My Empire

My Empire Chapter 44

2020-11-03

Chapter 44 44 Wasting Bullets

Apart from the elite teaching group, Chris has not relaxed his weapon development for the past two months and produce.

A Maxim heavy machine gun with 7.92mm bullets has been developed. The design accuracy of this weapon is actually no higher than that of the Mauser rifle, so the technical difficulty of production is not high.

The ammunition problem that Chris was worried about has also improved with the gradual increase in the number of bullet factories. Recently, the industrial production rate of Alanhill is at least a hundred times faster than before.

Yes, starting from nothing is actually the most difficult process. When there are more machines and the parts needed for the equipment are mass-produced, the speed of the factory's expansion will completely fly.

The first lathe was assembled by hand filing the parts, which of course was slow. The second lathe can use the first lathe to process the prototype, and then simply grind and modify it by hand, and the speed is naturally much faster.

By the time the third and fourth machines are installed, the workers have become proficient, and the processing speed of the machinery has doubled—then the speed at which these devices are produced will be faster.

After more than a year of accumulation, Alanhill, who has reached the second year of industrialization, has reached a certain level of familiarity with machinery, so Chris can just let go of many things as long as he takes out the blueprint.

In fact, not everything is perfect, because Alanhill still hasn't popularized electricity. Although thermal power plants have been established, the electricity that can be generated is basically provided to factories that are constantly expanding.

Even Chris's castle, his home base, still uses pathetic candles and "horse lanterns". Although the horse lantern is also convenient, because of the need to use kerosene, Chris is generally reluctant to use it.

After all, even kerosene is an under-produced material. Compared with China during the Anti-Japanese War, Alanhill's situation is not much better.

As great as the progress in chemistry has been, many things remain stagnant because of raw materials.

In order to meet the needs of next year's farming, Chris has arranged some small chemical plants in advance to start producing fertilizers. This is one of the foundations of Chris's "Wealth of Nations", nothing to eat, everything is illusion.

He followed the way of industrialization in China before and built five local small enterprises, that is, small fertilizer plants, small power plants and other factories, not seeking advanced technology, but only to meet local needs.

With the support of these small factories, Chris has trained a large number of "capitalists", and these capitalists will study new technologies hard after making profits, and become firm support for Chris's technological expansion By.

They learn, are hyphenated, and have a cultural foundation. After making money, you still have the mind and desire to protect your property and status. With these people, Chris can improve the quality of the population on a large scale, and can have more qualified workers and technicians.

And the others, if the quality of the mouth is improved to a certain level, the quality of the soldiers will be improved by leaps and bounds. At that time, more troops can be expanded to Sweeping Across the World for Alanhill.

Chris, who originally wanted to directly mass-produce the MG42 machine gun, finally compromised with reality. The replacement of the barrel and the ultra-high rate of fire made the MG42 a nightmare for bullet supply.

So he can only obediently and honestly produce the Maxim heavy machine gun first, and use water cooling to save more resources.

As a result, the heavy machine guns produced are also cumbersome weapons with wheels, which also need to be dragged by war horses, and require several soldiers to serve them, just like a small cannon.

However, after seeing the power of Maxim's heavy machine gun, both Vagron and Mordelal felt that this weapon was a good thing, and they all hoped to equip more machine guns as soon as possible. And more ammo.

The heavy machine gun towed by horses is not that absolutely does not have advantages. One advantage is that the heavy machine gun has a shield, and the safety of the shooter has a higher guarantee.

The second advantage is that this machine gun has a multi-purpose firing cradle, which can fire instantly in the air. The emergence of heavy machine guns gave the infantry a kind of air defense heavy firepower that was better than nothing.

As for how many heavy machine guns each infantry company should be equipped with, it has become the fuse of the world war between the commanders of the military and the industrial sector.

Vagron, Mordelair and the others naturally thought that the more heavy machine guns a company had, the better. If you can, it is completely possible to set up a full-heavy machine gun.

Secretary Smith, Gurlow and the others complained to Chris about the lack of capacity in the industrial sector. Chris also knows that he has just gotten out of the crisis of insufficient bullet capacity, and there is still a long way to go before he can spend freely.

So, after Chris's balance, it was temporarily decided that an infantry company should be equipped with 2 Maxim heavy machine guns. As for whether to change it in the future, it depends on the future conditions.

