Chapter 32 The Silent Sea

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After the troops arrived at the Tianjin Jinghai naval camp, Zhang Xuewu immediately divided the camp area for the various departments, and resting the camp area became the top priority of the newly organized and mixed first brigade, the situation in Tianjin Jinghai is very special, according to the "Xinchou Treaty", there are troops stationed in Shanhaiguan and the southwest of Tianjin Jinghai, and two miles away from the barracks of the newly formed and mixed first brigade is the garrison of the Gaoqiao squadron of the new mixed army! China said that the two countries were fighting in Jinzhou in the dark, but the troops stationed in China seemed to be fine. The two countries are at war, but neither has declared war on each other? How weird is that? Spooky 1932!

Just when Zhang Xuewu led the troops to bury their heads in the renovation of the camp, Jinzhou fell! For this reason, Zhang Xuewu drank sullen wine all night.

But the next day, Zhang Xuewu appeared in the front row of the troops' detachment with a hundred times more spirit, and after arriving in Jinghai, Zhang Xuewu paid the most attention to the training of Zhang Tianpeng's artillery battalion and Tang Ziqiang's mechanized cavalry battalion.

Zhang Xuewu's artillery battalion is equipped with the most advanced Swedish Bofors M1930L20 75 mm mountain gun, this batch of 36 artillery pieces was purchased from Sweden by Zhang Xueliang before the 9.18 incident, because the Northeast fell so it was unloaded from Tianjin Port, it happened to be known by Zhang Xuewu, so Sandeng has been demoted to Zhang Xueliang's mansion as chairman of the Beiping Military Branch, and finally got his wish.

The characteristics of this artillery are very obvious, that is, its muzzle velocity is slow, but the rate of fire is fast, the accuracy is high, the failure rate is low, and it is very convenient to disassemble and transport it in parts, Zhang Tianpeng can't put down the 36 Bofors mountain guns, although this batch of Bofors mountain guns is made in Sweden, but it is indeed a full set of technology from German Krupp, because after World War I, Germany's military industrial enterprises were subject to the "Versailles Treaty", Germany was not allowed to produce advanced Krupp guns in the country, so this problem was not avoided, Krupp had no choice but to open a subsidiary in Sweden to manufacture Bofors mountain guns and sell them to the Chinese side.

The thirty-six guns purchased by Zhang Xueliang were originally made for the Turks, but due to the economic difficulties of the Turks, they were robbed by Zhang Xueliang with a lot of money!

After this batch of Bofors mountain guns was handed over to Zhang Tianpeng, strict training began, and each artillery is a treasure for the squadron, looking at the entire squadron, even the central army of Nanjing political axe did not have the courage to have a battalion with thirty-six 75-mm cannons in a mixed brigade? The mixed brigade, which was abolished in the 19th year of the Republic of China, is now the only part of the Northeast Frontier Army's Zhang Xuewu Division, and it is not a problem to expand it into an artillery regiment according to the establishment of Zhang Tianpeng's artillery battalion, but Zhang Xuewu has already listed three infantry regiments of four battalions, a mechanized cavalry battalion of three companies, an engineer battalion, and a communications battalion, so when he arrives at Zhang Tianpeng, he can only give one reinforced artillery battalion at most.

The situation was tense, Zhang Xuewu inspected Zhang Tianpeng's artillery camp many times, and what shocked him was that under Zhang Tianpeng's training, the well-trained artillerymen were able to use the Bofors Mountain Gun to fire an absolute theoretical rate of fire of 25 rounds per minute.

Although Zhang Xuewu is not an artillery professional, he knows very well that it takes two seconds for the Bofors Mountain Cannon to be fired to the re-entry into place in the back seat, and if the computer automatic loader is used in later generations, this kind of rapid fire can be achieved, but the artillery commanded by Zhang Tianpeng is actually completed by manual loading? How can this not shock Zhang Xuewu?

Zhang Xuewu called the smiling Zhang Tianpeng to his side, and learned that in the original artillery battle, it was assumed that his side was on the inferior side, and one of them naturally wanted to use the shortest time to achieve the fastest rate of fire to achieve the expected attack effect, and the other was to compress the shooting time, avoid the burning of the body barrel caused by long-term over-speed shooting, and protect the incomparably precious artillery.

