Originally, there was such a huge threat as the Cossack Empire around the Chinese Territory, even 100,000 troops were not enough, but the entire territory of the Chinese Territory in the Eastern Continent only had a population of two million, and the proportion of soldiers was already quite high.

The rapid expansion of the army has caused the combat effectiveness of the Chinese leading troops to drop a lot, but fortunately, they are all mixed veterans and new recruits, and as long as training is strengthened, the combat effectiveness can be quickly restored. The number of troops has increased, and the manufacturing of weapons will naturally be accelerated, but Fang Xiaoyu does not plan to use lever rifles to equip the troops, after all, the machinery of lever rifles is complex, and the cost is not low, if he is fully equipped, it will cost too much, and the construction period will be too long, not to mention that Fang Xiaoyu still has many classic firearms in his mind, why use levers.

In order to design a new gun, Fang Xiaoyu stayed in the Browning Hammer factory for three days, not only designing a new gun, but also designing an assembly line with the help of many dwarven engineers. Since there is no electric motor, this set of assembly line temporarily driven by a steam engine, the effect is also very good, the assembly speed is at least doubled, plus this rifle uses a large number of stamping parts, with the help of more than a dozen forging die water presses, the production of rifles has reached 500 per day, and the output of bullets has also reached 300,000 rounds per day due to the use of assembly lines.

The new gun was named the Zhonghua Type 1 rifle, which was also known as the Type 91 rifle because it was manufactured in 891 of the Taiyuan calendar, and this gun was basically designed by Fang Xiaoyu according to the very famous Mauser 98K rifle of that year. This rifle uses a rotating rear-pull bolt, a ruler and a blade-shaped crosshair, the whole gun is 1,100 mm long, the barrel is 600 mm long, the maximum range reaches 2,000 meters, and the effective range is 800 meters.

Fang Xiaoyu did not completely copy all the data of the original gun, but made certain improvements. Because of the Lanting Type 1 lever rifle, Fang Xiaoyu tasted the sweetness of a large load, so he changed the single-row five-round loading of the Mauser rifle to a double-row staggered loading method, and the loading volume reached ten rounds, but because it was a double-row loading, the original gun magazine pressure loading method was not very applicable, and he specially designed a double-row short magazine for this gun.

Fang Xiaoyu has always believed that the Germans' 7.92 mm caliber is too large, which not only affects the ammunition carrying capacity of individual soldiers, but also has the disadvantage of excessive recoil, especially the body size of the Chinese is relatively similar to the Han people on the earth, and it is somewhat inappropriate to apply a rifle with such a large recoil with such a physique.

In the fifties of the twentieth century on the earth, the British had done research on rifle bullets of various calibers, and finally found that the seven-millimeter caliber was the most balanced in all aspects, its recoil was moderate, the shooting stability was good, and the power of the warhead was not less than the seven-six-millimeter caliber bullet.

Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu decided to use a seven-millimeter caliber on the Type 91 rifle, using a 7×57 mm full-power rifle cartridge, this bullet is different from a lever rifle, due to the use of a magazine type ammunition feed, to avoid the tubular magazine caused by the bullet end to end, and the possible primer is hit by the bullet behind the bullet, and has to use a round-headed bullet, this rifle bullet uses a relatively smooth blunt tip head, which greatly strengthens the penetration of the bullet, so that the military is very satisfied.

Seeing the good response of the military's trial, Fang Xiaoyu decided to use this 7×57 mm bullet as a rifle bullet for the Chinese collar in the future, while the 9×25 mm round-nosed bullet used in the previous Browning 1 pistol and Lanting 1 lever rifle was used as a pistol bullet.

With the new bolt rifle, Fang Xiaoyu was naturally ready to replace the pistol and replace the highly reliable revolver with a semi-automatic pistol with a faster rate of fire and easier reloading. To this end, Fang Xiaoyu designed a new type of pistol based on the famous M1911A1 pistol, which adopts the principle of short recoil of the barrel, uses seven rounds of magazine feeding, the whole gun is 219 mm long, the empty weight is 1.13 kg, and the effective range is 50 meters.

In order to unify the caliber, Fang Xiaoyu changed this pistol, which originally reached 11.43 mm caliber, to a 9 mm caliber. Because this pistol had previously sent the drawings to the Savage Continent, where experimental equipment had already begun, the pistol was named after Beretta's Giant Hammer, the leader of the Wasteland Dwarves, and was called the Beretta 91 Pistol.

Both guns were quickly manufactured and distributed, and even the Predators were also reequipped, with the difference that the Predators had a two-gun configuration, with one rifle and one pistol for each soldier, while the Wehrmacht was equipped with Beretta pistols only for officers.

