readx; When Chen Jingyun heard this, he immediately knew that this artillery should basically be the domestic version of the 38-year-old field artillery, with caliber, weight, high and low firing boundaries, and the length of the barrel almost the same as that of the 38-type field artillery. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, it is not surprising that the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal imitates the Type 38 field artillery, and among the many artillery pieces that the National Army is now equipped with, the production of artillery occupies the main part. In addition to the artillery ordered by the Nationalist Army itself, more were captured from the Beiyang Army. The Beiyang Army was originally equipped with a large number of artillery, and later after Xinhai, it used a large loan to order a large number of artillery from Yuan, and because of the lack of production, even the artillery in service was pulled out and sold to Yuan Shikai, and most of these artillery pieces were also in the hands of Chen Jingyun.

These many aspects add up, resulting in the artillery of the active equipment of the National Army, which is said to be "the most artillery of this type, followed by the German Krupp artillery, which has a part of the National Army purchased before, and some of it has been captured from the Beiyang Army, and the remaining large piece is American-made artillery, but this American-made artillery is also an imitation of the 38-year-old version of the field artillery and mountain artillery, which is not to say that the Americans cannot provide better artillery, but that the National Army took into account the problem of logistics supply and the common use of artillery parts. In addition, the 75-millimeter artillery that the Americans themselves did not have formed at that time, and the batch of artillery supplied to the Nationalist Army was directly copied and produced by the American arms dealers who directly referred to the Nationalist Army's active-duty artillery, and then directly copied and produced it with its strong military industrial capacity.

Generally speaking, the field artillery units of the Nationalist Army are mainly made in the 38-year-old version, the American-made 38-year-old version, and various types of field artillery of the German Krupp, and some other old models of artillery, including French goods. The mountain artillery is more chaotic, there are various types of mountain artillery made in Germany, called 'this type of mountain artillery, as well as the United States-made mountain artillery, and then there are a large number of 14 times the mountain artillery produced by Fuzhou Arsenal, and others are made in Hanyang and French.

Among so many artillery models, the Fuzhou Arsenal originally chose the German-made 14 times mountain cannon for imitation, and then imitated a large number of equipped 38-year-old field guns.

The surname of this 38-year-old field gun can make the army generals of the National Army very satisfied, otherwise they would not support the Ministry of Armament to imitate and produce the 38-year-old field artillery.

After introducing the general data, Chen Jingyun also circled around the 1914-style field gun, and then showed a satisfied expression and said to the people behind him: "Very good, with today's technical conditions, this artillery can be made, it can be seen that the people in the military industry department have worked hard!" Now that the thing has been made and finalized, then the equipment department should not wait too long, and after the energy production in Wuhu, the equipment troops will be purchased in time! ”

In the current Nanjing Republican Axe, there are six armies in Nanjing, plus the troops directly under the command of the headquarters, including the guard division and the Beiyang Army of Toucheng, a total of 19 infantry divisions, namely the guard division, the 1st-12th division, the 21st and 22nd divisions, the 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th divisions; There are also 13 mixed brigades, namely the 1st-5th mixed brigade and the 14th-26th mixed brigade; In addition to these main infantry units, there were three cavalry divisions, several fortress garrison regiments, as well as local garrisons in the provinces.

According to the calculation that each infantry division has 36 artillery regiments and each mixed brigade has 12 artillery battalions, 19 infantry divisions and 13 mixed brigades alone need 840 75mm guns. Among them, there are only more than 600 75-millimeter guns that are the main force of army artillery, half of which were purchased by the Nationalist Army before, and half of them were captured from the Beiyang Army and the provincial armies.

For example, the artillery units currently stationed in Hubei and Hunan are not facing a major threat, so the artillery of the artillery regiments to which they belong has been transferred to supplement the troops in Shandong and Jiangsu. Even so, the troops stationed in the coastal provinces have not been able to achieve full strength, only a few Shandong troops have achieved full strength, while most of the other units have only two battalions and 24 guns, and a few have two battalions plus one or two companies to achieve 28 or 32 artillery pieces. As for the ratio of field artillery to mountain artillery in each artillery regiment, it varies from division to division, some have two field artillery battalions and one mountain artillery battalion, while others have one field artillery battalion and two mountain artillery battalions. As for the artillery battalion of the mixed brigade, it is simple, all mountain artillery.

