Chapter 127: The Arms Race

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Li Yi waited for Li Hongzhang for another half an hour, but Li Hongzhang still didn't come out, and Li Yi understood that he didn't want to see him.

It seems that he must get rid of Li Hongzhang, and let him hinder him again, so when the reorganization of the armies of the great powers is completed, then wait for the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Li Yi, who wants to understand this, no longer hesitates, and strides out of the Li Mansion, this mansion that he once liked to come to goodbye forever!

In 1887, a small battle between the new army and the old army occurred in Kunming, Yunnan Province, but it had a profound impact on the world military, because the free army was dressed in camouflage uniforms that were more in line with the battle, equipped with advanced rifles, and equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns and mortars, heavy machine guns and mortars played a huge role on the battlefield, so that countries also attached importance to heavy machine guns and mortars.

After experiments in various countries, the heavy machine guns and artillery guns produced by the Guangzhou Arsenal are light in weight and powerful, and various countries have placed a large number of orders for the Guangzhou Arsenal.

Li Yi originally planned not to sell them these weapons, only to sell them new camouflage uniforms, but then he thought of India Ah San in another time and space, the weapons equipped by their army are all advanced in the world, but the combat power is the last, the main reason is that the weapons they are equipped with are too miscellaneous and messy, known as the equipment of the Eight-Nation Alliance, rather than forcing them to develop new weapons and build their own military system, it is better to disrupt them, supply them with weapons in large quantities, and earn high profits.

At present, the mainstream caliber of rifle armament of each ** team is 7.62 mm, only three countries are different, the new army is equipped with a rifle 5.8 mm caliber, Germany is 5.92 mm caliber, and France is 9 mm caliber. In order to disrupt their plan for the general use of bullets, Li Yi expanded the caliber of the export heavy machine gun to 14 mm, and the total weight of the heavy machine gun was 56 kg to 62 kg, while the new Browning heavy machine gun that the New Army was about to replace was only 36 kg. Mortars have low technical content, and it is enough to sell the technology directly, but the most important artillery shell technology of mortars is absolutely not allowed to be sold. The latest chapter of 黑しし has been uploaded

Since modern times, Britain's naval construction and its overseas colonization have been interdependent and mutually reinforcing, and together they have become a strong cornerstone of the British Empire. In view of this, the British Government attaches great importance to the building of the navy, and has always placed it in a more important position than the army, and its armament policy has a distinctive feature of giving priority to the navy.

Although in 1887 the British government still adhered to this armament policy, it still pursued the goal of "making its navy strong against the navies of the two great powers." Therefore, they demanded that the navy be equipped with ironclad warships by 1890, with a total tonnage of 900,000 tons.

They did not neglect the Army, and they also made great progress in army construction, and they decided to build an army of 500,000 by 1890, and the army would be fully equipped with the latest 7.92mm five-shot Enfield rifle (98K). The military uniforms were fully changed to the camouflage uniforms formulated in the Qing Dynasty, and although it would take two years for all the uniforms to be delivered, they also decided to wait.

In December 1887 they passed the 1888 military budget, which amounted to a terrifying £25,700,000, or $550 million in silver dollars. In the future, the budget amount will be increased by 5 percent every year.

Across the sea from the United Kingdom, France is located in Western Europe, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, Italy and Spain, and Germany to the east. In terms of national defense, it had to defend against Germany, a strong enemy on land, Britain, a strong rival at sea, and colonies everywhere, and the objective situation forced it to have a strong army and navy at the same time.

After the Franco-Prussian War, the French have always taken revenge against Germany as a powerful spiritual motive force and vigorously strengthened the construction of the army. In this context, the French government's allocation to the Army has also risen rapidly year by year.

They decided that by 1890, the army would develop into 20 elite armies, under which there would be divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and other formations. Each corps has 1 infantry regiment, 1 hunting infantry battalion, 2 cavalry brigades, 1 artillery brigade, 1 engineer battalion, and 1 baggage company. In peacetime, each army has about 12,000 soldiers, and in wartime it can be expanded to 24,000 soldiers. In 1890, the number of officers and men in the national army should reach 800,000, and at the same time, the reserve military service system should be developed, and the maximum number of troops could be expanded to 3 million in wartime.

They also decided to completely replace their uniforms and increase the deployment of heavy weapons in the army. The French like large-caliber weapons, as can be seen from the 9.0 mm rifles they are equipped with, so they can't put down the 14 mm heavy machine guns produced by the Guangzhou Arsenal, and even the price of 3,000 yuan per machine gun is readily accepted.

After reunification, Germany is bordered by Russia to the east and France to the west, and is in the land of four wars, and is determined to ensure its status as a European army power. Wilhelm II and the current ruling faction of the German army were deeply influenced by Li Yi's judgment that there would be a great war in Europe, and they paid more attention to the development of the army, and put forward a strong military strategy to ensure that the army power competed to become a naval power.

Since 1885, Germany has been silently preparing for a major war, and they have vigorously developed the country's transportation system in accordance with Li Yi's warning, so that they can quickly and flexibly transfer troops and support from all over the country when the war starts.

In 1887, at the urging of Prince William, the House of Representatives passed a bill to use 500 million marks (about 400 million silver dollars) as the cost of rearmament. There are about 650,000 officers and men in the standing army, and there are more than 3.5 million reserve troops and reserve troops. Five group armies were formed, each of which had 10 divisions (infantry cavalry), one artillery division, and one supply division, and regiments, battalions, companies, platoons, and other formations under the division. (The new army group has not yet been formed.) The German Admiralty also proposed to the Reichstag a three-year plan for the expansion of the navy, which planned to have 35 ironclads and 30 cruisers by 1890, plus 100 other ships, and the military expenditure required 120 million marks, which was also readily approved by the meeting.

Tsarist Russia, a fighting nation, did not dare to be left behind, so it proposed to maintain a large army size and expand the navy from a defensive type to an offensive type, and the standing army of Tsarist Russia at this time was the highest in Europe, with a standing army of 1.3 million people.

In 1887, Russia spanned two continents, Europe and Asia, and its territory continued to expand to 22.8 million square kilometers, accounting for 17% of the world's land area. Since it was first and foremost a land power, government officials from the tsar to the Russian government attached great importance to army building.

At the end of 1887, the Tsar approved a large-scale army reorganization plan, and the military expenditure of the army budget for two years reached 900 million silver dollars, of which 100 million silver dollars were used as military expenses for the war (plotting to invade the three eastern provinces and North China in 1889, and strive for the Qing to cede Heilongjiang as compensation). In 1887, France reached a conspiracy, and France loaned Russia a loan equivalent to 500 million silver dollars to reorganize the army, and the demand was to invade the Qing country before 1890 and cooperate with the French army's Vietnamese operation. Although the Russian army is huge, it is relatively backward, and after receiving a huge amount of funds, the army has reduced the army by 300,000 and divided the 1 million army into three large group armies.

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