Sweep the World

The advancement of science and technology is to open doors. In many cases, as long as you reach that point, you can open the door with a light push. More often, it is difficult to open the door even if there are gaps.

Firearms are assembled from one part and components. Some parts do not meet the specifications. Even if they can be fired, their performance must be flawed and their lifespan will be shortened.

Compared with the 12-type rifle, the structure of the unnamed machine gun is more complicated.

"Except for the base, it is assembled from two hundred and forty-three parts. The big parts are the shell and barrel of the gun. The minimum parts inside are only four millimeters." Although Zhang Shi did not expect the test shot to be completed. A bullet chain, but I did not expect that it could not last for 20 seconds: "The ejection device and the firing device are still being perfected..."

Liu Yan just saw that the gun body shakes a lot during the launch. It is obvious that the recoil generated during launch is a bit surprising. If the bite force of the gun parts is not enough, repeated shaking will inevitably cause malfunctions, so I am afraid that there is not only a problem with the ejector device. , There is a problem with the entire machine gun.

Anyone who has played with assembling should understand a truth. When various parts are assembled with each other, it is difficult to achieve sufficient bite. There must be screws for further strengthening. If only the bite between the various parts is very strong. It is difficult to be absolutely tight, and it will loosen between the bites after a few shakes, and the beautiful assembly will immediately become loose.

For a machine gun...machine gun, there are screws to strengthen the occlusal of each part, but the design will still be a big test, because even a simple part occlusion or reinforcement is scientific. Part.

Liu Yan didn't have any anger or even any blame. Some were warm words and encouragement.

It took nearly ten years for the research rifle to have a finished product. It has slowly come to the stage of developing a rifled gun. If every mistake occurs, it will be angered and brain-staffed to kill the researcher, then the research will be done by hand. Faults are equal to starting again every time.

There is no lack of examples in history where the research was forced to restart because the dictator killed the scientific researcher in a rage. After the dictator vented his anger, it was refreshing. Although the research will leave information, the replacement of different personnel is equivalent to almost the same. Start from the basics.

The cannon was checked where it was malfunctioning, and after repairing it, it was ready to fire again.

This time its launch lasted about ten seconds longer than the previous one, and a brand new bullet chain was hit by about one-third.

"A chain of one thousand bullets?" Liu Yanmo calculated it, and said, "The rate of fire is 300 rounds per minute?"

Ma Zihuan said the data of repeated experiments, if a familiar operator launches, the maximum rate of fire of the machine gun can reach about four hundred and fifty rounds per minute.

Liu Yan looked at the weird and hideous-looking multi-barrel machine gun with some wonder. He really didn't expect it to appear so quickly. Although it has various flaws, it is a matter of material science and part occlusion. He must continue to study it. Qualified products will be researched out.

Unchanged history. The first hand-cranked Gatling was invented by American Richard Jordan Gatling in the second half of the nineteenth century. Its initial rate of fire per minute was only two hundred per minute. After repeatedly improving the gun body and changing the firing of copper shell bullets, the record achieved a maximum rate of fire of 1,200 rounds per minute.

Liu Yan didn’t know the history of the Gatling machine gun, but he was able to distinguish that it could achieve a maximum rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute. It’s quite remarkable. He also knew that once it was mass-produced and deployed to the army, it would definitely show up. ferocious.

"The rifle is destined to eliminate cold weapons such as knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc. It..." Ran Min didn't know what expression to use: "The rate of fire of the flintlock is slow, excellent. It’s the limit to shoot once every two minutes for a step-seeker, and there is still a way for the cavalry to survive. It fires bullets like a squally storm, and even the cavalry has no way to survive."

The era of platooning on the walls...or the end of the tight infantry array warfare is the use of machine guns on the battlefield. Even the cavalry that moves faster than the infantry also disappears in the frontal battlefield, causing the cavalry to turn from a land warrior to a miscellaneous. The role of the arms.

"We are very lucky." Xu Zheng said with emotion, "At least we are at the forefront of the world, and we are the only one at the moment."

The guards stationed in this camp are the first troops in the world to be fully equipped with firearms.

