After going around for a long time, it turned back again, and had to cooperate with the Maxim heavy machine gun, when the Qing government purchased the production rights of the Maxim heavy machine gun from the Germans, but in fact the inventor of the Maxim heavy machine gun was an American Hiram Stevenson Maxim. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hiram Stevenson Maxim was born in an ordinary and poor family in Maine, USA, when he was 14 years old, he worked in his uncle's factory and engaged in inventions, after the end of the American Civil War, he invented the automatic fire extinguisher, and the current automatic fire extinguisher principle is still the same as the original design principle of Maxim. He then invented the electric iron and obtained a patent. After that, he shocked the whole of America with his invention of gas lamps and train spotlights, and formed a rivalry with Edison, who invented the electric light bulb.

In Chinese textbooks, Edison is one of the greatest inventors of mankind, but the Chinese textbooks do not tell my dear classmates that Edison's character is not very good. One of them was to pirate mankind's first science fiction film "A Trip to the Moon", and then sell and distribute it in the name of his own company, using his reputation to force the company of director and screenwriter Frenchman Mérieux to go bankrupt, and Mérieux ended up selling toys at the train station for the rest of his life. Of course, the most famous is that he frantically suppressed Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, and slandered Tesla's character in major American newspapers, demanding that all American companies not cooperate with Tesla, but after Tesla's alternating current was accepted by everyone, Edison instigated Tesla to give up the alternating current patent and persuaded him to benefit mankind. After Tesla gave up the patent, Edison shamelessly overheard that Tesla was preparing to study hydropower energy, so he began to speak ill of Tesla everywhere and divided the cooperation between Tesla and the Morgan Group, which eventually led to the dismissal of Tesla by the Morgan Group.

Makqin also encountered the same problem as Tesla, Edison's frenzied repression, he hired people to slander Makqin's gas lamps in newspapers, claiming that the use of gas lamps would cause fires, and participated in the municipal government bidding process, relying on strong financial resources to bid at extremely low prices. Although the U.S. government realized that gas lamps were far more suitable for municipal lighting circuits than Edison's incandescent lamps, the price of Edison's incandescent lamps was extremely low, and Maxim was ultimately unsuccessful. In addition, Edison targeted Makqin everywhere, and bribed the people around Makqin, persuaded Makqin to leave the United States, and finally Makqin came to England.

The heavy machine gun invented by Maxim was first installed in Britain, and then was favored by Germany, and European countries have purchased their own patent production rights. In Makqin's view, the consumption of bullets by the Makqin heavy machine gun is too high, and it is difficult for ordinary countries to bear such consumption, for example, the US Army is reluctant to use it today, and Li Hongzhang, the minister of Beiyang of the Qing government, did not dare to buy too much because of his consumption of bullets after seeing the Makqin heavy machine gun. Therefore, at that time, Maxim did not realize that the Maxim heavy machine gun would bring such a big change to the war, and bought the design of the Maxim heavy machine gun at a very low price to Britain, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Japan and other countries.

But the biggest problem with the Makqin heavy machine gun now is the weight, 48 kilograms, and equipped with bullets, it requires at least one squad of people to operate. Now what Wang Yongan needs is a light machine gun that can be equipped with the squad, where is the light machine gun......

Wang Yongan suddenly thought of the famous Lewis light machine gun, which was also invented by the American Samuel McKinley.

Samuel McKinley sold the patent to Colonel Lewis, who pitched the rifle to the U.S. Army, but the U.S. government, which had not valued machine guns, flatly refused, so Lewis had to take his design to Belgium to open an arsenal, and after the outbreak of World War I, Lewis and his arsenal were withdrawn to Britain and produced Lewis light machine guns for Britain. During the Anglo-German war, the Germans were the envy of the Germans for their lightness, concealment, and disc-feed vitality. During the Russian Civil War, Britain supplied the Russian Imperial Army (White Army) with a large number of Lewis light machine guns, and the Red Army eventually won and captured them. After referring to the Lewis light machine gun, Soviet weaponists used their genius design thinking to design the famous Jieg Gamuv light machine gun, also known as the turntable machine gun, for the Soviet Union. The light machine gun not only inflicted great casualties on the German army in World War II, but also made great achievements for the volunteers in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, causing heavy casualties to the United Nations troops.

The Lewis light machine gun is a gas machine gun, it has two biggest characteristics, the first is lightweight, the whole gun is only 11.8 kg, and the second is the world's first drum feed, its single drum has 47 rounds at the earliest, and later invented 97 rounds of drums. The turntable machine gun, invented by the Soviets, always used a 47-round drum and weighed only 7.1 kilograms.

