In this case, Zhao Dongyun would rather equip two more 12 mortars than spend precious money to import 12 mm field howitzers.
In 12 mm cannon and even 15 mm cannon, these ranges are enough, but they are also important. The dead plain area is fine, but the western and southern parts of China are mountainous areas, which are separated from the railway. These five or six tons and ten tons of heavy artillery can’t be maneuvered.
Moreover, there is also a key factor, that is, the price of 12-caliber cannon is very expensive, and ordinary powers and countries can’t equip dozens of doors. Zhao Dongyun, a small warlord, can’t afford these expensive cannons.
Combining the range, rapid-fire weight and price factors, Zhao Dongyun chose this 194-type 1 mm cannon. Coincidentally, Japanese people in the Far East also imported 1 mm cannon from Germany and copied the 30-year-old 1 cannon. The performance of Zhao Dongyun’s 194 cannon is basically similar to that of the German.
Zhao Dong Yunshi also asked Japanese people to try to buy this gun, but the Japanese people’s own output was also low. After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army was in the era of old and new big changes. Many later, the world was familiar with classic weapons. For example, Zhao Dongyun couldn’t buy a list of Japanese people’s 30-year weapons, such as 30-year rifles, 30-year 75mm field guns, 30-year 75mm mountain guns, 30-year heavy machine guns, etc. It was difficult to finalize the new generation of weapons in the Russo-Japanese War
You can’t buy from Japanese people. Zhao Dongyun is imported from Germany, and the price is naturally a few points more expensive!
After waiting for half a year, the twelve 1 mm cannons are finally back, which makes Zhao Dongyun a little excited. The 75 mm wild cannon has played much with the mountain cannon, but this 1 mm cannon is equipped for the first time.
Moreover, Zhao Dongyun paid nearly 402,000 silver for these twelve 1 mm cannon shells, which cost a lot of money to buy back. If you don’t look at it, you are really sorry for your money.
So a few days later, on a sunny afternoon, Zhao Dongyun arrived at the military camp on the outskirts of Shenyang with a group of generals.
A large number of Fengjun troops are stationed in the military camp in the southern suburbs of Shenyang, including the tenth division, two infantry regiments, an artillery battalion and a cavalry regiment, and a patrol regiment and an army infantry battalion stationed in the military camp in the western suburbs, which constitute Shenyang’s main control force.
In addition, it won’t be long before the Fengtian Army Heavy Artillery Battalion will be stationed here, and today Zhao Dongyun will come to see this just announced the formation of the Heavy Artillery Battalion.
"A month ago, we transferred officers and backbone artillery. Now, although some artillery and trench soldiers are still newly recruited, there are a large number of backbones. This battalion can have initial combat effectiveness in three months at most!" Fang Biyong walked beside Zhao Dong Cloud and introduced "This is Lieutenant Colonel Wei Anpo, the battalion commander of this battalion!"
Wei Anpo was also the first two steps when the wall was always introduced, and then he stood at attention and gave a military-like salute to Zhao Dongyun, who was wearing an army. Zhao Dongyun carefully looked at this Wei Anpo and recalled his resume slightly in his mind.
If Zhao Dongyun remembers correctly, this person should have followed his old artillery since the era of the Third Association. I remember that he was the first to form a mortar force, but in those days he was only a deputy military academy. After these years, he obviously climbed to the lieutenant colonel, and now he is the battalion commander of the heavy artillery battalion, which is obviously more senior than that of the ordinary artillery battalion commander.
"Well, Anpo, you have become mature and steady in recent years!" Five or six years later, I followed Zhao Dongyun to mix a lot of hands, but now they are all in their thirties. Even Zhao Dongyun himself is approaching the third year of school. At this time, many people have changed a lot. It turns out that the small teams, officers, battalions and officers have become the young vitality that the top military officials can’t see in the past.
"These two days of training, if you have the confidence to do the exercises well!" Zhao Dongyun shook Wei Anpo’s hand before he left and looked at him with encouragement.
Wei Anpo’s face was a little excited. "Although the training days of the Ministry are short, the elite in the army will never live up to the great trust of the guard!"
This is indeed a great trust to the artillery units in Fengjun. There are many artillery units in this year. Beiyang Army is not the National Revolutionary Army or the People’s Liberation Army’s 10,000-person division in the later generations. Now Beiyang Army, whether it is Zhao Dongyun or Wang Shizhen Duan Qirui, still retains a lot of information about Yuan Shikai’s era. Plus, they have purchased a lot of this artillery in the past six months.
Zhao Dongyun told the Third Division and the Fifth Brigade that after the mortar was fully staffed, there were 14 artillery battalions with 75 mm guns, and there were more than 200 guns in Wang Shizhen and Duan Qirui. Although they didn’t have that many, there were more than a hundred and dozens of them, which was definitely much better than the Confederate artillery units.
However, there are dozens of intermediate artillery officers in so many artillery units in Fengjun, but Wei Anpo is the only battalion commander of a heavy artillery battalion. If this is not a great trust, then what is it?
"Well, that’s good!" Zhao Dongyun casually said, then looked around and saw that the people were ready, and immediately said, "Since everyone is ready, let’s do it!"
With Zhao Dongyun’s order, today’s artillery exercise is not a well-known artillery exercise, but since an exercise has been made, the staff will naturally not miss the opportunity, and a battalion of infantry and a cavalry company have been temporarily joined to make a joint exercise of the three armed forces.
Naturally, the cavalry and infantry troops appeared first, but soon the positions of the two sides were raised with artillery balloons, and the 75 mm artillery fired training bombs, and the infantry covered them in front.
But soon, a huge artillery balloon rose further behind the battlefield.
