Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 501

At the beginning of November, Zhao Xin made a special trip back to another time and space to meet Andrew somewhere in Europe.The place where the two met was a small restaurant with only a dozen tables in total.

Rows of red wine are placed on the thick wine racks, which glow like ruby ​​under the light, and several bunches of garlic and red pepper are hung on the wooden wall.Inlaid in several picture frames on the wall are not romantic oil paintings, but bills signed by a certain celebrity a hundred years ago.

Because it was not time for dinner, the restaurant was very quiet, except for the two accompanying bodyguards sitting near the door, only Zhao Xin and Andrew sat by the window, and there was no one else.Looking out from the window, one could just see a large yacht parked in the bay, which belonged to Andrew.

As soon as the two came up, they chatted for 50 minutes, and said a lot of words that were not nutritious to outsiders, and then Zhao Xin wrote the demand on a napkin.However, when Andrew finished watching, he couldn't help blurting out: "Two hundred, [-]?! Zhao, who are you planning to start a war with?"

"Hehe, it's better that you don't know. In fact, I'm also a resale trader."

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

"The delivery must be made within half a year." Zhao Xin took a sip of water from his cup and said calmly, "Don't worry, the delivery will still be done at the old place, and I will be responsible for the transportation."

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

"Metal."

"That's good, maybe the price can be cheaper this way."

If the content of the two people's conversation is heard by an outsider, they will not understand what they are talking about at all.In fact, Zhao Xin wanted two hundred 122mm howitzers and 50 shells.

A 122 ordinary grenade is 30 US dollars, and a D45 is priced at [-] US dollars, so the amount of this transaction is calculated by yourself.

Many laymen think that artillery firing means constantly reloading and firing, and then the opponent's position is a sea of ​​​​flames, and the infantry will win if they charge desperately.

But after so many years of artillery, especially after the "Battle of Usolier", Zhao Xin finally realized that there is a set of rigorous calculation formulas behind the "artillery washing the ground", which non-professionals don't understand at all.Each and every move of each weapon must be done under the quantitative statistics of data and probability, and these data are all tested by the Beihai Navy time and time again.

Again, there has never been artillery that can be achieved overnight. Those traversers who always say that they use cannons to wash the ground are basically liars, or they 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 ammunition base.Taking the D30-122 with the most equipment in the North Navy, what is the ammunition base of an artillery battalion equipped with 1404 guns?The answer is 78 rounds, an average of [-] rounds per gun.

50 rounds of shells correspond to three hundred 122mm howitzers, which is a little more than 21 bases.It looks like a lot, but it's really not much.

The killing circle of a 122 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 officer of the North Navy in the "Battle of Usolie", when the continuous shooting lasted for 3 minutes, the average total number of shots per gun was 16, which was 5.3 rounds per minute; 15 rounds per minute; 55 rounds per minute; when the shooting lasts to 3.6 minutes, depending on the charge, the cumulative number of shells fired is 10-75 rounds, which means that the average rate drops to 90-2 rounds per minute.

Did you see it?This is a process of decreasing rate of fire.

Eight?It was just the result of a crazy desire to survive in a desperate situation. As long as it is manually loaded, it will not be achieved under normal circumstances, and it is meaningless, because it is impossible to fight for only one minute with artillery fire.

The score was 1 in the first minute, and I was so tired and paralyzed in the next minute that I could only fire three rounds. It was purely taking off my pants and farting.

按照上面的数据测算，一个122毫米榴炮营的火力投射情况就算出来了。在开始的第1分钟里，发射炮弹108发，3分钟内可发射288发，15分钟内可发射990发，30分钟内可发射1350~1620发。

Didn't I just say that the ammunition base for an artillery battalion is 1404 rounds.Assuming that for an artillery battalion, the killing areas of each shell do not overlap within 25 to 30 minutes, it means that an area of ​​168.48 hectares can be suppressed with one ammunition base.

Assuming that one person is distributed on 2.25 square meters and one cavalry is distributed on 9 square meters, 168 hectares can accommodate 75 infantry and 18.7 cavalry.

However, this is simply impossible!Even if the orientation is calibrated in advance, it cannot be done.The situation on the actual battlefield is more complicated, and the consumption of ammunition will only be greater.

Still according to the data of the "Battle of Usoliye", the mobile formation of the Russian infantry when dispatched is a four-point column, and the formation is arranged in order by each company. Each horizontal line is divided into two rows before and after each row. Rows are spaced 5 yards apart.Each battalion has 1000 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 shells are needed to destroy a battalion; and taking into account the shooting error and the overlap of the killing area, then it is calculated based on 1.5 bases, which is 7.5 shells.

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

The greater the distance, the greater the directional error and the distance error, and the larger the spread of the projectile. When the range is increased from 10 kilometers to 15 kilometers, the artillery's shooting ability will decrease by 34%, that is, the accuracy rate will decrease.

