As the head of the logistics department, Qiu Honglin is responsible for the logistics supply of hundreds of thousands of troops, and he is very sensitive to ammunition consumption!

And now these machine guns, the rate of fire is too terrifying!

The water-cooled heavy machine gun, which is now praised by everyone and Marshal Lin Ziran, can reach more than 600 rounds per minute, and the continuous firing ability is particularly terrifying!

What does this mean?

The other generals saw a huge amount of firepower, but Qiu Honglin saw a huge amount of ammunition!

Now the ammunition consumption of the Daheng unified army is already very large, whether it is shells or bullet consumption, compared with the era of smoothbore guns many years ago, the ammunition consumption has almost doubled exponentially, and this is especially true after the subsequent large-scale equipment of rapid-fire mortars.

Now that a machine gun has come out, it will be hundreds or thousands of bullets as soon as it is shot, and the consumption of bullets in the future will not be even more terrifying?

It's not just Qiu Honglin who is worried about the consumption of ammunition, but also Wu Guanlin, the head of the General Staff, who is worried about this problem!

This machine gun seems to be very good, but the ammunition consumption is terrifying.

Looking at the pile of bullet casings on the ground, Wu Guanlin could imagine that it was not easy to transport thousands of rounds of bullets to the front line, but as soon as the machine gun fired, it didn't take long for the bullets to be finished......

In addition, Wu Guanlin is also worried about another problem, that is, no matter how you look at it, this thing is a defensive weapon.

With just one glance, he could imagine that this thing was best placed on the trench line to strafe the enemy attacking his position!

But in the current war, the Daheng unified army is on the offensive side, whether it is in the previous battle, or the planned follow-up attack in the battle of Luozhou and Ningyu Prefecture, but the war with the seven northern states in the future, in the strategic plan of the General Staff, it is a war that belongs to the active attack.

In other words, the enemy of the Daheng United Army is actually the one who needs the weapon of heavy machine gun the most!

If the machine gun comes out and is put into large-scale service, relying on its dense firepower will certainly be able to bring great firepower advantages to the Daheng Unification Army, but if this thing is not good, it will also bury the current advantages of the Daheng Unification Army.

Because of the machine gun, other feudal towns will also copy and produce, just like artillery.

Once the enemy army is also equipped with these machine guns on a large scale, I am afraid that it will also pose a major threat to the front-line infantry of the Daheng United Army.

Many of the new weapons of the Daheng Unification Army have been copied and produced by the enemy, and the Buluoan III rifle and rear-loading rifled guns have even become the standard configuration of the major feudal towns.

That is to say, they have taken the lead and have a greater advantage when the other party's production capacity cannot be raised for a while.

Therefore, once you are equipped with machine guns on a large scale, other feudal towns will definitely follow up when they see it, and then the Daheng unified army will need to face the threat of machine guns.

Thinking that his infantry was constantly strafing by the enemy's machine guns and fell down when they were attacking, Wu Guanlin couldn't help frowning!

It's a big killer for yourself, but it's also a big killer for your enemies!

But fortunately, this thing was developed and equipped by its own side first, and if the enemy wants to copy and equip it on a large scale, it will also take time, just like the breech-loading rifled gun.

After the live-fire test of the two machine guns was completed, Lin Ziran made a decision on the spot, immediately produced water-cooled heavy machine guns, and began to equip troops on a small scale to formulate relevant operation manuals and tactics.

After the construction of the large-scale production line is completed, it will be put into full-scale production and popularized throughout the army.

Lin Ziran hopes that in three months, he will see the installation of heavy machine guns in some of the main front-line troops!

Before that, Lin Ziran hoped that the troops would keep this weapon secret, and that it would not appear on the front line before the key units on the front line were equipped in large quantities, let alone be captured.

Three months of construction of the production line and the accumulation of experience in experiments at the same time are very sloppy in peacetime, but this is the war years, and three months is a long time.

The reason why the time limit is relaxed to three months is actually to establish a greater advantage in the early stage, launch more heavy machine guns at one time, and win more wars, and shorten the time for being discovered and imitated by the enemy.

Don't underestimate the ability to imitate weapons in the northern states and towns, even the more high-tech breech-loading rifled guns can be copied and produced in large quantities, not to mention this heavy machine gun.

If you don't restrict it now and go directly to the battlefield, after this is discovered by the enemy, the enemy will immediately copy it, and it is estimated that it will not take long to make a large bunch.

At that time, the expected northward operation of the Daheng Unification Army will have a relatively large negative impact.

According to the current initial plan, within three months, that is, before May of the 53rd year of Yongchang, the Daheng Unified Army will maintain a strategic defensive posture on the northern front.

The focus is on Zhongluo Prefecture and Ningyu Prefecture!

At present, the combat units that are ready to participate in these two directions have been almost deployed, and if nothing else, the Fourth Army will launch an offensive against Ningyu Prefecture in five days with the cooperation of the navy.

After the Fourth Army kills the enemy army in Ningyu Prefecture, then the Daheng Unification Army will target Zhongluo Prefecture.

The enemy forces in these two places are not strong, and if it were not for the limited ammunition supply capacity, in order to avoid the relatively large logistical supply pressure caused by the two-front battle, and at the same time it is easy to cause other unnecessary series of reactions, the South China Navy would attack these two states at the same time.

According to the strategic plan drawn up by the General Staff, within three months, the two states should be initially cleared out, and the worst of them will be able to gain strategic advantages in these two directions.

In this way, the follow-up Daheng Unification Army will be able to shift its focus to the northern front.

Recently, the pressure on the northern front has also been increasing, and the enemy forces on several fronts held by the two sides are increasing day by day, and the rear-loading rifled guns are also being equipped with more and more weapons.

In particular, the northeast line of Dongdingzhou, opposite is Jingzhou, in addition to the troops belonging to the Ji royal family of Jingzhou itself, there are also two northeastern states of Daheng, that is, the troops of Ningwu Prefecture and Gaoqing Prefecture.

Based on the reconnaissance information collected by the reconnaissance units of the Third Army on the front line, coupled with some of the public information collected, the Third Army on the front line judged that the total strength of the three enemy units in front of them had exceeded 200,000.

On the northern front of Zisheng Prefecture, there were also enemy troops in Pingnan Prefecture and Bei'an Prefecture in the north of Zisheng Prefecture, and the enemy troops in this direction were even more, long ago exceeding 200,000, and the troops on the front line predicted that there were at least 200,000 enemy troops in front of them.

On the northern line of Quyang Prefecture, there are also nearly 100,000 enemy troops in Nanhu Prefecture!

The most important thing is that the enemy's strength continues to increase, and more and more rear-loading guns are appearing, especially breech-loading rifled guns!

Last month, the enemy forces on the northeastern front also tried to launch a medium-sized counterattack on the defense line of the Third Army, although it was said that the Third Army was defeated and killed and wounded more than 2,000 enemy troops, but during the battle, the front-line troops found that the enemy's artillery support was quite large.

It can be seen that the number of rear-loading guns of the enemy, especially the equipment of rear-loading rifled guns, is rapidly increasing!

The situation on the northern front is not optimistic!