Chapter 423: Emperor Spear Clan
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At the beginning of the 16th year of Guanghua, all units of the Imperial Chinese Army completed a 10-year major armament rearmament. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info╔╗
This is also the third major equipment rearmament of the modern army of the Chinese Empire since 1895.
The first major rearmament of the equipment of the Chinese Imperial Army was in the 21st year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty in the previous dynasty, when the domestic equipment industry capacity was too weak, and all the equipment was imported from Germany, and all German equipment was used. By 1900, the Chinese Empire learned Western advanced technology and industrial manufacturing on a large scale, and the country began to imitate German equipment on a large scale, so as to have a strong copycat industrial capacity in the Chinese Empire, which contributed to the second large-scale refitting of the Chinese Imperial Army, all copycat Western military products.
By 1910, the 10th year of Guanghua, the local industrial system of the Chinese Empire tended to be perfected, and the Imperial Chinese Army began the third large-scale equipment renewal program. This was a period in which the Chinese Imperial Industry broke through the Western blockade and went to the world after a long period of development.
In order to build an industrial system with independent intellectual property rights of the Chinese Empire, the Imperial Chinese Army took the lead in proposing the use of an independent military equipment system, and the new gun family system of the Chinese Empire, which was born on the basis of 6.5mm rifle cartridges, became the most dazzling symbol.
In the era when Europe and the United States were still using the 7.92 and 7.62 rifle cartridge systems, a series of gun weapon systems derived from the 6.5mm rifle cartridge system of the Chinese Empire shined on the European battlefield and the Japanese battlefield, and have been tested in actual combat and proved to be a successful weapon system.
Any caliber of rifle bullets requires a long period of practical testing before finally becoming a standard bullet of the national army, which includes whether the lethality meets the needs of the battlefield, the difficulty of industrialization, whether it is easy to large-scale industrial production, the cost of raw materials, whether it meets the low price and other issues. It can be said that a country's industrial production capacity in terms of bullets is an important criterion for the country's army industrial system.
The Chinese Empire had the ability to develop new types of bullets that were different from the standard rifle cartridge caliber of other countries, a capability that not every country could achieve. In particular, after a long period of research, Western countries finally decided to use 7.62 rifle cartridges and 7.92 rifle cartridges as the general standard, and the Chinese Empire did not have any actual combat experience, just a sentence from the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao decided, which had to make European and American experts at the beginning of the Chinese Empire's 6.5 mm rifle cartridges to make a big fuss, and even depreciated to be worthless.
However, the level of trust of the Imperial Chinese Army in the Imperial Emperor Wang Chenhao had reached the point of absolute obedience and no dissent. In this atmosphere, after six years of large-scale rearmament, through the export of arms to the European belligerents, and through the actual combat test of the Japanese war, the military experts of European and American countries gradually changed their views and discovered the advantages of the 6.5 mm rifle cartridge of the Chinese Empire.
On the European battlefield, industrial powers such as Britain, France, and Germany will naturally not lack basic weapons and equipment such as rifles and bullets, and their own military industrial capacity and production capacity can fully meet the consumption on the battlefield. However, to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Russian Empire, Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and other countries, their industrial capacity is weak, their domestic military production capacity and national strategic material reserves are unable to replenish the consumption of weapons and ammunition on the front line in time after the start of the war a year later, which requires them to import rifles and ammunition from abroad on a large scale to supplement the consumption of weapons and ammunition on the battlefield.
The Chinese empire not only regarded the First World War as an opportunity to make a fortune in the war, but also regarded the European battlefield as a testing ground for testing the weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, and used actual combat to test the weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire. ╔╗
The Chinese Empire needed to test the performance and actual combat effectiveness of the ten-year army equipment, so when the Entente and the Allies exported arms, the ten-year semi-automatic rifles, pistols, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns were also exported.
At first, the belligerents were reluctant to purchase the Chinese Empire's 6.5mm gun system, which was too powerful, and instead asked the Chinese Empire to restart the production lines of 7.92 and 7.62 rifle cartridges for each country, as well as the gun family production line based on the use of these two bullets.
