Chapter 44: Waste bullet

In addition to the elite teaching team, Chris has not relaxed the development and production of weapons in the past two months.

The Maxim heavy machine gun, which uses 7.92 mm caliber bullets, has been developed. The design accuracy of this weapon is actually not higher than that of the Mauser rifle, so the technical difficulty of production is not high.

The ammunition problem that Chris is worried about has also been improved with the gradual increase in the number of bullet factories. Recently, the industrial production speed of Ailan Hill has been at least a hundred times faster than before.

Yes, starting from scratch is actually the most difficult process. When more machinery is added and the parts needed for the equipment begin to be mass-produced, the expansion speed of the factory will completely take off.

The first lathe was assembled by hand filing the parts, which was of course slow. The second lathe can use the first lathe to process the prototype, and then simply polish and modify the shape by hand. The speed is naturally much faster.

By the time the third and the fourth, the workers have become proficient, and the processing speed of the machinery has doubled, and the speed at which these equipment are produced will be even faster.

After more than a year of accumulation, Ailan Hill, who has reached the second year of industrialization, has reached a certain level of familiarity with machinery, so many things Chris can just take out the drawings and leave it alone.

In fact, not everything is perfect, because Ailan Hill still hasn't popularized electricity. Although the thermal power plant has been established, the electricity that can be generated is basically provided to the continuously expanding factory.

Even the castle where Chris is, his base camp, still uses the pitiful candles and "horse lanterns." Although lanterns are also convenient, Chris is generally not willing to use kerosene because of the use of kerosene.

After all, even kerosene is a material with insufficient production. Compared to China during the War of Resistance Against Japan, Ailan Hill's situation is not much better.

Although the progress in chemistry is huge, many things are still stagnant because of the raw materials.

In order to meet the demand for farming next year, Chris arranged some small chemical plants in advance, so that these chemical plants will start producing fertilizers. This is the foundation of Chris' "rich of the country". There is nothing to eat, everything is mirrored.

He followed the previous path of China's industrialization and built five local small enterprises, namely small-scale fertilizer plants, small-scale power plants and other factories, not seeking advanced technology, but only seeking to meet local needs.

With the support of these small factories, Chris has trained a large number of "capitalists", and these capitalists, after making a profit, will work hard to learn new technologies and become steadfast supporters of Chris' technology expansion.

They can learn, literate and hyphenate, and they have a cultural foundation. After making money, there is still the mind and desire to protect one's own property and status. With these people, Chris can improve the quality of the population on a large scale, and can have more qualified workers and technical personnel.

When the quality of the population is raised to a certain level, the quality of the soldiers will be greatly improved. At that time, more troops can be expanded, sweeping the world for Ailan Hill.

Originally wanted to mass-produce the mg42 machine gun directly, Chris finally compromised with reality. The replacement of the barrel and the super high rate of fire made the mg42 a nightmare for bullet supply.

So he can only honestly produce the Maxine heavy machine gun first, and use water cooling to save more resources.

As a result, the heavy machine gun produced is also a heavy weapon with wheels. It also needs to be dragged by a war horse, and it needs several soldiers to serve it, just like a small gun.

However, after seeing the power of Maxim's heavy machine guns, either Waglon or Modeller, they all think this weapon is a good thing. They all hope to equip more machine guns and more ammunition as soon as possible.

The heavy machine gun towed by Malay is not completely unprofitable. One advantage is that the heavy machine gun has an anti-shield, and the safety of the shooter has a higher guarantee.

The second advantage is that this machine gun has a multi-purpose launch stand that can immediately fire into the air. The emergence of heavy machine guns gave infantrymen a kind of anti-aircraft firepower that is better than nothing.

As for how many heavy machine guns each infantry company should be equipped with, it has become the fuse of the world war between the commanders of the military and the industrial sector.

Wagron, Modler and others naturally believed that a heavy machine gun equipped with a company should be better. If possible, it is perfectly possible to establish a full-heavy machine gun company.

While Secretary Smith, Gurlo and others complained to Chris about insufficient production capacity in the industrial sector. Chris also knew that he had just gotten rid of the crisis of insufficient bullet production capacity, and there was still a long way to go before he could splurge.

Therefore, after Chris' balance, it was temporarily decided to equip an infantry company with 2 Maxim heavy machine guns. As for whether to change it in the future, it depends on the future conditions.

