Years of the Republic of China 1913

There are not many people who can let Fang Zida go to the station to greet him in person, except for a few big shots in Beijing, Wu Peifu in Qingdao, and Yang Du who is temporarily staying in Fengtian, there are only a few people.Welcome to reading.. But Fang Zida, who came to Beijing today, must pick him up in person, because he is one of these people.

With great fanfare, Fang Zida arrived at the station very low-key, waited in the VIP waiting room for about ten minutes, and the guards came to report that the train was coming in soon.

He got up with Yang Yongtai and walked towards the platform, but a train slowly stopped on the platform. Fang Zida's eyesight was good, and he quickly found the passenger who had just got off the train in the crowd, and strode over.

"Brother Le Shu, you have worked hard all the way."

"Brother Lao Zhangming has been waiting for a long time."

They didn't stay on the platform too much, the two sides shook hands, and their own guards took over Chen Yu's luggage, and the group quickly left through the fast lane.

After getting into the car, before Fang Zida could ask any questions, Chen Yu smiled and said, "Fortunately, Brother Zhang Ming, everything is fine."

"Really?!" Fang Zida asked in surprise.

"Of course it is true!" Chen Yu patted his chest and assured: "After many tests, there will be absolutely no problems, and its power has fully met our design expectations."

"Okay! It's really great!" Fang Zida's face was full of joy, and he rubbed his hands excitedly. Even Yang Yongtai, who knew something inside, was extremely excited.

"It's just..." Chen Wei frowned slightly, and Fang Zida immediately raised his heart after hearing his words: "Because the time is too tight, we only made ten finished products for the time being."

"Hahaha. Why do I think these ten are enough!" Fang Zida heaved a sigh of relief, laughed a few times, and then asked: "Brother Le Shu, there is no shortage of shells? Don't tell me that even the shells are not enough!" Not ready."

"How is this possible!" Chen Wei waved his hand and said with great arrogance: "I have prepared five bases for shells. If there are not enough shells, there will be more later, enough for a small Japanese to drink a pot."

"That's good!" Fang Zida's heart was completely relieved, with Chen Yu's assurance that the next plan would be safe, thinking of these powerful killers.Not to mention the pride in Fang Zida's heart.

"Le Shu, are there any problems with the transportation of the cannon carriages and shells? No information will be leaked?" Yang Yongtai paid more attention to details and asked after thinking about it.

"Don't worry, I've made all the arrangements." Chen Yu said confidently, and told Fang Zida and Yang Yongtai about his arrangements.From the Nanjing Arsenal to the north, the artillery vehicles were transported separately, and the artillery shells were only packaged in ordinary shells to conceal people's eyes and ears, and along the way there were guards from the armory and troops from the Eighth Army. The escort will be escorted by the guards, so nothing will go wrong.Wait until you reach your destination.Then the technicians who set off separately will carry out the assembly and debugging, so that even if there are some minor problems on the way, the secrets will not be leaked.

"it is good!"

Fang Zida praised it.The three continued to talk for a while, and not long after, the car arrived at the residence that Fang Zida specially arranged for Chen Wei.

After settling Chen Wei to live, Fang Zida asked about the progress of the military industry.As the military industry system became more and more perfect with the support of Fang Zida, Chen Wei officially took over the position of director half a year ago and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general.

As a weapons expert, being able to make achievements in the field he is good at is what Chen Yu dreamed of when he was studying.Since Fang Zida used him and received a lot of financial support, Chen Yu devoted himself to the field of military industry. In a very short period of time, he produced rifles, grenades, mortars, grenades, etc. A series of weapons that equip the army in small batches.At the same time, after several years of repeated experiments and designs, the powerful rocket launcher is finally finalized for production, but the time is too tight. After half a month of hard work, only ten rocket launchers were produced, but for Fang Zida, these ten rocket launchers are enough. .

This time Chen Yu went north, on the one hand, at the request of Fang Zida, he sent the ten rocket launchers to the Northeast battlefield, and personally took charge of the actual combat test and collected data.On the other hand, he also came to Beijing to report on his work to Fang Zida and discuss the direction of later research in the military industry.

"For the time being, the research institutes and military factories still focus on conventional weapons. They mainly continue to imitate weapons such as rifles, machine guns, and various cannons from various countries, and on the basis of them, they have begun to design weapons suitable for our country's equipment. Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau The shipbuilding research is going well. Last year, a [-]-ton cargo ship was built. According to the plan, there are three more [-]-ton cargo ships that can berth this year. However, due to the quality of the steel plates produced by the steel factory, the manufacturing cost has been high, and the war A lot of lumber can only be imported from the US, and that's our shortcoming...."

