Chapter 172: Take it!
With enough gravel and cement, the construction of the airport is also changing with each passing day. In the past, there were four or five men who took a wooden stake and did the work of pressing the roadbed. But with the mark truck brought by Zhao Yun and the stone roller on the site as a roller, the roadbed hardening work is progressing rapidly.
The gravel was paved, cinder and fine gravel were used to level the road, and after a few more times by a truck roller, the cement was paved, and the result was a road comparable to the rural cement roads in some parts of later generations.
These laying processes were all seen by the personnel in Nanjing, and they were immediately reported to the Qi Governors. Boy! Without saying a word, Qi Dujun reached out to Zhao Yun to ask for it.
said that he was begging, but he still did the work on the surface. Nanjing sent a group of commissioners, sent a commendation order to Zhao Yun, and then pulled away the truck rollers and other paving tools. Zhao Yun, who was harmed, could only start again.
But the end of paving does not mean that the construction of the airfield is over. Taking advantage of the fact that Qi Inspectors sent people to pick up tools, Zhao Yun specially applied to Qi Inspectors for places in dozens of workers and a team of escorts, and the workers set up an airport engineering office to be responsible for the maintenance of the airport's roads, and also formulated rules for regular inspections, maintenance, and maintenance of the airport runway and canopy. The escort is to protect the airport, after all, the plane is still an expensive thing at this time, and it is a little more reassuring to have a garrison.
As the saying goes, with short hands, the Qi Overseer Army has not fallen to the point of not giving money for dinner, this kind of thing of eating 100,000 yuan and giving one or two yuan can still be promised! So he agreed to Zhao Yun's request, and the workers raised their own funds to protect the army! gave Zhao Yun the establishment of a company. This is the first regular army that Zhao Yun has gotten his hands on, although they are controlled by Nanjing, but they can already be said to be regular armies, and they have a number in the Beiyang Army roster of Jixian County.
In this year, the Qing Dynasty died, Yuan Datou fell, and there were too many miscellaneous organizations. Although the boundaries of Jiangnan determine that there is no large force of armed forces, and chaos cannot arise, the psychology of preferring to be a chicken head makes the Chinese people keen to engage in small groups, and they can do whatever they want to do with an excuse. For example, the Shanghai Tang Axe Gang, which countless people envy and despise!
In Jiangnan, the non-camp armed forces formed by Zhao Yun before were all family-style mountain bandits similar to Wang Yougui's family-style militia group and Wu Xiaoya. The arming of the family is a historical reason,
In the south, the ownership and use of the land are often separated, because of historical reasons such as the sky view and the exploitation of the government gentry, the commoners in the south often sell the ownership of the land, keep the right to cultivate, that is, the right to use, and then gradually evolve into the permanent tenants of the big landlords. From this point of view, the land of the landlord's family is the only source of survival for the permanent tenants, so as a large landlord, Wang Yougui's family has almost the right to kill these tenants. In the early days, Wu Xiaoya's armed forces were maintained by the support of several large clans around them, although later with the help of Zhao Yun, the backbone forces of Shifoshan were basically based on these big surnames, and outsiders could not get in.
The team pulled up by these two forms does not have to say that the combat effectiveness is very high, and it has Chinese characteristics.
The armed forces that Zhao Yun has developed in Jiangnan so far rely on old-fashioned soldiers such as Shao Lao Er and other domestic servants as the core members of the armed forces, and they are not as good as the armed forces of the Wang and Wu families in terms of condensation.
belongs to the kind of combination of the tree and the monkey, once Zhao Yun, who is the core, falls, it will definitely be the tree and the monkey scattered.
Although Zhao Yun was not satisfied with this, he really didn't have a good way to think about it in the short term, if he couldn't sit in the rear and command the battle, these subordinates would really be scattered.
Therefore, when this kind of armed force deals with the regular army, although it has a uniform military uniform and sophisticated weapons, it will also be looked down upon by the regular army. Because this is a ragtag army, no matter how good the weapons are, they can't be on the table. In the eyes of many people, this kind of armed force also has a name, stragglers. To paraphrase a later generation, it is personal heroism.
As for the title of the escort team given by Wang Yougui's godfather, when dealing with the outside world, it is not as easy to use as the name of a militia group. After all, people are armed in which county and town, and the escort team sounds like they are guarding the family.
Moreover, the regular army has uniforms, ordnance and salaries, although there are not many, but it is a sign of identity.
Zhao Yun gave another large stack of tickets to the officials who came to send the letters of appointment, thinking that these military salaries were not as many as the tickets that had just been sent. But when he turned around, he gave this preparation to Shao Lao Er, asked him to bring someone to collect the items, and also notified Deputy County Magistrate Xu to post notices and recruit some more young people.
The establishment of a company, less than a hundred people, more than three hundred, is not so sensitive, Qi Inspector is also taking into account, even if Zhao Yun is not compiled, Zhao Yun's subordinates will never be less than this number, rather than letting these people hide in the shadows, it is better to take this opportunity to let them all surface and put them in the light, so that they can be cleaned up when they are cleaned up in the future.
