Yang Mingzhi was very satisfied with the adjustment of the firearm. He trusted in the squad light machine gun in his arms and even checked the two 75-round large-capacity ammunition that he was going to use.
He seemed to be ready, and one of his movements attracted the attention of Stalin, who was impatient to wait.
Yang Mingzhi took out a small wooden box from his pocket, and then took out the glasses inside.
"What's going on?!" Voroshilov noticed this detail: "Comrade Stalin, does Comrade Berekov have an eye problem?"
"He is just a little short-sighted. The living conditions in the swamp are too difficult, and his eyes are sick."
"Ah? Does he still have the guts to hold a gun with his eyes on?!" At this moment, Voroshilov was not worried. In his opinion, it was unbelievable that a machine gunner was wearing myopia glasses. Although there was no clear text
According to regulations, there are no men with glasses among machine gunners in the army.
"He is a bold man." Stalin stretched out his right arm and guessed, "I am old, and with my eyes, I cannot see the target clearly."
Following the direction of Stalin's finger, the target Voroshilov saw was also a somewhat blurry shadow. What's more, he was wearing glasses with high prescription!
Because the current focus of work is towards civilian work, Voroshilov is of course very dissatisfied. He runs from one headquarters to another. Long-term night work and getting older make his eyesight condition worse.
He suffers from presbyopia, a common problem among the elderly, and he also suffers from myopia.
An excellent hunter in his youth, Voroshilov had to serve as a bear hunter who was exiled to the forest.
"Oh! Youth is good. Maybe Belekov can see the target clearly if he puts on glasses. Even so, I guess most of the bullets shot by his new gun will not hit the target."
"Oh? Are you so sure?!" Stalin always felt that Voroshilov was deliberately making things difficult for Berekov, so he simply proposed a bet.
"Comrade Voroshilov, we can make a bet."
"Betting? Forget it, Comrade Lenin taught us to severely crack down on gambling."
"Haha, this is not a dangerous bet. How many do you think 150 rounds of bullets will hit the target?"
Voroshilov immediately understood that he had joined the Soviet Red Army during his exile and fully participated in the construction of the army after the civil war, so he knew more about light weapons than Stalin.
Voroshilov did not immediately answer Stalin's question, but supported an interesting point: "Berekov has always claimed that the effective range of his new gun is four hundred meters. According to the standards set by our country, shooting at a certain distance
For human-shaped targets, the hit rate will definitely decrease as the distance increases. When the hit rate is only 50%, it is the effective range of the firearm."
"Oh?! So that's it?!" Stalin thought it was quite refreshing.
"Yes. But I'm not optimistic about Belekov." As he said that, Voroshilov still shook his head. "We have been using ordinary rifle ammunition. The Mosin-Nagant is six hundred meters, and the Bobosha is only one."
One hundred meters. I see that Berekov’s new gun can hit a target of four hundred meters, but the hit rate is only 25% at most.”
"Don't you think so highly of him?" Stalin asked.
"Comrade, please trust my judgment." Voroshilov tightened his mouth and was very sure of his judgment.
Stalin really didn't understand the hit rate of firearms and there were a lot of tricks. He never cared about these, but he was very happy to see a firearm that could penetrate the enemy's head at a longer distance. This was a gamble with his life as a hunter when he was young.
From experience, as long as you are far enough away from the bear, you will have more shooting opportunities, and you will have time to shoot again after the first bullet misses.
"Okay! Let's make a bet. I bet on Belekov's hit rate of 50%. After the experiment, there were 75 bullet holes in the target. Or more."
"Okay, I'll bet there are less than 75 bullet holes in the target."
"What's your bet?" Stalin continued.
"This... I haven't thought about it yet. Maybe, a box of cigars that I treasure?"
"No..." Stalin smiled and shook his head, "You intend to take up the position of commander-in-chief of the guerrilla movement, but Comrade Ponomarenko has always done a good job. So, if there are less than 75 bullet holes, it will be up to you.
As the commander-in-chief of the guerrilla movement, Ponomarenko will be your assistant. If there are more than 75 bullet holes, you should not mention it to me again."
Voroshilov's heart skipped a beat, and he had no choice but to thank him: "Okay... okay."
