Chapter 407: Muddy Waters 2

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In the night sky, an airship is flying slowly in the air, this airship is the only airship in the Senate, this airship named "Type 1" is neatly stacked on the rows of cargo boxes, these goods are the materials that the Senate Commerce and Trade Department decided to hand over to the Northern Army after discussing with the Military Committee.

The knot is not alone, hating Mo coldly and hating the cold

Since Gu Qingqian's statement last time, the Military Committee has actively engaged in the plan of how to block the southern army, and all kinds of ideas have popped up for a while, from directly sending troops to sending volunteers, and then to paying money and guns to form a new army of the northern army, but in the end, everyone still vetoed these ideas. Now that a peace agreement has just been signed with the Medeno people, if you are now naked and directly involved in the war between the two sides, then it is equivalent to tearing your face directly. Now that the Maidno talents of the Oriental Port have just resumed transporting various raw materials to China, and the major factories in China have just begun to resume working in three shifts, if the two sides return to a state of war or even stop transportation just for fear of entering a state of war, then the impact on the Oriental Port is not the slightest bit. For this reason, China had to clear itself from the conflict between the north and the south of Annam, so almost all of those proposals were shot, leaving only the proposal to continue to send supplies to support the northern army's operations.

The flight control on the airship is now electric. In order to prevent the hydrogen explosion caused by sparks generated by electricity, these wires and joints are covered with thick asphalt and tar several times to ensure that no short circuits can cause sparks. Because there is no need to rotate the propeller through the mechanical transmission of the diesel engine, a considerable amount of transmission component weight is omitted, the diesel engine only needs to drive the electric motor to generate electricity, and there is no need to add too much reinforcement to the structure of the airship, the weight of the whole airship has been reduced a lot, and after testing, it can carry about 15 tons of weight at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour.

Sun Di's hatred of Ke is cool, and he hates the war and the cold ghost

There are several categories of cargo in the airship, the most notable of which is naturally the Senate rifle. Because the Foreign Legion was directly equipped with the latest automatic semi-automatic weapons when they set out some time ago, the Senate rifles that had been issued to them were left in the Shabak warehouse without mercy. Of course, it is impossible to hand over these rifled versions of the Senate rifles directly to the Northern Army, and who knows if they will really be used to fight the Southern Army when they get their hands on them? If the Southern Army had won the battle and turned around and fought Shabak again, it would have been able to inflict some casualties on Shabak's defenders. Therefore, this batch of Senate rifles can only be modified again in the "monkey version", the first thing to be dismantled is, of course, the barrel, and it is not safe to hand over the rifled weapons to them, but it is really not good not to hand them over. The Southern Army supported by the Medeno people has begun to be equipped with rifled weapons at this moment, and according to Zhao Siwen's report after the test firing, the range of these Southern Army's weapons can reach 200 meters to 300 meters. So although these Senate rifles are still monkey versions, but they are also modified monkey versions, this batch of Senate rifles is named "Northern" rifles, the structure of the Northern rifles is exactly the same as the Senate rifles, but there have been great changes in the barrel of the rifles, the rifling of the Northern rifles and the rifling of the Senate rifles are the same four, and they are also right-handed rifling. However, the rifling rotation angle of the northern rifle is smaller than that of the Senate rifle, which has the consequence of being able to increase the firing range to a certain extent, but due to the insufficient rotational force, the destructive power caused by it is reduced to a certain extent. At the same time, the requirements for such bullet charges have also been reduced to a certain extent, and the charge can be reduced to a certain extent.

Like the Senate rifles sold to the new army in Champang, these rifles were also fired with fire caps, for no other reason than to control the fighting rhythm of the Northern Army, especially if the Northern Army could get out of control and terminate the Northern Army's long-range attack capability by stopping the supply of fire caps. As long as the opponent loses most of its combat power in long-range attacks, no matter how many people there are, they will not be able to shake the army of the Senate.

