Chapter 6 Trial Machine Gun Team 1

"Let's see if it can still be used!" Zhao Dongyun waved his hand and asked Lin Yongquan to play with those machine guns.

He asked Lin Yongquan to follow him today, intending to let Lin Yongquan take over these machine guns, and then train a machine gun team in a short time. In addition to Lin Yongquan, an officer with experience in commanding machine guns, Zhao Dongyun also found two soldiers who had operated Markqin machine guns from the brother's unit next door.

After the following ordners came forward and knocked for half a day, a Markham machine gun was finally finished!

"This bullet was also in stock many years ago, but it is well preserved and should not be a problem to use!" While Lin Yongquan said this, he also let the soldiers put bullets on it, and then a seconded soldier who had been a machine gun shooter sat at the back end of the machine gun and pointed the muzzle at the open land in the distance.

There is an open shooting range outside the muzzle, and there is a row of wooden boards that serve as targets 100 meters away.

With Zhao Dongyun's slight nod, the soldier pulled the trigger, and with the pull of the trigger, the Mark Qin machine gun, which had been silent for many years, once again spewed out a tongue of fire, accompanied by a harsh sound and smoke.

Zhao Dongyun squinted and saw that the wooden boards in the distance were torn to pieces in an instant, and many people had questions in his mind: Why did the Huai Army and the Wuwei Army with such sharp weapons be defeated so badly during the Jiawu and Gengzi years?

That's a war that shouldn't be defeated!

"Haha, it's good, it still works!" Lin Yongquan asked the soldiers to stop shooting, showing a cheerful laugh, because Zhao Dongyun had already told him before leaving that these weapons were under his control, so it was naturally a good thing for him to use this thing!

Subsequently, Zhao Dongyun and his party checked the other three doors, one of which were still available, but the other two were already missing parts, but the accompanying technicians took a few glances and fiddling with them for half an hour, completely disassembled a Maxim machine gun into a part state, and took the parts and installed them into another door. So he got another Maxim machine gun that could fire.

Those remaining parts were not thrown away directly. Zhao Dongyun waved his hand to let people take all these things away, and also took away all the bullets in stock.

After pulling these three Maxim machine guns back to the second battalion, Zhao Dongyun said to Lin Yongquan, "From now on, your sentry will change the machine gun, and I will see the results before the exercise!"

After Zhao Dongyun said that, he seemed to say to him, as if he was talking to himself, "Now only three old Maxim machine guns should not be enough. I will think of another way to see if I can get some new machine guns!"

In the following period, Zhao Dongyun was almost running around the machine gun. As for the other training of the army, he did not worry too much. The current Wuwei Right Army is still in a period of rising development, but there are not many problems of other old troops, and the daily training of infantry is just like this. In addition to ordering There is no way to improve anything other from strengthening training!

This machine gun is indispensable to achieve an immediate effect in the exercise!

Although the second battalion already had three Mark Qin machine guns, Zhao Dongyun was not satisfied with this. He went around and asked where the old Mark Qin machine guns were. You know, when the Mark Qin machine guns first came out, Li Hongzhang was very interested. In 1888, he ordered the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau to imitate them. However, because these early Maxim machine guns had too many failures and consumed too many bullets, they stopped in 1893 after making more than 30 guns.

Some of these machine guns participated in the Korean war in the year of Jiawu and the battle of Gengzi year, and some of them were still lying in military warehouses everywhere and moldy.

In addition to looking for those old Maxim machine guns, he is also trying to see if he can buy a new machine gun.

After all, those old-fashioned Maxim machine guns have been imitations more than ten years ago. Not to mention many faults and their performance has been seriously backward. If you want to build a machine gun force, you definitely can't use these old machine guns. You have to find a way to get some new Markham machine guns or French Hatchie's machine guns.

Although he doesn't know why Zhao Dongyun cares so much about machine guns, as a supporter of Zhao Dongyun, Duan Qirui did not hesitate much. In addition to helping Zhao Dongyun find another stock of old-style Maxim machine guns, he even helped Zhao Dongyun put forward the idea of a pilot machine gun team to Yuan Shikai!

So Zhao Dongyun also made his own voice for the first time in this era. He compiled some of his tactics on the use of machine guns, highlighting the effectiveness of machine guns in fixed defense warfare. He also said that during his stay in Germany, he found that the German army had begun to equip machine guns on a large scale. , and if China wants to train the new army, we must keep up with the pace of the great powers, and we can't find that we don't have any development at the end.

