Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 256 He suspected that he was dazzled

On March 3, when Wang Shouliang's Sihai Fleet arrived in Lushun and joined the squadron headed by the Huanghai, countless Japanese soldiers were immediately frightened and trembled while hiding behind various bases.

The 5,000-strong blue-shirted team stationed in Lushun, responsible for field rescue and escort missions, quickly formed out of the city under the leadership of the chief escort chiefs and escort chiefs to greet them.

It is obvious that the 5000 land travelers and escorts who have stayed in Lushun for two months have become much more elite.

Even before coming here, these five thousand people were all veterans who had been training for at least three years, and many of them went to the place where the Black Flag Army died, or to fight guerrilla blood in Xiaoliuqiu.

But it's different here.

They not only have to guard Lushun, but also travel to various parts of the Northeast from time to time to escort compatriots who want to leave, all the way here to the dock and board the ship.

Along the way...it's still easy to pass by battlefields one after another.

Let's put it this way, in the Ghost-Bear War that broke out in February last year, not to mention the losses of the Japanese navy, seventy or eighty thousand people died on land.

In the original Battle of Ghost Bear, the Mao Xiong Navy was outrageous. It suffered more casualties than the Beiyang Navy that led the Qing Dynasty, and it did not cause too many casualties to the Japanese. However, in the land battle of Mao Xiong, two or three people were directly killed and injured. One hundred thousand Japs.

Nearly 90,000 people died in the battle!

Wang Shouliang was a little surprised, but after hearing a few words from the head escort, he was also surprised and started preparing tea for Lao Wan and Chen Zhen.

But many compatriots were robbed.

Until now, except for the Tsar's Pacific Second Squadron and Third Squadron on the ocean, they were still waiting to rendezvous. In the end, the decisive battle was fought on the Washikishima. The casualties caused to the Japanese on land had exceeded 30.

With such a configuration, it can only be said that in terms of weapons on land, they are already more advanced than the Japanese and Mao Xiong with the same caliber!

Chen Zhen and Wan Tianqing, a group of progressive young people who are working on the front line for rescue, really have saved many, many people. They are not as good as the Sihai Escort Bureau, but they are second only to the Sihai Escort Bureau.

The Northeast has no shortage of self-protection associations, mutual rescue associations, etc. that resist the bears and the Japanese.

The Mao Xiong suffered more deaths, not only millions of casualties, but also 27 prisoners, but after all, they were not on the same level as the Japanese.

They also rescued many, many compatriots from the Northeast. This war, which lasted for one or two years, also caused countless debts to the Northeast. When it comes to the massacre, it was not as ruthless as after the Anti-Japanese War.

Wan Tianqing and others are people who are willing to sacrifice their lives and blood for their ideals and dreams. They are not afraid of hardship and suffering, and they are not afraid of going to the battlefield. With the most advanced guns and cannons, they can still save their compatriots after coming to the Northeast.

The Jiachen Type 1904 75MM rapid-fire field gun was a super powerful field gun that shocked all European and American powers during the Gengzi Revolution!

It has brought all field artillery from one or two rounds per minute to the field and era of more than 15 rounds.

In this dimension, the deaths and injuries of the furry bears are still exaggerated, and the Japanese are even more uncomfortable.

This is really a good guy. At the beginning of last year, this group of progressive people asked for support and came to the Northeast to protect their compatriots and help each other. At first, there were only more than a thousand people. After a year of fighting, more and more people were fighting.

The Battle of Fengtian is in full swing!

When Wang Shouliang entered Lushun to check on the current situation of the elite members of the Blue Jackets, and when he planned to heavily reward the troops with their salaries and various supplies, Wan Tianqing and Chen Zhencai, who received the news, hurried into the city and came to visit.

In this aspect, they can quickly gain the favor and gratitude of countless big brothers in the Northeast, and spontaneously become the leading party to help them... This has the right location, people and foundation!

Statistics show that in just two short years after the war, fellow villagers in Northeast China lost 6900 million taels of silver.

If you are short of bullets and cannonballs, you can buy them from Sihai Escort Bureau or buy them on credit.

It can only be said that with the support of Wang Shouliang, there is no shortage of guns, bullets, and bicycles. In just one year, Chen Zhen and others have become leaders of thousands of tough men, capable of fighting Japanese and Mao Xiong in small-scale encounters. The wolf rushes like a wolf.

All the armored vehicles were Jiachen 1904 long rifles, equipped with pointed bullets from Wan Tianqing and Chen Zhen's team, and dozens of Jiachen 1904 75MM rapid-fire field guns were running around on the gun carriages.

Tens of thousands of ghost bears and livestock were killed and injured by them.

A number of qualified artillerymen are still growing rapidly.

The first thousand young people naturally suffered a lot of casualties, but again, the more people were beaten, the more people were beaten. Countless Northeasterners were already eager to join in with their heads raised and seek revenge on the ghost bear.

After understanding the situation, Wang Shouliang first offered Wan Tianqing, Chen Zhen and others a few cups of tea, and then excitedly pulled a few people along and said, "Come on, follow me to the Sihai and the freighter."

