Beiyang 1917

Updated: 2012-09-21

During the period from January to the end of March 1918, the 1-kilometer railway from Guisui to Baotou was successfully completed on February 3, 149, the same day that the Chinese participating army launched the military operation "Defend 1918 and recover the country". In the past month, the railways from Baotou to Baiyun Obo, Ordos and Bayannaoer have progressed 2 kilometers each, and continue to maintain an average speed of paving one kilometer a day.

At the same time, the 315-kilometer railway project from Ulanqab to Erlian has been successfully completed in early January, and the 1-kilometer railway project from Erlian to Kulun, Outer Mongolia has completed 680 kilometers by the end of March. The 3-kilometer railway line will require at least one year of hard work by Japanese contractors and railway construction troops.

At the same time, the road widening project from Erlian to Kulun was completed for 480 kilometers.It is estimated that it will take one and a half months to complete the entire road widening project from Erlian to Kulun.

Renqiu Oilfield of Sino-US Petroleum Corporation drilled the fourth high-yield oil well "Zhongmei No. 3" in early March, with a daily output of 1500 tons of crude oil and a well depth of 3225 meters. In this way, Renqiu Oilfield already has four high-yield oil wells, four The oil wells together produced 5500 tons of crude oil, or 38500 barrels, with an annual output of more than 200 million tons of crude oil. China became an important emerging oil producer in the world in 1918.

With the completion of the installation and commissioning of the fourth set of refinery equipment with an annual refining capacity of 50 tons in Renqiu Oilfield, the annual refining capacity of the three refineries in Renqiu Oilfield reached 150 million tons. At the same time, Wang Geng arranged to purchase the fifth set of annual For oil refining equipment with an output of 50 tons, eggs cannot be put in one basket. With the opening of the railway from Guisui to Baotou, Baotou will become the second steel and oil base in the future.

Facing the east coast, Baotou is the strategic rear, but facing Xinjiang and Mongolia, facing the west, the Baotou base will be the front.

Zhonghua Aircraft Manufacturing Company completed the production and test flight of the first Handley Page V1 in January, and on the basis of completing three productions in February, eight Handley Page V1500 heavy bombers were produced in one go in March. In addition to the first two prototypes imported from the UK, Wang Geng is holding 1500 Handley Page V14s in his hands at the moment, and the two completed production at the end of March have been converted into civil aviation aircraft carrying 1500 passengers. Version.

China Airlines has launched the first international route in Asia, the Beijing-Qingdao-Osaka-Nagoya-Tokyo route, one V1500 civilian aircraft will execute this international route, and the other will execute the Bei Jing-Shanghai-Guangzhou route.

At the same time, the remaining 52 sets of Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII aircraft engines will be used to continue to assemble and produce 12 Handley Page V1500 heavy bombers, and the remaining 4 sets will be temporarily used as spare parts for future maintenance.

With the commissioning of the Xuanhua Iron and Steel Base, the production capacity of high-grade cast iron and special steel is gradually increasing. The Eagle VIII aircraft engine imitated by the China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory is progressing smoothly. It is expected that the first batch of domestic Eagle VIII engines will come off the production line at the end of April. At the same time The v4v4 and v6 car engines imitated by Zhonghua Fudao Automobile Factory have also made breakthroughs. The v8 engine used in the Ford Model T was the first to be successfully imitated, and the v4 engine of the Dodge 1-ton truck is expected to be successfully imitated by the end of April.

宣化钢铁基地三个5吨的电钢炉顺利投产，ri产枪管、炮管钢、弹簧钢和工具钢15吨，这使得宣化兵工厂的枪炮车间开始不再依赖于进口钢材制造枪管和炮管，到了3月底75mm山炮、75mm野炮以及150mm榴弹炮均用国产钢材仿制成功。

It is expected that in April, we will be able to produce 4 75mm mountain guns, 36 75mm field guns and 36 150mm howitzers per month. With the increase of production equipment and the training of skilled workers, the production capacity is expected to increase month by month, and the production capacity will be doubled in half a year. , the production capacity will be doubled in one year.

Among the newly arrived U.S. reinforcements at the end of March 1918, 3 French Renault ft-50 tanks authorized by the U.S. were particularly eye-catching. This French light tank is actually the first 17-degree rotating turret tank in the history of the world. Famous all over the world, it was called "the world's first modern tank" by Stephen Zaloga, a famous historian in Wang Geng's previous life.

This light tank authorized by the United States was named the six-ton ​​m1917 tank. It mainly changed the production size from the original French metric unit production design to imperial units and made detailed modifications.

