After everyone left, Zeng Guofan left Li Hongzhang alone, Zeng Guofan sighed slightly and said: "Old man, I am so old, protégés can be said to be all over the world, at the moment I hold the power of Beiyang, and now there are Nanyang and bandits, so it is still Ansheng, and when these two go, I am afraid it will be the turn of the old man and me!" ”

Li Hongzhang was just about to speak, Zeng Guofan waved his hand and said: "You don't have to persuade me, I know everything, I know better than anyone else, how many important ministers who take care of themselves and hold the authority of the world have a good death?" People should know how to advance and retreat! You have also seen the people around me, and you may be able to take my place in the future! ”

After Zeng Guofan finished speaking, Li Hongzhang hurriedly picked up his official robe and knelt down, saying: "Students don't dare!" ”

Zeng Guofan smiled slightly: "The eldest husband is born in a lifetime, when he lives with taste and color, this is the foul language of the army, vulgar is true, but it is true, it makes people listen to it comfortably and does not bend so many intestines, you are from Huainan, I am ready to let you go down and pull up ten battalions to call it Huaizi Battalion!" The Hunan army is so arrogant and fierce, you can't control it now, and if you hand it over, you will be roasted on the fire, and you can go directly to Shanghai if you recruit soldiers. ”

"Thank you, Lord for your kindness! My Li Hongzhang is unforgettable! Li Hongzhang's head slammed on the ground, and with a bang, Zeng Guofan nodded with satisfaction: "I'm tired, you go!" ”

When Li Hongzhang left the Beiyang Yamen, it was already dark at night, because of the relationship between the cooking smoke, the air was floating with the smell of choking firewood burning smoke, which Li Hongzhang did not like very much, he believed that Zeng Guofan must also dislike this taste very much, Tianjin Wei is such a big place, the earlier Green Camp, the Manchurian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, the people who fled the famine and settled down, the foreigners' foreign firms, consulates, concessions, etc., etc., etc., the local lack is extremely complicated, which reminds Li Hongzhang of the Hunan Army and the current Beiyang.

Li Hongzhang knew that Zeng Guofan asked him to recruit troops on his own because he didn't want to entrust all the Hunan troops to him for the time being, and he had the intention of looking at him, if he could make some achievements in a decent way, it would be easy to say, otherwise it would be easier to put away this power and faster!

Li Hongzhang pondered for a while, and still had a conclusion in his heart, there was Zeng Guofan behind him, and he was afraid that he would be a little in Shanghai?

Li Hongzhang is pondering his Huai army, it seems simple to use Beiyang's soldiers' salaries and food, but after all, it is not his own ability, and it is very easy to tolerate the truth, how to pull the big drum and pull the tiger skin, and get money without spending a penny, and it is his urgent need to support the Huaizi battalion.

Lin Haijiang, who inspected Wuzhi Mountain on Hainan Island, also encountered some unexpected troubles, as the head of the local Li nationality or the official body obstructed the process of road construction, for which several conflicts have broken out, and even a marine was killed, the speed of industrial infrastructure construction is directly proportional to the smooth and good condition of the road, Lin Haijiang does not want to kill, but now he has to prepare to open the killing ring.

Lin Haijiang knew very well that he was running out of time now, and if Prussia declared war on France, then he, as an ally of Prussia, would send troops to attack the whole of Indochina, and if he was obstructed by the British, he would even declare war on the entire Far East power of Britain, and completely drive the British out of Southeast Asia and go back to India.

So every minute and every second is very precious for Lin Haijiang, after arriving on Hainan Island, Lin Haijiang first inspected the armed gendarmerie special forces training base, the conditions of this secret base located in the mountains of Wuzhi Mountain are still a little simple, but the selected team members are all officers who have served for more than three years, members of the imperial iron-blooded young officer corps, Lin Haijiang has given this force the power above all in the constitution of the empire, and the core purpose of this force is to defend the Chinese Empire. According to the constitution, this unit did not have a specific designation, but was known to the outside world as the Sixth Service Center of the Gendarmerie Department, and it only obeyed the orders and instructions of the Reich Führer.

