On November 16, 61 B century, the intercontinental war of the colonies in the B century, the defeat of the Marne-Rocco Empire. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It was an extremely shameful defeat, the world's number one power lost to the emerging countries that could not even enter the top three at that time, the barbarians that the empire did not look down on at all, the United Empire of St. Romain and Sanshuania.

After the defeat in the colonial war, the country reflected on the whole country, and different people came to different conclusions and in different ways.

The soldiers and the emperor came together, and in the third year of the defeat, the emperor used military experts from the Academy of Military Sciences to successfully restore the traditional imperial system.

On January 1, 65 B, the Maenrocco Empire officially abolished the constitutional monarchy and resumed the imperial dictatorship.

In the decades that followed, the newly established Imperial Education and Propaganda Department trumpeted loyalty to the emperor in order to strengthen the monarchy's power. The rights of imperial soldiers have been greatly improved, and the military system has been changed to a military district system; Relying on the military region system, the armed forces have initially completed the warlordization. Forty years earlier, the country's financial resources had been drastically reduced by the loss of almost all of its colonies, and by this time it was no longer able to support a strong naval fleet, the army became the focus of construction, and the navy was reduced to a vassal of the army headquarters of the military district where the port was located. The army has long since abandoned the modular and combined establishment and the civilian command system, and has begun to implement a fixed establishment system.

When the Imperial spear of Saxony-Windsor was pointed at this ancient empire, the Imperial shield forged by the Emperor was strong enough. A few decades after the restoration of the monarchy, the country's army was completely different from the one defeated by Julius Caesar. Let's take a look at the Imperial army of Marnerocco at that time.

(1) The foreign arms trade and the production of weapons and equipment in the Marnerocco Empire

First of all, look at the country's weapons production, which is an indication of a country's actual war capability.

Like most of the world's great powers at the time, the Marne-Rocco Empire built a well-developed military-industrial system to provide sufficient military support for the country's free existence.

After the establishment of the new state system, strengthening and improving the national military-industrial system became an important task of the new regime. Military scientists, the new government dignitaries, are good at this business, and they are also fond of doing it. In addition, in order to make up for the shortfall in fiscal revenues caused by the loss of colonies, the new Government has proposed a policy of increasing government revenues through the development of arms production and the international arms trade.

Under the combined effect of multiple factors such as economic interests and government encouragement, the country's military industry has ushered in an unprecedented and tremendous development, especially weapons and charges, basic chemical materials, munitions, various types of light weapons and light artillery equipment, which have a very high share in the world. MarneRocco's empire has become the number one supplier of small and medium-sized arms and basic weapons materials to the international arms market, thanks to its inexpensive, constantly evolving, or excellent price-performance ratio.

According to the data from the 90s of the B century, the sales of basic chemical materials and arms in the country accounted for 80% of the total sales of the international market and 85% of the sales of goods. By 94 of the B century, more than ninety percent of the explosives sold in the international arms market were produced in that country. By 96 of the B century, this figure was 95% share, plus 95% of goods sold. The other few percentage points are in the informal retail market.

In the early 70s of the B century, the country sent experts to various countries to conduct a global investigation of the arms manufacturing industry, and found that many countries actually used fertilizer to make explosives (with nitro components), which are cheap and easy to manufacture in large quantities. After the expert group returned to China, it successfully trial-made samples. Based on the price of the international market at that time, the cost per kilogram of yellow explosives (TNT) was equivalent to more than 2 yuan of imperial general copper yuan, and the efficacy of this kind of fertilizer powder fertilizer base explosives was basically equivalent to that of TNT-type explosives, but the cost of each kilogram was only 0.8 imperial copper yuan. At that time, the sales price of TNT in the international market was equivalent to more than 3 yuan of imperial general copper yuan, and the profit margin was super huge. Subsequently, the country adopted an improved process for large-scale production, and the comprehensive accounting cost of all materials for each kilogram of fertilizer-based explosives did not exceed 0.5 copper yuan, which is 5 jiao in the RMB currency unit. This product was launched at a low price in the international market and quickly occupied a double-digit market share.

