"Can the 100,000 Northeast Army stop them?"

Tang Haoran, who looked solemn, did not stop when he said this, but continued to walk towards the workshop, but as soon as he arrived at the door of the open-hearth workshop, the heat wave in his face dispelled the chill in the air, and the heat wave even turned the snowflakes in front of him into water droplets. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tang Haoran didn't even look back at the stunned people, but just walked straight into the workshop, as for the Russian problem, it seemed as if it had never happened.

Can you stop the Russians?

For the outside world, Russia may be the biggest threat to the Northeast at present, but for Tang Haoran, who knows history, he knows very clearly that at least in history, although the Russian polar bear has shown its greedy ambition for the Northeast and other places, on the other hand, its vain strength makes it more likely to try to obtain returns through speculation, rather than a hard-nosed invasion, and even the Russo-Japanese War is hesitant, and in the end it was the Japanese sneak attack that made Russia determined.

In short, Russia may have ambitions to annex the Northeast, but it will not choose to take risks. Although ostensibly now because Russia has annexed Japan, its power in the Far East has increased significantly. However, this is only a façade, in fact, compared with the pressure faced by the Northeast at the same time in history, the current pressure is even less, because now for Russia, absorbing and digesting the fruits of the victory in the war against Japan is undoubtedly the most important.

Thinking of this, Tang Haoran couldn't help but think of the conversation he had with the Director of Intelligence in the Governor's Mansion a few days ago, and the corners of his lips couldn't help but raise slightly, standing there against the heat wave of the open hearth.

"For the Russian Empire. The war against Japan was not so much a victory. It's more doomed! ”

Until now, Tang Haoran remembers the surprise he showed when he heard this.

Compared to others. Perhaps he is Tang Haoran's most proud student, because relying on the intelligence knowledge that he learned from Tang Haoran, he established the Intelligence Bureau, and what is the biggest skill since the establishment of the Intelligence Bureau is probably to contribute to the demise of a country and lead the outflow of intelligence from a country.

Even compared to supporting the pro-China faction in Korea, suppressing the independence faction, and building an intelligence network at home, the success of the work against Japan will undoubtedly become an irreproducible legend in intelligence work. But this is the same person, after Russia gained the upper hand, has been watching Russia with worry, watching this powerful neighbor, and even transferring intelligence officers in Kannai to the Far East to collect Russian intelligence.

Both the size of Russia's military presence in the Far East and the multiplication of its strength after the annexation of Japan are fraught with concern, and it is even more certain that Russia will target the Northeast in the next two to three years. And compared to the student of his own. Tang Haoran looked farther, perhaps. He hadn't studied intelligence, but at least he could see the essence of the problem through a lot of data.

"Teacher, how is this possible? The Russians have already won, the Japanese simply have no strength to resist them! Even if the intelligence bureau carried out operations and supported some partisans, but after all, the power of Russia was there! Unless Russia is defeated on a frontal battlefield, it will not be possible to rely on resistance groups at all! ”

Although the intelligence bureau under the guidance of the teacher has been smuggling arms to Japan and supporting many resistance forces, those resistance forces cannot change the overall situation at all, even if the resistance force grows to hundreds of thousands, it is impossible to change the Russian occupation of Japan.

"Especially now, without the containment of the frontal battlefield, the Russians can devote all their energy to the elimination of the resistance groups, and those resistance forces will eventually be eliminated by the Russians, and even if they survive by luck, they will not be able to turn the situation around."

Although he did not disagree with this viewpoint, Tang Haoran was not referring to resistance on the battlefield.

"Yuelin, what we want to see is not resistance, but the population!"

"Population!"

In stark contrast to Tang Haoran's smile was the surprise on Zheng Tingxiang's face, what does the population have to do with the defeat of Russia?

"I have here a data from the Russian office, in 1890, the population of the Russian Empire was about 120 million people, and in the mother tongue, the first was ethnic Russians, about 52 million people, and the second was ethnic Ukrainians, 20 million people, tell me, how many people are there in Japan?"