The wall always explained to Zhao Dongyun that "there is the position of the heavy artillery battalion. They have already raised the shooting balloons, and it is expected that they will be able to determine the shooting of the elements soon."
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Sure enough, it wasn’t long before the heavy artillery battalion was on fire. The sound of the 1 mm cannon was louder than that of the 75 mm cannon, which made people know that it was not a medium-small caliber gun but a large caliber gun.
With the 1 mm cannon fire passing through the artillery and the balloon shooting, the artillery positions on the opposite side stopped shelling one after another, and the judges quickly came to the conclusion that the 75 mm field artillery position of Team B was devastated and was forced to evacuate after half of the artillery was destroyed.
Although this result has been confirmed before the exercise, even if it is acting, in any case, it takes 100 mm to have a range of over 10 thousand meters to perform it.
Zhao Dongyun is quite satisfied with the results of the exercise!
Even he thought that when he arrived with his troops for the second time, he would definitely have a battle with Wang Yingkai. At that time, he would have to teach Wang Yingkai these super-long-range cannons a good lesson about what is a king of war and what is a real artillery battle!
"Very good, you should continue to strengthen training and strive for a hundred shots!" Zhao Dongyun naturally won’t be stingy with his praise.
Wei Anpo smiled and said, "If we want to train and have enough live ammunition, our training will never fall!"
"This is natural!" He immediately turned to Zhao Dongping and said, "You should pay more attention to the training bombs needed by the heavy artillery battalion and give priority to them as much as possible!"
Zhao Dongping said, "There’s no problem with this. I’ve already discussed with Fu Factory to make them copy and produce 1 mm shells. It shouldn’t be long before they can come out. Besides, this gun has also imported thousands of shells. Short-term enough!"
Zhao Dongyun also sighed, "It would be nice if the Fu factory could copy this artillery. There are thirty-five words that can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of our army!"
Zhao Dongyun is just thinking about copying this cannon. Fuyuan Machinery Factory boasts that its technical ability is the first in China to produce rifles and machine guns, which is better than mountain guns and mortars. However, in recent years, it has not been able to get out long-barreled field guns.
After all, these field guns with a barrel of 30 times are not the kind of guns with a caliber of more than 10 times. For short-barreled field guns, Fuyuan Machine Factory can barely produce them by relying on the steel of Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant. However, if we want to produce long-barreled field guns, the steel quality of Tangshan Iron and Steel Plant is slightly insufficient.
After two years of trial, both doors were blasted, Laifuyuan Machinery Factory tried to import gun tube materials directly and then processed them by itself. However, it was found that after importing many raw materials, it was actually processed on a large scale, and a large number of experienced old technicians were forced to hand-process several doors. After that, it was found that the manufactured price was half as expensive as that of directly importing German goods!
As a result, Fuyuan Machinery Factory completely dispelled the illusion of short-term mass production of long-barrel field guns, and gradually carried out technical attack. First, qualified gun tube materials were trained, and then a series of technical problems such as gun tube processing were solved. Only after they really solved these technical problems can Fuyuan Machinery Factory talk about mass production of long-barrel field guns, that is, playing with short-barrel field guns and mortars.
But just because Fuyuan Machinery Factory can’t build these long-barreled field guns doesn’t mean they can even produce artillery shells by law!
At that time, Fuyuan Machinery Factory had not yet developed mountain guns, but there were already many artillery production lines. During the Russo-Japanese War, Zhao Dongyun sold almost all the artillery shells to the Russians produced by Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Not only did Beiyang Army have a large number of 75-mm artillery shells, but also Lian Haijun’s artillery shells could handle one or two.
Before the Republic, Fuyuan Machinery Factory was not only an ordnance supplier for the army in Beiyang provinces, but also a part of ordnance and ammunition of Beiyang Navy. It even made a small amount of inch shells on the cruiser Haiqi. However, the guys in the Navy refused to buy the inch shells from Fuyuan Machinery Factory because the quality of the shells made by Fuyuan Machinery Factory was not as good as that accepted by imported goods, and continued to import them instead.
The manufactured large-caliber shells are not a problem for Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Of course, you can’t expect to compare imported goods in terms of quality.
Now it’s not a problem for Fuyuan Machinery Factory to produce some 100 mm shells there.
After watching this heavy artillery battalion exercise, Zhao Dong Yun stopped by to inspect several of his troops, but he couldn’t visit the soldiers to be caring and attentive. The accompanying reporters would also ask Zhao Dongyun to pose to take some photos.
So two days later, Fengtian Daily published such a news. The vice president of the Republic and the tour ambassador of the three northeastern provinces, Zhao Dong Yun Dashuai, went to the military camp to express condolences and brought cordial greetings to the soldiers. There was also a photo of Zhao Dong Yun and the soldiers’ representatives.
After these actions, it seems obvious to the world that it can no longer be staged, but the contemporary Zhao Dongyun’s personal greeting to the soldiers and the people is definitely a different kind of contemporary ruler.
In people’s minds, people like Zhao Dongyun should be as high-eyed as Wang Yingjie and Zhang Dong, and they don’t even look at the bottom people. However, Zhao Dongyun does nothing but visit and condolence him every three days. It happened that he still likes to take official reporters with him, and then there is a big report for fear that others will not know.
There is no doubt that Zhao Dongyun won a lot of attention among his soldiers because of his own political influence. It can be said that Zhao Dongyun’s media exposure is the highest among several real warlords in contemporary China, and it is often necessary for him to understand their words in a lane.
However, Zhao Dongyun likes to make inspections and condolences, and he also likes to give a speech from time to time, and often comes up with some very new concepts to make people pay more attention.