And when it is incorporated into the military system, it has to obey the orders of the Overseers, and an order has ready-made cannon fodder.
As for the threat, "A company, how much of a storm can a few people set off?" "Qi Governor naturally has this account in his heart.
A company, say big or big, say small or small, it depends on whether you have money or not. In 1915, Turkey had a bicycle company, and Zhao Yun couldn't make it worse than this! Zhao Yun has just made a lot of money in Ukraine, and he has also made a lot of money in Turkey. So I can't wait to arm my team, and in the future, I will be constrained by the orders of the Overseers! Whatever! In the future, who restricts and who says that it is not necessarily!
A military hat with a five-color emblem and a small bamboo hat to shade the sun and keep out the rain, I have seen it on TV, which is not surprising. Cotton caftan and military trousers with much fatter trousers than ordinary trousers, and cotton leggings. A pair of soapcloth shoes and a cowhide belt.
"That's all?" Zhao Yun looked at the military quartermaster sent from Nanjing.
"Yes!" The quartermaster had already taken Zhao Yun's benefits, but he was not embarrassed at all about Zhao Yun's questioning, and some teams only had a military hat and a shirt, compared to those teams, Zhao Yun's was already good.
"Ugh!" Zhao Yun was speechless, because his hopes were too high. These objects don't look as good on the militia clothes in the camp, two little yellow fish! Just change these things, forget it, fortunately, there are 100 sets in number, let's wear them first!
As for the weapons, Zhao Yun was mentally prepared when he saw the military uniform, fifty old-fashioned rifles of five models, of which thirty-seven could not be fired, and the ammunition rationed for each gun could be counted in a slap.
Qi Overseer's army is fighting local tyrants! Zhao Yun could only smile bitterly at this, looking at the fifty "made in Hanyang" registered on the registration book of the munitions, it was still a big tick, and it was considered to be signed.
Others don't take us seriously, but you have to treat yourself as a master!
Zhao Yun directly assigned 16 modified Renault FT17 tanks and 2 French land monsters, FCM2C heavy tanks, to Shao Laoer, plus 4 Mark cars assembled by the shipyard itself, which were carried with armor for maintenance and fuel supply. These objects were also the weapons that Zhao Yun really issued to his subordinates.
Zhao Yun's "Renault" FT-17 light tank is divided into a machine gun type and a 37 gun type. When dealing with the enemy, as long as it is not a large army pressing the border, you can still protect yourself by forming a chariot formation.
All right! It must be admitted that Zhao Yun's requirements are a bit low, just for self-preservation. In Zhao Yun's eyes, the sharp offensive weapon of the tank is not as good as the siege vehicle in the camp. The siege vehicle already had all the attributes of an armored vehicle, except that it could not fire and fire. And Zhao Yun is preparing to replace the ram hammer of the siege vehicle with a cannon or machine gun!
Of course, on the bright side, Zhao Yun did not ration these tanks to this company at all, and their weapons were still "made in Hanyang" on the company's quartermaster register. These tanks were relocated "by the way" in order for them to help deliver goods. Although this excuse is also lame, it is also an excuse. Whether you believe it or not, I believe it anyway.
During the First World War, Britain improved the production of Type II to V tanks on the basis of Type I, of which Type IV tanks were the most produced, about 1,200 units, participated in famous battles such as Ferraire and Cambrai, and were used until the end of World War I. At the same time, Britain also developed and produced the "Greyhound Racing" medium tank and the C-type medium tank. France is the second country to produce tanks after Britain, and has successively developed the "Schnader" assault tank, the "Saint-Chamond" assault tank, the "Renault" FT-17 light tank and the 2C heavy tank.
Among them, the "Renault" FT-17 light tank and the 2C heavy tank are French classics.
The first country to produce tanks was England, the second was France, and the third was Germany.
The Germans, having been hit hard by British tanks, began to design their own tanks in a hurry, thus becoming the third country in the world to have tanks. At the beginning of 1918, the first tank developed by Germany, the A7V, was put into actual combat, but before it could play any role, Germany was defeated. The United States and Russia also developed and produced their own tanks during this period, but at this time their products were inferior to Britain in terms of performance and quantity.
Although the tank appeared in World War I and played a relatively important role on the battlefield, due to the limitations of the technical conditions at that time, its firepower, mobility, protection and reliability were relatively poor, and the working environment of the crew was also very bad. So these tanks, although they have a certain role on the battlefield, are not invincible. By the outbreak of World War II, there were about 20,000 tanks in the world. Among them, Soviet Russia is the first tank power, with more than 15,000 tanks, Germany has jumped to the second tank power, with 3,500 tanks, and the momentum of the development of tanks by the old tank kingdoms Britain and France has weakened, with 1,150 and 2,200 tanks respectively. At this time, the US Army, due to the upper hand of conservative forces, did not recognize the powerful assault role of tanks, so it did not pay attention to it, and there were only 470 light tanks.