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In January 19oo, in the face of successive defeats in the Transvaal, Salisbury finally gave up hope of Admiral Buller and ordered Lord Roberts to go to South Africa to serve as commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, and the next day, the British announced the mobilization of reserve forces, and the entire British Empire was clearly completely enraged by the challenge from the Boers.

The most powerful maritime transport of the era had apparently helped the empire to demonstrate its prowess, and only three days later, on 1o February, Admiral Roberts and Lieutenant General Kitchener, known as the Lion of South Africa, arrived in Cape Town, bringing with him the Seventh Army at home, reinforcements from Australia, New Zealand and Canada, and three cavalry detachments in India and Ceylon.

By the beginning of March, the British army on the battlefield in South Africa had exploded to 250,000 people, and the telegram from the Cape Town front line back to Beijing sent back the British force projection in a meticulous and detailed document, especially the British traditional cavalry appeared on the battlefield, for the Boers who were good at cavalry and archery, Admiral Roberts did not choose to attack immediately, but continued to wait for 5ooo horses from the mainland and Arabia.

"The Boers are choking right now!" On March 22, when the General Staff Department sent the summary of the Anglo-Boer war situation to Qin Kai, who was discussing the cabinet meeting, he touched his chin with a sense of vicissitudes, and muttered with great emotion to Zhou Ruidong and Lu Han, who were sitting on the side, several high-ranking military leaders, but the layout of today's cabinet meeting is related to the huge plan for the next ten years.

However, these military bigwigs have no heart to discuss the war of the Boers with Qin Kai at the moment, and their combat goal at the moment is obviously Tang Shaoyi, the Minister of Finance who was still chattering about cutting military spending again, after four consecutive years of drastic cuts, the Minister of Finance's eyes are no longer on the issue of military spending, but to let the huge army play a greater role.

"Chief Tang, the army's savings are to defend the interests of the country, and you ask for another 1o to reduce military expenditures for local industrial and commercial subsidies, and also let the major military regions transfer the directly subordinate engineering regiments to the local construction corps and participate in local construction! We are the army, not the workers! Zhang Kui, who has always been keen on firing artillery, naturally served as the voice of the military bigwigs, and was the first to speak up to resist the new plan of the Ministry of Finance.

Tang Shaoyi naturally would not face these guys who controlled military power head-on, in fact, he didn't intend to respond positively, and without waiting for others to echo him, he had already stood up directly and came up with another report, "Ladies and gentlemen, although the national defense expenditure has been compressed in the past two years, the main thing that has been compressed is the daily expenses and war military expenditures, and the 6 naval armament research funds planned by the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Industry have increased by more than 3o every year, and ...... This is also the Ken who got the Prime Minister! ”

Hearing Tang Shaoyi's transfer of contradictions, these military bigwigs immediately turned their eyes to Premier Qin, who was sitting upright drinking tea, Qin Kai naturally would not avoid this question, he nodded at Tang Shaoyi, "In terms of army construction, your military and political department should fully assess the changes in new technologies, the emergence of airships has made the war reflect the three-dimensional nature of war, the Boer War has provided more information about the ground war, and the effect of spending on military spending on the production of old equipment is far worse than investing in the research of new technologies, and at present, what the country lacks most is not people, but money!" ”

"Prime Minister, even if there is new equipment, there is no way for the front-line troops to use it in actual combat, this will not improve the combat capability at all! Moreover, the sergeant major system that has just been implemented in the army this year still has a big gap in military spending! As the chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs, Zhou Ruidong naturally knows about a series of research projects that are being promoted, in fact, several bigwigs of the Ministry of Military Affairs here are aware of the military projects that are being promoted by the Ministry of Industry, including the aircraft that Qin Kai has mentioned to eliminate airships...... It's just that it's still completely conceptual.

The combat effectiveness of the army comes from actual combat, which is naturally best understood by the officers from the Nanyang department, the national defense force in the past ten years from the Nanyang Department of 6 towns of the new army to today's thirteen military regions, and has always maintained an extremely strong combat power, the survival of veterans for many years is obviously a very important reason, under the prompting of Qin Kai, the army has begun to realize the professionalization of the sergeant major, to provide promotion space for those grassroots commanders.

"The Northern Military Region will mainly undertake the test of new equipment, and the other military regions will be coordinated by the Ministry of Military Affairs to send personnel to participate in the actual combat exercises of the Northern Military Region, and in the case of compression of military spending, ensure that the training of the troops must keep up; as for the size of the sergeant major and the gap in military spending, the Ministry of Finance cannot make up for it, and the Ministry of Industry will first make up for it from the state-owned income of mining enterprises; our army is the people's army, and defending the country is the only goal of the army, and it is also the source of the soul of the army!"

