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Seriously, this L15 mortar is not too profound in terms of technology, but the first world did not pay much attention to it before, until the brutal World War, the two sides suffered heavy losses in the positional battle, and the usual cannon can only shoot directly, and it can't destroy the enemy under the trench at all, so a mortar that can fire curves and hit the enemy in the trench caters to the needs of positional warfare. (The fastest update speed is on the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info)

The mortar is mainly composed of four major blocks, which are the barrel, the bracket, the sight, and the sheet plate. The deconstruction is very simple, so after the intense construction of the plant, in less than two months, the California Arms Company delivered the first batch of 5,000 L15 40 caliber and 60 caliber mortars to the British army on the front line in Europe, after simple training, this L15 mortar caught the German ** team off guard, the British not only destroyed the German machine guns, but also suppressed the German army in the trenches, and the British army occupied the German positions with a very small amount of payment.

The good effect of mortars made the British army excited, they had not won the contest with the German army for a long time, so on the one hand, the British army increased the research and production of mortars in their own country, and on the other hand, in order to make up for their own lack of production capacity, they placed a second batch of orders with the California Arms Company, more mortars, more shells produced from American factories and sent to Europe, called to the hands of front-line soldiers, and then fought each other.

This time, the British also followed the French and Russians, and the French couldn't wait to find James, and opened their mouths to smash a large order of more than 10 million dollars, which made James very happy.

The French are even more "excessive", the only thing they ask for is delivery within two months!

"Oh my God! In such a hurry, it is better for me to rush to the Germans with the explosives bag! "James is in pain and happy!

Since the Western Front campaign was basically in France, the industry in northern France either fell into the hands of the Germans or was destroyed, so France's industrial production was overstretched, in order to block the German attack, countless French lads who loved romance were sleeping under the shattered mountains and rivers, so the French were more eager than the British to get this new mortar that caught the German army off guard.

There was no way to refuse the door-to-door business, and it was the end of 1915 in a blink of an eye, and after several months of continuous construction, the production capacity of the California Arms Company could basically meet the order.

The only thing that was a little unpleasant was that the Russians had no money and wanted to buy mortars, but fortunately there was a French guarantee, and James did not refuse the Russians' request.

A sharp weapon is not enough to change the outcome of the war, but it can change the fate of a company and some people, until the end of World War I, except for the mortars produced in Britain and France, almost all the mortars used by their soldiers are produced by American companies, especially the California Arms Company, of course, the Germans do not count counterfeits, they infringe on the patents of the California Arms Company.

Huge interests will always attract covetousness, many arms dealers in the east with envy and even jealousy to open the rise of the sudden rise of the California arms company, fortunately the mortar is a new type of artillery, and there is no conflict with their products, the hands of the eastern arms dealers are not yet within the reach of Los Angeles on the west coast, so the California arms company has the support of the local government, and there is no suppression of the traditional forces in the east, and the development has been very smooth from the beginning.

Affected by the war in Europe, the U.S. ** team also began to be armed, and the good performance of the L15 mortar naturally fell into the eyes of the US **, and recently a US Army logistics staff officer also came to the door, telling the US Army that the L15 mortar has been included in the list of US weapons and equipment! That's really good news!

Situ Nan knew that the United States would enter the war sooner or later, and American young men have always been known for their abundant logistics in war.

Situ Nan once heard a saying that Americans can tolerate the failure of the general's wrong command, but they must not accept the death of an American boy because he does not have sufficient supplies!

Think that the United States will have more than a million troops landing in Europe, and the L15 mortars included in the list of weapons and equipment of the US Army are also in great demand!

This is not only a successful transaction, but also a good relationship with the United States, and the benefits brought by it are not exhaustive in a few words.

For these reasons, Situ Nan personally received Major Ben Hamilton from the U.S. Army Staff and invited him to his home.

Under Situ Nan's deliberate currying, Ben Hamilton and Situ Nan became good friends, won many orders for Situ Nan from the US military, and even collaborated with Situ Nan to "sell stolen goods"! However, these episodes will be mentioned later, and they will not be listed.

Speaking of the moral army, it was caught off guard by the mortars used by the Allied armies at the beginning, and the German army, which was strong in combat, suffered losses again and again in positional battles with the British and French armies, just because the Germans did not have a damn mortar!

This old American invention of a rudimentary gadget just deflated the Germans! Blockaded by the Entente, it was impossible for the Germans to purchase a large number of mortars, so they had to copycat!

After getting the mortars left by the British and French soldiers from the battlefield, the German side organized personnel to copycat the L15 mortar!

The Germans really don't have to say anything about this, and not long after, with their strong industrial capabilities, the Germans also began to equip themselves with their own mortars!

All of a sudden, the two sides returned to a stalemate! You come and go on the battlefield, and now it's not safe to hide in the deep trenches, and those dog-day mortars can also hit the trenches, and you can't hide in the trenches like before to avoid the enemy's artillery lightly!

Well, it's better to remember to bring a mask! The war makes people crazy, and the double-shot fight is even more unscrupulous, killing soldiers in addition to machine guns and artillery and poison gas! This gas war was the first of the Germans again!

Heck, why are the Germans always one step ahead? John Bull and Gallic Chicken Brother are really depressed, but they don't show weakness either, poison gas, right? We have it too, see how we kill the Germans like mosquitoes kill flies!