Produced together with the heavy machine gun, there is also a sharp weapon for investigation. Chris invented the telescope early and has finally put it into mass production recently.

The latest binoculars are very convenient and are extremely popular advanced military equipment. Because of the production plant, Ailan Hill's troops are now equipped with the company.

In addition, some special units are also equipped with binoculars, such as corrective shooting observers for artillery units, anti-aircraft anti-aircraft units for air security, and heavy machine gun teams.

The reason why they are equipped with telescopes is because these troops need a very long observation distance to be able to fight better.

"Tutu! Tutu!" On the hillside, the heavy machine gun team that had just been formed was training to use their weapons to fire. Because no tracer was developed, their trajectory correction completely relied on the feel of the shooter.

Beside the machine gun, the commander knelt on the ground holding the telescope, and loudly reminded his shooter: "The target is not covered! The elevation angle is raised by a ruler!"

The deputy who fell down beside the shooter immediately pulled out a fixed tenon that was stuck on the scale of the machine gun. The shooter pressed the gun body down slightly, raising the muzzle higher. Then the deputy inserted the tenon back to the fixed point on the ruler.

"Tutu! Tutu!" The second round of shooting started immediately after the adjustment, and another row of bullets flew towards the target and landed in the distant target area.

The commander holding the telescope cheered loudly because he saw the target area a kilometer away in the telescope, which was shot out of white smoke by the bullet.

"Hit the target! You played beautifully!" He cheered loudly and cheered up his comrades in arms: "Ready to transfer positions! Go to the next launch position!"

The two soldiers who had been lying down immediately got up, one of them led the horse, and the other came forward to help, pulling the two heavy wooden wheels of the heavy machine gun out of the dug fixed pit.

Including the ammunition plus the special brackets, wheels and anti-shield, plus the machine gun itself and the water in the hose on the barrel... This Maxine is not light and requires a lot of people to work hard to change the position.

The four men hurriedly hung the machine guns behind the horse, and the horseman rushed the horse to the next firing position. According to regulations, these soldiers should be equipped with revolvers for self-defense, but now they only have empty pistol holsters on their belts around their waists.

All weapons have to be produced little by little and equipped with a little bit of equipment for the troops: don’t you see, many second-line troops, training machine gun teams, are still using wooden counterweight models?

"This machine gun team is also good." Chris looked at the machine gun team rushing to the next firing position, and said satisfiedly to the officer behind him: "How many of these teams do we have now?"

"Almost, there are 17 of them. They are all seeds of the teaching team. They will be responsible for training more machine gun teams in the future." The officer looked at the form in his hand and replied.

"Very good! Not bad!" Chris watched as his army was getting stronger day by day, growing at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he was in a very good mood.

He even started thinking about improving himself: "Let's go! Go to the pistol target area! I want to take two shots and practice."

No man doesn't like games like target shooting and archery. This is a man's instinctive desire, just as they like the mechanical roar of cars, the destruction of cannons, and the charm and beauty of women.

Chris is naturally unavoidable. He has experimented with cannons and fired 30mm anti-aircraft guns with his own hands. Now he has the opportunity to go to the shooting range and shoot a few shots to enjoy himself.

Standing in the shooting zone, Chris drew the pistol from his waist and aimed at the distant target. His pistol has standard 6 rounds of 9mm caliber bullets, which can accurately hit the target at a distance of about 30 meters.

He closed one eye, looked through the front sight, and saw the target in the distance. Standing with a standard pistol, he squeezed the trigger violently, and the Colt pistol in his hand immediately responded to his action: "Bah!"

Seven rings, six rings, seven rings... Chris’ marksmanship is actually not accurate. He just likes to vent the pleasure of pouring ammunition at the target, so he shoots very fast, and he quickly shoots out 6 rounds. bullet.

Without looking at his own results, Chris lowered his head and started loading his pistol, looking very professional.

Not far away, Wagron, who also came to shoot the target with a smirk, asked the officer in charge of the shooting range who came to meet him: "Your Majesty is here again?"

"Isn't it... I'm wasting bullets again..." The officer at the shooting range also had a smirk on his face, and seemed to be accustomed to his majesty who slandered himself behind his back: "Come every day..."