"What is this? Is it also a machine gun? But it doesn't seem to be! It's too small, right, can this thing work? Hong Jincai snatched the model over, fiddled with it in his hand and asked.

Feng Laosi glanced at it with his eyes, crooked his mouth disdainfully and didn't speak, shook the picture of md08/15 in his hand in front of Gao Hongsheng's eyes, and then looked at Gao Hongsheng with provocative eyes, which clearly means that you explain it to me well, if you dare to fool me with a rotten thing, you will be good-looking.

Gao Hongsheng glanced at the two of them with contemptuous eyes and said: "Third brother, be careful, this thing is expensive, it is worth hundreds of foreign watches, if you break it but don't have the land to buy it, there will be such a thing in the world." ”

"What, this thing is so expensive?" Hong Jincai exclaimed, frightened, he carefully placed the model on the table, and carefully placed it, and pointed the muzzle at Gao Hongsheng.

looked at Hong Jincai, who was sincerely frightened, looked at the one-tenth full-scale exquisite model on the table with wide eyes in surprise, smiled, reached out and took the exquisite model in his hand, carefully stroked the model and said: "Don't underestimate this model, if you put in bullets of the same proportion, this thing can be used, this is not a model made of wood, this is a real iron guy." ”

If an ordinary plastic model can be used so expensive, it's not because it's an iron guy, or an iron guy who can really fire, this model is equipped with bullets, but the bullet is a miniature empty cartridge, and it has no power, so he can only listen to a sound, and he didn't take it out because the bullet only has two ammunition chains of 250 rounds.

Like the baby, this iron guy weighing more than two pounds picked it up and touched it from head to toe, and then ruthlessly, Gao Hongsheng gritted his teeth, and used special tools to disassemble the entire model into parts one by one, and then put these parts on the table one by one, and said while placing them: "This is the most advanced machine gun, light weight, long range, good shooting speed, and simple structure." ”

Hong Jincai heard him say that the structure was simple, and he spat and interjected: "It's simple, it's simple, it's simple and people can't believe that this thing is a machine gun, look at this guy, this can be called a machine gun." Picking up the picture of the Hatch Keith heavy machine gun on the table, it shook in front of Gao Hongsheng's eyes.

The Bergman MG15NA light machine gun really doesn't look very good, it can be described as simple and ugly, the thin body and the small grip are too small compared to the other two stocky big killers.

At first, Gao Hongsheng didn't like this thing, and when he searched on the Internet, he basically confused the Rheinland Air Force machine gun MG15 with the Bergman MG15NA machine gun.

However, the predecessor of the Bergman MG15NA machine gun is actually the Bergman M1910 machine gun, which is also a water-cooled heavy machine gun, using a short recoil automatic mode with a barrel, because it is a direct-acting bolt, it is durable and durable, and has a long service life, and is easy to maintain, but there are also shortcomings that the reliability of the action is not high, and it is easy to malfunction, but this problem is in the later product MG15NA, Bergman refers to the design of the MG08/15 Maxim light machine gun, and many aspects have been transformed, the reliability has reached a tolerable point, of course, he still has some problems, after all, it is an air-cooled machine gun, and the ability to fire continuously is not comparable to the water-cooled Makqin.

Also, its heavy bipod is too ugly, this bipod is mainly for the MG08/15 universal reason, so it is made of quite porcelain.

At the same time, the position of this bipod is in the middle of the machine gun, so the result is that when shooting, the stability of the machine gun is not as good as the bipod behind the front sight of the machine gun, this is mainly because most of the machine guns at that time were used as indirect shooting, and the position installed in the middle can be more convenient for shooting outside the field of vision.

But Gao Hongsheng did not position it as a heavy machine gun, but as a general-purpose machine gun that surpassed the light machine gun and was smaller than the heavy machine gun for striking targets in the field of vision, and the heavy machine gun he was going to adopt the later 7 mm Browning heavy machine gun.

As for the target out of sight, the mortar is still very simple, and the French 75 rapid-fire gun (Miss 75) is also quite good, sell the blueprint of Miss 75 to any German and Austrian arsenal in exchange for some samples, it is estimated that these arsenals will wake up laughing in their dreams.

