The weapon tycoon who traveled to Daqin

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Engine power is no longer propelled by natural force and wind, so there are other options, steam engine and internal combustion engine.

In terms of weapons and equipment, at least two machine guns and two [-]-inch artillery pieces will be installed

After the release of these requirements, major shipyards have started to develop. Since the shipyard has not yet been built, the Ministry of the Navy temporarily borrowed the Chang'an Naval Academy to the major shipyards as an experimental base.

The Prime Minister's Mansion opened the door to the shipyards, and the land used by the shipyards was almost free. The government only collected some symbolic fees, but the major shipyards got more than [-] mu of land ownership from the government. No taxes will be levied on shipyards within five years, not only will they not be levied, but they will also provide a large amount of special loans for logistics and transportation of steel products, and special tax cuts. Some shipyards will pay some taxes and fees when buying steel products. These are all reduced or exempted. Unprecedented support

But when the war broke out, Qin had to send troops to fight. The Ministry of the Navy and the Naval Branch of the General Staff began to come up with their own plans. The plan given by the General Staff was to build a fort on the river and use shore fire prevention artillery fortresses, especially large-caliber fortress guns. In the narrow waters of the Yangtze River, the entire waterway can be blocked

In addition, the use of a new technology can help shore fire artillery to aim and shoot at night. This is the high-power searchlight. Optical research has found that when the bulb is filled with some special, usually inert gas such as argon, the light will increase a lot, especially when added. The light beam of the reflective device can be more concentrated. Continuous strong light irradiation on the experimental surface can cause temporary or permanent blindness, depending on the power level. This technology was first used in air defense forces, especially Xianyang's night air defense, but this kind of searchlight that shines upward at night did not work Its original purpose is air defense, and it has the effect of beautifying lights at night.

The use of these two types of technical equipment can solve the current presumptuous actions of the Chu State navy, but they are only passive and defensive.

The Ministry of the Navy took the opportunity to propose the establishment of a naval aviation arm, but it was opposed by the Army and Space Forces of the General Staff. The reason is that the two major services are unwilling to see the emergence of a third aviation force, especially in terms of funding. Three-tenths of the aviation funds are consumed by the three-tenth army, and the other four-tenths belong to technology development funds. With the unanimous support of the whole country, the king of Qin also took special care of others and had a battle to fight

Although the two services oppose it, the establishment of naval aviation is a trend. Especially at present, the pressure of war is huge. Only relying on defense is not enough to quickly solve the problem of surface warfare.

If you want the opponent to make concessions, then you have to let the opponent fail. There is only one way to fail, and that is to attack the water surface without strength, and that is to use air power.

The naval aviation proposal was supported by all parties, but at this time, the army and the sky army proposed two parties to help it defeat Chu's surface force, but the navy refuted the proposals of the two parties on the grounds that the combat area was the water surface.

The army aviation is to attack land targets instead of surface targets, while the main task of the space force is to bomb in depth, not to bomb surface targets. Although the reason is very reluctant, and there is a big ambiguity in the tasks of the air and land armies, the naval aviation has a very independent sense. powerful

Just when the Heavenly Army and the Army Aviation Corps jointly launched an attack on the establishment of the Naval Aviation Corps, an order from the King of Qin broke all the controversies

Xianyang Royal Air Defense Flying Force, a combat flight brigade, and an air gunboat squadron were transferred to the Naval Air Force and became the first air force of the Naval Air Force

Such an order is really unexpected. It is a great honor. The Royal Air Force directly splits a branch to set up the Naval Air Force, which surprises the Navy.

The king of Qin issued such an order because the economic level requires a quick solution to the problem of rising raw material prices. Keeping raw materials cheap is necessary to maintain the healthy development of the Qin State’s economy. After the Chu State’s navy is eliminated, the problem of water piracy must be resolved immediately, and then the entire Yangtze River waterway will be controlled.

Considering the traffic pressure in the south, the roads have not yet been built and the railway is being stepped up. Now the Xinzheng section and the Luoyang section of the railway have converged in Nanyang, and then they can go directly south.

The demand for steel has increased. The King of Qin specifically instructed to build a special steel factory in the south to meet the needs of naval shipbuilding. In the future, a large number of commercial ship construction will also require a large amount of steel. Such instructions have been planned by commercial enterprises, especially for large shipyards such as Yingyu. The demand will be very large

In terms of site selection, iron and steel factories tend to build raw materials by the riverside, and they can transport high-quality coal and iron ingots from Zhao State by rail. After controlling the waterway, they will use large ships to go out of the Yangtze River and go north to the Liaodong Peninsula and the sea area of ​​​​Yan State. Shipment and transportation of raw materials, the first iron and steel plant in the south has been planned. The location of the iron and steel plant means that some economic entities in Qin State have begun to go south. The development of the south has been strengthened again.

