Iron and steel is indispensable for the development of industry, in the face of the current situation, Yan Xueyi wants to keep the foundation of Siqi Province, and even overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty to unify the whole country, and confront the major powers, there is another indispensable industry, that is, the military industry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The military industry can produce all kinds of advanced weapons and equipment, arm a strong army, fight the enemy, and defend the homeland.

The military industry is a manifestation of the transformation of industrial strength into war potential.

A country can not pay attention to other aspects, but the development of the military industry must be attached, once the development of the military industry is not attached, then can only be backward and beaten, think about one side with a big sword and spear, and the other side is equipped with advanced rifles and artillery, no matter how heroic the soldiers of the former are fighting and not afraid of death, under the advanced weapons and equipment of the latter, there is only a dead end, the history of the late Qing Dynasty can prove this conclusion very well, the backward Manchu Qing in the face of advanced weapons powers, lost war after war, can only honestly cede land and pay reparations.

Another example is Yan Xueyi himself, Yan has gone from a business family with assets of no more than one million to a top wealthy businessman who rivals the country, if Yan Xueyi did not secretly develop the military industry in advance and armed an army of 20,000 people with advanced weapons and equipment, in the face of the encirclement and suppression of Manchu officers and soldiers, I am afraid that either the Yan family was beheaded or Yan Xueyi took Yan to take refuge overseas away from China.

However, Yan Xueyi developed a powerful military industry behind his back, armed with a powerful army with advanced weapons produced by the military industry, and when the Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to attack Yan's family, this powerful army suddenly attacked, occupying the entire Siqi Province in a short period of time, and finally faced the Manchu 150,000 army led by Zuo Zongtang, he dared to take the initiative to attack, kill Zuo Zongtang, and defeat the Manchu army, while the number of Han soldiers killed and seriously injured was pitiful.

If Yan Xueyi did not have a strong military industry, and only used weapons and equipment similar to those of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, or armed a large army with only broadswords and spears, no matter how large the number was, it would not be comparable to the Manchu Qing who ruled a country, and would only be wiped out by the Manchus in the end.

Therefore, in Yan Xueyi's Fourth Five-Year Plan (heavy) industry, the development of the iron and steel industry is the most important, and the second only to the steel industry is the military industry, which shows that Yan Xueyi attaches great importance to the development of the military industry.

At present, the Yuanhe Arsenal produces and equips the Han army with weapons such as: Zhonghua Type 1 rifle, Zhonghua Type 1 (modified) sniper rifle, heavy machine gun in the rainstorm, Eagle revolver, 60 mm mortar, 75 mm field gun, 100 mm cannon, grenades, and mines.

Weapons under development include light machine guns, pistols, and larger caliber artillery.

For the Han army, light machine guns and pistols could be slow, but larger caliber and more powerful artillery was what they needed.

Let's just say that the last time the Han army intercepted the Manchu Qing Second Route Army in the Yangtze River valley in Wushan County, the damage of 75mm field guns to ships of several hundred tons was too weak, if there was no 100mm cannon to join, I am afraid that the steamer would easily pass through the defense line composed of dozens of 75mm field guns, and at most one or two of the dozen ships would be unlucky to be left behind by 75mm field guns, but because of the addition of 100mm cannons, two of the more than a dozen steamers had two broken steamers escaped. The remaining ships either sank or were forced to surrender, and the power of the 100-mm cannon could not be underestimated.

This is still only a few hundred tons of ships, if it becomes a thousand tons of ships, 100 mm cannons will not be able to sink it easily, of course, thousands of tons of ships will not be able to enter the province from the waters of the Yangtze River.

The power of the 75 mm field gun is okay when bombarding the infantry, but in the siege war, it is very difficult to bombard the city wall of an ordinary county town, and the tall wall of the 100 mm cannon opposite the city or even the provincial capital is also difficult to break, and at this time it is necessary to have a larger caliber and more powerful artillery.

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In the Fourth Five-Year Plan, in addition to the continued expansion of the Yuanhe Arsenal, two new arsenals will be built, namely the Chengdu Arsenal and the Chongqing Arsenal.

The Yuanhe Arsenal is equal emphasis on R&D and production, as long as Yan Xueyi needs weapons and equipment, they will be researched and manufactured, while the Chengdu Arsenal and the Chongqing Arsenal are mainly for production, more clearly divided, the Chengdu Arsenal mainly produces pistols, rifles, machine guns and their supporting bullets, as well as grenades and mines, etc., and the Chongqing Arsenal mainly produces all kinds of artillery and shells.

The construction of arsenals in Chengdu and Chongqing obviously had various considerations.

The establishment of the arsenal in Chengdu is because Ding Baozhen established an arsenal in Chengdu when he was the governor of Siqi before, which was completed and put into operation in 1878, if it did not happen that Yan's occupation was king, in 1884, the Siqi Machinery Bureau could produce 3,050 guns of various kinds, more than 180,000 rounds of gun ammunition, 6.28 million copper caps, 530,000 rounds of lead bullets, and more than 30,000 kilograms of black powder, which was the highest annual output of the Siqi Machinery Bureau.

After that, the rise of the Yan clan completely stopped the work of the Siqi Machinery Bureau, after all, the various weapons and ammunition produced by the Siqi Machinery Bureau were very backward, and Yan did not need it.

Not only is the production of weapons and ammunition backward, but even the production technology is relatively backward, but the Siqi Machinery Bureau has a large number of skilled workers, which is what Yan needs, and it is obviously more appropriate to directly establish an arsenal in Chengdu that mainly produces guns and ammunition.

As for the reasons for the construction of an arsenal in Chongqing, they will be introduced in the next chapter.

After the expansion of the Yuanhe Arsenal and the completion of the construction of the Chengdu Arsenal and the Chongqing Arsenal, Yan Xueyi expects that the three arsenals will be able to produce 5,000 rifles (including sniper rifles), 1,000 pistols of various types, 200 heavy machine guns (in addition, the structure of the heavy machine gun and the Makqin will not be exactly the same, and the same will be true for rifles), 200 60mm mortars, 80 75mm field guns, 10 100mm cannons, 20 million rounds of various bullets, 200,000 artillery shells of various types, 300,000 grenades, 1,000 mines.

From the point of view of actual combat, because the range of guns is relatively long, they can kill the enemy at a long distance, and the Han army basically did not engage the Qing army within a few tens of meters several times, so the production of grenades in the arsenal has not increased too exaggeratedly, and there are mines, for the Han army, which is mainly attacking, there are not many opportunities to use it, so the production of mines is smaller.

The most important thing is to produce all kinds of bullets and shells, these two consumables are an important factor restricting the combat effectiveness of the Han army, once there are no bullets and shells, the combat effectiveness of the Han army will be greatly reduced, and the combat effectiveness of close combat can not even catch up with the green battalion soldiers.

In order to develop the military industry, the arsenal is so large-scale production, and the cost is also huge, fortunately, everything in Siqi Province is Yan's, and most of the various raw materials do not need to be purchased with money, so they can support the expansion of the arsenal.

But does the military industry only refer to the arsenal that produces army weapons and equipment?

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