The shape of the war has completely changed, and it is no longer the time when the big guys are lined up to be shot. As a well-known consequence of the leaks of small fishing, the Mongols mastered the technology of fixed ammunition. However, looking at their barrel steel, it is still a relatively primitive steel pipe. This kind of thing is scrapped after a few hundred rounds of ammunition, let alone made into a machine gun that can fire rapidly.

After inspecting the Yinchuan battlefield, Li Xiao fell into deep thought.

Li Yongfang's rights should be increased, especially for the production of military merits, which must be produced separately and then assembled in a centralized manner. Even the workers don't know what they are for.

Only in this way can the secrecy of the weapon be guaranteed to the greatest extent. Even if there is a leak, it is impossible to leak it so thoroughly.

The army also had to adapt to modern tactics, and the infantry had to learn how to build trenches. Artillerymen also have to learn how to engage in artillery battles with the opposing side. In terms of the style of war, future wars will be more like World War I.

Both sides threw their forces into a meat grinder and fought desperately, and in the end the winner would win.

Thinking of trench warfare, Li Xiao suddenly remembered an artifact.

"Get me Zhao Shizhen."

Zhao Shizhen, who was still reporting on his work in the Ministry of Industry, heard Li Xiao's call and hurriedly rushed from the Ministry of Industry to Li Xiao's study.

"Produce a qualified barrel as soon as possible, and produce this gun as soon as possible. We may need a lot in the future! Li Xiao threw two drawings to Zhao Shizhen.

Zhao Shizhen looked at what was painted on it, a machine gun with a front tripod. It seems that the ammunition is fed by a chain, and there is a honeycomb sleeve around the perimeter of the barrel, which is supposed to be used to cool down.

Another drawing shows a wooden-handled firearm. However, the method of feeding ammunition is a magazine, which is still in the research stage. The main problem is that the problem of processing technology and accuracy has not been solved!

"There has been a breakthrough in steel-tungsten alloy and is being tested. However, judging from the current situation, there should be no problem in making a barrel. As for this firearm, since the handsome man has drawn the composition, the lower officials will try their best to do it. ”

"You Changxing Island are responsible for manufacturing the barrel, and the receiver is made in Jinzhou. The rest of the parts can be distributed to the factory in Jinan and the factory in Penglai, and the final assembly will be carried out in the capital. I want you to do it, and put a number on every part. Even if it is a defective product, it is not allowed to be dispersed out of the factory. Li Yongfang's people will closely monitor all steps, and not a single part will be lost during transportation.

Zheng Sen is responsible for this matter, and you report directly to Zheng Sen. Got it? ”

"Handsome! It's a bit hard. After reading the drawings and listening to Li Xiao's words, Zhao Shizhen was very embarrassed.

"How?"

"Even with the lathe, the tolerances are still very large. We are now producing, and we all need the master to debug it last. You're spreading your production so much now, but when it comes to final assembly, you're going to have problems. ”

"To control the tolerances as much as possible, skilled workers are needed to be trained by Jinzhou Institute of Technology. We don't have much time, and we must produce it in mass production within two years. R&D and production are your responsibility, go for it! ”

"Uh......! Promise! Li Xiao's tone was firm, and Zhao Shizhen could only take this job hard. He is not an old fisher, and Zhao Shizhen feels that it is difficult to breathe in front of Li Xiao.

"The numbers of these two guns are also determined by the marshal."

"Oh!" Li Xiao didn't think about it, and wrote MG34 on the first piece of paper. The second sheet of paper reads, AK-47.

Zhao Shizhen once saw Tang Ruowang write in Western, which seemed to be very similar to what Li Xiao wrote. I just don't know that Dashuai Weimao wants to write Westerners' words on the number of his own products. Li Xiao didn't say it, and Zhao Shizhen naturally didn't dare to ask.

"Also, the main direction of the imperial court's battle in the next step is the Northwest Mongols. It is necessary to set up an arsenal in Xi'an, which will mainly produce ammunition. At present, the whole army uses only one caliber of bullets, and the caliber of artillery shells is also uniformed as much as possible. In this way, it can be easily replenished.

You have to organize all the necessary machinery and personnel. By the end of next year, the new plant must be operational. You also discussed this matter with Zheng Sen. "There is going to be a war, and Xi'an is naturally safer than Gansu. It is much more convenient and faster to set up a factory in Xi'an, Guanzhong, to produce ammunition than to transport it from Liaodong.

"No!" Zhao Shizhen hesitated. This requires a lot of machinery and equipment to be transported and a lot of people to be deployed. It is also necessary to select a site in Xi'an, and to build a factory and other troubles. It's a big project, a very big project. Production at the end of next year is indeed more difficult. But Li Xiao's tone was unquestionable, and Zhao Shizhen had no choice but to agree and do it first.

