When he heard Xiu Shuai ask himself whether the Japanese were retreating because of chivalry, Liu Qingen shook his head disdainfully and said: "Xiu Shuai knows that it is just a misinformation, the Japanese Type 38 rifle bullet can penetrate the body of ten people within ten meters, and the Minjiu rifle bullet can also penetrate the body of seven people within ten meters, so whether it is a Type 38 rifle or any other rifle, you must not shoot when you are stabbing, otherwise you don't know how many people you will kill when the bullet flies out, and whether you will kill someone else or your own people." Not to mention others, even in the troops now equipped with Minjiu rifles, they must also unload the magazine before stabbing it, otherwise they will also hurt themselves. He picked up his gun and fired a shot at a wooden man five meters away, and the wooden man's head was half knocked off, Liu Qingen said: "The Minjiu rifle does not return the bullet, and its lethality even exceeds that of the Type 38 rifle." It's just that our army does not advocate fighting bayonets, and battles that can be solved with bullets are never allowed to use bayonets. The training of an elite warrior costs a lot of money for several years, and a bullet is only how much. ”

Wang Maoru patted his head and said with a smile: "I thought that the Japanese pay attention to chivalry, and little Japan was afraid of hurting its own people." By the way, then why do we rarely retreat from the ** squadron? Especially the forces of local warlords. ”

Liu Qingen said with a wry smile: "Our country is poor, and there is still this situation, most of the warlord troops are in the warlord army, many warlord armies use bullet shells for secondary processing, the power of gunpowder is also small, and the shooting distance is less than eighty meters, so there is no need to worry about the penetrating wound of the bullet when stabbing because there will be no secondary injury at all." He picked up a Minjiu-style rifle and said, "Our Minjiu rifle and Qiqi steel core concave edge bullet." Compared with the mainstream rifles and bullets in the world, the power is much less, and I even think that the performance of our small arms is far superior to theirs. It's just that I've heard that many soldiers in the army don't know how to maintain guns. That's why the wear and tear rate of our soldiers' guns remains high. ”

Wang Maoru turned around and said to Ji Yiqiao, director of the Organization Department of the Military Affairs Headquarters: "Your Organization Department should issue a regulation that all soldiers must learn how to maintain their guns, otherwise they will quit the army, so that they will not be careless and perfunctory." Ji Yiqiao nodded and wrote it down.

Wang Maoru asked Liu Qingen what the actual cost of this Minjiu rifle was, and what was the most complicated structure, Liu Qingen replied that the most complicated part of the Minjiu rifle was the butt, but the butt was contracted to the Chinese in Southeast Asia to make the zuò. After the Southeast Asian Chinese Chamber of Commerce made the butts in Southeast Asia, they were pulled to Tianjin by boat and reassembled. The cost of the Minjiu rifle is actually cheaper than the E1 rifle originally produced in the United States, but in terms of raw materials. The price of all the raw materials of the Minjiu rifle is only nineteen silver dollars, and the cost of one Minjiu rifle with labor is only twenty-two yuan. Nowadays, on the market, a Japanese Golden Hook rifle of the same style, which is not as powerful as the Minjiu rifle, costs 65 yuan, a Russian-made Nashin Mogan rifle costs 95 yuan, and a Japanese Type 38 rifle costs 120 yuan. The price of an E1 rifle is one hundred and fifty dollars. The price of the E1 modification reached 180 yuan, which was 20 yuan more expensive than the German Mauser. Wang Maoru smiled and asked: "If the Minjiu rifle is on the market, what do you think Director Liu should be at its price?" ”

Liu Qingen said: "In terms of the lethality of rifles alone, the lethality of the Minjiu rifle is weaker than that of the Mauser and the Nasin Mogan rifle, and the accuracy of shooting is not as good as the Japanese Type 38 rifle, and its advantage lies in the medium range shooting. And the above three rifles, subordinates think, they can even be used as shotguns, Western terms are called sniper rifles. But after all, the army can't be a sharpshooter. Our rifles allow more fighters to unleash their power. Therefore, I think that it is just a Minjiu rifle. The price is the same as that of the Japanese Type 38 rifle, which is priced at 120 yuan. ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said: "The cost is twenty-two, the price is one hundred and two, your Director Liu is black enough, haha." ”

Liu Qingen said: "Don't dismiss Xiushuai, if our Minjiu rifle is sold, it will definitely be a big seller." ”

"I don't believe it." Wang Maoru said.

"How about we make a bet?" Liu Qingen's anger also came up, and he rolled up his sleeves and said excitedly, "How is it?" If you lose......" He thought about it, what would it be good to calculate Xiu Shuai, and clapped his hands and said: "Xiu Shuai, if you lose, many young men in our Military Science Department will work in the camp every day, and they will have no time to have a girlfriend, and their lifelong events will be delayed." If you lose, how about finding a wife for every young man in our Military Science Department? ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "Yes, it's no problem, what if I win?" ”

"You say." Liu Qingen said imperatively.

Wang Maoru thought about it for a while, and suddenly looked at Liu Qingen directly, and he felt a thrill in his heart, he only felt that something bad was going to happen, did the nine-tailed fox calculate himself? Wang Maoru smiled evilly: "I heard that Director Liu has a little daughter, who seems to be four years old now, yes or no?" ”

"yes."

