"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "In the shooting range of the Whampoa Military Academy on Changzhou Island, the cadets of the first phase of the Huangpu Artillery Department are skillfully crafting a few short-looking mountain cannons. Shells fell on the target area as if they had eyes, kicking up patches of dirt and smashing craters.

......Several high-ranking Kuomintang generals in the stands gave a standing ovation one after another, looking very excited, and it was obvious that the shooting performance just now was still satisfactory.

Today's inspection is not the first phase of the Huangpu artillery department, they are still five months away from graduation, and today it is three civilian 13 type 75mm mountain guns in the test gun. This was part of an agreement between Luo Yaoguo and Yan Xishan, who sent a group of engineers and skilled workers from Yan Shusong to Guangdong to help the Shijing Arsenal try out the production of mountain guns and learn from the construction experience of steel mills. After several months of trial production, the Ishii Arsenal Artillery Branch finally succeeded in the trial production of the Min 13 Type 75mm mountain gun in March 1924.

This mountain cannon is a copy of the Meiji 41-style mountain cannon of the Ming era, the Meiji 41 type is famous for its simple structure, easy to produce and disassemble, has the title of extremely easy cannon, and is smart and lightweight, very suitable for China's road environment and the quality of officers and soldiers, it can be said to be the most suitable mountain artillery for China. Even the Soviet advisers at the Ishii Arsenal had to admit that this artillery was indeed more suitable for the National Revolutionary Army than the Soviet-made Type 1902 76.2mm field gun, which weighed up to 1.7 tons, was difficult to pull on eight horses, and had no way to fight in mountainous terrain.

Chiang Kai-shek smiled at Luo Yiqun beside him and praised: "Yichen, you did a good job, why did you take out the cannon in a short time." It is really a revolutionary and party-state blessing to have you in charge of the Ministry of Armaments. ”

"It's too much." Luo Yiqun's ears turned red, and he was a little embarrassed. In fact, the production of this cannon has nothing to do with him, he has only been in office for a few days? This is the credit of Yang Xianyi and Liu Shiyuan.

"Headmaster, the vocational department thinks that this mountain cannon can just replace the old cannons of the regiments under the artillery headquarters now, if there is this kind of mountain artillery in the last battle in the southwest, our victory will definitely be more brilliant." Artillery commander Qian Dajun had enough of those "heavy artillery" in the Battle of the Southwest. Those old artillery guns at the end of the 19th century were very heavy, for example, the French 1897 type field rapid-fire gun weighed 1.5 tons, and six horses could only crawl slowly on the mountain road in Yunnan and Guizhou.

"Brother Mu Yin, these cannons are the standard artillery of our National Revolutionary Army." Luo Yaoguo interjected on the side: "This time, we imported 130 cannon barrels from Yueben, and plan to assemble 130 cannons first and form 5 artillery regiments, and wait until October, Brother Mu Yin's artillery regiment will all use new cannons." ”

Qian Dajun sighed and said: "This cannon is a model set in 1908, it is not a new type, and it is only a 75mm caliber, and it is assigned to the wing, and each wing is equipped with 4 guns. ”

Chiang Kai-shek listened to Qian Dajun's words and comforted: "Everything is difficult at the beginning, waiting for the completion of the Shaoguan factory at the end of 27, we can theoretically produce heavy artillery of more than 100mm." ”

"Compared with the book, we are too far behind in heavy industry, and the steel output should be nearly 2 million tons by 27 years, right? Our two factories together are only 250,000 tons, when will we be able to catch up? Qian Dajun is a "Zhiyue faction" who came back from studying abroad, so he is somewhat afraid of the strength of Yueben.

Catch up with the book? It's also possible just by looking at steel production. Luo Yaoguo calculated in his heart, if the light is compared to the output, now 10,000 tons of steel is enough to get out, and it should be 4 million tons in 37 years, China will need about 600 million silver dollars to catch up with him, and if you add the investment of large extruders, electric furnaces, forging machines, large rolling mills, etc., at most 400 million, there should be one billion silver dollars. It doesn't seem to be impossible, the key is to have a stable environment, like the previous life, a Central Plains war military expenditure is probably hundreds of millions, and GCD's ten-year civil war cost is probably hundreds of millions of yuan, the two add up to millions of tons of steel investment is about the same.

"Please take a seat, this is our imitation of the M1910 Maxine heavy machine gun of Soviet Russia." At this time, Luo Yiqun ordered someone to drag a strange-shaped heavy machine gun.

Compared with the overly cumbersome Type 1902 field gun, the mobility of this heavy machine gun is very good, this is a heavy machine gun with wheels and a baffle, you can drag it when you march, it is not a small effort, and the baffle is also very useful, the opponent's sniper is not so easy to kill the machine gunner.

