In the early morning, when the morning sun shines on the north of Hanyang City, the Hanyang Arsenal under the Turtle Mountain, the whistle of the work is resounding in the sky, after ten years of development, the Hanyang Arsenal at this time is no longer a simple arsenal, in fact, even when it was built eleven years ago, the Hanyang Arsenal with hundreds of machines is also not a simple arsenal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

To a large extent, the Hanyang Arsenal is China's "mother of machine factories", which is engraved with many traces of "China's first", and now a series of large-scale factories such as Hanyang General Dynamics and Hanyang Electric Power were originally developed from one or several workshops of the Hanyang Arsenal.

Eleven years of development have changed everything, just as Hanyang is no longer the largest arsenal in China, replaced by several larger arsenals, but no matter how it changes, it is still the foundation of Hanyang, not only the head office of Hanyang companies, but also the Hanyang Higher School of Engineering. Hanyang Higher School of Engineering, which started as an apprenticeship school, has grown to become one of the best engineering universities in China.

In the past 11 years, the changes in Hanyang have been obvious to all, and almost everyone knows where this change came from, from the uncle of the country, the empress's brother, who was also the general manager of the Hanyang company in the baroque Hanyang building.

As the general manager of the Hanyang Company, in the past eleven years, Xu Shushan has definitely lived up to His Majesty's trust, providing sufficient weapons and equipment for the army, while developing the Hanyang Arsenal into an extremely large group. Two years ago, it entered the financial industry through the acquisition of Huguang Guanyin, and extended its tentacles into various industries through the financial industry, thus forming an industrial consortium, but unlike Cantonese businessmen, Huizhou businessmen, Shaanxi businessmen and Zhejiang businessmen, Hanyang Company has a lingering official color.

It is precisely this official color that has made Hanyang Company operate arms production in a near-monopoly way until now, but in the past few years, with the "privatization" of Guangzhou Shijing Arsenal and Tianjin Arsenal has been challenged, especially after the barrel rifle designed by Shijing Arsenal was adopted by the Marine Corps and the elite units of the army, as the general manager of Hanyang Company, Xu Shushan naturally felt an unprecedented pressure.

After all, Xu Shushan knew very well that the army was not satisfied with the fact that the Han-style rifle was ten years ahead of the world, and it had always intended to equip a magazine rifle, and in the end, the rifles provided by the Ishii factory met the army's needs to some extent.

Since then, the development of a magazine rifle that can meet the needs of the army is the most important task of the Hanyang Arsenal, and its importance is even greater than the improvement of the Gatling gun, after all, the Gatling gun is only a relatively limited weapon, it is not like a rifle, the amount of equipment is often millions. Even the improvement of the old rifle, the paper-shelled rifle, can make millions of dollars in profits.

"The three-year rifle uses a tubular magazine located under the barrel with a long spring feeding backwards and can hold eight rounds. In addition, one more round can be loaded in the chamber and one round on the pallet, so the ammunition capacity can reach 10 rounds. In addition, on the left side of the gun there was a magazine divider, which blocked the magazine from supplying ammunition and the shooter could only shoot a single shot. ”

In the general manager's office of the Hanyang company, Xu Shushan showed his latest design to the visiting "guest" for the first time, as we all know, is not only a qualified businessman, but also an extremely excellent engineer and weapons designer. He was the designer of the Han-style rear-loading gun. But for Xu Shushan, the rifle in front of him is his real pride.

“…… The design we first tried was actually a cassette magazine, but it could not be solved due to the failure of the upper double bullet in the test, so we had to refer to the tubular magazine system of the Type 3 rifle to design. Since the magazine is hidden in the front support, its center of gravity changes as the bullet in the barrel moves, so in the end, the minister gave up the tubular magazine and chose the box magazine......"

When Xu Shushan was explaining, Zhu Yifeng, who was wearing an army uniform, was really staring at the rifle in his hand, the beautiful walnut butt looked extremely exquisite under the light, and what surprised him even more was the "familiarity" of this weapon.

