Chapter 57 New Officials Take Charge
"Your Excellency, if you change the configuration of these machine guns, then the effect will be even better." Looking at Nie Shicheng's shocked face, a ghost guy beside him said lightly.
"What do you mean, Mr. Burton?" Nie Shicheng said with a smile, he is sincerely grateful to this person, this is the munitions engineer of Shanghai Bofors Foreign Company, and his mortars, grenades, rapid-fire rifles, and automatic pistols are all taught by this person.
He came this time to see the effects of the use of these weapons, and even the covert surprise attack with a machine gun just now was carried out under his command.
"It's very simple, you assign them to various forts, and in the future defense with machine guns as the core, it is best to let them form crossfire, and infantry as auxiliary, but the quality of these machine guns is too poor, and it is easy to have problems, so it is better to have two per fortress, Bofors has made an improved version of the Makqin machine gun according to the authorization of Makqin, using smokeless medicine, and the quality is not problematic, and it has been replaced with triangular brackets, and now Shanghai has just shipped twenty and a million rounds of ammunition, You can buy it if you need it. Burton said.
"Okay, I'll make a suggestion to the Lord." Nie Shicheng said with a smile.
When the news of Cheng Huanyi's second victory reached Li Hongzhang, he was reading a telegram sent to him by Xue Fucheng Tong Guò Singapore Consul General Huang Zunxian.
"This Yang Feng is an interesting person, he can really come to help in the war, Xue Shuyun said that he not only brought five warships, but also brought six things called landing ships, and more than 4,000 army forces, ready to take the opportunity to plunder Japan, I really think I will meet this bold guy if I have the opportunity." Li Er's devil said to Sheng Xuanhuai, who was sitting under him, while looking at the telegram.
"Plundering Japan?" Sheng Xuanhuai's eyes almost popped out, this is too rampant, right?
"Yes, Shu Yun said that his kind of boat can rush directly to the beach, and then put down the gangplank, and the soldiers rush to land from the inside, each boat can bring two battalions of soldiers, landing, and retreat can be completed in half an hour, and each ship has eight 75 caliber rapid-fire guns, which can fire more than 20 PAO shells per minute, and only artillery can block the pursuers.
And the officers of his department are all foreigners, supplemented by some overseas Chinese in the Americas, and the main force is recruited by the town pole, with high salaries to get their death force, fast guns, fast artillery, and the elite of ordnance, even if the army of Taixi is not as good as it.
The manager is that Luang Willi.
And Yang Feng's five warships, one of which is similar to the waterline armor of Jingyuan, the armor of the fort, regardless of the speed of the firepower armor are far superior to Yoshino, the remaining four are high-speed destroyers, using the latest diesel engines, the speed can reach 35 knots, the sea is as fast as flying, supplemented by the latest steam gas torpedoes, even the big iron ships can be killed in one shot. The more Li Er looked at this telegram, the more solemn his face became.
Sheng Xuanhuai still didn't understand his thoughts, and said worriedly: "I'm afraid what this person is planning is unpredictable!"
"No matter what he is planning, now let's solve the widow first, Master Weng wants to see the old man's jokes, then let him take a good look." Li Er Devil said with a sneer.
"My lord, the sailor has transferred good news, Nie Zhentai broke the Japanese army for the second time in Chenghuanyi, captured more than 1,000 people, and the Japanese army Oshima Brigade lost its courage and retreated to the north bank of Ancheng River." At this time, his copywriter Yu Shimei came in with a telegram and said.
"Okay, this Nie Gongting really lives up to the old man's trust." Li Er's devil smiled very proudly, since the beginning of the war, he has won both land and water, and he doesn't know what kind of expression those who are waiting to see his jokes are now.
However, Nie Zhentai also mentioned one thing, he said that compared with the Japanese army, our army's courage and marksmanship are thousands of miles apart, Cheng Huan's two battles all rely on sophisticated equipment, the previous battle is all thanks to mortars, grenades and two things, this battle is all thanks to the green gun and the electric gun, and the electric gun is still important.
The rifle bullets issued by the soldiers of the two wars exceeded 150,000, which was less than the results of more than 10,000 bullets in a few minutes, and the combat strength of the soldiers on both sides was very different. Yu Shimei continued.
"Race stun gun?" Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly, he was deeply impressed by this thing, to be honest, he also crawled out of the battlefield, how can he not know that these things are easy to use, but whether it is a mortar or a race electric gun, a small amount of use is naturally nothing, it really has to be purchased in large quantities for various armies, and the financial resources cannot support it in any way, it is not a gun, it is a bottomless pit that swallows bullets.
"Forget it, let's talk about it first, check who has this thing, and buy a batch of emergency first." He said with a sigh.
"Nie Zhentai said that Bofors has twenty new ones, and it has one million smokeless ammunition." Yu Shimei said.
"Then buy it!" Li Hongzhang then said that he didn't know what his choice meant for this war.