It was produced along with the heavy machine gun, and there is also a sharp weapon for reconnaissance. Chris invented the telescope early on, and it has finally been put into mass production recently.

The newest binocular telescopes are very convenient and very popular high level military equipment. Alanhill's troops are now fully equipped because of the production plant.

In addition, some special units are also equipped with telescopes, such as correctional firing observers for artillery units, anti-aircraft gun units for anti-aircraft security, and heavy machine gun teams.

The reason why they are equipped with telescopes is because these troops need a very long observation distance to be able to fight better.

"tú tú! tú tú!" On the hillside, the newly formed heavy machine gun team is training to fire with their weapons. Because tracer rounds were not developed, their ballistic corrections depended entirely on the feel of the shooter.

Beside the machine gun, the commander knelt on the ground and held the telescope, loudly reminding his shooter: "The target is not covered! The elevation angle is raised by a ruler!"

The shooter was lying next to him The downed lieutenant immediately pulled out a fixed tenon stuck to the machine gun's scale. The shooter pressed the gun down a little bit, so that the muzzle was raised a little higher. Then the pair inserted the tenon back into the fixed point on the ruler.

"tú tú ! tú tú !" The adjusted second round shot started immediately, and another row of bullets flew towards the target and landed on the distant target area.

The commander holding the telescope cheered loudly, because he saw the target area a thousand meters away from the telescope, and a white smoke was shot out by the bullet.

"Hit the target! Beautiful shot!" He cheered loudly, cheering his comrades: "Prepare to move positions! Go to the next launch position!"

All the time The two soldiers lying at the back stood up immediately, one led the war horse, the other stepped forward to help, and pulled the two heavy wooden wheels of the heavy machine gun out of the dug out of the fixed pit.

Even the ammunition plus special brackets, as well as wheels and shields, plus the machine gun itself and the water in the water pipe on the barrel... This Maxim is not light and requires a lot of effort , in order to transfer positions.

The four of them had to hang their machine guns on the back of the warhorse, and the horseman urged the warhorse to drive towards the next firing position. These soldiers should be equipped with self-defense revolvers according to regulations, but now they only have empty holsters on their waist belts.

All weapons must be produced little by little, and equipped little by little for the troops: See how, many second-line troops, training machine gun teams, are still using wooden counterweight models?

"This machine gun team is also good." Chris looked at the machine gun team rushing to the next firing position, and said to the officer behind him with satisfaction: "How many such teams do we have now?"

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"Almost, there are 17 of them. They are the seeds of the teaching regiment, and they will be responsible for training more machine gun teams in the future." The officer looked at the form in his hand and replied.

"Very good! Not bad!" Chris was in a very good mood as he watched his army grow stronger day by day, at a speed visible to naked eyes.

Even, he moved to improve his thoughts: "Let's go! Go to the pistol target area! I want to shoot two shots and practice one."

No Men don't like games like target shooting and archery. This is a man's instinctive desire, just as they like the mechanical roar of cars, the crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood of cannons, and the charm and beauty of women.

Chris is naturally unavoidable. He has experimented with cannons and shot 30mm anti-aircraft guns with his own hands. Now he has the opportunity, he often goes to the shooting range to shoot a few shots.

Standing in the shooting zone, Chris pulled the pistol from his waist and aimed at a distant target. There are standard 6 rounds of 9mm caliber bullets in his pistol, which can accurately hit the target at a distance of about 30 meters.

He closed one eye and saw the target in the distance through the crosshair. Standing with a standard pistol, he pulled the trigger sharply, and the Colt pistol in his hand immediately responded to his action: "Bah!"

Seven rings, six rings, seven rings... Chris's Spear Art is actually not accurate, he just likes to vent and like the thrill of pouring ammunition at the target, so he shoots very fast, and quickly runs out of 6 bullets.

Without looking at his grades, Chris lowered his head and started reloading his pistol, looking very professional.

Not far away, Vagron, who also came to shoot the target, smiled wickedly, and asked the officer in charge of the shooting range who came to greet him: "Your Majesty is here again?"

"Isn't it...wasting bullets again..." The officer at the shooting range was also full of wicked smiles, and seemed to be used to Your Majesty, who slandered him behind his back: "Everyday all come..."

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