Chapter 20 Type E1 Rifle

However, what surprised Wang Maoru was that the Japanese arsenal not only refused, but also mocked the Chinese for being unable to produce an excellent weapon like the 38th.

The telegram that refused to cooperate made Wang Maoru extremely angry at the arrogance of the Japanese, so he asked the American East Light Weapons Development Company to split the Type 38 rifle and make improvements, and made plans to copy the country without notifying Japan.

He proposed to the East Weapon Research and Development Department to produce a rifle, which combines the advantages of the Japanese Type 38 rifle and the advantages of the Li Enfield rifle. The weapon caliber is 7.7mm, and uses Li Enfield rifle bullets or Mauser bullets 7.9mm caliber. The entire gun still adopts a simple and practical Japanese style to reduce the cost.

Naturally, the Japanese side did not know that there were people in the United States to copy their weapons at this time. Moreover, due to the weak destructiveness of Japanese weapons, mainstream weapons such as Europe and the United States, many Asian countries are not optimistic about them, and the sales direction of Japanese weapons is only limited to some Asian countries or regions.

The Chinese have extremely powerful counterfeit capabilities. In fact, the counterfeit capabilities of European and American countries are far superior to those of China. However, they have a deep-rooted concept of patent law and are obeying the bottom line of the law. Under the stimulation of Wang Maoru's gold and yuan, the American employees of East Company's R&D Department took only half a month to shape this rifle. Because they have the production technology of the Li Enfield rifle, the counterfeit 38 rifle is naturally very simple.

This improved model derived from the Type 38 rifle and Li Enfield rifle is named East1 rifle, referred to as the Type 1 rifle. The total length of the e1 rifle is 1180mm, weighs 3.8kg, 7.7mm caliber, rotates the rear pull bolt, and uses a double row of ten round magazine-type ammunition supply, Mitsubishi bayonet.

After hundreds of experimental verifications, the company's firearms researchers unanimously agreed that the Mauser bullet has poor stability and high lethality, and the 6.5mm bullet has poor lethality and extremely high stability. The 7.7mm bullet is stable and lethality-like, and it is in line with the mainstream design of European and American bullets. In particular, they have the ready-made production technology of Li Enfield 7.7mm bullets and 7.7mm barrels, and the gun can be sold to any British federal country in the future. The R&D Department unanimously decided to set the East1 bullet as 7.7mm*57mm pointed bullets.

For bayonets that are not valued by Europeans, the designers used the triangular bayonet designed by Wang Maoru, abandoning the dagger-type bayonet lengths that are mainstream in Europe and the United States today. The determination of Mitsubishi bayonet is also attributed to the boss Wang Mao. Since scientific researchers do not attach importance to bayonets compared to rifles, they believe that in the future, the bayonets can only be used for deterrence or military parades, so they agreed to set up.

Since the gun is 1180mm long, in order to prevent the gun from suffering too much when fighting against the Japanese 38th style, the bayonet was lengthened, so that the total length of the bayonet was 1550mm after adding the bayonet. Of course, the bayonet is too slender, thanks to the development of the US steel industry. If a 600mm bayonet is produced in China, it will be broken if it hits hard.

Because the barrel technology and bullets of Li Enfield rifle are adopted, and the barrel is longer, the maximum range of the gun is 1900m and the effective range is 1000m.

Its magazine is a double row of 10 round magazines. The disadvantage is that the same as the carbine, the 10 rounds must be exhausted or the bullets are pulled and ejected by the bolt before the magazine can be replaced.

The bolt and bolt technology completely adopts the Lee Enfield rifle technology, but the model of the Type 38 rifle has added a dust cover to suit desert dust weather.

In addition, the same as the buttstock of the Type 38 rifle, the processing method of the e1 rifle is different from that of the general rifle's buttstock using a whole piece of wood. It is made of two pieces of wood. Although this method is prone to cracking over time, it can save wood.

Because East was hastily copied and modified, some of the designs of this gun were questioned by R&D personnel. However, Wang Maoru applied for a patent from the US Patent Office before the design was completed, requiring the arsenal to invest immediately. During the period when the Chinese Exclusion Act in the United States occurred, East Company, as a company run by a Chinese boss, widely recruited and gathered Chinese on the West Coast to come to Los Angeles, which gained a great reputation in the local Chinese community.

Due to the original machine and the production cycle of the East factory was short, it first produced 1,000 East1 rifles for experiments. In the company's shooting range, each weapon inspector had to knock out 600 bullets every day, which made Wang Maoru feel sore. But there was no way to hurt. Who made the weapon rush into battle at his request and became a weapon inspector himself, which was used to practice marksmanship.

After inspection, the standard fire rate of the e1 type rifle is 12 rounds per minute, and mature shooters can shoot 15 rounds per minute. Of course, such rapid shooting is more harmful to the barrel. For newbies, after a period of training, it can reach 10 rounds per minute, which happens to be the bullet capacity of a magazine. The e1 type lethal shooting speed is slightly inferior to the Li Enfield short rifle, but due to its long effective distance, it can act as a sniper rifle. Its advantage is that its anti-sand and dust function is stronger. Compared with the Li Enfield rifle that is more suitable for British weather, the e1 type can be used in the Middle East, Iran, Africa and other places.

Of course, there are some shortcomings in changing the gun. Because the gun is too long and it is not easy to carry, and the cost is one fifth higher than that of the Japanese 38th Style. The double-row ten-shot gun magazine of the gun can only be removed after the shooting is completed, otherwise it can only be removed by pulling the bolt, and it is inconvenient to replace the gun magazine.

Wang Maoru had no choice but to do with the shortcomings. Even a hundred years later, there was no perfect rifle in the world. In this era, such rifles are enough. After registering the e1 patent, Wang Maoru brought Carl, Zhao Jiacheng and others to the United States to sell the rifle.

The rifle produced by an Asian man was naturally widely despised, especially when he learned that the gun was imitating the Type 38 rifle and adopted part of the process of the Li Enfield rifle. The four-dimensional rifle made it even more despised by everyone. Everyone teased: "This gun is not a Japanese gun, not a British gun, but an English-Japanese mixed gun. It should not be named the E1 rifle, it should be named the Little Mule rifle." (Mule is a bastard of donkey and horse)

The five major weapons companies thought that the East company had been silent for a month and a half and were secretly developing something. It turned out that it was really shocking to produce this kind of hybrid gun. They made fun of them and even disdained their guns. They also tried their best to slander the guns outside.

Wang Maoru did not give up and brought Zhao Jiacheng, who was promoted to assistant, to the UK to promote sales. Although the bullets were consistent with the Yingqiqi (i.e., Li Enfield short rifle), the bad magazine design of the gun was not catching a cold from the British. At the same time, it was criticized by the British Mechanical Bureau as the worst magazine. After receiving this comment, the gun was even less popular. The factory of the East Light Weapons Company in the United States had already started to produce 10,000 e1 rifles. The workers worked and worked as long as the boss ordered them, especially East recruited 3,000 Chinese workers who were persecuted by the US "Exclusion Act". The hard work of Chinese workers made East Company tide.
Chapter completed!