The two mountain cannons placed in front of him were still brand new. Their short and thick barrels and unique curved shields highlighted their identity.
The Swedish Bofors M1930 75mm mountain gun, which has a range of more than 9 kilometers and weighs only 700KG, is one of the most advanced mountain guns in the world. Liu Lang's happiness came suddenly.
Not only did Mr. Huang's gift come a bit suddenly, it was also a bit too expensive.
Speaking of the unknown Swedish company Bofors, many people may not know it. However, Liu Lang knows them very well. Some of their products were even used by the Republic until the 1980s.
Indeed, Bofors is not very famous. It is just an artillery company in the small Nordic country of Sweden. This company has a long history. As early as 1894, it was established by Nobel, the famous father of modern explosives. Nobel was
A patriot, he felt deeply that the military production of his motherland, Sweden, was lagging behind, so he spent a huge sum of 1.3 million Swedish kronor to buy a small company, Bofors-Golspan. This company is located in Wem, Sweden.
A small town called Bofors in Lanzhou Province! Within half a century after its establishment, the company was not large in scale and mainly produced a small amount of steel and explosives!
Since Sweden declared neutrality in 1815, the country's army is small in size and is mainly used for the country's necessary self-defense. Therefore, the country naturally does not pay much attention to military production. Bofors was a small company until World War I!
?Bofors is not famous, but if you talk about Krupp, everyone must know it.
Krupp is the most powerful artillery manufacturer in Germany and the first-class artillery giant in Europe and even the world.
But what is the relationship between Krupp and Bofors?
Hitler once said: World War I was a massacre of infantry!
The scene of mountains of corpses and seas of blood from various countries made the Swedish king realize with horror that there is no real neutral country in this world. If there are not enough troops and advanced weapons to deter potential enemies, the so-called neutral countries will be invaded in an instant!
Therefore, Sweden urgently needs to improve the level of its national military arsenal. Unfortunately, although Sweden was once a first-class power in Europe, it was more than 200 years ago. After being defeated by the Russian Czar Peter the Great in the 18th century, Sweden fell into despair and became Europe's top power.
second- and third-rate countries.
After the end of World War I, Sweden's industry and technology were at the backward level of Europe. Fortunately, they were lucky and soon got a golden opportunity.
After the end of World War I, Germany was in a mess by the Treaty of Versailles. According to the treaty, the German military industry could only produce light weapons, and was not even allowed to produce heavy machine guns, let alone artillery. Since it could not produce artillery, the artillery giant Krupp
What was the need to exist? It was almost dissolved by Britain and France.
The top German military leaders are trying their best to preserve the spark of German military power, while Sweden is doing everything it can to increase its military production capacity. Naturally, they hit it off!
In fact, Sweden had a good relationship with Germany during World War I. It secretly helped the German army do a lot of things, and even laid mines to block the strait. The first thing the German Krupp Company thought of this time was Sweden!
Therefore, with the help of high-level German military officials, Krupp Company executives approached Bofors Company of Sweden and proposed cooperation. The proposal was simple. Krupp Company provided all research materials and technical personnel, and allowed Bofors Company to
Share. However, Bofors Company is not allowed to monopolize the success of the research and is required to provide space, equipment and skilled workers.
Obviously, Krupp is laying eggs in a backdoor, and it just changed its location to continue Krupp's existence.
However, there is absolutely no harm to Bofors. They can become the top artillery company in Europe in an instant. Why not? So Bofors immediately cooperated with Krupp until the second time.
A few years before the war broke out.
During this period, the level of Bofors Company naturally improved by leaps and bounds, becoming Europe's first-class military industrial enterprise in an instant. They produced various types of artillery, from the famous 40mm anti-aircraft gun to the 75mm mountain cannon presented to Liu Lang.
mm anti-aircraft guns, 88 mm field guns, 105 mm medium howitzers, 150 mm heavy howitzers, 152 mm cannons, etc., have formed a complete system.
These artillery pieces are basically clones of the Krupp Company, and their performance is extremely good, no worse than the original.
The Swedes are also Germanic and have the same precise, rigorous and meticulous characteristics as the Germans. Therefore, the artillery processing of Bofors Company is very high-quality and can be called the world's top artillery.
The M1930 Bofors mountain cannon in front of Liu Lang was just successfully researched in 1930. It was the latest type of artillery. Its performance had surpassed the German artillery at the time, and it could be called the most advanced mountain cannon in the world during this period.
Liu Lang also knew that this kind of artillery was not only famous, but also in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Bofors Mountain Artillery proved its value as the top mountain artillery.
At that time, the Nineteenth Route Army and the Fifth Army had been fighting the Japanese army in Shanghai for two months. Liu Lang, who had killed the enemy's headquarters with one shot, was also in the hospital. However, the war continued, and a small number of the Chinese air force was beaten by the Japanese air force.
The navy did not dare to take off to Shanghai due to the disparity in strength between the enemy and ourselves. The Chinese army soldiers fought with light weapons against the Japanese troops who were armed to the teeth, resulting in heavy casualties.
At the order of the bald president, the newly formed mountain artillery regiment went to Shanghai to participate in the final battle against the Japanese army.
Although the Bofors 75 Mountain Cannon is a newly introduced cannon, due to its extremely high accuracy, it also has a high hit rate in the hands of under-trained Chinese artillery. More importantly, the Bofors Mountain Cannon has a special characteristic that is particularly useful to the Chinese.
It's simply tailor-made.
It can be disassembled into 8 parts and run away at any time, and its maneuverability can fully adapt to the crisscrossing water network environment in Shanghai.
At that time, the Japanese army, which had already experienced the destruction of the 7th Regiment, was frantically increasing its troops, especially the output of heavy firepower. The newly enhanced Japanese army's land, sea and air firepower was extremely powerful. There were more than 200 large and medium-caliber artillery pieces in the army alone, and artillery on warships.
There are nearly a hundred more. If the artillery and artillery units fight in a fixed position, it will be tantamount to self-destruction. They will be finished in an artillery battle in an instant. The power gap between the enemy and ourselves is really huge.
Therefore, in the later stages of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, the Chinese army used mountain artillery guerrilla warfare. They first conducted secret observations and selected artillery positions. Then they quietly rushed to the position, quickly installed the mountain artillery, fired more than 10 rounds violently, and then immediately disassembled and evaded.
By the time the Japanese army reacted and attacked, the national army's mountain artillery had already moved. If the Japanese army had caught up, the Bofors mountain artillery could be divided into eight parts and carried by mules and horses, and they would have disappeared long ago.
In this battle, the Bofors Mountain Artillery had extremely high accuracy, so even though it fired more than a dozen rounds at a time, it was very effective. It had very accurate lethality against the Japanese army's solid fortifications and large numbers of infantry attacking teams, causing the Japanese army to be quite
The casualties made the Japanese army extremely angry.
Because the Bofors Mountain artillery moved so fast, the Japanese artillery and infantry could not catch up. It was extremely difficult to kill a few mules and horses using the air force, so in the end they had to give up.
The reason why the Songhu Anti-Japanese War was still a draw despite the superior firepower of the Japanese army was that, in addition to Liu Lang accidentally taking down the headquarters of the 7th Regiment with one shot, the Chinese army launched a beautiful battle of annihilation and showed great power.
The mortars and Bofors Mountain Cannon, which caused great damage to the Japanese army, also played an important role.
Of course, it is always people, not weapons, that determine war. The most important thing is that Chinese soldiers have proved their courage with huge sacrifices.