Li Shaojie was the first officer to surrender to Zhong Yang. He had many years of service experience and was able to read, so he became the captain of the village corps. After that, he became the captain of the town corps with his qualifications and talents, and had the armed force of two thousand people under his command.

However, this time, he was not the supreme commander, but just took the position of the second leader. Tangwei Camp was organized with battalions and platoons, and there was no company-level unit, which was mainly considered in terms of actual combat needs. He adopted a three-three system team organization, with the smallest unit being a team, generally 5 people, three teams per squad, three squads per squad, and then a battalion-level system.

There were at least 135 people in a company, but because the weapons and equipment of Tangwei Camp were well-equipped, equipped with a large number of general-purpose machine guns and submachine guns, the rifle was also an improved version of the Enfield rifle with double magazines. The magazine blocker was set up, so that even if there was only one row, the firepower was fierce enough, and there was no need to adopt a bloated queue of companies.

The Guangdong Army is still like most of the Chinese teams in this era. Because of the lack of weapons supplies, it has to adopt a large staffing system, intending to use human lives to fill the gap in materials. This is a helpless thing. If it were not forcibly, who would have been willing to do such a thing?

The United Front Department under Zhong Yang also considered the impact of the complex terrain. Guangxi has many terrain and too large-scale military system is meaningless. Under the current conditions, the battalion and platoon structure is more in line with actual needs, and even the firepower of the class is more suitable. However, out of caution, it was recommended that the combat department adopt platoons as the basic combat unit, but it was also granted Wang Liwen, the commander of Tangwei Camp, to make decisions on the right time. What tactical combinations should be adopted in actual combat are decided by front-line officers, and the United Front Department shall not interfere easily.

Wang Liwen is a top student who graduated from Tianjin Military Preparation School. He studied in the German Army Officer School for two years. After returning to China, he devoted himself to the revolutionary cause. Two years ago, he was originally a low-level officer following Sun Yat-sen. He came to Guangzhou with the "Father of the Nation" with the dream of saving the country. But some of the events that happened later made him disappointed with the Sun of the Revolutionary Party of the military government. It happened that Zhong Yang extended an olive branch to him. After some exchanges, Wang Liwen turned to his command and served as a senior instructor of the Xuantie Security Company.

Now, he has reached the position of the highest commander of Tangwei Camp. He is a pure soldier with a handsome and fair face and looks a little cynical. But in his heart, he has the dream of saving the country. Unfortunately, the military government's face really disappointed him. For the sake of the Northern Expedition, Sun Yat-sen could recruit river bandits, robbers, and bandits. In order to raise food and wages, the military government could take charge of prostitution, gambles and open tobacco shops. He was discouraged and was willing to surrender under Zhong Yang.

In a tent in Tangweiying, Wang Liwen was meeting with the head of a logistics department.

"Hello, Battalion Commander Wang, I am Cao Zhenhai, the director of the Technical Department. Please take care of me." Another young man in his twenties, Zhong Yang's organizational system is basically filled with fresh blood. Although he seems too young and impetuous, he is full of vitality and vitality.

"Hello, Company Commander Cao." He shook hands with Cao Zhenhai politely, and then he called each other to sit down. Although Cao Zhenhai was a supervisor-level technician from the R&D department, Wang Liwen still chose to call the other party's military position in the army.

Then, Wang Liwen continued to start a formal exchange: "Company Commander Cao, you must be very clear about what the President told this time. I hope we can cooperate sincerely to complete these tasks." No matter how easy-going and humorous Wang Liwen is in the eyes of colleagues and relatives and friends, he is a rigorous soldier in the military camp, and even dresses meticulously.

"Yes, I understand that this is also the main purpose of our technical department in this operation." As the purpose of collecting practical weapons data and training soldiers' abilities, both of them are senior executives in the organization, so they naturally understand.

