China's "Miss Seventy-Five"!

Will anyone describe this cannon in the future? Will people talk about it and tell its story in the same way, admiring or regretting?

Now Tang Haoran didn't think about it so much, and in fact, he didn't need to think about it at all, he just looked at this retreat field gun with great interest, and even borrowed a mechanical ruler like an ordinary gunner to aim ahead, and its target was obviously a target slope that absorbed a solid warhead from a distance of kilometers. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The earthen dam with a thickness of tens of meters can absorb projectiles including solid shells, which is caused by the limitations of the range, after all, this is not a real artillery test range, in fact, even the current artillery test range of the three eastern provinces is just a piece of open land for test firing, as for here, it is really not easy to separate this shooting range with a depth of kilometers outside Fengtian City.

"Can this cannon be aimed indirectly?"

Suddenly, Tang Haoran raised his head, looked at Hoonesen and asked rhetorically, in another time and space, the reason why the famous "Miss 75" would be silent in World War I, in addition to its limited power, the more important reason was that it could not provide warp firepower, let alone suppress the application of German howitzers-trenches, and it was the most fatal blow to the "Miss 75", which mainly used howitzers.

"Dashuai, there is no curved aiming ruler yet, and considering that it only has an angle of fire of 18 degrees, it can be used with a flat shooting ruler, unless the angle of fire is increased, and after increasing the angle ......of fire, when shooting at a target five to six kilometers away, the loss of accuracy will make it more than worth the loss."

Without waiting for Honeson to finish speaking, Tang Haoran shook his head and said.

"Our experience with trenches during the Northeast campaign has shown that shrapnel simply cannot pose a threat to the enemy in the trenches. Grenades with a high-explosive charge are the mainstream of the future. Therefore. The new field artillery should mainly fire grenades, and its firing angle should be about 45 degrees, as for the accuracy problem, we can consider increasing the study of ballistics to improve, the navy can hit targets a few kilometers away, why can't it reach the army? ”

Tang Haoran's rhetorical question is actually the most critical issue of this era, when the navy in this era increased the engagement distance to 5 to 6 kilometers, the army artillery engagement distance still stayed in the Napoleonic era. Even the French, the French who used the original version of the "Miss 75" in history, used the most classic tactic of using the "Miss 75" to push the artillery 1,000 meters away and dump shells at the enemy's defense line like raindrops.

Perhaps for others, this tactic is effective, and even with the help of the rate of fire of mortars, the Northeast Army can rain shells on the enemy within a kilometer, but for Tang Haoran. What he longs for more is that the artillery of the Northeast Army will truly become a "big artillery" and be technologically leading. It is only temporary, such as mortars, because their technology is too simple, they may be copied by the enemy at any time. What really plays a decisive role is the tactical lead, and only through the tactical lead can we become a real strong man and win the war in the future war.

Tactical innovation, however, is determined by concepts, and at least history has proved that this is the correct way forward -- after World War I, cheap and more powerful grenades completely replaced expensive shrapnel shells, and even pushed them out to a dispensable position.

"The army should learn from the navy and learn from the navy's practice of constantly increasing the engagement distance, if we can increase the engagement distance to 5 to 6 kilometers, then we can defeat the enemy army with raindrops of artillery shells from a few kilometers away, or even more than ten kilometers away, and then the infantry only needs to sweep the battlefield!"

"Indirect fire" is the basis of artillery tactics, raining down enough to break the will of most enemy troops, especially in this era when the trench system is not mature. Just when Tang Haoran swore that the future of this tactic was revealed, Hoonesen asked cautiously.

"Mr. Marshal, how can we see a target five or six kilometers away? How do we correct the accuracy of our shots? ”

Hooneson's rhetorical question made Tang Haoran stunned, and he realized what he had overlooked!

The target needs to be discovered first, and then it can be aimed, and after aiming, it is necessary to carry out fire correction. On the sea, the navy can use a mast as high as tens of meters as a high point to find targets tens of kilometers away, and use this to correct the firepower, so that the shells are more and more accurate, but on land, complex surface obstacles will block the line of sight, so that even if you use a telescope, you can only accurately identify the target of about two or three kilometers, and in order to ensure the accuracy of shooting, it often compresses the shooting range to one kilometer, and its use is not so much a cannon as a "rifle". Even its tactics speak for themselves - the role of artillery is to continuously drop a large number of grenade bombs on the enemy line, which can effectively interfere with the enemy's advance; And if you can kill and injure enemy officers, the effect will naturally be better. As a result, the "artillery duel theory" was developed, that is, the victory of the war was decided by the mutual attack of artillery. The reason for this is not that the army artillery is unwilling to advance, but that technology limits the progress of the army artillery.

Isn't there a solution?

At this moment, Tang Haoran thought that when the lecture hall was conducting exercises in Seoul, the raised artillery observation balloon, the balloon was a hydrogen balloon, and the balloon was a balloon just introduced from Germany, and its function was to lift the gondola in the air through the balloon, and then used for artillery observation and long-distance observation, especially for China, the balloon can be used to observe targets in the city.

Although the balloon has only just been introduced into the Northeast Army, the Northeast Army has already installed the field telephone, and the observation soldiers in the balloon basket can intuitively report the situation in the distance to their superiors through the telephone and look for the enemy's artillery positions.

