The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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"This is a matter for the people of Yan State. The question is what should we do next?" Wei Liao pointed out what Qin State can do now.

"We can only provide more military assistance, especially military air assistance. If there is an air strike, I think the Yan army can at least maintain the current stalemate." Wang Jian put forward his own opinion. Wang Jian's actual consideration is Qin State does not want to prematurely intervene in the ground war between Yan State and Qi State, and the emergence of air power made Wang Jian notice the huge effectiveness ratio of air strikes.

As long as the Qin State invests in a few air brigades, it can completely control the ground war, and the air strike is far faster than the ground war. This kind of thinking is not just Wang Jian's idea. The army is setting up several army air brigades. The brigade is the backbone of the army's future army air force. The idea of ​​the army is to use the strength of these army air forces to achieve the goal of confronting the space army. Now this situation is a good opportunity for the army air force to play.

The space army only regards gaining air supremacy as its primary goal, and does not place too much emphasis on ground bombing and affecting the progress of ground warfare, while the army air force mainly focuses on ground warfare. They were established to deal with ground targets. If you look at the army The structure of the air force shows how obvious their intentions were at the beginning of their establishment

A heavy bomber brigade, a medium bomber brigade, a light precision bomber brigade, in addition to some independent reconnaissance squadrons of air liaison aircraft, this arrangement highlights the ground bombing role of the Qin Army Air Corps. Send these experimental troops to the front line to test their results

Just when the military was discussing sending their air power to interfere with the ground war, Shang Wen was very rude and once again urged the military to cut large-scale military expenditures in view of the excessive increase in military expenditures.

Since the Qin army accepted the war in the Western Regions, the growth rate of military expenditure has accelerated again, especially the replacement of large-scale new equipment. The Qin State almost completed it in a few months. In human history, it took decades or even more than 100 years to complete it. weapons and equipment

The state of Qin changed from the original single-shot metal fixed gunpowder ammunition to a single-shot pull-back rotary rifle. The large-scale use of smokeless gunpowder further gave birth to the appearance of machine guns and pull-back rotary rifles with magazines. Although the Western Regions War There are still valve rifles in China, but with the completion of the refitting in the north and the large-scale expansion of the machine gun production line, this situation will soon change. Almost overnight, the equipment of the Qin army has risen to an unbelievable level. The rifles in the hands of ordinary soldiers are It can easily reach an astonishing shooting distance of 100 steps. Before this distance, only the large crossbows that attacked the city could achieve, while the bows and arrows of the Huns at the same time were only more than [-] steps. Such a huge difference in weapons and equipment is enough for the Qin army to last for a long time. up

Even so, the Qin Army is still not satisfied. With the advent of automobiles, the Qin Army's arms dealers have begun to cooperate with automobile manufacturers to plan for Qin to equip more advanced armored vehicles, but the military's attitude is very happy. They have even planned military orders. To purchase a large number of armored vehicles, it is impossible to increase the military expenditure without **, especially the special war expenditure has already taken up a large part.

Qin's current financial situation is very pessimistic. A large amount of public infrastructure investment takes up a large part of the expenditure, plus military expenses, which almost spends more than 80.00% of Qin's government expenditure. The rest can only be used for medical and health care. building above

And now the military expenditure is becoming more and more outrageous. The military always increases military expenditures with any special requirements it finds, especially when the army lags behind the enemy in a certain field, and then deliberately leaks military secrets to the media, creating a huge panic in the media and then Under the pressure of media and public opinion, the government has to pass special military spending. This is a conspiracy. The military doesn't care how much it fails, because after the failure, public opinion will report and then it will get better.

This trick comes from the navy. The navy learned this trick by accident before. The Chu navy attacked the Qin navy, but then Shang Wen came forward to improve the disarmament situation faced by the navy. On the contrary, after that sneak attack, the navy not only was not disarmed, but also got it. Unprecedented assistance, such as a large number of shipyards, the establishment of a navy in the Yangtze River basin in the south of Qin, and a brand new branch of naval aviation. After such an incident, the four major military branches all understood that showing weakness is the best way to get military expenses.

Then the military looked for various reasons to increase the military expenditure. The military always told the news to the king of Qin at the first time, and the king of Qin always thought that the Qin army was weaker than the opponent in terms of military strength, and then put pressure on Shang Wen to increase the military expenditure. This formed an inextricable problem. knot

When Shangwen received the report of the sneak attack on the third day, he knew that the army had started their plot to increase military spending again. If it was not against Qin, then the Qin government would be in danger of going bankrupt.

This time, Shangwen will strictly rectify this phenomenon of intentionally showing weakness and obtaining special military expenditures. Just as Shangwen is preparing to collect information and launch a counterattack, the army has already leaked the news to the media.