"I ordered hundreds of Krupp 150MM heavy grenade field guns from Hanscat, and 100 of them have been delivered first."

"Originally, I planned to equip the equipment for the brothers stationed in Lushun of the Escort Bureau. Now that you are here, I will give you 10 guns first. There are enough cannon tubes. Let's not talk about the money. This thing is a good thing!"

In World War I, with the help of the terrifying range of the 150MM heavy howitzer, the Krupp heavy artillery beat the French rapid-fire cannons to a bloody pulp. It was really a good thing.

Even after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in the 30s, the German armorers in the hands of the bald men were not equipped with many 150MM heavy artillery, and the bald men had more 105MM howitzers.

The total weight of a metal gun carriage made of all steel is 2035 kilograms in combat, and its marching weight can generally reach 1710 kilograms. A single cannon shell weighs 42 or 44 kilograms.

It's really a big deal.

This big banger has been in service for Hanscat since 1902. The number of Hanscat produced is also limited. This time, several hundred units will be sold to Wang Shouliang, which are the Hanscat Zhujiang Model T and the future Zhujiang truck. .

They are so greedy!

After hearing that Louisa rushed to send the telegram back to Europa, William was so excited that he stayed up for three consecutive nights without sleeping.

In a few days, tens of thousands of troops can be deployed to Paris in one fell swoop without resorting to railway transportation? ! This is really too perverted.

When William was excited, he gave him away not to mention any battleships, but pre-dreadnoughts that were in the process of being eliminated anyway, including Krupp heavy guns.

After all, William also coveted the French M1897 75MM rapid-fire field gun. Hans Cat didn't understand, but Wang Shouliang did... Sometimes resource exchange is not impossible.

William is not stupid. He knows that the possibility of a huge conflict of interest between Hans Cat and Wang Shouliang and Sihai Escort Agency in the Far East is almost zero.

How does Wang Shouliang grow and develop to become stronger? The first threats are Yalun, France, and North America. William is separated from him by the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

This is true on the ocean, and on land the two sides are even less able to reach the same place.

Therefore, before his first formal contact with Wang Shouliang, he already knew that the man surnamed Wang was not as rich as a mortal, and William had thought more than once about establishing a relationship with him and selling him out.

After the incident of the raid on Ludong Farm.

This is not an ordinary love affair between a man and his concubine.

When Wang Shouliang came to Lushun this time, he not only went to the front lines to inspect, encourage and reward the land and sea forces of the Sihai Escort Bureau, but more importantly, he also sent 100 150MM grenade heavy cannons so that the escorts could better learn and improve their artillery quality.

There is a saying that from 1901 to 1905, nearly four years of land and water force construction, the guards and bodyguards carrying rifles and pistols were the easiest to train, as long as they were not afraid of wasting bullets. Those piles of bullets were made with great effort and were wasted casually. Naturally, the marksmanship of each veteran was steadily improving and becoming more powerful.

Artillery stuff...

It really requires talent, experience, and knowledge!

The literacy campaign that started in 1901, not to mention the formal department of the Sihai Escort Bureau, even the security department, has a rule that only if the literacy results are good, promotion and salary increase will be easier.

Isn't the point of playing to improve knowledge? From literacy to recognizing Chinese characters one by one, to reciting the multiplication tables, and learning to use Arabic numerals to calculate proficiently.

It's all prizes, and it's been prizes since 1901.

For a strong artillery team, in addition to having enough cannons and shells for them to practice, it is also necessary to constantly learn and improve themselves.

For example, the first five thousand troops to be stationed in Lushun were two escort commanders with a full complement of 400 men each, totaling 800. These 800 artillerymen all know more than one or two hundred Chinese characters and can recite and calculate the multiplication table. .

This is the 800 people who have been prioritized and reorganized from all the bureaus of the General Administration from Shaoguan, Yangcheng, Foshan to Baoan, Yau Tsim Mong and Shanghai.

Those who studied earlier gained three or four years, and those who later gained at least two years of experience.

Coming here to fire a 75MM field rapid-fire gun is a great opportunity to practice and learn. On the 150MM heavy artillery truck pulled to the land...

They will be the backbone of the artillery department of the entire Sihai Escort Bureau in the future.

There is no doubt that there is no comparison between the 150MM heavy gun and the 305 or 280MM naval gun of a large ship. They are all at the level of small guns.

But when these artillery carts were pulled off the pier and driven toward Lushun by Pearl River Ts one after another, countless Japanese soldiers were still so frightened that their legs went weak.

Many Japanese soldiers have already begun to doubt the meaning of their fight to death in the Northeast.

Even if 70,000 to 80,000 comrades died, would the battle be won? If you don't have a fleet, you will be alone when you come to the Northeast. You will die as many as you come. No matter how the Qing government messes up, they cannot afford to offend the power of the Four Seas Escort Agency.

In the past, the Navy was too powerful and the Japanese Navy could not afford to offend it.

