Chapter 461: Yang Feng's Karl Cannon
"Gas masks," Yang Feng muttered, of course he can sell this thing, but the problem is that the Russians want too much, they want too much, they want too much, at least two million sets in a month.
Nikolai can't help but be in a hurry, the Vistula battlefield is better, after all, there are some main Russian army groups, and the number of these things is relatively large, but it is not good on the battlefield of Bessarabia, especially in the early stage, Baron Golz smoked down more than 100,000 Russian troops, and now the new ones are added, not to mention gas masks, and even rifles are not available, and many gray cattle are still holding spears, how can they hold their positions with gas bombs? If they are not equipped with gas masks, the Germans and Romanians should have crossed the Dniester River into Ukraine.
"If you really can't do it, let's give them a part of the army's logistics reserves first, of course, the price must be a little higher for them." Yang Feng thought for a while and said.
"The Russians also want super-caliber heavy artillery." Yuan Shikai said that he is currently in full charge of the arms trade with Russia.
During this period of time, the Russian army was on the front line, and it can be said that it has tasted the hardships of the heavy artillery of the Austro-Hungarian army, especially those Skoda 305 giant guns, which weigh only 20 tons and can even tow and march on the road, but can hit hundreds of kilograms of heavy artillery shells more than ten kilometers away, and the will of the gray cattle has been destroyed again and again.
"This can be sold, but the problem is that we don't have it, you let them wait for another half a year!" Yang Feng said that he really can't help this at present, although the Great Bertha is developed by the Chinese Royal Artillery Factory in cooperation with the Germans, it does not mean that China will be equipped with this kind of thing, and now China can immediately provide the army heavy artillery is only 155.
If the Russians want, they can only develop a separate one for them, 305, 420 or something, just copy the 280 howitzer that the Japanese bombarded Lushunkou in the Russo-Japanese War in history, and then lengthen the barrel. As long as it can ensure that their shells hit ten kilometers away, this kind of artillery is very easy to make, and it is estimated that it will not take half a year to reach Nikolai.
"Your Majesty, should we also equip this kind of giant cannon?" Yuan Shikai asked cautiously, the super giant cannon shining on the European battlefield has made the Chinese army generals itch, look at the cannons made by others, and then look at the 155 heavy cannons in their hands, it is like a child's artillery battle, and the guys in the army general staff have repeatedly asked the chief of staff to find an opportunity to talk to the emperor. Let's see if we can equip the army with a gun of this level, not to mention building a few big Belsa.
"They want large-caliber heavy artillery? In this way, it can indeed meet their requirements, and the Russian fortresses of Ulan-Ude and Chita do need siege artillery, so you can call the chief engineer of the artillery factory and Li Yuncong, and I will show them a good thing. Emperor Yang said with a smile.
Soon Li Yuncong, the chief of the army's general staff, and the chief engineer of the Royal Artillery Factory were summoned into the palace, and then Emperor Yang asked his attendants to carry them a small box containing a whole box of drawings. Then he put a drawing in front of them, which had not yet been opened.
"This is my latest design of a super-large caliber gun, specially designed to deal with enemy fortresses, you can take it back and study it." Yang Feng said casually.
Li Yuncong couldn't wait to open the drawing, and then his head almost hit the table.
"Caliber 540 mm?" He said in a trembling voice, looking up in disbelief.
"That's right. Don't you guys like big bore? This time I will give you a real large caliber, not only a large caliber, but also a self-propelled cannon. Yang Feng said that what he gave was the Karl cannon that the mustache had prepared to bombard the Maginot Line. He had not only Karl's full set of blueprints, but even Gustav's, which was certainly unrealistic for Dora given the constraints of the transportation conditions. After all, he used this kind of artillery to bombard the Russian fortresses in the Far East, and with a weight of more than 1,000 tons, even if it is a train cannon, it is impossible for any bridge to make it pass through now.
But Karl is different, the weight of a hundred tons can be transported by rail over long distances, and the tracked running gear can also allow it to maneuver for short distances without leaving the railway, and the hard frozen soil of Siberia is also very suitable for its travel, the only flaw is that the range is a little shorter, but what he is now preparing to make is a long truck, that is, an improved version of the later reduced caliber, the maximum range has exceeded ten kilometers, which is enough to use, and it is better to throw bombs with bombers no matter how far it goes!
