Valley Emperor

Although Major General Tian Qinyun already didn't like his 18th Division as a guinea pig to conduct various tests, the task is the task, which cannot be avoided.

So he specifically asked the Indian affairs yamen if there were any troubles in the indigenous kingdoms recently, and the person from the Indian affairs yamen replied.

Now that the weather is calm, the many military operations that the empire continued to launch in the first half of the year have completely made the entire Indian peninsula honest.

Although these indigenous kingdoms will inevitably fight internally, but this has nothing to do with the Tang Empire.

The Datang Empire is a benevolent and righteous empire, and it will not interfere in the wars within the natives, or the empire is too lazy to care, and is even happy to see them fighting.

In the end, there was no other way, Tian Qinyun could only do a practice test first or two, and then take it to the battlefield to test it when he had a chance.

As a result, Tian Qinyun was stunned by this exercise!

He was not surprised by the 65mm light howitzer, although this thing is also very easy to use, it is very light, and its skills and power are good. Within the effective range of meters, the accuracy is better than that of the 75mm howitzer.

However, just in this case, Tian Qinyun just gave a qualified standard.

What really stunned him were those 80mm rapid-fire mortars!

This minute, more than ten shells were fired, and the explosive power of the shells was not small, which surprised Major General Tian Qinyun.

What surprised him even more was that he did not pay much attention to the issue of ammunition supply during the exercise, but only ordered the troops to test the performance of this rapid-fire mortar as much as possible.

As a result, the artillery crew members who were recruited from the divisional artillery regiment directly followed the traditional artillery preparations for artillery bombardment, preparing for an artillery bombardment that lasted for 20 minutes.

But it turned out to be just over ten minutes!

why?

Because it only took more than ten minutes to fire all the thousand rounds of shells that were shipped for testing!

Twelve quick-firing mortars used for testing had fired thousands of shells within ten minutes. The explosions on the testing ground continued to sound like firecrackers.

Major General Tian Qinyun was stunned when he saw it, and the head of the baggage regiment on the side was even more pale!

When Tian Qinyun saw this scene, he thought of the scene where the enemy army was enveloped by the explosion, but the head of the cargo regiment saw this scene, but what he thought was that he had worked so hard to transport thousands of shells to the front-line troops, and the result was casual. Come to a scene where a rapid-fire mortar company is shot out in a few dozen minutes.

And the governor of Gehe Prefecture, a subordinate of the Indian affairs yamen, who was idle and bored, ran over to watch the exercise, this usually peaceful and gentle official, just murmured: "You prodigals in the army, the empire's wealth will be left to you. It was defeated!"

A thousand rounds of test shells, no matter how cheap it is, will cost more than 10 constant yuan per round. This thousand rounds is more than 10,000 constant yuan.

No wonder the empire's annual financial revenue of four to five billion is not enough money every year. Where did the money go?

It was all wasted by these **** from the Army!

After the test, the military members were still in shock, and the governor of Gehe Prefecture was already very unhappy to go first, and on the way back, he was already thinking about how to write a statement.

Why do you write a book? Naturally, it is to impeach those prodigals of the Army!

People in their civilian system worked hard to develop the local economy and collect taxes. As a result, these military **** don't do anything and burn money for fun.

This kind of thing is simply unbearable!

Must spray, spray hard!

In other words, in the Tang Empire, when civilians sprayed the military, it was politically correct.

Because in the Tang Empire, the separation of military and government is the most basic political principle, and a civilian who colludes with the military will never be able to climb up.

The ultra-high rate of fire exhibited by the rapid-fire mortar surprised many people. Major General Tian Qinyun was also one of them. He saw the huge tactical value and immediately wanted to recommend the large-scale equipment. artillery.

But after chatting with the head of his baggage regiment, this attitude has changed!

The head of his baggage regiment clearly told him that not to mention dozens of hundreds of equipment, even if there were only a dozen or so in one company, their baggage regiment could not afford it!

The Eighteenth Division of the Army is deployed overseas, and every bullet and shell used has to be transported thousands of miles from the mainland, even if it is a long sea transportation, but in the overseas territory, the traffic conditions are extremely bad It is also very difficult to transport luggage.

Even if it is the current ordinary rear-mounted artillery, because the rapid-fire far exceeds the front-mounted artillery of the year, this has already made the army's logistics department quite large, not to mention that it is now a large-scale replacement of the joint type II rifle. The stuff will also eat up a lot of logistical forces.

