"Alas~" Yu Dawei sighed faintly, it would have been nice if this guy had appeared two years earlier. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"What questions do you have?" Sigh? Is this going to be yellow? Wen Hui hurriedly asked.

"It's fine." Yu Dawei waved his hand, and then began to talk about business, "Can you get the production technology for the M1919-type 75 mountain gun?" ”

it! This time I asked the point, the government is still no problem to produce M1919 by itself, after all, there are still some foundations for the production of artillery there, but the current timing is not right, and the technology can be introduced in the early years and then grope for self-production. It's been 36 years now, and in another year you'll move the capital, and the arsenal will have to move, so you can guarantee that the rifle bullets will be good at that time. Even if chicken blood is beaten to achieve domestic production, the annual output is not enough to cover the consumption.

But without waiting for Wen Hui to answer, Yu Dawei changed the topic: "It's me who is greedy, you can supply these artillery pieces in large quantities?" "Technology is always rarer than quantity, and it is not so much to be able to guarantee procurement.

"Which one are you referring to?" Until now, I don't know which gun I liked.

"M1919 Type 75 Mountain Gun, Type 19 Type 105 Mountain Artillery, M1928 Type 155 Howitzer." With more than two hundred Bofors, plus these guns, it should be enough to form a decent support artillery unit.

"Uh......" are all bargains, the same caliber is cheaper with a small caliber, and the same caliber is cheaper with an earlier year, "You don't want Le.FH18 and SFH18?" Aren't the artillery regiments being formed by the government now using these two types of artillery? The M39 howitzer is also good, and it is also a good choice to replace the SFH18. "The German artillery is expensive to kill, and it is not its accuracy and quality that are valued. How did this give up?

"Things are really good, but the central government has already placed additional artillery orders with Germany, and it is financially unaffordable to buy so many heavy guns." According to Yu Dawei's meaning, the advanced German heavy artillery has already been provided by the shipper, and the little money left can only purchase as many artillery as possible for the use of the troops.

Wen Hui didn't know what to say at this time, covering his face and sighing was a relaxed way to express, he did have additional orders this year, but these orders were not fully implemented! Due to the superior performance of the SFH18 155mm howitzer, the Nationalist Government is ready to purchase an additional 75 guns to make up 100 guns, which will be organized into 2 heavy artillery brigades, a total of 4 artillery regiments, and 25 guns per regiment. For this request, Rheinmetall itself could not ask for it, and the German government did not object, but what I did not expect was that the Lugou Bridge was started the next year (1937).

At that time, the production of the second batch of SFH18150mm howitzers had not yet ended, and the Japanese government immediately strongly protested, demanding that it not be delivered, and canceling all subsequent orders. At that time, China was obviously stronger than Japan, and Hitler naturally fell to the side of Japan psychologically. But as Rheinmetall, business is business after all. The president of the company approached Hitler to lobby that the cannon had already been built, and that the loss would be too great if it was not delivered. Hitler also agreed to urgently deliver the second batch of SFH18150mm howitzers to China, pretending to have been transported before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.

In fact, Rheinmetall did not complete the construction of this batch of guns at all, and they urgently transferred 20 guns from the guns that were already ready to be delivered to the Wehrmacht and delivered them to China overnight. When this batch of guns was already at Rheinmetall, a large number of gun test firings were done to determine the performance. Strictly speaking, it's not a new cannon!

At the end of 1937, the Chinese side accepted these 20 howitzers in Hengyang, Hunan. However, there are obvious traces of the cannon being fired, and the firing range is not 15 kilometers or the previous 13 kilometers (not the 32 times the diameter required by China, but the original 30 times the diameter, and the natural range is insufficient). It's just that the government has no choice, and the Germans can resist the pressure and sell you is already a great favor, what else can you say! As for the third batch of orders for the so-called 50 new guns, they naturally disappeared.

In the end, the army received a total of 44 SFH18150mm howitzers and formed 2 artillery regiments, namely the 10th Artillery Regiment and the 14th Artillery Regiment. This is almost the only heavy artillery in the army during the entire Anti-Japanese War! This number is quite miserable and pitiful. Why? Because according to the German army, each infantry division has an artillery regiment, under the jurisdiction of 2 heavy artillery battalions, a total of 36 150mm heavy guns. In other words, the heavy artillery of the whole of China was only slightly more than a division of the German army. In World War II, the German army often dispatched hundreds of divisions to fight. In comparison, the artillery of the national army is simply not worth mentioning.

As for the Le.FH18105mm howitzer, sixty and sixty thousand shells were ordered this year, the idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, these 105 came later than SFH18, until October 1938, only 4 and 8016 shells arrived, 37 years of bloody battles did not catch up, SFH18 still made a combat contribution.

Of course, they don't know about these things, and now they are still looking forward to the delivery of German Krupp artillery to the equipment troops as soon as possible! Wen Hui took out so many artillery pieces for them to choose from, naturally to avoid this situation, but he actually reduced the purchase on the grounds of lack of money! After all, it is now a period of Sino-German cooperation, but they don't want to think about the high probability that Germany will choose Japan (after all, the Republic of China is just a poor friend, and there is no economic and military strength).

Wen Hui can only convince now, and no one will believe that the Germans' cooperation is unreliable, and see if they can use the price advantage of weapons to pull orders from the national government, although the national government also has political considerations for purchasing weapons from Germany, but the fragile relationship between the two cannot be maintained by a few arms orders.

You say Sino-German friendship? Oh, now is still during the Sino-German cooperation, according to the signed Hebulou Treaty, the two sides are tungsten sand-based raw materials in exchange for military aid, this is also the Sino-German honeymoon period that was blown to the sky by the majority of German fans in later generations, there is a good posture of the two brothers, the most widely circulated saying is nothing more than that Hitler vigorously carried out military assistance to China because of his personal China complex, Nazi Germany also selflessly aided a large number of munitions, provided a lot of tanks, planes and artillery, established a famous German armor division, and made great contributions to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Despite pressure to form an alliance with Japan, Nazi Germany's attitude towards the Chinese government has always been rather ambiguous.

Regarding this statement, Wen Hui said: Two people whose strength is not on the same level can still be friends, you have done too much daydreaming, right? The contribution of the German mechanic to the war is not fake, but it is a pile of real money, military aid is not less than the Germans, those things are especially money, and it is not cheap, the government implements the policy of insufficient funds and minerals to make up, almost barter transactions are played by the Germans with scissors, in general, the government suffers!

Putting aside Hitler's illusory China complex for the time being (I don't know who came out with YY's statement that has become historical evidence), let's just say that the current Sino-German cooperation, after the April 12 coup and the July 15 coup, the Soviet advisers were forced to return to China by the exclusion of the Nationalist Government, and President Chiang needed a new foreign military advisory group to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, but at the same time would not interfere in China's internal affairs and had outstanding military performance.

The loss of all of Germany's overseas colonies in World War I meant the loss of cheap and stable raw materials and labor markets, and the dilapidated domestic economy and extremely unequal trade status compared with other powers made Germany also in urgent need of a trading partner like China that could provide a large number of agricultural and mineral raw materials and a large domestic market, eager for advanced technology, and willing and able to pay for international currency or barter.

In June 1928, President Chiang formally hired Max Bauer as his general adviser and formally established an advisory group.

In the early stage, the economic and technological nature of the German advisory group was greater than the nature of military aid, because if you want to establish a modern national defense, you must establish a modern industry, so the early stage is mainly economic exchanges, and the later stage is military assistance; during this period, although the military advisory group has made a lot of contributions to the development of domestic modernization, it cannot hide Germany's practice of treating China as an arms market and a source of raw materials for arms.