Chapter 103 Building Battleships
Originally, the Chinese territory had such a huge threat as the Cossack Empire, even a hundred thousand troops were not enough. However, the Chinese territory in the Eastern Continent had only two million people, and the proportion of soldiers was already quite high, and it was increasing the soldiers.
The number of people is not realistic, which will cause a gap in the labor force needed by the industry and affect economic development.
The rapid expansion of the army has greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Chinese troops. Fortunately, they are all veterans and new soldiers. As long as they strengthen training, their combat effectiveness can be restored quickly. With the increase in the troops, weapons will naturally be accelerated, but Fang Xiaoyu does not intend to use leverage again.
Rifles are equipped with troops. After all, the machinery of leveraged rifles are complex and costly. If they are asked to fully equipped, they will cost too much and the construction period is too long. Moreover, Fang Xiaoyu still has many classic guns in his mind, so why do you need to use leveraged ones?
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In order to design a new gun, Fang Xiaoyu stayed in Browning's giant hammer factory for three days. Not only did he design a new gun, but he also designed a assembly line with the help of many dwarf engineers. Since there is no motor yet, this assembly line is temporarily used for use.
The steam engine is driven by the effect, and the assembly speed is at least twice as fast as possible. In addition, this rifle uses a large number of stamping parts. With the help of more than a dozen forging die hydraulic presses, the rifle production reached 500 pieces per day, and the bullet output was also
Since the pipeline is used, it has reached 300,000 times per day.
The new gun is named the Chinese type rifle. Since it was manufactured in 891, it is also called the Type 91 rifle. This gun was basically designed by Fang Xiaoyu according to the very famous Mauser 98k rifle at that time. This rifle was used.
The rotating rear pull bolt, the gauge gauge and blade-shaped sight, the total gun is 1,100 mm long, the barrel is 600 mm long, the maximum range is 2,000 meters, and the effective range is 800 meters.
Fang Xiaoyu did not completely copy all the data of the original gun, but made some improvements. Because of Lanting's leverage rifle, Fang Xiaoyu tasted the sweetness of large loading, so he loaded the Mauser rifle's single row of five rounds.
It was changed to a double-row interlaced loading method, and the loading volume reached ten rounds. However, since it was a double-row loading, the original gun's bullet-type loading method was not very suitable. He specially designed this gun.
A double row short magazine.
Fang Xiaoyu has always believed that the Germans' 7.92 mm caliber was too large, which not only affected the ammunition carrying capacity of individual soldiers but also had the disadvantage of excessive recoil. In particular, the Chinese people's body shape was similar to the Han people on Earth.
Such a physique is somewhat inappropriate for a rifle with such a large recoil.
In the 1950s on Earth, the British had conducted research on rifle bullets of various calibers and finally found that the seven-mm caliber is the most balanced in all aspects, with moderate recoil and good shooting stability.
The power of the warhead is no less than 7.62 mm caliber bullets. Fang Xiaoyu also saw an introduction to this matter in a military magazine before traveling through time.
Therefore, Fang Xiaoyu decided to use a seven-mm caliber on the Type 91 rifle and use a 7x57mm full-power rifle bullet. This bullet is different from a lever rifle. Because it uses a clip-type bullet supply, it avoids the head and tail of the bullet caused by the pipe-type bullet cabin.
When the possible base fire is hit by the bullet behind, and the round-headed bullet has to be used, this rifle bullet uses a relatively smooth blunt tip, which greatly strengthens the invasion force of the warhead.
The military is very satisfied.
Seeing that the military's trial response was good, Fang Xiaoyu decided to use this 7x57mm bullet as a general rifle bullet for China's future, while the 9x25mm round head bullet used in the previous Browning pistol and Lanting lever rifle were
Used as a pistol bullet.
With the new bolt-type rifle, Fang Xiaoyu naturally prepared to replace the pistol and replace the revolver with a faster firing rate and more convenient loading. For this purpose, Fang Xiaoyu designed the famous m1911a1 pistol.
The new type of pistol adopts the principle of short barrel and supplies bullets with seven rounds of magazines. The total length of the gun is 219 mm, the empty weight is 1.13 kilograms, and the effective range is 50 meters.
In order to unify the caliber, Fang Xiaoyu changed the pistol, which had originally reached 11.43 mm caliber, to a nine-mm caliber. Because this pistol had sent the drawings to the wild continent before, experimental equipment had already begun there, so
The pistol is named after the giant hammer of the desolate dwarf leader Bereta, and is called the Bereta Type 91 pistol.
These two guns were quickly created and issued, and even the Iron Blood Army also changed their clothes. The difference is that the Iron Blood Army has a double-gun configuration, with each soldier having a rifle and a pistol, while the Defense Army only has Berry equipped with officers.
Tower pistol.
