Chapter 133: Equipment Upgrades
In Blue Star, it was the machine gun that put an end to the infantry line tactics. www.biquge.info In a certain battle in Lanxing, Niu Niu Kingdom relied on line infantry tactics to attack the well-guarded enemy position, but was slaughtered by primitive machine guns, and in just one day, 60,000 people were killed in the battle, thus announcing the death penalty of line infantry tactics. The world of Elis is still in the stage of dense infantry phalanx, this is simply prepared for the massacre of machine guns, Qin Shouzhuo naturally can't forget this big killing weapon.
As early as when he rescued Rafael, Qin Shouzhuo made a few M2HB high-imitation magic modifications by hand, but what he could do with simple equipment was limited after all, and these M2HBs were not powerful enough, but also had problems such as poor accuracy and poor mechanical reliability, and they were not used in the end. Although the flaws are very large, it cannot be denied that the role of heavy machine guns in the war, and the lack of power is also aimed at those middle and high-level strong, and the main body of the army, after all, are still those soldiers of low rank.
According to later tests, the power of a 12.7mm steel-core armor-piercing bullet is roughly equivalent to the full force of a high-level samurai/high-ranking magician, but because it is a pure physical attack that lacks fighting energy and magic attachment, the penetration effect is not good for energy defense with fighting energy/magic attachment, and if it is a physical lethality alone, it is no less than the full force of a powerful samurai at the level of a great grandmaster.
Even large-caliber steel-core armor-piercing bullets are so weak, Qin Shouzhuo naturally will not hang himself on a rope, and his eyes are naturally on the energy weapons he is more familiar with, in Qin Shouzhuo's era, live-ammunition weapons are almost only available in museums and related enthusiasts. Although the development of energy weapons that use magic power, you will have to deal with an unfamiliar energy that does not even have a basic theory - magic.
Thanks to the creators, magic is a black box full of technology. The proof is: these SB natives have no basic theory at all, and they have made several models of magic cannons.
Although the emphasis is different, in fact, the basic structure of the gun and the cannon is the same, and the magic cannon is the same. Qin Shouzhuo made two short pistols when he was trying, and he also achieved a lot of results, although they were destroyed by Victor in the end, but it proved Qin Shouzhuo's guess, but after a lot of things, Qin Shouzhuo did not have time to develop it more deeply.
This time, Qin Shouzhuo picked up this attempt again, he wanted to develop a rifle that belonged to this world, and use the advanced nature of the combat concept to completely eliminate these stubborn natives.
When he stormed the Holy See Palace, Qin Shouclum's pistol used a miniature version of magic cannon technology, and a magic crystal burning furnace was stuffed into the small pistol. If it weren't for Qin Shouchuang's superb miniature carving skills, this thing would not have been made.
Obviously, what can only be made through miniature carving, which requires highly skilled workers, is destined to be only handicrafts, and it is not suitable as military standard equipment.
What meets the needs of an army is always those equipment that is low-cost, simple in structure, easy to mass-produce and almost adequate in performance, rather than those well-made, expensive, and top-notch handicrafts.
Thanks Black Box!
Qin Shouzhuo had an idea, the magic power recovery potion was actually the magic power of water and the stable state, if the magic power recovery potion could be used instead of the magic crystal burning furnace to stimulate small pieces of magic crystals one by one, the world would be very different, which was also the reason why Qin Shouzhuo gave priority to the development of magic recovery medicine dosage production technology.
And a case that Qin Shouzhuo accidentally saw in the library of the Academy of Magic supported his idea.
300 years ago, there was a magician who was a magician who specialized in enchantment at the time, and when he was making a common scroll, he accidentally knocked over the magic recovery potion on the side after drawing all the magic arrays.
The poured potion soaked the parchment and destroyed the scroll, but afterwards he found that the damaged magic scroll was actually full of magic power, but because the magic array was damaged, no magic could be released.
This incident was recorded as an episode in his magic notebook, reminding him not to make the same mistake in the future, and the notebook ended up in the corner of the Academy of Magic library.
Since this person did not have any dazzling results in the end, this notebook was naturally unpopular, lying in the loneliest corner. If it weren't for Qin Shouzhuo's assistance with the assistance of Victoria, his learning ability and memory were terrifying, and in order to study enchantment, he actually read through all the notes of his predecessors in the library, and this featureless notebook would undoubtedly be missed.
The principle of action of the mana recovery potion is that people can directly absorb the stable attributeless magic power to achieve the effect of rapid recovery. It's not hard to imagine the sheer magic power contained in magic potions, but it's important to design a reliable activation device.
This was difficult for Qin Shouzhuo, who had a wealth of knowledge of enchantment, to change the sealing array of a magic scroll slightly, and he did it.
The principle of the magic scroll is actually to seal the magic that has been cast in the medium, and tear the scroll when it is used, which will naturally destroy the seal, and the magic inside will burst out.