Although it was possible to make a lot of money by restarting the 7.62 and 7.92 gun family and ammunition production lines according to the requirements of Western countries, the Chinese Empire also vetoed it, and in order to allow European countries to use the 6.5 mm gun weapons of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire decided to export them at the most favorable price.
Due to the limited economic capacity of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire and other countries, after more than a year of war, the finances were even tighter, so when the Chinese Empire was willing to export 6.5mm guns at a 6.5% discount, the politicians of various countries saw that it was profitable, so they agreed.
In this way, the 6.5 mm gun family series of weapons of the Chinese Empire began to be exported to Europe on a large scale.
On the battlefield, the Chinese Empire's 6.5mm gun family series weapons quickly made a reputation, with high shooting accuracy, small recoil, large ammunition load, strong firepower, light weight, easy to carry, and most importantly, its battlefield reliability, which still maintains a high degree of shooting reliability in bad weather and environment, this series of advantages makes the Chinese Empire's 6.5mm gun family suddenly won unanimous praise from all teams.
The actual combat on the European battlefield showed that the encounters between the armies of both sides were basically within 200 meters, and in the diplomatic war of 400 meters, they were basically unable to hit anyone, and the bullets were wasted. Therefore, the 6.5 mm bullets of the Chinese Empire do not affect the battle, but because of the high accuracy of the 6.5 mm bullets of the Chinese Empire, they can better kill the enemy at medium and close ranges.
At the same time, among the top levels of governments, considering financial problems, the low cost of 6.5mm rifle cartridges is more suitable for the needs of large-scale consumption of ammunition on the battlefield.
Therefore, starting from 1915, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Empire, Greece, Bulgaria and other countries rapidly expanded their imports of 6.5 mm gun series weapons from the Chinese Empire, especially light machine guns and heavy machine guns.
Throughout 1915, the Chinese Empire exported a total of 3 million ten-style rifles, 1.5 million pistols, 80,000 light machine guns, 20,000 heavy machine guns, excluding M2 heavy machine guns, and 1.2 billion rounds of ammunition.
As the Chinese Empire's 6.5mm guns gained critical acclaim on the European battlefield, the export prices of these weapons also rose. At the same time, the ammunition needed for the 6.5 mm gun weapons of the Chinese Empire could not be produced by European countries in a short period of time, so they had to import them from the Chinese Empire. As a result, as the Chinese Empire's guns flowed into Europe in large quantities, the demand for 6.5mm bullets rose sharply, and soon the Chinese Empire raised prices under the pretext of insufficient production capacity, forcing countries to buy them at high prices.
At the same time, the Chinese Empire's large-scale export of 6.5 mm guns and ammunition to Europe also made the Chinese Empire's production costs on the gun family series weapons greatly reduced, the production process was more perfect, and then the ten-year weapon system was continuously improved, and by the sixteenth year of Guanghua, the Chinese Imperial Army had sold the early models of weapons to Europe, and used the latest improved and upgraded versions.
The European battlefield successfully tested the 6.5mm gun family of the Chinese Empire, and also led the Chinese Imperial firearms experts to further improve the defects of the 10-year guns.
In the sixteenth year of Guanghua, the standard rifle of the Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire was still the M10 semi-automatic rifle, but it was completed after three modifications, and the full name has been changed to M10A3. ╔╗The changes are mainly focused on optimizing the gun construction, reducing recoil, reducing the weight by 0.2 kg, further improving the shooting accuracy, and enhancing reliability.
The M10 Browning light machine gun has the biggest changes, after six major changes, it was finally finalized as the M10A6 light machine gun, and later because the M10A6 has been too far away from the M10, it has been changed beyond recognition, so it was renamed the M16 light machine gun. The biggest change is still from the Browning, so it's still listed as a Browning weapon.
Machine gun weapons on the European battlefield became butchers, and in the Battle of Verdun, Germany used Maxim heavy machine guns to slaughter more than 60,000 British and French troops in one day. The Austro-Hungarian Empire used the Chinese Empire's M10 machine gun to slaughter 150,000 Italian troops in three days, making the Chinese Empire's M10 machine gun nicknamed "butcher" in Europe.