In the 70s of the B century, the Academy of Military Sciences also developed the safety improvement technology of picric acid explosives, and after many years of experiments, it finally succeeded. With the approval of the top management of the empire, this new product can be produced commercially. The Imperial Academy of Sciences named this improved picric acid-based explosive "high-power safety explosive", which was launched on the market in 83 of the B century, and the international explosives market was further monopolized by the country.

The country's market share in the international market for small and medium-sized arms is also impressive.

The market for ordinary grenades is a traditional quasi-monopoly in the country, especially the large-scale infantry general-purpose grenades, which are all recognized by buyers as wooden-handled grenades of the Marnerocco Empire. The Marne-Rocco Empire has always been proud and proud of the numerous grenade factories established in the development of its military industry. The domestic grenade manufacturing is simple, the cost is low, the precision requirements of various equipment are low, and the materials such as cast iron, wood, and fire-type fuses required for the manufacture of grenades are sufficient in the country, and all material suppliers are laid out near the factory, forming the most optimized parts supply industry chain, so it can be extremely low price, extremely fast speed, super large batches, industrial production. One of the larger manufacturers, in order to deliver export orders in a timely manner, set a world record for the daily output of grenades in a single day and a single factory - 187,945 grenades per day. Later, according to the special needs of users, the method of increasing the body of the projectile and increasing the amount of explosives to increase the lethal power was adopted, and the defensive grenades and grenades were developed, which were very suitable for the defense of urban buildings and the condescending defense of mountainous areas.

On the international arms market, almost all mortars that sell well and sell quickly are made in that country. The country's best-selling variety, 50mm mortars, is usually produced at more than 1,000 units per month, and workers work overtime to produce up to 2,000 units per month. The country's production capacity for 50mm mortar shells is estimated at 15,000 rounds per day, and the activation of backup capacity could double daily production.

In order to meet the needs of customers in mountain operations, the country's Academy of Military Sciences has also developed a portable 75mm caliber mountain gun. This kind of mountain cannon has a firing angle of more than 45 degrees, which can be quickly disassembled and disassembled, with simple structure, labor and material saving, and low price. In B87, this type of mountain cannon was introduced to the market, and the product sales number "B87 mountain gun" was greatly praised in the international market, and the sales volume was also huge.

Based on this mountain gun, the Academy of Military Sciences developed a portable field gun in B92 with a maximum range of 5,000 meters. Later, absorb the opinions of users to implement product improvement, made an improved flat-firing curved gun, with the ballistic performance of the howitzer, this gun B94 was listed, so it is called "B94 type" flat-fire curved fire dual-purpose field gun, its projectiles are the same as "B92 type", all use variable charge technology. According to the actual combat test of users, both types of artillery can exert great power in infantry mountain combat, and they are also very practical in plain combat.

The average production of light artillery in the country's arms industry in B99 was: 20 B87 mountain guns, 12 B92 field guns, 70 B94 howitzer field guns, 24 120mm heavy mortars, and 1064 50mm mortars per month.

The supporting ammunition production capacity is: about 7,000 to 9,000 rounds of various 75mm mountain artillery and field artillery shells per month, 9,500 rounds of 120mm mortar shells, and 120,000 rounds of 50mm mortar shells.

The production capacity of firearms is unknown, but it is learned from an arms trader that the production volume of the country's three small firearms foreign trade factories in December B95 was:

Plant A, which produced rifle light machine guns: 800 rifles, 300 light machine guns, 140 pistols. Plant B, specializing in the production of heavy machine guns: 80 heavy machine guns.

Plant C, specializing in the production of automatic pistols and submachine guns: 240 automatic pistols and 170 submachine guns.

The country has a total of 74 specialized arsenals, including 23 large arsenals. Another 140 factories are dual-use arsenals.

