Chapter 57: Flat-fired artillery and combat plan (second update)

Chapter 57: Flat-fired artillery and combat plan (second update)

Located in the mountains of northern Anhui, the artillery factory is making a special thing according to Deng Sen's requirements, that is, a flat-fired cannon, a flat-body, 20 mm caliber cannon, which has been initially designed. Each of its parts has been finely polished and is now preparing for a test fire.

"Fill the shell chain!" The 20mm caliber artillery barrel is 1.5 meters long and is made of hard stainless steel alloy, with a multiple of forty times. The shooting device at the rear is like a heavy machine gun, with a firing speed of 200 rounds per minute. At the same time, there are two 12.7mm caliber anti-armor machine guns around it. According to the design data, the 12.7mm machine gun can penetrate the thickest armor of ten to 11.5 thickness, while the 20-caliber anti-tank gun uses simple penetration to penetrate the armor of twenty millimeters. For the era when tanks just appeared, this is simply a killer weapon for tanks.

"Prepare is completed!" After a while, the experimental personnel answered one after another.

"Open fire!"

"Dadada..."

"Bang bang bang..." After the fire started, there was a sound of machine guns like fried beans and continuous shelling sounds. The shelling sound of this small cannon was not strong, but its tight sound was extremely shocking. The heavy machine gun hit the armor plate and made a snap sound. The bullet's tungsten carbide bullet core warhead left holes and flashing sparks on the eleven-mm steel plate, and then it shot hard on the walls that were not thick in the armor.

However, the twenty-caliber anti-tank gun, while breaking through the armor, left a hole of about 30 mm, violent explosions occurred on the wall. Each explosion exploded into large pits on the experimental wall that was more than three meters thick.

"The fire rate and power of fire have been tested! We need to report to the head of state immediately!" After several consecutive experiments, the results of the experiment were delightful, and the factory commanders immediately passed the results of this experiment to Deng Sen.

"First of the Year! Anti-armored machine guns can reach a firing speed of 1,200 rounds per minute, and can penetrate about 12 mm of steel armor at the same time; anti-tank guns with a caliber tungsten carbide armor can easily penetrate 18 mm armor and barely penetrate 21 mm armor, but their explosion power is amazing. After penetrating the armor, the high-explosion txt explosives inside can instantly destroy all life in the tank." The technician reported to Dunson the power of anti-tank machine guns and anti-tank guns. Obviously, these two weapons are completely suitable and achieved the design purpose.

"Well! That's it! First of all, I'll create this weapon on a large scale. I'll require at least 2,000 20mm anti-tank guns to be manufactured within half a year, and install the anti-tank guns on a new tracked tank. At the same time, we continue to study. We not only need 20mm caliber anti-tank guns, but also 50mm, 100mm and even 160200mm anti-tank guns! The design department staff made the best development this time, and all of them were raised by one third." Deng Sen was very satisfied, but at the same time asked the researchers to continue to research and gave them a salary increase.

"Thank you!" The person in charge hurriedly saluted after hearing Deng Sen's words, and then retreated with Deng Sen's permission.

"Baili, let's talk about the current military power comparison situation around us!" Deng Sen left his office and came to the General Staff Department. Tian Ding, Li Fang, Guo Huai, and Tian Shi were all here, as well as General Staff Department Jiang Baili and many staff members.

After Deng Sen sat down, Jiang Baili stood up and came to the large map behind him, pointing at the scope of the Su-Anhui government with a baton in his hand and said: "Now, our Jiangsu-Anhui government is the region with the largest standing army, the most advanced weapons, the most powerful and the most economically developed in the Far East. During this period, our GDP has exceeded that of Japan, and the government has sufficient reserve funds, and a large amount of Nanyang resources flowed into us.

There are seven forces in East Asia in general, which are divided into four major stocks and three small stocks. The four major stocks are our Jiangsu and Anhui, Japan, Beiyang, and Tsarist Russia in the Far East. Let’s talk about the military comparison.

