Not only the weight of a large caliber shell, but the total weight of a Type 64 heavy howitzer weighs five tons. Even though it has wheels, it requires four horses to pull it. This is still a normal road. If you encounter a mountain road, it may be difficult for four horses to pull it.

Faced with the logistical complaints all day long, Li Weiguo just comforted them and said that he would solve the problem for them soon.

Of course, this is not a casual remark, but Li Weiguo can indeed solve this problem.

Whether logistics transportation can keep up is related to the success or failure of a battle or even the war.

Haven't you seen how the victory of the Huaihai Battle was achieved? It was achieved by 300,000 people using carts to load ammunition. The same is true. Li Weiguo could not mobilize 300,000 people to be responsible for transportation in a battle, because the situation was different. During the Huaihai Battle, the people were poor and had no food to eat, and they could throw away their families and businesses without any worries, and then help the Red Army to do transportation. Not to mention recruiting 300,000 people to work, even if one million people were summoned, there was no problem, because the economy had collapsed and it was impossible to collapse again.

On the other hand, the situation of Li Weiguo is different. The people under his rule are living and working in peace and prosperity, and the economy in the ruling region is prosperous. The people have their own work to do, but they are not abandoned by breaking their families and businesses. Once 300,000 people are recruited to participate in logistics transportation, not only will they have to pay the people's wages, but they will also delay the normal work of 300,000 people, and the losses will be greater.

This is the fundamental difference between the two, so Li Weiguo had to pay attention to logistics transportation and his own economic losses.

At present, the logistics transportation tools of the Nanyang Army basically rely on trains and cattle and horse carriages for military transportation. The trains are naturally powerful and can be transported quickly. However, the problem is that only Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province have railways. Although Li Weiguo ordered all railways to be started in eight provinces south of the Yangtze River since 161, the territory is too large. In the past four years, only 10,000 kilometers of railways have been built. Because Jiangxi and Yunnan-Guizhou are mountainous, it has caused many difficulties in building railways. Although the total mileage reaches 10,000 kilometers, the railway lines are actually built independently and in sections of each province, and cannot be connected together, and most of them have not been completed.

In this way, once the war breaks out, there are well-connected railways in the provinces of Jiangnan and Zhejiang, the logistics supply pressure of the Nanyang Army is not high. But the war will definitely not be limited to the provinces of Jiangnan and Zhejiang. Obviously, this is a national unified war and a national war to resist foreign invasion. The war will burn all over the country. The eight provinces north of the Yangtze River and the five generals have no railway. Once the war is fought there, the transportation work will depend on cattle, horses and carriages.

In response to this situation, the logistics transportation pressure of the Nanyang Army became very high. Therefore, the response strategy formulated by Li Weiguo was to quickly build a car transport team to solve the logistics transportation problem.

This concept has begun long ago, which can be traced back to five years ago. At that time, under the guidance of Li Weiguo, Barnett and Huigens developed great interest in petrochemicals. After three years of careful research and experimentation, there is now a petrochemical plant in the Jiangwan Industrial Zone. It has achieved industrialized petrochemical production and is also the first and only petrochemical plant in the world. This is more than 30 years earlier than the first Dutch Shell Petrochemical Company that appeared in history.

This is all the butterfly effect brought by Li Weiguo. The Jiangwan Petrochemical Factory produces 50 barrels of purified crude oil, 50 barrels of gasoline, and 300 barrels of diesel per day. All oil was transported back from the Persian Empire. At that time, Li Weiguo sent Yung Wing to the Persian Gulf and purchased a piece of land that is rich in oil from the Persian Empire. After that, he dug wells there and oil production can produce 1,000 barrels of crude oil every day. The collected oil is transported back to Shanghai by sea every month and processed at the Jiangwan Petrochemical Factory. The 500 barrels of purified crude oil are obtained by primary filtering impurities based on crude oil, and then smelting gasoline and diesel.

Although the output is not high, it is enough to meet the needs of the Nanyang Army. A small part of the gasoline is used to load high-pressure flamethrowers and serve on the Nanyang Army flamethrowers. Most of them are used in strategic reserves, waiting for the birth of a new consumer.

This new consumer is diesel locomotives, including cars and trucks.

Regarding the basic principles of internal combustion engines, such as four-stroke work, fuel injector principle, compression ignition and other key elements, Li Weiguo told Barnett and Huygens five years ago. A year ago, the two had successfully developed a diesel engine with a thermal efficiency of 2% and a gasoline engine with a thermal efficiency of 32% and a gasoline engine with a thermal efficiency of 5% and a gasoline engine with a thermal efficiency of 32% and a gasoline engine with a power of 5% and a gasoline engine with a thermal efficiency of 32% and a diesel engine with a diesel engine and a gasoline engine was named Barnett gasoline engine.

