The company-level fire reinforcement weapon 81 mm mortar, Gao Hongsheng is also ready to throw it to Austria-Hungary to produce, the main reason is that this country does not deal with Russia, so that the 81 mm mortar will not be leaked to the Russians, and the Russians will not be depressed if suddenly the Russians take out the weapons designed by Gao Hongsheng to deal with him.

Speaking of which, the production of mortars is very simple, whether it is an optical sight or a gun carriage with buffers, it is not a very rare thing, the really difficult thing is the shells of mortars.

The production process of mortar shells is not difficult, and the production of fuses is not difficult, the difficulty here refers to its huge consumption and how to ensure the supply on the battlefield.

In the case of Gao Hongsheng's small mortar that resembles a grenadier, it can easily fire twenty rounds in one minute, and even if a mortar shell is one or two pieces of silver, then one minute is twenty taels, which is still the number of one mortar.

A platoon is six ultralight mortars, and one hundred and twenty taels of silver will be lost in a minute, and a slightly larger battle will not be enough to see if it does not harm a few hundred rounds, and this is not counting his machine guns that eat bullets, according to the price of fifty dollars for a thousand rounds of bullets, his machine guns can eat thousands of taels of silver in minutes, where is this killing people with weapons, it is simply taking silver to stone the enemy to death.

This is not the point, the point is that the ammunition consumption of these weapons must be very considerable, but the poor transportation conditions in the country limit his supply capacity.

There are no trains, no cars, no roads, only country roads, and when you encounter gravel roads, you have to burn high incense, so you can only use mules and horses to carry them on your shoulders.

This is also the reason why he has been scratching his head about the fire weapons at the company and battalion level, the company level is an 81 mm mortar, and the battalion level should be a 75 mm cannon, that is, the French 75 mm rapid-fire artillery, commonly known as Miss France.

In the early stage of World War I, the 75-mm field artillery was already considered a large-caliber artillery, and the leading artillery of the armies of various countries was also of this caliber, mainly because the transportation conditions at that time limited the development of cannon caliber.

At that time, there was no car to tow the artillery for you, and the movement of the artillery could only be dragged by horses, and the artillery at that time was still a frame and the artillery did not have a hydraulic booster mechanism, which made the artillery at that time very heavy, and there were no rubber tires, all of them were large iron wheels made of steel, even the most advanced French seven-five-millimeter rapid-fire artillery weighed more than one and a half tons, and it was a headache to think about using two or four horses to drag such a big iron guy over the mountains and mountains.

However, if there is no flat-fire cannon that can destroy a solid firepower point, then once it encounters an enemy who has built a solid firepower point, then it can only be filled with human lives, which is also the main reason why Gao Hongsheng must get artillery with a caliber of more than 75 millimeters.

As for the devil's 92 infantry gun, he also thought about making it, but that thing was a thing that could do anything and nothing, and he really didn't look at it.

The devil's 92 infantry gun, that is really an ideal artillery for infantry, the overall weight is light, can be divided into several parts to be transported by mules and horses, very suitable for use in complex mountainous areas, especially suitable for transportation conditions in poor areas, at the same time the 92 infantry gun itself is a howitzer, can be arranged in a long-range as a howitzer, and at the same time can be close to the support infantry as a cannon to directly fire at the point of fire that destroys the civil structure, and can also be used as an accurate mortar, it is simply a multi-purpose artillery.

The result of multi-use is that it is not outstanding in all aspects, when the howitzer is used, the firing distance is too close, and there is only a dry stare in the face of other long-range howitzers.

When the cannon is used, but the muzzle velocity of the shell is too low, it is blind in the face of the solid fire point of reinforced concrete, and it is often tickled for others.

When it was used as a mortar, the firing speed was not enough, and the weight was too heavy, and before it could run away, it was overwhelmingly flooded by mortar shells.

