Jochen's plan to establish the Marine Corps and the KSK was criticized by the Junkers of the Army, who believed that it was meaningless for the Navy to build a strong Marine Corps, and that it was up to the Army to finally settle the battle, but the positioning of clearing the way for the Army was very much to the Army's appetite, so although it was stumbling and longing, it was finally approved. And the KSK, which has only one company, was not taken seriously by the army bigwigs at all, and the Shun Shun lì Li got the establishment.

And Jochen's formation plan was in the hands of the Admiralty, and the Admiralty was not only shocked, but also even more grateful to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. The establishment of the Marine Corps indicates that the navy can get rid of the shackles of the army and become a more comprehensive military force that can be completely independent and self-reliant. According to this kind of training, the Marine Corps will become an elite unit far superior to the army, and the navy can not let go of this opportunity to overwhelm the army. The fact that the emperor gave such a training syllabus to the navy instead of the army is enough to see His Highness's preference for the navy. And the positioning and training of the KSK has opened a new door for the Admiralty, a completely new kind of military force and combat methods that they have never thought of. What an honor it is for the Navy to be its pioneer and builder. More importantly, the establishment of such two forces did not need to be deducted from the cost of naval shipbuilding, and after Jochen's arguments, the council agreed to allocate an additional appropriation to the marines, which would be included in the maintenance of naval personnel and equipment. This move brought the Navy closer together around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

The original naval infantry and naval artillery were all abolished, and the defense of bases and coastal defense was handed over to the newly formed naval coastal defense force. The warship security team was transferred to the Marine Corps for retraining and began to conduct external recruitment. KSK members are selected on a voluntary basis from the former naval infantry and warship security groups. Those who do not meet the requirements and are eliminated will join the Marine Corps. Even those who are eliminated and can be trained in KSK are rare and excellent soldiers.

The Admiralty is enthusiastically recruiting for troops, while Jochen tinkers with their equipment for the Marines and KSK. Work on the weight reduction of the Maxim machine gun continues. The research work on mortars, excellent fire suppression weapons, is in full swing.

Throughout the history of the development of mortars, the earliest can be traced back to 1342 AD. At that time, the Spanish army was besieging the city of Alihquiras, which was occupied by the Arabs, and the Arabs erected short horn cylinders on the battlements, and the mouth of the cylinder was raised high towards the outside of the city. Put a pack of black from the mouth of the barrel. Gunpowder, and then put in an iron ball, ignited the powder twist, and shot it at the Spanish soldiers outside the city. This primitive artillery, known as "Modfa", can be said to be the prototype of the modern mortar. The world's first real mortar was created in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War and was invented by Russian artillery captain Leonid Nikolayevich Gobiato. At that time, Tsarist Russia and Japan were engaged in a fierce battle for the Port of Arthur in China. The Russian army occupied the fortress of Arthur Pass, and the Japanese dug trenches and approached only a few dozen meters away from the Russian position, and it was difficult for the Russian army to kill and injure the Japanese army with ordinary artillery and machine guns. So Nikolayevich tried to convert an old 47mm naval mortar gun on a gun carriage with wheels and fire a long-tail shell at a large elevation angle, which turned out to be effective in killing and wounding the Japanese troops in the trenches and repelling many Japanese attacks. However, the mortar invented by Gobiato was modified from a naval mortar gun, and although it had a short range, it could not be disassembled into portable parts, and it was still inconvenient for small infantry units to use in combat, so it was not widely used.

In the time-traveling novels that Yochen had read in his previous life, it seemed that developing a mortar was a necessary skill for every time-traveler. After all, it seems that the mortar can be developed if it can be made into a seamless steel pipe. But it was only when Jochen started tinkering with it that he realized that there were a lot of problems. It is not difficult to make a portable mortar that can be decomposed, the gun body, bracket, and bottom plate are quite simple, and the direction machine and the high and low machine are not too difficult. And mortars . The principle that the bullet uses its own falling gravity to impact the firing pin at the bottom of the barrel to excite the tail tube to fire is easy to draw a sketch after Jochen saw the cross-sectional view of the Type 63 mortar shell of the Republic Army, and although the aiming method of the mortar Jochen does not understand, it is not too difficult to find a designer who understands the mortar to design this kind of aiming equipment with curved ballistics. However, the problem arose during the test of the gun. Due to the rigid connection between the gun body and the bottom plate, the recoil force is completely transmitted to the base plate and then acts on the ground, and then the reaction force is transmitted to the gun body will guide the displacement of the gun body, and this displacement will lead to the ballistic change of the next shell, so the accuracy of the new gun is always very unsatisfactory.

Jochen knew that this was due to the lack of buffers, which the French installed on 81-mm mortars in 1927 really had the characteristics of modern mortars. Although Yochen had seen the exploded drawing of the buffer machine of the Type 63 mortar in his previous life, the sketch drawn by knowing it and not knowing why it was only better than nothing. In the end, it is up to a group of designers to explore based on this unreliable sketch. So if the mortar wants to be put into practical use, it will have to wait for a while. What the? You say you can use it without a buffer? Indeed, the Type 63 60 mortar of the Army of the Republic of China in the previous life can be called an artifact, and it can still be hit without a bracket, a bottom plate, or a scope, but this way of using it is that Joheng can't see any difference from the Japanese grenadiers. As for how to use it for the troops, it is the business of the troops, and you can't fool yourself with an imperfect product.

