Chapter 32 Planning 13

Yannick took the confession and went straight to William II's office.

Seeing his grandson coming in, William II was a little surprised. "Yannick, why haven't you rested yet so late?"

Yannick handed over the confession. "I just finished something, grandpa, this is the confession."

William II took the document in confusion. "Confession? What confession?"

"Confession of the Minister of the Wehrmacht Logistics Department, Voigt, about G43."

William II raised his eyebrows slightly. "Voigt? Did you arrest him? G43? Is it the gun you designed?"

Yannick shook his head. "He hasn't been arrested yet. I just asked the intelligence department to invite him to talk for a while, and he confessed everything. I let him go home. But he is smart enough to commit suicide now."

Looking through the confession, William II's face became more and more angry. "This bastard! He dared to tamper with the test report because the design of G43 was too good and he was afraid of affecting Mauser's business?" The logistics minister was not a loser. Even he could see the excellence of G43. William II didn't know how to praise his grandson. At first, I thought it was a joke.

Yannick took the opportunity to suggest. "Grandpa, this time we need to find someone who is loyal to the royal family to serve as the logistics minister."

As mentioned in the previous article, it took William II ten years to regain control of the army after the last defeat. This little thing is just a matter of words. "Then how are you going to deal with Mauser?"

"Grandpa, I won't make this public for now. You can send someone to show this confession to Mauser. If Mauser still doesn't know what's good for him, I will import the Ming Dynasty 1918 modified rifle from Ming Dynasty. Although it is a copy of our 98, it is cheaper than 98 with the shipping cost. Without the orders from the Wehrmacht, Mauser will be ready to close down."

"What if they know what's good for them? What do you want? Still want 12% of the shares?"

Yannick said very seriously. "Grandpa, I never said that I wanted to take the 12% shares for free. I told them last time that it was in exchange for the design drawings."

William II was a little confused. "Aren't you giving the design drawings of rifles and military pistols to Walther? You know how much pressure too many different guns in the army will bring to logistics, right?"

Yannick was a little depressed. "The G43 is not as simple as a rifle, and its cost is more than twice that of a Mauser rifle. If we grit our teeth, we can replace all the 100,000 Wehrmacht troops now, but when the Wehrmacht expands to millions in the future, forget it. So in the future, it would be good to equip each squad with about three G43s for veterans with good marksmanship." In the original time and space World War II, only the wealthy United States equipped semi-automatic rifles on a large scale.

"Then the rest of the soldiers use Mauser rifles?"

"No, how could it be possible. So I redesigned the light machine gun, the gun called the assault rifle and the new submachine gun."

"According to you, there are five types of guns in a squad? Including pistols, it's six types? Don't you say that these six types of guns use different bullets?"

Wouldn't that be a disaster in terms of logistics, Yannick said with a smile. "Grandpa, how is that possible? The light machine gun, G43, and rifle in the firearms I designed can use the same bullet. The pistol and submachine gun use the same bullet, and the assault rifle uses another bullet. So there are only three kinds of bullets."

William II nodded slightly and continued to ask. "What kind of gun is the assault rifle you are talking about?"

After thinking for a while, Yannick explained simply and clearly. "Well, to put it simply, this kind of gun is neither a rifle nor a submachine gun. It is a gun that combines a rifle with a submachine gun."

"What about its range?"

"This assault rifle is mainly used to suppress the firepower of a single enemy soldier in a battle at a distance of three or four hundred meters. The maximum effective range does not exceed 500 meters."

William II frowned. "Does that mean the effective range is far less than that of the Mauser rifle?"

Yannick knew that when the assault rifle in the original time and space was first born, it was not accepted by the mustache because it was considered useless and an order was issued to ban its production. As a result, the people below secretly produced it. A German army was surrounded on the Eastern Front, and someone suggested airdropping a batch of this gun to try it out. Anyway, it's better to try it out. As a result, the German army broke out of the Soviet encirclement with this thing that looks like an AK. As a result, when old Xi knew about this, he was very happy and gave it a name: assault rifle.

Now looking at William II's reaction, we know that he is also an old stubborn who advocates long-range shooting. "Grandpa, if we want to win the next war, we can only use new weapons and new tactics, otherwise we will just repeat the same mistakes. Grandpa, to put it bluntly, you may not be alive by then. You don't want to see me hiding in a dark basement and shooting myself in the head after being defeated, right?" God made him travel through time, but he didn't let him repeat the ending of the mustache.

"Let's continue talking about this firearm."

"Where was I talking just now? This assault rifle can automatically load and eject shells, and can fire bullets continuously."

"Isn't that a smaller version of a machine gun and an enlarged version of a submachine gun? Why not use rifle bullets or pistol bullets?"

"Because the barrel of this assault rifle is relatively short. Furthermore, if you use rifle bullets, you cannot effectively control the beating and recoil impact of the gun during fully automatic shooting. And if you use pistol bullets like a submachine gun, The power will be insufficient at medium and long distances. In order to solve this problem, I designed a short-cartridge rifle bullet to balance power and control shooting accuracy during continuous shooting.

If rifle bullets are considered full-power bullets and pistol bullets are low-power bullets, then this assault rifle bullet is an intermediate-power grabber. "

"Now it's time to talk about the Mauser Company. My request is very simple. Their rifles should change the caliber. The 92 Mauser bullets currently used have outdated design ideas, too high ballistics, poor accuracy, excessive power, and overweight ammunition. I'm going to change it to a more practical pointed bullet."

"Change the caliber?" William II frowned again. "If you want to change the gun caliber, the entire production line will need to be replaced, and the entire process will need to be improved. Production materials, process equipment, inspection equipment, etc. will cost a lot of money."

From the perspective of a veteran and national military decision-maker, Mustache believes that the design concept of the STG44 assault rifle is advanced, but it must use new ammunition and cannot use the original large stockpile of Mauser rifle bullets.

The STG44 assault rifle can fire continuously. It can be predicted that its bullet consumption in actual combat is no less than that of a submachine gun, and its ammunition consumption will also be very alarming.

In a war, it is not an easy task for a country to prepare a complete set of new ammunition systems to meet actual combat needs. In a sense, if it is not handled well, it can even bring down the country's military-industrial system, leading to catastrophic consequences.

When the STG44 assault rifle first came out, Germany was already in trouble. A large amount of equipment and personnel were lost in the tug-of-war on the Eastern Front. It was already very difficult to make up for the losses on the front line.

If you insist on equipping the STG44 assault rifle, it will greatly increase the burden on the logistics system. From this perspective, it is not unreasonable for Mustache to deny the STG44 assault rifle.

Seeing William II's hesitation, Yannick had no choice but to continue persuading him. "Grandpa, now is the best time to change. Think about it, fortunately, the current National Defense Forces only have 100,000 people, so it is not difficult to change. If we replace them after the National Defense Forces grow to several million in the future, it will be a complete disaster. How much manpower, material and financial resources will be needed to complete the disaster?”

After pondering for a long time, William II asked another question. "What about Mauser's inventory?"

Yannick has already thought of a countermeasure for this. "If there is still inventory after the replacement, then give it all to Ming Dynasty. After all, they have so many troops. Even if they are willing to change the equipment, it will not be done in a short time."

William II asked some more detailed questions, and Yannick also answered them fluently and missed nothing.

William II finally nodded. "Okay, then I'll talk to Mauser."