changes to the original production line, workers do not need to start again, the cost can be effectively controlled, and the output will be maintained at a relatively stable level from the beginning.

For a moment, Jochen even felt that equipping German soldiers with assault rifles in World War I did not seem like an impossible thing to do. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the Biquge www.biquge.info () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to M. to read. (To be continued......)

PS: I went to watch "Jurassic Park 4" on Monday night so I didn't update it, and by the way, I was going out on a business trip this Friday, Saturday and next Saturday and Sunday, so ......