The loud horn sounded the order to gather, and groups of soldiers appeared from all over the camp to gather on the school grounds.

Among them, the soldiers are all equipped with twelve-style modified flintlocks, and the officers are of the handgun type. Once they arrive at the school, they will line up under the constraints of the officers.

The soldier's upper body is a gray-green combat uniform. The clothes are in a mid-open style. They are buttoned up by one metal button after another. They have epaulettes, collars, and badges. They look straight and fit; their lower pants are iron gray and boots. It was blackened cowhide barrel boots.

Their waist is also an armed belt made of cowhide. There is a long leather box on the right waist. A bayonet 20 cm long is hung on the left front waist. At the same time, the left waist is also hung with a cleaning gun. The cleaning rod for the bore.

The long leather box is 20 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. There is a barrier layer in the middle. One side holds paper gunpowder and the other side holds lead pellets. The overall capacity is 30 rounds.

Because it is not in the wild, nor is it in a marching state, bedding, kettles, tableware, blankets, etc. are missing.

Apart from the buttons and the buckle device of the armed belt, the metal on the body is the helmet worn by Jiejianyu WWII German M35 but with a pointed spear.

The helmet was named Type 13 and it was stamped from a piece of iron plate. The edges were rounded with smooth curved edges. The inner lining was made of soft leather and painted in wild gray.

From Liu Yan's point of view, the army in front of him has reached the specifications of the mid-to-late eighteenth century. It can even be said that the design of military uniforms far exceeds the level of the eighteenth century, and should be at the level of the nineteenth century.

From the eyes of the others, the army uniforms lined up for review are so weird. Without the bands and hairs, the skirts are no longer right-handed. Although a whole set of military uniforms looks very heroic, they just feel that they are missing. what.

"Your Majesty..." Ran Min was a person who said whatever he thought of, and said straightforwardly: "I used to learn from Daqin and Persia's clothing design style. Dahan is far stronger than them, so why should I learn from their style?"

"..." Liu Yan was a little speechless when asked, and was silent for a while before saying to Ran Min: "Yongzeng's opinion is very right."

In the known world, the Han Empire is the most worthy power. It should be the world that follows the fashion of the Han Empire, and it should never be the Han Empire to imitate others.

Liu Yan is also somewhat fixed in his mind. The design guidance is based on the military uniform style of later generations. Due to the relationship between the river crab and the beast, he cannot follow the Chinese army. He chooses the combination of the German army in World War I and World War II, but it is really gone. Chinese style.

"General." Liu Yan beckoned to Xu Zheng, and then several generals approached and said: "All the Qings are lieutenants in the army and are familiar with military life. Never ran to the firearms unit and put forward the correct one. Suggestions. Zhu Qing can later brainstorm and design a Chinese-style military uniform."

The people who originally thought that the military uniform was weird were stunned. They still knew that the weird military uniform was a product designed under the guidance of Liu Yan. They didn’t know what Ran Min said to Liu Yan just now. Let Liu Yan say those things, and he paused for a moment not knowing what to say.

Liu Yan is serious about designing a new uniform for the supply of firearms. However, he no longer intends to participate, or he will be interfered with by his fixed thinking. It is more appropriate to be the final judge.

The design of new military uniforms is a very abrupt topic today. No one has a clue, and after a few conversations, the topic will change.

They came here today to take a look at the new rifled guns. It is an extra program to visit the machine guns that are not named and fixed. The real purpose is to review the firearms troops trained for a year and a half.

This time, the review is definitely not watching the marching army, but watching the live-fire military exercise.

Under Liu Yan's order, a total of 3,500 troops were divided into several teams to leave the barracks.

The firearms unit will no longer continue the previous organization. It consists of a squad of 12 people including the squad leader and deputy squad leader, three squads as a platoon, three platoons as a company, three companies as a battalion, and so on. Three-three system.

Except for the combat unit, which is a basic squad with twelve people, the military unit in the platoon will certainly not be all combat personnel. In fact, there will still be an auxiliary squad, so a platoon is actually almost 50 people. For companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, divisions, and corps, the higher the upward, the larger the auxiliary forces.

