Valley Emperor

Jiangnan Arms Company and South China Arms Company, with the excellent performance of the new artillery, have already snatched many orders for the Army's artillery.

Especially when the Army tendered the 100mm howitzer before, the project of the Northern Arms Company suffered a fiasco, and was inferior to the other party in terms of cost, performance and reliability.

In the end, this 100mm howitzer project was snatched away by the Hanyang Arsenal under the Jiangnan Arms Company.

This is a shameful disgrace to the Northern Arms Company, which regards Army artillery as its basic base.

Because of the failure of this project, several senior management of the Northern Arms Company even resigned.

You must know that this 100mm howitzer project occupies an extremely important position in the army's field artillery system. troops.

After the failure of the 100mm howitzer project, the Northern Arms Company aimed at the large-caliber light howitzer.

He thought that it wasn't long before the 150mm Type 40 light howitzer exposed serious performance flaws.

The executives of the Northern Arms Company were naturally furious.

If this fails again, it will be even more difficult for Northern Arms to compete for the Army's artillery orders in the future.

After all, there are so many items of army artillery, if you can't get it, you won't be robbed.

The shock within the Northern Arms Company has nothing to do with the Army!

Anyway, there are three major weapons companies in China. The 150mm light howitzer of the Northern Weapons Company is not good. Jiangnan Weapons Company and Huanan Weapons Company also have similar substitute products. The big deal is to change a manufacturer.

This does not in any way affect the future artillery plan designated by the Chief of Artillery in the Army Privy Council.

Future Artillery Project!

It was proposed by the artillery chief and recognized by the army's senior management.

The entire future artillery plan is quite grand, and an overall artillery development plan for the next twenty years has been formulated.

The core is to build a comprehensive artillery system, and the artillery generals also take this opportunity to completely establish the status of artillery as the king of war.

Although the artillery was an indispensable service in the Tang Army in the early days, it has always failed to become the core service in the Army.

The three arms of the army, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, complement each other and are generally in the same position.

But the artillery generals have always been fighting for a higher status.

The future artillery plan is a manifestation of the ambitions of the artillery generals.

The entire artillery development plan will be divided into five major systems.

The first is to garrison important places, fortresses, or super-heavy artillery units used to conquer enemy fortresses. It requires high power and large range, and is equipped with artillery with a caliber of more than 150 mm, even train guns, and the weight is large. A few tons or even more than ten tons of big guys.

The second level is the strategically deployed heavy field artillery unit. Under the premise of certain maneuverability, it still has a large range and great power, and can provide strategic fire support for the front-line troops when necessary. The artillery director is expected to use a 120mm field cannon and 150mm howitzer, and keep the weight under five tons.

The third is the artillery that directly provides fire support for the field troops. The artillery director expects to use artillery with a weight of less than three tons, such as the 40 light howitzer, which seems to have a large caliber, but is actually a front-line support artillery. In addition, many 100mm and 120mm guns basically belong to this category.

The fourth is the front-line artillery that directly provides fire support for the infantry, the weight is controlled within one ton,

75mm howitzers and field guns belong to this class.

The fifth is the battalion-level support artillery, mainly light infantry artillery. Don't underestimate the light artillery of the Datang Army, but in fact the maximum range can reach two or three kilometers.

In the overall development plan of the artillery director, the artillery unit will form a firepower network with different levels of artillery mobility, range and power.

At the same time, what is more important is that the general plan for the simplification of logistics and artillery proposed by the artillery director requires artillery developed by various manufacturers, such as being able to fire standard artillery shells.

That is to say, whether it is a 75mm light howitzer or a 75mm field gun, it fires the same standard 75mm grenade, and the others are similar, otherwise the Army will not want it.

In the early years, there were not many 75mm artillery pieces equipped by the Tang Army, only two kinds, but the shells used by these two kinds of 75mm artillery pieces were not common!

Because the 75mm field gun and howitzer belong to two different manufacturers under the Northern Arms Company, in order to be able to monopolize the artillery shell business in the future, the caliber seems to be 75mm, but in fact there are subtle differences , almost the same, but still can't make the shells universal.