The port of Doggo, now a small port that had been unremarkable, was now unrecognizable, with twelve new large berths neatly arranged, a so-called warehouse with no end in sight on the shore, and a dockyard large enough to accommodate 5,000-ton ships, which were now quietly waiting for their owners.
Of course, it's not just them, a large number of zombie costumes of different birds and beasts have gathered on the shore since the morning, one by one, like ducks stretching their necks, staring at the entrance of the bay with wide eyes, and even a few people wearing military generals' uniforms, wearing waist knives, holding their chests and stomachs, trying to put on a look of energy, but unfortunately it didn't take long for the big smoke to be hidden, one by one tears and snot, and the soldiers who were waiting next to them hurriedly presented their smoking utensils.
A military attache wearing a second-grade top glared at these guys with a displeased face, and the two people sitting next to him sneered slightly, there was actually a yellow fish in it, and the yellow horse hexagram on his body was soaked with sweat, sticking to his body, making this black and thin middle-aged man in his forties look more funny, and at this time, he suddenly saw a soldier in charge of watching on the top of the mountain in the distance, waving a signal flag.
"It's coming, it's coming!" The birds and beasts immediately laughed with relief, among which a chubby middle-aged man of the second grade stood up and waved his hand, and the gong and drum team next to him hurriedly began to play music, and in the music, he saw from a distance that the small steamer of the Ye family that went out to lead slowly sailed into the bay, followed by the black bat boat that the people of Dog Harbor were already very familiar with, and then came in behind everyone couldn't help but gasp.
The front one was more than 100 meters long, with a twin main gun in front, a barrel thicker than a thigh pointing obliquely to the sky, five of the same barrels sticking out on each side, and a duplicate twin main gun in the back.
Behind this warship, there are four smaller ones, and then six larger ones, but they look a little strange, and then there are four merchant ships behind, and a line of sixteen huge ships lined up in a long line slowly sailing into the port, under the command of those Jinyuan Company employees on the dock, one by one docked at the berth, and the four smaller warships, two of which share a berth.
In a shocked gaze, all the ships were stopped, and at this time, the black bat ship was the last to dock, and at the same time as it landed, from the six strange-shaped warships, countless soldiers in green clothes poured out at once.
The costumes of these soldiers are all Western-shaped, and there are even many foreigners themselves, all of them are carrying spears, and the eyes of the people on the shore are dizzy when they see the bright bayonets, and the legs of those who have not finished smoking are even trembling, and then I saw these soldiers get off the boat with great strength, lined up neatly on the dock, and suddenly raised their guns at the same time, followed by a dense burst of shooting, and before the gunfire dissipated in everyone's ears, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day in the ears, all the main guns on the warship roared at the same time, Those few legs trembling were so frightened that they sat on the ground at that time.
However, there was no explosion of shells.
On the Marauder, Xue Fucheng looked at Yang Feng's mischievous smile speechlessly, but he also admitted that this trick was indeed effective, as the governor and chief soldier of Taiwan who came out of thin air, this murderous appearance ceremony could scare all the guys with ghosts in their hearts trembling.
After the cannon sounded, the cabin door of the Marauder finally opened, wearing the governor's official uniform specially sent to Hong Kong by Bofors Foreign Company, Xue Fucheng walked down the gangway with a smile on his face, Yang Feng and Lang Weili left and right, and Zhang Quan also followed behind in the purchased Taoist official uniform.
"Uncle Yun, I'm looking forward to you!" The fat man Erpin said to Xue Fucheng with a smile on his face, and the various birds and beasts behind him immediately followed with a passionate bow and even bowed.
"Brother Weiqing, it's not like I'm not going to Taipei anymore, and I'm going to ask you to make this trip." Xue Fucheng hurriedly stepped forward, smiled and hugged Taiwan's political envoy Tang Jingsong, who was bowing down, and then said to the officials behind him: "Youlao has come to welcome you from afar."
Then there was another sound of sycophancy, which made Yang Fengzhi frown in the sound of gongs and drums, until they expressed their feelings for almost half an hour, and Tang Jingsong looked behind Xue Fucheng suspiciously and asked, "Brother Shuyun, where is General Yang!"
"Huh? Looking for me? Here it is!" Wearing a very casual Hawaiian-style T-shirt and floral pants, Boss Yang, who was wearing a board and a toad glass, came out from behind.
There was a gasp of cold air on the dock.
"You, you, are so rebellious that you dare to shave your hair and put your ancestors in a certain place?" A petty official who was obviously stupid in reading pointed at Yang Feng and said tremblingly.
"Are you talking to me?" Yang Feng said blankly, after getting a definite answer, the hot and noisy cargo who came out of the air-conditioned cabin stepped forward and lifted his official hat for him, and then pulled his braid and said, "Also Nima told me about my ancestors, your ancestors also have this thing?"