My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

Chapter 162 Death Scythe Maxim

Jiang Li's doubts disappeared when he heard this, and he immediately said to Uncle Jiu, "I just heard some rumors and was confused for a while, so I asked Master to help me solve my doubts. I hope Master will not take it to heart."

Uncle Jiu naturally wouldn't blame him for this. He just waved his hand and took him to eat.

The next day, Jiang Li rushed back to Jiang's house on the pretext of missing Ren Tingting, but in fact he went there to prepare his hidden machine gun technique.

After returning to the Jiang family, he found the housekeeper Old Wu and asked him about the recently purchased arms. This question really surprised him.

It turns out that after the number of purchasing personnel and the purchase amount increased, the harvest was quite good.

Looking at the list in his hand, there were 500 Hanyang rifles, 100 Mosin-Nagant rifles, 50 Mauser pistols, 1,000 grenades, 20 Czech light machine guns, and 80,000 bullets of various types.

He bought another 75mm field gun, which he had high hopes for, and a basic supply of shells, and also bought two Maxim heavy machine guns.

Unfortunately, he only bought ten of the war horses he requested, but there were twenty camels and horses for pulling the goods.

There was no choice but for the purchasing staff to buy thirty bicycles.

Jiang Li looked at the list but there was no sign of the motorcycle. "Old Wu, did you buy the motorcycle?"

"I did find out, but the middleman said it would cost a thousand dollars a car, and you have to go to Guangzhou to get one, so you have to pay a two hundred dollar deposit first. The purchasing staff was afraid it was a scam, so they didn't buy it!"

Jiang Li frowned when he heard this. He knew that the motorcycle might be very expensive, but he didn't expect that it would cost a thousand dollars.

But when I think about the fact that China cannot produce this thing at all and has to import it all, I feel relieved about the price.

Then he drew a sketch for Old Wu and told him, "It's only a thousand yuan. We don't need this little money right now. Buy one first and see if it works. If it does, we can increase the purchase."

"Give this drawing to the purchasing staff and ask them to buy it according to this picture. If they don't have it, ask if it can be modified to look like this."

Old Wu was very surprised when he took the blueprint, because he saw that the car actually had three wheels, two on the left and one on the right, which was very uncoordinated.

"Master, according to the purchaser's report, this motorcycle has two wheels. Why does your portrait have three wheels?"

Jiang Li had expected him to ask this question, so he explained to him, "Old Wu, look at the left side, which is the main body of the motorcycle, and the right side is an additional seat for a shooter."

"It can hold a heavy machine gun, so it has to be made of metal. This will help overcome the disadvantage of heavy machine guns being too heavy."

Old Wu understood immediately after hearing this, and nodded, saying, "Don't worry, Master. I understand. I was wondering how to use such a heavy Mark machine gun, but it turns out it's mounted on a car!"

When Jiang Li heard Old Wu addressing Maxim, he did not correct him, but instead said, "Old Wu, pay attention. You must tell the purchasing staff to buy more gasoline, otherwise the motorcycle will be just a decoration!"

Old Wu's eyes lit up when he heard this. "Master, if you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten that they bought two barrels of the gasoline you mentioned, and they are now in the warehouse!"

Jiang Li was excited when he heard this, but then he calmed down. There was no use having gasoline without a motorcycle.

However, he still asked Lao Wu to give some rewards to those purchasing staff. After all, he knew the future development route, and motorized troops were the trend of the future, so he naturally had to encourage these purchasing staff.

After sending Old Wu away, Jiang Li went to the warehouse alone. As soon as he entered, he saw a large number of guns and ammunition, but he did not care about anything else and went straight to the two Maxim rifles.

He had heard of this guy's name for a long time on the Internet in his previous life. The Maxim, known as the Death Scythe, was the first heavy machine gun invented by mankind, and its appearance marked the beginning of the era of automatic weapons for mankind.

The Maxim is a water-cooled machine gun that uses a water-cooling sleeve to cool the barrel to maintain its ability to fire continuously.

Unfortunately, because it has been on the market for many years, its performance is not as good as other heavy machine guns.

Firstly, it weighs about 27 kilograms, which is a bit too heavy for infantry. Secondly, the water-cooled barrel puts too much of a burden on logistics.

Not only did they have to transport the heavy machine guns, but they also had to transport a large number of bullets and a lot of water to cool the barrels, otherwise they would not be able to continue firing.

He came to a Maxim gun, bent down and picked it up, feeling the cold touch on his hands, which made him want to load bullets and shoot it immediately.

But his reason stopped him from having such crazy thoughts. With a wave of his hand, he put the Maxim and the two boxes of 7.62mm machine gun bullets on the ground into the storage bag.

Afterwards, he took a few Taoist soldiers to the place where they usually conducted shooting training to test their guns.

Under the surprised eyes of several Taoist soldiers, the two boxes of bullets, several single chains, and a huge Maxim gun were taken out.

Then he ordered several people to start loading the bullets. After a while, the bullets were finally loaded. Jiang Li then put down the instruction manual and carefully checked each part of the machine gun to make sure everything was in good condition.

Then he clicked the belt and placed his finger lightly on the trigger.

With a loud roar, the Maxim machine gun instantly spewed out flames, shocking everyone at the scene.

Bullets flew towards the target like raindrops, and the powerful firepower directly smashed the earth wall three hundred meters away into pieces.

Jiang Li stared at the shooting results closely and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

He felt the shock brought by the Maxim machine gun, as if he was on the battlefield. At this moment, he had a deep understanding of the power of this machine gun.

As Jiang Li stopped shooting, several people at the scene immediately came to their senses and asked what kind of gun it was.

"Alright, alright, what are you guys making such a fuss about? It's inappropriate to yell like that!"

Jiang Li was lecturing when suddenly a familiar yet unfamiliar loud noise came from behind him. He jumped up in fright and almost fell to the ground. He even uttered the Chinese quintessence, "Fuck."

Looking back, it turned out to be that guy named Asan. He had secretly loaded the Maxim gun with bullets at some point, and was now shooting wildly with a red face.

When he had used up all the bullets in one belt and was about to change the belt again, Jiang Li came up and kicked him over, "What the hell are you doing? You scared me!"

"Hehehe, Master, I saw you testing the gun, so I came to help you try it out. I have just tried it out, and this gun is very good, with a fast rate of fire and strong firepower. It would be great if we could each be equipped with one."

Jiang Li frowned and ignored his playful smile. He checked that not much water was lost in the water jacket and the temperature of the gun barrel was not very high. Only then did he feel relieved.