According to the information fed back from the battlefield, the Imperial Chinese Army Committee asked the Firearms Design Committee to develop a more advanced light machine gun based on the M10 light machine gun, and the original M10 heavy machine gun has been replaced by the M2 heavy machine gun, so the development of the M10 light machine gun has become a top priority.
The Army Commission demanded that the design of a new type of light machine gun be started, and the performance of the M10 light machine gun was required, because Europe was already equipped with a large number of M10 light machine guns, and it would not be long before Europe began to copy the M10, which was a major threat and challenge to the Imperial Chinese Army in the field of light machine guns in the future.
The Imperial Firearms Commission, led by Browning and others, began to develop the M16 light machine gun. After a series of design improvements, the technology of the light machine gun with a pneumatic layout became more and more mature, and a breakthrough was finally made after referring to the derivative Browning machine gun, Madison machine gun and Vickers machine gun copied by each team.
The M16 light machine gun is still a piston long-stroke gas conduction type, and the bolt deflection locking method is adopted, that is, the bolt tail is lifted up and snapped into the locking card slot at the top of the receiver to achieve locking. You can choose between single or burst shots. It is of 6.5 mm caliber and fires 6.5x57 mm bullets. The gun is fed by a magazine and has a capacity of 30 rounds. The magazine is located above the receiver and the casing is thrown from below. Since the magazine is on the centerline above the barrel, the sight is mounted on the left side of the barrel. The gun sighting device uses a mechanical sight consisting of an ordinary front sight and a worm gear notched gate.
The gun had a heat sink on the outside of the barrel, a flared flame suppressor was installed in the mouth of the barrel, and small holes were drilled around the muzzle device. The rear of the butt has a shoulder plate and a bottom sleeve with a buffer spring to reduce recoil. The bipod is retractable upon request. There is a handle on the barrel near the middle of the gun for easy travel and quick barrel change, and for light machine guns, the speed of changing the barrel is very important. As a squad light automatic weapon, the M16 is designed to quickly replace the barrel with the handle and barrel fixing bolt, which makes it more flexible in use. The procedure is as simple as turning the fixing ring on the barrel upwards and detaching it from the latching groove to move forward. After that, the new barrel is replaced with a counter-operation and fixed in place.
In order to effectively maintain the continuity of fire, it is generally equipped with a shooter and a secondary shooter, and a large number of ammunition and spare barrels are carried by the shooting deputy. A skilled shooter with the help of a secondary shooter, the whole step of replacing the barrel takes less than ten seconds, and generally for every 300 rounds fired, the barrel needs to be replaced, and if the firing frequency is slow, it can reach 450 rounds.
The M16 light machine gun has a simple structure, reliable action, and under the strict test of the Army Commission, it is not easy to be damaged in the fierce war and harsh natural environment, easy to use and maintain, and accurate shooting, as long as the barrel is replaced, it can continue to shoot. The two-person machine gun group greatly improved the actual combat performance of the machine gun. After a simple training in shooting, the gun can be used in combat.
However, the M16 light machine gun uses a magazine above the gun body to affect the shooter's line of sight, and its aiming device is an aiming method that deviates from the gun body, although it does not affect the accuracy of shooting, but it affects the shooter's line of sight. For the machine gunner, a good line of sight is very important. ╔╗
The M16 light machine gun was then tested on the battlefield of the Japanese Kingdom, and the soldiers of the Chinese Emperor who fought in the Japanese Kingdom were extremely dissatisfied with this, so the Army Committee quickly improved the gun, placing the magazine under the gun body, and the nozzle should be on the right side, so that the sights would not be affected.
Eventually, the Imperial Army Council approved the model for service as the M16A1. This light machine gun will not be exported to the outside world, ensuring that the Imperial Chinese Army will be ahead of Europe and the United States in light machine gun firepower and maintain its superiority.
The Browning-designed 12.7mm M2 heavy machine gun has not changed much, this heavy machine gun is very popular in the European theater, known as a tank killer and infantry meat grinder, because the 12.7mm bullets fired by the gun can easily penetrate the armor of all European vehicles except the Imperial Chinese M10 tank, if it is not for the inconvenience of movement, the M2 heavy machine gun can even replace the position of anti-materiel rifle.
