What appeared in front of everyone's eyes was the Type 1628 carrier-based machine gun, which was very similar in appearance to the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun, but because the bullet caliber used was 12 mm, the shape of the gun itself was also increased. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info And due to the problem that the machine gun was exposed to overheating during the last naval battle of Vostochny Port, the military industry department added a water-cooled tube to this machine gun, and now the machine gun wrapped in the water-cooled tube looks like a combination of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the Maxine machine gun at first glance. Zheng Zhihu had never seen such a weapon, and he couldn't understand why this thing was able to fire projectiles.

I saw a sailor take out the bullet board from the ammunition box on the side, and twenty yellow bullets were neatly arranged on the black bullet board. This is a new product from a military factory, which brought a bullet production line that could only produce 7.62 mm and nine mm ammunition, and the Heavy Industry Laboratory tried to make some improvements and imitate a set of ammunition production lines. However, the industrial conditions of this time and space are extremely limited, and the ammunition produced always has all kinds of problems, and the tolerances are mostly trivial, and even the equipment for stamping the cartridge case has been changed several times, after all, the materials are still not up to standard.

In the end, there was really no way, and the military industry department had to modify one of the old time-space ammunition production lines for production, which solved the production problem of these 12-mm machine gun shells. However, after the production line of 7.62 mm Warsaw Pact ammunition was changed to a 12 mm ammunition production line, the M43 ammunition has no production capacity for the time being. However, the military department did not have any special ideas about this, after all, the number of M43 shells brought by the crossing was quite large at that time, and although a lot of M43 bombs were fired in this time and space, they were basically reloaded. In addition, there are not many opportunities to use M43 shells in ordinary battles, except for the special reconnaissance team that has used them in ordinary battles, there is only two months of veteran shooting training left. Moreover, the demand for 12-millimeter bullets in the army is gradually increasing, and it is necessary to open up a production line of such bullets.

These ammunition use brass cartridge shells, these are recycled cartridge shells remanufactured, because brass has good ductility, the damage to the chamber and barrel when fired is not high, the only problem is that the warhead used is made of lead, although this soft metal is much less wear and tear on the rifling, but it will hang on the rifling line to cause a decrease in shooting accuracy, and cleaning the barrel is also quite troublesome, so the military industry department has begun to study copper shell or steel shell armor bullets to solve this problem.

Zheng Zhihu was not interested in what the Military Industry Committee was worried about now, and was just staring at these bullets tightly. Although he does not understand the specific scientific principles, he also knows the firing principle of the firebolt, the projectile that burns in the confined space pushes out the warhead, and now these awkward-looking Chinese put the sub-medicine in a copper jar with such a finger thickness, and the step of filling gunpowder is eliminated when launched, no wonder it is so much faster than the firebolt he has seen.

This method is not a novel method in this time and space, the Zheng family has a large number of sub-cannons, and generally one mother cannon carries three to four sub-cannons. After firing, the sub-cannon will be taken out for loading, and after loading, it will be stuffed into the mother cannon for firing, which can increase the rate of fire. However, the gap between the sub-cannon and the air leakage are extremely common, so they are widely used to fire shotguns at close range.

Zheng Zhihu didn't understand these things, and felt that such a machine gun was probably used to hit a target at a distance of twenty or thirty zhang, which could be regarded as the top of the sky. And seeing that these projectiles are extremely small, that is, the size of a little thumb, they must not be able to hit far, so Zheng Zhihu turned sideways and carefully looked at the spring cannon that the sailors were covering the gun jackets with a few captains behind him.

Zhong Bin didn't look at him, just held the telescope and was estimating the distance, and after a few seconds, he began to shout the command, "Target, the fifth barrel, machine gun ready!" ”

Zheng Zhihu heard Zhong Bin's command, just turned his head sideways to look, to his surprise, the machine gun shooters did not have many complicated ranging movements, just lifted up a vertical thing at the tail of the machine gun, and then squinted at it, and then pulled the trigger.

The bullet plate of 20 bullets was quickly emptied, falling out of the other side of the magazine, and the bullet plate fell out of the bullet plate, as well as the bullet casings that were withdrawn after being launched, these yellow and clear bullet shells smoked and fell on the deck that had just been wiped, and soon evaporated the water stains near the deck. This made Zheng Zhihu a little stunned, such a rapid launch, even if it could only hit two feet away, it was also extremely effective for strafing the enemy ship sailors lined up on the bulwark before the gang jumping. It's just that the smoke of gunpowder is so thick that the situation in the distance is obscured by this smoke and can't see clearly.