The previous mountain artillery was okay, and the Fuzhou Arsenal had also begun mass production of the Fuzao Type 12 75 mm 14 times caliber mountain artillery, and it has been in continuous production for nearly two years, and the output has been stably controlled at more than 20 pieces per month, and more than 300 Fuzao Type 12 guns have been provided for the National Army in the past two years. Officially, because of the large amount of equipment of the Fuzao Type 12 artillery and the capture of a large number of artillery pieces of the Beiyang Army and other provincial warlords, the history of the National Army's large purchase of artillery came to an end.

At present, Chen Jingyun rarely imports army ordnance to foreign countries, but instead imports a large amount of machinery and equipment.

If this 1914-style field gun from the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal can be successfully mass-produced, then it will be a matter of purchasing and equipping troops in large quantities in a short period of time.

Chen Jingyun ordered this, and the officers on the side of the armament department naturally recorded it, and several responsible persons on the side of the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal also breathed a sigh of relief and smiled, knowing that after the Fuzhou Arsenal was relocated from Fuzhou, it was divided into the Nanjing Light Weapons Arsenal and the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal, and the shares originally held by the state were also acquired by Huaxia Bank, so that the Nanjing Light Weapons Arsenal and the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal became wholly-owned enterprises of Huaxia Bank.

As a wholly-owned enterprise under Huaxia Bank, these arsenals are self-financed, although the equipment department has also signed a research and development contract with them in the early stage, but the initial investment in research and development and design is still from the arsenal itself, if the developed weapons do not get the order from the equipment department, then the loss is certain.

Now seeing that Chen Jingyun personally ordered the order, the person in charge of the 1914-style field artillery project of the Wuhu Arsenal breathed a sigh of relief.

After watching this key project, the people from the equipment department also led Chen Jingyun to watch some other new equipment.

"This mountain cannon is a textile of our army equipped with a 41-year-old mountain cannon, although the number of equipment in our army is not much, but through actual combat found that this cannon can be superior, much better than other mountain artillery equipped by our army, so the equipment department has decided to imitate this cannon to replace the existing Fuzao 12-year-old mountain artillery!" The technical colonel of the armament department pointed to a gun next to the 1914-style field gun and explained: "At present, the Wuhu Arsenal has completed the preliminary research and development work on this gun, and has trial-produced two for experimental use, if the experimental results are good, it is expected to be able to equip our army before next year!" ”

Chen Jingyun immediately took a cursory look at some of the data of this gun: it weighs 540 kilograms, the body tube is 17 times the caliber, the initial velocity of the projectile is 360 meters per second, the maximum firing range is 6,300 meters, and it can be transported by mules and horses. The specific surname can be much better than the Fuzao 12 mountain cannon that is now being mass-produced, and the weight is about the same, but the firing range has been increased from 4,500 meters to more than 6,300 meters, which can be described as a huge progress, of course, you don't need to ask to know that the cost of this artillery will definitely be much higher than that of the Fuzao 12.

A long-barreled field cannon and a short-barreled mountain cannon. Once these two 75-mm guns are equipped in large quantities, they will be the main artillery of the army in the next ten years.

Of course, there are not only these two types of artillery in the army, but there are also some other models of artillery, such as the one in front of us now.

"This is a new 105 mm light howitzer we are developing, with a design weight of 750 kilograms and a range of 6,000 meters. Chen Jingyun saw that this artillery should also be just a sample.

And with Chen Jingyun's familiarity with his own things, it can be seen at a glance that this thing is an imitation version of the American-made howitzer equipped in the National Army. The artillery provided by the Americans to Chen Jingyun was actually not their own product, but a product of the French; after the Nationalist Army proposed an arms purchase proposal to the United States, it asked for the purchase of 12 105-mm howitzers and 12 cannons from one battalion each, and the Americans did not have a ready-made production line for 105-millimeter artillery at the beginning, and the quantity was small, so the Americans directly purchased the finished product from France and provided it directly to Chen Jingyun after changing the nameplate. The howitzer is a Schneider 105mm 1909 howitzer, with a high and low firing range of 0 to 60 degrees, a shell weighing 12 kilograms, and a column weight of 750 kilograms, which is 200 kilograms lighter than the 1914 75mm field gun, but although the weight is light, the firing range is only 6,000 meters, which is not as good as the 6,300-meter range of the imitation 41-year 75-mm mountain gun.

However, there are naturally reasons why the Nationalist Army decided to copy this 105mm howitzer instead of the German 105mm light howitzer, first of all, because this gun is light enough. China's local complexity, especially in the south and southwest are hilly and mountainous areas, and the transportation facilities are almost equal to zero, once out of the railway range, the heavy artillery basically has no mobile surname at all, so for the Chinese army today, the weight of the artillery is more important than the range.