Chapter 1028 New Era, New Choices (First Update, Please Subscribe)
However, it was not the "Six-Year Type Machine Gun" that became famous around the world, but the "Ten-Year Type Machine Gun".
This is the re-assigned number after the "Type 6 Machine Gun" was declassified.
In fact, this is not complicated, because all the "Type 6 Machine Guns" do not have model numbers engraved on the gun body at all, which is also for the purpose of confidentiality.
Almost overnight, the "Type 10 Machine Gun" that killed nearly ten thousand enemies in the "Border War" became famous all over the world!
How can it not be famous!
Even if the Ming Dynasty’s Type 5 Gatling machine gun has been famous for a long time, so what?
But no machine gun had ever killed so many people at once. Of course, there wouldn't be so many people stupidly shouting "Oh my god!" and running into it, smashing it into a bloody mess.
As a result, the "Type 10 Machine Gun", which was "inexpensive and of good quality" and had excellent performance, instantly became the top internet celebrity in the weapons industry at the end of 1881.
"The company has already sent the Type 10 machine guns to its branches in various countries. After the goods arrive, they will be displayed to the military of the countries where they are located. According to preliminary estimates, the military of various countries will purchase more than 5,000 machine guns, and at least three to five countries will be willing to purchase its production patents..."
Tang Lin, the president of the Imperial Defense Company, noticed during his report that the Shangshu of Liangshan looked thoughtful.
"Considering that there are more than 5,000 early model old guns in the Army and Navy's inventory, the company's plan is to refurbish these old guns and then sell them to various countries..."
Refurbishing old military goods and exporting them to other countries as new ones is what the Imperial Defense Company often does. As the empire's largest arms exporter, they have done this a lot over the years. From pistols to rifles to artillery, they already have a set of refurbishment standards, and it is almost impossible for the purchaser to find out that the weapons are refurbished.
This is an old trick in the international arms trade.
"Um."
Nodding, Liang Shan said.
"For this, let's follow the old rules."
The military was not opposed to selling old goods and buying new ones, but Liang Shan was not interested in this at all. Instead, he asked out of curiosity.
"Manager Tang, do you know that there are similar products in foreign countries?"
The reason why Liangshan was so curious was because His Majesty said that Britain already had similar products. So the Ming Dynasty had to take the lead and seize the market.
“There are also foreign countries?”
Tang Lin was surprised.
"No! I've never heard of it!"
Of course he had never heard of it. Not to mention that he had never heard of it, even the Imperial Investigation Bureau of the Ming Dynasty had no information on this matter.
Why? Because the Maxim machine gun was publicly displayed in April 1882, five months later, more than a year earlier than in the other world. Of course, there is no information about Maxim at present, but in Emperor Zhu's system mall, there is already a Maxim machine gun.
If nothing unexpected happens, the Maxim machine gun will attract the attention of the military of countries around the world as soon as it comes out. In the following ten years, the militaries of various countries have purchased it one after another, and the Maxim... has even become synonymous with machine guns.
This is the history of Maxim in another world, but in this world... it is absolutely impossible. After all, since the five-year Gatling was put on the market, it has always been the flagship product of the Ming Dynasty's light weapons.
Now faced with the upcoming Maxim machine gun, the Type 6 machine gun naturally had to step forward and replace the Maxim machine gun.
In fact, from the day the Type 5 Gatling gun was put on the market, machine guns have been widely used on the battlefield. The current Type 6 is just a continuation of the glory of the Type 5.
"The most important thing is tactics!"
While talking to himself, Emperor Zhu picked up the Anton automatic gun on the table. This automatic gun, or submachine gun, had its magazine on top of the gun body. The steel cylindrical gun body looked quite delicate. With the wooden buttstock, it looked a bit strange, but Emperor Zhu knew better than anyone that this submachine gun had power.
Pull the bolt and pull the trigger.
Some dull gunshots were heard, and after emptying a magazine, Emperor Zhu picked up a bullet.
"The gun is good, but the caliber of the bullet is a bit too big."
The bullet is 11mm caliber, which is roughly equivalent to the .45ACP of the Ming Empire.
"This bullet is heavy and clumsy, let's change it to 9mm!"
While talking to himself, Emperor Zhu casually wrote down "Anton Automatic Firearms Company" in his notebook.
This automatic gun is not a current product, but... it will be launched on the market next year. However, the military does not seem to have noticed the role of submachine guns.
In the mall it is just an ordinary civilian product.
"Or the tactical thinking is too conservative!"
Putting the submachine gun on the table, Emperor Zhu shook his head helplessly and sighed, then said.
"Some things still require your own intervention!"
In fact, in recent years, Emperor Zhu has not interfered much in military affairs. After all, after twenty years of development, the military generals and officers are more professional than him, and he, as an outsider, must know his own limitations.
However, facts have proved that Emperor Zhu, who stood on the shoulders of historical giants, was always far ahead, at least in terms of concepts, and it was difficult for those generals to understand the effect of a certain weapon without going through a bloody battle.
Just like now, what is the world's impression of machine guns?
It is a good helper for fortress defense, but as for offense...how can a machine gun weighing dozens of kilograms accompany infantry in an attack?
From the invention of the machine gun in 1884 to the trench machine gun in World War I, there was almost no progress in the research on machine gun tactics for a full thirty years, and the number of machine guns equipped was also very limited!
Only the bloody storm of war will force tactical experts to conduct in-depth research on it.
But the Ming Dynasty certainly cannot use the blood of its soldiers to draw conclusions from its experience.
"Submachine guns need to be further improved... Well, that's the first thing, and the second is machine guns..."
Looking at the six-year... no, it should be the ten-year machine gun next to him, Emperor Zhu stared at the cooling water cylinder.
"We need to remove this cooling water cylinder and modify it into an air-cooled machine gun to further reduce the weight..."
Since there is no suitable light machine gun at the moment, we can just use the improved version of the Six-Year Model, just like the German MG05/15 during World War I. It weighs about 40 kilograms, and more than 100,000 of them were produced and carried by soldiers to carry out assault operations on the battlefield.
Of course, Emperor Zhu would definitely not let his soldiers carry a machine gun weighing more than 40 kilograms and charge into battle. Even if they were as strong as an ox, it would not be easy to lift it. However, a "light machine gun" weighing 13 or 14 kilograms was not unacceptable.
After all, it is only slightly heavier than the MG34!
"Now that we have light machine guns and submachine guns, it's about time..."
Staring at the somewhat quaint submachine gun on the table, Emperor Zhu raised the corners of his lips slightly. Then, he casually wrote down in his notebook an idea he had been brewing for a long time - Assault Corps!
An elite force using automatic weapons can play an imaginative role in this era. More importantly, with such a force, some of Emperor Zhu's ideas can be implemented.
However, to establish such a force, one must always select a suitable commander.
After thinking for a while, a candidate emerged in Emperor Zhu's mind.
(End of this chapter)
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