The war gave these top Soviet officials full of opportunities to make great achievements. Even Khrushchev, a reckless man who was good at riding horses, went to Stalingrad to supervise the war.
Of course Voroshilov felt that he was much older than that guy and deserved more honors, but he always missed opportunities. In other words, there were three opportunities in front of him, but as a result, these opportunities had changed in 1941.
It became Zhukov's illustrious martial arts. Now, the former tank commander Zhukov's actual status has far surpassed his own.
The guerrilla movement in the Soviet Union is going very well now, and Voroshilov does not think it is the work of the downtrodden First Secretary of Belarus and current commander-in-chief Ponomarenko.
What did Ponomarenko do? It was just remote control from Moscow. The "Gorodnia Offensive" he personally commanded directly led to the destruction of an army with a strength of 9,000.
To be honest, if Belekov, who was lying down now, had not led the army in the swamp to fight desperately, Stalin would have kicked Ponomarenko aside.
Thinking about it this way, wouldn't it be this young man who lies down and decides on his future job changes?
Voroshilov certainly felt that he would be better able to command guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines than Ponomarenko, who was better at ideological work, and this was currently the largest military command capital he could obtain.
Voroshilov looked calm, but he was praying in his heart. As a soldier, of course he hopes that the new gun can achieve excellent results. Wouldn't it be better if the new gun could hit the target accurately at a distance of one thousand meters?
However, on October 1st, the hit rate of the new gun will never exceed 50%!
Yang Mingzhi had no idea that there was a bet behind him. Based on the professionalism of a military worker, he wished that a target would eventually have all 150 bullet holes, although this was impossible.
He is indeed very confident in his firearms, and he also understands the technical performance requirements of the Chinese army in that dimension for light machine guns. Presumably the Soviet Union in this time and space is similar.
He finally pulled the trigger.
Ta da da...ta da da...ta da...
He shoots at the target with a standard short burst, and the number of bullets fired in each burst is strictly controlled to about three. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that only veterans who have experienced many battles can operate weapons like this, even on the shooting range.
The so-called light machine gunners trained quickly and on a large scale by the Soviet Army in this time and space. They operate DP28. After aiming at the target, they often pull the trigger and never let go!
What a powerful machine gun is the DP28? Its vibration and recoil are both large. The muzzle only has a flash suppressor instead of an advanced flash suppressor. Excessive vibrations are constantly superimposed, and the hit rate is terrible. Not to mention the Soviet army's
Training is not simply about shooting at a target. In an infantry squad, the light machine gunner is the backbone of the firepower! The training for machine gunners is relatively advanced, and there must be simulated battlefield training.
The so-called simulated battlefield is nothing more than creating some apex explosions in the training ground, and soldiers firing random shots to interfere. Even so, it is very unrealistic for a new machine gunner to shoot calmly on a real battlefield without a month of rigorous training.
Yang Mingzhi showed the basic qualities of a veteran!
Stalin saw that there was not much fire coming out of the muzzle, but there was a lot of smoke and dust from the muzzle and ejection port. Belekov's arm muscles were indeed very strong. Look at this beautiful posture. The gun kept firing, and the gun
There is almost no tremor per se!
Stalin raised his telescope again and looked at the target in the distance.
I saw that the human-shaped steel plate target four hundred meters away must have been penetrated frequently.
Why? Behind the target is a large mound of soil, and there is a large pit under the mound. A soldier is lying in the pit, waiting for the shooting to end, to pick up the target and bring it to the shooting position for the shooter to check the hit status.
The mound spattered a lot of smoke and dust, and all the smoke and dust came out from a small area. Taking a closer look, Stalin felt that a large number of bullets must have penetrated the target. The smoke and dust emitted after hitting the target was excellent proof.
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"Haha! Comrade Voroshilov, it seems you are going to lose." Stalin said abruptly.
At this moment, Voroshilov was also holding a telescope. It was obviously getting colder, and there was some sweat on his forehead. It had nothing to do with the thick hat he wore today, it was just that his heart was turbulent.
It took Yang Mingzhi more than a minute to finish a bullet.
In fact, according to battlefield standards, the combat rate of fire is about 70 rounds per minute. Even in this world war, the rate is quite slow.
