Although many people today are in the mood of watching the excitement, as long as the machine gun shows a little potential or something, they will also give applause and continue to encourage researchers to continue research......

Compared with the calmness of the military generals, Lin Ziran is much more excited!

He had already received the internal test report of the machine gun project team three days earlier, and decided to come and see the test.

That's why we have today's itinerary!

Many generals in the military expressed interest in the potential of machine guns, but they were only interested, and they did not know how strategic the machine guns were.

And Lin Ziran is different!

Lin Ziran knows the role of machine guns better than everyone in this world!

This is a new weapon that can change the strategic model!

Its change in the mode of warfare is no less than that of rear-loading artillery, and even surpasses that of rear-loading artillery.

At least, even after the appearance of rear-loading artillery, whether it is the Daheng Unified Army or the troops of other feudal towns, they all invariably choose a straggler formation to widen the distance between soldiers and soldiers, but this distance is still limited, and more often in order to form infantry fire density and impact strength, the combat mode of intensive charge will still be used.

This point is very obvious in the battle of Qingdecheng and the key breakthrough tactics of the Daheng unified army!

In the Battle of Qingdecheng, although most of the time the attack of the Daheng unified army was dispersed and infiltrated, in the stage of short-term contact, for the sake of firepower density and troop superiority, the Daheng unified army still used the tactics of intensive charge many times.

To put it simply, a bunch of people rushed up with bayonets to kill the enemy!

In the same way, when the enemy army attacks or counterattacks, it often adopts the tactics of charging and fighting bayonets!

But if machine guns appear and are used on a large scale, this tactic will probably become a thing of the past.

In the face of the dense fire of the machine guns, the dense charge will become a death charge!

Lin Ziran knew this very well, so he was looking forward to it even more!

When everyone entered the test site, they soon saw two machine guns that were somewhat different.

The person in charge of the ordnance department introduced: "The sample guns of these two machine guns are air-cooled and water-cooled respectively, and in addition to the different cooling modes, there are also relatively big differences in other details. ”

"This air-cooled machine gun is based on our newly developed 11mm rifle cartridge, which is also expected to be used in the new generation of 11mm rifles."

"Twenty-four rounds of drum feeding or chain feeding, our research focuses on controlling the weight, so that the gun can be carried by soldiers with their bare hands and maneuver, so the design is also more inclined to weight control, in addition to the air-cooled mode itself can control the weight, but also use a bipod to further control the weight, but the shortcomings are also more obvious, it is difficult to maintain a long period of continuous shooting, otherwise the barrel is easy to scrap, and at the same time, in order to control the weight, it is slightly lacking in accuracy, and it is easier to jam!"

"In addition, in terms of cost, because the air-cooled machine gun has very high requirements for the barrel material, we use the latest research of the new alloy steel, whether it is the raw material itself or the processing, the cost is relatively high!"

"But even if the gun has one or another drawback, its light weight advantage is unparalleled, and it can be carried by two soldiers for emergency maneuvers and deployment!"

After talking about this air-cooled machine gun, the person in charge talked about another water-cooled machine gun.

"This water-cooled machine gun, the same eleven-millimeter rifle cartridge, the ammunition supply method uses the bullet chain to feed the ammunition, the design of the gun focuses on the tendency to continue shooting, including the barrel is used to fill the water jacket to cool down, the use of the bullet chain to feed the ammunition, in order to maintain the shooting accuracy of the use of a tripod or a gun carriage with wheels, the shooting stability is greatly improved, to ensure the accuracy of the long range, because the weight of the gun is relatively large, so in addition to the tripod gun carriage, we also designed a wheel gun carriage, which can be directly dragged by horses during daily maneuvers, Short-distance maneuvers on the battlefield can be carried out by soldiers, but even so, once deployed during combat, it is still more difficult to quickly transfer in the future. ”

Lin Ziran watched while listening to the introduction of the person in charge, these two machine guns said they were guns, but they were actually big guys!

It's a water-cooled machine gun with a wheel gun carriage and a gun shield, and this thing weighs more than those rapid-fire mortars!

But these are not important, in Lin Ziran's opinion, now is not the time to ask for machine gun mobility, anyway, no matter how heavy it is, it is impossible to say that it can get hundreds of kilograms.

Therefore, Lin Ziran is not very optimistic about the air-cooled machine guns in these two machine guns, and the reason why he continues to support them is purely for future consideration, and to make technical reserves for the follow-up research on lighter heavy machine guns and even light machine guns.

As for now, it is still more reliable to have a water-cooled machine gun!

After all, what we want now is the ability to sustain firepower!

After listening to the brief introduction of the person in charge, Lin Ziran said: "Let them try it with live ammunition, well, try both, whether this is a donkey or a horse, pull it out and walk it!" ”

The other generals also nodded, and Wu Guanlin even said: "It's useless to say more, seeing is believing!" ”

Under Lin Ziran's instructions, soon the two machine guns were tested with live ammunition!

The sound of machine guns continued to sound, and under the gaze of everyone, the first test was the air-cooled machine gun.

The machine gun was only tested under the operator's operation, and began to spray bullets continuously.

When the machine gun sprayed tongues of fire, many people present involuntarily stopped breathing!

When this thing shoots, the scene is too scary, it's only a short time, how many bullets does this shot shoot? The drum of twenty-four rounds was finished in a few seconds, and the sub-shooter didn't even have time to change the drum......

When the bullet chain is used to feed the ammunition, the fighting scene is even more terrifying, and the bullets are constantly sprayed out, directly hitting a large template that directly serves as a target 100 meters away......

However, this air-cooled machine gun does have a relatively poor ability to shoot continuously, it will jam when it hits, and the barrel cannot continue to shoot because it is overheated, so when it is tested, it is intermittent, and it doesn't take long for the barrel to become completely red and can not continue to test.

Then came the water-cooled machine gun!

The sustained firepower of the water-cooled machine gun further refreshed everyone's three views, the continuous shooting ability of this thing far exceeds that of the air-cooled machine gun, when this fights, the bullet chain continues to supply ammunition, and the barrel water injection sleeve of the machine gun begins to bubble, but it can still continue to shoot, and soon the bullet shells are piled up all over the ground......

Among the amazed crowds, Wu Guanlin, the chief of staff, was worried!

And Qiu Honglin, the logistics department on the side, frowned even more!

Bastard, who stepped on a horse to make this thing, it was really used on a large scale, and its huge ammunition consumption would be a disaster for logistics supply!