Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 669 Making Guns Is Like Climbing Mount Everest
Time soon entered late July, and Ding Guofeng took three battalions of veterans and two battalions of recruits to India. After a week's adaptation period for the new troops at the front, Zhao Xin's order had arrived. The various units of the Northern Navy that went to the Serang front launched a general attack on the VOC army.

In order to quickly end the war, Zhao Xin used not only 75 mortars and 1910 30mm guns, but also two "M[-]/[-]" heavy machine guns brought by Ding Guofeng that were imitated from another time and space. .As heavy fire came into the field, it quickly took its toll on the VOC's troops; both those hiding behind wooden fortification walls and those trying to fight back were bloody.

Speaking of the two machine guns imitated by the Heavy Weapons Workshop of the Beihai Town Armory, they have actually been produced for two years, but due to various parts tolerance problems, they have been going back and forth between the shooting range and the workshop. Zhao Liang regretted his original impulse.

The military-industrial complex in Beihai Town has developed to this day. In addition to producing a large number of imitated guns from the [-]th century, the technological tree of modern weapons is still climbing.After these years, Zhao Liang finally understood that it is easy to make a rifle that can shoot, but it is as difficult as climbing Mount Everest to produce dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of standard rifles.

Regardless of the large number of "1789" revolvers produced in Beihai Town, the early thousand were all piled up manually.All guns differed in the same components, making weapon parts non-interchangeable, and each gun's parts needed to be individually numbered for identification.This situation did not change until workers became proficient at using machine tools to manufacture large quantities of identical parts, and the same problem applies to rifled rifles.

The regular army of the Beihai Navy has only grown to 25 regiments until today, and it has not been able to expand rapidly. The most important reason is weapons. The production of semi-automatic rifles is still in the process of groping.As a result, Zhao Xin could only be exploited by arms dealers again and again, giving away a large amount of gold.

Many cross-travelers who don't understand weapons think that Beihai Town has modern machine tools, and with blueprints, modern weapons including various parts can be easily manufactured. In fact, this is a big mistake!

Today's Zhao Liang sneers at those guys who often use Batie's private workshop as an example, and even lazily explains to them.

He made a special trip to Pakistan Railway when he returned home during the Spring Festival a few years ago, and finally figured out what was going on through exchanges with local people who were familiar with the situation.Except that pistols can be made by themselves, these workshop owners are more suitable for assembling rather than "manufacturing".Due to the years of war there, they usually recovered usable parts from scrapped firearms, and then made some relatively simple parts by themselves, and pieced them together.You can make a few dozen of the same model of this thing, don’t dream about large quantities.

It is too difficult to imitate modern weapons in batches through the assembly line, even the SKS that has been considered outdated, or even Mosin Nagant.Zhao Xin has traveled all over the countries in Europe that can produce SKS, and also gathered a complete set of machine tools, cutting tools and fixtures through relationships, but there is one problem that he can't handle, which is the technical information package.This is not a matter of how much it costs, but that people will not sell it at all.

In the end, he had no other choice, and told the weapon dealer Andrew that it would be okay to get a copy of Mosin Nagant's technical information package, but the other party laughed and said that it was long gone.Zhao Xin was right when he thought about it. Now, a Mosin Nagant with excellent appearance and performance on the market costs at least 800 US dollars, and the cheapest ones cost 300-500 US dollars.

It's not that the arsenal has never tried to imitate the SKS rifle. In order to skillfully operate the only multi-axis CNC machine tool in Beihai Town, Zhao Liang spent more than half a year going back to attend a training class.Although the use of CNC makes the cutting of each part of the weapon more efficient and faster, it does not fundamentally change the fact that only one piece can be processed at a time, and the accuracy must be just right, otherwise the assembled firearms cannot be mass-produced, and even the model The normal use of the gun is problematic.

For example, after he tested the first SKS rifle processed by CNC machine tools many times, he found that the surface of the loading ramp was too sharp, causing some copper scraps to be scraped off the bullet after each shot. In the end, the bullet could not be loaded. .He didn't know what was wrong at first, so he had to check each part; it wasn't until a worker accidentally found copper shavings in the locking lugs in the grooves of the gun floor and cleaned them out.

Not getting the SKS technical data package means that the arsenal must accurately calculate the three-dimensional dimensions and tolerances of each part, and what happens when the tolerances approach the edge. Different approach values ​​​​will cause different changes in the weapon .For example, the tolerance of a certain part is found to be 0.95~1.05, but in the actual manufacturing process, the tolerance range may only be 1~1.05, and it will not work if it is lower than 1.

Add to this the ammunition tolerances, even early modern rifles are tighter than smoothbore guns.Any looser and the rifle won't work; any tighter and the bullet will jam, with disastrous results.