Unofficial records show that from B92 to B97, the country produced a total of 1,903,200 guns of various kinds, 10,254 artillery pieces (excluding 50mm mortars for export), 1.26 billion rounds of ammunition of various calibers, 1.3 million rounds of artillery shells (including 125,700 mortar shells), 2.3 million grenades, and 37.21 million kilograms of various explosives.

More than half of these arms are sold on the international market. That country's boast of being the world's number one arms supplier seems to be right. In addition, the listing of these arms also caused the arsenal of the Saxony-Windsor Empire to be full, and the replacement weapons that could be easily disposed of were really pressed into the hands.

In addition to monopolizing the market for small arms, the country has also repeatedly exported warships since B71. In the beginning, the country only sold small warships such as auxiliary patrol boats, and gradually developed into mass production of small and medium-sized warships for export. In the year with the largest export volume, there were more than 10 destroyers alone, with a total tonnage of tens of thousands of tons. The country's destroyers are moderately priced, have excellent performance and are popular with buyers. Saxony, Windsor, and other traditional international arms markets, warship exporters, have gradually been squeezed out of jobs.

The country's main foreign trade warship launched in the 90s of the B century has the following performance:

Date of construction of the first ship: B90

Displacement: 775 tons (standard) 900 tons (full load)

Dimensions: length 72 meters, width 9.5 meters, draft 5.2 meters

Speed: 29 knots, main engine power: 6500 horsepower,

Armament: 2 x 105mm guns, 6×57mm guns, and 4 x 75mm guns can be added according to support needs

Torpedo: 3 torpedo tubes

Personnel: 111 (standard)

It was this kind of warship that, in B93, snatched almost all the foreign trade orders of small warships of the Saxony Windsor Empire. The Navy's warship orders have always been really profitable and high-profit orders, and they have been the exclusive dish of the Saxony-Windsor Empire for decades, but they just flew away, the factories that built warships had no money to make, and the country's finances could not collect the taxes on the arms after they were released.

It's not easy to grab other people's jobs, and if you rob them, you have to make revenge. The war between the two countries was also largely due to the accumulation of grievances over trade disputes.

(2) Establishment and equipment of the Imperial Army of Marnerocco

The Army was the core force of the Marne-Rocco Empire's homeland defense and the defense of the remaining colonies.

1, Imperial Army Infantry Corps

The infantry units of the Imperial Army had the infantry corps as the basic strategic unit. The empire had a standing army of 66 infantry corps, three divisions, and one heavy artillery brigade (12 150-mm howitzers and 48 105-mm cannons)

Infantry divisions, each division has two infantry brigades, one artillery regiment, and one battalion each of engineers, baggage troops, and machine gunners.

Each infantry brigade has two infantry regiments and one submachine gun battalion (400 submachine gunners).

Three infantry battalions per regiment, one mortar battery (9 80mm mortars). Each infantry battalion has four infantry companies, one machine gun company (6 12.7mm Maxine), and 126 combatants per company (armed with 12 submachine guns).

The artillery regiment has jurisdiction over three battalions, of which the first and second battalions are equipped with field artillery, and the third battalion is equipped with mountain artillery, both of which are 75 mm caliber, and each battalion has three companies with four guns per company.

The engineer battalion has four companies, which are responsible for communications, bridge building, and city building operations; The baggage army has four companies, and the means of transport are all trucks, no longer the donkey carts of a few decades ago.

The machine-gun battalion had four companies, each with six heavy machine guns, and abandoned the bulky Gatling in favor of the powerful 12.7 mm Maxine.

There are more than 14,000 officers and men in the division. There were 36 75mm field guns and 36 80mm mortars in the whole division.