The reason why I say "familiar" is because Zhu Yifeng has seen "it" before, to be precise, he has seen "it" photos, it is in another world, and more than 30 years later, it will appear in the home of that neighbor in the north, and it will be called "Mosin Nagan" at that time.

Obviously, one thing is for sure is that Xu Shushan was influenced by himself, no, by "it", in the past four years, Zhu Yifeng found that many people have been affected by "it", and "it" will always give some people hints, through that "aura", some inventions that do not belong to this era have been invented. This is how "it" helps itself, like this rifle that does not belong to this era.

"It uses a monolithic magazine that is loaded with a single shot or a bridge clamp through a shell ejection port at the top of the receiver. The magazine is located in front of the trigger retainer under the butt, and it has a capacity of 5 rounds, but in reality its magazine can only be pressed into 4 rounds, not 5, and the top one must be pushed into the chamber; The magazine has a hinged bottom cover that can be opened for emptying the magazine or for cleaning and maintenance. Since it is a single-row design without a holding port, there is a divider at the mouth of the magazine, which separates the second round when loading to avoid the failure of the upper double bullet......"

When His Majesty was operating the rifle, Xu Shushan took out a clip of bullets as if offering a treasure, took the bullets, and loaded a clip of bullets into the magazine according to the method seen in the movie, regardless of Xu Shushan's dumbfounded appearance, Zhu Yifeng looked at the chamber and asked directly.

"Is it the first year style 11mm rifle cartridge?"

The first year of the 11 mm rifle cartridge is the world's first standard metal cartridge case, although as early as the first year ago, the Marine Corps tried the metal cartridge case, but the finalization and large-scale use was after the first year, and now this rifle, the same kind of bullet is used.

"Yes, Your Majesty, this is for the sake of ammunition supply, when there is a large amount of ammunition in the warehouse, there should be no new type of ammunition."

This is a decision without any problems, at least on the surface, there are no problems, but for Zhu Yifeng, what he thinks about is the future.

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, the problem of the production of smokeless propellants has been solved!"

Zhu Yifeng looked at Xu Shushan and asked, smokeless propellant has been used on a large scale because of the equipment of mortars, and the first mortar propellant kit was made of black powder, which solved the urgent needs of the front line, but there were many shortcomings. If the firing distance is relatively close, the hit rate is not high, especially if there is a lot of residue in the gun chamber, the body of the projectile will not be able to enter the chamber a few days after launch, which will affect the continued firing. In addition, there is a lot of smoke from black powder, which affects aiming and cannot exert the rate of fire. Eventually, nitrocellulose treated with an alcohol solution of camphor was used in mortars as a propellant, and later expanded to include rear-loading guns. However, due to production and other reasons, its application has been limited to artillery, and has not been applied to rifles.

"Your Majesty? What do you mean? With smokeless medicine? ”

Without waiting for Xu Shushan to finish speaking, Zhu Yifeng spoke.

"Smokeless propellant is more powerful, can use less gunpowder, gives the bullet a higher muzzle velocity, and has very little smoke, I thought maybe I could try it on a rifle!"

After all, compared with the black powder artillery, the performance of the artillery using smokeless propellant has been greatly improved, and of course, there are problems such as chamber pressure, which has even further promoted the development of China's metallurgical technology -- a new type of artillery steel has been applied after several years of hard work.

"Your Majesty, the current first-year-style bullets are not suitable for smokeless medicine."

Xu Shushan did not think of redesigning a new type of bullet, but continued.

"If a bullet is redesigned, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the military to accept it."

As a businessman, Xu Shushan certainly needs to take into account commercial interests, the needs of the army have always come first, and in his opinion, it is obviously impossible for the army to accept a new ammunition.

"As long as its performance is good enough, the army will definitely accept it, the current 11 mm bullet is too bulky for the infantry, a warhead has more than 30 grams, if a new type of small-caliber bullet is used, its weight can be doubled, and then the infantry can carry more bullets and continue to fight longer, unlike now, each person can only carry dozens of bullets."

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Yifeng continued.

"I think that the caliber of this new bullet can be 6.5 mm to 8 mm, and the relatively small caliber rifle cartridge will definitely far exceed the 11 mm black powder rifle cartridge fired by the current Han-style rifle in terms of lethality and ballistic performance, and the new gun and cartridge will bring great tactical advantages to our rifle in terms of accuracy and range."

In fact, smokeless gunpowder has led to a revolution in military affairs, and now even if weapons have been developed, it is only natural that smokeless gunpowder for rifle ammunition will be used.

Even more than just a rifle, smokeless gunpowder will also stimulate the emergence of machine guns, machine guns, thinking of the Gatling machine gun that once shocked the world, the relatively clumsy machine gun, obviously not the machine gun in Zhu Yifeng's heart, the machine gun he hoped for was those machine guns in later generations.

When this thought came to his mind, Zhu Yifeng picked up a pencil and drew a sketch on the paper, which was a sketch of the structure of the bullet, but it was not a Han-style bullet, but a bottomless bullet that would be the mainstream more than a hundred years later.

"In addition to the absence of a bottom edge, considering that the muzzle velocity of the warhead will exceed 700 meters, the warhead cannot use a lead bullet like the first year, but add a layer of copper armor, so that it can withstand a higher muzzle velocity......"

According to the shape of the bullets of later generations, Zhu Yifeng even inadvertently introduced sharp bullets instead of the round-headed bullets in history, of course, the performance of the sharp bullets is better, and the trajectory is straighter, which is the future of ammunition development.

"This is a bullet of the future! If our soldiers had this ammunition, it is certain that our tactical superiority would be more than twenty years ahead of the world! ”

Twenty years ahead of the world, as a traverser, Zhu Yifeng knows very well that more than 20 years later, with the adoption of the 8mm Lebel rifle by the French, the world's weapons began to enter the era of smokeless gunpowder, and now, this trend will be pioneered by China.

"Your Majesty, if this is the case, many of our equipment will need to be adjusted, which may even affect the production of weapons and ammunition, not to mention that it is wartime!"

Although His Majesty's suggestion made Xu Shushan's eyes light up and made him realize that this was an opportunity to regain the "leading advantage", he was also very clear that during the war, what was most important for the army was a more abundant number of weapons, rather than an insufficient number of advanced weapons.

"Is there a lot of orders for the army now?"

Zhu Yifeng asked rhetorically, of course, the answer is no.

"Your Majesty, the military's order has not exceeded the company's production capacity, after all, the army's inventory is very sufficient!"

Unlike other countries, the Imperial Army and Navy have always replenished their arsenal by establishing peacetime stockpiles, so after the outbreak of war, the Army and Navy, especially the Army, did not encounter the dilemma of insufficient weapons and ammunition, after all, in their warehouses, millions of rifles and hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition were stored. Sufficient stocks made it so that the production of munitions did not swell immediately after the outbreak of war.

"In this case, then it is just a good opportunity to let the army consume the old ammunition on the one hand, and on the other hand to provide the army with new rifles and ammunition, well, as for the old guns, we have fought so many battles, and we have already made a reputation made in Hanyang, it is better to take advantage of this time to sell these weapons to foreigners, for example, to the Allied States, and then use the money from the sale of old guns to buy new guns......"

In Zhu Yifeng's view, in the future world, the United States is the only country that may threaten China, and under such circumstances, how to restrain the development of the United States is something that China must consider, and it is precisely because of this that he formulated a basic policy when relations between the North and the South of the United States were tense.

"Arms exports to the South?"

Although he knew that since the outbreak of the Civil War, supporting the South had been the basic policy of imperial foreign affairs, but now from His Majesty's words, he heard something else.

"Well, that's right, I've decided to recognize the Confederate States of America!"

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