I want to be emperor

Chapter 823 Repeating Rifle
With the end of the bidding for standard rifles and three types of artillery, the Army has temporarily come to an end, but since the five major manufacturers have gathered together this summer, and they have also held an exhibition and test firing of imperial weapons, several other weapons Naturally, big users will not be left behind, and took advantage of this opportunity to carry out a series of bidding purchases.

For example, the Navy conducted a tender for standard rifles for their Marine Corps. Unlike the Army’s favored Type [-] rifles, the Navy finally chose the Type [-] rifles from Huguang Arms Company...

It's hard for you to say whether the navy chose another rifle specially to distinguish it from the army.

Of course, although the rifles are different, the bullets used are still common 11*60 bullets.

On the other hand, the Armed Tax Police, they chose a more exotic standard rifle solution. They chose a new gun that is still in the research and development stage of Songjiang Firearms Factory under Jiangnan Arms Company: Qiming Rifle!

This is a so-called repeating rifle that uses their exclusive in-barrel magazine that can be loaded with five rounds at once.

This has a lot to do with the fact that the armed tax police are equipped with a large number of Qiming shotguns. The tax police are very fond of the Qiming shotguns from the Songjiang Gun Factory. This thing can load two bullets at a time. At this time, two rounds of shotgun can be shot quickly.

Now the Songjiang Firearms Factory has improved the structure of the magazine in the tube and made it into a rifle, and has produced a continuous-fire rifle with the magazine in the tube.

It’s just that there are many problems. The army, navy and even the guards have seen the sample guns, saying that there are many such problems, and those with frequent failures dare not use it...and the price is too expensive.

But the armed tax police have higher requirements for the rate of fire of the guns. Well, most of the time the armed tax police are not actually fighting, but performing some ordinary law enforcement tasks.

So they are willing to take this risk, and are prepared to spend a certain amount of money to support the continued improvement of Songjiang Gun Factory.

With regard to the breech-loading rifles, the research and development and equipment of the rifles of the Great Chu Empire at present can be said to have formed a multi-point blooming situation... The army and the guards use the same kind of rifles, but the navy and the armed tax police use different ones.

This means that there are as many as three types of standard rifles alone!
Fortunately, the bullets used are all unified 11*60 center-firing flange bullets, so there will not be too many problems in logistics supply.

The same situation actually happened with pistols, and it was even more serious, because the three armies of the Great Chu Empire, including the two patrols, allowed soldiers or patrols to purchase pistols to carry on the battlefield or register for law enforcement of.

This also led to the soldiers or patrolmen of the Great Chu Empire often buying pistols according to their personal preferences, which also led to the fact that the military and police in the Great Chu Empire were equipped with a variety of pistols, and there were all kinds of pistols.

The military had to issue regulations. Metal pistol bullets only provide two types of flanged bullets, [-]mm and [-]mm. You solve it yourself, anyway, don't expect the military to supply all kinds of pistol ammunition in a mess.

There are dozens of hundreds of pistols on the market, ranging from small to large calibers, and the types of bullets used are also messy. How can the military prepare all of them for you?

Anyway, there are only two kinds of standard pistol bullets, which you like to use or not.

Not only are firearms different, but even artillery is different.

The 75mm mountain gun that the Guards tendered did not choose the products of Huguang Arms Company like the Army did, but continued to choose the 75mm mountain gun of Hebei Weapons Company.

For the 120mm caliber artillery, they also chose the products of Hebei Arms Company, and they paid attention to the end from the beginning!

From rifles to artillery, all products of Hebei Weapons Company.

For the Marine Corps artillery project of the navy, the 120mm guns were made by Jiangnan Arms Company, which is the same as that of the army, but for the 75mm artillery, the products of Liangguang Arms Company were chosen...the corrosion resistance is better, and it is also Lighter and more performant.

Of course the price is more expensive!
However, although the artillery models are different, the shells used are all of the same specification, both 75mm and 120mm caliber, and the types of shells are also the same.

The artillery can be different, but the shells must be the same. This is the basic principle finalized by the Military Affairs Council, otherwise the logistics will collapse!
Regarding the obvious differences in the weapons and equipment used by various militaries, Luo Zhixue, the boss of the empire, has no objection to this.

