As the saying goes, the red powder is given to the beauty, and the sword is given to the martyr. There is no general who does not like good weapons, and in the current battlefield, large-caliber heavy artillery is undoubtedly the most powerful weapon for killing, and the Feng army has been ecstatic since getting some 122 mm heavy artillery, and this firepower has surpassed that of other warlords in the country.

But now that they saw a larger-caliber and more powerful artillery, everyone couldn't suppress their excitement, and they found enough people to drag the barrel out of the gun pile, and after identification, everyone found that this was a Skoda 1914 medium field howitzer, produced by the Austro-Hungarian Škoda Arsenal, with a caliber of 150 mm, and a thick muzzle, which could fit a small watermelon.

If such a shell goes down, it will definitely be able to create a no-man's land of several tens of meters, which is an out-and-out weapon of mass destruction. As a field artillery, the caliber is at the level of one hundred and fifty millimeters, which is basically at a peak, and of course there are larger caliber artillery, but due to mobility performance, as well as rate of fire, logistics and other problems, super-large caliber artillery has received great restrictions in the war, so the artillery of this caliber in front of you is the king of land warfare.

Feng Jun didn't have a single one in his hand, and now after seeing it, everyone couldn't help but be red-eyed, but only one pity was that this gun had been damaged, and most of the base was gone, and it seemed to have been damaged by enemy artillery fire.

"If this cannon is intact and equipped with artillery, our firepower will be the best in the world!" Zhou Zijian said excitedly.

"It's far from it." Zhang Tinglan said with a smile: "Don't always stare at the country, look at the great powers, there are also piles of artillery bigger than this, we can't produce heavy artillery now, but in the future, we must break through this jishu problem and produce it ourselves." ”

As he spoke, Zhang Tinglan carefully examined the artillery. Then he said to everyone: "Look at it, only the base of this gun is broken, the barrel is at least eighty or ninety percent new, it must not have fired a few shots, and the sighting equipment is also intact, as long as you take it back and repair it, maybe it can still be used!" ”

"Division commander, I'm afraid the parts we produce can't compare to those produced by the powers!" Questions were raised.

Zhang Tinglan pointed to the pile of scrap iron in front of him with a finger, and said with a smile: "Whoever asked you to produce it yourself, won't you look for it here, tear down the east wall and make up the west wall." You can always do it! ”

Those Jishu personnel also suddenly realized, showing a happy look: "Teacher, please rest assured, we can definitely do this well!" ”

"It's not just artillery, those machine guns, small-caliber artillery. It's all sorted out and repaired as much as possible. Even if we don't use it. You can sell it to others. Don't look at this as a pile of scrap metal, as long as we pick it up, it's a cash cow, everyone work hard! ”

After inspecting this batch of things, Zhang Tinglan was still very satisfied, and many of the guns were only a little damaged. Some are not even damaged and are still brand new. It's just that the weapons of Russia and Austria-Hungary are different, and they can't be used if they are captured, and the Russians can only be disposed of as scrap.

Now it's in the hands of Fengjun. It's all treasures, and a rough estimate is that ten thousand broken guns can assemble at least seven or eight thousand, and the artillery is about the same proportion.

In fact, Zhang Tinglan has calculated, even if it can only be assembled one or two percent, it is still full of huge profits, and now it can be assembled seven or eight percent, and the profit is simply impossible to measure.

After greeting Felix, the transaction between the two sides began, and these waste guns were all sold to the Feng army according to their weight, about one pound of guns and cannons could be exchanged for three pounds of flour. For many years, arms dealers from various countries have taken advantage of the mediocrity and greed of Chinese officials to sell some inferior arms to China.

Of course, there are also good quality, but those prices are high to the zenith, but you can only stretch your neck to be slaughtered, who told you that you can't produce it. But now these guns are indeed sold at the price of scrap iron, and even not as expensive as scrap iron, and everyone is smiling.

In fact, Felix also knew the purpose of Fengjun's request for these things, and also understood that once it was handed over to Fengjun, Fengjun's firepower would inevitably increase greatly, and the military strength would be greatly expanded, but he had no other way.

The long cold winter continues, but the Russian army's supplies have bottomed out, and soon the soldiers will starve, and once it gets to this point, the inevitable riots will appear.

Especially after getting Zhang Tinglan's information, he was determined to rectify the Russian army in the Far East, of course, if he wanted to reorganize the army, he must have enough capital to appease the soldiers, so he also urgently needed the materials provided by Zhang Tinglan.

Therefore, the Russians can only watch more and more waste guns into the hands of the Feng army, after Zhang Tinglan got these things, the first thing is to classify them, the rifle equipped by Austria-Hungary is the Styrian rifle, the Feng army has determined to use Russian-made rifles, so these rifles all have to be exported.

Among them, the relatively new ones and the intact ones are all gathered together, and they can be sold directly as new guns, and the old damaged ones will be disassembled and reassembled, and more than 100 workers have been sent to the Jilin Arsenal, and Zhang Tinglan has transferred 200 soldiers to deal with them together.

Rifles are not the focus of Zhang Tinglan's attention, what he cares about most is large-caliber heavy artillery, especially artillery over 100 mm, if it can be repaired again, he will try to repair it as much as possible. Even if it can't be maintained, steel has to be hoarded, this is a very good steel, Fengtian is not able to produce large-caliber artillery steel for the time being, and if necessary, it can be recycled into the furnace to make another one.

And as the number of transactions skyrocketed, another weapon also caught Zhang Tinglan's attention, that is, the Madsen machine gun, which was the first light machine gun on Shijie to equip troops on a large scale, and its performance was quite good. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, China had already purchased some Madsen machine guns, and Guangdong and other places had copied them, but the quantities were very limited.

