Not to mention Schlieffen, who became the successor to the chief of the General Staff, he wanted to ascend to the throne until the retirement of Moltke in 1889.

Mr. Makqin, the chief designer of the HK Arms Factory under the HK Company, has now entered the company, which can be regarded as a spring breeze. Since he joined HK, the German Army's military technology has been fully open to him. He was amazed by the performance of the new M1886 pointed bullet, and the improved Maxim 1888 machine gun using this ammunition was excellent.

In order to curry favor with Jochen, the former quartermaster Waldzer purchased 200 Maxim 1888 and named it MG88 to equip the Prussian army. Jochen was very comfortable with this, and in his mind the air-guided machine gun was what he wanted, but it didn't matter if Maxim was equipped in the German army, and it would be good to eliminate it and defend the stronghold when the time came.

Not only that, but the news that the Germans began to be equipped with Makqin machine guns reached Moscow, and the Russians finally began to pay attention, and the Russian Minister of Defense Vanovsky decided to order a small batch of Makqin machine guns and ammunition from the HK company to continue to compare them with Nordenfeld four-barreled bead guns. On March 8, 1888, Tsar Alexander III went to the Anichkov court range to personally observe the test firing of the Maxim machine gun. The Maxim machine gun was perfect, a Maxim machine gun fired a total of 220,000 rounds, this amazing performance immediately made the name of Maxim, since then HK company has its first fist weapon product of its own, and shooting 220,000 rounds has become the best advertising and gimmick.

Subsequently, Maxim improved the Maxim machine gun using brown gunpowder bullets as a foreign trade version. Out of Jochen's strategy of pitting Maozi, Makqin also launched the same 10.67×58 rifle cartridge model as the M1870 Bodan rifle now used in Tsarist Russia, Maozi's Mosinagan rifle was massively equipped until 1893, before which the Makqin machine gun that fired the brown gunpowder version of the 10.67×58 rifle cartridge was absolutely attractive to Maozi, Jochen just hoped that they could buy more, and after Maozi used Nagan bullets, these outdated things would have to be eliminated, Then the HK can continue to sell the Makqin machine gun to Maozi with Nagant rounds. The Foreign Trade version is no different from the Maxim 1886 except for the cost savings of steel parts and the use of Russian rifle cartridges, and many of the improvements used in the MG88 have not appeared in the Foreign Trade version, and the gun carriage used is a bulky tripod and a more bulky wheel mount similar to an infantry gun. And this machine gun of the "special foreign trade version of the pit maozi" is also called the "monkey version" by Jochen.

With this mentality, Jochen asked Schlegel Mirch to take this "monkey version" of the Maxim machine gun to Moscow again to participate in the Russian side for testing. The arrival of Schlegelmirch was different from the cold reception received by Makqin in Moscow in 1887, due to the easing of German-Russian relations, the deepening of trade between the two sides, and the fact that Schlegelmirch had the name of developing Gew.86 with Mauser, he was also a "famous" designer, so he was valued and courteous by the Russian side.

On May 7, a series of tests were again carried out at the artillery range, the "monkey version" of Maxim and the use of black. The brown powder table used by the "monkey version" Makqin was excellent, completely overpowering the Makqin 1886, and the test results were very satisfactory. In the face of the excellent performance of the Maxim machine gun, the stubborn Russian Artillery Committee still decided that it was of little help to the night fighting troops, but the Russian Fortress Weapons Committee was very interested in it, believing that it could deter the enemy from attacking the fortress. Hence the decision to purchase in small quantities. In the spirit of the lion's big mouth, not making money in vain, opening the price all over the sky, and paying back the money on the ground. Jochen offered the Russians a high price of £350 each, and the Russians would not agree, so after a long bargain, the two sides finally closed the deal at £300 each, and the Russians ordered 50 sticks for a total of £15,000 equivalent to 300,000 marks, and the deal was concluded in October. The new guns are part of the Pamir garrison, and in the future they will take part in the seizure of more than 20,000 square kilometers of Qing territory west of the Sarykole Ridge.

Seeing that the Russians had purchased it, coupled with the deliberate propaganda of the HK company, even Austria-Hungary had moved its mind, and the Maxim machine gun, which was not selected in his own home, was pocketed by the Germans as soon as it turned around, and it was equipped in small batches, and then even the Russians purchased some of it in small quantities. Even the Austro-Hungarians, no matter how stupid they were, knew that they had missed a good weapon. However, it is not too late to make amends. The Austro-Hungarians also had their own advantages.

Receiving smokeless gunpowder technology provided by the Germans, Austria-Hungary introduced its own smokeless gunpowder rifle cartridge, the 8×50R Manlischa convex bottom rim round-nose round-nose round-nose cartridge, and the original use of black. The Manlisca M1886 rifle for gunpowder bullets was changed to fire 8×50R rifle rounds, and the new gun was named Manlisca M1888, which was almost identical to the M1886 in structure and appearance.

