Chapter 953

The progress of science and technology is to open the doors one by one. Most of the time, as long as you get to that step, you can open the door with a gentle push. More often, it is difficult to open the door even if there is a gap.

Firearms are assembled from one part and one component. Some parts do not meet the specifications. Even if they can shoot, their performance must be defective and their service life will be shortened.

Compared with the twelve type rifle, the structure of the unnamed machine gun is more complex.

"In addition to the base, it is assembled from 243 parts. The large parts are the gun shell and barrel. The minimum parts inside are only 4mm." Although Zhang Shi did not expect the test firing to complete a bullet chain, he did not expect that he could not survive for 20 seconds: "the shelling device and firing device are still perfect..."

Liu Yangang just saw that the gun body shook badly during the launch. It is obvious that the recoil force generated during the launch is somewhat amazing. If the bite force of the parts of the gun is not enough, repeated shaking will inevitably lead to failure. I'm afraid there is a problem not only with the shelling device, but also with the whole machine gun.

People who have played assembly should understand that when various parts are assembled with each other, it is difficult to bite enough teeth. There must be screws for further strengthening. If only the bite between various parts is difficult to be absolutely close, shake a little, then the bite will become loose, and the original beautiful assembly will immediately become loose.

For a machine gun... Machine gun, there are screws to strengthen the bite of various parts, but it will still be a big test for the design, because even if it is only a simple part bite or reinforcement, it is also a part of science.

Liu Yan was not angry or even blamed. He was encouraged by warm words.

It took nearly ten years for the research rifle to have a finished product, and slowly came to the step of developing a breech gun. If you have to be angry and mentally crippled to kill the researchers every time there is a mistake, you have to start over every time.

There is no lack of examples in history where research is forced to start again because the dictator killed researchers in anger. After the dictator's anger is vented, it is certainly cool. Although the research will leave information, changing to different personnel is almost starting from the foundation.

The machine gun was checked to see what went wrong and was ready to fire again after it was repaired.

This time, its launch lasted about 10 seconds more than the previous one, and a brand-new bullet chain was hit by about a third.

"A bullet chain, a thousand bullets?" Liu Yanmo calculated and said, "the rate of fire is 300 rounds per minute?"

Ma Zihuan said the data of repeated tests. If a familiar operator launches, the maximum firing speed of the machine gun can reach about 450 rounds per minute.

Liu Yan looked at the strange and ferocious multi barrel machine gun with some attention. He really didn't expect it to appear so quickly. Although it has all kinds of defects, it is a problem of material science and part bite. If he studies it again and again, he will certainly develop qualified products.

Unchanged in history, the first hand Gatling was written in the second half of the 19th century by American Richard Jordan Gatling invented that in its initial stage, its firing speed per minute was only 200 rounds per minute. After repeated improvements to the gun body and changes to launch copper bullets, it achieved a record of 1200 rounds per minute.

Liu Yan doesn't know the research history of Gatling machine gun, but he can tell that it is quite amazing to be able to achieve the maximum firing speed of 450 rounds per minute. He knows that once it can be mass produced and equipped with an army, it will be ferocious.

"Rifles are destined to eliminate the cold weapon tactics of knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc..." ran min didn't know what kind of expression to use: "the firing speed of flint guns is slow, excellent pacesetters shoot once in two minutes is the limit, and the life of cavalry. The way it fires bullets is a storm, and even the life of cavalry is gone."

The era of platoon standing on the wall... Or the end of the close infantry array combat method is that the machine gun is used in the battlefield, and the cavalry moving faster than the infantry also disappears in the front battlefield, resulting in the cavalry from the king of land warfare to the role of a miscellaneous branch of arms.

"We are very lucky." Xu zhengman said with emotion: "at least we are at the forefront of the world. At present, we are also the only one."

The guards stationed in this camp are the first fully armed force in the world.