The more ammunition fired, the lower the firing speed will be. Therefore, in order to suppress a large number of enemies within a short time limit, it is necessary to increase the number of artillery and artillery. Of course, the quality is also very important.

Why did the Soviet army deploy 1 cannons when they attacked Berlin?Do you really think people are playing with momentum?

Zhao Xinlai had carefully calculated before that if the enemy invaded on a large scale with tens of thousands of people, he would deploy 10 battalions of nearly 18 cannons. Each time, based on a base projection, 2.5 shells would be needed.

From another point of view, even ordinary grenades are so expensive, which also explains why Zhao Xin has been afraid to use rocket launchers.One piece is 10,000+ dollars, and a car has 8~12 pipes. One salvo is a super sports car, or a large John Deere tractor is gone.

No matter how much money a person has, he can't afford to burn like this. Only industrialized countries after the formation of heavy industry can do it.So at present, Zhao Xin can only choose 122 howitzers, and he can only choose ordinary howitzers.

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 newly born "Nation of Natural Human Rights".However, in the face of behemoths like the Manchu Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia, with a population of several 10 people without the support of heavy industry, it is difficult to overthrow an old system and guard a territory of more than 2000 million square kilometers.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

On the southern school field of Ula City, Jilin in winter, three Zambalak shotguns fired simultaneously at a square table-sized wooden board covered with a thick quilt at a distance of fifty paces (four feet one step, less than 70 meters) .

Before the gunpowder smoke was blown away by the wind, several Qing soldiers ran past the position of the musketeers to check the target, and behind them were several military officers from the Shotgun Battalion.

When I got to the target, I saw three black-gray holes on the gray quilt that were as big as the tip of my index finger, and a few strands of cotton mixed with soil protruded from the holes.

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

"My lord, wait a moment, the humble officials will check immediately."

After all, several Qing soldiers had already untied the ropes tied to the wooden boards and quilts, and placed the unfixed wet quilts on the ground, exposing the wooden boards covered with a layer of iron.

At this moment, several Qing soldiers excitedly pointed at the board and said, "Look, my lord, the iron sheet is not injured at all!"

Several generals of the Qing army looked at each other, with a trace of excitement in their expressions, the leading general said: "Quickly see how many layers of the quilt have been pierced!"

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

Half an hour later, Fu Kang'an in Ula City, Jilin got the news, and several staff members cupped their hands and said, "Congratulations, Commander! Fire at fifty paces is safe, and this method seems to have been accomplished."

After hearing this, Fukang'an showed no joy at all. He took a sip from the teacup, and said expressionlessly: "Even if it is feasible, it can only block the ordinary quick guns of the North Sea pirates, like the kind that can be shot in a blink of an eye. I am afraid that the electric gun that fires dozens of shells will not work."

He thought for a while and said to the general who came to report: "Try again, shorten the firing distance to twenty paces! I've tried the shotgun, and then use the Weiyuan bombardment."

"Hey! Mark compliance!"

Since the end of the "Battle of Hunchun", the Qing Dynasty has been trying to find a way to crack or resist the bullets of the Beihai Navy.Otherwise, the infantry of the Qing army could not attack the first fifty steps of the Beihai Navy, and could only be passively beaten, and there was no way to talk about defeating the enemy.

Digging trenches?no!Bright had done this in the Ningguta camp back then, trying to fight trenches against trenches, but facing the cannons of the Northern Navy, Man Qing had no solution at all.

After the "Battle of Hunchun" ended, Fukang'an offered a reward in the army. Whoever could come up with a method to crack the Beihai's fast gun would be promoted two ranks and rewarded with 500 taels of silver.

Two days after the reward was issued, a gunner leader of the Qing army who had participated in the sneak attack on Ningguta offered advice and used a wet quilt.However, this leader's idea has been upgraded from version 1.0 of the original single-layer quilt paste mud to version 2.0, using two layers of wet quilts with sand in the middle.

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

After that, Fukang Anming's generals continued to conduct experiments, adding wet quilts with water splashed from two layers to three layers, but the amount was not enough to be picked up by two bamboo poles.However, the three cobblers are the best of Zhuge Liang, and at this time someone offered a suggestion, it is better to use it on the siege cart.

The car was commonly used in the late Ming Dynasty, but it gradually withdrew from the historical stage after a large number of firearms were installed in the Yongzheng Dynasty.The early chariots were mainly used for siege. They could resist bows and arrows as well as firearm attacks. They were four feet six inches high and four feet five inches wide. At that time, three chariots were driving side by side.

When the Manchu Qing fought against the Ming army before entering the customs, their chariots were made of thick wood covered with cowhide and iron sheets. No stones of any size could hurt it, and it would be useless to burn it. It had a strong defense force.