In fact, this thing is a bestseller when it is sent to that country, of course, in addition to France, because the French M1897 type 75 rapid-fire gun has been secretly produced at this time, and it was not until 1901 when the Eight-Nation Coalition fought against the Boxers that the Germans discovered that the secret weapon of the French was so terrifying outside Beijing.

At that time, the average rate of fire of breech guns in other countries was two rounds a minute, but the French 75 rapid-fire gun was fifteen rounds a minute, and the fastest rifle in the same period, the British 77, was also fifteen rounds per minute, and the speed of a cannon was basically the same as the rate of fire of a rifle, so everyone can guess what it means.

However, the French M1897 rapid-fire gun is their treasure of the town, and it has been kept secret, and even in order to cover up the existence of the rapid-fire gun, it was not revealed until the Boxer War, but because of France's resentment against Germany, they have always refused to authorize the design of the 75 rapid-fire gun to the Germans, and as a result, the Germans have become the only losers in the rapid-fire gun revolution. (The United States, Poland, and Japan all quickly imported 75 rapid-fire guns from France and began to copy and license production, and countries such as Britain and Russia also developed their own rapid-fire guns according to French methods.) )

This made Gao Hongsheng a little timid and couldn't make up his mind, in this era, the West did not attach great importance to weapons such as heavy machine guns, but they were all very interested in artillery, and they were interested to the point of obsession.

It's really a bit too hot, and at the same time, it has formed a rapid-fire artillery omnipotence school for France later, and even added steel cannon shields to rapid-fire guns, and asked artillery to advance 75 rapid-fire guns to within 1,000 meters from the front line, and attack the enemy with a barrage of grenade bombs, in order to support the national skill of the French infantry: "Bayonet charge." ”

With this technical and spiritual factor, the French enthusiastically embraced the 75 rapid-fire gun, which had been upgraded from a military school to an unquestionable faith.

Howitzers, heavy artillery, mortars and other old firearms and large-caliber guns were thrown into the garbage warehouse.

The French believed that they had found the best solution to the future war, and that the whole army only needed one artillery, one caliber, and one ammunition -- 75 miss, 75 mm, and grenade -- to be able to defeat the enemy in the face of the Germans' vengeful and shameful battle.

Gao Hongsheng is really a little afraid of such a hot thing, not to mention whether the Germans will continue to follow its original path after getting the technology, using long-range, large-caliber high-explosive grenades to fight rapid-fire guns and grenade shotguns.

(Grenade projectile, a kind of artillery shell, the wall is very thin, containing gunpowder and small steel balls, etc., the warhead is equipped with a timed fuse, which can explode above the intended target to kill the enemy.) ）

In fact, the grenade bomb was destined to be eliminated, and it was already eliminated in the later part of the First World War, giving way to high-explosive bombs, because one of the key factors in the heavy casualties suffered by the British in the Battle of the Somme was their belief that the use of grenade bombs could cut the tangled barbed wire fence in the three areas.

In fact, the grenade projectile is only useful for killing and injuring the enemy, the probability of the effect on the barbed wire is quite low, and the exploding projectile has only a limited destructive effect, and will be blocked by the sandbags on the edge of the trench, so the troops behind the cover are generally safe, and with the protection of the steel helmet, they can also resist the damage of the grenade projectile to the head.

There is also the fact that the cost of shotguns is higher than that of high-explosive shells, and the shell body needs better steel.

It is also more difficult to use accurately than high-explosive shells, as it is critical to set the right fuse at the right time to detonate the projectile, and it also requires the artillery observation officer to have considerable skill in attacking moving targets.

In this way, even if Gao Hongsheng can buy French rapid-fire guns, how to solve the problem of artillery shells, he can't remind Britain and France that your artillery shells are not good, and grenade shotguns are not as good as high-explosive bombs.

Otherwise, it is to buy artillery in France, and then go to Germany to buy high-explosive bombs, which is different from reminding Britain and France, Gao Hongsheng is not kind enough to remind these two countries, and even he hopes that they will continue to use grenade bombs.