The meeting did not come to an end without a reason, and Charlotte had to adjourn the meeting.

After all the members of the Joint Commission were gone, Charlotte turned to look at the Minister of War.

Henry? Lewis **** was an old acquaintance of the elder Roosevelt, and was quite trusted by the elder Roosevelt, and at this time he was naturally relied on by Charlotte.

"Don't the young men of the army remember that we also used the machine guns of Hatch Cash?"

"What?" Charlotte couldn't keep up with the old man's train of thought.

"The heavy machine gun of the Yingzhou people that uses bullet plates is a product of the imitation of Hatch Cash, and our army has also used their imitation of the parent model. Our army has a good evaluation of this machine gun that uses bullet plates, especially in terms of simplicity and reliability. However, after all, the ammunition supply is not the mainstream of heavy machine guns, and the pursuit of continuous fire is. So after the development of the heavy machine gun using the chain, we completely eliminated the Hatch Chase weapon. ”

"Ah, there's still ...... thing," Charlotte nodded.

She wondered why the old man was so familiar with this, because the old man was once the secretary of the army, and he had personally participated in the last war, commanding an artillery unit.

Sheng continued: "The biggest problem with this heavy machine gun copied by everyone in Yingzhou is that they have copied all the original advantages of the original Hatch Chase prototype, and I don't know how they did it, anyway, the imitation is gone." As for the light machine gun that used rifle cartridges, the Yingzhou people followed the trend of weapon development at that time. At the time, weapon developers generally believed that automatic weapons would be logistically stressful, so they worked hard to get automatic weapons and bolt-action rifles to use the same ammunition. Based on this idea, many countries have designed bucket machine guns - as the name suggests, a bucket-shaped thing is used above the bullet, and the one-piece metal magazine used in the rifle is placed into the bucket.

"This allows the machine gun to use the rifle's full load magazine directly. This line of thinking seemed very correct at the time, after all, until now, the argument that automatic weapons would cause logistical pressure was still very marketable, and only Lin Youde, a madman, was so desperate to distribute automatic weapons to his troops. Closer to home, after the machine gun, which was said to be able to reduce logistical pressure, the engineers quickly discovered a series of flaws in the prototype gun. ”

Charlotte wanted to ask **** Sheng if there was a way to solve the problem of the Chinese battlefield at this time, but out of respect for the old man, she still listened quietly and attentively - anyway, the problem in front of her could not be solved in a few minutes.

"Flawed, Henry?" She chimed in to show that she was listening.

"Yes," the old man was very satisfied with Charlotte's echo, "the storage of the cartridge makes the bolt have a huge opening, and a large amount of dust will enter the bolt, and the failure rate of the bolt will increase, especially easy to jam." Machine guns that use hoppers need to clean the inside of the bolt more frequently. Another problem with the bucket is that it is too slow to reload, so to compensate, the bucket machine guns have a ready-to-load design, firing while reloading. However, this meant that the bucket had to be turned on during the battle, so all the dust raised by the action of the machine gun fire would fall into the bucket, and the bullets would soon slide down. The solution of the Yingzhou people is to bring an oil pot and pour oil into the bucket to lubricate it while playing.

"But this creates another problem, which is that the oil poured in will mix with the dust that falls into the bucket and become a kind of mud, and although this will not immediately affect the shooting, the accumulation of mud will make the machine gun completely stuck, and it will have to be thoroughly cleaned and maintained."

Charlotte was in a state of stunned: "They defeated the Ming Imperial Army with such bad equipment." ”

"No, no, at that time, the people of Yingzhou used the same Maxine as the Ming army, and only a small number of troops were equipped with this Yingzhou 'independently developed' bucket machine gun, which almost never participated in any actual combat, and in the low-intensity conflicts they participated in, the appearance of this gun was not bad, so ......" The old man spread his hands, "and after occupying Yingzhou, the army tested Yingzhou's weapons and found that once this machine gun is to carry out continuous fire support, it will become very difficult to use, and it cannot meet the needs at all.

"The most ironic thing is that the original design of the cartridge was to reduce the logistical pressure, but not long after the Yingzhou people made the machine gun, they found that the recoil of the gun was too great when using a fully charged rifle cartridge, and the accuracy of the shot could not be guaranteed at all, and the life of the bolt was shorter than the design life, so only special reduced-charge rifle cartridges could be used......"

