The First Warlord of the Republic of China

Chapter 17: Aircraft and Tanks

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Although the Qing court ordered the abdication, the situation in the whole country is still chaotic. In the midst of this chaos, history has undergone great changes.

One of the changes was that Jiang Guangtou, under the instigation of Chen Qimei, launched an assassination attempt on Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Restoration Society. As a result, Jiang Yu jumped out to obstruct the assassination and disrupted the assassination.

Rescuing Tao Chengzhang has no other meaning, but I just don't want to see Tao Chengzhang, an upright revolutionary, be killed by opportunists such as Chen Qimei.

Chengzhang had little ambition, and took it as his duty to fight against the Qing Dynasty. He went to Beijing twice to assassinate Empress Dowager Cixi but failed, and then went east to Japan alone to study the army.After returning to China the following year, he actively participated in revolutionary activities, ran around the revolution in rags and clothes, and traveled around Zhejiang, Fujian, and Anhui to contact revolutionaries.He often wears hemp rope around his waist and straw sandals on his feet, and travels all over Zhejiang, "walking 110 miles a day, tirelessly."Hangzhou is just across the water from his home, but he "goes to Hangzhou four times and never returns".Once, it was already the 26th of the twelfth lunar month when he arrived in Hangzhou. Wei Lan advised him to go home for the New Year. He replied: "Fortunately, my father is still healthy, and the family is worried. Once I come to my hometown, I am afraid that I will be affected by favors and cannot come back! I am running for my country. , how can you still read it by family line!"

Jiang Yu admired such a true revolutionary warrior from the bottom of his heart. [

In the final analysis, he himself is also an opportunist. Although his goal is very brilliant, his methods are not as fearless as Tao Chengzhang's struggle.

But politics is like this, the so-called justice and evil, the means do not explain the problem, only the result can explain the problem. It is bright to make the nation rejuvenate, and it is evil to make the nation regress.

Jiang Yu admired Tao Chengzhang very much, so he asked Wang Chenghai to send someone to secretly protect Tao Chengzhang. In the end, he took down Baldy Jiang in one fell swoop, and then Baldy Jiang disappeared.

In the future history, Jiang Guangtou's waves will never appear again.

Of course, Jiang Yu was not purely out of admiration for Tao Chengzhang, but also to prevent Sun Dapao and his group from extending their hands to Zhejiang.

As long as Tao Chengzhang is alive, the Liberation Society has a bond of unity.

Because the reconstruction of the Restoration Society was achieved by Tao Chengzhang's hard work and running hundreds of miles a day, once Tao Chengzhang died, the Restoration Society would lose this bond and collapse suddenly.

As long as the Guangfu Society does not collapse, Zhejiang will not fall into Sun Dapao's control.

Jiang Yu didn't think that guy was a great man in history. Sun Dapao was the culprit of the Civil War of the Republic of China. Of course, Japan and the Soviet Union were behind him.

Japan supported Sun Dapao in launching the civil war because he did not want to see a unified China.

The Soviet Union supported Sun Dapao because the Beiyang government went to recover the lost land, so the Soviet Union sold the fishery resources to the Japanese in exchange for 3000 yuan of ocean, and gave the 3000 yuan of ocean to Sun Dapao.

Relying on these 3000 million oceans, Sun Dapao launched a Northern Expedition. As a result, the lost ground recovered by the Beiyang government from Russia was lost again.

What Jiangyu wants is a stable China that can develop.Therefore, they are extremely disgusted with troublemakers like Sun Dapao who are supported by the Japanese Black Dragon Association.

Of course, the western countries don't believe Sun Dapao's deception at present, and the Japanese are relatively stingy, so it is impossible to spend too much money to support Sun Dapao in the civil war.

So Dapao Sun's threat is not too great for the time being, and the Soviet Union, which is determined to throw 3000 million oceans in one go, has not even appeared, so Jiang Yu has plenty of time to deal with them.