That thing was also on the Chinese battlefield at that time, and it could show off its might to deal with the squadron that lacked ammunition and artillery, and when it encountered the US army, it became a soft-footed crab and an artillery that faced annihilation when it outcropped.

This is mainly because the firing range of the 92 infantry artillery is too close, the maximum firing range is 2,700 meters, and the maximum range of the 81 mm mortar is not less than that of the 92 infantry gun, so that the 92 infantry artillery will fall into an embarrassing situation on the battlefield, and the number of operators of the 92 infantry gun is really a bit large, and the devil's 92 infantry gun is composed of ten people according to their staffing, mainly because the weight of the 92 infantry gun is a little too heavy compared to the mortar, in the complex battlefield terrain, It is often necessary to carry people on their backs to reach the launch site, and it is impossible to move it when the number of people is small.

And an 81-millimeter mortar generally weighs more than 10 kilograms or more than 20 kilograms, and after being disassembled, two or three people can run around with it, and basically only four people are needed to form an artillery crew.

At the same time, the manufacturing price of a 92 infantry gun is much more expensive than an 81-mm mortar, which is equivalent to several times that of an 80-mm mortar, and a 92-mm infantry gun at the same cost can produce a later Soviet-made PM38 120-mm mortar.

The Soviet-made PM38 120-millimeter mortar weighs just over 280 kilograms, has a barrel length of less than 1.9 meters, fires nearly 16 kilograms of shells, contains 3.1 kilograms of explosives, has a maximum firing range of 6,000 meters, and has a crew of six people.

The cost of this mortar was quite cheap, only 1,200 Reichsmarks, which was only 480 dollars, which was about 1,000 yen at the same time, and the 120 mm mortar designed and manufactured in Germany during the same period cost ten times as much as this gun, which is probably one of the reasons for Germany's final failure.

As for the question of accuracy, how accurate do the shells of a one hundred and twenty-millimeter mortar need to be? It is completely possible to rely on the advantage of firepower to offset the accuracy of the artillery, but the difference in the killing radius between the two is several times, is accuracy still a problem?

Even an eighty-one mm mortar can use its own high rate of fire to offset the accuracy of the artillery, as far as the mortar itself is concerned, its accuracy is inherently low, mainly relying on the high rate of fire to offset the accuracy of the shot, simply put, it relies on the rain of shells to carry out a covering strike, and the accuracy is diluted by the high rate of fire.

The firing rate of a mortar of about 81 mm is usually between 20 and 30 rounds a minute, and the high rate of fire is directly used to offset the accuracy of the artillery, just like the difference between a machine gun and a bolt-action rifle, the machine gun relies on dense fire to destroy the enemy, while the rifle relies on accurate fire to hit the enemy, but can the rifle fight against the machine gun?

At the same time, the arrangement of mortars is usually four or six to form a firing unit to carry out a probabilistic strike on a target, and the strike is usually three rapid fire, followed by a rain of shells to increase the lethality.

The main reason why the 92 infantry artillery was able to show off its might on the battlefield of China's resistance against Japan was that the artillery of the Chinese army at that time was quite scarce, and there was no large-caliber suppressive artillery, and at the same time, because most of the artillery and shells needed to be imported, if one was damaged, one less could not be replenished at all, and the artillery of the squadron was fighting less and less, and finally a gun with the same performance had to face several or even a dozen devil artillery, which resulted in the glory of the 92 infantry gun in China.

When the devils faced the Soviet Union and the United States, they were completely backward in terms of both the number and performance of artillery, and the 92 infantry artillery was shot to death on the beach without even turning up a wave, so that in the later stage of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, it was completely replaced by Soviet-made mortars and swept into the museum of history.

Compared with the power of mortars, in terms of cost performance and convenience of use, the 92 infantry cannon cannot be compared with the mortar at all, Gao Hongsheng compared the 92 infantry cannon in his heart and vetoed it, and even the pattern of this small cannon that was all over the Chinese battlefield in later generations was not shown to Feng Laosi They took a look, and he directly threw it in the computer and died.