2. The application of tanks to the Imperial Army and the birth of the Panzer Army

In addition to the infantry corps, the specialists of the country's Academy of Military Sciences themselves developed the technology for the production of tanks and formed the armored corps on the recommendation of the Institute of Tactics of the Academy of Military Sciences. Unlike the tank offensive tactics emphasized by other countries, most experts in that country believe that tanks are defensive weapons, like armored trains, which are used for mobile defensive operations. The Imperial Academy of Military Sciences believed that tanks should be like cruisers at sea, with a large number of guns and thick armor, and used naval shipbuilding technology to build tanks, so there was a "land cruiser" with more than one turret - cruiser-type tanks. The cruiser-style tank weighed 50 tons in battle, had a crew of up to 11 people, and like the real-life British tank "Independence", it had 5 separate turrets (including a machine gun turret). However, the 5 turrets are arranged in two tiers. The main turret is the central turret, and on the top floor, it is equipped with a 76.2 mm howitzer of 65 times the caliber of L65, carrying 90 rounds, and a 7.62 mm machine gun. The lower level has 4 turrets and machine gun turrets; Two small turrets were located in the front right and rear left of the main turret, and two machine gun towers were located in the front left and rear right. The advantage of this arrangement is that the fire system and weight distribution are relatively balanced. However, except for the main turret, which can rotate 360°, the other 4 turrets and machine gun turrets only have a directional firing range of 165°~235°. That is, due to the limitations of the general arrangement, it was not possible to concentrate all 5 turrets of fire in one direction. two small turrets with 1 45 mm tank gun (200 rounds of ammunition) and 1 7.62 mm machine gun each; Two machine gun turrets each mounted one 7.62 mm machine gun. The ammunition base of the 7.62 mm machine gun cartridge was 10080 rounds. With 3 guns and 5 machine guns, it was a "land battleship" with superior firepower in the 90s of the B century.

The country's Academy of Military Sciences has also developed infantry-tan coordinated defense tactics across the ages. Based on this tactics, the formation of tank units was developed. In B96, two armored corps (67A, 68A) were trained.

The Panzer Corps has one armored division, two infantry divisions, and one heavy artillery brigade. Infantry divisions, heavy artillery brigades, as in infantry corps units.

The armored division has two armored brigades and one comprehensive support regiment for maintenance and logistics engineering.

The armored brigade has three tank battalions and one specialized coordinated infantry regiment. Each tank battalion is armed with 16 cruiser tanks. 48 vehicles in the whole brigade. There are 96 vehicles in the division.

3, separate heavy artillery units

The specifics of this group of troops are not known. It is only known that there are a number of independent heavy artillery regiments in the country.

(iii) The Imperial Navy of Marneroke

Finally, let's take a look at the Imperial Navy at this time. Due to the loss of the colony, the navy was no longer the focus of construction. The large ships that survived the last war were mothballed, and with a little overhaul and staffing, they were immediately ready for service. The Academy of Military Sciences believed that it was only necessary to maintain a limited sea power, or a sea power at the security level, to maintain the sea power around the empire. Accordingly, the new ships of the Navy are mainly low-cost Honor-class cruisers.

The theory of naval warfare has undergone tremendous changes, and the Academy of Military Sciences has put forward the military theory of a decisive battle involving firepower covering the sea, and has built a large number of Huya-class fleet decisive warships in accordance with this theory.

A brief overview of the technical performance of various warships is as follows:

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Honor-class cruiser

At the start of the war, 30 ships of this class had been completed, and 12 were under construction.

Length: 100 m, width: 12.5 m, cabin depth: 7.5 m, draft: 4.877 m

Normal displacement: 2680 tons, full load displacement: 2950 tons, main engine power 9500 horsepower, speed 24.5 knots,

There are 22 shipborne guns, including 3 150 mm guns, 8 105 mm guns, 6 37mm Haggae guns, 6 8mm Maxim guns, and 1 60mm Krupp guns

3 torpedo tubes (one under the bow waterline and one on the port deck, 533mm)

There are 253 officers and men on board.