At this moment, a breeze blew, blowing away some of the thick smoke from the machine gun, and something happened that blinded him, and a lot of water mist was falling near the first bucket that had been dropped in the distance, and it was obviously stirred up by many projectiles, some of which also hit the bucket, and the debris flew, and the bucket was seen spinning on the surface of the sea in a strange motion, and soon sank underwater.

"It's a distance of 500 meters, and if it's any farther, it's a bit difficult to fight." Zhong Bin showed off the range of the ship's machine gun in a tone that seemed to be talking to himself. The shock in Zheng Zhihu's heart was like the waves of the sea, he didn't know how far five hundred meters was, but now it seemed that it should be at a distance of two hundred zhang upward, listening to Zhong Bin's tone, this kind of machine gun seemed to be able to hit a longer distance.

"This ...... What is it? Before Zheng Zhihu could speak, several captains behind him reacted, and hurriedly came up to look up and down around the machine gun. One of the curious ones also directly reached out and touched it, seeing that the sailors did not object, the four of them hurriedly rushed up and down the machine gun like a curious baby, Zheng Zhihu's hand quickly touched the muzzle of the gun.

"Don't touch it!" Before the words fell, Zheng Zhihu was heard screaming, "It's so hot!" Hurriedly retracted his hand, and when he turned his hand, the index and middle fingers were burned red by the hot barrel, and bursts of hot pain came from his fingertips. Zhong Bin hurriedly turned around and said to the herald next to him, "Call the ship doctor to the deck!" ”

The herald didn't move, but shouted into a funnel in front of him, "The co-captain told the ship's doctor to come to the deck." ”

This confused Zheng Zhihu, there was a long metal pipe attached to the bottom of this funnel, which stretched all the way to the bottom of the deck, but it could be heard below with such a shout?

Before he could ask, he heard a voice from the funnel, "Coming soon." "It seems that this funnel is really a tool used to transmit sound, I really don't know how these Chinese came up with it."

The ship's doctor soon arrived, treated his scalded finger, and then applied some ointment to it, and immediately the burned area became much cooler. Zheng Zhihu put his finger to the tip of his nose and sniffed, "Cool oil?" ”

"Yes," Zhong Bin replied on the side, "the cooling oil is very suitable for treating burns." ”

"Mr. Zhong, Zhihu has a reluctant request." Zheng Zhihu hurriedly said to Zhong Bin. Zhong Bin was a little surprised, "Please say it directly, as long as it can be done in the future, I will definitely help." ”

"Zheng wants to try the power of this machine gun, I wonder if I can let Zheng personally fire a few rounds?"

Zhong Bin couldn't help but look at Yang Junbo with some embarrassment, Yang Junbo shrugged his shoulders and looked at the several veterans of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade standing behind him.

This weapon demonstration is really just to show them the power, and there is no intention of actually selling these weapons to them. As far as the Ministry of Trade is concerned, they want to clear those Senate rifles, but these machine guns and spring cannons have high requirements for the quality of the launcher, and they cannot be operated by two farmers with simple training, let alone diligent maintenance. The natives of this time and space have no problem with the use of weapons, but there is no concept of maintenance at all, why is it that both the Wu Dynasty and Annan are unwilling to use a large number of firearms, although the most important thing is that the quality of weapons is not very good, but they do not understand the importance of maintaining firearms, resulting in a plummeting of accuracy and safety is also an important reason. For them, it is the knives, guns and clubs that do not need much maintenance that are more suitable for them who like to sharpen their guns in battle.

The veterans of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade were stunned, took out their mobile phones one after another, some called the Executive Committee, some called the Ministry of Trade, and after a while, they probably came up with the answer after the discussion of the Executive Committee, yes.

Zheng Zhihu jumped up excitedly, the injured and scalded places didn't feel so painful, and rushed to the machine gun in three steps and two steps, and was ready to pull the trigger by holding the machine gun as the sailors had operated before.

