The First Warlord of the Republic of China

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In the early days of World War I, Japan's great ambitions for Qingdao broke out. Just when Yuan Shikai asked Tang Shaoyi to talk to the Germans, a note was sent outside.

Yuan Shikai opened it and saw that it was from Japan.

In the note, the Japanese warned the Chinese government that if China accepted the terms of Germany, the Great Japanese Empire would take necessary military actions to ensure the elimination of the Allies in the Far East.

Seeing this note, Yuan Shikai frowned again.

Japan's ambition for Qingdao was almost revealed. Yuan Shikai participated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-]. At this time, as the president of the Republic of China, he also had the idea of ​​competing with Japan in his heart. [

It's just that Yuan Shikai knew that the strength of the Beiyang Army was far from being comparable to that of the Japanese Army. Once the war broke out, the Beiyang Army would inevitably suffer defeat.

At that time, not only will it suffer national humiliation again, but it will also give China the capital to compete with Japan in the future.

In history, Yuan Shikai chose to wait and see what happened. Later, Germany demanded conditions for China to take back Qingdao, but Yuan Shikai came up with a plan to drive away the wolf, intending to let the United States take back Qingdao and then hand it over to China.

Of course, if the United States took Qingdao away, it would be impossible to hand it over to China.Therefore, Yuan Shikai's strategy was to lose a piece of meat to the United States, but the United States did not take the bait.

Although Yuan Shikai's strategy is good, it is a pity that he does not understand the United States.

In the early days of World War I, the United States would not intervene in Asian disputes at all, and the war in Europe was where the interests of the United States lay.

So in the end, Yuan Shikai's strategy did not provoke a conflict between the United States and Japan, and Qingdao was still occupied by Japan.

However, at this time Yuan Shikai immediately thought of the National Defense Forces under the command of Jiang Yu. If there is hope for China to fight Japan, it is the National Defense Forces.

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In Huai'an, Jiang Yu is inspecting the arsenal.

At this time, the Huai'an area already had China's largest military industrial base, but this position was gradually being replaced by military industrial bases in inland provinces.

Because Jiang Yu believes that it is not safe for all arsenals to be concentrated in Jiangsu.

Many arsenals have been transferred to Jiangxi, Huguang, and Northwest China.

However, the arsenal in the Huai'an area still occupies a vital position, because most of the technological innovations are first carried out here, and then spread to other arsenals.

When he came to the arsenal, he saw a machine tool running, and there was the sound of metal friction from time to time. The first thing Jiang Yu came to was the rifle production workshop.

This is a rifle production workshop for the production of M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles. Thousands of workers in the workshop are busy producing.

I saw that the gun barrel was placed in a special knob tube making machine, and after half an hour, a gun barrel made of molybdenum-chromium alloy steel was processed.

The gun stock is made of wood, and the processing of the gun stock is even more complicated. I saw that the cut wood was put into the machine, and it was processed in less than 10 minutes, and it was exactly the same.

"The workshop has completed the semi-automatic assembly line production. It only takes 03 man-hours to process a 83-type semi-automatic rifle. After the rifle is produced, it must be put into the freezer for freezing and then perform performance tests." The workshop director told Jiang Yu explained. [

The Type 02 rifle in his back is the M1 Garand plagiarized by Jiang Yu. Because it was manufactured in 13, and that year happened to be the third year of the Republic of China, it was named the Type 03 rifle.

There will no longer be the title of M1 Garland in history.

"How is the overall performance?" Jiang Yu turned his head and asked, and the workshop director replied: "The Type 03 rifle can still fire normally at minus 30 degrees. It is a rifle with extremely reliable performance."

"How much is the production now?" Jiang Yu asked again.

"The workshop can produce 03 Type [-] rifles every eight hours. If it is a wartime, it can produce at least [-] rifles per day."

"What about the current inventory?"

"There are already 12 in stock in the arsenal."

Jiang Yu quickly calculated in his mind, based on the current situation in China, the most likely thing is a war with Japan, and this output is almost enough.

But to be conservative, Jiang Yu still ordered: "Expand half of the production capacity in the Wuhan Arsenal."

"Yes, sir."

Jiang Yu nodded, and then went to the next workshop.