The entire Tangwei Camp is mainly divided into two systems, one is a combat unit and the other is a logistics unit. The combat goal is to test the performance of weapons and increase the actual combat experience of soldiers. The total requirement is that the entire army is the best, followed by the destroying army. In other words, unnecessary casualties must be avoided, and human life is the most important.

The combat units had 12 platoons and 540 people, and the remaining 180 were the logistics system of the army, which included all work matters other than operations. Although there were no company-level units, there were company commanders, namely Ji Xiaoliang, Li Shaojie, Cheng Wenli, Cao Zhenhai, and Battalion Commander were Wang Liwen. Considering that the team would not be expanded on a large scale within a certain period of time, no deputy was established.

The platoon leader and squad leader in the team are mostly members of the Xuantie Security Company. Because only they have experience in using many high-performance weapons, for the sake of confidentiality, the town wing has many weapons equipped with them that have not been installed before joining the war. For example, general-purpose machine guns, military motorcycles, helmets and bulletproof vests, and there are very few members of the town guard who come into contact with submachine guns. In order to familiarize themselves with the performance of new weapons, Tangwei Camp still needs a running-in period.

"The new weapon was equipped too late, and I was afraid that the soldiers would not have time to get familiar with it." As the battalion commander, Wang Liwen showed some concerns about this matter.

Cao Zhenhai: "I know too, but this is an order. Confidentiality is still necessary for newly developed weapons and equipment. If it were not for practical inspection, it would not have been taken out so hasty."

Wang Liwen also recognized Cao Zhenhai's explanation, but as an officer, the first thing he had to consider was the combat effectiveness of the army. Cao Zhenhai was a technician sent from the headquarters, and his position to consider the problem was the interests of the organization. However, both of them were still communicating with kindness, so there was no discordant quarrel.

"There are a few of the weapons I have not even been exposed to. Can you introduce me to the specific performance parameters here? Well, it mainly includes grenade launchers and grenades. Also, I have not learned about the specific performance of general machine guns before, but I have only seen test firing in an arsenal."

Although Wang Liwen was also present when he used a general machine gun test fire in a military factory, he had only been exposed to heavy machine guns before, and had only heard of light machine guns. As for the specific parameters and theoretical concepts of general machine guns, he was not very familiar with them. As the front-line commander of field operations, Wang Liwen believes that he must first clearly understand the performance parameters of all weapons in order to make reasonable arrangements for combat tasks.

"If you just rely on saying it, I think the effect is not obvious. Let's go to the shooting range to test it, and you can see the specific power and effect."

Cao Zhenhai was full of confidence in the weapons and equipment he provided. As one of the main leaders of the organization's arsenal in Guangzhou, he knew all the performance of weapons well. Although he was just a technician and not a soldier, he could not deny his familiarity with the weapons itself.

He led Wang Liwen to a manually excavated shooting range on the west side of the camp. Cao Zhenhai smiled and personally introduced the specific effects of these weapons and equipment to Wang Liwen, and also warmly greeted the other party for test shots.

When the last shell jumped out of the gun chamber with the residual heat, Wang Liwen, who was still holding the butt stock, and Li Shaojie, standing behind the shooting table, were shocked by the actual power of this machine gun.

With a shooting rate of up to 1,300 rounds per minute, a bullet chain was lit in less than ten seconds. With such a fire rate, the bullets fired were a scorching metal torrent, which could definitely draw a natural barrier that the enemy could not overcome!

Looking at the target in front, all the standing wooden targets were smashed to pieces, and the sandbags, brick walls, wooden piles and other test objects placed next to them were all penetrated and covered with bruises. If it were human bodies, they would have been beaten into honeycombs long ago.

"Good gun! Good gun! With this kind of machine gun, the firepower of a platoon is enough to suppress the two elite main companies of the Gui army!" The person who spoke was Li Shaojie. As the first person in the village corps, he had led the team to fight with the bandits, but his task was very arduous at the beginning. He led a group of newly trained recruits and a group of elderly bandits to fight. Although he did not lose, the winning was ugly. The main reason was that the recruits were not proficient in operating heavy machine guns.