Both internal combustion engines have met the requirements of industrial development, so Li Weiguo established an automobile factory in Jiangwan Industrial Zone, which was fifteen years earlier than the world's earliest automobile factory.

Automobile factories mainly produce trucks and a small number of cars, among which trucks use diesel engines as engines, while automobiles use gasoline engines as engines. However, cars are not practical because they are too expensive, their appearance is not good-looking, and their user base is small. Even Li Weiguo didn't like it, so they only produce a small number of cars for research and experiments.

Li Weiguo focused on truck production. Although the cost of trucks is also very high and the appearance is also ugly, Li Weiguo still made a large amount of procurement, mainly to help solve the logistics transportation problems of the Nanyang Army. Because this is an imminent matter, Li Weiguo did not care about the cost.

Today, two thousand Huygens trucks have been produced, each truck can carry eight tons of cargo and drive at a speed of 35 kilometers per hour. Both cargo capacity and speed are advanced than cargo carriages. Especially the Type 64 heavy howitzer, only trucks can pull.

However, two thousand trucks are a drop in the bucket for the huge Nanyang Army logistics company. This is also impossible. The automobile company has just been established for a year, and the production line is insufficient, resulting in insufficient production capacity. Now Li Weiguo can only urge the automobile company to speed up the expansion of production lines and strive to increase the number of trucks as much as possible within three months to fill the pressure of logistics transportation.

When leaving the gun factory, Li Yang, the insurer in charge of gun supervision, presented a gift to Li Weiguo.

Li Weiguo frowned immediately. He did not accept gifts. The entire Nanyang officialdom pursued a policy of high salaries and integrity. As long as he had the ability, he could be valued. He strictly eliminated the so-called "recitations" and maintained the clarity of the officialdom.

"What's this?"

Li Yang felt Li Weiguo's displeasure and hurriedly explained: "This is the intention of the technicians of the Gun Department. I heard that the King likes to collect firearms, and the firearm masters have nothing to do with it. I accidentally saw a pistol design drawing from Lord Shen. I knew it was the King liked it, so the firearm masters tried to develop one and presented it to the King."

Shen Baozhen also hurriedly said: "That's true. The king still remembers that you gave me a pistol drawing two years ago. You called it the Desert Eagle and told me to try to develop it. Now this Desert Eagle pistol has been developed successfully and is about to hand over the mission to the king."

Desert Eagle?

When Li Weiguo heard this, his eyes lit up. This was his favorite pistol, a must-have weapon for pretending to be cool.

Zhuang Jiuxia immediately stepped forward to take the gift box, opened it and presented it to Li Weiguo.

It's indeed a desert eagle!

Li Weiguo recognized the pistol in the gift box at a glance, exactly the same as the Desert Eagle in later generations.

Moreover, the entire gun is gilded, and the gun handle is made of precious ivory. Whether it is the gilded body or the ivory gun handle, there are inscriptions engraved on it. This is a traditional Chinese custom, which makes this Desert Eagle pistol look more exquisite and precious.

At that time, Li Weiguo wanted a desert eagle, so he drew a drawing and handed it to Shen Baozhen, asking him to try to develop it. Later, Li Weiguo forgot about this. Now that he got what he wanted, Li Weiguo was very happy.

Seeing that Li Weiguo was playing with the Desert Eagle pistol with his love, Li Yang immediately explained: "Your Majesty, according to your requirements, this Desert Eagle adopts an air-guided retreat mechanism, with a short rear seat of the barrel, a semi-automatic injection supply, a point 50-caliber large-power short pistol bullet, a clamp capacity of seven rounds, and a six left-hand rifle on the barrel, which can accurately hit one dollar silver coins within 30 meters. There is still enough kinetic energy to penetrate the 3mm steel plate at 100 meters."

A 3mm steel plate can be penetrated within 100 meters. As the name suggests, in simple terms, it can directly blow the head off a distance of 100 meters.

This is the 50-caliber high-power pistol. Li Weiguo was just like this and couldn't wait to test the gun.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

In the gun test room, Li Weiguo fired with a gun, and shot from the ten-meter target to the hundred-meter target. He was so happy that he forgot that he had some serious business.

After seeing the target paper, Li Yang was amazed when he saw the gun on the target, he was immediately amazed: "I never thought that the king's gun technique is so accurate. Unfortunately, this desert eagle has only one disadvantage, which is that this gun is too heavy, with a whopping 2 kilograms, which is difficult for ordinary people to control!"

Li Weiguo stopped, and his entourage maid stepped forward to wipe the sweat on his forehead.

He only heard him laugh and said, "If it were someone else, it might be heavy, but I like this pistol of this weight!"

