Without waiting for Qin Chuan to speak, Zhou Dajing couldn't help it and asked impatiently. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Director Lu, what is there in Beiyang that is even more powerful than our grenades and grenadiers?"

"Guns."

"What? What the? ”

"Guns, you say?"

Lu Dezhang's answer made Zhou Dajing even more surprised: "There are even more powerful guns than grenades and grenadiers!" ”

As soon as Lu Dezhang mentioned that the weapon more powerful than grenades and grenadiers was a gun, Qin Chuan's face changed a little, and he couldn't help but blame himself secretly.

"Grandma, why am I so confused, I actually forgot this precious thing!"

Lu Dezhang didn't notice Qin Chuan's expression and continued to talk to Zhou Dajing.

"Yes, it's a gun, but this gun can be fired continuously."

Hearing that it was a continuous fire, Zhou Dajing breathed a sigh of relief: "I said Director Lu, you scared me, you are talking about the Green Cannon." ”

The Green cannon mentioned by Zhou Dajing, also known as the Grimm machine gun, was developed more than 20 years ago by the American Charlie Brown. Jordan. Invented by Gatling. This gun is characterized by a circular arrangement of multiple heel barrels, relying on the shooter to turn a handle, manually rotating the barrel continuously, so as to complete continuous shooting.

Although the rate of fire of this Green Cannon is also very high, it requires the shooter to shoot while shaking the handle, and the rotation is not very flexible during the firing, and it is impossible to quickly adjust the direction of the fire at will. In addition, it also has one of the biggest drawbacks, that is, when the shooter shoots on the battlefield, it is often easy to turn the handle faster and faster due to tension, causing the Green Cannon to jam or explode.

Lu Dezhang didn't seem to be very interested in this kind of firearm that could shoot continuously, and was a little casual.

"Last year, by chance, I heard people from the Beiyang Battalion Office talk about it, saying that this kind of gun is called Maxine heavy machine gun, and when Li Zhongtang went to Europe in the 14th year of Guangxu, he was just in time for this kind of machine gun to hold a new gun press conference in Britain, and Li Zhongtang had seen this kind of machine gun in Britain. It is said that Li Zhongtang was greatly surprised by the demonstration on the spot, and this kind of gun actually fired 300 rounds of ammunition in half a minute, hitting a two-foot-thick tree to the point of breaking off on the spot. The stormy bullets fired from this machine gun shocked everyone present at the time, so much so that Li Zhongtang called this machine gun a race electric gun. ”

"It's just that this kind of gun is too expensive, and one Maxine heavy machine gun is 5,000 taels of silver. This is not counting, it is said that Li Zhongtang mainly feels that this Maxine machine gun is too wasteful of bullets, and if he wants to equip this machine gun in large quantities, Li Zhongtang is very worried about the cost of ammunition. Moreover, at that time, the war with the French had just ended, and the silver in Li Zhongtang's hand was also stretched, so he only bought two of them because of the situation, and he didn't issue them when he came back, and these two Maxine heavy machine guns are still lying in the warehouse of the camp office. ”

"And."

"I also heard that in the fourteenth year of Guangxu, Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Liangjiang, began to imitate this machine gun in the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau, and it is said that one was made in the fifteenth year of Guangxu. After Zuo Zongtang's death, there was no more news. ”

For the famous Maxine heavy machine gun, Qin Chuan can be said to be very familiar.

This machine gun is an American Hiram . Stevens. Maxine succeeded in inventing it in 1883 and was patented the following year. Maxine also had the foresight to patent all the mechanisms that could be used for automatic weapons. More than 100 years later, all automatic firearms manufacturing still follows the three basic principles of automatic fire, which were pioneered by Maxine, such as barrel recoil, bolt recoil, and gas conduction.

The Maxine machine gun was the world's first automatic weapon powered by gunpowder gas in the true sense of the word. Since the advent of the Maxine machine gun, it can be said that the hot weapon tactics of the Napoleonic era have been completely useless, but no one has been aware of this until the First World War.

Maxine caliber 7.62mm, gun weight 27.2 kg, barrel short recoil automatic, water-cooled barrel, 333 rounds of ammunition capacity of a long canvas belt feed, the cartridge belt can be continued, the theoretical rate of fire is 600 rounds per minute, can be adjusted to a slow rate of fire of 100 rounds per minute. The disadvantage is that the structure is more complex, the water-cooled barrel is more bulky, and the reliability of the canvas belt becomes worse after being wet.

Despite this, the Maxine machine gun is recognized as the most deadly firearm of all time, with millions of people killed by Maxine.