This situation was caused by Yang Mingzhi's simple manual control. Even if the machine gun version is not designed with a semi-automatic mode, the shooting can still be semi-automatic by pulling the trigger in only tens of milliseconds.
As for the light machine gun Yang Mingzhi is using, its barrel is the same model as the Mosin-Nagant, and its accuracy can be said to be the top level in the Soviet Union. The semi-automatic mode is forced to operate, and the accuracy of the firearm is also at its peak. After wearing the glasses, Yang Mingzhi is actually completely confident and confident.
Ability to shoot slowly and in bursts, allowing the hit rate to reach an astonishing 80% or more.
However, doing so would defeat the original purpose of using a machine gun.
It is a light machine gun. According to the current classification, it is also a kind of machine gun. Since it is a machine gun, its function is not precision strike, but fire suppression and large-scale attack in the area. In other words, the army must consider the large-scale use of the light machine gun in a limited way.
The ability to kill and deter.
Three uninterrupted bursts of fire, the vibration of the gun body was controlled by Yang Mingzhi to a small range. Each time the three bullets were fired, their space trajectories were quite close. Even if the bullets flew four hundred meters,
The spread of bullets is still within a very small range.
How small is the range? They are most likely to hit a circle with a diameter of only 60cm.
From the beginning, Yang Mingzhi's light machine gun was more like the Soviet-made RPD in that plane. Different from the RPD, Yang Mingzhi naturally made some magical changes here, especially the structure of the flame suppressor muzzle at the muzzle.
Simple small items directly improve bullet dispersion!
Of course, Yang Mingzhi just used some mathematical calculations to get an ideal result. He estimated that if he fired continuously at a target four hundred meters away in short bursts, unless the opponent was extremely lucky, three bullets would have to hit one shot.
Overall, his good math skills gave him huge benefits, and most of the bullets did hit the target.
The so-called insiders guard the door, such as Fedorov, Simonov, Tokarev and Deggarev, and even specially invited scientific researchers such as the young Kalashnikov.
After using the telescope to clearly see what happened at the target and the mound, everyone opened their mouths in surprise.
After firing a cartridge, Yang Mingzhi used the most skillful movements to remove the empty drum drum by himself, inserted a new one, pulled the charging handle skillfully, and continued to aim and shoot.
The whole process only lasted four seconds! At least Ustinov thought it was four seconds.
How astonishing is this?! Four seconds! You must know that the suppressive shooting of machine guns on the battlefield can often take five seconds between shots.
Ustinov knows this very well, so why is Voroshilov unfamiliar with it?
The speed of drum reloading was even shorter than the interval between suppressive shots, and Deggarev was deeply worried about this.
At the seminar, Berekov opened his mouth and greatly touted his new gun. Whether it was true or not, Deggarev remained skeptical until there was no shooting range display. Now, he was shocked! The light machine gun developed by himself,
When the big bullet tray runs out of bullets, it takes about ten seconds to replace it with a new one.
This time is actually not long, but its ammunition capacity is not high. Belekov's new gun has a high ammunition capacity, and the drum can be changed quickly. Besides, its shooting accuracy is also amazing.
Whether the bullet hit the target or not, Deggarev held up his telescope and came to a terrifying conclusion.
He couldn't help teasing the old Fedorov: "Teacher, I'm sure that when the target is brought back, it will be filled with bullet holes."
"Yes! I have the same feeling." Fedorov put down the telescope as he said it, and put on an expression that understood everything: "Comrade Deggarev, I'm afraid your light machine guns are about to start being decommissioned on a large scale.
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"Yes. This is the inevitable development trend of history. It depends on Comrade Stalin's decision next."
The moment he saw the dense dust, Deggarev felt that it was time for him to develop a new light machine gun. The famous dp28 was already outdated.
The war gave birth to a variety of new killer monsters, and Berekov's new gun is one of them.
It has high accuracy, stable shooting, large ammunition capacity, fast reloading speed, weak gun flame, and small vibration. Deggarev summarized these six advantages of the new gun. If he had to name a shortcoming, the only one he could think of was
It is impossible for the shooter to know how many bullets are left in the cartridge when shooting.