The first actual combat of the machine gun can be said to have shocked the jaws of the ground. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In this battle, which lasted only ten minutes, the four machine guns each emptied five 500 rounds of ammunition boxes at the Zulu warriors, a full 10,000 rounds of ammunition, causing more than 3,000 Zulu warriors to be killed and wounded.

That's higher than a rifle.

You must know that if the infantry fires 10,000 bullets, it is impossible to reap 3,000 results under any circumstances.

The reason is actually quite simple.

Feng Zhen said: "Our soldiers can't everyone be veterans, in fact, most of them have never been on the battlefield, in the face of a charge like those muslins, completely fearless of death, the recruit will be afraid, his hands will tremble, give him a rifle, it is possible that after a battle, dozens of bullets have not been able to hit an enemy."

And what about veterans?

No matter how fast they are, they can only fire a few dozen bullets, and the rate of fire of the rifle limits their abilities, and these dozens of bullets can hit ten enemies even if it is good.

And machine guns are different.

If a best soldier can kill ten enemies on the battlefield with a rifle, then give him a machine gun and he can easily increase this number tenfold, because his main limitation is gone, and his ability can be used to the fullest.

We can even change our tactics a bit.

Infantry operations are centered on machine guns.

Both offensive and defensive, the machine gun is the core, and the rifleman protects the machine gun to supplement the omission of machine gun fire.

It is possible to reform the existing establishment of infantry battalions, changing the original establishment of four infantry posts and one artillery team to three infantry posts and one gun post, with a two-inch howitzer team under the gun post and three machine gun teams equipped with four machine guns, so that each battalion has 12 machine guns and can be flexibly deployed during combat, and our total strength has not increased, but the combat effectiveness of the infantry battalion has increased by a large margin.

In the past, when we fought with the brigade as the most basic unit, we were all brigade as a whole in both offensive and defensive operations.

But now this is redundant.

Who can hold us back a brigade?

Or who will be able to break through the defense of one of our brigades?

No one.

Even the armies of Europe do not have the ability to resist one of our brigades in a head-to-head duel.

But the battalion's firepower is still too weak to be used alone, after all, even if those hundreds of rifles have the fastest rate of fire, they are nothing more than thousands of bullets per minute, even if they add artillery, they can't stop a large-scale charge, so it is very dangerous for a single battalion to move, but if it is an infantry battalion with twelve machine guns, the firepower projection has suddenly doubled, then basically it is fine, if you add the artillery support of the brigade attached to it, a battalion can completely solve the problems that need to be solved by a brigade in the past......"

Yang Feng sat on his throne and watched as his chief of the General Staff tried his best to describe the benefits of increasing the number of machine guns.

But it wasn't him who was being described.

At this time, the prime minister of the cabinet and the secretaries of the ministries, especially the secretary of the Ministry of Finance, are no longer in charge of this matter, and the military can fight for it, so that an infantry brigade is forty-eight machine guns, plus the brigade artillery battalion and cavalry reconnaissance post, an infantry brigade will be equipped with at least sixty machine guns, this proportion is at the level of a great power in World War II, Although the total number of machine guns of the Japanese mixed brigade similar to the infantry brigade of the Ming Army in World War II was larger, most of them were light machine guns, and the heavy machine guns were not as many as the new establishment of the Ming Army!

But it's not a big deal to calculate carefully, after all, he doesn't have a light machine gun, so if some light machine guns can solve it, he must use a heavy machine gun.

And the biggest problem with this ratio is nothing more than industrial strength, the current industrial strength of the Ming Dynasty can not be supported, especially limited by the production of nitric acid, the output of new propellants is not enough, can not support these monsters who specialize in swallowing bullets, and the output of copper is not enough, but this preparation is only a preliminary plan, it will take many years to complete such a preparation, at that time, as long as his railway is repaired, a large amount of saltpeter is continuously transported from Shanshan, and the output of nitric acid can meet the demand, and it is basically the same.

As for copper, this is nothing more than to increase production capacity, there is nothing much need for innovation in technology, at this time, Daming whether converter copper smelting or wet copper smelting, from the ancient smelting to the latest high-tech electrolysis.

As long as the output of copper is enough, the output of nitric acid and explosives is enough, there is no problem with large-scale replacement of new copper-shelled bullets, and his four-type rifle is still black powder bullets, and there is no need to occupy an additional part of the production capacity of smokeless powder, in fact, Makqin can also use black powder bullets, but this thing will be used for many years, there is no need to make a black powder version in one move, and the smoke of that thing is too big, and it is easy to block the soldier's vision if the rifle is too much, not to mention the machine gun that sprays hundreds of bullets a minute, It is estimated that the shooter choked to death in smoke after not hitting for a minute.