Before World War I, in southern Africa, there were 50 British cavalry, using a Maxine heavy machine gun, not only withstood the attack of 5,000 Zulus, but also killed more than 3,000 people in just one night.

In Asia, in the fifteenth year of Guangxu, that is, in the Sudan of 1899, 2,000 British troops were besieged by tens of thousands of people, and under the frantic strafing of more than ten British troops, there were 20,000 corpses in less than a day's front.

And the most frightening thing is that twenty years later, in World War I, in the Battle of the Somme, the Germans, who were the first to realize Maxine's great power, killed more than 60,000 British soldiers with hundreds of Maxine heavy machine guns in one day, and wounded countless others.

However, the price of this revolutionary machine gun is so expensive that for more than ten years since its inception, the armies of various European countries have not been equipped on a large scale. It is said that the same is true of the European powers of Britain, France, and Germany, and there is only a single-digit Maxine in a division, and it is also a water-cooled type placed on a car with wheels.

However, Beiyang had a Maxine heavy machine gun before the First Sino-Japanese War, and even copied it a few years ago, but it was still defeated in the upcoming First Sino-Japanese Battlefield, and Qin Chuan was still shocked, and at the same time, he also felt a deep burst of inexplicable sadness in his heart.

As far as he knew, during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Army did not say that there was no such revolutionary weapon of mass destruction, even the Green artillery was not equipped, let alone artillery. Although the Japanese manpower has been reforming for decades, and it has indeed achieved the results of reform, but after all, the country is small and weak, and the army's military expenditure is not only compared with the Manchu court, but also compared with the Beiyang army. For example, in terms of artillery, the Qing army was far stronger than the Japanese army in terms of both the quantity and quality of various types of artillery. On the other hand, the Japanese Army, even because of financial reasons, is still equipped with a lot of self-made bronze guns. Can......

Zhou Dajing was also shocked by the Maxine machine gun, which had a rate of fire of up to 600 rounds per minute, but he also thought that this machine gun was too ammo-intensive.

Zhou Dajing licked his lips and said with some regret: "The Maxine machine gun is indeed a good thing, but this kind of gun is indeed too expensive, if you really want to equip dozens of these things, I am afraid that it will cost millions of bullets a day." ”

Qin Chuan knew that neither of them had a deep understanding of the power of the Maxine heavy machine gun on the battlefield, nor did they have a concept of the importance of continuous automatic firepower in war.

Qin Chuan couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

For Zhou Dajing, the chief of staff who is almost equivalent to his student, Qin Chuan understands that it is indeed difficult to let him serve as chief of staff now, this young man not only needs to learn a lot of modern military knowledge, but also needs to constantly broaden his horizons and accumulate experience, especially actual combat experience is the most important thing for him.

Qin Chuan believes that as long as Zhou Dajing is given another year, he will grow up. If he survived the First Sino-Japanese Battle and did not die in battle, Zhou Dajing, who had experienced the tempering of blood and fire, would become a qualified chief of staff.

For the machine gun, which is definitely a good thing for the infantry, Qin Chuan will naturally not let it go, and he even impulsively wants to apply for the patent of the MG-42 general-purpose machine gun known as the "Grim Reaper" equipped by the German army in World War II, as well as his favorite ZB-26 light machine gun that was widely used by the National Army and the Eighth Route Army during the Anti-Japanese War. However, Qin Chuan's thought was just a turn in Qin Chuan's heart.

Qin Chuan said to Zhou Dajing solemnly: "Dajing, the machine gun is an infantry weapon with extremely fierce firepower, which can play a role that rifles and even artillery cannot play in defensive and offensive operations, and can be called the most important infantry weapon in modern warfare. Since it is a sharp weapon for infantry combat, then we must have it, and we must equip as much as possible. You'll have to use your brains more in the future, thinking about how to get the most out of this weapon, including grenades and grenadiers. ”

Qin Chuan taught so solemnly that Zhou Dajing couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and nodded thoughtfully.

Qin Chuan turned to Lu Dezhang: "Director Lu, grenades and grenadiers must be kept secret. ”

Seeing that Lu Dezhang nodded solemnly in agreement, Qin Chuan continued.

"The technical parameters of grenades and grenadiers should be analyzed as soon as possible, and efforts should be made to finalize them as soon as possible. In addition, you also have to be prepared for the Maxine machine gun, I will find a way to buy this machine gun from abroad as soon as possible, and you must also transfer manpower to be familiar with the principle of this automatic firearm。。。。。。 (To be continued.) )