Browning mainly improved the weight and heat dissipation system of the M2 heavy machine gun, reducing the weight by 0.6 kg, increasing the number of heat sinks and muzzle flame suppressor, so that the M2 heavy machine gun can maintain continuous fire for a long time, providing continuous large-caliber machine gun fire suppression for the battlefield.
In terms of army standard pistols, the original Browning's M11 pistol has been very perfect, the army officers are very fond of it, and the officers and soldiers of Europe and the United States are also very sought after, only in 1915 sales of more than 1.4 million, accounting for more than ninety percent of the total sales of pistols.
However, an incident changed the love of officers of the Imperial Chinese Army for the M11 pistol.
At the end of 1915, Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, used his spare time to spend 4 years copying the QSG92 and 64 female police pistols in later China, and designed a pistol that was more suitable for Orientals.
Wang Chenhao named it the Prairie Eagle because of the light weight of this pistol, which can also be used by weak women.
Of course, it is not surprising that Wang Chenhao, as a military enthusiast, designed his own pistol, but this pistol is strictly designed for concubines, because the queen is in charge of the harem, and the female soldiers of the Yulin Army have the lowest rank of second lieutenant arguing every day that their pistols are too heavy and too tired. But he couldn't let the male soldiers of the Praetorian Guard and the Royal Forest Army look down on him, and he only complained in the harem, and finally reached Wang Chenhao's ears.
Therefore, Wang Chenhao decided to design a pistol that was both light and powerful for them, as a reward for their meticulous care and protection over the years.
In Wang Chenhao's view, the development of domestic pistols in later generations has gone through more than half a century of vicissitudes, although many places are unsatisfactory, but it is not excluded that there are some classics.
The most convincing is the 1998 finalized domestic QSG92 pistol, which fires domestic DAP9 mm pistol cartridges, and can also fire Balabylum rounds, with a total length of 199 mm, a total gun mass of 0.76 kg, a barrel length of 111 mm, and a double-row double-feed magazine of 15 rounds, with an effective firing range of 50 meters.
Wang Chenhao believes that the advantage of Type 92 is that the penetration of the bullet is good, because it has shown through a comparative test with the world's famous 9 mm Balabylum bullet that the domestic DAP 9 mm pistol bullet fired at a distance of 50 meters can still penetrate the 50 mm thick pine plate after penetrating the 1.3 mm thick 232 steel plate, while the use of the Balabellum bullet can not effectively penetrate the 1.3 mm thick 232 steel plate under the same conditions. In addition, the structural design is optimized, using all-plastic grip and component structure, and the elastic transmitter bracket can absorb recoil energy, reduce recoil, and help improve shooting accuracy.
Although the gun is easy to disassemble and difficult to combine, the bullet height on the aiming line is inconsistent, the front sight gap is too wide, the magazine is not in place but there is a sense of place, and there are no fluorescent spots at the notch, but it can still enter the world's top ten pistol rankings, which is enough to prove its advantages. ╔╗
As the emperor, Wang Chenhao naturally can't make the world laugh at designing a pistol, so he makes a comprehensive assessment of the advantages and disadvantages of the current various pistols and the advantages and disadvantages of future pistols, so as to come up with a pistol that can last for decades and hundreds of years without being outdated, only in this way can Wang Chenhao's emperor identity be revealed.
At this point, Wang Chenhao was selfish, and when Browning and many other gunsmiths asked Wang Chenhao for advice, Wang Chenhao hid a lot of advanced pistol design concepts from them in order to make a splash in order to design a pistol designed by himself.
The first premise of Wang Chenhao's design of the Prairie Eagle pistol is to reduce the weight of the pistol as much as possible, so in the selection of materials, Wang Chenhao chose the latest products of the Materials Science Research Laboratory of Beiyang Science and Technology, PB-109 zinc-aluminum alloy and CKD-82 high-strength wear-resistant plastic.