First, let’s talk about our own situation. Our Jiangsu and Anhui governments include the National Defense Forces, Iron Blood Army, SS, and Armored Army, with a total strength of 687,600 people. The Chinese Defense Forces have the largest strength, two group armies, six armies, eighteen divisions, and two mixed brigades. The Iron Blood Army has 100,000 troops, divided into four divisions and two mixed brigades. The SS Army has five divisions and two mixed brigades, with a strength of 100,000 troops, and three armored troops of 100,000 troops, and three armored troops of 100,000 troops. Our military equipment has independently developed semi-automatic rifles, and has fully equipped the troops. At the same time, there are 1,200 light armored vehicles and six medium-sized armored vehicles.

There are 100 heavy attack armored vehicles, 200 aircraft, 26 aircraft, including 12 fighter jets, 14 bombers, 8,600 combat transport vehicles, and 4,600 total artillery, including 1,600 light artillery below 80 mm, 2,700 medium-sized artillery, 300 heavy artillery, mortars are popularized to the battalion level, with a total of 10,000 radio stations are popular to the battalion level, and they have the ability to lay the battlefield telephone line. As for the navy, our army has four battleships, one battlecruiser, one light cruiser, 16 light cruiser, thirty destroyers, 360 torpedo boats, and fifty-three reconnaissance boats.

Next, let’s talk about the situation in Japan. Due to the threat from our army, Japan has now expanded its troops to 570,000 people, equipped with Japanese Type 38 rifles, divided into 25 divisions and seven mixed brigades, with 12,000 artillery pieces, but most of them are old-style artillery pieces, with more than 3,000 new-style artillery pieces, more than 700 heavy artillery pieces, and 84 aircraft, all of which are four-wing reconnaissance aircraft. The news that armored vehicles have been obtained so far have nearly 2,000, all of which are light medium-sized armored vehicles, and their designs are completely based on my country’s armored vehicles;

There was no qualified mortar, but it was being developed in progress. I believe it would be developed in a short time. However, now they use mortars, a large-caliber mortar, as a mortar, with a number of about 4,500 mortars, equipped with divisions and mixed brigades. In the navy, Japan has twelve main battleships, three under construction, sixty-eight cruisers, one hundred and seventy-six destroyers, and almost four hundred offshore defense ships. The navy is huge and is our biggest enemy in East Asia and a mortal enemy.

Third, we want to talk about the Beiyang political forces in our country. The Beiyang political forces are 1.67 million, distributed throughout the country. Among them, the Beiyang political forces are the most powerful and well-trained. The Beiyang military is equipped with chaotic equipment. Except for the Beiyang direct troops using the rifles and Japanese rifles produced by us, other troops cannot count them. Its twelve armored vehicles and the total number of artillery is about 4,000, of which 2,600 are in the hands of the Beiyang political forces. In addition, there are also the chaotic Sichuan warlord system, the Guizhou warlord system and the Yan Xishan troops in Shanxi. In addition, there are about 4000 large and small warlords across the country.

The fourth is Tsarist Russia, which maintained military power in the Far East. Tsarist Russia's Far East has 167,000 troops and 210,000 militiamen, equipped with Russian m1891 Mosin-Nagan rifles, divided into two armies, nine regular divisions, thirteen reserve divisions, two thousand and seven hundred light and heavy artillery, no aircraft, no armored vehicles, and no navy, because our current sphere of influence does not contact them, so there will be no war with them, but its military strength cannot be underestimated in the Far East.

The fifth is the British garrison and colonial army in Myitkyina and India. Due to the current tense situation in Europe, the British colonies are also starting to arm the army, with an armed force of about 200,000 people, with about 120 aircraft and no armored vehicles. There are 460 naval ships, all of which are small coastal defense boats or destroyers cruisers, and only three battleships escorting India.

The sixth is France. France has 50,000 troops stationed in Vietnam, equipped with French-style rifles and 670 cannons, which does not pose any threat to us, and warships can be ignored.

The seventh is Thailand, with 360,000 soldiers, and is accepting the dress-up plan of our army, equipped with the Mauser rifles eliminated by our army, 16 armored vehicles (buyed in China!), eight naval destroyers, and four cruisers (the warships are all old-fashioned warships, and the Dutch warships captured by the Soviet and Anhui government officials!) are the most powerful among the countries in the Southeast Asian subcontinent.

