In February 1912, the land of China fell into unprecedented anxiety.

The ceasefire between the north and the south is useless, Anhui and Huaibei are still fighting endlessly, and the north is even more bloody. The three provinces of the upper reaches of Yangzijiang, which were originally calm, have once again caused bloody storms. People are arrested and killed every day. In just a few days, thousands of diehards and gentry who resisted the new policy were raided, their homes were shot, or their whole family was expelled from the province by soldiers. Those who had previously violated the new policy also turned into newspapers overnight and turned into supporters, and they also actively cooperated with the government and the army implemented the new policy. Even many remote rural areas sent people to post big-character posters that promoted the new policy. [The latest updates are all in...]

Haven't waited for this yet

oAt the end, more than 50,000 troops of the National Defense Army attacked everywhere, turning to attack the gangsters, hooligans and bandits who were wandering in the three provinces, especially in Sichuan, there were often three or four bandits who had made their own kings through the road protection movement to be forced to be disarmed within one day. Even those comrades Jun and Pao Ge who were disobeying control and ignored the notice of disarming notice were no exception.

Before these were over, something horrifying happened in Guizhou. Guizhou Liu Xianshi, Dai Kan and others joined forces with the constitutional party to launch a mutiny, not only killing Huang Zelin, Zhang Bailin and others, but also massacred the autonomous academic society and soldiers who were unwilling to surrender after the occupation. In just three days, more than 4,000 people fell in the pool of blood in Guiyang City. Later, the turmoil was also known as the Second One Incident. Because the telegraph station was bombed, the news was not sent from Anshun, more than 100 miles away, to Yunnan and the whole country until the initial stability of Guiyang on February 5th.

The news came out, and the whole country was in an uproar. Although the National Defense Forces' operations in the three provinces were larger and involved more people, they were not so shocking because of the long span. However, this scene in Guizhou was really shocked by ordinary people who were eager to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. When the careful people began to search for the background of Liu Xianshi, Dai Kan and others and the reasons for launching the Guizhou Incident, they found that they were all involved with three names, Liang Qichao, Cai E and Tang Jiyao.

Just as everyone unanimously condemned the Guizhou Incident and believed that this was the moment when the turmoil in the Republic of China began, another more sensational and even more crazy news came from Beijing.

On February 6, after more than two hundred years of internal and external troubles, the Qing Dynasty issued an annual payment of 4 million yuan in Nanjing. When the Northern Expedition gradually became a prairie fire, Yuan Shikai's mouth passed the edict that the abdication was scheduled to abdicate on February 12 to the southern negotiator Wu Tingfang, and he told the Nanjing government. At the same time, Yuan Shikai also publicly stated for the first time that "the republic is the best state system", and said that since the Qing emperor had abdicated his abdication and signed by Shikai, the day of the announcement would be the end of the imperial government, as the foundation of the Republic of China, he must achieve a perfect position and never let the monarchy move in China again.

Although there are still six days left, many people can no longer wait. Firecrackers and gongs and drums sounded in major cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing.

This news also caused the three sectors to fall into a carnival. Even people like Song Ziqing who rarely laughed at others would praise him as if they had forgotten the war in Guizhou. Only after returning to the temporary command center in Changsha did they gradually feel solemn and kept sweeping around the map.

"Song Ziqing, you are still the Chief of Staff. You are not worried about the Guizhou Army and the Yunnan Army, right?" As soon as your fingers went around Anshun, south of Guizhou, a voice sounded from behind. Turning his head and looking at Jiang Fangzhen's military uniform appeared at the door, and said in surprise: "Brother Baili, why are you here?"

"Isn't you just a fuss? Zhang Wenjing is going to send some new equipment, so I'll ask why he wanted to draw more than 30 crash-class officers to Guizhou? Are you still afraid of Cai E?" Jiang Baili never spoke rudely, and Song Ziqing was used to it and smiled silently: "Brother Baili, I'm trying to draw a crash-class officer! These people have already completed their three-month graduation period, what does it have to do with Cai E?"

Because the National Defense Forces were in urgent need of officers, the National Defense University continued to retain crash courses after the opening of the National Defense University. The more technical soldiers there were in the crash course, the longer it took. Ordinary army officers usually had to study for two to three years before they graduated. So Jiang Fangzhen immediately said: "If it weren't for their graduation time, would you think I would release people?"

Song Ziqing was too lazy to pay attention to him and asked, "You just said that Zhang Wenjing was sending equipment? Is it a machine gun or a counterfeit Qisheng and Five-barrel retreat?"

