The title of this chapter is to kill the foreign devil radium, but I myself was scorched by the radium outside, because the content was revised for several hours before it was approved, and many harmonious words had to be replaced by typos, I hope you can understand.

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The problem of air tightness in the development of artillery, which had plagued the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau for several years, has finally made a breakthrough, and the problem of barrel bore @ pressure of the Type 59 infantry gun has also been fundamentally solved.

The action time of the artillery charge has been increased, and the muzzle velocity of the muzzle will inevitably be greatly improved, which is an important indicator of the [flow] projectile, coupled with the short barrel and high firing angle of the Type 59 infantry gun, so that the Type 59 infantry gun has the development conditions of the [flow] projectile.

At Li Weiguo's request, the researchers of the artillery research and development group of the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau not only improved the Type 59 infantry gun, but also developed large-caliber [flow] projectiles and small-caliber [beat] bombardment guns on this basis.

The characteristics of the [flow] projectile are that the trajectory is relatively curved, the drop angle of the projectile is very large, and it is close to falling in the direction of the plumb, so the shrapnel can be evenly shot in all directions of the impact point, and the effective lethality is huge, which is suitable for the [engagement] of large corps. Li Weiguo's demand for the development of large-caliber [flow] artillery is to provide the Shanghai army with a strategic weapon for suppressing artillery fire.

At the same time, however, Li Weiguo also put forward the plan for the [shooting] artillery because the "shooting" artillery is a curved artillery, which has the characteristics of curved ballistics, very small dead boundary, fast rate of fire, great power, light weight, small size, easy to maneuver, simple structure, easy operation, and low cost. It is suitable for infantry use on more complex terrain and harsh climatic conditions. It facilitates the selection of positions, destroys the enemy behind shelter, destroys enemy obstacles and light civil fortifications, and opens the way for the infantry.

Large-caliber [flow] projectiles and small-caliber [beat] strikers, once successfully studied, will be used in conjunction with each other. It will bring strong combat effectiveness to the Shanghai army.

Li Weiguo assigned new goals and tasks to the artillery scientific research group, and seized the time to develop large-caliber [flow] missiles and small-caliber [shooting] guns, but that would take time, and the members of the scientific research group needed to rack their brains to understand the principles that Li Weiguo said and the rough design drawings he had drawn.

At present, the Shanghai army already has patriotic rifles and 59-type infantry guns, and Li Weiguo has increased his confidence to resist the invasion of the British and French forces. But he wasn't satisfied. He wants to prepare more weapons of mass destruction, for himself, for this country, and for more suffering citizens.

The Anglo-French alliance was about to invade from the sea, and Li Weiguo knew that although his East China Sea Fleet had a small victory, it was still too weak in the face of the two naval powers of Britain and France.

Li Weiguo's expansion of the strength of the East China Sea Fleet will also add new warships to the East China Sea Fleet, but it will definitely not be an increase in wooden sail warships.

The naval battles to come will be the era of ironclad warships. So Li Weiguo will not spend another penny on wooden sail battleships. At present, dozens of main sail battleships of the East China Sea Fleet will be used by Li Weiguo to deal with the Taiping Army and the Qing Army, and he does not intend to fight hard with the British and French combined fleets.

There was only one year to prepare, so Li Weiguo would not pin his hopes on the sea, and although he had already started to build a shipyard, his hopes were ultimately pinned on a decisive battle on land.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo had the foresight that Shanghai's economic center of gravity was south of the Huangpu River, and the Chuansha Hall area north of the Huangpu River was still desolate. Even if the combined Anglo-French fleet attacked from the sea, their shells would not be able to hit valuable targets in the core area of Shanghai.

So. Li Weiguo can let go of a big battle with the British and French forces.

On land, Li Weiguo believed that his Shanghai army was enough to defeat the invasion of Shanghai by the British and French forces with its patriotic rifles and 59 infantry guns, but he also knew that if the British and French forces could not capture Shanghai, then they would attack other places, such as the capture of the capital. Sacking the Old Summer Palace, etc.

No one will help Xianfeng guard the Purple @ Forbidden City and the Old Summer Palace, Zeng Guofan will not, Li Hongzhang will not either, they all can't wait to see Xianfeng's jokes.

Li Weiguo is the same, he can't wait for Xianfeng to braided immediately. The Manchu Qing Dynasty fell immediately, but he was reluctant to let the Old Summer Palace be ruined by the British and French forces, which was a national shame and could not sit idly by, otherwise it would leave an infamy in history.

Li Weiguo wanted both Xianfeng and the Old Summer Palace, so he had to rack his brains to plan to solve this catastrophe.

Only by defeating the Anglo-French alliance and crippling the great powers can the problem be solved.