His brows furrowed suddenly, and the teacher's words made Zheng Tingxiang vaguely aware of something, but he couldn't grasp it, or he couldn't understand the meaning in depth.

"It's about 40 million, and considering the damage caused by the war, 39 million will only be more, not less!"

"What kind of impact will the incorporation of 39 million Japanese into Russia bring to Russia?"

After this rhetorical question, Tang Haoran took a cigar from the cigar case and lit it, which would probably be the most proud overseas strategic deployment of his life - dismantling one empire with a few bullets, and injecting another with a dose of poison.

Although Tang Haoran had never met Ito Hirobumi, deep down he couldn't help but admire the decisiveness and courage of the "Meiji Masters", including him, and he did not have the stupid choice to resist to the end. Even until now, Tang Haoran felt a little lucky about the outbreak of war, if Ito and others could have put the courage to surrender before the war, the war could have been avoided, but now Ito has made another choice.

"The 39 million Japanese will become the second largest ethnic group in the Russian Empire, and maybe Russia will now give the Japanese some autonomy to end the war, but soon they will replace all this with the Russian provincial system, and even the name "Japan" will be banned, and maybe even the teaching of Japanese, yes, they can do it! ”

Tang Haoran will never have any doubts about all this, after all, in history, Russia has done this in Ukraine, Poland, Finland, and Central Asia, all of which are trying to use "Russification" to control the occupied areas, so as to achieve the goal of long-term control. That's why Tang Haoran believed that soon the Russians would implement "Russification" in the "Viceroyalty of Nikolai".

But none of this can change the fact that 39 million, or even 40 million, of Japanese became Russians, perhaps compared to the territory of Russia. Japan is not big. But compared to the Russians. The Japanese have even surpassed the main ethnic groups of Russia, and they will bring an unprecedented shock to Russia! ”

Taking a puff of cigar smoke, the corners of Tang Haoran's lips lifted slightly.

"How to maintain Russian rule over Japan, and how to avoid the shock of 40 million Japanese to the empire, will be an unavoidable question for Russia for the next decade, and how it will expand into China at the cost of provoking a violent reaction from Britain before it has been able to absorb this populous new conquest?"

"Teacher, ......"

Hesitating, Zheng Tingxiang wanted to say that the population of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was only a few hundred thousand. Didn't it also succeed in enslaving China?

"National consciousness, this is the most deadly, maybe Japan's Meiji Restoration was a failure, but in education they were successful, not for decades, even hundreds of years, the Russians could not make these yellow-skinned Japan believe that they would be Russians, although a considerable number of Japanese people will feel that the success of breaking away from Asia and joining Europe, but that is only a very small part! At least for a decade or two! ”

With a mocking smile on his face. Tang Haoran continued,

"On the other hand, there is a lot of land in the sparsely populated Far East of Russia. In Japan, there are millions of landless and landless peasants, and now they are Russians, and they can naturally move to the Far East and even Siberia, so in the next ten years, we will see a phenomenon that the Russians have realized the dream of "yellow Russia", and the Japanese have also realized the ideal of "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe", but whether Russia has dyed Japan white, or Japan has dyed Russia yellow, this is the question! Believe me, soon, the Russian Empire will be upset about their annexation of Japan! ”

Whether it is "yellow Russia" or "breaking away from Asia and joining Europe", it is just the "wishful thinking" of China's two major neighbors in modern times. Now, with their own help, they have succeeded in realizing this dream. It's just that only time will tell what all this will lead to.

But what will be the end result?

Thinking about the conversation that day, the smile on Tang Haoran's face became more and more bright, and at this moment, Zheng Tingxiang walked over, he noticed the smile on the face of the big handsome and hurriedly said.

"Dashuai, in the past, when we were in Seoul, smelting artillery steel was a big problem, but now after the completion of this 10-ton Siemens steelmaking furnace, it can provide steel for rapid-fire guns below 8 inches, before that, the tube blanks of 8-inch rapid-fire guns were imported from the United Kingdom, and the cost of tube blanks was relatively expensive, and the production cost of artillery guns dropped by about 20% after the self-production of cannon steel......

