How could such a powerful and advanced mountain artillery fall into Huang Jie's second division? How could Huang Jie be willing to give it to Liu Lang as a gift?
There are so many twists and turns here that it could be written into a novel. Liu Lang didn't understand the strangeness until much later. At that time, he almost smiled crookedly.
It's terrible to be uneducated.
It turns out that the Bofors Mountain Cannon had just been released and had a low reputation. Its sales volume in the world, let alone China, was not high. However, the Nationalist Government has been reorganizing the army in the past two years and has purchased a large amount of German weaponry equipment. It is now in China.
The German advisers General von Seeckt and General Weiser both believed that the biggest shortcoming of the national army was artillery. The two generals very "selflessly" recommended the Bofors Mountain Artillery to President Chiang. They met with the two generals.
The advisors all spoke, and the bald president gave him face and sent Yu Dawei, the commercial attaché of the Chinese Embassy in Germany, to Sweden to inspect the purchase.
Yu Dawei is not an ordinary person. In the historical time and space, he was also the Minister of Defense of the Republic of Taiwan. This Lord is not only a graduate of Harvard University majoring in mathematics, but also a top student of the University of Berlin. He has done a lot of research on European weapons. In
After seeing the performance of the Bofors Mountain Cannon, I decided to equip an artillery regiment with twelve guns.
As mentioned before, Bofors Company was founded by the great scientist Nobel. In this world, anyone who bears the name of a scientist should be remembered as someone who is obsessed with research and has no idea about money. Indeed.
The same is true. Ninety percent of scientists neither know how to spend money nor make money.
But Nobel is an alternative among scientists. He is not only very good at research, but also good at making money. He is a rare big businessman in the scientific world. He earned his Nobel Prize! For the sake of business, others speed up the research and development of explosives.
Trying to get the patent earlier to make money caused a laboratory explosion in Stockholm, killing and injuring 6 people, and his father also suffered from a serious heart disease.
The Bofors company has said that Bell's characteristics are that he is very good at doing business and also knows how to welcome Chinese people!
Just like buying a printer eighty years later is very cheap but printer consumables are very expensive, the Bofors Mountain Cannon is actually not expensive, only 15,000 U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to more than 30,000 oceans, but the cannon shells can be purchased for 20 U.S. dollars each.
After the battle, if a cannon fired 50 rounds, a thousand dollars would be gone.
In order to obtain the follow-up market in China, as soon as the order was signed, Bofors Company sent Yu Dawei a rebate of 40,000 US dollars in accordance with international practice. But this Yu Dawei is really a true scholar-type official, and he has already
He was a very different person in the corrupt National Government, and would not accept him even if he died.
But the order has been signed and the money has to be paid. Of course, Bofors cannot say that we have reduced the price now. Wouldn’t that be a slap in the face of the Chinese people? Let alone future orders. The current price is hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If you don’t want the order, then you won’t want it. Where can Bofors cry?
Call these Europeans old-fashioned, but they are quite flexible. When the National Government received the goods two months later, the twelve mountain cannons were directly converted into fifteen, and the three extra cannons were naturally counted.
The donated mountain artillery regiment only needs a total of twelve guns, leaving one as a spare. The military and administrative department is handing over the two extra guns to that unit when it comes to difficulties. At this time, Huang Jie is about to be promoted from the brigade commander of the first division to the commander of the second division.
Anyone who comes to the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs to report on their work is someone who will do whatever is favored. As the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs' support for Major General Huang, two brand-new imported Bofors Mountain Cannons fell into the hands of the Second Division of the National Revolutionary Army.
What's funny is that the German instructors responsible for training have not yet arrived, so Huang Jie, who is eager to take office, takes two cannons and leaves first. However, no one in the entire National Second Division knows how to operate these two precious mountain cannons, and because they are wearing
It's an imported high-end hat. Not to mention that the artillerymen don't dare to tinker with it casually. Even Commander Huang can't slap his head and say you tinker with it casually, right?
So, two cars worth 60,000 to 70,000 yuan were just lying in the warehouse eating ashes, turning into a hot potato.
But this time Zhu Yuanzhang caused a lot of trouble. His father, the city defense commander, also loved this prodigal son. Xingye found various connections and begged Huang Jie to let Zhu Yuanzhang go at the cost of 100,000 yuan. 100,000 yuan was not a problem.
It was a small amount, and Huang Jie, who had already received the money, would naturally not spit it out and give it to Liu Lang to stop him from pursuing the case. But Liu Lang was the victim, so if he wanted to avoid pursuing the case, it was obviously impossible not to give him some benefits.
Especially after seeing how powerful Liu Lang is.
So, Huang Jie thought of those two useless Bofors mountain cannons. No one knew how to operate them. If they were damaged, they would have to bear the responsibility. It would be better to throw these two big guys to Liu Lang's independent regiment. From the organizational point of view,
He said that the mountain cannon still belonged to the Second Division and had a place to go. If it was damaged by Liu Lang, it would also be Liu Lang's responsibility.
This organization's abacus is good, but Huang Jie also knows that Liu Lang is not a fuel-efficient lamp. If he finds out that those two big gadgets are just beautiful and not useful, it will be embarrassing for him as a teacher to cause trouble. Simply, Huang Jie will not hesitate
Spending a lot of money, in addition to the two imported mountain cannons, it also comes with six Type 81 mortars and two 20MM Oerlikon machine guns.
This is the reason why Liu Lang's independent group obtained two powerful weapons by accident.
Regardless of whether General Huang was crazy or not, Liu Lang would never spit out the meat that reached his mouth. He quickly ordered Liang Wenzhong to send additional manpower and Zhao Ergou to haul the two brand-new Bofors Mountain Cannons that had not yet been opened.
After they were transported out of the warehouse and out of the division headquarters, Liu Dazhu and his twenty soldiers were specially arranged to take out the equipment from the newly received rifles and machine guns and guard them with live ammunition. Without Liu Lang's warrant, anyone who dared to approach could be shot.
Full of rustic flavor.
The soldiers at the Second Division Headquarters clearly saw the mountain artillery that the soldiers of the Independent Regiment were protecting as if facing a powerful enemy, and this was their evaluation of the men and women of the Independent Regiment.
From the excitement of seeing these two killer weapons, to the helplessness of seeing them gathering dust in the warehouse, I couldn't understand a single foreign language on the manual. The legendary German instructor heard that they were still thousands of miles away.
The Nanjing Mountain Artillery Training Regiment is a thing that cannot be used, no matter how awesome it is, it is useful?
Only outsiders like the Independent Group regarded those two piles of beautiful scrap metal as treasures.
The entire National Second Division did not know how awesome a gadget they thought was useless. The Bofors Mountain Cannon on the Songhu battlefield was suppressed by the Japanese heavy artillery and only proved that it had good maneuverability and extremely accurate
Jia. But on the anti-Japanese battlefield five years later, the Type 41 Mountain Cannon, which was mainly equipped by the Japanese army, had a 6-kilometer range and was directly blown to pieces in front of the Bofors Mountain Cannon with a 9-kilometer range.
This is also the only heavy weapon that the Chinese army can use to suppress the Japanese army. However, there are only two artillery brigades equipped with millions of Chinese soldiers.
Of course, some things don't need to be explained too clearly. Liu Lang soon understood what he meant and knew that this was another so-called compromise. However, Liu Lang liked this kind of compromise very much.
What if there were more prodigal sons like this? Liu Lang looked at a familiar major walking towards him not far away, and couldn't help but look forward to it. This one, the aura of a second-generation official was ready to burst out,