The loud horn sounded the order of assembly, and teams of soldiers continued to gather in the school yard throughout the camp.

Among them, the soldiers were lined up with twelve type flint guns, while the officers were of the hand gun type. As soon as they arrived at the school yard, they lined up under the constraints of the officers.

The soldier's upper body is a gray green combat suit. The clothes are in the middle open style. They are fastened by metal buttons one after another. They have epaulets, necklaces and badges, which look both straight and fit; Their trousers are iron gray, and their boots are black leather boots.

Their waist is also an armed belt made of cow leather. There is a long leather box on the right waist, a 20 cm long bayonet hanging on the left front waist, and a strip for cleaning the gun chamber hanging on the left waist.

The long leather box is 20 cm long and 10 cm wide. There is a barrier layer in the middle. On one side, there is paper powder and on the other side, there are lead bullets. The overall capacity is 30 rounds.

Because it is neither in the wild nor in the state of marching, bedding, kettle, tableware, blanket and so on are missing.

In addition to buttons and armed belt fastening devices, the metal helmet on the body is the German M35 helmet with a pointed spear.

The helmet, named type 13, is stamped by an iron plate, with smooth arc curling on the edge, soft leather lining and wild gray coating.

From Liu Yan's point of view, the army in front of us has reached the specifications of the middle and later leaves of the 18th century. It can even be said that the design of military uniforms should far exceed the level of the 18th century and should reach the level of the 19th century.

For the rest of the people, the military clothes lined up for review are so strange. There is no crown and hair, and the skirt is no longer right. Although the whole set of military clothes looks very heroic, it just feels like something is missing.

"Your Majesty..." ran min was the one who said what he thought. He said bluntly, "it seems that he borrowed from the fashion design styles of the Qin Dynasty and Persia. The big men are far more powerful than them. Why should we learn from their styles?"

"..." Liu Yan was asked for a while and was speechless. After a little silence, he said to ran min, "Yongzeng's opinion is very right."

In the known world, the Han Empire is the most powerful country worthy of it. The world should follow the fashion of the Han Empire. It should never be the Han Empire to imitate others.

Liu Yan was also fixed in thought. He gave design guidance according to the military style of later generations. Due to the rule of river crab gods and animals, he could not follow the Chinese army. He chose the style of the combination of World War I and World War II German army, but there was really no Chinese style.

"General." Liu Yan waved to Xu Zheng, then let several generals lean over and said, "Zhu Qing is a Veteran General in the army and is familiar with military life. He has never run less to the firearm army and put forward correct suggestions. Zhu Qing can brainstorm and design a Chinese style military uniform."

Originally, the people who looked at the military uniform felt strange were stunned. They still knew that the military uniform with strange style was a product designed under the guidance of Liu Yan. They didn't know what ran min had just said to Liu Yan, so they asked Liu Yan to say those words. For a time, they hesitated and didn't know what to say.

Liu Yan is serious about designing a new military uniform for the supply of firearms. He is no longer going to participate, or he will be disturbed by fixed thinking. It is more appropriate to be the final referee.

Designing new military uniforms is a very abrupt topic today. No one has a clue. After a few words, they change the topic.

On the one hand, it is an extra program to visit the unnamed and fixed machine guns. The real purpose is to review the firearms troops who have trained for one and a half years.

This review is definitely not to watch the parade, but to watch live ammunition military exercises.

Under Liu Yan's order, the 3500 strong army divided into several teams and left the barracks.

The former establishment of the firearm force is no longer continued. It is a three three three system, including a squad leader and a deputy squad leader, with 12 people in one class, three classes as a platoon, three platoons as a company, three companies as a battalion.

In addition to the combat unit, that is, the 12 people in a basic class, the military unit in the platoon will certainly not be full of combat personnel. In fact, there will still be an auxiliary class. In fact, there are almost 50 people in a platoon. The more companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, divisions and armies go up, the larger the auxiliary forces.

