Chapter 111 Arms Trade

Chen Guangyuan looked at Zhao Dongyun, who didn't say anything, and knew in his heart that his proposal to clean up Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin was a little unreliable, but he was not depressed about it, but quickly changed the topic: "What's going on with Lv Chengtong and Shi Yang over there? They can also receive a batch of money in the past few months. Come on!"

Meng Enyuan said, "This is also relatively difficult. They don't collect much money in Tai'an and Panshan, and they don't have enough money to maintain themselves. How much money can they have there!"

The two cavalry teams of Lv Shuangqiang and Shiyang were arranged to Tai'an and Panshan. Zhao Dongyun's idea was not to contain Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin. To be honest, Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin are not worth what Zhao Dongyun deliberately arranged. If they don't like it, there is no big problem to destroy them directly.

When you have only a few hundred people under your hand, you may still play tricks, conspiracies and other things with Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin, but when you have controlled the third town and a Jinzhou patrol battalion like Zhao Dongyun and have more than 10,000 troops, what you have to do to do is to push directly in the face of people like Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin. In the past, obedient words would keep you alive. If you were disobedient, you would be destroyed immediately. You also played a conspiracy!

He put Lv Shuanggun and Shiyang's two cavalry in the Tai'an and Panshan area. The most important task is to monitor the movements of the Japanese and Russian armies as the leading force of the third town to avoid the Japanese and Russian armies from crossing the Liaohe River on a large scale.

After all, in this war, Zhao Dongyun needs to keep abreast of the movements of the Liao River, especially the movements of Japan and Russia around the Liao River, and Zhao Dongyun's own third town has too much influence. If he directly sends troops to these two places for a long-term station, it is estimated that the Russians will be very nervous.

But it can't be left unattended, so the hundreds of cavalry of Lu Shuanggun and Shiyang are put there, which can not only monitor the movements of the Japanese and Russian armies, but also avoid the Japanese and Russian sides being stimulated by themselves.

However, since he has occupied these two places, Zhao Dongyun is naturally not polite. He also let Lv Shuangqiang and Shi Yang imitate Zhang Zuolin, Feng Delin and others to collect protection fees from the local area, which can also more or less supplement part of the funds of the Jinzhou patrol camp.

However, the income that these two sites can contribute is extremely limited, and it is difficult to maintain the Jinzhou patrol battalion itself, let alone use it to expand the army.

Since there is no money now, Zhao Dongyun can only say, "I have my own opinion on the matter of Jinzhou patrol camp. Don't worry about it. Practice the third town first. Now that the situation is tense, you must always be on high alert!"

Zhao Dongyun came to Jinzhou to play armed neutrality. His third town is the guarantee of China's armed neutrality, so there can be no relaxation. He must maintain the best state for Japan and Russia, so that they will ignore the existence of China too much.

After sending Chen Guangyuan and Meng Enyuan away, Zhao Dongyun was not idle, but established Russia's foreign affairs commissioner Andre.

Since Zhao Dongyun sold nearly 100 machine guns to the Russians in January, his relationship with the Russians has quickly become closer. The Russians are estimated to have regarded him as a traitor who betrayed the country. Especially after Zhao Dongyun also helped buy a batch of bullets for heavy machine guns, the Russians seem to think more of Zhao Dongyun is a traitor and traitor.

not only gave great convenience in Zhao Dongyun's previous anti-bandit operation, but later the Russians also acquiesced in Zhao Dongyun's dispatch of two cavalry teams from Jinzhou patrol battalions to Panshan and Tai'an.

But Russians want more!

Due to the fact that the Far East Railway has not yet been completed, it is very difficult for Russia to reinforce troops from Europe and Central Asia and a large number of supplies to the Far East. After the declaration of war between Japan and Russia on February 10, Russia began to mobilize, with only 20,000 troops from the west to the northeast every month. As a result, The distance has also caused great trouble for the military deployment of the Russian army.

Although the reinforcement of this personnel is troublesome, it is barely acceptable, but the speed of supplies is not satisfactory. In this case, after Japan and Russia declared war with each other, the local Russian army felt the lack of a large amount of materials and began to try their best to obtain materials from the northeast.

For good, food can barely be obtained from Jilin, Heilongjiang and Fengtian areas under the control of the Russian army, but weapons and ammunition can only rely on inventory and be transported from the local distance.

In this war in history, the Russian army is as bad as the logistical supplies of the Japanese army fighting across the sea!

However, now there is a Zhao Dongyun. Although the output of Fuyuan Machinery Factory under Zhao Dongyun's control is not worth mentioning compared with that of the great powers, it can produce bullets and shells anyway. Naturally, those rifles and artillery cannot be provided, but the 7.92 mm Maxim machine gun bullets and Fire artillery shells and these consumable materials can be provided in large quantities.