"There's nothing else to do, you're now in charge of weapons development and production. The burden on your shoulders is not light, and if you do these things well, the court will definitely not treat you badly. Recently, the imperial court is planning to set up a general armament department to be in charge of weapons and equipment, and its status is equal to that of the military department.

I have already proposed that you be the left waiter. Mr. Sun also thinks you are the most suitable! "Just let the horses work, and don't give the horses grass, Li Xiao won't do it.

"Thank you for your support, the lower officials will definitely do their best to ensure the supply of the army." Zhao Shizhen's eyes lit up all of a sudden, Zuo Shilang, deputy minister!

Zhao Shizhen had just left, and Junzi came in to report. Cao Wenzhao came with Cao Bianjiao and was waiting outside.

"Biography!"

"Hello handsome!" Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao walked in in straight military uniforms, and without saying a word, they knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Xiao.

"Get up! The New Army does not practice prostration, but now it is all salutation. Li Xiao hurriedly went to pull Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew who were kneeling on the ground.

"Without Dashuai, there would be no me Cao Wenzhao today. You are a benefactor, so you naturally deserve this gift. Cao Wenzhao stood up and saluted Li Xiao again. Cao Bianjiao behind him also got up and saluted!

"Don't say this, sit! Come on, serve tea! Li Xiao pointed to the sofa next to him and asked his uncle and nephew to sit down.

"Dashuai, I heard that there is a fight in the northwest. If you want to transfer us to the northwest, send me to the northwest, screw off Batur Huntaiji's head, and kick you as a ball. Cao Wenzhao's broken gong voice shook the glass "buzzing" and "buzzing".

"It's to transfer you to the northwest, but it's not to fight with Baturhun. All you need to do is defend Gansu! To tell you the truth, I can't afford to fight this battle. Li Xiao stood up and walked to a huge battle map hanging on the wall.

Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao also hurriedly stood up and followed Li Xiao to the front of the map.

"The northwest is too vast, and this time the Mongol army attacked Yinchuan. Yinchuan City was almost destroyed, and if it weren't for the urgent call of the airship that was still in the experimental stage, Yinchuan City would have been breached. ”

"Yinchuan is the defense area of the Fourth Division, what does Zu Dashou eat. actually let people fight under Yinchuan City for more than ten days, but he failed to reinforce him. "There are often collisions between fierce generals, and Cao Wenzhao is not very convinced of Zu Dashou.

"This matter is not about Zu Dashou, the northwest is sparsely populated and the city is widely distributed. This is very different from your Jiangnan. Zu Dashou is stationed in Xi'an, do you know how far Xi'an is from Yinchuan? ”

"How far?" Cao Wenzhao scratched his head, he was really not familiar with the Great Northwest.

"More than 1,800 miles, more than ten days ......, hehe! If it were replaced by you Cao Wenzhao, I am afraid that it would take more than twenty days to march. Li Xiao looked at Cao Wenzhao and sneered.

"Eighteen hundred miles!" Cao Wenzhao didn't speak, and Cao Bianjiao beside him screamed.

In the south of the Yangtze River, there are already many large cities with a population of more than one million within 1,800 miles. Jinling is far away from Hangzhou, and it is only more than 500 miles. It is less than 500 miles away from Suzhou and less than 200 miles away from Yangzhou.

Cao Bianjiao didn't expect that there was a distance of 1,800 miles from Xi'an to Yinchuan in the northwest.

"In the middle of 1,800 miles, there are very few villages, herdsmen, and small towns. Often there will be a small town of a few hundred people for hundreds of miles. Zu Dashou has tens of thousands of troops, not to mention providing food and lodging, even if one person drinks a sip of water, they can drink their wells dry.

When fighting in the northwest, it is not soldiers and horses that are fighting, but logistics and supplies. The Mongols rode horses and could travel 200 miles in a day. With two legs, it would be good to be able to walk 80 miles a day. Especially in the event of a fight, if there is no reliable logistics.

Once surrounded by the superior Mongols, the daily consumption of food and ammunition is very staggering. The reason why Yinchuan City was spared this time was entirely because the treasury of the garrison division was in Yinchuan City. A lot of grain and ammunition have been accumulated, so that they will not run out of food and ammunition.

Even if it is a two-year-long hoard, it will be consumed in ten days. Sun Yuanhua, who was defending the city, told me that at the last moment, the ammunition was not even enough for a day. He was ready to die!

