Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 68 Machine guns are not bought and can be fired
Anxious Zhao Xin finally completed the registration procedures for the single ship company.As soon as he got the procedures, he immediately looked for a freight forwarding company at the location of the cargo ship to expeditiously handle the operation of the shipping business.

In order not to arouse suspicion, he purchased 24 tons of grain as customs declaration commodities, and completed the pre-examination of goods for customs clearance in advance.The rest of the inspection and quarantine procedures need to be completed within 24 hours before departure, otherwise, if you do not leave the port for more than [-] hours, you will have to do it again.

Zhao Xin found an agency, and on the grounds that all his crew members were not assigned overseas, he directly hired [-] crew members of various types with high salaries; after the cargo ship was driven to the port outside the country, the work of these people would be over.

As an employee of the company, Deng Fei went out to sea as the chief engineer; as for Ding Guofeng, he wrote the chef in the declaration materials.

After arranging all the procedures, Zhao Xin finally left the country with confidence.

He returned to the camp first, and hurriedly took Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu away.Then I drove overnight to another port city more than 100 kilometers away.

This is where his bulk carrier will end up; Daniel and his arms deal will also be done here.Zhao Xin had received a notification from the other party before that all the goods had arrived at the port safely and are currently parked in the yard of the terminal.

One night later, accompanied by Andrew who arrived here, Zhao Xin and the other three completed the inventory and acceptance of weapons and ammunition in the cargo yard.

This batch of goods occupies a total of three high-container containers (83 cubic meters in volume and 28 tons in load).

第一个高箱内是各种型号的子弹和五枝配备光学瞄准镜和消音器的NG7 7.62mm口径机枪；第二个高箱则装几套用于复装子弹的设备和底火、火药、C4炸药、弹头、弹壳还有三台小型膛线机；在最后一个高箱里，除了一百枝Marlin1894 CB 357杠杆步枪和一部分.357口径的马格南子弹以外，还有十挺M2HB和大量的410不锈钢棒。

Yes, Zhao Xin is going to use the Marlin1894 lever rifle as a template and let Zhao Liang try to make a few to see how it works.

Since the birth of the Winchester Model 1866, the lever rifle has been around for nearly 150 years.Although it is not used by the armies of various countries, it has always been a sharp weapon for gang fights by various western bandits and cowboys.Its production process is very mature; a full set of process drawings and related tools are very easy to obtain.

The subsonic large-caliber .357 Magnum bullet stops the effect quite well.What Zhao Xin is most worried about is the tigers and other large beasts around the new base. This bullet can effectively resist the attacks of these beasts.

As for the effect of hitting people, a bullet that a tiger or a black bear can knock down with one shot, needless to say.

After all the goods were checked, Andrew stared at Zhao Xin and asked, "I'm curious how you will transport these out of customs."

"You don't have to worry about this. I have my own way. What you need to do is to quickly complete the handover of the goods between us."

After Zhao Xin said casually, he completed the transfer payment.For the sake of safety, he decided to use gold spot payment for the next transaction with Daniel.

Andrew shook hands with Zhao Xin after receiving a phone call from Daniel who received the payment.As for his personal deal with Zhao Xin, it will be completed next month.

After the three of them looked around the container carefully, Zhao Xin entered the container.This happened three times, each time he came out one minute after entering, and Wang Yuanfang and Wu Siyu immediately closed and locked the container door.

When leaving the freight yard to go out, Zhao Xin, who covered his face tightly, handed an envelope with money to the security guard who was in charge of guarding the freight yard.The security guard took the envelope from the gap in the rolled down car window and opened the door to let it go.

Since then, there have been three more containers in the cargo yard of the port that will never be picked up.It was not until many years later that someone forcibly opened it and found that there was nothing inside.

The trio drove back to modern Bear Island overnight, and then back to the eighteenth-century camp.

The next morning, Zhang Bo, a welder who had breakfast after getting up, was called to the bay on the north side of the camp by Zhao Xin who suddenly appeared.

The seawater in the bay is not completely frozen because of its high salinity.But as long as it leaves the bay and enters the ocean, a large swath of frozen sea water will block the way forward, and it will be impossible for an icebreaker to move.

Zhang Bo stared at the temporary dock built with plastic pontoons and the two patrol boats moored not far away in a stunned manner. The questions were all on his lips, and then he remembered that Zhao, who was beside him, always had "special abilities".

Alas, this is a fart. It is not easy to bring people like yourself into the [-]th century and get two boats.

Thinking of this, Zhang Bo asked Zhao Xin, "Mr. Zhao, what do you need me to do?"

"Get on the boat first." Zhao Xin waved his hand and took Zhang Bo to board a patrol boat from the temporary dock.

Zhang Bo entered the cabin and saw that Liu Sheng and Zhao Liang were already waiting here. There were some steel pipes and steel plates that had just been unpacked on the ground in the cabin, and there was also a big guy who looked like a receiver.

"What is this?" Zhang Bo looked at the big guy on the ground in surprise. He seemed to have seen this thing in the movie.