That is the workshop used to produce the mp3008 submachine gun. In comparison, the production time and cost of the mp3008 are much longer than that of the semi-automatic rifle.

It takes only 3008 hours to manufacture a military version of the mp5 submachine gun. There are only 1000 workers in the submachine gun production workshop, and 3008 submachine guns can be produced on a ten-hour day. At this time, the inventory of mp8 submachine guns has reached [-] Bundle.

This is indeed a super copycat version of the Sten submachine gun, and it has surpassed the Sten submachine gun. The most annoying defect of the Sten submachine gun is not visible on the m93008.

"Although the mp13 submachine gun has some defects in accuracy, it is undeniable that this is indeed a very good submachine gun. The manufacturing price is cheap, and its parts can be produced even in small shops. Once it comes to wartime, the production capacity will expand rapidly. Tens of thousands of sticks a day will not be a problem." The workshop director said to Jiang Yu.

At this time, mp3008 is not called this name, but mp13, which follows the naming method of mp18. At that time, after Jiang Yu designed mp18 in Germany, he named it mp09, because it was produced in 09.

Jiang Yu nodded in satisfaction. It is true that the production capacity of submachine guns does not need to be expanded. For submachine guns, precision is useless.

Just don't miss too much.

The meaning of the submachine gun is to pour the most bullets on the enemy in the fastest time. Obviously, the mp13 can accomplish this task very well.

That's enough.

And most importantly, mp13 is very suitable for large-scale production, requires few resources, and the output is easy to increase.

The emergence of submachine guns has basically eliminated hand-to-hand combat in wars, unless the troops are facing a situation of running out of food, and there is no need for hand-to-hand combat. [

This is simply the nemesis of Little Japan.

Little Japan often engages in bayonet fights, but when it comes to bayonet battles, Chinese martial arts have been accumulated for thousands of years, and Little Japan will naturally not be an opponent.

It's just that it is more troublesome for ordinary soldiers to train bayonet warfare. Jiang Yu is too lazy to popularize it in the army. After all, soldiers have a lot to learn and practice, and assassination is no longer necessary to train.

But those special forces were all trained in martial arts. If Little Japan really fought with them in a bayonet battle, they would not be opponents at all.

Then Jiang Yu inspected the artillery factory. The scale of the artillery factory has expanded a lot. Because of the German heavy artillery manufacturing technology, the Huai'an artillery factory at this time not only produced 105mm howitzers and 155mm howitzers, but also produced Super large caliber naval gun.

In the artillery factory, Jiang Yu saw a newly manufactured 203mm howitzer.

"This is the latest heavy-duty howitzer, with a multiple diameter of 30 times, an elevation angle of 65 degrees, and a maximum range of 18000 meters. Compared with the most advanced howitzers, the range is nearly 4000 meters higher. In terms of weight, including the gun mount, it is only 33 tons .”

A German engineer introduced to Jiang Yu that this howitzer was named the Type 14 204mm howitzer, which Jiang Yu requested to study.

Jiang Yu has stipulated in the research of army artillery that it does not develop artillery above 203mm.

Compared with the super cannons that emerge in endlessly in various military powers in this era, Jiang Yu has no interest in them. Those things are a waste of money.

And Germany made super-caliber cannons in both World War I and World War II, that is, cannons that moved on rails, but it turned out that those things were useless at all.

Manufacturing such a large artillery consumes a lot of money and manpower, and it will greatly increase the pressure on logistics and transportation during war.

The concept proposed by Jiang Yu only appeared in the late World War II.

That was the concept that the warring parties summed up after experiencing lessons, and this concept was continued by various countries in the military.

Except for large-caliber naval guns, countries rarely produced heavy artillery with a caliber exceeding 203mm.

"Yes, to form production capacity as soon as possible, at least 300 units per year must be formed." Jiang Yu said to the engineers in the workshop.

At this time, the arsenal had already begun to manufacture 204mm heavy howitzers, and Jiang Yu also began to consider the issue of building a heavy artillery division.

In World War II, the artillery doctrine of the red bear was still advisable, because for a country with a large population and large resources, those countries with poor resources can be smashed to death with artillery.

When the number of artillery pieces reaches a certain level, all will and tactics seem to be floating clouds.

But it is undeniable that cannonism is the real mainstream of this era.

The nineteenth century was the era of naval warfare, the twentieth century was the era of air warfare, and the 21st century is the era of information warfare.

Without air supremacy, no matter how powerful the Artillery Doctrine is, it is useless.But in order to win a war, in addition to air supremacy, you also need a large number of artillery.

Artillery is necessary, but it must be protected by air forces, otherwise it can only operate at night.

Therefore, while Jiang Yu is considering the establishment of a towed heavy artillery division, he is also planning to form a self-propelled heavy artillery division.

Self-propelled guns will be the mainstream in the future, because in artillery battles, only self-propelled guns have the greatest chance of survival.

The survivability of the self-propelled gun is indeed very strong. As long as there is air supremacy, the self-propelled gun can hit a few shots and run away. There is no way to destroy self-propelled guns with thin armor protection.

Moreover, self-propelled gun technology is much simpler than that of tanks.

The weight and thickness of the armor of the chariot are high to resist the impact of other weapons; the armor of the self-propelled gun is only for the purpose of protecting machine guns, small-caliber machine guns or short-range fragments of guns.

In order to penetrate the armor of the tank, the tank gun of the tank has a high muzzle velocity; self-propelled guns do not need it.

Chariots use direct aiming and shooting at targets; self-propelled guns mainly use indirect aiming long-distance shooting, and some self-propelled guns are not equipped with sights for direct aiming.

Tanks do not need to emphasize the ability to shoot at high elevation angles; self-propelled guns do.

Chariots mostly fight directly on the front line, and often have to deal with various emergencies. Therefore, the vehicle performance and muzzle flexibility must be good enough to have an advantage; Therefore, it is only necessary to pay attention to the firepower, and the performance of the vehicle and the flexibility of the muzzle are good as long as it can walk and aim, and the requirements are not high.

The technology of self-propelled guns is not complicated, it just depends on whether there is money to invest in it for research.

And Jiang Yu's research on self-propelled gun technology has already started. When Jiang Yu came to inspect the tank factory, he had already seen the self-propelled gun sent out from the production workshop.

It's just that the caliber of the artillery equipped with these self-propelled guns is relatively small.

The 105mm cannon, 105mm self-propelled howitzer, and 155mm self-propelled howitzer have been successfully developed, and there are many models of self-propelled mortars that are not heavy, and only a few are finally determined to be produced.

The caliber of the mortar is much larger. The 203mm caliber self-propelled mortar has been successfully developed. Although the caliber of the mortar is large, its multiple diameter is not large, and it is far less heavy than the 203mm howitzer. It's perfectly fine on a tank chassis.

But the chassis of the Ripper tank is no longer suitable for the newly finalized 203mm howitzer, because the heavy capacity of the site is not so strong.

The need to develop a new generation of combat vehicle chassis has arisen.

Only by developing a new type of chassis can the 203 howitzer be changed from a towed type to a self-propelled type.

Once self-propelled artillery is popularized in the Chinese army, even if the Chinese army relies on these artillery, as long as it has enough logistics, it will be able to occupy a great advantage in the war.

In particular, Jiang Yu also has a tactical killer in artillery.

That is to make the cannons fired at different times reach the target area at the same time through Tao calculation. I heard that the most powerful in a certain military region in later generations can hit the target area with 5 shots at the same time. Of course, this does not mean simultaneous arrival in the absolute sense. It's just that the time is about the same, only a few seconds difference.

This tactic is powerful, because 80% of the casualties in the shelling were caused within the first 1 minute, and pouring the most artillery on the enemy's position before the enemy was unprepared would undoubtedly cause great casualties to the enemy.

Once this tactic is used, the efficiency of killing the enemy caused by one cannon can be increased by at least two times, which is equivalent to one cannon being worth two cannons.

At the same time, leave after the fight, without giving the enemy time to counterattack, and in the case of ensuring survival, it can also inflict maximum damage on the enemy.

As for the 204mm caliber howitzer, it is not very difficult to let the three rounds arrive at the same time, as long as the calculation is done and the operation is fast. If you are a skilled artilleryman, it should be no problem to fire four rounds. If you want to fire five rounds , with the 204-degree elevation angle of the current 75mm howitzer, it is estimated that it cannot be done.

Three rounds of 204mm caliber guns smashed down and suddenly bombarded the enemy's position, which would definitely make the enemy drink a pot.

As long as the new tank chassis is successfully developed, there will be not only new tanks, but also 204mm self-propelled guns. The equipment of the Chinese Army will definitely be the best in the world, and the willpower will also be the strongest.

Jiang Yu then inspected the arsenal in the Huaiyin area, where arms are stored.

I saw rows of brand new ammunition neatly arranged in the arsenal.

Sister Yi, who came to the arsenal for the first time, couldn't help but exclaimed. There are many new weapons in the arsenal that they saw in the arsenal just now.

They also discovered that there was a lot of equipment in the arsenal that they had never seen before.

Among them is a machine gun that looks like a machine gun and is very weird. It is a mg3 general-purpose machine gun, but although it has been developed, it has not yet entered the production state.

Since Jiang Yu finished the war against Russia, the stock in the arsenal has not been very high.

Because of the rapid expansion of the National Defense Forces, many of the equipment produced are directly shipped to various military regions.And the equipment in this arsenal is all new equipment that has not been equipped with the National Defense Forces.

The equipment here is also Jiang Yu's confidence!

At this time, a guard ran in and handed a telegram to Yi Ruizhi. Yi Ruizhi ran to Jiang Yu and said to Jiang Yu, "Commander, this is a telegram from Yuan Shikai."

Jiang Yu took a look at the telegram, and it turned out that the Japanese government had threatened the Beiyang government, demanding that China not agree to the terms of the Germans.

"It seems that the Japanese are still ambitious about Shandong." Jiang Yu's eyes flickered coldly. He thought that Japan would have concerns after China won the war against Russia, and that their attitude towards Qingdao would not be so ugly.

Moreover, Shandong is in the hands of Jiang Yu, and the Shandong area has long been built by Jiang Yu like an iron barrel. If the Japanese really want to get involved in Shandong, they will definitely have to collapse their teeth.

It's just that he underestimated the madness of Japan.

At this time, Japan may not be willing to believe that the Chinese Army has been able to compete with the Japanese army.And in fact it is.

An army that has just been established for four years, and most of its soldiers have been in the army for less than two years, how high can its military quality be?

This theory is indeed correct. At this time, the overall quality of the National Defense Forces still has a lot of room for improvement. However, the Japanese ignored the will and equipment of the National Defense Forces.

The Chinese have always been proud of their ancestors. Even if they have not received any military training, once they face foreign invasion, they will definitely burst out with super will.

In terms of equipment, the equipment of the Chinese Army at this time is definitely much stronger than that of Japan, and its industrial strength has quickly caught up with Japan.

If the war takes place in China and is fought locally, it will naturally have an advantage.

Of course, the shortcomings of local warfare are also obvious, that is, the destructiveness of the war has to be paid for by itself, unlike the invading party who wins and occupies territory, and loses the country without any damage.

But China at this time can't think too much about these things.

Yuan Shikai asked Jiang Yu whether the National Defense Forces could defeat Japan if there was a war with Japan!

"Can we win?" Yi Ruizhi asked Jiang Yu in a low voice, Jiang Yu nodded calmly, and said firmly: "Yes, but we may also lose."

"Why?" Yi Ruizhi asked strangely.

"We can win the army, but we may lose the navy." Jiang Yu explained that the East China Coastal Defense Fleet is not strong at this time, but the East China Coastal Defense Fleet at this time is not without the power to fight.

Because the East China Coastal Defense Fleet has the most military submarines except Germany.However, it is impossible for submarines to participate in naval battles head-on, and they can only engage in sabotage against Japan.

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In Beijing, Yuan Shikai soon received a call back from Jiang Yu. At this time, he already understood how to deal with Japan's ambitions for Qingdao.

China, Germany, and Japan, these three countries, are currently launching activities with their own plans around the Qingdao issue in China.

However, Germany obviously did not focus on the Qingdao issue, but only partially paid attention to it.

Germany also knew that they would not be able to keep Qingdao. After all, the German army in Qingdao only had 3000 people. The question is how much interest Germany can keep in the Far East while giving up Qingdao.

However, when Germany asked China to return it, China refused to accept it, because the demands of the Germans were too high, and Jiang Yu couldn't help complaining. Germans on the head. (to be continued)