"Wait!" Zhong Bin beckoned to the back, and saw two sailors come up, open the receiver cover, clean up the gunpowder residue inside, then add some lubricating oil, and then open the ammunition box, take out a bullet plate, after loading it, close the receiver cover, and finally pull the bolt twice, nodded to Zheng Zhihu and said, "Mr. Zheng, it's ready to fire." ”

Zheng Zhihu was stunned again, he clearly saw many parts in the machine gun just now, and its structure was so exquisite that it was simply indescribable. Seeing that the sailor said to him that it was okay, he hurriedly picked up the machine gun and prepared to pull the trigger.

Another sailor came up to him, opened the insurance, erected the aiming ruler, and told him about the observation method of the ruler. Zheng Zhihu has long been itching and impatient, where can he listen to ranging or something? I had to nod casually, and finally waited for the sailor to finish speaking, and then pulled the trigger fiercely in the distance.

The muzzle of the machine gun once again spat out tongues of fire, spraying thick smoke like a sprayer so that nothing could be seen on the side of the deck. However, due to Zheng Zhihu's position, he was still able to see where the bullet landed, and it was obvious that the position where he shot was splashing, and since he was moving the muzzle of the gun while shooting, the stirred up column of water drew a line on the sea surface.

At first, he thought that the Chinese had ambushed people in the water, and they used something to detonate the cannon here and there, who knew that this was all a true demonstration of the power of the weapon. After all twenty rounds of ammunition were exhausted, Zheng Zhihu was still unsatisfied, but Zhong Bin didn't let him shoot again, and called the members of the machine gun firing team to start cleaning up the weapons.

"Brother Zhong, what does this mean?" Zheng Zhihu didn't know why these sailors had to take the machine gun apart, disassemble it into pieces, and carefully wipe it with a rag, and some sailors wiped it back and forth in the barrel with a long strip of rag.

"This is a maintenance weapon," Zhong Bin couldn't help but be a little secretly proud, in the Eighteen Zhi era, because he was ranked last, Zheng Zhihu, who was several years younger than him, was often nicknamed Brother Zhong, and he was nicknamed again when they met for the first time today. But after the display of machine gun and spring cannon firepower, Zheng Zhihu became more and more respectful of his title, and now he has finally become Brother Zhong. "Firearms need to be maintained frequently, otherwise they will not be able to exert their own power in battle."

Fart, Zheng Zhihu said secretly in his heart, it's not that he hasn't seen the previous firearms of Zhong Bin's subordinates, which are even more slag than the firearms of his Zheng family, and he can pull out the gunpowder residue by reaching in the barrel. The words of firearm maintenance came out of his mouth, causing Zheng Zhihu to feel from the bottom of his heart that this was not Zhong Bin's idea.

"Marines on deck!" Zhong Bin began to give the next order, and at this time, the sailors who came up from the deck were no longer sailors dressed in white, but a group of soldiers wearing light blue cardigan coats, these soldiers called marines wore rattan helmets on their heads, a pair of same light blue pants under the placket coats, a pair of cloth shoes on their feet, a white belt around their waists, and several small boxes on the belts, I don't know what they contained. In each soldier's hand was a long bird's gun, which outwardly looked so long that it should be able to hit a considerable distance.

Soon they received Zhong Bin's next order, "Line up on the starboard side, prepare to shoot!" ”

The Marines immediately formed two rows on the starboard side, and they all began to open their magazines and reload them. Zheng Zhihu understood now that the bullets of these blue-clothed soldiers were all taken out of the small box on the belt, a round lead bullet, a small propellant bag, and a small copper piece that looked strange. The loading of these bird guns is similar to that of the bird guns of the Wu Kingdom, and it is also erected with the body of the guns, the propellant is poured into it, and then compacted, and then the lead bullet is put in, and then compacted. The difference is that instead of lighting the fire rope, you just put the small yellow copper sheet at the fire door and you are ready to launch.

Seeing that the Marines had finished loading, Zhong Bin began to order, "Target!" The first barrel, the first volley! Preparation! Put! ”

With a crackling gunshot, the six marines in the front row completed the launch, and as soon as the smoke cleared, Zhong Bin ordered the people in the second row to shoot, and another gust of gunpowder smoke covered the starboard side of the ship. When the sea breeze blew away the smoke, Zheng Zhihu hurriedly leaned over to the side of the boat and stared at the position of the first bucket in the distance......

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