Zhang Tianpeng personally made a demonstration for Zhang Xuewu, the essence of this three-person loading method is to supply the bomber to hand the shell to the loader, the loader in the back seat of the gun chamber stop at the moment of the use of the chamber has not yet returned to the moment to open the chamber, at this time the shell will slide out due to the residual pressure in the chamber and the habitual surname of the rear seat at high speed, the loader will then load the new shell into the chamber that has not yet returned, close the flat rifle door tie.

At the same time, the gunner uses this more than second to do a fine-tuning of the aim, which is very important for the accuracy of the shelling, when the gun body is back into position, the gunner fires quickly, so the accuracy of each firing gun is not affected, but the result of this is obvious, that is, the injury of the gunner and loader may increase several times, and it is common to be burned by the scorching residual heat.

This shocking three-person loading method made Zhang Xuewu break out in a cold sweat, looking at the various scars on the arms and backs of the loaders, Zhang Xuewu knew how dangerous this way of shooting was, people were forced out, in the Chinese Army, 75 mm caliber artillery has been called cannon, and in Europe 1005 mm caliber is considered a watershed between medium-caliber artillery and heavy artillery, the huge gap in national, industrial and military strength makes the Chinese people have to find a way in themselves, How helpless and tragic it is to use the few weapons they have at their disposal to inflict maximum damage on the enemy.

Compared with the more advanced 75mm Bofors mountain gun, these 24 French-made Renault FT-17 light tanks made Zhang Xuewu very entangled! The Renault FT-17 light tank cannot be regarded as a tank in Zhang Xuewu's eyes, just like the Italian Vickers tank, even in front of the 37mm PAK35 anti-aircraft gun, it is vulnerable and nothing to paper paste.

The investment of this tank can only be directed against an opponent who has no anti-tank firepower at all, the Renault FT-17 light tank is a light tank produced by France during the First World War, it is the world's first rotatable turret type tank. Its combat weight is 7 tons, the maximum speed is 10 km / h, the crew is 2 people, it is armed with 1 8mm Model 1914 machine gun, 4800 rounds of ammunition, and the armor is 6-22mm thick.

Zhang Zuolin once purchased a batch of more than 20 French-made Renault FT-17 light tanks from the Northeast Army through Shanghai Lyfort Bank. And equipped with a Czech-made 7.92mm ZB-26 light machine gun for the tank, in 1926 in the direct warlord Wu Peifu in the direct war, the first use of these tanks, but due to the lack of effective infantry and tank cooperation, the lack of tactical timing and experience, this batch of tanks did not play the expected effect, but caused many to be destroyed, which also made Zhang Zuolin question the expensive big guy of the tank, and indirectly made the development of the Northeast Army's ascendant armored forces come to a standstill.

For this batch of Renault FT-17 light tanks, Zhang Xuewu's plan is to let Tang Ziqiang use it as a training vehicle, in order to cooperate with the tank training, Zhang Xuewu transferred a reinforced company from each of the three main regiments to Tang Ziqiang, and formed an infantry company subordinate to the mechanized cavalry battalion, so that Zhang Xuewu has no clue about how to upgrade the new tank.

However, Zhang Xuewu has a principle, that is, it is better to let people wait for cars and cannons, and there must be no situation where people are allowed to wait for weapons.

As far as Zhang Xuewu is concerned, the immediate delay is not the reorganization and training of the troops, but the rush to Nanjing to participate in the six-month advanced advanced training course of the Army University, and the specific affairs of the brigade are specifically handed over to Xu Guohui, commander of the first regiment and commander of the brigade's infantry, and Li Xinkai, chief of staff of the brigade! It can be said that the material warehouses in Jinzhou and Beiping that can be collected by him Zhang Xuewu have been emptied by the newly organized first brigade, and Zhang Xuewu has become the worst guy in terms of popularity.

However, for this trip to Nanjing, Zhang Xuewu has more expectations! That's what can the generous Jiang Gongzhong give himself?