For example, many people consider the FG42 paratrooper rifle from another time and space to be a work of art. In order to imitate this weapon, it took a certain enthusiast ten years to restore a complete set of technical information packages.

The more Zhao Liang delved into weapon production these years, the more he felt that the manufacture of "guns" is really a mysterious process. Many things that are taken as "natural" are not so simple. Far from having blueprints and equipment, according to Things that can be produced at the touch of a button.

In terms of heavy industrial products—especially military products, the so-called advantages of being cheap and suitable for mass production have always been established for large-scale factories with mature technologies.For small and medium-sized or even start-up models, let’s learn from buying parts and assembling honestly.Even if someone teaches them by hand, don't even think about imitating them in batches without a period of 5-10 years.Of course, unless the super high scrap rate can be tolerated, this is what the Germans did when they produced the Stg44, which is a typical behavior of jumping over the wall in a hurry.
The recruits on the front line of Xilang City were all dumbfounded when they saw the power of the two heavy machine guns.Since the servant army is not equipped with other heavy weapons except for the 12-pound gun, the soldiers at the bottom have never seen such a big killer. Compared with it, the rifle in their hands is simply a burning stick.Seeing the enemy's position turned into a hell of blood and fire, with broken bodies and limbs flying all over the sky, all the recruits on the front line vomited.

The Dutch defenders could not bear it after only resisting for half a day. The arrival of two heavy machine guns made them feel that the end of the world was coming.In just one morning, the coalition forces of the VOC and the Banten Sultanate lost more than 4000 people, which also made many officers and soldiers of the coalition forces refuse to fight.In their view, this is no longer a battle with back and forth, but a complete massacre.

In addition, because Zheng Wenxian's fleet has imposed a blockade on Banten Port for several days, and Erlu led people to attack VOC's gunpowder depot in the north of Serang, the army's gunpowder stock is running low, and it is unable to obtain external material support.

Faced with such a situation, the VOC Governor Overstratten, who was in a troubled city, had no choice but to send a representative to request a ceasefire in the afternoon, and under the pressure of He Xiwen, he started negotiations on an unconditional surrender.

The attitude of the North Navy is simple and clear. The VOC surrendered at all armed strongholds around the Malacca economic circle. It will not open any colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia in the future and return them all to Ceylon.Economically, Beihai Town will regard Malacca City as the center of the spice trade in the future. All Dutch merchant ships going to Guangzhou and Nagasaki must register at the Customs of Malacca City and obtain permission documents, otherwise they will be regarded as smuggling.

"You mean to say that you want to control all the European merchant ships coming from East Asia in the future? Your appetite is too big!"

"Hmph, given your centuries-old history of selling opium from India to East Asia, this is very necessary."

"I protest that the East India Company's trade in Nagasaki is a normal country-to-country trade exchange, and it is approved by the Tokugawa shogunate!"

"I'm sorry, the protest is invalid. To tell you the truth, Japan is already our vassal state. If the Tokugawa shogunate dares to be disobedient, we can replace it with someone else as a general at any time."

"What?! When did this happen?" The representative of the Netherlands was taken aback when he heard this. He didn't understand the situation at all.Since the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, the number of merchant ships going to Nagasaki has decreased from five a year to three every two years.And with the domino effect caused by the loss of Bacheng two years ago, the VOC has been unable to send more merchant ships to Nagasaki, and this year there is no one, so it is not clear about the situation in Japan.

"Hehe, the treaty was just signed last month."

Well, the negotiator of Beihai Town really wasn't lying.In view of the VOC's war against Beihai Town, under the continuous pressure of Cao Peng, the old Tokugawa Shogunate Nakamatsudaira Nobuaki was forced to sign a special agreement on the Dutch trade in Japan on June 1793, 6 on behalf of the Tokugawa Shogunate. .The two parties agreed that Dutch merchant ships were not allowed to enter the port for trade without obtaining a letter of permission issued by Beihai Town.In exchange, Beihai Town will provide the Tokugawa Shogunate with an interest-free loan of 17 taels of silver for a period of ten years.

Now the interior of the Tokugawa Shogunate is also in turmoil. The first old middle school leader, Matsudaira Sadanobu, and the eleventh generation general, Tokugawa Iezari, have had irreconcilable conflicts accumulated over the years because of the matter of giving their own father an honorary title.

The "lenient government reform" carried out by the shogunate in recent years aims to achieve sound finances through austerity measures.However, over the past few years, Japan's rural economy has not been revitalized, and businessmen have been dissatisfied due to the policy of suppressing business. The Haigou Gongfang, who likes a luxurious life, is even more annoyed by this.

