Chapter 281: The Bayonet of the Chinese Rifle
Li Zongren, He Yingqin, and even Gu Zhutong and Chen Cheng did not give any of these people in vain, and everyone had their own unique views on military command, and Chiang Kai-shek's so-called campaign arrangement could be said to be not decent, nor was it a surprise victory, and the odd victory in a surprise victory was relatively a risk, but the adventure was to have a rich harvest and reward, and Chiang Kai-shek's plan seemed to have only adventure, and the harvest and return were not large, because the material aid of the two front armies of North China and Central China did not come from Korea and Northeast China. Rather, it was shipped to Tianjin and Shanghai, and there was not much cooperation between the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung Army was a general army system, and the China Dispatch Army, a subordinate organ of the North China Front Army, was at the same level, so the previous campaign coordination between the two needed to be coordinated by the army base camp, and the battle plan had to be formulated and implemented by the army staff headquarters.
In this way, the effectiveness and effect of the 10th Theater's sortie to cut off the so-called battle plan between the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army are very insignificant, and at most they can only contain part of the strength of the North China Front of the Chinese Army, unless the 10th Theater can threaten the port of Tianjin, but China's long coastline and numerous port cities are full of supply docks for the Chinese army, which has absolute sea control.
While Chiang Kai-shek was busy putting on Zhang Xuewu's shoes, Zhang Xuewu was busy changing the clothes of the Tiger Ben Division and the Honor First Division of the 10th War Zone, and the Baotou Military Factory had been developing semi-automatic rifles using intermediate-power ammunition in accordance with Zhang Xuewu's requirements and orders.
The rifle is the most basic weapon used by the infantry individual soldier, according to different types of rifles can perform different tactical tasks, the main role of the rifle is to kill and injure living targets with its firepower, bayonet and butt as a means of strike, therefore, in close combat, the final stage of solving the battle, the rifle plays an important role.
A semi-automatic rifle is a self-loading rifle, also known as a self-loading rifle, which does not need to be like a non-automatic rifle, such as a supinated pull-bolt motor rifle, which is loaded manually and needs to pull the bolt after each shot to complete the reloading and reloading.
Semi-automatic rifles use the recoil of part of the gunpowder gas after the bullet is fired to unload the cartridge case, automatically reload the bullet, and prepare to shoot again, but only one bullet can be fired each time the trigger is pressed.
In fact, Zhang Xuewu wanted to target an assault rifle like AK47 that emitted intermediate-power ammunition, because the firepower of a single-shot manual rifle was far from meeting the tactical needs of the troops in the 10th Theater, and the ammunition consumption of the automatic assault rifle was too large, the range of the submachine gun was relatively short, and the accuracy was difficult to meet the needs of the front-line troops' accurate firepower of 100 meters, so Zhang Xuewu carried out technical reserves on semi-automatic rifles in advance.
In order to develop semi-automatic rifles, Zhang Xuewu purchased a large number of semi-automatic rifles from all over the world, such as the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Britain and even the Soviet Union, for the researchers and engineers of the Baotou Ordnance Research Laboratory to study and draw advantages from them.
In Zhang Xuewu's view, there are only two or three excellent semi-automatic rifles in the world, the Americans' M1 Garand rifle, the German's GEW43 rifle, the Soviets' SVT-40 rifle and subsequent derivative models, the famous Soviet firearms designer Sergei? Gavrirovich? The SKS semi-automatic rifle designed by Simonov adopts the principle of gas conduction automatic in the ordinary structure, the gas conduction device has no gas regulator, the piston is pressed against the bolt frame through the push rod, and the piston recoil stroke is less than the stroke of the frame, so the automatic mode of the gun belongs to the piston short stroke, and the bolt deflection locking mechanism used has good rigidity, simple structure, easy to produce, and the service surname is also better.
SKS semi-automatic rifle has been popular in the world for many years, it can be called a successful semi-automatic rifle in history, the gun can be loaded with ten rounds at a time, the scale range is 1,000 meters, and the actual shooting accuracy is quite accurate within 300 meters, no matter under any conditions, it can meet the needs of the battlefield, and the service adaptation is excellent.
And the American M1 Garand rifle was named after its designer, John? Cantus? Garand, which is commonly known as its big eight grains in China.
The United States has always attached great importance to individual rifle firepower, and the United States began to study automatic rifles in World War I.
The M1 rifle that Zhang Xuewu purchased from the United States seems to be different from the appearance of the official large-scale installation of the US military in later generations? There seems to be an extra air deflector at the front end of the muzzle? After several shooting tests, it was found that this so-called design would allow some of the gunpowder gas to enter the piston barrel through the gap between the end face of the barrel and the gun mask when firing, pushing the piston backwards.
