In early November, Zhao Xin made a special trip to another time and space, and met Andrew in a certain place in Europe. The place where the two met was a small restaurant, with only a dozen tables in total.

Rows of red wine were placed on the thick wine rack, with ruby-like colors under the light, and a few strings of garlic and red peppers hung on the wooden wall panels. The frames on the wall were not inlaid with some elegant oil paintings, but the signature bill of a celebrity a hundred years ago.

Because it was not yet time for dinner, the restaurant was very quiet. Except for two accompanying bodyguards sitting near the door, only Zhao Xin and Andrew were sitting by the window, and there was no one else. Looking out from the window, you could see a large yacht parked in the bay, which was Andrew's.

As soon as the two came up, they chatted for more than twenty minutes, and said a lot of words that seemed to be unnutrition to outsiders. Then Zhao Xin wrote down the demand on a napkin. However, when Andrew finished reading it, he blurted out and said, "Two hundred, five hundred thousand?! Zhao, who are you planning to start a war with, right?"

"Haha, you still don't know, but in fact I'm also re-trading."

Andrew nodded and said, "Although the situation is a bit tense recently and the prices are rising, everyone's attention is on the west side and no one will care about our affairs."

"The goods 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's still the old place to deliver the goods. I'm responsible for the transportation."

Andrew thought for a moment, then nodded and said, "How to pay?"

"Metal."

"This is good, maybe the price will be cheaper."

If the content of the two people's words was heard by an outsider, they would not understand what they were talking about. In fact, what Zhao Xin wanted was two hundred 122mm howitzers and 500,000 shells.

A 122 ordinary grenade costs $1,000, and a D30 cost $450,000, so the amount of this transaction is... let's calculate it yourself.

Many laymen thought that artillery fired and kept loading fire, and then the opponent's position was a sea of ​​fire, and the infantry could win if they charged desperately.

However, after so many years of artillery, especially after the "Battle of Usolier", Zhao Xin finally realized that behind the "artillery cleaning" is a set of rigorous calculation formulas, which is not something professionals don't understand at all. Every move of each weapon must be subject to the quantitative statistics of data and probability, and these data are tried again and again by the North Navy.

Again, there has never been an artillery soldier. Those travelers who always say they use cannons to wash the ground are basically liars, or they don’t understand what the battlefield of thousands of troops means.

Generally, when calculating the firing ability of an artillery, the ammunition base is usually based on the ammunition base. For D30-122, which is the most equipped in the North Navy, what is the ammunition base of an artillery battalion equipped with eighteen artillery guns? The answer is 1,404 rounds, with an average of 78 rounds per gun.

Five hundred thousand shells correspond to three hundred 122mm howitzers, which is a little more than 21 bases. It seems like a lot, but in fact it is not many.

The killing realm of a 122 ordinary grenade is a rectangular area of ​​1200 square meters. Artillery can fire up to six rounds within the first minute of firing, but this is only the first minute.

According to statistics from the Artillery Staff of the Northern Navy in the "Battle of Usolier", when the continuous shooting is continuous for three minutes, the average total number of fires per gun is 16, 5.3 rounds per minute; 55 rounds per minute is 3.6 rounds per minute; when the shooting lasts until 30 minutes, the cumulative launch of shells is 75 to 90 rounds, which means that the average drops to 2 to 3 rounds per minute.

Did you see it? This is a process of continuous decrease in the rate of fire.

Divided into eight? That was just the result of a crazy desire to survive in a desperate situation. As long as it is loaded manually, it is generally impossible to achieve it, and it is meaningless, because it is impossible to wash the floor for a minute.

I scored eight in the first minute, but I was exhausted and paralyzed in the next minute, so I could only beat three times, which was purely a fart after taking off my pants.

According to the above data, the firepower projection of a 122mm howitzer battalion is calculated. In the first minute, 108 shells were fired, 288 rounds could be fired within 3 minutes, 990 rounds could be fired within 15 minutes, and 1350 to 1620 rounds could be fired within 30 minutes.

Didn’t you just say that the ammunition base of a gun battalion is 1404 rounds. Assuming that the killing areas of each shell do not overlap in a 25-30 minute period, it means that an ammunition base can be used to suppress an area of ​​168.48 hectares.

Assume 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 infantrymen, and if it is a cavalry, it will be 187,000.

However, this is simply impossible! Even if you calibrate the orientation in advance, it is impossible. The situation on the actual battlefield is more complicated, and the ammunition consumption will only be greater.

According to the data of the "Battle of Usolier", the mobile formation of the Russian infantry when they were dispatched was four-point column, and the formation was arranged in order of each company. Each horizontal line was divided into two rows in front and back, with two rows in each row, and the spacing between the rows was 5 yards. Each battalion was one thousand people, consisting of 8 yards, and the width of the front expansion on the battlefield was 50 yards and the depth was 125 yards.

