In the north of Xinxiang City, near the northwest corner of the city wall, it turned out to be a factory specializing in pickling pickles. Because the Japanese army entered the city, the boss's daughter was dragged away by the Japanese. The boss was holding a knife and fighting with the Japanese, but the whole family was beaten to death.

The pickles and property in the factory were looted by the Japanese army. Later, because the place was empty, the Japanese army shot and killed ordinary people and anti-Japanese patriots here many times.

The factory becomes a no-man's land.

After the New First Army recovered Xinxiang, because the factory owner's family was killed and no one inherited it, the factory and land were temporarily managed by the North Henan Administration.

Later, because this location is remote and there are not many residents nearby, the New First Army's confidentiality unit, the Light Weapons Research Institute, which is the code-named Institute 601, was relocated as a whole.

"Mr. Shen, the inspection data fully meets the design requirements, but the reliability and practicality still require practical inspection."

"Well, very good, Xiao Wang, thank you for your hard work, and finally completed the task assigned by the military commander." Since Lao Ning has been designing and manufacturing a rifle suitable for Chinese people since the director of the 601 Institute and served as the chief gun designer.

With years of experience in repairing firearms, as well as mastering the performance of various models and rifles from various countries, plus the guidance of Cold Front.

It took three months before Lao Ning designed this perfect rifle.

Although it was designed, it was constantly improving during the process of making guns, and dozens of sample guns were built, with different calibers and different ammunitions tested.

After nearly half a year of hard work, he finally created an answer sheet that he thought he could hand in.

"Thank you all for your hard work, Xiao Wang, come back from buying twenty watermelons. Today I will treat you to watermelons!" Lao Ning looked at the rifle on the table, his eyes were filled with a hot light, as if he had seen the old love who had been separated for many years.

“So beautiful, so perfect…”

"Lao Ning, I heard you finally made it?" A gust of fragrant wind blew by, and Zhou Xue's slim figure floated in from outside.

"Yes, Gong Zhou, based on the improved design, he finally made the sample gun today, and the test data also meet the requirements of the original design." Lao Ning said excitedly.

"Is that true, then this is the first rifle we designed in 601."

"No, it is not just the first rifle designed by our 601, but also the best and most perfect rifle, designed by ourselves, China." Lao Ning said with red eyes.

"It's really as good as you said?" Zhou Xue walked over and grabbed the rifle in her hand.

"Double row of magazines?"

"That's right!" Lao Ning said proudly.

Zhou Xue knew that Lao Ning was making a rifle, but she didn't know the specific situation. She focused on improving the use of "Killer" No. 1, and also taking into account the development of gunpowder.

She and Lao Ning were divided into two groups. Lao Ning was responsible for the firearms, while she was responsible for the design and pre-research of the rocket launcher and artillery.

"Your design?"

"No, this design has been used long ago. Has Gong Zhou heard of the m1 rifle designed and produced by the Springfield Arsenal in the United States?"

"In 1936, the m1 rifle designed by the famous gun designer John Kanteus Galand. This rifle was officially put into production last year and was listed as a US Army standard equipment to replace the m1903 Springfield rifle..." Zhou Xue knew it carefully.

"Mr. Zhou knows a lot. Yes, the rifle we designed is similar to the m1, but our design is still different from the m1."

"Although I haven't seen m1, I know a little bit. The gun you designed seems to be a little different in the air conductor device..." Zhou Xue looked carefully and seemed to find that the rifle in her hand was indeed a little different from the rifle she had seen.

"That's right, our air pipe is located below the barrel. After the hammer strikes the bullet, some of the gunpowder gas enters a small piston barrel from a gas pipe near the end of the barrel, pushing the piston and the frame backwards..." Lao Ning is naturally very familiar with his gun, which has been gathering half a year of hard work.

"Lao Ning, yes, this air guide device is very clever. It enables the gun to automatically load the bullets and greatly improves the shooting speed. I just don't know how accurate the shooting is?" Zhou Xue is also familiar with the gun. After Lao Ning explained this, she immediately understood the exquisiteness of the air guide setting.

This allows this gun to realize a semi-automatic device, without manual bullet shell throwing, greatly improving the shooting efficiency, and the effect of suppressing the enemy's firepower on the battlefield is very large.