Wang Maoru said: "My third child, that is, my second son Zongfu is six years old this year, two years older than your child, this kid has been like a nerd since he was a child, I am worried that I will not find a wife when I grow up in the future." Hey, it's a coincidence, today you calculate me, I will calculate you, if you lose, your daughter will have to be my son's wife in the future. ”

Liu Qingen pointed at Wang Maoru and shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Xiushuai, you are digging my heart and liver." The generals laughed, and Liu Qingen said: "Okay, bet on it, at the end of this year, I will hold the World Weapons Expo in New York, USA, and I have already selected a few young people to go." He turned around and beckoned, "Xiao Yansheng, come here." Immediately introduced to Wang Maoru that this was the young man who led the team to participate in the exhibition, Wang Maoru nodded and smiled at him, and asked him to show himself well in front of foreigners. Liu Qingen then instructed Xiao Yansheng: "Boy, if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent, do you know what it means?" If you succeed, all the marriages of single men in our Military Science Department have been settled, and if they don't succeed, their wives can't be found, and my daughter will be involved. You've offended your colleagues and bosses, boy, you have to think about it, can you get mixed up in the Department of Military Science in the future? ”

Xiao Yansheng hurriedly promised: "Report to the director, the subordinates must complete the task, otherwise the subordinates will swim back from the Pacific Ocean." ”

"Okay." Liu Qingen and the others laughed.

And Wang Maoru stood in place and pinched his fingers and calculated, in the future, the whole army of the national defense force is one million people (at this time the regular army is 1.2 million, not streamlined, the plan of one million people, including 900,000 army, Guards Army, marines, air force units totaling 100,000 people) all the guns have been replaced, and it only takes 22 million yuan, which is really cost-effective, Wang Maoru couldn't help laughing, and said: "How is the performance of this kind of gun in the world?" ”

Liu Qingen said proudly: "This gun type, it can be said, can be used for 40 years. ”

Wang Maoru shook his head and said: "There is no need to be stuck in forty years, forty years will have already been eliminated and replaced with a new one." ”

Liu Qingen said: "The hundreds of thousands of E1 rifles that the National Defense Force has withdrawn hope to be handed over to the Chinese in Southeast Asia. ”

Why is that? They want to be independent? ”

"It's not." Liu Qingen hurriedly said, "They have set up a Javanese arms company, which is ready to sell old arms to the world on our behalf, especially the E1 rifle, which now has a certain reputation in the world." ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said Okay, this matter will be handed over to the Chinese in Southeast Asia, they can do things for me, and I will be grateful in the future. Liu Qingen said with a smile: "If they sell it at a good price, our whole army will change guns, and it is estimated that more than 20 million yuan for equipment will not have to be paid out of their own pockets." Then the group burst into laughter.

After visiting the rifle production line, Liu Qingen took them to visit the machine gun production workshop, and the strong noise made these people stay only for a while, and then came to the machine gun assembly workshop. The Wehrmacht's standard machine gun was the S1 light machine gun that was finalized many years ago, and at that time, the gun still used flange shells, and now that the flange bullets are gradually being phased out, the Wehrmacht's light machine guns are also in urgent need of remodeling. Therefore, in order to adapt to the new battlefield and unify the country's guns, Liu Qingen and others redesigned and finalized the S1 light machine gun on the basis of it.

A machine gun designed by Halik, a designer from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire and now the Czech Republic, caught Liu Qingen's eye. He compared the design of the S1 with that of Khalik and offered Khalik a very expensive contract, inviting him to become a designer of firearms for the Chinese Defense Forces, especially for the design of the Wehrmacht light machine gun, and finally finalized the second generation of the Wehrmacht's light machine gun. Because the design was formed in 1920 (the ninth year of the Republic of China), in order to distinguish the Minjiu rifle, this machine gun is called the Type 20 light machine gun or the Type 20 light machine gun.

The Type 20 light machine gun is 1110 mm long, weighs 10.88 kg, has a barrel length of 630 mm, has a scale range of 1400 meters, a rate of fire of 400 rounds per minute, an air-guided automatic fire method, a 53-round drum feed method, and a 7.7 mm x 45 mm concave edge pointed tip is fully loaded, and the muzzle velocity of the bullet is 830 meters per second. The gun has simple parts, maintains the advantages of the S1, has less detachable structure of the whole gun, is simple and convenient to install, and is very easy to repair and maintain.

Wang Maoru carried a machine gun and a drum, and said, "These two things are quite heavy." ”

Chen Jiongming, director of the Department of Military Industry, and Liu Qingen, director of the Department of Military Science, looked at each other and smiled, obviously the two had communicated before, Chen Jiongming said in Mandarin with a Cantonese accent: "The machine gun must be equipped with a deputy, this machine gun is too wasteful of bullets, and it is too luxurious to configure it to the class." ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "This is not a luxury, this is the trend, with the progress of science and technology and the development of the times, the requirements for firepower are becoming more and more stringent, and it is the general trend for machine guns to be equipped with squads." ”

Chen Jiongming said: "After reunification, the country does not have a lot of money. Wang Maoru smiled and nodded, the so-called cold and warm self-knowing, after he forcibly unified China, the national defense force really ran out of money, if the national financial reform was not carried out, and paper money was used to replace silver dollar transactions, his national defense force would be disbanded. (To be continued.) )