The weather has gradually cooled, and the tall ginkgo trees have begun to have a few yellow leaves.

The autumn breeze picks up, and a yellow leaf ends its short years in the canopy, drifting down with the wind.

"Bang" life, the yellow leaf was shattered by a whistling lead bullet, exploded into countless pieces in the air, and finally fell to the ground.

On the martial arts arena under the ginkgo tree, Jiang Chuan looked at the broken yellow leaves, looked at the pistol in his hand, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "The accuracy is much better than the previous version." ”

The pistol he was holding was a new revolver produced by the Gun Foundry, which was still in the experimental stage.

The one Jiang Chuan was holding in his hand was just a sample gun.

At present, in the new army, the large-caliber pistols equipped with pistols for all officers, although the power is okay, but there are also many shortcomings: the ammunition is small, only one round; The accuracy is poor, and it basically depends on luck at ten meters away; Reloading is slow, as there are no magazines or magazines, so only one bullet can be loaded from the barrel.

The early pistols of mankind were basically this kind of single-shot pistol, that is, loaded with one bullet, this kind of pistol has a slow response, weak firepower, and can be used as self-defense, and cannot meet the needs of the battlefield.

In Alexandre Dumas's famous "Three Musketeers", French musketeers are usually expected to carry three or four pistols in order to kill several people at close range.

In Robinson Crusoe, Robinson also carries two hundred pistols, two rifles, and a knife when he goes out on patrol on the island, in case he encounters multiple enemies.

At that time, European musketeers, armed with single-shot pistols, did not have a significant advantage over Arab cavalry or African indigenous forces, especially when dealing with agile cavalry.

Once the cavalry rushed to close range. European soldiers could only use traditional cold weapons and bayonets to fight, and heavy casualties were inevitable.

This changed only after the advent of the revolver.

This revelor-fed pistol can fire five to six rounds in a row for a short period of time. If done correctly, it is possible to deal with several enemies at the same time.

Therefore, the emergence of the revolver has changed the pistol as a weapon earth-shaking, but it can be said to be a revolutionary change in the history of pistol development, so that the revolver was highly respected by countries all over the world at that time.

In addition to the large ammunition supply, another very significant advantage of the revolver is its high reliability. There is basically no jamming, and even if a bullet fails, the shooter only needs to pull the trigger again and fire the next bullet.

Finally, the revolver is highly accurate, basically pointing at close range, so the police of various countries are very fond of it.

But as a military weapon, the revolver has a lot of problems. Military pistols require high lethality and high reloads, which are the weakness of revolvers.

At the end of the 19th century, a 600-strong U.S. cavalry was ambushed by the Indians. Since the American army did not carry sabers at that time, the only weapon was a revolver.

During the battle, the American revolver ran out of bullets in half a minute, and it took several minutes to reload on bumpy horseback. This time was long enough for the Indian warriors to slash and kill a few of them back and forth.

In the end, more than 300 U.S. troops were killed, and almost all of the survivors were wounded.

With the lesson of blood, the Americans, realizing the inadequacy of the revolver, began to develop a semi-automatic pistol that could fire a single shot continuously. This pistol has a fast rate of fire, great power, and a large reload, which is several points higher than the revolver except for reliability.

The world's first semi-automatic pistol was developed by the American firearms master John Brown. Moses. Browning M1900 pistol developed by Browning. The gun is small and can be hidden in a trouser pocket or under an armpit from being detected.

It was with this pistol that Princip, the Assassin who ignited World War I, assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, ultimately costing Europe more than nine million lives in five years.

Later, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the US military openly tendered the next generation of high-powered military pistols. Based on the M1900 pistol, Browning developed the M1905 semi-automatic pistol, which uses 11.43 mm caliber bullets.

Since the pistol fired Colt ammunition, Browning sent a sample gun to the U.S. military for testing through Colt.

After four years of rigorous testing, the M1905 pistol did not fail in a continuous 6,000-round fire, even after being immersed in sediment and sewage.

What made the military even more overjoyed was that this pistol uses 11.43 mm caliber ammunition, which can completely incapacitate the enemy as long as it hits the target, which can be called "the cannon of the pistol." ”

Eventually, the pistol was pressed to five other companies' prototypes, winning orders from the U.S. military. Eventually, the U.S. military named the Browning's fine-tuned pistol the Colt M1911 pistol.

Therefore, Jiang Chuan has always hoped to equip the troops with a military pistol that is more reliable, has a larger ammunition load, and has a faster loading speed.

The first thing he thought of was the Colt M19911 semi-automatic pistol mentioned above, which is a famous gun that has been famous in the world for more than half a century, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats on various battlefields from World War I to World War II, and has been loved by soldiers from all over the world.

The M1911 pistol is very good in terms of ammunition load, accuracy, and lethality, which can meet Jiang Chuan's needs, and is Jiang Chuan's favorite World War II gun, and it is also the pistol in the minds of many men.

And in terms of appearance, the tough and mighty atmosphere of M1911 is also very popular, and it also performs very well in reliability.

There are so many stories about the M1911 in World War II that there are countless of them. In short, the story of this pistol in the European theater and the Pacific theater and another anti-Japanese artifact in the Chinese battlefield - the Mauser military pistol (20-shot box gun) can be said to be the two most famous pistols before and after World War II.

It's a pity that although Jiang Chuan loves the M1911 and even the box gun is good, the gun foundry at the base is unable to produce these two pistols.

In the end, Jiang Chuan could only settle for the second best thing and chose a revolver.

The revolver he used for test firing today was the third prototype gun produced by the gun foundry.

The first two versions of the prototype had some major problems, such as insufficient accuracy, or too little ammunition.

After Jiang Chuan's continuous feedback and test firing, these problems were gradually solved after upgrading various technologies in the arsenal, and finally there was this sample gun in Jiang Chuan's hand.

After a number of tests such as accuracy, effective range and rate of fire, Egawa was basically satisfied with this gun.

The next step was for the officers to test the gun themselves.

Once the tests are passed, an order will be placed with the gun foundry and mass production will begin.