Anyway, no matter what you use, it’s a slap in the face against the natives... There is no need to deliberately pursue the use of the same kind of weapons and equipment. Properly maintaining diversity will also better promote the research and development of weapons and equipment.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry has also made certain reforms and supplements to the defense industry to avoid vicious competition and maintain sufficient competition.

The first thing to reform is the firearms industry. In this round of bidding, users of the four major long-barreled rifles, the Army, the Guards, the Navy, and the Armed Tax Police, basically chose their next-generation standard rifles.

They are the Type [-] rifles of the Hebei Weapons Company, the Type [-] rifles of the Huguang Weapons Company, and the Qiming rifles of the Jiangnan Weapons Company.

Then the problem came. The Guangdong-Guangzhou Arms Company and the Shaanxi-Gansu Arms Company lost most of their rifle business users, leaving only the export market and a small number of private markets.

In response to this situation, the Ministry of Industry personally presided over the integration of the firearms business of the five major manufacturers.

Of course, this kind of integration does not mean that the firearms business of Liangguang Arms Company and Shaanxi-Gansu Arms Company is directly split and transferred to the other three arms companies... Although the firearms business of Liangguang Arms Company has not been obtained by the four major domestic militaries Large orders for standard rifles from China, but their matchlock guns and flintlock guns are booming in overseas markets.

Moreover, the business of pistols and special firearms is also good. The police pistols used in half of the provinces in the country are all [-]mm Pearl River revolvers specially developed by Guangdong and Guangxi Arms Company for the use of police law enforcement.

In the Great Chu Empire, the patrol offices are actually the most willing to spend money to buy high-performance advanced guns. After all, they deal with criminals every day, and the demand for high-performance pistols is very urgent, and patrols generally buy their own pistols. Case.

Therefore, in terms of earning power, the firearms business of Liangguang Arms Company is not much worse than that of Hebei Arms Company.

Therefore, the Ministry of Industry has integrated the firearms business of the five major companies, and made certain adjustments to more factories and research and development institutions, so that the firearms business of the major arms companies will be focused, while ensuring their own survival and certain research and development capabilities.

The reason why the Ministry of Industry created five weapons companies instead of just one weapon company, or subdivided each weapon, and then independently established a dedicated weapon R&D and production company, is to maintain a certain degree of healthy competition and promote Development of the defense industry.

Without this kind of benign competition strategy, the current development of breech-loading rifled weapons in the Great Chu Empire would not be so smooth. This is the result of competition among various weapon companies.

Therefore, it is impossible for the Ministry of Industry to simply turn the five major arms companies into two or three, or even one.

This is not in line with the original intention of the Ministry of Industry.

Just after a series of domestic weapons bidding and procurement came to an end, a batch of rear-loading rifled weapons was also shipped to Myanmar and delivered to the Marine Corps and the Army's Eighth Division respectively.

In the past few months, although the Chu army fought in Burma rather aggrievedly, it was only psychological discomfort... In fact, the main military progress has not been greatly affected.

The Eighth Division of the Chu Army went all the way south from Yunnan smoothly, and then captured Awa, and then fought all the way to the southern plains of Myanmar, where they successfully joined forces with the Marine Corps.

Subsequently, the troops were divided and captured several major cities in Myanmar.

So far, the main force of the Chu army has controlled all the main traffic arteries in Myanmar, mainly several rivers, and at the same time controlled most of the major cities.

From this point of view, the Chu army has actually completed its military control of the Myanmar region.

But even so, the local war continues.

After all, the Burmese are very determined to resist, and they moved their capital and left Ava early, and ran directly to the mountains in the west... To be honest, the Chu army has not even gone to any mountain bumps for the Burmese royal family and its high-level officials. Clearly, only the general orientation can be determined.

Several times, troops were sent west into the mountains, trying to find out the recalcitrant senior members of the Burmese royal family, but they couldn't find them!
On the one hand, the place is unfamiliar, and on the other hand, the more important thing is that the local terrain is too complicated.

The main resistance leader of the other side has not been caught, and the local people's will to resist is relatively strong. Although the Chu army currently controls the main cities and traffic arteries, it is still powerless against the vast rural and mountainous areas.

