Li Yuanji's words instantly made many people's hearts feel cold.

It took more than half a year of hard work to make the finished product, and it looks so good, I didn't expect it to be rejected when I came to Li Yuanji.

Although praise and affirmation have been given before, what is the use?

For a while, the officials of the armory workshop began to analyze the meaning of this sentence according to Li Yuanji's thinking.

The ideas and efforts are worthy of recognition, and the results are obvious.

That is to say, they are not wrong in terms of the general direction, and Li Yuanji is also sure of this.

This general direction is the repeating gun, but in the end it will not agree to be equipped with troops, that is, Li Yuanji is not optimistic about it.

Well, to sum it up, these two guns did not get Li Yuanji's approval.

MMP, most of the year's efforts have been in vain? Now it's okay, it's going to start again.

"Do you have any other design ideas other than these two designs?" Li Yuanji also felt that this seemed to discourage them a little.

In other words, Li Yuanji couldn't wait a little after seeing the machine gun.

I didn't mention it before, there are many reasons to be together, and if possible, Li Yuanji is still willing to bring it up.

However, Li Yuanji was also worried about the loss of ammunition from the machine gun, which would make the people in the logistics department complain.

Therefore, this thing, even if it is equipped, it is impossible to equip it on a large scale in the early stage, and now, the people in the logistics department are a little tempted to pick a child, quarrel with people everywhere, and for a train, I can't wait to gamble on the gate of the railway administration every day, but the logistics pressure still has not been reduced.

And that's just the beginning of the war, and when more and more troops are put into the battle, the people in the logistics department really don't know how to go there.

But those are the problems of the logistics department, at least for now, Li Yuanji is still interested in machine guns.

Although these two machine guns have various problems, they already have a prototype as a machine gun, and with some improvements, it can be used as a primary machine gun.

"Back to Your Majesty, I had some other ideas before, but it was too difficult and too difficult to operate, and I couldn't solve more problems for a while, so I could only temporarily choose these relatively simple methods." The official responded.

"Other aspects are okay, the biggest problem is in terms of ammunition supply, I think this way of feeding ammunition is not very stable, in addition, this method also greatly affects the range of firearms." Li Yuanji asked straight to the point.

Is it funny that the machine gun has an effective killing range of only four hundred meters?

Even if the quality of the propellant is not as good as that of smokeless gunpowder, the increase in the amount of propellant should not only increase its range.

Moreover, the caliber of the machine gun is also larger than that of the rifle.

So, in the end, the problem arose in the way of supplying bombs.

This method of feeding ammunition requires an extra opening on the other side to pull the chain out, in addition, this affects some other designs, the biggest problem is that it affects the airtightness of the launch compartment.

Failure to ensure the airtightness of the firing compartment will lead to a decrease in power, and even more directly to a decrease in the firing range of the machine gun.

Even if there is a problem with the quality of gunpowder, but as a machine gun, it is still a heavy machine gun, even considering the current time period, technical ability.

The effective killing distance of the machine gun must be about 600 meters, right?

You're not a light machine gun, and you're playing with a heavy machine gun to play the effect of a light machine gun, so what's the fun? It's just adding to the logistics.

"I tried it according to the rifle's feed mode, but the effect was not ideal, and I didn't even know what to do after shooting a bullet, and it was a problem to unload." The official's face flushed, and he said a little embarrassed.

"The rifle is a manual retract, the repeating gun can be changed to pneumatic retracting, add a hole here, a vacuum tube, find a suitable position to connect here, use excess kinetic energy to promote the operation of the ammunition supply machinery, and complete the steps of one retreat and one advance, and the other is to ensure the sealing of the launch compartment to ensure that it is completely sealed, so that the range can be improved. If you really don't understand, you can go to the train crew for inspiration, they are all veterans in this area of playfulness, and should give you some useful advice. Li Yuanji commanded very blatantly.

As for whether pneumatic unwinding is related to the train? Li Yuanji thinks there should be some connection, right?

Trains are not powered by steam, and the power needs to be constantly reciprocated, and the machine gun is actually the same way, as long as you find a suitable position to ensure that the continuous fire can be perfectly matched.

Even if you can't find it for a while, you can make up for it by sacrificing the rate of fire.

For now, is there any difference between firing a hundred rounds a minute and firing ninety rounds?

Besides, after such an improvement, how can its rate of fire be more than 300 rounds a minute?