After many experiments, it finally became a [-]-meter-square, three-inch-thick pine board, covered with a layer of iron sheet, tied with three layers of splashing water, and filled with two layers of soil in the middle of the quilt.When fighting, put it in front of the two-wheeled light vehicle, and four soldiers push it forward, while the musketeers of the Qing army lined up and hid behind the vehicle to follow up.

At this time, the "earth tanks" of the Qing army can already withstand the shooting of the "Zambarak shotgun" at a distance of fifty paces, but it is limited to this; all the generals of the Qing army who have fought against the Northern Navy know that this , Can't deal with the opponent's terrible cannon at all.

However, within a few days, when the time came to October of the lunar calendar, as the Qing side obtained more and more information from Maimaicheng, Qianlong and his military ministers finally learned that the Northern Navy was in the area beyond Baiber Lake. The detailed process of Peking University's defeat of the Russian army shocked everyone.

According to the Manchu spies disguised as Buryats, the overwhelming artillery fire by the Northern Navy on the Belaya River was said to be like 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, and the Northern Navy set up a prisoner-of-war camp east of Usoliye. The Raksha prisoners were densely packed, almost tens of thousands of people, and there were even many missing arms and legs.

How can this Nima still fight?After hearing the news, Qianlong's first reaction was that Zhao Xin might use Tsarist Russian captives to build roads again.According to the report of the secret agents of the Manchu Qing lurking in Heilongjiang City, the Northern Navy used tens of thousands of Russian prisoners in the past two years to overhaul post roads in the outer northeast.

When Qianlong learned about this situation, he felt that he had learned another side of Zhao Xin's character.That is, this person hated Rakshasa very much, so he only let prisoners of war do coolies, and didn't bother to take them in at all.

The news of the battle was delivered to Qianlong one after another, and there was a bumper harvest in Beihai Town this year, which further deepened Qianlong's worries.

The opponent's soldiers are full of fine food, but on the other hand, the imperial court is in financial distress because of the continuous increase of troops.Faced with such a predicament, the academicians headed by He Shen and Fukang'an could only curse Zhao Xin and comfort Qianlong with the saying that "the military is militaristic, and if you do many injustices, you will kill yourself".

Finally, after careful consideration, Qianlong made a bold and painful decision-negotiate peace.His purpose of doing this was firstly to prevent the Beihai Navy from going south, and secondly to resolve Beihai Town from within through political means.

From the successive secret reports about Beihai Town, Qianlong discovered a problem, that is, the territory Zhao Xin now controls is too large. Although the exact population figure is not clear, it is certain that the various ethnic groups under his jurisdiction are mixed.If you are not careful, internal conflicts will intensify.We must know that the Khalkha Mongolia, the Western Regions, Jinchuan, and even the Miao people under the Manchu Qing ruled all these years without fighting everywhere. It took me decades and hundreds of millions of military expenditures to show peace.

But the imperial court has to save face, and this kind of embarrassing thing must not be known to the subjects of the world and other vassal states, so he can only discuss with Yong Yan, He Shen and other confidants, and he can't say it directly, someone must understand himself In his heart, he took the initiative to jump out to share the worries of the court.

Qianlong didn't mention Beihai Town when he came up, but mentioned that Fukang'an was not in good health recently, and then he talked about Fu Heng's old incident in Burma, and finally sighed at Fu Heng's early death.

These words made Yong Yan cloudy and foggy, but He Shen guessed what Qianlong was thinking.So he also talked around the corner, first complimenting Qianlong's achievements far surpassing the kings of all dynasties, and then deliberately comparing Qianlong with Tang Taizong.

So Qianlong went down the donkey, changed the subject, and talked about Tang Taizong spending five years to completely defeat the Turks, and then there was the "Rule of Zhenguan".Immediately, He Shen took the initiative to kneel down and plead guilty, suggesting to negotiate a peace with Beihai Town in order to gain a breathing space for the court.

At this moment, Yong Yan also gradually understood what was going on.Because Qianlong used to say that he followed the example of Tang Taizong in his administration, and He Shen and Qianlong sang together, clearly talking about Tang Taizong's achievements, but in fact alluding to the "Weishui alliance".

　Because of their preference for rocket launchers, some book friends especially like 107.Then let's reply together. One battalion of 107 has 18 gates, one gate has 8 pipes, a total of 144 pipes.If the long-range shooting error is not considered, one shell is 6000, and one shot is 86.4.Very cheap, but 18 guns can only hit 18 cluster targets.And a 122 battalion also has 18 doors, only 18 tubes, an ordinary grenade is also 6000, and eight shots are also 86.4. The problem is that these 144 bombardments can be directed at different targets each time. For comparison, it is obvious that ordinary howitzers are more suitable.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)