"That's it! If I had changed the machine guns like this in the early years, I think who would dare to provoke us? No matter whether a battalion or a regiment rushed up, as long as there were a few machine guns like this, I could have knocked them down without the support of infantry artillery." Nong Pengming also looked at the machine gun with his eyes shining. He was a small messenger back then, but now he is a platoon leader. He also worked in the Xuantie Security Company and became a confidant of Wang Liwen.

"Zhenhai, tell us about the characteristics of this machine gun." Ji Xiaoliangqiang said, pulling Cao Zhenhai's clothes who had been laughing aside. They are old acquaintances and have a good relationship.

"This gun was developed and finalized in the last two months. So far, a total of 49 were produced, some of which were used for destructive tests such as sand and gravel, water soaking, wear and other destructive tests. The battalion team has loaded a total of 36. The two guns that you see now have been improved. The entire gun contains 11 kilograms of tripods and a diameter of 7.92 mm. Using our current 98 standard rifle 7.92x57mm bullets, we can use 260 rounds of bullet chains to supply bullets, and can also be equipped with 75 drums to supply bullets. The initial velocity of the bullet is 755 meters per second, and the firing of 1 ooo to 14 oo every minute. The barrel is short and the barrel is recoiled automatically. The gun is 12 ooo mm long, the barrel is 533 mm long, and the effective range is 8 ooo meters. The laboratory named this machine gun "Torrent" universal machine gun."

"What does general machine gun mean? Isn't it just the name of heavy machine guns and light machine guns?" As an ordinary officer of this era, although he had excellent grades, Wang Liwen's theoretical concept was still stuck in the barriers of the old era.

However, Cao Zhenhai was full of pride and pride in this matter, because the general machine gun was first developed by the Weapon Research and Development Department under the guidance of Zhong Yang. The only place to borrow from German technicians is the research on metal formulas. The improved special alloy solves technical problems such as heat dissipation and barrel strength. Moreover, because of the use of complete pre-piece stamping, the production capacity and material utilization rate have been greatly improved. In terms of specific usage details, it is much ahead of the whole world.

"It is mainly because the weapon R&D department has designed a special tripod and a parallel anti-aircraft gun rack. The machine gun with the tripod is the side-handed one. The effective range after adding the tripod can be increased to 11oo meters, and the accuracy can be improved a lot, but at the same time, the overall weight of the gun body has also increased to 22 kilograms."

"What are the main shortcomings?" Wang Liwen not only wants to understand the superior performance of this weapon, but also needs to clearly grasp its shortcomings to avoid making unnecessary mistakes when using them.

Just as Wang Liwen was saying this, Li Shaojie stroked the gun body with an excited look.

"Be careful of the barrel. It's hot!" Cao Zhenhai hurriedly warned when he saw Li Shaojie touching the barrel with his hand. But Li Shaojie still burned the barrel with high temperature and residual heat.

"Turn it, the barrel is burning too fast." Li Shaojie said while blowing the scalded area.

"When the rate of fire increases, the barrel will naturally heat up faster. Basically, you will have to change the barrel after firing a 260 round chain." Cao Zhenhai explained these details to everyone.

"Replace the barrel?" Several battalion chief officers changed their faces after hearing that they needed to change the barrel. After all, in their experience and cognition, replacing the barrel is simply a very troublesome and meticulous job. Whether it is the previous water-cooled heavy machine gun or the newly equipped light machine gun, replacing the barrel is not easy at all. On the battlefield, this is fatal!

"Haha, our weapon R&D department has thought of these things. Let me show you how to change the barrel." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little depressed, Cao Zhenhai didn't care. He chose to use actual effects to dispel everyone's doubts and prove the strength of the weapon R&D department.

He held up the machine gun, pulled a lever below the gun body, and then tilted downwards the gun body. The barrel automatically broke away and jumped out of the main body of the gun body. During this process, it was not necessary to touch the barrel, so the entire step could be easily completed. After disassembling the barrel, Cao Zhenhai picked up the spare barrel next to him and simply stuck it up. The whole process was completed in less than ten seconds.