Of course, what made Li Yuanji speechless the most was that they had found the right direction and used rifles to find inspiration, which was the right direction, but they temporarily abandoned this correct path because of the difficulty and problems.

For a real military worker, if you know how a rifle works, then is it difficult to make a machine gun?

Regardless of the performance for the time being, it is not difficult to operate alone, because the machine gun is only a little more complex than the rifle, and it requires more parts, and it is not difficult to figure it out if you use your mind more.

As long as it is done, what can the performance be as bad as it is? Isn't it possible to improve later?

According to Li Yuanji's idea, it is to get it out first, as long as the general direction is good, the details can be improved little by little, if it doesn't work in one year, it will take two years, and if it doesn't work in two years, it will always be done.

Datang is now too far ahead of the others, and they have enough time to do this.

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Coming out of the test site, Cheng Zhijie still had a regretful expression.

Although Li Yuanji doesn't like it, in Cheng Zhijie's opinion, if those two machine guns can be equipped with the troops, then the combat effectiveness of the troops can be improved by at least a few steps, if a platoon can be equipped with one......

In defensive operations, a company can be used as a battalion.

Because the defense needs firepower, a machine gun is let go to fight, his firepower can completely suppress a platoon, and for the enemy in front of him, he only needs a strafing shot, and they will all lie down.

"Your Majesty, why don't you get some and send them to the front line first?" Cheng Zhijie looked at Li Yuanji with an itch in his heart and proposed.

Just give up? Waiting for them to improve? The devil knows when these improvements will be completed.

If you're lucky, it's fast, and if you're unlucky, it's estimated that you'll hardly see it in your life.

"What are you going to do? The troops do not have any knowledge of a new piece of equipment, do not have any experience in using it, do not have any training, and have no tacit understanding of cooperation with each other. If you can name the exact purpose of it, and solve the problems, I'll get some to go to the front. Li Yuanji looked at Cheng Zhijie and quipped with interest.

This thing is not this character on weekdays, but this time I obviously saw something good, and I couldn't help it.

Li Yuanji himself also couldn't help it, but he knew that he had to endure it, a device with great defects and the troops did not adapt to it, even if he was very powerful, he could not exert the greatest effect.

What if they were given a missile now? Do you use it as a cannonball?

The rifle assembly has been adapted for so long, and the machine gun has not been adapted for a year or two, can it be effective?

Besides, is the installation of new equipment just as simple as installation?

This will be followed by an impact on the current set of tactics, and with the installation of new equipment, the corresponding tactics will also be changed.

For example, the current offensive tactics, the three-three formation can be well advanced and ensure their own safety.

It would be safer and easier to break through the opponent's defenses if the machine gun provided fire cover from behind.

But the question is, how does the machine gun work with the infantry? There is a problem of coordination in this, if the current tactics are followed, then there will definitely not be a few soldiers who will die at the guns of their own people.

He doesn't distinguish between enemy and me, all of them are enemies in front of the muzzle.

Cheng Zhijie can be regarded as a senior general who has been exposed to more new tactics, and Li Yuanji's problem is indeed a little difficult for him.

The repeating gun is certainly powerful, but if it is rushed to the battlefield, it is estimated that it may not really have any good effect.

"Hasn't the Third Army set off yet? Why don't you take advantage of this time and let them experience it on a small scale? "I don't know the process and I still don't want to give up.

"Time is too short!" Li Yuanji shook his head and rejected the proposal.

Cooperative combat is not only to adapt the soldier to the machine gun, but also to adapt the machine gun to the soldier, the machine gunner must decide where to shoot the bullet according to the situation in front, and the fighter in front will also judge where the bullet will hit according to the actual situation, and then there is a place where he must not go.

Now there are no such constraints, the position is still relatively flexible, and everyone is used to this kind of day, which cannot be changed in a short period of time, even if it is the Third Army, it is difficult for them to change this habit in three or five months.

Moreover, the biggest problem of these two machine guns is instability, manual loading is the biggest instability, that is, the performance just now, its firing speed is also very uneven, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and even the problem of jamming, what is this equipment sent for?

Li Yuanji really couldn't think of a reason to convince himself.

"Let's go, let's go to the train crew first." Putting aside this issue for the time being, Li Yuanji still decided to see how the truck research was doing, which was the top priority at the moment.