In early November, Zhao Xin made a special trip back to another time and space to meet Andrew somewhere in Europe. The place where they met was a small restaurant with only a dozen tables in total.
Rows of red wine were placed on the heavy wine racks, glowing with a ruby color under the light. Several strings of garlic and red peppers were hung on the wooden wall panels. The pictures inlaid in several picture frames on the wall were not very romantic.
It's an oil painting, but a bill signed by a famous person a hundred years ago.
Because it was not dinner time yet, the restaurant was very quiet. Except for the two accompanying bodyguards sitting near the door, only Zhao Xin and Andrew were sitting by the window. There was no one else. Looking out from the window, you could just see
There is a large yacht parked in the bay. It belongs to Andrew.
The two of them chatted for more than 20 minutes as soon as they got together, saying a lot of things that would sound useless to outsiders. Then Zhao Xin wrote out the requirements on a napkin. However, when Andrew finished reading, he
He couldn't help but blurt out: "Two million, five hundred thousand?! Zhao, who are you planning to start a war with?"
"Haha, it's better if you don't know. In fact, I also change hands for trade."
Andrew nodded and said: "Although the situation has been a bit tense recently and prices are rising, everyone's attention is on the west, and no one will care about our affairs."
"It must be delivered within half a year." Zhao Xin picked up the cup and took a sip of water, and said calmly: "Don't worry, it will be delivered to the same place as before. I will be responsible for the transportation myself."
Andrew thought for a moment, then nodded and said: "How to pay?"
"Metal."
"This is good, maybe the price will be cheaper this way."
If an outsider heard the content of the conversation between the two people, they would not understand what they were talking about. In fact, what Zhao Xin wanted was two hundred 122mm howitzers and 500,000 rounds of artillery shells.
A 122mm ordinary grenade costs US$1,000, and a D30 costs US$450,000, so the amount of this transaction is...just do the math yourself.
Many outsiders think that when artillery fires, they just keep loading and firing, and then the opponent's position becomes a sea of fire, and the infantry can win with a desperate charge.
But after so many years of artillery training, especially after the "Battle of Usoliya", Zhao Xin finally realized that there was a rigorous calculation formula behind "artillery land washing", which non-professionals simply couldn't understand. Every
One way, every move of each weapon must be based on quantitative statistics of data and probability, and these data are all tested by the North Navy time and time again.
Once again, there has never been an artillery that can be achieved overnight. Those time-travelers who always talk about using cannons to wash the ground are basically liars, or they simply don’t understand what a battlefield with thousands of troops means.
Generally, when calculating the shooting capability of artillery, it is usually based on the base number of ammunition. Taking the D30-122, which is the most equipped in the Northern Navy, what is the base number of ammunition for an artillery battalion equipped with 18 guns? The answer is 1404 rounds
, an average of 78 rounds per gun.
Five hundred thousand rounds of artillery shells, corresponding to three hundred 122mm howitzers, is a little more than 21. It seems like a lot, but it is really not much.
The lethality boundary of a 122mm ordinary grenade is a rectangular area of 1200 square meters. The artillery can fire up to six rounds in the first minute of firing, but this is only the first minute.
According to the statistics of the artillery staff of the Northern Navy in the "Battle of Usoliya", when firing continued for three minutes, the average number of rounds fired per gun was 16, which was 5.3 rounds per minute; for fifteen minutes, it was 55 rounds.
3.6 rounds per minute; when the shooting lasts for thirty minutes, depending on the charge, the total number of shells fired is 75 to 90, which means that the average is reduced to 2 to 3 rounds per minute.
Have you noticed? This is a process in which the rate of fire continues to decrease.
Eight points? That is just the result of a crazy desire to survive in a desperate situation. As long as it is manually loaded, it is generally impossible to achieve it and it is meaningless, because it is impossible to fire a one-minute attack to clear the ground.
One minute I scored 8, and the next minute I was so exhausted that I could only fire three rounds. It was just taking off my pants and farting.
