Chapter 236 Competition for Talent 1

Sure enough, it won't take long for the heavy artillery battalion to fire. When the 100mm cannon is fired, the sound is louder than the 75mm artillery, which makes people know that it is not a small-sized cannon, but a large-caliber gun.

With the firing of 100mm cannons and the firing of artillery balloons, the artillery positions opposite stopped shelling one after another, and the exercise referees on the other side quickly came to the results: Team B's 75mm field artillery position was devastated and forced to withdraw after being destroyed by half of the artillery.

Although this result has been confirmed before the exercise, even if the normal exercise is the same, anyway, this performance must have a range of at least 100 millimeters to be performed.

So Zhao Dongyun is quite satisfied with the results of the exercise!

He even thought that when he entered the customs for the second time, he would definitely have a battle with Wang Yingkai. At that time, he would use these cannons with a long range to teach Wang Yingkai a good lesson. What is the king of war and what is a real artillery battle!

"Very, very good, you should continue to strengthen your training and strive for 100 times!" Naturally, Zhao Dongyun will not be stingy with his praise.

Wei Anpo smiled and said, "As long as there is enough training and live ammunition, our training will never fall!"

"This is natural!" He immediately turned his head and said to Zhao Dongping, "You should pay more attention to the training bullets needed for the heavy artillery battalion and give priority to satisfaction as much as possible!"

Zhao Dongping said, "There is no problem with this. I have discussed with Fuchang to imitate and produce 100mm shells, which should not be long before they can come out. In addition, the cannon has also imported thousands of shells, which will be enough in the short term!"

Zhao Dongyun also sighed: "If only the Fuchang could imitate this artillery. If there are 35 cannons, it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of our army!"

Zhao Dongyun is just thinking about imitating this cannon. Although Fuyuan Machinery Factory is known for its technical ability to be the first in China and can produce rifles, machine guns and even roller coasters and mortars, it has not produced long field guns in recent years.

After all, these field guns with more than 30 times the body tube are not the kind of roller coaster guns of more than 10 caliber. For the short tube mountain guns, the Fuyuan Machinery Factory can barely produce them by relying on the steel of Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory. However, if you want to produce field guns with long tubes, then the steel of Tangshan Iron and Steel Factory The quality of the materials is slightly insufficient.

The two trials in the past two years ended in the explosion. Later, Fuyuan Machinery Factory found a way to directly import gun tube materials and then processed them by itself. However, after importing many raw materials, it was unable to process them on a large scale. After barely using a large number of experienced old technicians to manually process a few doors, It was found that the cost of manufacturing was half more expensive than that of directly imported German goods!

So Fuyuan Machinery Factory completely dispelled the illusion of mass production of long-body field guns in a short period of time and began to gradually carry out technical research. First, it trained qualified gun barrel materials, and then solved a series of technical problems such as barrel processing. Only after they really solved these technical problems, Fuyuan Machinery Factory Only then can we talk about the large-scale mass production of long-managed field guns. Now, it is just playing with short-managed roller coasters and mortars.

But Fuyuan Machinery Factory can't build these long-tube field guns, which doesn't mean that they can't even produce shells!

When the Fuyuan Machine Factory had not yet developed the mountain cannon, there were already a number of shell production lines. During the Russo-Japanese War, almost all the shells that Zhao Dongyun sold to the Russians were produced by the Fuyuan Machinery Factory. The product line not only had 75mm series shells used in large quantities by the Beiyang Army, but also Even the shells used by the navy can be supplied.

Before the Republic, Fuyuan Machinery Factory was not only an ordnance supplier of the army in Beiyang provinces, but also provided some ordnance for the Beiyang Marine Division, and even made a small number of eight-inch shells for the cruiser Haiqi. However, the navy thought that the quality of the shells manufactured by Fuyuan Machinery Factory was not as good as that of imported goods, so After accepting only a small amount, he refused to purchase the factory's eight-inch shells and continued to import them.

So manufacturing large-caliber shells is not a problem for Fuyuan Machinery Factory. Of course, you can't expect to compare imported goods in terms of quality.

Now that Fuyuan Machinery Factory is allowed to produce some 100mm shells, there is naturally no problem.

After watching the exercise of the heavy artillery battalion, Zhao Dongyun inspected several other troops on the way. During this period, he inevitably visited the soldiers and asked for warmth. The accompanying reporters also asked Zhao Dongyun to pose and take a few photos.

So two days later, Fengtian Daily published such a news: General Zhao Dongyun, vice president of the Republic and the inspector of the three eastern provinces, went to the barracks one day to express condolences to the soldiers, bringing cordial greetings to the soldiers, and there was also a photo of Zhao Dongyun and the soldiers' representatives.