The current land division of the Sihai Escort Bureau is also becoming stronger rapidly, and it still has all kinds of the most advanced equipment from the great powers.

From the real battle to the fighting period at the beginning of the film, the 150MM heavy artillery was also a heavy firepower that made countless soldiers tremble in fear when they heard the sound.

It is nothing more than that by World War I, the Hans Cat 1902 150MM heavy artillery currently in service had its maximum range increased from about eight kilometers to 22 kilometers.

In addition to the huge change in range, shooting is more accurate.

The true power of the explosion? The current 150MM is already a top-level configuration. It will naturally be more comfortable if it is replaced with a big picric acid bomb. Unfortunately, the ones sent by Hanscat are all cotton gunpowder shells.

Wang Shouliang wanted to make it himself!

It doesn't matter if you build it yourself. What the heavy artillery group lacks the most is logistical supplies. It is impossible to let others get stuck in this aspect, since such a batch of heavy artillery was imported.

Wang Shouliang has already begun to plan to plagiarize and steal the chicken.

Anyway, William has always been generous, so he doesn’t mind if he knows.

Of course, this does not mean that the Japanese do not have 150MM heavy artillery. During the entire Lushun War, the Japanese used 152MM and 120MM artillery groups at the earliest. They are not bad at this, but even the 152MM cannon can be used against fortifications with a concrete thickness of more than 1 meter, such as 203 Highland is also a drop in the bucket and can't do big things.

Otherwise, the Japanese would not have killed tens of thousands of people in the battle at Lushun, and even more were injured.

They were able to win because they dismantled a batch of 280MM super heavy artillery from the coastal defense artillery in the country, including Tokyo, and won the final victory.

The problem is that the 280MM coastal defense gun took a full month from transportation to installation and construction of the turret. It was entirely based on human sea tactics.

Even if it's 152MM, it's not something that just a few people can play well.

Any cannon truck can weigh up to several tons, and any cannonball can weigh dozens or hundreds of kilograms! The difficulty and transportation efficiency of moving these things are too great.

So what really frightened the Japanese were the Pearl River T-cars pulling the gun carriages forward! This is not on the same level as the carts pulled by animals such as oxen and horses, and the tactics of human and human forces.

It is epoch-making.

The Pearl River T-car pulled heavy artillery shells forward, which also made them extremely frightened. Compared with the Japanese transporting various heavy artillery from Lushun to Fengtian... What level of oxen, horse, animal power and crowd fueling are there?

It can often take half a month or more.

Cars firing cannons and transporting shells are really scary.

after a while.

When Wang Shouliang pulled 10 150MM Krupp cannons and arrived two kilometers away from the 203 Highlands, he commanded his artillery team to cooperate and operate, intending to try to fire a shot and practice to improve the strength of the artillery team.

All land and sea divisions in the Sihai Escort Bureau were very excited and were watching expectantly. Farther away, there were many Japanese soldiers watching with white faces.

Again, they have these cannons, but they lack the contrast between human-pulled carts and ox-drawn carts when working on automobiles. The efficiency is ten to one, or even worse.

No matter how rubbish the Pearl River Model T-generation car is, it is still a 22-horsepower car! Moreover, cars burning gasoline are much more stable than cows and horses in nature.

The truly astute people will naturally be able to see that while cars are firing cannons, your artillery regiment is still transporting them, and before they have time to set up the forts, the other party has already assembled and started to bombard you with cluster firepower.

Coupled with the numerous and dozens of 305MM giant naval guns in the sea, this is more terrifying and more numerous than the 280MM coastal defense guns brought by the Japanese from the mainland.

People come with warships and open fire at any time. If you set up a stable fort on the shore, it can last for dozens of days...

When many of the four sea and land divisions were divided into more than a dozen people to operate a 150MM heavy artillery, aiming at the ruins of Highland 203, Wang Shouliang also looked forward to the learning results of his assassins.

After another period of time, under his command, and under the operation of more than 100 artillerymen, ten heavy artillery roared deafeningly. Ten artillery shells also flew collectively into the low altitude and landed on the ruins of Highland 203, letting out a dull howl.

Wang Shouliang's eyes lit up when he saw it, "Yes, one-third of them landed directly near the original Mao Xiong fort. The result is very good."

The former fortress fort built by Mao Xiong was very strong. It was so strong that both sides left behind more than 10 corpses. The 150MM heavy artillery was not very powerful, but it was still different in field battles and offensive and defensive battles.

If it is really an attack and a life-and-death battle, it will be directly the Sihai's 305MM naval gun. This kind of training and learning is another matter.

Just as he was approving, Xu Si, the captain of the guard, suddenly said, "Big shopkeeper, there is someone coming over there, it seems to be someone to lead the Qing Dynasty..."

Wang Shouliang turned around and saw a young man with braids, trembling with fear a hundred or two hundred meters away. One of the two women beside the young man was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

What made him speechless was that the person who was frightened by the gunfire was a little girl with exquisite makeup who looked to be only twelve or thirteen years old, Liu Tianxian? Damn, he suspected that he was dazzled? !

(End of this chapter)