Chapter 371: Sell the submachine gun

April 1914, Qingdao (). Uploaded by netizens ==

This month has undoubtedly been the most difficult for diplomats from Britain and France in China, and the two most important countries in the Far East have experienced very different performances.

First of all, the Japanese political arena was caused by a strong earthquake caused by the Siemens incident, and the army and navy completely tore their faces and caused panic, and the bribery incident not only plunged the Japanese navy into the abyss, but also brought Shigenobu Okuma, who obviously had an army background, to the forefront. On the contrary, the political arena of the Republic of China is extraordinarily calm, the Kuomintang bigwigs are dead and gone, Beiyang has no military power and has also died down, Yang Qiu's proposal to establish four municipalities has been passed in the National Assembly without even bubbles, and what is slightly surprising is that the new mayor of Beijing was won by Yan Xishan, a newcomer of the National Socialist Party who fell to Yang Qiu halfway, and Duan Qirui, who was originally left behind in Beijing, was reappointed as the deputy commander of the National Guard after the gradual collapse of the Beiyang power.

Beiyang Sanjie, Wang Shizhen can't live out, Duan Qirui was transferred to the second-line National Guard, Feng Guozhang served as the deputy chief of the general staff of the army, all of them have no real power, Li Chun and others were also arranged to be promoted to lieutenant generals and retired directly to go home to get a pension, but Chen Huan, Xu Shuzheng, these Beiyang newcomers gradually integrated into the backbone of the national defense army, and Wu Peifu officially became the commander of the 6th Infantry Division of the Northwest Army after accepting a soldier's career for more than half a year and understanding the difference between the national defense force and Beiyang. Li Liejun, who was beaten by three slaps in Nanchang and wiped out all his majesty, also graduated with him and embarked on a lonely journey to Tangnu Wulianghai.

The attention of the diplomats was drawn to the Sino-German joint military exercises being held along the Jiaoji Railway, and in order to train officers and soldiers, the Chinese side was jointly commanded by Zhang Xiaozhun, Qin Zhangshu, and Chen Meng, with Cai Ye as the commander-in-chief, and all four battalions participating in the exercise were also from different units. Since this is an open exercise, neither Germany nor China has refused to allow third-country observers to join, but these observers with their own goals are not focused on the soldiers who are fighting each other.

Yang Qiu actually cared too much about the results of the exercise, compared with the elite German Army, the Wehrmacht still had all kinds of shortcomings, so even if he lost, it was not a big deal, but he had a strong interest in Qingdao Fortress and the German Qingdao Shipyard, and visited the fortress and shipyard almost every day.

Qingdao Fortress will be the most critical barrier to the mouth of Jiaozhou Bay, the fort was built in 1902, all with the German imported steel soul concrete poured in, the outer wall of the fortress is up to one meter thick, the Sanduao Fort under construction is imitated here.

Two 240 mm Krupp cannons and three German-made 150 mm shore guns were deployed on the battery, and what makes people sigh is that these two 240 mm heavy guns are actually the Qing army equipment captured by the Germans in the attack on Tianjin Dagukou Fort in the year of Gengzi, in fact, a total of 6 210 and 240 heavy guns in the entire Qingdao fortress group are all from the Qing army.

Standing on the top and looking down at the whole Jiaozhou Bay, the most important central fortress in the distance is also clearly visible, the whole fortress group deployed about 50 cannons and hundreds of Maxim machine guns, in order to defend against the imaginary enemy, the hillside trees in front of the fortress were all cut down, and a piece of obstacle trenches similar to terraces were deliberately dug out, and three barbed wire fences were pulled to form a tight and tight defensive position ().

Cai Ye patted the cement wall meaningfully, and he didn't know whether to say it to Yang Qiu or to himself, and sighed: "Germany is worthy of being the best fortification expert, if I come to fight, I won't be able to take it without more than 5,000 casualties." ”

Yang Qiu had also thought about taking this fortress before, but after personally looking at the complete fortress, he found out how tightly defended it was, and in the parallel world, the British and Japanese fleets were several times the strength of the army, and finally forced the Germans to surrender because of the lack of ammunition and food, the lack of heavy artillery at sea, and the army was not equipped with super heavy artillery, relying only on 150mm howitzers and infantry, the losses would be very huge.

The casualties are not the most serious, the serious thing is that once there is a major injury, the Japanese hungry wolf will not hesitate to pounce. In the parallel world, before the Battle of Qingdao broke out, Wilhelm II was forced to send a telegram to allow Waldeck to abandon Qingdao, but this stubborn old Germanic man felt that it was a shame to surrender without firing a shot, and finally ordered resistance to be delayed for three months.

How good would it be for these brainless Germans to sell the Qingdao fortress and the Pacific islands to themselves?

