Starling scratched her head in front of Li Weiguo, almost making Li Weiguo vomit on her face.

The private matter of Li Weiguo and Starling's small room also made the harem family members very nervous. They were worried that Li Weiguo's tastes had changed, and even the spicy and ugly Western women could look at them, so they took turns to persuade them, making Li Weiguo cry or laugh.

But that doesn't matter, Li Weiguo doesn't need to worry about that kind of boring remarks, just think about the information in his head, which is more important than anything else, and the future of the Chinese Empire.

Starling's personal visit to China this time, of course, must have something that she thinks she can handle, and she thinks that it must be something that Li Weiguo cannot refuse.

The newly established Soviet Union, whether it is economic strength or military strength, is not qualified to negotiate with the Chinese Empire at all, but Starling has brought Li Weiguo conditions that cannot be refused.

The members of the Military Department, the Equipment Committee, and the Committee were notified to welcome Li Weiguo to inspect him.

"I heard that Starling presented a new weapon to His Majesty the Emperor this time, and I don't know what it came from!"

"What advanced weapons can Lao Maozi have? That is, His Majesty is embarrassed to slap women in the face in person, so he will accept their gifts. ”

"How did I hear that it was just a design drawing, and the Soviets didn't bring the samples with them."

"What? Just a drawing? How could this reason be that this Soviet man dared to be so arrogant? ”

In their eyes, the technology of the Chinese Empire was the most advanced in the world, and there was no need for the so-called equipment drawings provided by the Soviets.

"The emperor has arrived!"

The door was singing, the guards saluted, and the officials of the equipment committee also hurriedly stood up and paid homage to Li Weiguo in unison.

"Please be seated! You may have known the intention of today's visit in advance. ”

Li Weiguo said softly, and everyone nodded, they did all know.

"Your Majesty, I don't know what kind of weapon design drawings the Soviets have taken, which can be exchanged for the Empire giving up attacking the Soviet Union."

Peng De, chairman of the equipment committee, took the lead in asking, representing the voice of everyone.

"It's nothing, it's just a rocket artillery system called Katyusha! The drawings are brought, you guys take a look at them first. ”

Li Weiguo knew that these military equipment experts had little patience, so he didn't talk to them and went straight to the point.

This complete set of design drawings for the Katyusha rocket launcher was given to Li Weiguo by Starling, and it was also a condition for Li Weiguo to temporarily abandon the attack on the Soviet Union.

The reason why this Katyusha rocket artillery system has attracted Li Weiguo's attention is not because the Soviets took the lead in successfully developing this new-age weapon system of mass destruction, but because Starling leaked to Li Weiguo as a negotiated deal that the Soviet Union had handed over another export version of the Katyusha rocket artillery system to the German Imperial military.

Li Weiguo doesn't care about the Katyusha rocket artillery of the Soviets, even if the Soviet army has more and more advanced Katyusha rocket artillery systems, in the face of the powerful sea, land and air military strength of the Chinese Empire, the Soviet Union is vulnerable, because the Soviet Union today no longer has the powerful strategic depth of the Soviet Union in history, the entire Asian part of the Soviet Union has long been returned to the Chinese Empire, and now the Soviet Union only has its European territory left, as long as the Chinese Empire launches a full-scale war against the Soviet Union, even if the Soviet Union has more Katyusha rocket artillery, it will be destroyed.

The problem is that Starling is very aware of the huge military gap between the Soviet Union and the Chinese Empire, so after Liening unified the Soviet Union, Starling visited China for the first time and dedicated the Katyusha rocket artillery system to the Chinese Imperial military, but this is not the solution, so Starling's cleverness lies in the fact that she handed over the Katyusha rocket ** paper handed over by the Soviet Union to the German Imperial Military also to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo doesn't care about the genuine Katyusha rocket artillery of the Soviet Union, but he cares about the castrated version of the Katyusha rocket artillery obtained by the German Empire, because the current national strength of the Soviet Union cannot support the large-scale deployment of Katyusha rocket artillery weapons, but the huge strategic depth and military strength of the German Empire will create a terrifying rocket corps in a short time.

Now that the Chinese Empire and the German Empire are heading for a full-scale confrontation, and have even fought in Liberia, Li Weiguo is very worried that the German Imperial military will suddenly use Katyusha rocket artillery to deal with the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

After all, rocket artillery is a weapon that has not yet been fully equipped for the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, especially the Chinese Imperial Army on the Liberian battlefield, and when they are no longer clear about the situation, if they are suddenly attacked by the German rocket artillery group, it will be unimaginable.

Therefore, Starling knew Li Weiguo's needs very well, and directly sold the German Empire and handed over all the Katyusha rocket ** paper obtained by the German army to the Chinese Empire.

In this way, the Chinese Empire will be able to fully grasp the performance and lethality of the German Empire's Katyusha rocket artillery, and can even predict the German army's rocket artillery production in a short period of time, etc., which are all very useful information, and have become one of the conditions that Li Weiguo cannot refuse.

At this moment, the design drawings of the Katyusha rocket launcher passed among the members of the Armament Committee contain two parts, one is the design drawings of the Katyusha rocket launcher of the Soviet army, and the other part is the castrated version of the Katyusha rocket artillery design drawings sold by the Soviets to the German army.

Among them, the Soviet version of the Katyusha rocket launcher, its official model is similar to the history, but with Starling's strong intervention, there are many detours.

It can be seen from the number alone that the official number of the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher in history is BM-13, because it was continuously improved from the BM-1 and underwent thirteen major changes before it became a powerful Katyusha rocket launcher.

And now, the Soviets, under the leadership of Starling, have avoided a lot of misunderstandings, saved time and money, and in one step, the BM-1 has directly succeeded.

Peng De patiently read the performance indicators of the two sets of Katyusha rocket launchers in the Soviet Union, and couldn't help frowning.

In front of him, the BM-3 Katyusha rocket artillery system, which is the design drawing number of the Katyusha rocket launcher given by the Soviets to the Chinese Empire, looks like a full-fledged multi-orbital self-propelled rocket artillery system. There are a total of 12 launch slides, the slide is 5 meters long, the bullet is 1450 mm long, the bullet weighs 42.5 kg, a salvo can launch 24 rockets with a caliber of 132 mm, the maximum range is 10 kilometers, it can be single-shot, it can also be partially fired continuously, or a salvo, it takes about 6~10 minutes to load the ammunition of a salvo, a salvo only takes 7~13 seconds, the muzzle velocity is 70 m/s, the high and low firing boundary is 7 ° ~ 45 °, the direction firing boundary is 10 ° on the left and right, and the speed of the carrier vehicle is 60 kilometers per hour. The maximum firing range is 7000~8500 meters.

As a Soviet to the Germans Katyusha rocket artillery system, numbered BM-2, a total of 8 launch slides, the slide rail is 5 meters long, the bullet length is 1300 mm, the weight of the bomb is 40 kg, a salvo can launch 16 rockets with a caliber of 132 mm, the maximum range is 8 kilometers, it can be fired singlely, partially, or a salvo, it takes about 6~9 minutes to load a salvo of ammunition, a salvo only takes 7~11 seconds, the muzzle velocity is 70 m / s, the high and low firing boundary is 7 ° ~ 45 °, and the direction firing range is 10 ° on the left and rightThe speed of the carrier vehicle is 60 kilometers per hour, and the maximum range is 6500~7500 meters.

At a glance, we can see that the firing power of this rocket artillery is very ferocious, the killing range is large, and it is an effective weapon for destroying the enemy's dense forces on a large area, suppressing the enemy's firepower and destroying the enemy's fortifications, and once it is used in large-scale encounters between the main forces of the enemy and our armies, it will play a very terrifying and decisive role.

The Soviets gave the Germans a castrated version, which can be seen from the number of slides, the power of the rockets, the range, etc.

However, this only made Peng De frown, and it did not achieve the purpose of scaring him, after all, the Chinese Empire also had a rocket artillery project, but it was not disclosed to the public.

In fact, when Li Weiguo learned that the Russian Revolution had used anti-tank rockets, he had already guessed that the rocket weapon had been taken out by Starling, Hitler and others to change history, so Li Weiguo, who had taken precautions, immediately ordered that the Chinese Imperial Military also began the research and development of various rocket weapons, one of which was the rocket artillery weapon system, after all, the power of rocket artillery can be used as the ultimate weapon on the battlefield in the future, and it must not be left behind.

Compared with the Katyusha rocket artillery of the Soviets, the rocket artillery of the Chinese Empire also has a name, called the Phalanx.

In the battle sequence of the Chinese Empire, there is also a phalanx term, that is, the shipborne air defense artillery system equipped on the naval warship, one of the research and development projects is also called the phalanx, but that does not have an impact, it is the navy-type phalanx, and the army-type phalanx is rocket artillery.

