Nansha District, Bainishan, and an arsenal under Tianyu Group is located here. The scale is comparable to that of Shijing Arsenal. The person here is named Wan Wei, a professional technician who was originally engaged in weapons production.

Wan Wei was originally Chen Yongshan's classmate and a friend. Since Chen Jiongming retreated to Dongjiang, he left the Guangdong Army and accepted Chen Ze's invitation. The most suitable candidate should be Chen Yongshan, but he was attacked by the ** Party assassination group and was seriously injured in Hong Kong on April 10, 1923.

Now in the Haibin Military Region Hospital in Nansha, the life is not serious, but the vitality has not recovered and needs rest. Therefore, the position of the director of the arsenal has temporarily fallen on Wan Wei.

Judging from his ability alone, Wan Wei's ability is pretty good, and he may not be much worse than Chen Yongshan. It's just that his personality is contaminated with some bureaucratic style and is used to flattering others. This is something Chen Ze doesn't like. Tianyu Group is a commercial organization and always attaches importance to interests.

Fortunately, Wan Wei is not a fool either. After several encounters, he also knew these rules. He began to focus all his spirit on weapon development. After all, he is also a professional talent. He is also very successful in his job and has achieved success.

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In the shooting range, several soldiers in military uniforms were lying on their backs on the ground, performing shooting experiments with light machine guns. Several technicians stood next to them, holding notebooks and pens in their hands, constantly recording various data. From time to time, they also asked the soldiers about their opinions and looked focused.

The entire arsenal is built along the mountain. Thick cement high walls are built around the shooting range. The bricks inside are also hard red bricks, enough to block stray bullets. There are no residents around, so there are no need to worry too much about safety issues.

Chen Ze and Wan Wei stood aside and watched. This time the weapon was not developed by Tianyu Group itself, but the Prague i-23 light machine gun purchased from the Czech Republic through Smith.

As early as 1920, Czech gun designer Halik began to design a brand new light machine gun at the famous Prague Ordnance Factory in the Czech Republic. Halik was an excellent design master. He built a gun with his own genius thinking, named it the Prague style. The characteristic of this gun is that like a heavy machine gun, it uses the canvas belt of the Maxim machine gun to supply ammunition. At that time, the concept of the light machine gun was not yet mature, and this design is understandable.

However, the Czech Ministry of Defense at that time did not have much interest in this machine gun, so it did not pay much attention to it. However, to their surprise, the Prague Yishi scored in the test with the famous Browning, Medison and Vix at the time, and some of the performances even exceeded those of these famous guns.

The Czech Ministry of Defense immediately asked the Prague Ordnance Factory to continue to develop formal models based on the Prague style, and Khalick immediately continued to develop on the basis of the sample gun.

In 1923, the Czech Ministry of Defense solicited automatic rifles or light machine guns from domestic and foreign military-industrial enterprises for future use by the Czech Army, and all countries obtained light machine guns participated in the bid.

The improved Prague Type II also participated in this test, and the results were second only to the famous Medison Light Machine Gun at that time. Halik continued to improve his design and finally developed the Prague i-23 light machine gun. This model uses a telescopic butt stock and can be quickly replaced with the functions of barrels, double pods, etc., which already has all the elements of future light machine guns.

Its performance is extremely excellent, not only accurate shooting, but also very excellent continuous shooting performance. After thousands of consecutive shots in the test, its accuracy did not change much, which shocked the masters of guns from all countries. In addition, it was a local design in the Czech Republic, and was soon selected by the Czech Ministry of Defense and became a standard weapon for the Czech army.

Of course, not only the Czech Ministry of Defense, Britain, Germany, the United States and France, and even some small European countries, are interested in this light machine gun with superior performance.

The economic situation in the Czech Republic is not optimistic. In order to maintain operation, the arsenal must generate income by itself. Exporting weapons is normal. Therefore, in addition to equipping the Czech army, the i-23 is also exported to foreign exchange in exchange for foreign exchange. In addition to exporting to China, it is also exported to more than a dozen countries including Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Chile, Sweden, Türkiye, etc.

From the current perspective, the Czech style is a relatively complex weapon with more components and some of the components need to be processed more carefully. It has a much more complex structure than the Soviet turntable guns and later light machine guns during World War II. However, if we only look at the perspective of the 1930s, the Czech style is very simple and the processing does not require advanced technology. As long as there are detailed drawings, generally basic training technicians can make it with fewer machines.

This is its advantage. Such a high-quality weapon is honored to have become the target of pirated version of Tianyu Group. According to the original design and with the joint efforts of all researchers in the arsenal, the improved Czech i-23a light machine gun was newly released.

The working principle of the Czech light machine gun is a piston long-stroke air-guided type, which adopts a bolt deflection locking method, that is, the locking slot is lifted up and the locking slot on the top of the receiver is snapped up to achieve the locking. Single shots or continuous shooting can be selected. When pulling the trigger, the bolt moves forward, and the dustproof piece below the magazine bounces forward at the same time to allow the empty shell to be thrown down.

The dustproof sheet needs to be closed when not in use to prevent sand and dust from entering. After the bullet is pushed into the chamber, the piston rod and the bolt base move forward due to inertia, thus hitting the striker inside the bolt and firing the bullet. At this time, the rear end of the bolt has been pushed upward from the bolt base and it is indeed locked.

