“This…”

The sound of gunfire echoed in the shooting range at the foot of Yuntai Mountain.

In a tripod, a machine gun that looks very simple, in fact, from anyone's perspective, such a machine gun is really a shoddy weapon, and it is simply a piece of iron piece and an iron pipe.

Last year, when the Erqing Machinery Company where Mo Fan was working for the first time made samples of this machine gun, Mo Fan, an assistant engineer who participated in the production of two-year general-purpose machine guns, was also shocked by the shoddy manufacturing of this weapon.

But when the two-year general-purpose machine gun that looked shoddy was carried to the shooting range, everyone was stunned by its performance.

What impressed the most was his high firing rate, which was more than 1,200 rounds per minute. This high firing rate made it an impressive and terrible fire suppression weapon. Because such a high firing rate made it impossible for human ears to distinguish the sound of a single bullet in the shooting, the gunshot sounded like a tearing sound. In the test site, the company's engineer Feredek Simpson once vividly called it the "tearing oil cloth sound".

However, such a weapon has an insurmountable disadvantage.

When the gunshots like tearing cloth suddenly disappeared, Mo Fan, who was standing beside him, saw the shooter who was originally operating the machine gun behind the machine gun. The deputy shooter got busy, changed the link and the barrel, and was very busy.

"Since the two-year general-purpose machine gun uses a very light barrel to reduce weight, the problem of barrel heating is very serious. In order to overcome this shortcoming, the design adopts a design that can quickly replace the barrel. Although it only takes a few seconds for a skilled shooter to replace the barrel, the firepower continues to be reduced. Therefore, the operation manual of the two-year general-purpose machine gun is prohibited from firing more than 250 rounds with continuous point shots, and it is stated that the actual rate of fire should not exceed 300 to 350 rounds per minute to minimize the wear and overheating of the barrel."

Mo Fan's explanation was that Han Wu and others nodded one after another. This was the biggest shortcoming of the two-year general-purpose machine gun mentioned in the "Jiangsu Army Weapons and Equipment Usage Report" - poor firepower sustainability.

"The two-year machine gun is good, at least it is more convenient than a water-cooled machine gun!"

Zhao Qiyun, the Jiangsu Army Joint Logistics Minister, said truthfully that compared with water-cooled machine guns, the most convenient place for two-year machine guns is that they do not need to carry a bucket to look for water everywhere, but the price of this advantage has become its biggest deficiencies.

"In order to overheat the barrel, you designed to quickly replace the barrel, but this is faster and more relative. According to the army's test, a skilled shooter can change the barrel in three seconds, while an unskilled shooter will take seven seconds. These seven seconds will cost life on the battlefield!"

If there were people from a machine gun team here, I'm afraid they would nod in a deep sense. The machine gun team is almost equal to the "Old Niu" team in the Jiangsu Army. The Jiangsu Army's platoon tactics are completely based on machine guns. The squad and platoons completely revolve around machine guns. The importance of machine guns is naturally self-evident.

In actual use, a standard machine gun team member needs 6 people to maintain, including: machine gun commander, No. 1 is responsible for shooting, No. 2 is responsible for carrying tripods, No. 3, 4, and 5 are responsible for carrying ammunition, backup barrels, trench tools and other objects. In order to protect the commander, No. 1 and No. 2 are equipped with pistols, and the other three are carrying German 79 rifles. Due to the amazing ammunition consumption of machine guns, all soldiers who are close to the machine gun team during combat are obliged to carry ammunition for the machine gun.

The reason for carrying a pistol and a rifle is to replace the barrel, which is to prevent the enemy from storming the machine gun position when the machine gun team changes the barrel. Machine guns, spare barrels, ammunition, and self-defense weapons and self-defense weapons and ammunition. The machine gun team becomes an overloaded Laoniu Group.

"That's why we designed the two-year-old machine gun based on the two-year-old machine gun!"

"Two-year-old machine gun?"

Mo Fan nodded at the archer beside him. The archer who received the instructions lifted the tripod covered with canvas on the side, and saw that the tripod was a... Han Wu, Zhao Qiyun and others opened their eyes.