"It is reported that on the night of the sixth day of August, the airport where the Qin army was stationed at the front line of the eastern Qi State was attacked by the Qi State in a premeditated manner." The reporter first released such explosive news. The military's strategy is also very simple, that is, slowly. If you release the news all at once, you may lose the attention of the media. If you release it continuously, you can fully attract the attention of the public.

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"It's this little trick of asking for military expenses again." Shangwen threw the newspaper aside annoyed

The lead of public opinion is very conducive to the success of the military's "conspiracy". Affected by the news of the air raid on the airport on the east route of Qin State, the Xianyang Stock Exchange Composite Index dropped by [-] points as soon as the market opened It began to rebound violently because public opinion began to become favorable for the development of military stocks at this time

"We can't just wait for airships from the Qi Air Force to bomb Xianyang"

"Xianyang must not be attacked by air. The lives of 100 million people here need to be protected. Our government should urgently allocate funds to the sky army so that they can shoot down those damn Qi Air Force airships."

"Important news that the Army Air Corps can fly [-] miles to attack the opponent's airship gathering place. This is an effective weapon for Qin to protect Qi."

"·······" The major newspapers published the news one after another. These news made the people panic, and the latter news made the people feel hopeful. This is what the Army wanted most. They all claim that all major military branches have their own air teams. These air teams can not only protect the safety of the sky above Qin, but also effectively attack the opponent's airport facilities, making them unable to fly even if they have wings.

Of course, these effective guarantee measures have a premise. This premise is that the Qin government must spend a total of 1000 million gold to equip various aircraft and airships. These are not enough for the Marine Corps to expand two air defense brigades to defend. Air defense equipment for all possible threats from the air from Luoyang to Xianyang

"This is the big mouth of a lion." Shangwen has long expected such a situation to happen. The uncharacteristically releasing various news is actually borrowing the pressure of public opinion to oppress Shangwen to provide huge military expenditures.

And King Qin is also on the side of the military.

"How can the celestial army of the widow let the air force of the State of Qi launch an air attack?

"Your Majesty, there are still some specific situations that have not been clarified," Meng Tian suggested.

"If you figure it out, why don't you figure it out? It won't be long before Qin's newspapers should report on this matter. Send a telegram to the Prime Minister asking him to allocate the special funds for the war as soon as possible." The King of Qin issued an order to Zhao Gao

"Here..." Zhao Gao got the order to leave quickly. Meng Tian felt that there was still something he didn't understand about this matter, and then Qin's newspapers published such news. China does not shy away from it at all. On the contrary, the impact of defeat is greater than the impact of victory. This is the sensational effect of the media. Victory is very common, but defeat is obviously another extreme point of people's emotions. It is this kind of human nature that makes the media use it. excessive attention

Just when the Qin State was clamoring to allocate special war funds, Qi State was making final preparations for the next large-scale attack, but Qi State still lacked enough firepower to prepare for the front line.

Qi officers found that after the assault, if the commando did not have follow-up large troops to keep up in time, it would be easy to be wiped out by the opponent's next counterattack, and the follow-up troops often caused a very serious isolation zone due to the concentrated bombardment of the opponent's artillery. This firepower appeared. The emergence of the separation zone made it impossible for the follow-up troops to get in touch with the commandos, and then to seize and expand the results. Such things have happened many times. More and more military officers demand a weapon that can suppress the opponent's artillery, but Qi's artillery production quantity and quality are not good. It cannot be compared with Qin, which has large-scale machine tools and large-scale production of machines

Just when Qi State tried its best to solve this problem, a new weapon was provided from the western oil producing area of ​​Qi State.

This weapon is transformed from iron barrels provided by the state of Qin. The iron barrels are the crude oil barrels of the state of Qin. At the same time, crude oil extraction in Qi State is very backward, and all of them are small-scale workshops. This workshop-style crude oil extraction leads to very scattered crude oil, which makes the extraction and transportation of crude oil very inconvenient. As Qin State's automobiles become more and more The more crude oil is needed, the greater the crude oil production in Qin State has become saturated, while the supply of crude oil in Qi State has begun to expand, but it is not convenient to calculate the quality of crude oil in Qi State.

For this reason, Qin State adopted the method of crude oil barrels. Qin State provides this reusable crude oil barrels for free, but the premise is that entering the crude oil must meet various Qin State regulations, such as putting lighter-colored "light" crude oil into blue crude oil barrels. The heavier ones are put into black crude oil barrels. After loading into crude oil barrels, the situation has been greatly improved, and the transportation is also very convenient. Just use a forklift or large lifting equipment to load it on the train at one time.

With the popularization of this kind of crude oil barrels, Qi State has accumulated a large number of crude oil barrels. These crude oil barrels have excellent sealing performance and excellent corrosion resistance. The surface is coated with chemical paint. The biggest difficulty in the production of Qi State artillery is that The airtightness of the cannon can’t be solved, mainly because the casting process is difficult and the machining process needs to be pondered repeatedly to solve it. It will take time, but time waits for no one.