Chiang Kai-shek smiled and nodded when he saw this heavy machine gun, which was very popular with machine gunners. "This Russian brain is still easy to use, such a simple design has greatly improved the safety of the machine gun and the machine gunner, Yichen, it is best to replace the machine guns of all troops with this before October."

"Sitting, look at this again, this is a hand-held machine gun, imitating the American Thomson Model 1921." Luo Yiqun brought a crudely made submachine gun from his entourage, uh, I really can't see anything like Thomson in the United States.

Luo Yaoguo originally didn't support this kind of bullet-eating guy in the army, but later considered that those students in the first phase of Whampoa would inevitably take the lead in the future, and taking a submachine gun seemed to be conducive to improving their survival rate, so he supported the imitation of the submachine gun. He suggested: "I think this gun can be deployed to officers and non-commissioned officers at the squad, platoon, and company levels. The officers took it and led the soldiers in the charge, as if the odds were better. There were nine officers and nine sergeants in the first company, and if there were 18 submachine guns, the charge would be quite powerful. ”

"Well, the submachine gun, very appropriate and majestic, Yichen, this gun will be named the Min 13 submachine gun in the future. Assign to the company, platoon, and squad leaders of the infantry units, and strive to have 10 divisions by October. "Chiang Kai-shek estimated that a division may need 500 pieces, 10 divisions is 5,000 pieces, and there are still 6 months, which can almost be produced.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz......" A buzzing sound came from the sky in the distance. When everyone looked up, it turned out to be a rickety small plane. This is a Soviet R-1 reconnaissance plane, and the Kuomintang has always been more interested in aircraft, so the construction agreement with the Soviet Union also has an aircraft factory. In the history of another time and space, Yang Xianyi would help Mr. Zhongshan build an aircraft factory in Guangzhou, but now this aircraft factory was built in Shaoguan, with a total investment of nearly 2 million, and all the machinery and equipment were purchased from the Soviet Union, and the main product was to assemble this R-1 reconnaissance aircraft.

"This is an aircraft assembled by ourselves, according to the plan we will produce a fully domestic aircraft in the future, and now the first phase of the project has begun." Luo Yiqun was a little proud when he said this, and it was always a very long-faced thing to say about the production of aircraft.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction and asked, "The first phase of the project?" Where is it? Why haven't I seen it in the report? "All military construction must be approved by the Military Commission, and Chiang Kai-shek naturally knows about it, but it seems that there is no first phase of aircraft localization project.

"Oh, the first phase of the project includes a glue factory and a wood processing plant, which is basically civilian, so it's not with the money of the national political axe, it's a private investment from me and Fuwen." This aircraft construction actually started with glue and wood processing! The formula of glue was donated by the Soviet Union, and most of the equipment of the wood processing plant was purchased from the capital, and there were also domestic ones (axes, saws, etc. are all domestic products) The total investment of the two factories is only 300,000 silver dollars, and the main products are glue, plywood and wooden boards, but they are still very profitable.

Most of the planes in this era were made of wood and cloth with a small amount of metal, which looked very unsafe, so Luo Yaoguo did not dare to drive it, and now it is Li Wenhua of the first phase of Huangpu who is driving this plane. There are now three pilots in the first phase of Whampoa, one is Li Wenhua, the other is named Wang Shuming, and one is Liu Yongyao. Wang Shuming was the commander of the Kuomintang Air Force in history, so when the first phase of Huangpu established a flight class, Luo Yaoguo was the first to order him to participate, Liu Yongyao was young but very smart and learned everything quickly, so he was also ordered to fly this dangerous thing, as for Li Wenhua, who has always wanted to install cannons on the plane, he was naturally the first to sign up, and the instructor of the flight class was the Soviet pilot Kravtsov.

"Okay, everything is difficult at the beginning, we now have an aircraft factory, a steel plant is also under construction, cannons can be assembled, and machine rifles seem to be built well, it seems that China's self-improvement will start from us." Watching the rickety plane fly overhead, Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be in a good state of mind and full of hope for the future.

"Well, your army has everything, what about our navy? The Navy is also important. A little old man in a white military uniform muttered from the side. He is Sa Zhenbing, former governor of Fujian Province and senior admiral of the Navy, who was "invited" to Guangdong to serve as Minister of the Navy at the end of last year.

Historically, the Kuomintang attached great importance to the air force, but ignored the navy to the extreme, and the Kuomintang tried its best to develop the air force from the beginning of Guangdong, although in the end it could not defeat the Yue himself, but it is undeniable that they did their best. But to the Navy, these landlubbers basically ignore them.

