Rise From Eight Hundred

The total length of the heavy machine gun on the drawing is as high as 1625mm, the barrel length alone reaches 1070MM, the designed gun body mass reaches 33.5KG, and the weight of the wheeled gun frame is as high as 102KG, not counting the weight of the steel shield.

Faced with such a heavy machine gun, Grunov's previous evaluation of the big guy couldn't be more accurate.

Such a large size and weight are actually extremely disadvantageous for an infantry battalion-level support firepower. Once the firepower is exposed, the possibility of being destroyed by enemy artillery fire is extremely high.

But the big guy's next various parameter designs made Grunov's eyes gradually become serious.

'Caliber 12.7 mm, bullet muzzle velocity 850M/S, maximum range 5400M, maximum air shooting height 2500M, theoretical rate of fire 600 rounds/min, combat rate of fire 125 rounds/min, direction of fire: 360 degrees for high fire, 120 degrees for horizontal fire, Armor-piercing bombs, armor-piercing incendiary bombs, and ordinary bombs can be used. ’

All techniques are futile in the face of absolute power! At this moment, Grunov actually thought of such a sentence.

Because this was the impact this large-caliber heavy machine gun gave him.

This is not only a heavy machine gun that can be used to provide support firepower to infantry, it can even be used to shoot at lightly armored targets, and can also be used for low-altitude defense. It is an absolutely versatile heavy machine gun.

Yes, this machine gun is the famous DSHKM heavy machine gun produced by the fighting nation.

The predecessor of this machine gun, the DSHK heavy machine gun, proved its strength in the second world. The ultra-long barrel gave it powerful armor-breaking capabilities, enough to penetrate 15MM thick steel plates at a distance of 500 meters and ordinary sandbag fortifications. It's like a paper lake in front of its bullets.

However, with such a strong armor-piercing ability, it also possesses an extremely high rate of fire, so that once a fighter jet passing over its head at low altitude is shot by it, the aircraft will suffer heavy damage.

The war-type technology tree of the fighting nation is generally a bit outrageous, and this heavy machine gun is no exception. The excessive weight and overly complex design are the shortcomings of this machine gun, but its huge power also makes the enemy tremble.

Tang Dao took into account that the Japanese army had sufficient air superiority. Whenever they engaged in large-scale offensive and defensive battles with Japanese infantry, the Japanese fighter fleet would drop heavy aerial bombs. If there were not enough preparations to dig a large number of anti-gun holes, the casualties would be heavy.

The 200-kilogram weight of the Oerlikon 20mm cannon currently equipped in large quantities by the Fourth Line Regiment is destined to be insufficient in maneuverability. If the entire Fourth Line Regiment is dispatched, it can also provide air defense cover for the entire regiment, but if the infantry What about battalion-level battles? How can the anti-aircraft company follow the infantry battalion at all times?

A large-caliber heavy machine gun that can break armor and simple fortifications and has low-altitude defense functions is an urgently needed tactical weapon and equipment for the Four Lines Regiment. This heavy machine gun developed by the Fighting Nation is extremely suitable for the current combat needs of the Four Lines Regiment.

The ability to break 15MM of armor within a distance of 500 meters is completely sufficient. The armor thickness of the Type 94 light tanks heavily equipped by the Japanese North China Front tank squadron is only 10MM. If the two sides are shooting at each other, they will use the 7.7mm heavy machine gun mounted on the Type 94 tank. , is really no match for this 12.7mm heavy machine gun.

Moreover, regardless of the total weight of 100 kilograms with the wheeled gun stand, if it is replaced with an anti-aircraft gun stand or a tripod, the total weight will not exceed 60 kilograms, and it is completely feasible to transport it by packhorse or even manpower.

Tang Dao has secretly made a plan. If the underground arsenal that has invested huge amounts of money can imitate this heavy machine gun, then each infantry battalion will be equipped with 9 of them, which can not only provide fire support to the infantry company, but also have air defense functions. .

Not only can the infantry battalion use it, Cheng Tieshou's anti-aircraft company will eliminate all Oerlikon machine guns, and an entire machine gun platoon will be replaced with Suloton twin-mounted machine guns purchased from Krupp this time. The other two All platoons were equipped with this 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine gun.

Of course, it's slightly different from what the infantry battalion uses. In the future, this machine gun will be magically modified again...

For example, double-mounted type, or quadruple-mounted type!

Tang Dao had witnessed with his own eyes the moment when the quadruple-mounted heavy machine gun developed by a war-torn country spit out four tongues of flame, the American cowboy's Apache helicopter gunship that was racing at high speed in the valley was shot straight into a honeycomb.

As for the thin skin of the Type 96 fighter currently equipped by the Japanese army, it can only be said to be nothing in the face of a quadruple machine gun firing hundreds of bullets at full speed.

"This heavy machine gun can not only support ground firepower, but also defend low altitudes. It is a very comprehensive tactical machine gun!" Grunov said in amazement. "I'm really looking forward to the moment I meet that talented designer you mentioned."

"I have also mentioned your name to her, Doctor, and she is also looking forward to it. In fact, if it were not for the war, she would have arrived at the Royal Academy of Heidelberg to start her doctoral studies by now." Tang Dao secretly smiled and continued. Dan.

