On the way, Lin Juemin made a detailed report to Chen Hao while walking.

The arms brought by James this time mainly include: 10 37mm rapid-fire cannons and more than 9,500 shells; 200 Maxim machine guns and more than 3 million bullets; more than 18,000 m1903 rifles, more than 25,000 bayonets and more than 9 million bullets.

Other military supplies are also extremely rich, with everything included, including: military shovels, simple first aid kits, medicines, telescopes, compass, gun oil, tents, kettles and a small amount of medical equipment. In addition, Chen Hao specially purchased five bullet production lines and corresponding technical instructors also came with the ship. In order to tie Chen Hao, this big customer, the enthusiastic and thoughtful Americans also gave away two sets of gun repair machinery and equipment.

After the report, Lin Juemin said with regret: "Mr. James said that he could have obtained more m1903 rifles, but because the principal required each rifle to be equipped with 500 bullets, the Springfield Arsenal's business was not only ours, and there was no such large inventory of bullets for a while, so only more than 18,000 rifles were shipped."

"So many are enough!" Chen Hao said with a smile: "At present, we are just attacking the weak Dutch devils, and thousands of m1903 rifles can handle them. The reason why this principal asked for so many bullets and also purchased bullet production lines is mainly to use bullets to feed a large number of sharpshooters for us to deal with powerful enemies in the future!"

"Haha." Lin Juemin said with a smile: "The principal's far-sighted and long-term plan is beyond the reach of Juemin!"

Zhou Dafu, the commander of the 1st Division and the 2nd Regiment, was following behind. When Chen Hao and the others talked about James, he followed and said, "Principal, the American arms dealer James is still staying in Yamaguchi Yoshima City, waiting for the principal's summoning. He seems to have something important to discuss with you. I wonder when the principal will call him to meet?"

"I understand. I'm going to go to Yamaguchi Yo tomorrow. Then I'll talk to him about it in detail." Chen Hao replied.

After arriving at the secret training base, I heard gunfires on the training ground. Lu Liwei, who had just been promoted to deputy commander of the Guard Brigade, took two regiment commanders Yang Yucheng and Zhu Yixuan from the Guard Brigade, and were happily conducting test shots with guns randomly selected from more than 18,000 rifles.

Seeing this situation, Chen Hao also became itchy. He stepped forward and picked up the m1903 rifle and happily tested it. About a quarter of an hour later, all the guns were inspected. The quality of the rifles produced by the Springfield Arsenal in the United States was indeed beyond words, and all the selected test rifles passed the inspection.

Then, while Chen Hao ordered Yang Yucheng to bring people to carry the Maxim machine gun to the murder weapon, he asked Lu Liwei to take people to 300 meters away to place a row of thick wooden boards as targets.

The Maxim machine gun, known as the Sai Electric Gun in China, was invented by British American Maxim in 1883 and conducted principle tests and obtained a patent in 1884.

The Maxim machine gun has a caliber of 11.43 mm and weighs 27 kilograms. It adopts a short recoil automatic method of the barrel and a water-cooled barrel. It uses a canvas chain with a capacity of 350 rounds and a length of 7 meters to supply ammunition.

The canvas bullet link can be connected continuously, with a theoretical rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, and the effective flat firing range is about 800 meters to 1,000 meters. The trigger of the Maxim machine gun is a rain of metal bullets. As long as there are sufficient ammunition and water, no matter how many enemies there are in front of you, they will be swept away completely.

The Maxim machine gun uses gunpowder gas erupted by the bullet during shooting to complete a series of actions such as unlocking, reshuffling, sending bullets and relocking, realizing automatic continuous shooting of a single-barrel gun and reducing the recoil of the gun.

The ammunition supply system adopts a canvas chain that can be connected to more than seven meters long. In order to cool the barrel that is heated due to continuous high-speed shooting, a water cooling method is used to add a water injection sleeve to the barrel.

At the beginning, the Maxim machine gun was not accepted by military strategists from various countries. Although Maxim sent people to promote it everywhere and even took action himself, it still did not arouse the interest of the buyers.

Military experts from various countries believe that the Maxim machine gun's bullet consumption is too high and the cost-effectiveness is not high. They believe that the rifle fires a bullet by pressing the trigger, which can ensure that each bullet is aimed at a target. It relies on the training of soldiers, the talent of the shooter and the luck of the targeted person.

However, the heavy machine gun quickly fires the bullets in one go, which will inevitably cause many bullets to be fired in air. A target may die if it is subjected to a bullet, but because the heavy machine gun fires too fast, a target will be shot far more than one bullet. More bullets are shot between the target, which is too wasteful.

The first practical application of the Maxim machine gun was in the war between the British army and the Maximian Surus from 1893 to 1894. In a battle, a British army of more than 50 people repelled dozens of charges from more than 5,000 Maximians with just four Maxim machine guns, killing more than 3,000 people, fully demonstrating the power of the Maxim machine gun and arousing the re-understanding of military experts.

The one that really made the Maxim machine gun show its popularity was World War I. At that time, the German army was equipped with the mg08 Maxim heavy machine gun. During the Somme battle, more than 60,000 British troops were killed in one day, making it the largest number of deaths in World War I.

Since then, armies of various countries have successively equipped Maxim heavy machine guns, and Maxim has become a world-famous killing weapon. In the entire First World War, almost 80% of the casualties were caused by Maxim machine guns. The terrifying power of Maxim machine guns has become a nightmare for soldiers.

The birth of the Maxim machine gun is of great significance. It changed the war model that lasted for hundreds of years and is the hot weapon with the most killings in the world. In the decades before the appearance of tanks, Maxim heavy machine guns were powerful and always been the king of infantry killing.

After Yang Yucheng brought people to carry the Maxim machine gun over, Chen Hao came forward to debug. After everything was arranged, Chen Hao gently pulled the trigger of the machine gun. Suddenly, the Maxim machine gun sprayed out a fierce tongue of flames, and the bullet poured into a thick wooden board 300 meters away like a storm.

Just half a minute later, Chen Hao had already swept a 6.4-meter-long cable with 333 rounds loading. The senior PLA leaders holding telescopes around him looked at the broken wooden boards 300 meters away, and were shaking and shaking, and stood there in a daze, unable to speak for a long time.
Chapter completed!