Speaking of new weapons or something, Zhu Jishi is really a little ashamed of his identity as a traverser. It's been sixteen or seventeen years since I came to this world, and I haven't even tossed out a Maxine water-cooled machine gun! Such a shameless thing is still based on the fact that Zhu Jishi owns the largest scientific research institution in the world in this time and space, the Jason Central Practical Room.

However, his real room was quite competitive, and finally in the winter of 1858 A.D., he traveled all the way to bring him a few Jason-style machine guns.

In the southeast of Purple Mountain in Nanjing, on the campus of the Daming Royal Army Military Academy, in a newly opened shooting range, various senior officers of the Daming Army Department and the General Staff gathered together. All of them were neatly dressed in military uniforms, with shiny military boots, hugging Zhu Jishi, carefully looking at the two strange-shaped weapons.

These two weapons look a bit like small-caliber guns, they are placed on the gun rack of a 3-pounder gun, and the shape of the weapon is a round and thick iron barrel, and the iron barrel is wrapped with 10 barrels, all of which are modified from a 38-caliber Jason 1858 rifle, each barrel has an independent firing pin, and the 10 barrels form a ring, and share a set of rotation and firing system that can be driven by a crank, when the barrel is rotated to a specific position, the firing pin fires the ammunition. And when the barrel is turned to another position, the chamber after the shot exits the machine gun. The chamber can be reused, and the barrel can be reloaded, fired and unloaded for 10 rounds by one rotation of the barrel. In addition, a drum-shaped ammunition feed disc is mounted on top of this round and thick iron barrel to automatically supply the 10 barrels inside. And the ammunition used in these two strange weapons was not a traditional cartridge case rolled in linen or paper, but a round-tipped rifle cartridge with a shiny metal cartridge.

A few Lan Fang Xing's engineers. He was sweating profusely adjusting the barrel of the gun. The Marquis of Bésemer was among them.

The officers were whispering.

"What is this? Is it a cannon? ”

"It doesn't look like it. Probably what kind of discharge gun it is? ”

"Impossible, none of us have seen the guns, and the guards are equipped with a few guns, how can it alarm the emperor to come and watch again......"

"Didn't you listen to what the Marquis of Besse Mai said? It's called the Jason Model 1859 machine gun! It can shoot 300 rounds in one minute, and one can be worth hundreds of reloaders! ”

"What's the use of that? The row guns in the Guards can also shoot 200 rounds, but this thing is too large and inconvenient to load, so it can't withstand artillery bombardment! Now the latest rear-loading guns can hit five or six miles away! ”

Zhu Jishi also looked at the Jason-style machine gun in front of him left and right with his hands behind his back. He didn't listen to the officers' discussions. Because he knew that the design of the two machine guns in front of him was very similar to the Gatling gun in another time and space! Although the weapons experts in Jason's central room did not design the Maxine heavy machine gun, they did come up with a militaristic weapon like the Gatling gun!

Although he was not a military fan in later generations, he still knew how much influence the machine gun had on the entire infantry tactics and even the face of war. Although there are no water-cooled heavy machine guns, there are Gatling guns, which, together with the barbed wire, which have long been popularized, are enough to make future wars. It's becoming more like the First World War!

In addition, Lan Fangxing also got a rear-loading cannon design in 1858. It is a 5-pounder rear-loading gun designed by Sir Armstrong of Great Britain. At the same time, he sent the blueprints to the British War Department and the Jason Central Room, and hoped to get a gun room of his own in the Jason Central Room. After the British government adopted this artillery design, it had legislated to ban the export of this kind of artillery, but Lan Fangxing had obtained the relevant technology from the Jason Central Studio before that.

It was just that the technical difficulties involved in producing a breech-loading cannon were far more than a Gatling gun—including barrel machining, shell housing, trigger fuse, sturdiness of the locking system, and so on—that even the Marquis of Bessemer could not guarantee that the Armstrong 5-pounder could be put into mass production before the American Civil War began.