Zhang Tinglan was also equipped with a large number of light machine guns, forming an effective cooperation with Makqin, but because World War I had broken out, there was no way to purchase them, and Russia did not buy them in large quantities, so the Feng army was currently seriously lacking in light machine guns.

But there was no end to it, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was equipped with a large number of such weapons, and it also inflicted heavy casualties on the Russians on the battlefield, and among these scrapped munitions, there were many Madsen machine guns. Zhang Tinglan was of course overjoyed.

He hurriedly ordered his subordinates to select all these light machine guns, sort them out, and then enrich them into the Feng army.

Just when Zhang Tinglan was busy cleaning up these things, Zhang Zuoxiang, who was in Jilin, couldn't sit still, so he had to rush over, and Xiong Mengyuan, who was in charge of the arsenal, also brought a group of jishu backbones over.

After knowing that Zhang Tinglan got a larger caliber heavy artillery, Zhang Zuoxiang felt like a dream, and after calming down, Zhang Zuoxiang immediately felt the value of this weapon, of course, it was not just as simple as enhancing the firepower of the Feng army. And it is also the key to breaking the balance of the major factions of the Feng army.

At present, the garrison division and the 27th division are almost neck and neck, but if it is equipped with larger-caliber artillery, the shili of the garrison division will definitely surpass the 27th division and become the first main force of the Feng army, can Zhang Zuolin agree. Do you want to share this kind of artillery with Zhang Zuolin, and what conditions do you have to get from Zhang Zuolin after sharing? These must be considered and weighed clearly.

Don't look at Zhang Zuolin as the commander of the Feng army. But Zhang Zuoxiang also has considerable autonomy in his hands, and before he thinks clearly, he can't leak the news for the time being, so Zhang Zuoxiang hurried to Fuyuan.

And Xiong Mengyuan has gotten a batch of machine tools since the last time, and they have all been sent to the arsenal, and now they have begun to be used. The production capacity of the arsenal is also rising. At this time, more good things came over, and he also went crazy with joy, this time with Lao Shuai. I just want to remind Zhang Tinglan not to focus on guns, but also to get more machines, this is the key!

"Tell me, tell me how many heavy artillery you have got?"

"It's freezing this day, you come all the way, let's rest first!"

"I think I'm old, let me tell you kid, no matter how far away, my body is fine." As he spoke, Zhang Zuoxiang's face showed a solemn expression, and his voice was lowered: "Humble words, how important these weapons are, we must firmly control them in our hands, even if Yuting wants to, we must come up with conditions in exchange, otherwise wouldn't I be tired in vain, I don't worry about leaving this kind of thing to you." After I come over, you are responsible for what to do with Russia, I don't mix, but what to do internally, we brothers discuss, don't mix with you either! ”

Zhang Tinglan also knew that his father was worried that he would be embarrassed and not open his mouth, since he was willing to take care of the old man, he was also happy to be idle.

"Dad, what you say, my son listens, but let's see how many things we get first, and then discuss something else!"

"That's right, let me open my eyes too, and see what you got from Niu Huang Ma Bao!"

Zhang Tinglan sent a list to Zhang Zuoxiang, and said with a smile: "Dad, this is the data compiled yesterday, you should take a look at it first." ”

Zhang Zuoxiang took a look, only glanced at it, and couldn't help but rub his eyes, looking incredulous, the first item on it was listed with 57,000 Steyrman Lixia rifles. The first time he looked at the past, Zhang Zuoxiang thought that his old eyes were dizzy, but after looking at it carefully a few times, it was all this number, and he was completely stunned.

Nearly 60,000 rifles, enough to equip six divisions, this is inevitably too much, and then look at the second item, Zhang Zuoxiang was taken aback again, there are 463 Madsen machine guns!

This number is more than the total number of machine guns equipped by the Feng army, and looking down, Zhang Zuoxiang is already a little numb, among which there are mountain artillery and field artillery of various calibers, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and some Russian things, and there are thirty or fifty guns in total.

And when it comes to Zuihou, there are two most critical things, one is a 150-mm medium howitzer, a total of 28 pieces, and there are 18 100-mm field howitzers and 18 100-mm mountain howitzers, which are all Austro-Hungarian standard equipment!

Zhang Zuoxiang stared blankly at these things, his eyes never leaving the paper. Looking at it, he only felt a dry mouth for a while, he grabbed the teapot casually, and poured tea into his mouth, Zhang Tinglan was a little inexplicable on the side.

"Dad, this water is a little cold, I'll change the heat for you!"

"Sit down for me!" Zhang Zuoxiang pressed his son and slapped the list in front of Zhang Tinglan: "You kid tell me the truth, is the number on this right?" ”

"It's not too accurate, because these are all temporarily cleaned up, and there are still a lot of them that haven't had time to clean up!"

There is more to dare to love! After Zhang Zuoxiang heard this, he almost spurted a mouthful of blood.

"Humble words, do you know that these weapons are enough to redress the entire Feng army, and there are a lot of wealth!"

"Dad, there's nothing strange about it, the Feng army is only fifty or sixty thousand people in total, and on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, there are often hundreds of thousands of millions of troops, and there are too many damaged weapons! And you should always pay attention to it, we got a lot of weapons, but the amount of ammunition is a bit seriously insufficient, after all, after the Russians seized the ammunition, a lot of it was disposed of on the spot. The mainstream equipment of the Feng army must also be Russian-made, and we can get a production line for this! ”

"No matter what, this is a staggering amount of ammunition, how to use it, you must think it through!" (To be continued......)