Seriously, this L15 mortar did not have too profound technology from a technical point of view, but all walks of life did not pay much attention to it before, until the cruel First World War, the two sides suffered heavy losses in positional warfare, and the ordinary cannon could only fire directly, and could not destroy the enemy under the trench at all, so a mortar that could fire a curve and hit the enemy in the trench catered to the needs of positional warfare.

The mortar is mainly composed of four major parts, namely the barrel, the bracket, the sight, and the sheet metal city well dragon king. The deconstruction was very simple, so after the intense construction of the plant, in less than two months, Thomas Arms delivered the first batch of 5,000 L15 40 caliber and 60 caliber mortars to the British troops on the front line in Europe, and after simple training, this L15 mortar caught the Germans off guard, and the British not only destroyed the German machine guns, but also suppressed the German troops in the trenches, and the British occupied the German positions with a very small amount of payment.

The good results of the mortars made the British army excited, and they had not won a contest with the Germans for a long time, so on the one hand, the British army increased the research and production of its own domestic mortars, and on the other hand, in order to make up for its own lack of production capacity, it placed a second batch of orders with the Thomas Arms Company, and more mortars and shells were produced in American factories and sent to Europe, called to the hands of front-line soldiers, and then fought each other.

This time, the British also followed the French and Russians, and the French couldn't wait to find James, and opened their mouths to smash a large order of more than 10 million dollars, which made James very happy.

The French are even more "excessive", the only thing they ask for is delivery within two months!

"Oh my God! In such a hurry, it is better for me to rush to the Germans with the explosives bag! "James is in pain and happy!

Since the battle on the Western Front was basically in France, the industry in northern France either fell into the hands of the German army or was destroyed, so France's industrial production was overstretched, and in order to block the German attack, countless French young men who loved romance were sleeping under the shattered mountains and rivers, so the French were more eager than the British to get this new mortar that caught the German army by surprise.

There was no refusal to deliver the business to the door, and it was the end of 1915 in a blink of an eye, and after several months of continuous construction, the production capacity of Thomas Arms Company was basically able to meet the order.

The only thing that was a little unpleasant was that the Russians had no money and wanted to buy mortars, but fortunately there were French guarantees, and James did not refuse the Russians' request.

A sharp weapon was not enough to change the outcome of the war, but it could change the fate of a company and some people, until the end of World War I, except for the mortars produced in Britain and France, almost all the mortars used by their soldiers were produced by American companies, especially Thomas Arms Company.

Huge interests will always attract covetousness, and many arms dealers in the east have watched with envy and even jealousy the rise of the Thomas Arms Company, which has sprung up as a strange army, but fortunately, the mortar is a new type of artillery, and there is no conflict with their products, and the hands of the eastern arms dealers have not yet reached Los Angeles on the west coast, so the Thomas Arms Company has the support of the local government and has not been suppressed by the traditional forces in the east, and it has developed very smoothly from the beginning.

Recently, a US Army logistics staff officer also came to the door and told him that the US Army had included the L15 mortar in the list of US weapons and equipment! That's really good news!

Rogan knew that the United States would enter the war sooner or later, and American lads have always been known for their abundant logistics when fighting wars.

Logan once heard a saying that Americans can tolerate the failure of the general's command error, and they must not accept the death of an American boy because of the lack of sufficient supplies!

Imagine that the United States will have more than a million troops landing in Europe, and the L15 mortar, which is included in the list of weapons and equipment of the US Army, is also in huge demand!

This is not only a successful deal, but more importantly, it has established good relations with the US side, and the benefits brought by it cannot be exhausted in a few words.

For these reasons, Logan personally received a post-staff major, Ben Hamilton, from the U.S. Army General of Staff, and invited him to his home.

Under Logan's deliberate curry-win, Ben Hamilton and Rogan became good friends, won many orders for Rogan from the US military, and even teamed up with Situ Nan to "sell stolen goods"!

Speaking of the moral army, it was caught off guard by the mortars used by the Allied armies at the beginning, and the German army, which was strong in combat, suffered losses one after another in positional battles with the British and French armies, just because the German army did not have a damn mortar!

This old American invention of a rudimentary gadget just deflated the Germans! Due to the blockade of the Entente, it was impossible for the Germans to purchase a large number of mortars, so they had no choice but to copy!

After getting the mortars left by the British and French soldiers from the battlefield, the German side organized personnel to copy the L15 mortars!

There is really nothing to say about the Germans doing this, and not long after, with their strong industrial capabilities, the German army also began to equip itself with its own mortars!

All of a sudden, the two sides returned to a stalemate! You come and go on the battlefield, and now it is not safe to hide in the deep trenches, and those mortars can also hit the trenches, and you can easily avoid the enemy's artillery if you can't hide in the trenches as before!

Well, it's better to remember to bring a mask! The war makes people crazy, and after the two sides fight, they are even more unscrupulous, killing soldiers in addition to machine guns and artillery There is also poison gas! This poison gas war was the first to be started by the Germans!

Heck, why are the Germans always one step ahead? John Bull and Gallic Chicken are really depressed, but they don't show weakness either, right? We have it too, see how we kill the Germans like mosquitoes kill flies!