Zinc-aluminum alloy as the main manufacturing material of firearms in the 21st century, is a general method to reduce the weight of pistols, although the PB-109 zinc-aluminum alloy developed by the Beiyang Science and Technology Materials Research Laboratory has not reached the advanced level of later generations, but the heat has reached more than eighty, and it is enough to greatly reduce the weight of the Prairie Eagle pistol.
Plastic, in the 21st century, is all too commonplace. However, in the early 20th century, plastic was still a new type of material that was not valued by the world, mainly because it was monopolized.
The first fully synthetic plastic came from the Belgian-American Leo? Hedrick? Beckland, on July 14, 1907, he registered a patent for phenolic plastics in the Chinese Empire.
As early as 1893, Beckland founded the Nepera Chemical Company. Under the impact of new products, photographic equipment manufacturer Eastman? Kodak couldn't take it anymore. In 1898, after two negotiations, Kodak bought the patent for velox photographic paper for $750,000, equivalent to $15 million today. However, Kodak soon found that the formula did not work, and Beckland's reply was: This is normal, and inventors will omit one or two steps in the patent documents to prevent infringement.
Kodak was told: they were buying patents, but not all knowledge. Another $100,000 was paid, and Kodak knew that the secret was in a solution. With his first pot of gold, Beckland bought a mansion overlooking the Hudson River in Yonkers, near New York, converted a barn into a fully equipped private laboratory, and co-founded a pilot plant in Brooklyn.
At that time, the fledgling power industry contained a huge market for insulation materials. The first temptation Bekeland smelled was the skyrocketing price of the natural insulating material, shellac, which for centuries had relied on cottage industry in South Asia for production. After investigation, Beckland made the first business goal to find a substitute for shellac. At that time, chemists had begun to recognize that many of the natural resins and fibers that could be used as coatings, adhesives, and fabrics were polymers, i.e., large molecules with repetitive structures, and began to look for components and methods to synthesize polymers.
Back in 1872, the German chemist Adolf? Feng? Bayer found that after the reaction of phenol and formaldehyde, there were some stubborn residues at the bottom of the glass tube. But Beyer's eyes were on synthetic dyes, not insulation, and for him, the slimy, insoluble substance was a dead end. For Beckland and others, this kind of thing is a signpost of light.
Beginning in 1904, Beckland began to study this reaction. Initially, a liquid - phenol-formaldehyde shellac, called novolak, was obtained, but the market was not successful. Three years later, he got a paste-like sticky substance that was molded into a translucent hard plastic called phenolic. The difference is that celluloid is derived from chemically treated rubber wool and other cellulose-containing plant materials, while phenolic plastic is the world's first fully synthetic plastic. Beckland named it "Bakelite" after himself.
He was lucky, British counterpart James? Sir Swinburn filed his patent application only a day later, otherwise phenolic plastics would have been called "Swinburett" in English. ╔╗On February 8, 1909, Beckland unveiled the plastic at a meeting of the New York branch of the American Chemical Society. Phenolic plastic insulation, stability, heat resistance, corrosion resistance, non-flammable, Baykeland calls itself a "thousand materials". Especially in the rapidly growing automotive, radio and power industries, it is made into plugs, sockets, radio and telephone housings, propellers, valves, gears, pipes. In the home, it appears on billiards, handles, buttons, knife handles, tabletops, pipes, thermoses, electric kettles, pens, and costume jewelry. It's the alchemy of the 20th century, and it's such a versatile material that can be obtained from a cheap product like coal tar.
In 1909, a large pie suddenly fell on Belrank's head. His plastics paper at the American Chemical Society was valued by the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Wang Chenhao, and he became the first winner in history to be directly nominated by the Emperor of the Chinese Empire.
Blank received the China Treasure Star Award Medal from the Imperial Chinese Academy of Sciences, a bonus of 100,000 dragon coins, and the treatment of an academician of the Royal Chinese Academy of Sciences, and received an invitation letter from the Institute of Materials Science of Beiyang Science and Technology, with an annual salary of 100,000 dragon coins.
