Chapter 157 Insurance
Under Bai Chongxi's persuasion, Yan Laoxi was rare to be generous. He took out some of the weapons made by Jin from the Taiyuan Arsenal, including the 79th Rifle, the Big Eye Box of Jin, the Thompson submachine gun, the bullet grenade of Jin, etc. to the miscellaneous army from all over the world. According to Bai Chongxi's view, the Jinsui Army's external and internal troubles are in turmoil, and it is especially necessary to win people's hearts at this moment.
Yan Laoxi jumped off the building and sold it bloodied. Of course, he would not forget that his family members had no shortage of rifles from the Jinsui Army, but he also replaced them with many big-eyed boxes made by Jin and Thompson submachine guns. It is said that when Yan Laoxi criticized the notes, both eyes were full of tears. But at this time, he couldn't save it. If he defeated, it would be cheap.
The biggest benefit was the 45th Army of the 22nd Army, who had just crossed the Yellow River. The weapons that this wave of people had just left Sichuan were still equipped with singles. There were historical reasons for the long-term use of singles. During the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty, Sichuan also learned from Huguang and other places to establish various new factories.
Among them, a complete set of manufacturing machines for single-handed rifles (Henry Martini rifles) were introduced from the West to establish the Sichuan Machinery Bureau. After the Republic, the Sichuan Machinery Bureau fought endlessly, and the Machinery Bureau and the salt wells in Sichuan became the targets of various warlords. In the end, all major forces in Sichuan obtained some of the machines and personnel from the former Sichuan Machinery Bureau, and each started to produce single-handed rifles.
However, this single rifle was already a backward rifle in the late Qing Dynasty, but it was only stronger than the front-buckle rifle used by the Qing army at that time. Foreigners were also useless tricks.
The warlords in Sichuan are not unaware that their rifles are out of date, but first of all, their enemies are also using this kind of gun. Secondly, buying a new rifle or assembly line will not cost the money from the Qing treasury, but their own money. This is a very painful thing for the Sichuan tycoons who are accustomed to increasing revenue and reducing expenditure (grabbing salt wells and owing military pay).
Also, after you bought it for a lot of money, central Sichuan is located in the western part of the country and the machines or weapons imported from abroad have to pass through more than a dozen large and small warlord defense areas on both sides of the Yangtze River. What should I do if Liu Bei borrowed it from Jingzhou? The reason why Liu Wenhui and Liu Xiang turned against each other was because Liu Xiang seized Liu Wenhui's arms worth 2 million yuan - the poor Liu Wenhui donated 500,000 yuan to win the victory of the War of Resistance.
Moreover, there are no new rifles in Sichuan that are similar to the old sleeves made in Hanyang, but they are not popular because they are expensive from neighboring provinces (the warlords around Sichuan do not want a powerful neighbor). Generally speaking, if a battalion is equipped with the old sleeves made in Hanyang, the battalion will become the main battalion of the regiment. This regiment will also become the main battalion of the division.
On the other hand, along with the 41st Army of the Sichuan Army, the 7th Army of the New Guangxi Army and the 21st Army of the New Guangxi Army also entered Jin, including the 100 million rifle shells and one million mortar shells allocated to Shanxi for this battle. Minister Song was so generous, in addition to his Tax Police Corps in Shanxi, the former soul of the New Guangxi Army Huang Shaohong also played a lot of roles.
One hundred million bullets sounded a lot, but according to the calculations of the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking, it was only 200 bullets per person for the troops entering Jin. Although each soldier who entered Jin from Peking or Zhili carried more than 100 bullets, the combined ammunition was only enough to fight a large-scale battle according to the calculations of the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking. The nickname of the General Tax Police Corps in Shanxi is to burn bullets, and the ammunition supplemented by the Ministry of Military Affairs of Peking alone was not listed here.
But there is still no war with bullets. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that the emperor is not alone in hungry soldiers. He always wants to make these 500,000 troops have enough food. Since ancient times, Shanxi has not been a major grain-producing province that raises more than 100,000 troops and food and wages, and it is difficult to sustain. Faced with these 500,000 people, it can be maintained for a long time. Shanxi must be eaten up by 500,000 troops. Fortunately, the two railways, Pingtai Line and Zhengtai Line, solved many problems - a large amount of foreign food can still be purchased here in Tianjin.
East China Sea. At this time, the domestic coastal areas were not cut off because of the new victorious naval patrol. Instead, they were injured, the Japanese military and civilian ships with plaster flags were hung.
A "slam" sounded and the shells fell into the water and splashed high waves. The merchant ship was panicked, and there were only two fixed machine guns. No matter how you look at it, it was unable to fight against a thousand-ton warship.
This is a civilian merchant ship of the Japanese who drove back from the South China Sea and was intercepted by the Central Navy. The gun just now was both a test-fire and a demonstration. Those who dared to resist immediately sank - it is not popular to jump ships to fight. If you don't resist, see how the ship is in good condition. If the cargo is good, take the cargo and leave. If the ship doesn't like it, take the goods and leave. Some Japanese who were released because they were civilians in accordance with the Treaty of Geneva, but it is indispensable to keep some souvenirs.
