Chapter Seven: The Bloody Battle of Nanguan (1)
The imperial court has invested a lot of money this time, dropped so many soldiers to participate in the encirclement and suppression, the north, west, and east have exchanged fire one after another, the battle began, more than 10,000 cavalry launched an attack on Li Ming's position, followed by Qing soldiers with spears, soldiers wearing armor, and more than 10,000 musketeers, artillery fired in the back, the Qing army had more than 20,000 people in the general attack under the command of Li Ming, the latest military factory produced 10 Marco heavy machine guns on the mount, the soldiers according to the tactics of the army, the latest production of rear-loading rifles are also equipped with 4 regiments, So far, the equipment of this unit is the most advanced, the Qing army has forgotten what danger is when they think about it, and they are as desperate as they have eaten stimulants, Li Ming looked at the distance, 2000 meters, 1500 meters, 1000 meters, put me into the fight, 900 meters, 800 meters to fire, the Boxer soldiers are waiting for this day, go into battle to kill the enemy, and the other battlefields will not say much, the protagonist did not pass, Li Ming gave me an order to fight, the voice was loud, Ma Kexin's gun was not the Qing army's gun, Before the advent of the Maxim machine gun, the guns used by people were non-automatic guns, and the bullets needed to be loaded one by one.
The decisive force for victory in the war depended largely on how fast the reload was, and many people were inexplicably killed before they could reload a second round.
The machine gun of Makqin, at the moment of firing, the machine gun and the barrel are buckled together, using the first gas energy as the power, through a set of organs to open the chamber, the bolt continues to recoil to withdraw the empty cartridge case and throw it out of the gun, and then drive the bullet supply mechanism to compress the re-entry spring, under the action of the spring force, the bolt pushes the bullet into place and fires again.
This way, once the shooting starts, the machine gun can continue to fire until the cartridge belt is finished, which can save a lot of reload time.
American engineer Hiram Stevens Mackin came from a poor background and became a well-known inventor through diligent self-study.
In 1882, when Makqin went to England to investigate, he found that soldiers often shot from the recoil of old rifles, and their shoulders were bruised and purple.
This shows that the recoil of the gun has considerable energy, which comes from the ** gas produced when the bullet is fired.
It was from the recoil phenomenon that people are accustomed to and turned a blind eye to that Makqin found the ideal impetus for the automatic continuous firing of weapons.
Makqin first carried out a modification test on an old-fashioned Winchester rifle, and used the ** gas emitted by the bullet during shooting to make the gun complete a series of actions such as unlocking, unshelling, feeding, and re-locking, realizing the automatic continuous shooting of the single-barreled gun and reducing the recoil of the gun.
Makqin was the first to successfully develop the world's first automatic rifle in 1883. Later, based on the experience gained from the rifle, he further developed and perfected the principle of automatic fire with a short recoil of the barrel.
He also changed the traditional way of feeding bombs and made a 6-meter-long canvas bullet chain. Continuous feeding of ammunition for machine guns.
In order to cool down the barrel that heats up due to continuous high-speed firing, Maxim also uses water cooling.
In 1884, Maxim built the world's first machine gun capable of automatic continuous fire, with a rate of fire of more than 600 rounds per minute.
The Maxim machine gun was the world's first truly successful automatic weapon powered by gas.
The Maxim heavy machine gun, known as the Race electric gun in China, was invented by the British-American Hiram Stevens Maxim in 1883, and the principle test was carried out, and the patent was obtained in 1884.
Its caliber is 11.43 mm, the gun weighs 27.2 kg, and it has a barrel short recoil (19 mm) type automatic mode with a water-cooled barrel; The canvas cartridge belt with a capacity of 333 rounds and a length of 6.4 meters is used to feed the ammunition, and the cartridge belt can be continued, and the theoretical rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute, which can be fired in single and continuous shots; It can also be adjusted to a slow rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute via the rate of fire regulator.
As a military master of later generations, Li Ming modified Ma Kexin into a water-cooled water tank with water, which is similar to the water tank of a tractor, but it is not the same, if you encounter a protracted war, you don't have to worry about the problem of gun barrel heating in the city defense war, Li Ming successfully solved this problem, the only deficiency is the trouble of carrying and disassembling.
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