With a letter in his hand, he walked quickly to Duan Qirui's father and son, respectfully placed the letter on the coffee table, and then turned around and retreated.

Duan Qirui took the tea bowl and drank it for a long time, and when the figure of his cronies disappeared, he put down the tea bowl, took the letter and opened it.

Duan Hongye poured tea again for his father and waited quietly aside.

Duan Qirui quickly read the letter and quietly handed it to Duan Hongye.

"It's a letter from General Fu of Shandong." Duan Hongye didn't look at the letter directly, but glanced at the envelope and said, "It seems that he can't wait." ”

"It's not that he can't wait, it's that their Fu family can't wait." Duan Qirui showed an unfathomable smile, "We are now in the same boat. ”

Duan Hongye listened to his father's words, opened the letter and read it carefully, and when he read the letter, he understood what his father meant by what he just said.

"We don't have to wait any longer," Duan Qirui stood up from his seat, paced a few steps behind his back, and said to Duan Hongye, "It's time to do it." ”

"Do you need to inform Uncle Xu?" Duan Hongye reminded his father.

"No need, the plan was originally set by him, but it was not decided on the specific time, as long as we start it, he will know." Duan Qirui said, "When the time comes, you can send him a telegram first." ”

Duan Hongye nodded in agreement and returned the letter to his father, Duan Qirui took the letter, took a lighter, and lit the letter along with the envelope.

Accompanied by the flames dancing in his hands, Duan Qirui's eyes seemed to have flames flickering.

Jiangxi, Shuanglong Town.

After several years of development, today's Shuanglong Town has changed from an ancient and somewhat remote township to a bustling and lively city.

The old brick and stone streets have been turned into paved roads; The low thatched houses have also become small buildings with red bricks and black tiles; And those high-rise mansions that used to look very imposing, the street lamps in front of them also show the profound changes they have undergone.

The once backward handicraft workshops, the unproductive agriculture, the intricacies of the civil society, and the ubiquitous bandits and smuggling gangs have all disappeared without a trace.

"It's been a long time since I've been back."

Wu Jie, who was sitting in the car, looked at Shuanglong Town, which was now very different, and couldn't help but say to Zhao Xia sitting beside him with emotion.

"It's only been a long time, and if you come back later, there will be more changes, and you may not even be able to find your home."

Zhao Xia looked at Wu Jie, who had a frosty face, and showed a sweet smile.

Wu Jie heard the blame in her words, and couldn't help but smile apologetically, he didn't dare to look directly into her eyes, and looked out the window again.

"Since the cultivation of new rice, the surrounding towns are very envious and have come to introduce rice seeds," Zhao Xia said, looking at the endless rice fields in the distance, "If the whole country can grow such rice, no one will go hungry." ”

"Yes! I can't figure out how he, Yang Hanzhi, got the gang at the Agricultural Technical School to get this high-yield rice now. Wu Jie sighed, "That Gao Haishi is also a powerful person, Yang Hanzhi gave him the information, and he was able to get the real thing." ”

Of course, Wu Jie would not have thought that this miracle created by Yang Shuoming came from the outstanding contribution of a great Chinese in later generations stored in his "supercomputer eye", and he gave these valuable materials to those who are interested in using scientific and technological means to solve hunger in this era, so that the Chinese's dream of increasing grain production was decades in advance!

"I can't think of it either," Zhao Xia shook her head with a smile, "I didn't think that the person who was about to die after being shot at the beginning turned out to be a strange person who knew everything." ”

"He's done so many miracles that I'm used to it now." Wu Jie looked at the people working in the fields with tractors and sighed.

"That's why everyone follows him without hesitation." Zhao Xia looked happily at the people in the field and said, "Now, his reputation as a 'high-tech warlord' has spread farther and farther. ”

"The name of 'high-tech' is very appropriate for him to be Yang Hanzhi, and the name of 'warlord' is so-so." Wu Jie remembered what Yang Shuoming had done, and couldn't help but nod again and again.

"If you want to get rich, you must first build roads, this is what he often said." Zhao Xia pointed to the wide gravel pavement, and glanced at Wu Jie with some resentment, "Our road has been repaired a long time ago, and people from all over the country praise its convenience. ”

"Haven't I come back?" Wu Jie looked at this young girl who was many years younger than himself, and held her hand with a smile, "If you want to blame him, blame him Yang Hanzhi, who asked him to arrange so many things for me." ”

"What did he arrange for you again?" Zhao Xia asked.