This time you go to the northwest, you must go to Yinchuan City to see. It was a ruined city, and there were not even one out of ten houses. The inhabitants suffered heavy casualties, and the city of Yinchuan was more than 70,000 people before the war. Less than 30,000 people survived the battle, which was Sun Yuanhua's foresight and excavation of many tunnels to be preserved. ”

"What a beating!" Cao Bianjiao swallowed a big mouthful of saliva with a "grunt"!

"Let me tell you, the Mongols have rockets. There are also mortars, not the kind used by Houjin and Nanming, but mortars like us. They also have a long-barreled cannon, which is our cannon. The barrel is long, but the shooting is unusually accurate. Bombardment of the fortifications on the city walls, this is the best weapon.

They also have guns with magazines, and although they can only press five rounds, they seem to perform a little better than our big eight. These things, the people of the Ministry of War are working with the people of the Ministry of Industry to compare them, and I believe that there will be results soon.

One of the most important reasons why the Mongols failed to capture Yinchuan this time was the difficulty in transporting shells. You must know that the Ili River Valley is two or three thousand miles away from Yinchuan. They're harder than we are! ”

"That means that if we want to fight Ili now, we have to carry enough food and ammunition. And with so much food and ammunition, the speed of the troops will be very slow. In this way, more supplies will be consumed. Cao Wenzhao thought for a moment and said the key.

"That's it, the imperial court can't provide enough food and ammunition supplies right now. Therefore, you cannot fight to the Ili Valley. The only thing I can do now is to transfer you to Gansu. It was assigned to eight garrison divisions and was responsible for the defense of the entire territory of Gansu. Try to stop the eastward advance of the Mongol army!

At the same time, the Khalkha Mongols behind you. I will also provide you with some support, and Geritu Khan is our friend.

What I'm worried about is whether your troops can stand it when they go to Gansu from the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River to eat sand. ”

"This handsome man can rest assured, we can enjoy happiness in Jiangnan because of the love of the handsome. Now going to the northwest to eat sand is naturally also the love of the handsome. As long as the handsome man says a word, even if he wants Baturhui's head, I, Cao Wenzhao, will take it off for you to kick as a ball. ”

"The strategy of the imperial court was to repair the railway line to Xi'an from the capital through the Tongguan Pass in Shanxi. At the same time, the construction started on the railway line connecting Yinchuan and Baoji from Xi'an. Now the survey team has set off, and construction will begin next year at the latest.

In the two years that the railroad is being repaired, you must be prepared to endure hardships. It was not easy for the imperial court to transport grain from the interior to Guanzhong, and half of the grain had to be lost on the way. And that's not even counting the loss of requisitioned men and livestock!

Not to mention, transport grain from Guanzhong thousands of miles to Gansu. It is even more out of ten, and only two percent of the grain can be transported. Now the Ming Dynasty is in ruins, and the court is also in difficulty! ”

"Needless to say, Dashuai, our third division can bear this hardship." Cao Wenzhao pounded his chest with a "bang" and "bang".

"The hard work is also temporary, as long as the railway is built. Materials from all over the country can be easily sent to Gansu. Starting from the capital, it is only three or four days to get to your Yinchuan or Baoji. The wear and tear on the road is very low!

So, you must protect the railway line. The arrangement of the garrison division and the construction of the bunker must also be carried out around the railway. Do you understand? ”

"The last general understands that as long as there is a railway, there will be food and ammunition. If you want to win a big battle, you have to protect the railway. According to the previous saying, the railway is our grain road. After all, Cao Wenzhao has been in the army all his life, and after Li Xiao's dialing, he immediately understood the key to this.

"If you understand this truth, Gansu will be fine.

Don't look at Gansu as barren, but Gansu has countless mineral deposits. The minerals under this ground are mined out of the gold and silver sea. Iron and steel mines, copper mines, gold mines, coal mines. These are all things that the imperial court urgently needs, and there are also some rare mineral deposits, and the contents are even more valuable.

Holding Gansu will be able to stop the eastward advance of the Mongols. Now the Ming Dynasty is recuperating, and the Rakshasas in the north have been defeated by Manye. It is estimated that if we dare not advance eastward, Gezhitu Khan is our ally, and there will be no territorial attempts.

The Korean and Japanese kingdoms in the east are now all subjects of our Ming Dynasty.

Although the southwestern feudal lords were unruly, they were still deferential to the imperial court. In the South China Sea to the south, there are forces from various countries. But our naval fleet has gone south, and their goal is to capture Temasek. And build a castle there, block the main ocean passage and completely control the South China Sea.

Now I am in the east, west, north and south, and only the Mongols in the west are ready to move. You are actually guarding the entire Ming Dynasty. Don't miss a beat! ”

"Handsome! If there is a mistake in Gansu, I Cao Wenzhao will come to see me. ”

Cao Wenzhao fell to one knee on the ground.

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