Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Later, Yang Bing took Lin Yi to see some of the newly developed firearms developed by the research institute, such as more complete semi-automatic rifles and machine guns.

As for the semi-automatic rifle, it is actually a weight reduction on the Empire's [-]-year-old standard rifle.

Since the overall weight of the Empire's [-]-year-old standard rifle is seven or eight kilograms, this weight is not impossible for ordinary soldiers to use, but it is just a little overweight.

Because the prototype of the Empire's 1-year-old standard rifle is the American Garand M[-] semi-automatic rifle, the appearance of this gun is more suitable for Europeans and Americans.

For Asians, there are indeed some things that are not easy to use.

Therefore, Yang Bing and the others were thinking about how to improve this gun.

First, they redesigned the bolt mechanism to reduce parts and weight while ensuring performance.

Yang Bing and the others now have a thorough understanding of the principle of a semi-automatic rifle. To put it bluntly, they use the flame thrust when the bullet comes out of the chamber to push back the firing pin of the gun through a conduit to achieve the effect of reloading.

Therefore, Yang Bing and the others redesigned the working principles of the air intake duct, bolt action, and firing pin. Making new rifles easier to use.

The advantage of this is that on the one hand, it can reduce the weight of the entire gun, and on the other hand, they adhere to Lin Yi's requirements and make the maintenance of the entire gun easier.

Guns are the second life of soldiers, so Yang Bing has long been warned by Lin Yi that when designing firearms, they must consider the simplicity of firearm maintenance.

Therefore, when Yang Bing and others designed this rifle, they were simply crazy.

The entire set of bolts and air intake pipes are disassembled, and there are only 12 parts in total. A soldier who knows enough about firearms can dismantle this gun into parts in thirty seconds with his eyes closed.

This proves that the maintenance time cost of this gun is really pitiful.

However, a firearm does not just need to be simple.

He also wanted precision and ease of use.

Lin Yi has tried this gun. Although it cannot be said that this gun is exaggerated in terms of accuracy and simplicity, at least this gun can be consistent with the [-]-year-old standard rifle.

Lin Yi felt that this was enough.

After all, the prototype of the [-]-year-old standard rifle was the American Garand, and this gun had already proven its success.

And this new gun is benchmarked against the [-]-year-old standard rifle, so in terms of reliability alone, it is enough.

In terms of reliability and applicability, Lin Yi feels that it is enough at this stage.

But what makes Lin Yi most satisfied with this gun is the improvement made by Yang Bing and the others in the magazine.

If you want to talk about the [-]-year-old standard rifle, or directly say the Garand rifle, what is the most criticized, it is definitely its magazine design.

The [-]-year-old standard rifle, because it is a semi-automatic rifle, will eject the steel magazine with a "ding" sound after the entire magazine is loaded, which is very pleasant to the ear.

At this time, the entire magazine will be short. When you reload the magazine, the steel magazine pushes down on the spring underneath the magazine.

Once the spring pushes down, the dust cover outside the magazine will automatically close, thus achieving the locking effect.

It was originally a good design, but when Garland designed it, he did not consider the panic situation on the battlefield. This resulted in many soldiers being pinched because they did not quickly withdraw their fingers when loading the bullet.

The [-]-year-old standard rifle of the Garand Empire, which is completely inherited, also inherits this point.

As a result, a large number of soldiers were injured on the battlefield. After receiving feedback from the soldiers, Yang Bing and his firearms engineers worked day and night and finally re-modified the working principle of the magazine.

To put it simply, after emptying the magazine, if the dust cover of the magazine is opened, it will be stuck by another small part. Even after reloading, the dust cover will not automatically lock, and the dust cover must be pushed manually. The cover can be locked.

Although this adds a small step to the entire loading process, it directly eliminates the hidden danger of finger pinching, which can be said to be very worthwhile.

Lin Yi personally test-fired several magazines. He felt that this new gun was very easy to use. Both the grip and the recoil were perfect.

It can be said that this is a mature and very successful gun that has been tuned.

All that's left is to present the gun to Zhao Xu and decide on the model for production.

Lin Yi felt that this new rifle could be used by the Empire for at least more than ten years. At least until the end of the first battle, the Empire would not need to change guns.

Then Yang Bing took another machine gun and placed it in front of Lin Yi.

Yang Bing told Lin Yi that this was developed at his request and was intended to replace Maxim's machine gun.

The current heavy firepower of the empire is mainly dominated by Maxim and ZB-26, which is the famous Czech light machine gun in later generations.

These two firearms, whether in later generations or in this time and space, have experienced wars and proven their superior performance.

But that doesn't mean that these two guns have no shortcomings.

Let’s talk about Maxim first. This gun is water-cooled, not to mention that it has many parts and is very cumbersome to maintain. When it goes to the battlefield, he has to twist two buckets of water behind it to cool it. Is it troublesome to ask you?

Moreover, since it is water-cooled, the weight of the entire gun reaches an astonishing 27 kilograms.

This is definitely a very heavy burden for the soldiers.

And a regular Maxim firepower team requires 4 to 6 people. It can be said that it is very uneconomical.

As for the light machine gun, although it only requires a combination of two people, even at the limit, one person can operate it.

But the firepower of the ZB-26 is not very sustainable. Its original magazine only has 20 rounds of ammunition. Can you believe it? After Daxia's rectification, a 30-round magazine was produced, but on the battlefield with changing conditions, this bullet was simply unable to complete the task of fire suppression.

As for other minor problems, such as the inconvenience of changing the barrel (Maxin) and the low power of the bullet (ZB-26), I will not talk about these minor problems for now. Simply put, the bullet calibers of the two guns are different, which brings a lot of trouble to logistics.

Therefore, Lin Yi told Yang Bing to design a new machine gun that was in line with the national conditions of the empire.

And his request is that this new gun can be used as a heavy machine gun, and can also be used as a light machine gun to accompany the infantry charge.

Lin Yi gave such a machine gun a new name, called a universal machine gun.

Afterwards, Yang Bing was given a lot of design manuscripts and asked to explore by himself.

Faced with Lin Yi's rude and ridiculous request, Yang Bing went numb.

Is this thing still universal? Should it be able to serve as a heavy machine gun and also accompany the infantry in a charge? Isn't this a contradiction?