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In Beijing in December, when the north wind blows, the sky is blue and transparent, and people's mood is suddenly better. ―Apex―Point―Novel www. {2} {3} {w} The air was fresh because it had just rained. The bright sun is shining on the earth, and if it weren't for the fact that there is still some water on the ground after the rain, every citizen would be in a good mood.

At the end of 1908, Beijing was already an international metropolis, and the new city invited top German designers to carry out a detailed design of the city's drainage system, and the advanced sewer drainage system ensured that there would be no water accumulation on the wide road. Because Song Xiaofei issued a presidential decree, the "Cultural Relics Protection Law" has come into effect, and cultural relics should be protected as much as possible in the renovation of the old city, and there is still some stagnant water in some old alleys or courtyards in the old city of Beijing.

There are also some residents of the old city who are dissatisfied with the government's need to protect cultural relics in the renovation of the old city, and some poor households in the old hutongs want to be compensated by the government for demolition and relocation to spacious and bright "western-style houses". For such residents, the staff of the government's cultural relics protection department has patiently educated that the cultural relics of ancient houses are the actual carrier of traditional culture, and the protection of cultural relics is to protect the living history. In addition, the houses of some residents were acquired according to the actual situation, and their wishes were fulfilled. Then some old alleys were appropriately renovated, after all, some old houses are too poor in sanitary conditions to be inhabitable.

The rapid development of China's market economy in the past 20 years has greatly changed the appearance of Beijing, the road surface is very smooth, whether it is a car or a horse-drawn carriage driving on it, it feels stable, and the car and horse-drawn carriage have also demarcated special lanes. There is also a bicycle lane on the far right side of the road, where more than a dozen bicycles are walking. One of them was still a girl with a boy, both of them wearing trendy school uniforms, and the boys were tuxedoes. Girls are skirts. Some old men and ladies saw this scene and pointed their fingers, but the male students put their arms around the waist of the female students and seemed to care, which shows how much influence Qiu Jin and other feminists have on young Chinese people.

On the streets of Beijing, those classic cars that cost tens of thousands of yuan are the means of transportation that only the wealthy businessmen can afford. Bicycles are a civilian means of transportation that can be ridden by ordinary people and do not require registration.

There is also a means of transportation, which is motorcycles. The history of motorcycles is not as early as that of automobiles. But it's also been quite a long time. As early as 1885, after Germany's Daimler invented the first gasoline-powered motorcycle, this kind of machinery, which occupies a fairly high position in later generations of transportation, began to enter the road of human society.

In particular, in 1903, Harry's company produced the first model on the market (the first commercial motorcycle in the United States). The car engine cylinder working volume 409ml. The power is 2.94kw and the bicycle frame is adopted. In 1907, Xi Muyan's factory in Tianjin adopted new technologies such as rubber tires, ball bearings, clutches and transmissions, front suspension suspension systems, and spring seats, which made motorcycles begin to have practical value, and single-cylinder motorcycles were mass-produced in the factory, because this kind of locomotive was cheaper than cars. There are also more stylish shapes, which have become the new favorites of some rich second generations and official second generations. Of course. Some of the motorcycles in the Ximuyan factory were for the military, and China built a new motorized infantry brigade in early 1908.

In recent years, Song Xiaofei's open-mindedness has made the domestic political environment relatively stable, and Tan Sitong, director of the State Administration of Integrity, has vigorously fought corruption, as long as the officials fall into his hands, no matter how hard the relationship is, it is useless, after all, Song Xiaofei strongly supports him, so he got the nickname of "Tan Yan Wang". After Song Xiaofei heard about it, he patted him on the shoulder in public to encourage and support, and said, "King Tan Yan is good, help the people sweep away all the ghosts, snakes, and gods!" I think it's good. ”

Tan Sitong's reputation has since become even louder. Therefore, although many bureaucrats still have some bad habits inherited from the former Qing Dynasty, they have to be restrained under the high-pressure policy of the State Administration of Integrity. Song Xiaofei also included the building of a clean and honest government in the assessment of government officials, set up a clean government index, conducted an annual evaluation, and implemented a one-vote veto, and in areas with a low clean government index, the chief executive was demoted, and the results were good.

When the Germans, along with the British, French, and Russian armies, were locked in protracted trench warfare on both the Western and Eastern Fronts, Song Xiaofei felt that the time was ripe and began to sell tanks to the Germans and British.