Now the seal is 20 years old, and he feels that his arms are thicker and his legs are stronger. He hates Matsudaira Sadanobu more and more, so he made up his mind to dismiss him.The head of the Shirakawa Clan is gone, and the candidate to succeed him falls on Matsudaira Nobuaki, the lord of the Mikawa Yoshida Clan.

In order to ensure the continuation of the lenient reform and obtain the general's support, the 30-year-old Nobuaki Matsudaira could only agree to Cao Peng's conditions and send half of the 50 taels of the loan to the private treasury of the Haigou government to satisfy the other party's continuous marriage. The expenses of the concubine's room.

The VOC negotiators were dumbfounded at this point.They actually knew that Beihai Town had been supporting the Sendai Fan and the shogunate in these years, but they didn't expect the other side to have such a great influence on the Tokugawa shogunate.

On July 1793, 7, VOC Governor Overstrateng signed his name on the surrender document with a face ashen.He knew that the era of the once powerful "sea coachman" was over, and with the collapse and decline of the Java War, the Dutch would definitely become the object of contempt by European countries.

The person in Beihai Town who attended the Dutch surrender ceremony was He Xiwen, who served as the frontline commander.Zhao Xin was really not interested in this, and he directly authorized it in the name of the Northern Navy Command.

When the former pirate leader signed his name on the surrender form with a trembling brush, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart, and he has been even more devoted to Zhao Xin since then.He Xiwen knew that because of this incident, he would be famous in history, and even be immortalized forever, so he was finally worthy of his ancestors!
Having experienced the battle of West Java from the beginning to the end, He Xiwen has a deep understanding of the system of the Beihai Navy, from being unaccustomed to gradually adapting to it.The personal soldiers and private battalion leaders he imagined in the past did not exist at all, at most there was a personal guard.

After chatting with his staff officers these days, he found out that almost all the officers above the company level of the Beihai Navy have participated in Zhao Xin's officer training course, and their loyalty is extremely high.As long as the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs issues a transfer order, it's useless to let you get acquainted with the officers at the bottom.Whichever chief officer dares to disobey the order, the deputy can directly get the command according to the system, and the chief officer will be imprisoned directly, and what awaits him will be the ruling of military law.

He Xiwen hadn't seen his group of pirate brothers for some time. Thinking of the time when he drank heavily and ate large pieces of meat on Conlun Island, he often lamented that things were different.However, he also understood that Ruan Fuying might have to wait for him to go to Jiading, Guangnan in his current capacity.

At the same time as the end of the war on Java Island, Deng Fei, who had been sitting in Ningguta, also obtained the authorization of Zhao Xin. He ordered his three regiments and the two regiments from Al Chuka to Dasang Ula to fight against the The Qing army in Ula, Jilin launched a general offensive.

The goal of this campaign is to advance the southern defense line of the Northern Navy to the Hun River before winter, reaching Weiyuan Fort and Ying'er Gate on the wicker side wall; to the west is Yitong Gate and Heersu Gate beyond the side wall , occupying Changchun Town, which still belongs to Guo Erluosi Front Banner in this era.

Now the new regime in Beihai Town has gradually established itself in Qiqihar, Alchuka, and Hulunbuyur. After the summer, a large number of civil affairs cadres were in place and began to clear land and carry out land reform work in various places.Therefore, in addition to Jiang Fan, who is also a man and an army, he needs to lead his troops to continue to garrison Hulun Buyuer, and Li Rui's two regiments are freed up.

Faced with the rapid offensive of Beihai Town, the Qing army in Jilin either fled for their lives in a panic, or directly surrendered as an organization.You must know that it has been four months since Beihai Town launched the "Spring Offensive". Super born posture.Anyway, I can't beat it, isn't it just such a small thing?
When the news of the Northern Navy's "invasion" reached the capital again, in contrast to the busy response in the court, the clan's internal attention was on Du Erjia's death.

Du Erjia was hanged in public trial by the Beihai Navy, the first enlightened canon of punishment to kill the Aixinjueluo clan.Although this person is a descendant of Tabai, he is always a direct descendant of Nurhachi.Zhao Xin dared to do this, it was tantamount to slapping the Xinjueluo family's face nakedly, which made the entire clan panic and restless.

　Take the well-known AK as an example, a barrel sleeve can block all imitators who did not buy a technical data package, so it is by no means produced by any country.Even in the modern times of another time and space, a large number of small and medium-sized firearms companies producing AK series in the old and American folks still have nothing to do with this barrel sleeve. Even if they have CNC machine tools, it will not help. factory imports.Of course, some people think that the "Sten submachine gun" with poor reliability, poor hit rate and range, and easy to misfire is also a qualified modern standard weapon. Look at my mouth shape, hehe~~
　　
　
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