Chapter 114: Bacteriological Weapons
As for radio, everyone present is no stranger, because as early as three years ago, the current affairs newspaper published radio technology.
At the end of October last year, the Nanyang Navy Division set up radio sets up radio sets up on the fortresses of the Supervision Office, Makou, Qianshan, and Weiyuan, as well as on the Jiangfang warships of Guanghai, Baobi, Longxiang, Jiangda, and Jianggong.
After the Nanyang Naval Division set up a radio on the Jiangfang warship, the Beiyang Naval Division also set up a radio on the warship, but it is a pity that today's radio is too troublesome and is not as suitable as the flag language, so the naval communication is still based on the flag language.
However, Sa Zhenbing and Ye Zuqi are well aware that the flag language will be replaced by radio in the near future.
Now listening to Wang Jundao's words, they naturally have no surprises, but they feel that this wish will be easier to achieve, which also makes them more confident in the development of the navy.
Glancing at everyone, Wang Jundao said directly: "The submarine research has been completed, the next thing is to develop and produce, and when the new battleship is researched, Lao Xu and Lao Chen will personally lead the ship research team to the Tianjin shipyard in Dagukou, Tianjin, train ship construction workers, and start to produce battleships and submarines, whatever you need, I will give full support." ”
Tianjin Shipyard, formerly known as the Beiyang Naval Division Dagu Dock, is the earliest shipyard in northern China, after Wang Jundao recovered Tianjin, he let Luo Shiguan reorganize and expand the scale of the Dagu Dock, and renamed it Tianjin Shipyard, and rebuilt the Dagu Battery Defense, the foreigners' fleet did not dare to approach the Tianjin offshore at all, so the Tianjin Shipyard was able to develop rapidly, and now the shipyard has more than four thousand technicians and shipwrights, as long as there are materials and unified command, it is fully capable of producing ships belonging to the Chinese, Another military shipyard, the Bohai Shipyard, also began construction in the Bohai Bay outside the mouth of the Ji Canal.
In addition, the Huanghai shipyard built by the Yanhuang Group also began to be put into operation in Qingdao and Yuezhao, although due to the lack of steel, can only produce wooden ships and simple iron boats, but the scale of the two branches together, technicians and shipwrights have also exceeded 5,000 people, as long as there is sufficient steel materials research researchers to guide, can be transformed into the production of warships at any time.
After visiting the model of the warship development, Wang Jundao clearly proposed that the navy should be built in the same way as the army is built, and he also appointed Ye Zuqi as the admiral of the North and South Ocean Fleet, the commander-in-chief of the Beiyang Fleet and the South Ocean Fleet, Sa Zhenbing as the commander of the Beiyang Fleet, and Liu Guanxiong and Li Dingxin, who are still in Tianjin, as the deputy commanders of the Beiyang Fleet.
Wang Jundao also ordered that Ye Zuqi and Sa Zhenbing should temporarily live in the Naval Weapons Research Institute to follow researchers to develop new types of battleships and better understand the special surnames of the new ships.
At the same time, Wang Jundao sent an order to Tianjin, asking the Tianjin shipyard to rebuild all the ships of the Beiyang Fleet, replacing them with new ones, adding materials to the places where they should be added, and all those wooden battleships were also added with iron armor, and the key parts of the five main warships were to be replaced with 100mm to 200mm thick 'piercing sky' armor steel.
Wang Jundao also asked the No. 3 Arsenal in Tianjin to imitate naval guns and shells, especially ammunition, all of which were filled with the most powerful TNT explosives, especially the capital ship guns in the bow and stern of the capital ship.
Wang Jundao believes that as long as the Beiyang Fleet is refitted, as long as it does not face the main fleets of Britain, the United States, Germany, and other countries, the Beiyang Fleet can completely go sideways, and at least there will be no threat in China's coastal waters.
After reviewing the research results of battleships and submarines, Wang Jundao went to the Air Force Weapons Research Institute, although the Air Force Weapons Research Institute was much smaller than the Army and Navy Weapons Research Institute.
However, although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs, and with Xie Zhangtai, an airship expert, the airship research has come to an end, Wang Jundao gave a lot of suggestions and guidance, and then gave some encouragement to the researchers, and then took everyone to the research institute of oil-fired boilers, drum boilers and steam turbines.
For the next month, Wang Jundao spent the morning in Nanyuan, commanding the army to train and share weal and woe with the soldiers.
After having lunch in the barracks at noon, he rushed to the Military Weapons Research Institute to research and develop various weapons with the researchers, and spent almost one-third of his time at the Secret Weapons Research Institute for the purpose of developing a bacteriological weapon.
I rushed back to the imperial city in the evening, and I spent more than two hours on the way almost every day.
However, the official business is not over yet, and he must also listen to Cui Jingluo, Bai Yuncheng, Xu Yongyi, Tang Shaoyi, Xu Shichang, Fan Zong, Wu Wenruo, Li Shuwen and others report to him on important military and political affairs.