At this time, the China Treasure Star Award has become the highest scientific award recognized in the world, and 3 million scientists around the world are struggling to get the China Treasure Star Award and huge bonuses, and countless people are dreaming of entering the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Chinese Empire, because it represents the world's top scientific research institutions, the most advanced scientific experiment base, and gathers more than 100,000 top scientists.
Whether it is the highest honor of being a scientist, the academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences, or the ultra-high salary given by Beiyang Technology, which represents the world's highest scientific and technological existence, Bellanke could not refuse, so he took his family to the Chinese Empire and became an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and soon he and his family joined the Chinese Imperial Nationality and became citizens of the Chinese Empire. He also worked at the Institute of Materials Science of Beiyang Science and Technology.
Originally, Bellanque wanted to start his own company to deal in plastics, but after becoming an academician of the Royal Academy of Sciences and a researcher in materials science at Beiyang Science and Technology, there were top scientists in various disciplines that he could not know all his life, and there were scientific research tasks to do that made him forget to sleep and eat, plus the annual salary of 100,000 dragon coins had made him a rich man, and he didn't need to work hard to run the company at all, so he devoted himself to scientific research.
Soon, the Chinese Imperial Beiyang Industrial Group bought out Bellanke's phenolic plastic patents and began large-scale industrial production. The Chinese Empire then robbed the plastics industry that should have belonged to the United States, and because the patent period is as long as 20 years, it will be seen that in these 20 years, the Chinese Empire will replace the United States as the global plastic monopoly country. The huge role of plastic was not taken seriously by European and American countries at this time, and by the time they found out, most of the profits of the cake were seized by the Chinese Empire.
Bellak devoted himself to the development of plastics, so Wang Chenhao summoned him alone and asked him to develop a high-strength plastic to replace some of the small load-bearing parts of the pistol. Bellak was able to be personally summoned by the emperor and given a mission, which was rare in the entire Royal Academy of Sciences and Beiyang Science and Technology, and immediately became the capital for Bellak and other scientists to show off. Of course, the triumphant Blank immediately put down the work at hand and went all out to study high-strength plastics for Wang Chenhao.
Finally, on Wang Chenhao's birthday in the fifteenth year of Guanghua, Bellanke took out a sample of CKD-82 high-strength wear-resistant plastic and presented it to Wang Chenhao as a birthday gift. Although this plastic is not comparable to the plastic on the FN57, it can replace the construction of the pistol by 20%, which greatly reduces the weight of the Prairie Eagle pistol, making it a veritable ultralight pistol.
After solving the material problem, the Prairie Eagle pistol designed by Wang Chenhao was able to be produced as a prototype.
The Prairie Eagle pistol designed by Wang Chenhao still adopts the free bolt automatic mode, inertia locking mechanism, simple structure, only 33 parts, which can be quickly and incompletely decomposed into 7 parts, such as sleeve, barrel, re-entry spring and its guide rod, firing pin and firing pin spring assembly, sleeve seat, magazine, and connecting pin.
Since, if the pistol has fewer bamboo shoots, the gun unlocks the lock stroke longer and the speed is slower, so the rate of fire is reduced. So Wang Chenhao designed 3 ribbed locking bamboo shoots under the barrel, so as to effectively interlock with the sleeve seat, making it very easy to disassemble - pull the sleeve back into place, make the manual safety card into the front gap on the left side of the sleeve, and then rotate the barrel 60 ° in the direction of the shell throwing window to release the bamboo shoots, hold the sleeve with his left hand and pull out the safety, remove the sleeve forward, and then turn the barrel back to its original position, so that its tail is down from the holding groove, and the barrel can be pulled back.
In addition, the firing pin has the function of throwing the shell, after firing, when the sleeve sits back to a certain position, the firing pin first stops moving, and cooperates with the shell hook to throw the shell to the right rear.
The gun is smaller in size, with a caliber of 6.35 and a full length of only 114mm, which is much shorter than the palm of an adult male, making it unobtrusive even when held in the hand. This design was made mainly because of the large pistols and pistol holsters that affected the aesthetics when the court ladies were protecting the royal family. Especially when attending important occasions, female officers and female guards also need to wear thin dresses, but they also have to fulfill the duties of personal bodyguards, and it is really nondescript to carry a large pistol.