"Hurry up, hurry up, move all the useful and valuables away for me, hahaha, this navy is indeed rich." Sun Yuanliang, the newly appointed Captain of the Type 22 destroyer, code-named destroyer No. 545, was doing this with great enthusiasm. Now, when I think that I was not as happy as a dying on the land before. It was so good except for the lack of a beautiful woman around me - the treatment of a navy general is not comparable to that of an army general.
After all, the Japanese ship merchant sailors who were stubborn and refused to surrender were a minority, and even fewer resisters were killed after sinking and putting a group of people. So now the merchant ship also chose to surrender with a white flag. Their own ships had long been old, and they probably didn't like them, and they just lost some property.
The Central Navy is not killing all the people, but is just doing the national behavior to plunder the enemy's countries. Other countries have acted as if they are not concerned about their own affairs. The stolen ships and cargoes were sold to the port, and the naval officers and soldiers were divided into 60% of the central government. Learning from the old things that Europeans had developed at sea, they finally came up with a new way to raise ships.
A "swish" mixed with the painful cry of the surrendered Japanese sailors "Yi Dayi" (the author passed by evilly), a soldering iron the size of a palm-sized soldering four Chinese characters from the Japanese - Yuhito eating shit. The thing about tattooing is too cumbersome. After soliciting opinions from various departments, the Navy decided to burn characters in a fixed position.
After a scoop of cold water made the Japanese sailor more awake, a naval soldier who knew a little Japanese said to him: "This is your first time being captured, we burn the characters. If you dare to destroy the characters, we will ask you to feed the fish next time we catch them."
Since the Meiji Restoration began, the Japanese family has always said that the Emperor is the embodiment of the Sun God. For decades, generations of people have been brainwashed, and many people have truly believed it.
Before the war, Chen Cheng went to the Japanese house to visit Tantan Xushi and met a Japanese officer. Seeing that Chen Cheng was in his early thirties, the Japanese officer was banned from his general rank and asked casually: "Is it because your general is so young? Is it because your general is easy to be a general?" Chen Cheng replied: "I think your emperor is also very young, is it easy to be a emperor here?" Chen Cheng almost got beaten up for this matter.
In order to weaken the Japanese's beliefs and make them disunited internally, the Navy printed the commands that the Army used during wartime on the captured Japanese sailors.
At this time, the Japanese tried their best to ensure that there was no problem with shipping in the local area and the Korean Peninsula. After the battle in the Yellow Sea that day, although the main force of the Japanese fleet was not wiped out, the offensive and defensive forms on the sea had changed hands. There was no way that the Japanese didn't know that the cheating was made here, and the more ships were fighting, the stronger they were.
As for shopping, most countries that have not participated in the war will use the method of delivering goods. They know that Nanjing does not dare to conduct indiscriminate attacks - this is equivalent to declaring war on the whole world, and the Japanese are sometimes looking forward to this. For those looted merchant ships, the Japanese Navy can only say hello: "Do you buy insurance? That's good."
But the insurance company was very smart. When these looted maritime merchants came to settle the claims, the salesperson with a smile on his face when selling insurance was now pointed at one of the thick insurance contracts with a cold face and said, "Look clearly, the insurance company will not settle claims because of the losses suffered by the war."
The Central Navy's Civilian Type 22 destroyer (Scott modified) has sufficient number, many functions and fast speeds. Compared with warships with smaller tonnages, it also has strong firepower. It is impossible for merchant ships, civilian ships, fishing boats, which are larger than those in the market, to be the opponent of warships.
The naval battle of the navy led to the prelude to the war. Although Nanjing denied the Central Navy's combat plan to attack the Japanese coastal artillery attacks - the Japanese have set up shore defense artillery brigades in important coastal areas in the past two years. Using warships to hit shore artillery is a destruction, not to mention that the opponent will soon be able to summon planes to support you to get the kamikaze special attack.
However, he agreed to the navy's combat plan to send destroyers to break through sea. The destroyer has high speed and a warship with a larger tonnage than his at sea cannot escape him. When he encounters a warship or a merchant ship with weaker firepower than him, he will bully him twice. Because the destroyer is equipped with torpedo launch tubes, he is also a ship that can make a big profit in theory. Of course, it is limited to theory (no one can imagine that the enemy's firepower system has not been damaged, so that the destroyer with much smaller tonnage will launch torpedoes in close proximity if it is not damaged).
If Sun Yuanliang, the newly appointed Destroyer No. 545 captain, had the Rear Admiral Sun Yuanliang, not because the ship had to return to the port regularly to replenish supplies and sell goods and the newly met mother and daughter flowers in Tianjin, his obsession with the sea would be getting stronger and stronger. Every time he saw a ship, he would rush over to confirm it quickly. According to General Sun's statement, it was not a ship, it was a moving mountain of gold and silver.
In the government's plan to divide the navy into plundering hostile merchant ships, the captain could enjoy 10% of the 40% of the crew member. Many new officers and soldiers who entered the navy turned red after snatching it twice. Although there are many opportunities to go out to sea, it is also precious to the navy. In other words, the flying general Sun Yuanliang is covered with the halo of Huangpu, otherwise a newly promoted destroyer captain could go out to sea without restrictions on seniority.
Chapter completed!