"Little ......"

Before Shi Si's words were finished, Chen Moran, who was full of curiosity about this gun, had already pulled the trigger. The moment the index finger pulled the trigger, gunshots rang out on the shooting range.

One, two, three...... This gunshot made Shi Si breathe a sigh of relief, as the designer of this rifle, of course he knew what was wrong with this gun, in fact, this problem was exactly what he wanted to solve.

But today it seems to be very competitive, there is no problem with other prototype guns in the past, looking at Chen Moran who is playing happily with the trigger, Shi Si can't help but secretly shout Glad to come, the weather is really good today!

Pulling and moving this trigger, but in just a few seconds, after the ten rounds of the magazine were finished, the bolt was hanged, Chen Moran was stunned by this gun, this ...... Isn't this semi-automatic? Although it looks a little weird and even a little ugly, it is indeed a semi-automatic rifle.

"Go with the flow, this ...... This is a semi-automatic rifle! ”

"Semi-automatic rifles?"

Shi Si was stunned, shouldn't this be an automatic rifle? But he nodded his head as he was secretly screaming for luck.

"Hmmm! Just semi-automatic rifles! ”

Touching this gun, Chen Moran's eyes lit up, if his own troops all used this kind of gun, then on the battlefield at this time, it would really rain bullets and be unstoppable.

"Sui Bo, how much does this gun cost!"

The boss's question made Shi Si silently sum it up in his heart for a while, this total, not to mention, he really spent a lot of money to get this gun.

However, this gun belongs to the "workshop type gun". Due to the time-consuming manufacturing and processing, including the experimental products produced in the past, the average unit price should be about 800 yuan! ”

"800 yuan!"

Chen Moran was taken aback by this number, what are you kidding, the "industrial manufacturing" is only 10 yuan, and this gun is bought for eighty industrial products.

Seeing that Chen Moran was frightened by his counting, Shi Si hurriedly explained.

"It's just a workshop-type gun, it's not mass-produced, and if it's mass-produced, it should be ...... It should be able to drop to about 120 to 200 yuan! Of course, it still depends on the output, if the output is large, you can add special equipment for production, so that you can reduce the bottom cost! ”

"It's too expensive! Too expensive! ”

Listening to this price, Chen Moran hurriedly waved his hand and said twice, this gun is too expensive to equip! Even at the cheapest price, a gun is enough to equip a squad, which is too expensive!

Let's talk about it when I have money in the future!

Feeling a pity in his heart, Chen Moran picked up a magazine again, poured out the bullets from the carton, and the double-row double-entry magazine pressed the bullet easily. And Shi Si also smiled helplessly, this gun was just an attempt, such an expensive gun to equip the troops, it can be said that the gains outweigh the losses, maybe an automatic rifle can be worth ten rifles, but the price is more than ten rifles, the cost of equipment is too high, no one will choose this weapon.

"Make a few, and have fun when you're fine!"

Thinking so in his heart, the butt of the gun was against his shoulder, aiming and shooting at three points and one line.

"Da ......"

While the sound of a string of guns echoed on the shooting range, Chen Moran was pale by the sound of the gunshot, the pain on his shoulder, the rifle with his finger pointing nearly forty degrees, and the roar in his ears reminded him of what he shot just now.

The rifle pointing at the sky trembled between Chen Moran's hands, and his shoulders were a little sore from the continuous backseat, so that he was frightened by the sound of the gunshot, and his original pale face was twisted.

"Oh God!"

The familiar sound of gunshots, even the guns that made Shi Si hateful, rang out, he just slapped his head, the problem that should have come, in the end, it still came, this is one of the shortcomings of this rifle, although he referred to the fast and slow machine of the submachine gun, but the fast and slow machine on the submachine gun also has the problem of a single company.

Although his shoulders were a little sore, and he was startled by the continuous sound of guns, Chen Moran was now staring at the rifle weighing almost 5 to 6 kilograms in his hand, and his face was full of excitement.

"Sui Bo, how much did you just say this gun costs?"

The changes in Chen Moran's expression fell into Shi Si's eyes, and Shi Si, who couldn't understand why he was so excited, hurriedly replied.