The revival army was attacking cities and territories on the front lines in Shandong and Henan, while Jiang Yu was too busy to touch the ground in the rear.

Since Jiang Yu tied all the ordinary soldiers of the revival army to the same chariot, and the teaching team was in charge of ideological indoctrination, so Jiang Yu didn't need to go to the front line at all, and he didn't have to suspect the officers below, because even if they wanted to rebel, Also can't command the troops.

Jiang Yu has many things to do in the rear. The first one is the construction of the legal system. It is impossible to copy the British way. China has China’s national conditions, but at its core, it still follows the traditional Chinese legal system, which is the British one. common law system.

Furthermore, in order to improve educational materials in Jiangyu, the reform of the vernacular is still needed. Although the vernacular is not as connotative as the semi-vernacular developed since the Ming Dynasty, it can make education more popular. [

The construction of the education system should also be more clear, and it is completely unacceptable to copy the education system of later generations.

The purpose of education is not to stabilize the society and to cultivate a group of top national elites.

It has to be admitted that it is impossible for everyone in this society to become an elite, and it is impossible for those elites to become all-rounders.

For ordinary citizens who cannot become elites, the most important thing is to teach them the principles of life and cultivate their moral qualities and behavior habits.As for those talents who can become elites, they should focus on training, and they should not be trained as all-rounders, otherwise a group of mediocre talents will be cultivated.

Therefore, Jiang Yu added a lot of targeted things to the education system, and also reduced a lot of unnecessary things.

In order to cultivate the hands-on ability of the students, Jiang Yu asked the students to visit and work in the factory frequently, so there were many students who worked part-time.

In order to cultivate students' moral quality, Jiang Yu not only asked teachers to teach students what to do in class, but also stipulated that students should be organized to participate in a public welfare activity every week, and at the same time, students' words and deeds should be guided and controlled in all aspects in the school.

In terms of the cultivation of living habits, it follows a semi-military management system, and some schools even have full military management.

In general, students' extracurricular activities account for one-third of their study time. Every school has half a day of classes during the day, half a day of extracurricular activities, and late classes at night.

For students, although they have evening classes, spending half of the day outside the classroom will make them feel very happy instead of going to jail.

Besides law and education, the most important thing is industry.

Jiang Yu attaches great importance to the development of industrial technology. Since he returned to China 10 years ago, he has established hundreds of experimental groups in two years.

Every year, more than [-] million silver dollars are spent on experiments, and there is a growing trend.

Modern warfare is fought against large factories, large corps, and large laboratories.For Jiang Yu, there is no big problem in forming a large corps. The only problem is the big factory and big laboratory.

Large factories and large laboratories are not available in China, so Jiangyu urgently needs to build them.

Especially since World War I was only two years away, Jiang Yu asked the internal combustion engine experiment team to come up with a reliable engine as soon as possible.

After two years of in-depth research, coupled with the solid foundation laid in Germany for three years, and the correct research ideas and methods proposed by Jiang Yu, finally at the end of 1911, the East China Internal Combustion Engine Factory produced a 680-horsepower gasoline engine. And the weight is not big, and a diesel engine with 883 horsepower was developed a few days later.

The technological breakthrough of the East China Internal Combustion Engine Manufacturing Factory enabled Jiang Yu to obtain a reliable internal combustion engine. At the same stage, the internal combustion engine with the largest horsepower in the West was less than [-] horsepower.

A reliable internal combustion engine can provide the basis for the manufacture of tanks and aircraft.

Not long after, the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Plant successfully developed the 'wooden glued structure fuselage'. Its technology first made a mold with concrete, and then coated spruce wood slices with cheese glue and placed them alternately to cover the mold cover.At this time, fill the rubber airbag in the middle with compressed air, and after the cheese glue is cured, a wooden structure is formed, and the left and right wooden structures are combined to form a wooden glued structure fuselage.

The wood-glued fuselage makes the aircraft lighter than wood, but not by much.However, it is much lighter than aircraft using steel and other materials, and its strength is more reliable than wood.

