Chapter 232: Planning
"Tsk, there are a lot of good things, this time it's an eye-opening for a knife to cut your ass!"
Zhang Kai couldn't help but keep babbling, and kept fiddling with the equipment in front of him in his hand.
"This thing should be a Mosin Nagant rifle, I heard that although this thing is not as good as the German and British styles, it is cheap, and it can work well in harsh conditions, it can be shot in rain, snow, and even hail, even if it is soaked in water for a short time!
It's much easier to use than our Hanyang manufacturing. Many key bullets can be used with domestic bullets. ”
Zhang Kai seems to have seen these things in some places.
"And this! The TT-33 semi-automatic pistol, also called Tokarev, is a semi-automatic pistol, characterized by strong penetration and simple structure, this simple thing is durable! The lethality is not weak at all.
No worse than the expensive Browning! ”
"And this, the Popold submachine gun, it seems that there is something in that Sini that has not yet been figured out, and there are still a hundred Popold submachine guns here.
This thing has a drum for the magazine, the maximum bullet limit is second only to the light machine gun, the rate of fire is fast, lightweight, and it is a machine gun that can charge when it comes up! ”
"And this, Mosin Nagant bolt-action sniper rifle! Tsk, I can't find a few of these things in China, especially this sniper scope, it is difficult to imitate it in China, but it has to be well maintained, and in the hands of sharpshooters, it is completely a killing weapon.
And this, the light machine gun, I don't know what the name is, it's a good thing anyway, the heavy machine gun is still Maxim, but this thing is a bit bulky, and the recoil is high, so you have to find a fixed place to exert its power.
The most powerful thing is these large-caliber mortars, which can dig a hole in some vulnerable city walls with one shot, and it is still a bit choking against armored vehicles, but this thing is definitely a big killer in China.
With these howitzers, you can do a wave of covered strikes, and didn't you intercept eighteen mortars before?
It's all Russian-made, the shells are perfectly adaptable, there are 3,000 shells here, if you can transport them all back .... This can be a battle for wealth! ”
Zhang Kai couldn't help but have red eyes as he spoke, and seemed to recall some unpleasant memories.
Maybe it was the poor experience of fighting during the Zhensong Army, but Zhao Ming heard Wang Er mention it, as if the Zhensong Army couldn't make up five cannons in the whole army at the beginning.
The follow-up army was expanded to the point of 100,000 people, which could only make up the heavy firepower configuration of an ordinary division.
After all, it is a bandit-style local army, and it does not have the support of a generous capital tycoon behind it, and it is conceivable that it is mixed up like this, and it is all snatched from others.
At the moment, these equipment are indeed luxurious, 36 light machine guns, 18 heavy machine guns, 6 large-caliber mortars, 9 small-caliber mortars, 38 howitzers.
With the addition of the previous four light machine guns, one heavy machine gun and eighteen mortars, the number of cannons suddenly increased to more than sixty.
There were also forty light machine guns.
Such a number of armed forces, in the country, let alone at the battalion level, regiment level, is not shabby in a division.
In terms of heavy firepower rationing, the Northeast Army can be slightly compared with the Russians at present, but it is still inferior in quantity and quality.
And with these weapons, it is no exaggeration to say that if Zhao Mingru's troops increase tenfold and reach the standard of a division, I am afraid that many forces will rush to throw olive branches. And don't dare to be too presumptuous under the conversation.
This is the deterrent power of force.
It's just that Zhao Ming also knows that this is not enough, if he wants to really be on the table, he still lacks some chips.
The weapons and equipment are still insufficient, and such armament can barely be regarded as a weak second-line division, which is still far from the first-line division.
The second is that there is no stable rear as a base area, so if he takes these weapons back, Zhao Ming estimates that he will either obey the rule of man and hand over these weapons and equipment.
Either that, get more equipment and more manpower!
At present, Chabei is still short of manpower, and it should be said that there is a shortage of soldiers.
As for a solid territory, there is no shortage of it, and since this year, Chahar has planned counties and towns in various tribal gathering places.
It is equivalent to a clearer division, but because many of the gathering places are not large-scale at all, many cities have the old ones left over from the previous dynasty.
But more often than not, it's just a bare wilderness, at most a few herders' houses, and that's a county.
However, this also means that there are names that can be built as simple cities as garrisons.
This is the reason why Zhao Ming felt that Chahar was his own territory from the beginning.
The first step is to settle in Chahar, the second step is to slowly accumulate prestige and hold part of the military power, and the third step is to gradually get weapons and equipment and financial resources.
Now it's time for the third step.
According to the original prediction, Zhao Ming had two strategies, one was to trade arms, cattle and sheep with the Northeast Army in Rehe.
Later, the appearance of Boss Guo also strengthened this idea, and on the one hand, the financial resources relied on Fengjiazhuang to convey one after another, and more importantly, they still wanted to rely on themselves.
Originally, I wanted to rely solely on the cattle and sheep business, but it turned out that the cattle and sheep business here was not very attractive to the Rehe side, and the most valuable thing was the war horse.
But the war horse himself was also in urgent need, but later the excavation of the mine almost directly solved the problem of financial resources for Zhao Ming.
And now that Outer Mongolia is in the party, it seems that the ordnance is almost about to be solved.
As for the territory, it is entirely possible to build a garrison in Chabei first, a more stable and comprehensive military garrison.
The reason is also very sufficient, before he was the field commander, he may have some concerns, but now he has no worries, he is the commander of the northern part of the country, and he has the rank of lieutenant colonel, both nominally and in fact, taking into account the military garrison duties.
What happened to the construction of a military garrison in such a position? Makes perfect sense.
And the fourth step is to wait for the opportunity, while trying to establish a good relationship with Chahar Dutong and stabilize the other party, while waiting for the Central Plains war.
It was another reshuffle, and Zhao Ming knew very well who the loser was and who the winner was.
As long as it can be dragged to the Central Plains War, then he Zhao Ming will really have a chance to sit at the table, provided that Yan Laoxi's forces are not allowed to be wary of him, or even act in advance.
But originally Zhao Ming thought about this trip to Mongolia, and the follow-up was to report part of the truth.
He wanted to use this great military exploit to further improve his military rank, at least nominally forcing Zhang Li not to implement a blockade in terms of materials.
At the same time, it is also intended to seize greater military power.
But if you think about it, this path is not necessarily feasible, and it is also applicable in many places.
Once he behaves too abruptly, Yan Laoxi, the handsome, may appreciate him, but not surprisingly, he will lose a lot of initiative.
Either compromise and be reused by Yan Laoxi, and then completely branded with the label of Yan Laoxi's faction.
But he, Zhao Ming, couldn't reverse the victory of such a large-scale battle as the Central Plains War, and when the time came, he would either become a marginal figure with Yan Laoxi.
Either they will be co-opted by the principal, and they will inevitably become marginal figures, and the way up will be completely cut off.
This was inevitable, and factional struggles within the military during this period were particularly fierce.