Chapter 888: Gatling Gun

There are similar encounters with smokeless gunpowder, as well as mortars and rear-loading rifles, especially rear-loading rifles, as far as the world is concerned, the first to appear in Prussia, only because the traditional habits and gas leakage problems have not been solved, it was abandoned, but China uses pure copper to make bullets, providing a new way of thinking, although the cost of pure copper bullets is not known to have increased a little, but it is fast, far, and more penetrating, who doesn't want it?

Britain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and other developed capitalist countries, that is not hesitating to launch the pure copper bullet production line, the rest of the underdeveloped European countries, also have to grit their teeth to keep up with the way to go, in just one or two years, the mini gun is being rapidly eliminated.

At present, in the military, there is a control and retreat machine has not been cracked by the West, but also invested a lot of manpower and material resources in research, in fact, Wang Feng does not care about the technology is cracked, from the time he took it out, it is clear that China will not be exclusive for too long, in this short period of a few years of exclusivity, he has reached his goal, China is independent, territorial expansion, and the initial construction of the sphere of influence.

Telephone, radio, semi-automatic rifles, machine guns, materials science, special artillery shells, tanks, self-propelled guns, engines, astronomical exploration, optical instruments, biological research, and even aviation have made more or less breakthroughs, modern scientific categories are established in China one after another, for Wang Feng, as long as he maintains the advantage of the West in high-end frontier science, it is enough.

Among them, self-propelled artillery and semi-automatic rifles will begin to be installed on an experimental basis within a year or two, and in addition, because the West launched mortars and rear-loading rifles relatively late, and they were launched in a hurry, they are far inferior in stability to those made in China, and problems of one kind or another are always prone to occur in use.

But all this has nothing to do with the South, the United States is already lagging behind Europe. Technically, it is a half-beat slower, the south is lagging behind the north, and in the past two years it has been in the process of losing and retreating, and it has no energy, nor manpower and material resources to improve armaments.

There was an awe-inspiring aura in the Southern Army, and their artillery was absolutely at a loss in positional warfare. Although the north is also equipped with a large number of small field artillery, its advantage is that it is very mobile, casting and using are very simple, but it is also equipped with a lot of heavy artillery in the army, and the maximum firing range can reach nine kilometers. It was after the Civil War.

In the past battles, the southern army was powerless in the face of the heavy artillery in the north, and could only rely on waves of charges to fill with human lives, but today, the Chinese army brought a strange artillery, with a slender barrel and a complex gun structure, especially the tires are still unique rubber tires. Will this be a surprise?

Ewell was vaguely aware of the situation of some Chinese artillery, but he couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty the Emperor of China." How far can your artillery hit? “

How far can you hit? The alloy steel technology in the army is constantly improving, the structure of the artillery is also constantly optimized, and the 122mm cannon can already hit twelve kilometers, Wang Feng didn't want to hit Aiwell, but he still said honestly: "The Northern Army should be within the firing range, but." It would be more appropriate to wait until closer to open fire, after all, we are not superior in numbers, and the first round of shelling should ensure the maximum possible destruction of the heavy artillery of the Northern Army. "Oh?" Ewell was pleasantly surprised: "Then it's all up to you." "No problem!" Wang Feng smiled unceremoniously, because when getting along with foreigners, don't be modest. Westerners only respect those who have the ability, and they also fear the strong. "Huh?" What kind of cannon is that? Six pipes! Yang Shuijiao exclaimed.

Wang Feng also leaned on the binoculars to look, and sure enough, in the Northern Army, there were several small cannons scattered around, but unlike ordinary artillery, its barrel was composed of six thin tubes.

Wang Feng said casually: "That's the Gatling gun, a new weapon invented by the United States. "Gatling gun?" Yang Shuijiao was very interested, picked up the binoculars, and observed for a while before saying: "The six-tube machine gun is very strange, and it is so big, like a cannon, is it necessary to be so bulky?" ”

The machine gun developed by the Democratic Alliance Army, Yang Shuijiao has not been hit, the single-barreled machine gun, hanging a long row of bullets, looks extremely powerful, fighting, listening to the continuous roar, and then looking at the scene of bullet casings flying around, and the target in front of him is sparsely beaten, there is a sense of pleasure in my heart, but unfortunately this machine gun often jams, and it needs to be further improved, so it is not equipped in the army.

Wang Feng nodded and said in English: "Don't underestimate the Americans, the United States is inferior to the United Kingdom in all aspects, but the United States has a free and open atmosphere, which is destined for them to have strong creativity, and the United Kingdom is conservative and has strict rules, and it will inevitably be caught up by the United States in the future."

Take the Gatling gun as an example, it was invented by a doctor named Gatling, after the Civil War began, Dr. Gatling saw too many dead and wounded officers and soldiers in the hospital, in addition to the dead and wounded on the battlefield, many soldiers also died of disease and malnutrition, Gatling thought that if the number of soldiers could be reduced, it would be possible to save thousands of lives, so he wanted to invent a gun, relying on ferocious firepower, a gun can top many rifles, so that a soldier has a lot of soldiers' combat effectiveness, This reduced the number of soldiers on the battlefield and further reduced the casualties of the war, and the following year, he succeeded.

Of course, all roads lead to Rome, we did not take the Gatling tube type idea, the direction of our research is placed in the two directions of the tube withdrawal type and the gas conduction type, the former has the advantage of simple structure, strong adaptability, easy to get started, and the future can also be developed on the basis of the machine gun, and the latter advantage is that it is small in size, easy to carry, and only a single person can be operated, and it does not have to be as Gatling machine gun needs four people to cooperate, but his failure rate is also very high, which is also the reason why our machine gun can not be put into actual combat. "Dr. Gatlin's strange train of thought." Yang Shuijiao did not understand Gatling's idea, according to the Chinese thinking, to avoid a large number of deaths of soldiers in the war, should be committed to preventing or strengthening defense facilities, but Gatling invented a big killing weapon that can kill more people, the original intention was to reduce the casualties of soldiers, that is, to kill to stop killing, which can only be said that the American thinking Chinese do not understand.

"Oh~~" Ai Wei on the side exclaimed happily: "Your Majesty the Emperor of China, thank you for your praise of the United States, I also think that we Americans are no worse than the British." “

"America is a great country, a country that pursues freedom, and my soldiers and I are honored to be able to fight for the freedom of America." Wang Feng also did not hesitate to praise the United States, and sent it back full of praise. (To be continued.) )

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