Although the warships ordered in France have not yet been delivered, and even the Northeast Navy only plans to transform four merchant ships into training ships, the demand for rapid-fire guns is naturally not large, but on the other hand, whether it is the Zhenwan Naval Base or the Arthur Naval Base, as well as Incheon and Dalian, there are forts, and the batteries in the four places need a large number of 4.2-inch, six-inch and eight-inch rapid-fire guns, so the gun factory has been mainly used to produce three types of rapid-fire guns.

After all, mechanical products are not just simple imitations, and the production of mechanical products can not be completed well by drawings alone, not to mention simple imitation, after all, it involves the coordination of metal processing and technological processes, and a series of problems can be fundamentally solved through the introduction of technology. Even now, there are Armstrong technicians who direct production at the arsenal of the three eastern provinces.

It is precisely for this reason that Tang Haoran does not doubt that the quality of the artillery produced by the arsenals of the three eastern provinces is not inferior to that of Armstrong, and even to a certain extent, it may be better than that of the original British factory -- the quality of its artillery steel is better, and now the modern high-strength artillery steel is only staying in the laboratory and has not yet matured, and the artillery steel of countries such as Britain and Germany is just ordinary alloy steel.

For Tang Haoran, who originally studied metallurgy, he developed a new type of high-strength gun steel for the use of the arsenal in the three eastern provinces on the basis of drawing on the high-strength civilian steel of later generations, and the use of high-strength gun steel made the rapid-fire gun it produced can withstand greater chamber pressure, more propellant, heavier warhead, and longer range, although the appearance of the Han-style rapid-fire gun is no different from Armstrong's appearance, but in fact it has already undergone qualitative changes. It's just that this change is not well known.

"The cost is reduced? Well, that's good, but, at this stage, as soon as the production of rapid-fire guns for shore defense is completed, the demand for rapid-fire guns will decrease, and the army needs rapid-fire guns more than that! How, when will rapid-fire guns be supplied to the army? ”

The army needs rapid-fire artillery even more, and when Tang Haoran said this, a smile appeared on his face, in fact, the new army relied entirely on cheap mortars, and only a small number of Krupp field guns. But the Northeast Campaign changed everything, and the New Army captured more than 300 57 mm to 120 mm Krupp guns on the battlefield, which formed the backbone of the new division's firepower, and although it still relied on mortars to provide firepower, at least the Northeast Army no longer had to consider the lack of direct firepower.

Although the capture made up for the lack of firepower, no one knew why Tang Haoran did not agree to the arsenal to produce field artillery, only the technicians in the arsenal knew that the marshal was not against the production of field artillery, but against the production of backward field artillery, just as the same arsenal had never produced any type of artillery and focused on the production of rapid-fire guns, rapid-fire guns were extremely important to the navy, and the army also needed rapid-fire guns, but the army's army-based guns were not very easy.

From installing a gun mount for a 4.2-inch rapid-fire gun to making a 75-mm rapid-fire gun with a reduced caliber in equal proportions, the arsenal carried out a variety of tests, but those tests were many insufficient.

"Dashuai, a few months ago, the company hired an artillery expert from Germany, he invented a principle of artillery long recoil, although there are still some technical problems, but we believe that this is the key technology to solve rapid-fire artillery land, and now there are some technical problems that have made breakthroughs, if successful, Dashuai, soon the Northeast Army will be the first army in the world to be equipped with rapid-fire guns!"

When he slapped the board to Dashuai and made a guarantee, Zheng Tingxiang's heart secretly beat the drum, when will the tube retreat field gun that uses the principle of long recoil of water pressure gas be successfully developed, after all, the factory has carried out many tests, although the test has achieved some results, but it has produced more problems, these problems need to be solved one by one, but now Dashuai is here......

"The principle of long recoil? Is there any difference with the current rapid-fire gun? ”

When he heard this word, Tang Haoran was stunned at first, and then said curiously.

"Let's go, where is the laboratory? Let's take a look! (To be continued.) )