Chapter 463: The Bombing of London

In the end, Mr. Richard, an importer of construction machinery from the United Kingdom, ordered 500 bulldozers from Great Wall Heavy Industries at a time, because he was not satisfied with the protection measures of this bulldozer for workers, so he specially asked for a thicker shell thickening, and the semi-open observation position was also changed to a closed type that can rotate 360 degrees, of course, the price also rose to 200,000 Chinese yuan, but this little money is nothing to worry about the British Empire, 500 units is only 100 million Chinese yuan, 30 tons of gold.

What he didn't know was that less than two hours after he left here, another construction machinery importer from Germany stood in the same position as him, but unlike him, this German businessman only needed the chassis system of this bulldozer, and the price was also reduced to 100,000 Chinese yuan, of course, he wanted more quantity, a total of 2,000 sets, and now the Kiel Canal is under frantic construction, and the German bulldozer demand is very strong.

Then the Russians, the French, and the Austrians were also invited, and soon the bulldozer orders in the hands of Great Wall Heavy Industries have made the production department feel great pressure, especially the Russians, who asked for a thousand basic models, fortunately, Great Wall Heavy Industries has three production bases in China, and there are Swedish Volvo Cars and Confederate General Motors can join the production, otherwise it is impossible to produce so many bulldozers in a year anyway.

Of course, this thing is not only sold bulldozers, including parts, especially the parts with a limited life of the engine, in addition to high-tech products in the maintenance also need special care, such as lubricating oil and the like, and because of the high requirements for fuel quality, it is also necessary to import diesel additives from China, and even countries with backward industrial levels like Russia, it is best to import diesel together, all in all, these bulldozers are driven by the prosperity of countless factories.

After selling the bulldozers, he was at a base near Beijing. Guests from Russia are visiting the latest anti-aircraft guns specially designed for them.

"The caliber is twenty-five millimeters, the weight is three hundred kilograms, the maximum effective firing range is 1,500 meters, the fastest rate of fire can reach fifteen rounds per minute, and the latest alloy armor-piercing projectiles can penetrate a hundred millimeters thick steel plate within 500 meters. An officer spoke, motioning for the soldier next to him to give a demonstration.

The soldier then took out a small cannonball from the nearby ammunition box and stuffed it into the chamber, while the gunner next to him began to quickly aim at a steel plate erected in the distance. The barrel with the flare was pointed at the bull's-eye in an instant, and then the cannon rope was pulled, and the shell was fired with a muzzle flame like lightning.

The gun crew did not pause in the slightest, and then stuffed in a second shell, and fired again with a slight movement of the muzzle, and fired without pause for a moment, until the rate of fire of the rifle was reached, and did not stop until a minute had passed.

Then the officer took the Russian can and accompanied Yuan Attendant to the front of the steel plate, which was ten centimeters thick. They have all been beaten into a hornet's nest by tungsten alloy homogeneous armor-piercing bullets.

"How's it going, Lord Count? With this kind of thing, the tanks of the Germans are no different from scrap metal to you. Attendant Yuan smiled and looked at the Russian count who came to inspect the goods and said.

This earl is almost stupid, this is a ten-centimeter-thick steel plate. A few hundred meters away, let this thing be directly beaten into a sieve, this has to be replaced by those German tanks, then it has to be pierced with a shot, he doesn't know that it is armor steel. This is mild steel for civilian use, which simply does not have any comparison.

"Okay, now we've seen the cannon. I'm sure you don't have any problems, Your Excellency is a rare visitor to China, and I've arranged some activities for you, so let's go back to Beijing first and discuss in detail details such as price and quantity. Attendant Yuan said with a smile.

Yang Feng's anti-aircraft gun, in fact, is an imitation of the early days of World War II, the French's kind of 25 mm anti-tank gun, of course, the performance is somewhat reduced, but put on the battlefield of this era, it can definitely be said to be a sharp weapon, 500 meters away can vertically penetrate more than 30 mm thick armor steel plate, even if he is now selling in large quantities, it is definitely an effective anti-tank weapon.

Of course, the distance is definitely not able to penetrate the front armor, put it within two or three hundred meters there is absolutely no problem, so that a delicate balance will be formed between the combat vehicle and the combat defense artillery, the combat defense artillery can destroy the combat vehicle, but you need to risk a large number of casualties, the combat vehicle is still an effective weapon on the battlefield, but the number of losses will definitely not be less, so that he can continue to sell the combat vehicle to the outside, while constantly selling the combat defense artillery that can destroy it, this is what an excellent arms dealer should play.