But in this way, it is inevitable that the Shanghai army and the British and French coalition forces will fight to the death, I am afraid that there will be heavy casualties, this is not the result that Li Weiguo wants, every soldier in the Shanghai army is an elite, and Li Weiguo is reluctant to sacrifice them.

"Win the greatest victory at the lowest cost!"

"What does a weak country rely on to defeat a strong country?"

Li Weiguo pondered for a long time, and soon had a flash of inspiration, and in later generations, there were often patriotic @fever@friends on the Internet discussing the military strategy of a weak country, and there was the answer Li Weiguo wanted.

"What equipment is needed for a war at sea in a weak country? Generally the most cost-effective water [radium] and submarines! ”

"What equipment is needed for a land war in a weak country? Generally, it is the most cost-effective ground [radium], hand [flow] bullets, [shooting] guns and machine guns! ”

The water [radium] and submarines of coastal defense are indeed the magic weapon of the navy of a weak country against the navy of a strong country. The cost of a water [radium] is extremely low, but it is only fifty yuan, but it can easily blow up and sink a battleship worth one million yuan, and the water [radium] is impossible to prevent, and it is difficult to be removed after a large area is deployed. The cost of a submarine is also much lower than that of surface ships, and it can quietly sneak attack surface ships.

Li Weiguo has not heard of any submarine owned by the state, and it seems that it took a few years for the earliest submarine to appear in the American Civil War, so Li Weiguo sent people to the United States to visit the news of submarines.

The matter of submarines is not considered for the time being, but water [radium] can be manufactured, and there are a large number of talents in this field in China.

Water# [Radium] As the oldest underwater weapon, its homeland is actually in China. First invented by the Chinese, it can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty's "Wu @ Ed" I, which details the construction and layout of an 'underwater [radium]', which was used to combat the [worms] that invaded China's coastal areas. This is the earliest artificially controlled, mechanically fired anchor [radium]. It uses a wooden box as a radium shell. The putty sticks to the seam, and the black huoyao is packed inside, and the firing mechanism is knotted with a long rope, which is detonated by a human fire. Throw a rope under the wooden box and drop it on an iron anchor to control the depth of the [radium] body in the water. In 1590, China invented the earliest floating radium, the 'underwater dragon cannon' with incense as the timing fuse. In 1599, he invented the 'Underwater Song [Radium]' with ropes as the touching line. In 1621, it was improved to contact the line drift [radium], which was the world's earliest trigger drift [radium].

However, these powerful firearms of the Ming Dynasty were forgotten during the Qing Dynasty, but they became popular in Europe and the United States.

In the American Revolutionary War. On January 7, 1778, in order to attack the British warships anchored at the mouth of the Trava River in Philadelphia, the North American people put huoyao and mechanically activated fuses in small beer kegs to make water [radium] and float down the river. Although it did not encounter a warship at that time, it suddenly exploded when it was picked up by British sailors, killing and injuring some people, and it is known as the 'keg war'.

But. The real combat combat of water [radium] began in the recent Crimean War. The Russian Artupi invented the electrolytic trigger anchor [radium]. In the Crimean War, Tsarist Russia used this trigger anchor [radium] in the defense of the harbor, causing heavy losses to the British, French, and Turkish fleets, and failed to capture the port.

Li Weiguo then ordered the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Feige to send a letter to the S.H.I.E.L.D. intelligence station in Russia, ordering them to collect information on the Russian army's water [radium], find a way to get the water [radium] to make drawings, or tie up a few relevant Russian water [radium] experts to return to China.

Based on the principle of self-reliance, Li Weiguo set up a water [radium] research group. Craftsmen who collect water [radium] all over the country.

Not to mention, hundreds of craftsmen in this area were quickly found. Most of their ancestors have personally made water [radium], especially in the surrounding area of Shanghai, which was the hardest hit area of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the underwater dragon king cannons were used to deal with [snail kou], and in the early Qing Dynasty, Taiwan had a special water [radium] battalion, and most of their descendants lived in Taiwan, Fujian and other places. Therefore, when Li Weiguo sent people to these places to publicize and recruit workers, they were attracted by the high wages and took out their ancestral design drawings and techniques, so that the Shanghai Junshui [Radium] research group could be quickly established.

Li Weiguo was very happy, in the future he would not have the opportunity to touch the water [radium] thing. Therefore, he did not indiscriminately guide these craftsmen, but just asked these craftsmen to make all kinds of water [radium] from their respective ancestors, and then tested, and waited until they got the water [radium] of the Russians from the Russian side, and then compared it, combined with China and the West, removed the dross, and took its essence, I believe that it will soon be possible to make water [radium] that can be used in actual combat in the offshore sea.

Although Li Weiguo doesn't know water [radium], but he knows a lot of ground [radium], in later generations he dealt with Interpol and special forces of various countries all day long, and the ground [radium] is a must-have, from manufacturing to burial, Li Weiguo has a complete process in his mind.