Like this experimental firearms unit, this brigade participating in this live-fire military exercise has 3,500 people participating in the live-fire military exercise, but in addition to these soldiers, there are actually 1,500 supporters. The nature of the logistics force, and the logistics personnel only do logistics work, unless necessary they will not set foot on the battlefield.

Although the logistic personnel of the firearms unit do not need to participate in the war unless necessary, they are still regarded as regular establishments, and their treatment is consistent with that of combat troops. This is because the firearms army is different from the cold weapon army. Compared with the cold weapon army, the logistic personnel of the firearm army are not capable of transporting things or doing heavy work. They also need to understand the classification of munitions and master the maintenance technology of their respective positions. , Their busiest is the need to deploy paper gunpowder for the soldiers on the front line.

The troops pulled out of the barracks and came to an open area to immediately proceed to a division. With a company as the basic unit, they were arranged into three horizontal teams, and one regiment was a large column, forming a rectangular array line.

"This time it's just a demonstration of the riflemen?" Huan Wen didn't see the artillery set up, and pointed to the scarecrow densely arranged in front of him: "Is it a demonstration of firepower?"

Many of them have seen the volley of guns fired by the firearms, from the column salvo at the beginning to the four-stage shooting at the back; it is also from the salvo that they are caught in the vast smoke and use smokeless fires at the back. The medicine is no longer in the smoke.

The officers of the unit were shouting for a word. The riflemen in the first row became standing and aiming with guns, and the riflemen in the second and third rows stood still with their butts touching the ground.

"Three-stage shooting in situ!"

"The first row is ready..."

"Fire!"

A burst of "pop" echoed frequently, the first row of riflemen who had finished shooting retreated, and the second row of riflemen replaced them to the first row.

"Second row preparation..."

"Fire!"

There was another gunshot, and the second row of riflemen who had finished shooting also retreated, and the original third row replaced forward and entered the shooting position. At this time, the first row just now had completed the reloading action. When they entered the second row to be fired, the group of riflemen who had just shot backwards pushed to the third row to clean and reload.

In the original third row, they entered the firing position and fired again at the command of the officer.

Under such rotation shooting, the scarecrow in front was hit by the projectiles and the grass clippings continued to fly. Some scarecrows that were shot too much simply turned into bare supports, and even the scarecrows burned.

Although it was not the first time to see firearms firing, everyone who came to watch them still looked refreshed.

"Rolling propulsion shooting!"

"The first row is ready..."

"Fire!"

"Second row preparation..."

"Fire!"

"The third row is ready..."

"Fire!"

The entire column is cleared and reloaded in situ for each row of fire, row after row continuously rolls forward, and the interval between each shot is about ten seconds at most.

After changing the shooting mode, the rifleman obviously cannot be as easy as the three-stage strike in place. The people watching found many mistakes. For example, some riflemen really couldn't keep up with the action but they had to follow the shooting position, but they all did it. Before he could pull out the cleaning rod, he had no choice but to shoot, but he didn't dare to pull the trigger.

The cleaning rod is loaded with gunpowder and projectiles in the barrel ~www.wuxiamtl.com~, it is indeed impossible to fire, otherwise it will definitely be the end of the blast.

"There are so many mistakes just in the drill." Ran Min is not mocking, but a bit of hatred for iron and steel: "They will soon be deployed to the battlefield. Actual combat is definitely worse than drill."

"It should be too fast." Xu Zheng didn't know if what he was saying was fair, and only said from his own point of view: "Slow down for about two seconds, and the situation will be better."

Liu Yan just listened quietly. The reason why he frowned slightly was that he didn't know the interval between the three-stage strikes in history. The troops in the exercise were doing it according to their own standards, and there might be something unreasonable.

At present, the entire Han Empire is just such a firearm unit equipped with flintlocks. They are seeds. If they are embarrassed on the battlefield, they will inevitably have a major impact.

"Come again." Liu Yan frowned and said, "The interval has been increased to fifteen seconds!"

This unit will soon be transferred to northern Xinjiang, and if a problem is discovered, a reasonable test will be carried out immediately, rather than being forced to come to the battlefield with a moth.