Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 249 Dear friends, please don’t misunderstand me

Shanghai Beach at night, Wusong Road.

Captain Zhou and Zhu Chuanwu were not the only ones who were shocked by the sudden appearance of the "mechanized" team at night. On both sides of the long and wide road, there were houses of one or two floors, large or small.

The singing and dancing girls of the island country who were doing business, or the men and women who were helping to deliver business, were also gradually alerted by the headlights and honking of car horns that appeared on the road.

It was convenient to go directly to the corridor on the second floor and look out. I was stunned when I saw some movement.

What was less convenient was to arrive at the door of the courtyard and look through the crack in the door. Those who could see clearly or not clearly began to frown or ponder over the contents displayed by the Lu Division of the Sihai Escort Agency.

Or just plain scared and panicked.

It wasn't until the junior mechanized team drove more than 200 meters on the road that the door of a double-story attic house suddenly opened, and two people walked out...

Two ghost guys were just standing at the gate.

There is a row of blue-shirted teams at the front of the cycling group, riding with one hand and looking at them with a Mauser C96 in the other hand.

Even on the first Pearl River Model T, three men in blue uniforms standing in the back row were also aiming at it with long rifles in both hands.

Brian and another blond ghost man ran over quickly. Of course, they continued to raise their hands while running. They didn't bother to care about the gain or loss of face. They were now curious about what the scene in front of them meant! !

The brown-haired middle-aged man among the two ghosts immediately raised his hands, "Shet, dear friends, don't get me wrong. I am Brian. Wang, are you here?"

Keep stacking up thicker armor! !

The first dreadnought in the history of the original trajectory, the Dreadnought, is not much more powerful than the Shikishima, Mikasa, and Hatsuse based on its displacement, but its speed of 21 knots, 10 305MM main guns, and fire control focus are all former Dreadnoughts. The ship is intimidating.

With an order, the eight knights in the first row, including the three men with long rifles in the first Model T car, all put away their guns, and the convoy began to stop steadily.

Real big ships are no longer just twin turrets with four 4MM main guns. They are almost all main guns of the same caliber. They are clustered, unified, and researched and launched with more advanced fire control technology to fire and bomb together.

This is indeed the case. After the Tsushima naval war in the original trajectory, starting from Yuren and then radiating around the world, all the old powers, including younger brothers like North America, began to abandon the previous Zhenyuan-class, Fuji-class and then Shikishima-class battleships. fleet plan.

"Aren't we all good friends?! Damn it, this is the first time in so many years that I have been targeted by so many guns in a public concession!"

"I'm Brian. The road construction project entrusted to you by our Ministry of Industry Bureau has at least brought you hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, right?"

Then steam turbines replaced reciprocating steam engines, increased speed, and so on.

Following Brian's words, Wang Shouliang's laughter also rang out in the second Pearl River Model T, "Put your gun away and stop the car!"

Even if everyone is still marching, it does not prevent them from aiming their guns one by one.

Nothing else is out of the ordinary.

But it doesn't stop them from intuitively feeling that this scene may be of great significance.

The dreadnought ship actually abandoned the 150MM secondary guns, 75MM small guns, etc. of the Fuji and Shikishima-class battleships, and reorganized them into main battery groups.

The battle between torpedo boats and mines can also significantly rewrite the course of the war.

Just like before the Battle of Xiaoliuqiu, Wang Shouliang initially asked Kevin and Joseph to stand on his Sihai to watch the battle... The mentality was that if I don't let you come up, you might also drive other big ships and watch from a distance.

A Battle of Tsushima made the great powers realize that the naval technology and tactics of the Iron Age had undergone epoch-making developments. The emergence of picric acid shells made them understand that traditional armored steel could not protect the old command tower and turrets at all.

Except for a few gun carriages, they also rushed forward along the inertia when the bicycle braked.

Yes, they didn't know what the scene in front of them was or what it meant.

Let’s start working on the dreadnought instead! !

It was after the Battle of Tsushima that the appearance of dreadnought ships marked the coming of the fearless era.

The Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War was an experimental war for the European powers. The Battle of Ghost Bear and the Battle of Tsushima were also new experimental wars for the European powers.

In this current dimension, the Battle of Ghost Bear has just begun, and the Battle of Tsushima has just begun, but the Battle of Xiaoliuqiu more than a year ago was enough to shock the great powers.

The development of the dreadnought ship is estimated to be ahead of schedule.

That's what battles at sea are like!

But on land? The island countrymen on land still assigned cavalry on horseback to charge, including Mao Xiong, or pushed the Cossack cavalry to attack.