If he knew that the piracy boss was in front of him, he wouldn't know what his expression would be like.

Of course, the most important reason why Tang Dao was so confused was that he believed that Teacher Xiao He would never expose his lies.

Following the Four Lines Group, they saw the miserable state of their compatriots struggling in the flames of war. Teacher Xiao He, who had already turned "black", was running wildly on the road of designing various firearms. As long as she could kill the Japanese, she didn't care. The blueprint of how Tang Dao came to be.

"No wonder!" When Grunov heard the name of this academy, he believed 99% of Tang Dao's nonsense.

Heidelberg Royal Academy is one of the top academies in the German Empire, and its Institute of Nuclear Physics is the jewel in the crown.

Countless German elites want to study there but cannot. For a Chinese to be admitted to study for a doctorate there, one can imagine how excellent he is. In comparison, it is normal that these two extremely excellent gun designs come from such a genius.

With this psychological expectation, the third drawing did not surprise him too much.

It was a small-caliber mortar with a caliber of 60 mm, which was 10 mm larger than the caliber of the 50 mm grenade launcher currently used by the Japanese army as the main equipment for the front-line infantry squad.

This time, Tang Dao did not pirate the fighting nation, but pirated the future China, the famous 63-60 mortar.

For this engineer from the German Empire, the 60MM caliber small cannon has no appeal at all. The 75mm mountain cannon of the German Empire Army is equipped to the infantry regiment level in large quantities. An infantry regiment has 12 mountain cannons, and the infantry battalion is also equipped with a larger caliber mortar. Once the front-line infantry encounters obstacles, they will call for the regiment and battalion artillery to attack the target. Basically, the prototype of modern warfare has been formed.

But on the Chinese battlefield, a second-rate military power is against an army that is basically not in the mainstream and basically relies on the number of people. Small-caliber artillery is very important for front-line infantry.

In the past, until the fifth year after the start of the Patriotic War, China, which finally imitated the Brand 60 mortar successfully, began to mass-produce what was later called the Type 31 60 cannon. Until the end of the war, a total of more than 30,000 guns were manufactured, and more than 4 million rounds of artillery shells were manufactured. The characteristics of relying on quantity without quality were fully utilized, and naturally made great contributions to winning the final victory of the war.

According to statistics, nearly 100,000 Japanese soldiers died under the artillery fire of large and small caliber mortars equipped by the Chinese army.

During the entire war, the number of Japanese infantrymen who died or went missing on the Chinese battlefield was only 400,000.

The mortar is the strongest weapon of the Chinese military and civilians in the war of resistance, without a doubt.

Moreover, this may be the only equipment in China that exceeds the same caliber artillery equipped by the Japanese army in terms of artillery performance and power.

Although the maximum range of the Type 60 mortar of the Civilian Type 31 is only 1,000 meters, the 1.3KG shell charge far exceeds the Japanese 50mm grenade launcher. As platoon-level support firepower, when the two meet, the former almost crushes the grenade launcher.

The Type 63 mortar developed based on the Type 31 has an overall barrel length of 618MM and an overall gun weight of 12.5 kg. It can be carried by one soldier, and its mobility is no less than that of the grenade launcher.

But the power is much greater than its basic model, with a maximum range of 1,400 meters and a minimum range of 70 meters. The standard anti-personnel grenade used weighs 1.33KG and can be loaded with 0.11KG of explosives. The effective killing radius of shrapnel can reach 10.2M, which is several times the killing area of ​​Japanese grenade launchers.

The 63-type 60 mortar has another feature. Its maximum rate of fire can reach 30 rounds per minute, which means that a skilled shooter can fire at a rate of 2 seconds per round. As long as a 3-mortar artillery squad is sufficient, it only takes one minute, and 90 shells of covering artillery fire can create a death zone in front of a 200-300-meter defense line of an infantry platoon.

If the enemy does not charge, it will be fine. Once it charges, it will encounter a storm-like attack from this small-caliber artillery, which is much more terrible than a rain of pear blossom needles.

Moreover, the Type 63 60 mortar is also equipped with an optical sight, and the mirror body has a direction screw and a scale screw, which is enough for the shooter to send the shells to a kilometer away more accurately, which is much stronger than the grenade launcher used by the Japanese, which relies entirely on the long-term practical experience of the grenade launcher to control the accuracy.

Especially in mountain warfare with complex terrain, the Type 63 60 mortar, which weighs only 12.5 kilograms, is both flexible and not picky about the launch site. It is simply an excellent mountain warfare weapon. Even in the future southwest jungle counterattack, the company-level infantry responsible for infiltrating the enemy's rear carried this small cannon and played a great role.

With the design drawings, with the industrial level of the German Empire, even if this artillery design comes from 20 years later, it is not too difficult to manufacture it. Tang Dao has also been planned. This small-caliber mortar will be the top priority equipment manufactured by this underground secret arsenal.

At that time, this batch of 60MM small-caliber artillery will be sold to all Chinese armies as products of the Dakouzidong Military Factory. Not only will the price be low, but it can also be offset by various materials, even shells.

