pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.inforeadx; In order to strengthen the artillery strength of the troops, Lu Rongting can be said to have scraped Guangxi upside down, so he made up dozens of guns and dozens of machine guns After the Gui Army joined the Southern Coalition Army, it had the number of the Third Division and Three Brigades of the Fifth Army, and Lu Rongting could only match each division with more than a dozen guns, as for the mixed brigade, there were several guns, and the heavy machine guns were about the same number, and the equipment of the 13th Division was calculated in the Gui Army, and there were a total of twelve mountain guns, and then seven or eight heavy machine guns, and half of these mountain guns were still retired. Even the calibers are as many as three, which is compared with the artillery regiment of the 10th Division of the Nationalist Army, which is simply the difference between heaven and earth, and one artillery regiment plus more than a dozen mountain guns of 75 mm in the first mixed brigade, which is beyond the entire artillery power possessed by the Gui army

In terms of artillery and machine-gun heavy firepower, the 10th Division and the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Nationalist Army alone were much stronger than the entire Gui Army

But this is not counted, according to the rumors circulating within the Nationalist Army, this 10th Division is simply raised by the Nationalist Army in the Nationalist Army system, all kinds of equipment have not been fully reorganized, the number of mortars and machine guns has not been fully equipped until not long ago, and the artillery regiment is only a 60-mm mountain artillery, which is completely different from the 75-mm field artillery and mountain artillery in the main divisions of the Nationalist Army, if this Hengyang Battle is not the 10th Division of the Nationalist Army, but replaced by any other main division of the Nationalist Army, what will be the outcome?

"No wonder you dare to go against Beiyang!" Lu Rongting had heard a little about the weapons and equipment of the Nationalist Army before, but this time he listened to the personal report of the confidant officer on the front line, and found that the equipment of the Nationalist Army was better than he had guessed before: "Damn, if Lao Tzu had so many good cannons and machine guns, Lao Tzu would have already gone on the Northern Expedition!" ”

Lu Rongting, who was depressed in his heart, continued to mutter: This time, the Nanjing side has officially built a political axe, and the National Military Commission has come out, and he is also a military commissar anyway, although one of the three generals in the Southern Coalition Army has the number of the third division and three brigades of the Fifth Army, but the equipment is really poor, and there is no way to rely on himself, so he has to find a way to get a batch of ordnance from Nanjing

In fact, as early as June, when Chen Jingyun had a secret meeting with Tang Jiyao and Lu Rongting, in order to pull the mules, Chen Jingyun promised that he would bear part of the logistics supply of the Dian army and the Gui army, and that he would provide some rifles, machine guns, and artillery within three months

And Chen Jingyun did inherit part of the logistics supply of the Dian army and the Gui army in accordance with the tripartite agreement, and in July, he delivered 3,000 rifles to the Dian army and 1,500 rifles to the Gui army. So at that time, I took advantage of the situation and gave the rest to them for free

However, Chen Jingyun is not a benevolent person, and he will not send them free ordnance every day, so after the tripartite agreement is completed after the two sends, he will not continue to provide ordnance for free, and the logistics supply he bears is limited to a small amount of military rations and ammunition, and this part of the ammunition is also considered shrewd by the National Army, the quantity is just right, and no more is given, for example, the one given to the Gui Army is just enough for one division to attack Hunan, and it is directly allocated from the logistics supply of the Tenth Division. If you don't have more inferior bullets, you can only buy them with money if you want to buy other or more, and according to the original tripartite agreement, Chen Jingyun also promised to sell them some weapons

Everyone is an understanding person, and they are all actual people, Lu Rongting didn't expect Chen Jingyun to send him ordnance for free because he had a fever in his brain, but if he bought them all, it was still too expensive, and the rifle didn't cost much, but the machine gun and artillery were expensive, and many of them couldn't be bought, such as 75 mm caliber field artillery and mountain artillery, and there was no place to buy them in China, although the Fuzhou Arsenal produced part of the mountain artillery every month, but it was all urgently needed by the National Army, and it was not sold out at all. Whether it is the Gui Army or the Dian Army if they want to obtain advanced 75 mm field artillery or mountain artillery, they can only import, but the price of a large number of imports is not something they can afford, you must know that the Beiyang Army and the Nationalist Army have a large amount of financial resources, the Beiyang Army chose to order artillery from the Nationalist Army, and the Nationalist Army also ordered a batch of artillery from the early stage, and now it is turning to order from the United States, and these two are the main ones who have prepared hundreds of millions of military spending, but they did not dare to sell much artillery, the Beiyang Army is rich this year, but it is only Xiang Yue' Ben ordered dozens of guns, and the Nationalist Army used the aid loan from the United States to buy more, but there were only more than 100 guns before and after, and with the matching shells, the price was calculated according to one million Lu Rongting didn't have so much money to import a large number of artillery, so he could only import a small amount of advanced artillery, and then prepared to buy some racked guns and small-caliber artillery that the Nationalist Army was not equipped with from the military warehouses of the Nationalist Army, such as 57-mm mountain guns

