Chapter 174 Preparation for battle
After testing the weapon performance of the i-23a, Chen Ze left with satisfaction. The researchers responsible for the specific testing work were still busy here. In the huge field, the harsh gunfire was still continuous, and bullets shot out, deeply embedded in the mountain.
The surrounding walls cannot be blocked at all. There is only one meaning in hiding behind the wall in the battlefield, that is, to block the enemy's shooting field of vision and make it difficult for them to capture the target. The wall itself can only use the internal uneven material to change the route of the bullet. It is not a special fortification and cannot resist the penetration of the bullet.
Fortunately, Wan Wei is more professional in this regard. After all, he had experience in managing an arsenal for a long time. A large number of sandbags were piled on the periphery of the wall, which could effectively prevent stray bullets from flying out of the field and injuring innocent passers-by.
Even just in case, gun targets are usually placed at one end near the high slope of the mountain.
During this period, most light machine gun products used magazines to supply ammunition, and the loading capacity was limited. Unlike the future German mg42 and American m1919 series, they used ammunition chains to supply ammunition. Therefore, their ability to provide continuous firepower is still limited, and changing the magazine's neutral gear will cause firepower to be interrupted.
Objectively speaking, the design idea of light machine guns at that time did not require long-term continuous shooting. They generally only undertake fast battlefield support tasks, mostly used for infiltrating attacks by infantry. As for continuous shooting or fire suppression of group enemy forces, they are all tasks of heavy machine guns. Small magazine loading capacity is not a fatal flaw at this period. On the contrary, due to the price advantage, the army of various countries has turned their attention to this gun as a product to replace heavy machine guns in the future.
The original Czech design idea was a bit problematic, and it seemed that due to financial constraints, they set the capacity of this light machine gun to a magazine of 20 rounds. This still seems to be too small for light machine guns, and such a setting is rare even in similar products.
The loading of 20 rounds means that more often the firepower will inevitably be interrupted. In combat, even if the firepower of the machine gun as the fire pillar must be interrupted, the less interval, the better. However, due to the frequent replacement of the magazine, the firepower will be interrupted too many times. Experienced veterans often take the opportunity to charge and knock down the machine gun.
In response to this point, experienced machine gun shooters may be able to suddenly replace the magazine when there are three or four bullets left, making the enemy unable to estimate the time to replace the magazine. According to the actual combat needs of the country at this time, the Pi-23 light machine gun, which was improved with the i-23 light machine gun as a prototype, used thirty rounds of magazines to supply ammunition. This change finally increased the sustainability of firepower. Of course, the price is that the entire gun is heavy.
The so-called pi-23 actually means pirated i-23. The name i-23a that Wan Wei chose is too explicit, and at least he has to change the name to be more appropriate. Chen Zeke thought about letting Tianyu Group go to the world and would never want to fall into the legal quagmire of being accused of infringement by a foreign weapon company, although he is indeed pirated.
The pi-23 light machine gun uses magazines on the body of the gun to affect the shooter's line of sight. Its aiming device is a way to aim out of the gun body. It does not affect the accuracy of the shooting roughly, but affects the shooter's line of sight. For machine gunners, a good line of sight is very important.
This is the place where the defects in the weapon setting are serious. If you tilt your head and aim, and aim with your head, this little bit of difference will be infinitely magnified during war, or even a fatal problem.
However, Chen Ze doesn't care, and Wan Wei doesn't care. The main purpose of this low-end weapon is to export. If it is too good, it will be troublesome. Not to mention wasting research funds, it will not be fun if someone takes it over to beat him. Reduced products also have the meaning of defective products, and the buyer seems to be very satisfied with this weapon, and you can know the news sent back from Chen Hongying.
Anyway, according to the appetite of these warlords, if they have such weapons that can be sold to them in large quantities, they should be content. With their economic situation, they are really not qualified to be picky.
In fact, with the technology required for this Czech light machine gun, many domestic arsenals can also be imitated in large quantities. However, before obtaining the full set of drawings provided by the other party, they can only produce them by drawing the drawings in reverse. Quality is the first problem, cost is the second problem, and as for output, it is even more difficult to compare with Tianyu Group.
Basically, the more difficult product research can be asked Zhong Yang to use the powerful attributes of the smart factory to help. This time the product piracy proves this. It only took 30 seconds to infer the overall structure of the product, and 5 days to finalize the product and design the production line. There was even a free time to improve the production details of several of them.
Compared with i-23, the pi-23 not only improves performance a lot, but also has excellent quality than the original. It is difficult to compare the output for the time being. Tianyu Group cannot obtain the other party's specific production data, so it can only infer from the side.
The following are the technical elements of the gun: the total length of the gun is 1161 mm; the entire gun weighs kilogram; the barrel is 672 mm; the automatic method is air-guided; the rifle has 4 right-hand rotation and a 240mm wrapping range; the initial velocity is 830 meters per second; the range of the meter scale is also 1500 meters; the rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute; the barrel cooling method is air-cooled; there are two types of ammunition supply methods: one is 20 round magazines, but if the 30 round magazine uses 20 rounds, the gun weight will only become 9.60 kg; the bullet used is 7.92x25mm Mauser bullet.
