Xiang Xiaoqiang gently flipped through the drawings of the L-36 submachine gun and looked at the familiar figure in the side view, his heart beating violently.
From the appearance point of view, it is a bit like the German MP-38/40 submachine gun. It just feels a little slimmer than it. The MP-40 is slim enough, and this one is even slimmer. It feels that the barrel ratio is better than that of the MP-40.
40 is a bit longer.
The lines of the whole gun are very simple. The barrel is completely exposed. There is no round-hole heat dissipation sheath like Bobosha, and there is no wooden support like Thomson. The magazine is straight-handled and inserted downwards.
Very slender.
"How many rounds does the magazine hold?"
Asked Xiaoqiang.
Xiuxiu smiled and said:
"30 rounds, 9 mm pistol ammunition. Cannot be equipped with drum magazines."
Well, Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded with satisfaction. That’s good, thirty rounds, not “compatible” with drum magazines, so the structure can be simpler. Although the drum magazine has a large ammunition capacity and is very enjoyable, it is too heavy;
Once the drum jams, it will basically be a disaster. Third, the task of a submachine gun does not require continuous shooting. That kind of task can be done by a machine gun.
Looking back again, there is a small handle at the back. An indicator line protrudes from the handle, imitating the words marked in Song Dynasty. Xiaoqiang looked closer and saw what kind of plastic it was.
Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded:
"Plastic grip?"
Xiuxiu smiled again and said:
"It's not just the grip, there are also plastics used in many places. According to adults, if it doesn't affect reliability, plastics are used wherever plastics can be used. A lot of aluminum parts are also used."
"Very good. How is the reliability? Will it not be able to withstand rough operation?"
Xiuxiu rolled her eyes: "The people from Lianfeng said, I promise they won't. They abused the prototype guns in front of us, threw them, smashed them, stepped on them, and even let a car slowly run over them, picked them up and wiped them.
Even if you wipe it, you can hit it.”
"Haha, such an exaggeration? Very good, I want to test it myself anyway."
Further back, there is a folding butt. The butt is also very simple, consisting of two supports and a shoulder plate.
"How much does the whole gun weigh?"
Xiuxiu smiled and said: "It's only 3.02 kilograms, not including the magazine. With the live magazine, the whole gun weighs 3.67 kilograms."
"So light! Very good, very good... Thomson's weighs 4.9 kilograms, and ours only has 3.02 kilograms. On the battlefield, a soldier's physical strength is his life. Our army needs to run long distances, and every ounce of light weight in weapons will help.
Maintain morale and combat effectiveness."
Xiang Xiaoqiang took a preliminary look at the whole picture and felt very satisfied. From the general appearance, the Lianfeng was designed faithfully according to his own requirements. So from the appearance, it looks like "the first modern submachine gun" - mp
-38/40.
Under his own intervention, the first submachine gun independently designed by Daming achieved several firsts: the first all-metal/plastic, the first all-stamped parts, the first folding butt, and the first all-naked-
Expose gun barrel.
Xiang Xiaoqiang now asked the key question. He closed his eyes and asked after a few seconds:
"How much does one cost?"
Xiu Xiu smiled and said:
"The representative of Lianfenghao said that if the order is not less than 10,000 pieces, the unit price will be 35 yuan, 5 pieces. If the order is not less than 50,000 pieces, the unit price can be 34 yuan."
Xiang Xiaoqiang still closed his eyes, silently comparing several famous submachine guns in his mind.
The cost of a Thomson is 70 US dollars, and it is sold to Daming for 85 US dollars. If converted to Mingyang, it will be 122 yuan.
The Finnish Sumi M31, known as the most sophisticated submachine gun before the war, costs 47.2 US dollars and 67 mingyang.
The cost of a German MP-38 is 29.1 US dollars, which is 41.6 mingyang.
But now the self-produced L-36 only costs 35.5 mingyang.
Fully stamped parts take advantage of cost.
...Very good, that’s how it feels. This is what a light weapon should feel like: simple, light, and cheap.
"Rate of fire?"
"The theoretical rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute." Xiu Xiu replied.
