.After Browning himself promised to move the factory to Germany, Chen Tian's heart became much more fulfilled. It seems that Browning, who has been in Belgium for many years, did not have too many anti-Germany emotions because of Germany's brazen invasion of Belgium. Moreover, an excellent arms merchant should not have obvious national boundaries.

Regardless of whether Browning and his designers were patriotic or not, Chen Tian had made a decision in his heart that he would never show even a hint of hostility towards the United States before they provided enough excellent weapons to the German army.

When Mr. Browning was happily planning his bright future, Chen Tian was also planning for his army. The Ruger 08, which was originally equipped with officers and paratroopers, performed well, but the design and work were too fine. There are two consequences: one is that the cost is too high, and the other is that it is prone to failure. Therefore, the Ruger 08, known as the "precision Swiss watch gun", is really not suitable for large-scale equipment. The German army has never had the habit of equipping revolvers, so the M1911, which has a simple and reliable structure, low failure rate, and a great power, will be a good choice. Moreover, the cost of this pistol is less than 30 marks (about 8 US dollars), which is 1/5 of the Mauser pistol and 1/10 of the Ruger 08.

Now that this kind of pistol becomes a German Army standard pistol, it seems that the only obstacle is the German soldiers' admiration for the Ruger pistol. In fact, the solution is very simple. As long as this pistol is named Jiji's arms, and then ask His Majesty Chen Tian to do some small publicity, the problem will be very simple.

Since Browning has agreed to move the factory to Germany, with Chentian's full support, the new factory will not be able to start production soon. Not to mention whether Browning's factory can produce excellent products such as m1911, m1918, m1921, for Chentian and Germany, this can at least greatly reduce the weapon potential of the US Army.

After a brief preparation, a batch of new "exhibits" appeared on the test site - the German Army was preparing to complete the renewal of the active howitzer before 1920. This batch was a quasi-"bidding product" for reference by senior generals and technical experts of the Army Department.

In addition to Krupp, the arms companies participating in the display include Friedrich Krupp's arms and Skoda Arsenal. Although the Skoda Arsenal is not the first time it has participated in a German weapon display, after Bohemia left the Austro-Hungarian Empire and became a German vassal state, the second largest arsenal in Central Europe has actually become part of the German war resources. This time they came to display their products completely as domestic arms suppliers. Therefore, although the German arms tycoon of Gigi's arms, Krupp is not under light.

In front of Krupp's HK16 105mm howitzer and Skoda's HS15 105mm howitzer, unfortunately Friedridge, Krup's arms became supporting roles again. As the leader of the German and former Austro-Hungarian artillery industry, Krupp and Skoda are famous for their heavy artillery. Even under the same conditions, people will consider adopting their products. What's more, Krupp launched an unprecedented "cannon howitzer" this time (the first howitzer in history was developed by the Germans in 1915). This new concept of artillery alone has greatly increased interest - it has the characteristics of cannon and howitzer, both flat and curved, direct fire uses special grenades and armor-piercing shells, and curved fire uses ordinary grenades and high-explosive grenades. Various shells range from 12 kg to 15.5 kg, with a maximum range of 10 kilometers.

Although the Skoda Arsenal launched the ground is a traditional howitzer. However, their 105mm howitzer is praised in terms of range, power and operability. The shell weighs 15.7 kilograms, the maximum firing rate of the 8-man gun group can reach 8 rounds per minute, and uses a 20-caliber gun barrel. The maximum range is 9.5 kilometers.

According to the opinions of experts from the German Army Department, both types of artillery are of high value, and the generals tend to use the new howitzer from the local company Krupp. At this point, Chen Tian expressed support for the generals' opinions, only requiring the Army Department to order in batches without any defects in the technology of this new artillery.

In the subsequent heavy artillery display, Skoda's 240mm heavy siege gun became the leader of this class with its ease of operation and transportation, with its simplicity of operation and transportation, which disappointed the representatives of Krupp. Fortunately, they had a considerable advantage in the first two products, at least they did not have to return empty-handed like Friedrich Krup's arms company.

