As soon as Meng Qingshan got up the next day, he received a report from Sun Qian, director of the Aihui Arsenal of the Northeast Military Region, that according to the drawings designed by Meng Qingshan, a sample of a semi-automatic rifle had been produced, and he was invited to come and have a look.

Meng Qingshan was not surprised at all to hear that the semi-automatic rifle was developed, the assault rifle could be developed before, this semi-automatic rifle was not hand-to-hand, originally Meng Qingshan wanted to directly produce a large number of assault rifles for the troops to rewear, but with the basis of the current arsenal, the weapon can be produced, but the bullet can not meet the needs of the battle at all, if the army is equipped with this weapon, it may be less than ten minutes after the start of the war, the bullet will be exhausted, and then it can only fight bayonets, Secondly, because Meng Qingshan was worried that once this kind of weapon fell into the hands of the Japanese, it would be dangerous, and with the shrewdness of the Japanese, they were very positive about the secret weapon developed by the Anti-United Nations. In order to prevent accidents, Meng Qingshan engraved the developed KL-40 with a mark to prevent it from being obtained by Japanese puppet spies, and at the same time, he also tried to produce as few such guns as possible. For this reason, Meng Qingshan decided to equip the troops with semi-automatic rifles, and at the same time improve the bullets of this semi-automatic rifle to be the same as the Type 38 rifle cartridges, so that the troops will not lack ammunition.

The drawings given by Meng Qingshan are the semi-automatic rifles developed by China in 1956, that is, the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, referred to as and hereinafter referred to as "56 and a half", which is an imitation of the Soviet SKS semi-automatic rifle. It is the first semi-automatic rifle of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the Type 56 squad machine gun and Type 56 automatic rifle are collectively referred to as the Type 56 gun family.

The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is a semi-automatic rifle with self-loading bullets, which has the advantages of light weight, good shooting accuracy, and reliable mechanism action. And equipped with a folding bayonet, which allows for white-knuckle combat. The automatic method adopts the air guide type (piston short stroke). The locking method is bolt offset type, and single shot is implemented. Ammunition is fed with a fixed magazine of 10 rounds.

The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is copied from the SKS semi-automatic rifle of the former Soviet Union, and a full set of technical data from the former Soviet Union was introduced in 1956. Improvements include the replacement of the original sword-shaped bayonet with a bayonet (56 semi-automatic for both types of stabbing are equipped), the coupling of the receiver cover embedded in the handguard, the replacement of the wooden stock with a fiberglass butt, and the replacement of some die castings with punched welding, punching riveting or precision castings.

Meng Qingshan's decision to design this semi-automatic rifle was not only because of the machinery and equipment of the current arsenal, but also because this weapon was suitable for the current combat environment of the troops, as well as the accuracy of this gun.

According to Meng Qingshan's assumption, a main force company has 138 people, of which 9 infantry squads are equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, except for the KL-40 assault rifles used by the main and deputy squad leaders, and the remaining 7 people are all equipped with Type 56 semi-automatic rifles, in addition, the two communicators of the company headquarters and the leader of the cooking squad are each equipped with 1, and the whole company is equipped with a total of 66 guns. The rest of the people are equipped with 38 big covers, and as for the eliminated Liao 13 rifles, they belong to the second-line troops.

Meng Qingshan believes that only the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle is suitable for the needs of the current troops, because it has created countless legends of sharpshooters in the hands of Chinese soldiers. In the 1960s, the "Fourth Company of Sharpshooters," which was famous throughout the army, had more than 100 sharpshooters, of whom more than half were special marksmen, barbers, hygienists, and supplies were all special marksmen, and all the cooks had reached the standard of sharpshooters. Yan Long, the "lone hero" of the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, once used this gun to create a record of killing 56 enemies in a row with 125 bullets. Many of these people are people who have just joined the army, and they can get such good results if they pick it up, Meng Qingshan does not expect that his special operations brigade soldiers can compare to the fourth company of sharpshooters, as long as there is a third of them, Meng Qingshan will be satisfied.

When Meng Qingshan rushed to the arsenal. Li Fuchun, factory directors Sun Qian, and Li Yanlu were already waiting for him at the arsenal shooting range. After Meng Qingshan hastily shook hands with a few people, he walked to the table with neatly arranged weapons and looked at them carefully.