Because Song Xiaofei knew that if the war continued, the British would soon develop tanks. Historically, also in the early days of the Great War, the Englishman Swinton proposed the need to create an armored vehicle capable of carving out roads across barbed wire, climbing over trenches, and destroying and suppressing machine-gun fire to break the dreary stalemate on the Western Front. Although the British Army at that time had no interest in this, Churchill, who was the Secretary of the Navy at the time, was like a treasure, and ordered the formation of a "Land Battleship Committee" to personally lead the development of the "Land Battleship". Now that both Germany and Britain want to end the war as soon as possible, there is a big market for tanks. What's more, China has developed an anti-tank gun and is ready to sell it to Britain or Germany in the next step. On the basis of inheriting the Westernization Movement for 30 years, China's military industry has also given full play to the advantage of concentrating its forces on major affairs, and has more than 1,000 Chinese and foreign academicians, and has developed and progressed rapidly.

While Song Xiaofei sent a delegation headed by Vice Foreign Minister Liang Shiyi to visit Europe, he also invited British Ambassador to China Zhu Erdian, German Ambassador to China Klinder, and French Minister to China O'Curry to visit the Nanyang Tractor Factory.

Nanyang's tractor factory is a state-owned heavy industry enterprise with nearly 30,000 employees, and usually produces agricultural tractors to serve the agricultural modernization of the Central Plains. By the outbreak of war in Europe in 1908, Song Xiaofei ordered the production of tanks. Now, tractor factories in various countries are strategic enterprises that can produce tanks as soon as the war starts.

After visiting the tractor factory, Song Xiaofei, British Ambassador to China Zhu Erdian, German Ambassador to China Clinder, and French Minister to China O'Curry arrived at a training ground near the Central China Military Region, where two Chinese-made armored vehicles were built. Drive out slowly.

The former one looks like a "big iron box", but it is diamond-shaped. The length of the perimeter is not clear, but the height is about three meters. Under the sides of the "iron box" are tracks, which are not easy to see, because they are blocked by a layer of iron plates. Above the iron box, there was a turret, inside which there was also a cylinder sticking out, the barrel of a machine gun. Behind the "iron box" there was also a hatch for soldiers to get in and out, and the entire armored car was painted with dye camouflage. Another kind of tank. It is noticeably smaller in size than the previous model, and its body resembles the chassis of a tractor. And above the chassis, an equally flat turret. It was equipped with two machine guns. One front and one back. This tank is painted dark green.

On the training grounds, there were a total of ten armored combat vehicles, of which five were "iron boxes", and five were similar to "tractors". And in the trenches dug opposite them, there were thousands of heavily armed troops.

At this time, a middle-aged officer, Liu Chengzhang, wearing a straight army major general uniform, walked to the stands and saluted Song Xiaofei and the three ambassadors to China with a standard military salute. He said sonorously: "Your Excellency, Liu Chengzhang, commander of the 101st Division of the Tank Corps, reports to you. Operation Wolf Hair is ready, please instruct. ”

Song Xiaofei laughed and said, "Chengzhang, how is Old Man Liu?" I think your team is in good spirits, your father is a tiger general, and there are successors. Ten minutes later, the drill begins. ”

Song Xiaofei's old man Liu is Liu Yongfu, he is seventy-one years old, his body is still very tough, on the day he was awarded the rank of general Liu Yongfu, Liu Yongfu held Song Xiaofei's hand tightly, old tears, and said emotionally: "President, in my life, I have been in the fields, out of the army, and my life is only based on loyalty and patriotism. However, he was cautious, and in the end he was not proud of being an official, but only knew how to defend the society and not let foreign countries deceive China as his responsibility. Although this body is old, his blood is always there. Now that I'm old and dying, I can't wait to get up and lead the division again, flatten the ugly, and strengthen the motherland. My four dogs are all adults, and they should work hard to serve in the army, hoping that they will serve in the new army, so as to give them unfulfilled aspirations. If it is for the country, it is advisable to do its best to gallop and do not hesitate to cast mountains and rivers with iron and blood, and strengthen the race, in order to become the most beautiful country on the five continents. ”

Song Xiaofei was very moved by Liu Yongfu's heart to serve the country, so he arranged his four sons Liu Chengzhang, Liu Chengye, Liu Chengliang, and Liu Chengwen into the new army, Liu Chengzhang and Liu Chengye were in the army, and Liu Chengliang and Liu Chengwen were arranged in the navy.