In this way, the area of ​​a battalion when launching a column is 5,712 square meters. The killing area of ​​a 122 grenade is 1,200 square meters, so at least 5 shells are needed to eliminate one battalion. Considering the shooting error and overlapping killing areas, it is calculated based on 1.5 bases, that is, 7.5 shells.

Although each shell will not fall in the same position, the killing and damage boundaries of the shells will definitely overlap. Moreover, the enemy will not spread out and stand on nearly ten hectares of open space, and then wait for the opponent to blow up all of them.

The larger the distance, the direction error and distance error increase accordingly, and the spreading surface of the projectile is also larger. When the shooting distance increases from 10 kilometers to 15 kilometers, the artillery's firing ability will be reduced by 34%, which means the accuracy rate will decrease.

The more ammunition is fired, the lower the firing speed will be. Therefore, to achieve a suppression effect on a large number of enemies within a very short time limit, the number of artillery and artillery must be increased. Of course, quality is also very important.

Why did the Soviet army set up 12,000 cannons when it attacked Berlin? Do you really think they were playing with momentum?

Zhao Xinlai had carefully calculated before that if the enemy attacked on a large scale of hundreds of thousands of people, he would set up 18 battalions and nearly 300 cannons, each time based on the projection of a base, it would require 25,000 shells.

From another perspective, even ordinary grenades are so expensive, which also shows why Zhao Xin has never dared to use rocket launchers. One is more than 100,000 US dollars, a car with 8 to 12 tubes, and a scattered volley is a supercar, or a John Deere tractor is gone.

No matter how much money a person has, he can't stand this kind of burn. Only industrialized countries after heavy industry is formed can do it. So at present, Zhao Xin can only choose 122 howitzers, and ordinary grenades.

With existing resources and equipment, he could ravage the island countries, clean up Annan and Batavia, and even bully the new "natural human rights country" across the ocean. However, facing a behemoth like the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, the difficulty of overthrowing an old system and guarding more than 20 million square kilometers of territory can be imagined just because of hundreds of thousands of people without heavy industry support.

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"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

On the winter school grounds of Wula City, Jilin, three Zanbarak big shotguns fired at fifty steps (four feet per step, less than seventy meters) at a square table-sized wooden board covered with a thick quilt.

Before the smoke was blown away by the wind, several Qing soldiers passed the musketeers' position and ran over to check the target. Behind them were several military officers from the bird gun battalion.

When I arrived at the target, I saw three black and gray holes as big as index fingertips on the gray quilt, and a few strands of cotton mixed with soil exposed from the hole.

At this time, a general came over and asked, "How? Have you penetrated it?"

"Sir, please check it out immediately."

After saying that, several Qing soldiers had untied the ropes tied to the wooden boards and quilts, and placed the wet quilt that had lost their fixation on the ground, revealing the wooden boards wrapped in a layer of iron.

At this time, several Qing soldiers pointed to the wooden board excitedly and said, "Sir, the iron sheet is unscathed!"

Several Qing generals looked at each other, with a hint of excitement in their expressions. The general led by the army said: "Look at how many layers of the quilt have been pierced!"

The Qing soldiers responsible for the inspection lifted the three layers of quilts one by one, swept away the soil, sand and gravel filled in the middle. Only then did they see clearly that the iron bullet hit the second layer of wet quilt and stayed in the cotton wool.

Half an hour later, Fu Kang'an, in Wula City in Jilin, learned the news, and several aides bowed: "Congratulations to the Grandmaster! It's safe to open fire without any worries, and this method seems to have been done."

After hearing this, Fu Kangan was not happy at all. He picked up the teacup and took a sip, and said expressionlessly: "Even if it works, it can only block the ordinary fast guns of the North Pirates. Like the electric cannon that fired dozens of bullets in an instant, I'm afraid it won't work."

He thought about it and said to the general who came to report: "Try again, shorten the firing distance to twenty steps! After trying the shotgun, he will bombard it with Weiyuan."

"Yeah! Obey the order!"

Since the end of the "Battle of Hunchun", the Qing Dynasty has been trying to find ways to crack or resist the North Navy bullets. Otherwise, the Qing army's infantry could not conquer the North Navy's nearly fifty steps, and could only be passively beaten, so there was no way to talk about breaking the enemy.

Digging trenches? No! Mingliang did this in Ningguta Camp, trying to use trenches to trenches. However, facing the Northern Navy's cannon, the Qing Dynasty had no solution at all.

After the "Huanchun Battle", Fu Kang'an issued a reward in the army. Who could propose a method to crack the North Navy's fast gun guns and jaws, and was promoted to two levels and rewarded 500 taels of silver.

Two days after the reward was given, a Qing army musket leader who had participated in the Ningguta sneak attack made a suggestion and used a wet quilt. However, this leader's idea had been upgraded from the 1.0 version of the single-layer quilt paste mud to the 2.0 version, using two layers of wet quilts and adding sand to the middle.

In fact, except for one square table missing in this version, it is infinitely close to another "earth tank" used by the guerrillas in history in time and space.

