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On April 3, 1900, when Qin Kai signed the country's first "Juvenile Protection Act" at the Prime Minister's Office, and the national parliament debated the criminalization of juvenile abandonment and the establishment of local national orphanages, the latest news came from the Anglo-Bodied front, and Qin Kai was quite surprised that the war had undergone changes that were quite different from the history he knew, and after the war-like Admiral Roberts led the British army in Cape Town, the British had achieved a comprehensive victory from military strength to the situation.

Roberts, who also chose to attack from the flat Orange Autonomous Region, had clearly learned the lessons of Admiral Buller's defeat and concentrated his main forces north of the Orange River, and then launched a coordinated attack on the East and North Routes to look for gaps in the Boer line.

There were only seven or eight hundred thousand Boers in the Transvaal and Orange areas, and the relationship between the Boers and the local blacks was also extremely bad, and the Boers did not even recognize the right of blacks to participate in the war.

It's just that due to the fact that the Boer army was prepared in the early stage of the war and was equipped with weapons, it has changed a lot compared to the history that Qin Kai is familiar with. In particular, the emergence of mobile firepower such as mortars, which had not appeared in history. This was a great change from the Battle of Imbumajuba, which was originally fought on the front west of Kimberley City. The Boers, who were adept at cavalry maneuvers, relied on a large number of mortars and small-caliber field artillery to launch a large-scale assault on the depths of Orange.

Although Admiral Roberts' strategy of advancing from Orange still succeeded in holding back the corps of General Colonge of the Boer coalition forces on the Northern Front, several Boer cavalry regiments on the Northern Front detoured westward, and on April 6, with the assistance of highly mobile mortar fire, they actually captured Halcap, an important railway junction from the British North Cape to Orange, and one of the cavalry regiments continued to attack in the direction of Cape Town after plundering a large amount of weapons and equipment. This directly caused a big problem for Admiral Roberts' strategy to counter Orange.

Duan Qirui, a major of the seventh group of the Chinese officer corps from the Anglo-Boer front, participated in the attack of the British Scottish Highland Brigade on the northern front for a whole month, and felt the exchange of fire with several Boer cavalry on the spot. It is strange that the Boer raiders were not equipped with heavy machine guns in the report.

In his report, the young major, who had completed his military studies at the Nanyang Military University, made it very clear that he would use mobility and heavy firepower to strike at him, and this even sparked a large-scale discussion among the domestic army departments in the following months about whether to continue to expand the cavalry unit.

After the report was sent to the Ministry of Military Affairs. Soon Zhou Ruidong compiled a series of reports from the Anglo-Boer war front and compiled them as important materials for the tactical training of the General Staff Department, and when Qin Kai saw the assessment report on the army's mobility capability from the internal report on May 7. At the Volkswagen plant of Jiangnan Heavy Industries in Shanghai, the first 4-ton truck equipped with a domestically produced 12-horsepower gasoline engine and equipped with a carburetor and electric lighter drove out of the plant.

The military representative was Qi Fang, commander of the 1st Division of the 30 th Army, which had the longest military history of the National Defense Army, and this soldier who was born as a peasant had already become a pure soldier after 27 years in the army.

However, for the second-generation truck with only 12 horsepower, this demand is obviously difficult to meet, the major general of the Northern Military District finally refused to accept as a threat, and failed to get the factory engineers to agree to add protective steel plates to the wooden carriage, and this type of truck that can run at a maximum speed of 30 kilometers per hour after 40 units were built for the Northern Military District, but in the next two years, it unexpectedly achieved great success in the civilian market.

The Northern Military Region, as the only military region in the entire domestic army department with a source of research and development funds, has been unanimously despised by other military regions in the country since 1900, however, this will obviously only enhance the superiority of Song Yunze, who served as the acting minister of the Army's armaments technology department. Design requirements were dispatched.

