In the Forbidden City of Hanjing, fifty meters underground in the imperial study.

This is Chen Shao's private space, and it is also where the control center of the Red Police Base is now located.

"Bang, bang......" The continuous sound of gunfire echoed through the base.

Chen Shao, dressed in a military uniform and holding an assault rifle that was still being tested, shot continuously at the target 100 meters away.

As soon as he finished firing a magazine, he picked up a new one from the table in front of him. After changing the magazine, he continued to shoot continuously. The dozen or so targets that had been prepared had been beaten to the ground, but Chen Shao still did not stop shooting. The magazines were changed one by one, and the new magazines on the table with loaded bullets were constantly decreasing.

A "click" sound came from the assault rifle, and Chen Shao looked at a few unfinished magazines on the table. sighed in his heart and said: It's still not good, if you shoot continuously, there will still be problems with the automatic air guide bomb feeding device. The accuracy has gone up, but the old problem has not changed.

Chen Shao has high hopes for this new assault rifle, and the scientific research team has also made great efforts, but the results are still unsatisfactory. After overcoming many difficulties, many problems have been solved, but the automatic ammunition feeding device that has been troubled for a long time is still not up to the mark.

The assault rifle combines the advantages of two types of rifles, the submachine gun and the rifle, the rifle has a long range and high accuracy, but the rate of fire is slow. Submachine guns have a short range, average accuracy, and a fast rate of fire.

After years of research, the advantages of these two weapons have been fused. But a new problem arose, in order to ensure the range and accuracy, it was necessary to ensure the rate of fire. This has high requirements for the materials of firearms, and many prototypes have been trial-produced, but they have always been stuck at this level.

This new assault rifle is a stockless structure rifle, air conduction automatic mode, the automatic machine uses a short-stroke gas conduction piston, nose rotation locking, can fire single or burst fire, with a 30-round plastic magazine feed. The mechanical sight is a borehole-type gate. It is equipped with a muzzle device for noise reduction and flame reduction. Engineering plastics are used extensively for the exterior materials.

According to Chen Shao's requirements, this assault rifle is a small-caliber assault rifle with a caliber of 5.8 mm. Originally, it was intended to use the same caliber bullet as the automatic rifle to facilitate logistics supply, but the 7.62mm bullet could not guarantee the accuracy of the shot. And in order to meet Chen Shao's requirements, it was changed to 5.8 mm, which is better than 7.62 mm bullets in terms of shooting accuracy and reduced recoil.

In fact, this assault rifle, except for the flaws in the air conductive ammunition supply, Chen Shao is very satisfied with other aspects. With a range of 680 meters, the lethality of the scope can reach 800 meters. And the 5.8 mm bullet at a distance of 100 meters can penetrate 8 mm thick steel plates, and there is also lethality. The length of the barrel is also about 700 mm, which is considered a very short rifle. The gun has a short body, and the weight of the bayonet is only 3.5 kg in battle, which is very easy to carry. And it is also possible to add a 35-mm grenade launcher to the butt part of the gun to strengthen its combat capability. The main thing is that at the time of development, this rifle was given the requirements of all-weather combat. As long as the results of the tests can fully meet the combat requirements, all troops can be equipped.

At the same time, among the firearms studied, there was also a completely new squad machine gun, as the name suggests. The squad machine gun is a fire support unit of an infantry squad, an infantry squad is distributed with 1-2 pieces, the main role is to kill and injure the enemy at medium and close ranges and suppress the enemy's firepower to cover the actions of other combatants, and use magazines, short chains or drums for ammunition, generally the same ammunition as rifles used in the infantry squad, equipped with 2 tripods, the theoretical rate of fire is 600-1200 rounds / min, and the combat rate of fire is generally 150 rounds / min. And this kind of squad machine gun can be operated by one person. It is an upgraded version of the light machine gun now used by the Chinese army, which is similar in appearance to assault rifles and has the same caliber. And a lot of parts can be shared, which also reduces a lot of logistical pressure.

And now both guns have been tested for a long time and have improved a lot. Compared with the first test, it is much better. But Chen Shao was still very dissatisfied, the air guide device was not resolved, and if the high rate of fire was used continuously, it was easy to get stuck. If it weren't for this hard injury, Chen Shao would have ordered the military factory to produce vigorously by now.

Reaching out and touching the assault rifle on the table, Chen Shao also felt a little emotional in his heart. In fact, the shape of this assault rifle is very popular with Chen Shao, and the most important thing is that it is beautiful. When he began to study assault rifles that year, Chen Shao drew a drawing, which was just a drawing of the appearance of a firearm, and it was very rough. A few years later, this assault rifle was already being tested, and the shape was the same as what Chen Shao had painted back then.

When he saw the prototype, he fell in love with the rifle, regardless of its performance. I made up my mind that I must make this assault rifle. And he himself participated in the experiment, as long as a new model gun was produced, he would be sent one, as well as matching bullets.

