Iron Dynasty

The night was silent, only the flames flickered.

Pang Duo looked at the stars in the prairie sky with a worried expression. He said to the two of them, Look at this beautiful prairie starry sky. It would be a pity to lose them.

Bach, the flag leader of the Tumu tribe, and Wotai, the leader of the Iron Curtain tribe, followed Pang Duo's gaze at the same time. The two looked at each other with a firm look. Bach said: Because of this, we cannot lose these grasslands, even if the battle reaches Last man, we want to keep our land.

That's right, the Great Yu Kingdom has already taken away our Guandong, and now we want to take away our pastures, where can we retreat again, this war is the life and death of our Golden Horde Khanate and the Great Yu Kingdom. War, every man on the grassland should be guarded with blood.

Pang Duo nodded in admiration. He raised the wine glass in his hand and said, The war is about to break out. I only hope that the two of you can work together. When the troops of Tian Khan arrive, we can join forces to destroy the army of the Great Yu Kingdom.

Well, the leader of Pangduo has always been resourceful, this time we will listen to you. Bach and Wotai said in unison.

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Qingzhou.

Xiao Ming is watching the new weapons made by Song Changping on the school grounds of the military factory.

After the official announcement of the title of the Chinese Empire, Song Changping found him and said that it was a gift to the Chinese Empire.

According to the structural drawings provided by the emperor, after many tests, the next officer can guarantee that this machine gun can be officially put into use. Song Changping said, pointing to the firearm in front of him.

Different from the rifle in the traditional sense, the structure of the firearm in Song Changping's mouth is very strange. In short, this firearm has a wheeled base similar to a field gun, and there is a ring of iron on the barrel, which makes the barrel look very thick.

So how many bullets can this gun shoot per minute? What's the caliber? Xiao Ming's eyes were shining brightly. He was worried about the war in the Northern Expedition for the past two days. He didn't expect Song Changping to give him a big gift.

After the metal bullet was officially put into production, he asked Song Changping to develop the cavalry's nemesis machine gun, and the gun drawings he gave Song Changping were based on the Mark Qin machine gun.

Because this heavy machine gun invented in 1883 can be produced with the current industrial capacity of Qingzhou, after all, he has solved the problem of metal bullets, which means that bullets are not a problem. The iron and steel industry has been making progress, and the barrel material chrome alloy has been researched. With the specific ratio provided by him, although the current barrel material is not as good as modern times, the Maxim machine gun born in the 19th century is sufficient.

Your Majesty, this machine gun can shoot about 600 rounds of bullets per minute. The caliber is the same as the rifle bullets we are using now. They are all 7.92mm. This is to avoid adding more bullet production lines. Song Changping said.

Xiao Ming nodded. The original caliber of the Mark Qin machine gun is 11.43mm, but this is not the only caliber standard for machine guns. Now Song Changping has changed the caliber of the machine gun to 7.92mm. It can only be said that this machine gun cannot be called a heavy machine gun. It is called a general-purpose machine gun, and the caliber of this machine gun belongs to the medium caliber.

Xiao Ming is very satisfied with Song Changping's choice, which shows that Song Changping has his own thinking and does not blindly follow the drawings.

You did a good job. This way, this machine gun can use normal rifle bullets to fight. Xiao Ming said with a smile.

Then he walked to the side of the machine gun and took a closer look.

Similar to the Mark Qin machine gun in memory, Song Changping also uses water cooling to cool the barrel, so the barrel of the machine gun is covered with a layer of something similar to the barrel, which is actually water.

For this machine gun, the biggest problem that Song Changping has solved is the automation of the machine gun, which requires the use of bullet gas as a kinetic energy to complete the unlocking, shelling, feeding, and relocking of the gun.

Your Majesty, the structure of this machine gun is much more complicated than that of a Chinese-style rifle. The base of this machine gun can be said to be a small machine. It uses cranks, rollers, and acceleration cams. The principle is somewhat similar to that of a steam engine, but a steam engine Using steam, this machine gun reloads automatically on the gas of the bullet.

While talking, Song Changping pointed to the button behind the machine gun and said: Your Majesty, as long as you press this button to release the sear, the hammer will hit the firing pin to fire the primer and fire the bullet. The thrust of the gunpowder gas pushes the bolt back to overwhelm the hammer while firing the stinger to hold the hammer. At the same time, the pull wheel rotates and pulls the teeth to draw out new bullets. After the recoil is completed, the bolt moves forward under the thrust of the recoil spring to send new bullets into the barrel to complete the locking. If the sear is released at this time, the hammer will always hang on the hammer and cannot be fired. The stinger releases the hammer and fires it again and again, that's what machine guns are all about.

Hearing this, Xiao Ming nodded with satisfaction. From this, it was enough to see that Song Changping had thoroughly understood the principle of the Mark Qin machine gun.

But now this machine gun is based on Mark Qin, but it is different from Mark Qin, so he said to Song Changping: It seems that you really understand the principle of firearms. In recognition of you, this machine gun is named as Long flat machine gun.

Song Changping was stunned for a moment, and then his face flushed with excitement. For a person who has been immersed in firearms all day, there is nothing more glorious than this.

Your Majesty, is it true? It's just that a subordinate officer deserves the name of this machine gun. Song Changping's heart was up and down.

This machine gun is originally from your hands, and it is reasonable to name it after you. Besides, the appearance of this machine gun means a major breakthrough in the weaponry of our Chinese family. I also hope that there will be more firearms from the future. Your hand. Xiao Ming smiled.

The Chinese family? Song Changping was startled again.

With a faint smile on the corner of Xiao Ming's mouth, he said: Country, country, there is a country before a family, and a family has a country, the Chinese empire, the Chinese family, one meaning.

Song Changping smiled knowingly, he bowed and said: The emperor said very well, now the emperor is the head of this family, and we are all members of this family.

After a few jokes, Xiao Ming brought the topic to the Changping machine gun again. He said, By the way, I haven't seen the power of this machine gun yet?

Song Changping came back to his senses, and he immediately called the workers of the two arms factories and said, Now you can demonstrate to the emperor.

His voice continued, and two strong workers quickly came to the machine gun. One worker held the gun with both hands, and the other worker put the bullets connected by canvas into the barrel of the gun.