"The most ...... The bottom 120! ”

"How much does it cost to build a Makqin?"

Chen Moran, who was almost reluctant to let go of the gun, asked again.

"One thousand six hundred and ninety-five yuan hexagon, seven yuan ...... each bullet belt"

Shi Si, who was all without thinking, quoted the price of the Maxim machine gun, but he single-handedly did the imitation of the Swiss MG00 Maxim machine gun purchased through a foreign company, although Chen Moran also reverse-drew the drawings with him, but in the end it was he who was responsible for the transformation, in order to reduce the bottom cost, a large number of brass parts were changed to steel parts, and even in order to improve the shooting accuracy, he also designed a tripod mount with a spring soft recoil device.

From the unit price of 2,692 yuan and nine jiao, to 1,695 yuan and six jiao, the unit price has been reduced, but the surname can be reduced but not lowered, and 5,000 rounds of ammunition have not failed once, then Makqin is his proud work, almost second only to this rifle.

Muttering in his heart about the cost of the Makqin machine gun, Chen Moran pointed to the gun in his hand.

"Take this handguard apart!"

Although he didn't understand Chen Moran's intentions, Shi Si still honestly dismantled the handguard.

“…… This air guide is borrowed from the piston rod conduction principle of the Haggaches machine gun, and the piston rod is similar to the ......"

When Shi Si pointed to the rifle after disassembling the handguard and explained the principle of the rifle to Chen Moran, Chen Moran stared at the rifle on the wooden platform with bright eyes, after the broken rifle-style handguard, if you don't look at the butt, this gun is very close to a gun he has seen in magazines and movies, with the same lower air guide and the same upper magazine to feed the ammunition.

Thinking of the Czech light machine gun, Chen Moran's eyes immediately appeared in front of the classic image of Chinese movies and television, a neatly dressed soldier with a slight oil smoke, holding a light machine gun with a magazine in his arms, opening his mouth wide and roaring, pulling the trigger at the enemy, pouring a merciless and endless rain of bullets.

"Go with the flow, this shot...... It's too expensive for a semi-automatic rifle, but it's even better for a light machine gun! ”

Chen Moran, whose eyes were shining, stared at the gun on the table, and even touched it with his hand from time to time.

"The barrel is thickened and weighted, the barrel of this rifle is too thin, and then on the air duct, this is the position, add a foldable bipod, and then change this rifle-style butt, the butt is the butt, the grip is made into a pistol-style grip, and the ten-round magazine is changed to twenty...... No, change to a thirty-round magazine, like a submachine gun, with bursts as the mainstay, right! That's it, follow the wave, and you start transforming it now! ”

Light machine guns! A light machine gun of 120 yuan is cheap! With the light in his eyes, his expression was a little excited, and finally, as if he remembered something, he casually took out a stack of paper from the document bag that Ma Xiaoliu put on the table, lay on the table of the shooting range, and drew the appearance of the Czech machine gun in his memory behind the paper.

"Add a handle to the barrel so it's easy to carry, and the handle can be used as a handguard, huh...... That's it! ”

Picking up the thick stack of paper, looking at the gun on it that had been changed beyond recognition by Chen Moran, Shi Si looked a little confused, and after looking at it carefully, he looked up at Chen Moran.

"However, if it is changed to a machine gun, it is not complicated, but the problem is the barrel, unless we add a water-cooled holster or a Habeg-Kais-style heat sink to this barrel, otherwise if you shoot a few hundred bullets, the barrel will burn red, and it may even explode, how to solve this problem?"

"It's simple, change the barrel, design a system that quickly changes the barrel!"

As soon as Shi Si's question was raised, Chen Moran blurted out a solution.

"Quick barrel change?"

How to quickly change the barrel? Shi Si couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

"Look here!"

Holding the connection between the barrel and the receiver, Chen Moran recalled in his mind the principle of the quick barrel replacement system of the Czech machine gun that he had read in a magazine, and the principle was very simple.

"It is to install a screw system, leave a severance bolt fixing ring here, a long handle on the fixing ring, when replacing the barrel, as long as the long handle on the fixing ring is rotated up, the barrel can be drawn forward, when the barrel is loaded, insert it and press down the long handle!"