Calculated based on the above data, the firepower projection of a 122mm howitzer battalion is calculated. In the first minute, 108 rounds of artillery shells are fired, 288 rounds can be fired in 3 minutes, 990 rounds can be fired in 15 minutes, and 30
It can fire 1350~1620 rounds per minute.
Didn't I just say that the base number of ammunition for an artillery battalion is 1404 rounds. Assuming that the killing areas of each artillery shell in an artillery battalion do not overlap within 25 to 30 minutes, it means that one base number of ammunition can be used.
An area of 168.48 hectares was suppressed.
Assuming that one person is distributed in 2.25 square meters and one cavalry is distributed in 9 square meters, 168 hectares can accommodate 750,000 infantry and 187,000 cavalry.
However, this is simply impossible! Even calibrating the position in advance cannot be done. The situation on the actual battlefield is more complicated, and the ammunition consumption will only be greater.
Still based on the data of the "Battle of Usolye", the mobile formation of the Russian infantry when dispatched was a four-point column. The formation was that each company lined up in turn.
The distance between platoons is 5 yards. Each battalion has 1,000 men and consists of 8 platoons. The width of the front on the battlefield is 50 yards and the depth is 125 yards.
Calculated in this way, the area of a battalion when it initiates a column march is 5712 square meters. The killing area of a 122 grenade is 1200 square meters, so at least 5 rounds of artillery shells are needed to destroy a battalion; taking into account the shooting error and the overlap of the killing areas, then
Calculated based on the base number of 1.5, that is 7.5 rounds.
Although each artillery shell will not land in the same position, the damage range of the artillery shells will definitely overlap. Moreover, the enemy will not stand flat in an open space of nearly ten hectares and then wait for the opponent to blow up all of them.
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The greater the distance, the direction error and distance error increase accordingly, and the spread area of the projectiles is also large. When the shooting distance increases from 10 kilometers to 15 kilometers, the artillery’s shooting ability
It will decrease by 34%, that is, the accuracy rate will decrease.
The greater the amount of ammunition fired, the lower the firing speed will be. Therefore, if you want to suppress a large number of enemies within a short time limit, you must increase the number of artillery and artillery. Of course, quality is also very important.
Why did the Soviet army deploy 12,000 cannons when they attacked Berlin? Do you really think they were just trying to show off their momentum?
Zhao Xinlai had carefully calculated before that if the enemy invaded with hundreds of thousands of people, he would deploy 18 battalions of nearly 300 cannons. Calculating a base projection each time, 25,000 artillery shells would be needed.
From another perspective, even ordinary grenades are so expensive, which also explains why Zhao Xin has never dared to use rocket launchers. One rocket costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and a vehicle has 8 to 12 tubes. A salvo is one
A supercar or a big John Deere tractor is gone.
No matter how much money a person has, he can't withstand such a fire. Only industrialized countries with heavy industry can do it. So currently Zhao Xin can only choose 122 howitzers or ordinary grenades.
With the existing resources and equipment, he can ravage the island country, clean up Annan and Batavia, and even go to the other side of the ocean to bully the new "natural human rights country". But in the face of behemoths like the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, he can only rely on
One can imagine how difficult it would be for a population of hundreds of thousands without the support of heavy industry to overthrow an old system and defend a territory of more than 20 million square kilometers.
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"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
On the winter school grounds in the south of Wula City, Jilin, three Zambarak shotguns fired simultaneously at a distance of fifty paces (four feet per step, less than seventy meters) at a square table-sized wooden board covered with a thick quilt.
shooting.
Before the smoke could be blown away by the wind, several Qing soldiers ran past the musketeers' positions to check the targets. Behind them were several military attachés from the shotgun battalion.
When we arrived at the target, we saw three black-gray holes as big as the tips of index fingers on the gray quilt, and a few strands of cotton mixed with soil were exposed from the holes.
At this time, a military general came over and asked: "How is it? Have you penetrated it?"
"Sir, please wait a moment, the humble officers will check immediately."
