Han Linchun's arrival made Wang Yongan feel extremely surprised, he knew that Han Linchun was a historical bull, the designer of the Liao 13 rifle, the general supervisor of the Northeast Arsenal of the Fengjun Army, the later deputy commander of the Beiyang Army, the president of the Army University, and one of the four famous generals of the Northeast Army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info as Zhang Zuolin's right and left hand, he is deeply trusted by Zhang Zuolin, although Jiang Dengxuan is the big brother of the non-commissioned officer faction, but Jiang Dengxuan has always been known for his loyalty, righteousness and honesty, and the early convener of the military non-commissioned officer faction was Han Linchun. It was only in 1927 that Han Linchun had a stroke and remained at home recuperating until his death in 1931.

After Han Linchun suffered a stroke, Yang Yuting became the leader of the Northeast Army's non-commissioned officer faction as a matter of course, and became more and more arrogant, and finally Zhang Xueliang was indignant and killed him, which eventually led to instability within the Northeast Army. After the September 18 Incident, a large number of garrison troops and police units left behind in the Northeast surrendered one after another, because the Northeast Army had long been dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang. Heilongjiang Province, the only large-scale resistance in Northeast China, was led by General Ma Zhanshan, who had always been loyal to Zhang Zuolin, and General Ma Zhanshan was also dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang, the reason for this was that Zhang Xueliang assassinated Yang Yuting, did not respect the opinions of the old people in the army, and transferred Ma Zhanshan and other old-fashioned officers from the army, such as Ma Zhanshan was the acting chairman and garrison commander of Heilongjiang Province when he led the people to fight against the Japanese Kwantung Army, and there were only 3,000 Heilongjiang policemen in his department.

If Han Linchun is in the Northeast Army, Yang Yuting will not dare to be arrogant, and Yang Yuting will not be arrogant and will not be killed by his son-in-law Zhang Xueliang, Yang Yuting will not be killed, the Northeast Army may not transfer 400,000 Northeast Army out of the Northeast during the Central Plains War, support Jiang Zhiqing, and the 400,000 Northeast Army will not leave the Northeast, the Japanese Kwantung Army will definitely not launch 918, and there will be no later Northeast Army exile and eventually become a lost dog.

Therefore, without Han Linchun's Northeast Army, there would have been a series of events that later affected China, and Han Linchun was the butterfly that incited history. Of course, history is history, and there is no way to make assumptions, but now that Han Linchun suddenly took refuge in Wang Yongan, it really changed history, Wang Yongan doesn't know what kind of changes will happen without Han Linchun's Feng army, whether Yang Yuting will take refuge in Zhang Zuolin, whether Zhang Xueliang will kill Yang Yuting, and whether the Northeast Army will continue to have civil strife.

Wang Yongan welcomed Han Linchun not because he was the leader of the non-commissioned officer faction, but because of Han Linchun's expertise in weapons production and design and manufacturing. Before Han Linchun took over the arsenal, Fengjun has always relied on military procurement to arm itself, and Zhang Zuolin appointed Han Linchun as the general supervisor of Fengtian Arsenal (later renamed Northeast and Factory), under the efforts of him and his younger brother Yang Yuting, the Northeast Arsenal ushered in a stepped development, and in 1925, it began to independently produce standard rifles Liao 13 rifles, Fengtian 91 grenades, M6.5 mm caliber bullets, 89 grenadiers, grenadier shells, 92 infantry guns, infantry shells, and 17 light machine guns, Type 13 heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns and other weapons and ammunition.

Now the 24th Mixed Association is facing an important problem, the consumption of weapons and equipment, especially ammunition, is serious, and the silver issued by the imperial court is not even enough to pay military salaries, let alone buy bullets for shooting training. In particular, 60 percent of the bullets of the Qing army are now purchased from abroad, and 40 percent are produced by the Jiangnan Arsenal, the Hanyang Arsenal, and the Jinmen Manufacturing Bureau.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, there was a saying in Europe, called British guns, French cannons, and German shovels, which showed that the Germans were not as good as the British rifles and the French in addition to the steel industry, but in the end, the Germans defeated all countries in the world and successfully sold their own weapons standards to the Qing Dynasty. A very important reason is that at that time, in the world, only the Germans were willing to help the Qing Kingdom build a bullet production line and a shell production line, while Britain and France had a military conflict with the Qing Dynasty, and they had been partially embargoed on the military sales of the Qing Dynasty, only selling weapons and not the production line.

