Siheyuan starts from a good life

In order to facilitate the inspection team to inspect the firearms, the factory director specially set up two tents at the shooting range observation platform, and basically all the firearms and tools required for testing were placed inside.

"Old Zhao, you are very well prepared." Comrade Liu entered the tent, walked around inside, and picked up a newly released August 1 assault rifle.

As soon as Comrade Liu finished speaking, two more people walked over from outside.

Both of them looked to be in their fifties. They wore glasses and had a pen pinned to the collar of their tunic suits. They looked like technicians.

Seeing these two men coming in, Comrade Liu, who was playing with the "August 1st" automatic rifle, put down the gun in his hand and walked forward quickly.

"Gong Ning, Gong Qi, you are here," Comrade Liu said hello and grabbed Jiang Yan next to him.

"Ning Gong, Qi Gong, let me introduce to you. This is Comrade Jiang Yan who invented this assault rifle."

"Hello Comrade Jiang Yan, my name is Ning Yuancheng."

"Hello Comrade Jiang Yan, I am Qi Weimin."

After listening to the introductions made by the two people, Jiang Yan spoke with a smile on his face.

"Hello, Comrade Ning Yuancheng, Comrade Qi Weimin, I am Jiang Yan."

Then Jiang Yan also stretched out his hand to shake hands with the two people.

"Xiao Yan, you don't know yet! Comrade Ning Yuancheng and Comrade Qi Weimin worked in Factory 626 before. They were responsible for copying the Type 50 submachine gun and the American M2 carbine. They are quite experienced."

The Type 50 submachine gun is a copy of SL's PPS-43 submachine gun. The factory that produces this gun is Factory 626.

The predecessor of Factory 626 was the Dongsan Province Arsenal founded in 1921 by the Fengtian warlord Zhang Zuolin. After the "September 1946th" Incident, during the Japanese and puppet rule, it was called the "No. 3 Fengtian Ordnance Manufacturing Factory". In March 1948, the Kuomintang took over and renamed it "Ninety Arsenal Gun Station". After the liberation of Northeast China on November 11, 2, the Military Industry Department of the Northeast Military Region took over the factory and changed it to the "May 1950st Factory No. 11 Manufacturing Institute". In November , it was renamed the "May st Factory Gun Institute".

After the factory successfully trial-produced 1950 M-type M2 carbines in early 300, it then trial-produced the PPSh-41 submachine gun, called the Type 50 submachine gun, and changed its drum magazine to a curved magazine. In June 1950, after the Korean War broke out, because Shengjing was in danger of being attacked by enemy air raids, the Northeast Bureau decided to move the relevant factories north, including the "May Day Factory Gun Station" to Bei'an. In January 6, most of the workshops were installed and trial production began. On March 1951, 1, the Northeast Ordnance Industry Bureau officially changed the name of the factory to "1951 Factory", later also known as "State-owned 3 Factory", and externally known as "Qinghua Tool Factory". In the same month, the Type 1 submachine gun was officially finalized, transferred to mass production, and sent to the Korean battlefield. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, most of the standard light weapons used by the Volunteer Army came from Factory 626.

"Don't dare to take it, don't take it, we are just picking up others' wisdom, and cannot compare with the assault rifle designed by Comrade Jiang Yan. He is the first rifle that our country shoots independently."

After Qi Weimin said this, Ning Yuancheng next to him said.

"I didn't expect that Comrade Jiang Yan, who designed this rifle, was so young. He is truly a hero born out of a boy!"

The two people sang in harmony, which made Jiang Yan feel a little embarrassed, so Jiang Yan quickly waved his hand.

"Qi Gong and Ning Gong are both seniors. I don't deserve such praise. It's serious, it's serious."

After a few more pleasantries, Qi Weimin said: "Comrade Jiang Yan, how did you come up with the idea of ​​designing an empty gun and what is your basis for this."

When Jiang Yan heard Qi Weimin's question, he was stunned for a moment and thought for a moment before speaking.

“The inspiration for the empty gun hang-up came from Citi’s M1 Garand rifle. This rifle will automatically eject the magazine after shooting, reminding the soldiers in combat that the shooting has been completed. At that time, I wondered if I could also design one. Similar equipment, so we designed the empty gun hang-up, which can remind soldiers who are fighting that the bullets in the magazine have been fired and the magazine needs to be replaced."

"Actually, the principle of hanging an empty gun is very simple." After Jiang Yan finished speaking, he picked up an empty magazine from the table and pointed at the bullet support plate in the magazine.

"When the bullets in the magazine are empty, the bullet support plate in the magazine will push upwards against the protrusion of the hook handle. After the last bullet is fired, the slide moves backward. When the hook slot is aligned with the hook handle, Pushed by the magazine spring, the hanging handle moves up to resist the hanging slot, so the slide cannot be reset and remains behind to remind the shooter to burn out the bullets. At this time, even if the magazine is pulled out, the hanging handle pressed by the sleeve will not Will recover."

"After inserting the new magazine, because there are bullets in the magazine, the bullet support plate is pressed below and cannot withstand the hook handle. So at this time, the shooter presses the hook handle down with his finger, and the hook handle will separate from the slide. Then the slide is reset and the first bullet is loaded. Alternatively, the slide can be pulled back, and the cocking handle is reset under the action of the spring on the right. After releasing the slide, the slide is reset and the gun is loaded."

After hearing Jiang Yan's explanation, Qi Weimin suddenly understood. He took the magazine and looked at it again and again, and then said, "So that's it, I understand."

"I have to say, your idea is like a genius."

"Thank you for your hard work. I think even if I can't design it, according to the ingenuity of our national engineers, I believe they will invent it soon."

At this time, Wang Hui came over with a list and said to Qi Weimin and Ning Yuancheng: "Qi Gong, Ning Gong, this is the roster of all third-level workers in the project. You can randomly select workers to use for manufacturing .”

Hearing what the military representative Wang Hui said, Qi Weimin nodded, took the roster he brought over, turned to Ning Yuancheng and said: "Old Ning, you will take some technical staff to select workers to produce parts later, and make sure to keep records. , I lead people here to test the automatic rifles that have been produced, and then retest them after the new guns are manufactured."

"I understand, Lao Qi, the production side will be left to me, don't worry about that."

After hearing the conversation between the two people, Jiang Yan finally understood. This group of technicians obviously came together to make decisions.

Watching Ning Yuancheng lead the people away, Qi Weimin began to arrange for the remaining engineers to dismantle the automatic rifles placed on the table according to the drawings, and measured each part with measuring tools. Record in the notebook.

At this time, Wang Hui came to Jiang Yan, pulled Jiang Yan out of the tent, and whispered to Jiang Yan: "Xiao Jiang, there is no problem with the production side!"

Hearing Wang Hui's question, Jiang Yan said directly without thinking: "No problem, most of the parts on our firearm can be stamped and manufactured, and the other parts are relatively simple. Let alone the third-level workers, there are Some skilled second-level workers can manufacture it. Besides, I took the technicians to dismantle and debug many of the equipment in our factory. Some of them were also repaired. The repaired machines are almost no worse than the original ones, so Just put the new thing in your belly!"

"Okay, as long as you know what's going on, I'll be waiting for your good news." Wang Hui felt relieved after hearing Jiang Yan's answer.