It was also winter, and in the same room, Tang Mo's room seemed more than a little shabby compared to Ji Ji's room.
He didn't have a warm fireplace or a nice floor. Although the room was steaming, it was because there were so many people sitting here.
In other words, it would be more appropriate to describe it as packed with people.
Tang Mo was sitting at the table. Counting from the left hand side, Roger, Matthews, Parker, Redman, Tiger, and Leo were sitting in order. Weiss didn't sit down. He stood behind Tang Mo, playing with a new revolver in his hand.
Tang Mo had just given this thing to him not long ago, and he really liked it to the core of his heart. At this moment, he had taken out the pistol and cleaned it three times. Each time, he breathed out carefully and wiped it gently with a piece of suede. It looked like he was wiping a gemstone.
On the table are a K1 fast gun, a brand new rifle, a lever rifle that looks like a Winchester rifle, a revolver, and the latest Colt revolver. .
Everyone was silent. Redman and Tiger looked at the weapons on the table that they had never seen before. For a moment, they didn't know what to say.
Matthews was very happy, because today's meeting was obviously held because he made a lever rifle, so he looked very proud.
"It seems that the elves really don't intend to pay back the money." Tang Mo sat on the chair, leaned back, and said to Roger and others.
Wes had been dealing with those slaves recently and was almost exhausted, so he was a little lackluster. He yawned and said nonchalantly: "Anyway, didn't you say that if they don't pay back the money, you have something to do, right?" ?”
"There is no good solution now, but we will have solutions in the future, many solutions." Tang Mo said nonchalantly.
What he said is almost equivalent to admitting that there is no possibility of getting back the 100,000 gold coins that are still in debt on the books.
So everyone's mood was very low for a while. Although they had not been short of money in the past two months, one hundred thousand gold coins was not a small amount at any time.
He spread his hands indifferently and gave his evaluation of the elves: "It's a pity that these stupid elves don't know what they have missed."
Having said this, he paused before continuing: "Actually, this meeting is held to introduce to you the recent technological research and development results of our Datang Group."
"Everyone has seen that these are our recent technological innovations." He said as he grabbed the K1 rifle and put it aside: "Everyone is too familiar with this, so I won't introduce it."
After saying that, he picked up the revolver again and put it aside: "It's the same, everyone may have used it."
Amid everyone's laughter, he grabbed the weapon that looked very much like a Winchester lever rifle and introduced: "First of all, we designed a new weapon called a lever rifle, which is Named K2 rifle, the full name is Datang Group K2 type lever rifle."
As he spoke, he pointed to the proud old dwarf man beside him whose neck was two centimeters longer than usual and said: "This weapon was developed under the leadership of Matthews. It can be loaded with more than 10 rounds of bullets and fire continuously! "
As he spoke, he turned the guard of the gun, pushing and pulling it, so that the gun made a nice clicking sound.
"Click!" He made such a push and pull motion once, and then continued: "There is a bullet loaded. Just pull the trigger and you can fire."
"The Evil God"
After saying that, he repeated the action and continued: "The second bullet is loaded and you can fire again! It's convenient, quick and perfect!"
"What?" When he heard Tang Mo say this, Tiger was the first to widen his eyes and exclaimed in disbelief.
Weiss was also stunned for a moment. He just thought that the performance of his revolver was incredible, but he didn't expect that there was a long gun that was comparable to a revolver: "Oh my God!"
"Are you kidding!" Redman was also very shocked. He could no longer imagine how powerful his troops would look after being equipped with such weapons.
"No way!" Although Leo didn't understand weapons, he also knew what a rifle that could fire more than ten times in a row meant.
If he could go back with these weapons, then his status as a criminal would definitely be forgiven. In other words, if he fights back with an army equipped with such weapons, his status as a criminal does not seem to need to be pardoned by anyone...
The lever rifle is actually a very genius design. Its appearance has horribly increased the firepower density of individual soldiers to a certain extent.
This kind of rifle can be loaded immediately by just turning the hand guard and pressing down the mechanism. It can fire at an astonishing rate of one round per second.
Under normal circumstances, this kind of rifle can be loaded with seven or eight rounds of bullets, and sometimes it can even be loaded with 13 rounds of bullets, and it can pour out all these bullets in one breath.
Compared with almost all current rifles, its advantages are obviously very obvious: simple state actions, which can ensure that you continue to reload while aiming, and you can fire continuously without pausing.
So after the blueprint of this weapon was given to Matthews, he began to think about this big killer.
In terms of technical difficulty, the production of this kind of weapon is actually not difficult at all, and Tang Mo's weapons workshop can easily transform into production.
It doesn't have a complicated structure, nor is it a secret. It can be easily copied without any technical difficulty as long as it is disassembled.
What really restricts the development of this kind of weapon are actually two other reasons: the first is the problems caused by the structure of the gun itself, and the second is the defects of the bullet.
The magazine of a lever rifle - or its fixed magazine - is a tubular magazine juxtaposed under the barrel.
This magazine completely relies on the force of a spring to withstand the bullets to complete the supply of bullets, so the bullets that are closer to the spring are destined to receive less force during the supply process.
As a result, the magazine can be loaded with 13 rounds of bullets. In fact, in most cases, only 6-9 rounds of bullets are loaded, and then the strength of the spring is strengthened to ensure smooth ammunition supply.
Think about it again, with so many bullets pushed into a tube, it is obviously very easy for them to jam. Therefore, in order to troubleshoot the problem as quickly as possible, there is actually a gap below the tubular magazine.
In this way, if the bullet gets stuck, you can use a knife or other tool to clean the magazine and repair the fault.
Ever since, this gap used to repair the fault has become another reason for bullet jamming: in complex battlefield environments, gravel will enter the magazine from here and jam the spring.
Moreover, the internal structure of a lever rifle is also very complex, which means that the price of manufacturing such a weapon will be high and it is prone to failure.
The high price means that those in power will not go crazy with their purchases and equip all their troops with this kind of rifle. Because no one can afford such a large expense, at least no one thinks it is worth it now.
Being prone to malfunction means that ordinary soldiers are unsure when using this weapon, which will seriously affect combat effectiveness. Going to the battlefield with a weapon that is full of malfunctions will definitely cause soldiers to mutiny, so this also destined that the lever rifle is unlikely to be equipped on a large scale.
Therefore, this rifle ultimately failed to replace the single-shot breech-loading rifle with fewer malfunctions and was more secure and reliable, becoming the first choice for soldiers on the battlefield.
Another reason why this rifle is criticized comes from the special ammunition used in this weapon-or in other words, this is another flaw brought from the mother's womb when the lever rifle was designed.
All the ammunition of the lever rifle are loaded in a tubular magazine. This design gives it a powerful advantage in continuous shooting.
Similarly, this design also brought a fatal flaw: this rifle can only use flat-head bullets as its own ammunition.
why? Because if pointed bullets are used, the prepared ammunition in the tubular magazine can easily misfire due to the bullet warhead of the pointed bullet hitting the primer of the previous bullet, detonating the prepared ammunition and causing an accident.
For a rifle that needs to be tested in battlefield environments, such flaws are intolerable. Therefore, for the safety of the user, lever rifles generally only use flat-head bullets.
This brings up another problem. The range and stability of flat-nose bullets cannot be compared with pointed bullets.
What limits the range of lever rifles is actually gunpowder. Due to the structural problems of the barrel, the sealing performance of the lever rifle is actually average, so the chamber pressure cannot be designed to be too high, otherwise it will easily explode.
Therefore, the bullet charge of the lever rifle cannot use the more advanced subsequent series of smokeless gunpowder, which also seriously restricts the range of the lever rifle.
In the few years after the birth of the lever rifle, the range of standard rifles equipped by various countries generally exceeded 800 meters, while the effective range of the lever rifle was basically only about 100 meters, which was intolerable.
After all, after automatic weapons begin to become popular in the future, submachine guns are obviously a better choice at the ideal engagement distance of lever rifles.
Therefore, it is not that the lever rifle is bad, but the era in which it was born happened to be during a period of ultra-rapid development of human weapons.
During this period, artillery developed at a rapid pace, and it took only a dozen years to completely crush individual rifles into scum.
There is no way, the era of artillery will eventually come, automatic weapons will begin to appear in conjunction with artillery, and the trench system will eventually replace the traditional battle line square formation. Everything will change, and tactics will also develop and change accordingly.
