"How fast does a machine gun fire? Soldiers have always complained that our machine guns fire too slowly. There is also the heavy disc. The gun body and the bullet disc weigh more than 20 kilograms when they are buckled together! So soldiers usually carry the two separately.
Put it together and assemble it immediately before the battle.? "
After hearing what he said, Yang Mingzhi burst into laughter: "I'm not talking about the DP machine gun! It's the German one!"
"Germany? mg34? There are also a small number of mg13 in these seized firearms. Fortunately, they use the same bullets as the former, so they can be used universally. As for shooting, are the Germans mentally ill? Shooting is too crazy."
"That's right! They are mentally ill, because the mg34 can be used as an anti-aircraft machine gun! But it is used to kill people. It is simply inhumane. It shoots twice as fast as our water-cooled Maxim gun. It can shoot a thousand fires a minute.
two hundred."
"But in actual combat, soldiers would not shoot wildly. They would fire continuously, which would not be very fast," Liguschkov said.
Yang Mingzhi smiled bitterly and shook his head, because actual combat proved that most soldiers have not mastered the correct use of this weapon. In this battle, due to the abundant ammunition and large number of machine guns seized, and the long-term use of Soviet-made machine guns,
As usual, the enemy's fierce offensive forced Soviet soldiers to temporarily pick up German weapons. As a result, some people held down the trigger and refused to let go until the barrel deformed and could no longer fire.
General-purpose machine guns such as mg34 are used on a large scale, and their firepower has reached its peak, but soldiers often pull the trigger for too long. Even veteran machine gunners have difficulty controlling its rhythm. After all, they used to use .75 bullets for slow-shooting DP machine guns.
It can be fired within five seconds, the bullet chain has a longer firing time, and the 300 bullets are exhausted within ten seconds.
What consumes more than the bullets is the barrel. As the processing technology of the barrel of the early general-purpose machine gun was poor, the high rate of fire forced the barrel to heat up rapidly. Even though the barrel was on fire, some soldiers were still shooting, causing the accuracy to drop.
It has reached the level of a musket, or the gas conduction fails directly.
Yang Mingzhi told Liguschkov some of these matters, and this person also knew some of them.
Yang Mingzhi scratched his head: "Now you know the reason for my sigh! As you just said, we don't have many original 7.62mm ammunition left, but Germany's 7.92mm ammunition is very abundant. At present, as the division headquarters, I can't report it to you.
The soldiers promised that their superiors would send transport planes to airdrop the ammunition we need most. They might do it, but we must make adjustments. Yesterday, Roshakov's men changed their weapons under our orders, and they had a lot of them.
Mosin Nagants with damaged rifling will be sent over soon. In future battles, we can only use a large number of German weapons, and our tactics must also be adjusted."
Liguschkov understood, nodded and asked: "Deputy division commander, you are always wise, have you thought of some corresponding strategies now?"
"Yes! To deal with the excessive consumption of ammunition, you need to increase both revenue and expenditure. To increase revenue is to improve the efficiency of bullet reloading by your workers, and to reduce expenditure is to find ways to modify the firearms."
"Modify the gun?" Liguschkov looked at the officer. When it came to modifying firearms, he was already nicknamed the "factory director." The first thing he did when he came from China was to repair guns in the military camp.
"Yes, it is time to change the gun. The mg34 fires 12oo per minute, which is too fast! First of all, it destroys the barrel, and secondly, the soldiers need training. They cannot quickly change the barrel and shoot with the machine gun. A good machine gun can be refurbished very quickly.
The solution is to surrender. This is one of the things I came to see you for today." As he said that, Yang Mingzhi took out the memo, and Liguschkov glanced at it. There were strange symbols drawn on it.
, he estimated that this should be.
There were several items in the document. It seemed that the commander was well prepared this time. He asked: "Deputy division commander, the warehouse is like this. There is not much inventory in the place that was originally full. It will be filled with ammunition again in the future. The earliest is tomorrow.
, the shell embryos cast by the resumption of work in the blast furnace can begin to be loaded. Since we have something to discuss, let’s go to the office.”
Yang Mingzhi looked around again and said, "Okay, you can lead the way, and my people and I will go talk to you about business."
Regarding the issue of shooting modification of mg34, ordinary people would think of adjusting the air flow valve to reduce the pressure of the gas guide to reduce the shooting. However, mg34 has a retreat-type structure, and the recoil of shooting causes the barrel and bolt to retreat at the same time, so the air flow valve does not exist at all.
After a little research, Yang Mingzhi discovered the correct way to modify it.
When he arrived at the office, he cheered up several followers in the design department. Then he straight to the point said to Liguschkov: "The reason why the German general-purpose machine gun shoots fast is due to its structure. Our DP machine gun and the captured
All ZB26s are gas-guided, but this mg34 is of the retractable type. It relies on the recoil of gunpowder gas for bullet recoil, impact and ejection. The greater the recoil, the faster it shoots. Look at its muzzle structure.
A muzzle assist was also added.”
Speaking of which, Liguschkov never paid attention to this, "I thought the Germans used a muzzle depressor. The recoil of this weapon was strong, and the soldiers complained. I thought the muzzle device had greatly reduced the recoil."
, I didn’t expect it to increase this power.”
"Yes! It is this device that greatly increases the recoil force, so that the spring can be pressed to the bottom in a shorter time to complete the ejection and loading action, and the shot will naturally be higher. The solution is very simple, which is to modify this device. It adds gunpowder
The air is pushing backward, so we let it move forward."
Liguschkov slapped his thigh, "Now I understand everything! Just remove the recoil suppressor, make our own recoil suppressor and put it on. This way the shot will be reduced a lot."
"How much reduction is needed still requires experimentation." Yang Mingzhi turned around and said to the people in the design department: "Your current task is this, study the mg34, design a muzzle suppressor that can be installed and used, and it also has the function of eliminating the
With the flame function, I want to see the finished product in the shortest possible time.”
"Promise to complete the mission." Several people stood at attention and saluted.
Yang Mingzhi turned around with satisfaction, "You have seen it, there are Communist Youth League members and college students among these people. Liguschkov, it is not difficult to produce a receding aid. If possible, can you produce a spring?"
Spring? This person is a little confused. "Springs are relatively advanced and the processing technology is complicated. I can produce carbon spring steel, but it requires professional machines for processing. I'm afraid you are not the most aware of this. If this small arsenal can
By raising the spring, the problem with the tail section of our rocket-propelled grenade has been easily solved!"
After thinking for a moment that this was really the case, Yang Mingzhi scratched his head in joy.
"Okay, I will arrange for my people to design immediately and get the process drawings to you as soon as possible. After entering the swamp, the total number of our army's equipment and the latest captured German general machine guns is close to 700. Once the experiment meets the standards, I will
I want to completely change the uniforms of the entire army."
This is a relatively large project, but if done well it can save a lot of bullets.
After Yang Mingzhi explained everything to the design department, they left immediately, but he had no intention of leaving.
Liguschkov saw that this person's memorandum was densely written, and he was already mentally prepared to deal with various new problems. He said slowly: "Sir, they have all left, and there are only two of us in this office now.
If there is anything else you want me to do, just give me your orders. As long as you have a theoretical foundation, I will get started."