Chapter 193: Li Hongzhang Plans for Coastal Defense (2)

In the first month of the 10th year of Tongzhi, the former governor Zeng Guofan repeated the preparations for coastal defense, saying that the three coastal provinces of Zhili, Fengtian and Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian provinces, and the three provinces of Anhui, Jiangxi and Hubei along the Yangtze River should be merged and fortified. A total of 90,000 troops were trained in the seven coastal provinces and 30,000 land troops in the three provinces along the Yangtze River. The annual salary of 8 million taels was suspended, but the discussion was suspended because there was no money to raise.

Prime Minister Yamen plans to practice water warfare with the foreign gun team that has won in the past, and Ding Richang plans to train the army. He has 100,000 elite soldiers in the world, which is slightly the same as the prelude to Zeng Guofan. However, the army and the sailors have different usages and different training methods, and the sailors can still go ashore to fight the thieves, and the army has not forced the boats to operate, so it seems that it is not suitable for two uses, so as to cause two mistakes.

The ministers foolishly thought that in the coastal provinces along the river, although the existing training gun team was not as much as more than 100,000 as planned by Ding Richang of Zeng Guofan, it was useless to have more than enough, and it was better to seek refinement with less, but the existing army was carefully selected and eliminated, and all were changed to foreign gun and artillery teams. The coastal defense battalion also switched to the rear door into the gun, and stationed a large branch of the strong brigade near the critical port, and when there was nothing to do, it was specially invited to drill and build a fortress, and when there was an incident, it was specially prepared for guerrilla warfare, and it was not allowed to be transferred.

Each Haikou imitates the Western-style construction of sand and soil forts, and the ground is wide and elliptical and thick. If the artillery position should be used with a caliber of 8 inches to more than 10 inches, the commander should be selected for the exercise, and the farther away the better, and the more he can be, and the so-called medicine can be prepared for the symptoms.

2. One original instrument. The western land and water warfare is a sharp weapon, with guns and mines as the main item. The cannon has the front and rear doors, raw wrought iron and pure steel, the gun has the difference between the front and rear doors, smoothbore, and blessing, and the mine has the difference between touching objects, grinding objects, and electrical fire. Steal and study its drawings and tools to get its rough idea.

One foreign gun, countries switched to the back door. With its dexterity, speed and far. Its old front-door guns were sold at a cheap price in China, and they were despised by outsiders. Britain, Russia, Germany, France, and the United States are also the five major powers, and their backdoor guns are clear-eyed. The Russians said that the Bal crossbow; De said that it is the root; The law is called the sax bowl; Mei said Lin Mingden. Compared with the blunt and slow speed, Britain is good at Russia, and Russia is good at the United States. The beauty of Lin Mingden is also proficient in the British people are German and German guns.

Lin Mingden and Snaide, which have been shipped into China in recent years. Chen and Shen Baozhen both purchased thousands of Lin Mingdeng. The Shanghai Machinery Bureau can also imitate. However, there are many brave and careless soldiers. The Shi Naide machine spring is simpler, the purchase price is more economical, and the modification is more convenient, and it is now planned to order each battalion to replace the Shi Naide gun, and occasionally to Lin Mingden, serious practice, from simple and refined.

He also ordered the Tianjin and Shanghai bureaus to purchase Lin Mingdeng's sub-making machine first, and imitate the copper coil of the sub-medicine in order to provide relief. He still purchased a number of British Henry Martti guns with the Prime Minister's Yamen, and ordered 1,000 Bal crossbow guns with the Russian consul for the soldiers to use in the selection of the front.

As for the gun position, Britain and Germany are the most sophisticated in the new style, and the German Krupp rear door steel cannon defeated the French soldiers, which is particularly famous. The minister purchased more than 50 large and small cannons from Krupp every year, and placed them separately in Dagu Fort and Tianjin Defense Camp. The largest of them are two, with a diameter of eight inches. It is enough to reach the strength of the front door cannon caliber of eleven or twelve inches. However, the price of each statue is about 20,000 yuan, and it is difficult to afford to buy more.

Or it is said that the steel cannon is too large, the medicine is too violent, and it is used for a long time or causes damage and cracking, so the British mostly use the front door wrought iron long bullet cannon, Armstrong is especially written, the caliber of the big one is 11 inches to 15 inches, the body weighs more than 80,000 catties, the bullet weighs to 600 pounds, and can penetrate the iron armor more than 20 inches thick, but the operation and maintenance are difficult, the value is particularly expensive, and there is no buyer in China.

The small artillery for land combat is based on the German Krupp four-pound steel cannon and the American Grimm cannon. The ministers also ordered dozens of statues for guerrilla needs.

At present, the bureaus in Shanghai and Nanjing can only imitate 12-pound to 68-pound round round bullets and copper and iron bombers, which the Huai army has been accustomed to for a long time, far superior to the old Chinese system, but inferior to the essence of the new Western style. It was still intended to follow Armstrong's style, with wrought iron and no machine available.

Foreign forged guns and guns cost hundreds of thousands of gold to purchase the entire machine, which is too expensive. It is necessary for China to use foreign methods to open coal and iron mines, and then purchase large furnaces, steam hammers, water pressure cabinets and other machines, and the imitation can be expected to be successful. If Krupp's steel cannon is made of raw steel pig iron, the factory has its own secret method, and it is not passed on.

As for the water bud, the ship is the most fierce to break the enemy. In the past Citi battles between the north and the south, most of the southern soldiers won the water bud power. In the battle between Germany and France, the French warships were ten times larger than those of Germany, while the Baltic French ships did not dare to go deeper, all thanks to the work of water buds.

This bud is divided into two categories, one is a fixed and immovable water bud, or connected between wooden rows, or anchored to its position so that it sinks into the water, or when the land castle is attacked, it is placed in the gap and the main road, which is specially designed for self-defense. One is a water bud that can move, or float on the surface of the water and float with the wind, or use a machine on its own, or stretch out a long rod at the head of an iron ship to place it, or it is specially used as a boat to tow water buds, which can be used to attack the enemy.

Recently, Gezhi has learned to refine the day, and the method of water buds has also become more refined, and the medicine is only fifty or sixty pounds, no matter what kind of warship, it can be blasted to the bottom. I heard that all countries pay attention to this thing, and there are a lot of them. When it is used, it must be arranged in several rows in the water, and dozens of corpses must be placed in each mouth, so that the enemy ships will not dare to enter.

The bureaus in Shanghai and Tianjin can only imitate their coarse ones, while motors, copper wires, iron ropes, erasers and other parts are still purchased from abroad. It is necessary to visit and recruit people from all over the world to teach and perform in China, and it is easy to improve.

As for the two firearms, it is also needed, and the Tianjin Bureau has four sets of drug-making machines, which are more than 2,000 pounds at sunrise, which can be applied. But there are more guns and fewer bullets. The Shanghai Bureau only has one pair of drug-making machines. There is little sunrise. It is advisable to purchase machinery and promote manufacturing in Suning.

All provinces need to use foreign guns and artillery to defend the river and the sea, and it is advisable to set up bureaus to imitate them in the interior, otherwise everything will be purchased from foreign businessmen, and there will be no preparation for urgency. And Fujian, Shanghai and Tianjin machine bureaus are approaching Haikou. The reason is that for the sake of foreign countries, there is a police mutiny, and heavy troops must be guarded first. It's not stable.

Subsequently, the provinces must set up a bureau in the hinterland where the water is opened, and if there is a war in Haikou, the back road can be self-made reserves, which can be transported in a steady stream.