The ambush plan would have been so successful, in addition to the garrison of Uriya Sutai and the cavalry regiment of Kulen, a few Makqin heavy machine guns hidden in the supply team also played a great role.

During the defense of Yangxia, the power of machine guns had already been discovered in Beiyang at that time.

The subsequent Battle of Cihuhe proved this point of view, so in today's China, if you talk about the number of machine gun equipment, in addition to Yan Shao's Guoshe Army, I am afraid that it is Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army—————— naturally, the number of equipment of the Beiyang Army cannot be compared with the Guoshe Army in any way.

The rebels did not think that this was an ambush, but as they had said, they had to come. If you come, you may encounter an ambush, but if you don't, the past few months will be in vain.

It's just that even if they were mentally prepared for an ambush, when the strength of the two regiments suddenly appeared, these rebels still fell into chaos. At this time, a few Makqin that were originally hidden in the supply team became a big killer...

Under the operation of the soldiers, the flames fired by the Maxim heavy machine gun swept down one enemy after another, and the target of the cavalry was too conspicuous, but in a few minutes, at least hundreds of people were either killed or wounded...

This kind of scene has added to the chaos of the rebels...

Although the leader of the rebels ordered a retreat immediately after the ambush appeared, he still paid more than half of the casualties, and then he had to face the pursuit of the cavalry regiment, and almost half of the more than 2,000 rebels were killed and killed, and even if they died, almost all of the wounded were resurrected by Beiyang.

And after being hit hard. These rebels are also incapable of threatening several Beiyang garrisons in Outer Mongolia.

At this point, unless the Russians themselves sent troops to help the Mongols fight. At least in the next few months, Inner Mongolia can be a little quieter...

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After that ambush, the rebels, who had lost most of their troops, withdrew from Outer Mongolia and entered Russian territory. The cavalry regiment in charge of the pursuit could only stop stupidly, because there was already a strict order from above that they were not allowed to clash with the Russians—————— let alone let them clash with the Russians, they might not have the guts.

After losing most of their troops, the Outer Mongolian rebels also lost the strength to continue the rebellion.

After that, the supplies were sent to Uriya Sutai and Kobdo very smoothly. It can be regarded as understanding the crisis in the two places. In the month that followed, there were some minor fights in Outer Mongolia, and there were hardly any problems. After more than a month of calm, the Beiyang side can finally announce that the problem of Outer Mongolia has been temporarily resolved.

During this crisis in Outer Mongolia, Beiyang sent a total of four infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, with a total of more than 9,000 troops. In addition, as many as tens of thousands of people were requisitioned...

And in the previous battles. Beiyang also paid more than 1,000 casualties, including more than 300 killed...

And Yan Shao also provided more than 47 million funds to Beiyang in this Outer Mongolia crisis, which can be regarded as directly supporting Beiyang's actions in this crisis...

It's just that...

With the lifting of the crisis in Outer Mongolia, the original honeymoon period between the National Socialist Party and Beiyang seems to have begun to fade. In the absence of other enemies, both sides gradually remembered that they were potential enemies in the first place...

However, the matter in Outer Mongolia was resolved, and the Kuomintang was still very happy. After all, the interests of the nation and the unity of the country have been safeguarded.

And with the end of the Outer Mongolia matter, Yan Shao no longer needs to provide financial support for Beiyang...

"According to the statistics of the Special Service and the dispatch oversight body. Of the more than 47 million yuan of materials sent to Beiyang, at least more than 10 million yuan were not used for matters related to Outer Mongolia, and in addition, the recent expansion of the Beiyang army, the funds for the establishment of one of the divisions happened to be after the end of a material resale incident in Tianjin..."

Still sitting next to Yan Shao, Caterina read softly.

These are all the work of the Special Affairs Bureau, and it is naturally impossible for her not to understand it.

Hearing her words, some people showed annoyed looks, while others seemed a little indifferent.

The reason is also very simple, because they have already guessed it.

If the Beiyang side will really spend all the materials on solving the crisis in Outer Mongolia, then Yan Shao would rather write his name upside down. In other words, from the very beginning of the matter, Yan Shao had already been mentally prepared for Yuan Shikai to do this.

Although it is very unpleasant, in the face of national interests, these can only be endured temporarily.

And...

"Among these misappropriated materials, about 7 million yuan were misappropriated under Yuan Shikai's instructions, and the remaining part was embezzled by officials at all levels on the way to Outer Mongolia.