Listening to Chen Moran's explanation, watching him use his fingers to make a shape and compare the simple barrel quick exchange system, Shi Si, who was a little dumbfounded, almost didn't believe that it could be so simple, the principle of the separation bolt has been invented for hundreds of years, even if it is used in the tail lock of artillery, it has been decades, but no one has ever linked the locking and dismantling of his barrel.

Staring at Chen Moran's head, Shi Si couldn't help but think about what was in his head, seeing the seamless steel pipe, he created an extremely simple infantry curved gun that was only equivalent to the cost of a few rifles, and even used the old artillery to pull the fire tube to develop a long-handled grenade, in the past few months, he had seen Chen Moran's whimsical ideas.

"Well, there's a question I'd like to ask!"

The questioning Shi Si hesitated and opened his mouth, "Huh? ”

"You graduated from that school? Who is the mentor? ”

In response to his whimsical ideas, Shi Si moved the idea of going to the university where he went to study for a while.

"I ......"

Shi Si's question made Chen Moran stunned at first, and then smiled again.

"I'm self-taught!"

In the end, he even added a special sentence.

"Hmmm! People are smart and can't help it! ”

Chen Moran's words just made Shi Si speechless, he usually looked at him as a very stable person, but at this time, he became proud.

Embarrassment, Shi Si looked at the "light machine gun" in his hand, and then seemed to divert his attention and flipped through the stack of paper in his hand, but there were some drawings on the paper.

"Huh! It's ......"

"Oh! I only cared about this light machine gun, but I forgot about business. ”

Shi Si's reminder reminded Chen Moran that the purpose of his coming to Ma'anshan was to send these drawings.

"There are some mechanical modification drawings in here, aren't we going to copy that bullet machine? I drew some drawings and changed the bullet machine transmitted to the axis to have its own electric motor transmission, and I calculated that if I made such a change, the work effect should be increased by about 10%! ”

Taking the thick stack of papers from Shi Si's hand, Chen Moran turned through a few pages and explained. The imitation bullet machine is because of the successful imitation of the Makqin machine gun, the power of the machine gun is great, but it also costs bullets, only relying on the 63 machines, even if it is a three-shift production a day, excluding the time of the pre-repair machine, it can produce 800,000 rounds of ammunition a month is considered to be the top of the sky, but this bullet is not enough for heavy machine guns. That's why there was a move to imitate the bullet machine and expand the bullet factory.

"Bringing your own motor is definitely the future development trend, it's a good idea!"

Shi Si nodded in agreement, looking at the drawings handed to him by Chen Moran, even if it was just a simple drawing, it could be seen that Chen Moran did have a hand in drawing, just like when he imitated Makqin, at that time, Shi Si was almost giving him a hand.

And Chen Moran not only drew the drawings, but also formulated the entire process flow, including the material quality, type, and acceptance model required for each part, just like he did when he imitated Mosin Nagant, all of which need to go through a lot of experimental calculations, and this is what Shi Si admires most about Chen Moran.

If Shi Si knows the reason, I'm afraid he will vomit blood in annoyance, the reason is very simple, dozens of years later Chinese machinery even gave up the need for inspiration to innovate, but blindly engaged in reverse imitation, natural reverse engineering has become the focus of mechanical students, Chen Moran, who had quite good grades in school, for reverse engineering, but he has long been familiar with the road, and the experience accumulated by the school is used here.

Holding the drawings in his hand, he explained them to Shi Si one by one for an hour, and finally the transformation plan of the bullet machine with its own power was introduced, but at this time, Chen Moran still had more than a dozen drawings left in his hand, looking at the drawings in his hand, he seemed a little unnatural.

What kind of drawings are there, but Chen Moran drew the "schematic diagram of the basic design of the new artillery" at home by comparing the body structure, the decomposition of the muzzle brake, the principle of the muzzle brake, the tail structure, the upper frame decomposition, the transmission of the high and low machine, the structure of the lower frame and the action schematic diagram of the re-entry machine of the stationing and retreating machine, and the most important of them is probably the schematic diagram of the hydraulic retractor and the re-entry machine.

