"So I suggest," Gu Qingqian said, raising the small notebook in her hand, "It's best to bring a batch of fabrics with you this time, I have also seen the local fabrics, compared to ours, not only are they thick, but the mesh in the middle is visible to the naked eye." It is conceivable that once our fabrics are put into Zhancheng Port, they will inevitably have an impact on their fabrics, so as to quickly occupy the market. ”

"So should we just build a road to the south? The result given by the last survey team was 11.5 kilometers, and the width of the river was 57 meters, and it was possible that the bridge would be more troublesome. Xie Mingfang had been directly elected to the head of the building department at this time, she was in charge of planning, and Carter was in charge of the design of wooden houses or bridges. Recently, with the successful completion of the wooden track bridge in the north, Carter has gathered a lot of popularity, which makes her feel pressure, so at this time she only hopes to build more roads, so that people from all over the world can come to see the new village of naturalized people that she planned by herself, so that this kind of former Soviet style dormitory building can be promoted.

"I'm afraid this road can't be built until the rifle is sampled." Gu Qingqian said a little apologetically to Xie Mingfang, who was full of expectations. "At that time, I said that as long as the road repair came, the samples would be sent. But now the industrial sector is not yet able to supply us with rifles. ”

"What? This is also a matter of our heavy industry laboratory? Zhang Yuan couldn't help but scream. Isn't this weapon-related thing a matter for the weapons design team? What about Lin Shenhe? ”

Lin Shenhe was watching the meeting on the sidelines, because he was only a staff member of the Military Industry Commission, and he was not a minister for the time being, but because his ability in weapon production was too strong, he was also called to the meeting together. Hearing someone call him, he quickly stood up and said. "We have discussed the problem of the rifle, using the Indian version of the brown bass smoothbore rifle, this rifle because it is a smoothbore, so the chamber pressure is low, in fact, the use of a rolled barrel is also feasible, but Zhang Yuan has seen the design drawings and feels that this kind of rolled barrel can also be mass-produced using machinery, so it is recommended that it is best to wait for the large forging machine to be in place before starting production. However, we have actually made three brown bass rifles now, namely the 1.4 meter long infantry version and the 0.85 meter long naval brown bass, and the other one is also a 1.4 meter infantry type, but this one I have improved a little, using a brass fire cap with thunder-mercury fire, a small section of the back of the barrel can be turned to the side, and the whole load can be directly put into it when loading, poke a hole in the tail of the bullet and then cover the magazine again, and then place the fire cap at the tail of the bullet, and then you can fire. ”

Du Yande tapped lightly on the table twice, "That's a good idea!" He looked at the crowd next to him looking at this side, completely unaware of the superiority of this fire cap, and hurriedly explained, "This fire cap is basically the ancestor of modern weapons, before this rifle was ignited by flintlock or arquebus, the former fire rate is too low, often only three to five times out of ten times can ignite the propellant; The latter has a very high firing rate, but it has to drag a long fire rope, which must be lit before the battle, and it must be extinguished in the interval between battles, and it is a waste of time to delay the fighter in the event of a surprise attack or something, and the arquebus cannot shoot when it rains. As long as the fire cap is not damp, the ignition rate is almost 100 percent, and there is also a point that the thunder-mercury in it is something that the indigenous people cannot replicate. When the British sold weapons to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this fire cap was also sold separately, and the highest time was a fire cap for one or two silver. We didn't need to sell at such a high price, but there was a time when we could restrain the natives' military development, and we only needed to stop the supply of fire caps when they attacked us. ”

Only then did everyone understand what was so good about this fire hat, and they all nodded. Lin Shenhe smiled and continued: "Regarding the melee combat of the brown bass rifle, because the range of the brown bass is fifty meters, so the opponent only needs to impact at full speed, and he can push his chest to the muzzle of the gun in ten seconds, I tried to make two bayonets, but because they are all handmade, the tolerance is relatively large, and they can only be installed on a fixed gun for the time being, and they can be interchangeable when they are mass-produced in the future." ”

"Do you want the army of Champa to form an all-firearms unit?" Du Yande couldn't help asking.

"Yes." Lin Shenhe replied, "Instead of letting Qian Longzhou train a half-firearm and half-cold weapon, it is better to directly let him train an all-firearms unit, I heard that he is about to be driven crazy by those natives who are not divided into left and right, if he uses all-firearms, he can reduce a lot of trouble in training." In addition, even if an all-firearms unit is formed in the port of Champong, it is seen that they have no artillery capable of hitting 300 meters, and the rifles in their hands can only hit 50 meters away, so they cannot pose a threat to us at all. ”

"By the way, Li Jieqi, how is the militia training on your side?" Yang Minghuan hurriedly turned to Li Jieqi, who was peeking at Yang Canling.