That kind of traditional cavalry duel, Brian from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Bureau knew it right away, and he didn't bother to think about it, but in front of him, Wang Shouliang, who met by chance at night, was traveling and gathered a well-trained bicycle team.

Including bicycles and cannon trucks, he had never seen them before.

But like the two Pearl River Model T cars, which really burned gasoline and were moving slowly and steadily, the three infantrymen standing in the second row of the first car could stably aim their rifles while driving.

He has never seen this before!

A Pearl River Model T is like this, two... there are two in front of me, what if there are 20 in the future? What about 200 vehicles? !

When he ran to the car, Brian didn't think much at first until he saw both drivers controlling the car to stop running. The co-pilot and the team in blue in the back were so energetic.

The two cars expanded to 200 in his mind, and it was Brian who had the inspiration. When he arrived in front of Wang Shouliang's car, he suddenly reached out and held the right hand of shopkeeper Wang Da, "Wang, how long will it take for your car to reach 200, 2000?" Let’s go out together with the car??”

Wang Shouliang was slightly surprised, but not too surprised and said with a smile, "It won't work this year yet. For the time being, there is only semi-mechanized production and semi-manual assembly. But by next year at the latest, we will be able to fully expand, with an annual output of five to six hundred vehicles, or even thousands." It’s not difficult to get a car.”

Brian took a long breath and circled around the two Pearl River Model T cars, "It will be OK next year? It will be OK next year!"

"Sigh~"

"Isn't this much faster than training cavalry? The wooden cannon wheel frame has its limitations, but in some international car competitions, there is no shortage of steel wheel frames modified."

"Once there are hundreds or thousands of them... By the way, King, are all these cars open-top? Can they be equipped with a carriage hood that covers all four sides and leaves only the window?"

After speaking, without waiting for Wang Shouliang's answer, he gave himself a gentle slap, "I can definitely do it!"

The next moment Brian stood there and began to think about everything again.

There are hundreds of thousands of these cars, powered by gasoline, with steel wheels and pneumatic tires. They are equipped with steel hood racks and only the windows are left. Soldiers sit or squat in them with their guns set!

It has to be said that in this Sino-Japanese War and the Ghost Bear War, both were semi-experimental wars in the new era. Even when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, France came up with the experimental M1897 75MM rapid-fire field gun, which shocked the world... …

In such an era, Brian was able to sit in a high position in the Shanghai Public Settlement and the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, even if he sneaked into the boudoir of the Japanese Liu Ying and the singing and dancing girls at night.

But he's really not stupid. He gradually began to think of what kind of trend Wang Shouliang had set off during his night trip. Under the light of car lights and gas streetlights on both sides of the road, bicycles, bicycle cannon carts, and car teams were dispatched in collaboration.

There are only two Model T cars, which are not very dazzling. Two hundred, two thousand, so many car lights at night, how about assisting thousands of bicycle teams?

While Brian was still thinking about it, Colin, another blond ghost guy, quickly put away the cigarette and took out a Pearl River lighter to light up. "Wang, are you taking action? Damn it, you really scared us."

"We are eating steak and watching the beauties from the island country dancing and singing..."

"What are you going to do?"

Wang Shouliang laughed, "It's nothing serious. I just know that some scumbag from the Black Dragon Society is secretly discussing something to cause trouble. It just so happens that I haven't practiced for a while."

"My Sihai Escort Bureau has only 300 people in Shanghai, and they are from the Intelligence Department. They don't have much practical ability, so I just drag them out to practice their skills."

"I only have a senior escort department here, 120 non-combatants from the intelligence department, plus my 10-person guard force."

Colin rolled his eyes wildly, "You call these non-combatants? Damn it! You Chinese men can't even believe what you say!"

Colin's words made Wang Shouliang almost vomit blood. Although I am talking nonsense, you can't be too nonsense. There seems to be something remarkable in your words? ? !

Could this ghost guy be a rotten army?

The next moment, Colin frowned and glanced at the 37MM small gun on the gun carriage, and asked suspiciously, "The Black Dragon Club you plan to practice is building a bunker at home?"

This is the Shanghai Public Settlement, not the Northeast. A long rifle and a Maxim... Yes, Colin has already found a Maxim on the first Pearl River T-car.

This thing can't help suppress the scum of the Black Dragon Society? Is it necessary to start a firecracker?

Wang Shouliang laughed, "Zhilian, zipper."

"Speaking of which, I am also practicing and rehearsing a tactic I have in mind. Technology has developed rapidly in recent years. Not only the navy is updated rapidly, but also the competition on land is the same."

It was only then that Brian woke up from his reverie and hurriedly nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, Wang, if you can organize 200 cars next year to coordinate with the bicycle troops to carry out the assault."