Moreover, the double row of 8 rounds of steel leaky magazines has three more bullets than ordinary rifles, which naturally forms an advantage. When the enemy has fired five rounds and has to change one magazine, you still have three rounds, and you can completely charge at this time.

Especially in urban street fighting, this advantage will be more obvious.

"This was done with the inspiration of the military throne. The person I, Lao Ning, admired the most in my life, is the military throne. I really don't know how he knew so much. Even such a wonderful energy guidance setting could be thought out." Lao Ning said with a respectful look on his face.

"You said this air guide device is designed by a cold front?"

"To be precise, it was designed under the guidance of the military captain." Lao Ning said seriously. Although Leng Feng provided an idea, what was really done was Lao Ning and his team of designers.

"How about I try the gun?"

"Please, Worker Zhou!"

"Let's go to the shooting range. The place here is too small and cannot be used." Zhou Xue said.

"This is a new gun, strictly confidential. If Gong Zhou wants to go to the shooting range to test the gun, he must first notify the shooting range to clear the field, and he also needs to ask the military seat."

"I know, call the shooting range and clean up the test range for us." Zhou Xue agreed, "Feiyan, call the Administrative Office and ask the military seat to tell the new rifle, and we apply for the shooting range to test the gun."

"Okay." Zhao Feiyan agreed.

"Mr. Zhou, I'll keep this gun." Lao Ning stepped forward and said. Even if Zhou Xue didn't say it, the gun would have to apply to go to the shooting range for testing.

"Mr. Shen, Gong Zhou, the shooting range said that today is not possible. There is shooting training today, and it is difficult to coordinate. Let's go tomorrow."

"Tomorrow is tomorrow."

North Henan Administrative Office.

"Guoguang, what do you say about Chairman Jiang's call back?"

"Of course he doesn't want us to lead the cooperation with the Soviet Union to build an aircraft manufacturing factory, but the Public Aviation Commission has no money, so we have to start with the wife." Leng Feng smiled bitterly. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still a little uncomfortable after being rejected.

"If it doesn't work, just let the aviation committee take over. Isn't Supervisor Wang in Moscow? Let him talk directly to the Soviet Union."

"If it really doesn't work, you can only exchange interests." Leng Feng said. If such an opportunity to intervene in the aviation industry slipped away from his hands like this, he would be really unwilling to accept it.

Xie Jiyuan also knew that if he could become this aircraft manufacturer, his future prospects would be limitless, but not everyone could enter this industry.

This is high-end technology, and few countries in the world can completely manufacture aircraft independently. However, a country as big as China must have its own aviation industry and independently design and build its own aircraft.

"Don't be discouraged, this time it won't work, we have the next time."

"I know, don't worry, we can't succeed in everything, and failure is inevitable." Leng Feng's mentality has long been calm.

"That's good. The plan for the troops' training work has been issued. All according to your wishes. The training goals of the New First Army in the next month are mainly to improve the physical fitness of soldiers and individual combat skills, supplemented by cultural training. The recruits are mainly cultural learning, ideological education, and queue training, and to cultivate collective consciousness and the sense of honor and mission of soldiers."

"Well, it's true. Our training should be both civil and military. In addition to literacy and increasing cultural knowledge, the civil and military personnel should also guide the moral cultivation and martial spirit of the officers and soldiers. The martial artists should let them master combat skills and various survival skills."

"By the way, I heard a news that Shangfeng seemed to be sending a deputy commander to our New First Army. Is this true?" Xie Jiyuan asked.

"Yes, the candidate for the deputy commander has not been decided yet. There are several candidates. I don't know much about the specific details. It is said that they are recommended by General Secretary He." Leng Feng said.

The New First Army did not have a deputy commander, and Leng Feng originally wanted to promote Ju Youlin to deputy commander, but as a result, he is now the commander of the Hankou Security Command and the commander of the Hankou Security Division.

After the change of position, Ju Youlin was no longer the deputy commander of the Honorary First Division and had no affiliation with the New First Army.

In the new army, there are not no candidates who are qualified to serve as deputy commanders, but Chiang Kai-shek said hello, and the candidates for deputy commanders were appointed by the Military Commission.