The remaining heavy machine guns and light machine guns and mortars are not easy, originally these weapons are not enough for the national army itself, but according to the tripartite agreement, it is also possible to provide a part of the Dian army and the Gui army, the latest G08 heavy machine gun is definitely impossible, but the national army has a part of the captured machine guns, including the 38-year-old Hatch Chase heavy machine gun and the German-made machine gun, due to the problem of bullet caliber and logistics unification, these heavy machine guns and Hatch Chase heavy machine guns can not be prepared for the front-line troops, So I chose to sell the surname to the Gui Army and the Dian Army, but this price is not cheap Although Ai is cheaper than the imported brand new goods, it costs nearly 2,000 yuan to stand down, plus a large reserve of machine gun bullets, which is really expensive

Light machine gun is easy to solve, there is only one Danish Madsen light machine gun in the world, and this light machine gun has already entered the service of many great powers, after the national army took the lead in the application of the Chinese battlefield, the Beiyang Army is not far behind and has purchased hundreds of units, and the business of various foreign banks is also to the warlords, but the price must be more expensive Fuzhou Arsenal's light machine gun production capacity has gradually increased, and a small amount of supply to the Gui army and the Dian army at a lower price than imported goods, However, the Dian army and the Gui army also imported some of them to the foreign company, but the quantity was not too large

As for mortars, this is currently only produced in large quantities by the Fuzhou Arsenal, although other countries have noticed but have not developed or equipped similar weapons, so this import has not been imported, the Gui Army and the Dian Army have also tried to make their own but limited to their own technical level to make the surname can be much worse, and the price is expensive, so they will buy from the National Army, but their demand for mortars is far less urgent than the demand for traditional artillery, and even more want machine guns than mortars, In addition, the Fuzhou Arsenal has raised the price of mortars even higher, and a 60-mm mortar costs more than 3,000, which is more expensive than a brand-new imported heavy machine gun, so the quantity purchased is not much

If Lu Rongting wants to buy ordnance, if he wants to save money, he can only buy it from the hands of the Nationalist Army, and it is easy to say that the rifles here are quite a lot of rifles in stock, especially those that are made and other rifles that have been captured, and the Gui Army can buy as many as he wants, and the price is also cheaper, a second-hand gun is only about 20 yuan, and other heavy machine guns, artillery and mortars are not purchased much, and can only be purchased sporadically and sporadically

In fact, in addition to rifles, the bulk of ordnance purchased by the Dian army and the Gui army was more ammunition! In particular, the amount of bullets and shells traded exceeded the total value of other ordnance transactions

This ordnance transaction was a lot of money, and Gui Jun couldn't come up with too much money, so Lu Rongting had to consider other ways to obtain ordnance supplies

When Lu Rongting was thinking about how to get a batch of cheap ordnance, after the Southern Coalition Army also captured Hengyang, the 10th Division of the National Army and the 13th Division of the Gui Army continued to move north, and the 1st Mixed Brigade also launched an attack on the 3rd Division of the Hunan Provincial Army in the Dapu area, but the 3rd Division of Hunan Province saw that the situation was not good, and it had already retreated to the north again

On September 17, Lin Chengkun, the headquarters of the Fourth Army, sent a telegram back to Nanjing, saying that Hengyang had been captured and that the troops were marching north, preparing to reinforce the Second Mixed Brigade of the Nationalist Army on the Zhuping Railway Line

In the Hunan war, the Hengyang area and the Changsha area were the main battles, and in the Hengyang area, the combined forces of the Nationalist Army and the Gui Army occupied the advantage of troops, and the progress was rapid, but in the Changsha area, it was the Beiyang Army that occupied the advantage in strength

The Second Mixed Brigade of the National Army marched west from Pingxiang along the Zhuping Railway in July, but was blocked in Liling, because Liling is located in the middle of the Zhuping Line, and the north and south sides of the Zhuping Line are mountainous and hilly areas that are not conducive to the operation of the army, so from a traditional military point of view, to capture Changsha, Hunan, it is necessary to capture Zhuzhou first, and to capture Zhuzhou, it is necessary to first capture Liling, a place so important as the gateway to eastern Hunan Province, the Beiyang Army naturally did not give up, and sent a regiment to be stationed in the early stage, but the second mixed brigade of the National Army marched extremely fast. In early July, a few days was to arrive at the city of Liling, and then after a fierce battle, the Beiyang Army retreated and the second mixed brigade did not advance, and built fortifications in Liling to prevent the enemy from counterattacking, and sure enough, soon after, the main force of the Beiyang Army arrived, up to more than 7,000 people before and after attacking Liling, but there was not much advantage in terms of troops, plus the second mixed brigade was on the defensive and built a considerable part of the fortifications, so it was defended, and then Yang Shande once again reinforced the troops, The 8th Brigade of the 4th Division was dispatched to form a mixed brigade, and a brigade of the 1st Division of the Hunan Provincial Army was dispatched

In this way, more than 14,000 troops were gathered in the Liling area, trying to capture Liling in one fell swoop, and inflicting heavy losses on the Second Mixed Brigade of the Nationalist Army