Speaking of this, Qin Kai glanced at a few bigwigs in the room, he convened the three major ministries of military and government, finance, and industry today, which is naturally related to the issue of armaments in the short term, and he naturally understands that in the next few decades, it will be an era of rapid change in industrial technology, he is very clear about what he wants to do and what he is doing, the pattern of the new world is driving into the final hegemony pattern under the impetus of industrial forces, the strong is the undoubted truth of international changes for hundreds of years, and he has the largest human resources in this era, There is no doubt that the most adequate preparations need to be made, and the future war will be fought for the total amount of manpower and industry.

From the Mawei Shipbuilding to the present, a full 2o years of exhibition, their own hands have established a vast economic circle in the coastal area, and the opening of the entire South Asian free port, for the domestic light industry to provide a competitive mechanism and a supply chain of production resources, at least from the current point of view, their own envisaged industrial model, for the domestic economy to provide an astonishing impetus for rapid growth.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, almost all financial resources were invested in the army, but the model of investing in the national economy quickly shifted to investing in the national economy, and the army must also make a difference for this, but the difference is that the ultimate form of national strength will also be aimed at the modernization of the army.

Although the country's funds cannot be tilted towards the army at present, it is our ultimate goal to enrich the country and strengthen the army, and a strong national defense can protect our country and our people!" Speaking of this, Qin Kai glanced at Zhou Ruidong, Lu Han and Zhang Kui, these three undoubtedly represented the most enterprising generation of soldiers in the army.

He sideways took out a bag of Wen Jiàn from the pile of Wen Jiàn on the side, opened it and pushed three copies of Wen Jiàn down in front of the three people, and these three were also shocked after seeing the top secret words and titles on the Wen Jiàn, and they didn't wait for Qin Kai to explain that they had already begun to flip through it, and after a while, Zhang Kui, who got the volume marked "Air Force Preparation and Armament Construction Plan", finally couldn't help but be the first to speak.

He had obviously paid attention to the similar plan that Zhou Ruidong and Lu Han got on the side, Zhou Ruidong had the construction idea of the mobile unit of the 6th Army in his hand, and what Lu Han got was naturally the construction plan of the navy...... Not exactly, according to Qin Kai's plan, half of the airship unit that is currently the main force in the navy will be transferred as seedlings of this new branch of the military to cultivate!

The problem is, Zhang Kui has seen the planes in the air force armament construction concept, and there are a few in the camp in the northern suburbs, and the question is, that thing can be taken down by the infantry with a rifle, can this be considered an army? At least for now, it looks far inferior to the already large-scale airship troops!

"Instructor, when will your Air Force plan to have a shadow...... It's not going to make me wait for ten years or eight years! And, according to what I know about the planes in the northern suburbs, if they can really be used in real combat, God knows when they will be able to do it...... It's better to vigorously display the airship! ”

"Zhang Kui, if you don't want to do it, then I'll change people! When the time comes, you will regret it, but don't blame me for not giving you a chance...... This is the power that will dominate the war in the future! Qin Kai casually threw out a sentence, which immediately whetted everyone's appetite.

When Zhang Kui heard the words "leading the war", he had long lost his resistance, and immediately made a gorgeous turn of 18o degrees, "Instructor, it turns out that this is the case, this kind of task, except for me, I really can't find a more suitable candidate!" ”

After saying that, he immediately held this top-secret text firmly in his hand, and then unwillingly looked at the text in Zhou Ruidong's hand, which immediately attracted the unanimous expression of several people in the room!

Hearing Zhang Kui's complaints, Qin Kai can naturally understand, let the heavier-than-air plane fly into the sky, which is originally somewhat out of the scientific concept of this era, especially the rapid rise of the domestic power industry, a month ago, the first electrolytic aluminum plant supervised by Chen Tongpu personally put into production, he believes that the aircraft power that has been confused for a long time will be broken through because of the reduction of the weight of the motive.

As long as the 4o horsepower motive, you can get a real sense of stability dìng aircraft, and the current Jiangnan Precision Machinery Factory's 6-cylinder water-cooled motor has reached the limit kinetic energy of 35 horsepower, the only problem is just a breakthrough in the process...... Of course, the research of the real practical V-type liquid-cooled motor, Qin Kai is only in the form of a real yàn room report, and is conducting a special feasibility study in the real yàn room of Nanyang University, when the results can be produced, he is not worried, the era of aircraft has been unveiled, with today's domestic research capabilities, he has a very confident heart.

At this moment, Qin Kai saw the expressions of Zhou Ruidong and Lu Han, and obviously understood the weight of their respective papers, and he immediately issued a cabinet appointment, "The three major armament technology departments of the sea, 6, and air force that are about to be prepared will be directly responsible for me, and the three of you are each responsible for a department, and the special technical research and funding guarantee will be coordinated by General Minister Xu of the Ministry of Industry and General Tang of the Ministry of Finance. We will aim to create an epoch-making army! ”

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