In April of the same year, the caliber 15.5 millimeter heavy machine gun was successfully developed, which was divided into two types: single-barreled infantry support type and ship-based twin type.

Using mechanical aiming and a quadruple optical sight, 30 rounds of ammunition are fed, and the drum structure is basically copied from the axillary man's drum, and after improvement and optimization, the ammunition supply is changed to 30 rounds.

For example, after the 50-round 15.5 mm machine gun drum is full, it is very inconvenient for humans to load and carry, and the metal cartridge chain technology is not mature, and the equipment and molds need to be adjusted, and the canvas cartridge chain is not suitable for ammunition with too large cartridges, and the early 14.5 and 23 mm guns all use 30 or 20 rounds of bridges or magazines, in order to facilitate handling and loading.

And there are more than 400 drums captured this time, the structure is a ready-made mature structure, Bailiyan continues to use the drum interface, so the heavy machine gun of the armpit drums can also be used, but the fifty rounds of drums are only suitable for garrison and city defense, and the field carries fifty drums, and the infantry will not have the spare strength to carry more individual weapons and ammunition.

Of course, if you switch to mules, horses or vehicles, you can solve the transportation problem, but at present, more consideration is still given to the limits and adaptability of people, relying too much on animal power machinery, and ignoring people, often suffers.

Because the axillary man-machine gun has a slow rate of fire and relies on an artificial rocker arm to feed the ammunition, the problem of jamming the 50-round drum and the poor ammunition supply is not prominent, the theoretical rate of fire of the heavy machine gun developed by the Xianjun army exceeds 500 rounds per minute, and the drum of the armpit man relies on the coil spring to propel, so the rate of fire is easy to fatigue under high-intensity combat, and the problem of ammunition supply is very easy, and all the captured drums have been upgraded with springs to meet the needs of the operation.

In addition, I have to say that the design ideas of the axillary people are quite advanced, and the overall design of the drum is extremely mature.

After testing and modification, the Type 645 heavy machine gun began production in September, and the accompanying ammunition production line was produced at the same time.

But as early as mid-June, reports were received that the armpit army was using automated weapons and rapid-fire artillery locally.

In September, the 654 type rotary locking bolt-action rifle was put into production at the same time, in addition to the magazine, ammunition supply, wooden body, ruler, firing pin, bayonet completely applied to the 651 semi-automatic rifle, the bolt, the lock, the pumping, the shell throwing and other structures were all redesigned, but the 651 type 10 milli intermediate power rifle bullet was still used, but the pointed steel core bullet and a small amount of rubidium iron boron platinum degenerate bullet were produced.

Bailiyan originally thought that the production of sniper rifles should be quite easy, but after production, he found that no matter how meticulous the process was, the accuracy from 200 steps away was still unsatisfactory.

The problem lies not only in the industrial capacity and production process, but also in the lack of precision of the production equipment.

For this reason, we can only settle for the second, all the 654 rifles off the assembly line before leaving the factory, carry out gun shooting, and select the highest accuracy to install a quadruple optical standard mirror, the former is slightly worse accuracy is set as 654 type A, and the latter is set as 654 type B to distinguish it.

In November of that year, on the coast of Longxiang City, where the county government of Haitian County of Changsun Country is located, more than a dozen canned ironclad ships of different shapes smoked billowing smoke, and slowly sailed towards this city that was once a pearl on the sea and one of the great ports of the Central Plains under the impetus of a water wheel.

Half an hour later, a smallest-tonnage, but fastest ironclad ship slowly docked, and under the pull of the armpit sailors, it stopped steadily at the dock of the port.

Dozens of armpit dwarves in different uniforms, guarded by the guards, stood anxiously on the docks, the lowest of them was also a lieutenant general, the highest was a general, and they were waiting for a famous field marshal.

About five minutes later, the gangway approached the battleship, and the new Marshal of the Allied Army, General Oka, walked down the gangway and onto the dock, surrounded by the guards and the accompanying generals, but his face was not very good-looking.

Among the people on the docks, one of the oldest and most prestigious dwarven generals, dressed in the uniform of a blue army general, stepped forward to Marshal Oka and saluted him with his right hand clasped on his chest, followed by all the officers behind him and gave a military salute:

"Massacolo, the First Front of the Allied Forces, salute His Excellency the Marshal."

Oka nodded displeasedly, and said:

"Alright, don't mess with all this useless red tape, you should have received my appointment."

"Yes, Your Excellency, the Alliance Fronts received your appointment three months ago, and I thought you would go south next year, but I didn't expect to arrive so soon."

"Yes, Your Majesty is ashamed of your incompetence, and I am shocked by your loss. Take me to your barracks first, and I'll be briefed in detail and the current state of the alien animals. ”

"Your Excellency, don't you take a rest first? It was so hot that the soldiers were fainting. ”

"No, the countries have respecified their strategies, and now it is necessary to make immediate adjustments to prepare for next year's offensive."

After speaking, under the leadership of Masacolo, Marshal Oka and his generals entered the city of Longxiang, and as they walked, Oka couldn't help but start to wonder, he said:

"Can a primordial fortress with this level of defense also block our strong ships and artillery!"