"How could I know what it is? They were all sealed in wooden boxes. I wanted to see that they were blocked by the military police. But they didn't look like cannons." After saying that, Jiang Fangzhen walked to the map and asked, "It's been six days, you haven't done it yet, are you?"

Song Ziqing did not hide it from him, pointing to Zunyi and said, "A battalion of the Fifth Division has passed Zunyi, and you will be able to arrive in Guiyang as soon as tomorrow morning. The first brigade is following behind, which is about a day off. It takes time for Anshun to issue the power on yesterday. It is calculated that Cai Songpo received the news in three days. Even if he set off immediately, he will not arrive tomorrow evening..."

"No, I got the first move." Jiang Fangzhen nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly shook his head again: "It's a pity that it's not your credit, it's the soldiers who did it well."

Song Ziqing could only scratch his head. Because Qiu Wenbin and his party safely withdrew Shi Bing and sent the telegram back, everyone now knows that he blew up the Guiyang telegram station that night, which caused Guiyang to be unable to contact the outside world immediately. In addition, Liu Xianshi and others were busy cleaning up the autonomous academic club and disobedient soldiers. It was not until Anshun No. 5 that he got the news. So on this issue, he admitted that Qiu Wenbin did a pretty job and said, "I got it first, but Cai Songpo also has some skills and can't underestimate it."

"What's the ability? It's just a matter of following Liang Qichao, without his own thoughts and system, to the end of the game." Jiang Fangzhen had no good feelings for Cai E, because this person lacked his own position, and especially felt that he was short-sighted in his view of his advocating Liang Qichao as his teacher.

Although Song Ziqing stayed in Germany, he had never dealt with Cai E, so he was not good at commenting. He pulled him and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Let's see what equipment he sent, but he was still hiding it from our Army University president." After the two arrived at the school, Song Ziqing found that Su Hongsheng was also here and was talking to Yang Qiu who was rushing to hear the news. His fingers kept pointing at the carriage filled with wooden boxes of all sizes next to him.

After seeing Yang Qiu, Su Hongsheng immediately asked the military police to lift one of the wooden boxes down. After opening it, the things inside made Song Ziqing and Jiang Fangzhen a little stupid. He only saw a black steel pipe about one meter long and thick with arms lying horizontally in the box, and there were triangle brackets and a large iron plate with a sunken center. Yang Qiu was excited when he saw these, and the mortar! The mortar he needed most was finally made at the most critical moment!

"Old Su, what is this?"

"A cannon!" Su Hongsheng was so excited that he immediately asked the soldiers to assemble them.

Cannon? The two who had studied in Germany were a little stunned. What kind of cannon is this? In fact, it is not their fault. Mortars were a new weapon that only appeared during the Russo-Japanese War. When they were studying in Germany, Germany had just developed and prepared troops. They were short-body monsters. Even if they were not mass-produced on a large scale at this moment, the mortars in the modern sense knew that France had installed buffers in one year, and it was considered to be formed after overcoming the shortcomings of the gun body and the gun mount.

The soldiers who installed the mortars seemed to have been moaning for a long time and were skillful in their movements. They quickly installed an 80mm mortar.

This mortar is a model of the later 67 type. The tail of the gun is equipped with a hairpin mechanism for daily training. The gun barrel is obviously thicker and thicker. This is because Yang Qiu distrusts the domestic gun steel. Therefore, he purchased a large number of weapon-grade steel pipes from the United States, which are prepared for the large-scale manufacturing of mortars. The buffer machine is a single-tube double-ped type, and the direction and high-low machine adopts a mechanical gear structure. By rotating the handle, the large and small bevel gears and screw barrels can be rotated, thereby moving the high and low screws up and down, giving the gun a high and low firing angle. The scope is also mechanical, because there is no optical manufacturing equipment in China.

Although it is simple and rough, it is really a modern mortar that can be used! After the soldiers completed the installation and opened the ammunition box, Yang Qiu's last breath was also relieved. In the ammunition box, six shells, wings, tail rods, and medicine bags were all lying side by side. Only the rubber air-retaining ring was replaced by resin rubber. This is because there is currently a lack of rubber in China, and it is necessary to wait until the vulcanization equipment purchased from the United States arrives before finding a way to get vulcanized rubber.