"We can use balloons! Now the observers in the balloon baskets can get in touch with the ground by telephone, and I think every artillery regiment will be equipped with balloons in the future. Balloons can be hovered for tens of meters. Even hundreds of meters in the air. Observe targets at a distance of several kilometers or even tens of kilometers, guide our artillery to attack, well, and even carry out indirect fire at long distances by means of operations on the map...... "

When he expressed his thoughts, Tang Haoran seemed to realize that he was making a mistake - he could not provide further suggestions for the development of Northeast China, and perhaps some of them were inconspicuous, but they came to the right conclusion after a long time test. Just like the proposal of indirect firing that is being put forward now, if it were not for the coincidence, perhaps in the future the artillery would still follow the old path of the great powers, thus losing the opportunity to lead tactically, and losing this opportunity would have paid the price of blood.

In small terms, this is only a matter of artillery, and in a big way, in other respects! In the reflection, Tang Haoran realized that he had neglected the suggestions he could put forward in some aspects in the past six months. Even the experiments in metallurgy, chemistry and other aspects that he liked in the past have gradually been neglected, at least to a certain extent. Now I rely more on the technical experts hired by the company to solve technical problems, rather than providing appropriate advice.

The double-pulled Western-style carriage was driving along the asphalt road, the carriage shook gently under the shock absorption of leaf springs, Tang Haoran's brows were furrowed while sitting in the carriage, which made his expression look a little dignified, and he was not excited because of the open gun mount of the PAK97/38 anti-tank gun of later generations, and drew a sketch of the gun carriage for the arsenal to use, it was just a trivial matter, what really matters is how to apply his knowledge beyond the times for a hundred years to the construction of all aspects of the Northeast, Rather than just coming up with a big framework of the "four-year plan", the current Northeast, or the future of China, what we need is not to formulate a certain big framework by ourselves, but to achieve leapfrog development through our own reminders in some aspects, so as to make up for the shortcomings of China and the West step by step, at least shorten the time to catch up, and form its own advantages in some aspects.

And this is exactly what they have mastered, just as the Incheon Iron and Steel Plant is now leading the world in the metallurgical industry, if they can give full play to their strengths, they may be able to establish a leading position at some technical levels like the metallurgical industry, and then lead the backward with the lead, and then form a comprehensive development in all aspects.

But how can you, as an individual, fully participate in and influence the development of science and technology in various industries?

On the one hand, there is a realistic demand, which requires China to shorten the gap with the great powers through key breakthroughs, and on the other hand, personal energy makes it impossible for Tang Haoran to take into account the development of all aspects, and the limited knowledge also makes him can only give certain suggestions in some aspects, and cannot completely replace experts in various industries. After all, in some aspects, they are real experts and scholars, but they are limited by the vision of the times, and they can't see the future development direction, and this is what Tang Haoran is good at.

But how can we graft what we are good at - the grasp of the future development direction to the development of Northeast China and even the future of China? This is exactly the problem that Tang Haoran ignored before, and it is also a problem that must be faced and needs to be solved now, if this problem cannot be solved, the so-called knowledge that exceeds the times for a hundred years will become a joke, if this problem can be solved, then China is very likely to win unprecedented leaps and bounds in the next ten years.

"Plan as a whole!"

Suddenly, these four words came to Tang Haoran's mind.

"That's right, that's right, it's overall planning! It's all about planning! ”

Repeating these four words, Tang Haoran realized that what he needed was not to participate in every scientific research activity personally, but to formulate long-term scientific research plans through overall planning, and to carry "private information" in these plans, and those "private materials" are the key to determining whether China can take the lead in some aspects.

For example, when planning the power investment in the next four years, while determining the dominant position of the three-expansion steam engine, we can also make key breakthroughs in the steam turbine, and even plan the research work of more advanced power such as gasoline engines and diesel engines, and even carry out the pre-research work of modern vehicles such as automobiles and motorcycles at the same time, so as to ensure the mastery of new technologies through this pre-research.

In the planning of power facilities, it is also possible to plan the construction of power plants and urban industrial and commercial power grids, and at the same time, put forward the development of hydropower in Yalu River, Songhua River and other places, as well as the corresponding research on long-distance high-voltage transmission and substation technologies. There is also the chemical industry...... Without exception, no matter what kind of long-term plan is formulated, in the end, all planning plans must be approved by Tang Haoran, and in the process of approval, Tang Haoran can "entrain" according to his understanding of history, and then use "private goods" to influence the development direction of technology, and even history.

"That's not enough!"

Shaking his head, Tang Haoran realized that just by "entraining private goods", it still can't solve the problem, after all, "private goods" only solve the problem of direction, but not the key to leapfrogging development or key breakthroughs - in some aspects, Tang Haoran does have his own strengths, such as metallurgy, such as agricultural breeding, and even chemistry, after all, he is standing on the shoulders of the giants of the times, even the chemistry of high schools in later generations is like alien technology for the chemists of this era.

How can we apply knowledge that is ahead of our time to actual industrial production and then transform it into productivity? Although in the past year or so, through the training of students and the needs of business, Tang Haoran has turned part of his knowledge into productivity, but that is only a part of what he knows, and there is still a considerable part of the knowledge, his mastery is the kind of half-understanding, but it can help the research work, how to apply this part to the actual research work?

The carriage clattered towards Fengtian City with the sound of horses' hooves, and Tang Haoran, who was sitting in the carriage, the fingers on his knees, were constantly tapping like the horse's hooves, and even formed a rhythmic resonance with the running horses' hooves.

"Maybe, maybe I should start an agency!"

That's right, an institution, an institution that specializes in key breakthroughs! Tang Haoran was inspired by a well-known and unknown institution. Thinking of this institution, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips lifted slightly.

"Set him up next to the Governor's Palace, and take charge of this institution himself!"

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