It’s not fast. Even for a submachine gun, it’s slow. Soldiers in the People’s Guard who are used to using Thomson submachine guns may feel uncomfortable about this. The Thomson can shoot 900 rounds per minute!
"If my guess is good..." Xiang Xiaoqiang muttered, "Isn't it much more accurate than Thomson?"
Xiuxiu smiled and said: "My lord, you are absolutely right. The representative of the Lianfeng also kept saying that the L-36 has excellent accuracy. At a distance of 100 meters to 150 meters, the bullet spread radius of the L-36 is only Tom
At a distance of 200 meters, the bullet dispersion radius of L-36 is only 33% of Thomson’s.”
"Let me guess," Xiang Xiaoqiang grinned happily, "First, our firing speed is slow and it is easy to aim; second, our gun barrel is longer than theirs; third, ours is 9mm bullets, and they are
11mm. We have less recoil.”
Xiuxiu nodded and smiled:
"The adults are right. The people on the Lianfeng also told us the same thing."
"very good."
…
There is no doubt that the L-36 is much inferior to the Thomson in terms of firepower. But it has two more important advantages: it is lightweight and cheap. As a small weapon, there is nothing more important than this.
Light weapons are divided into military, police, and civilian uses. The biggest requirement for military use is to be able to produce and install them in large quantities quickly. Civilian and police guns are just a few, dozens, or at most hundreds of guns purchased at a time, and they can be made very finely.
A little, a little expensive, doesn't matter. But military guns can easily be tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of guns. Even if the unit price is only a dime or a penny more, it will be a very heavy burden on the national finance.
The simple structure can firstly reduce costs and speed up production, and secondly make the weapon reliable and durable and less likely to malfunction.
Spakin, a famous Soviet firearms designer, has a famous saying: "It is very simple to design a weapon very complex, but it is extremely complicated to design it very simple." And his representative work, the Bobosha submachine gun, is recognized as such.
It is the best submachine gun in World War II. It is because it perfectly combines the "power" of the weapon with "low cost, simplicity and reliability".
Of course, it seems now that the L-36 is not very powerful in terms of power, but if you use Thomson to equip one soldier, you can use the L-36 to equip three soldiers. The combined firepower and combat effectiveness of three soldiers holding the L-36
, but a soldier holding a Thomson cannot compare.
What is needed now is to field troops quickly and in large numbers, so that the Ming Army becomes the army with the highest proportion of submachine guns in the world. As long as it can do this, it is a good gun.
Xiang Xiaoqiang is not too demanding about submachine gun firepower now, and there is another important reason - the main opponents of the Ming army basically do not have submachine guns. The Qing army is not equipped with submachine guns, but only rifles. The same is true for the potential enemy Japanese army. Therefore, the low rate of fire is also
It doesn't matter.
The effective range of this L-36 is 240 meters, which is far and accurate among submachine guns. This was also one of Xiang Xiaoqiang’s original requirements. Now there are no automatic rifles, submachine guns and rifles, and there is a fire gap between machine guns, so
The newly designed submachine gun has a longer range and higher accuracy, which can appropriately make up for this gap. At least our submachine gunmen will not suffer too much when they fire against the enemy riflemen at a distance of 200 to 300 meters. As long as the opponent
If you are not a sharpshooter.
…
Qiu Qiu had been staring at the drawings, and then he raised his head, took a deep breath, and sighed:
"Xiaoqiang, you keep saying it's good, but why don't I realize what's so good about it? I think this gun is weird... Anyway, if I were a soldier, I would rather use a Thomson... It feels so safe.
!”
Xiang Xiaoqiang and Xiu Xiu looked at each other and laughed.
Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said:
"Of course Thomson is good, but do you know? If it were Thomson, you as a soldier would be of no use at all. You would probably only be able to hold a rifle. Now it's an L-36, so you as a soldier may be of use. Do you understand?"
Qiu Qiu nodded, shook his head, and then smiled:
"I see, didn't you just say that this kind of gun is cheap?"
"Haha, silly girl," Xiang Xiaoqiang patted her head and praised, "She's so smart."
