Gao Hongsheng: These men did not attend the luxurious banquet, and there were really a lot of things that they needed to be busy with.

In the face of those dignitaries downstairs, these dirt buns thought that they could not compare with Bo Caiyun who had been circling in the wind and moon field all the year round, and it was much better to hide behind the scenes and be a strong backing.

Taking advantage of the time of the banquet downstairs, Gao Hongsheng and they were busy with the division of labor, but Gao Hongsheng felt that he was too tired, and he had to reach out for everything, so what did Albert do?

The distribution of manpower is also very fast, mainly because Gao Hongsheng recruited Albert for European things, but with Bo Caiyun and they rushed to the front, Albert's status changed from the front desk to the backstage, and naturally their tasks were different from the original, and now they have become assistants hiding behind the scenes.

In fact, this is also one of Gao Hongsheng's preventive measures, Bo Caiyun and Albert belong to two camps, cooperate with each other and supervise each other, and only he can rest assured that the whole affairs of Europe will be handed over to them to deal with, otherwise a higher supervisor will be left, after all, the amount involved is too big.

But now they don't need it, Bo Caiyun is responsible for spending money and making money, Albert and they are responsible for managing the entry and exit of goods, one is in charge of goods, the other is in charge of money, and they are summarized once a month, and if there is any problem, they can find out at once, so it is much more convenient to manage.

At the same time, Gao Hongsheng does not plan to provide much goods to Europe every year, he currently wants to make a lot of money in Europe, and even contact the queen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is for utilitarian purposes, that is, to build momentum for Bo Caiyun and them, and get those famous paintings in Europe through guò, and then run back to modern times to exchange for a lot of money.

For this world, he has no plans to stay here for a long time, the life of those landlords in the Great Qing Kingdom is not as good as a well-off family in modern times, and there is not even a guarantee of safety, that is really a life to make money, but whether he has the life to spend the money I don't know, what do you say he came to this world for?

Feng Laosi and Hong Jincai are just bodyguards he uses to protect himself in this world, and the feelings are a little, but not to the point where he needs to put himself in danger to protect them, and he is fully capable of transporting them to the Americas or Australia if China is really chaotic in the future, which is enough to ensure that they are rich and prosperous for a lifetime.

This is also the reason why Gao Hongsheng does things in this world with a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west, the fundamental reason is that he doesn't want to stay in this world for long, this is just the place where he takes a lot of money.

But now he is also in trouble, so how to send Feng Laosi and them, they are not here to travel in Europe, first of all, the problem of boats, and then weapons.

Sent Albert away, Feng Laosi and they began to chase him for the weapon he had originally mentioned, which was also the fault of the training manual he took out, which was a training manual for the militia for more than five years, and those individual soldier training or something is easy to say, basically everything is the same, mainly because there is more way to use a wooden-handled grenade than in this era.

Wooden handle grenades, which can be made in the eight ways, there is no scientific and technological content in it, and the solution is very simple, this time to Europe to throw it to the original Germans to continue production, he just bought it, but the team, even the platoon-level training on the machine gun This thing appeared in it, at that time he also found out that it was wrong, so he had to take a six-barreled Gatling as a heavy machine gun for training, but the weight of that thing is simply a disaster, and it can't be compared with the heavy machine guns of later generations, Not to mention the fact that there is no such thing as a light machine gun.

In addition to the Makqin MG08 heavy machine gun, there is also an air-cooled heavy machine gun on the world stage, that is, the Hatch Chase gas M1897 machine gun, before the emergence of the German MG34 machine gun in the thirties of the last century, it is the only truly successful air-cooled heavy machine gun in the world, and it is also the predecessor of the 38-year-old heavy machine gun used by the devil later, and we can also see its shadow on the 92-type heavy machine gun.

Makqin heavy machine gun is a water-cooled heavy machine gun, in terms of structure than the Hatch Chase heavy machine gun is much more complicated, Hatch Chase M1897 heavy machine gun does not contain sights only thirty-eight parts, in addition to the barrel and air guide other parts can be disassembled directly without the help of any tools, the gun is also equipped with a butt, which allows the shooter to easily shoot shoulder shot, but because the canvas cartridge belt feeding method has been patented, there is only another way to use a flat metal bullet plate to feed the bomb, The bullet plates are made of brass or steel, which may look a bit bulky, but they are better than canvas belts because they are not affected by cold and wet weather, and of course mud and corrosive gases can also interfere with its performance.

First of all, heavy machine guns, as a suppressive weapon, will not be arranged in the front-line trenches, let alone in the frontal position.

Machine gun emplacements were placed in front-line trenches, so the machine gunners were easily hit by sniper and machine-gun counterfire fire, and in fact heavy machine-gun emplacements were usually placed in the rear hundreds of yards from the front-line positions during World War I.

At night, these heavy machine guns often perform an important task, inflicting indirect fire on reinforcements in the enemy's rear, and providing direct suppressive fire only during the day.

In modern warfare, general-purpose machine guns are generally used to fire directly at targets, and targets outside the field of view are naturally taken care of by accurate artillery and combat aircraft, but during World War I, heavy machine guns were often used as indirect firing weapons, much like today's mortars.

In World War I, even in the absence of forward observation posts to indicate targets and revise the strike area, a water-cooled heavy machine gun position could still use the basic geometry principles to aim and deliver long-range strikes over a wide area against enemy positions, as is the case with traditional artillery.

In the British machine gun training school, visiting British military officers usually see such machine gun firing performances: machine guns hidden at a considerable distance, when firing, the visitors can hardly hear the gunshots, but in the barren land in front of the visitors, the dense bullets dust the sand like a small storm.

So that even the most stupid and dull person can imagine how horrible the sight must have been for the infantry to cross such blocking fire.

This makes the heavy machine gun given too much use in battle, not only playing the role of its original direct-fire machine gun, but also playing a cameo role in the function of modern light mortars, blocking functions, which is the main reason why heavy machine guns will not be deployed in the first line.

Even if the heavy machine gun does not use high-power machine gun bullets, the maximum range is more than two thousand meters, and if high-power machine gun shells are used, the range is increased to about three thousand meters.

At the same time, the use of heavy machine guns is not the most powerful in the front, the Americans once made a real yàn, in a large open space according to the infantry attack of the skirmish line way high and low hung high and low, when the machine gun shoots frontally, it can probably break dozens of or so, but when arranged in the side of the fire, it can usually break more than hundreds, and even a lot of balloons are broken by bullets passing through other balloons, especially when the two machine guns form crossfire, The balloons in the net of fire were almost all shattered.

Therefore, the heavy machine guns of the First World War were usually arranged a few hundred meters behind the battle line, and they were on the side of the attacker, and the way of firing at the same time was also to suppress the fence from a long distance, and they would not need to charge into the line like the light machine guns.

"I mentioned buying the heavy machine gun of Hatch Cash, that thing has a simple structure, Makqin is much more complicated than Hatch Cash, not to mention that you have to find water to cool down, really on the battlefield, go there to find water, and now come out with such a big guy who drinks water, it's really troublesome, and the ammunition belt of the canvas, it looks pretty good, but that thing doesn't have ammunition plates to resist the scourge. The most important thing is that it has a simple structure, it is easy to disassemble and maintain, no matter how good Makqin is, but the maintenance alone can make it difficult for us to die, our subordinates all know it, I don't know a few big characters, there are a few who can play with that thing, looking at the parts on your drawings, it is much more complicated than Hatch Kais. Hong Jincai pointed to the decomposed picture of the MG08 Makqin heavy machine gun with his finger and said.

"No, Makqin is much better than Hatch Cash, Hatch Chase is a **** annoyance to bullet on the bullet board, if you want to continue shooting, you must have a co-shooter to hold a little bullet into it, that is a technical job, not everyone can do it. Everyone knows that anything can be encountered on the battlefield, and a person can't operate the Hatch Chase at all, but Makqin is different, it is a person who can help, as for the water, it is not a problem, just ask the small ones to carry more, as long as there is water, the machine gun can continue to shoot, and the accuracy will not change, but after the Hatch Chase continues to shoot, the barrel will heat up, and the accuracy will change. In terms of maintenance, Maxim and Hatch Chase are the same for us, simple is not simple to go there, complex is not complicated to the point of not being able to maintain, they all have to be learned from scratch, but the relationship between difficulty and ease, I don't believe that our people can't learn it. It seems that Maxim is a little more complicated, but it is much less problematic than Hatch Cash, and it seems that Maxim is more suitable for us. Feng Laosi fiddled with Makqin's picture and said greedily.

In the end, who is better of these two weapons, no one can really say clearly, just like those comparisons on the Internet in later generations, the Makqin heavy machine gun vs. the Type 92 heavy machine gun, that is the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother says that the mother is reasonable, and anyone can take out a bunch of interests and say that one of them is better than the other.

Gao Hongsheng wanted to use the MG42 general-purpose machine gun produced by Germany during World War II, but the current processing capacity could not be processed at all, the most important thing was that the stamping technology had not yet reached the ability of the World War II period, and it was impossible to process it with conventional cutting technology, and the accuracy could not be reached. At the same time, the heat treatment process of steel has not yet reached that point, and the barrel cannot withstand such a high rate of fire.

Industry is not a little sloppy, especially in the manufacture of weapons, that is more of a country's comprehensive manufacturing level of an experience, the synthesis here includes a lot of aspects, not only a few steel mills are heavy industry, that is just to provide heavy industry food, and want to turn coarse grain into a variety of exquisite food, is a system engineering, just this era has not been a large number of electric motors are used in machining machine tools, then the precision of machining is impossible to talk about, It is also impossible to process the precise parts of the MG42 general-purpose machine gun.

However, there is one weapon that can be produced in advance, and that is the Bergman MG15 machine gun, which is not to be confused with Rheinmetall's MG15, which are two completely different weapons and have nothing to do with each other.

The Bergman MG15 machine gun was the first light machine gun to use a dismantling metal chain, which was fed with a 250, 200 or 100-round chain, and a 100-round chain box on the outside of the receiver.