At the same time, the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Plant has also achieved success in the research of aluminum aircraft. Aluminum material, which is more delicate than steel, has been proved to be an excellent aviation material. [

After the outbreak of the Revolution of [-], Jiang Yu once ordered a special operations company to sneak into Beijing and kidnap the aircraft designer Li Baojun.

Li Baojun is a relatively outstanding aircraft designer in modern China, and even predicted jet aircraft in advance. With the support of the Manchu Qing government, he started aircraft manufacturing.

However, Li Baojun later suffered from malignant dysentery and died young, similar to Feng Ru, the famous pioneer of modern aviation.

When it comes to aircraft design, Jiang Yu does not have to rely on Li Baojun. Since he arrived in Germany in 07, he has begun to train aircraft design talents.

But one more talent is better than one less.

Jiang Yu not only sent people to kidnap Li Baojun, but also sent people to kidnap Feng Ru in Guangzhou, and also found Falk, who had not yet made a fortune, in Germany.

Fokker was the first designer who synchronized the machine gun with the propeller. During the First World War, he designed and manufactured the Fokker fighter for Germany, and shot down many British and French aircraft. At that time, Westerners called the Fokker fighter Fokker disaster.

Although the East China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory does not have too many aircraft design talents compared to other countries, it has cultivated a lot of talents independently. Gained a lot of knowledge about aircraft design.

This knowledge is very advanced, and any breakthrough in it will improve the performance of the aircraft.

With the combination of breakthroughs in internal combustion engine technology and airframe technology, Jiang Yu proposed a dive bomber with a payload of 500 kilograms and a range of more than 300 kilometers.

At the same time, a tactical bomber with a range of 200 kilometers and a load of 1000 kilograms is needed.There is also a need for a medium-range bomber with a range of 500 kilometers and a capacity to carry 500 kilograms of bombs.A reconnaissance aircraft with a range of 500 kilometers,

In January 1912, the East China Aircraft Factory produced hundreds of aircraft design drawings. At present, the aircraft designers of the East China Aircraft Factory have a huge design space.

Monoplane, biplane, single-engine, twin-engine, or even four-engine.

East China Aircraft Manufacturing Factory selected [-] more reliable drawings among them, and began to manufacture prototypes according to the drawings.

In terms of tank design, the first tank was designed very quickly. The word tank comes from the water tank in English. However, since the tank is the first one made in China, it is not called a tank, but a tank. chariot.

The first tank was born in early February 1912. It used the tractor chassis of the tractor factory, with a total weight of 2 tons. It was equipped with two heavy machine guns and a 12mm tank gun.

This is a rather weird tank, although it is viewed from the perspective of a traverser, because this tank does not have a turret, but the baffle in front of the body is inclined at an angle, which makes it easy for the gun to slip after hitting the front armor. This is a very advanced design.

In terms of armor, it has reached 30 mm, the maximum driving speed is 20 km (kilometers) per hour, the trench is 15 meters, and it can cross obstacles with a height of 05 meters. The maximum travel distance is 120 kilometers.

Based on this data alone, the performance is very superior compared to the early tanks.

The main reason is the breakthrough of the internal combustion engine. At the same time, this chariot does not use a gasoline engine, but a diesel engine with a rough working method and higher efficiency. The disadvantage is that it is relatively noisy and black smoke comes out.

However, such a chariot still cannot satisfy Jiang Yu. Although the factory was put into production immediately, the engineers were not ordered to build a production line, but the production speed is not too slow, because the tractor chassis already has a large production capacity. It can produce nearly one thousand tractors.

Therefore, if necessary, a thousand of these tanks can be produced within a month at any time.

This kind of chariot was named by Jiang Yu as the "Tearer Type 1 Chariot", which means tearing the trench tactics. Jiang Yu's tentative production quantity was [-], and a chariot battalion was immediately formed.

The second update arrives!It's raining a lot outside the door!

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