In the finish taiga, a ray of sunlight shining through the branches of the trees on the thick snow is the beginning of another day for the creatures of the land.

"Smack, smack, smack"

The sound of gunfire echoed through the dense forest, crisp and rhythmic.

This is Simon testing the gun, and since getting his hands on it yesterday, he has carefully broken it down, wiped all the parts off with linen, and replaced it with the best low-freezing point polish he could find.

By the time he had finished his work, it was already dark. After all, the dark night of winter in Finland comes early and goes late.

So, Simon simply chose to wake up early after a good night's rest, picked up the new version of the sniper rifle that he had placed next to him, and found an open space to start the test firing.

But when Simon pulled the bolt and pushed the bullet into the chamber for the first moment, she noticed something special about this rifle!

Compared to the weapons he used before, its bolt movement was simply too smooth and so smooth!

Without too much emotion, Simon couldn't wait to raise his gun and aim at a birch tree 500 meters away.

The birch tree was too conspicuous among a group of coniferous trees, so it was a natural target for Simon.

The new gun has been calibrated at the factory, and it is completely direct test firing. Coupled with the ZEISS 8x scope, Simon was able to see his target clearly with ease.

After pressing the reticle into the middle of the trunk, Simon slowly adjusted his breathing, and then pulled the trigger with ease......

"Smack!"

A shot rang out, and the bullet hit the middle of the trunk as Simon expected.

Just the first shot, and it hit the target!

But in Simon's opinion, his first emotion was not to be proud of his high hit rate, but to calmly find that the new gun, which now uses 8.5mm bullets, has significantly greater recoil than the Mosin Nagant rifle that was commonly used before.

However, the butt has a thick cushioning rubber pad, and the grip with a thumb hole makes it more comfortable to shoot than the Mosin Nagant.

Moreover, the accuracy of this gun was far better than any rifle he had ever seen!

THE TARGET BIRCH TREE IS ABOUT 50-60CM IN DIAMETER, WHICH IS SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE WIDTH OF THE HUMAN BODY.

Since it can accurately hit the center of the trunk at a distance of 500 meters, it means that when hitting people, the difficulty will definitely not increase much.

And other rifles at this distance, it is already difficult to ensure accuracy.

As Simon continued to test fire and increase the distance, the gun still maintained good accuracy.

As for Hans's 800 meters to hit the head and 1000 meters to the chest, Simon felt that he should be really sure to do it.

At the same time, he also found that the special 8.5mm bullet used in this gun had another unique point - one was that the trajectory was very straight, unlike the Mauser 98K, which was favored by German instructors, and the trajectory was obviously arcing when shooting at long-distance targets.

In addition, the 8.5mm bullet has a high muzzle velocity and a good storage velocity, which makes it easier to hit long-distance moving targets and less susceptible to crosswinds.

At the same time, the good storage speed performance and the heavy warhead also ensure the lethality of kilometers away, this kind of gun, as a sniper, Simon simply liked it in an instant!

Speaking of which, the origin of this gun is also quite interesting.

A few years ago, Reinhardt ordered Mauser's designers to make a semi-automatic rifle to strengthen the firepower of the infantry squad.

Soon after, Mauser also developed a prototype gun and informed the Führer.

Originally, the follow-up work of this kind of thing did not need to be seen by the Führer himself, but Reinhardt had never touched a gun in his previous life, and there were not many opportunities to shoot guns in this life, even more so after becoming the Führer!

In order not to miss such a good opportunity, the Führer, who was in high spirits, came to the Mauser company with a group of cronies and an SS guard company, and frightened the whole company.

If you ask carefully, the Führer's motive for mobilizing the people is actually "playing with guns."

Finally, after a round of test firing of the newly developed semi-automatic rifle, the Führer expressed his satisfaction, and the tentative model was the G38 semi-automatic rifle. At the same time, Mauser was required to find ways to increase reliability and reduce production costs, otherwise it would be difficult to equip them in batches.

Hearing this at the time, the chief designer of Mauser was immediately a little unconvinced, we have worked hard to develop such a good weapon, what do you mean by not equipping it? Play us?!

This means that history has been changed, and if this designer had run into a mustache, he would have been sent to the concentration camp to die a long time ago. Because the German Führer has always had a good temper, especially when it comes to technical personnel, this has also emboldened many scientists and researchers, and they can immediately shout out if they are dissatisfied.

