Chapter 32: Squaring troops in Jinghai

After the troops arrived at the Jinghai Military Camp in Tianjin, Zhang Xuewu immediately divided the camps for each department, and resting the camps became the top priority for the newly formed Mixed First Brigade. The situation in Jinghai in Tianjin was very special. According to the "Xin Chou Treaty", Japan had troops stationed in Shanhaiguan and the southwest of the Jinghai Military in Tianjin. Two miles away from the newly formed Mixed First Brigade military camp was the Japanese Takahashi Squadron's garrison! The two countries were killed in Jinzhou in a dim way, but the Japanese troops stationed in China seemed to be fine? The war between the two countries had become a fact, but they did not declare war on each other? How strange is this? The strange 1932!

Just as Zhang Xuewu led his troops to renovate the camp, Jinzhou fell! Zhang Xuewu drank a night of suffocational wine.

But the next day, Zhang Xuewu appeared in the front row of the troops in a hundred times more energetic manner. After arriving in Jinghai, what Zhang Xuewu was most concerned about was the training of Zhang Tianpeng's artillery battalion and Tang Ziqiang's mechanized cavalry battalion.

The artillery equipped by Zhang Xuewu's artillery battalion is the world's most advanced Swedish Bofors M1930l20 75mm mountain cannon. This batch of thirty-six guns were purchased from Sweden before the 918 Incident of Zhang Xueliang. Because of the fall of the Northeast, he was unloaded from Tianjin Port. It happened to be learned by Zhang Xuewu, so Sandeng had been transferred to Zhang Xueliang's mansion, chairman of the Peking Military Branch, and finally got what he wanted.

The characteristics of this kind of artillery are very obvious, that is, its initial speed is slow, but its fire rate is fast, its accuracy is high, its failure rate is low, and it is very convenient to disassemble and transport it in pieces. Zhang Tianpeng is simply unwilling to let go of these thirty-six Bofors mountain cannons. Although this batch of Bofors mountain cannons was made in Sweden, it uses the complete set of technology of German Krupp. Because after World War I, German military-industrial enterprises were restricted by the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was not allowed to produce advanced Krupp artillery locally, so without evading this problem, Krupp had to open a subsidiary in Sweden to manufacture Bofors mountain cannons for sale to China.

The thirty-six artillery purchased by Zhang Xueliang were originally made by the Turks. Because the Turks were financially in trouble, they were robbed by Zhang Xueliang for a lot of money!

After this batch of Bofos mountain cannons was handed over to Zhang Tianpeng, rigorous training began. Each artillery was a treasure for the Chinese army. Looking at the entire Chinese army, even the Central Army of the Nanjing government was not as good as a mixed brigade, which had a battalion of thirty-six seventy-five-mm cannons? The army organization of the Mixed brigade, which was cancelled in the 19th year of the Republic of China, is now the only one of the headquarters of the Northeast Frontier Defense Forces. It is not a problem to expand the artillery regiment according to the Zhang Tianpeng's artillery battalion. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the organization, Zhang Xuewu has organized three fourth battalions of infantry regiments, a third company mechanized cavalry battalion, engineer battalion, and communication battalion. Therefore, when Zhang Tianpeng came, at most, one can only be given a strengthened artillery battalion.

The situation was tense, and Zhang Xuewu inspected Zhang Tianpeng's artillery battalion many times. What shocked him was that under Zhang Tianpeng's training, the well-trained artillery soldiers were able to operate the Bofos mountain cannon to shoot an absolute theoretical rate of fire of twenty-five shots per minute?

Although Zhang Xuewu is not a professional artillery, he knows very well that it will take two seconds from firing the Bofos mountain cannon to enter the back seat. If later generations use automatic computer loading machines, this rapid fire can be achieved, but the artillery soldiers commanded by Zhang Tianpeng actually completed it by manually filling the bullets? How can this not shock Zhang Xuewu?

Zhang Tianpeng, who was smiling at the general Zhang Xuewu, called to his side. After asking, he learned that it turned out that in the artillery battle, he thought that his side was at a disadvantage. First, he naturally had to use the shortest time to achieve the fastest rate of fire to achieve the expected attack effect. Second, it was to compress the shooting time, avoid long-term overspeed shooting, causing burning of the body tube, and protect the extremely precious artillery.

