Chapter 369: Live Demonstration

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

After Wesley finished the first report, Pershing had a lot to think about as a soldier, and his purpose for coming today was to officially make this report feasible.

Originally, he was serving in the Philippines. As the commander and governor of the fortress, Pershing was supposed to return to the United States next year, but Clarence went straight to the president, who valued Wesley more, so he called him back in advance.

Clarence had praised Wesley to the skies, and at the same time, he had mentioned the blockade of the American coastline. The president didn’t really care. Britain wouldn’t go to any trouble, but he was very interested in Wesley’s optimism about the future of the United States. After all, Wesley’s commercial development was shocking, and he was very interested in the forces behind Wesley. So in order to give Wesley a good impression, he directly called Pershing back to the country.

“The side of the machine gun is set up to carry out a crossfire blockade. It does have some ideas. If only we could see the scene directly.” Pershing said regretfully.

“Of course there is. Today’s second report is not conducted here. We can go to the drill ground and watch it. There is the latest weapons display from Gibson Group’s arsenal.” Wesley is blatantly promoting his product.

The president did not care much about it. In terms of military affairs, it still depended on Pershing. Although his current rank was not high, he had a lot of prestige and connections in the army. The president relied on him a lot, and Pershing was the commander of the United States Army Expeditionary Force in World War I.

“Okay, then let’s go and see.” The president was very polite.

The group went directly to the drill ground, where the technicians from the Arsenal were making preparations. Wesley had asked an infantry student to dig the trench. It would be a waste not to use the free labor, and Wesley had taught them how to learn.

The trench had been carefully set up by Wesley. There were serrated trenches, protruding sections, machine gun fire points, dark forts, traffic trenches, and so on. There was also barbed wire and land mines, but the mines were fake and placed on the ground and not buried.

“Please look at the trenches here. The serrated trenches can effectively prevent shrapnel damage. At the same time, they are designed to release cannon holes. The protruding part can effectively attack the enemy from the side. The transportation trench is convenient to transport troops and ammunition. The barbed wire and land mines can place the impact of enemy infantry. Next is the display of borrowing guns.” Wesley waved his hand, and the technicians of the arsenal directly placed two heavy machine guns on both sides of the trenches. Then, they sealed off most of the front of the central area with firepower.

The machine gun Wesley had made was an M1919A6 machine gun. It was light and powerful. It was an emergency machine gun designed and produced by the United States during World War II. It used bipod supports and had a handheld handle. It was light, simple, and practical. There were balloons in front of the position, and the two machine guns were at full power. The rate of fire was extremely fast. In order to show the power of the machine gun, Wesley did not use a canvas bullet belt. Instead, he used a handheld ammunition box to supply the bullets.

The two machine guns blocked the front of the position. At a length of 500 meters, a large number of balloons were broken. In particular, the balloons did not have much resistance and the bullets could penetrate several balloons in a row.

Pan Xing was also shocked by such a powerful firepower blockade. What would happen if the balloon was changed to a human? Although it could not penetrate too much of the human body, it was enough. In addition to other arrangements, it would be difficult for the infantry to pass through the blockade.

“It is indeed powerful. It seems that the war model has changed. What is your second report?” Pershing began to be interested in Wesley’s second report.

“Please don’t be in a hurry. The display of weapons is not over yet. Please follow me.” Wesley is determined to promote arms. Pershing smiled. He is very interested in Wesley’s machine gun, which is much better than the Maxim machine gun.

Wesley brought his men to the opposite side of the position, and a lot of targets were set up on the position. Then the personnel evacuated, and Wesley asked his men to bring over a lot of weapons. Wesley first took out a pistol, which Wesley had improved on the Beretta 92F, using a 9mm Gibson pistol bullet with a 15-round capacity. The improvement was to make pistol bullets universal with submachine guns, and the bullet was a little longer.

“Everyone, Gibson pistol. I said that speed is the main point now, and this pistol uses a 9mm pistol bullet. The recoil is small and the accuracy is high. The bullet capacity has reached 15 rounds. Regardless of defense or offense, the firepower is strong.” Wesley loaded the bullet and began to shoot at a separate target 50 meters ahead.

“Bang, bang, bang!” The continuous shots were visible to the naked eye. The center of the target was completely destroyed by Wesley until the bullets ran out and the barrel sleeve was stuck at the back. Wesley directly ejected the empty cartridge and filled it with a slow, pulled trigger, the barrel sleeve was back in place, the bullets were loaded, and another fifteen rounds were fired. Wesley checked and put down the pistol.

Pan Xing couldn’t stand it anymore and picked it up to watch. Mr. President was also very interested, but Pan Xing asked directly, “The bullet is too small. Will the power be insufficient?”

“Of course not. The bullet is a round-tipped bullet to begin with. After it enters the human body, the damage is very strong. Coupled with the rate of fire and firepower, it is completely enough to deal with it,” Wesley said. Then he picked up the rifle. This rifle is completely an M1 Garand semiautomatic rifle. Wesley directly took it out and made it his own. Moreover, Wesley likes this rifle very much, especially when the magazine was ejected at the end. The ding sound was simply pleasant. The so-called Wesley did not change it.

“This is a Gibson rifle, or G1 rifle for short. It is a semi-automatic rifle with a capacity of 8 rounds and an effective range of 730 meters.” Wesley loaded it directly and began to shoot. The target was a target on the position 600 meters away. Eight rounds were fired in succession.

“You’ve seen the machine gun. The bullet box rifle is universal. It’s all our 7.62mm rifle bullets. Four types of firearms only need two types of bullets. It’s convenient for logistics and production and transportation. You have to know that ammunition is a very troublesome problem.”

“Very good, it’s really good. So are there any more?” Pan Xing asked happily. In his opinion, these weapons are all mature and good things, and they can be fully equipped with troops, but Mr. President has a headache because Wesley seems to have wrapped up the light weapons. What about the other munitions factories? Although there are only two or three munitions factories in the United States now, and they now sell civilian weapons.

Wesley didn’t care about the president’s mood. The business world was like a battlefield. If you can’t do it, get out of the way. “Of course, the next introduction is the rapid-fire cannon.” The word rapid-fire cannon made Pershing even more excited. France’s ‘Miss 75’ gave countries a headache. Although they also sell it, they’d better have it themselves. If it was better, it would be perfect.