"Then you are definitely one of the masters of land power confrontation. When the time comes, we, the Royal Army, will probably come to learn from you."

Wang Shouliang laughed, "These are all small things, easy to talk about, easy to talk about."

Is he afraid that the power of the European continent will discover the trend of mechanized troops in advance? Of course they are not afraid, and they even actively want the other party to accelerate their entry into mechanized competition.

Everyone who knows about it knows that the First World War was about the European continent stabbing each other and bleeding each other, but there were not many large-scale wars in the Far East. The original trajectory simply benefited the devils and allowed them to rise from the ground.

Once the torrent of steel on land is rolled up in advance, the bloodletting on the continent will become even more severe and cruel!

As for the Japanese who want to learn? The devils at this stage are useless. Do they have petroleum and gasoline? No! Even if they buy it, the Sihai Escort Bureau's dominance of the Southeast China Sea can cut off their lifeline.

It would be even more exciting if the great powers would order various tanks from him on a large scale.

At this stage, the Sihai Escort Bureau, the Pearl River Automobile Factory, and the Pearl River Ordnance Factory can not only manufacture Ford Model T cars, but also Mauser M1898 long rifles, pointed bullets, and M1897 75MM rapid-fire field guns, including various picric acid shells. .

75MM rapid-fire cannon, that is Li Yunlong’s powerful cannon! !

The Lu Division of the Sihai Escort Bureau has a full strength of 18300 people, and most of them have taken turns to go to the other side of the bend and the Ryukyu Islands...

The Sihai Sea Department has long been lacking experience in large-scale actual battles. Only the brothers on land lack experience in large-scale battles.

Small-scale guerrilla warfare, including bandit suppression, is also an operation where practice makes perfect.

after a while.

During the night training session with a total staff of 133 people, under the command of Wang Shouliang, Brian and Colin each sat in the passenger seat of a Pearl River Model T, experiencing a full sense of novelty.

Captain Zhou and Zhu Chuanwu, the security officers from various Pearl River enterprises, had envy written all over their faces. Not too far behind, they began to gather their teams and run forward, hanging at the rear.

The large team drove all the way until they arrived outside a high-walled compound.

This high-walled compound contains a two-entry building and several two-story attics.

When Wang Shouliang jumped out of the T-car, several artillerymen from the intelligence department of the Sihai Escort Bureau had already pulled several 37mm small cannons and planned to take aim.

The long rifle soldiers in each queue also spread out in a full strength of 10 junior bodyguard divisions to surround the entire compound.

Didn't really wait to fire.

In the courtyard, there is a white flag that is higher than the high wall, hung on a long bamboo pole, and gradually moves from the depths of the courtyard to the door.

When the door opened and a group of men and women wearing island warrior uniforms and singing and dancing girls knelt down and begged for surrender, Brianba smacked his lips and complained, "King, you are here, how many cannons can you fire?"

Here we are, the Japanese and the Black Dragon Society, how uncomfortable is it to just kneel down and beg for mercy?

Isn't this blinding his mentality of just watching the fun?

The Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War and the current Ghost-Bear War were all major experiments for Yinlun, France, Hanscat, North America, etc. to watch the excitement and improve their own arms race.

Indispensable are those who fan the flames.

As one of the big bosses of the Ministry of Industry, how could Brian not know the nature of the Black Dragon Club? Of course he knew that without Yalun and North America lending money to the island countrymen, the Ghost Bear War would never have been fought in this dimension.

Before a fight breaks out, riots will break out in advance.

It is Yalun and North America who need a great power in the Far East to contain and consume the power of Mao Xiong to share Mao Xiong's wrath.

Wang Shouliang smiled and lit a cigarette, "Since they are so sensible, let's forget it."

Is the important thing this night whether to fire or not? Is it the power to destroy the Black Dragon Society in Shanghai? No, the main thing is in the origin of mechanization, training.

The night march of the Intelligence Department can be practiced in a good manner, so there is no need to worry about the performance of each bodyguard division and head bodyguard of the War Department.

Even as Wang Shouliang watched, those in the Pearl River Security Section who actively wanted to make progress and took the initiative to cause trouble were training themselves in a good way.

The full force is less than 40,000 people, which is close to that number. With the addition of more than 10,000 brothers on the sea, several towns in Beiyang must carefully weigh each other's proportions and weight.

No wonder that when he first arrived in Shanghai and before training, he met several groups of lobbyists who wanted to grant him an official appointment, and they were from different people.

He, the head of the new era escort agency, is a little embarrassed.

(End of this chapter)