Sitting down in the room and drinking a few sips of tea, Chen Yu directly talked about work without taking a break. Fang Zida hadn't seen Chen Yu for some time, and just wanted to hear about the progress of the military industry.

Listening to Chen Wei's narration, Fang Zida felt happy and worried.The good news is that so far, military enterprises have not had many problems in the manufacture of various light weapons. Even some heavy weapons have gradually been copied successfully, and they have begun to redesign them based on the squadron's equipment and combat habits.The accumulation of experience in the shipbuilding industry is also progressing well. After corporate rectification and adjustment, the major military factories and manufacturing plants have radiated new energy and are developing at an amazing speed.

However, these are only primary military industries, and China's military enterprises are still very weak compared with world powers.Especially in terms of basic manufacturing, such as steel and casting, it is far behind other countries, and even Japan can't match it.Because of these deficiencies, many military manufacturing can only use imported materials to ensure the quality, which is equivalent to increasing the cost in disguise. If it is only used in the initial design and finalization, it is okay. Production simply cannot meet demand.

As for the main achievements of the current military industry, such as mortars, grenades, rocket launchers and other new weapons, these are not too high-tech. To put it bluntly, except for the fuel propulsion system of the rocket launcher, which is somewhat secret, other parts are not worth mentioning. If they are placed in broad daylight for everyone to see, they can be produced in a short time with the scientific and technological capabilities of the great powers. This is also the main reason why Fang Zida hid the rockets tightly, trying to protect the secrets as much as possible, and delaying time.

"I have considered the matter of steel. The quality of domestic iron ore is indeed unable to produce high-quality steel, especially in the production of some technical steel products. However, this cannot be changed immediately. For the time being Some are domestically produced and some are imported, and I think this will change in a few years."

Fang Zida thought for a while and replied, Chen Yu is a professional, of course he understands that what Fang Zida said is correct, in the case of bad ore, no matter how hard the steel factory tries to improve its level, it will not be able to meet the requirements. Since Fang Zida has considered this, Chen Mu slightly nodded and didn't mention it anymore.

"There are several aspects that I hope Mr. Le Shu will pay attention to."

After finishing talking about steel, Fang Zida's expression became serious, and he spoke.

"Please tell me." Chen Yu quickly took out a small notebook, took out a fountain pen from his pocket, and began to record.

"I suggest that military research will focus on high-power engines, semi-automatic and automatic weapons, and cannons of various calibers in the future."

"I can understand the latter. As for the engine...?" Chen Wei was a little strange, and Yang Yongtai, who had been quiet for a long time, also looked at Fang Zida in confusion.

"Airplane!" Fang Zida said: "Airplanes have been around for several years, and now on the European battlefield, warring countries have begun to use aircraft as reconnaissance of the enemy and directly as air weapons, and have achieved very good results. Although the actual threat of aircraft as a weapon of war in the current war is not too great, and the means of attacking the opponent are also very simple, even if the two sides fly an aircraft and hold a rifle to shoot at each other or drop small bombs down by manpower, it is only possible at present. Reconnaissance is the main means of survival. But! It can be seen that this aircraft has a strong potential capability. If in the future there is an aircraft equipped with machine guns to sweep the ground or the opponent's aircraft, or to say that it has a larger load, What about bomber planes that can dump tons or even tens of tons of bombs on ground forces in one go?"

"Isn't this just being chased and beaten? From the sky to the ground, there is no place to hide!" Yang Yongtai sighed in amazement.

"That's the truth." Fang Zida nodded.

"I see." Chen Yu immediately reacted, wrote down the word "aircraft" in the notebook, and underlined it heavily.

"Le Shu, have you heard of tanks?" Fang Zida asked again after briefly talking about the plane.

"Tank?" Chen Yu frowned and thought for a while, but couldn't think of the word in his mind for a while.

"Tank!" Fang Zida laughed dumbfounded, and suddenly remembered that the word "tank" is an English translation. There is no such term yet, so he quickly switched to English.

"Water tank..." Chen Yu said subconsciously, and suddenly seemed to remember something: "I seem to have heard of it... By the way, in Europe! It was the Western Front battlefield a while ago!"

"Yes!" Fang Zida took out a newspaper from his bag. This newspaper was recently published in Europe. There was a photo on it. In the photo was a strange iron box that looked like a water tank. There were many wheels under the iron box. A group of people panicked. Confused German soldiers were running in all directions or gaping at its slow, unstoppable advance...  

"This is a tank! I also call it a tank!"

Fang Zida pointed to this photo and said firmly: "Although this new tank has many temporary problems, is extremely prone to mechanical failure, and moves very slowly, it can be expected that once it develops, the current trench tactics will become history in front of it. It will become the master of future wars just like airplanes, and they will be called kings, one will control the sky, and the other will dominate the land."