Compared to the bottleneck of mortars, the development of the other two weapons was quite smooth. The Kepler telescopic sight proposed by Tokar Zeiss and Jochen with a rotating image system was produced by Shunlì, a 4x magnifying sight composed of an objective, an inverted image lens, a reticle and an eyepiece, but instead of using the most popular dense site division in the future, Jochen knows, but using a simple crosshair division to estimate the distance by comparing the height of the reticle mark and the reference object, this division is more common in hunting sights, although it looks very complicated, but it is very simple to use, It can be used after a short period of explanation, and does not require rigorous training (Note 1). The reason for this division is that the simple cross division is too simple, and the complex secret division Jochen is not very proficient, and it would be bad to make a joke if he got it wrong. The new standard mirror is well integrated into the Gew.86 rifle, although this scope still has problems such as delicateness, poor light transmittance and heavy weight, but the work to improve it is already being solved by Zeiss, and a model with higher magnification and dense division is also being developed.

The specially selected high-precision barrels of the Gew.86 rifle barrels produced by HK were marked with a star at the muzzle, and these star javelin barrels became the standard barrel of the Gew.86 sniper rifle. The matching special high-precision ammunition based on the 7N14 copper armor lead core air pocket tail cone cartridge developed by Russia for the SVD sniper rifle in 1999 was also successfully trial-produced at the ammunition production plant in Spandau. In addition to being used as an expansion chamber to withstand combustion gases, this hollow design of the tail of the warhead induces the atmosphere to flow into the bullet tail in the form of a steady vortex. Although the atmospheric vortex effect can drag the warhead by pulling and reducing the muzzle velocity, the vortex is also the only best way to avoid the warhead rolling back and forth during flight. In order to increase the deformation speed of the warhead to increase the lethality, the tip of the bullet is designed to be semi-hollow. This design has the potential to cause the center of gravity to roll backwards, and the hollowing out of the tail end can use the force of the vortex to stabilize the warhead.

With good guns, good ammo, and good scopes, Jochen's planned KSK duo sniper team will have the most reliable companions.

With excellent ranged weapons, excellent melee weapons are naturally indispensable, shotguns are naturally an excellent choice for close combat, even if excellent automatic weapons such as submachine guns and assault rifles are born in the future, the advantages of shotguns in melee combat are still irreplaceable. The M1917 trench gun, developed from the Winchester M1897 in World War I, was known as the "Trenchsweeper" in France due to its short barrel and bayonet mounting, pump-action rapid reload and 6-round capacity, and the 12-gauge shotgun hit rate and lethality at close range. This weapon frightened the Germans so much that they demanded a ban on the use of this gun as a combat weapon.

There is a legend here: the German government strongly protested against the United States' violation of international conventions by using trench guns, an inhumane weapon of destruction; Moreover, the German command claimed that all American soldiers armed with trench guns were arrested and immediately executed. The US Government officially refuted the protest of the German Government, and the US Army also stated-for-tat that the German side dared to execute a US soldier carrying a trench gun, and the US side would take out a German prisoner to pay for his life. As a result, the German protests were ineffective and neither side retaliated. However, there is said to be no documentary evidence for the German government's announcement of the execution of American soldiers carrying shotguns, and it may have been an unwritten rule, or an act of retaliation by some front-line officers out of fear of shotguns. However, the German government did issue a diplomatic document in 1918 to protest the inhumane use of the shotgun by the United States, but the effect of this protest was that it was a successful commercial advertisement for the shotgun. In the end, the Germans developed their own weapon of trench warfare suppression, the MP18I submachine gun.

Shotguns began as unrifled birds, but with the advent of breech-loading rifles in the eighteenth century and fixed ammunition in the nineteenth century, smoothbore guns began to be withdrawn from the standard equipment. At this time, shotguns were used to fire shotguns, and they could only be used as hunting rifles used by nobles to hunt birds. The double-barreled shotgun is not too difficult to make, and the lever shotgun is not difficult, but the loading mechanism of the pump-action shotgun is a little more complicated. However, I am still grateful for the future information explosion, so Jochen has a more classic model than Winchester M1897 in his mind, Ithaca M37, this shotgun that will accompany the US military in the complex jungle of Vietnam in the future has stronger firepower than M1897, 8 rounds of ammunition barrel, and can hold the trigger and push and pull the pump handle back and forth, so that each shotgun can be fired at the moment of loading, so that the handle can be continuously pushed and pulled, and it can be fired continuously. As a result, the design of rapid fire suppression of the target can output more powerful firepower than the M1897. Compared to the mortar buffer that he had never touched at all, the structural sketches that Jochen presented were not difficult for HK's internal gunsmiths to realize.

Far and near are matched, and by the moment the Marine Corps and KSK become an army, they already have equipment that can surpass the ordinary troops of all countries in the world.

Note 1: See Technology Related: Springfield Deer Hunting Scope