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Huya-class Fleet Decisive Ship (Arsenal Ship 700mm Rocket Version)

The decisive ship is 105 meters long, 15.3 meters wide, 4.2 meters draft, standard displacement of 1800 tons, maximum displacement of 3800 tons, the main engine is 2 GM12-567A-2500 diesel engines, the total power is 2500 horsepower, the maximum speed is 18 knots, and the crew is 90 people. The rocket arsenal ship in the style of a landing ship, carrying 720 700mm rockets on board, is arranged in a 12*60 rocket array pattern in the open forward compartment of the warship. The rockets in the forward compartment of the warship can be fired at an adjustable angle and fired in batches or sequentially, and can also be used for attacks on ground targets.

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Naru-type capital battleship:

At this time, it was in a mothballed state, a total of 8 ships

(Similar in appearance to the German Nassau-class, with data changes)

Displacement: 14,800 tons (design) / 18,535 tons (maximum)

Dimensions: Length 166 m (full length) / Width 28.6 m / Draught 7.76 m

Power: 12 Sulzer-Sonikroft boilers (coal-fired), three three-cylinder reciprocating steam engines, 22,000 horsepower, 3 shafts, 2 rudder parallel configurations

The maximum speed is 20 knots, and the cruising range is 9400 nautical miles / 10 knots; 2800 nautical miles / 19 knots

Main guns: 12 x 280mm/45x diameter Krupp SKL/45 guns, 6 twin turrets;

Secondary guns: 12 x 150mm/45x secondary guns, 12 x 120mm guns, anti-torpedo boats, all broadside single-mounted.

Others: Multiple 20mm mobile large-caliber Gatling machine guns as auxiliary firepower, 16 700mm rocket launchers, divided on both sides of the hull.

Armor: main armor belt 100-200 mm; three armored decks of 25-30 mm each; turret 90-180 mm; Conning tower 300 mm.

Crew: 1,050 in peacetime, 1,350 in wartime (51 officers).

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Normal battleships of the Yanar type:

(At this time, it was in a mothballed state, a total of 17 ships, some of which were newly built after the war)

Displacement: 11,370 tons (design) / 13,300 tons (maximum)

Size (m): 148.6x26.6x7.17 (draft)

Powerplant: 18 boilers, 2 Parsons steam turbines, maximum power 42,000 hp (79,000 hp with modifications);

Speed: maximum 20.8 knots, endurance: 4400 nautical miles at 14 knots, 3520 nautical miles at 18 knots

Main guns: 8 x 280mm (11.1 in)/45x diameter guns, four twin turrets

Secondary guns: 10 x 150 mm (5.9 in) / 45x diameter gun mounts single anti-torpedo boats / anti-aircraft guns: 12 x 120 mm guns,

Others: Multiple 20mm mobile large-caliber Gatling guns as auxiliary firepower, 12 700mm rocket launchers, divided into two sides of the hull.

Crew: 923 people, 41 officers.

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Crown-class cruisers:

(37 ships, 18 in service, 19 mothballed)

Displacement: standard displacement 4260 tons, full load displacement 5170 tons,

Dimensions: 118 meters in length, 18.5 meters in width, 5.5 meters in draft,

Power: Equipped with 12 boilers, 3 vertical three-stage expansion reciprocating steam engines, using double propeller propulsion, the output power of the main engine is 13,500 shaft horsepower

Speed: Maximum speed 23.5 knots.

Armor: 80-100 mm thick armor is installed in some important parts of the side side, the thickness of the deck is about 18 mm, and some positions are reinforced to 78 mm, the bow angle bulkhead is about 40 mm thick, and the conning tower is 100 mm around.

Main guns: 10 Krupp 40x diameter 105 mm rapid-fire naval guns, two bow and two stern, respectively on the two sides of the single gun mounts, protected by light gun shields, the other 6 on the two sides of the gun mounts protected by gun profiles or shields.

Other secondary weapons: The 700mm rocket launcher has been replaced with 6 12.7 Maxine machine guns, which are located on either side of the hull.

The naval equipment of the Marnerocco Empire is still above the average level on the whole, but it is somewhat reluctant to deal with the world-class naval power of Saxony and Windsor.