The bullets used in the Senate rifles are still the same as the paper shell cartridges used by the new army, because the Foreign Legion was the last army in the entire Senate army to use Senate rifles at that time, so all the Senate rifles and paper shell cartridges were sent to the quartermaster warehouse in Shabak, when the Foreign Legion ruthlessly threw down those Senate rifles that were "thrown off by the course of history", these bullets basically lost their value, and the quartermasters looked at the mountains of hundreds of thousands of bullets that were about to turn white. Now, as soon as I heard that someone needed these bullets, I naturally moved them out without saying a word, making room for the new seven-millimeter metal fixed ammunition.

Zhao Siwen's report also mentioned that under the rapid offensive of the Southern Army, the Northern Army was defeated again and again, and after running wildly, Zhao Ximin launched a surprise attack, which overthrew the commander of the Northern Army and gained command. After they repeatedly streamlined the establishment of the Northern Army, the Northern Army at this moment only had about 3,000 people left, although such an army was not only much higher in obedience but also in terms of refinement, but there was no advantage over the Southern Army in terms of numbers, so they must have something that could especially boost morale to boost morale, otherwise in the next battle, even with the support of the Northern Rifle, they would not be able to achieve an overwhelming advantage, and it was likely that they would continue to lose if their morale was not improved.

Although Zhao Siwen is not Ren Xuefeng's henchmen like Zhou Rui and Liming, he can be regarded as his favorite general, especially in the past few days, new information has been continuously sent, and a large number of orders have appeared, which makes the Ministry of Commerce and Trade particularly impressed by the Army Intelligence Bureau, so Ren Xuefeng basically responds to Zhao Siwen's requests. Since Zhao Siwen proposed to want a weapon that could boost morale, then make a same.

Generally speaking, the thing that particularly boosts morale is the cannon, commonly known as the new recruits who are afraid of artillery, as long as they hear the sound of cannons, those dirt buns of the Southern Army will definitely change their faces and run away. But if the cannon is given to the northern army that has no culture and education, not to mention that there is not enough time for operator training, even if there is enough time, it can't withstand them to mess around. Moreover, even if they were to support their smoothbore guns, the range could easily reach two hundred meters, and once the muzzle of the guns was turned on the troops of the Senate, it would be appropriate to cause casualties. Therefore, it was necessary to create a weapon that could be quickly mastered by the uneducated soldiers, and which could only be used within the range of the ordinary rifles in the Senate's equipment.

At this time, Lin Shenheyin, who came to participate in the discussion, smiled and put forward another sentence commonly known as "veterans are afraid of machine guns", which is indeed the case, the 1628 heavy machine gun is indeed a more suitable weapon, compared with the Senate rifle, although the range of the heavy machine gun is a little farther, but within the range of the Senate army, the threat to the Senate army is very small. Moreover, the operation of the heavy machine gun is relatively simple, you only need to keep stuffing the ammunition supply plate into the chamber of the gun, and pull the trigger to automatically complete the shooting, whether it is the shooting rhythm or aiming at the target, it does not require too much technical content, and can be achieved after simple training. Moreover, in the case of a universal ammunition supply plate, only a few soldiers need to be grabbed to carry out the reloading work, which not only saves training personnel and time compared to providing cannons, but also does not have to worry too much about the threat that technology may bring to the Senate. Although some officers have suggested that if such weapons were captured by the Southern Army during the battle, would they be sent to the Medenor to reverse engineer them to create rapid-fire weapons against China?

But after a few words of discussion, there is no worry, the machine gun is different from the rifle, the rifle can also be modified by the flintlock mechanism to bypass the fire cap, but the machine gun can not bypass the fire cap, if the flintlock mechanism is used, then it can only be reloaded once, which is completely no different from the rifle, and it also requires a large group of people to serve. In addition, there is also an advantage to letting soldiers learn how to disassemble and assemble weapons, that is, when soldiers have to abandon the machine gun, the re-entry mechanism is directly dismantled, without these parts, even if they want to reverse research, they can't start. After such discussions, the Military Council finally approved the provision of two machine guns for combat use by the Northern Army. However, these two machine guns have also undergone the same modification of the monkey version, and the largest modification also comes from the barrel, which also has three right-handed rifling wires. These machine guns do not use air cooling, but use water cooling, and water must be used to cool the machine guns in battle, once there is no water, the barrel of the machine gun is easily damaged, which is also a mine for the Yankees to prevent them from being too confident and causing expansion.