Since Li Weiguo likes it, there is no problem.

For Shen Baozhen, Li Yang and others, they were just giving Li Weiguo a gift to please him.

For guards such as Zhuang Jiuxia, this desert eagle is just a decoration, basically a "hero's useless place", because every guard is a master, it is impossible to let the enemy approach Li Weiguo, nor can it let Li Weiguo go to the battlefield to kill the enemy. This gun is basically useless, and no matter how outstanding and advanced it is, it is just a decoration.

Li Weiguo took over the Desert Eagle and had the remaining boxes of bullets. The bullets were all 50 caliber, which was very special. Each bullet was made by hand and was specially supplied. It was not large in quantity and was extremely expensive. Only Li Weiguo was qualified to use it.

However, Li Weiguo had an idea and ordered Li Yang to build two hundred desert eagles, the same specifications, to reward meritorious soldiers.

This is a kind of honor. If every soldier wants to get such a good pistol, he will definitely work hard to make contributions for this honor.

After inspecting the gun factory, Li Weiguo came to the ammunition factory with Shen Baozhen.

The huge ammunition factory production workshop was busy, with copper plates cut into round copper sheets, and then under the squeeze of the hydraulic press, it turned into a rifle shell and shell shell. Then it was filled with fire medicine and loaded with bottom fire and then pressed on the bullet, and then it became rifle shells and shells, packed, packed, and sent to the combat preparation warehouse.

Li Weiguo inspected the complete assembly line and was very satisfied overall. Through the forging process and assembly line production, his production capacity has been greatly improved, which is enough to support the consumption of ammunition for a million troops.

"King, this is the ammunition production order."

Shen Baozhen brought a list of the production quantities of various ammunitions.

"9mm rifle ammunition has reserved 1.25 billion rounds, 12 75mm infantry artillery shells, including 45 armor-piercing shells, 7 blasting shells, 5 more rounds of projectiles, and 7 125mm howitzer artillery shells, among which..."

Li Weiguo suddenly interrupted: "Okay, there is no need to recite this, I will send it to Wu Yong in a while!"

Shen Baozhen was still preparing to show off his achievements, but he didn't know why Li Weiguo didn't listen anymore, so he had to give up.

The two of them immediately walked out of the ammunition production workshop. When they passed by the door, Li Weiguo suddenly glanced at a worker cleaning at the door, and happened to meet the worker looking at Li Weiguo sneakily.

When he met with his eyes, the worker immediately withdrew his eyes.

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, said nothing, and walked out straight.

All this happened in a flash, and no one except the parties involved noticed it.

That's right, that worker is a spy lurking in the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. S.H.I.E.D., China, has already grasped the background of this person, and is the person from Li Hongzhang. However, Li Weiguo did not move this person because sometimes using enemy spies to transmit intelligence would have unexpected effects.

After Li Weiguo left, the worker was frightened and sweated. He thought he had not been exposed and had obtained useful information. He immediately left the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and went to ask for credit for his online search.

After walking a distance, Li Weiguo said to Zhuang Jiuxia: "Go and send someone to notify Wu Yong quickly, and he said he could do as planned."

Zhuang Jiuxia accepted the order and immediately arranged someone to inform Wu Yong.

Li Weiguo continued to inspect the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and conducted random inspections and guidance on the production of various weapons and equipment, and to ensure that after the war begins, the Nanyang Army's military supplies are sufficient.

In addition to guns and cannons and supporting ammunition, Li Weiguo also focused on inspecting the auxiliary weapon and equipment production workshop. For example, 120,000 hand radium have been produced, and an average of 12 people can be equipped with each of the million-strong army, which will play a huge role in combat.

In addition, the production of water radium and earth radium has not been lost. After all, the enemy is in the face of the great enemy. Overall, Li Weiguo's Nanyang Army is still in a defensive state. Faced with the attack of powerful enemies, water radium and earth radium are still powerful defensive weapons.

When he saw Shui Radiation, Li Weiguo suddenly remembered his navy.

It has been a long time since I visited the East China Sea Fleet. I wonder if the East China Sea Fleet can shoulder the burden of offshore defense at this time.

You should know that during the Second Yabo War five years ago, Li Weiguo did not have the confidence to let the East China Sea Fleet take the initiative to fight against the British and French joint fleet. Now the East China Sea Fleet has been equipped with a large number of new steam warships one after another, and has the power to fight against the invasion of the British and French naval forces.

Li Weiguo was very practical. He did not ask the navy to defeat the powerful British and French navy immediately because it was unrealistic, but at least he had to achieve results in offshore defense operations, so that the British and French navies would not dare to approach China's offshore.
Chapter completed!