At this time, a Qi State craftsman named Lu Rong noticed what would happen if the crude oil barrel provided by Qin State was used as the launch tube for the artillery.

Soon Lu Rong immediately began to experiment. This crude oil barrel is very similar to the cannon made by the PLA during the War of Liberation. It uses a large amount of black powder as the propellant, and then attaches an explosive bag to the front. The explosive bag is wrapped repeatedly in sackcloth and loaded into it. Then punch a hole in the propellant position of the crude oil barrel and put in the fuse to ignite the launch. Although it has experienced several failures, the main reason is that the fuze and sealing of the explosive package have not been solved. Then the explosive package is made into a huge disc shape or made. Put it into a large cone and then ignite it. In order to achieve the maximum range, the angle of the cannon usually tends to be 45 degrees, and the farthest can reach about 450 steps. Although the distance is not very far, this kind of artillery is easy to carry and disassemble. The most important thing is that it can be used In this way, this kind of artillery began to be heavily modified

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The autumn night looks a bit cold, and even in the trenches of Yan State, there are not many sentries on duty. The Yan army has become an army with mostly recruits and veterans who are lazy.

"It's really cold." A sentry from the Yan Kingdom turned up the collar of his coat to keep warm. His rifle was slumped over his shoulders, and he looked like he had no combat power.

"Slow down" a well-armed Qi State commando carefully grabbed a piece of barbed wire, and a commando came up from his side and carefully took off the can. Then the No. 1 commando used wire cutters to cut the wire and cut it from the bottom After that, carefully open a small hole that can pass through a person and pass No.1, after passing No.2 also passed

In the entire firefighting no man's land, there are many commandos who have to climb through such barbed wire positions all the way. Although Qin can produce a large number of infantry mines, this kind of mines are not equipped for the Yan army to use. The reason is that Yan believes that the procurement Hand grenades and mines are unnecessary, especially hand grenades. At that time, such grenades had a safety response time of four to five seconds. This time usually caused embarrassing situations when they were used repeatedly. Throwing it in the past will also be thrown back by the opponent. For this reason, Yan Jun believes that it is completely unnecessary to equip such a weapon. If equipped, it is equivalent to equipping the opponent with such a powerful weapon. Also for mines, Yan Jun believes that this kind of "dead thing" buried in the ground "It will be used by the opponent because he will just bury it there. Once the opponent activates it and re-buries it. If you don't know, you will still blow up your own people. It is this unrealistic and conservative idea that makes Yan's military equipment stand still. The former upper echelon of Yan State, especially Yan Wangxi, began to be obsessed with the luxury goods of Qin State.

On the contrary, Qi State began to realize the importance of weapons after being killed by the opponent's advanced military weapons. They kept introducing and imitating various weapons. These weapons slowly caught up in the stalemate stage.

The commandos who climbed over the barbed wire carefully poked their heads out to check the situation in the trenches of the Yan Army. If the vigilance was lax, they would choose to use this as a breakthrough. The Yan Army's vigilance has always been lax, which is the main reason why the Qi Army's commandos frequently succeeded. one

"Pfft" a Qi State dagger pierced into the heart of a Yan Army sentry, and a member of the Qi State commando suddenly covered his mouth and nose from behind and then quickly assassinated him. The effect often uses this extremely vicious trick

"嗤嗤" The blood spurted out from the heart, and the sound of the blood was a bit scary when the commandos of Qi State drew out their daggers

"Hurry up" After attacking the sentry, other commandos will quickly enter the trench from this breach and start their military operations along the trench

"It's really cold today." A soldier of the Yan army who got up at night came out of the dug rest hole wrapped in a coat. He hadn't realized what was going on before he was covered by the commando, and he felt A sharp pain followed by a loss of consciousness

One commando quickly moved the body away while the other approached the entrance carefully squinting at its interior.

Observed commando showing three fingers

Nod at the back to signal, and then No.1 quickly entered, and the next one also followed up. Those three were all on duty, just like the one who got up at night. They were all on duty according to the regulations, but all four of them deserted. They all went to sleep, but this time they fell asleep forever any role

This is how the commandos of the Qi army succeeded. Afterwards, they will start to develop other traffic channels, which are the communication channels between the rest of the rear large troops and the front-line combat area.

"Who's standing still" a sentry post found an anomaly

The commandos immediately halted their advance

"Bang" a gunshot broke the calm of the night

"Bang bang" two consecutive gunshots, the commando had to fire back, but the continuous assault made the Yan army understand that the weapons in their hands were much lower than the opponent's pistol in terms of continuous shooting.

"Attack quickly from the side," a commander-like man ordered, and then two commandos crossed the trench and attacked the opponent from the side passage.