In addition to the elite teaching team, Chris has not relaxed his development and production of weapons in the past two months.
The Maxim heavy machine gun using 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 was worried about has also been improved as the number of bullet factories has gradually increased. Recently, the industrial production speed of Eiland Hill has been at least a hundred times faster than before.
Yes, starting something from scratch is actually the most difficult process. Once more machinery is added and the parts needed for the equipment begin to be mass-produced, the expansion speed of the factory will skyrocket.
The first lathe uses manual filing to assemble the parts, which is of course slow. The second lathe can use the first lathe to process prototypes, and then simply polish and shape them by hand, which is naturally much faster.
By the time the third and fourth machines were built, the workers had become proficient, and the machine's processing speed had doubled, so the speed at which these devices were produced was even faster.
After more than a year of accumulation, Alan Hill, who is in the second year of industrialization, has reached a certain level of familiarity with machinery, so Chris can just let go of many things as long as he takes out the drawings.
In fact, not everything is perfect, because electricity is still not widely available in Elland Hill. Although thermal power plants have been established, the electricity that can be generated is basically provided to factories that continue to expand in scale.
Even the castle where Chris is located, his base camp, still uses poor candles and "horse lanterns". Although horse lanterns are convenient, Chris usually doesn't use kerosene because of the need to use kerosene.
Willing to use it.
After all, even kerosene is a material with insufficient production. Compared with China during the Anti-Japanese War, the situation in Ireland is not much better.
Although the progress in chemistry has been huge, many things still stagnate due to raw materials.
In order to meet the demand for farming next year, Chris arranged in advance for some small chemical plants to start producing fertilizers. This is the basis of Chris's "national wealth". Without food, everything is a mirror image.
He followed China's previous industrialization path and built five local small enterprises, that is, small fertilizer plants, small power plants and other factories. They did not seek advanced technology, but only sought to meet local needs.
With the support of these small factories, Chris has cultivated a large number of "capitalists", and these capitalists will work hard to learn new technologies after making profits and become staunch supporters of Chris's technological expansion.
They can study, read and write, and have a cultural foundation. After making money, they still have the brains and desire to protect their property and status. With these people, Chris can improve the quality of the population on a large scale and have more people.
Many qualified workers and technicians.
When the quality of the population improves to a certain level, the quality of the soldiers will improve dramatically. At that time, more armies can be expanded to sweep the world for Elanhir.
Chris, who originally wanted to directly mass-produce the mg42 machine gun, finally compromised with reality. The replacement of the barrel and the ultra-high rate of fire made the mg42 a bullet supply nightmare.
So he could only produce Maxim heavy machine guns honestly first and use water cooling to save more resources.
As a result, the heavy machine guns produced were also heavy weapons with wheels, requiring horses to drag them, and several soldiers to serve them. They were as valuable as a small cannon.
However, after seeing the power of the Maxim heavy machine gun, both Wageron and Modell felt that this weapon was a good thing, and they all hoped to be equipped with more machine guns and more ammunition as soon as possible.
The heavy machine gun towed by horses is not completely without benefits. One of the benefits is that the heavy machine gun has a shield, and the shooter's safety is better guaranteed.
The second advantage is that this machine gun has a multi-purpose launch bracket that can fire into the air immediately. The emergence of heavy machine guns gives infantry a heavy anti-aircraft firepower that is better than nothing.
As for how many heavy machine guns each infantry company should be equipped with, it became the trigger of the world war between military commanders and the industrial sector.
Wageron, Modler and others naturally believe that a company should be equipped with as many heavy machine guns as possible. If possible, it is entirely possible to establish a full-heavy machine gun company.
Minister Smith, Gurlo and others complained to Chris about the lack of 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 squander freely.
Woolen cloth.
Therefore, after balancing with Chris, it was temporarily decided that an infantry company should be equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns. As for whether to change it in the future, it will be decided based on future conditions.
Along with the heavy machine gun, there is also a sharp weapon for reconnaissance. Chris invented the telescope early and recently it was finally put into mass production.