After the failure of Tianjing's rescue operation, Lin Haijiang realized that there was an important surname in the specialty, and a professional team could not compete with professional opponents on the same stage no matter what, and in the complex domestic situation, Lin Haijiang was very desperate to need such a force.

For this unit, Lin Haijiang ordered the latest Mauser pistol in Prussia, this Mauser pistol is the later Lin Haijiang is very familiar with the barge gun, in the shooting of this weapon, Lin Haijiang provided a lot of practical value of the factory's design, although the Mauser pistol was introduced in advance, but as in history, the Prussian military only ordered 2,000 trials.

Lin Haijiang clearly remembers that in 1896, the Mauser Arsenal hoped to produce shell guns for the German [***] team, but until 1939, when the Mauser Factory stopped producing shell guns, no country in the world used shell guns as the standard weapon of the army. During these decades, the Mauser factory estimated that about one million guns of all kinds were produced, and the number of copies produced in other countries was several times that. The [***] teams do not use the shell gun not because the quality of the gun is not good, but because its price is too high, and the size of the gun is too large when it is equipped with European armies as a pistol, and the power as a rifle is too small, it is really not up to the bottom, and it is in a dilemma. , Lin Haijiang almost exhausted all his strength, but the Mauser pistol is still not treated well by Europe, and it can be said that the reason for this is that the fusion is mixed with many aspects.

Therefore, Lin Haijiang almost became the only user of Mauser's pistol, and the Mauser company even directly exported eight of their ten production lines to Lin Haijiang this time, because in Mauser's view, it was better to make up his mind to update the production design idea in order to only one weapon that was not very popular.

However, Lin Haijiang's Mauser pistol is not equipped with Mauser's medieval design of the upper pressure reload, but the use of its later mature design and easy-to-use magazine feed, such an improvement so that the Mauser pistol's tactical surname can be greatly improved, the only unsatisfactory is that this batch of Mauser 1859 pistols do not have a burst function.

For the improvement of the propellant of the Mauser pistol cartridge, Lin Haijiang really wants to thank the British, although the Prussians took the lead in the development of smokeless gunpowder, but the progress of the Prussians in terms of gunpowder stabilization has been granulated and optimized, the Prussians are good at excellence, but lack of innovation and difference.

The British spent a lot of money to get samples and formulas from the ammunition workshop of the Prussian artillery factory in Hamburg, and then the British began to vigorously develop their own smokeless gunpowder, and the British made very rapid progress in research and innovation, before they had been detouring, now it is equivalent to getting on the highway, and soon the British achieved unprecedented great success, but the British were less than half as Prussian in terms of secrecy.

In the same way, the work of the British, who was systematically plagiarized by Miller, did not dare to go anywhere in Britain that was already a British possession, because there he had become a wanted man of the glorious British Empire, and the reward for this wanted man was an unprecedented penny! At this time, the annoyed and angry Englishman tilted the angry way to Miller, telling you plainly that you are not worth anything!

But Miller knew very well that if he let the British catch him, he would be imprisoned in a remote island prison until he died.

With the new smokeless particle propellant contributed by the British, the number of re-entries that had to be cleaned up once 50 times of the Mauser pistol re-entry machine was changed to 260 to 300 times, which was obviously a qualitative leap, and the use of gunpowder that shortened the deflagration time and enhanced the instantaneous expansion force pushed the gun to drive the short recoil of the barrel and complete the design of continuous firing also opened up the design ideas for the development of machine guns.

The most important thing is that metallurgical technology has developed rapidly in 1859, the emergence of high manganese alloy has made it possible to have a barrel with a life of more than 7,000 rounds, so Lin Haijiang has taken a very advanced step in the study of machine guns, he divided machine guns into three categories, the first type supports heavy machine guns, the proposed caliber is not less than 12 mm, not more than 20 mm, requires a low rate of fire, high precision and large penetration, can fire white phosphorus and yellow phosphorus ammunition, the second type of general-purpose machine guns, equipped with fire support units at the company and platoon level, The caliber is set at 7.92 mm caliber, the same caliber as the Imperial Type 1 rifle, firing 7.92 mm pointed 57 field ammunition, and the third type is light machine guns, which accompany the infantry attack for a short period of support and suppressive fire, the caliber is the same as that of the general-purpose machine gun, and the purpose is to reduce the overall weight of the gun body and make it easy for infantry to carry.