The basic parameters of the Renault 1917 tank:

ft-17 main performance data list

The combat weight is 6.5 tons

Vehicle length 5.00m

Vehicle width 1.75m

Vehicle height 2.29m

Maximum speed 7kmh

Maximum stroke 65km

Engine: Renault upright liquid-cooled 4-cylinder gasoline engine

Output power: 39 horsepower

Thrust-to-weight ratio: 6 hp ton

Combat Crew: 2 <g

弹药37mm:240发或8mm:4800发装甲6-22mm

Gradeability 45 degrees

0.61m high through the vertical wall

Trench width 1.98m

Wading depth 0.69m

The reason why Wang Geng did not introduce and develop his own tanks was because he looked down on the series of clumsy British MK tanks, and secondly, it took a long time for China Fudao Automobile Company to import and imitate Ford and Dodge cars.

For Wang Geng, the French Renault ft-17 light tank is a modern tank in the true sense. The engine compartment, combat compartment and cockpit are separated, du li suspension, 360-degree turret rotation, etc.

Of course, the combat performance of this American-made French Renault ft-17 light tank is completely tasteless to Wang Geng. The maximum speed of 7 kilometers per hour is simply a joke. The armored troops of the participating army use the Ford TT multi-purpose vehicle chassis A wheeled armored vehicle modified with a v6 liquid-cooled engine.

The basic parameters of this wheeled armored combat vehicle named Zhonghua FD-17 are as follows:

The combat weight is 4.2 tons

Vehicle length 5.1m

Vehicle width 1.9m

Vehicle height 2.3m

Maximum speed 60kmh

Maximum stroke 300km

Engine: Ford v6 liquid-cooled gasoline engine

Output power: 50 horsepower

Combat crew: 3 people

Carrying infantry: 8 people

Armor Thickness: 9mm

Firepower equipment: a 7.62mm m1917a1 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun.

The Chinese fd-17 wheeled armored vehicle modified by Wang Geng focuses on carrying armed infantry for assault. In addition to shooting from the inside of the vehicle through the shooting holes on both sides of the vehicle, the infantry carried in key areas will shoot from the inside of the vehicle more often. The rook accompanies the vehicle to attack and advance.

The key reason why Wang Geng did not equip and develop his own tank was that the marching speed of the tank was ridiculously slow. The maximum speed of this French Renault ft-17 light tank imported from the United States was only 7 kilometers per hour, which made it impossible to compete with The wheeled armored vehicles of the participating troops accompanied the march.

Obviously, this Renault chariot can be combined with wheeled armored vehicles on the battlefield to carry out breakthroughs and attacks. However, before and after the breakthrough, its marching speed and maximum range severely restricted Wang Geng's use of it against the armored regiments of the participating army. The basic form is to emphasize du li's ability to complete one aspect of action, and to emphasize the mobility of vehicles.

If the wheeled armored vehicle is likened to a group of hounds chasing prey, then matching it with a Renault chariot is like stuffing a few turtles into the hound team, which is completely out of tune.

Moreover, the 37mm short-barreled gun equipped on the Renault tank is even far inferior to the 60mm and 81mm mortars carried by the wheeled armored regiment in terms of power, not to mention the 75mm mountain guns and field guns towed by the wheeled armored regiment.

王庚引进这50辆美制雷诺ft-17型战车，是为研制第一款中华fd-18型坦克做技术储备，而从罗尔斯罗伊斯引进的鹰vii型引擎和从福特公司引进的v8液冷型引擎都可能成为中华fd-18型坦克引擎的选择。

The Zhonghua fd-18 tank designed by Wang Geng is actually a light tank. Its prototype is the previous Vickers six-ton ​​tank, or mk-e, which was not developed until 1928 in the previous life. Wang Geng Geng's goal is to successfully develop it in the second half of 1918.

Of course, this guy is still the hands-off shopkeeper. After drawing the design sketch of the whole vehicle and the design drawing of the suspension system, the rest of the work has to be done by the engineers of Zhonghua Fudao Automobile Company. Wang Geng asked The Hummer off-road vehicle developed by Fudao Company is expected to be designed and finalized by the end of April to replace the Model T Ford in the participating army.

As for the Chinese fd-17 wheeled armored vehicle, its Type II vehicle is also in the process of development. The purpose is to upgrade from the fixed machine gun turret of the original Type I vehicle to a 360-degree rotating machine gun turret, and also increase the use of 37mm short-barreled guns. model, but it will still be a wheeled armored combat vehicle instead of a tracked one. Wang Geng's requirements for mobility are a bit harsh.

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