In history, Liu Yongfu is also a model of loyalty and patriotism, and what is little known is that he also served as the president of Taiwan! In April 1895, the Qing government was defeated and sued for peace, and signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, ceding Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan. In order to force the people of Taiwan to surrender, Japan sent Prince Nohisa Kita-Shirakawa to lead the main Guards Division of the Japanese army, which set out from Okinawa on May 27 and attacked Taiwan by two routes. One of the Japanese troops forced a landing from Mink Kok and captured Keelung. Then, they invaded Taipei. Governor Tang Jingsong and others feared the sun like tigers and fled back to the mainland one after another. On June 7, Taipei was captured by the Japanese army. At this time, Liu Yongfu issued a call for joint resistance against Japan in Tainan, saying that in order to defend the country, "we will not give up to the death" and "even if there is a piece of land left and a line is extended, we should be hasty and not killed." On June 28, the local gentry in Tainan elected Liu Yongfu as the president of the Democratic Republic of Taiwan to lead the anti-Japanese struggle. Liu Yongfu insisted on not accepting it, and still took the position of assistant to lead the defense army and the Taiwan rebels to resist the enemy and protect Taiwan.

In mid-August 1895, the war moved to Taichung. In order to defend Changhua, the Black Flag Army and the Taiwan Righteous Army fought a fierce battle with the Japanese army in the area of Dajiaxi, won a complete victory, and captured a lot of Japanese guns. Later, the Japanese army was unwilling to fail and bribed spies to lead the way, and attacked the rear road of the Black Flag Army, and Dajiaxi was occupied by the Japanese army. After the loss of Dajiaxi, the Japanese army advanced step by step and captured Taichung. Liu Yongfu was forced to lead his army to retreat to Changhua.

On August 28, 1895, the Japanese army attacked Bagua Mountain in the north of Changhua City with a strong force, and the Black Flag Army and the Righteous Army engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, killing more than 1,000 people of the most elite Japanese Guards Division and killing Major General Yamane Nobunari. In this tragic and bloody battle, Wu Tangxing, the leader of the rebel army, was killed in the middle of the cannon, and Liu Yongfu's general Wu Pengnian died heroically. More than 300 members of Liu Yongfu's elite Seven Star Team of the Black Flag Army were also martyred, and Changhua was lost. Then. Yunlin and Miaoli also fell one after another, and then Chiayi was in an emergency, and Liu Yongfu ordered Wang Debiao, the commander of the Black Flag Army, to quickly lead the Seven Star Team to the north for reinforcements. He also sent his subordinate Yang Sihong to lead the battalions of the Black Flag Army and the rebel armies in various places to cooperate closely, and personally went to the Chiayi front line to take command. Due to the heroic and good fighting of the Black Flag Army and the Righteous Army, under the command of Liu Yongfu, the Righteous Army from all walks of life fought together, and won a great victory in this battle, killing nearly 1,000 enemies. And successively conquered Yunlin, Miaosu, and counterattacked Changhua. However, after continuous hard fighting, the Black Flag Army and the Rebel Army were short of weapons. Liu Yongfu sent people back to the mainland to ask for help, but the Qing government not only refused to provide relief, but strongly withheld the funds raised by the mainland to aid Taiwan. He also ordered a tight blockade of the coastal areas and cut off Taiwan reinforcements. Liu Yongfu was heartbroken and lamented that "the mainland princes mistook me, and I misunderstood the Taiwanese people"!

September 11, 1895. Japan sent the 2nd Division to reinforce Taiwan. The First World War in Chiayi. The commander of the Japanese Chieftain Guards Division, Lieutenant General Nohisa Kita-Shirakawa, was seriously wounded and died. On October 15, the Japanese army attacked Dagou Harbor, southeast of Tainan. Liu Yongfu's adopted son Liu Chengliang led the army to repel the Japanese attack many times, and later the soldiers guarding the fort were hungry and could not fight, so Liu Chengliang led his troops to retreat to Tainan. At this time, the Black Flag Army and the soldiers of the Righteous Army, who were guarding Zeng Wenxi, carried out a white-edged feat with the attacking Japanese army, and the lone army was defeated, and the last line of defense in Tainan was lost.