Of course, the international community in later generations will prohibit the manufacture and deployment of #[radium] weapons, but for our big boss Li, it is not binding.

In fact, the ground [radium] thing was also developed by Qi Jiguang in the Ming Dynasty, and it was called ground artillery at that time, but it was okay to deal with the stupid × [snail kou] at that time, and it was pediatric to deal with the shrewd British and French devils today.

Therefore, although Li Weiguo also recruited a group of workers to study the ground [radium], he did not adopt the old-fashioned ground [radium] of the "ground artillery" at all, but Li Weiguo personally designed, supervised the work, and let the workers manufacture it.

There were no tanks in this era, so the high-tech [radium] of the anti-tank ground [radium] did not need Li Weiguo's research, and Li Weiguo only designed the anti-infantry ground [radium].

Anti-infantry ground [radium], as the name suggests, is the ground [radium] that specializes in killing and injuring infantry. Its advantages are low manufacturing cost, can be used in all weather and all regions, simple layout, requires little training, light weight and small size, and does not bring unbearable logistical burdens.

Li Weiguo's anti-infantry ground [radium] is actually a simplified version, that is, in the ground [radium] explosion zhayao to place a lot of steel balls, broken porcelain pieces, once exploding, steel balls and broken porcelain pieces can cause huge casualties to the infantry.

Especially when the Anglo-French army was still in the era of musket arrays, Li Weiguo couldn't help but laugh when he thought of the scene where the dense British and French soldiers walked into the [radium] area and were killed one by one, Li Weiguo couldn't help laughing--the kind of laughter that was very [shrunken]!

Li Weiguo can design [radium], and naturally he can also design stray bullets.

The kind of melon hand [radium] in later generations has high requirements, Li Weiguo thought about it for a long time, gave up for the time being, and chose a hand stray bullet with a wooden handle and iron head to design.

The principle of the hand [flow] bomb is very simple, Li Weiguo completed the drawing design in only one day, and three days later produced the first hand [flow] bomb, and the one-time experiment was successful.

However, the hand [stream] bomb was blown up, but unfortunately it was only blown in half.

But Li Weiguo was very happy, and he knew that the next step was to continuously improve the number of [slag] medicine and the thickness of the iron shell of the warhead of the hand [flow] bomb.

The next test work was handed over to the testers, and they only needed to follow Li Weiguo's method and continue to test, and there were about five or six hundred test data that could basically be finalized and mass-produced.

Of course, actual combat tests on the battlefield are still necessary.

For this reason, Li Weiguo specially organized a group of agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D. secret service bureau and set up an assault detachment, which carried ground [radium] and hand [flow] bombs to the Jiangdong camp, and often raided small patrols of the Taiping Army, so as to test the actual combat effect of hand [flow] bombs and ground [radium].

At the same time, Li Weiguo also revised the training regulations for soldiers in the Shanghai Army, which added the use of hand [stray ammunition], as well as the burial method and precautions of ground [radium].

Although both hand-based [flow] ammunition and ground [radium] are still being developed and experimented, Li Weiguo still has a large number of hand-[flow] bullets and ground-[radium] one-to-one models prepared and distributed them to all companies of the Shanghai army, so that the soldiers can continue to practice, and strive to be able to use the hand-held [flow] bullets and ground [radium] when they are really distributed to the troops, and form combat effectiveness.

At first, the officers and soldiers in Shanghai did not understand, they were all working hard to train shooting and fighting, and did not want to spend time practicing hand [flow] bomb throwing and burying the ground [radium]. In their eyes, it is still the practicality of real guns and knives.

In view of this situation, Li Weiguo then summoned the officers above the platoon commander to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and asked them to put themselves in their shoes to see with their own eyes the power and effect of hand [slugging] bombs and ground [radium], so that they could be convinced. At the same time, Li Weiguo also arranged some test personnel to bring the excess hand [sflow] bullets and ground [radium] to the company, so that the soldiers could also see it with their own eyes, and only when the soldiers also saw the power of hand [flow] bullets and ground # [radium] could they be convinced.

Until half a year later, there were no longer people in the Shanghai army barracks who looked down on the power and great effect of hand [flow] bullets and ground [radium], they all knew that this thing could kill and injure a large number of enemies, and the thought of killing an enemy could establish a fifth-class military merit, the Shanghai soldiers suddenly became hot-eyed, and asked for them to be issued hand [flow] bullets and ground [radium].

However, there are not many craftsmen who make hand [flow] bullets and ground [radium], and the production is limited, so the soldiers of the Shanghai army can only use models for training for the time being.

But in their hearts, they have already decided that the hand [flow] bullet and the ground [radium], one by one, they are waiting for the British and French alliance to attack, and then use the hand [flow] bullet and the ground [radium] to scorch the foreign devils' [radium] "outside and tender inside". (To be continued......)