The forces of these six countries may have conflicts with us are Japan, Beiyang, and Tsarist Russia, so we must make corresponding plans for this." Jiang Baili said a lot of information in one breath, and everyone also watched back and forth on the map with his baton.

"That's right, what we have to face in the future is these countries and forces. First, we must maintain our absolute advantage over Japan on land, so we will form a large-scale militia force in the next six months. At the same time, I ask to march across the country at the right time, but we need a plan and a plan to attack the country in a short time!" Deng Sen took Jiang Baili's words and said to the generals.

Now that Old Yuan's reign is imminent, Deng Sen has even prepared medicine for Yuan Shikai, so Yuan Shikai will definitely be revealed in half a year to a year, and then it will be the time for him to come to the whole country.

"Report to the Head of State! I have a plan!" The plan for this nationwide strategy has long been in the minds of senior generals.

"Okay! Say it!" Deng Sen nodded and said to Guo Huai.

"First of the People's Republic of China, according to our previous combat program, we need to occupy the entire southern territory as soon as possible, and we also need to garrison troops to carry out the elimination of the remaining enemies and breakthroughs. Therefore, the regular troops we need to invest in the Jiangnan region need 300,000 to quickly capture cities in various provinces and cities by division of troops. Then the reserves are converted into garrisons to maintain public security and eliminate bandits. It is expected that the entire Southern China can be captured in three months. At the same time, we can also use landing wars to attack Qiongzhou and important coastal ports. The Beiyang Army, which has fewer even a few artillery batteries, has no way to resist it.

At the same time, we arranged 200,000 troops in Jiujiang, Fuyang, Haozhou, Zaozhuang, and Linxin to form an oppressive situation to attract the attention of Beiyang. When our army pacified the south, we divided 100,000 people to Sichuan, first attack Chongqing and then attacked Chengdu. I think a loose Sichuan could not resist at all. Then we went out of Jiujiang to approach Wuhan, occupy Hubei, and conquer Hunan. After the western army broke through Sichuan, we went north to Shaanxi and Gansu, forming an encirclement of Shanxi and Beiyang, and then concentrated our troops to destroy Beiyang first and then Yan Xishan, Shanxi!" Guo Huai came out one by one on the map, pointing out the route of advancing.

However, although this plan is not much different from what Deng Sen said before, it must be too paper-like! This effect may not be achieved in real combat. The Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau will definitely be steep and the Shu Road is even more difficult.

"This proposal is good! But you are quite arrogant and you will eat the entire Jiangnan in three months!" Deng Sen laughed. Guo Huai is not ordinary brave! He is so arrogant that he doesn't take more than 500,000 Beiyang troops seriously and takes over seven provinces in southern China in three months.

"Haha! Isn't this what the Head of State said? You despise your opponent strategically and attach importance to your opponent tactically, but this Beiyang Army is indeed not good!" Guo Huai smiled and joked with Deng Sen.

"Okay, come back first! Tian Shi, what do you think?" Deng Sen asked Guo Huai to sit down and asked Tian Shi, who had been sitting upright.

"Follow the head of state, the head of state asked me to hit me, then I hit me!" Tian Shihuo stood up and said.

"Haha! You, you!" Deng Sen shook his head helplessly. Tian Shi was in charge of the battlefield, but he immediately became depressed when he arrived at a crowded place!

"Our Xiaoshitou's skill in flattering is getting higher and higher!" Guo Huai and others couldn't help laughing. Although Deng Sen thought it was easy-going to them, few people could win the trust of Deng Sen like Tian Shi. Anyone knew that Deng Sen had a kind side and an extremely cold-blooded side. They loved Deng Sen but were also afraid.

But the joke has come to this point, and the strategic plan is still in progress, and the combat plan summarized in the end is.

"The first phase is for three months to half a year. At the first time, 300,000 troops were concentrated to divide the troops into three groups, attacking Fujian and Guangzhou, attacking from Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangxi, and attacking from the other one, Hunan and Guizhou directly to Yunnan. These three armies integrate the entire Southern China."

The military conference was very short, just a rough study. After the conference, relevant deployments were made. The militia troops were announced to be expanded. The reserves were developed from 500,000 to 1 million. At the same time, the factory started horsepower again to create firearms for reserve soldiers and bullets needed for combat.
Chapter completed!