Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 155 Chapter 155 The Price of Growth

If Tang Mo knew that in the distant Poplar Kingdom, a group of weapon designers had unknowingly gone astray, he would have laughed happily.

After all, this kind of prank-like ending is very funny. Although he admires this kind of hard work and courage to try, he will naturally not forget that the elves owe him a large sum of money.

This made him feel no sympathy for what happened to the Yangmu Kingdom, and even felt secretly refreshed.

It's a pity that he doesn't know now that the elves of the Poplar Kingdom are sewing his two outdated weapons.

Because while the Yangmu Kingdom was developing its own unique weapons, Tang Mo did not stop developing weapons.

Although he transferred a large amount of steel to the giant steel ship, the remaining steel can still support his small production of epoch-making automatic weapons.

This weapon is the legendary Maxim machine gun, that is, the battlefield slaughterer that shined in the First World War, the scythe of death, and the fully automatic typewriter of Lord Hades...

Anyway, as soon as this weapon came out, it completely subverted the mode of warfare, and completely swept the original tactics into the garbage dump of history.

The Maxim machine gun was designed by an unprofessional person. His name is Maxim, and the Chinese translation is the name of this gun "Maximum" heavy machine gun.

Before he designed this weapon, he actually started to get in touch with machinery from the wind mill. On the one hand, this really proved his genius, and on the other hand, it also proved that the design of this machine gun is not very complicated.

In fact, this is indeed the case. The composition of this machine gun is not very complicated, so that there are few faults and easy maintenance.

Even Luthor can be imitated in an era like the Qing Dynasty, and the ancient Maxim machine gun can still be used hundreds of years later. All this proves the simplicity and rudeness of this thing from the side.

The design idea of ​​this weapon is very simple, that is to use the exhaust gas generated after the ammunition is fired as the power to drive the device to work and complete the work of loading a new round of bullets.

This kind of energy enables the gun to brake cyclically, which theoretically realizes the automatic loading and automatic firing of the gun, that is, the automation of the weapon in the true sense!

In Tang Mo's Ma Keqin factory, the simplest gas brake mechanical device was produced, and it was named the fuel blowing system.

The bolt of this automatic firing mechanism is only held tightly by a spring, and there is no locking handle or locking plug.

At the moment of detonation of the gunpowder in the cartridge case the bolt remains restrained until the gas pressure in the chamber overcomes the mass of the bolt causing it to move rapidly backwards and then cycle in exactly the same manner as a recoil braked gun brake.

Obviously, this method is mechanically simpler than recoil braking systems and is therefore relatively inexpensive to manufacture and maintain, as well as being easier to manufacture and maintain.

There have been some more or less successful attempts at delaying or hindering this blowback system, the simplest of which is an artificial mechanical barrier that must be overcome before the bolt can be released to cycle.

The Maxim's automatic system has a barrel lock similar to a plug, a pair of interacting parts joined together so that they work simultaneously, like a human joint.

After the barrel and bolt have moved back some distance together, the bolt "splits" downward as it passes a cam surface on the receiver. From this position, the bolt acts independently of a coiled spring, which Continuing to move backward under force, the spring re-engages the bolt after returning, securing the barrel and bolt in place on the machine gun.

This action actually completes the loading of the cartridge in two steps: a cartridge is pulled from the belt by the cartridge grabber, and at the same time the empty case is withdrawn from the chamber.

The rounds, both unspent and spent, have their edges caught in a vertical notch.Before the bolt begins its forward impact, the bullet catcher moves down, ejecting the empty shell while simultaneously pulling out a new bullet and aligning it with the breech of the gun.

When a cartridge is loaded, the cartridge catcher returns to its upper position.And continue to grab the edge of the freshly loaded cartridge with its lower end, locking the barrel and bolt, the two main parts.

All in all, all in all, this system is precise and efficient. It can provide a steady stream of shooting capabilities for the Maxim machine gun until the hot barrel boils the cooling water in front of the barrel. .

This set of exquisite mechanical structure has been produced in Tang Mo's factory and assembled together.

The gunpowder gas erupted from the bullet during shooting enables the gun to complete a series of actions such as unlocking, ejecting, feeding, and re-locking, realizing automatic continuous shooting of the single-barreled gun and reducing the recoil of the gun.