Masacolo said:

"But in the southeast, there is an alien beast native, they have built granite strong fortresses, there are cannons with the same range as us, and rapid-fire cannons, we thought at first that the alien animals in the southern hemisphere were only bronze civilizations, but we didn't expect that there would be an industrial civilization."

"It's so unusual. I've read the battle reports of all the armies, and the things you sent are all rubbish, and with this kind of rudimentary primitive weapons with technical content, can you sink so many ships and kill so many soldiers! ”

"Your Excellency, it's not that I'm offended, the natives in the southeast sea are very powerful, and according to the surviving seamen of the four ironclad ships that sank last year, the natives used very powerful poison gas bombs, killing ninety-five percent of the soldiers and officers."

As they spoke, the group arrived at the barracks in the city, where the previous buildings had been razed to the ground by the Armpit Men and replaced by barracks tents and their masonry buildings.

After sitting down, Oka asked:

"Have they captured their weapons and equipment?"

Masacolo shook his head and said:

"No, we fought three battles, all of which were crushing defeats for us, and we were unable to capture any of their weapons. In addition to this, they have planted some kind of explosive under the ground and in the water, which will explode when stepped on or collided with, and their artillery is far more lethal than our shells, a white powder, I don't know what it is. ”

"It's unbelievable, the bronze agricultural civilization and the industrial civilization coexist on the same continental map, and the technology is even more advanced than us, have you found their main fleet and ironclad ships?" Oka asked.

"After our army was heavily damaged the year before last, there has been no trace of this alien beast native fleet, nor have they found any ironclad ships, but it is certain that they have very powerful industrial technology, but I don't know how much territory they have. Also, here's their map. ”

Masacolo took out the topographic map of the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains captured from the Changsun Kingdom, pointed to the location of the Xian Kingdom, and said:

"They are right here, and from here, they stretch more than three hundred miles east along the coastline, and the coast is full of dense fortresses and artillery, and if we attack any point, they will quickly gather tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of people, and we try to attack the largest port, and we have used thousands of shells to bombard it for twenty days in a row, and it is still unscathed." (One mile of the armpit people is equivalent to fifteen miles of the Liang standard, and more than three hundred miles is four or five thousand miles.) ）

Oka looked at the almost ridiculous map in front of him and said:

"Are you convincing me that behind this naïve map hides this powerful industrialized native?"

"But that's what it is, Your Excellency. In just three battles, we lost 368 warships, troop carriers, and supply ships sunk, wounded, and missing in this fortress group, lost more than 16,000 shipboard guns, and 53,600 killed or missing, almost a quarter of our forces in the two years of going south, seriously affecting our battle plans and demoralizing.

The sinking of the four ironclad ships was a heavy blow, and when I got the news of the defeat, I couldn't imagine how these alien beasts had used to sink such an indestructible warship. Plus, we found this too. ”

After speaking, Masacolo motioned to the guards to bring the captured hot air balloons and hanging baskets, and then said:

"We found out that not only do they have very good quality telescopes, but they also have this equipment that can float in the sky."

"I already know what you're talking about. After research, our scientists believe that the principle of decreasing air expansion density is used to make the air sac float. But unfortunately, we don't have their fabrics, so the imitation effect is very unsatisfactory.

As for the situation of the armies on all fronts, I would like to know how far you have advanced inland into this peninsula (Changsun Country), how many foreign animals you have destroyed, and how many foreign animals you have blocked. ”

"I'm very sorry, Your Excellency, but so far I have only besieged and sealed a small number of areas, and the strange animals of the southern hemisphere are very strange, they are full of walls and fortresses, and we cannot block a large area geographically. In addition, the local climate is hot and rainy, which is very unfavorable for our fighters and weapons to fight.

The way they fought was the way they fought, as well as the local rivers and rainforests. They are different from other foreign animals in the past, they will not rescue the besieged kind, and they will dig trenches, tunnels, and have the habit of hoarding a large amount of food in the besieged places, less enough to eat for a year, and more can be eaten by local foreign animals for more than three years.

They also released a kind of load-sharpened raft in the upper reaches of the river, causing serious harm to our boats. Besides, we found this! ”

Masacolo ordered a grenade with a wooden handle, an alcohol incendiary bottle, and an explosive stick made of nitroglycerin passivation, wrapped in TNT blocks and hundreds of steel balls, all of which were arms that the armpit people had captured one after another to give to the eldest grandson.

Oka had a gloomy face, looking at these powerful explosive weapons, and he said sharply:

"What are these?"

"It's the throwing weapon that has recently been seized from foreign animals, this kind of wood-handled bomb is so powerful that it only needs to pull a rope to explode in a very short time, while our grenades need to be ignited.

It was a high degree of alcohol in glass, and they used it to make fragile weapons, which they lit and threw at us, setting fire to several of our warriors, many of whom were killed by this incendiary weapon.

The most terrifying thing is this, although it needs to be ignited, it is ten times more powerful than a wooden-handled bomb, and if it falls into our soldiers, it can kill several of us in an instant. ”

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