Zhang Tianpeng personally gave a demonstration for Zhang Xuewu. The key to this three-person loading method is that the ammunition supplyer handed the shell to the loader. The ammunition loader opened the cannon chamber when the back seat of the barrel stopped and the barrel chamber had not yet returned to the position. At this time, the shell case would slide out due to the residual pressure in the chamber and the inertia of the rear seat at a high speed. The loader then loaded the new shell into the cannon chamber that had not yet returned to the position and closed the latch of the flat cannon chamber.

At the same time, the gunner used more than one second to make a fine-tuning aiming adjustment, which is very important for the accuracy of the shelling. When the gun body returns to the position, the gunner fires quickly, so the shooting accuracy of each firing of the cannon will not be affected. However, the result of this is obvious, that is, the injury of the gunner and the loader may increase several times, and burning by the hot residual heat is common.

This shocking three-person loading method made Zhang Xuewu sweat. Looking at the various scars on the back of the loading hands and arms, Zhang Xuewu knew how dangerous this kind of shooting method was. People were forced out. In the Chinese Army, the 75mm caliber cannons are already called cannons, and in Europe, 105mm caliber is considered a watershed between medium-caliber cannons and heavy cannons. The huge gap in national, industrial and military strength forced Chinese soldiers to find ways to use the few weapons they can master to give the enemy the greatest damage. How helpless and tragic it is.

Compared with the more advanced 75mm Bofos mountain cannon, these twenty-four French-produced Renault ft-17 light tanks made Zhang Xuewu very confused! In Zhang Xuewu's eyes, the Renault ft-17 light tank cannot be regarded as a tank at all. Just like the Italian Vicks tank, even in front of the 37mm Pak35 war defense cannon, it is vulnerable to the face of the 37mm Pak35 war defense cannon.

The investment of this tank can only target opponents who have no anti-tank firepower at all. The Renault ft-17 light tank is a light tank produced by France during World War I. It is the world's first rotatable turret tank. Its combat weight is 7 tons, its maximum speed is 10km/h, its crew is 2 people, it is equipped with an 8mmmodel1914 machine gun, 4,800 rounds of ammunition, and its armor thickness is 6-22mm.

Zhang Zuolin once purchased and equipped a batch of more than 20 French-made Renault ft-17 light tanks through the Shanghai Lefurt Western military, and equipped the tanks with the Czech-made 792mmzb-26 light machine gun. In 1926, this batch of tanks was used for the first time in the Zhifeng War with the Zhili warlord Wu Peifu. However, due to the lack of effective cooperation between the storm and tanks, the lack of tactical investment timing and experience, these tanks did not perform the expected effects, but instead caused many to be destroyed. This also caused Zhang Zuolin to question the expensive big guys such as tanks, and indirectly caused the development of the Northeast military's inflated armored troops to a standstill.

Regarding this batch of Renault ft-17 light tanks, Zhang Xuewu planned to use it as a training vehicle. In order to cooperate with the joint tank training, Zhang Xuewu transferred a reinforcement company from each of the three main regiments to Tang Ziqiang to form an infantry company affiliated with the mechanized cavalry battalion, so that Zhang Xuewu had no idea how to update and replace the new tanks.

However, Zhang Xuewu has a principle, that is, he would rather have someone wait for a car and wait for a cannon than let a weapon wait for someone.

For Zhang Xuewu, the delay in front of him was not the reorganization of the training troops, but to rush to Nanjing to participate in the six-month advanced training class of the Army University. The daily training arrangements for the specific affairs of the brigade were specifically handed over to Xu Guohui, the commander of the First Regiment and the commander of the brigade infantry, and Li Xinkai, the chief of the brigade staff! It can be said that the material warehouses that were collected by him by Zhang Xuewu have been emptied by the newly formed First Brigade. Zhang Xuewu has become the guy with the worst popularity. To put it bluntly, now Zhang Xuewu treats guests to dinner, and I am afraid that it will be a waste of time.
Chapter completed!