It happened several times at that time that the logistics department sent 75mm artillery shells to the frontline troops, but the 75mm shells on the frontline were unusable.

This matter was later stabbed in front of the Son of Heaven by the artillery generals of the Army. With a wave of his pen, the Son of Heaven directly threw all the people in charge who were scheming at the time to Tierra del Fuego.

Later, the caliber of the already equipped artillery was specially modified, so that it could be universal.

This kind of embarrassment has happened before, and now manufacturers naturally dare not play their tricks.

In the future artillery plan proposed by the artillery chief, several types of artillery are crucial.

The first is the divisional artillery, that is, the 75mm caliber field gun and the 75mm howitzer. These two types of artillery of the same caliber are, to a certain extent, the core artillery force of the Datang Army. The largest number, but also the most widely used,

The second type is the 120mm howitzer equipped by artillery units such as military artillery and independent field artillery regiments that provide support for the field army.

The third is the 150mm howitzer that provides front-line support.

However, the above-mentioned types of artillery have basically all had their own home, and in the past few years, they have basically been divided up by major manufacturers.

Northern Arms got most of the orders, but some still fell into the hands of the other two arms companies.

In particular, the order for the 120mm howitzer, which was highly valued by the Northern Arms Company, was snatched away by the South China Arms Company.

In order to reverse the situation, the Northern Arms Company is researching and developing more advanced 120mm howitzers on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also taking advantage of its own research and development technology advantages in light artillery.

A series of research plans for light howitzers were proposed.

The 75mm howitzer of the Northern Arms Company belongs to the light howitzer series and has become the main combat equipment of the Army.

However, the 100mm light howitzer and 120mm light howitzer that they developed later were not favored by the Army.

Although the Army is also part of the symbolic procurement transfer next door, but the order quantity is too small.

Because these two light howitzers feel a little too high, and the weight is still relatively heavy, but the power is actually the same, they have almost no possibility of replacing the 75mm series artillery.

And it is impossible to replace the 120mm howitzer, because the range is completely incomparable.

But the Army is very interested in their 150mm light howitzer.

Although this thing has a very short range, with a range of only about six kilometers, its weight is only over two tons, and more importantly, its power is huge.

According to the previous artillery development plan, the 150mm artillery is unlikely to accompany the field troops forward, even if it is only a 150mm howitzer, it is a few tons larger.

However, this light howitzer can barely accompany the field troops forward. Although more than two tons is quite heavy, compared to the 150mm traditional artillery of seven or eight tons or even ten tons, it is much lighter. UU reading www. uukanshu.com

In the end, the Army purchased it and finalized it as a Type 40 150mm light howitzer, referred to as the 40 Cannon.

The Army still attaches great importance to this four-zero artillery. If possible, they are going to allocate a batch of such artillery to strengthen the front-line support firepower.

However, I didn't expect that during the actual combat test of this kind of artillery, although the combat effect was very good, there were some problems in the quality, which made the North Arms Company improve the design.

In response to feedback from the Army, Northern Arms quickly made relevant improvements, especially for the barrel.

And when the Northern Arms Company was immersed in the 40 artillery, the 18th Division of the Army continued their garrison years, and received the name from the top again, assisting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to replace a few disobedient natives. king of the kingdom.

This kind of thing is very easy for the Eighteenth Division of the Army. It doesn't need to dispatch many troops, just send an infantry battalion over there.

Sometimes there is no need to fight at all, and the opponent basically surrenders.

The Datang Empire's control in India is quite powerful. There are more than 100 indigenous kingdoms or tribes on the Indian side. Datang dare not say 100%, but it can control more than 90% of them.

It's just that although Datang has a strong control ability, it does not interfere in their internal affairs on weekdays, especially the wars between these indigenous kings, Datang is too lazy to take care of them.

As long as these aboriginal kingdoms do not expel Datang merchants and do not harm Datang's interests, then Datang will be the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and will live a small life in several directly affiliated overseas territories such as Gehe Prefecture.

Similar policies are also reflected in Africa and Europe.

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