Seeing that the barrel could be replaced so quickly and easily, several military officials showed a greedy look again! As such a powerful weapon, who are officers, don’t like it?

"How is the productivity?" Wang Liwen remained calm and the questions he asked were also critical. After all, in this era, what determines the outcome of a war is not only weapon performance, but also production capacity!

"The production capacity before was not ideal, mainly because the production of parts is relatively complicated, because the parts are all made of mechanical cutting and manual processing, so the output cannot be increased. However, by now, stamping machines and stamping technologies have been initially mature, and the production capacity of general-purpose machine guns has been increased, so it can be mass-produced on a large scale. However, we do not plan to mass produce such weapons at present. There is only 18 production levels per month."

"The productivity is a little slower, can it be faster?"

"Yes, but the president said it was not necessary."

"No need?" Several military officials were a little surprised. Wang Liwen and his team naturally hoped that the more powerful weapons and equipment, the better.

"Yes, the president said that this is considered from the actual needs. The high-fire and efficient suppression of this machine gun are its advantages and disadvantages. Such a high-fire will cause its ammunition consumption to be much larger than other machine guns. It is okay to use a 260 rounds of bullet link, but if a 75 round drum is used, it will shoot photobullets in three or four volleys. This consumes bullets very terrible. And the most important point is that our team will not expand on a large scale in a short period of time, and a large number of general-purpose machine guns are completely meaningless."

"Well, that's right, even if it's just the current energy ration, our dependence on logistics has increased a lot. Let me give you a brief analysis. In the past, 15 people in a machine gun squad could only be equipped with two Maxim heavy machine guns, and each machine gun was equipped with an average of 3,000 rounds of ammunition. If it was equipped with this kind of machine gun, one main shooter, one ammunition player and deputy shooter, and one ammunition player, each ammunition player has three ammunition links and 780 rounds of ammunition, and the main shooter has two ammunition drums. In this way, there is only 1,810 rounds of ammunition, and this ammunition is not enough to hit two minutes."

Although Wang Liwen only made a rough calculation, they all understand what this situation means. Not everyone can afford the huge ammunition consumption.

"Then it's better to equip the fire platoon according to the core fire platoon. Each of the remaining fire squad soldiers carries three ammunition links and then use pistols or shotguns to provide close-range cover and protection to the machine gunners, which can also make up for the current short-range firepower deficiency." With new weapons, Wang Liwen also made a new organization plan for the entire battalion.

"What about our three battalions belong to the fire platoon? They have a relatively large number of troops. They are all ammunition soldiers?" Li Shaojie is the direct commander of these three platoons, so he naturally needs to care about the use of weapons.

"Our current ammunition supply has not been kept up. At the same time, because this kind of gun is too high and consumes ammunition, the shooter needs to grasp the number of shots well, and also have to grasp the switching between volleys and point shots well. This requires high shooting skills for the shooter. Even the team members from Xuantie Security Company must be trained for a period of time before they can be competent." Wang Liwen was reminding Li Shaojie that the stronger the weapon, the better, and it is very dangerous to install a large number of unfamiliar weapons.

"There is another point, that is, because the shooting is too high, it cannot be used to perform large-scale long-term strafing like the previous **Kechin machine guns. In this way, if you encounter a large-scale regional continuous charge, without more machine gun configurations, the Maxim heavy machine gun is still needed to maintain the sustainability of firepower."

Cao Zhenhai is one of the main R&D personnel of General Machine Guns. He knows the specific performance parameters of general machine gun performance and analyzes his own opinions one by one. After hearing this, several military officials next to him nodded constantly. He did not think of contempt because of the other party's identity as a technician.

"Okay, let's first equip as the battalion commander said. After a while, there will be military operations. Everyone knows the target of the operation. Go back and discuss carefully and report the squad platoons that need to be equipped with this type of machine gun first."

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