"Uh, Sa Lao, how about developing naval aviation first?" Chiang Kai-shek was also a guy who completely ignored the navy, but Sa Zhenbing's qualifications were too old to refuse in person, so the old Chiang came up with the name of naval aviation in a hurry to fool the old man.

How could an old navy born in 1859, admitted to the Fujian Shipbuilding Academy at the age of 11, and began serving on warships in 1872 understand the importance of naval aviation? The old man glared and said: "Kai-shek, you are fooling the old man again, the navy is on the sea, is it called the navy that can fly?" That's the Flying Army! No, you are now a cannon and a steel plant, and the naval shipyard will also be built. Otherwise, I'll resign! ”

Resign? That's not good, Sa Zhenbing has a big face, and with him, whether it is the navy of Beiyang or the navy of the Anhui system, he will not embarrass the Kuomintang's maritime transportation. And as long as the time is ripe, as long as he beckons a small hand, the fleet or something will come to join the drop. Although the Kuomintang does not attach importance to the navy, does it not mean that it does not want the navy? There must be someone who acts as a façade on the sea.

"Jiegong, why don't we build a shipyard in Guangzhou? The shipyard can not only build warships, but also civilian ships, and now Guangdong's trade is developing rapidly, and I think it will be useful in the future. Luo Yaoguo had a plan to develop the navy, but he mentioned it to Mr. Zhongshan and Chiang Kai-shek several times without a response.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded painfully, and in order to keep Sa Zhenbing, the old man of the navy, he had to reluctantly break the bank. "Why don't you make a smaller one first?" Lao Chiang still wanted to save some money, although the Kuomintang is now richer than in history, but there are many places to spend money.

"Jiegong, I think it's going to be a 20,000-ton slipway, right?" Uh, 20,000 tons! In Luo Yaoguo's memories of his previous life, it was a very small ship.

"Okay, okay, that's it, 20,000 tons is enough, enough." When Sa Zhenbing heard the 20,000-ton slipway, he immediately couldn't stop laughing. A 20,000-ton slipway can build a ship with an unladen displacement of 20,000 tons, almost a battle cruiser or an aircraft carrier.

Chiang Kai-shek glared at Luo Yaoguo and nodded helplessly. "Sa Lao, the budget of the Military Commission has been used up this year, how about arranging for the start of construction next year?"

"It's a deal, Kai-shek, don't be fooled by then." The old man smiled and nodded.

Luo Yaoguo also nodded happily on the side. In his plan, by the end of 1931, at least two shallow-water heavy gunboats, one to be deployed at the mouth of the Pearl River and one to the mouth of the Yangtze River, were to be built to deal with the possible outbreak of war between China and China. Luo Yaoguo was an Air Force pilot in his previous life, so he still knows a lot about the development history of aircraft in the 20th century. By 1931, there would indeed be great progress in aircraft technology, but it was not enough to threaten the battleships of the Japanese army, and the best way to block them from entering the mouth of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River was a combination of land-based batteries and mines and shallow heavy gunboats. At present, the economic base of the Kuomintang is in the coastal areas and along the rivers, and the construction costs in Sichuan and Yunnan-Guizhou are too high, so it is more cost-effective to build a few shallow-water heavy gunboats and batteries than to spend money on road construction. In the historical Battle of Gallipoli, Turkey relied on a combination of land-based batteries and mines to overturn three British battleships. With my own petty family spirit, it is estimated that I will be reluctant to use expensive battleships to fight with cheap shallow water heavy gunboats, shore-based batteries and mines, right?

In order to make shallow-water heavy gunboats, the next development plan of the steel industry should also have large extruders and large rolling mills, so that it can make large-caliber heavy guns and large forgings, as well as wide and thick steel plates, which are the basis of the shipbuilding industry. As for the engine, it is not very demanding, and shallow water heavy gunboats do not need strong horsepower, and they do not need thick armor under the waterline, so the construction cost will naturally be greatly reduced.

However, it is estimated that it will be difficult to build so many heavy industry projects in the next six years, especially large heavy industries. Therefore, according to Luo Yaoguo's idea, the steel plates, large-caliber naval guns, and engine and other key equipment needed to manufacture the first two shallow water heavy gunboats may have to be imported from the Soviet Union, and the design of the warships will also rely on the Soviet Union. Therefore, friendly relations with the Soviet Union must be maintained, and unless the mustache comes to power in Germany, the only Soviet Union can provide China with heavy industry technology. The U.S. may ease technology exports after the financial crisis, but it is not known how much China will be affected by then? And is there any money?

In addition to the shallow-water heavy gunboats that defend inland rivers, submarines and torpedo boats are also an important development direction for the navy, and it is said that it is an island country with very poor resources, and if it wants to maintain the war, it must import resources from foreign countries, so the submarine blockade seems to be a good method.

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