Having said that, several Qing soldiers had already untied the ropes tied to the wooden boards and quilts, and placed the unfixed wet quilts on the ground, revealing the wooden boards covered with a layer of iron.
At this time, several Qing soldiers pointed at the board excitedly and said, "Look, sir, the iron board is unscathed!"
Several Qing generals looked at each other, with a hint of excitement in their expressions. The leading general said: "Look at how many layers of quilts have been penetrated!"
The Qing soldiers in charge of the inspection opened the three layers of quilts one by one and swept away the dirt, sand and gravel filled in the middle. Only then did they see clearly that the iron bullet had only hit the second layer of wet quilts and stayed in the cotton wool.
Half an hour later, Fukang'an in Wula City, Jilin, learned the news. Several staff members raised their hands and said: "Congratulations, Commander! There is no danger of firing at fifty paces. This method seems to have been completed."
After hearing this, Fukang'an showed no joy at all. He picked up the tea cup and took a sip, and said expressionlessly: "Even if it is feasible, it can only block the ordinary rapid fire of the Northern Pirates.
I’m afraid a race-electric cannon that can fire dozens of bullets still won’t work.”
He thought for a while and then said to the general who came to report: "Try again, shorten the firing distance to twenty steps! I tried the shotgun, and then used the Weiyuan cannon."
"Hey! I obey the order!"
Since the end of the "Battle of Hunchun", the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have been trying to find ways to crack or withstand the bullets of the Beihai Navy. Otherwise, the infantry of the Qing army would not be able to attack the Beihai Navy fifty steps in front, and could only be passively beaten, and there was no way
Talk about defeating the enemy.
Digging trenches? No! Mingliang did this at Ningguta Camp, trying to use trenches against trenches. However, facing the Northern Navy's artillery, the Manchus had no solution at all.
After the "Battle of Hunchun", Fukang'an issued a reward in the army. Whoever could come up with a way to crack the North Navy's fast guns and blunderbuss would be promoted to two ranks and given a reward of 500 taels of silver.
Two days after the reward was issued, a Qing army gunner who had participated in the sneak attack on Ninggu Pagoda came up with the idea of using wet quilts. However, the leader’s idea had been upgraded from the original 1.0 version of a single-layer quilt with mud.
Version 2.0 uses two layers of wet quilts with sand in between.
In fact, except for the lack of a square table, this version is infinitely close to the "earth tanks" used by the guerrillas in the Japanese artillery towers in another time and space.
After that, Fukang Anming's generals continued to experiment and increased the number of wet quilts splashed with water from two layers to three layers. However, the amount was simply not something that two bamboo poles could lift. However, the three cobblers were even better than Zhuge Liang.
At this time, someone else came up with a plan. It was better to use it on the carriages used to attack the city.
Chariots were commonly used by the Manchus and Qing Dynasties in the late Ming Dynasty, but after the Yongzheng Dynasty introduced a large number of firearms, they gradually withdrew from the stage of history. Early chariots were mainly used for sieges, and they could resist bows and arrows as well as firearms.
The attack, which is four feet six inches high and four feet five inches wide, is placed in front of a two-wheeled light vehicle and supported by poles; when going out, three carriages move forward side by side.
When the Manchus and Qing Dynasties fought against the Ming army before entering the customs, their carriages were made of thick wooden boards covered with cowhide and iron sheets. They could not be damaged by stones of any size, nor could they be burned by fire. They had strong defensive power.
After many experiments, in the end it became a two-meter-square three-inch-thick pine board, one side covered with a layer of iron sheet, then tied with three layers of water-splashed quilts, and filled with two layers of soil quilts in the middle. The combat method
At that time, it was placed in front of a two-wheeled light vehicle and pushed forward by four soldiers, while the Qing army's musketeers lined up in columns and hid behind the carriage to follow.
At this time, the "earth tanks" of the Qing army could withstand the shooting of the "Zanbarak big shotgun" at a distance of fifty steps, but that was the limit; all the Qing army generals who had fought against the Northern Navy knew that this alone would
, unable to cope with the opponent's terrifying cannon.
