Early in the morning, Zhang Shusheng and Sun Changqing, accompanied by Wu Tiejun and others, went to the Mauser factory in the mountains, passed the inspection of three checkpoints, and finally came to this Mauser factory that all Chinese could not imagine, but it was alive in front of them.

The whole factory is connected with the mountain in a semi-buried way, and the mountain can only enter but not exit, which ensures the absolute safety here, in the words of Wu Tiejun, as long as one company is placed here, two battalions cannot rush in.

After the inspection of the last checkpoint, the group finally entered the hinterland of the Mauser factory, the production workshop.

"Boss, welcome to your Mauser factory!" Herman took the engineers of the Mauser factory and welcomed Zhang Shusheng and others with an excited face.

"Huffman, you have proven your worth with your practical actions." Zhang Shusheng praised without hesitation, for this unlucky Huffman, the commissioning of the Mauser factory made him breathe a sigh of anger.

"Uh, my dear boss, damn Germany, how dare you abuse the genius Huffman in the first place. Hmph, today I use practical actions to prove that after leaving damn Germany, I am a genius like Huffmann. Huffman waved his arms, a dirty worker's outfit gave him another sparkle, and the persistent German artillery genius was now overjoyed by the opening of the Mauser factory.

Zhang Shusheng patted him on the shoulder, and said as he walked towards the workshop: "Huffman, do you remember what I promised you?" ”

"Of course, I, Huffman, must make a more advanced rifle than the Mauser, so that it can be produced more than the Mauser." Huffman said arrogantly, regardless of what others thought of his cowhide coaxing.

Looking at Huffman approvingly, Zhang Shusheng finally came to the location of the Mauser terminal production line.

Seeing that everyone was waiting to see his baby come out, Huffman couldn't help himself, waved his big hand, and shouted: "My Chinese boys, get started!" ”

After a rumbling sound of machinery, the modified Mauser rifle production line had already had the initial assembly line function, and a group of foreigners and Chinese workers were busy nervously, and finally a brand new Mauser 1898 rifle appeared in front of everyone.

Bending down, Zhang Shusheng picked up the Mauser gun that had not yet undergone the final factory maintenance, the cold barrel, the streamlined shaped body, and the butt also gave people a very powerful feeling.

Coming to the underground gun test center, in the expectation of everyone, Zhang Shusheng took a magazine and inserted the magazine of five bullets into the magazine, and the bolt made a faint sound when it was locked. Raise the gun to aim, pull the trigger.

"Bang!"

Twenty meters away, the wooden target that shook straight and shook caused a burst of thunderous applause.

This was an exciting moment, and the Chinese present all thought the same thing, and Wu Tiejun and others even shed tears in the corners of their eyes.

This is a nation that has been bullied, and just a dozen years ago, she was ravaged by foreigners and devils. And the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance sent this ancient nation all the way into the abyss of hell.

At that time, the enemy's ships were strong and their guns were sharp!

At that time, in the face of the enemy's platoon of guns, China only had long spears and big knives.

At that time, in front of the bayonets and muzzles, both old and weak, women and children, fell one by one.

At that time, Chinese was unarmed......

Holding a brand-new Mauser rifle and a modern Mauser rifle produced by the Chinese, Zhang Shusheng turned around, looked at a group of subordinates, and said bitterly: "From today, we Chinese have officially bid farewell to the era when there was no large-scale production of modern rifles. And what you need to do is to produce it into thousands of branches, which our weak nation, our afflicted nation needs. Only it can give me the right to speak, only it can let the enemy know that the Chinese can no longer be trampled on by them from today. I declare that this domestic rifle will be named the Huaxia style rifle. ”

The applause continued, and everyone, including a few foreigners who could understand Chinese, had another definition of the man with the gun, which was an iron-blooded Chinese man.

The eyes of several members of the militia group, including Wu Tiejun and Chen Jun, burst into a fiery light, as if they had seen countless Chinese elite troops with Huaxia-style rifles advancing with their heads held high......

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After welcoming the first Huaxia-style rifle off the production line, Zhang Shusheng went to Huffman's office, and the two closed the door and began to discuss some things.

"Let's talk about the production of Huaxia-style rifles." Zhang Shusheng knew that under any aura, there would be some helplessness hidden.

Huffman tapped the pen in his hand and reported solemnly: "Boss, the current situation is mainly that the quality and output of steel for guns cannot keep up with the serious situation, and because of the European war, we cannot import large-scale from the West. The company's small steelmaking plants produce steel of poor quality and low output, resulting in a low yield of many steel components. ”

"There's no way around it, and a more medium-sized steel mill will be launched at the end of the year. However, in this way, the production of iron ore will be tight again. Considering that the iron ore reserves in the Huize area still can't go up, Zhang Shusheng is already considering buying iron ore from Sichuan and other places.

"Also, I have here a plan for improving the Mauser rifle." Speaking of the improvement plan, Huffman's eyes once again showed fanatical confidence, "Boss, you only need to wait a year, and I will give you a better rifle than the Mauser rifle." Those damned, conservative, backward old German men would never have had a genius like me. I'm going to equip my boss's army with the most advanced rifles in the world. ”

Zhang Shusheng nodded, after all, he was not a genius in ordnance, and he was definitely not as good as this German artillery genius who crossed lines of employment. Then he put forward his opinion: "I hope that this improvement will take into account the problems of shooting accuracy, range, magazine shell capacity. In addition, I need you to make a special batch of high-precision Mauser rifles. ”

"No problem, don't worry, boss, when the Mauser rifle is packed, I'll continue to design the artillery. Damn, the double-talented Herman still prefers artillery. ”

Looking at the bullish Herman leaving, Zhang Shusheng thought a lot in his heart, Mauser rifle, no, it should be said that the Huaxia Type 1 rifle decided that he would not be equipped too much in the future from the moment he got off the production line. However, he has already found a home for the unimaginably large production in the future.

Shortly after Huffman left, two leading Chinese engineers from the arsenal walked into the office. One is Jiang Guangting, who was dug up by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and the other is Cao Bin, who returned from studying abroad. The former is also an expert in firearms and has always been highly regarded by his superiors. The latter studied in Germany, and returned to China directly after graduation because of the European War. Both were the most typical patriotic scientists of their time.

"Sit down, let you come, mainly to ask about the training progress of Chinese skilled workers in the factory and the learning situation of the students in the technical school." Zhang Shusheng waved his hand and motioned for the two to sit down.

"According to the manager's instructions, we have always paid special attention to the development of talents, and each foreign technician has two or three students, and they are all very happy to take them. The learning enthusiasm of the students in the technical school is even higher, many children often read until midnight, and on several occasions, Cao Bin and I were woken up by the students in the middle of the night, just because of a problem in the book. Although the Mauser rifle is not independently developed, Jiang Guangting is still very excited about the smooth realization of industrial production.

Cao Bin also talked about the situation in this regard, generally speaking, the backbone of the arsenal is still the two of them and the dozen foreigners, but the students are also making progress at a visible speed.

Zhang Shusheng nodded, took out a document marked top secret from his briefcase, and handed it to the two, "You see, this is a new weapon design concept, if only we Chinese are the technical research and development force, how long will it take to develop and improve this new weapon." ”

As soon as they opened the basic drawings of several conceptual surnames in their hands, the two of them lost their voices in unison: "The rifle ...... in bursts"

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Fisherman: These chapters may be written a little more about construction and farming, and from the next chapter onwards, it will be a more enthusiastic element of the times, I hope you will vote for it.