readx; Tang Jiyao couldn't understand why the gap between himself and Chen Jingyun was getting bigger and bigger, and he couldn't figure out why his Dian army was thrown farther and farther away by the national army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

I think that when the Yunnan army controlled Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, the Nationalist Army only had one province, Fujian, but later the Nationalist Army expanded outward step by step, successively captured Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and finally even Nanjing, and now it has taken Jiangxi and southern Anhui, and the territory occupied is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more troops. On the other hand, the Yunnan army, in the past two years, has been standing still, although the army has expanded a lot, but the territory has not expanded, and the march into Sichuan has not been smooth, although it has taken a small half of Sichuan, but the Yunnan army in the face of Sichuan has been supported by Yuan Shikai Many small warlord coalition army, obviously seems powerless, the Yunnan army wants to completely capture Sichuan, the troops that need to be invested and the cost of spending is very high, and this price is not paid by the Yunnan army. After all, it is impossible for the Dian army to devote all its forces to Sichuan, and it needs to keep a considerable part of its forces in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to guard against the Gui army.

If Sichuan cannot be taken for a long time, the Dian army will not be able to use Sichuan's manpower and material resources to continue to expand the army, which will be a great disadvantage for the future development of the Dian army.

"Marshal, do you want to talk to the National Army and let them provide some more guns and ammunition!" Gu Pinzhen suggested beside Tang Jiyao.

Tang Jiyao was embarrassed: "Chen Jingyun's firearms are not so easy to hold!" ”

Because of the two common potential enemies of the Beiyang Army and the Gui Army, Chen Jingyun had already contacted Tang Jiyao before Cai Yi went north, and Tang Jiyao and others were even closer after the Yunnan Governor, and the two sides also agreed on a secret agreement for common defense, so that the two sides could unite against Beiyang when the Beiyang Army moved south. Based on this potential alliance, Chen Jingyun provided Tang Jiyao with a lot of arms, not only a large number of rifles and ammunition, but also some 57-mm mountain guns and artillery shells. Although Tang Jiyao had to buy these arms with real money, the price was extremely favorable, at least much cheaper than imports. Now if the warlords want to get guns and ammunition, there is no place to buy them in China, one of the two large arsenals was in the hands of Li Yuanhong before, and now it has fallen into the Hanyang Arsenal controlled by Beiyang, and the other is the Fuzhou Arsenal established by Chen Jingyun.

And no matter how big or small the arsenal is, it is controlled by warlords everywhere, and it is very difficult for outsiders to buy arms. For example, the firearms and ammunition produced by the Fuzhou Arsenal are all supplied to the Nationalist Army itself, and they are not even enough, and it is impossible to have excess production to sell them to other warlords at will, and the Hanyang Arsenal is also used in Beiyang itself, and it is impossible to sell arms to Tang Jiyao and Chen Jingyun, the enemies of Beiyang.

Under the influence of the turmoil in China and the continuous outbreak of the civil war, the price of arms in China has risen continuously, and the price of a Hanyang-made rifle has climbed to 40 yuan, and the 38-type rifle is already more than 50 and nearly 60 yuan, and as for the better German 98-type Mauser rifle, it is more than 100 yuan.

Under such circumstances, it will be difficult to carry out large-scale armed forces if we do not have the strength to build our own arms and rely only on imports.

In comparison, the Nationalist Army provided several batches of Hanyang-made and other miscellaneous guns to the Dian Army will be much cheaper, although the price is much more expensive than in previous years, a second-hand Hanyang-made will be sold for 20 yuan, but this price is really not found elsewhere A second one, if Chen Jingyun is not to win over the Dian Army, these second-hand Hanyang-made will not be sold to the Dian Army.

Chen Jingyun provided preferential ordnance and ammunition to the Yunnan army in this way, naturally not to do good deeds, but to win over the Yunnan army to fight against Beiyang. Even now, if Tang Jiyao wants Chen Jingyun's ordnance, he can, but he has to take practical actions to show his sincerity.

Now that the Nationalist Army has begun to prepare to move its political and military center to Nanjing, it is already openly confronting Beiyang, so at this time, not only the Gui army is facing the choice of standing in line, but also the Dian army is also facing the choice of the team.

Gu Pinzhen said: "Marshal, although the national army is strong now, they still need us, not to mention the rest, if we don't contain the Gui army, they are worried that the Gui army will stab them in the back!" ”

Tang Jiyao said: "Although the words are so, but ......"

Tang Jiyao has his own scruples, now the national army is getting stronger and stronger, if it really wins Beiyang in the future, it will be even stronger, where will the Yunnan army go then?

Although there were all kinds of concerns in his heart, and Tang Jiyao didn't say that he would choose to stand in line now, he also sent someone to ask the national army for weapons. The Nationalist Army had just defeated the Jiangxi Army and the Anhui Army, and there were a lot of captured Hanyang-made and other miscellaneous rifles, Tang Jiyao knew that the Nationalist Army itself was gradually replacing the Type 12 rifles made in Fuzhou, and these old guns should be equipped even if the Nationalist Army itself had to equip some, but there would definitely be a large amount of surplus.

"Tang Jiyao is here to ask for a gun again?" Chen Jingyun, who had just arrived in Shanghai and disembarked not long ago, was dissatisfied when he learned that Tang Jiyao had sent someone to buy guns.

"During the war in southern Jiangsu and the battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, he Tang Jiyao was watching the play on the side, and he didn't even send a message of support!" Yuan Fang was also not very satisfied with Tang Jiyao's previous performance.

Dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction, but it is not yet time to turn against the Dian army, starting from the actual situation, the national army still needs the Dian army, an ally, to contain the Gui army and jointly fight against Beiyang.

Immediately, Chen Jingyun turned to Ouyang Tiandao, the head of the equipment department: "How many old guns do we still have in stock now?" ”

Ouyang Tian is the chief of the equipment department, and he is in charge of all kinds of equipment, and he doesn't need to look at the book he carries with him, he can say it directly:

"Before the Battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, we didn't have many old guns, and the miscellaneous guns were basically sold to other warlords in China such as the Dian Army and the Gui Army, and the second-hand Hanyang was also sold to the Dian Army, and there was not much left!" Ouyang Tian continued: "Now after the Battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, our army has captured a large number of Hanyang-made, Type 88 rifles, Manlixia, Thirty-Year Rifles and other types of guns Nearly 50,000! ”

Some of these guns were directly captured, while more were brought over by the surrendered Gan and Anhui armies, and these Gan and Anhui armies were captured and confiscated after they were collected! So much so that now the National Army maintains a large stock of rifles of various models.

Ouyang Tian continued: "Now we are going to make a new mixed brigade in Jiangxi, and we are also going to make a mixed brigade in southern Anhui, there are about 10,000 guns here, in addition to this number, we can probably have 20,000 Hanyang and 88 type inventory two, and there are nearly 10,000 other miscellaneous guns such as Manlixia and Yuezao!" ”

After hearing this, Chen Jingyun pondered for a while, the main force of the national army could not use those miscellaneous guns, but Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles were still needed. After all, the production of Type 12 rifle cartridges in the Fuzhou Arsenal has not kept up with the expansion speed of the Nationalist Army, and so far several main divisions of the Nationalist Army are still using Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles. Now after capturing Jiangxi and Anhui, in order to alleviate the problem of troop tension, he has ordered the General Staff to set up a mixed brigade in Jiangxi and southern Anhui, and the soldiers will directly select some from the surrendered Jiangxi army and the Anhui army, and then draw some from several other units of the national army and form them in a mixed manner, while some of the remaining soldiers of the Jiangxi army and the Anhui army will be supplemented into other units of the national army if they are qualified, and those who are not qualified will be directly dismissed. The two brigades are also intended to be armed with Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles. In the future expansion of troops, if it is not the main force, then the equipment should also be those captured Hanyang-made and Type 88 rifles, and the Type 12 rifles are not enough to equip the main force.

In addition, there are many local garrison regiments in the national army system, and these local garrison regiments are extremely poorly equipped, with miscellaneous guns and even old single-mounted Mauser, and now that there are sufficient Hanyang-made and Type 88 stocks, then these local garrison regiments can also be redressed.

"In this way, we can't use those Manlixia and Shuo rifles, contact Tang Jiyao and say that they will sell him a batch, the total number should not exceed five thousand, and the captured bullets will also be given to him!" Chen Jingyun continued: "Don't move Hanyang and Type 88, seal it for later use!" ”

After Tang Jiyao learned that Chen Jingyun had agreed to sell guns, he immediately issued a telegram criticizing the Kuomintang's assassination of Chen Jingyun some time ago, and said that the Nationalist Army's march into Jiangxi was a righteous move.

As the so-called reciprocating peach, Tang Jiyao said so, Chen Jingyun selected 3,000 Manlixia and 2,000 made rifles from those miscellaneous guns, and even sold Tang Jiyao more than ten old guns.

In this battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, in addition to a large number of rifles, the Nationalist Army also exchanged fire with a considerable number of 57-mm mountain artillery and other artillery. Among these artillery pieces, there were not many 75-mm field artillery and mountain artillery that added up to only a few, and all of them were directly supplemented to the divisions, and a number of 75-mm field artillery battalions and 75-mm mountain artillery battalions were selected to be used to prepare for the main force of the Nationalist Army. A considerable part of the 57-mm mountain artillery was also organized into two battalions, which were to be assigned to the two newly formed mixed brigades. Due to the complexity of the models, the shells used in the remaining many withdrawn guns are also difficult to solve, at least there is no corresponding shell production line in the Fuzhou Arsenal, and there is a lot of trouble in using them. This time, the surname Suo also did a favor and sold this batch of surplus artillery to the Dian army.

In several arms transactions between the Nationalist Army, the Dian Army and the Gui Army, the Dian Army and the Gui Army basically played the role of a garbage recycling station, purchasing guns and ordnance that the Nationalist Army did not want. However, this garbage recycling station is only for the national army, but not for the Dian army and the Gui army, the equipment of the Dian army and the Gui army is already complicated, all kinds of guns are available, and the national army has bought all kinds of miscellaneous guns are also based on Manlixia, rifles and Hanyang, and this transaction has been carried out several times, plus the guns they were originally equipped with Manlixia and rifles, and it has slowly formed a scale.

After this transaction, the Yunnan army was equipped with nearly 20,000 Manlixia, and tens of thousands of rifles were made, and Hanyang was also the main rifle. Therefore, these guns are not easy to use for the Nationalist Army, but for the Dian Army, they are not miscellaneous guns. If you really want to sell the Type 12 rifle to the Dian army, Tang Jiyao still doesn't want it!

Tang Jiyao stood in line and took over a large number of guns and ammunition from the Nationalist Army, which made Lu Rongting extremely worried.