In a barracks outside Vienna, the Bavarian Guards Regiment and two other companies of the Royal Cavalry, which accompanied the prince to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were stationed. www.biquge.info The role of this force is not only to prop up the façade for the prince, but also to carry weapons and ammunition as the advance force sent by Bavaria to Libya, and the commander of this force, Lieutenant Colonel Karl, is making the final mobilization before the departure! This time they will face a European power. Given the difficulties of supply, their preparation had to be quite meticulous!

Although the vehicles brought this time did not tow heavy weapons such as artillery, they also carried a large amount of ammunition, and because the military industrial systems of Bavaria and Austria were docked to a certain extent, some weapons could use Austrian ammunition and accessories, although Fritz was indifferent to this war, but after the prince expressed his willingness to buy it at the price, Austria-Hungary was also willing to provide ammunition for this expeditionary force.

"INCLUDING THE CAVALRY, WE HAD A TOTAL OF 1,500 MEN IN THE FIRST BATCH, AND CONSIDERING THE DIFFICULTY OF AMMUNITION SUPPLY, WE CARRIED A SMALL NUMBER OF 75MM GUNS, ONLY FOUR, AND THE MAIN WEAPONS WERE MACHINE GUNS AND MORTARS, AND WE HAD A TOTAL OF 120 MACHINE GUNS TOGETHER WITH SPARE MACHINE GUNS, AS WELL AS 20 60MM MOTARS, 20 82MM MORTARS AND 12 120MM MATARS." When Prince Ruprecht himself came to check the preparations, Lieutenant Colonel Karl reported the list of weapons he was carrying.

In fact, at the beginning of World War I, there were no 120 machine guns in a German division, and it is said that the number of machine guns concentrated by the German army would not exceed 2,000 when the entire Western Front broke out. A large part of these weapons were intended for part of the Turkish army.

"What about the equipment?" The prince asked. According to the historical Italian-Turkish war, the two sides fought directly for more than 1 year, and it may be difficult to bring so many machine guns and mortars to survive on the ammunition transported before the war, so this time Lieutenant Colonel Karl also had to bring a suggested bullet reloading line, simple gun repair equipment and spare parts.

Why bring so many mortars? The reason is simple, the production of artillery shells is simple, cheap pig iron can be made into shells, and the shrapnel produced after the explosion is no worse than copper shells. If there is no smokeless powder, black powder can also be used as a propellant. The firing range is shorter, just change the set of gun watches. Let's make do with it.

"Based on your ideas, we have designed two improvised four-wheeled wagons to transport machine guns and mortars, and orders have already been sent for them, which will be produced in Egypt under the name of ordinary horse-drawn carriages and then shipped over through special passages." Lieutenant Colonel Carr said.

In fact, this carriage is not like a normal four-wheeled carriage for transporting goods, but it is actually composed of two parts, a front carriage loaded with ammunition and maintenance tools, and a rear carriage equipped with machine guns, which is hitched to the front carriage by means of a link device.

A new MG98 machine gun was attached to the rear car, and the machine gun was almost integrated into the vehicle through the gun carriage, of course, it could also be removed if necessary and pressed on a normal tripod.

"In the absence of artillery, this rear car is a reliable point of fire." Lieutenant Colonel Carr stepped forward and said. He opened a box on the right side of the machine gun and pulled out a chain of bullets. "The ammunition box on the right side of the inside of the hull can hold at least 2,000 rounds.

"On the left is the cooling water tank. We used a conduit directly to connect to the cooling bucket of the machine gun. There were about 50 kilograms of water in it. With that, Lieutenant Colonel Karl opened the cooling water tank on the left side again. The MG98 machine gun was used extensively in the 1st World War of the Germans in history, and the MG08 machine gun used the same size of cooling pipe, which required 4L of water when filled.

In addition to consuming a lot of ammo, machine guns also consume a lot of coolant (which can be water or urine...... The MG98 machine gun on this plane is an imitation of the British Wicks machine gun, which ensures a lower weight while also inheriting the problem of wasting water.

According to the experiments of Lieutenant Colonel Carr and others, firing 500 to 600 rounds in a row would boil the water in the machine gun cooling bucket when the outside temperature was not too high, and the temperature was high enough to boil ......eggs. If you are not willing to release the trigger at this time, an average of 1.5 pints of water will evaporate per 1000 rounds. (1 pint equals about 0.57 liters of water) and prolonged firing can cause damage to the firearm.

If it is in an ordinary environment, although this water consumption will be very troublesome, there is still a certain distance from being deadly, but this time, the place where the Blue Army is going is North Africa! The water problem is very serious, why do you have to get this carriage? To a large extent, it was to ensure the supply of water for personnel and machine guns!

After learning about the situation, Lieutenant Colonel Carr was afraid that 50KG of fresh water would not be enough, and hoped that the water storage tank of the production version of the machine gun carriage could have more than 80KG ........ The cooling water from the MG98 machine gun can be re-entered through a rubber conduit into another tank, which is a condensate collection tank, to minimize water waste.

"The bezel behind this body seems to flip up?" The prince, who was close to the carriage body, looked curiously at a steel plate hanging behind the carriage and said.

"That's right, after entering the combat position, this steel plate can be turned up as a shield for machine-gun shooters. And this rear car has an independent braking device, as long as the brakes are pulled up and then the bracket is opened, it will become a very stable design platform. ”

"Let me see your mortars." The prince was quite satisfied with the machine-gun carriage.

"If it's a 60MM and 82MM mortar, you can just use the same wagon, and even the 60MM mortar can be easily unloaded from the car. AND THE BOTTOM PLATE OF THE 82MM MORTAR IS THE VEHICLE ITSELF. The gun body was also fixed to the car. THE MOST TROUBLESOME THING IS THE 120MM MORTAR, WHICH WEIGHS MORE THAN 225KG. So we arranged this for it. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Carr said, pointing to the proposed gun carriage in the distance. In general, the so-called artillery carriages were at least 4 to 6 horses. But in order to be flexible, all carriages are based on double horses, which requires the weight of the entire carriage to be as low as possible, the weight of the former plus the rear carriage is best below 800KG, you know, a 120MM mortar weighs 225KG. Therefore, Lieutenant Colonel Karl simply added 2 wheels on both sides of the gun to directly use them as the rear car, and made a connecting rod in front of him to connect to the ammunition car.

A 120MM MORTAR SHELL WEIGHS UP TO 15KG, AND A TWO-SEATER WAGON NEEDS TO CARRY 25 MORTAR SHELLS AND THE CORRESPONDING ****** IN ADDITION TO ONE CANNON, WHICH IS ALMOST CLOSE TO THE LIMIT OF THE CARRIAGE CARRYING, AFTER ALL, YOU CAN'T EXPECT HOW GOOD THE ROAD CONDITIONS IN AFRICA ARE.

"Most of our weapons are ready, but overall, there are still some problems because I can't get enough fire cover for the attacking troops as well." After a moment's hesitation, Lieutenant Colonel Carr voiced his concerns.

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