Two-year machine gun?

No, although the gun frame is a two-year machine gun frame, and the back of the gun is also a familiar two-year model, the front of the gun... cooling cylinder? Water-cooled two-year model?

"The two-year receiver and barrel guard are a whole, which are extruded, cut and stamped by a piece of steel, then welded and riveted, and finally formed a long gun body with a rectangular cross-section. The front is the barrel guard, with some oval radiator, and an elongated groove on the right side is used to disassemble the barrel. This is the characteristic of the two-year machine gun. After receiving feedback from the Army General Staff at the beginning of the year, we made key improvements to the shortcomings of the two-year machine gun."

Focusing on improving, looking at the extra cooling cylinders in front of the two-year machine gun on the tripod, Mo Fan was really confused. Is this water-cooled two-type machine gun a technological advancement or a technological regression?

But at least one thing is certain, he met the Army's requirement and could continue to shoot. In fact, as long as there is enough cooling water, it can...

At this time, the gunshot sounded, and the two-year-old type A machine gun connected to the water tank, which was connected to the cooling tube, emitted a tear-like gunshot sound just like the two-year-old type machine gun. However, unlike the two-year-old type machine gun, there were a large ammunition box next to the gun frame, with one thousand bullets in the ammunition box, and in the box next to it, there were chains filled with bullets waiting.

“This…”

The sound of gunstorm echoed in the shooting range, and the funnel at the water injection hole in the water-cooled pipe kept spraying out steam, the water in the barrel boiled, while the shooter next to him kept injecting cooling water.

One thousand rounds!

Two thousand rounds!

Three thousand rounds!

Four thousand rounds...

In the jaw-dropping surprise of everyone, the machine gun roared, no longer needed to replace the ammunition links in the middle. It only required to connect the ammunition links when there were still a few ammunitions, no longer needed to replace the barrel, but only needed to replenish the cooling water.

"call……"

Finally, after the forty bullet links were shot out, the shooter breathed a sigh of relief, but in less than a minute, all ten thousand bullets were spilled out.

"As long as there is cooling water and bullets, it can keep firing!"

Mo Fan's expression was not proud, nor any other emotions. The fact was that his emotions were very complicated for this machine gun, because no one knew that this water-cooled two-year style was...

Swallowing, Zhao Qiyun shouted loudly.

"Be good, just want this thing, replace all the machine guns of the Jiangsu Army with it."

Its continuous shooting ability is a dream for soldiers, and it can be said that it completely overcomes the shortcomings of the two-year style! It is necessary to have water, and there is no problem with water. In a fishing and rice town like Jiangsu, there may be no water?

"The continuous shooting ability is good, but..."

Han Wu frowned and stared at the two-year-old machine gun. It took him a while to speak.

"What if the battlefield was in the desert?"

desert……

This is exactly what Han Wu considered. In fact, there is more than just a desert. A waterless hill is equivalent to the death of a water-cooled machine gun.

Mo Fan just shrugged helplessly about Han Wu's concerns. The problem is always like this. If you solve a problem, new problems will arise. This problem will still annoy them. As for himself...

"General Han, there are still a few weapons here!"

Like a child showing off his toys, Mo Fan was eager to show off his “toys”.

"This is a nine-mm pistol,"

"German sloop?"

Han Wu and others picked up the well-made pistols on the table and held them in their hands to find that the pistol was completely different from the German oars. Although they had similar appearances, they were fired by exposed hammers. They took off the magazine and observed the bullets. They were indeed 9mm bullets that were the same as submachine guns. In the past, they had always used Browning pistols. After each test shot several times, they nodded with satisfaction. They were very satisfied with this pistol, at least the power was greater than that of Browning pistols.

"The pistol is good, it is more suitable as a combat pistol than Bronin, and it is common to bullets and submachine guns..."

Zhao Qiyun praised the "oub" in his hand from a logistics perspective. The current Jiangsu Army is no longer like in the past. When it was just adapted in the past, there were as many as five or six rifles alone, and there were as many as five bullets fired. The German 79 caliber includes round and pointed bullets, plus Manlisha, 30 gold hooks, and American 30. Weapons and equipment must be complicated.