Furthermore, some of the behaviors of the official immigrants who followed the military after entering Myanmar also aroused fierce resistance from the local indigenous people.

The combination of the two made it difficult for the Chu army to operate in many places in Myanmar.

Of course, these were all within Chu Jun's expectations.

The Great Chu Empire’s overseas colonization often ended with major wars, but it was still in a state of long-term small-scale wars, which would last for several years.

The only difference is that the terrain in Myanmar is too complicated, and the tropical rainforest terrain is really disgusting!
Numerous difficulties arise from this.

This also makes the military more urgent to equip advanced rear-loading rifled weapons in order to gain more advantages in small-scale battles.

Among the breech-loading rifled weapons and ammunition shipped over this time is the 75mm mountain gun that the local military has been waiting for for a long time.

Compared with 120mm grenades and 75mm field guns, the local military stationed in Myanmar is looking forward to the 75mm mountain gun, which is a portable artillery.

Only this kind of artillery of several hundred kilograms can be dragged around to fight. The others, let alone more than one ton, they don't want even artillery that weighs hundreds of kilograms!
If possible, they also want a lighter battalion-level mountain gun between [-]mm and [-]mm. Unfortunately, the battalion-level mountain gun project has just been approved. It takes a few months to conduct design experiments, and then produce equipment, it is estimated that they will have to go to next year.

There were not many 75mm mountain guns that arrived in Myanmar for the first time, only twelve. They were taken away by the Eighth Division as soon as they arrived.

These twelve mountain cannons will form two mountain cannon posts, and the 75mm mountain cannons previously assigned to the Eighth Division will form the main support firepower of the Eighth Division.

Over the past few months, the 75th Division has been reinforced with six more [-]mm field guns.

Therefore, there are currently twelve 75mm field guns and twelve 75mm mountain guns.

Although this number is not large, and the total is only 24, the actual firepower far exceeds the dozens of smoothbore guns equipped in the past.

Coupled with the tens of thousands of Type [-] rifles that have been reinforced one after another, this also makes the Eighth Division the first first-class division in the army equipped with rear-loading rifled guns.

Not only the Eighth Division of the Army, but the local Marine Corps has also successively received reinforcements of more than 3000 Type 75 rifles, as well as four Guangsan-type [-]mm mountain guns from the Liangguang Arms Company, becoming a naval force. In the Marine Corps, the first regiment-level unit to complete the artillery of the rear-loading rifle.

These two armies were basically equipped with rear-loading rifled guns, and they also participated in actual combat on a large scale. This also made the Burma War the second large-scale use of rear-loading rifled guns after the Siam War in the Great Chu Empire. war.

As for the previous Siamese War, the Guards and the Army also used breech-loading rifled guns. Although the high-level leaders of the Siamese Kingdom surrendered too quickly... so that no large-scale battle broke out, follow-up campaigns to suppress them were still very frequent. of.

To some extent, the current situations in Siam and Myanmar are actually similar. The local situation has not changed because of the surrender of the high-level officials of the Kingdom of Siam and the stubborn resistance of the high-level officials of the Kingdom of Myanmar.

There is almost no frontal resistance, but small-scale resistance is very frequent.

Chu State is already very familiar with this kind of war mode, and has a lot of experience in dealing with it. They even have a special term for it to describe this kind of war mode: security war!
Of course, the law and order war in the modern military theory of later generations is to annex and use military means to maintain the rule in the occupied area.

The security war in the Great Chu Empire is simpler and purer, not for ruling, but purely for occupying more land and protecting their own immigrants.

As for ruling the natives, the Great Chu Empire has never been interested in ruling the natives.

To a certain extent, the security wars of later generations are actually political issues, while the security wars in the Great Chu Empire are purely military issues.

The latter is much simpler than the former.

In this mode, a batch of new breech-loading rifled guns that arrived in Myanmar were also quickly applied to the battlefield, and they exerted amazing effects.

Especially the 34mm mountain gun of the 75th year, the performance is even more outstanding!

The convenient maneuverability and powerful firepower make the Chu army's frequent small and medium-scale combat performance in the local area more powerful!
(End of this chapter)