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The machine gun, like many high-tech projects that Datang has successfully developed or is developing, was initiated by the Son of Heaven.

For example, the steam engine in the early years and the current gasoline engine, as well as the military's rear-loaded rifled weapons, and chemical fertilizers, hybrid rice, wired telegraphy, wireless telegraphy, trains, ships, etc. These are all instructed by the Son of Heaven personally, with the Royal Institute of Technology As the core, it organizes many talents all over the country to conduct research.

They can be regarded as the most important weapons of the country that are researched and developed by the whole country.

The same is true for the machine gun project. Many years ago, the rear-loading rifled rifle using paper-cased ammunition was just developed, that is, when the United Type I rifle first entered service, Li Xuan had already started the preliminary research of the machine gun.

It's just that Datang's military is basically invincible in the world, and a breech rifle can already hang the world, so the demand for machine guns is not too urgent.

In addition, the paper shell ammunition in the early years was not suitable for machine guns, so the progress of this research was relatively slow.

It was not until the United Type II rifle entered large-scale service that the progress of the machine gun project accelerated.

The machine gun project team changed the bullets from paper shell bullets to brass bullets. In this way, many problems of the machine gun project have been solved, and after many tests, after the minor problems were improved, the preliminary research and development was successful this year. Got a few sample guns for testing.

After the army went to see the test, they directly reported that this thing is flashy and the power is very good, but the army can't use it...

The rapid rate of fire of the Joint Type II rifle has caused the consumption of bullets to increase exponentially, which has already made the Army feel very difficult, not only the funding is difficult, but the logistics system is also difficult.

Especially considering that Datang's army and navy are all over the world, there are garrisoned troops in America, Europe, India, and Africa. Every shell and bullet used in this has to travel thousands of miles from the mainland, no, yes. The transportation cost is quite high for thousands of miles.

Therefore, regardless of whether it is the army or the navy, as long as the troops stationed overseas are very sensitive to the consumption of ammunition.

Relatively speaking, the troops stationed in the mainland do not care much about the consumption of ammunition. Anyway, the troops stationed in the mainland do not fight, the transportation system is also perfect, and the transportation cost is low, so some seem to consume a lot of ammunition. The troops stationed in the mainland will be equipped, but the troops stationed overseas will not be equipped.

The most obvious example is the mortar, which is actually equipped by the army, but it is only limited to the troops stationed in the local area. Anyway, the troops equipped in the local area do not usually fight and do not consume much ammunition. As for the overseas troops It is very rarely equipped, because overseas troops often have wars. Although they are small-scale wars, they are also wars. Once mortars are used on a large scale, the army said that the logistics system cannot support it.

The same is true of several other artillery pieces. The troops stationed in the homeland are equipped with many types of artillery pieces, forming a multi-level firepower attack, ranging from 75mm howitzers, field guns, to 100mm cannons, howitzers, and then to a 120mm cannons, howitzers and 150mm cannons and howitzers are all equipped.

However, overseas, there are basically all 75mm howitzers, even 75mm field guns, and at most there are a small number of 120mm howitzers.

The difficulty of logistical transportation and the high cost of ammunition make both the army and the navy sensitive to the consumption of ammunition.

The machine gun can shoot hundreds of bullets in one minute, and the Army says it can't be used!

In response to this situation, Li Xuan did not say anything more, but went to the machine gun project team at the Royal Institute of Technology to see the sample gun.

The prototype of this machine gun is much better than the machine gun design reported before.

In the past, the machine gun project team used paper shell ammunition, and the designed machine gun used a hand-fired multi-barreled machine gun, which was actually a Gatling machine gun.

It's just that the paper shell ammunition has serious air leakage and other problems, and it is very troublesome to use.

If the Datang military was under a lot of pressure at that time, it is estimated that it would be directly mass-produced and used, but the problem is that the Datang military did not have much pressure.

Therefore, there was no mass production, but continued improvement. In the end, metal bullets were used, and at the same time, the energy of gunpowder gas was used to achieve automatic shooting. Because of the single barrel, water-cooled heat dissipation was used for heat dissipation.

Therefore, in terms of basic principles, this machine gun is actually very similar to the early Maxim machine gun. Of course, the design of some small details is definitely different, but the basic principles are the same.

After completing the basic design, the machine gun project team made continuous improvements. For example, in order to stabilize the supply of ammunition, it has successively used oversized clips for ammunition, and also used funnels for ammunition, and finally chose to use ammunition chains to feed ammunition.

Considering that this machine gun is very heavy, in order to maintain mobility, the shelling with wheels is directly installed, and the horses can be pulled directly, or pushed by people when necessary.

In order to prevent the enemy's bullets from hitting and protect the shooter's safety, a small bulletproof steel shield was added in front of the gun mount.

The combination of many small designs finally turned into the 43-year-old heavy machine gun that Li Xuan saw now.

Afterwards, the technicians did not make many mistakes when they tested the fire. Although it got stuck several times, it was harmless. The most important thing is that it fired 8mm bullets at a rate of 600 rounds per minute, and used the front as the target. A thick wooden board was directly beaten into a smashed state.

After personally confirming that the machine gun can be used, Li Xuan still did not say that the army should be equipped with machine guns on a large scale~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Because he also knows, just as the army said, this thing consumes too much ammunition, the army now It can't be consumed, and it can't be equipped on a large scale at all.

Therefore, he just instructed the guards to equip the machine gun first.

As for the army, Li Xuan is fine, let them figure it out for themselves.

The army saw that the Holy Son of Heaven had been equipped by the Guards. Although I still felt that the machine gun consumes too much ammo, I think that when this thing is not usually used, it does not need to consume ammunition. Use it again, just like a mortar.

As a result, the army also purchased some first, first equipped the local troops, and then the garrison troops in the overseas territories had a small amount of equipment, and then issued a very interesting order: the troops must recover the shells!

Today's metal bullets are all copper-yellow bullets, and the casings are all made of brass. Recycling the casings can save a lot of money.

Compared with the Army, who doesn't care much, the Navy is very interested after learning about the machine gun!

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