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With a range of more than 9 kilometers and a weight of only 700KG, the Swedish Bofors M1930 75mm mountain gun, one of the most advanced mountain guns in the world, Liu Lang's happiness came a little suddenly.

Master Huang's gift not only came a little suddenly, but also some of it was too valuable.

Speaking of this unknown Swedish Bofors company, many people may not know. However, Liu Lang knew them too well, and some of their products were even used in the Republic until the eighties of this century.

It is true that the Bofors company is really not very famous, it is just an artillery enterprise in the small Nordic country of Sweden. The company has a long history, as early as 1894, it was founded by Nobel, the famous father of modern explosives. Nobel was a patriot who felt the backwardness of the military industry in his native Sweden, and spent a huge sum of 1.3 million Swedish kronor to buy a small company, that is, Bofors-Gursbon. This company is located in a small town called Bofors in the province of Värmland, Sweden! Within half a century of its establishment, the scale of the company was not large, and it mainly produced a small amount of steel and explosives!

Since Sweden declared its neutrality in 1815, the country's army was small and was mainly used for the necessary self-defense. So the country naturally did not pay much attention to the production of armaments, and the Bofors company was also a small company until the First World War!

Bofors is not famous, but if you talk about Krupp, you must know.

Krupp is the most powerful artillery manufacturer in Germany and the first-class artillery giant in the whole of Europe and even in the world.

But what does Krupp have to do with Bofors?

Hitler once said: The First World War was a massacre of the infantry!

The scene of the sea of corpses and blood in various countries made the Swedish king understand in horror that there was no real neutral country in this world. If there are not enough troops and advanced weapons to deter a potential enemy, the so-called neutral countries will be invaded in an instant!

Therefore, Sweden urgently needs to raise the level of the arsenal of the national army. Unfortunately, Sweden was once one of the leading European powers, but it was more than 200 years ago. After being defeated by the Russian Tsar Peter the Great in the 18th century, Sweden collapsed and became a second- and third-rate country in Europe.

After the end of the First World War, Sweden's industry, science and technology were at the backward level of Europe. Fortunately, they were lucky enough to get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity soon.

After the end of World War I, Germany was in shambles by the Treaty of Versailles. According to the treaty, the German military industry could only produce light weapons, not even heavy machine guns, not to mention artillery. Since artillery could not be produced, then what was the need for the existence of the artillery giant Krupp, which was almost dissolved by Britain and France.

And the German military top brass is trying its best to preserve the spark of German military power, and Sweden is doing everything in its power to increase its own military industrial production capacity, so it is natural to hit it off!

In fact, Sweden had a good relationship with Germany during World War I, secretly helping the German army to do a lot of things, and even laying mines to blockade the strait. This time, the first thing that came to mind for the German Krupp company was Sweden!

So, under the guidance of the German high-level, the senior management of Krupp Company approached the Swedish Bofors company and put forward a proposal for cooperation. The proposal was simple, Krupp provided all the research materials and technical staff, and allowed Bofors to share them. However, Bofors is not allowed to monopolize the success of the study, and it is required to provide the site, equipment and skilled workers.

Obviously, Krupp laid eggs in the backdoor, but in a different place to continue the existence of Krupp.

However, there is no harm to Bofors, and they can become the top artillery company in Europe in an instant, so why not. Bofors immediately cooperated with Krupp until a few years before the outbreak of World War II.

During this period, the level of Bofors naturally improved by leaps and bounds, and it became the first-class military enterprise in Europe in an instant. They have produced various types of artillery, from the famous 40-mm anti-aircraft guns, to the 75-mm mountain guns, 75-mm anti-aircraft guns, 88-mm field guns, 105-mm medium howitzers, 150-mm heavy howitzers, 152-mm cannons, etc., and have formed a complete system.

These cannons are basically clones of the Krupp company, and their performance is extremely good, not worse than the deity.

The Swedes are also Germanic, with the precise, rigorous, and meticulous characteristics of the Germans, so Bofors' artillery processing is very high-quality, which can be called the world's top artillery.

The M1930 Bofors mountain gun in front of Liu Lang was just successfully researched in 1930, and it is the latest type of artillery, and its performance has surpassed that of German artillery at that time, which can be called the most advanced mountain gun in the world during this period.

Liu Lang also knows that this kind of artillery is not only famous, but also in this Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Bofors mountain artillery also proved the value of being the top mountain artillery.

At that time, the 19th Route Army and the Fifth Army had been fighting with the Japanese army in Shanghai for two months, and Liu Lang, who had taken the enemy's headquarters with a cannon, was also lying in the hospital, but the war was still going on, and a small number of the Nationalist Air Force was beaten by the Japanese Air Force and did not dare to take off, and the navy did not dare to go to Shanghai at all because of the disparity in strength between the enemy and us, and the soldiers of the Nationalist Army fought with light weapons and the Japanese army armed to the teeth, and suffered heavy casualties.

Under the order of the bald president, the newly formed mountain artillery regiment left for Shanghai and participated in the final battle against the Japanese army.

Although the Bofors 75 Mountain Gun was a newly introduced cannon, it also had a high hit rate in the hands of poorly trained National Army artillerymen due to its extremely high accuracy. More importantly, there is a characteristic of the Bofors mountain cannon that is simply tailor-made for the Chinese.

It can be disassembled into 8 parts at any time, and its mobility can fully adapt to the vertical and horizontal environment of the water network in Shanghai.

At that time, the Japanese army, which had already experienced the annihilation of the Seventh Wing, frantically increased its troops, especially the output of heavy firepower, and the re-enhanced Japanese army's sea, land, and air firepower was extremely powerful, with more than 200 large and medium-caliber artillery pieces in the army alone, and nearly 100 artillery pieces on the warships.

Therefore, in the later stage of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the national army also used mountain artillery guerrilla warfare. First secretly make observations, choose artillery positions. Then he quietly rushed to the position, quickly loaded the mountain artillery, fired more than 10 rounds of the cannon fiercely, and then immediately disassembled and dodged.

By the time the Japanese army reacted and attacked, the mountain artillery of the national army had already been transferred. If the Japanese caught up, the Bofors mountain artillery could be divided into 8 parts and carried by mules and horses, and it would have run away long ago.

In this battle, the Bofors mountain cannon played a great role due to its extremely high accuracy, although it fired more than a dozen rounds at a time. For the Japanese army's strong fortifications and a large number of infantry attacking teams, they all had very accurate lethality, causing considerable casualties to the Japanese army, which made the Japanese army angry.

Because of the rapid transfer of the Bofors mountain artillery, the Japanese artillery and infantry could not catch up, and if the air force was used, it would be extremely difficult to kill a few mules and horses, and in the end they had to give up.

Under the superior firepower of the Japanese army, the reason why the Songhu War of Resistance was able to fight a draw is that in addition to Liu Lang's accidental one-shot to eliminate the headquarters of the Seventh Wing, the national army came to a beautiful battle of annihilation, and the mortars and Bofors mountain artillery that gave great damage to the Japanese army also contributed to it.

Of course, it is always the people, not the weapons, that decide the war, and most importantly, the Chinese soldiers proved their courage with great sacrifices.