October 18, 1895. Liu Yongfu convened a meeting of his generals to discuss the plan for war defense. The next day, the Japanese army attacked the Anping Fort, and Liu Yongfu personally lit the cannon and bombarded the enemy ship. That night, the Japanese army attacked the city urgently, the city ran out of ammunition and food, and in the hard battle, the soldiers were so exhausted that they could not raise their guns and wield their swords. At that time, there was chaos in the city, and Liu Yongfu wanted to rush back into the city, but his subordinates tried their best to dissuade him. Liu Yongfu saw that the general trend had gone, he looked up to the sky and beat his chest, crying and crying: "How can I report to the court, how can I treat the people of Taiwan!" Late that night, Liu Yongfu led his adopted son Liu Chengliang and more than a dozen others to take a small boat, and then boarded the British merchant ship "Dilis" to cross to Xiamen, and on the 21st, Tainan fell, and the entire territory of Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese army.

As the saying goes, "a tiger will have no dog", Liu Chengzhang listened to Song Xiaofei's words and said: "Thank you for your concern, my father is healthy." I'll go and give the order right away, and in ten minutes I'll start the wolf's drill. ”

Song Xiaofei returned a military salute to Liu Chengzhang. At this time, Wu Peifu, the new captain of the presidential palace guard, came over (it turned out that the captain of the presidential palace guard, Dadao Wang, had retired five years old), and said to Song Xiaofei: "Your Excellency, several ambassadors, the next step is to conduct actual combat exercises, I'm afraid it's not safe here, follow me to the bunker next to it." ”

"Okay." Song Xiaofei nodded, and followed Wu Peifu and other guards to a place similar to a bunker next to the stands. The entire bunker is made of concrete, half of which is underground. The other half is on the ground, and after Song Xiaofei and the others enter, they can just look out from the window, which is very safe and does not obstruct the view of the battle.

After the three ambassadors to China also entered, Wu Peifu waved the command flag with his right hand, and the exercise began.

After receiving the flag order, the six tank fighting vehicles slowly started, let out a loud roar, and then slowly advanced towards the opposite trench at a not very fast speed.

Seeing that the tank armored vehicle was activated, the soldiers in the trench also received orders, and they used the weapons they had prepared long ago to fire at the six large iron targets.

Their weapons were the ones commonly used by the British and German forces on the battlefield: the 6.8mm Mauser rifle and the 8mm Maxim heavy machine gun. The Mauser military rifle cartridge is an 8mm round, which is also used in the German MG08 heavy machine gun. The firepower of these weapons is good, plus the six armored fighting vehicles are so conspicuous, almost all the firepower has been hit on the bodies of these six tank fighting vehicles, the tank fighting vehicles have protective armor on the outside, and the thumping bullets are splashing everywhere.

Because it was a live-fire exercise, British Ambassador to China Juerdian, German Ambassador to China Clinder, and French Minister to China O'Curie all widened their eyes

I want to see what the magic of the "tank" is. They saw that, despite being beaten in all directions, these tanks and combat vehicles were not hindered in the slightest, and they were still moving at what speed they should be moving forward.

Ignoring the fire from the trenches, the six chariots continued their mission, quickly breaking through the lines formed by the trenches.

Song Xiaofei said to several ambassadors to China: "Gentlemen, please note that these tanks and combat vehicles did not fight back against the soldiers in the trenches, otherwise the soldiers in the trenches would have been either killed by the machine guns and artillery at the top of the tanks, or would have been crushed to death like ants." ”

The German ambassador to China, Klinder, had been on the battlefield, and he was a soldier. He stared at the things on the field with a new gaze, and his face showed an incredible expression.

Song Xiaofei said: "Wait and see, there are even more incredible things happening." ”

The three ambassadors to China heard Song Xiaofei say this. Keep an eye on it

The six tanks, seeing these tanks break through the obstruction of all kinds of light and heavy firepower, and approach the front line of the trench. The next scene made them dumbfounded,

Those monsters, whose weight was measured in tons, the tracks turned quickly, hung in the air above the trenches. By inertia, the tanks easily crossed a trench more than two meters wide. These fortifications, which once killed an unknown number of servicemen on the battlefield, were in front of these six tanks. Like it doesn't exist at all.

After the exercise, Liu Chengzhang came back to Song Xiaofei to introduce the performance of these tanks: "The former's huge body can be used to load more than a dozen soldiers to break through the trench position. There are also equipped machine guns. Firing at the same time, the firepower is definitely not inferior to the Maxim heavy machine gun, and if you look at the caliber, the caliber of the machine gun equipped on those turrets is obviously larger than the currently equipped Maxim machine gun. Another type of tank, equipped with artillery, is also equipped with a machine gun alongside the artillery. ”

The German ambassador to China, Klinder, who was born in the military, said: "In this way, the usefulness of these two tanks seems to be obvious." The former is an infantry used to break through trenches and other defensive lines and clear the enemy. As for the latter, although it can also take into account the function of the former, it is probably more useful against artillery and tanks. Before today, I had never heard of similar equipment in other countries. ”