In the past six months, it can be said that the Jiangsu Army has been committed to the unification of weapons. Finally, through one-time procurement, the Mauser 9 rifle was used as the main equipment, and at the same time, the old miscellaneous weapons in the Jiangsu Army were rehabilitated. This is the unity of ammunition by the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the ammunition of the 919 mm German pistol, while the pistol was 917 mm Bronin.

There may not be any trouble in normal times, but during the war, when his ears were deafed by the sound of cannons and he didn't close his eyes for several nights, the waiter loudly conveyed various incomprehensible orders to the phone. In this case, anything would happen. At this time, a certain division received a batch of 9mm bullets, but the officer was suddenly surprised to find that the batch of goods were all pistol bullets! Hundreds of submachine guns in his division did not get a single bullet, but the pistols had a surprise. This seemingly small problem has always troubled the Jiangsu Army. Now this problem is no longer a problem. As for the Browning pistols in the past, well, they can be eliminated to the police.

"This is a three-year rifle made based on the Mauser 98 rifle in Germany. The length of the gun is similar to that of the American.30 rifle..."

The next few weapons seemed to be nothing outstanding. They were very familiar with the rifles. Han Wu got the pistol and played with them. The rifles were like American rifles, using short guns and bending the handle of the bolt. Well, this is also the characteristic of American rifles. It seems that they learned from the characteristics of American rifles when making rifles.

Seeing that the pistol and rifle did not attract their attention as he expected, Mo Fan just grinned, and another canvas on the table was lifted off, and a spear with a bipod appeared in people's sight.

"This is a three-year automatic rifle!"

He picked up the automatic rifle from the table with one hand, pulled the bolt, and then grabbed it easily from the waist. Then he pulled the trigger in front of him. The rapid gunfire only stunned people. After the two bullets were shot, Mo Fan held the gun at his waist.

"The two-year machine gun is too heavy, and the bipod-type empty gun weighs 5 kilograms. If you add 50 rounds of ammunition boxes, the weight exceeds the kilogram. In team sports, the two-year machine gun has always been a burden for the machine gunners..."

At this time, Han Wu was just looking at Mo Fan's weapons at his waist. What he said was the fact that the two-year machine gun was too heavy, so he was concentrated in the machine gun platoon. The infantry squad's firepower relies entirely on the rifle and the two submachine guns of the chief and deputy squad leader. Han Wu even considered whether to introduce the Madson light machine gun to strengthen the firepower of the rifle squad.

"Compared with the two-year machine gun, the three-year automatic rifle weighs only 5.5 kilograms. Even if the 30 rounds of magazines are full, it is only 6.5 kilograms, which is not much heavier than a rifle, but..."

He easily replaced the bullet on the left with his left hand, pulled the bolt again, and after the buttstock was pressed against the shoulder, Mo Fan pulled the trigger again.

"The firepower is not inferior to that of a machine gun. The most important thing is that he fires rifle bullets, the firepower of a submachine gun, the range of a rifle, and the power of a rifle! A light enough automatic weapon!"

Mo Fan's face was showing off his weapon, and after he made this automatic rifle according to the drawings, he always regarded it as his own achievement because he made some details to improve the weapon.

For example, the barrel was increased and the magazine capacity was increased. This was to improve the firepower sustainability. He even considered whether to improve its barrel so that its barrel had the ability to quickly disassemble, so that the shooter could quickly replace the overheated barrel. Of course, this is just an idea now.

"this……"

Looking at the weapons in his hand and holding the gun to make several tactical actions, Han Wu keenly realized that the automatic rifle in his hand would even change the tactical composition of the Jiangsu Army. If each infantry squad is equipped with an automatic rifle and two submachine guns, the firepower of the squad will be greatly enhanced, and maybe two can be equipped. As for the machine gun platoon, well, it can still be retained. In Han Wu's mind, a brand new tactic appeared. Although it was very vague, it had already shown a shadow.