When Situ Nan was thinking about whether to set up a chemical company to produce poison gas bombs, on the battlefield of the Western Front, a young Austrian corporal hid in the trenches and kept cursing the damned Yankees, making such a mortar, causing himself to hide in the trenches unpleasantly, and after several failed charges, he could not continue to carry out this brainless behavior of harming others and himself.

Abominable machine guns, abominable mortars, abominable Yankees, are they all Jews raising more? The brave corporal kept chewing, and no matter how could he shake his determination to fight for German Germany.

"Bang!" A cannonball fell, bursting with puffs of smoke and poisonous gas!

"Ahh

The brave corporal collapsed under the poison gas after delivering information to the company headquarters.

During World War I, the California Arms Company produced about 20,000 L15 40 and 60 caliber mortars, 3,000 in the United Kingdom, 50 million in France, 10,000 in the United States, 1,000 in Russia, and a small number of others were sold to South American and Asian countries.

What made Situ Nan most angry was that the little Japanese army counterfeited the mortars of the California Arms Company without asking for royalties, and sold them to the Chinese ** valve, which is really bad! No matter in his past life or in his future life, Situ Nan hates this thief-like country very much!

In addition to the mortar factory, the California Arms Corporation also built an ammunition factory and a firearms factory. The ammunition plant is mainly for the production of mortar shells, which are not too complicated except for the time-delay fuse.

The United States is a country where you can legally own guns, and in this country, not to mention that everyone has a gun, at least many families have guns, such as California, Texas and other western states are even more proliferated. Although decades have passed since the era of cowboys, law and order have improved a lot, and there are fewer and fewer scenes of cowboys shooting guns at every turn, but their aggressive and savage style has been retained.

Seriously, that's cowboy country. The westward expansion of the United States was fought by cowboys from the east decades ago, and the Indians along the way were either exterminated or driven to remote places at gunpoint.

In the last two or three hundred years, in addition to the British Empire's continuous expansion at sea, followed by the French, there are two other countries in the world that have expanded wildly on land, that is, the United States and Russia, the United States has expanded from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and the Russians have also expanded from the distant European continent to Asia, across the Ural Mountains to the Bering Strait. They are across the sea from the United States.

If the Americans hadn't bought Alaska from Russia, Russia today might still be a country with a land spanning three continents: Europe, Asia and the United States!

Guns are very important in this country, and one of the founding fathers of the United States once said that guns in the hands of American citizens are the guarantee of individual democracy and freedom!

That's a great way to say that!

I don't believe you're going to demolish my house and try to see if I don't jump you off with one shot?! Lao Tzu is not holding a fire stick in his hand, the fire stick also has a fire character, which is not very good, it is easy to set himself on fire if you are not careful, it is better to use bullets to talk to those shameless politicians and black-hearted real estate developers!

I can't say that the sage who said this at the beginning had just put down his hoe and picked up the shotgun in his hand to join the Continental Army and fight against the British. After the war, he went home with his own gun and ploughed the fields.

In fact, when everyone can have a gun, there will not be a person who kills innocents indiscriminately because he has a gun, unless he is a madman!

It's not that the U.S. government hasn't thought about banning guns, but this is unrealistic, not to mention the opposition of American citizens who have a gun tradition (they may have guns at home), and the interest groups that produce guns will jump out to oppose it, and they also have an inexplicable relationship with steel companies, so the gun ban will be over.

Situ Nan estimates that there may be more than 10 million guns in the entire American people, although they are sold in the name of civilian sports rifles, but the difference between bullets hitting the human body and military rifles is not very big, and they are usually used for hunting.

So don't look at the country's army, the huge country has only tens of thousands of army, and it is not yet formed, plus a small number of National Guards, it doesn't take the Germans to kill them all in a day when they are sent to Europe, but the people contain huge power. Hide the wealth from the people, hide not only the wealth but also the bullet of wealth!

It is indeed profitable to invest in a gun factory, especially since Situ Nan knows that the United States will enter the war and the army will be expanded on a large scale, but fortunately, most of the weapons used by American GIs in the war are guns produced by Britain and France, otherwise they can only cross the sea with their hunting rifles or sports rifles to fight the Germans.

Well, the world's police love to do this @! Rose to prominence at a very young age!

The U.S. military industry has limited output, mainly the army, the navy is quite awesome, and the arsenal has not yet been mobilized, Situ Nan remembers that the war ended soon after the United States entered the war, and the U.S. military industry has not yet had time to exert its might.

I don't know if it's because of this regret that the Americans have been holding their breath, and in World War II, they frantically sent arms to the whole world, of course, the victims were the Germans, and the Japanese who ate the courage of the ambitious leopard!

Situ Nan estimates that if the operation is good, the gun factory can win some orders, but this is not his original intention, he just wants to have a gun, there is a gun factory that makes people excited, there is no man who doesn't like guns, and he likes to shoot guns, no matter what bullets or liquid are fired.

This should be more deeply felt by people in a country where even buying a kitchen knife has to be registered.

Situ Nan had some intention of playing tickets, so the scale of the gun factory was very small at first, and then it was expanded after receiving an order from the US Army, but it was not very large, and it took only 20,000 rifles to be produced in the entire First World War, and it almost closed down after the war.

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