After that, the generals under Fukang An continued to conduct experiments and added the wet quilt with water from two to three layers. However, the amount was not something that two bamboo poles could pick up. However, the three cobblers were the ones who were Zhuge Liang, and someone offered advice at this time, it was better to use it on the carts used to attack the city.

The car was often used in the late Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, but after the Yongzheng Dynasty firearms were installed in large quantities, it gradually withdrew from the historical stage. Early carriages were mainly used for siege, which could not only resist bows and arrows, but also resist firearm attacks. They were four feet and six inches high and four feet and five inches wide. They were mounted in front of two-wheeled light chariots and supported with a support pole. When they were out of the formation, three carriages moved side by side.

When the Qing Dynasty fought against the Ming army before entering the pass, its carriage was made of thick wooden boards covered with cowhide and iron sheets. No big or small stones could be damaged, and there was no chance to burn them with fire, and it had strong defense.

After many tests, it finally became a three-inch thick pine board with two meters square, with a layer of iron sheet, tied with three layers of water, and filled with two layers of mud in the middle. During the battle, it was placed in front of the two-wheeled light chariot and pushed forward by four soldiers, while the Qing army's musketeers lined up in a column to hide behind the chariot and followed.

At this time, the Qing army's "earth tanks" could already withstand the fifty-step shooting of the "Zanbarak Big Bird Gun" at a distance of 50 steps, but it was limited to this; all the Qing generals who had fought with the Northern Navy knew that this alone could not cope with the opponent's terrible cannon.

However, a few days later, when the time came to the 10th month of the lunar calendar, as the Qing Dynasty obtained more and more information from the shopping and sales city, Qianlong and his military ministers finally learned about the detailed process of the Northern Navy's defeat of the Russian army north of Baiboer Lake, so everyone was shocked.

In the mouth of the Qing spies disguised as Buryats, the overwhelming artillery fire of the Northern Navy on the Belaya River was said to be like the sky collapsed and the end of the world. Tens of thousands of acres of ground seemed to have been plowed, and each crater was almost two feet deep, and some even reached six feet. The Russian army suffered heavy casualties. The Northern Navy was located in a prisoner of war camp east of Usolier, and the Rakshasa prisoners were densely packed, with almost tens of thousands of people, and there were even many missing arms and legs.

How could I fight this? After hearing the news, Qianlong's first reaction was that Zhao Xin might have to use Tsarist Russian prisoners to build roads. According to the Qing Dynasty's secret spies lurking in Heilongjiang City, the Northern Navy has used tens of thousands of Russian prisoners to repair post roads in the past two years. Those roads can be paralleled by six carriages, all paved with gravel and fine sand, which is very flat.

When Qianlong learned about this situation, he felt that he had learned one side of Zhao Xin's character again. That is, this person hated Rakshasa very much, so he only let the prisoners of war be coolies and was disdainful to take care of them.

The news of the war situation was handed over to Qianlong, and the situation of great harvests in various places in Beihai Town this year, which further deepened Qianlong's worries.

The opponents had sufficient soldiers and sufficient food. On the other hand, the imperial court was in financial difficulties because of years of military development. Faced with such a dilemma, the Grand Secretary, led by Heshen, and Fu Kang'an could only use the saying "the army was strong and the war was strong, and he would die of his own deeds."

Finally, after careful consideration, Qianlong made a bold and painful decision - to negotiate peace. The purpose of his doing so was to stop the Beihai Army from moving south, and secondly, to solve Beihai Town from within through political means.

From those secret reports about Beihai Town one after another, Qianlong discovered a problem, that is, Zhao Xin’s territory is too large now. Although the specific population figure is unclear, the various ethnic groups under his jurisdiction are certain. If you are not careful, internal conflicts will intensify. You must know that the Khalkha Mongols, the Western Regions, the Jinchuan and even the Miao people under the Qing Dynasty have been everywhere in recent years. It took him decades to spend billions of military expenses to show peace.

However, the court must always be shameful. Such embarrassing things must not be known to the subjects and other vassal states. So he could only discuss with Yongyan, Heshen and other confidants, and could not speak directly. Someone must understand his own feelings and take the initiative to come out to share the worries of the court.

When Qianlong came up, he did not talk about Beihai Town, but mentioned that Fu Kangan was not in good health recently. He then talked about the old story of Fu Heng's campaign in Myanmar, and finally sighed at Fu Heng's early death.

This made Yongyan mist, but Heshen guessed what Qianlong thought. So he also spoke in a turn, complimenting Qianlong's achievements far exceeding those of the kings of all dynasties, and then deliberately compared Qianlong with Emperor Taizong of Tang.

So Qianlong went down to the top and changed his subject and talked about the fact that Emperor Taizong of Tang had spent five years to completely defeat the Turks, and then the "Zhenguan Governance" was in place. Then Heshen took the initiative to kneel down and apologize for the crime, suggesting peace with the Beihai Town in order to gain a chance to breathe for the court.
Chapter completed!