Chapter 1083 Dagger Pistol and Hand-cranked Loader
After explaining these things, bursts of gunfire rang out from the various shooting ranges in the military camp, especially from the machine gun shooting range.
The continuous shooting attracted many soldiers at once, and many of them were shocked beyond words.
"What are those gunshots? They're all connected together. I can't even count them all. The firing rate is so fast!"
"It sounds like a general-purpose machine gun."
"Let's go and take a look."
"Wow! This machine gun is so powerful. Look at the bullets. They're all connected together. When you pull the trigger, they're directly sucked into the gun. The empty shells below fall out with a clatter, just like threshing wheat!"
"I really want to be a machine gunner, but I don't know how many of these guns will be equipped. They definitely won't be equipped with one per person like rifles, right? How many bullets will be wasted!"
"I think so too. With such a powerful gun, I guess it's good enough for each company to have one. There are only nine companies in the entire Shen Ce Guard, so that means nine machine guns in total."
"Oh, forget it, after hearing what you said, I'll just give up. There are only nine machine guns in a barracks of more than 2,600 people. It's not my turn! It's so enviable!"
Qu Bing, who was not far away, heard the discussion of these soldiers and started to think about it. He was still thinking about the skills of using machine guns, but he had never thought about how to equip this machine gun and how to use the unique tactics of machine guns. After all, he hadn't even equipped it yet, so how could he know how to use it?
So the quick-witted and studious Qu Bing went directly to Luo Chong.
If you don't understand, ask. This is Qu Bing's way of doing things.
"Chief, if this machine gun is finalized, how should it be equipped? What unit can be equipped with a machine gun? In addition, how should we select machine gunners and how to train machine gunners?"
Luo Chong explained while looking at the test situation in front.
"Different armies have different equipment plans. For example, your Shen Ce Guard is directly under my imperial guard. Your main defense mission in the future is to defend the capital, protect the central court, suppress possible rebellions, and foreign wars. Therefore, your equipment must be a level higher than that of the local garrison troops.
"Take rifles for example. You are equipped with the latest model of semi-automatic rifles, while other local troops can only get standard type II bolt-action rifles. This is the difference.
"The same is true for the number of machine guns. The equipment standard of your Shen Ce Guard is one machine gun per squad and one heavy machine gun per platoon. In fact, the guns are the same, but the platoon will be issued a heavy machine gun triangular stabilizer bracket, which is combined with the machine gun to be used as a heavy machine gun.
"Other local garrison troops are relatively small. They have one machine gun per platoon and one heavy machine gun bracket per company, which is several times less than yours, and their firepower is far lower than your equipment level! "
Hearing what Luo Chong said, Qu Bing and the third battalion commander beside him smiled so brightly that their faces were squeezed into chrysanthemums. Their smiles were so bright and happy.
The leader really loves them!
The Shen Ce Guards are the leader's biological sons, and those local garrison troops are raised by stepmothers.
Take machine guns as an example. There are nine squads in a platoon. Each platoon of the Shen Ce Guards has nine machine guns, while the local garrison troops only have one. This is the gap!
Seeing their smiling faces, Luo Chong couldn't help but warn them seriously.
"Don't think you are great just because you are well equipped. I warn you, after these weapons are equipped, you must train them well. The soldiers below must train their weapon handling skills, and you generals must also learn to change new tactics. Don't upgrade your weapons while still using the old tactical thinking.
"I tell you, you don't have to laugh. With your equipment, give me a local garrison with the same number of people. You have nine machine guns in one platoon, and everyone has a semi-automatic rifle in their hands. I use bolt-action rifles, one machine gun in one platoon, and I can still easily annihilate you!"
Qu Bing and the third battalion commander immediately tightened their faces when they heard Luo Chong say this, and began to reflect on their mistakes.
Of course, they were not reflecting on whether they laughed just now, but reflecting on whether the machine guns really have any special tactical applications. Otherwise, when the number of equipment on both sides of the enemy is nine to one and the difference in firepower density is extremely huge, how can the leader be confident that he can completely annihilate his side? And he also said that it is easy to annihilate the whole side when the number of people is equal? !