Li Jieqi hurriedly stood up and said, "The militia training is very cumbersome, the problems they encounter with Qian Longzhou are the same, they can't tell the left and right, the distance from the unit can't be clear, there is no knowledge of mathematics at all, they can only use many, many, many, countless, and countless words to describe numbers, and the cultural level is not enough to provide combat needs, and it is already commendable to be able to know three or four words, so I suggest that night schools can be held for the militia at night." ”

Yang Minghuan hurriedly looked at Jiang Yan, who was sitting on the other side and chatting with her husband boredly, at this time she had already stood out from the position of purchasing in the canteen, anyway, there were no clean dishes to choose here. Now she has been entrusted to become a manager of the education department, and there are many education practitioners who have crossed over, and there are everything from early childhood education to middle-aged and elderly training, so there is no Ministry of Education for the time being. Because of the concept that education starts from the baby, Jiang Yan, who had received kindergarten teacher training and later obtained a teacher qualification certificate by exam, immediately stood out. At this time, as soon as she saw Yang Minghuan looking over, she knew that she was consulting herself, and quickly stood up and said, "The education department is now relatively abundant in manpower and can conduct night school training, but if you wait until those prisoners go back and pick up their families, it will be difficult to say." ”

Yang Minghuan nodded and said, "I'll wait until someone comes to talk about this, but the soldiers' night school can already be opened, I don't know if you have any training materials for the rural night school in the fifties and sixties, if not, go to the ......" Yang Minghuan paused, all the materials in the big library were saved in the computer at this time, and the head of the IT department of the computer department was Jiang Yan's husband Li Zhe. He couldn't help but laugh, "If not, just communicate with your husband and wife!" It made all the elders laugh. When the time comes, you write a training outline, and then hand it over to Li Jieqi, and then the education department and the army department will work together to train these recruits. ”

Jiang Yan and Li Zhe also laughed, she laughed for a while and nodded, "This is no problem, I will submit the training outline to Li Jieqi the day after tomorrow at most." ”

Li Jieqi stood up and nodded, "Then thank you Sister Jiang first, but there is another point I want to consult the comrades of the Executive Committee and the Military Industry Commission, what kind of firearms should we use?" Is it a smoothbore rifle or a rifled rifle? We must know the weapons used in order to compile the drill code, and we must know that the combat effectiveness of an army is closely related to the drill code. ”

Du Yande motioned for Li Jieqi to sit down, looked at Lin Shenhe and asked, "Team Leader Lin, do you have any suggestions for the rifles we are equipped with?" ”

Lin Shenhe hurriedly took out the small notebook he had been carrying with him, flipped through it, stood up and began to elaborate. "The weapons used by our indigenous army will be the Martini Henry rifle, which is a single-shot rifle that fires paper shell cartridges, the length of the gun is 1.2 meters, the barrel length is 0.85 meters, and the weight of the gun is 3.68 kilograms, but we will use some composite materials in production and reduce the weight of the butt, so it should be able to control the weight of the whole gun to less than 3 kilograms. The rifle caliber is 12 mm. Because of the need to ensure the theory of weapon generation, we can only equip the indigenous army with single-shot rifles, and once we can't control them, we will defeat them in terms of accuracy and rate of fire. Based on the same theory, the firearms we provide to the other forces will all be smoothbore rifles, so that they will be hit by more powerful weapons when they attack us. ”

"Can you tell us about this rifle, then?" Du Yande asked.

"Okay." Lin Shenhe nodded politely, "This rifle is a lever-type mechanically loaded single-shot rifle, which was ...... at Woolwich Arsenal Football Club on October 21, 1868" Lin Shenhe paused, looked at the person who was stabbing him, and suddenly realized that he was wrong, "Ah no, it was the Woolwich Royal Arsenal that tried to produce a sample gun, and carried out a test shot, and the seven-slot rifling processing used in it is slightly complicated, but the accuracy is high, and it can achieve effective killing for targets within three hundred meters, It only takes 53 seconds for a skilled shooter to fire 20 rounds, and after 7 days of immersion in damp sludge, a simple wipe fires 400 rounds in a row did not occur without any problems. ”

"So there's no harm in this kind of gun?"

"Yes, there is a problem with the ammunition, it does not use exactly paper shells, but a rolled brass shell with paper shells inside. After firing, the thin brass cartridge case expands and is prone to get stuck in the chamber, this problem can be solved by producing our own metal cartridge case, don't we bring a batch of bullet production lines, we only need to change some parts to produce this bullet and completely avoid this fatal flaw. ”