Throughout the development history of machine guns, we know that as early as 1872, Colt Company had exported Gatling machine guns to China.
Let's take a look at the history of the Qing Dynasty, and we will know that 1872 was the eleventh year of Tongzhi of Mu Zong in the Qing Dynasty. If the Tongzhi emperor was not in an ulterior place, it is entirely possible that he shook his Gatling machine gun and took Ranho away? After all, machine guns are a new thing, much more interesting than setting off firecrackers.
As for the Madsen light machine gun with a total weight of less than 10 kg, a range of 2 km and a firing rate of 400 rounds per minute, it was invented in 1902.
In the upper part of the above picture, the military expert played by Dahongni in the TV series "Behind the Gun" is imitating and developing a light machine gun, and the lower part is the Madsen M50 7.62mm light machine gun.
Madsen light machine gun was born in 1902, in the 28th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty. That is to say, in the year when Guangxu was a puppet and Cixi came to power, not only the light machine gun was born, but also the Mao Se pistol known as mauser pistol had been put into production for six years. In the TV series, a lady rubbed a mauser pistol, and a beautiful woman in cheongsam stepped on the bottom of the flowerpot and came in. This is not impossible.
Many people actually began to laugh when they saw the screenshot of the big red hat wearing the Qing army machine gun. If they see the panoramic screenshot, they may not laugh? Please look at what clothes the people sitting below are wearing when Dahongni (Hou Jiuman) explains the principle of machine guns.
Hou Jiuman? Research? When the new machine gun came out, Guangdong had already revolted, and Yuan Shikai had already released it? New army? We have almost finished our training. Although everyone still has a small plait, in order to make money, the powers fought the Qing army and sold weapons to the Qing army. You can get any advanced weapon as long as you are willing to pay.
Unfortunately, the money in the Qing Dynasty was only used to build a garden for Cixi's birthday and refused to allocate it to Li Hongzhang to buy arms.
In fact, there was no shortage of people of insight like Hou Jiuman in Qing Dynasty. Hou Jiuman is fictional, but Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang are real historical celebrities. Let's look at Zeng Guofan's throne and see how difficult it was for the generals at that time.
On the third day of July in the tenth year of Tongzhi, Zeng Guofan wrote in the book "Taixi I intend to drop out of school": Bin Chun, Zhi Gang and Sun Jiagu were ordered to travel around the world twice, and they also got a glimpse of their essentials in overseas situations. Such as maps, algorithms, mending the sky, surveying the sea, building ships, building machines, etc., are all embodied in the military? Tianjin, Shanghai, Fuzhou and other places have imitation boards for ships, guns and ammunition. ?
The purpose of Zeng Guofan's memorial service is to send more clever students to study in other countries, but it may also be his last memorial service, because after this memorial service, he was left behind? Cixi led her son? Ancestors? Praying for protection and sticking to spears and bows and arrows are the basis of their whole lives.
Zeng Guofan's student Li Hongzhang is more difficult to deal with than his teacher. Zeng Guofan retreated sharply, and Li Hongzhang became the target of concentrated fire attack by the Eight Banners nobles and Han officials.
After drafting the memorial for Zeng Guofan and offending Weng Tonghe, Li Hongzhang's new army and even the Beiyang Navy began? Hungry? Yes No matter how much Li Hongzhang wanted to claim for military expenses like a cuckoo crying blood, Weng Tonghe turned a blind eye. Weng Tonghe even threatened to teach Li Hongzhang a lesson through the Sino-Japanese War.
Weng Tongyu? Main battle? In fact, he wants to roast Li Hongzhang in Lushan. He hoped that the Qing army would fail in the Sino-Japanese War, so that he could bring down Li Hongzhang when he was down and out.
The Eight Banners nobles were busy repairing the garden, flattering Cixi on the stage, and the courtiers in the DPRK were waiting to see Li See Hongzhang's jokes. If you can win the Sino-Japanese War, please ask the Monkey King to be the pioneer.
Let's talk about the machine gun of Dahongni (decorated by Hou Jiuman): it is not difficult at all for him to develop a light machine gun, let alone impossible, because foreigners are not bad to Li Hongzhang, and there are many samples of good guns.
Poor Li Hongzhang got a cannon from Germany, and he couldn't even afford the freight, so he had to have the cheek to let others deliver it.
In addition to German cannons, Li Hongzhang also received rapid-fire machine guns. What is even more shameful is that Li Hongzhang received them? Special gift? The machine gun was taken back by others in a special way.
Now there is a Norton felt rapid-fire machine gun in the Springfield Arsenal Museum in the United States, and the words next to it are clearly written: English, Norton felt, to Li? .
How did this special gift appear in the Arsenal Museum in the United States? The answer is simple: take it back, take it back with interest? In the Tianjin campaign of 1900, they seized hundreds of Norton Felt rapid-fire machine guns of the Qing army.
People only gave Li Hongzhang a hand. This machine gun was not regarded as a private collection by Li Hongzhang, but was handed over to the arsenal for imitation, which was the embarrassing thing that was recovered by others with interest.
Having said that, I just want to make it clear that it is not Dahong Ni who should be laughed at, nor is it the writer and director of The Queen. What is really ridiculous and hateful is the greedy Cixi and the stupid Eight Banners aristocrat, and Weng Tonghe, a person who only knows intrigue? Know a lot about Confucianism? .
Really? Hou? Li Hongzhang's tragic experience is only a microcosm of the Qing court's neglect of science and technology and armaments: with the money wasted by the Qing court on the Yuanmingyuan and Summer Palace at that time, all armored warships in the world can be bought, and Li Hongzhang's army can be equipped with a light machine gun.