Valley Emperor

The particularity of the Guards makes them not short of military expenditures, and can purchase and equip a large number of advanced weapons, such as cable, radio, airships, relatively shooting balloons and many large-caliber artillery.

And now, the Guards are starting to purchase heavy machine guns again.

After deciding to equip the heavy machine gun, the research department of the Royal Institute of Technology authorized the patent of the heavy machine gun to the three major weapons companies. As for the subsequent production, it has nothing to do with the Royal Institute of Technology.

After the three major weapon companies of the empire were authorized, they organized production and started to win orders from the military. Although the military has decided to equip heavy machine guns, how much equipment is required and how much time is divided into equipment. At the same time, the most critical It is uncertain which arms company to purchase these from.

Now the three major weapons companies want to grab more market share in this new weapon.

It is not so easy to win orders. The heavy machine gun developed by the Royal Institute of Technology is only a prototype machine gun. If the military purchases it in the future, it will definitely put forward some detailed requirements of its own to match it.

At present, the heavy machine guns required by the military are not one, but several.

For example, when equipping infantry units, as battalion-level support firepower, these heavy machine guns are required to be light in weight and easy to maneuver.

Secondly, it is equipped on cars or armored vehicles. This is specially prepared for the experimental mechanized troops of the Army. It is required to be directly mounted on cars and armored vehicles, and it can also be removed for use when necessary.

Others are equipped on ships. Compared with land use, they require larger calibers, longer effective ranges, and higher accuracy.

The design departments of the three major weapons companies will design detailed models that better meet the needs of the military based on the technical information and patent authorization provided by the Royal Institute of Technology.

The first to launch a specific model was the Northern Arms Company. They directly used the prototype machine gun of the Royal Institute of Technology, with four different gun mounts, including wheeled gun mounts, triangular gun mounts, wheeled gun mounts with shields, fixed on Fixed gun mounts on cars or boats. Although these four types of gun mounts are different, the machine guns used on them are all the same, and the gun mounts can be replaced by themselves.

And quickly gained the approval of the military.

The other three major weapon companies are not to be outdone, and within a few days, they have launched almost the same design.

The military is too lazy to distinguish these models produced by the three major weapons companies. Anyway, they are all shot according to the design indicators proposed by the military. The caliber is all 8 mm and fires 8 mm metal bullets. This bullet is actually the same as Combined with the Type II rifle, the bullets of the Li Fu rifle are still universal.

Therefore, they are all unified and stereotyped as the 44-type eight-mm machine gun.

As for who can get more of these ordinary machine gun orders in the end, it depends on the business capabilities of the three major weapon companies.

However, Jiangnan Weapons Company also came up with a new model, not 8mm, but 12mm caliber.

The barrel is longer, the caliber is larger, and it is also heavier, which makes the effective range of this machine gun longer and more powerful. They call this machine gun a heavy machine gun.

This kind of heavy machine gun is valued by the Navy. The Navy thinks that if it is equipped on a warship, it is more reliable than an 8mm machine gun.

Almost in a very short period of time, the new weapon, the machine gun, went from the R&D and testing stage to the small-scale service stage. With the current R&D and production capacity of the three major weapon companies of the Datang Empire, even in a short period of time, it cannot be mass-produced. production, but there is no problem in first producing dozens of hundreds of equipment to test in the early stage.

Soon, the Guards, the army and the navy were each divided into small groups to train technical personnel for various services and develop operational manuals for use.

The navy was more straightforward. They directly temporarily installed the 8mm and 12mm versions of the heavy machine guns on the cruiser Quang Ninh that was going to perform overseas missions.

After the cruiser Guangning set sail from Wusong Military Port, it went all the way south, first to the Hong Kong Naval Base to join a frigate, and then to Malacca.

After passing through the Strait of Malacca, it entered the Indian Ocean and finally arrived at the Ceylon military base.

This is the largest naval base of the Tang Empire in overseas regions.

There are more than tens of thousands of army troops and a large number of naval warships stationed here all year round, and almost a large amount of various combat materials are stored.

Of course, even if this is a naval base, there are still a large number of ordinary people living here, including the families of soldiers and soldiers, or people who provide various weapons for the military.

In addition, the Port of Colombo on Ceylon Island is also an important transit port on the Indian Ocean route. Most of the ships crossing the Indian Ocean will supply coal, fresh water and food here.

Therefore, although Ceylon Island is a military base in the general concept, in fact, Colombo on Ceylon Island is still very prosperous, and this port is not much worse than Malacca.

The cruiser Quang Ninh went to overseas service this time to join the Indian Ocean fleet.

After arriving in Colombo on Ceylon Island, the cruiser Quang Ninh stayed here for about five days. After a brief rest and replenishment of supplies, they started their new mission.

Together with another frigate, they escorted four transport ships carrying some of the army personnel and a large amount of ammunition to Bomuzhou. After the ships are escorted in place, the cruiser Guangning will stay there for more than a month. time, before heading to Basra port in the Persian Gulf, and the task is also to **** the ship.

Escorting various ships has been the norm for the Tang Navy in the past ten years, and it can even be said that this is the only thing they can do in normal times.

These several thousand-ton cruisers can hardly find any combat targets on weekdays, and they cannot easily enter various inland rivers to fight with the indigenous people like those small tonnage frigates or simply offshore patrol ships.

Therefore, the naval officers and soldiers serving on the navy's cruisers, armored cruisers and even battleships are actually quite boring on weekdays, and they are in a situation of no battles all year round.

The only thing that can keep them entertained is the time for gunboat diplomacy.

But this kind of thing doesn't happen often. Many naval officers and soldiers have served for a few years before retiring, but they haven't fought a war yet.

In order to maintain the combat effectiveness of these capital ships, the Navy engages in this so-called **** when there is no battle.

But in fact, the merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty did not need the **** of warships at all!

As far as the sailing warships of the indigenous people are concerned, they can be sunk by collision, and they cannot pose any actual threat to the steam iron and steel merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty. UU reading www.uukanshu.com

However, the navy still escorts these merchant ships!

After all, you can't stay in the port all day long, doing nothing, anyway, you have to find a name to go out to sea for a stroll!

Escort is the most common name used by the Navy.

The cruiser Quang Ninh successfully escorted several army transport ships to Bomuzhou, and then went to Basra port alone. After arriving at the port of Basra, the officers and soldiers of the cruiser Quang Ninh were preparing to go ashore for a few days in accordance with the traditional tradition.

However, the warship received a request from the local garrison, saying that many unidentified indigenous troops had appeared on the western border of Basra. The local garrison was ready to go to clear it, and asked Quang Ninh to send some sailors and marines for support.

Naturally, the Guangning would not refuse, and directly dispatched a marine corps of about 60 people ashore, but the weapons they carried made the garrison a little curious!

That's a weird looking gun!

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