It has to be said that in the Beiyang system in this era, whether Yuan Shikai or Duan Qirui and others still attach great importance to new technologies, both the Wuwei Right Army and the Beiyang Standing Army are closely following the pace of various countries. For example, Yuan Shikai and others have now noticed that Manli Xiabu's guns have begun to fall. In the later world, it was already preparing to import newer rifles.

However, Western countries have imposed a strict arms embargo on China, making it impossible for Yuan Shikai to purchase arms from Western countries on a large scale through normal official channels.

It has to be said that the impact of China's prohibition on the import of weapons and the manufacture of weapon raw materials in paragraph 5 of the Xinchou Treaty and Appendix 11 is very great. In the first two years of the implementation of the treaty, that is, from 1901 to 1903, China had no way to obtain a large number of weapons through official channels. , can only smuggle secretly.

But interestingly, this arms embargo is as follows: Emperor Guangxu issued an order banning China from importing weapons and raw materials! That is to say, the treaty allowed China to ban itself, which is probably the most ridiculous arms embargo treaty in human history!

So despite the arms embargo, it does not affect China's arms imports. Not to mention rifles and artillery, warships are still bought!

There is another reason, that is, this arms embargo is mainly advocated by France. In the Sino-French War, the French army was beaten by the Qing army equipped with German and British weapons, and naturally did not want China to continue to equip new weapons. In the eyes of other powers, even if the Qing army fights with them with nuclear bombs, it can still knock them down. That's true. In modern history, France is the only one who has defeated the battle with the Qing army.

Although there are many loopholes in the arms embargo of the Xincho Treaty, the implementation is not too strict, and it doesn't even take long for it to survive in name. However, it is still 1901, and the Xinchou Treaty has just been signed. At this time, it is naturally impossible for China to import large-scale weapons. It can only be secretly In addition, he also worked hard to achieve self-sufficiency in weapons and began to mass-produce weapons such as Hanyang rifles.

To some extent, this arms embargo also forced the Qing court to start large-scale self-production of Hanyang rifles and artillery, establishing a special position in the history of Hanyang manufacturing in the Chinese military.

At present, it is naturally impossible for countries to obtain a large number of new machine guns from Western countries through arms embargo against China, but it is still not a problem to get a few by smuggling means!

Yuan Shikai has always attached great importance to new technology. Almost Duan Qirui just handed over Zhao Dongyun's proposal, and he approved the proposal to build a pilot machine gun team.

Now that the armies of various countries have begun to equip machine guns in batches, Yuan Shikai is also a good intention to follow up and say that even if the machine guns are useless, they will lose a little money at most. This money can't even buy a wild gun, but if the machine guns are really useful, then the Beiyang Army can also It is enough to keep up with the world trend in time, which is far more important than 10,000 taels of silver.

In a few days, Zhao Dongyun got the approval to officially prepare for the establishment of a machine gun team!

"From now on, you are the leader!" After Zhao Dongyun got the approval, he said this to Lin Yongquan, his first and only machine gun commander.

He was promoted as soon as the matter was done. Anyone would be happy. Lin Yongquan's face was a little excited: "Your excellency loves you, and Yongquan can't repay you!"

"If you have done the machine gun team well, it is the best reward for me!" Zhao Dongyun stood up at this moment, walked to Lin Yongquan and patted him on the shoulder: "I will rely on you for the exercise in a month!"

Although Lin Yongquan is ten years older than Zhao Dongyun, at this moment, it seems that Zhao Dongyun is the elder, and Lin Yongquan is just a young man.

He sent Lin Yongquan, who was still extremely excited, out. Zhao Dongyun left his office and then went to the barracks next door. As soon as he entered, the people stood up one after another. There was Zhao Dongping, who had just arrived in the past few days.

Originally, Zhao Dongyun planned to send Zhao Dongping to teach as a book office, but the plan did not change quickly. Now he has been transferred to the second battalion as the unified belt, and naturally changed the plan, and finally arranged Zhao Dongping to the second battalion as a bookstore.

This is not only to give Zhao Dongping a job, but also to let him do things with him. After all, many things should be more reassuring to do with his family. In addition, Zhao Dongyun saw that although Zhao Dongping is young, he is also clever and knows how to advance and retreat, which is also a good idea to cultivate him.

If he shows that it is worth training, then Zhao Dongyun intends to recommend him to the Baoding Military Academy for a few years next year, and he may become a great help to him when he comes out.

After Zhao Dongyun went in, he pressed his hand to signal everyone in the room that he was welcome, and then waved Zhao Dongping out and called out: "How's it going with me asking you to buy machine guns?"