However, within a few days, when the time came to the tenth month of the lunar calendar, as the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty obtained more and more intelligence from the Maocheng City, Qianlong and his military ministers finally learned that the Northern Navy was engaged in operations beyond Baiboer Lake.
Everyone was shocked by the detailed story of Peking University's defeat of the Russian army.
According to the Manchu spies disguised as Buryats, the overwhelming artillery fire of the Northern Navy on the Belaya River was said to be like the earth falling apart and the end of the world. Tens of thousands of acres of ground seemed to have been plowed, and every crater was
Almost all were two feet deep, and some even reached six feet. The Russian army suffered heavy casualties. In the prisoner-of-war camp set up by the Northern Navy east of Usolye, there were densely packed Rakshasa prisoners, almost tens of thousands of them, and even some
There are quite a few missing arms and legs.
How can you fight this? After hearing the news, Qianlong's first reaction was that Zhao Xin might use Russian prisoners to build roads again. According to reports from Manchu and Qing spies lurking in Heilongjiang City, the Northern Navy has used tens of thousands of Russian troops in the past two years.
The prisoners built a large post road in the northeast. Those roads can accommodate six carriages in parallel. They are paved with gravel and fine sand and are very flat.
When Qianlong learned about this situation, he felt that he had understood another aspect of Zhao Xin's character. That was that this man hated Rakshasa so much that he only made prisoners of war do hard labor and did not bother to take them in at all.
Along with the news about the war situation, Qianlong was also delivered to Qianlong one after another about the bumper harvests in various places in Beihai Town this year, which deepened Qianlong's worries.
The opponent's troops were well-prepared, but on the other hand, the imperial court was in financial distress due to successive military buildups. Faced with such a predicament, the academicians headed by He Shen and Fukang'an could only resort to "recruiting troops and resorting to violence. If you do any unjust things, you will be killed."
" to curse Zhao Xin and comfort Qianlong.
Finally, after careful consideration, Qianlong made a bold and painful decision - negotiating peace. His purpose in doing so was first to prevent the Northern Navy from going south, and secondly to solve Beihai Town from within through political means.
From the secret reports that came one after another about Beihai Town, Qianlong discovered a problem, that is, the territory that Zhao Xin controlled now was too large. Although the specific population figures were unclear, it was certain that the various ethnic groups under his jurisdiction were mixed. There was a slight difference.
Be careful, internal conflicts will intensify. You must know that the Khalkha, Mongolia, Western Regions, Jinchuan and even the Miao people under the rule of the Qing Dynasty have been at war with each other in recent years. It took them decades and hundreds of millions of military expenditures to show their strength.
Peace.
However, the court had to keep face. This kind of embarrassing thing must not be known to the people of the world and other vassal states, so he could only discuss it with Yongyan, Heshen and other close confidants, and he couldn't tell him directly. Someone had to understand him.
He took the initiative to share the worries of the imperial court.
Qianlong did not talk about Beihai Town at first, but mentioned that Fukang'an was not in good health recently, and then talked about Fu Heng's expedition to Myanmar, and finally sighed at Fu Heng's early death.
Yongyan was stunned when he heard these words, but Heshen guessed what Qianlong was thinking. So he also spoke in a roundabout way, first complimenting Qianlong's achievements that far exceeded those of previous emperors, and then specifically compared Qianlong with Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.
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So Qianlong got off the slope and changed the subject, talking about the five years it took Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to completely defeat the Turks, and then there was the "Reign of Zhenguan". Heshen then took the initiative to kneel down and apologize, and suggested negotiating peace with Beihai Town.
In order to gain a breathing space for the court.
At this time, Yongyan gradually understood what was going on. Because Qianlong often said that he was following the example of Emperor Taizong in his political life, while Heshen and Qianlong sang in harmony, clearly talking about Emperor Taizong's achievements, but actually alluding to the "Wei River Alliance"