The most difficult part of crafting a magic scroll is actually to use it for two purposes, and at the same time keep the target magic from dissipating, and at the same time cast the sealing magic.
The sealing magic itself is very complicated, and with the target magic being used for two purposes, the difficulty increases exponentially, but once you get used to it, it's just like that. It's just that carriers that have good carrying capacity and can carry high-level magic are very rare, and the seals in the magic scrolls are generally some small magic below the third level. As long as the problem of the medium can be solved, sealing the big magic is not a dream.
Due to the convenience of using magic scrolls, every human country and force has secretly collected some powerful magic scrolls, making it difficult to judge the development status of magic scrolls, but the highest-level magic scrolls that have been exposed are sealed with a furious flame of up to the magister level, once the seal is torn, it can incinerate the material within a radius of 500 meters.
Of course, the carrier of that scroll will naturally not be the common parchment paper and other materials, and mass production is certainly impossible.
This is a very potential R&D project, Qin Shouzhuo has allocated a lot of money for this, and there are already some good theoretical and empirical formulas, but unfortunately there are no practical results for the time being.
The entire system based on the magic power recovery potion is constantly being built and improved, and once the construction is successful, Qin Shouzhuo's strength will be incomparably huge. However, this huge plan was destined to fail to catch up with this incident, and Qin Shouzhuo had to be prepared to rely on the equipment he had prepared to tide over the difficulties.
After returning from Fangshan, Qin Shouzhuo began the first equipment upgrade plan of the Babia Mercenary Group, as a pilot of the first and second squadrons each replaced 100 Babia 1 12.7mm rifles, which is based on the most perfect hand-pulled bolt-action rifle Mauser 98K, the caliber was expanded to 12.7mm of the magic modification, using steel core armor-piercing bullets, high accuracy, moderate rate of fire, and enough power.
For the time being, the only drawback is that the recoil is a bit large, and as a trainee samurai who has just started, he can't use it at all, and he may dislocate his shoulder with a single shot. Nor can a low-ranking samurai, although they will not dislocate, but their physical endurance is limited, and they cannot fire continuously. All the way up to the level of an intermediate samurai, there is basically no problem, except for the agility specialization, its physical strength and fighting strength meet the conditions for using this rifle as a main weapon.
It just so happened that the infantry units of the Babia Mercenary Regiment were all composed of mid-level samurai and higher-level samurai, especially the most elite first and second squadrons, and the upper-level samurai reached 2/3. This outfit change is aimed at the remaining 200 mid-level samurai of these two squadrons, in order to make up for the long-range attack ability that the Babia mercenary group lacks the most.
After the rearmament, the two squadrons retained 200 heavy infantry, all of whom were high-ranking samurai, and had an absolute advantage in frontal confrontation in the face of the mainstream force configuration of the Elis Continent.
At the same time, 100 riflemen, each of whom can continuously shoot bullets equivalent to the full force of a high-level samurai, with an effective range of up to 800m, with the heavy infantry phalanx, Qin Shouzhuo simply doesn't know how to lose!
Well, the expected heavy machine gun was lost in a short period of time due to mechanical reliability problems and the failure of the development of the weighted barrel, and the MK1 infantry gun, which was the main support firepower of the squadron level, was temporarily shelved because it had to meet the needs of the flying ship first...... Therefore, the infantry brothers really don't like this kind of artillery that can be fired in the sky and on the ground, and they still have to compete with the fleet for production capacity, how can they grab it!!
The 200 riflemen of the two squadrons who urgently changed their equipment had no more time to familiarize themselves with the equipment, and in order to train quickly, they lost 20,000 rounds of ammunition in three consecutive days, and the physique and fighting spirit of the intermediate samurai were almost dispersed by the recoil. On the fourth day, under Qin Shouzhuo's order, Elsa Camilla took them aboard two transport ships that had been urgently refitted and began the anti-bandit operation.
The two transport ships only dismantled the medium-sized magic cannon and the corresponding energy supply line, and replaced it with the MK1 infantry gun, and the other places have not been greatly changed, and most of the magic energy pipelines densely packed throughout the hull have not been moved, otherwise it will not be finished in three days. This time, it was just the installation of the ship's guns, and then the addition of several ammunition depots and ammunition lifting passages.
These two ships are just emergency and not even retrofit tests. This kind of 2,200-ton transport ship Qin Shouchou is not ready to be overhauled, after all, civilian ships are civilian ships, and although their construction standards are strict, they are far inferior to warships. Civilian ships need low-cost, large volume, and warships are very different, not only a batch of 2,200 tons will only retain the basic armament, is actively developing the all-steel structure of 5,000 tons of standard wheels, or even larger 10,000 tons of standard ships, will only retain the basic self-defense firepower.
Qin Shouzhuo's vision of future fleet operations has not yet been completed, but the separation of military and civilian is certain.