"He also plans to build several roads." Wu Jie replied, "He wants to make the Hunan and Jiangxi border an unhindered thoroughfare, so that people on both sides can come and go freely." ”

"I don't have a problem building a road, but building a road to Hunan doesn't increase the chances of warlords and bandits over there attacking us?" Although Zhao Xia doesn't know much about military affairs, it doesn't mean that she doesn't even have this strategic vision under the influence of Yang Shuoming, "That Zhang Jingyao, as well as Zhao Hengti, have been staring at our Jiangxi region, let alone let us kill so many Xiangxi bandits." ”

"Hehe, I pointed out this problem like you at the beginning, but Yang Hanzhi said that he wanted to use this highway to tell the people in Hunan that he did not want to block the people on both sides, but hoped that the two sides could strengthen business exchanges, communicate with each other, and achieve common prosperity." Wu Jie said, "He also said that these roads are really important to us, the previous road has been unable to withstand our company's huge freight volume, those roads are not only low capacity, and the transportation price is high, our company is now producing products only those high-profit products can be regarded as profiteering products can withstand such transportation costs, in order to expand capacity, road repair is imperative." ”

"Then you can't make money and don't die, with these roads, the Hunan and Jiangxi borders will become a smooth road, if the enemy army drives over from these roads, what can we do?" Zhao Xia asked with some concern, "Now our troops here are simply not enough." ”

"As for the invasion of military forces through these roads, hehe, what do you guess he Yang Hanzhi said?" Wu Jie smiled, "He said, in the past, we really didn't have so much strength to send troops to guard these roads every day, but now our strength is different, and it's no problem to send one or two more platoons to guard the roads." ”

"Only one or two platoons? That's a thin force, isn't it? Zhao Xia exclaimed.

"I said the same thing at the time, but he said it was enough, he said that if it was the previous establishment and firepower, I am afraid that one battalion would not be enough, but now that we have new high-tech guys, we can make up for this lack of troops."

"What new weapon is he talking about?" Zhao Xia asked, "Is it from our company's gun factory?" How come I didn't know at all? ”

"He said what a general-purpose machine gun it called." Wu Jie replied, "It is said that it is a new gadget made by the military personnel under the guidance of Yang Hanzhi, because of the stamping process, I came back this time, and I just wanted to see it." ”

"General purpose machine gun?" Zhao Xia's beautiful eyebrows twisted slightly, and she said to herself, "How do you call it a general-purpose machine gun?" What's the universal law? ”

Although she is no stranger to the weapon of machine guns, Zhao Xia still can't think of what this general-purpose machine gun should look like. In her impression, the heavy machine guns she had seen were all large, bulky, with thick tubes and shields, and machine guns with wheels, this kind of heavy machine gun called "Maxim" was extremely heavy, and it took several people to carry it when moving, and she really couldn't think of what kind of weapon this general-purpose machine gun was.

At this time, just when Zhao Xia was imagining what the general-purpose machine gun looked like with question marks in her mind, several officers of the Jiangxi Army who were in charge of logistics had already come to the "Renhe" gun factory, and the relevant person in charge of the factory was testing the general-purpose machine gun that was about to be equipped with the troops at the weapons test site.

"This is what General Yang said about the 'general-purpose machine gun'?"

One of the officers in charge of the inspection couldn't help frowning as he looked at the machine guns on the ground that looked like they had been put together haphazardly with some rudimentary pieces of iron, an iron pipe, and some iron frames.

"It's so crude, I might as well have known that I might as well have 'Madsen'." The other officer also said with a frown.

As early as 1908, the arsenal of Guangdong manufacturing ordnance had copied the Danish "Madsen" light machine gun (that is, the "light machine fast gun" at that time), and the Kaifeng Arsenal and other local arsenals also copied it, but because the number of imitations was not too large, it failed to effectively equip the [***] team. After the outbreak of the war against the invasion in 1915, under the instruction of Xu Shuzheng, then vice minister of the Ministry of War, the Ordnance Industry Administration of the Republic of China ordered two batches of "Madsen" machine guns from Denmark totaling 1,200 units, and planned to let the domestic arsenal copy it by itself, so it also ordered a number of machines. However, in August 1915, the complete set of equipment and drawings produced were savagely bombed and sunk at sea by the warship Saimoto, who received the news, during sea transportation. Although the domestic arsenal succeeded in obtaining production drawings from other sources (the remaining drawings copied in the late Qing Dynasty) and dismantling, mapping, and copying the "Madsen" machine guns on hand, only a small number of "Madsen" machine guns were produced, and in the end they failed to produce them in large quantities. Until the end of the war, the "Madsen" machine gun appeared only on a few battlefields and played little role.

Because the "Madsen" machine gun can be reliable and the failure rate is very low, it is very popular with some [***] officers who have come into contact with it, and when Yang Shuoming planned to equip his troops with a new machine gun to replace the bulky Makqin water-cooled heavy machine gun, some people naturally thought of the "Madsen" machine gun, but because of the low rate of fire, and the complex manufacturing process, and high technical requirements, it finally did not enter Yang Shuoming's eyes.

However, the design scheme given by Yang Shuoming is an extremely excellent design plagiarized from the Germans decades later!

"It's a little unpretty, but it's definitely good." The person in charge of the factory seemed to know that the officers would ask this question, so he smiled confidently and said, "General Yang's original design is actually more ugly than this, and we have also made improvements, and there is no target that General Yang has not met." ”

"Let's see." Peng Qingzhong, a young officer in charge of military logistics, said.

The test gunner, who had received the order, ran forward, set up the general-purpose machine gun with great skill, and began to shoot at the target that had been set up long ago.

"Sneer......"