Looking at Meng Qingshan very carefully, Sun Qian, the factory director next to him, picked up a rifle that was somewhat similar to the AK-47 and said, "Commander-in-chief." This is the new type of rifle that was produced according to your requirements. In accordance with your request, after three months of hard work by all our technicians, we finally developed this rifle to adopt the Japanese Army's Type 38 infantry bullet. The magazine has also been improved so that the previous ten rounds have been changed to thirty rounds. ”

"It's made exactly as you designed it. It adopts the air-conductive automatic method. Swing locking bolt, notched door. A 30-round magazine was used to feed ammunition, and a burst fire method and an empty magazine hang-up function were added. When the bullets in the magazine are empty, the bolt stops behind itself, so that the shooter can change the magazine in time. ”

"It uses an air conduction system with an adjustment function, which shoots with small air holes in normal conditions, and even if the retreat is not in place, it does not affect the action of the mechanism within 30 meters. When shooting under harsh environmental conditions, the large air hole is used to give enough energy to overcome the excessive resistance caused by sandstorm, severe cold and dirt to ensure the reliable operation of the automata. ”

"The body and barrel of the gun are all made of nickel-chromium alloy steel purchased from Jiangbei, the grip is made of catalpa, and the folding stock is stamped from captured rail steel. The casing body is stamped by a steel plate with a thickness of 1.5 mm, box-shaped section, simple shape, protruding ribs on both sides to increase the rigidity, the front part is riveted with the section sleeve, the middle part is supported by the middle lining iron, and the rear part is fixed with a tailstock, and the rigidity and strength of the casing are guaranteed. ”

"This firearm, while it looks very similar to the one you handed over to us in the drawings you handed us last time, has a much higher firing accuracy than that one. But the production method and process are not complicated but much simpler than that kind of weapon. ”

After Sun Qian finished speaking, he handed over the gun, and Meng Qingshan saw that it was basically the same as the Type 56 semi-automatic rifle installed in our army in later generations, the only difference was that the butt was not as fine as that of later generations. After several years of tempering with bullets and bullets, Meng Qingshan is no longer a rookie who doesn't know anything at this time, and now he doesn't have to be a special forces in later generations. After firing a full two magazines, I put down the gun in my hand and closed my eyes to feel the difference between the copycat version and the original.

Watching Meng Qingshan personally experiment with this new weapon, the hearts of both the producer Sun Qian and the technicians were suspended. In addition to admiring Meng Qingshan's superb shooting skills and almost no bullets, he was also very curious about the shooting used by Meng Qingshan.

Meng Qingshan threw the gun in his hand to Huzi and Li Daniu, who watched his wonderful shooting performance, and looked at this new rifle in his hand with greed: "You also try it, this kind of gun is specially designed and produced for you."

Li Fuchun, Li Yanlu and others were very surprised, they had been soldiers all their lives, they had never seen this kind of gun, and they didn't know where the commander-in-chief learned such great ability. I was suspicious, but I didn't stop in my hand, took the gun, fired several magazines in a row, and asked the target reporter to report the target.

After the target reporter reported Meng Qingshan's 100 rings, Li Fuchun's 82 rings, Li Yanlu's 92 rings, Liu Hu's 95 rings, and Li Daniu's 94 rings, several people were very happy. I think this kind of gun is very easy to use, and it is very suitable for troops to fight.

Sun Qian looked at Meng Qingshan and said with a smile: "Commander-in-chief, this gun has no name yet!" We've been waiting for you to name this gun! ”

"Let's talk about the name of this gun!"

"I don't think it's better to call it an anti-joint gun?" Liu Hu shouted.

"I think it's not bad to call it Beimangun." Li Daniu also said.

"I think it's called anti-Japanese."

"Descending the Dragon?"

"Fuhu?"

After listening to the names reported by a few people, Meng Qingshan's forehead was covered with black lines, which made future generations know that they must think that these people were invited by monkeys to be funny, not to mention that there might be some strange and strange names, it would be a big mistake to let them name them, and quickly opened his mouth and said, "It's not appropriate, it's very inappropriate." These names are not good, so they are called Bayi automatic rifles, because this is the anniversary of the founding of our party and the army, and I think it is the pride of this gun after August 1st. Meng Qingshan directly called out the ultimate version of this gun.

"Eighty-half automatic rifle, referred to as eighty-one bar, this name is good, meaningful, worthy of being the commander-in-chief, thinking more than us." Li Fuchun said with a smile.

In this way, our army produced the first "eight-and-a-half automatic rifle" that began to fully begin to deploy troops. In the subsequent war with the Japanese invaders, the Bayi automatic rifle became the favorite infantry weapon of our soldiers, and the Japanese army was terrified.

After the test gun was completed, Meng Qingshan directly ordered Sun Qian to immediately work overtime to produce eight and a half automatic rifles, and the bullets were produced according to the standard of 2,000 rounds per gun. It is necessary to produce at least 10,000 units by July to equip the troops. The first batch of weapons was given priority to special operations brigades and guard divisions.

(To be continued.) )