So the machine guns of the Ming army started with smokeless medicine.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the cabinet doesn't agree.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty didn't care about the lack of new weapons, in fact, the Ming army was also crushing now, no matter what kind of weapon in the hands of those soldiers, it was high in Europe, even if it was a saber in the hands of cavalry.

What happened to the sabre?

The saber is the most high-tech weapon in the Ming army, because this thing does not belong to this era at all, in order to equip the cavalry with a good knife, Yang Feng all the modern steel purchased by his partner, which is basically equivalent to the original six-five type cavalry knife, of course, there is also a part of the sword, this thing seems to have no scientific and technological content, but in fact, the scientific and technological content is higher than the four-type rifle.

Besides, at this time, the Ming army was no longer only relying on new technology to eat, but even if he threw away all the new rifles of the army at this time, and then asked those soldiers to pick up the same rifled guns as in Europe, no one would be able to stop him from dominating the world.

With a standing army of more than 1 million, a reserve of more than 2 million, a reserve of more than 40 million, and a total population of 200 million, this is an invincible terrorist bulldozer.

"And what about ammunition capacity?"

Prime Minister Shao said.

"The supply is not good, at least not at present, not to mention dozens of pieces in a brigade, but twelve in a brigade, plus a comprehensive replacement of four-type rifles, the current bullet production capacity will definitely not be available, and at present, the vast majority of factories have not yet switched to the production of copper-shelled bullets, and they are still paper shells."

The Ministry of Industry Shangshu said immediately.

"And shipping."

The Ministry of Communications is still a mending knife.

"I'm curious, if an infantry brigade encounters a large-scale battle, and after fighting for half an hour, the machine guns of the whole brigade continue to fire, and how many vehicles are needed to transport hundreds of thousands of bullets, in the past, we could fill the soldier's bullet box with bullets, and then basically meet his needs for a battle, but a machine gun sprays a box of bullets every minute, then a brigade of dozens of machine guns needs to spray a cart of bullets, don't tell me that all battles are like fighting, if you meet a real army, So it is possible for a battle to last for hours, and it is possible to consume millions of bullets, so how many additional transport personnel are needed for these bullets? ”

"And."

The Ministry of Finance Shangshu then made up the knife.

……

"Your Majesty, there is a Frenchman who asks to see the Marquis of Xiongwu."

Just as Emperor Yang was appreciating the cabinet ministers beating the chief of the general staff, Yang Zhong walked up to him and whispered.

"Xiongwu Hou? When will we ...... Daming?"

Yang Feng was stunned for a moment, but then reacted, he was the Marquis of Xiongwu, this was what he fooled Voltaire at the beginning, since he came to ask to see the Marquis of Xiongwu, it must be a person with lofty ideals from France who came to ask for advice, asking the mentor to guide them. In recent times, he has been writing a lot of letters with Voltaire, and he is also very pleased with the growth of Comrade Voltaire, who has completely become a staunch liberal man, and has published many articles full of fighting spirit in French newspapers, pointing the finger at the French feudal system, and his remarks are also widely welcome.

Louis had been convulsive for decades, and he had long since exhausted the little legacy that Risse had left him, and the French people were hungry and cold, and their hatred of the aristocracy was also growing day by day.

His remarks are very much in line with the needs of the public.

In particular, he portrayed the political system of the Ming Dynasty as a flower, a free, equal, prosperous and prosperous empire can be said to be on the page under his pen, those French people under the oppression of Louis's reckless militarism, whether it is the emerging bourgeoisie or the impoverished people, now all regard the East as a beacon of light, especially at this time the Ming industrial products flooded Europe, those cotton cloth with a wide variety of colors and cheap prices, more than anything can intuitively make people feel the beauty of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the reputation of the Ming army is not very good, it is the same for any army in these years, if you don't kill people, set fires, rob you, and rape them, it's still called an army?

Again, who is the army fighting?

Muslin.

That's the enemy that has been pressing on the head of Europe for almost a thousand years, and didn't France just ceasling with Muslin? At least the Ming army also generously ceded Jerusalem to the Crusaders, and it was already interesting that they took the initiative to send the place that they had not taken for hundreds of years.

And the black ......

Well, that's not human.

Of course, Voltaire's achievement is inseparable from a newspaper known as the People's Daily, which has branches in many European countries, and has high sales because it often publishes some popular novels, and some articles touting the Ming Empire, especially its political system, are also widely circulated.

"Let's go!"

Yang Feng immediately stood up and said.

This is much more interesting than watching a group of ministers besiege Chief of General Staff Feng. (To be continued.) )