When Tang Mo experimented with this new weapon, Love and Redman suddenly realized why Tang Mo asked all the soldiers to learn to crawl forward.

Goosestep charging in front of this kind of weapon is no different from seeking death. Arranging a phalanx in front of this kind of weapon is exactly the same as seeking death.

It was precisely because of seeing this weapon that everyone understood why Tang Mo declared so confidently that if the other party came with 2 people, it would not be enough to kill him.

Indeed, if the Cyric troops, who didn't know that Tang Mo had this super weapon, continued to attack in the traditional way, they might lose 1000 people in one charge.

With the addition of cannons, as long as the opponent attacked Tang Mo's defense line once, they would hardly expect any extravagant victory.Facing Tang Mo's weapon, begging for peace is the only way out.

In theory, there is only one downside to this new weapon, and that is that it consumes too many bullets.Now, it is still very difficult for Tang strange to produce a round of metal fixed-load ammunition, but this kind of weapon only needs 1 minute to shoot out a row of spare bullets!
Resupplying such a weapon with a carriage is simply a logistical nightmare. Even if it is the minimum requirement, it is impossible to support Maxim's consumption with manpower and animal power.

Therefore, after Tang Mo developed this weapon, he only produced some in a limited amount, and he didn't even deploy it on a large scale for his own troops.

There is really no way, I can't afford it!The current Tang Mo was no different from Li Hongzhang and Master Li when he met Maxim for the first time.

Tang Mo's limited bullet production capacity, coupled with his desperate efforts to expand the size of the logistics supply unit, could only barely qualify his machine gun company to use Maxim near Bunas.

In order to make these preset almost perfect machine gun positions effective when the war comes, Tang Mo even built roads leading to these machine gun positions.

These roads extend to a place less than 200 meters from the position, and a concealed weapon depot where ammunition can be temporarily stored is also built at this place.

At the same time, Tang Mo dug some trenches around these machine gun positions.After the war broke out, he could immediately send troops into these defensive positions to cover his machine gun positions, so that his machine guns could better kill the frontal enemies.

"Now I finally know why you don't like lever rifles." Staring at the third Maxim heavy machine gun that had just been assembled in front of him, Matthews spoke in awe.

He had to be in awe, because he personally created this weapon that could fire continuously in a real sense.

This was his lifelong dream, but it was easily realized by Tang Mo.He never dreamed that the exhaust gas produced by the ammunition could be used to become the power of continuous shooting of weapons!
What surprised him even more was that Tang Mo's automatic weapon even had an extremely mature feeding method, as long as someone kept pushing the ammunition belt to the side of the machine gun, it could shoot almost non-stop.

Who else can break through the defense line garrisoned by such weapons?It only takes a few minutes to slaughter a battalion of soldiers!

Matthews even used the word massacre as a matter of course, because he felt that the troops facing this weapon were not fighting at all, but were facing a massacre!

Moreover, after seeing this weapon and learning about this weapon, he immediately realized why Tang Mo kept expanding the ammunition production workshop.

Tang Mo had known for a long time that this thing was a life-swallowing monster, and he also knew how big an appetite this monster had.It needs energy to devour life, and the bullet is its energy!
"The lever rifle is still very good, at least I use it when I go hunting now." Tang Mo said to Matthews with a smile.

In fact, Tang Mo produced a lot of lever rifles, some were equipped for Tang Mo's own guards, and some were equipped for the earl's guards in Northridge.

Although this weapon may not be so useful on the battlefield, it is a very good weapon in close combat.

Especially in urban areas with a well-maintained environment, especially some elite troops, there is actually no problem in using lever rifles.

"I'm not worried about Cyric anymore, and I'm even a little worried about them." Matthews shook his head: "Frankly speaking, I hope they can realize their mistakes soon and don't send so many young People come here to die."

"I hope so too." Tang Mo nodded, and agreed seriously: "I also hope that when people mention Bunas in the future, they will think of a fun place instead of a cemetery for foreigners .”

He sighed, as if regretting what happened to Cyric's private army in the future: "It's a pity that the price of growth is too heavy for people to bear..."

(End of this chapter)