Just like Caterina said, Yuan Shikai only took part of it, and the rest was basically embezzled by officials at all levels...

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After that, Katerina read a lot of information, most of which were related to the affairs of Outer Mongolia, in fact, the current affairs of Outer Mongolia are indeed one of the most important things.

"Okay, now that the matter in Outer Mongolia has come to an end, we can talk about other things next..."Clapping his palms, Yan Shao looked at Huang Haodao, who was sitting on the left. How's going on with Arsenal? This must be the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry..."

Although the arsenal has something to do with the Ministry of Military Affairs no matter how you look at it, but if you are a soldier, you can fight a war, and you are really not very good at building —————— army, and what you are best at is destruction after all.

Therefore, the affairs of the arsenal have become the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry.

Hearing Yan Shao's question, Huang Hao, who had been prepared for a long time, took out some information.

"It went very well, after more than a year of preparation, the arsenal was finally officially completed, and all factories are currently in the process of commissioning, and it is estimated that it will not be long before it can be officially put into production..."

"How big can the production capacity be?" Sitting on the right side, Fu Xiuming asked a little eagerly, and on the side, Zhang Ying, Xiao Yongyan and other members of the Military and Political Department also showed curiosity.

The arsenal has been built in Anqing since the time when Anhui had just been recovered.

It's just that the technical quality of this thing is very high, much higher than that of the iron factory, which not only requires a large number of various equipment, but also requires military personnel to have a high level. Therefore, although the Germans and Americans have never delayed their work, it still took more than a year for the arsenal to be officially completed—————— which is also related to the excessive scale of the arsenal.

If this were not the case, with Yan Shao's investment in funds, it would not take so long for a year at all...

Sitting on the left side, after hearing the words of Fu Xiuming and others, Huang Hao picked up the information on the table. "You also know very well that due to the Governor's early investment is very large, the Anqing Arsenal is very comprehensive in all aspects, not only can produce relatively ordinary pistols, rifles, and supporting ammunition and grenades and other equipment, after obtaining the license, it can also imitate the Danish Madsen light machine gun and the German Maxim heavy machine gun, and in the artillery factory, it can also produce 75mm caliber mountain artillery, field artillery, and up to 105mm caliber light howitzer—————— In fact, the experts over there have been working the 150mm large-caliber heavy artillery, but there is probably no hope for a short time..."

"Judging from the results of the current test run, the gun factory can produce 100 6.8mm caliber 1904 Mauser rifles, 100 11.47mm caliber Browning M1911 pistols, and 100,000 rounds of ammunition per day..."

"In addition, the daily output of Madsen light machine guns and Maxim heavy machine guns can also reach about 10 units, as for artillery of various calibers, because the current data is too small, so it is not possible to get results for the time being..."

"But these are just the current results, in fact, with the improvement of worker proficiency, these production capacity can be expanded, such as rifle production, the theoretical production capacity of the factory is 1,000 rods, if this data can be reached, then nearly 400,000 rifles can be produced every year, and more than 30 divisions can be equipped, which is completely enough for us to use, so there is no need to worry about this problem for the time being..."

More than thirty divisions...

At that time, the Qing court thought about getting a new army in each province, well, some of the richer were two towns, for example, Hubei was the establishment of two towns, but the most Lu only got a town plus a coupon, and the Wuchang Uprising broke out—————— but it was precisely because of this town plus a co-op that Hubei became the second largest force in Beiyang at that time...

In general, as Huang Hao said, if the theoretical data can really be reached, then at least for the Anhui military government at this time is absolutely enough. After all, the current Anhui military government has only nine divisions and more than 100,000 people...

What's more, it is impossible for these soldiers of the National Social Army to reach the point of losing more than 100,000 rifles every year.

"That's it..."Hearing Huang Hao's words, Fu Xiuming and the others looked not very satisfied.

Because what they want to know is not the production capacity of rifles, but the production of machine guns and artillery...

At the beginning, Yan Shao had ordered a large number of arms from the Germans, and after more than half a year had passed, these arms had basically arrived. In other words, at least for a short time, the SSA did not need to worry about rifles at all, and now the most important thing for them is machine guns and artillery, especially in terms of artillery ...

It's a pity that Huang Hao is not very clear about this aspect, so he can't help.

However, after being helpless for a while, Huang Hao suddenly looked at Yan Shao.

"Also, Governor, let me ask you from the Arsenal that the artillery to be produced in the future will require the techniques of the French?"

With that, everyone else looked at it. (To be continued......)