Peng De got up, saluted Li Weiguo, and then said: "Your Majesty, in terms of the item-by-item performance of Katyusha rocket artillery, I have to admit that the Soviets have reached the world-class level in the research of rocket artillery, but there is still a distance to surpass the relevant technical level of our Chinese Empire. ”

Li Weiguo nodded, he hadn't paid attention to the research and development of the phalanx system recently, and he was very happy to see that Peng De was still very confident.

In fact, Li Weiguo stopped intervening too much with scientific researchers very early on, but only provided them with a general direction and topic of research, and let researchers find the answers themselves.

The advantage of this is that in the future, even without Li Weiguo's command, scientific researchers can have their own independent judgment ability, and will not become captive animals without the ability to survive in the wild.

On the contrary, if Li Weiguo blindly intervenes and keeps feeding the scientific researchers, instead of allowing them to exercise themselves to go out and actively forage for food, it will completely ruin the scientific research future of the Chinese Empire.

At present, Peng De is the main person in charge of the Phalanx research project, and Li Weiguo only issued a future outlook plan for rocket artillery, and did not take out the future development direction and technology of rocket artillery, nor did he forcibly break Peng De's head to put this information in, in this case, Peng De still completed the development of the Phalanx rocket artillery system, which is what makes Li Weiguo the happiest.

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "So, between Katyusha and the Phalanx, which is better or worse?" ”

Of course, Peng De also wanted to give himself a chance to perform in front of Li Weiguo, so he said: "The phalanx project that Chen is responsible for has now developed to the M32 A, which can achieve 32 tubes of launch slides, use 128 mm caliber Flame No. 2 rocket, the bomb weighs 25 kilograms, a salvo can launch 32 flame rockets, the maximum flight speed is 420 meters per second, the maximum range is 10 kilometers, it can be fired singlely, partially, or a salvo, and it takes about 5 minutes to load the ammunition of a salvo. A salvo only takes 7~11 seconds, the high and low firing boundaries are 0 ° ~ 48 °, the directional firing range is 30 ° on the left and right, and the speed of the carrier vehicle is 90 kilometers per hour. ”

After listening to the report, Li Weiguo only paid attention to sensitive issues such as the caliber and number of rockets.

He asked: "So, the M32 phalanx you developed surpasses the Katyusha in the number of salvo rockets, but the 128 mm caliber is still slightly inferior to the Katyusha's 132 mm rockets, and what is the lethality comparison?" ”

Peng De explained: "The difference between 128 mm and 132 mm is not very big, if they are both the same warhead charge, then Katyusha has a slight advantage, but as far as the minister knows, the Soviet Union is still very backward in terms of medicine, so it is inferred that Katyusha's 132 mm rockets should also use yellow zhayao, even if it is the German version of Katyusha, at most it is an ordinary T nt, The Imperial's M32 Phalanx, on the other hand, uses a high-strength mixed ratio of special explosives (a certain proportion of a mixed charge of Black Sorkin and T Nt. Therefore, the lethality of our rockets is definitely much higher than that of the Katyusha of the Soviet Union and Germany. ”

"In addition, our side has specially developed a special flame rocket for the M32 phalanx, which adds a large amount of incendiary agent, which can melt through steel in an instant at the center of the explosion, and consume a large amount of oxygen, and can even achieve the same effect of suffocating the enemy as an incendiary bomb."

Li Weiguo nodded, and his gaze turned to other data.

Under the explanation of Peng De and other relevant personnel, I have a deeper understanding of the M32 phalanx.

In fact, in addition to the number and power of rocket launch tubes, the performance indicators of rocket artillery also include various factors such as hit rate, firing range, maneuverability, and reloading time, all of which determine the outcome of the battle.

Among them, the M32 phalanx still has a very big advantage over the BM-3 Katyusha and BM-2 organ (German version of the Katyusha) in terms of ballistic dispersion, that is, in terms of hit rate.

For example, the M32 phalanx has a deviation of only 164 in distance and 1 in 90 in direction, while the Katyusha of the Soviet Union and the organ of Germany are far less accurate than the M32 in terms of hit rate.

Of course, these are all theoretical figures, and since the Imperial Chinese military lacks the relevant measured data of the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher and the German Organ rocket launcher, it is impossible to make a thorough comparison.

However, from a theoretical point of view, the M32 Phalanx rocket launcher of the Chinese Empire is obviously far better than the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher and the German Organ rocket launcher.

As for the actual effect, it can only be tested in war.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo got an important piece of information from Starling, that is, the German Imperial Military had secretly shipped a batch of BM-2 Katyusha rocket launchers, that is, the German version of the organ rocket launchers, to the Liberian battlefield, so Li Weiguo believed that soon the rocket artillery of the Chinese and German armies would meet on the battlefield.