If there is another type of artillery with more than ten rounds per minute, and it is still ready to be assigned to the infantry battalion, then the logistics department will not have to live.

Even when talking about these, they did not take into account the issue of military expenditure, and only considered the issue of logistical supply.

In the end, Major General Tian Qinyun said in the test report that this rapid-fire mortar is indeed a good thing, but it consumes too many shells, and it may be difficult to supply it overseas.

At the same time, he gave great praise to the 65mm light howitzer, although this thing seems to be relatively average in many aspects.

The key is that this thing is suitable for use by the army, especially for the army stationed overseas.

With a weight of more than 200 kilograms, without disassembly, any horse can pull it away, and it can be pulled away without manpower.

It can also be disassembled when necessary, and it can be carried on horses in separate packages, or even carried by several soldiers.

This maneuverability is the most powerful of all the barrel artillery currently equipped by the Army.

The previous 60mm howitzer is not good, and the 75mm howitzer is even more bad.

And the power of this thing is not small, the explosion power will not be smaller than the 75mm howitzer.

Although the range is only 2,500 meters, it is more than enough for the natives, and the accuracy is not bad. One cannonball can solve the problem.

To this end, he directly proposed to use this light howitzer to replace the old 60mm howitzer as a battalion-level support fire.

Not only did Major General Tian Qinyun send back the report, but even the navy was paying attention to these two weapons.

However, unlike the choice of the Army and the Guards, it is not the same as choosing a rapid-fire mortar or a 65mm light howitzer. The generals of the Marine Corps believe that these two weapons can be equipped and used at the same time.

Anyway, the Marine Corps of the Navy will basically not go deep inland, which means that the Marine Corps can get the logistical supply of the supply ship at any time.

In addition, the scale of the Marine Corps is not large, and it will not cost too much military expenses to equip some rapid-fire mortars.

Of course, even so, it can't be equipped with too much. A small amount of equipment is enough. If the main battalion supports artillery, it must be a 65mm light howitzer.

However, even so, in fact, the Marine Corps did not care too much, because the artillery force of the Marine Corps has always been very strong.

The current largest organization of the Marine Corps is the Marine Corps, not even a Marine Brigade, let alone a division.

However, the Marine Corps' Marine Corps is generally large in size and is paired with artillery battalions.

More importantly, according to the tradition of the Navy, the naval gun is the largest support artillery of the Marine Corps.

In order to better support the Marine Corps' operations, the Navy has produced a large number of shallow water gunboats. These shallow water gunboats are not used to fight the enemy's wooden sails, but to go deep into the coastal waters, inland rivers and lakes of the Empire to support ground operations. of.

In recent years, the Datang Navy, which has been completely invincible in the global waters and feels deeply lonely, has engaged in a "frontier strategy".

The core of the entire frontier strategy is to take advantage of the strategic advantage of the Datang Navy's global invincibility ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to be able to pass through the seas around the world, to establish frontier bases along the coast of some key sea areas, and through flexible deployment, the fleet can be deployed in the first time. Reach hot spots and strike enemy forces.

Under this core strategy, the Navy has established numerous naval bases around the world, deployed fleets in almost all sea areas, and deployed main fleets in hot spots.

At the same time, a large number of shallow water gunboats were researched and built to reach the offshore, inland rivers and other waters for combat.

With the absolute superiority of naval artillery firepower support, send the Marine Corps to land operations and control the battle situation.

This "frontier strategy" is different from the concept of many naval powers in later generations.

The biggest difference is the battle for sea control.

The core of many naval powers in history has always been the struggle for sea dominance, with the control of a certain sea area as the core strategic basis.

For example, in modern times, a certain European country has implemented a green water strategy, mainly developing small and medium-sized offshore ships. It seems that, like the Datang Navy, they are building a large number of small and medium-sized ships, but the nature of the two is completely different.

The green water strategy develops small and medium-sized warships, the core purpose is coastal defense, and the fundamental purpose is to fight the enemy navy.

However, these small and medium tonnage shallow water gunships of the Datang Navy are not used to fight the enemy's navy, but to fight the enemy's land defense forces.

How should I put it, one squatted at the door to play defensive operations, and the other ran to the door to play offensive operations. There was a big difference between the two.

The main reason for this result is that the Datang Navy is too powerful. The Datang Navy, which is invincible in the world, does not have any problems such as offshore defense and competition for sea domination.

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