Chapter 1085 Test Completed Successfully

Qubing had seen the standard field artillery that the tribe had made before. To be honest, in Qubing's eyes, those field artillery were actually just a larger fire gun. The loading process was not as convenient as the bolt-action rifles they used. The only advantage was that they could shoot far, but that was all.

The previous artillery fired solid bullets, which killed people by impact like rifle bullets. Although the range was indeed longer, the weight was extremely scary. A horse could not move quickly with a weight of more than a thousand pounds. Now,

the leader suddenly told him that there was a kind of artillery that could shoot farther than the standard artillery, was more powerful, and was very light. Even livestock was not needed. Only three people were needed to carry it on their backs. What kind of concept was this?

This was simply the collapse of several generations of development!

What was even more surprising was that the firing rate of this artillery reached a terrifying 30 rounds per minute, which meant one round every two seconds. This firing rate was faster than the bolt-action rifles they used before, but this was a cannon! How could it not be shocking? !

"Chief, has the mortar been made yet?" Qu Bing suppressed his excitement and asked nervously. He was really shocked that such a weapon could be made in the world.

"Not yet. I don't know the current progress. When I assigned the task to the research institute, they focused on making small light weapons first.

"And the mortar, in fact, there is no difficult technology in the gun body. The most difficult part is the shells. The reason why this kind of gun can hit so far and has such great power is all due to those special shells. So even if the gun is made, it is useless without shells." Luo Chong explained.

Qu Bing was a little disappointed when he heard it, but when he turned around and thought about it, he felt it was normal. How could such a powerful weapon be easily made? The more difficult it is to develop, the more it can prove the power of this weapon! After thinking about it, he asked again.

"Then the chief said there are other weapons. In addition to this mortar, what else are there? "

Luo Chong recalled and said while counting on his fingers, "There are also individual hand grenades, which are a kind of throwing explosive, about the size of a duck egg, and are thrown into the enemy group. The throwing distance is thirty to fifty meters.

"The grenade will shatter the outer iron shell instantly when it explodes, and produce many fragments with the power of bullets that radiate in all directions. The killing range is about six or seven meters in radius. It is suitable for attacking small groups of enemies gathered together, and can also be thrown into the enemy's trenches during a charge!"

Qubing and some officers around him were surprised again when they heard the words, but they were no longer surprised. After hearing the mortar introduced by the leader just now, they would not find it strange even if Luo Chong told them that there was a weapon that could destroy an entire city thousands of miles away.

However, Luo Chong's introduction was not over yet, and he continued.

"In addition to mortars and hand grenades, there is also a type of individual grenade launcher, which is used in a similar way to a hand grenade, but is slightly more powerful, with a killing range of up to ten meters in diameter. However, this is not the key point.

"The most important thing about this type of individual grenade launcher is that it fills the gap between hand grenades and mortars. The range of a hand grenade is about zero to fifty meters, the range of a mortar is three hundred meters at the closest and five kilometers at the farthest, and the range of an individual grenade launcher is between thirty and three hundred meters. I think you all understand what I mean, right? "

Everyone nodded again. Luo Chong's introduction was easy to understand. In addition, these people were originally officers of the Shen Ce Guard and had certain experience in the use of hot weapons. They usually attached great importance to issues such as the range of weapons.

Now after hearing Luo Chong's introduction, they have roughly understood Luo Chong's idea, which is to use three different explosive weapons to include the range of zero to five kilometers. With such firepower strikes, coupled with the emergence of machine guns, who in the world can be the opponent of the Han tribe?

"There are also some other weapons, such as machine guns, which are a large-caliber machine gun that also fires continuously. However, you don't need this weapon for the time being, and I don't plan to equip you with it. Instead, I will keep it for the navy to install on ships, so you don't have to worry about it for the time being!"

Luo Chong thought for a while and said again, "Oh, by the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you. After your rest period of the Shen Ce Guard is over, I will transfer you to other guards to serve as instructors, responsible for training each guard to fully transform into a firearms army.

“Those local garrison troops will also need to be equipped with machine guns, standard II rifles, grenades, and a certain number of mortars, as well as some other weapons in the future, so you must prepare and plan these training programs in advance.

“In addition, your Shen Ce Guard may have to be expanded again next year or the year after. The specific expansion plan has not yet been decided. We will decide based on the situation when the time comes. You just need to know it in your hearts. "

Everyone nodded again, and kept Luo Chong's words in mind.

Expansion is a good thing. Expansion means more soldiers. With more soldiers, more officers are needed to lead them. Whenever the army is to expand, it is an opportunity for officers to be promoted. The battalion commander is promoted to the commander of the guard post, the platoon leader is promoted to the battalion commander, the squad leader is promoted to the platoon leader, and the soldier is promoted to the squad leader. Everyone has the opportunity to go further. Who would not want to expand?

Just as everyone was whispering about weapons and future expansion, the machine gun in front finally stopped. The soldier called Xiao Li by Qubing ran over happily to report.

"Report to the leader, commander, the machine gun accuracy test subjects have been completed, and the results of each subject are good. There is no obvious performance degradation. Please give instructions? !"

Luo Chong heard the words and looked at Lin Fei not far away. Lin Fei also nodded at Luo Chong, and raised his hand to a notebook in his hand for recording, indicating that there was no problem with the test.

Luo Chong nodded and said, "Then let's end the test. Since all subjects have been completed and all have passed the test assessment, let's name and characterize it. "

He hesitated for a long time and said, "What do you think, should we call this machine gun the Standard Type IV general-purpose machine gun? Wouldn't it be easy to confuse it with a rifle?"

Everyone expressed their opinions after hearing this.

"I think there's no problem. Aren't the previous bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic rifles all called standard types? What's the problem with adding a machine gun?"