With the eerie sound of gunfire tearing through linen, everyone standing behind the firing table was stunned by the power of the machine gun, as the last shell bounced out of the chamber with a slightly hot bounce.

In less than ten seconds, the tester had exhausted the long chain of hundreds of rounds, which would have been much earlier if it had not been for the fact that the tester had made adjustments midway to control accuracy during the shooting and interrupted the shooting several times.

Peng Qingzhong's eyes widened, looking at the target in front of him, at this time, the wooden humanoid target standing at this time had been beaten to pieces, and the sandbags, brick walls, wooden stakes and other test objects placed next to it were ruthlessly penetrated by the bullets, leaving shocking marks, and the simulated corpse placed not far away had also become a leaky pot of blood.

"Good gun! Good gun! Really good guns! ”

"It's really 'guns can't be disguised'!"

"That's it! If we had switched to this kind of machine gun the last time we fought the pirates, we would have been a professional corpse collection team, and we wouldn't need to take prisoners at all, no matter how many people the pirates rushed up, as long as there were a few such machine guns, I could have brought them all down without mortar support. Peng Qingzhong looked at the crudely shaped general-purpose machine gun in front of him with bright eyes and sighed.

"Let's talk about the specific data." One of the officers said in amazement, "If it's okay, I'll take it back today and show it off." ”

"These machine guns that you see now are mass-produced after improvement, the whole gun contains a tripod of 12 kg, a caliber of 7.92 mm, using 7.92 Mauser cartridges, which can be fed with a chain of 250 rounds, and can be replaced with 80 rounds of drums to feed the ammunition, the muzzle velocity is 752 meters per second, the rate of fire per minute is about 1000 rounds to 1500 rounds, and the barrel is used for automatic recoil, the whole gun is 1270 mm long, the barrel is 545 mm long, and the effective firing range is 850 meters. General Yang called it a general-purpose machine gun, because of its fast rate of fire and fierce firepower, we people here call it 'fire wheel'. ”

"Why is it called a general-purpose machine gun? Can it be used as both a heavy machine gun and a light machine gun? Peng Qingzhong seemed to understand something and asked.

"Yes, yes." The head of the factory nodded with a smile, as if the reaction of the officers had been expected.

"With the addition of a tripod, the effective range can be increased to 1,000 meters, and the accuracy can be improved a lot, but the weight has also increased to 21 kilograms."

"That's fucking good!" An officer excitedly stroked the body of the gun, which still had residual warmth, "But this time, it is estimated that the gang of bandits in Hunan will have to taste it first...... Holy! ”

The officer jerked back the hand that was stroking the barrel of the gun, apparently burning the barrel of the gun hard.

"Fuck! This barrel is hot, hurry up! The officer blew on his scalded fingers and said in astonishment, "It's all about burning pig hair." ”

"As a few of you have seen, because the rate of fire is too fast, the barrel will naturally heat up much faster," the tester said, "Basically, after a chain of 250 rounds has been fired in a row, the barrel has to be replaced." ”

"Do you have to change the barrel after a chain? That's a problem. Peng Qingzhong shook his head and said, "We can't afford to delay this time." ”

"Yes, you know, on the battlefield, at a critical moment, don't look at the delay for a few seconds, it is likely that a few lives will be lost." The faces of several officers changed when they heard that the barrel of the gun needed to be replaced after such a short firing time.

As all the officers who participated in the war against the invasion of Japan in 1915, they certainly knew what was at stake.

At this time, Peng Qingzhong had in his mind the scene of overheating the barrel of the Makqin heavy machine gun due to over-firing and having to fill the barrel of the Makqin heavy machine gun with a rain of bullets on the battle-torn battlefield.

Thinking of the comrade-in-arms who urinated into the barrel of the gun to "cool down" the barrel because he couldn't find water, but was hit in the butt by the enemy's bullet, Peng Qingzhong's heart was like knocking over a five-flavor bottle, and he couldn't say what it tasted like.

In the minds of these officers who have experienced the test of life and death, the errand of replacing the barrel is simply a "purely technical job" that is not much different from the difficulty of embroidery by the eldest girl.

"Let's show you how to change the barrel." Seeing that the officers' expressions had changed from extreme excitement to frustration, the person in charge of the factory, who admired the change, smiled and waved his hand to the tester.

Peng Qingzhong stared closely at the movements of the tester, only to see that the tester held up the general-purpose machine gun, pulled a lever under the gun body, tilted the gun body, and the barrel with a square heat sink automatically bounced off the gun body.

Peng Qingzhong noticed that the test gunner did not touch the hot barrel at all in the process of changing the barrel, and completed this action. After disassembling the barrel, the tester picked up a spare barrel that he placed beside him, simply stuck it on the gun, and a new barrel was installed, and the whole process of replacing the barrel was completed in just a few seconds!

Seeing this startling scene, several officers opened their mouths wide again.

"Quickly changing the barrel is also General Yang's design." The person in charge of the factory said proudly, "We have made improvements again, so it has become more convenient." ”

"He Xiao Yang's brain, I really don't know how it grows." One of the officers lamented.

(To be continued)