"Has this been tested?" Yang Qiu's voice was a little anxious. After seeing the mortar, he took the opportunity to completely transform the Fifth Division into a mountain division, because the mortar is the best fire support weapon of the mountain division. Su Hongsheng was calm in his work. Last time, the Han-type light machine gun was used to show Yang Qiu. This time, the mortar was actually built a month ago, but because he had never built such a cannon and could not be replaced, he could test it for more than a month with Yang Qiu's instructions and training manuals. He finally felt relieved and delivered it.

After the soldiers were installed, Yang Qiu couldn't wait to take everyone to the shooting range. Everyone saw that the soldiers adjusted the shooting angle and loaded the shells from the top, and then a light bang, and when the blue smoke rushed out of the muzzle, they could clearly see a black dot rushing into the distance.

"Boom. One."

The shells filled with more than three kilograms of yellow sè** are very powerful. With the pre-engraved fragments, they immediately smashed the targets in the distance. The size of the fire balls that rose up was even comparable to the 75mm field gun! Song Ziqing and Jiang Fangzhen didn't care about the danger, and all rushed over to experience the power and use of a new mortar. Only Yang Qiu frowned secretly and asked, "Has the maximum distance been tested?"

Su Hongsheng was still calm in joy, not noticing his god, and said, "The distance can reach 1 meter at most, but the accuracy is relatively poor, the most accurate is about 800 meters. There is no problem with the rest, just the bomb fuse 1. We don't have the ability to produce it, we still need to use German products."

1 meter ¨ Yang Qiu scratched his head, remembering the rumor during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, "The Eight-2 guns are really wonderful. If you can't beat them, it's not good. You will be reimbursed for all the guns." This sentence refers to the criticism of black gunpowder as launching medicine packages. The distance is short and the ballistics of the shells are unstable. At that time, the solution of the New Fourth Army was to use waste film to grind it into powder. Now film film is still a luxury item, but fortunately there are nitrocellulose fibers. Please tell Zhang Wenjing and Shen Shukai to see if you can import a batch of nitrocellulose cotton. You can use it to experiment with whether it can be used as launch medicine. If it works, just purchase a set of equipment and don't be afraid of spending money. The quality of self-produced fuzes should be improved as soon as possible. After the Austro-Hungarian workers are well, you can learn the precision work first. For now, import a batch of them."

After explaining the areas that need improvement, Yang Qiu asked: "How many were built? How many can the current output be produced per month? How many soldiers can operate such cannons?"

Su Hongsheng did not dare to deceive and immediately said: "The main reason is that we do not have seamless steel pipe technology, and we all rely on casting, so now there are only six 8 and six twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve

"Don't hurry the output, you must use one if you build one! I have ordered a lot of these gun barrels from the United States, and they will be delivered in two months at the latest. At present, the most important thing is to improve the process." Although Yang Qiu was anxious to send the mortar to Guizhou for practical testing immediately, in order to encourage everyone, he comforted him first and said: "Ziqing, please send Zhang Wenjing immediately to send these guns and gunners to Guiyang as quickly as possible for practical testing, and help Su Xiaohu by the way."

Jiang Fangzhen and Song Ziqing happened to come over and hear this and smiled at each other. With such a cannon that a strong man could carry, the heavy firepower that caused everyone the most headache in the battle of Guizhou was finally solved.

The rumbling sound of cannons in the shooting range made Chen Guofu, who came to find Yang Qiu, stunned, especially when he saw the strange-looking mortar, his footsteps couldn't help but walk there. Song Ziqing was still a little worried about Chen Guofu's identity. After all, he was Chen Qimei's nephew. He was afraid that he would know too much leaks, so he immediately shouted: "Guofu, is there anything wrong?"

The young Chen Guofu didn't have so many ideas, but he thought this little cannon was very novel. He immediately ran over when he heard the shout, took out a telegram and said, "Appointmentman, Chief of Staff."

We just received a national telegram from the Governor Cai E of Yunnan! He said that since ancient times, Yunnan and Guizhou have been the same. Now Guizhou is in chaos and has become a bandit country. When Liu Xianshi and other gentry call us for help, how can our Yunnan army beg for help? Let the bandits go rampant? He specially asked Nanjing to carry troops east to sweep Guizhou territory and restore peace to the people."

"Brother Pao?" Yang Qiu laughed in silence. It was really a dangerous wall that everyone pushed him. He fought against Brother Pao. Cai E actually learned to use this trick. He glanced at the mortar that had been put away and said with a smile: "Power power on, we also power on the whole country! Defend the revolution, sweep Guizhou, suppress bandits and Anzhou, and maintain stability!"...
Chapter completed!