In the underground base, it has also become an excellent venue for Chen Shao to shoot targets. There would be no repercussions, and the secrecy would not require his attention.

Skillfully dismantling the assault rifle on the table into eight parts, taking out the jammed cartridge case, Chen Shao put the rifle back on. It was another continuous fire, and when he had all the bullets gone. Fortunately, there was no more jamming.

When returning to the imperial study, Chen Shao couldn't help muttering in his heart: It's not perfect, it's only 300 bullets, and it's going to jam once. If this problem is solved, then this assault rifle can be launched.

When he first sat down on the table in the imperial study, he had not yet picked up the music. The phone on the desk rang, and after answering the phone. Chen Shao got up and walked out of the imperial study and went straight to the Ministry of Defense.

Three minutes later, Chen Shao walked into the command center of the Ministry of National Defense. At this time, Jiang Baili, Cai Ye and Chen Fuqin were all inside, Chen Shao nodded with them and said:

"What's the latest situation in Mongolia?"

"Su Yusheng has the latest information, and the general attack may be launched tonight." Jiang Baili said.

After listening to Jiang Baili's words, Chen Shao turned to look at the electronic map in front of him. The map has clearly marked the situation of friend and foe along the entire Mongolian border, and as the army moves, the markings on the map also move.

It is the highest crystallization of Chinese science and technology, with a large number of electronic equipment that is leading in the world's science and technology, and is the central brain of China's three armed forces. When necessary, it can control any division-level unit of the Chinese army. It can even be controlled down to the regimental and battalion levels, which is mainly determined by the tasks performed by the troops.

A large number of advanced computers have been installed here, and a number of combat systems have also been initially established, forming a primary combat data link. These are inseparable from Tesla's efforts, from the primary computer ten years ago, to now a more powerful computer has been developed, and the information storage capacity has also changed from the previous use of KB to calculate, to now use MB to calculate. As the command center of the Ministry of National Defense, which is the crystallization of science and technology, the information storage capacity is calculated in G.

According to Chen Shao's point of view, this is a huge breakthrough, although the size is still large, but the function is passable. He has no way to measure the current computers with the computers of later generations, because there is a big gap between the previous ones, not to mention the military supercomputers, even the computers of the 80s in the later generations, are more advanced than this. But now it was 1938, and Chen Shao was very satisfied. At least when you're bored, it's still no problem to play with this snake game.

"What is Su Yusheng planning?" Chen Shao was a little curious about the possibility of launching a general attack at night. It seems that the battle on the border has just begun, and Su Yusheng is sure that he will fight so well and launch a general attack.

"According to the report just sent by Su Yusheng, this kid set up a trap for Zhukov, and Zhukov is very likely to get into it directly. And the troops that launched the general offensive could also be in position at night. This time, this kid used all the money in his family. Chen Fuqin explained. He trusted Su Yusheng's ability very much, and also read Su Yusheng's battle plan in detail, and he agreed with this plan.

"Has the plan arrived?" Chen Shao said.

As soon as Chen Shao's words fell, Cai Ye took out a document from the table behind him and handed it to Chen Shao: "The detailed battle plan has been sent, and it is all in it." All three of us looked at it and agreed to carry out the plan. ”

"Since all three of you agreed, then I won't look at it. I only need one result, and this war must be won, and it must be fought beautifully. Chen Shao directly returned this plan to Cai Yi.

is the so-called general who will not be subject to the orders of the monarch outside, and now that Cai Ye and others have agreed, Chen Shao does not want to pay too much attention to these specific action plans. He himself understands that in addition to the overall strategy, if it comes to how to march and fight, there is still a gap with these people. For the things that he doesn't understand, Chen Shao doesn't want to point fingers, anyway, he only needs a result.

Chen Shao also understands that he can't handle everything. Let them do what they can, that's what he's going to do. Otherwise, whether he can win the war or not, he will die of exhaustion sooner or later.

"Is there any update from the meteorological service? Has the weather changed on the Mongolian side? Chen Shao spoke again.

"The weather department sent an update on the weather conditions an hour ago, and according to the detection data of the new weather radar, the dark clouds hanging over the Mongolian border are already shifting elsewhere. It won't snow again for a short time. Tomorrow morning planes will be dispatched to directly support the battle on the Mongolian border. Jiang Baili said.

"How's the visibility? Is it possible to carry out high-altitude bombing? Chen Shao spoke again.

"There may not be a way yet, it is still difficult to carry out bombing at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and the clouds are still too thick." Jiang Baili said.

There is another meaning in Jiang Baili's words, low-altitude bombing is okay. However, he did not say it, he knew very well that the Soviet troops on the border had a lot of anti-aircraft firepower, and Chen Shao would never agree to the bombers to take a low-altitude bombing. Because huge bombers will become live targets for anti-aircraft fire. Killing a thousand enemies and losing five hundred to himself, Chen Shao will never do it.

(To be continued)