Charlotte pouted: "The Japanese are really ...... weapons It's speechless. ”

"Yes, among their small arms, the only thing that can be used is the grenadier, but this kind of grenadier has no sights at all, and can only rely on the experience of veterans to aim and shoot, without more than three years of hard training and a lot of shooting experience, it is impossible to shoot accurately."

"That's ......"

"When we were testing this grenadier, the tester judged that it was placed on the leg and fired based on the shape of the base of the grenadier, so he did that, and the leg was directly broken."

"And there are stories like this......"

The old man let out a long sigh and shook his head slightly, then looked at Charlotte and said, "I know what you're worried about, Charlotte. Suffice it to say that this is not the time to be so worried, after all, the situation has not developed as you expected, but your basic goal has been achieved, has it? The intervention of the American army and the servant army has pulled the Ming Empire back from the brink of overthrow, although it is still crumbling, but at least it has survived until now. We just have to try to maintain this situation and wait for the Russians to defeat Germany. ”

Charlotte asked rhetorically: "Do you think the Russians can defeat Germany?" ”

"I can't." Sheng replied bluntly, "I thought from the beginning that they would not be able to defeat Lin Youde's Germany within this year. Also many years of playing they can do it, but this year, no. My dear Charlotte, when you decide to wade into these troubled waters, you should be aware that we have been involved in a long war. ”

Charlotte was silent for a few seconds, and said in a gloomy voice: "Congress will not approve of our continued involvement in this war, they only want to develop war money. ”

"The capitalists don't really care how to intervene in the war, even if the wartime system is fully mobilized, they are profitable. In such a matter that is profitable in any case, the parliamentarians value the attitude of the people, and the capitalists are happy to make the people feel that their opinion is important. ”

Charlotte looked at the **** sheng and frowned slightly.

"You know what I'm going to say," the old man smiled at Charlotte, "you're very clever, Theodore didn't look away." Remember Theodore's words, war is the best means of strengthening the national character. When he said this, the whole United States was reluctant to go to war with Spain, and Theodore, who was the main belligerent, lamented the young man's greed for comfort. It was then that Theodore realized that in order for war to break out, it was necessary to ignite the enthusiasm of the people for it. ”

"No, don't say it anymore......"

Charlotte wanted to stop it, but it was too late, and the old man had already blurted out: "So we blew up the Maine and threw the blame on the Spaniards." Although the Spaniards found out the truth, the people did not care at all. The furious American people cried out for war, so the war began, and we seized a series of colonies, including the Philippines and Cuba, completely eliminated Spanish influence from the Americas, and made the world realize that we had the final say in both South and North America. Without that war, we wouldn't have dominated North and South America for the next half century, turning Mexico into our raw material source and South American countries into our banana plantations. ”

Charlotte stared at **** Sheng and said, "I always thought you were a steady moderate. ”

"I am, but it doesn't contradict what I'm saying now. Your uncle Theodore? Roosevelt also won the ****** of that prestigious international award. ”

Charlotte was speechless.

Obviously the hawk's uncle actually took ******, and Ludi thought it was strange in the summer of that year.

"Listen, kid," the **** student continued, earnestly, "I know you're resisting, but sometimes, when our enemies don't give us a reason to strike, we have to do something to make a reason." We did kill innocent people, but it was also for the whole country, and to put it another way, we sent our soldiers into battle to be swept down by machine guns, and we just bombed them into the water. ”

Charlotte bit her lip.

"We're just doing the right thing and getting the country in the right direction."

"But," Charlotte finally spoke, "don't you think it's conceited?" ”

"Yes, conceited." Sheng nodded, "So I'm just proposing to you to build yì." Theodore had not been able to come up with another way to wage war, and he had always felt guilty about it, feeling ashamed of the officers and men of the Maine. He certainly doesn't want you to be burdened with such sins. ”

Charlotte crossed her fingers and looked down at the table with a pensive look.

"Okay, I've said enough, I'll leave the rest to you. I think you'll be able to make a better decision than your uncle. Maybe you can try to go to Congress again and see if you can convince them to abandon isolationism and prepare for full-scale involvement in the war. Or, you can mobilize the American Shinki and suppress the revolutionary army with the Shinhime, who is still loyal to the Ming Court. Otherwise, the Tsarist gods of the Far East will also be brought in. In fact, the situation is far from the worst. ”

After saying that, the **** student stood up, gently straightened his clothes, and after saying goodbye to Charlotte, he turned around and left the room.

Charlotte sat alone in the conference room, facing the text spread out on the table.