In the past few months, through various channels, the company has bought back three guns at a high price, and the three guns are the "most advanced" rapid-fire guns, rapid-fire guns with reentry and reentry aircraft, and without exception, they are quite primitive kind of recoiled return principle, and the most important role of these sketches is to explain the working principle of hydraulic reentry machine and retracting machine.

The function of the retractor is similar to the spring of the vehicle suspension system that Chen Moran is familiar with, and the retraction machine is exactly the same as the working principle of the shock absorber, no matter which direction the gun body moves, it only absorbs the energy consumed, and the natural design is also handy.

"Follow the waves, this is my own idle and nothing to draw and play, in the gun, you are an expert, so please come and take a look!"

When he spoke, Chen Moran first gave him three views of the ЗиС-3 cannon, and then he was able to explain the design intent one by one, in fact, it was nothing more than a copy of the artillery structure in the magazine, and he even copied a copy of it.

“…… When the gun is fired, the stand-off machine, the restraint lever and the re-entry rod are all recoiled with the gun. After the gun is fired, the gun recoils, the air in the re-entry aircraft is compressed to store energy, and the liquid in the re-entry aircraft flows through the gap to dissipate the energy. When the rear of the gun is finished, the air expansion in the re-entry machine does the work to push the gun body forward, and the function of the re-entry machine is still to dissipate energy to produce damping to prevent the gun body from hitting the front frame too quickly and damaging the gun. ……”

When explaining, Chen Moran did not notice the sharp change in Shi Si's expression when he looked at these drawings, especially the action diagram of the hydraulic retractor and the stationing and retreating machine, as a gun expert, he knew the value of this action diagram better than others, and even the new gun mount structure, if you get it to any great power country, you can exchange it for hundreds of thousands of yuan.

Since the 1880s, inventors began to design a variety of complex mechanisms to absorb the recoil of artillery to increase the rate of fire of artillery.

"Of course, maybe you don't know, but I can tell you one thing clearly, although these drawings of yours are simple, they will definitely set off a revolution in artillery technology!"

Although it has not yet been tested, Shi Si has seen the development potential of this hydraulic retractor and retractor from the schematic diagram of the operation of the hydraulic retractor and the retractor, which will definitely be a revolutionary invention in the history of artillery development.

Revolutionary surname, perhaps! Forty years later, can there be no revolutionary surname? Thinking like this in his heart, Chen Moran's expression seemed very calm, before he made it, no matter how revolutionary the surname was, it would be in vain.

"What a technological revolution is not revolutionary! Suibo, what I have to do now is to perfect him, I am so capable, and you can complete the rest! Let the world's first-class artillery be produced in the workshop of our industrial company! ”

Mission instantly surged in Shi Si's heart, and he nodded vigorously.

"Then, don't worry, I will try my best to integrate the most advanced artillery in the world with your design!"

"The cannon is going to be made, but, with the wave, it is better to solve the problem of this light machine gun first, the redesign of the barrel, the bipod, and the Tushi, the production process or something, years ago, you can complete this work is already God blessed! And when the time comes, we will have to conduct a reliable surname test, no, but it can't be like that submachine gun, if you shoot more than 300 shots, it will malfunction! ”

Chen Moran said and smiled with a look of embarrassment on his face, the submachine gun was a drawing drawn by him compared to the drawings in the magazine, but the design was lame, and a few hundred shots would always malfunction, at the beginning, the soldiers on the island liked the submachine gun very much, but now it ...... Although they still want to carry submachine guns, they are occasionally scared, and when they carry submachine guns, they will definitely carry rifles on their backs.

Fortunately, fortunately, there is no need to shoot hundreds of shots at all in many cases, perhaps thinking that his wife's guards rely on submachine guns, Chen Moran will comfort himself so much.

After thinking of his wife from the submachine gun, Chen Moran looked at it and remembered today's words, this Ji Li should already be in London! Hope she is doing well there. Whether or not you can keep the Anglo-Mexican oil company depends on your wife's activities in London.

(To be continued)