Qin Lang looked at Yi Shui calmly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Will your reaction be too violent?" "I admit that my vision may have some ...... Cruel, but you know, we're talking about war. ”

"Yes." Yi Shui looked at him and guessed. What did he want to say?

Qin Lang didn't have much to say, just a famous sentence that is often quoted by people: "The cost of war is always high." As Robert . General Lee said, 'It's a good thing that war is so brutal, otherwise someone would like it'. ”

Yi Shui sighed. General Li said it well, but it didn't mean anything to Qin Lang - he was an arms dealer and mercenary leader, a war broker; He loves war, no matter how brutal it is, because it's his business, and his way of being.

"Don't you think that the words you quote are actually a kind of irony?" He asked.

"That's how I see this," Qin Lang explained. General Lee said that from the perspective of a soldier, and I am an arms dealer, there is a fundamental difference between our positions. ”

"I knew it."

"But he's right, from a military point of view, I admit it's true."

Yi Shui didn't speak—he didn't know what to say. Moreover, he knew very well that no matter what he said, Qin Lang could always find a suitable reason to prove how correct his point of view was.

Always.

He found one, and then he found another. "And, we have to admit that the damage effect of a 0.5-inch bullet is a tiny fraction of what a new generation of high-explosive grenades do to infantry, and at least it doesn't blast soldiers into pieces that you have to slowly find in an area that could be hundreds of square feet." He meant, "It's still a bit far from 'cruelty.'" ”

"You're right, Qin, always." Yi Shui admitted, but in fact, he was angry. He returned the bullet in his hand to Claude and nodded at him. "What else but this thing?"

"Over here, Mr. Yi." Claude put the machine-gun bullets back on the table and walked over to the other. Yi Shui immediately followed.

Then he saw something that didn't look like weapons: large and small metal cans, and some could only be called "boxes" because they were only that much larger. But all of them are cylindrical, and several of them have a hemispherical "hat" with a probe-like thing stuck in it at one end. Yi Shui was confused, if these little things were new weapons developed by Claude's department, then what were they?

"What are these?" He asked.

"Landmines." The sound came from the side behind. It's Qin Lang.

"Landmines?"

"Yes, mines."

The sound is still coming from the side rear. Qin Lang didn't seem to have any intention of coming over, Yi Shui had to turn his face away before he could continue to ask, "What are they for?" ”

Qin Lang kicked the ball to his employee. "Mr. Claude?"

Claude coughed, cleared his throat, and announced very formally, "Simply put, this is a defensive weapon laid at the front of the position, on the flanks, and on the road, and the soldiers bury them in the earth, and if the enemy soldiers step on them or touch them, they will explode and kill the target." ”

"Sounds ......" Yi Shui thought for a moment, and finally gave up his intention to comment, and motioned, "Please continue, Mr. Claude." ”

"Yes, sir." Claude replied, but did not start immediately, but first picked up a mine, the largest kind, "According to Mr. Qin's request, we have designed a total of five types of mines, this is Type A, of course, it is our temporary name." He laughed self-deprecatingly, and then began to introduce the "Type A" mine. "It's eight inches tall, five inches in diameter, weighs about seven pounds, and it only takes twenty pounds of pressure or thirteen pounds of thrust to be triggered when it is loaded with one pound of explosives."

"How is it triggered?"

"Through these probes." Claude pointed to the five metal probes on the hemispherical "cap" at the top of the mine - which side it now knows - "Anyone who steps on them or touches them will trigger the mine." ”

"That is, when soldiers lay mines, they will be exposed."

"Yes."

"What happens if the people who planted the mines or the soldiers who belong to this side touch them?" Yi Shui asked another question, very quickly, without leaving even a little interval for Claude.

Thankfully, his question was so simple that it didn't require even thought.

"Mines will explode." Claude replied.

"No security measures?"

"After laying out and adjusting to combat condition? It's a pity, no, sir. After a few seconds, as if he was worried that Yi Shui hadn't fully figured it out and would ask other questions, he added: "These mines have a safety pin, and a dial for adjusting the status, if you just pull out the safety pin but don't turn the pointer of the dial to the position that represents the combat state, they are still safe and won't trigger, but if you have done that, there is no way to adjust them back." ”

He had tried his best, but he didn't achieve his goal, and Yi Shui still had problems. "Well, if an army lays mines somewhere, but later, it is going to pass through there, what should the soldiers do?"

"If there is detailed information about the minefield, or if there are detection tools, the soldiers can find the mines and then dig them out very carefully, send them to a safe location and detonate them, or simply detonate them......"

Claude's words were not finished: without a hint, Qin Lang interjected. "But we will develop new types of mines that cannot be moved after they are laid, otherwise they will explode." He declared, which made Yi Shui feel uneasy again.

