New Ming Empire mixed in America

Ignoring Liu Erhe, Li Mingqi directly threw the m1911 in his hand to him, and then took the shotgun handed over by Jiang Yuye.

"This kind of shotgun can only be made based on the drawings and precise components given by Long Live Lord. If we want to rely solely on the Small Arms Design Bureau for independent production, there is still a long way to go."

Jiang Yuye said that the current small arms design bureau is facing a huge problem, that is, some precision components can only be provided by Li Mingqi.

Of course, Li Mingqi provided it in the name of the Royal Academy, which made these subordinate institutions in awe of the mystery of the Royal Academy.

In fact, not only the shotgun, but also the precision parts of the m1911 were provided by Li Mingqi.

In addition to the relatively sensitive barrel and other parts, the remaining parts such as springs that are more dependent on the quality of materials were purchased by Li Mingqi from a certain treasure.

Li Mingqi took the bullets from the guards and loaded them into the gun one by one, and then began to test-fire.

After shooting a few times, he nodded with satisfaction.

This kind of gun should be very practical in the trenches, and it can play a key practical role in both offense and defense.

"Your Majesty, this shotgun can also empty all the bullets quickly and continuously. Let me demonstrate it to you..."

Before he finished speaking, Jiang Yuye saw Liu Erhe's glare, causing him to swallow the next words.

"It's okay. Can I still distrust Jiang Aiqing here?"

Li Mingqi saw Jiang Yuye's embarrassment, so he waved his hand to let the surrounding guards retreat, then smiled and handed the shotgun in his hand to Jiang Yuye and said:

"Jiang Aiqing, show me what rapid shooting is, so that we can open our eyes."

Jiang Yuye felt grateful and proud that Li Mingqi trusted him so much.

Although the Imperial Guard soldiers had drawn out their revolvers, Jiang Yuye did not feel displeased at all. On the contrary, he understood the actions of these Ouchi guards very well.

After all, Li Mingqi is here, and he still has a gun in his hand. It is impossible to make the guards not nervous.

Liu Erhe stood in front of Li Mingqi with a sullen face. If Jiang Yuye really had any evil intentions, at this distance, he could make him regret coming into this world.

Jiang Yuye filled up the bullets, then took a few steps forward and started firing rapidly from his mouth.

Since this type of shotgun has no trigger block, as long as you hold down the trigger and pull the slide cycle, its hammer will automatically strike after loading.

This means that as long as you pull the trigger with one hand and pull the slide with the other hand, it will keep firing all the bullets.

So within a short period of time, Jiang Yuye fired all five bullets, leaving dense bullet holes on the target in front of him.

"Your Majesty, in order to reduce the recoil, this gun has a reduced charge. If the bullet is redesigned, its range can reach 30 to 40 meters."

After handing the empty shotgun to Liu Erhe, Jiang Yuye revealed his final purpose:

"So I beg your Majesty to allocate more funds so that the Small Arms Design Bureau can develop more weapons for the New Ming Empire."

Li Mingqi was not surprised at all by Jiang Yuye's request for increased funding.

In fact, not only the light weapons design bureau, but also the heavy weapons design bureau came to Li Mingqi and made many requests for increased funding.

But now most of Li Mingqi's energy is devoted to the battleship, so he can only express his regret tactfully for these people's requests. Gu

Competition for funds is very common. Not only the weapons design bureaus, but also the Wehrmacht and the Guards often have disputes over equipment issues.

But these are all competitions within the scope allowed by Li Mingqi, and Li Mingqi welcomes healthy competition.

But if someone dared to do something like stumbling over each other for funds or the like, Li Mingqi would not agree.

Now Li Mingqi attaches great importance to the navy because the next battlefield is mainly at sea. The weapons currently used by the National Defense Force are already very advanced, so there is no need to update them.

As for machine guns, we can consider replacing the rotating machine guns with new heavy machine guns.

The rotary machine guns of the Xinming Empire are not the Gatling guns of later generations. Today's rotary machine guns are better than the hand-cranked ones.

The main direction of improvement at the beginning was to replace the hand-cranked gun with an electric one, so that it can be more stable when shooting. It cannot be like a hand-cranked Gatling gun, which will jam when soldiers get nervous.

"By the way, how are you doing with the submachine gun blueprints I gave you last time?"

When Li Mingqi mentioned heavy machine guns, he thought of submachine guns specially designed for smokeless gunpowder.

The drawings given by Li Mingqi were of the MP18 submachine gun. If it were more advanced, it is estimated that the production capacity of the Xinming Empire would be difficult to meet the standard.

Although Li Mingqi can provide high-precision parts, the gun body and other parts still have to be completed by the Xin Ming Empire.

You may not be familiar with the MP18, but its name in China is the Jacquard machine gun. It was also the standard weapon of the German Stormtroopers during World War I.

If you still don’t know, you must be familiar with the Japanese submachine gun Baishi submachine gun. The Baishi submachine gun is a derivative of the MP18 MP28Ⅱ.

The magazine of this gun is mounted on the side of the gun body, and the long magazine is almost perpendicular to the gun body.

"The submachine gun has been basically researched, but in order to make it use the same bullets as the pistol, it has not yet been finalized."

Jiang Yuye admired the drawings given by the Royal Research Institute very much. This rapid-fire weapon with a range of nearly 150 meters allowed their small arms design bureau to see the direction of future weapons.

In the past, continuous shooting of black powder bullets would definitely cause problems such as jamming. Even the new rifles used by the Guards now need to be carefully cleaned and maintained after battles, otherwise problems will occur.

But now that new propellants are used, these problems have been solved.

This also led the Small Arms Design Bureau to start a new round of weapon research work. They believed that future weapons should be of a style that can fire continuously.

Therefore, the talents of these small arms design bureaus no longer look down upon current rifles.

But now smokeless gunpowder cannot be mass-produced on a large scale, so they can only reserve technology first.

After listening to Jiang Yuye's description, Li Mingqi felt really relieved this time.

As long as the submachine guns are produced, the special forces of the New Ming Empire can be formed.

Sun Changying's mountain troops are still in the mountains cleaning up the rats that are stealing the empire's minerals. When they come back, I believe the prototype of the special forces will have been formed.

Isn’t it true that military training can only be achieved through actual combat?

Don't think that the mine owners will sit still and wait for death. In the mountains or hidden mines, those mine owners who are familiar with the terrain and have miners with them are not bad at fighting.

The casualty situation of the mountain troops during this period was not very optimistic, so this was why Li Mingqi wanted to get out the submachine gun as soon as possible.