With the preferential price provided by Tianyu Group, the demand group is still large. Among them, major warlords and local armed forces in the north and south can be pi-23 customers or potential customers.
With the financial resources of Wu Peifu, Cao Kun, Zhang Zuolin and others, it is also possible to have a division equipped with nearly 700 zb-26 light machine guns, but such troops are only a handful of them in their battle sequence. Unless they are the main force directly under the leader of the warlord, it is impossible to have such financial resources.
As for local miscellaneous troops who lack money and food, according to the estimates of the Market Planning Department, it is amazing that one platoon or even one company has a pi-23 light machine gun. Even so, it will definitely provide Tianyu Group with a large amount of sales profits. The only problem is how to sell. The cooperation with Shen Hongying can undoubtedly be an important reference case, and using resources to pay off debts may be a good idea.
The analysis report submitted by the Market Research Department pointed out the promotion value of this weapon. According to professional analysis, it is inevitable that there are two main intentions to be equipped with PI-23. First, China's own industrial strength is very poor, and its military strength is even worse. Most arsenals can only barely build some old-fashioned rifles and grenades, and there are only a handful of units that can produce heavy machine guns and even artillery, which is difficult to meet the demand.
Moreover, due to the warlord melee, China was subject to long-term military sanctions and embargoes from the Western world. In 1919, in order to promote a peaceful resolution of China's civil war, the United States advocated an embargo on China's weapons and arms, which would not end until 1929. This decade-long period was the profit margin of Tianyu Group.
Due to the arms embargo, rifles and pistols can be smuggled. Small foreign arsenals such as heavy machine guns and artillery cannot be produced, while large arsenals will not participate in smuggling considering international conventions. If they make them themselves, China can barely produce some rifles and pistols. However, most domestic military-industrial enterprises are powerless to produce weapons such as heavy machine guns.
Since the end of World War I, the military generally believed that the future combat mode would be different from before World War I. The firepower formed by rifles alone could not meet the needs of actual combat. In addition to heavy machine guns, there was a more urgent need for continuous firepower that could respond quickly. As for the complex mechanism of heavy machine guns, China's backward industry was unable to imitate in large quantities.
A small amount of manufacturing is meaningless, and it is not even as good as the smuggling of arms dealers through N channels. The most basic quality of war is to compete for the consumption of both sides. Intelligence and strategy are also supported by basic strength.
Chen Ze and Liu Haoran have been very busy recently because they have to deal with the upcoming small-scale war. This is the first time that the New Fourth Army has taken the initiative to attack. It is of great significance and is also an important measure to gain the hearts of the people in Guangzhou and even Guangdong Province. At the beginning, Chen Jiongming left Tianyu Group with nowhere to start. Due to personal emotional factors, Chen Ze was unwilling to do so.
But if the other party is replaced by Sun Yixian, there will be no taboos. Defeating a ** government that is only good at being arrogant is a crucial event for the entire organization to establish itself in the south.
Moreover, this battle was the first away battle, which had an impact on the gathering of military morale and the shaping of military spirits in the future. After analysis by the General Staff, a plan was finally made to face the enemy head-on. With the current strong strength of the New Fourth Army, it is unnecessary to play tricks, and because there are strict restrictions on the scale of the battle, only a small number of elite troops need to be used.
Li Shaojie will lead the First Brigade of the New Fourth Army, with a total of 7,200 people, to be put into this battle. More than half of the soldiers are equipped with Type 22a assault rifles. This improved Type 22 rifle has better stability than before. With the support, it can even be used as a light machine gun, with amazing power.
However, because they had never experienced actual combat before, the torrent general machine guns are still assembled in large quantities, and officers generally believe that they should be more conservative. Many grassroots non-commissioned officers from this First Brigade have participated in actual combat in Tangwei Camp before and are more trustworthy about the performance of general machine guns. Although they also like the Type 22a assault rifle, they always tend to be more psychologically powerful than general machine guns.
In the current military training, the non-main team basically relies on the German army instructors introduced by Cassa. Because of the conflict in concepts, it is even more confidential. Whenever Zhong Yang lets these people participate in the training of the main force, as for the armored division, it is even more impossible for the Germans to intervene.
At the beginning, German instructors refused to train assault rifle shooters. In their concept, the main weapons of infantry were mainly rifles and machine guns, and even submachine guns were not very popular, and they were wasted bullets. This is not intentionally slandering the German army's thinking inertia, but in fact, such things have happened in real history.
Hitler canceled the assembly of assault rifles that year. If the Soviet Union had not developed the AK series and had it hurt the German army on the front line, the large-scale launch of assault rifles might have been a few years later.
Not to mention, it is only 1923, and the First World War has just ended. The tactical system of rifle-machine gun-trench wire is still the mainstream in the world's military field. The emergence of light machine guns may have changed some people's thinking, but it is still a long way from complete development and improvement. Human ideological inertia is sometimes a very troublesome thing.
This battle was originally planned to be launched in September. Yu** combined Chen Hongying and Chen Jiongming outside the party, and Liu Zhenhuan and Yang Ximin within the party. The purpose was not to drive the Grand Marshal's Mansion out of Guangzhou, but to suppress their arrogance and win the hearts of the people, and to accept some people into three counties controlled by Tianyu Group.