"Yes, I think there's no problem too. Besides, we only have one kind of machine gun anyway. Usually no one would have nothing to do but call it a standard type. When we use it ourselves, we call it a rifle and a machine gun. The naming now is actually just adding a written name to facilitate the coordination of logistical supplies and equipment." Qubing also expressed his opinion.

Luo Chong nodded after hearing this, "Well, that's right, Qubing is right, let's do it this way, let's call it the Standard Type IV."

After he finished speaking, Luo Chong turned to look at Lin Fei and said, "Your technical team should sort out the test data and firearms information as soon as possible, and then start preparing materials and production lines. I will inform you when and how much to produce. You are not allowed to produce without my order."

"Yes!"

Lin Fei and the technical staff of the institute immediately bowed their hands and agreed to Luo Chong's arrangement.

After the test, Lin Fei led a group of people away and took all the sample guns back. After all, some sample guns had been ruined after various tests, and these guns did not belong to the property of the Shen Ce Guard. They were experimental guns registered under the name of the institute. They would be officially equipped to the army after mass production in the future.

The officers of the Shen Ce Guard were very disappointed. They watched so many excellent weapons being sent to the barracks, and then watched them being taken away by them. How could they not feel heartbroken? !

However, Luo Chong, the leader, did not have so many concerns. The entire Han tribe could be said to be his, of course, including anything produced by this tribe, so Luo Chong took away several guns without hesitation, two of each of the Short Sword Type 1 and Type 2 pistols, and two of the Standard Type 2 new caliber bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic rifles, including a large amount of ammunition.

These were all the collections that Luo Chong prepared for himself, and they were also weapons for self-defense.

Qu Bing was left in the barracks to handle military affairs, and Luo Chong went back to Hanyang City with a group of guards.

When they were about to reach the door of their home, Luo Chong saw from a distance that a group of craftsmen were tinkering with something in the school square of Hanyang City, as if they were going to build a new building.

Luo Chong was immediately puzzled. He remembered that he did not ask anyone to build anything in the school. Did they build illegal buildings here on their own initiative? Or was there something broken and these people were repairing it?

So he pointed to a guard who was following him and said, "Go to the school and ask what they are doing and who ordered them to do it?"

Without saying a word, the guard turned over and dismounted, handed the reins to his companion, then bowed to Luo Chong and immediately ran towards the school.

Luo Chong did not continue to pay attention to this, and asked a few people to take the guns he collected into his study and set them up, and then sat down in the study.

Not long after, the guards who went to check the situation returned and reported to Luo Chong.

"Chief, the school said that the Lake Island Research Institute wants to build a small clock tower there to replace the original one, saying that this new clock tower can tell time by itself.

" The leader is a young man named Gu Cheng. He said that he was ordered by the leader to build a large clock tower, so he had to build a small model first for verification, but this model can also be used. If it is placed in the research institute, it will be a waste. It is better to put it in the school, so he took the initiative to come here to build a clock tower! "

Oh. So that's what happened!

Luo Chong could understand this kind of thing. In fact, this method was learned by those researchers from Luo Chong. Luo Chong was the kind of person who would want to make a model to verify whatever he was going to do.

When building the palace, he asked someone to make a miniature sand table of the palace; when building a sailboat, he would also ask a carpenter to make a small-scale ship model in advance according to the production steps of the real ship.

The advantage of doing this is that it can save waste of materials. If there are any problems in the design, they can be discovered when the model is made, thus saving some unnecessary trouble in actual operation.

Luo Chong had asked Gu Cheng to build a large clock tower in the capital before. Gu Cheng had never built such a thing, so even if he had designed the drawings, he would not dare to start easily without verification. So he simply came to Hanyang City School to make a small-scale model to verify the feasibility of the design. If there is no problem, he will go to the capital to enlarge the scale and build a larger one. From this point of view, there is no problem.

"Okay, I know, you go and tell Gu Cheng to do it well and hurry up. "Luo Chong nodded and said casually, then began to deal with the backlog of official business in the past few days, and the guard quietly clasped his fists and left.

In the study, Luo Chong was looking through the reports sent from various places, including the material transportation data of the cross-sea bridge, the progress of the project, and the construction progress report sent by You Zhi in the capital, as well as the construction progress report sent by You Fu from Qian'an County, and some lists of materials applied for.

And from You Ye, who was far in the north, he also sent some construction reports from Heyuan County, explaining the local situation and applying for the mobilization of some materials.

Finally, there was a construction report sent from Dashu in Takumi County, which talked about the construction of the new courtyard built for Luo Chong.

Luo Chong looked at the mountain of reports in front of him, and suddenly smiled bitterly. He felt that he was not the leader of a big tribe, but like a project director of a real estate company. There were a lot of people looking for him to do construction reports. What did he become?

A big contractor?!

Luo Chong approved these documents with ease, and reviewed the lists of materials applied for by various places to see if they were really necessary. If transportation was needed, how many transportation resources would be needed.

These things that seemed to be a headache to others at first glance became much easier in Luo Chong's eyes. Anyway, he would not be responsible for specific events personally. He only needed to look at these issues from the perspective of the overall situation, and then delegate the corresponding power to some capable people and let them do it.

Luo Chong was just like what Han Xin said, Han Xin recruited soldiers, the more the better.

Han Xin himself did not lead the troops, because he was a general, and the general led the generals, and the generals were the ones who were directly responsible for the soldiers.

Luo Chong did not care about the specific matters, he only needed to assign the tasks to the county governors, and then supervise them to do their work. Luo

Chong handled the official affairs of various places in an orderly manner, and the days passed one by one, and the day when Luo Chong and his family moved south was getting closer and closer.

(End of this chapter)