At the same time, because of China's external neutrality, China cannot provide a large number of weapons and other combat materials to Russia on the surface, so the Russians have to secretly import smuggled combat materials from Zhao Dongyun.

Zhao Dongyun first ordered a large amount of ammunition, especially machine guns, bullets and shells, in the name of Jinzhou patrol camp or the third town, and then raised the price and sold them to the Russians. From January to February alone, the trade volume of military materials between Zhao Dongyun and Russia reached 50 taels of silver. Half of them are heavy machine guns.

"General Zhao, Mr. Kulopalkin is very satisfied with our cooperation and believes that this will greatly improve the friendly relations between you and us!" After a simple polite sentence, Andre can't wait to explain the purpose of today: "Mr. Kulopatkin is very satisfied with that batch of machine guns and machine gun bullets, but we hope to get more bullets and shells, especially shells!"

After the Russian army bought the nearly 100 machine guns in January, they were eager to obtain more combat materials through Zhao Dongyun's channel!

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "I understand the urgent needs of your army, but you also know that the purchase of transactions between us is very risky for me!"

Andre nodded and also thought that Zhao Dongyun still dared to buy arms for the Russian army in the current situation. Once he was poked out, it would not be good, but today is not the first time for this kind of conversation. Andre thinks he knows very well what Zhao Dongyun wants.

"General Zhao, don't worry, the price will never disappoint you!" Andre continued to emphasize: "And like the previous transactions, this time you can also trade directly in gold or silver!"

Zhao Dongyun nodded with satisfaction: "Well, I just shipped a batch of three-inch-caliber howitzers a few days ago. I think you should use them!"

When Andrea heard this, he immediately said, "Oh, I don't know how many?"

Zhao Dongyun said, "The amount is not too much, only 5,000 rounds, but although the number is not much, I have spent a lot of effort to get this batch of shells, so this price!"

When Andrea heard that there were only 3,000 rounds, his face showed obvious disappointment. These 3,000 shells could have been trained for a long time in peace, but in wartime, especially in modern warfare, where the speed of artillery has been greatly improved, these 3,000 shells seem to be a drop in the bucket.

However, Zhao Dongyun's next sentence excited Andre and only heard Zhao Dongyun say, "Of course, if we cooperate happily this time, more shells that meet the caliber of your artillery will be shipped to Jinzhou in the future!"

Andre quickly said, "I don't know how many more can be followed?"

Zhao Dongyun said, "This depends on how much your army can pay. Even if the quantity is small, I don't think it's a problem to send 3,000 to 5,000 a month. Even if the price is right, there can be more!"

Andre seemed to be considering Zhao Dongyun's words. Half a day later, he said, "If I guess correctly, this batch of shells should be produced by General Zhao's Tangshan Machinery Factory!"

Zhao Dongyun did not answer, but continued to smile acquiesced in this matter!

Andre is not wrong. Most of the machine gun bullets and shells provided by Zhao Dongyun to the Russian army are produced by Fuyuan Machine Factory. Needless to say, the 7.92 mm bullets for German machine guns have been constantly purchased by Fuyuan Machine Factory to expand production in the past six months, and the output of bullets has been greatly increased. Gao, it's not a big problem to sell it to the Russians.

And shells are much more troublesome, because the artillery calibers of different countries these days. The Chinese domestic army mainly uses 57mm and 75mm, while the Russian army has 76.2mm, 87mm, 107mm and other calibers.

And different artillery calibers lead to different shells, which is also the reason why it is difficult for the Russian army to buy a large number of shells from the international arms market in the Far East, because other countries' arsenals will not produce Russian-caliber shells.

The reason why Zhao Dongyun was able to get out this batch of Russian-caliber shells is that he instructed Fuyuan Machinery Factory to specially modify a production line to produce Russian-caliber shells. These Russian-caliber shells were sold to the Russians from the beginning.

Andre continued: "As long as General Zhao can provide shells, the price can rise 30% according to the price in the international arms market, but you must ensure that there are no quality problems with the shells!"

Andre has been dealing with Zhao Dongyun for half a year, but he knows that Zhao Dongyun's third town is equipped with a lot of inferior shells, such as those shells with cast iron shells and *. He doesn't want Zhao Dongyun to fool him with these garbage goods.

Zhao Dongyun smiled: "That's of course. What the customer asks for, we naturally provide what!"

At this time, he was already thinking about how much profit the arms deal with the Russians could bring to Fuyuan Machinery Factory and himself.