The disadvantage of this gas conduction method is that it directly leads to the insecure connection between the piston barrel and the gun mask, the unstable assembly of the bayonet, and the movement of the front sight affects the accuracy.
Among all semi-automatic rifles, the M1 rifle has a more distinctive way of feeding ammunition, the steel magazine containing a double row of eight rounds is pressed into the magazine from the top of the receiver, and when the last bullet is fired, the gun will be in an empty magazine hang-up, and the magazine will be automatically ejected from the magazine by the declipper, which will make a crisp sound to remind the soldier to reload the bullet.
The magazine has two kinds of double circular upper and lower openings and single openings, the magazines of the double circular openings can be loaded into the magazine regardless of up and down, the single opening can only be loaded into the magazine upwards, when loading the bullets, it must be noted that the bottom of each bullet is against the back wall of the leaking magazine, the shell groove at the bottom of the cartridge case is stuck in the inner rib of the leakage clip, if the warhead of one bullet is stretched out, the other bullets can not be loaded, because the magazine bullet is exposed, sometimes the bullet is not necessarily aligned with the double garden opening, in order to make the bullet align the opening, When the U.S. soldiers reload, they often knock a few times on the steel helmet to align it, when the magazine pressed into the magazine at one time cannot be reloaded again before the bullet runs out, if a single shot, the very favorable recoil of the bolt will often cut off the soldier's fingers at the muzzle part, which is extremely dangerous, as a semi-automatic rifle, the magazine capacity of the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle is still a little small.
Compared with the Americans' M1 Garand rifle, the German's GEW43 rifle, and the Soviet's SKS semi-automatic rifle, Zhang Xuewu's first feeling is that the gun body is too large and heavy, and the design of the butt, front eye guard, and gun body as a whole do not conform to the physique and habits of most Asians.
What Zhang Xuewu needs is a semi-automatic rifle that can fit the Chinese, openable magazine, no less than ten rounds of ammunition, based on the Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle as the prototype, borrowing from the M1 semi-automatic rifle of the tenon disassembly and combination device, the front end of the rifle is equipped with a folding three-edged bayonet, the weight after loading should not exceed 3.6 kg, the overall gun body should be produced and maintained, suitable for use under various conditions, adapted to windy and sandy areas, especially cold areas, requiring a higher service surname.
According to Zhang Xuewu's requirements, the final Zhonghua Type 1 semi-automatic rifle was designed, the gun has a total length of 1,0022 mm, a total gun mass of 3.52 kg, a barrel Vulcan axis length of 522 mm, four right-handed rifling, 10 rounds of ammunition can be opened magazine, the theoretical combat rate of fire is 30 to 35 rounds per minute, the effective range is 400 meters, and the gauge has a firing range of 1,000 meters.
In practical application, the saber must first have enough lethality, in addition to the weight, center of gravity, curve, sharpness, especially important is the severity of the wound and the difficulty of pulling it out after the piercing.
It is said that my 38-style bayonet is also processed with reference to the style of its samurai sword, but all sabers are designed with different details to achieve the same purpose, so most of the sabers are narrow in front and wide in the back, and the blood groove on the side of the blade is added to the root of the blade according to different uses.
But Zhang Xuewu does not have so much high-quality steel in the saber, bayonet these mass products to make a fuss, so the three-edged bayonet has become Zhang Xuewu's only choice, the forging process of the three-edged bayonet is relatively simple, and the function is very easy to meet the tactical needs, the three semi-arc blood grooves on it in addition to bloodletting, more importantly, it is conducive to the soldier to carry out the next action.
Because after the three-edged bayonet is stabbed into the human body, the blood will be discharged quickly with a large amount of blood trough, and the human muscle contraction or bone gap can not adhere to the blade surface of the bayonet and will not suck the bayonet or jam the bayonet, so that the bayonet can be calmly pulled out of the enemy's body for the next action, after the bayonet is inserted into the human body, the air is quickly introduced through the blood trough, and the air forms a large amount of foam in the body, blocking the blood vessels. If there is no blood tank, the bayonet is likely to be wrapped in the human body because of the blood pressure and muscle contractions, so that it will be very difficult to pull out the bayonet, so that it will affect the soldier's next move.
Moreover, the wound of the three-edged bayonet is generally a large hole in the square, and the wound can not be squeezed on each other to achieve a certain hemostasis and healing effect, which will make the wounded die of excessive blood loss in a very short time. Or even fear of humane condemnation?
Using this kind of bayonet to deal with himself has nothing to do with inhumanity in Zhang Xuewu's opinion, and this is simply a matter of salty eating radishes and ignoring his heart, the process of war is to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible in the shortest possible time in the fastest way, and the war itself has nothing to do with the word humanity, and those who have to pull together are pulling calves!
(To be continued)