For this reason, Lin Haijiang has held many weapon design plan selection meetings, organized dozens of sample gun test firing, Lin Haijiang according to his own memory of a classic Czech machine gun in World War II, from the appearance to the mechanism of action principle, etc., but the overall research and development progress is not fast, because Lin Haijiang is very clear that he does not have a sample gun for reverse simulation, and this span is indeed too large, and it is normal for designers not to fully understand their intentions.

Lin Haijiang remembered that after the end of the First World War, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved, and Czechoslovakia declared the reading power. After the war, with the help of France, the first military power on the European continent at that time, the Czech Republic established its own complete military industrial system, among which the ZB26 light machine gun is one of the classics.

I want the best, otherwise I would rather postpone the equipment, because Lin Haijiang knows very well that weapons are the lives of soldiers on the battlefield, and because of a defective and immature weapon, his soldiers will die? This kind of result is the last thing Lin Haijiang wants to see, and the task of the armed gendarmerie special forces is extremely complicated, and the weapons they need must be extremely reliable, just like the Gatling machine gun that is now popular in Europe and the United States, although the firepower and sustained surname and even the distribution of ballistics are good, but its reliable surname really does not dare to make Lin Haijiang compliment, not to mention that the Gatling machine gun is too cumbersome, and the muzzle flame and smoke make it an obvious target when fired, and it is very easy to entertain the priority destruction of the opponent's artillery.

Lin Haijiang knows better that the wings of the butterfly effect have instigated the whole world, and there is no shortage of people with strategic vision in all countries in the world, so all countries are desperately trying to take the first step, in this world where there are no secrets, almost everyone is working in one direction, unless the industrial base and scientific and technological reserves of the two warring sides are extremely unequal, otherwise the war will evolve into a big attrition, after consumption, the regime will be renewed, domestic demand will increase, economic development, and the war will not come before the next economic crisis and the political axe faces the fall.

However, the overall renewal of scientific and technological weapons has completely deviated from the track of history, and Lin Haijiang is very worried that if this development continues, he believes that after the world-wide arms race, before there is no absolute deterrence of weapons such as nuclear weapons, war is likely to become a habit, or it needs to be more appropriate.

After inspecting the training base of the armed gendarmerie special forces, Lin Haijiang had a headache, the conditions here were too simple, and the training was too cruel and arduous, so Lin Haijiang ordered the Imperial Ministry of Finance to immediately allocate funds to renovate and uninterrupted investment in the base, and the most important thing was to ensure that all the officers and soldiers could ensure the nutrition they needed.

Lin Haijiang's lesson plan to Feng Jun, commander of the special forces of the armed gendarmerie, is his recollection of the public lesson plans and training methods of the special forces and the Marine Corps in later generations, which is outdated compared to that era, even ordinary people will not be surprised to see it, but for his officers, it is too advanced, if it were not for the adequate nutrition in the past few years, and the fact that each person has an egg and a glass of milk per day that allows the officers and soldiers to have physical fitness that they dare not think of before, Lin Haijiang's training program is simply a castle in the air, Even if Feng Jun had a complete ability to go through the sky, he would not be able to train the special detachment that Lin Haijiang wanted.

Just as Lin Haijiang was about to leave, the Old Port Research Bureau sent the latest machine gun sample, Lin Haijiang knew the secrecy level of the Research Bureau, and they could only send the sample gun to the armed gendarmerie special forces with the same level of secrecy as him for testing.

Lin Haijiang knew that the finalization of a weapon required a process, and this was unhurried, but the curiosity drove him to stop, and decided to take a look at this test without a weapon with a test number, Lin Haijiang knew very well that there were many projects in the General Research Administration that only had temporary financial support, because it was necessary to mobilize idle project funds to support the main project, so their temporary research would be suddenly interrupted to no avail, just like the machine gun sent for testing this time.