The biggest advantage of this pistol designed by Wang Chenhao is that it is small, and its concealment is excellent, which does not affect the beauty of female officials and female guards, and can also attack the enemy unprepared, and protect the royal family members to the greatest extent.
The gun is about 25 mm wide and only slightly larger than a pack of cigarettes, allowing it to shoot directly from inside the pocket in an emergency. The gun was lightweight, with an empty mass of 350 grams and a mass of only 400 grams with a live magazine.
Because Wang Chenhao combined the design of multi-wide modern and advanced pistols, the gun was unique in the details of the design. The shape of the whole gun is relatively smooth, there are no protruding edges and corners, the fixed notch and front sight are all hidden in the long groove at the top of the sleeve, and the trigger is also flat, which will not affect the speed of the gun by hooking the lining of the pocket.
Another feature of the gun is that it attaches great importance to safety, with a triple safety, which is also very safe to carry in the case of ammunition in the chamber: one is the magazine safety, which can lock the trigger when the magazine is not loaded and cannot be fired. Second, there is a manual safety at the left rear of the sleeve seat, which is dialed into the gap behind the sleeve to be the insurance state. There is also a grip safety that allows the trigger to release the firing pin only when it is properly held and squeezed into place. In addition, the magazine buckle is not located on the side of the gun as usual, but behind the bottom of the grip, and the magazine can be removed by pushing it back, preventing the magazine from accidentally falling off during operation.
This consideration was also made because the female officials and female guards accidentally misfired and injured the royal family, and Wang Chenhao still considered the safety of himself and his family very comprehensively.
In the selection of bullets and magazines, Wang Chenhao took into account that female officers and female guards do not need to conduct high-intensity combat, the pistol fires 0.25-inch ACP bullets with a high muzzle velocity, and the nickel-copper alloy is not as easy to deform as the bare lead bullet when hit by a bullet on the human body, with stronger penetration, and has sufficient self-defense ability within 50 meters, and its 6-round magazine capacity makes its firepower more sustained than any previous miniature pistol.
The first batch of 20 sample guns were tested at the end of Guanghua 15 years for the Inner Court Yulin Army, and the effect was very good, and it was unanimously praised by the concubines and female officials, for which Wang Chenhao was the first time that the queen and the seven imperial concubines offered a fragrant kiss together, which made Wang Chenhao excited for a while, and when he stood on the spot, it caused a coquettish laughter from the female officials and female guards of the inner court.
The first batch of sample guns was still somewhat insufficient, and then Wang Chenhao made improvements according to the reports of the female officers who tested the guns. First of all, the design of the barrel was improved, a unique protrusion was added to the tail of the barrel. At the same time, a groove is arranged at the head of the bolt, so that the bamboo shoots can be inserted into the groove to ensure that the barrel and bolt will not be displaced when the barrel and bolt are locked by inertia, which is more firm and stable. In addition, on the sleeve, the shape of the second notch on the sleeve, the safety notch, has been improved. Finally, the trigger has also been modified, and a flat structure appears on the trigger's striking surface that allows the finger to press over a larger area, increasing ergonomics.
After a series of improvements, the Prairie Eagle pistol was finalized. The Prairie Eagle pistol, given to the Empress and the Seven Imperial Princesses, was wrapped in an additional layer of gold leaf, carved with phoenixes of various shapes, and the handle was inlaid with diamonds and gemstones of different colors, making it very noble and gorgeous. The pistols for the ladies of the court and the Yulin army were wrapped in silver foil, and were also carved with different grades according to their ranks, and the pistols of the nine female officers were inlaid with ivory. The pistols of the other female guards and female soldiers of the Yulin Army are painted in three colors: red, black and white, and you can choose your favorite color.
After Wang Chenhao designed the Prairie Eagle pistol, it immediately set off a big wave in the three worlds of emperor, government and business. First of all, the officers and soldiers of the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Guards were jealous, and soon there was rumor of the Emperor's partiality.