Wang immediately asked Xia Ming to find Lewis's officer or inventor, Samuel McKinley, and if Samuel McKinley had not sold the patent to Lewis, he would buy the patent immediately. A few days later, Xia Ming sent a telegram that he had found the inventor Mike, but the invention patent was sold to Isaac Newton Lewis.

Xia Ming then approached Lewis and wanted to buy the patent from Lewis, but Lewis refused, and Lewis was trying his best to persuade the U.S. government to adopt his design. Isaac Newton Lewis was not only the principal of the Fortress Artillery School in Moenla, but also an expert in mechanics and weapons, who improved McKinley's design to increase the rate of fire. The Lewis light machine gun could shoot 47 rounds of drums in six seconds, but this design was opposed by the U.S. military - on the grounds that it was too wasteful - and treated it in the same way as the Maxim heavy machine gun.

At that time, the Americans preferred to use artillery as the main force on the battlefield, and after the artillery saturation bombardment, the infantry charged with bayonets - its tactics were exactly the same as those of the Japanese in World War II, so many people thought that Lewis liked to be opportunistic, and thought that he did not concentrate on his work, but liked to operate, and was not suitable to be the principal of an artillery school.

Although Lewis, who failed to lobby, was rejected by the US government, he was still unwilling to sell the patent to the Chinese, but proposed that it could be licensed to the San Lucas Arsenal, and even proposed to give the Asian market and the American market to the San Lucas Arsenal. Wang Yongan believes that the Lewis light machine gun will definitely be carried forward in the European war in the future, so not obtaining the European market is equivalent to signing an agreement with nothing. But Lewis firmly did not agree to cede the European market to the Chinese, so Wang Yongan put forward a constructive suggestion, the St. Lucas arsenal has the right to develop the Lewis light machine gun, and the improved Lewis light machine gun can enter the European market.

Obviously, Louis was too confident in himself, he thought that after his improvement, the Lewis light machine gun had become perfect, and there was no change at all, and if the machine gun was modified, not only would the cost increase, but the machine gun performance would also decrease, and it could not be compared with the Lewis light machine gun at all. It was for this reason that Lewis agreed to grant the development rights.

After obtaining the development right, Wang Yongan let his subordinates immediately carry out secondary development of this machine gun, streamlining parts and structure, making the gun more convenient to maintain and maintain, and gave it a new name Deka class light machine gun. Wang Yongan was not familiar with the construction of weapons, but he knew that the simpler a machine gun was better, especially since the upcoming World War I, and he planned to sell the Deca light machine gun to the British.

So Wang Yongan made a request to his subordinates:

First, the parts of the Deka light machine gun should be streamlined and disassembled for maintenance, and even several broken guns can be disassembled and assembled into new guns;

Second, it is required to be reliable and durable, and machine guns do not require too much precision, but they must not jam -- a common problem of Japanese weapons during World War II was jamming, pistol jamming, machine gun jamming, and even rifle jamming.

Thirdly, the Deka light machine gun is currently based on the German 7.92 mm bullet caliber as the standard, but two sets of equipment must be prepared to be able to produce the British 7.7 mm standard bullet caliber on its own.

If the Deka machine gun uses 7.92 mm as the standard bullet caliber, everyone can still understand, after all, the weapons of the Overseas Chinese Protector Army are German-style weapons, and the weapons used by the soldiers, whether they are made in Hanyang or Mauser rifles, are 7.92 mm bullets, so the 7.92 mm bullets used in the Deka light machine gun can realize the universal use of bullets and reduce the pressure on logistics. However, the production requirements for being ready to replace 7.7 mm caliber bullets at any time are very puzzling.

Wang Yongan's explanation for this is that the British will definitely find that the Deca light machine gun will be the simplest and most reliable general-purpose machine gun on the battlefield in the future. Although everyone did not understand, they still habitually obeyed Wang Yongan's command, and the first moment when the Deka light machine gun was used by the Germans to slaughter the British and French forces on the battlefield was a few years later.

In addition, Xia Ming gained a lot in the process of negotiating with private American companies, in addition to pistols and shotguns, the American Deere Company was willing to cooperate with the San Lucas Arsenal to produce small tractors. The mechanical production department of the second company believes that as the population of San Lucas increases, they need more food, and they also need more mechanical production to liberate labor, so they plan to cooperate with the San Lucas arsenal to produce small tractors.

Wang Yongan is interested in converting tractors into tanks, of course, it is still mainly the production of tractors, he immediately instructed Xia Ming to talk about this cooperation, not only to talk about small tractor cooperation projects, but also to involve the production and modification of medium-sized tractors and large tractors.

If the Deere tractor is used as a model and converted into a tank appears on the European battlefield, will it change the pattern of the European battlefield and will it affect world history...... Wang Yongan suddenly clenched his fists excitedly, as if the whole world was already in his hands.