"clatter……"

When the sound came out, a big thing on the shooting range was completely covered by canvas and revealed its true face when the canvas was dismantled.

There was a large-caliber artillery under the canvas. The cannon immediately attracted everyone's attention. The number of machine guns in the Jiangsu Army exceeded the total of the country's army machine guns, and it also had a large number of mortars and more than 60 field guns and mountain guns. However, when it comes to firepower, it is not only none other than the army of the great powers, but it is not inferior to the army of the great powers. However, compared with the army of the great powers, the Jiangsu Army has an obvious deficiency - the lack of large-caliber artillery! The largest caliber artillery of the Jiangsu Army is 120mm mortar, and the division's artillery is only 75mm mountain field guns. The lack of large-caliber suppression artillery has always been a heart problem in the staff. Now, a large-caliber artillery appears in front of them. They all know that this cannon must be a self-produced artillery in Lianyungang.

"This is……"

"Three-year 15cm infantry howitzer!"

Compared with those light weapons, what makes Mo Fan proud is probably the light howitzer in front of him.

"...The three-year howitzer uses the most effective hydraulic retardation machine, and the tail of the gun uses horizontal sliding blocks... The total weight of the gun is 100 kilograms and the range is 4,700 meters..."

"The weight is light enough, well! It's very mobile!"

Han Wu nodded with satisfaction, while Xiao Xiao frowned slightly.

"The range is only 4,700 meters, will it be a little shorter?"

"There are naturally heavy artillery long-range shots. As for infantry, of course, they use lightweight infantry howitzers!"

Zheng Zixi, who had been silent, added next to her that he was the only artillery expert in Lianyungang. As early as thirteen years ago, he went to study in the UK and entered the Greenwich Naval Academy. A year later, he was admitted to the Royal Naval Research Institute of Amsh Qulang to specialize in naval artillery manufacturing and participated in the design of the arsenal shore artillery. He was hailed as one of the "Three Asians" by the British scientific and technological community. Later, he served as the general copywriter of the Chinese Embassy in the UK and promoted his merits to the fourth-rank special title. In the first year of the Republic of China, Sun Yat-sen summoned him back to China. When he arrived in Shanghai, Sun had resigned and was hired by the Commercial Printing Office to preside over the mechanical repair shop of the Oriental Printing Office. It can be said that what he learned has been in desolation. Two years ago, he came to Lianyungang, and it was not until last year that he transferred from a heavy machinery factory to the Second Light Company to continue his artillery manufacturing work. He did not participate in the design of howitzers, but was in charge of the design of mobile heavy artillery.

"Otherwise, how can the infantry be towed over ten tons of heavy artillery?"

Han Wu and Xiao Xiao looked at each other and both read a deep interest from each other's eyes.

"Engineer Zheng, do you mean, you still have a big guy in your hands?"

Big guy?

I have never seen any world before. Thinking about the heavy artillery he had participated in the design of the coastal defense in the UK, Zheng Zixi just smiled faintly.

"It's not big. It's the same caliber as this one, but the shells are different. The drawing range is more than 24 kilometers. There are no technical problems left now. However, production needs to be solved after the circumferential artillery mount is solved!"

"Ring-Rail cannon mount?"

"Yes, this kind of heavy artillery is really a bit useless for infantry combat, so it is necessary to design a circumferential artillery mount, which can be used for coastal defense when necessary. Otherwise, it would be a waste to build this kind of cannon. A cannon weighs more than ten tons and requires dozens of horses to drag. It is too heavy and too heavy!"

"When can it be built? There is no problem with tractors on the farm? Those tractors can always tow heavy artillery! There is no problem with mobility. Then a heavy artillery regiment directly under the staff will be formed."

Xiao Xiao seemed a little anxious. The reason why he was so anxious was that the Jiangsu Army's weakness was artillery. If equipped with long-range heavy artillery, it means that Jiangsu artillery can suppress any enemy on the battlefield, thereby gaining a comprehensive battlefield firepower advantage.

"This, I have to wait a little longer, wait a little longer, there are still some technical problems to be solved..."
Chapter completed!