Therefore, Emperor Zhu had no choice but to pin his good hopes for the massacre of the American people on this machine gun named after himself in English.

In the distance, two heavy wooden targets were erected, and the two soldiers waved the signal flag, and then jumped into the trench on the side with great speed. The officers all stepped back, and Zhu Jishi and Shi Dakai also took a few steps back. Shi Dakai knew that this weapon was likely to be his killer weapon, so he stared at the two machine guns with a stern face.

By this time, Bessemat and another Chinese engineer had already fiddled with the machine guns, each standing next to a machine gun, and several other assistants were waiting with drums in their hands.

"Your Majesty, can you start?" Besemai looked back at Emperor Zhu.

Zhu Jishi nodded. Besemer and another engineer shook the crank violently, and the two thick iron buckets spun in spun, and two fiery dragons burst out, followed by a deafening sound of gunfire! The gunpowder gas from the muzzle of the gun rolled up the smoke and dust in the sky, and the choking smell of gunpowder filled the air.

Everyone's eyes widened at the swirling tongue of fire! The sound of da-da-da hit people's hearts, and everyone held their breath and stared at the big wooden target less than 300 yards away, the wood chips were flying, and the power of the bullets tore the wooden bars and wooden blocks flying in all directions, and the wooden target was densely packed with bullet holes!

The machine guns were still roaring wildly, the bullets were quickly fed from the drum into the chamber, and then fired, and the cartridge casings were constantly being thrown out, and in the blink of an eye, there were rolling copper casings everywhere under the two machine guns. The 200 rounds of drums were all shot in less than a minute. And this minute, for the future American Civil War, cannot be overemphasized!

The shooting stopped for a long time, and the whole range was silent. All the officers are frowning and thinking hard, most of the officers standing here are the elites of the Ming army who participated in the last war against Russia, of course, they will not think that with this kind of machine gun, the Ming army will be invincible in the world. They all know that the industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty is actually similar to that of France, Prussia, and the United States, and it is still much weaker than that of Britain. If the Ming Dynasty can produce this machine gun, then this weapon will soon spread to all the great powers.

I don't know how long it took before Zhu Jishi turned his head, looked at Shi Dakai, and said with a smile: "Dare to be, this weapon is a sharp weapon of the militar?" ”

Shi Dakai's brows were still tightly locked, he shook his head slightly, and asked, "Your Majesty, this kind of weapon...... How much does the gun rack weigh? ”

"Mr. Besemer, how much does the Jason machine gun weigh?" Zhu Jishi asked Bese Wheat Douglas.

"The total weight is 420 pounds, and the gun carriage weighs 205 pounds after removing it."

Shi Dakai shook his head: "It's heavy, it's still too heavy." He looked back at Zhu Jishi, "Your Majesty, the minister feels this kind of ...... The greatest value of a machine gun lies in trench defense. A machine gun is at least as powerful as 100 rear-loading guns, which means that a small number of troops can hold a long defensive line. In combination with trenches and barbed wire, such a defense was almost invulnerable. The premise, of course, is that such weapons cannot be placed on artillery carriages, so that they cannot be maneuvered and used in trenches. ”

It's a talent! Zhu Jishi said in his heart, the person who can break through the great name in history is really a bit of a doorway, and he can see the biggest use of the machine gun at a glance - isn't this thing famous in the trenches of World War I? The Engineers mounted it on a gun carriage as a cannon for the uninitiated, and the enemy could blow them all apart from the range of the machine guns with a few hexagonal guns (a type of rifled gun).

Shi Dakai continued: "In addition, the supply of ammunition is probably also a big problem, and the firepower of machine guns is based on the huge consumption of ammunition. And the machine gun still uses metal fixed ammunition, how many such bullets can I produce in a year now? Does the Richmond Arsenal in the southern United States have the capacity to produce metal fixed ammunition? If you want to rely on imports, then can you master the sea transportation lines? To whom will the US Navy be allegiated? North, or South? (To be continued......)