Wang Chenhao, who heard the rumors, smiled helplessly, so he ordered the Internal Affairs Office to also order a batch of Prairie Eagle pistols to be distributed to the Praetorian Guards and the Imperial Forest Army. However, the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard and the Imperial Forest Army disliked that the pistol was too small, so Wang Chenhao ordered the military industry department to enlarge it on the original basis.
In the end, the enlarged version of the Prairie Eagle pistol is still much smaller than the current M11 pistol, but it conforms to the hand shape of the Oriental, and it is very hand-held and very popular.
Soon, imperial officials also began to abandon the use of M11 pistols in favor of Prairie Eagle pistols designed by Wang Chenhao. In addition to wearing a pistol designed by the emperor as a status symbol, it was also out of admiration for the emperor.
For this reason, the Imperial Army Council designated the Prairie Eagle pistol as the M95 pistol, which means the honor of the Ninety-Five, which means that this is a pistol designed by the emperor. At the same time, because the pistol is suitable for all kinds of people, it has derived a lot of versions, mainly the M95A1 used by the royal family and the court women's Yulin Army, the M95A2 used by imperial officials, the Praetorian Guard and the Royal Forest Army, the M95A3 for the Imperial National Guard and the police force, and the M95A4 with the gun for the Imperial officials and above 7 ranks. The M95 pistol of the same model is decorated according to the individual grade, the surface of the body is engraved with delicate patterns and plated with precious metals, and the grip guard is made of precious stones, pearls, ivory, tortoiseshell and other materials instead of the usual bakelite, and its beauty is not so much a weapon as a craft.
However, since the gun was designed by the Emperor, the citizens of the empire wanted to collect and own it. A few years later, the Forbidden City and the Imperial Diet finally relaxed the restrictions after receiving more and more petitions from the people, allowing them to own the gun, albeit of a different model and caliber. Mainly considering that the civilian use of the gun may cause trouble for the police when handling cases, and it is more likely to flow abroad, the ammunition of the M95A5 pistol is changed to a 0.22-inch bullet, and the effective defense distance is only 30 meters, which meets the defense requirements of the imperial citizens themselves.
But what Wang Chenhao didn't expect was that the pistol he designed later became the preferred self-defense pistol for women around the world, and it became a super assassination weapon in the hands of international female spies and female agents.
Another thing that Wang Chenhao did not expect was that the emergence of the M95 Prairie Eagle caused a revolution in the civilian firearms market, and more and more designers and manufacturers began to get involved in this type of pistol, so that the automatic pocket pistol continued to develop and evolve, forming a huge family. In order to commemorate and commend the achievements of the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao in this regard, the international community specially named all miniature pistols as the Emperor Gun Family, and all derivative firearms in this regard are named after the Emperor M95Axxx. According to the later statistics of the Chinese Empire, more than 160 countries and regions around the world, more than 2,400 models have been imitated, so that the M95 imperial gun family has expanded dramatically, only Spain, Germany, the Czech Republic and other countries have more than 670 kinds of imitations, of which Spain is the most. These imitations can be distinguished by their appearance and the markings on the body and grip of the gun, with the longest designation being the Spanish-made M95A2470, which is the longest number among the members of the gun family.
Wang Chenhao did not expect that the pistol he designed would achieve such a great effect, and the imperial engineering department showed unprecedented efficiency, producing 5 million M95AXX series pistols in only 16 years of Guanghua, and it was far from being in short supply. Since the Chinese Empire allowed people to hold guns, the personality cult of the emperor of the imperial people has reached the same respect for the gods, so the huge demand for M95 pistols is incompatible, and the arms dealers of the empire directly in the center of the square opposite the Zhonghua Gate in the Forbidden City, with 15 tons of gold for Wang Chenhao to sculpt a 95-meter-high golden statue, which shows that the pistol designed by Wang Chenhao has made more money for the major arms giants of the empire, otherwise they would not be so generous.
It wasn't until many years later that the official statistics of the Chinese Empire showed that the M95 pistol and its derivatives designed by Emperor Taizu of the Chinese Empire had produced a total of 2.26 billion guns, with an average of one for every three people in the world, and more than two for each person in the Chinese Empire, making it the best-selling gun among millions of gun families in the world.
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