Today's exhibition originally had only three levels of artillery display, but according to the requirements of the German Emperor, Mauser, Krupp, Gigi's arms and Bergman Arsenal will display their new guns. Among them, Mauser's new guns are included in the semi-automatic rifle category, while the remaining three companies all named their new guns "single-soldier light machine gun", that is, submachine guns!

Although the German Army's current standard weapon, the Mauser Rifle, performed well in the previous war, as a veteran, Chen Tian knew very well the significance of semi-automatic and automatic weapons. The Mauser 1898 had too much reputation and tradition, so it began to affect the development of the German Army. At this time, most of the German Army, from officers to soldiers, regarded the Mauser Rifle as its first weapon. Little did he know that its high accuracy and great power had a huge defect in firepower, which was the rate of fire!

Compared with Li Enfield in the UK, Mauser's 1898's rate of fire was already at a disadvantage. In the Battle of Mons in 1914, 12,000 British infantry used their Li Yi Enfield rifles to completely defeat the attack of nearly 40,000 German soldiers equipped with Mauser rifles in half an hour - no artillery or machine guns. This is a pure dialogue between rifles. Li Yi Enfield vs. Mauser 1898, and Li Yi Enfield won completely.

Generally speaking, the rifle shooting speed can be divided into three subjects: burst rate, continuous firing rate and volley fire rate. Compared with the Lee Enfield rifle, Mauser 1898 is at a disadvantage in all three events. In terms of burst, if the target is not considered, Lee Enfield can fire all 10 rounds of bullets in the magazine in 8 seconds; in terms of continuous firing speed, a well-trained soldier can use Lee Enfield to aim and shoot 20 rounds in one minute, and British soldiers have a shooting technique called "Crazy Minute".

Techniques can fire 30 bullets with the Lee Enfield rifle within one minute. It should be noted that this is a relatively common technology, not only the patent of a few elites; and in terms of volley speed, under a good shooting organization, the British army can achieve 15 volleys per minute. In contrast, the German army can only achieve 10 volleys per minute with Mauser in 1898. You should know that since the Prussian era, the German army has been the unit that pays the most attention to rifle shooting speed training. The volleys of the Prussian infantry were once called "active artillery."

This is just the consequence of using a Mauser rifle to fight a semi-automatic or even automatic rifle.

However, the victory of the war and the outstanding quality of the German infantry made most people ignore this point, so that after the war, the first person to propose to improve the Mauser rifle was the German Emperor William III himself!

In this case, Mauser launched their M1915 semi-automatic rifle. In fact, Mauser himself designed two semi-automatic rifles in the early days, namely the m1898 semi-automatic rifle and the m1902 semi-automatic rifle. Unfortunately, due to the certain defects of these two semi-automatic rifles, William II, the ruler at that time, and the senior management of the Army Department were dismissive of this, both of these rifles were gradually forgotten with the death of Paul Moltke.

At this time, the Americans have achieved certain results in the research of semi-automatic rifles. The best among them is Master Browning next to Chen Tian, ​​and the other is the genius gunman John C. Garland, who is still studying manual rifles at the Springfield Arsenal. In fact, Chen Tian has already sent an invitation to the 28-year-old designer. However, from the current situation, Garland seems to be determined to stay in the United States. If Chen Tiandi's subordinates cannot convince him within the year, there may be only one option.

"Mr. Browning. The weapons in the test site are your strengths!" When Chen Tian spoke, Browning had already turned his attention to the test site not far away. Since it was a firearm display, the staff set up a row of targets 500 meters, and near the stands were four long wooden tables. There were two weapons with the same appearance and some bullets on the wooden tables. The testers were conducting final inspections and preparations for these guns.

"The 4th batch, exhibit No. 1, the M1916 semi-automatic rifle of Mauser Arms Company!" A magnetic baritone sounded from the horn, and the focus of everyone's eyes was on the two testers who slowly raised the rifle.

Bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...bang...