When this demand was sent to the Beijing Prime Minister's Office along with the R&D expenditure report, several practical offices, and factory letters of intent, Qin Kai couldn't help but be greatly surprised by the ideas of these armament fanatics, and the idea put forward by the Northern Military Region was obviously not done on the head, but was put forward after the routine large-scale exercise of the Guò Military Region, and with reference to the current mobility of the Chinese Army's forced march, the design requirements for carrying 4 tons of troops, carrying platoon-level troops, fuel, and ammunition to complete a 300-kilometer maneuver in one day were proposed.

At the same time, the Northern Military Region also built a design idea of installing 30mm key protective armor and two MG series heavy machine guns on this type of military vehicle, and even at the end of the report, the 40mm field gun that had just been installed by the army was also installed on the car, forming a combat strike force with the transport vehicle as the core...... This is the idea of a later generation of light armored personnel carriers.

However, even Qin Kai is skeptical about whether the current domestic locomotive manufacturing capacity can build troop carriers that meet the design requirements, you know, at present, including the Mawei real yàn room, a number of university real yàn rooms and heavy industry department research and development departments are making technical research for high-power water-cooled engine manufacturing, but, between the bottleneck of mechanical materials and air-cooled technology, the power has always hovered below 40 horsepower.

The research and development of internal combustion engines, in fact, has a lot to do with water-cooled engines, and more needs to consider the requirements of miniaturization, so the power of the Volkswagen engine, which is the largest power of the internal combustion engine, is less than 15 horsepower, and because of the complex process, it cannot be mass-produced temporarily, however, for today's domestic R & D system, Qin Kai is still secretly proud, in the government's advocacy and the promotion of the university's real room, in less than 30 years, the promotion of domestic technology industrialization has entered a mature period.

Take this military armored transport vehicle as an example, the Northern Army put forward a report on research and development intentions, and soon the Volkswagen factory gave the corresponding technical shortcomings, research and development intentions and funding needs, of course, the military obviously will not pin its hopes on the Jiangnan Heavy Industry system, but will pass the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Industry respectively to issue bidding intentions, involving the design and key technologies, of course, taking into account the secrecy of the armament, the military's plan will be dismantled, The relevant design requirements and intended prices are disclosed to these shortlisted companies and the actual room, and the final product assembly winning bidder will know the full performance of the final product.

The participation in the bidding is obviously not the four major heavy industries, a single state-owned factory, the university real yàn room, the private machine factory will take this as an important opportunity, the real yàn room to promote the design concept and design scheme patents, and the private machine factory will see this opportunity as an excellent way to upgrade industrial technology, in the previous military product bidding, there is no lack of private enterprises finally won the bid and obtained amazing orders examples, if not the new government has never allowed private enterprises to enter the production of weapons, Otherwise, large private arms producers would have appeared long ago.

In this engine bidding, there is a Guangzhou private engine factory put forward the intention, and the entire R & D preparation cycle is only 2 months, Qin Kai after the eyes, as long as the Prime Minister's Office makes instructions, agrees to pay this cost from the army's R & D funds, these factories and real rooms will burst out with all their energy, providing a full set of design and production capacity from the program to the last part for each technical difficulty blocking the road to research and development.

Of course, this does not mean that this project can be successfully launched in a certain year and month in the future, but in the process of solving this project, these research and development institutions, including national heavy industry and private engine factories, through guò mobilized engineers including university real rooms and enterprise special technologies to devote themselves to technology research and development and improvement, will obtain far more than the development of a product can complete the technical accumulation, and the accumulation of technology is the only way to make technological breakthroughs, which is an indisputable fact in the domestic industry.

"Armored transport vehicle ......" Qin Kai took the report and read it twice, this is indeed not a convincing idea, but to drive a large car with a total weight of nearly 3 tons, and to install nearly half a ton of armor...... In this era, it is definitely a brain-opening idea, with the power of today's car engine, it can drive a manned car to run at a speed of 60-70 kilometers per hour, but to pull such a big guy with a total weight of nearly 7 tons, it is really unimaginable.

However, he immediately signed and approved this new R&D project, for the overall R&D funds of nearly 800,000 yuan, Qin Kai obviously attaches more importance to the technology accumulation generated after this investment, and unsuccessful projects will not affect the innovation of domestic industrial technology at all! (The novel "Industrial China" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued......)