Yang Qiu put aside his thoughts, and smacked his lips after looking at a fixed machine gun bunker: "Very perfect defense, it's a pity." He glanced at the Mauser 98 on the back of the German soldier and shook his head: "The individual firepower is too weak. ”

Traun has ignored Yang Qiu for half a step in the past few days except for eating and sleeping, and heard him say that the individual firepower is weak, and he thought that he was referring to the lack of light machine guns similar to those used by the Chinese National Defense Forces, and said with a smile: "Although the light machine gun moves quickly, the firepower is still too weak, so my ** team prefers Makqin." ”

In less than three months, the sound of gunfire is about to spread from the Balkans all over the world, and at this time it is time to come up with something to secretly strengthen Germany and make Europe bleed more, so Yang Qiu did not answer, and beckoned to Lei Da Hob Meat, who quickly brought twenty soldiers of the guard company. But these soldiers appeared, and even Spee was a little stunned, because the guns they carried were very special, as if they were put together with several iron pipes, and there was a long magazine next to the iron pipe.

"Is there a shooting training range?"

Curious about what he was going to do, Traun and the others immediately led everyone to the shooting range on the east side of the central fortress of Maurtic, and after the guards set up a dense wooden target by themselves, Traun couldn't hold back any longer: "Yang, what are you going to do?" ”

"My dear minister, you will know in a moment." Yang Qiu mysteriously bought a pass, and after Lei Meng's report was completed, there were already many German ** officers standing around, and in their surprised eyes, twenty soldiers of the guard company suddenly launched.

After the old guard company was expanded into the Central Guard Division, the new guard company became an independent military force dedicated to protecting Yang Qiu and the central dignitaries, these soldiers were all trained by the training method of later generations, and the tactical movements were very fast and standard, even the German officers nodded again and again, and when they either crawled or climbed to reach the target about 50 meters, a series of fried bean-like gunshots suddenly rang out.

Everyone only saw that the strange guns they were equipped with suddenly spewed out a large number of bullets, flying the debris of the opposite wooden target, and several of them directly broke the bullets and fell. In order to enhance the effect, this batch of specially brought Stern submachine guns has also been modified, the most important thing is to increase the weight and modify the rifling, so the hitting accuracy is better than that of the ordinary Stern. Shooting, dodging, and changing magazines, each soldier has completed 5 magazines and a full 100 rounds of ammunition in just ten minutes! By the time the soldier put away his gun, the direction of the target was already in disarray.

Not to mention Traun, even Spee and Waldeck, the German governor of Tsingtao, were taken aback by such heavy firepower that they could not imagine what a terrible fate they would have faced in the face of an army fully equipped with such guns.

In fact, there are very, very many weaknesses of submachine guns, but in the era when no one knew about this kind of firearm, when a single portable gun that can shoot a large number of bullets in a short period of time suddenly appeared in front of him, the shock was very, very great, so the German ** officers almost immediately pounced and asked if they could let them try it for themselves.

Yang Qiu did not stop the German ** officer from test firing, but let the soldiers of the guard company carefully guide, of course, there is no need to tell the detailed parameters about the firing range, in fact, even if there are no these parameters, many German ** officers also see the value of this gun at a glance, not to mention the light carrying of individual soldiers, the value is very large in the city, trenches or woods and other areas that require intensive firepower, and the only drawback they feel at present is that the ammunition is very expensive ().

"This is a light individual machine gun of my own design, I call him a submachine gun." Yang Qiu continued to flicker Traun, whose eyes were shining, and sighed deliberately: "This is a very good gun, I have already asked the factory to make 20,000 ready to replace the troops, but it's a pity." ”

Traun, who was considering whether to buy the patent as before, heard that he had quietly made 30,000 submachine guns, and the corners of his eyes unconsciously couched a few times, and the 20,000 troops preparing such guns must immediately reassess the strength of the Wehrmacht, so he immediately pricked up his ears.

Seeing this, Yang Qiu smiled secretly in his heart, but his face was bitter: "Due to the high consumption of ammunition, my generals told me that it was impossible to fully equip them, so I was preparing to sell a batch of them." ”

Traun heard it, this guy has been doing it for a long time to sell submachine guns, but this kind of gun is of great significance, and the Wehrmacht is weak and logistics can't afford it, but Germany can still support it, and immediately asked: "I don't know how much this submachine gun costs?" ”

"$100."

As soon as Yang Qiu shouted out this price, Cai Ye behind him was frowning, as the deputy chief of staff, he can know a lot more things, this kind of submachine gun that doesn't even have a name costs only 20 yuan with 2 empty magazines of 20 rounds, except for the springs are imported, the rest can be made by even the most humble machinery factory, and Commander Yang actually increased the price tenfold as soon as he opened his mouth!

Even Traun frowned when he heard this price, and Yang Qiu added another sentence when he saw this: "Together with all the manufacturing technology." ”

Traun is not stupid, but he is still quite interested in this batch of guns, after all, Germany has benefited a lot from the snorkels, mortars, grenadiers and new 75mm field guns and other technologies that he bought from him, far more than the actual value, but he can't help but take the money seriously, and immediately said that if it can be reduced to 1 million US dollars, Germany is willing to buy all the submachine guns and production technology.

"$1.5 million." Yang Qiu gritted his teeth "in pain".

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