"M2HB machine gun, but the barrel has not yet been installed." Zhao Xin said lightly, and then pointed to the hydraulic supports and steel plates on the ground. "Xiao Zhang, the three of you discuss how to put this thing on the deck above the cockpit. Make sure it's strong, don't shoot at sea and the shelf below will fall down. What do you need? Just ask Liu Sheng for tools."

"Okay, Mr. Zhao, isn't it just a steel frame?" Zhang Bo was full of confidence.It turns out that he was keeping it simple.

While purchasing weapons, Zhao Xin also bought the matching MK93 ship defense system produced by CRS.This thing is, to put it bluntly, a set of integrated armor shields that can be installed on ships and fortresses.The complete system consists of a machine gun mount with front and rear tilting machines and a bulletproof steel plate shield.

When Zhao Xin bought these two official patrol boats, he had already requested that the upper deck be strengthened and reinforced, and a layer of steel plate was laid on the original FRP structure.

All Zhao Liang and Zhang Bo had to do was to install two MK93 systems.

The two tossed with the product manual for a day before installing the bracket and shield steel plate.The next step is to install the machine gun and test the effect.

The next morning, Liu Sheng, Zhao Liang, and Zhang Bo first installed the M2HB gun body on the MK93 bracket and fixed it, and then Liu Sheng carried the more than one meter long barrel to start the installation.

Since everyone is not familiar with this kind of machine gun, according to the manual, Liu Sheng first asked Zhao Liang to pull the bolt to the end, then turned the barrel to the right a few times to tighten it slightly, and then took out a bunch of things similar to keys and started to carry out adjust.

This keychain-like thing is called a "plug gauge" and consists of three gauges of varying thickness.Due to the way the M2's barrel is mounted, it cannot be changed as quickly as the MG machine gun.At this time, a special "plug gauge" is needed to adjust the gap between the bolt and the barrel.If the gap is too far or too close, it will not be able to fire.

Start by pulling the bolt back about one-sixteenth of an inch (1.5875 mm), then insert the thickest gauge into the gap between the barrel and the frame in front of the receiver; if it doesn't fit, you need to turn it slightly again barrel.Repeat this until the center of the gauge is fully inserted.

The next step is to remove the back plate of the receiver, adjust the timing wheel inside, and turn it counterclockwise 15 times; then put another thinner gauge into the gap between the bolt and the barrel, and push the bolt until the gauge Top tight.Then adjust the trigger lever until it makes a soft "click".

The third step is to insert the thinnest gauge and adjust the trigger again until it makes a soft "click".

At this point, you can install the rear panel of the receiver back.

(Now you know how troublesome the M2HB is to change the barrel every time. It's not just unscrewed, replaced, and screwed up again.)
Liu Sheng and Zhao Liang, who first came into contact with M2HB, struggled for a long time before completing the work of installing the barrel.The impatient Zhang Bo was already fascinated in the cockpit below.

The two immediately hung the ammunition box containing 50 rounds of bullets on the left side of the machine gun, loaded the bullets, and closed the receiver cover; then they turned the button in the middle of the trigger button to automatic mode and pulled the bolt twice.

Liu Sheng asked Zhao Liang to dodge a little, then leaned over to look at Zhang Bo who was snoring, showed a wicked smile, pointed the muzzle at the sea, and then pressed the trigger.

"Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang!!!" The recoil behind the gun caused the hull to shake slightly.

As soon as the gunshot rang, Zhang Bo, who was sleeping soundly in the cockpit, was suddenly jolted, turned over and fell from the chair to the ground.After he lay on the floor and covered his head for a while, he heard the snickers of Liu Sheng and the two from the deck.

So he got up and scolded at the hatch of the boat: "Gui Sun! I'm going to be scared to death by you!"

"Sleep for what, get up HIGH." Liu Sheng greeted loudly.

"Come on, Xiao Zhang, come and give me two shots." Zhao Liang also greeted Zhang Bo with a smile.

Ten minutes later, Zhang Bo, who pressed the trigger and fired more than a dozen bullets, was hooked.

After a while, Zhao Xin, who heard the gunshots, came with several people.

Looking at the big guy installed on the patrol boat, everyone was amazed.For the modern audience, this thing has only been seen in TV and movies before, and has never seen the real thing; and for Sheng Haizhou and the others, let alone.

So at the strong request of Hong Tao and Liu Zheng, Zhao Xin asked everyone to line up and take turns to get rid of gun addiction.On the grounds that the number of bullets was limited, he arranged for each person to shoot only [-] rounds.

Liu Siting pouted and said, "It's really stingy."

Zhao Xin rubbed his numb arms and said with a wry smile: "Director Liu, it's really enjoyable. This machine gun doesn't have many bullets. Do you think this thing can be sold as casually as Chinese cabbage?"

Zhao Xin suddenly thought, can Andrew provide .50 bullets?Take the time to ask.

After the first one was installed, the MK93 and machine gun on the second patrol boat took half a day to install.

As for the remaining eight M2HBs, Zhao Xin intends to install them all on the sides of the bulk carrier.This thing is paired with .050 M8 armor-piercing incendiary bombs, and it is definitely a weapon for maddening the Qing court's chasing boats and island country house boats within 1500 meters.

As for land warfare, it's such a waste to use this thing!
(End of this chapter)