In this way, Leng Feng will not be able to recommend his own person as deputy commander.

Leng Feng also knew what Chiang Kai-shek thought. He would not let him run the New Army into a solid piece of iron, and send someone to mix it with sand for him, otherwise he would not feel at ease.

However, Leng Feng is not afraid of anyone who will serve as the deputy commander. The New Army is not something that anyone wants to do with one shot.

No matter who comes, it is the dragon that lies in the circumference or the tiger that lies in the lie.

"Military 601 calls from the Army and said that our newly designed rifle sample gun was built. All data monitoring was qualified and I applied for a shooting range test gun." Guo Weiquan pushed the door and came in.

"Oh, it's made?" Leng Feng was extremely surprised. Making a gun was not an easy task. He had many good gun designs in his mind.

But a good gun is not necessarily easy to use, a good gun is the one that suits you.

A good gun is not only because of its powerful power, but also has many factors, such as failure rate, recoil, and even whether the butt stock is designed in line with human mechanics, etc.

Of course, there are also manufacturing factors, whether the construction is simple, easy to disassemble, wash, replacement and repair, etc.

Weight and length are also factors.

A good gun won't be suitable for everyone, but it must be something a specific group of people like it very much, so this gun must be successful.

Since Li Hongzhang, a papermaker from the Qing Dynasty, started the Westernization Movement, he has learned from the barbarians' skills to control barbarians, made guns, cannons and warships, and started the modern and modern industrialization movement in China.

In terms of weapon manufacturing, a lot of money and manpower were spent. After decades of hard work, there was still no weapon that could be used to make. However, the foundation was too poor. Although some light weapons could be produced, they were basically two or three generations behind others.

The best rifle made by China now is the Chinese official made by imitating the German Mauser 98. However, before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, this rifle was not fully equipped with its most elite German army troops (only half of the rifles of the three main divisions of German equipment were Chinese official or imported Mauser 98 from Germany, and the remaining half was the Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle).

If the steel is not qualified and the barrel cannot be made, the good gun cannot be made, the equipment is not advanced enough, the yield rate is low, and the service life of the guns made is also low...

Needless to mention scientific research and design capabilities, there is no Chinese who can be called a master of gun design.

Even the imitation Zhongzheng rifle is not named after the gun designer, and foreign gun names are named after the designer.

Among all light weapons, rifles are the most used and manufactured light weapons. Almost every military power attaches importance to the research and development and manufacturing of individual weapons.

Among them, "rifles" are the top priority.

A good gun is very important for a warrior. An ordinary warrior can defeat opponents who are stronger than himself with a good gun.

Similarly, if you are a master, the quality of your weapon can determine the burden of a battle, and even determine the outcome of a battle or a war.

Why is Guojunwei always defeated on the front battlefield, and one defeat is a kind of defeat that is a thousand miles away?

In addition to the gap in soldiers' quality, the gap in weapons is also extremely huge.

The weapons used by the soldiers of the National Army are mainly made of Hanyang or some other earth guns. These guns have a short range and low shooting accuracy. However, the Japanese Type 38 rifles not only have long range and high shooting accuracy, but the disadvantage is that they are not very lethal. However, for the National Army, such a disadvantage is actually not too obvious. (How to fight with an effective range of 200 meters and 400 meters?)

The official rifle is no worse than the Type 38, but the number of equipment is small!

If the New First Army is not all Japanese equipment, it cannot gain the advantage of fighting against Japan in frontal position wars.

Although it is said that people are fighting, weapons are sometimes really important.

Therefore, the New First Army needs a new type of rifle. Although the performance of the Chinese official is good, Leng Feng really looks down on it. Besides, it doesn’t make any sense to imitate others.

With the technical capabilities and actual needs of the New Army, a simple and easy-to-operate semi-automatic rifle is the first choice.

The m1 Galand rifle is the most suitable. This rifle has been included in the standard equipment of the US Army, but its design has not been completely finalized and it has many shortcomings.

Leng Feng's guidance to Lao Ning was to improve the design of the m1 Galand rifle. Although the designer was still Galand, Leng Feng had made improvements based on him (in terms of time sequence). Therefore, in a sense, this rifle is a new rifle, even if it borrows the design of m1.
Chapter completed!