As for this demonstration, it was for show, using a war defense gun and tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets to hit an ordinary steel plate is not the same as playing, this Russian gentleman knows a fart, it is nothing more than to show him a lively, and soon this count's Excellency from St. Petersburg, under the introduction of Marquis Yuan Shikai, the chief of staff of the Chinese emperor, signed a contract with the manager of the imperial artillery factory for the supply of 5,000 war defense guns and 1 million tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells in an entertainment venue in Beijing.

Of course, the contract is not written about anti-aircraft guns and armor-piercing shells, but about drilling machines and drill bits.

When Yang Feng made a lot of war money, the European battlefield was still engaged in a bloody and desperate struggle, while the British army failed to attack on the Western Front, the French offensive on the Marne front was also futile, after some time of rest, the Germans had built a dense defense system on the north bank of the Marne, trenches, fortresses, barbed wire stretching for hundreds of kilometers, dense machine guns and cannons with steel to smash the attacker's body. The developed transportation system ensured the supply of goods to the Germans, and in their country, countless factories were frantically producing, machine guns, cannons, shells, bullets, poison gas bombs, a steady stream of railways, roads and even canals to the front, Romanian oil, German coal, Swedish steel, Chinese machinery, chemical raw materials were like blood transfusion needles, injecting blood into the German body non-stop.

Of course, it was gold that was siphoned off.

Of course, the same is true of their opponents.

In fact, this round of offensive has now come to an end, the German offensive on the Eastern Front ended at the Vistula, and the Bessarabia battlefield also ended at the Dniester River, and with the continuous flow of arms purchased from China to the front, the Russians are gradually stabilizing their defensive lines, and it is no longer possible for the Germans to achieve the high-speed breakthrough that they had at the beginning. And so far their losses are also very serious, although in this round of offensive, the De Oro coalition army at least killed, wounded and captured more than 700,000 Russian troops, but their own losses are also close to 500,000, especially the Austro-Novo army casualties are more than 200,000, and there is already some lack of follow-up.

What's more, the pressure on the British and French armies on the Western Front was increasing, and Germany was no longer able to withdraw troops from the Western Front.

At this time, both sides of the war have understood that it is no longer the soldiers on the battlefield who will decide the victory or defeat of this war, but the factories behind the battlefield, and logistics supply is the key to victory or defeat in the war.

One midnight in October 1905, in London, the capital of England, the British, far from the battlefield, had already fallen asleep, as they usually did, unaware that a group of ghosts were silently approaching overhead.

At an altitude of several thousand meters, twenty zeppelins taking off from Düsseldorf, Germany, were flying at a speed of one hundred and fifty kilometers per hour to the capital of Britain, and by the bright moonlight, the commander, Colonel Hall, carefully observed the ground, the Thames was his best signpost, and along the reflective river, his air fleet soon flew to London.

"Prepare to drop the bomb!" The German officer, who graduated from Oxford University, looked at the familiar city below, calmly gave orders to his subordinates, and the signalmen immediately used light signals to convey to the other boats, and on the twenty airships, those soldiers were immediately busy, and fifty kilograms of bombs were lined up in the bomb throwing ports waiting to be dropped.

At the same time, the boats began to gradually descend in altitude, until they reached five hundred meters, and the streets of London below were already clearly visible, and Colonel Hall gave the order to drop bombs, and then one bomb after another was pushed down, and the sharp whistling sound immediately broke the silence of the night, and as the first bomb fell on Piccadilly Street and then exploded, turning a nearby shop into ruins in an instant, and the whole of London woke up at once.

Countless British people were awakened from their sleep, one by one they rushed to the window like crazy, looking at their city dumbfounded, huge bombs were still falling, in the sharp whistling sound, the terrifying fire exploded one after another, London, which had not tasted the smell of war for hundreds of years, was shattered little by little under this sudden blow, and the wreckage of the building was scattered and splashed in the firelight, which looked magnificent.

"The airships of the Germans!" Countless screams of fear rang out throughout the city, and twenty airships in the sky against the backdrop of moonlight were like a group of demons from hell, sowing death over the heads of the British. (To be continued......)