In fact, there are really skills here. For example, in the defensive battle of the position, how to arrange the machine gun firepower to achieve the greatest effect, and the most classic tactic among them is the cross fire network.
According to the characteristics of machine gun firepower, if it is a defensive position in a horizontal formation, placing fifty machine guns side by side is not as effective as placing two machine guns at both ends of the position. Side pressure and side attack can exert the greatest lethality of machine guns.
In addition, there are machine gun bunkers, bunkers, etc., and various tricky fire angles that make the enemy defenseless, which often have a miraculous effect.
When attacking, what kind of assault formation can be used to send machine guns to the front faster, or how machine guns can provide fire cover for their comrades during the charge. These are all knowledge. If Luo Chong does not teach them, the Han tribe may have to pay the price of countless soldiers' lives in the future. Those generals can only figure out this knowledge by themselves.
In addition, when the enemy's firepower advantage is extremely huge, how to attack with backward weapons?
The most famous classic example of this problem is the earthwork excavation method during the Huaihai Campaign. The protagonist in the Bright Sword also used this method to bring the troops to 30 meters in front of the enemy's position for grenade bombing.
However, that was
a real historical battle in film and television works. During the Huaihai Campaign, our army launched a geotechnical excavation offensive with a total force of more than 400,000 people, and dug trenches to 200 meters in front of the enemy's position. Then, they used the flying thunder cannon modified from gasoline barrels to throw explosive packs onto the enemy's position, encircling and annihilating hundreds of thousands of enemy troops in one fell swoop.
That power is even more powerful than the 400-mm caliber naval gun.
And don't think that the geotechnical excavation offensive is simple, isn't it just digging trenches? In fact, there are many details in it, and there is a rigorous scientific operation method.
Under normal circumstances, when charging, look for craters as shelters, or lie down on the ground in front of the enemy's position, and then lie on the ground to dig a pit. First, dig a 20-centimeter-deep lying single-soldier shelter. If the enemy has no countermeasures, then lie down and continue to dig, turning the lying shelter into a kneeling shelter, and then into a standing shelter. Finally, connect the shelters one by one to form a continuous trench.
Let alone other things, just the job of digging a hole on the ground, if you haven't practiced it, you won't be able to dig it. There are dense bullet nets on the top of the head and the back. How to dig a hole safely without moving the body? Otherwise, if you raise your head a little, your head will be smashed.
This is a difficult technical job.
Luo Chong did not teach them immediately, but continued with the various firearms testing projects in front of him.
The first to complete the test was the semi-automatic rifle, because the bolt-action rifle test was just carried out yesterday. There is not much difference between the semi-automatic rifle and the bolt-action rifle in terms of testing, and the semi-automatic rifle is faster to load and has a faster rate of fire. After being familiar with the testing process, the soldiers quickly completed all the test subjects.
So the semi-automatic rifle was successfully finalized and named by Luo Chong as the standard type 3 rifle, which is the third-generation rifle, and officially entered the stage of preparing for mass production.
Afterwards, the two pistols also successfully completed all the test subjects.
Beretta 92F and Browning 1911, these two pistols are classics among classics. It can be said that as long as the production quality is good, there will be no problems in design. After all, they are all knockoffs directly copied by Luo Chong. Although there may be some differences in the specific data, they are basically the same. There is still no difference in appearance, and the internal structure also retains some classic designs of the prototype.
If such a gun cannot pass the test, then no gun can pass the test.
And because of the use of molybdenum steel, the service life of these two pistols has reached the design life of 10,000 rounds of barrier-free firing, and the excellent performance of no significant decrease in accuracy after 10,000 rounds.
In the naming of these two pistols, Luo Chong used the anthropomorphic name to name them, and uniformly called them "Dagger" pistols. The one with a capacity of seven rounds is Dagger Type I, and the one with a capacity of fifteen rounds is Dagger Type II.
Because the pistol is functionally equivalent to a dagger or dagger in cold weapons, using this name, it is also easy for others to understand its function.