627 no-fly order

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Time slipped into mid-May Xianyang Air Defense Flying Forces began to change their outfits they no longer used the Royal Coat of Arms but an eagle holding an anchor which signified they were Naval Aviation The anchor meant they belonged to the navy and not alone or attached to the army

The emblem of the Heavenly Army is an eagle with outstretched wings, while that of the Army is the emblem with crossed patterns of muskets and cannons. This is a ferocious hammer that belongs to the Western Regions

The specialization of badges means that the internal competition of Qin State is fierce. This kind of fierceness intensifies the sense of unity and honor within the team, which is very useful to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.

The improvement of combat effectiveness also requires technical equipment. In the Western Regions, Qin State urgently ordered the withdrawal of most of the airships, leaving only some combat aircraft as air support.

The subsequent order was even more surprising. King Qin ordered the cancellation of all airship flight missions. This was a direct no-flying order not only for airship troops but also for civil aviation airships.

The specific reason is that the latest type of airship produced by Qin State uses a large number of metal drilled steel plates as the main frame. The use of steel plates replaces the original wood. In order to further reduce weight, a new type of metal has been applied. Aluminum has begun to become the rigid airship. Brackets and skins

The interior began to be divided into airbags. The use of plastics has strengthened the sealing, but the gas has not changed. The dangerous hydrogen gas is still used. In the laboratory, helium has been deeply studied. The main result of the research is the arc welding shielding gas. The industrial production method is from natural gas. The extraction is mainly due to the fact that there is natural gas in the coal mines of Qin State. This gas poses a huge threat to coal mine production. It was discovered unexpectedly during spectral irradiation.

However, compared with helium, the cost price has just appeared, especially the research cost cannot be reduced, so the price is higher than hydrogen. Considering the cost, hydrogen is still the main filling gas for all airships.

However, the accident caused the king of Qin to issue an order such as a no-fly order. The accident was dealt with by a series of air accidents concentrated together into one big event.

During the battle against the Western Regions, there was an airship that ignited spontaneously and crashed. The investigation is unclear, but at that time, the structure of the airship was made of a mixture of metal and textiles. Shang Wen believed that it was caused by static electricity. This is the biggest killer of airships. Especially when flying in the air After the speed is raised, there is a great possibility of static electricity due to increased air friction

However, this incident has not yet attracted enough attention. A serious air crash also occurred during the transportation of the private airship. At that time, the airship transported about [-] Zhao infantry troops who were preparing to participate in the battle in the Western Regions. Some supplies were also transported, but they were not I don't know why the airship suddenly burst into flames in the air. Before the pilot had time to make an emergency landing, the airship exploded in the air. At that time, it was flying at an altitude of [-] paces. No one survived on the spot. This incident first banned all airship flight plans in the Western Region

But what happened next caused the airship to be grounded directly on the front line of Qi State. An airship used for reconnaissance also caught fire in the air for unknown reasons. Fortunately, the captain urgently ordered to parachute to escape.

However, the airship has penetrated into the Qi State within 150 miles and all the members of the airship have been captured. Although Shang Wen instructed the Tianjun to allow them to be captured in an emergency, they can even disclose some military secrets such as the number of the commander of the army for the safety of their lives, but the King of Qin did not allow it. There are prisoners in the state of Qin. The king of Qin would rather see the cold corpses than see the soldiers of the state of Qin being captured. He believes that soldiers should maintain integrity and would rather commit suicide than be prisoners. gun suicide

In short, this incident led to the final grounding of the airship, especially the king of Qin did not want to see the fact that the airship caused the soldiers of Qin to be captured

All airships will not be used as the main transport and combat platform until the cause is found out and the problem is resolved. The issuance of the no-flying order suddenly created a large vacuum in Qin's air power.

The emergence of this space is a development opportunity for aircraft manufacturing. On the front line, only combat aircraft exist. The air demand is particularly large, especially on the front line of Qi State.

Especially after airships were banned from flying, the Qin State Airship Bombing Brigade rebuilt an air machine gun airship on the front line of Qin State.

This airship is equipped with four large-caliber .[-] machine guns. The machine gun bullets can easily tear the air bag of a hot air balloon and shoot it down. The most important thing is that it stays in the air for a long time. Turn off the engine or keep it at a low and constant speed. The state can stay in the air for a long time, which can effectively control the air supremacy in the area. Sometimes the airship will lower its altitude and shoot directly at the ground with machine guns, causing great damage to Qi. The transport vehicles are also effectively blocked, especially The ox cart machine gun used to transport grain can kill all the cattle in the convoy, which will cause a great loss to the country

But after the airship was grounded, only the fighter jets of both sides stayed in the air for three hours, which gave the other side a chance to break through the Qin air blockade.