Lin Haijiang changed into a military uniform without military rank, and accompanied by Feng Jun, he was ready to watch the test firing of the sample gun, when two girls in their twenties and overalls struggled to skillfully pry open the wooden box and take out the machine gun inside, Lin Haijiang was instantly dumbfounded.

Oh my God! Isn't this the Czech light machine gun ZB-26 in my memory? However, after careful observation, Lin Haijiang found that this machine gun was nothing more than a Czech light machine gun in appearance.

Taking advantage of the test shooting of several team members, Lin Haijiang came to the two girls, and he realized that the two girls were actually a pair of sisters, their overalls were a little damaged, and the sweat on their faces was like a little flower cat after drying, Lin Haijiang asked curiously: "Which department are you from the General Research Administration?" ”

The girls were slightly stunned, they didn't know Lin Haijiang, but when they saw that the people who came were like being held by the stars, they had to say: "We are students of the College of Engineering, and we are here for Teacher Dai, Teacher Dai is sick, if we can't be successfully included in the waiting machine gun this time, the teacher's research funds will be terminated." ”

"Oh!" Lin Haijiang nodded lightly! He knew that this so-called Teacher Dai was the Dai Jichang he had high hopes for, but unfortunately Dai Jichang had no amazing results for a long time, so Lin Haijiang forgot about it after a long time.

After the crisp sound of continuous firing, Lin Haijiang noticed that the ballistic path of the machine gun was too large, but he knew that it was related to the budget and the finishing machine, and it was not a problem.

After firing five magazines for 100 rounds in a row, Lin Haijiang looked at the spare barrel on the side, held the machine gun in his hand, and was surprised to find that the working principle of the light machine gun was actually a piston long-stroke air conduction type, and then tried to disassemble it incompletely under the worried eyes of the two girls, and found that the gun adopts the bolt deflection locking method, that is, the bolt tail end is lifted up and snapped into the locking card slot on the top of the receiver to achieve locking, so you can choose to shoot single or burst.

Lin Haijiang lightly pulled the trigger, the bolt moved forward, and the dust sheet under the magazine bounced forward at the same time for the empty cartridge case to be thrown downward.

At this second, he could even feel that the piston rod and bolt mount were moving forward due to their habitual use, striking the firing pin in the bolt and firing the bullet, and at this time, the rear end of the bolt had been pushed up against the magazine by the bolt mount, and the lock was completed. When the bullet passes through the air hole of the barrel, the gas is introduced into the piston barrel to push the piston rod and the bolt to retreat, at this time, the rear end of the bolt is unlocked with the chute of the base, the bolt continues to retreat, and pulls out the empty cartridge case, when it reaches the end of the chamber, the retract tenon hits the upper edge of the bottom of the bullet by the groove on the bolt, and the cartridge case ejects downward.

Finally, the gun will return to the disembowel standby state, and according to the single burst selection button, it will either be disemboweled and ready to fire, or repeat the shot!

Lin Haijiang weighed the gun body, about twenty pounds of sample, this machine gun reflects the concept of easy replacement of the barrel that he proposed before, for light machine guns, the speed of replacing the barrel is very important, the use of the handle and the barrel fixing bolt can quickly replace the barrel design, so that the gun has a greater name in use.

Lin Haijiang can conclude that this light machine gun is definitely of great significance across the era, Lin Haijiang took a note from the secretary's hand and said to the two girls: "I now appoint Dai Jichang as the deputy director of the weapons department of the scientific research department, this machine gun will be returned to the factory for precision processing of 100 high-standard sample guns for testing, and this machine gun will be named Dai's 1 class light machine gun." ”

The two girls grabbed Feng Jun and asked who was the guy who had just dragged the same as two, five, or eighty thousand? Feng Jun reluctantly told them that it was the Führer, and this time it was the turn of the two girls to be dumbfounded......

(To be continued)