…
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Xiang Xiaoqiang, Xiu Xiu, Li Gensheng, Wang Hexiang, and representatives of the Lianfeng drove to the People's Guard barracks at Xiaolingwei outside the city. They wanted to test the guns at the shooting range here.
Originally, the best shooting range in Nanjing was at the Tangshan Sniper School. You only need to drive about ten kilometers eastward along the highway. There are shooting ranges in various environments, including plains, hills, woodlands, shrublands, simulated villages, and simulated shooting ranges.
The city is in ruins... and there are few people, so don't be too ideal. But this is Xiang Xiaoqiang's first day back in Nanjing, and he knows that he must inspect the People's Guard and appear in front of the soldiers. This is very important, and it is to consolidate the soldiers' confidence in themselves.
necessary means of support.
The motorcade drove into the long-lost Xiaoling Guards Camp, and soldiers on both sides began to cheer. Gradually, the sound spread to both sides, and soon the entire military camp was cheering. The windows of the office building and dormitories were opened, and the officers and soldiers stretched out their heads.
Cheering and whistling towards the convoy recycling below.
Xiang Xiaoqiang heard the deafening cheers in the car, and could not suppress the excitement in his chest, so he rolled down the window.
This time the cheers rushed into my ears more clearly.
Very good... When I came here before, the soldiers never behaved like this...
"Stop the car," Xiang Xiaoqiang ordered, "I want to get off the car."
The driver was startled:
"grown ups?"
"I want to get off the car and walk. Let's walk there."
The driver hesitated for a moment, rolled down the window, stretched out his arm, waved a few times to the car in front, and made a stop signal.
The driver in front saw the gesture in the rearview mirror and slowed down to stop. The entire convoy of four cars stopped.
Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't wait any longer and pushed the door open by himself. The driver quickly jumped out of the car skillfully, rushed to his side, bent down and opened the door for him, and stood at attention.
Xiang Xiaoqiang stepped out of the car and looked around. The cheers around him suddenly burst into flames, and the fanatical atmosphere in the entire barracks reached fever pitch.
Xiang Xiaoqiang made an astonishing move: stepping on the car tires, he climbed to the top of the car, then took off his hat and waved to the building windows on both sides and the officers and soldiers surrounding him.
Xiang Xiaoqiang was also so excited that tears filled his eyes. He took a deep breath, put his hands over his mouth, and shouted:
"Brothers -! I am back to Xiaoqiang!!! Today, I..."
The cheers from the barracks immediately increased tenfold, completely covering up his voice.
At first, several people under the car, including Li Gensheng, Wang Hexiang and others, wanted to stop him and let him get off, but after seeing the scene now, they all knew that there was no need to say anything else.
They were all grinning and saying something to each other, but they couldn't hear it, they were completely drowned in the cheers.
In the car, Xiuxiu leaned against the car door, her face pressed against the glass window, looking at the scene of her husband being wildly supported by the soldiers outside, her heart beating wildly with excitement and happiness.
Wang Hexiang came to the People's Guard for the first time after working with Xiang Xiaoqiang. He was the most shocked. He had only known that Xiang Xiaoqiang had done several major things and established his reputation among the people, but he did not expect that he would be among his own soldiers.
, the prestige has reached such a level.
Is it wise to follow such a general, or...
…
Xiang Xiaoqiang stood on the roof of the car. When the cheers subsided a little, he continued to shout:
"Brothers, today, I brought you a good thing!!!...I want you to become the most powerful army in the Ming Dynasty!...Become the most powerful army in the world!!!"
He waved to the bottom of the car, called the representative of Lianfeng over, bent down and said a few words. The representative hesitated for a moment, glared at Xiaoqiang, and he immediately got into the second car and put out a long box.
Put it on the roof of the car.
At this time, everything fell silent, and the officers and soldiers were all staring at the box.
Open the box to Xiaoqiang and take out an L-36 submachine gun.
After the first "coaxing" from the surroundings, the voice rose again.
Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up the magazine again, inserted it into the gun body, then pulled the gun, raised it with one hand, and pulled the trigger toward the sky. There was a crisp explosion: