Chapter 311: Japan's Worries
After Liu Jun learned from Tianjin that the armored train was built, he happily came back from Tianjin, and without even taking a step into the headquarters, he went directly to the Lushun Ordnance Bureau.
Far away, Liu Jun saw a train about fifty meters long parked on the tracks, but the front of the car looked like an enraged hedgehog. There are thorns all over his body.
"What's that?" Liu Jun's eyes widened, and he looked at the train in the distance suspiciously, and then looked at Dai Linmin beside him.
Dai Linmin was also blinded, this thing was the armored train that the marshal gave him at the beginning, why can't people come out, bowed his head and pondered, Dai Linmin pointed and stammered: "Dashuai...... That...... That's not your armored train. ”
, it was an armored train, Liu Jun didn't believe it, and quickly ran up a few steps, looking up and down.
The firepower is absolutely fierce, just look at the front of this locomotive from top to bottom five guns, six machine guns, this is definitely the fiercest and most powerful armored train ever.
And that's not even counting that, even on both sides of the carriage, machine guns were placed.
"Dai Linmin, you are afraid that people will die, so you can't die, so you can place so much firepower." Looking at this monster, Liu Jun was almost angry and vomited blood.
Dai Linmin looked at Liu Jun's gaze that was about to eat people: "Dashuai, you are the one who requires fierce firepower and can sweep the enemy." An innocent and aggrieved expression.
"****, this armored train is mainly used to deal with the enemy in front, two machine guns and one cannon in the front of this locomotive are enough, you made this thing like a hedgehog, and changed it."
Coming in anticipation and returning disappointed. After Liu Jun patiently instructed him again, he left the Lushun Ordnance Bureau in disappointment, and returned to the headquarters again with a sigh.
Zheng Yiqian looked at Liu Jun sighing on the chair, smiled slightly and walked up: "Okay, this thing is also the first time that someone has made it, and it is normal for it to be disclosed." ”
Liu Jun looked at Zheng Yiqian's smile and nodded slightly.
I can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and Liu Jun also knows that he is too anxious.
The role of the armored train is to be the overlord along the railway, and now, the place under his own control has railways everywhere, and if this is placed on the railway, although it cannot be said to be equivalent to a corps, it is equivalent to the combat effectiveness of an army, which is more than rubbing, at least when the enemy has just started a war, it will be like this.
"Well, I know, I'm not in a hurry." In order not to worry the people around him, Liu Jun smiled in embarrassment. He began to stand up and came to the side of the map.
"Head, the "Tianjin Treaty" has been revised, and now Japan has been able to build a large number of warships of more than 3,000 tons, which will invisibly increase a certain pressure on our Beiyang Naval Division and even Lushun Weihai, and this Weihai Lushun Battery. The above shore defense run has not been replaced, do you think it is just in case, the artillery on it is replaced? ”
Zhong Lin told where Liu Jun had been standing and said the doubts in his heart.
In the past few years, the economy of various parts of Liaodong has developed rapidly, and the Japanese Combined Fleet is also under the restrictions of the "Tianjin Treaty", so Liu Jun did not put on the agenda the issue of the old artillery on the Weihai Fort and the Lushun Fort at the military meetings in recent years.
At present, the guns of the two naval divisions in Lushun and Weihai were imported from Germany by Li Hongzhang when the naval divisions were established. At that time, it was indeed the world's most advanced shore defense run, but now, it is lagging behind.
Liu Jun obviously knew about this topic, but only thought about it a little: "You go and discuss with Li He and the others, and I will see the plan." ”
Zhong Lin nodded, speaking in his heart, this Liaodong country was led by himself and his brothers to fight hard, and among them, he didn't want Lushun and Weihai to be threatened, so after getting Liu Jun's approval, he immediately rode to the Admiralty, found Li He, and began to discuss the plan.
Zhong Lin and Li He's efficiency has to be admired. It only took two days for the plan to be delivered to Liu Jun's desk.