With brand new rifle cartridges, Austria-Hungary placed an order with HK for a small batch of Maxim machine guns capable of firing 8×50R rifle cartridges. For the Austro-Hungarians, Jochen did not deliberately pit them, and the new gun differed only from the ammunition used by the MG88. After a short trial, the Austro-Hungarians rushed to order 100 for £300 each. The Austro-Hungarians were also refreshed, did not make a counteroffer, and 600,000 marks were sold.

Although the two orders were not large, they made a good start for the sales of HK Company, and the newly appointed Quartermaster General of the German Army General Staff, Schlieffen, was a person who paid great attention to the use of new technologies and had a high sensitivity to the development of new equipment. However, Schlieffen did not directly purchase the MG88 in order to please the imperial grandson, but put forward the requirements for the new gun according to his own considerations, and weight reduction was still the first priority.

For this reason, Maxim was very nerve-wracking, and in order to obtain large-scale equipment from the German Army, it was necessary to continue to improve the gun. So Jochen continued to plagiarize, and the specific system was handed over to the designers of the HK Arms Factory to make it happen. Learn from the lightweight design of the Vickers version of the Maxim 1908 model, the curved unlocking structure on the bolt mechanism on the original Maxim machine gun is reversed, effectively using the idle space in the original gun body, this change reduces the overall height of the heavy steel receiver by 5 cm; The ingenious shell throwing method that would have fed the empty shell shell into the shell throwing tube and throwing it forward was changed to a rectangular shell throwing port with a sliding dust cover under the receiver to directly throw the shell throwing mechanism; The muzzle recoil booster was added to improve the operability of automatic reloading; The use of a simplified process of the Maxim 1905 type of bomb inlet reel; The original cooling water cylinder made of brass was canceled and replaced with a thin steel plate zuò; The same water jacket and enlarged water filling cover as Maxim 1941 can increase the speed of adding water to the water-cooled sleeve, and you can also add snow or ice to it; The addition of a water outlet hole, a rubber hose to recover water vapor, and a recovery water tank can save cooling water and improve the continuous firing ability of the machine gun; Using the simplified Browning M1919's tripod mount, although the elevation angle and firing stability were lost, in Jochen's view, in the era of World War I, when a machine gun could kill a large area of charging soldiers with a casual sweep, the elevation angle and stability were sacrificed, and the significant reduction in weight made the machine gun's maneuverability greatly increase was undoubtedly cost-effective. It is fed with the same narrow canvas chain as the Browning M1917, with a chain length of 300 rounds. In addition, the material has been improved, and the original brass parts have been replaced with a large number of steel parts, so that the new gun can save costs as much as possible and improve manufacturing efficiency. I have to thank Lao Maozi, whose transformation and use of Makqin until World War II, many of the designs are very good and practical, so Jochen only needs to use the plagiarism of the doctrine.

In addition, the manufacturing process has been improved, and some parts have been changed from milling to stamping and casting. In addition, assembly line production is proposed, so that each production unit can only focus on the work of a certain segment, and the use of belt conveyor belt workbench can greatly improve work efficiency and output. Of course, Jochen only knew the general idea of these things, and he could draw a sketch of the exterior, and he couldn't design it himself. But who made him the boss, as the saying goes, move his mouth at the top, and break his leg from the bottom. Because the orders for Gew.86 continued to continue, and due to Waldzer's favoritism, the number of orders received by the beginning of 1888 had exceeded 100,000 (Note 1), second only to the orders of the government-controlled Pru soldiers' factories in Oberndorf, Danzig, and Erfurt. After the completion of the new production line, the production of Gew.86 will be transferred to the new production line, and then the old production line will be renovated, anyway, the current production demand for Maxim machine guns is not high, and the pressure is not great.

Not only the weapons factory, but also the Hong Kong equipment factory and the Hong Kong tool factory, which also have a large number of orders, also proposed to open a new production line, considering the future expansion needs of the army, and the first pot of gold in Cameroon has been received, he naturally readily agreed. From then on, the HK Company expanded again, and by the end of 1888 the HK Arms Factory alone employed more than 10,000 people.

The new machine gun design work is progressing rapidly under the leadership of Makqin, the weight of the first completed new tripod gun carriage is only 7KG, and the original gun carriage weight is close to 40KG, and the weight of one alone is reduced by about 30KG, and the water tank, water jacket, bullet chain and other improvements are very smooth, but the internal structure of the gun body is slightly difficult to change, and finally completed in early 1890, named Makqin 1890, and the weight of the new gun body is 19KG without cooling water, The standard of no more than 30 kg of the whole gun met Schlieffen's requirements, and at this time Count Moltke was retired, and Schlieffen, who had been promoted to the post of chief of the General Staff, ordered a large-scale armament of the new Maxim, which received the official designation MG90.

Note 1: Historically, in the 10 years of the Commission's 1888 rifles, the largest order for the private sector in addition to the government arsenal exceeded 400,000 units, so it is not too much for HK to get an order of 100,000 rifles in two years.

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