In addition to weapons and ammunition, the only load left on the airship was running out, and the remaining space was stuffed with various rations. Since the Chinese have always been absorbing the grain they can access with an appetite similar to a grain black hole, the grain warehouse in the port of Orient is now enough to eat the existing number of people in the port of Orient until 1632, under the shadow of the war with Maidno in the previous months, while other factories have slowed down the pace of production, the factories in the military industry are carrying out production at full capacity, and now the amount of military and civilian rations commonly known as "grain bricks" can directly replace the wall outside the old old district.

Another trouble with sufficient rations is that the preservation is cumbersome, grain is different from cement, not only afraid of damp mildew, but also afraid of insects or rat gnawing, even if now through the weasel people to attract a large number of weasels to catch rats in the Oriental Port, but there will still be many reasons for losses, so how to use up these grain bricks has become a matter of concern for the army, when he heard that the northern army of Annan needs food supplies, he immediately proposed to send a part of the grain bricks directly to the northern army as military rations. Therefore, the grain bricks in the airship that came out this time are completely different from the grain bricks used by the Southern Army, they are not black-hearted expired products, and they are all produced in recent months. And due to the change in the production process, this new batch of rations is not only grain bricks, but also a large number of fried rice, fried noodles and even canned fruits, etc., which are exchanged for supplies with the Northern Army.

Sun Ke is far from the enemy, and he learns to be lonely

Zhao Siwen is standing in a large open space at the moment and pondering, the soldier next to him is openly carrying a large wireless telegraph transceiver, and is wearing a headset to carefully and quickly press the transmitter button in his hand, although this soldier is wearing the clothes of the Northern Army, but like Zhao Siwen, he is a field officer belonging to the Army Intelligence Bureau, because Zhao Siwen's status in the army has soared, so that he also followed the chicken dog to heaven. Although the strange-looking wireless telegraph transceiver he was carrying attracted the speculation of many soldiers of the Northern Army, no one knew what this thing was used for, and Zhao Siwen directly named it "Blessing Box" and dragged it to the army in a grand manner, accompanying the Northern Army on the march.

"General Zhao," the soldier whispered to Zhao Siwen's side, "the airship has reached a distance of twenty kilometers to the west of us, and they have asked us to light the guiding fire in ten minutes. ”

Zhao Siwen nodded, "Okay, return, we have received the news, and the guiding fire will be lit in ten minutes, please pay attention to safety, long live the Senate!" ”

The soldier nodded with a serious expression and began to carefully press the transmitter button in his hand. Zhao Siwen raised his head and looked at the night sky in the west, and sure enough, the figure of the airship was completely hidden in the dark night sky, completely impossible to observe visually. He let out a heavy breath and motioned for the soldiers to begin lighting the torches in their hands.

The soldiers next to him had already stood near him, one by one in a low voice discussing with great interest what would appear later, and when they saw Zhao Siwen giving an order, they squatted down one by one, skillfully lit the velvet with a fire sickle, and then lit the fire starter in their hands, and then put the torch up and lit it.

The soldiers formed a long line on the ground, and then began to adjust according to the pre-rehearsed formation, and then lit the huge pyres on the ground. Huge fires rose into the sky and were clearly visible several kilometers away.

After the hatred of the ghost knot, the cold ghost is lonely

"What's going on over there?" Listening to the noisy sound outside, Shu Da couldn't help but be a little surprised, and walked out of his tent, only to see the soldiers stationed in the camp looking into the distance one by one, pointing to the distance and shouting loudly.

He also followed the hands of the soldiers to look into the distance, and there were several sky-high fires in the distant sky, illuminating every corner of the night sky, as if that part of the sky had been ignited. His heart tightened for no reason, this was not a vision of heaven, this must have something to do with the Chinese Senate. As he was thinking, he heard the noise of the soldiers suddenly rise, "Strange fish! Strange fish! ”

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