In just 15 seconds, the first tester shot 8 bullets continuously at the target 500 meters away. After the gunshot stopped, the entire test site was a bit terrible. This was the first time that many people saw a rifle firing at such a high rate of fire.

After that, the second tester raised the rifle in his hand and said that it was a rifle, which was very different from a traditional rifle in appearance. It did not have the elegant and slender gun sounds of ordinary Mauser rifles, and the length was almost as short as a rifle. It was not as large and straight bolts as a Mauser rifle.

After firing out 8 rounds of bullets at the same rate of fire, the second tester slowly lowered his rifle. At this time, the first tester had completed the loading and lifted the rifle again. Careful people have discovered that the loading of this kind of rifle requires single loading into the built-in bullet bay just like traditional rifles. The time does not seem to be long, but in fact it requires skillful loading technology to complete it in a short time.

After five repetitions, the two testers completed the test display, which took more than 3 minutes in total. If they changed to an ordinary Mauser rifle, it would take at least 5 to 6 minutes to shoot 80 bullets in the same way, and there would be no need to be careful aiming and any adjustments in the middle.

After the display, sparse applause rang around the test site.

Chen Tian looked at Browning helplessly, but the master was applauding very hard. In fact, semi-automatic rifles had appeared at the end of the 19th century, but because countries were in full swing to develop ammunition rifles, and machine guns were in the stage of popularization, semi-automatic rifles did not pay enough attention to them, and even pedantic aristocratic officers refused to reject automatic weapons and short-barrel rifles that were contrary to the traditional appearance, the reason was that "it was not convenient to hold during inspection." The degree of pedanticity was often proportional to the size of power.

The power of the people is in control of the country's equipment development, so the development of semi-automatic rifles fell into a constant debate. For these reasons, Paul Mauser's new design did not receive the attention of the German army, and the relevant patents he applied for were more concerned by some foreigners. Since then, the semi-automatic rifle designed by the master of guns Mondragon was adopted by the Mexican army in 1908, but until 1916, after the war, Germany did not have its own official semi-automatic rifle.

Whenever Chen Tian looked through these files, he felt ashamed.

The 8mm caliber m1916 semi-automatic rifle just displayed by Mauser seems to have a good continuous shooting effect. In fact, it is still the old idea of ​​Paul Mauser 10 years ago to adopt the automatic principle of short recoiling the barrel. After firing, the barrel moves backward for a short distance. At the same time, the pressure in the chamber has been reduced to a safe range. The two long movable plates on both sides of the rear of the inside of the receiver protrude to the outside of the receiver, thus allowing the bolt to unlock the locking rod and allowing the bolt to move backward, causing the firing machine to hook into the waiting state, and then the bolt goes forward and pushes the next round of the gun into the chamber. The gun uses an internal bullet bay of 8 rounds, and magazines of different ammunition capacity can also be used.

Although this ingenious conception and exquisite structure design can meet the requirements of a semi-automatic rifle, many problems were found during the test: the safety performance of this rifle is not reliable. Although there was no harsh accident as blasting the old Mauser's eyes during the test of twenty sample guns, the failure rate reached an astonishing 60% during the shooting of 1,000 bullets, and the shooting accuracy was much lower than the required level of the Army Department due to the influence of the design structure.

When the observer reported the shooting results, Chen Tian was indeed very disappointed. He was the world's largest army power, but now he couldn't handle a semi-automatic rifle. He had to lament the "congenital defects" of Germany's semi-automatic rifle designers' talents.

From the displeasure of the German Emperor, Browning seemed to see a clue, and with the fact that there was no warm reaction at all, he asked tentatively: "Your Majesty, you seem to have a special liking for this kind of semi-automatic weapon! But what I don't quite understand is that the Mauser rifle is the world-recognized first rifle, why do you want your army to replace it with a new weapon?"

Chen Tian turned his head and said to him in a mysterious tone: "Wrong! I just don't want my soldiers to be restrained by the rifles of Mauser Company, tactics, or spirit. As far as I know, the one Mauser Company is the worst at semi-automatic rifles!"
Chapter completed!