Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 29 Finalization
Outside the base, fierce fighting continues.

A large number of sets of armor were produced, and then taken away by the clones that came out of the dormitory building in an endless stream. They were eventually destroyed and discarded either outside the base or on the railway line.

One clone after another died, but the next clones who went to the battlefield were still fearless and continued to move forward.

At this moment, about twenty days have passed since the first battle at the No. 1 Copper Mine Base.

In just twenty days, three of the nine dormitory buildings, each accommodating 1.5 people, have been completely empty.

This means that in just a short period of time, nearly 50,000 clones died on the battlefield.

Their deaths were not in vain.

Thanks to their sacrifice, none of the ten mining bases and one main base were lost. Furthermore, all eleven bases remained operational at full capacity.

At every moment, a large amount of minerals and resources are sent from the mining base to the main base, and at every moment, a large amount of materials, equipment and personnel are sent from the main base to the mining base.

It was under such circumstances that the 100-gun testing team finally made a breakthrough.

At this moment, the first finished firearm was held in the hands of a clone and aimed at a target about a hundred meters away.

Pull the trigger, bang, a bullet flies forward at a speed of hundreds of meters per second, and the next moment it arrives near the target.

But it missed the target.

A clear dent was left in the wall near the target.

"At this stage, accuracy is not important, power and rate of fire are important. Missing the target? That's okay."

Li Qingsong would never play any precision sniping games with those strange birds.

What are my strengths? My industrial capabilities! My ability to collaborate and coordinate!
In this case, he should produce tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of guns and hundreds of millions of bullets as quickly as possible, and then pour them all out like a torrential rain.

What's the big deal about poor accuracy? Does accuracy really matter when hundreds of thousands of rounds are fired in a salvo?

but……

To achieve that effect, the gun I have now cannot meet the requirements.

The appearance of this gun is somewhat similar to the pistols that Li Qingsong had seen in human film and television dramas before. The gun body is only a dozen centimeters long, with a barrel and a grip, and a trigger in the middle.

After studying for so long, more than a thousand clones finally discovered that it was indeed reasonable for the human world to choose this shape to make pistols.

Because this structure is the most reasonable.

This is true not only in terms of the structure of the human hand, whether it is easy to hold, rate of fire, magazine capacity, power, etc.

However, the internal structure of the pistol made by Li Qingsong at this moment may be different from those made in the human world.

It is not a modern pistol that fires bullets by hammering. It is actually a flintlock pistol.

There is a flint specially installed inside it. When the trigger is pulled, the friction of the flint will produce sparks, ignite the primer of the bullet and fire it out.

Its magazine capacity is 10 rounds, and each pull of the trigger can only fire one round, not continuous fire. "My current industrial production capacity is limited, and I can't waste precious productivity on this kind of firearm. No, it needs to be improved!"

Using flint to create sparks to ignite the primer is too inefficient, and it is impossible to fire continuously. The firing rate is too slow. How can it be improved?

I've vaguely heard of things like hammers and firing pins before, but what exactly are hammers and firing pins? What are their structures? How are they used?

Not only does the ignition need to be improved, but the bullet also needs further optimization.

The power of today's bullets is too weak. I'm afraid they cannot cause enough damage to the monster bird's hard body. We must find a way to strengthen them.

The continuous shooting aspect must also be improved.

It takes several seconds to fire a bullet. What’s the use?

The magazine capacity also needs to be improved. Not to mention making the kind of belt-fed machine gun seen in movies and TV dramas that can fire dozens of bullets in a second, I only require that I can fire ten rounds in a second. If ten rounds is not enough, five rounds will also be fine. Isn't that too much?
Controlling the brains of more than a thousand researcher clones, Li Qingsong pondered deeply. While thinking, he began to try various optimization alternatives based on the current firearm.

At this moment, although there are only more than a thousand heads engaged in relevant thinking, what supports this thinking is all the knowledge accumulated and researched by Li Qingsong in the past few decades when he built a complete industrial system from scratch, constructed one steel plant, chemical plant, foundry, power plant after another, and built one planting base, dormitory building, huge factory building after another.

Even if it is just the most ordinary clone responsible for tightening steel bars, during the long work, he will always figure out some skills of tightening steel bars and have his own understanding of the material of steel bars.

And this understanding will also become Li Qingsong's knowledge reserve.

The knowledge reserves of all clones constitute an extremely large and comprehensive knowledge base.

At this moment, the thinking of more than a thousand clones is based on this knowledge base.

Under such circumstances, the guns manufactured by Li Qingsong had longer and longer gun bodies, larger magazines, and rounder bullets, which were getting closer and closer to the shape of the bullets he had seen in movies and TV dramas.

Of course, he had just seen it and forgotten it before, but now, Li Qingsong completely and thoroughly understood why the bullet had to be of this shape and what characteristics this shape of bullet had.

So, after two of the nine dormitory buildings were empty and a total of about 9 clones died on the battlefield, the first gun that met Li Qingsong's requirements, with a high rate of fire, large magazine capacity, and automatic continuous firing, was finally produced in the laboratory.

It has a huge magazine that is 20 cm long, weighs about 3 kg, and has a capacity of 80 bullets.

Including the magazine, the total mass of the entire gun is about 10 kilograms.

Including three spare magazines, the total mass reaches 19 kilograms.

On Earth, such a heavy gun would probably have no practical use. But this isn't Earth; this is Luoshen, where gravity is only 8% of Earth's!

The mass of 19 kg only weighs 1.5 kg here!
At this moment, the clone came to the shooting range holding the huge gun.

He pulled the trigger, and bang bang bang bang, the muzzle immediately fired all the bullets in the magazine at a rate of 4 rounds per second in just over 20 seconds.

He casually removed the magazine, replaced it with a new one, pulled the trigger again, and another 80 rounds of bullets were fired.

"That's it!"

Li Qingsong immediately made up his mind: "Mass production immediately!"

(End of this chapter)