For example, this experimental firearms unit, the brigade that participated in the live ammunition military exercise, had 3500 people participating in the live ammunition military exercise, but in addition to these soldiers, there were 1500 auxiliary logistics units, and the logistics personnel only did logistics work, and they would not set foot on the battlefield unless necessary.

Although the logistics personnel of the firearms unit do not have to participate in the war unless necessary, they are still a regular establishment and their treatment is consistent with that of the soldiers. This is because the firearm army is different from the cold weapon army. Compared with the cold weapon army, the logistics personnel of the firearm army are not able to transport things or do heavy work. They also need to know how to classify the Quartermaster and master the maintenance technology of their respective posts. Their busiest thing is to configure paper gunpowder for the soldiers on the front line.

The troops pulled out of the barracks, went to an open area and immediately formed a unit. Based on a company, they were arranged into three columns, one regiment into a large column, forming a rectangular array line.

"This is just a demonstration of riflemen?" Huan Wen did not see the arrangement of artillery, pointing to the scarecrow densely arranged in front: "is it to show firepower?"

Many of them have seen the volley of firearm troops, from the column volley at the beginning to the four stage shooting at the back; Also by the volley into the vast smoke, to the back to use smokeless gunpowder, no longer in the smoke.

The officers of the army were shouting the command. The riflemen in the first row became a standing gun aiming position, and the riflemen in the second and third rows touched the ground and stood still.

"In situ three-stage shooting!"

"The first row is ready..."

"Fire!"

A "pa pa" sound echoed frequently. After shooting, the first row of riflemen retreated, and the second row of riflemen replaced the first row.

"The second row is ready..."

"Fire!"

There was another sound of gunfire, and the second row of riflemen after firing also retreated, and the original third row took over into the firing position. At this time, the first platoon had finished loading. When they entered the waiting position of the second platoon, the infantry soldiers who had just shot backward pushed to the third platoon for cleaning and loading.

In the original third row, they entered the firing position and fired again at the command of the officer.

Under such rotation shooting, the scarecrow in front was constantly hit by bullets, and the grass debris flew everywhere. Individual scarecrows who were shot too much simply became bare support frames, and even scarecrows burned.

Although it was not the first time to see the firing of firearm troops, the people who came to watch were still excited.

"Rolling propulsion shooting!"

"The first row is ready..."

"Fire!"

"The second row is ready..."

"Fire!"

"The third row is ready..."

"Fire!"

The whole column cleared and reloaded in place when each row opened fire, rolling forward row after row, with an interval of about 10 seconds at most.

After changing the shooting mode, the riflemen obviously couldn't be as easy as three-stage shooting in situ. The people watching found many mistakes. For example, some infantry riflemen really couldn't keep up with the action, but they had to follow into the shooting position, but they didn't come and pull out the pass, so they had to compare the shooting action, but they didn't dare to pull the trigger.

The gun barrel is full of gunpowder and bullets. You really can't fire, otherwise it will definitely be the end of blasting.

"There are so many mistakes just in the drill." Ran min was not sarcastic, but rather a little bitter: "they will soon be transferred to the battlefield. The actual combat is definitely worse than the drill."

"It should be too fast." Xu Zheng didn't know whether what he said was fair or not. He only said from his own point of view: "if you slow down for about two seconds, the situation will be better."

Liu Yan just listened quietly. The reason why he frowned a little was that he had no idea how many intervals the three attacks in history were. The troops in the exercise did it according to their own standards, which may be unreasonable.

At present, the whole Han Empire has such a firearm army with flint guns. They are seeds. If they are embarrassed on the battlefield, they will certainly have a significant impact.

"Come again." Liu Yan frowned and said, "the interval has been increased to 15 seconds!"

This unit is about to be transferred to northern Xinjiang. If problems are found, it is better to carry out reasonable tests immediately, rather than go to the battlefield and produce a moth under too much compulsion.