Fang Xiaoyu also planned to equip the troops with heavy machine guns that had already been replaced on the wild continent. However, because they still used black gunpowder to load bullets, the smoke was too high when used. It could choke the machine gunner to death as long as it fired for more than one minute. It was not very practical. In addition,
Because the bullet manufacturing speed was not fast enough, Fang Xiaoyu temporarily put it aside. However, Fang Xiaoyu asked them to continue to improve the Maxine machine gun, and he also gave the researchers some tips on this.
The most successful transformation of the Maxine machine gun on earth was the British-equipped Vicks machine gun. It is said that this machine gun was used until the 1960s after World War II. The Vicks machine gun was lighter and better in weight than the Maxine machine gun.
It is said that its main improvement is to reverse the locking mechanism, making this machine gun easier to manufacture on a large scale.
Fang Xiaoyu also had a little idea of this kind of gun. He could not make too many useful suggestions except for the reversal locking mechanism. He could only let those researchers practice. The most important thing was that Fang Xiaoyu used the Vicks machine gun to unify the caliber of ammunition.
The caliber of the point seven millimeters has been reduced to the same seven millimeters as the Type 91 rifle. I believe the weight of the weapon can be further reduced.
The 40,000-style Lanting lever-type rifle that was replaced cannot be wasted. This type of rifle, which is still quite excellent in the eyes of other forces. After Fang Xiaoyu asked the factory to be re-maintained, 30,000 of them were sold to Wang Xuan.
Anyway, these guns have only been equipped for a few months, so they are basically new guns. Wang Xuan was very happy that Fang Xiaoyu arrived so quickly, and he bought all 4,000 of the more than 10,000 revolvers replaced by Fang Xiaoyu.
Go past.
The remaining ten thousand rifles that had been used for a long time were given to the royal guards. The public's business was easy to deceive. As long as you send some bribes to the officials you received, you would pass the customs. The remaining six thousand
All the pistols were bought by the royal family, causing many senior royal officers to replace them with these Browning pistols.
The newly built rifle structure is relatively simple, and the cost is naturally reduced a lot. Each gun costs less than 200 yuan. Moreover, the replaced rifles are sold at a good price, which means that they spend other people's money to change their clothes and make more money.
Pen.
This made Fang Xiaoyu very happy. Such a good thing is not something that can be encountered every time. Since the army did not spend much money to change clothes, Fang Xiaoyu still had enough funds to build new warships. Shipyards in coastal counties received ten more
The construction order for the cruiser, Fang Xiaoyu designed a small shallow water gunboat, which has a displacement of only 900 tons, and there is only a double-mounted 203mm caliber rotating turret on the ship, and the speed reaches
Seventeen chapters.
The manufacturing of battleships requires construction in the new port of the goblin territory. Fang Xiaoyu received a letter from Xu Shouchang, saying that the wharf construction has been basically completed and the shipyard has been built halfway, and the 30,000-ton floating docks are all in Xu Shouchang's travel.
Haijun Shipyard customizes it and then secretly tow it there with a tow boat, so it has already initially established the ability to build warships. Since everything is ready, Fang Xiaoyu decided to go there to inspect the situation and then decide whether to start construction of battleships.
The railway has not been fully connected, so Fang Xiaoyu's route is quite complicated. He first took the train to Bei'an Prefecture, then rode his horse through the dwarf territory, and then took the train. After passing the newly started construction of the goblin, Boli City, which was still in the construction period, arrived at the new one.
harbor.
Now this is still a large construction site, with scenes of hard-working construction of goblins and human workers everywhere. Due to the use of steel and cement, the construction of the wharf is very fast. In just a few months, the scale has been first seen here, with huge cement trests and berths.
The unloading area has been completed.
Forts are being built on the mountains on both sides of the harbor. Behind the northern mountains is the shipyard factory area under construction. Most of the factories are still under construction. There is only a railway deep into the factory area and several floating docks on the sea. The shore is completed.
The several dry docks next to them have just been laid. If they are used as open-air docks, as long as they are equipped with slide rails, they can be considered barely available.
Knowing that Fang Xiaoyu was coming, Xu Shouchang quickly came to greet him with an assistant. He smiled and said, "Master, you are here to see how our construction is?" Fang Xiaoyu said, "It's really fast enough, you should be able to build a warship.
"Xu Shouchang smiled and said, "Did your master plan to build a large warship? Is it the drawing I gave me before?"
Fang Xiaoyu nodded: "Now I have some funds and am preparing to build a large iron-clad ship. I don't know how much it costs for a warship." Xu Shouchang said: "I have already passed it. The warship you drew will cost 7 million each.
"Fang Xiaoyu took a breath of air conditioning. This navy is really a big deal. I hope it can be used for such an expensive warship.
Fang Xiaoyu said: "I still have a budget of 30 million yuan now, so it should be enough to save some money. You should start construction of four hulls first." A few days ago, Xu Shouchang had some in his hands because of the advance payment from the Navy.
Chapter completed!