In fact, the actual use of airships is far greater than that of airplanes. Airships have great advantages in laying cables, especially their carrying capacity. Hercules transport aircraft comparable

However, with the intensification of the use of new materials for airships, a series of Shangwen air tragedies occurred, making airship transportation a usable but unusable situation. Shangwen suggested using helium, which is extremely stable, instead of hydrogen. If the air transportation is resumed, then some special transportation situations cannot be resumed

In order to cancel the no-flying order as soon as possible, Shangwen directly ordered to pass the airship transportation regulations. After that, the airships produced in Qin State will use helium airships instead of hydrogen airships. After using helium, the airships can resume flying.

As a result, a large number of airships began to return to the factory to replace the filling gas. For a while, the power of the Qin State airship disappeared, and the aircraft temporarily became the protagonist in the sky. The aircraft's power was partially adjusted.

628 Breakthrough of Loulan City

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Just when the airship was ordered to stop flying, most of the Allied forces launched a large-scale attack on Loulan City

The scale of Loulan City is not very large. It is almost the same size as a county in Qin State, but even the fast-advancing Allied cavalry did not quickly occupy it.

Most of the weapons equipped by the cavalry are rifles and short-barreled carbines. In addition to such weapons, there are also personal pistols. Perhaps the reason why most of the Allied forces are mercenaries is that they are very good at field battles rather than urban fortified battles. Urban siege battles require strong firepower and infantry combat. Although mercenaries who are used to field battles want to capture Loulan City, it will take some time.

Loulan is very determined to resist the Allied forces. Qin's frequent harassment before has already aroused dissatisfaction with the other party, especially now that Loulan's main force has been wiped out, but their national fighting spirit still exists, especially before Qin's harassment was often cruel. The way to deal with it is to sweep the tribe, if the opponent resists for a while, these security guards will kill them all. The usual way is to keep a distance, shoot intensively, and then throw grenades to attack before moving forward. Most of the security guards are equipped. They are all light weapons, heavy weapons, artillery and machine guns are also difficult to configure, mainly because they rely on speed to achieve sudden sweeps

Although this method lost most of the opportunities to obtain slaves, which is similar to massacre, few survived, but the two resources can make up for their losses. Gold and primitive jade, these things that are only used as sacrifices for these tribal women or priests become them. The object of looting, and the amount of things like a tribe seems to be very large. As long as you capture a tribe, you will gain a lot

Such atrocities naturally aroused the resistance of the Loulan people, especially when Loulan City heard about the massacre of the tribe, it became more determined to resist the attack of the Allies.

The Allies originally planned to capture the city by sneak attack, but now it seems impossible. Loulan City has taken careful defensive measures. The Allied vanguard cavalry with only light weapons can only block the difficult-to-siege city. They need artillery and infantry to follow up. support

However, logistics transportation has become a huge problem. The problem is not road transportation, but the complexity of supplies. Before Qin, such a problem would certainly not have occurred. Qin was the first country to adopt standardized production of weapons, but now this standard has diversified. When the new artillery was equipped, it did not use a unified caliber artillery, but a large number of experimental artillery. The artillery needs to complete various ballistic data measurements, even if it is the fastest, it will take half a year, and some will be longer. There are many factories, especially the artillery companies. In order to grab orders, all major weapon companies have preemptively manufactured multiple types of artillery, and the types are also very diverse. In terms of calibers, ranging from three inches to six and a half inches, more than 80 types of artillery shells and artillery have appeared. There are also a lot of howitzers, field artillery, light infantry artillery, and curved-fire artillery. In order to obtain orders from the military, some companies even gave experimental artillery to Yingyu for free. Later, when the military took over, the various types of artillery shells hoarded by the front line reached hundreds of types.

These various types of shells and materials have intensified the transportation pressure of Qin State, but the weapons still rely on its commercial operation of logistics supply mode to complete.

When counterattacking, it is not obvious that there are a lot of shells hoarded on the front line, and no one pays attention to it. The artillery can find the shells they want as long as they send more manpower. The logistics management is also very confusing because there are too many formats and standards for the material list. The logistics officers who got it can only do a good job of managing artillery and shells in terms of light weapons, and they simply let go.

The battle on the front line went smoothly. The cavalry troops of the Qin Army started the famous victory march. With the lengthening of the logistics supply line, this problem was gradually exposed.

A few days after the artillery advances, they will find that the artillery they use can't supply this type of shells, and some are even more ridiculous. They have shells and no artillery. Is the logistics crazy? They provide artillery without shells at will?

And the transport soldiers are also very distressed by the large amount of weapons and equipment, and even they themselves don't know what is loaded in their vehicles. Sometimes when they arrive, they open the cargo box and find out that they are transporting down jackets. What time is the logistics? The officer actually sent out all the down jackets

And the logistics officer was even more dizzy. When they took over, they didn't know what those materials were, and some materials were mislabeled. This is the reason for the diversification of products and the backward management of Qin's logistics method, which caused the artillery unit to spend a lot of money. long time to arrive