Valley Emperor

In addition to the three guard divisions, the first cavalry brigade, the first artillery brigade, the baggage regiment, the fourth fortress garrison regiment, and the royal garrison regiment were reorganized.

The artillery in its artillery brigade is all heavy artillery, mainly 150mm howitzers, supplemented by some 120mm cannons.

And the artillery in the fortress garrison, let alone the fortress heavy artillery converted from the active naval artillery, 300mm, 250mm, and 200mm heavy artillery, as for the 150mm heavy artillery. , 120mm is more.

The four fortress garrison regiments were actually four fortress heavy artillery regiments. They possessed more than 100 heavy artillery firepower.

The total force remains at the scale of 80,000 people.

The reform of the formation of the Guards is once again ahead of the army.

After seeing the reform of the guards, the army also began to seriously consider the reform.

Although the army has always been short of funds, the army is a big business after all, and the more expensive mobile units have been established before.

Soon, the army's rapid-fire mortars were also sent to the Northern Arms Company, but it was a huge army, and the total number of purchases was not as much as that of the Guards, but only a mere 100 guns were purchased for preliminary equipment testing.

The rapid-fire mortars consume a lot of ammunition, which is not a problem for the Guards, but it is extremely troublesome for the Army.

More than ten rounds of artillery shells are fired in one minute. If a few thousand guns are equipped, the army will go bankrupt in minutes.

Even the Army has specially asked the research department of the Northern Arms Company to research a cheap rapid-fire mortar grenade specifically for the Army. You don't need to use such good materials. You can make a cast iron shell as long as it is cheap. .

Compared with the rapid-fire mortar, the Army prefers the 65mm light howitzer, which can also adapt to the terrain in all directions. Although the rate of fire is far less than that of the rapid-fire mortar, it is also much stronger than the traditional howitzer in the past.

And this thing is accurate, the accuracy is very good.

The Army's idea is similar to that of the Jiangnan Weapons Company. It can solve the problem with one shell, so why use ten or even twenty shells.

Besides, the planned combat objectives of the Guards and the Army are different.

Although no one said it, everyone knew that although the Guards would also deploy overseas, the scheduled combat targets of the Guards were never overseas natives, but potential domestic enemies.

More precisely, the rebels that may appear in the future.

And the rebels come from there, it must be the army or the navy!

Therefore, the scheduled combat targets of the Guards have always been the army and the navy.

In terms of weapons and equipment, it has always pursued the lead in the army and navy, at any cost.

Now that a good thing like rapid-fire mortars has come out, they will naturally equip them for the first time, and it is not a problem to spend a lot.

As for the army and navy, although they usually say that each other is the biggest enemy, in fact their real combat targets are the indigenous people overseas.

In this case, rapid-fire mortars are suitable for the Guards, but not for the Army!

Because there is no need for the army to pursue such a high rate of fire, rapid-fire mortars with such a high rate of fire are used in overseas wars, and there is no way to replenish the shells.

On the contrary, what is more needed is precision, and it would be better to be able to solve the problem with one shell.

After all, every shell used by troops deployed overseas is invaluable.

All need to be transported from the mainland, which is a long journey of several thousand kilometers or even ten thousand kilometers.

Not to mention the high cost of shipping, and it is not something that can be replenished if you want to.

When the news of the shortage of ammunition is reported, and then organize the transportation, it will take at least one or two months, and as many as a year and a half.

Otherwise, the army and navy would not have been shouting slogans such as practicing hard artillery all these years. In addition to the expensive artillery shells, it also has a great relationship with overseas supply difficulties.

Therefore, it is slightly heavier, but it is still within the acceptable range. At the same time, it can be disassembled. If necessary, it can be carried by horses or simply carried by people. At the same time, the accuracy is quite good, and the rate of fire is also higher than that of traditional howitzers. The 15mm light howitzer is the first to become the army's battalion-level support firepower.

Different combat objects, different combat environments, but the Army and the Guards chose different weapons and equipment.

And this is not the first time this has happened, it has happened many years ago.

Looking at the whole world now, only the First Cavalry Regiment of the Guards is allied with Jurong horses. This thing is tall and mighty but very delicate. It is given to the Army for nothing. It is the Jurong horse who has a soft spot for this top-level war horse and has been attached to it for many years.

The same is true for rifles. When the rear-loading rifle first appeared, the Guards were equipped with extremely expensive Li Fu rifles. At that time, the army could only choose a single-shot paper-shell rear-loading rifle. The performance gap between the two was almost two generations. .

In the follow-up, the army began to completely abandon the paper shell bullets and upgraded the joint rifle to a rifle that fires metal bullets, but it was still an 11mm single-shot rear-loading rifle.

Even if the current army is equipped with the United Type II rifle, it can barely be regarded as entering the ranks of rapid-fire rifles, but there is a huge gap in performance and the latest improved model of Li Fu rifle.