In the end, he will rush back to the Forbidden City, usually at this time, it is already ** o'clock in the evening, and he can only get along with the women of Mingyue for an hour or two, but most of the time, it is the women who are reporting to him the important affairs of the Yanhuang Group.
By the time it was all over, it was usually about ten o'clock in the evening, but he had not yet slept, and he had to write things by himself, and as much as he could, present all the things in his mind through words, drawings, symbols, etc.
Normally he doesn't go to bed until one or two o'clock.
The next morning, he had to get up at about five o'clock, practice Dragon and Tiger Boxing for an hour, and then rush to Nanyuan while eating breakfast.
If it weren't for the fact that Wang Jundao's kung fu had been practiced to the subtleties of his life, and had reached the pinnacle of supernatural transformation, even if he was practicing in a certain way even when he was sleeping, how could he persist in such an ascetic-like life? I'm afraid I'm tired and lying down.
Of course, there is a reward.
The Nanyuan barracks, the 70,000 troops recruited from Shandong, the 20,000 troops recruited in the Yanjing area, and the two cavalry divisions from Shanhaiguan and Henan have all been completely integrated into one and have become an army with strict military discipline and unity.
At the Military Weapons Research Institute, new small battleships powered by drum boilers and steam turbines have also been designed and studied, new submarines have been improved, and new airships have been designed and studied.
Researchers of battleships and submarines have rushed to the Tianjin shipyard to start production under the leadership of Xu Jianyin and Chen Daoyuan, and researchers of airships have also rushed to the airship production branch of the Zero Arsenal in Yanjing under the leadership of Xie Zhangtai to start production.
Many new army weapons have also been developed, such as grenadiers, grenade launchers, heavy mortars, howitzers, cannons, rocket artillery, recoilless guns, new grenades, time bombs and other weapons have been developed, of course, most of them are still in the experimental stage, only a small part of them are sent to the arsenal for production, of course, only one model has been developed, and various models have not yet been developed.
In addition to these weapons on the regular battlefield, the Secret Weapons Research Institute also developed a bacteriological weapon of mass destruction under the guidance of Wang Jundao and under the personal supervision and command of Chief of Staff Lin Zhengnan.
This kind of weapon has an extremely terrifying infectious surname, which can be transmitted with the help of air, running water, mosquito bites, skin contact, etc., and in order to restrain this bacteriological weapon, Wang Jundao asked the bacteriological weapons researchers of the research institute to quietly develop an antibiotic that can restrain this bacterium, and quietly asked the hospital directly under the Dragon and Tiger Army Headquarters to set up a special institution to specialize in the production of this antibiotic.
Wang Jundao's plan is very simple, he wants to plunge Britain, the United States, Ben, Russia and other countries into infectious diseases, so that these countries will fall into the panic of biochemical crisis, and there will be no time to take care of China.
Not only that, Wang Jundao also has to make a lot of money from these countries by selling antibiotic drugs in the process.
The first experimental subject that Wang Jundao considered was Yue Ben, and he wanted Yu Ben to be the first to taste the power of this bacteriological weapon.
Therefore, just when the whole country was celebrating the Yuan Dynasty, dozens of secret spies carrying a large number of bacteriological weapons were mixed among the business personnel and landed on the territory of the Yuanben in a scattered manner.
Ten days later, just as the navy had been massively assembled and two divisions were about to board ships bound for Korea to attack China on a large scale from northeastern China, cholera broke out in Tokyo.
In fact, as early as five days ago, cholera had appeared in many places in the city of Tokyo, but no one paid too much attention to it, and did not know that it was cholera, but in the past five days, there have been no deaths, but due to the increase in the number of sick cases and the same symptoms, it has attracted the attention of the relevant departments.
However, cholera has spread, thousands of people have been infected, and the number is increasing in a terrifying trend every day, and the whole of Tokyo is in a state of extreme panic.
At this time, the Tokyo Imperial Palace had already gathered Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito, Minister of War Gentaro Kodamama, Minister of Internal Affairs Kensumi Suematsu, and Minister of the Navy Gonbei Yamamoto.
Emperor Meiji was listening to Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito's report on the cholera situation: "Your Majesty, cholera broke out in a slum south of Tokyo five days ago, then in the east of the city two days later, and then in the west of the city. ”
Emperor Meiji frowned tightly, he also knew something about cholera, because there was an outbreak of cholera more than ten years ago, and he asked in a deep voice, "What kind of germ has it been detected?" Is there a solution? ”
Hirofumi Ito shook his head and said: "This kind of cholera is unprecedented, its transmission is very strong, through the preliminary test, it can be transmitted with the help of water, air, food and other things, the infected person is accompanied by skin redness, rash, fever, diarrhea and other symptoms, we have not yet found out what germ it is, and there is no good solution, but there is one point, no one has died from the infected so far, and none of them are very serious, and there is no problem with general action." (To be continued.) )