The latest binoculars are very convenient and are extremely popular high-end military equipment. Because of the production factory, Ireland's troops are now equipped with the equipment.
In addition, some special forces are also equipped with telescopes, such as corrective shooting observers of artillery units, anti-aircraft artillery units for air security, and heavy machine gun teams.
The reason why they are all equipped with telescopes is because these troops need a very long observation distance to be able to fight better.
"Thud! Thud!" On the hillside, the newly formed heavy machine gun team was training to fire and shoot with their weapons. Because tracer bullets had not been developed, their ballistic corrections relied entirely on the shooter's feeling.
Next to the machine gun, the commander knelt on the ground holding a telescope and loudly reminded his shooter: "The target is not covered! The elevation angle is increased by one ruler!"
The deputy lying next to the shooter immediately pulled out a fixed tenon stuck on the machine gun's scale. The shooter pressed the gun body down slightly to raise the muzzle a little higher. Then the deputy inserted the tenon again.
Returned to the fixed point on the ruler.
"Thud! Thud!" The second round of shooting started immediately after the adjustment, and another row of bullets flew towards the target and landed in the target area in the distance.
The commander holding the telescope cheered loudly, because he saw inside the telescope, in the target area a thousand meters away, a cloud of white smoke was shot out by the bullet.
"Hit the target! Nice shot!" He cheered loudly and encouraged his comrades: "Get ready to move positions! Go to the next launch position!"
The two soldiers who had been lying behind immediately got up. One of them took the horse, and the other stepped forward to help pull the two heavy wooden wheels of the heavy machine gun out of the dug fixed pit.
Even the ammunition plus special brackets, as well as wheels and shields, plus the machine gun itself and the water in the water pipe on the barrel... This Maxim is not light and requires the efforts of many people to move the position.
The four people scrambled to hang the machine gun on the back of the war horse, and the groom urged the war horse towards the next firing position. According to regulations, these soldiers should be equipped with revolvers for self-defense, but now their waists
On the armed belt in the room, there was only an empty pistol holster.
All weapons must be produced bit by bit and equipped bit by bit for the troops: Didn’t you see that many second-line troops still use wooden counterweight models for training machine gun teams?
"This machine gun team is not bad." Chris looked at the machine gun team rushing to the next firing position and said with satisfaction to the officer behind him: "How many such teams do we have now?"
"Almost, there are 17 of them. They are all the seeds of the teaching group and 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 was in a very good mood as he saw that his army was getting stronger day by day and developing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He even had the idea of improving himself: "Let's go! Go to the pistol range! I want to shoot a few shots to practice."
There is no man who doesn’t like games like target shooting and archery. This is a man’s instinctive desire, just like they like the mechanical roar of cars, the destruction of cannons, and the charm and beauty of women.
Chris is naturally not immune to the vulgarity. He once experimented with cannons and personally fired a 30mm anti-aircraft gun. Now he has the opportunity and often goes to the shooting range to shoot a few shots to enjoy himself.
Standing in the shooting area, Chris pulled out the pistol from his waist and aimed at the target in the distance. His pistol contained 6 rounds of standard 9 mm caliber bullets, which could accurately hit the target at a distance of about 30 meters.
He closed one eye, looked through the crosshair, and saw the target in the distance. Using a standard pistol stance, he suddenly pulled the trigger, and the Colt pistol in his hand immediately responded to his action: "Bang."
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Seven rings, six rings, seven rings... Chris's shooting skills are actually not accurate. He just likes to vent and enjoys the pleasure of pouring ammunition into the target, so he fires very fast and quickly fired all 6 rounds.
bullet.
Without looking at his own results, Chris lowered his head and started loading his pistol, looking very professional.
Not far away, Wageron, who also came to shoot targets, had a wicked smile on his face and asked the officer in charge of the shooting range who came to greet him: "Your Majesty is here again?"
"Isn't it...I'm wasting bullets again..." The officer at the shooting range also had a bad smile on his face, as if he was used to His Majesty slandering him behind his back: "I come here every day..."