Even after paying a certain fee, Tang Dao can also provide drawings for various military factories under government control to imitate.

At that time, the 60MM mortar will enter the battlefield 4 years in advance. It may still not affect the victory of this war, but it will definitely cause greater casualties to the Japanese infantry.

Especially for the 80th Army, which is infiltrating behind the Japanese defense line in large numbers, if those company-level elites are all carrying 60 mortars, with sufficient firepower support, they can always give the Japanese who dare to leave the city a blow based on the terrain. Without sufficient troops and infantry artillery, the Japanese troops below the infantry squadron level will be unsafe when entering the countryside.

As for the "cage policy" that Xiaogangcun, who served as the commander of the Japanese North China Front Army three years later, racked his brains to squeeze the living space of the 80th Army. He used trenches as lines and bunkers as points, and killed ordinary people to create an artificial no-man's land. In the early stage, he dealt a heavy blow to the 80th Army in the guerrilla warfare mode. That was purely bullying the 80th Army that did not have a direct-fire weapon with enough power.

There is no need to wait for three years. With Grunov, a real gun designer and German Seiko, the heavy machine gun pirated from the fighting nation must have come out.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this small version of the "machine gun" is actually prepared by Tang Dao for all Chinese troops who will start guerrilla warfare in the future.

If the penetration power that can break 15MM steel plates within 500 meters is close to 200 meters, how strong must the Japanese bunkers be to block the crazy shooting of such heavy machine guns?

Even if it can, Tang Dao has not yet taken out the drawings, but there is a thing called 40 fire in the future.

The reason why it has not been taken out yet is that Tang Dao is also worried that the Germans will leak the secret and develop this weapon before the war to change history. If possible, this epoch-making weapon that can change the pattern of tanks dominating the land battlefield is best left to Xiao He and his team to develop independently.

Anyway, unless it is poured with half a meter thick concrete, any bunker will become a vain in front of 40 fire.

"I am Tang Dao, currently the colonel infantry regiment commander, on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the Second Theater of War in China, welcome Dr. Grunov to join you!" Tang Dao solemnly extended his hand to Grunov after Grunov carefully looked through the design drawings of the three weapons.

After hesitating for about ten seconds, Grunov extended his hand and shook it with Tang Dao: "Colonel Tang, is this considered forced conscription?"

Tang Dao's meaning is very clear. If he agrees, except for not being included in the establishment and not being awarded a military rank, he is almost a member of the Chinese army, and has nothing to do with Krupp Company. All his previous promises will definitely be fulfilled.

This is a combination of the toughness that is unique to soldiers and the honesty that is sufficient. Tang Dao hopes to have an engineer subordinate with sufficient talent, but he does not want this foreign engineer to play both sides, earning money that belongs to the Chinese and thinking about doing things for his own country.

Don’t the Chinese have a saying! It is better to say the ugly words first than to be ambiguous and finally tear each other apart because of different ideas.

After serious consideration, Grunov did not disappoint Tang Dao, and even expressed his response to Tang Dao’s slightly tough attitude in a very rare humorous way.

Obviously, this man who is not disliked by the experts of Krupp does not mean that he has low emotional intelligence. It is just that his metal stamping design concept is too advanced and difficult for mediocre people to accept.

Of course, the appearance of the MG42 machine gun that will shine in the future is indeed too shabby. In the words of Western weapon experts, it is "broken copper and rotten iron". Even the military design of the fighting nation, which tends to be "big and clumsy" but extremely durable, is much more beautiful than that.

"Haha! Dr. Ge is joking, but when the day comes that China wins the Patriotic War, our Chinese nation will never forget the help that international friends have given to China, and I believe that Dr. Ge and Mr. Rostav will not regret their choice today." Tang Dao laughed and replied meaningfully.

Except for Tang Dao, no one in this era would know that the German Empire, which had been dormant for more than ten years, would eventually fail again, and all those who had served the war would be liquidated.

People like Grunov and Rostav, who are somewhat famous, should not even think of running away. It might be better to fall into the hands of American cowboys who make money from war. As long as they serve them, elite talents like Grunov will not say that there is no war crime, even if there is, it is innocent. But if they fall into the hands of the fighting nation eager for revenge, it is likely to be shot. For the fighting nation, the designer of the MG42 machine gun who has caused them a lot of casualties is more damning than the cold machine gun shooter.

If they stay in China, they will not only not be convicted of war crimes for participating in the war of aggression, but they will even be awarded medals for supporting the Chinese army.

As for who is just and who is unjust, does it really matter? Wars between countries have always been governed by the law of the jungle.

Just like the Sino-Japanese War, it was because the elephant China was weak that the jackals dared to stretch out their claws and fangs. When the elephant recovered, the jackals dared not even howl and could only stay away with their tails between their legs.

Of course, Tang Dao knew that after this battle, the Chinese people would be more vigilant about the jackals beside them in the future, and they might smash the jackals' heads with a hammer one day in the future.

If they were beaten back to the Stone Age, the scene of a group of dwarfs dancing around a fire in fur skirts must be the most popular scene for the Chinese people.