As we all know, in war, the quality of weapons and equipment plays a crucial role in the victory or defeat of war, and sometimes it may be decisive. According to historical records, in the Battle of Matabelle, the commander of the primitive tribes in Africa, commanding the indigenous people, fought against 50 British soldiers, and in terms of numbers, the indigenous tribes were in an absolutely dominant position. However, the result was astounding, as the 50 British soldiers defeated 5,000 Zulu soldiers with only one special weapon, 3,000 of whom were killed, the famous Maxim machine gun. According to the data, the inventor of the Maxim machine gun is called Maxim, this person was born relatively poor, when he was young, he did all kinds of miscellaneous work, and did not receive higher education at all. It can be said that in the first half of his life, he did not invent any weapons at all, and until the age of 41, he was still poor and living at the bottom of society. Later, ostracized by Edison, he eventually traveled to Europe, where Europeans were obsessed with the invention of various advanced weapons, and Maxim was also involved.
And began to invent their own independent automatic firearms, we must know that on the battlefield at that time, guns are not automated, after a shot must also be loaded, on the battlefield, the speed of soldiers, the speed of reloading will directly affect the outcome of the war. Maxine is a genius inventor who actually converted the energy generated when the bullet was fired into the power to supply automatic shooting, and finally invented the first automatic rifle, which is a milestone witness in the entire history of human weapon development. According to the data, in 1884 AD, after intensive research and development, Maxim finally successfully developed a machine gun that can automatically shoot continuously, and is called a Maxim machine gun. Later, in the live-fire demonstration, all the major countries in the world appeared one after another, among which the representative figure of China was Li Hongzhang, who was then the governor of Zhili, who witnessed the Makqin machine gun firing 300 bullets in 15 seconds, which would be an amazing effect if it was on the battlefield.
However, at this time, Li Hongzhang said, "This is too fast, too fast, although the fight is very fast, but the bullet consumption is also too fast, too expensive, the Qing Dynasty can not afford to buy." In fact, not only Li Hongzhang did not buy, france and Russia at that time did not order, only the Germans ordered, and later in the First World War, the reason why the German army won in the early stage was closely related to the large-scale use of Maxim machine guns. In the end, the Maxim machine gun became the personal patent of Maxim and brought him a lot of wealth, but it cannot be denied that it is precisely because of the great power of the Maxim machine gun that many people died under this weapon. In the history of the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China in 1900, a large number of Boxers surrounded the foreign embassy in Beijing, but the embassy only used 3 Maxim machine guns, which caused the Boxers to suffer heavy losses and could not move forward. In 1916, in the middle and late stages of World War I, the grand Battle of the Somme broke out, and millions of soldiers were killed in front of The Maxim machine guns, and the poor Maxine invented the weapon Maxim machine gun to make money, and indeed gained great wealth. He enjoyed great honors, but died in London shortly after the end of world war I.
The author believes that the Maxim machine gun is arguably the most murderous firearm, and frankly speaking, the reason why Maxim was able to invent this weapon was on the one hand because of his love of invention, and on the other hand, he was also to support his family. What he may not have thought of was that the Maxim machine gun he invented would kill many soldiers, in addition, Li Hongzhang felt that this machine gun was too expensive after seeing the great power of the Maxim machine gun. Frankly speaking, this is really a bit strange, everyone should know that China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War, with a reparation of 230 million taels of silver, and the Eight-Power Alliance's invasion of China was defeated by the Qing court, with a reparation of 450 million taels of silver. If the silver of the indemnity can be used to buy this kind of machine gun, in the modern land war, the Qing army at least will not have a tragic situation of desertion and escape.