Human resources are the most precious wealth for Zhong Yang and others today. Especially in Guangdong Province, where they receive Western ideas earlier and their cultural heritage is deep enough, suitable for ideological education and transformation that combines new and old.
Here, Zhong Yang would not be too stupid to promote Mandarin, nor would he do any simplified Chinese characters. According to the original plan, the standard language will be selected as Cantonese, which was also used as an official language in ancient times. Among them, Guangzhou Vernacular is the standard, and the ancient Chinese movement is launched.
What Zhong Yang dislikes the most are those guys who still try their best to eliminate classical Chinese when promoting vernacular Chinese. Vernacular Chinese is indeed very important. The development of productivity has caused a surge in educated people. Vernacular Chinese is of great significance to the popularization of knowledge. However, we cannot try to abandon classical Chinese because of this.
Is it because eating can fill your stomach, so don’t eat delicious food? The language level of classical Chinese itself is generally higher than that of vernacular Chinese. Many vernacular imminent momentum can be easily described in classical Chinese. The concise sentences and words give people a spiritual enjoyment.
Zhong Yang will not discriminate against vernacular because of classical Chinese, nor will he eliminate classical Chinese because of its usefulness. There is no irreconcilable contradiction between the two. Just subdividing it in education, and it is really boring to keep calling out to defeat xxism. As for simplified Chinese characters, they will never change them, and whoever likes to change them.
Jiannu wanted to do this kind of extermination of Chinese civilization but could not do it, but Taizu strongly praised it, not just because of his intentions. At that time, he did not just want to change the simplified Chinese characters, but instead wanted to use pinyin instead. He found some bricks to discuss it, and finally stopped in the wave of opposition from most people.
He did not give up and finally came up with a plan to modify the simplified Chinese characters, which finally took the first step to cut off the orthodox Chinese civilization. It is a long-term plan. I will not talk about these things here.
In the entire military system, only the New Fourth Army and the armored troops can be directly fought, which are still confidential and are not suitable for use. The teams of Li Zongren and Mo Rongxin have just been reorganized and have only started training now, so it is not suitable for interrupting the process.
The total number of the New Fourth Army expanded to 25,000, of which 5,000 were recruited for less than a month. The main members were fugitives from other parts of Guangzhou. Such troops really had no combat power and could only stay in Nansha Camp for training and training.
The only one who can really fight is the First Brigade in Li Shaojie's hands, which is a high-quality team that Tianyu Group has tried its best to arm its full force. The proportion of veterans is the highest in the entire army, except for the Guangxi team that is still in the military academy.
At present, Nansha Military Academy has opened a short-term special training class. The principal is Mo Rongxin, but he doesn't care about the affairs and is just a spiritual leader. The person who is really responsible for specific affairs is Li Zongren, a young and powerful, shrewd and courageous officer. Now he has long been the next leader of the Guangxi clan, and his army is the strongest in Guangxi Province.
This is by no means a boast. Regardless of weapons, equipment, morale and morale, he has been very different from what he used to be with the help of Tianyu Group. He lost the absolute control of the army and received a huge leap in strength. This is not good or bad, but Li Zongren was satisfied. He has just crawled out of a low-level officer for less than two years and does not have the ambition of dominating the world in the future.
Now Li Zongren has more patriotic thoughts and his warlord concepts are weaker. Faced with the previous recruitment of Tianyu Group, he did not accept it because of hesitation. However, after coming to Nansha and gaining some information, he put down his previous prejudices. Not to mention, even the old superior Mo Rongxin was here.
The reason why Mo Rongxin was chosen as the principal of the military academy was not because of his character and talent, but because of his age and prestige. It was not difficult for Tianyu Group to recruit soldiers in Guangzhou, but it was not easy to recruit soldiers in Guangxi. Without Mo Rongxin's help, the difficulty would not be a little bit.
There are also complaints in the system about this appointment decision. Many senior officers, including Wang Liwen, stared at this position. Although the principal was not allowed to lead troops to fight according to the military system, this connection and historical reputation were indeed very attractive to these aspiring people who were keen on achievements.
Fortunately, Mo Rongxin is still unparalleled in terms of qualifications. The days that had been in Guangdong and Guangxi for decades were still in front of him, with twists and turns, but there was no suspense. He still deserves the position of principal. With his age, he can't be in this position for a few years, which is why Zhong Yang feels most at ease with him.
If someone else goes up, although it may not necessarily impact the military system itself, there are still some troubles. The military system has been established for less than three years, and there must be many imperfections, which can make people have room for exploitation. In addition, the thinking inertia of many people may not be able to reverse it in a short period of time. It is really tempting to have a military force to become a warlord.
Only by changing an old man who is about to die can it be considered a more suitable plan. When Mo Rongxin left, the entire military system would be established for at least seven or eight years. Such a long period of ideological education is enough to clean up some of the remaining remaining under the old system. This is the general strategy. Seeking stability but not speed, seeking wealth but not showing, and accumulating strength is the right thing...
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