War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 343: Why do you have more and more things become less?
Didn’t Dagu Shipyard have its own chemical research laboratory?
Have.

Not only did it exist before Xu Chaoyang took over, but even when Xiao Liuzi was in charge, there were many chemical experts in charge.

However, after Xiao Liuzi stepped down, these people’s first reaction was to run!
why?
Because there are examples.

First, there was the robbery of Gongxian Arsenal. When Lao Feng was robbing the arsenal, he did not regard these experts as human beings at all. He only had machines in his eyes. Many weapons experts and chemical experts were shot to death when they saw the "arsenal" and did not even have time to ask "Who are you?"

The second is the salary. For these experts, the best salary is in Hanyang Arsenal, or in the research laboratories of various universities. The remaining arsenals are not only in trouble, but also can't pay salaries on time. Since it is dangerous and there is no way to pay salaries on time, who will work with you? So when Xiao Liuzi stepped down, these experts all ran away without knowing who would be in power next. This is the reason why the improvement of "General Liu's Rifle" was slow.

Finally, these scientists are not taken seriously.

General Liu has only studied guns in his entire life, but he is not even as famous as those people who are engaged in literature. These scientists are just working hard for money. Now that the rich man Xiao Liuzi has stepped down, who will work with you here?

This was also the reason why after Xu Chaoyang took over Dagu Shipyard, apart from a few masters who made guns and a factory director, he could not find a real weapons expert in the shipyard. It was also the reason why Song Zheyuan was able to poach experts from Dagu Shipyard when he was in Duolun.

If the news that Xu Chaoyang had taken over the Yuan Clan Association had not been reported in the newspapers, and if he had not returned to Dagu from Peiping with a large amount of money, Mr. Xiong and the talented people from Peking University would probably not have come.

After Xu Chaoyang got Mr. Xiong, he really used him to his heart's content. He not only let him do the follow-up work of nitroglycerin research in the chemistry laboratory, such as nitrocellulose and nitrocellulose, but also let him teach students in the Department of Chemistry of Nankai University. He also reached an agreement with Nankai University that all students in the Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics, and Department of Mathematics would be given priority in recruitment by Dagu Shipyard, Thermal Power Plant, and Jingxing Coal Mine.

At the same time, let Mr. Xiong start the research and development of "Molotov cocktails" in the chemical laboratory... Xu Chaoyang now wanted to split Mr. Xiong into four pieces, but there was no other way, as he had too few talented people.

This time, the Molotov cocktails are not only packed in wine jars. Even if they can only use the Su oil produced by Jingxing Coal Mine, they still have to develop a launcher. They can't always use unstable gasoline barrels to explode, right?
In addition, Peking University finally sent back good news, that is, the initial improvement of the "General Liu Rifle" that was sent over has been completed... No, it cannot be said to be an improvement. It should be said that due to the difficulty of improving the General Liu Rifle, they directly abandoned this gun and developed a brand new firearm, and even the principle is different.

What the arsenal failed to accomplish was accomplished by Peking University. Not only that, the advice Xu Chaoyang provided to Peking University, as well as the reminder of General Liu's rifle and the use of the G98 firearm as a research model, the work handed in by Peking University really shocked Xu Chaoyang.

First, the G98 in Xu Chaoyang's hand was too long compared to the Type 98K, so he asked if the G98 could be shortened, preferably to be more suitable for trench warfare;

Therefore, Peking University set up a special research team on this topic and brought back a shortened G98. It has not been named yet, but when Xu Chaoyang saw this gun, the first thing he thought of was the 1935K that would not be released until 98!

Second, after delivering the General Liu rifle, Xu Chaoyang hoped that Peking University could develop a "sturdy and durable" semi-automatic rifle, that is, the muzzle could not be perforated.

Xu Chaoyang didn't know whether there was any personnel flow between the two research groups at Peking University, but they directly abandoned the "gas-operated" principle of the "General Liu's Rifle" and adopted the "tube-recoil" principle!
Tube retreat style!
The famous 1911 is the only firearm that uses the recoil principle, and recoil artillery is more common on the battlefield. Of course, this is just the most intuitive answer that Xu Chaoyang can imagine, but the geniuses of Peking University chose not to use the "gas collection" principle, that is, without drilling holes in the muzzle, and under the premise of ensuring "toughness and durability", they handed in the answer sheet of the "recoil" semi-automatic rifle. The most important point is that it is not loaded by loading, but by magazine loading.

Xu Chaoyang didn't know how many nights and how much hair so many experts had to spend to develop this kind of firearm, but when he saw this gun for the first time, he didn't think of the American Garand, which was famous in World War II, but a rifle that had been completely forgotten in his era and only veteran military fans would be interested in, the G41M.

Yes, it is not the G43W that was derived from the G41, nor was it produced by Walther, but the G41M that Mauser lost in the bidding!

The research on this firearm was started in Germany in 1939. The competing companies at that time were Mauser, Walther, Rheinmetall and Krieghoff. In the end, only Mauser and Walther were left to compete, but Mauser's G41 (M) lost to Walther's G41 (W), and the G43 was then derived.

Among the two guns sent back by Peking University, the style of the semi-automatic rifle is naturally derived from the improved version of G98. Although the internal structure adopts the tube-recoil side ejection and the bottom adopts the magazine-type loading, its appearance is exactly the same as G98.

However, unlike the G43, the original research intention of this gun was not for sniping, so after improving the performance related to the continuity of the gun, sacrifices were made in terms of accuracy.

Xu Chaoyang tried this gun, and found that it was not as stable as the G98. During continuous shooting, the recoil problem was not well solved, which would cause the muzzle to deviate at an incomprehensible angle after the first shot was fired. In other words, during continuous shooting, it was uncertain where the next shot would hit, and the aiming had to be readjusted before aiming.

He also specifically calculated the adjustment time. From the time point of view, when a soldier who is not familiar with firearms uses a new gun, his secondary aiming speed is actually not as fast as that of a veteran using a G98 bolt-action rifle!

Then why research new guns?
But, is this all there is to gun testing?
Xu Chaoyang took out a thousand rounds of bullets to test the new gun. He found that the combination of 7.92 bullets and a semi-automatic rifle was a joke... If this is the case, since the research and development technology is not as advanced as that of foreign countries, can it be improved in other ways?

Damn!

Thinking of this, Xu Chaoyang wanted to slap his thigh!

Isn't this the tiger itself?
In theory, the larger the caliber of the bullet, the stronger the impact force. The recoil is mainly generated by the pressure of the gunpowder gas on the bullet shell when the gun is fired. If you give the G1920 rifle, a unified caliber 7.92 bullet adopted by Germany in 98, to others for research, isn't this the thing that comes out?

Garand is already awesome, but they only use 7.62 caliber, which was developed by countless experts in 1935, and they dared to equip it in large quantities in 1941. But their R&D level is there, and our R&D level cannot keep up in this era, you have to admit this.

At this time, Xu Chaoyang thought of the 5.56 bullet that would dominate the world in the future. He wondered what would happen if this barrel-type semi-automatic rifle developed by Peking University was equipped with 5.56 bullets. At present, at least in terms of technical level, a group of experts who had never worked in an arsenal were not sure whether they could make it...

Xu Chaoyang was ready to follow in others' footsteps, but before that, he still needed a lead mine!
(End of this chapter)