However, before he could express his opinion, Qin Lang had already continued.

"Actually, I prefer this kind of mine, the cute and charming little thing." He walked over, picked up one of the smallest mines, and brought it to Yi Shui to show him. Claude immediately added: "This is the E-type, it weighs only 6.5 ounces, and it is loaded with 1.5 ounces of explosives. ”

"So what's the use of it?" Yi Shui looked at Qin Lang, "As a weapon, is it filled with too little explosives?" ”

And it does not fit someone's character at all, it has almost no power, and of course it is even more distant from "cruelty" - this is what he does not say.

Qin Lang smiled, as if he had seen through his thoughts. Still, he explains: "As you can see, this mine is quite limited in its power and not enough to kill the person who steps on it, only to blow up one of the guy's feet." However, that's exactly what it's used for. ”

"What's the use?"

"Make a wounded man who can't walk." His smile deepened, "You know, that means at least two people will need to carry the stretcher for him, which means that it will result in three fewer combatants than one." Then, in order to transport the wounded to the rear ambulance stations, the commander of the unit had to detach more combatants to provide protection. You see, there are two benefits to this. ”

"That's it?" Yi Shui hoped that it was better than that, because just this had already given him goosebumps—he had never thought there would be such a disgusting weapon.

Unfortunately, his wish was still frustrated.

"There is a third benefit, a large number of lost foot, the wounded wailing on stretchers will be a heavy blow to the morale of the soldiers who see them, which will lead to a decrease in the combat capability of the whole army; And the fourth and last," Qin Lang deliberately dragged out his tone so that Yi Shui had time to reminisce carefully, and then became more and more uncomfortable—something he was happy to see," these wounded are disabled people who have lost their ability to work, and they are all burdens to their motherland, both economically, and politically. ”

"It's disgusting! Qin, I have to say, this E-type mine is really disgusting! Yi Shui shouted. He couldn't take it anymore.

And Qin Lang's smile also reached its peak, becoming the kind of appearance that people are familiar with. "Disgusting? No, man, this mine is a little bit far from 'disgusting'. We haven't designed the kind of mines that are really disgusting, but of course I already have the initial idea. It resembles a butterfly, weighs less than three ounces, and can float through the air, so the user can walk around the mines in a large area through balloons, airplanes, or airships, and drop them behind enemy rear, or even directly into enemy territory—"

"Do you know what this will do?" Yi Shui interrupted him.

In fact, Qin Lang's expression had already said everything, but Yi Shui still hoped that he would tell himself in words, and he did so. "There will be a lot of victims, not just the military, but also civilians, including the elderly, women and children. In order to eradicate these dangerous things, the state needs to invest a lot of people and money, and it will take a lot of time, even many years after the end of the war, and in the end, it may not be able to achieve its goal. ”

"But you're still going to sell this kind of thing?"

"Of course, man, we're arms dealers, and it's our job to make, sell, and instruct our customers to use all sorts of cruel or disgusting weapons, and that's what we've always done." Qin Lang said nonchalantly, "I have no personal grudges with those victims, but business is business." ”

"You always say that!"

"And you're always concerned about issues that you don't need to care about at all. You have a conscience, but conscience is not something you need. Blinking his eyes, he continued: "Or if we look at this matter in a different light, I will sell these mines to the Russians and let them use them against the Japanese." Man, would you still object? ”

Yi Shui choked, though only for a moment—dealing with the Japanese, which he was willing to see, and did not want to raise objections at all—and then he thought of what he ought to say.

"The Russians may also use this kind of thing against the Chinese, even if it is not their subjective will, and the mines they place will harm the Chinese during or after the war." He shouted, "What are you going to do if that happens?" ”

Qin Lang's answer was as cold as his thoughts. "If that's the case, we can only accept those incidents and treat those incidents as collateral losses that are necessary."

"What do you say! What do you mean by 'necessary collateral loss'? "Yi Shui started to have a stroke.

"Calm down, Yi Shui, that's just a joke." He shook his head, thinking for the first time that he might have overdone it, and set out to make up for the tiny mistake. "I will control the number of mines sold to the Russians and find out the details of the minefields set up by the Russians......"

Yi Shui didn't listen to a word.

Qin Lang didn't speak to him anymore - he needed to calm down. He just stared at him for a moment, then turned around, threw the mine at Claude, and ordered, "You must speed up the development of the few remaining weapons, especially grenades." He stepped forward a little closer and whispered: "We have prepared shields for the Russians, and now we must prepare spears for the Japanese...... Maybe it should be called a 'short spear'. ”

"Yes, sir." After a moment's hesitation, Claude asked, "But if the Russians and the Japanese are unwilling to buy these things......"

"They will." Qin Lang was as sure as in the past. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )