Jagged Warlord

Li Mohan's speech drew warm applause, but the joy gave way to sadness. Li Mohan's speech had just ended when he received an emergency report, saying that a major accident had occurred in a pharmaceutical factory in Tianjin. Chemical engineers are either dead or wounded.

Soon Li Mohan received the investigation report. It turned out that the explosion occurred because some chemical engineers in the pharmaceutical factory were preparing and trial-producing a new type of rat poison, Heixojin.

In 1899, GF Henning, a British pharmacist, used formalin and ammonia to produce a weakly alkaline white solid named hexaline, with a molecular formula of (CH2)6N4. He prescribed various acids Treatment, look at the state of its salt, when treated with nitric acid, a white powdery crystal was obtained, with extremely poor water solubility, after research, it turned out that a six-membered cyclic nitroamide compound was generated, because its molecule It is hexagonal, so it is named hexogon, and the Chinese transliteration is Heisuojin.

The toxicity of Hexogen is far less than that of TNT, but it is still toxic and can be used as a safe rodenticide. Therefore, Hexogen was used as a drug at first, until 1922, when the chemist GC Herz discovered this six The prismatic substance turned out to be a violent explosive, its power is not weaker than that of TNT, but its synthetic raw materials: ammonia water and formalin are cheaper than toluene, and the source is more abundant.

Several young overseas Chinese chemical engineers who caused the accident were roughly stuffed into an armored vehicle by SS soldiers and transported to the capital. They thought that their lives would probably be lost, but things were beyond their expectations, and they scolded them fiercely. After that, Li Mohan instead entrusted them with the important task of mass producing Heixojin.

There are several ways to produce Hexogin, such as the Woolwitz method, the Zibere-Hissler-Ross method, the Buckman method and the Wolfram method, among which the Wolfram method is the most efficient, The yield rate is 80-90%. First, prepare raw materials such as urotropine nitric acid and some simple utensils, pour 500L of concentrated nitric acid with a purity of more than 98% into a beaker, and put the beaker in ice water to keep it at a specific temperature. Below the temperature below the temperature, add urotropine to the concentrated nitric acid at a constant speed of [-] grams per minute to react. During the reaction, stir continuously and vigorously, and pay attention to constantly add ice cubes to the ice water to maintain temperature, concentrated nitric acid plus urotropine will no longer react, prepare a large basin filled with ice-water mixture next to it, and pour the reaction mixture into the ice-water mixture as soon as the reaction is terminated, and the reaction mixture will condense at the bottom of the mixed solution , the crystals obtained by filtering with filter paper are dried and then dissolved in acetone, filtered, volatilized and dried, and then washed and dried with water to obtain a relatively pure RDX product. Adding wax as a passivating agent is a safe explosive without passivation treatment Heisuojin put an iron nail in the medicine cake and put it on the road. If a car runs over it, it will explode without even using the fuze.

Of course, this matter has to be kept secret, so it was announced to the outside world that the boiler explosion of Tianjin Pharmaceutical Factory, the workers who were killed and injured were all given generous pensions, and gradually no one talked about it.

During this period, the extremely clever Chinese military engineers came up with a new gadget, the armed tractor. The engineers removed the top cover of the Holt tank imported from the United States, lengthened the tracks, and installed a door from the south of the Yangtze River. The 47mm rapid-fire naval gun obtained from the Manufacturing Bureau, and then added a steel casing on the outside.

"Damn~ Isn't this a tank?" Li Mohan admired his engineers very much. Although they had never seen a tank, they probably didn't know the principle of rigid suspension, but they actually created an early tank by themselves.

Historically, the right to invent tanks has always been justified by the public, and the argument is longer. Although many people in history have germinated the idea of ​​​​making an armored vehicle similar to modern tanks, people still attribute the credit for the invention of tanks to British Ernest? D? Swinton.

In October 1914, the European battlefield in World War I was at a stalemate. Lieutenant Colonel Swinton, who was serving in the British Expeditionary Force, proposed that it was necessary to create a vehicle that could open up roads on the battlefield covered with barbed wire barriers, and climb over trenches. And armored vehicles capable of destroying and suppressing machine gun fire to break this stalemate on the Western Front.

Swinton was reportedly inspired by a letter from a friend in which he described the American "Hult" farm tractor as "an American machine capable of crawling like a devil". The resulting proposal to build a heavy tracked tractor equipped with cannon and machine guns was submitted to the British War Office on October 10. In fact, Swinton was just trying to convert existing machine parts Put them together to assemble a new tractor-like armored vehicle.

There is another theory about the invention of tanks: a tractor manufacturer from a small town in Minnesota, USA, had proposed the idea of ​​manufacturing a similar tank device before Swindon, and it is said that he provided detailed ideas to the British. Even the blueprint, the British made the first tank on the basis of his conception.

The American manufacturer was Edwin M. Wheelock, then general manager of the Pioneer Tractor Company in Winona, Minnesota, who claimed to have been working on the invention of the armored vehicle and had been working on it as early as Swindon Having put the idea on paper two months before the proposal, he also claims that, hoping to sell the armored vehicle to the British, he offered his plans to the British, who secretly took advantage of them.

According to Wheelock, in August 1914, in the Canadian town of Calgary, Wheelock was trying to sign a business agreement for his tractor company. The success of this agreement depended on whether Britain declared war on Germany. The business negotiation of the company came to an end. On the way back to Winona, he tried his best to find a product that could replace the tractor and sell it to Europe. At this time, he came up with the idea of ​​making an armored combat vehicle, and returned to Winona two days later. He had already had the idea for the armored fighting vehicle when he was in the city, and when he tried unsuccessfully to find customers for his armored fighting vehicle in Canada, Wheelock sent Francis J. Lowe, a sales representative, to The British marketed their tractor while hoping to garner the British Army's interest in its tracked armored vehicle design.

In April 1915, Lowe, who went to Europe to sell tracked armored vehicles, took with him some blueprints of armored vehicles drawn by Mr. Wheelock, which cost about 4 pounds. He met Lover, the chief of the Mechanical Transport Division, in the London War Office Colonel T. Holden, when he learned that these designs could be used to produce armored vehicles weighing just over 6 tons, he couldn't wait to say, "Say it, say it, it's another way to win the war." American invention, it can destroy any bridge in Belgium, and besides, you Americans don't know whether we are driving on the left or right, so it can also block traffic very well," Colonel Holden finally introduced him Gave it to a major, Wilson, who took the plan and said that he would be told if there were any orders, but they never got any news until the Battle of the Somme, but it was reported that at the Somme In the Battle of the Mu River, a funny-looking "cheese box" appeared on the battlefield, chasing and running over the bodies of German soldiers.

As to whether these statements of Wheelock are true, it is impossible to verify, because the records of this matter in American history can only show that some newspapers at that time tended to support Wheelock's statement, but Wheelock later created a unique for the US Army. The "Skelton" tank at least gave his claim some credibility.

With complicated emotions, Li Mohan ordered the technicians not to install the warhead for the time being, and asked the students in the driver school to drive a tractor without a turret to practice driving skills in the field, and declared that the tractor imported from the United States was plowing the land.

In addition, after Bayuzao and his group of aircraft engineers obtained the blueprints of the German aircraft, they quickly produced a new aircraft prototype. From the outside, it looked like a German Fokker fighter, but there were Fokker aircraft. There is no closed cockpit. In addition, according to Li Mohan's original shooting idea, Bayuzao and others also designed a reconnaissance aircraft with a light and fast fuselage and a bomber with a larger fuselage that can carry heavy loads. It was finalized and produced in 1919, so it was named J-19, Detective-19 and H-19.

Among them, the design information of the closed cockpit also came from the help of the Germans, and the Germans' information came from the Ilya Muromets bomber of Tsarist Russia. The Ilya Muromets bomber was the world's first strategic bomber, and its Designer, Igor.Ivanovic.Sikorsky is one of the world's famous aircraft designers and founders of aviation manufacturing. He was born in Kyiv, Russia on May 1889, 5. In 25, Sikorsky immigrated to the United States.

In November 1912, the Baltic Vehicle Factory in St. Podburg, Russia, successfully manufactured a giant aircraft. The designer of the giant was Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky. The aircraft weighed 11 kilograms and had a wingspan of 4545 Mi, equipped with four 28-kilowatt four-cylinder water-cooled "hundred-eyed giant" engines, people gave it a famous name "Great", on May 4, 74, Sikorsky personally drove this The aircraft was tested and achieved complete success. The aircraft was later officially named "Russian Warrior". The aircraft not only has a spacious closed cockpit, but also has a "living room" equipped with heating equipment. A table and a few wicker chairs, the level of luxury is unimaginable to those chicken pilots in Europe who are made into beds.

On the basis of "Russian Warrior", at the end of 1913, Sikorsky made the world's first heavy bomber, and the Russians gave it a very meaningful name - "Ilya Muromets", This is the name of the protagonist in the Russian warrior song and the Russian land guardian. However, according to detailed research by relevant brick experts, its name actually comes from the largest waterfall in the former Qing Empire, Ilya Muromets Waterfall.

"Ilya Muromets" is a biplane with a power of 162 kilowatts per engine, a length of 15.5, 22 meters, a wingspan of 24.9, 35.5 meters, a flight weight of 6.1, 7.5 tons, and a flight speed of 137 km, the maximum ceiling is 4000 meters, the maximum range is 540 kilometers, and the crew members are 4 or 8 people.

The maximum number of chambers installed on the aircraft reaches 8, and a test of installing 76 mm base gate bubbles on the aircraft has been done. The fuselage can be hung with aviation fraud eggs, and the electric bomber is used for the first time. The aircraft has a bomb load of 400 It can reach 700 kilograms when overloaded. The aircraft is equipped with driving and piloting instruments and bombing sights. It is recognized by the historians that "Ilya Muromets" can be called the largest large aircraft at that time, because during World War I, Neither enemy nor allies have ever produced a heavy bomber comparable to it.

From 1914 to 1918, Russia manufactured a total of 73 "Ilya-Muromets", some of which had twin engines, and some of them were equipped with floats to become heavy bombers on the water. By the October 1917 revolution, Russia Before withdrawing from the Great War, this aircraft had carried out 10 combat missions and dropped more than 422 bombs. Its huge ammunition load and range brought great shock and impact to the German army. Compared with the "Ilya Muromets" "Zeppelin" airship used in the bombing of Paris and the United Kingdom, it is simply a child's play.

So the Germans also began to study their own heavy bombers. Finally, a "Ilya-Muromets" driven by Russian pilot П. Maksheyev was shot down by a German Fokker plane, so the Germans got valuable information. However, the final result was Li Mohan.

In the same way, Li Mohan ordered the pilot to conduct a secret test flight, contacting the whole bag of wheat when dropping the bomb, claiming that this was a test aircraft sowing wheat seeds, which was a symbol of agricultural modernization,