After the two pistols and a semi-automatic rifle were finalized, it was noon.
On the other side, the machine gun shooting range had just completed the accuracy test and the simulated environment test, and the firearm durability test, that is, the service life test, was still in progress.
In theory, with the firing rate of the machine gun, the 20,000 rounds of bullets should be fired quickly, but in fact, the loading speed was too slow.
Since the research institute has not yet developed a hand-cranked loader, the soldiers can only load the bullets manually on site, inserting the bullets into the canvas belt one by one by hand.
This is really... loading for half an hour, and firing for half a minute.
There is no way, manual loading is too slow. When good news came from the pistols and semi-automatic rifles, Qubing suddenly realized the problem and asked Luo Chong.
"Chief, it's so hard to load this machine gun. If we really go to the battlefield, we have to prepare ammunition a month or two in advance. Otherwise, if we shoot one belt per minute, how many bullets will be consumed on the battlefield? There is no time to reload on the spot!"
Luo Chong nodded as he looked at the test site. This was his own mistake. He only remembered to tell the institute how to make a gun and a canvas belt, but forgot to tell them to make a hand-crank loader, so this is his responsibility.
Seeing that the soldiers were still there under the scorching sun, sweating profusely while inserting bullets, Luo Chong immediately ordered.
"Stop the actual test of the machine gun first. According to the current situation, there is no actual effect at all. If we shoot at the fastest rate of fire and firepower density, the barrels should have been hot and smoking.
"But now, it takes too long to wait for the bullets. The long barrels have cooled down by themselves. What kind of barrels should we change? We can't test the expected effect at all. "
Qubing and the third battalion commander lowered their heads upon hearing this. They thought that it was because they had not arranged the work well that Luo Chong was angry. Lin Fei next to him did not dare to speak. He was afraid that
Luo Chong would blame him for not preparing more ammunition belts and why the bullets were not loaded directly before they were delivered. However, the situations imagined by several people did not occur. Luo Chong did not blame any of them, but called Lin Fei over.
"Lin Fei, do you know the hand-cranked cylinder printing press made by Bai Qi in the Printing Department of Hanyang City?"
Lin Fei scratched his head in confusion when he heard this. He looked confused. He didn't know what Luo Chong meant by suddenly mentioning this, but he still answered honestly.
"Well, reporting to the leader, I know about this. I was the one who found those things for him. Is there any problem with this printing press?"
"No problem. I just want to tell you to let the team responsible for printing technology build me a hand-cranked loader!"
"Hand-cranked loader? ! "
Lin Fei, Qu Bing, and the third battalion commander asked in unison.
'So there is such a thing?'
'The leader is amazing. He can think of this!'
Several people were amazed in their hearts, and Luo Chong also began to talk in detail.
"Yes, make a hand-cranked loader. It should not be too big and the weight should be as light as possible. It can be made into the size of a calcium carbide lamp. Its overall structure is a base at the bottom, a funnel for loading bullets on the top, and a hand-cranked gear with two thimbles in the middle, which reciprocates back and forth.
"Two thimbles are arranged side by side. One is a pointed cone, which is used to open the loading port of the canvas belt. The other pushes the bullets leaking from the funnel above into the belt. Every time the gear is turned by hand, a bullet can be loaded. At the same time, there must be a gear linkage below. Every time a bullet is loaded, the belt moves one grid outward to make room for the next bullet. Do you understand what I mean? Do you need me to draw a sketch for you?"
Lin Fei has been dealing with various machines for many years. He understood the simple mechanical structure that Luo Chong said as soon as he heard it. How could he not understand it? So he said.
"Please rest assured, leader. This thing sounds very simple and not difficult. Give me three days, and I will definitely deliver it."
Luo Chong nodded with satisfaction. Three days, this is the journey to bring it back, plus the design drawings, prototype production, actual testing, a series of work, can be delivered to the military camp in three days, which is already fast.
"Okay, then you can start to arrange it. Remember to bring more bullets and tracer bullets when you come back." Luo Chong nodded and instructed.
"Yes!" Lin Fei immediately clasped his fists and left.
(End of this chapter)
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