These actions are obvious to future generations, but Zhao Dongyun's behavior of putting down the elixir to greet soldiers and the people in person is definitely a different category of contemporary rulers.

In people's minds, people like Zhao Dongyun should be as high as Wang Yingkai and Zhang Zhidong. They don't look at the people at the bottom. However, Zhao Dongyun does not do any inspections and condolences in three days, but he still likes to take official reporters with him, and then Large reports, for fear that others don't know.

Zhao Dongyun's move for his own political influence has undoubtedly won him a lot of attention from the soldier class and among the people. It can be said that among several powerful warlords in contemporary China, Zhao Dongyun's exposure in the media is the highest, and the words of other people often need to be seen in electricity. Their words.

However, Zhao Dongyun likes to conduct inspections and condolences, and likes to make speeches from time to time. Speeches often come up with some extremely fresh concepts to make people pay more attention to it.

For example, in mid-March, in his speech to the teachers and students of the school and some gentry in the small auditorium of Fengtian University, in addition to talking about republicanism, he once again talked about the words of the country and the nation, and finally shouted that the country and the nation have reached the most dangerous edge, calling for ambition. The people stood up bravely and fought for the country and the nation.

After he shamelessly plagiarized the topic of why he studied, he finally said seriously to hundreds of students of Fengtian University: "I beg you to study for the rise of China..."

So in the next day's newspaper, a sentence 'reading for the rise of China' served as the headline of Fengtian Daily, and then this sentence aroused a broad response among those readers who took 'the world as their own responsibility', whether the younger generation of students heard this sentence. Like thunder, even those old men holding four books and five classics have to admit that they have said it well. Of course, they agree with the words of reading for the rise of China, but they have a problem with what they read.

In Northeast China, especially in Shenyang, you can see Zhao Dongyun's news from the newspaper almost every day. You can either inspect here or express your condolences there. No matter how bad it is, it is to hold a working meeting to solve the happy life and well-being of the people. In a word: leaders are very busy!

Frequent exposure and occasional shouting of a few provocative words also made Zhao Dongyun's influence in the domestic people begin to increase significantly. Especially in the hearts of the younger generation, Zhao Dongyun almost acted as a typical positive image of young people in this era.

He is young, well, this is very important. No young man likes to regard an old man as his goal in life. Second, his warlord career is very successful at present, which is more important, because no one likes to regard the loser as his goal in life.

Zhao Dongyun's great influence on young people in China has actually been shown in a few years. When people saw Zhao Dongyun in his twenties becoming a feudal minister, we don't know how many young students in China targeted him and tried to repeat his way of success. More and more students went to Germany. You can see it by studying abroad.

You should know that although there are also domestic scholars going to study in Germany in history, most people choose to go to Japan, a few people go to the United Kingdom or the United States, and very few go to Germany. Since Zhao Dongyun, there has been a trend of studying in Germany in China, mainly military students. In recent years, the military students sent to Germany from various provinces in China have been comparable to those sent to Japan.

There are as many as seven students who graduated and are still studying at the Berlin Military Academy alone. There are more than 100 military students studying in other military schools in Germany, most of whom were sent by the Beiyang system in Yuan Shikai's era. After Zhao Dongyun took power, he also sent more than 30 students to study in Germany at the beginning of this year. Even Wang Yingkai imitated Yuan Shikai's era and sent more than 20 military students to Germany this year.

In contemporary China, if ordinary students want to study arts and sciences, the preferred country to study abroad is Japan. In recent years, thousands of international students go to Japan every year. However, if you want to study military, the north and south are different. The southern provinces are mainly sent to Japan, mainly Japanese mainlanders.

For the North, which is also the Beiyang system, the first choice is Germany. Yuan Shikai * began to send dozens of top elites to Germany almost every year, and then reported to the country's military schools, including the Berlin Military Academy, but only a handful of them can be admitted to the school, most of whom are transferred to Germany. A sergeant's military academy. In addition to sending international students to Germany a few years ago, Beiyang also sent international students to Japanese mainlanders, but later, after the emergence of a large number of revolutionary parties, the number of dispatches was reduced.

Today, 1907, it completely stopped sending military students to Japan. The reason is simple, because a large number of Lu Shisheng sent from southern provinces returned to China and served in the Southern Federal Army and became the enemy of the North Sea. Coupled with the factors of the Revolutionary Party, Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai are not sending military students to Japan. Otherwise, after a few years of study, the students sent will probably serve in the Southern Federal Army and become their enemies.

While Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai continue to send people to study in Germany this year, there will naturally be students who will graduate and return to China this year. For these elite talents who were sent out in Yuan Shikai's era and returned to China after studying in major German military schools for several years, whether it is Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai, or Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen, they He tried his best to bring the few talents in contemporary China who have received modern military education to his command.