The progress of science and technology is to open one door after another, many times as long as you go to that step, you can open the door with a gentle push, and more often it is difficult to open the door even if there is a gap.
Firearms are assembled from one part and one part, and some parts do not conform to the specifications, even if they can be fired, but the performance is bound to be defective, and the life will be shortened.
Compared to the Type 12 rifle, the construction of the machine gun, which has not yet been named, is much more complex.
"In addition to the base, it is assembled from two hundred and forty-three parts, the large parts are the shell and barrel of the gun, and the smallest parts inside are only four millimeters."
Although Zhang Shi did not expect that the test shot could finish a bullet chain, he did not expect that he would not be able to survive even 20 seconds: "The shell removal device and firing mechanism are still being perfected" Liu Yan just saw that the gun body shook violently when it was fired, and it was obvious that the recoil generated during the launch was somewhat amazing, if the bite force of the parts of the gun was not enough, and repeated shaking would inevitably cause failure, then I am afraid that there was not only a problem with the shell removal device, but also a problem with the entire machine gun.
People who have played assembly should understand a truth, all kinds of parts are assembled with each other, it is difficult to bite enough teeth, there must be screws to strengthen it closely, if it is difficult to achieve absolute tightness only by the bite between the various parts, a little shake will be loosened between a few bites, and the assembly that originally looked good immediately became loose and loose.
For a machine gun, there are already screws to strengthen the occlusion of various parts, but it will still be a great test for the design, because even a simple part occlusion or reinforcement is part of the science.
Liu Yan was not angry, he didn't even have any blame, some were warm and encouraging.
It took nearly ten years to develop a rifled rifle, and if you want to get angry and kill the researcher every time you make a mistake, then you will cause a fault in the research yourself, which is equivalent to starting again every time.
There is no shortage of examples in history where research is forced to start again because a dictator kills a researcher in a fit of rage.
The cannon is inspected for a fault, repaired and ready to fire again.
This time it lasted about ten seconds longer than the last, and a brand new chain was hit by about a third.
"A chain of 1,000 bullets" Liu Yanmo calculated and said: "The rate of fire is 300 rounds per minute."
Ma Zihuan said that if a familiar operator fires it, the maximum rate of fire of the machine gun can reach about 450 rounds per minute.
Liu Yan looked at the weird and hideous multi-barreled machine gun with a little fascination, he really didn't expect it to appear so quickly, although it has all kinds of defects, but it is a problem of material science and the bite of parts, and repeated research will definitely develop qualified products.
The history has not been changed, the first hand-cranked Gatling was invented by the American Richard Jordan Gatlin in the second half of the 19th century, its initial rate of fire per minute was only 200 rounds per minute, after repeated improvements to the gun body and changes to the record of firing copper-shelled bullets to achieve a maximum rate of fire of 1,200 rounds per minute.
Liu Yan didn't know the research history of the Gatling gun, but he was able to distinguish that it could achieve a maximum rate of fire of 450 rounds per minute, which was quite remarkable, and he knew that once it could be mass-produced and equipped with the army, it would definitely show its hideousness.
"The rifle is destined to eliminate the cold weapon tactics of knives, guns, swords, halberds, etc., it" Ran Min didn't know what kind of expression to use at all: "The rate of fire of the flintlock pistol is slow, and the excellent foot snatcher is the limit of shooting once in two minutes, and there is also the survival of the cavalry."
The way it fired bullets was simply stormy, and even the cavalry had no way to live. ” The end of the platoon wall era, or the close infantry array warfare method, was that machine guns were used on the battlefield, and even the cavalry, which moved faster than the infantry, also disappeared from the frontal battlefield, resulting in the cavalry from the king of land warfare to the role of miscellaneous troops.
"We're lucky."
Xu Zheng said with emotion: "At least we are at the forefront of the world, and we are the only one at present." ” The Janissaries stationed in this camp were the first fully equipped firearms unit in the world.
The loud trumpet sounded the order to assemble, and groups of soldiers appeared all over the camp to assemble on the school grounds.
