ACT086: The Coming Fruit

After handing over 470 Ethiopian soldiers and 20 civilians to the Eighteenth Army, Zhao Jian suddenly felt a sense of relief in getting rid of his big burden. Mr. Zhu transferred a platoon of veterans to be responsible for training these people, and the chief instructor was a major with a playing card face, and the other party gave a "okay" evaluation after reviewing the mental outlook of these soldiers.

"The spirit is a little wilted, but the eyes and military posture are not bad!"

After all, it is the Imperial Forest Army of Ethiopia, and these soldiers have received British training in the early years, and have also fought a few battles with the Italian army, so they have certain combat experience. If it weren't for the fact that they had been holding back on the ship for almost a week and vomiting again after passing through the Star Gate, their current mental outlook would definitely be better.

"That's it! Leave these people to me, it won't take 3 months, and I can transform them in a month. ”

As a traditional army power, Datang attaches great importance to the cultivation of physical fitness and fighting will in the training of grassroots soldiers, so the recruit period is very harsh, but the quality of the trained soldiers is also extremely high.

The active-duty army is divided into two classes, A and B, with a total of 36 group armies, 150 divisions, and 3.5 million combat soldiers. The number of people may not seem like a lot, but the advantage is that they are highly qualified and well-equipped. Moreover, Datang has the largest number of reserves in the world, with a population of 900 million, and if it is recklessly mobilized to the limit, it is fully capable of pulling out one or two hundred million soldiers.

Of course! The Emperor couldn't have done that, unless one day he suddenly had a brain pump.

There was still plenty of time, and Zhao Jian saw that since he had come to the barracks, in line with the idea of understanding the "potential customers" first, he took the initiative to request a visit, and Mr. Zhu not only gladly agreed, but also arranged for an officer to drive a car for him to be a tour guide.

"Young Master Zhao, what do you want to see?"

"It's mainly about weapons and equipment, just call me Xiao Zhao."

As a group army, the equipment of the 18th Army can be said to represent the highest level of the Tang Army, and it is also absolutely first-class in the world. But in Zhao Jian's view, these weapons and equipment are still quite backward, revealing a strong World War I mentality.

In terms of light weapons, the average 10-man infantry squad has 6 rifles, 2 submachine guns, and 1 light machine gun (machine gunner + ammunition man), and they do not have any anti-armor capabilities except for bullets for people, grenades, and explosives for fixed fortifications.

Conventional troops can only have two 14.5mm large-caliber armor-piercing guns at the company level, while 37mm anti-armor guns have only four guns per battalion, and all of them are attached to specialized anti-armor machine companies. If an ordinary unit encounters an armored machine in an engagement, the only thing they can do is to throw smoke grenades and pin them until friendly troops arrive with small artillery to reinforce them.

But there are two things that are very commendable in the regular infantry division, the first is that the truck penetration rate of the A infantry division is unexpectedly high, each platoon has two trucks, and long-range maneuvering can rely entirely on wheels instead of two legs, and the other point is that the proportion of artillery is insanely large! The artillery regiment directly under the ordinary infantry division turned out to be a special 5-battalion reinforced system, and one battalion has 20 105mm howitzers or 12 150mm heavy howitzers, a proper artillery doctrine!

After going around the infantry division for a long time, Zhao Jian didn't see anything that interested him too much. Compared with other countries of the same era, this army is indeed super strong, but his "vision" is too advanced. In Zhao Jian's opinion, the other party still has a lot of "room for improvement", and he can try to tailor some good things for them in the future.

After coming out of the infantry division, the officer drove to the armored division again, and there was finally a "big guy" here that made Zhao Jian very interested!

Datang's armored aircraft started a little late compared with other mainstream countries, and it was not until the 6th year after the end of World War I that the first prototype was made, and 2 years later it was officially installed in the troops, and this was still the result of Mr. Zhu's active promotion.

The main reason for this is that the military top brass is not optimistic about the prospects of this new weapon. After all, the weapon of this kind of copycat self-giant god soldier is too weak compared to the original version, and Datang is the country with the highest number of giant god soldiers in the whole world, so the high-level thought at first that a real power does not need this kind of inferior product at all.

Later, there was an upsurge in the development of armored aircraft in Europe, and the Datang Army felt that if it didn't have one, it would be a loss of face as the "strongest army", so it made some façade up a little. It wasn't until a truly reliable expert described the future development prospects of armored aircraft for the high-level that the military really paid attention to it.

At this stage, there are three types of armored aircraft equipped in Datang, namely the light Type 25 "Maned Dog", the medium Type 26 "Sky Wolf" and the heavy Type 28 "Cancer".

Among them, the maned dog is a rare beast-type mecha, which is operated by a single person, anti-joint, forelimb landing, and equipped with two 20mm cannons on its back, mainly used for fighting in hilly and mountainous areas with complex terrain, and sometimes makes a cameo appearance as a "camel beast".

The Sky Wolf is a modest humanoid and a single man, equipped with a detachable 50mm "shield cannon" in its left hand and melee weapons such as short swords and hand axes in its right hand. Flexible in mobility, mainly used against enemy armored aircraft.

The Cancer, on the other hand, is a giant with three large thick legs and has the fastest movement speed of any heavy mech of its kind. The arms are like crab claws, which can easily crush the armor of the light mecha, and there is an embedded 50mm anti-armor gun in the chela, and a 150mm short-barreled howitzer on the back.

When Zhao Jian came to the armored division, the division happened to be in drills, the mane dog was practicing high mobility evasion in complex terrain, the sky wolf was catching and fighting to improve its hand-to-hand combat ability, and the giant crab was practicing rapid deployment in a targeted manner. His 20x diameter 150 howitzer has a very large recoil, and his posture when firing the gun is very particular.

"It's spectacular!"

Zhao Jian looked at the training ground, and hundreds of active metal giants praised sincerely.

"It's a pity that it's useless!"

"I think it's a good thing for peace if all weapons are useless."

"Oh~! I didn't expect Xiao Zhao to think so, I thought you just said that you had opened a weapons research institute, and you must have hoped that there would be more wars in this world! ”

"Doing business should also be conscientious, how can the coffin seller sincerely hope that there are many dead people in this world!"

"Ha Luha, that's just as well."

Zhao Jian always believed that the real role of weapons should be to defend peace, not to start a war, and as for deliberately promoting war for the sake of selling arms, Zhao Jian would never do it.

In order to make his conscience passable, Zhao Jian has been selling weapons to the weak for the past two years. Under his leadership, while the number of people killed by gunfire in Tanzania has doubled in the past year, inter-clan clashes have been reduced by more than two-thirds, thanks to the capital of smaller tribes to confront larger tribes.

It's a pity that with Zhao Jian's current strength, he can at most engage in regional balance in some backward and remote small places, and once he changes to a large-scale war at the national level such as Italy's invasion of Ethiopia, his role will become very limited. And if the scale rises further and rises to the scope of the world, he Zhao Jian is like a small fish in the ocean, no matter how hard he swims, he can't stop the coming storm and waves.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jian suddenly felt a feeling, and suddenly said to the major who was driving.

"Major, get ready! Maybe in the near future, the day when you and these big guys will have a place to play...... It's coming soon! ”

PS: This is last night's shift (rubbing your face).