When the bullet passes through the air guide hole of the barrel, gas is introduced into the piston barrel and pushes the piston rod and the bolt to retreat. At this time, the rear end of the bolt falls down and unlocks the chute of the base. The bolt continues to retreat and pulls out the empty shell. When the bolt is at the end of the bolt, the tenon of the shell is knocked down by the groove on the bolt and the shell is ejected down. Finally, the gun opportunity returns to the standby state of the bolt, and according to the single continuous shot selection button, it is either open to wait for strike, or immediately repeats the above action.

According to the actual functional needs of a weapon like a light machine gun, Wan Wei made some detailed adjustments to the properties of this light machine gun based on basic principles.

In terms of weapon positioning of light machine guns, light machine guns are lighter machine guns that rely on bipods to shoot with shoulders. This type of machine gun is mostly supplied with magazines, drums or chains loaded into boxes. They are generally arranged in infantry squads and are used by two shooters, the chief and deputy, and can also be operated by one person if necessary.

Light machine guns can be shot on the shoulder, or on the erect or on the side of the marching. They are mainly used to shoot active targets and thin-walled armored targets within 600-800 meters. They mainly use 3-5 short-point shots or 10-15 long-point shots, and can also be launched continuously if necessary. The combat fire rate can reach 80-150 rounds per minute, and are fire support weapons within the infantry squad or combat team.

Of course, this is something that only a few elite troops of the New Fourth Army can assemble, and the warlord team does not have the financial resources to support it. Although light machine guns are much cheaper than heavy machine guns, they are always much more expensive than rifles. Moreover, the consumption of bullets is also a big burden. It is very good to be able to meet the standards of squad and platoon equipment in the main force.

After improvements from Bainishan Arsenal, the i-23a light machine gun adopts a 7.92mm caliber and fires 7.92x57mm gun bullets. The gun uses a magazine to supply ammunition with a capacity of 20 rounds. The magazine is located above the receiver and is thrown from below. Since the magazine is on the center line of the gun body, the sight is installed on the left side of the gun body.

Seeing several soldiers conducting shooting experiments, Chen Ze also observed and asked some technical matters from time to time. This light machine gun is not intended to be a standard weapon of the New Fourth Army, because it is not necessary, Tianyu Group itself has better weapons to supply.

As an export product, this light machine gun is undoubtedly very suitable. Since the United States proposed an arms embargo in 1919, the inflow of various heavy weapons has been banned on the surface. Especially for heavy machine guns and artillery, the problem of artillery cannot be solved for the time being, but the emergence of this light machine gun has solved the urgent need of the warlords.

As a powerful weapon to replace heavy machine guns, the i-23a appeared on the battlefield. If Zhong Yang had more professional knowledge and was present, he would definitely recognize that this weapon was actually a famous Czech-made zb-26 in the future, a weapon that made a big hit on the battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War.

The aiming device of i-23a uses a mechanical sight composed of ordinary sights and worm gear notched sightings. The puller handle is located on the right side of the gun body. After pulling back, it enters a waiting state and pushes forward back to its original position. When shooting, the puller handle does not move with the gun.

With the continuous roar of flames, the bullets hit the wooden target in the distance like raindrops, tearing the target into pieces. The i-23 uses air-cooled heat dissipation, and the barrel must be replaced after overheating.

There is a heat sink outside the barrel, a trumpet-shaped flame suppressor is installed on the barrel opening, and small holes are drilled around the bore device. There is a shoulder plate and a bottom cover at the back of the butt stock, and a cushioning spring inside to effectively reduce recoil. The bipod can be telescopic according to requirements, and there is a lifting handle close to the middle of the barrel to facilitate connection and quickly change the barrel. For light machine guns, the speed of replacing the barrel is very important.

As a light automatic weapon of the team, the i-23a can quickly change the barrel design using the handle and the barrel fixing bolt, making it more elastic in use. The steps are extremely simple. Just turn the fixing ring on the barrel upwards and leave the locking groove and then take it out forward.

Then, replace the new barrel with the reverse operation and fix it. In order to effectively maintain the continuity of firepower, a shooter and a sub-shooter are generally equipped with a large amount of ammunition and backup barrels, and a shooting deputy is carried by a shooting deputy. With the help of the skilled shooter, the entire step of replacing the barrel takes less than ten seconds. Generally, every 200 rounds are fired, the barrel needs to be replaced once. If the shooting frequency is slow, it can reach 250 rounds.

After adaptability test, the i-23a light machine gun has a simple structure and reliable action. It is not easy to damage during fierce wars and in harsh natural environments. It is easy to use and maintain and accurate shooting. It can be continuously fired as long as the barrel is replaced. The two-person machine gun team greatly improves the actual combat performance of the machine gun. After simple shooting training, the gun can be used to fight.

Some time ago, Liu Shen, who was in charge of the transaction with Shen Hongying, sold this machine gun at a good price and had enough of the oceans and resources from the other party. The reserves of metal minerals in Guangxi are still amazing. Using weapons to exchange resources is in line with the needs of both parties...

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