Especially in accuracy and rate of fire, the gap between the two is huge.

The rate of fire of the Li Fu rifle can reach more than 15 rounds per minute, but in the test, a skilled shooter can shoot out all ten bullets in the magazine in just ten seconds!

One bullet per second, this is not a joke, but what the Li Fu rifle can do.

At the same time, the loading of Li Fu's rifle is also very convenient, and skilled shooters can quickly reload the bullet and then fire again.

Therefore, in the case of not pursuing accuracy, the Li Fu rifle can even shoot thirty bullets per minute in extreme cases, and this data has also been achieved in the test.

The accuracy is also very high, so-called where to hit within a kilometer.

As long as the shooter can aim correctly, a human-sized target can be hit within a kilometer. Unfortunately, it is impossible for most people to aim at a target beyond a kilometer. This distance is far beyond the distance that the naked eye can aim at. , so it does not have any practical significance, but if it is equipped with a scope in the future, it can be used as a sniper rifle.

Li Fu's rifle is good, this is recognized, but the army still does not have it. Earlier they preferred to use the joint rifle, but now they are changing to the joint type II rifle.

In the end, it's a question of price.

The Army and the Guards are completely different arms, so in many cases, their organization and even equipment are different.

Based on the army's policy, don't expect to see any rapid-fire mortars being equipped on a large scale by the army in a short period of time. The army can't afford this thing, and at most it is to get some experimental equipment.

In this way, the Army also asked the Northern Arms Company to develop a cheap rapid-fire mortar shell.

After the Guards and the Army placed orders successively, Jiangnan Arms Company and Northern Arms Company soon produced a batch for testing and testing. At the same time, the military also set the model for these two new artillery, each for 40 years. Type 80mm rapid-firing mortar, 40-year type 65mm light howitzer.

Soon, a batch of 80mm rapid-firing mortars and 65mm light howitzers were loaded onto freighters and transported across the ocean to Gehe Prefecture, where they were delivered to the 18th Army Division.

The reason why a variety of new weapons have been sent to the 18th Army Division for actual combat testing is not because the 18th Army Division itself is special.

In fact, they are not special at all. The reason why they are asked to test new equipment is purely because the situation in India has been somewhat chaotic since the beginning of this year. In order to maintain the stability of the situation and maintain the interests of the empire, the Army's 18th Division has frequently dispatched troops to fight.

To put it bluntly, there are more actual combats, and the distance is relatively close.

If it is transported to Gehe state, it will start from the mainland, go along the coast of the mainland, then go to the South Ocean, pass through Malacca, and cross the eastern waters of the Indian Ocean.

If you want to go to the Red Sea area or Africa or even Europe and the Americas, then the distance is much farther.

Major General Tian Qinyun was also a little speechless about the arrival of these new equipment.

After deploying to Gehe state this time, there have been too many broken things.

How good was the deployment of Gehe Prefecture in the past few times, most of the time I was idle, and occasionally went out to fight a few battles, but it was not as bad as it is now.

This makes the new equipment they test sent in batches every once in a while, and what's even more disgusting is that not every new equipment is easy to use.

The Joint Type 2 rifle is a good thing, and the Type 40 150mm light howitzer is also a good thing, but there are several other types of equipment sent for testing, one is more pitiful than the other.

Two months ago, the Ordnance Department sent a batch of so-called new 75mm field guns~www.wuxiaspot.com~ said to have a longer range and better accuracy, which almost convinced Tian Qinyun.

However, the brothers of the artillery regiment scolded the designers at the rear for being scumbags while testing.

Because that thing is too heavy, the total weight of the battle is more than 1,000 kilograms, and the total weight of the march is heavier. The range is far, but it is only 700000000000000000000000000000000000000000000es difference.

But mobility is a different story.

Major General Tian Qinyun stated directly in the follow-up test report that if he was to be issued with such a large-range 75mm field gun, it would be better to give him a few more 75mm howitzers. It only has an effective range of more than 4,000 meters.

However, it is enough, and the weight is still light, the whole gun is only a few hundred kilograms.

This artillery is an example, and there are more things, not only limited to weapons, but also some new military shoes and tents.

The above is treating their 18th Division as a guinea pig. All kinds of new equipment, even the equipment that has not been finalized in the research, are sent to him one after another for testing.

And many of these stereotypes are immature and even flawed.

These things are good things at first glance, but in fact most of them are bullshit.

Today, Tian Qinyun also suspects that the quick-firing mortars and infantry artillery sent from above are also rubbish.

But doubts return to doubts, dissatisfaction returns to dissatisfaction, and testing is still required. After all, testing new equipment is also one of the tasks of the 18th Division today.

The only thing that made Tian Qinyun a little bit of a headache was that the situation in the surrounding area had been very calm in the past two weeks, and the natives were so obedient as little white rabbits that he couldn't find a suitable test subject for a while. !

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