Liu Chengzhang said: "Ambassador Klinder, you are very right, you are really knowledgeable. ”

Klinder said: "Can you give us a detailed description of the parameters of these tanks?" ”

Until 1908, these tanks and fighting vehicles were highly classified in the country and would never be revealed to outsiders. Liu Chengzhang didn't say anything more, but turned his head to look at Song Xiaofei. Song Xiaofei nodded with a smile and said, "Except for the secrecy of the engine, a brief introduction is not in the way." ”

Xi Muyan's company has the world's largest automobile company, and not only has some domestic talents within the company, but also recruits many foreign talents, and has strong research and development capabilities. As the engine of the heart, there is no less money. The engines of these tanks are domestic. It is crucial for the tank, so keep it a secret.

Liu Chengzhang began to introduce that these two armored combat vehicles are two armored vehicles that have been finalized after countless tests, and China currently divides these weapons into two types, one is an armored transport vehicle, and the other is an armored combat vehicle. The so-called armored transport vehicle, which is large enough to carry at least one squad of soldiers, is somewhat similar to a truck, but has stronger protection capabilities, and has strong firepower, which can fight in a more complex battlefield environment. The larger vehicle was the first armored transport vehicle, 10 meters long, 4.1 meters wide, 3 meters high, with a total weight of 30 tons, and armed with two 13.6mm heavy machine guns. The frontal armor of the armored car is the thickest, with a thickness of 50 mm, and the armor of the side and other sides is 20 mm, and the armored car advances at a speed of 9-15 km / h on the road and 4-8 km / h off-road.

After listening to Liu Chengzhang's introduction, the British ambassador to China, Zhu Erdian, asked: "The caliber of machine guns is generally 8mm, just now you said that the tank is equipped with two 13.6mm heavy machine guns?" ”

Song Xiaofei laughed: "This is what I proposed, and I asked the people in the military factory to also develop a large-caliber heavy machine gun." At present, the performance of this machine gun is very good, not only can it be used in infantry combat, but also can be equipped on aircraft, and it has also passed the reliability test, but there are still some problems in weight, so it can only be equipped on combat vehicles in a short time, and only these combat vehicles in dozens of tons can easily use this terrible weapon. ”

Liu Chengzhang said: "In fact, our president is the commander-in-chief of the research and development of these two tanks, and he has put forward a lot of constructive and good opinions. ”

Liu Chengzhang's words are not sycophants, in the process of developing these armored vehicles, Song Xiaofei also put forward a lot of opinions based on his understanding of future generations of tanks. After all, even the tanks that appeared in the First World War in history, not to mention the British Mark, and the German A7V, have major flaws. For example, the British Mark, although it was the first tank in the world, was very crude and somewhat unreasonable. It is especially important to note that it takes four people to drive a tank. And the internal environment is very harsh, the temperature is as high as 50 degrees, and there are often cases of insiders fainting in history.

As for the A7V of the Germans, it is not so much that he is a tank. It is better to say that he is an armored personnel carrier, and in a tank, there are actually 18 crew members, and the arrangement of 18 people is that in addition to the commander, driver, gunner, and loader, there are 12 machine gunners alone. There are also 2 mechanics. The 18 crew members were drawn from different units, the commander was a sergeant or officer, the driver and mechanic were from the engineering unit, the gunner and loader were from the artillery unit, and the 12 machine gunners were from the infantry unit. This also brings certain difficulties to the command and coordination of the whole vehicle.

Although Yan Shao doesn't know much about tanks, he can still provide some opinions based on his own understanding. For example, in order to ensure the safety of the track, Song Xiaofei also asked the National Defense Industry Bureau to get some iron plates on the outside of the track, which also prevents the tracks of the tank from being paralyzed by grenades and other things.

Then, Liu Chengzhang began to introduce the second main tank, this tank combat vehicle has a total weight of 18 tons, equipped with a 200-horsepower engine, the number of crew is 3 people, the road speed is 20 km / h, the off-road is 15 km / h, and it is also equipped with a machine gun and a parallel machine gun, the turret and the front armor of the hull is 50mm, the side and rear are 20mm, and the turret itself is rotatable, almost no dead ends, he said: "The main purpose of this weapon is to destroy the enemy's similar existenceWe believe that if this kind of equipment appears in front of the world, other countries will certainly not be indifferent. (To be continued......)