Chapter 397: What Are We Fighting For?!
The Imperial Military Mobilization Order was first carried out in the main island of the Union Empire and in the Shandong region.
Of course, this time there was a limited mobilization, which limited only a few industries in the two regions, and the military industry subordinate to the imperial army still accounted for the majority.
The military factories in the Badaohe area of Liuqiu Island and the Qingdao area of Shandong Province and the Dengzhou area began to produce 24 hours a day, and the production of explosives, bullets, shells, grenades, and various firearms and various artillery accessories was increased in scale and speed.
Private food processing factories, garment factories, leather goods factories, and vehicle parts factories have received unexpectedly large orders, and those manufacturers are happy to find that they need to supply military products for about three consecutive years after meeting the usual production tasks!
Of course, the quality of military products is particularly important, and all private factories have settled in the quality inspectors sent by the imperial military to ensure it.
Two of the three army divisions stationed in the Shandong region moved quickly, and they began to be mixed with equipment from the previous garrison army divisions, making them two independent divisions that could independently complete operations, siege and pursuit.
The original cavalry units began to be redistributed, leaving only one cavalry regiment and the rest divided; Artillery, engineers, logistics, and medical corps, which originally belonged to the three divisions, were redistributed in the same way as equipment, and two independent mixed divisions were emphatically formed.
The two independent mixed divisions basically completed the mule-horse transportation.
Subsequently, the military factory on the main island of Liuqiu transported more than 20 mysterious ironclad chariots for them.
The two commanders of the 1st and 2nd Independent Divisions were overjoyed after observing their military exercises, which were obviously lighter and easier to use than four-wheeled carriage-style chariots!
The only downside is that the chariot makes a loud "click" sound and always emits black smoke.
However, they should be content, this mysterious ironclad chariot can run 180 kilometers at a time without stopping!
Moreover, its hand-cranked Gatling machine gun is front-mounted, which is shot out of the driver's head, and there are no dead ends in the firing range from thirty to one hundred and fifty degrees!
The key is to be able to carry six to ten fighters and their equipment at the same time, ideally reaching speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour!
It was riveted and welded with 0.5 centimeters of steel around it, and the whole was coated with green oil, and thirty meters away, even the most powerful bow and arrow could not penetrate it!
The glass windows in the cab in front of it are covered with dense barbed wire, and there are two battery lights underneath it, which can shine fifteen meters ahead.
This guy can also walk at night!
Of course, secrecy is not to be mentioned.
The two division commanders also specially tested it, if ten ironclad chariots were driven together, the sound could be heard more than ten miles away at night!
However, the commander of the 1st Independent Division said: "Don't be afraid, we are originally holding high and fighting, attacking and attacking, it is better to have secrecy, and it is nothing if we don't have it!" β
The commander of the 2nd Independent Division said: "Maybe they will be scared half to death before the fight starts!" β
This idea opened their minds, and they simply asked a painter to draw a tiger's head, a leopard's head, a bear's head, and a wolf's head on the front of the chariot.
Everyone knows that the Tatar robbers worship all kinds of beasts, and they use this to scare them.
For a time, even the carriages of the four-wheeled carriages were painted with fierce beasts.
Some tiger heads are like cat heads, then there is no way, and the level of painters is different.
Air companies, which were assigned to two separate mixed divisions, followed suit and painted large goshawks on the hot air balloons.
When War Secretary Bowie personally inspected the two independent divisions, he found himself in a beast division.
It didn't matter, the point was that he was very satisfied with the morale of the soldiers, and they were all holding back their strength and ready to fight.
They train every day in Shandong, and it's really boring.
Sometimes they also envy those comrades-in-arms who have the opportunity to go overseas, and it is always easier for others to make a military merit than them.
Although everyone retired in the end, the gap between those with military merits and those without military merits is a bit bigger, which makes people psychologically unbalanced.
Everyone took the initiative to join the army, why should other people's retirement costs be higher than their own?!
Military merit and military rank are the rigid conditions for comparison.
Of the original three divisions, those who were drawn out to fight were jubilant, and those who were not drawn out but were still serving as garrison divisions were dejected.
There is no way to do this, there are always some places where I am inferior to others.
War Minister Bao Wei convened a small meeting of officers above the company level, and there was no need to mobilize for the war against the Tatar bandits, and everyone was always ready.
One thing that Bowie emphasized was that Crown Prince Zhang Zhansheng joined the Marine Corps and became the captain of a military aircraft sailboat, still holding the rank of second lieutenant.
Bao Wei said solemnly: "Our crown prince participated in the boot camp training like everyone else, and when he came out, he was just a second lieutenant!"
We are not like the Great Song Dynasty, they talk about blood, an elder brother and a younger brother of the official Zhao Xian were born as left and right generals, our crown prince wants to get a higher military position, he still has to go to the battlefield to fight for it in person!
His chest is like most of you, and he doesn't have a medal! β
Bowie was wearing a civilian general's uniform at this time, and his chest was no more than two silver coin-sized medals, which were the medals he had received in two counterattacks.
However, they are far more eye-catching than the gold medals that General Kim of Goryeo hung all over his upper body.
Still serious, Bowie said:
"They want to assassinate our crown prince and make the empire lose luck, well, our crown prince will be sent to the battlefield right away, come on, let's have a good fight.
Brethren, I do not want to say why you must defeat the Tatar bandits, but I want to say, for your own future, for your own honor, go and fight them well, and tell them that you are the best soldiers of the Empire!
Let my colleagues in the navy see, let the Great Song and Goryeo, and Japan see how powerful the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Army is!!
Now it is up to you, my brethren, in the future you will receive a retirement fee, buy your own house or land, and live in peaceββββββ your children may ask you what you have done for the Federal Empireββββββ and you will answer, I have done nothing but my part: I have eradicated and eliminated the bandit group that has become powerful by murder and robbery, and there will be no such soil for the survival of such evil organizations in the world.
No one will dare to use your membership to deprive you of your freedom to move, no one will dare to strictly prohibit you from possessing your own legal weapons, no one will treat you as a slave for life, no one will dare to divide people into three, six, nine, etc., no one will dare to snatch your right to the first night of your marriage, no one will dare to laugh at knowledge and scienceββββββ we have really only done these things. β
After Secretary of War Borvay said these words, there was silence in the room.
But the corners of Bao Wei's eyes were moist, he was no longer young, and there was no way to fight with the brethren.
War belongs to young people, and I hope they really know what they are fighting for.
The commanders of the two independent divisions took the lead in standing up with a "snap" and gave a military salute cleanly.
"Fight for our duty, fight for our children and grandchildren!"
"The Empire is with us!!"
Immediately, the audience stood up and saluted, and everyone shouted almost in unison!
"Fight for our duty, fight for our children and grandchildren!"
"The Empire is with us!!"
Bao Wei slowly stood up, and he solemnly returned a military salute to everyone.
At this time, all the soldiers sang the military song: "Angry hair rushes to the crown, leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rests ββββββ"
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