The soldiers were all armed with 12-type flintlock pistols, and the officers were handcuff-type, and they were lined up under the constraints of the officers as soon as they arrived at the school.
The soldier's upper body is a gray-green combat uniform, the clothes are in a mid-opening style, buttoned by one metal button after another, with epaulettes, collar badges, and badges, which look both straight and fitted; Their lower trousers are iron gray, and their boots are blackened cowhide boots.
They also had an armed belt made of cowhide around their waists, a long leather box on the right waist, a bayonet twenty centimeters long hanging from the left front waist, and a strip for cleaning the chamber on the left waist.
The long leather box was twenty centimeters long and ten centimeters wide, with a barrier in the middle, and on one side was a paper gunpowder and on the other side was a lead projectile, with a total capacity of thirty rounds.
Because it is not in the wilderness, nor is it on the march, there is a lack of bedding, kettles, cutlery, blankets and other things.
In addition to the buttons and the fastening device of the armed belt, the metal on the body is the helmet worn on the head of the Jiejianyu World War II German Army Type 35 but with a pointed spear.
The helmet, named Type 13, was stamped from an iron plate with sleek curved edges, lined with supple leather and painted in wild gray.
From Liu Yan's point of view, the army in front of him has reached the specifications of the mid-to-late eighteenth century, and it can even be said that the design of military uniforms far exceeds the level of the eighteenth century, and it should be at the level of the nineteenth century.
In the eyes of the rest, the uniforms of this army lined up for review were so strange, there was no crown and hair, and the placket was no longer the right one, although a complete set of military uniforms looked very heroic, but they just felt as if something was missing.
"Your Majesty" Ran Min is the one who says whatever comes to mind, and said bluntly: "I see that it is borrowed from the clothing design style of Great Qin and Persia.
The Great Han is far stronger than them, so why borrow their style?"
Liu Yan was a little speechless for a while, and was silent for a while before saying to Ran Min: "Yongzeng's opinion is very right."
In the known world, the Han Empire is the first power that deserves to be, and the whole world should follow the fashion of the Han Empire, and it should never be the Han Empire to imitate others.
Liu Yan is also a little fixed in his thinking, and the design guidance is in accordance with the military uniform style of later generations, due to the relationship between the river crab and the beast, he cannot follow the army of the Celestial Empire, and chooses the style of the combination of the German army in World War I and World War II, but there is really no Chinese style.
"General."
Liu Yan beckoned to Xu Zheng, asked several generals to lean over, and said, "All of you are generals in the army and are familiar with military life.
Yongzeng did not run to the firearms unit and made the right suggestions.
Zhu Qing can brainstorm in the future and design a Chinese-style military uniform. ” The people who originally looked at that set of military uniforms and felt weird were stunned, they still knew that the strange style of military uniforms was a product designed under the guidance of Liu Yan, and they didn't know what Ran Min had just said to Liu Yan, so they asked Liu Yan to say those words, and they hesitated for a while and didn't know what to say.
Liu Yan was serious about designing a new set of military uniforms for the supply of firearms.
But he no longer intends to participate, or he will be disturbed by fixed thinking, and it is more appropriate to be the final selected referee.
Designing new military uniforms is a very abrupt topic today, and no one has a clue, so they change the topic after a few words.
On the one hand, they came here today to see the new rifled guns, and to visit the unnamed and undated machine guns was an additional program, but the real purpose was to review the firearms units that had been trained for a year and a half.
This review is definitely not to see what to do in military formation, but to watch a live-fire military exercise.
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Under Liu Yan's order, the troops, totaling 3,500 people, were divided into several teams and left the barracks.
The firearms unit will no longer continue the previous establishment, but it is a three-three system of 12 people in a squad, including a squad leader and deputy squad leader, three squads for a platoon, three platoons for a company, three companies for a battalion, and so on.
In addition to the combat unit, that is, the twelve people of a basic squad, the military unit of the platoon will definitely not be all combatants, in fact, there will still be an auxiliary squad, so a platoon is actually almost fifty people.
Companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, divisions, corps, and the higher they go, the larger the auxiliary units.
For example, this experimental firearms unit, the brigade that participated in this live-fire military exercise, there were 3,500 people participating in the live-fire military exercise, but in addition to these soldiers, there were actually 1,500 logistics units of an auxiliary nature, and the logistics personnel were only engaged in 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 considered to be a regular establishment, and their treatment is the same as that of the soldiers.
Compared with the cold weapons troops, the logistics personnel of the firearms troops are not able to transport things or do heavy work, but also need to know how to classify the quartermasters and master the maintenance techniques of their respective posts, and their busiest thing is that they need to allocate paper gunpowder for the soldiers on the front line.
The troops pulled out of the barracks and immediately formed a detachment in an open field, with a company as the basic unit, arranged into three horizontal formations, and one regiment into a large column, forming a rectangular array.
"This time it's just a demonstration of riflemen" Huan Wen didn't see the artillery arranged, and pointed to the densely packed scarecrow in front of him: "It's a demonstration of firepower" Many of them had already seen the volley of the guns of the firearms unit, from the first volley of columns to the later four-stage firing; It is also from the salvo that it falls into the vast smoke, and then the smokeless powder is used in the back and is no longer in the smoke.
The officers of the unit were shouting commands, the riflemen in the first row were in a standing position with their guns aiming, and the riflemen in the second and third rows were standing still with their butts touching the ground.
"Three-stage shooting on the spot" "First Row Preparation" "Fire" A "snap" sound echoed frequently, and the riflemen in the first row, who had finished shooting, stepped back, and the riflemen in the second row took the place in the first row.
"Second Row Preparation" "Fire" There was another burst of gunfire, and the second-row riflemen who had finished shooting also retreated, and the original third row stepped forward into the firing position.
At this time, the first platoon had already completed the loading action, and when they entered the second platoon to be fired, the group of riflemen who had just finished shooting and retreated pushed to the third platoon to clear and reload.
The original third platoon, they entered the firing position, and again opened fire at the officer's command.
Under such a rotational shooting, the scarecrow in front of him was constantly flying grass clippings by the projectiles, and individual scarecrows who were shot too much simply turned into bare support frames, and even scarecrows burned.
Although it was not the first time to see a firearm unit shooting, the people who came to watch it were still in high spirits.
"Rolling Advance Shot" "First Row Preparation" "Fire" "Second Row Preparation" "Fire" "Third Row Ready" "Fire" The entire large column was cleared and reloaded on the spot after each platoon fired, and row after row continued to roll forward, with the interval between each firing of gunfire at most about ten seconds.
After changing the firing mode, the riflemen obviously couldn't be as easy as the three-stage shot on the spot, and the people watching found many mistakes, such as a few riflemen who really couldn't keep up with the action but had to follow into the firing position, but they didn't have time to pull out the whole strip, so they had to compare the shooting action but didn't dare to pull the trigger.
The whole strip is in the barrel, and it is filled with gunpowder and projectiles, and it is true that it cannot be fired, otherwise it will definitely end up in the bore.
"There were so many mistakes just in the drill."
Ran Min is not mocking, but has a little hatred that iron is not steel: "They will soon be transferred to the battlefield, and the actual combat is definitely worse than the drill." ” "It's too fast."
Xu Zheng didn't know if what he said was fair, so he only said with his own opinion: "Slow down for about two seconds, and the situation will be better." ” Liu Yan just listened quietly.
The reason why he frowned a little was that he didn't know what the interval between the three dans in history was, and the troops who were practicing were doing it according to their own standards, which might be unreasonable.
At present, the entire Han Empire is just such a firearms unit fully equipped with flintlock pistols, they are seeds, and if they are embarrassed on the battlefield, they will inevitably have a major impact.
"Again."
Liu Yan frowned and said, "The interval has been increased to fifteen seconds."
This unit will soon be transferred to the northern frontier, and when a problem is discovered, it will immediately conduct a reasonable test, rather than going to the battlefield to produce a moth under too much compulsion
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