Now the Lushun Ordnance Bureau has been able to manufacture 150 mm guns, and the guns above 200 mm are not very mature because of technical reasons, so the opinions of the two are to place the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 gun positions of Lushun Weihai Fort with 150 mm shore defense respectively, and the most important gun emplacements, that is, gun emplacements that can block the coast, will buy German 210 mm heavy guns. and cross-configure. After calculation, it will cost about two million taels of silver to spend this money.
For money, Liu Jun has always been very picky, but for the military and can ensure military security, Liu Jun has always been very generous in spending money, and waved his big hand lightly. The name was signed on the plan, and immediately this plan was the most important thing for the Liaodong authorities.
Lushun Weihai's vigorous replacement of shore defense artillery did not hide from the Japanese spies.
The day after the old guns on the Lushun battery were replaced, the Japanese Admiralty received the news that it was very important to read it, so it was urgently sent to Inoue's desk.
Hirobumi Ito, you've been going smoothly these days, and you feel like the world is revolving around you.
The "Treaty of Tianjin" was successfully revised, and Japan was not limited by the restriction that it could not have warships of more than 3,000 tons, which made him feel refreshed and even more fortunate that this time, the Qing State also signed a secret agreement with himself, that is, to jointly fight against Liu Jun.
The agreement stipulates that whoever starts a war against Liu Jun must attack him within a week.
This entente seemed to be very beneficial to Japan, because it stipulated that once Liu Jun was destroyed, then Korea would be all owned by Japan, while the Qing State occupied Liu Jun's Liaodong.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the secret agent reported that the coastal defense turret of the Beiyang Naval Division Base in Weihai, Lushun is being replaced, and it is estimated that it is to replace the new type of shore defense artillery."
After speaking, Inoue handed over the telegram in his hand from the folder.
Hirobumi Ito, who was in a good mood, frowned when he heard the news.
Liaodong has never repaired and sorted out the forts in two places over the years, and now the two forts have suddenly been replaced. There must be some reason for this.
"Find out what's going on?" Hirofumi Ito asked the key point in one sentence.
"It should be caused by the problem of revising the treaty between us and the Qing State."
"No, what I want to say is whether our secret agreement with the Qing State leaked the news and allowed Liu Jun to take precautions." Ito Hirobumi saw that Inoue understood what he meant, and immediately stepped forward to remind.
Inoue Xin was shocked when he heard Ito Hirobumi's words, but he thought about it, this should not be, after all, when this agreement was signed, there were only two people present, Ronglu of the Qing Kingdom and Ito Yuheng, the commander of the combined fleet.
Ito Yuheng will definitely not leak secrets, and Rong Lu, who suffered Liu Jun's loss in Shengjing, and he is Cixi's cronies, it is impossible to leak secrets.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, shouldn't that be the case?" Inoue didn't dare to fully guarantee it, but just said a guess, probably, it should be.
Such words made Ito Hirofumi very dissatisfied, he had always been cautious and shook his head slightly, he didn't need should, what he needed was accurate information.
Woowoo...... In the long town of Liaodong, a train is squeezing on the tracks, and strangely, while the train is moving, under the chimney, a pipe with the thickness of a calf is turning back and forth.
Rumble...... There was an earth-shattering roar, and soon after the train emitted a puff of white smoke. Suddenly, from the distant mountain, there was a sky-high fire, and suddenly the surrounding soil and gravel flew around, and even a few small trees were cut off on the spot and fell to the ground weakly.
Tata Tower...... Tata Tata. Just after the sound of the cannon, from the train, a burst of orange-red flames suddenly spit out.
It's done. Hehe. Liu Jun put down the binoculars in his hand and happily hugged Zheng Yiqian beside him.
The train on the railway is Dai Linmin's modified armored train.
At the beginning, after Liu Jun's frenzy, he said that this was a hedgehog, and after Dai Linmin went back, he analyzed it and thought that the main enemy would appear in the front of the car, so he immediately removed the hedgehog in the car, leaving only a 90mm rapid-fire gun and two Makqin heavy machine guns in the front of the car.
Dai Linmin, who had been scolded, informed Liu Jun again, but he didn't expect to be hit by Liu Jun all of a sudden, and immediately experimented.