When Logan was considering whether to set up a chemical company to produce poison gas bombs, on the battlefield on the Western Front, a young Austrian corporal hid in the trenches and kept cursing the damned Yankees, and engaged in such a mortar that he was so unhappy that he hid in the trenches, and after several failed charges, he could no longer continue to carry out this brainless act of harming others and himself.

Abominable machine guns, abominable mortars, abominable Yankees, are they all Jews? The brave corporal kept chewing, and no matter how could he shake his determination to fight for German Germany.

"Bang!" A cannonball fell, bursting with puffs of smoke and poisonous gas!

"Ahh

The brave corporal collapsed under the poison gas after delivering information to the company headquarters.

During World War I, Thomas Arms produced about 20,000 L15 mortars of 40 and 60 calibers, 3,000 in Britain, 50 million in France, 10,000 in the United States, 1,000 in Russia, and a small number of others were sold to South American and Asian countries.

What made Rogan most angry was that the small Japanese army had counterfeited the mortars of Thomas Arms Company and sold them to Chinese warlords without royalty, which was really bad! In his past and future lives, Logan hated this thief-like country to the extreme!

In addition to the mortar factory, the California Arms Corporation also built an ammunition factory and a firearms factory one after another. The ammunition factory mainly produces mortar shells, which are not too complicated except for the time-delay fuse.

The United States is a country where you can legally own guns, and in this country, not to mention that everyone has a gun, at least many families have guns, such as California, Texas and other western states are even more proliferated. Although decades have passed since the era of cowboys, law and order have improved a lot, and there are fewer and fewer scenes of cowboys shooting guns at every turn, but their aggressive and savage style has been retained.

Seriously, that's cowboy country. The westward expansion of the United States was fought by cowboys from the east decades ago, and the Indians along the way were either exterminated or driven to remote places at gunpoint.

In the last two or three hundred years, in addition to the British Empire's continuous expansion at sea, followed by the French, there are two other countries in the world that have expanded wildly on land, that is, the United States and Russia, the United States has expanded from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Pacific Ocean, and the Russians have also expanded from the distant European continent to Asia, across the Ural Mountains to the Bering Strait. They are across the sea from the United States.

If the Americans hadn't bought Alaska from Russia, Russia today might still be a country with a land spanning three continents: Europe, Asia and the United States!

Guns are very important in this country, and one of the founding fathers of the United States once said that guns in the hands of American citizens are the guarantee of individual democracy and freedom!

That's a great way to say that!

I don't believe you're going to demolish my house and try to see if I don't jump you off with one shot?! Lao Tzu is not holding a fire stick in his hand, the fire stick also has a fire character, which is not very good, it is easy to set himself on fire if you are not careful, it is better to use bullets to talk to those shameless politicians and black-hearted real estate developers!

I can't say that the sage who said this at the beginning had just put down his hoe and picked up the shotgun in his hand to join the Continental Army and fight against the British. After the war, he went home with his own gun and ploughed the fields.

In fact, when everyone can have a gun, there will not be a person who kills innocents indiscriminately because he has a gun, unless he is a madman!

It's not that the U.S. government hasn't thought about banning guns, but this is unrealistic, not to mention the opposition of American citizens who have a gun tradition (they may have guns at home), and the interest groups that produce guns will jump out to oppose it, and they also have an inexplicable relationship with steel companies, so the gun ban will be over.

Rogan estimates that there may be more than 10 million guns in the entire American people, although they are sold in the name of civilian sports rifles, but the difference between bullets hitting the human body and military rifles is not very big, and they are usually used for hunting.

So don't look at the country's army, the huge country has only tens of thousands of army, and it is not yet formed, plus a small number of National Guards, it doesn't take the Germans to kill them all in a day when they are sent to Europe, but the people contain huge power. Hide the wealth from the people, hide not only the wealth but also the bullet of wealth!

It is indeed profitable to invest in a gun factory, especially since Rogan knows that the United States will enter the war and the army will be expanded on a large scale, but fortunately, most of the weapons used by American GIs in the war are guns produced in Britain and France, otherwise they can only cross the ocean with their hunting rifles or sports rifles to fight the Germans.

Well, that's what the world's police love to do! Rose to prominence at a very young age!

The U.S. military industry has limited output, mainly the army, the navy is quite awesome, and the arsenals have not yet been mobilized, and Logan remembers that the war ended soon after the United States entered the war, and the U.S. military industry has not yet had time to exert its power.

I don't know if it's because of this regret that the Americans have been holding back this breath, and in World War II, they frantically sent arms to the whole world, of course, the victims were the Germans, and the Japanese who ate the gall of the ambitious leopard!

Logan estimates that if the operation is good, the gun factory can win some orders, but this is not his original intention, he just wants to have all kinds of guns, it is very convenient to have a gun factory, there is no man who does not like guns, and likes to shoot guns, no matter what bullets or liquid are fired. However, the gun Logan, which was too advanced, was not produced, so let's wait until World War II!

This should be more deeply felt by people in a country where even buying a kitchen knife has to be registered.

Logan was somewhat of a ticket player, so at first the scale of Thomas Arms was only medium, generally only responsible for providing equipment for the armed forces it had cultivated, and then it was expanded after receiving an order from the United States Army, but it was not very large, and it only produced 20,000 rifles in the entire First World War, and it almost collapsed after the war.