In fact, this kind of artillery, in his opinion, is used to scare people, the cost of making a Karl self-propelled gun, enough for him to produce a bunch of bombers, although a ton of shells is powerful, but the charge is not much stronger than a 500-kilogram bomb, and the falling speed of the shells is also not much faster than the dive-thrown bombs, and the penetration power is almost the same when dealing with fortresses, but the problem is that the psychological deterrent effect of this thing on enemy soldiers is much greater than that of bombers.
As for Nikolai's gray cattle, it is estimated that when they heard the sound of falling shells, they basically collapsed.
Of course, Li Yuncong and the chief engineer of the artillery factory did not have the emperor's consciousness, and the two of them carried the drawing box like two pirates who carried a box of gold and went back to make cannons with a holy face, although this is a weapon at the level of the early stage of World War II, but for the current level of China's industrial technology, it is not a too difficult task, including the 580 horsepower diesel engine is also capable of manufacturing, it is really not good to let the beauty head pull them.
Just when the Chinese monarchs were studying artillery, the fighting on the Eastern Front in Europe was still going on, because it was never possible to break through the Russian army's defense line on the Vistula River, and the Germans directly transferred their big Bertha from the Western Front.
In this city that has been beaten into ruins, the Russian soldiers of the entire two armies frantically fled from the hell behind them, and the roar in the sky like a meteor falling kept coming, followed by a huge explosion like the sky and the earth cracked, and in the trembling of the earth, the impact of the explosion instantly wiped out the surrounding hundreds of meters, and the rising pillar of smoke was like an evil dragon piercing the sky.
The poor grey cattle had never seen this thing, it was not a cannon in their eyes, it was the roar of God, and they trembled in fear of the miracle of industrial civilization, no matter how their officers drove them, how they whipped them, and even the overseers used machine gun fire in the back, they did not stop the frightened gray cattle from their rout.
Behind them, on the Vistula River, countless German soldiers, riding on the means of crossing the river that could be found, crossed the moat in front of them almost without hindrance and seized the former city, and then the German engineers began to repair the destroyed railway bridge, and pontoon bridges were erected on the river, and a solid bridgehead was established in Ivan Godero.
However, it is clear that the Russian army is not ready to give up Poland, once the Vistula defense line is completely broken, then the entire Polish salient will be cut off, and the German army can directly attack Belarus, and then go south to Ukraine, at that time the Russian army in Galicia can only retreat, and the Austro-Hungarian army retreating to the Carpathian Mountains will recapture their lost land and also enter Ukraine, and then join forces with the Droz coalition army in Bessarabia, and the entire southern Ukraine will no longer be owned by Russia, It was a nightmare for Nikolai.
In order to recapture Ivan Godero, the Russian Fourth Army immediately launched a counteroffensive, and those gray cattle rushed into the German defense line again and again in vain under the curses and whipping of the officers, shattered in the fire of the shell explosion, and shattered in the whistling of bullets, but the remaining soldiers were still helplessly facing the hell of death.
In front of them, one poison gas bomb after another kept exploding on the German position, in the yellow poisonous fog, the German soldiers wearing gas masks, also struggling to support themselves in the hell of death, kept using the weapons in their hands to pour crazy killing in front of them, the soldiers who were wounded by the poison gas in the explosion of the shells were making heart-rending screams, the dirt raised in the sky was accompanied by countless stumps and broken arms, and the cruelty of war made the sun turn bloody.
But the Russians were unable to retake Ivan Godro, and the Fourth Army failed to achieve their goal with 50,000 lives, and the Germans held on to this vital bridgehead, but they were also powerless to continue to expand, and groups of gray cattle were filling the trenches opposite them with the Chinese rifles that had just been issued to them.
And here, the original Hindenburg's most important breakthrough tool chariot, also began to encounter a crisis, the Russians' anti-aircraft artillery appeared, but it was not purchased from China, the first batch of Chinese-made two-five-millimeter anti-aircraft guns had just left the factory, and it would take at least a month to be delivered to the Russians, at this time the Russians were still using their ally the French, who had just been sent from distant Murmansk, although the number was small, but it already posed a serious threat to the German chariots.
What's more, after the initial fears, the grey cattle have come to understand that this thing is not invincible, and even a zha medicine pack, a bundle of grenades can be easily destroyed. (To be continued......)