Fang Xiaoyu also planned to equip the troops with heavy machine guns that had begun to be reloaded in the Wild Continent, but because they still used black powder to load bullets, the smoke was too loud to use, and as long as they shot for more than a minute, they could choke the machine gunner to death, and the practicality was not high, and because the bullets were not manufactured fast enough, they were temporarily shelved by Fang Xiaoyu, but Fang Xiaoyu asked them to continue to improve the Maxine machine gun, and he also gave the researchers a point about this.

The most successful modification of the Maxine machine gun on the planet was the British Vickers machine gun, which is said to have been used until the sixties after World War II. The Vickers machine gun was lighter in weight and better performance than the Maxine machine gun, and its main improvement was said to be the reversal of the locking mechanism, making it easier to manufacture on a large scale.

Fang Xiaoyu also knows nothing about this kind of gun, except for the reversal of the locking mechanism, he can't put forward too many useful suggestions, so he can only let those researchers practice, the most important thing is that Fang Xiaoyu in order to unify the caliber of ammunition, the Vickers machine gun 12.7 mm caliber was reduced to the same 7 mm as the Type 91 rifle, I believe that the weight of the weapon can be further reduced.

The 40,000 Lanting Type 1 lever rifles that were replaced could not be wasted, this kind of rifle was still quite good in the eyes of other forces, and after Fang Xiaoyu asked the factory to re-maintain it, 30,000 of them were sold to Wang Xuan.

Anyway, these guns have only been equipped for a few months, and they are basically new guns, Wang Xuan was very happy that Fang Xiaoyu arrived so quickly, and by the way, he bought 4,000 of the more than 10,000 revolvers that Fang Xiaoyu replaced.

The remaining 10,000 rifles that had been used for a long time were given to the royal guards, and the public business was still easier to deceive, as long as some bribes were sent to the receiving officials, and the remaining 6,000 pistols were all bought by the royal family, so that many high-ranking officers of the royal family were replaced with these Browning pistols.

The structure of the newly manufactured rifle is relatively simple, and the cost is naturally reduced a lot, and the cost of each gun is only less than 200 yuan, not to mention that the replaced rifles are sold at a good price, which is equivalent to spending other people's money to change clothes and make an extra profit.

This made Fang Xiaoyu very happy, something like this is not something that can be encountered every time, because the army did not spend much money on the redress, Fang Xiaoyu still has enough funds to build a new warship. The shipyards in the coastal counties received orders for the construction of ten more cruisers, and Fang Xiaoyu designed a small shallow-water gunboat with a displacement of only nine hundred tons, a twin rotating turret of two hundred and three millimeters, and a speed of seventeen knots.

The manufacture of battleships needs to be built in a new port in the goblin territory, Fang Xiaoyu received a letter from Xu Shouchang, which said that the construction of the wharf has been basically completed, and the shipyard has also been half built, and several 30,000-ton floating docks are customized by Xu Shouchang at the Luhai County Shipyard, and then secretly towed there with tugboats, so there is already a preliminary ability to build warships, since everything is ready, Fang Xiaoyu decided to inspect there to see the situation, and then decide whether to start building battleships.

The railway has not yet been fully connected, so Fang Xiaoyu's route is more complicated, he first took a train to Bei'an Province, then rode through the dwarven territory, and then took a train to pass through the newly started Boli City, which was still under construction, and arrived at the new harbor.

It is still a large construction site, full of goblins and human workers working hard, thanks to the use of reinforced concrete, the construction of the wharf is very fast, and in just a few months it has begun to take shape, and the huge cement trestle berths and unloading areas have been built.

Batteries are being built on the high hills on both sides of the harbor, and behind the high mountains in the north is the shipyard under construction, where most of the factories are still under construction, only a railway deep into the factory area and a few floating docks at sea have been completed, and a few dry docks on the shore have only just finished laying the foundation, if they are used as an open-air dock, as long as they are equipped with slides, they can be barely used.

Zhilu Dao Fang Xiaoyu came, and Xu Shouchang hurriedly brought a group of assistants to greet him. He smiled and said, "Master, you are here, how is our construction?" Fang Xiaoyu smiled: "It's really fast enough, it should already be able to build a warship." Xu Shouchang smiled: "Could it be that Master plans to build a big warship?" Is it the same drawing that was given to me before? ”

Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Now that I have some funds, I am ready to build a large ironclad ship, I don't know how much it costs to build a warship." Xu Shouchang said: "I have already calculated, the warships you drew cost seven million." Fang Xiaoyu took a breath of cold air, this navy is really not an ordinary money-burner, I hope such an expensive warship can be used.

Fang Xiaoyu said: "I still have a budget of 30 million now, it should be enough to save a little, you can start building the hulls of four ships first." "A few days ago, because of the advance payment of the navy, Xu Shouchang had some spare money in his hand to build an ironclad ship in advance, but unfortunately due to the lack of funds for the construction of a large number of new factories in the territory. The funds in Xu Shouchang's hands were all embezzled by Fang Xiaoyu, so these docks were still empty and useless.