Nowadays, the Qing Dynasty has three places that can produce bullets, Hanyang Arsenal, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and Tianjin Machinery Bureau, the oldest of which is the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, as early as 1878, Tianjin Machinery Bureau has produced 1.376 million rounds of various bullets, and in 1898, the highest output value of bullets can reach 25 million rounds. The Jinmen Machinery Bureau has always been in the hands of the Beiyang Department, so the six towns of Beiyang have never been short of ammunition or training. The Hanyang Arsenal and the Jiangnan Arsenal are also directly under the leadership of the Beiyang Department, and are distributed to various ministries according to actual needs.

Most of the ammunition used by the 24 mixed associations was provided by the Germans, and Wang Yongan needed to spend 10,000 taels of silver on ammunition training every month. Of course, if Wang Yongan is willing to bow his head to Duan Qirui and return to the Anhui system of the Beiyang Army, he can reduce some expenses. But Wang Yongan knew that although this old Duan did not have to say anything about the country's position, he did a lot of disgraceful things in the warlord struggle, especially he deceived Zhang Xun and coaxed Zhang Xun to say that the whole country supported the restoration.

Since he doesn't like to be pinned down by Duan Qirui, this means that Wang Yongan must have his own arsenal, at least his own production line for expendable weapons such as bullets, shells, grenades, etc.

Wang Yongan said to Han Linchun: "Brother Fang Chen, you came too timely, I need a military manufacturing talent like you around me now." It's a pity that I don't have the means to produce the rifle you designed right now, but I can give you the power to build the perfect arsenal of your own mind from scratch. ”

Han Linchun raised his head, a little confused in his heart, and also a little heavy responsibility, after all, how difficult it is to start from scratch, but he is no longer controlled by others, and he doesn't have to report every day, which makes him feel a pleasant feeling of flying with a fish leaping into the sky and letting a bird fly.

Wang Yongan's next sentence completely put Han Linchun at ease, and he said: "Let's set a small goal first!" In the first year, I put 300,000 taels of silver into your arsenal, and you need to complete three tasks. The first task was the production of bayonets, which now cost a quarter of the price of a rifle, and to be honest I was not satisfied with the price, but the Germans refused to budge. I mean we need to produce our own bayonets, my idea is that we only need to produce Mitsubishi bayonets, which are not very demanding on production technology, and also not very demanding on steel, very easy to achieve. The second task is to produce grenades or grenades, the number of artillery in our army is insufficient, and the casualties in the attack are huge, so it is necessary to equip more grenades to cooperate with soldiers to attack and defend, especially in defensive warfare, grenades will be the most cost-effective defensive weapons. The third task is a bit heavier, you'll need to build a bullet production line, and you'll only need to produce training bullets for the first few years. In the second year, I will give you no investment of 100,000 taels of silver, and you need to produce standard bullets, and the output will not be less than 100,000 rounds per year. The third year will not be less invested than the second, but I need the arsenal to produce 500,000 rounds of bullets. ”

Han Linchun laughed and said, "We must live up to our mission." It can be said that Wang Yongan's requirements for him made him feel that he was being overused, and he was confident that he would increase several times in this output standard, but he made up his mind to wait until the Yangzhou Arsenal showed everyone his ability after the results, and also made the people in the War Department regret it.

Wang Yongan then took out the "self-designed" design of the Mitsubishi military thorn, Han Linchun had to admit after reading it, in terms of the ability of China's steel industry, there is no more suitable for manufacturing than the Mitsubishi military thorn, compared with the Western knife and sword military spur, the Mitsubishi bayonet is obviously seriously deficient in some aspects, but the quality of China's steel determines that if the domestic military spur also uses the sword military spur, there will be fatal deficiencies such as the fracture of the bayonet after the collision.

"Brother Jingyun Xian, this is what you designed?" Han Linchun asked.

Wang Yongan said unashamedly: "Sort of...... I also combined the experience of my predecessors and made a summary, which can be regarded as standing on the shoulders of giants. Han Linchun stretched out his thumb, Wang Yongan blushed rarely, plagiarism feels very bad, as an intellectual, Wang Yongan still has a bottom line. But then he thought of plagiarizing the works of Murakami Muraki Muraki, and Wang Yongan realized that he seemed to have no bottom line for a long time......