This weapon was patented in 1901 by Theodore Bergman for his own design of a bolt assembly and a short recoil automatic method, a machine gun with a cam that allowed the bolt to move vertically within the receiver, similar to the Browning machine gun.

Initially, the Bergman machine gun borrowed the design of the M1910 light machine gun, which was heavier and treated with a cooling water cylinder, but later in order to make it easier for infantry to operate and also to be loaded on aircraft, it was lightweight, the rear was added to the stock, the spade handle grip was canceled and replaced with a small grip, the heavy cooling water cylinder was also removed, and a lighter porous heat sink was replaced, and a bipod was installed in the middle of the barrel.

In 1916, the Bergman M15 underwent a heavy improvement, referring to many of the experience of the MG08/15, and the bolt rear speed was slowed down to reduce the occurrence of jamming problems during firing.

The bipod has also been changed from the barrel sheath to be mounted in front of the small grip, and the mounting parts are swinging, and a walking handle and a new sight have been added, the improved model is the MG15NA.

In World War I, the Bergman light machine gun was mainly distributed to the Eastern Front and the Palestinian battlefield, objectively speaking, it was a reliable light machine gun, but in the German army where the Maxim machine gun dominated the world, it could never win the real favor of the officers, but this machine gun was the closest to the modern general-purpose machine gun during the First World War.

Gao Hongsheng carefully opened a lockbox and took out the super simulation model of this machine gun from the box, which he bought for more than 20,000 yuan in a simulation model store in Hong Kong, and there was a complete set of MG15NA drawings in the box, but there was no tolerance matching, as long as the actual measurements in all aspects were not that he could not make a complete set of process drawings in modern times, but at that time it was made on the basis of modernity, and you can't use it at all in this era. You can only come up with the actual measured number and then find someone to work on the process design in this era.

He asked Feng Laosi and them to refer to the two most advanced heavy machine guns of this era before taking out this slightly thin modern general-purpose machine gun, just because he was afraid that at the beginning, the two of them would ensure that they were consistent with the outside world, and he would veto this thin and unspeakable thing, who made this modern general-purpose machine gun too advanced.

In his impression, only a machine gun of 50 caliber can be called a heavy machine gun, that is, the well-known 7 mm caliber machine gun is a heavy machine gun, and these so-called heavy machine guns of his era are just really "heavy" machine guns.

In fact, the MG15NA light machine gun and MG08/15 also use the same German Mauser 92 mm rifle cartridges, the rate of fire is also about the same, and it can only be fired in bursts, but in terms of length, the full length of Bergman MG15NA is one meter one and one two, and Makqin's MG08/15 is one meter thirty-nine and close to one meter four, don't underestimate the difference in length at this point, in the fierce movement on the battlefield, the extra length of nearly 30 centimeters, which is quite deadly.

Moreover, in terms of muzzle velocity, the Bergman MG15 is 809 and the effective range is 2,000 meters, while the MG08/15 muzzle velocity is 805 and the effective range is only 1,200 meters, and the weight of MG15 is about 13 kilograms, and the weight of MG08/15 is about 19.5 kilograms (with water and a 100-round cartridge belt).

There is a major problem here, Bergman MG15NA has not been applied for a patent in the first seven years, and even the metal elastic chain has not been applied, which gives Gao Hongsheng a big hole to drill.

At that time, although the issue of patents was not too important, but if you want to sell the product, you must abide by the Western patent system, the three major gun families in the United States, Britain, France The basic principles of automatic weapons have been registered patents, you can only buy patented technology if you want to produce, if people don't sell you a patent, you will stare dryly, just like France's Hatch Chase has no canvas chain patent to use, so you have to use metal bullet plates to deal with, There are examples of how a very powerful weapon has become weak.

At the same time, the purpose of his current MG15NA is also to seize the patent of the metal bullet chain, as long as he has a major firearm patent in hand, he is not afraid of the patent blockade of other weapons companies.

The largest market for metal cartridge chain technology is on aviation machine guns, drums, magazine-type aviation machine guns are at most within a hundred rounds, and the amount of ammunition is not enough for aviation machine guns, which is simply not enough.

And the metal chain of aviation machine guns is simply a few hundred rounds, and at the same time, the canvas chain is too fragile to be used on aviation machine guns, so think that those manufacturers who produce aviation machine guns must come up with the same patents for reciprocal exchange, so that the weapons he produces can be marketed in the world.

However, MG15NA also has some problems, first of all, after 300 rounds, the barrel will be red, which is mainly due to the technical limitations at the time, and it is very troublesome to replace the barrel, but these problems are easy to solve, the replacement of the barrel can refer to the design of the MG42 barrel, or it can be directly stolen.

Heavy air-cooled barrels, limited to the industrial base at this time is estimated to be unable to produce, but as long as the barrel can be quickly and easily replaced, it is not a problem, as a weapon similar to a general-purpose machine gun, if three hundred rounds of continuous fire in one place do not transfer, it is estimated that it is not too far from death.