But Reinhardt was hit after all, how can this be endured? Gotta find a chance to get face back!

As for how to get back face...... Catch him and pump him on the ground? No, no, it's too low-level and detrimental to the Führer's demeanor.

Besides, we were also good young people in the new century in our last life, and we have never eaten pork, and we have never seen pigs upside down?

I haven't touched a real gun in my life. But CS we've fought before, haven't we? We also take the guns inside seriously, and I won't scare you to death if I take out one casually!

So, Reinhardt casually found a piece of paper, carried forward his engineering drawing skills, sketched a rough outline of the big sniper AM in CS, marked the approximate parameters and design concept, and casually threw it to the chief designer of Mauser Company.

At first, I was still very unconvinced, thinking that the Führer knew the design of firearms.

But when he took the picture and took a closer look, his eyes were straight!

After all, the chief designer is not a straw bag, and he still understands the sketches drawn by the Führer and the annotations on them.

He understood that this gun was simply an epoch-making product!

Although the Führer's German writing is more ugly and scribbled, the drawings are quite good.

If he was not convinced, Mr. Chief Designer hurriedly bowed his head and confessed, and by the way, he had the intention of asking for advice.

In the face of other people's requests for advice, Reinhardt was also a little panicked in his heart, after all, he had played CS and didn't understand the real fart of firearm design.

But the designer doesn't know, and the people around him don't know!

In order not to show his timidity, Reinhardt had to discuss a little detail with the designer that he knew, and then decisively changed the topic and jumped to the topic of how to reduce costs.

As a result, Reinhardt, who changed the topic, hyped up the superiority of stamping and "instructed" the designers to change the current MP series submachine guns from cutting manufacturing to stamping, while the MG series machine guns also continued to maintain stamping manufacturing.

Reinhardt explained at a glance that this can not only greatly increase production efficiency, but also save materials, and must be implemented as soon as possible.

After he quoted and talked nonsense, the designers of the entire Mauser company were praised as if they had been empowered.

No wonder they are the Führer, look at how much they know! (Reinhardt: If I weren't a traverser, I would know a fart!) In my world line, the Third Reich has been destroyed and shown to me, can I not accept the lesson?! ）

In the face of the chief engineer's humble consultation, and seeing that this is also his own subordinate, the Führer, who regained face, finally did not pursue the previous disrespect, and also tried to discuss the use and development of light weapons with the engineers.

Thus, research began on a truly epoch-making weapon - an assault rifle. Coupled with the stamping of manufacturing, it is strange that this weapon will not be equipped on a large scale in the future! The future of Mauser is bright.

Before leaving, Reinhardt sketched a simple new weapon to the designers, and promised that if the development was successful, it would be equipped on a large scale - that is, a 40mm grenade launcher, based on the M79 used in the Vietnam War in the United States.

This thing can make up for the gap in surface killing firepower between the mortar and the grenade, and there is also a sight, which is much easier to operate than the Japanese 50 grenadier canister with hand experience!

Reinhardt's idea was to make an M79 first. As for how to lightweight and how to hang on an assault rifle, that's all for later.

Because the difficulty of research and development is relatively low, and Germany has had similar weapons before, but it is a signal flare instead of a grenade. So the results came out very quickly. Although it did not catch up with the Polish campaign, it was sent to Finland for trial not long ago, and it was well received.

As for the sniper rifle in Simon's hand now, it was a by-product of the Mauser Factory, which was carefully tried out according to Reinhardt's sketches and according to his descriptions at the time.

Although this project was Mauser's own research and development project, after the start of the war, Mauser received a large number of orders, and it was considered to be financial, so he could directly invest a lot of manpower and material resources to try to create such an epoch-making weapon.

As soon as the prototype was made, it was sent to Berlin for the Führer to see.

And Reinhardt felt that this weapon, which was at least 40 years ahead, should be delivered to someone who could give full play to its value first, just in time for the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish War, and the future white god of death, Simon Heine, was about to rise.

So with a wave of his hand, the gun was swiftly sent away.

As for how much he regretted the next day after sending him away, only he knew in his heart: what a good thing! Why did I just give it to the Finns...... No, you must find an opportunity to extort a large amount of money from them in the future! 10